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Who was the mother of King James I of England? | BBC - History - James I and VI
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James I of England and VI of Scotland © James was king of Scotland until 1603, when he became the first Stuart king of England as well, creating the kingdom of Great Britain.
James was born on 19 June 1566 in Edinburgh Castle. His mother was Mary, Queen of Scots and his father her second husband, Lord Darnley. Darnley was murdered in February 1567. In July Mary was forced to abdicate in favour of her infant son. James's tutor, the historian and poet George Buchanan, was a positive influence and James was a capable scholar. A succession of regents ruled the kingdom until 1576, when James became nominal ruler, although he did not actually take control until 1581. He proved to be a shrewd ruler who effectively controlled the various religious and political factions in Scotland.
In 1586, James and Elizabeth I became allies under the Treaty of Berwick. When his mother was executed by Elizabeth the following year, James did not protest too vociferously - he hoped to be named as Elizabeth's successor. In 1589, James married Anne of Denmark. Three of their seven children survived into adulthood.
In March 1603, Elizabeth died and James became king of England and Ireland in a remarkably smooth transition of power. After 1603 he only visited Scotland once, in 1617.
One of James's great contributions to England was the Authorised King James's Version of the bible (1611) which was to become the standard text for more than 250 years. But he disappointed the Puritans who hoped he would introduce some of the more radical religious ideas of the Scottish church, and the Catholics, who anticipated more lenient treatment. In 1605, a Catholic plot to blow up king and parliament was uncovered. James's firm belief in the divine right of kings, and constant need for money, also brought him into conflict repeatedly with parliament.
Abroad, James attempted to encourage European peace. In 1604, he ended the long-running war with Spain and tried to arrange a marriage between his son and the Spanish Infanta. He married his daughter Elizabeth to the elector of the palatinate, Frederick, who was the leader of the German Protestants.
James's eldest son Henry died in 1612 and his wife Anne in 1619. James himself died on 27 March 1625 and was succeeded by his second son, Charles
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Name: King James VI of Scotland
Father: Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley
Mother: Mary Queen of Scots
Relation to Elizabeth II: 9th great-grandfather
House of: Stuart
Born: June 19, 1566 at Edinburgh Castle
Ascended to the throne: July 24, 1567 aged 1 years
Crowned: July 29, 1567 at Church of Holy Rude, Stirling, and King of England on July 25, 1603 at Westminster Abbey
Married: Anne of Denmark, November 24, 1589
Children: Three sons and five daughters, of whom three survived infancy; Henry, Elizabeth and Charles
Died: March 27, 1625, at Theobalds Park, Hertfordshire, aged 58 years, 9 months, and 7 days
Buried at: Westminster Abbey, London
Succeeded by: his son Charles
King of Scotland from 1567 and England (as James I) from 1603. The son of Mary Queen of Scots and her second husband, Lord Darnley, he succeeded to the Scottish throne on the enforced abdication of his mother and assumed power in 1583. He established a strong centralized authority, and in 1589 married Anne of Denmark (1574�1619).
As successor to Elizabeth I in England, he alienated the Puritans by his High Church views and Parliament by his assertion of divine right, and was generally unpopular because of his favourites, such as Buckingham, and his schemes for an alliance with Spain. He was succeeded by his son Charles I. As king of Scotland, he curbed the power of the nobility, although his attempts to limit the authority of the Kirk (Church of Scotland) were less successful.
Upon his accession to the English throne on the death of Elizabeth I, James acted mainly upon the advice of Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, but on the latter's death all restraint vanished. His religious policy consisted of asserting the supreme authority of the crown and suppressing both Puritans and Catholics who objected. The preparation of the Authorized Version of the Bible in English, published in 1611, was ordered by James. He thwarted Guy Fawkes's plot to blow up Parliament during its opening in 1605. The gunpowder plot, with its anti-Catholic reaction, gave James a temporary popularity which soon dissipated. His foreign policy, aimed primarily at achieving closer relations with Spain, was also disliked.
James's childhood and adolescence were unhappy, abnormal, and precarious; he had various guardians, whose treatment of him differed widely. His education, although thorough, was weighted with Presbyterian and Calvinist political doctrine, and his character � highly intelligent and sensitive, but also fundamentally shallow, vain, and exhibitionist � reacted violently to this. His political philosophy turned to the theory of the divine right of kings, in striking contrast to the practical experiences of his childhood. He also sought solace with extravagant and unsavoury male favourites who, in later years, were to have a damaging effect on his prestige and state affairs. His economic opportunism, with its disastrous effects on commerce, alienated city interests. Puritan influence and political awareness were increasing fast among the rural landowners, whose influence James never appreciated. His willingness to compromise politically, even while continuing to talk in terms of absolutism, largely accounts for the superficial stability of his reign. However, the effects of many of his actions were long term, becoming fully obvious only after his death. The marriage of James's daughter Elizabeth to Frederic V, Elector Palatine and King of Bohemia, was to result in the eventual Hanoverian succession to the British throne.
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Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts is about to start and he is enjoying the summer vacation with his friends. They get the tickets to The Quidditch World Cup Final but after the match is over, people dressed like Lord Voldemort's 'Death Eaters' set a fire to all the visitors' tents, coupled with the appearance of Voldemort's symbol, the 'Dark Mark' in the sky, which causes a frenzy across the magical community. That same year, Hogwarts is hosting 'The Triwizard Tournament', a magical tournament between three well-known schools of magic : Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. The contestants have to be above the age of 17, and are chosen by a magical object called Goblet of Fire. On the night of selection, however, the Goblet spews out four names instead of the usual three, with Harry unwittingly being selected as the Fourth Champion. Since the magic cannot be reversed, Harry is forced to go with it and brave three exceedingly difficult tasks. Written by Soumitra
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I must say I am extremely sick of this movie, though not for conventional reasons. Nine reels is a lot to put together and screening a three hour movie can be exhausting, especially when you're trying to write several term papers during the same week it is coming out. You see, I am a projectionist and getting this movie ready for a midnight show was part of my job. I realize that the fact that I was paid $14.50/hr to watch this movie on Wednesday night might give rise to feelings of jealousy among some, but I am currently wishing I could manage to get more than five hours of sleep sometime soon.
All that said I must say this was by far the greatest Harry Potter film so far. Although it was long, it did not drag on. It had a nice, tight feel to it. It progressed from scene to scene with a smoothness that I find to be lacking in many movies adapted from books. The acting has noticeably improved from the first three, and the more adult feel to this one really drew me in. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this movie was the fact that it felt like a mix of genres. It had an epic feel to it. After all it is about good v. evil and battling the dark wizards, etc. This movie,however, also felt like a high school movie. It had the issues of coming of age, which makes sense as the characters begin to mature. Ultimately it came off a lot more loyal to the book in theme than I think the last one did. (The first two, while loyal, I found to be relatively campy and childish.)
This movie, like many, does have its shortfalls. I believe that Dumbledore was portrayed as a little too intense, like an old Al Pacino. Instead of the benevolent, kind, and good-humored old man I have always loved in the books. As someone that has read the books, I must say another shortfall is that this movie banks on familiarity with the story. Having read the books, I found it very easy to follow, but I could understand how one who has not read the books may feel a bit lost, as some important information was left out and some back-story was left mostly unexplained.
All in all I would say this is definitely the best movie in this series so far, and if the next three are on par with this one then I would be content.
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The sweetness of the first stories seems now entirely gone, with this one adopting a much more serious tone, and Yates manages to condense the longest (and weakest) book into a decent film even if it feels more like a transition chapter between the fourth and sixth chapters.
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In my previous Harry Potter review, I talked about the challenges the film franchise faced when the books began to grow in size. The continuing success of the series, both on the page and on the screen, put pressure on the directors, producers and writers to include as much of the source material as possible to keep the fans happy. While none of the directors after Chris Columbus have been quite so literal-minded in this regard as he was, the desire for fidelity is still present in different ways. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the beginning of what could be called the long, slow consolidation of the franchise. The first of ultimately four efforts to be helmed by David Yates, it approaches the material with neither the need nor the willingness to prove itself, seemingly confident that fans will know enough about the basics at this point that more new stuff can be crammed in. But while the film has a lot of promising or interesting aspects, it is in the final analysis more episodic and less satisfying than its two predecessors, and may be the weakest film in the series since Chamber of Secrets. It's very easy to lay the blame for this squarely at the feet of the director. Yates was and is primarily a TV director, having made his name on acclaimed series like State of Play and TV films like The Girl in the Cafe. His only previous theatrical offering, The Tichborne Claimant, was notable for its cast but not for its plot or execution. It would be very simple to assume that Yates simply has an episodic mindset, and is, through his training and sensibility, less capable of long-form, cinematic storytelling than Mike Newell or Alfonso Cuarón. Whatever truth may be in these statements, however, they are not by any means the whole truth. An equally bigger problem lies in the fact that the series doesn't feel the need to justify each instalment on its own terms anymore. Up until Goblet of Fire, the future of the series felt up in the air just enough to keep everyone on their toes: Newell's film and Prisoner of Azkaban went the extra mile to prove that they were necessary additions to the canos. By the time Order of the Phoenix came to be made, the Harry Potter fandom had developed to such an extent that there was no longer any need for such healthy self-doubt. While the films don't treat the viewers' intelligence with outright contempt, there is still an underlying unwillingness to bring new people on board, even at such a late stage. There are a lot of things about Order of the Phoenix which are appealing, and any one of them could have the capstone for a film in its own right. There is the tyrannical rule of Delores Umbridge, who descends onto Hogwarts like a terrifying cross between Margaret Thatcher, Mary Whitehouse and Michael Gove. There is the Order of the title, with more details coming forward about Sirius Black and the Malfoys. And there is the overriding conspiracy of denial surrounding Voldemort's return, following the events of the last film. Order of the Phoenix is significant within the series for being the only film not to be scripted by Steve Kloves. Michael Goldenberg, who wrote Contact and the live-action version of Peter Pan, was brought in to replace Kloves after the latter claimed to be physically and mentally exhausted. Kloves' scripts may never have been perfect, falling into several predictable rhythms, but it's probable that he could have marshalled these different and divergent threads into something more coherently satisfying. For most of its running time, Order of the Phoenix concerns itself with the first plotline, focussing on Umbridge taking over Hogwarts and inflicting her pink plague upon the students. Imelda Staunton does a really great job getting across all Umbridge's quirks, showing all that latent rage and frustration burning away under the forced smile of quiet, English passive aggression. Her characterisation of Umbridge as a spineless, narrow-minded, pencil-pushing moral crusader is a breath of fresh air compared to the other teachers of Defence Against the Dark Arts, who have by and large been pale, skulking and slippery types, whose physicalisation so often shows their hand too early. Just as Goblet of Fire did a good job of creating tension through infighting between Harry and his friends, so this film manages to unsettle our feelings of safety by removing all aspects of Hogwarts we have learnt to take for granted. In the previous films, there was always a sense that no matter how bad things got, two things were certain: Dumbledore would be around to help, and Harry wouldsave the day. In Order of the Phoenix both are called into question early on, leaving us uncertain and ever mindful of the gathering evil of Voldemort. By referring back to the denial of Voldemort by those in authority, Yates introduces a theme of the corruption of the wizarding authority, upon which he expands in the later films. Much like the Time Lords in classic Doctor Who, the Ministry of Magic started out as a seemingly benign and benevolent organisation, but is increasingly portrayed as hubristic, all-controlling and, in the Ministry's case, driven as much by fear as Voldemort ultimately is. Umbridge's reign is the first hint we get of the Nineteen Eighty-Four-inflected view of the wizarding world, removing another crumb of comfort from the audience for our own good. Further effort is also made to weaken Harry as a reliable protagonist, in this case by his battles with Snape as the latter tries to train his mind against the Dark Lord's influence. Daniel Radcliffe's performance in these scenes demonstrates how far he has matured over the course of the series: he may be playing an easily-angered adolescent, but it's a controlled performance and he responds to Alan Rickman quite superbly. Rickman, naturally, gives as good as he gets, but his best is reserved for his brief, taciturn exchanges with Umbridge. All of this sounds promising - but there's a problem. Because the book is so big, Yates is never able to develop any of these strands to an entirely satisfying degree, and as a result the whole thing begins to feel inconsequential. Even with all the cuts that he and Goldenberg made before filming had even started, the film still feels like a half-told collection of bits which can't entirely stand on their own. Supporting characters feel increasingly like stations we pass through on a long train journey, and by this point the feeling is not one of intrigue at where we are, but growing frustration at how long it is taking us to get us to our destination. It may seem churlish to keep comparing Harry Potter to The Lord of the Rings, but here as elsewhere it is a meaningful comparison. Much of the (unwarranted) criticism of The Two Towers focussed on the idea that the film couldn't be taken on its own, with critics (wrongly) claiming that it didn't have a meaningful beginning and end. Order of the Phoenix suffers from the same problem; if you had never seen the first four films, too little of it would make sense for you to enjoy it as a stand-alone. And because so little effort is made to let the casual viewer in, the majority of what happens just washes over you in an unmemorable way. There are other big problems with Order of the Phoenix outside of its structural integrity. There are internal issues too, relating to the storytelling, the pacing and the integration of the action. Despite being the shortest film in the series, at 138 minutes, the film still feels drawn out in places, with Yates taking a long time to cover aspects which could just as adequately be explained in half the time. The Order itself feels underdeveloped as a concept, with Yates giving more time to more visually memorable but relatively frivolous concepts, such as the Room of Requirement - which is, for the record, both unoriginal (the TARDIS) and lazy to the point of utter desperation. The big issue with both the drama and the set-pieces is one of emphasis. While he has some credentials in drama, Yates does not do set-pieces very well, the result being that all the fights which should feel weighty instead feel distracted and unfocussed. The final battle between the Order and the Death-Eaters feels empty and perfunctory, with Yates' camera chasing after the action rather than shaping it. The result is that Sirius Black's death carries no meaning at all, which is a huge shame given Gary Oldman's hard work to make him compelling in Prisoner of Azkaban. The same goes for Voldemort's duel with Dumbledore in the Ministry of Magic: we get a three-minute parade of unremarkable special effects, and then it's back to normal as if nothing ever happened. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a middling instalment in the franchise which contains potential but lacks focus in its execution. Its interesting ideas and the moments in which it does come together ultimately redeem it, as least as a passing diversion, but it is the least essential Harry Potter film since Chamber of Secrets. In the end, it's a mild disappointment, being not being bad enough to put you off, but leaving you with some serious concerns going forward.
Daniel Mumby
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OMG. Get a haircut. Not the worst (I'm thinking No. 6), but also not the best despite it's shiny presentation. Character development starts in this film -- at least for the kids -- so it's a "must" for the series lovers.
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Which English television presenter served as the High Sheriff of The Isle of Wight between 2008 and 2009? | h2g2 - The Isle of Wight's Literary Connections - Edited Entry
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Is there no one who is commonplace here? Is everybody either a poet, or a genius, or a painter, or peculiar in some way?
– Anne Thackeray, daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, on a visit to the Isle of Wight in 1853 aged 16.
The Isle of Wight, with its natural beauty and many different aspects, has long held a fascination for, and inspired, authors and poets alike. The 19th Century in particular saw a vast influx of poets to the Island, focused on two small villages that were centres of the literary world.
The first, the small, sleepy village of Bonchurch near Ventnor, became popular after Sir James Clark Bt MD published a guide stating that the Undercliff's unique microclimate was perfect for restoring the health of those suffering with consumption and other chest complaints. The restful and beautiful village of Bonchurch soon became a popular spot for those convalescing from various chest illnesses. The Undercliff is a post-glacial area near the Island's southern tip high above the sea but sheltered by downs from cold winds from the north, creating a healthy and warm microclimate. This led to the construction of the Royal National Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, now the site of the famed Ventnor Botanic Gardens .
The second village was Freshwater, which from 1853 was the home of one the greatest ever poets, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Although he always desired privacy and seclusion, his home soon attracted a literary circle without parallel.
The following people, presented in chronological order, all had (or in one case may have had) a literary connection with the Island:
Sir Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales, Earl Rivers (c1438-1483)
Sir Anthony Woodville , Edward IV's brother-in-law and Captain of the Isle of Wight from 1464, was one of England's first proponents of the printing press, becoming the first patron of William Caxton. In 1475 William Caxton brought the first printing press to England and printed The Canterbury Tales and The History of Jason in 1476. His third publication, The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers in 1477, had been translated into English by Sir Anthony. When Caxton was asked to comment on the translation, he replied that he could not find any faults in the translation, although Anthony had omitted Socrates' unflattering opinions on women 'for the very affection, love and hood will that [he] hath unto all ladies and gentlewomen…'.
Sir Anthony also translated Christine de Pisan's Moral Proverbs in 1478 and the Cordiale, published in 1479. Anthony was later imprisoned and executed by Richard III at Pontefract Castle on 25 June 1483
Nicholas Udall (1504-56)
Nicholas Udall was Vicar of Calbourne in 1551. He is most famous for writing the first English comedy, Ralph Roister Doister circa 1553.
William Shakespeare? (1564-1616)
There is no evidence proving that William Shakespeare ever set foot on the Isle of Wight. Shakespeare's patron, and some critics say lover, was Sir Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. Shakespeare's sonnets and love poems including Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece are dedicated to Sir Henry, who had loaned him £1,000, a vast sum at the time. Although Sir Henry was sent to the Tower after supporting the Earl of Essex's rebellion, on Elizabeth I 's death in 1603, King James I appointed Sir Henry Captain of the Isle of Wight, Captain of Carisbrooke Castle and Steward, Surveyor, Receiver and Bailiff of the Royal Manors on the Island. Sir Henry spent the next 20 years living at Great East Standen Manor on St George's Down, and his close friendship with Shakespeare continued, as Shakespeare certainly visited the Earl in Titchfield.
Did Shakespeare ever visit his patron and friend and write words such as This precious stone, set in a silver sea on the Island? We shall never know.
Sir William D'Avenant (1606-68)
Poet Laureate in exile Sir William D'Avenant 1 , godson of William Shakespeare and, according to rumour, Shakespeare's illegitimate son, had good reason to dislike the Isle of Wight. In 1650 he was held in Cowes Castle having been captured by Cromwell 's Navy in the Channel while on a mission for the exiled Queen Henrietta Maria. D'Avenant was imprisoned for high treason and would have been executed had John Milton not interceded with Cromwell to save his life. While in Cowes Castle, he spent his time profitably by writing Gondibert, before being taken to be imprisoned in the Tower, from where he was released in 1652. Later, on the restoration of the monarchy, Milton himself was accused of treason and would have been executed had D'Avenant not interceded with King Charles II to save his life, thus repaying the favour.
His opera Siege Of Rhodes was the first English opera to be performed.
Dorothy Osborne (1627-95)
A young Royalist, she stayed at an inn near Carisbrooke in 1648, when the King was imprisoned. She was at the time courting Sir William Temple, who she later married on Christmas Day, 1654. At Carisbrooke she was arrested for writing Royalist slogans around the town but released. A collection of 77 of her Letters was first published in 1888.
Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
Born in Freshwater in 1635, Robert Hooke was the first Curator of Experiments at the Royal Society. He published his book Micrographia 2 in 1665, containing drawings done with the aid of a microscope. These included a flea, an eye of a fly and plant cells, and was the first to use the word 'cell' in a biological context.
Henry Fielding (1707-54)
Famous for the novel Tom Jones 3 , Fielding visited Ryde in July 1754 and wrote about his experiences in The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon. Fielding died in Lisbon on 8 October, 1754.
John Wilkes (1725-97)
John Wilkes was a radical journalist and politician who was seen as a champion of liberty. He created the political newspaper The North Briton, which criticised the King and his policies, and was a successful politician, being Lord Mayor of London in 1774-5. He also parodied Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man with his own An Essay on Woman, which was declared to be obscene. Having made many political enemies, he retired and from 1788-97 lived in his house Villakin in Sandown. The house no longer exists, but its location on the corner of Wilkes Road and Sandown High Street is marked by a blue plaque. In America, a city, a university and two counties are named after him, as was John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln 's assassin .
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
'She thinks of nothing but the Isle of Wight, and she calls it the Island, as if there were not another island in the world'
– Mansfield Park, Chapter 2
Jane Austen , who is buried in Winchester Cathedral, stayed on the Island in June 1813.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Poet Laureate Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud over to the Island in 1793, where he visited Carisbrooke Castle and saw the British fleet prepare to sail against Napoleonic France, the sight of which inspired him to write The Prelude.
I beheld the vessels lie
A brood of gallant creatures, on the deep;
I saw them in their rest, a sojourner
Through a whole month of calm and glassy days
In that delightful Island that protects
Their place of convocation.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) & Mary Lamb (1764-1847)
Siblings Charles and Mary Lamb, famous for the children's Tales from Shakespeare written in 1807, spent a holiday in Cowes in 1803 with playwright Frances 'Fanny' Burney's nephew Martin. They wrote of their experience:
We do everything that is idle, such as reading books from the circulating library, sauntering, hunting little crabs among the rocks, reading churchyard poetry, which is as bad at Cowes as any churchyard in the Kingdom can produce.
Reverend Legh Richmond (1772-1827)
Reverend Legh Richmond was Curate at St Mary's Church in Brading and St John the Baptist Church in Yaverland . He not only invented the Hymn Board 4 , but was the author of Annals of the Poor, a series of three books published in 1814. It featured real-life local Isle of Wight characters, including Elizabeth Wallbridge, the Arreton dairyman's daughter who had died in 1801, in the 52-page book The Dairyman's Daughter, after which a pub in Arreton is named. This book has been translated into 19 languages and was especially popular in America 5 . Others include Jane Squibb, A Brading Cottager, another young girl who lived an extremely virtuous life and died young, and William The Negro Servant, about a young man who was apparently convinced that slavery saved his soul and helped him find God. Richmond once wrote in his diary:
As I pursued the meditations which this magnificent and varied scenery excited in my mind, I approached the edge of a tremendous perpendicular cliff, with which the down terminates. ...The breaking of the waves against the foot of the cliff at so great a distance beneath me produced an incessant and pleasing murmur.
Richmond's surplice was later displayed in Brading, but the cloth kept getting shorter and shorter as bits were always being cut off to be used as bandages, in the hope that the Reverend's goodness would help heal wounds.
John Gwilliam (1790-1845)
Everything John Gwilliam wrote was in verse, including two books about the Island: Rambles in the Isle of Wight 1841-2 and Norris Castle: Or Recent Tramps in the Isle of Wight 1845.
John Keats (1795-1821)
Battling against consumption, John Keats lived on the Island for two periods between 1817 and 1819. In 1817 he stayed in Castle Road in Carisbrooke and, in 1819, stayed at Eglantine Cottage (now renamed Keats Cottage) in Shanklin. During his stay in Shanklin, Keats wrote the sonnets On the Sea and Hyperion. While living in Castle Road on nearby Bowcombe Down he began writing the poem Endymion.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
Shanklin has a park named Keats Green in his honour. He wrote several letters to his close friend John Reynolds. In one he wrote that the Isle of Wight 'should be called Primrose Island'. In another he described his view with the words:
But the sea, Jack, the sea – the little waterfall, then the white cliffs [of Culver], then St Catherine's Hill.
John Hamilton Reynolds (1794-1852)
Poet, satirist and a close friend of Keats, famous for Safie: An Eastern Tale published in 1814 as well as Peter Bell, he received many, many letters from Keats describing the beauty of the Isle of Wight when Keats stayed on the Island. After Keats' death he chose to find out what the Island was like for himself, living at 36 Node Hill in Newport; he was appointed clerk to the County Court in 1846. He died there in 1852 and is buried in Church Litten, a former Elizabethan plague pit now used as a park.
Dr Thomas Arnold (1795-1842)
Born in Cowes where his father was the collector of Customs, Thomas Arnold is most famous for being the Headmaster at Rugby School who eliminated poor teaching and drunken disorder and installed a sense of pride in his pupils. He wrote History of Rome and Lectures on Modern History as well as numerous books of sermons, including Queen Victoria's favourite. He frequently returned to the Island, his last visit was in 1836. His time at Rugby School was fictionalised in 1857's Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes. He was the great-grandfather of Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World .
Edmund Peel (1797-1877)
Edmund and his brother, cousins of Prime Minister Robert Peel, lived at Under Rock in Bonchurch. He wrote the 483-page The Fairest Isle about the Island as well as many other poems. He died in Newport.
Lord Macaulay (1800-59)
In 1850 Thomas Babington Macaulay, most famous for Lays of Ancient Rome, began his History of England at Madiera Hall near Bonchurch. He wrote:
I look out on one side to the crags and myrtles of the Undercliff. On the other side, I have a view of the sea, which is at this moment as blue as the sky and as calm as the Serpentine. My little garden is charming.
John Sterling (1806-44)
A poet and novelist who, despite not having achieved public recognition, was acclaimed by contemporary poets including Tennyson, Wordsworth and Coleridge. By 1840 he was regularly spitting blood and so in 1843 moved to the Isle of Wight, where he died of consumption in his house in Ventnor, Hillside, in 1844. A plaque remains on this house today. His funeral at Bonchurch was attended by Tennyson, Thomas Carlyle, who later wrote his biography, and theologian FD Maurice. He wrote about Bonchurch with the words:
Ay, there in truth they are, the quiet homes
And hallowed birth-spots of the English race,
Scattered at will beneath the crags rude face,
While springs gush round, and near the ocean foams.
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-67)
American author and poet who worked with Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He was at one point America's highest-paid magazine writer, founding Town & Country magazine. He visited Ryde in 1830, writing:
Ryde is the most American-looking town I have seen abroad; a cluster of white houses and summery villas on the side of the hill, leaning up from the sea. It is place of baths, boarding-houses and people of damaged constitutions, with very select society and quiet and rather primitive habits. The climate is deliciously soft and the sun always seems to shine there.
Edward Edwards (1812-86)
Londoner Edward Edwards became a temporary library assistant in the British Museum in 1838, then the only free library in London. He successfully campaigned for the provision of free libraries nationwide, and was rewarded for his tireless efforts by the 1850 Public Libraries Act. He became the Chief Librarian at Manchester Free Library, one of the first new libraries his law created. In 1859 he chose to lead a peripatetic life before moving to the Isle of Wight to revise his Handbook of Literature and Collective Biography. He lived in Niton, died there in 1886 and was buried there.
Robert Browning (1812-89)
Poet Robert Browning stayed on the Isle of Wight in May 1856, hoping to restore his health.
Edward Lear (1812-88)
Author of nonsense poetry such as The Owl And The Pussy Cat, and the man responsible for popularising the limerick . His second limerick was about Ryde on the Isle of Wight:
There was a Young Lady of Ryde,
Whose shoe-strings were seldom untied.
She purchased some clogs,
And some small spotted dogs,
And frequently walked about Ryde.
Edward Lear also had the distinction of teaching Queen Victoria how to paint when he visited Osborne House .
William Adams (1814-48)
Reverend William Adams came to Bonchurch in 1843, when ill. He is most famous for writing The Shadow of the Cross and The Sacred Allegories. As the population of Bonchurch boomed from 302 to 523 in the 1840s, he oversaw the construction of a new church at Bonchurch. He died in 1848 at the age of 33.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82)
American poet Longfellow, most famous for the fictional poem Paul Revere's Ride 6 , visited Shanklin and stayed in the Old Village in 1868. Moved by the beauty of Shanklin Chine, he wrote a passage about the fountain at the top of the Chine. Entitled 'Inscription on the Shanklin Fountain', it can be found in his book of verse In The Harbor.
O Traveller, stay thy weary feet;
Drink of this fountain, pure and sweet;
It flows for rich and poor the same:
Then go thy way, remembering still
The wayside well beneath the hill
The cup of water in His name.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92)
The Poet Laureate, and one of the greatest ever poets, lived on the Isle of Wight at Farringford House from 1853-92. There he wrote many of his most famous poems, including The Charge of the Light Brigade, Maud, Enoch Arden, The Idylls of the King and Crossing the Bar.
...Take it and come to the Isle of Wight:
Where, far from the noise of smoke and town,
I watch the twilight falling brown
All around a careless-ordered garden,
Close to the ridge of a noble down.
A large granite cross was erected in his honour.
Charles Tennyson Turner (1808-79)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's older brother, with whom he published Poems by Two Brothers in 1827. In his poem Farewell to the Isle of Wight he wrote:
My memory wander'd back
To those fair shores – the Needles and the Downs –
The happy woodlands and the little towns –
For every day a new and pleasant track;
How grieved was I those social walks to lose,
Those friendly hands!
Charles Darwin (1809-82)
Charles Darwin started the Origin of Species at the King's Head Hotel in Sandown in July 1858. He moved on to Shanklin's Norfolk House Hotel at the end of July and stayed for about two weeks.
Darwin returned to the Isle of Wight, staying in Freshwater in July 1868 to recover from a gastric complaint that had affected his work on Descent of Man. He visited Isle of Wight photographic pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron, and said of her work I like this photograph better than any other which has been taken of me. He later described this trip to the Island with the words, my nine weeks interruption of all work.
Charles Dickens (1812-70)
Born across the Solent in Portsmouth , Charles Dickens first visited the Isle of Wight in September 1838, when he stayed in Alum Bay. He later stayed at the Winterbourne Hotel in Bonchurch between July and October 1849, having previously suffered writer's block. On the Island he wrote chapters 12 to 18 of his favourite novel, David Copperfield. There he often entertained writers such as Carlyle, Tennyson, Thackeray as well as Admiral Swinburne and his young golden-haired boy who became noted poet Algernon Swinburne.
Dickens was great friends with the church's stonemasons, and in Bonchurch's graveyard was a gravestone to a Mr Dick. In chapter 12 of David Copperfield a character called Mr Dick first appears. Dickens' time in Bonchurch influenced his writing, as this quote from David Copperfield also perfectly describes the first floor room he stayed in at the Winterbourne, overlooking the Channel:
The room was a pleasant one, at the top of the house, overlooking the sea, on which the moon was shining brilliantly.
He described his visit with the words:
I have taken a most delightful and beautiful house... cool, airy, private bathing, everything delicious. I think it is the prettiest place I ever saw in my life, at home or abroad.
Dickens also visited the Island between November and December 1860, while writing Great Expectations. An account of his time on the Island can be read in Richard J Hutchings' Dickens on an Island, first published in 1970 and at time of writing, still in print in a special commemorative edition to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63)
Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, author of Barry Lyndon and Vanity Fair, was a frequent visitor to the Isle of Wight and the home of Tennyson. It is believed that a local woman, born on the Island, Sophie Dawes , was an inspiration behind Vanity Fair.
Isaac Pitman (1813–97)
He wrote his shorthand dictionary while staying on the Island in Sandown.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815-1906)
Elizabeth Missing Sewell was born in Newport. When her minister father died penniless, she wrote a series of morally-uplifting humorous books for girls. These included Principles of Education: Drawn From Nature and Revelation and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes. Her outlook was very traditional, she firmly believed that boys' are sent into the world... to govern and direct... girls are to dwell in quiet homes and that a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation. She died and is buried in Bonchurch. She donated St Boniface Diocesan School to Ventnor which is marked by a plaque inscribed:
This building was erected as St Boniface Diocesan School by Elizabeth Missing Sewell 1815-1906 of Bonchurch. Authoress and Education Pioneer
Charles Kingsley (1819-75)
In 1822 workhouse chimney sweep Valentine Gray was found beaten to death in Newport. His death inspired Charles Kingsley, a frequent visitor to the Island, to write The Water Babies (1863).
Karl Marx (1818-83)
Karl Marx stayed at 11 Nelson Street, Ryde in 1874, as well as staying at 1 St Boniface Gardens, Ventnor in 1881 and 1882. He wrote to Friedrich Engels in July 1874 describing his visit with the words, This Island is a little paradise.
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-83)
This Russian novelist spent August 1860 in Ventnor, where he began writing Fathers and Sons. A plaque on Ventnor Esplanade marks the site where he stayed. This states:
Ivan Turgenev
Lived here on this site
at Belinda Cottage
and here in 1860 began
his best known work,
"Fathers & Sons"
Sydney Dobell (1824-74)
English poet Sydney Dobell stayed at Niton for health reasons over the winters of 1857 and 1860. There he wrote about the sea with the words:
How I hate it! A brave man can hate nothing that there is a chance of conquering, but this blind, senseless, woman-drowning, child-freezing, man-choking god – I stand and look at it here until every drop of blood in my body is black.
Lewis Carroll (1832-98)
Reverend Charles Dodgson , the real name of the author of Alice in Wonderland , wrote many poems including The Hunting Of The Snark while staying at Sandown in 1876.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
The poetic but frail son of an Admiral, he was taught to swim by being thrown head first into the sea. When his father called him a coward, Swinburne was foolish enough to climb the vertical Culver Cliff, almost dying in the attempt, desperate to prove his courage. The only one of his siblings not born on the Island, but the only one to stay after the others left, he lived and grew up on the Island, where he began Atalanta in Calydon, although his family sold their home in East Dene, Bonchurch in 1865. He later returned to Shorwell. Despite dying in Putney in 1909, he was buried in Bonchurch according to his will.
Not in the cold, grey Abbey, nor where the wind sweeps cold,
O'er the silver coat of the beech and the gorse's blazen gold,
But there, in the isle where the gates of sea-washed England stand.
John Betjeman described Swinburne with the words, No one made the sea hiss and clang in English poetry better than he.
Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919)
William Makepeace Thackeray's daughter. In 1877 she wrote an autobiographical short story From An Island about Tennyson at Farringford House. Recently Lynne Truss, famous for Eats, Shoots and Leaves satirised these events in the novel Tennyson's Gift.
Mary Gleed Tuttiett (1846-1923)
Writing under the name Maxwell Gray, Mary Tuttiett was born in Newport. She is most famous for her 1886 thriller novel The Silence of Dean Maitland, set in the fictional village 'Malbourne', not to be confused with the real village Calbourne, but located on the Isle of Wight.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Thomas Hardy , most famous for Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, lived across the Solent in Dorset. He visited Swinburne's grave in 1910. There he wrote A Singer Asleep:
In this fair niche above the unslumbering sea,
That sentrys up and down all night, all day,
From cove to promontory, from ness to bay,
The Fates have fitly bidden that he should be Pillowed eternally.
Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
Half of the team behind the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas , Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote The Window with Alfred, Lord Tennyson on the Isle of Wight between 1867-70.
Gerard Manly Hopkins (1844-89)
He spent a summer at Shanklin Manor writing poems, including one on the wreck of HMS Eurydice .
Paul Bourget (1852-1935)
A French novelist, who wrote Le Disciple. On a visit to the Island he wrote:
I shall always have before my eyes adorable views of the countryside to comfort me. Scenes of beautiful green lawns, cold blue seas and delicately grey skies.
Anna Mae Bosler Ellis (1858-1911)
American Anna Ellis, writing as Max Eliot, was a writer for the Boston Herald in the 1890s and later the American correspondent for that paper in London. She died in Freshwater in 1911, where she is buried.
Henry de Vere Stacpoole (1863-1951)
An Irish author who is best known for writing the novel The Blue Lagoon in 1909, but who also wrote exposing atrocities and injustice in the Congo under the pseudonym Tyler de Saix. He founded the Penguin Club, dedicated to helping birds injured by oil pollution. He moved to Bonchurch on the Isle of Wight where he wrote an anthology of poems In Bonchurch's Garden in 1937. He lived at Cliff Dene, which is commemorated by a plaque which reads:
Henry de Vere Stacpoole 1863-1951 Physician novelist poet lived here for thirty years until his death in 1951.
He died at Shanklin Hospital and is buried in Bonchurch, having donated Bonchurch Pond and a bird sanctuary to the village in memory of his wife.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
John Lockwood Kipling, the director of the Lahore School of Arts, and father of Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling , designed and created Osborne House's Durbar Wing with craftsman Bhai Ram Singh between 1890 and January 1891. Rudyard Kipling often visited the Island and took some leather wall coverings from the original Osborne House, that was demolished to make way for Queen Victoria's Italianate palace, to his home at Batemans. Kipling's poem A Centurion's Song was about a hero who had 'Served in Britain forty years from Vectis to the Wall', Vectis being the Roman name for the Isle of Wight.
Pearl Craigie (1867-1906)
Writing as John Oliver Hobbes, she was a successful novelist and the daughter of John Morgan Richards, owner of Steephill Castle in Ventnor. She wrote to support herself after separating from her husband. Her works includes the novel Some Emotions and a Moral (1891), a play The Ambassador (1898), a novel The School for Saints (1898) and its sequel Robert Orange (1902), which includes the real-life character Benjamin Disraeli.
Although she lived at Steephill Castle, she rented nearby St Lawrence Lodge for use as an office. She created the word 'Blimming', which was defined as 'the act in which a woman talks endlessly about pleasant things while revealing nothing of herself and successfully hiding the fact that she is cleverer than her husband.' She died tragically young in her 30s, and is commemorated by a plaque on St Lawrence Lodge, Wolverton Road, St Lawrence as well as the family memorial in Ventnor.
John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone (1868-1947)
Lord Mottistone, Deputy Lieutenant and MP for the Isle of Wight, wrote a biography about his horse, entitled My Horse Warrior. Warrior was a horse foaled at Yafford on the Island in 1908 and was at the battles of Marne, Ypres, the Somme and Cambrai, earning the nickname ' the horse the Germans could not kill '.
In 2011, Stephen Spielberg made a film, entitled War Horse, based on a fictional story by author Michael Morpurgo that drew inspiration from the tale of Isle of Wight horse Warrior.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
In 1880, at the age of six, Winston Churchill and his brother Jack were sent to Ventnor. He and his sister stayed in Ventnor in 1888, while he returned a year later to recover from an illness and later campaigned on the Island in 1910 to help the Liberal candidate in an election.
Churchill's parents, Jennie Jerome and Randolph Churchill, had met and became engaged in Cowes in 1873, the year before the future Prime Minister and Nobel Prize for Literature winner was born.
Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
The war poet who wrote The Isle of Wight in 1911, died in 1917 at the Battle of Arras.
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
Famous for poem The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes moved to the Isle of Wight with his wife Mary in 1929, where he wrote Orchard's Bay about his home near the Undercliff. He also wrote The Last Man in 1940, a novel about a man trapped at the bottom of the sea in an abandoned enemy submarine, who manages to escape and finds himself off the coast of the Isle of Wight, only to discover that everyone on the Island, and indeed the world, is dead, France having detonated their secret doomsday weapon.
It was there he wrote his books of poetry including Letter to Lucian and autobiography Two Worlds for Memory. Alfred Noyes died in Ryde Hospital in 1957 and is buried in St Saviour's churchyard in Totland.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Virginia Woolf often visited her great aunt, pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, at Dimbola Lodge in Freshwater. In 1923 she wrote a comic play entitled Freshwater.
DH Lawrence (1885-1930)
Lawrence visited the Isle of Wight in 1909 and his second novel The Trespasser was based on his friend Helen Corke’s diaries of her time in Freshwater. A film version made in 1981 was shot on the Island.
AA Milne (1882-1956)
The author of Winnie-the-Pooh was a patient at Osborne Convalescent Home during the Great War. His autobiography was entitled It's Too Late Now.
Aubrey de Sélincourt (1894-1962)
Aubrey de Sélincourt, translator of many Greek and Roman classics into English as well as writing the Vision of England series – including a volume on the Isle of Wight – and his wife, poet Irene Rutherford McCloud, retired to the Island in 1947. There they devoted their remaining years to writing. Aubrey's sister Dorothy married AA Milne and his daughter Lesley married Christopher Robin Milne, the young boy portrayed in Winnie-the-Pooh.
JB Priestley (1894-1984)
Author of 26 novels including The Good Companions, JB Priestly moved to the Island in 1933, where he wrote Rain Over Godshill and, in 1947, An Inspector Calls.
Any man from America or Australia might take one glance at the Island as something on a map, and then decide to give it a couple of hours. But you can spend days and days exploring the Isle of Wight, which, if you are really interested, begins magically enlarging itself for you.
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
Poet and novelist Robert Graves wrote the definitive English translation of Seutonius' Twelve Cæsars, written in 121 AD in Latin. His knowledge of this allowed him to write the phenomenal works of English literature, I, Claudius and Claudius the God, which became a renowned BBC television series in 1976. He is one of the 16 Great War poets commemorated in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. During the Great War he suffered from shell shock and was a patient at Osborne Convalescent Home. He wrote about his experiences there in his autobiography Goodbye to All That.
Edward Upward (1903-2009)
A novelist of Isle of Wight descent who was a close friend of Auden and Isherwood. He retired to his grandfather's Sandown home in the 1960s. He wrote The Island.
WH Auden (1907-73)
A British poet who later became an American citizen, is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the 20th Century. In the summer of 1917, the 10-year-old Wystan Hugh Auden first visited the Island with his mother and two older brothers. He later returned in 1926. WH Auden's most famous poem is perhaps Funeral Blues, better known for its first line 'Stop all the clocks'. He also wrote Night Mail, the opening lines of which are This is the Night Mail crossing the border / Bringing the cheque and the postal order.. One of his poem anthologies was entitled On This Island, with poems inspired by his experiences on the Isle of Wight.
Look, stranger, on this island now
The leaping light for your delight discovers
Stand stable here
That through the channels of the ear
May wander like a river
The swaying sound of the sea.
Christopher Isherwood (1904-86)
Most famous for Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, a novel that was later adapted into the musical Cabaret . He spent a lot of time on the Island in the 1920s and 30s with WH Auden.
John Betjeman (1906-84)
Poet Laureate and writer John Betjeman was a frequent visitor to the Island and was especially fond of Ventnor, visiting the Royal National Hospital there in 1969, where he wrote an account of his visit.
Louis MacNeice (1907-63)
Irish poet, novelist, playwright and translator, Louis MacNiece owned a holiday home at Chessell on the Island, which he bought from his friend JB Priestley. He published a poetry anthology Poetry from Iceland with his friend WH Auden.
David Emery Gascoyne (1916-2001)
Surrealist poet David Gascoyne, famous for A Short Study of Surrealism, spent his final years on the Island. While he was incarcerated in Whitecroft mental hospital, a woman named Judy Lewis volunteered to visit the patients and read them poetry. She later said:
One of my favourite poems was called September Sun. I read it one afternoon and one of the patients came up to me afterwards and said 'I wrote that'. I put my hand on his shoulder and said 'Of course you did, dear'. Then of course when I got to know him I realised he had.
They married five years later.
John Heath-Stubbs OBE (1918-2006)
Poet John Heath-Stubbs, most famous for his Arthur-inspired long poem Artorius, attended school at Bembridge as a teenager. He later described his experiences there in his autobiography Hindsights.
Ray Allen (1940+)
Born in Ryde, Ray Allen is famous for creating Frank Spencer and writing the first episode of sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em while working as a cleaner at Shanklin's Regal theatre.
Philip Norman (1943+)
Born in Ryde, he was a music correspondent for The Times and has written numerous biographies of the Beatles, Rolling Stones and other singers. His autobiographical novel The Skater's Waltz is about a childhood in Ryde as his father ran Ryde Pier 's Seagull Ballroom, and has also written about the Isle of Wight Music Festivals.
Alan Titchmarsh (1949+)
Television gardener and presenter who has moved to the Isle of Wight and taken up writing novels, some of which, such as Rosie, are set on the Island. He achieved the distinction of being voted the author of the worst sex scene written in the English language in his novel Mr MacGregor.
She planted moist, hot kisses all over his body. Beads of sweat began to appear on Guy's forehead as he became more entangled in the lissom limbs of this human boa constrictor. For fully 15 minutes their mutual passion heightened, with groans, sighs and liquid noises.
He could have learnt a thing or two from
Laura MacDonald
A local woman who has written numerous Mills & Boon romances.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
In the Virgin interview published in The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams revealed that his best childhood memory was of a holiday on the Isle of Wight. In The Meaning Of Liff, Douglas Adams defines 'Solent' as The state of serene self-knowledge reached through drink and 'Shanklin' as The hoop of skin around a single slice of salami.
Sir Anthony Minghella (1954-2008)
The talented Mr Minghella was an Oscar -winning screenwriter and director. Born in Ryde, he went to school in Sandown and featured the Isle of Wight in many of his films. He is most famous for films such as Truly, Madly, Deeply, The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley, Cold Mountain and for writing for television including Jim Henson's The Storyteller. His brother Dominic also writes plays.
Bear Grylls (1974+)
Though record-breaking survival expert and television presenter Edward Michael 'Bear' Grylls was born in Northern Ireland, he moved to Bembridge when he was four. He described his idyllic childhood on the Isle of Wight in his autobiography Mud, Sweat and Tears, and how climbing the Island's cliffs led to his becoming one of the youngest people to climb Mount Everest, only 18 months after breaking three vertebrate.
After giving a lecture on his adventure on his return to one of the Island's sailing club, the ex-SAS his career evolved into presenting television programme Man vs Wild. Since then he has circumnavigated the UK on a jet-ski, rowed a bathtub down the Thames, paramotored over Everest and taken part in the highest open-air formal dinner party, held at an altitude of 25,000 beneath a hot-air balloon. In 2009 he became the youngest Chief Scout to date.
He has written numerous books about his adventures including Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest, Facing the Frozen Ocean, Born Survivor: Bear Grylls, Bear Grylls Outdoor Adventures, A Survival Guide for Life , True Grit, Train For It, Living Wild, at least six Mission Survival children's books and Scouting For All.
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Is there no one who is commonplace here? Is everybody either a poet, or a genius, or a painter, or peculiar in some way?
– Anne Thackeray, daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, on a visit to the Isle of Wight in 1853 aged 16.
The Isle of Wight, with its natural beauty and many different aspects, has long held a fascination for, and inspired, authors and poets alike. The 19th Century in particular saw a vast influx of poets to the Island, focused on two small villages that were centres of the literary world.
The first, the small, sleepy village of Bonchurch near Ventnor, became popular after Sir James Clark Bt MD published a guide stating that the Undercliff's unique microclimate was perfect for restoring the health of those suffering with consumption and other chest complaints. The restful and beautiful village of Bonchurch soon became a popular spot for those convalescing from various chest illnesses. The Undercliff is a post-glacial area near the Island's southern tip high above the sea but sheltered by downs from cold winds from the north, creating a healthy and warm microclimate. This led to the construction of the Royal National Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, now the site of the famed Ventnor Botanic Gardens .
The second village was Freshwater, which from 1853 was the home of one the greatest ever poets, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Although he always desired privacy and seclusion, his home soon attracted a literary circle without parallel.
The following people, presented in chronological order, all had (or in one case may have had) a literary connection with the Island:
Sir Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales, Earl Rivers (c1438-1483)
Sir Anthony Woodville , Edward IV's brother-in-law and Captain of the Isle of Wight from 1464, was one of England's first proponents of the printing press, becoming the first patron of William Caxton. In 1475 William Caxton brought the first printing press to England and printed The Canterbury Tales and The History of Jason in 1476. His third publication, The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers in 1477, had been translated into English by Sir Anthony. When Caxton was asked to comment on the translation, he replied that he could not find any faults in the translation, although Anthony had omitted Socrates' unflattering opinions on women 'for the very affection, love and hood will that [he] hath unto all ladies and gentlewomen…'.
Sir Anthony also translated Christine de Pisan's Moral Proverbs in 1478 and the Cordiale, published in 1479. Anthony was later imprisoned and executed by Richard III at Pontefract Castle on 25 June 1483
Nicholas Udall (1504-56)
Nicholas Udall was Vicar of Calbourne in 1551. He is most famous for writing the first English comedy, Ralph Roister Doister circa 1553.
William Shakespeare? (1564-1616)
There is no evidence proving that William Shakespeare ever set foot on the Isle of Wight. Shakespeare's patron, and some critics say lover, was Sir Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. Shakespeare's sonnets and love poems including Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece are dedicated to Sir Henry, who had loaned him £1,000, a vast sum at the time. Although Sir Henry was sent to the Tower after supporting the Earl of Essex's rebellion, on Elizabeth I 's death in 1603, King James I appointed Sir Henry Captain of the Isle of Wight, Captain of Carisbrooke Castle and Steward, Surveyor, Receiver and Bailiff of the Royal Manors on the Island. Sir Henry spent the next 20 years living at Great East Standen Manor on St George's Down, and his close friendship with Shakespeare continued, as Shakespeare certainly visited the Earl in Titchfield.
Did Shakespeare ever visit his patron and friend and write words such as This precious stone, set in a silver sea on the Island? We shall never know.
Sir William D'Avenant (1606-68)
Poet Laureate in exile Sir William D'Avenant 1 , godson of William Shakespeare and, according to rumour, Shakespeare's illegitimate son, had good reason to dislike the Isle of Wight. In 1650 he was held in Cowes Castle having been captured by Cromwell 's Navy in the Channel while on a mission for the exiled Queen Henrietta Maria. D'Avenant was imprisoned for high treason and would have been executed had John Milton not interceded with Cromwell to save his life. While in Cowes Castle, he spent his time profitably by writing Gondibert, before being taken to be imprisoned in the Tower, from where he was released in 1652. Later, on the restoration of the monarchy, Milton himself was accused of treason and would have been executed had D'Avenant not interceded with King Charles II to save his life, thus repaying the favour.
His opera Siege Of Rhodes was the first English opera to be performed.
Dorothy Osborne (1627-95)
A young Royalist, she stayed at an inn near Carisbrooke in 1648, when the King was imprisoned. She was at the time courting Sir William Temple, who she later married on Christmas Day, 1654. At Carisbrooke she was arrested for writing Royalist slogans around the town but released. A collection of 77 of her Letters was first published in 1888.
Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
Born in Freshwater in 1635, Robert Hooke was the first Curator of Experiments at the Royal Society. He published his book Micrographia 2 in 1665, containing drawings done with the aid of a microscope. These included a flea, an eye of a fly and plant cells, and was the first to use the word 'cell' in a biological context.
Henry Fielding (1707-54)
Famous for the novel Tom Jones 3 , Fielding visited Ryde in July 1754 and wrote about his experiences in The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon. Fielding died in Lisbon on 8 October, 1754.
John Wilkes (1725-97)
John Wilkes was a radical journalist and politician who was seen as a champion of liberty. He created the political newspaper The North Briton, which criticised the King and his policies, and was a successful politician, being Lord Mayor of London in 1774-5. He also parodied Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man with his own An Essay on Woman, which was declared to be obscene. Having made many political enemies, he retired and from 1788-97 lived in his house Villakin in Sandown. The house no longer exists, but its location on the corner of Wilkes Road and Sandown High Street is marked by a blue plaque. In America, a city, a university and two counties are named after him, as was John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln 's assassin .
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
'She thinks of nothing but the Isle of Wight, and she calls it the Island, as if there were not another island in the world'
– Mansfield Park, Chapter 2
Jane Austen , who is buried in Winchester Cathedral, stayed on the Island in June 1813.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Poet Laureate Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud over to the Island in 1793, where he visited Carisbrooke Castle and saw the British fleet prepare to sail against Napoleonic France, the sight of which inspired him to write The Prelude.
I beheld the vessels lie
A brood of gallant creatures, on the deep;
I saw them in their rest, a sojourner
Through a whole month of calm and glassy days
In that delightful Island that protects
Their place of convocation.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) & Mary Lamb (1764-1847)
Siblings Charles and Mary Lamb, famous for the children's Tales from Shakespeare written in 1807, spent a holiday in Cowes in 1803 with playwright Frances 'Fanny' Burney's nephew Martin. They wrote of their experience:
We do everything that is idle, such as reading books from the circulating library, sauntering, hunting little crabs among the rocks, reading churchyard poetry, which is as bad at Cowes as any churchyard in the Kingdom can produce.
Reverend Legh Richmond (1772-1827)
Reverend Legh Richmond was Curate at St Mary's Church in Brading and St John the Baptist Church in Yaverland . He not only invented the Hymn Board 4 , but was the author of Annals of the Poor, a series of three books published in 1814. It featured real-life local Isle of Wight characters, including Elizabeth Wallbridge, the Arreton dairyman's daughter who had died in 1801, in the 52-page book The Dairyman's Daughter, after which a pub in Arreton is named. This book has been translated into 19 languages and was especially popular in America 5 . Others include Jane Squibb, A Brading Cottager, another young girl who lived an extremely virtuous life and died young, and William The Negro Servant, about a young man who was apparently convinced that slavery saved his soul and helped him find God. Richmond once wrote in his diary:
As I pursued the meditations which this magnificent and varied scenery excited in my mind, I approached the edge of a tremendous perpendicular cliff, with which the down terminates. ...The breaking of the waves against the foot of the cliff at so great a distance beneath me produced an incessant and pleasing murmur.
Richmond's surplice was later displayed in Brading, but the cloth kept getting shorter and shorter as bits were always being cut off to be used as bandages, in the hope that the Reverend's goodness would help heal wounds.
John Gwilliam (1790-1845)
Everything John Gwilliam wrote was in verse, including two books about the Island: Rambles in the Isle of Wight 1841-2 and Norris Castle: Or Recent Tramps in the Isle of Wight 1845.
John Keats (1795-1821)
Battling against consumption, John Keats lived on the Island for two periods between 1817 and 1819. In 1817 he stayed in Castle Road in Carisbrooke and, in 1819, stayed at Eglantine Cottage (now renamed Keats Cottage) in Shanklin. During his stay in Shanklin, Keats wrote the sonnets On the Sea and Hyperion. While living in Castle Road on nearby Bowcombe Down he began writing the poem Endymion.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
Shanklin has a park named Keats Green in his honour. He wrote several letters to his close friend John Reynolds. In one he wrote that the Isle of Wight 'should be called Primrose Island'. In another he described his view with the words:
But the sea, Jack, the sea – the little waterfall, then the white cliffs [of Culver], then St Catherine's Hill.
John Hamilton Reynolds (1794-1852)
Poet, satirist and a close friend of Keats, famous for Safie: An Eastern Tale published in 1814 as well as Peter Bell, he received many, many letters from Keats describing the beauty of the Isle of Wight when Keats stayed on the Island. After Keats' death he chose to find out what the Island was like for himself, living at 36 Node Hill in Newport; he was appointed clerk to the County Court in 1846. He died there in 1852 and is buried in Church Litten, a former Elizabethan plague pit now used as a park.
Dr Thomas Arnold (1795-1842)
Born in Cowes where his father was the collector of Customs, Thomas Arnold is most famous for being the Headmaster at Rugby School who eliminated poor teaching and drunken disorder and installed a sense of pride in his pupils. He wrote History of Rome and Lectures on Modern History as well as numerous books of sermons, including Queen Victoria's favourite. He frequently returned to the Island, his last visit was in 1836. His time at Rugby School was fictionalised in 1857's Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes. He was the great-grandfather of Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World .
Edmund Peel (1797-1877)
Edmund and his brother, cousins of Prime Minister Robert Peel, lived at Under Rock in Bonchurch. He wrote the 483-page The Fairest Isle about the Island as well as many other poems. He died in Newport.
Lord Macaulay (1800-59)
In 1850 Thomas Babington Macaulay, most famous for Lays of Ancient Rome, began his History of England at Madiera Hall near Bonchurch. He wrote:
I look out on one side to the crags and myrtles of the Undercliff. On the other side, I have a view of the sea, which is at this moment as blue as the sky and as calm as the Serpentine. My little garden is charming.
John Sterling (1806-44)
A poet and novelist who, despite not having achieved public recognition, was acclaimed by contemporary poets including Tennyson, Wordsworth and Coleridge. By 1840 he was regularly spitting blood and so in 1843 moved to the Isle of Wight, where he died of consumption in his house in Ventnor, Hillside, in 1844. A plaque remains on this house today. His funeral at Bonchurch was attended by Tennyson, Thomas Carlyle, who later wrote his biography, and theologian FD Maurice. He wrote about Bonchurch with the words:
Ay, there in truth they are, the quiet homes
And hallowed birth-spots of the English race,
Scattered at will beneath the crags rude face,
While springs gush round, and near the ocean foams.
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-67)
American author and poet who worked with Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He was at one point America's highest-paid magazine writer, founding Town & Country magazine. He visited Ryde in 1830, writing:
Ryde is the most American-looking town I have seen abroad; a cluster of white houses and summery villas on the side of the hill, leaning up from the sea. It is place of baths, boarding-houses and people of damaged constitutions, with very select society and quiet and rather primitive habits. The climate is deliciously soft and the sun always seems to shine there.
Edward Edwards (1812-86)
Londoner Edward Edwards became a temporary library assistant in the British Museum in 1838, then the only free library in London. He successfully campaigned for the provision of free libraries nationwide, and was rewarded for his tireless efforts by the 1850 Public Libraries Act. He became the Chief Librarian at Manchester Free Library, one of the first new libraries his law created. In 1859 he chose to lead a peripatetic life before moving to the Isle of Wight to revise his Handbook of Literature and Collective Biography. He lived in Niton, died there in 1886 and was buried there.
Robert Browning (1812-89)
Poet Robert Browning stayed on the Isle of Wight in May 1856, hoping to restore his health.
Edward Lear (1812-88)
Author of nonsense poetry such as The Owl And The Pussy Cat, and the man responsible for popularising the limerick . His second limerick was about Ryde on the Isle of Wight:
There was a Young Lady of Ryde,
Whose shoe-strings were seldom untied.
She purchased some clogs,
And some small spotted dogs,
And frequently walked about Ryde.
Edward Lear also had the distinction of teaching Queen Victoria how to paint when he visited Osborne House .
William Adams (1814-48)
Reverend William Adams came to Bonchurch in 1843, when ill. He is most famous for writing The Shadow of the Cross and The Sacred Allegories. As the population of Bonchurch boomed from 302 to 523 in the 1840s, he oversaw the construction of a new church at Bonchurch. He died in 1848 at the age of 33.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82)
American poet Longfellow, most famous for the fictional poem Paul Revere's Ride 6 , visited Shanklin and stayed in the Old Village in 1868. Moved by the beauty of Shanklin Chine, he wrote a passage about the fountain at the top of the Chine. Entitled 'Inscription on the Shanklin Fountain', it can be found in his book of verse In The Harbor.
O Traveller, stay thy weary feet;
Drink of this fountain, pure and sweet;
It flows for rich and poor the same:
Then go thy way, remembering still
The wayside well beneath the hill
The cup of water in His name.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92)
The Poet Laureate, and one of the greatest ever poets, lived on the Isle of Wight at Farringford House from 1853-92. There he wrote many of his most famous poems, including The Charge of the Light Brigade, Maud, Enoch Arden, The Idylls of the King and Crossing the Bar.
...Take it and come to the Isle of Wight:
Where, far from the noise of smoke and town,
I watch the twilight falling brown
All around a careless-ordered garden,
Close to the ridge of a noble down.
A large granite cross was erected in his honour.
Charles Tennyson Turner (1808-79)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's older brother, with whom he published Poems by Two Brothers in 1827. In his poem Farewell to the Isle of Wight he wrote:
My memory wander'd back
To those fair shores – the Needles and the Downs –
The happy woodlands and the little towns –
For every day a new and pleasant track;
How grieved was I those social walks to lose,
Those friendly hands!
Charles Darwin (1809-82)
Charles Darwin started the Origin of Species at the King's Head Hotel in Sandown in July 1858. He moved on to Shanklin's Norfolk House Hotel at the end of July and stayed for about two weeks.
Darwin returned to the Isle of Wight, staying in Freshwater in July 1868 to recover from a gastric complaint that had affected his work on Descent of Man. He visited Isle of Wight photographic pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron, and said of her work I like this photograph better than any other which has been taken of me. He later described this trip to the Island with the words, my nine weeks interruption of all work.
Charles Dickens (1812-70)
Born across the Solent in Portsmouth , Charles Dickens first visited the Isle of Wight in September 1838, when he stayed in Alum Bay. He later stayed at the Winterbourne Hotel in Bonchurch between July and October 1849, having previously suffered writer's block. On the Island he wrote chapters 12 to 18 of his favourite novel, David Copperfield. There he often entertained writers such as Carlyle, Tennyson, Thackeray as well as Admiral Swinburne and his young golden-haired boy who became noted poet Algernon Swinburne.
Dickens was great friends with the church's stonemasons, and in Bonchurch's graveyard was a gravestone to a Mr Dick. In chapter 12 of David Copperfield a character called Mr Dick first appears. Dickens' time in Bonchurch influenced his writing, as this quote from David Copperfield also perfectly describes the first floor room he stayed in at the Winterbourne, overlooking the Channel:
The room was a pleasant one, at the top of the house, overlooking the sea, on which the moon was shining brilliantly.
He described his visit with the words:
I have taken a most delightful and beautiful house... cool, airy, private bathing, everything delicious. I think it is the prettiest place I ever saw in my life, at home or abroad.
Dickens also visited the Island between November and December 1860, while writing Great Expectations. An account of his time on the Island can be read in Richard J Hutchings' Dickens on an Island, first published in 1970 and at time of writing, still in print in a special commemorative edition to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63)
Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, author of Barry Lyndon and Vanity Fair, was a frequent visitor to the Isle of Wight and the home of Tennyson. It is believed that a local woman, born on the Island, Sophie Dawes , was an inspiration behind Vanity Fair.
Isaac Pitman (1813–97)
He wrote his shorthand dictionary while staying on the Island in Sandown.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815-1906)
Elizabeth Missing Sewell was born in Newport. When her minister father died penniless, she wrote a series of morally-uplifting humorous books for girls. These included Principles of Education: Drawn From Nature and Revelation and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes. Her outlook was very traditional, she firmly believed that boys' are sent into the world... to govern and direct... girls are to dwell in quiet homes and that a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation. She died and is buried in Bonchurch. She donated St Boniface Diocesan School to Ventnor which is marked by a plaque inscribed:
This building was erected as St Boniface Diocesan School by Elizabeth Missing Sewell 1815-1906 of Bonchurch. Authoress and Education Pioneer
Charles Kingsley (1819-75)
In 1822 workhouse chimney sweep Valentine Gray was found beaten to death in Newport. His death inspired Charles Kingsley, a frequent visitor to the Island, to write The Water Babies (1863).
Karl Marx (1818-83)
Karl Marx stayed at 11 Nelson Street, Ryde in 1874, as well as staying at 1 St Boniface Gardens, Ventnor in 1881 and 1882. He wrote to Friedrich Engels in July 1874 describing his visit with the words, This Island is a little paradise.
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-83)
This Russian novelist spent August 1860 in Ventnor, where he began writing Fathers and Sons. A plaque on Ventnor Esplanade marks the site where he stayed. This states:
Ivan Turgenev
Lived here on this site
at Belinda Cottage
and here in 1860 began
his best known work,
"Fathers & Sons"
Sydney Dobell (1824-74)
English poet Sydney Dobell stayed at Niton for health reasons over the winters of 1857 and 1860. There he wrote about the sea with the words:
How I hate it! A brave man can hate nothing that there is a chance of conquering, but this blind, senseless, woman-drowning, child-freezing, man-choking god – I stand and look at it here until every drop of blood in my body is black.
Lewis Carroll (1832-98)
Reverend Charles Dodgson , the real name of the author of Alice in Wonderland , wrote many poems including The Hunting Of The Snark while staying at Sandown in 1876.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
The poetic but frail son of an Admiral, he was taught to swim by being thrown head first into the sea. When his father called him a coward, Swinburne was foolish enough to climb the vertical Culver Cliff, almost dying in the attempt, desperate to prove his courage. The only one of his siblings not born on the Island, but the only one to stay after the others left, he lived and grew up on the Island, where he began Atalanta in Calydon, although his family sold their home in East Dene, Bonchurch in 1865. He later returned to Shorwell. Despite dying in Putney in 1909, he was buried in Bonchurch according to his will.
Not in the cold, grey Abbey, nor where the wind sweeps cold,
O'er the silver coat of the beech and the gorse's blazen gold,
But there, in the isle where the gates of sea-washed England stand.
John Betjeman described Swinburne with the words, No one made the sea hiss and clang in English poetry better than he.
Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919)
William Makepeace Thackeray's daughter. In 1877 she wrote an autobiographical short story From An Island about Tennyson at Farringford House. Recently Lynne Truss, famous for Eats, Shoots and Leaves satirised these events in the novel Tennyson's Gift.
Mary Gleed Tuttiett (1846-1923)
Writing under the name Maxwell Gray, Mary Tuttiett was born in Newport. She is most famous for her 1886 thriller novel The Silence of Dean Maitland, set in the fictional village 'Malbourne', not to be confused with the real village Calbourne, but located on the Isle of Wight.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Thomas Hardy , most famous for Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, lived across the Solent in Dorset. He visited Swinburne's grave in 1910. There he wrote A Singer Asleep:
In this fair niche above the unslumbering sea,
That sentrys up and down all night, all day,
From cove to promontory, from ness to bay,
The Fates have fitly bidden that he should be Pillowed eternally.
Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
Half of the team behind the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas , Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote The Window with Alfred, Lord Tennyson on the Isle of Wight between 1867-70.
Gerard Manly Hopkins (1844-89)
He spent a summer at Shanklin Manor writing poems, including one on the wreck of HMS Eurydice .
Paul Bourget (1852-1935)
A French novelist, who wrote Le Disciple. On a visit to the Island he wrote:
I shall always have before my eyes adorable views of the countryside to comfort me. Scenes of beautiful green lawns, cold blue seas and delicately grey skies.
Anna Mae Bosler Ellis (1858-1911)
American Anna Ellis, writing as Max Eliot, was a writer for the Boston Herald in the 1890s and later the American correspondent for that paper in London. She died in Freshwater in 1911, where she is buried.
Henry de Vere Stacpoole (1863-1951)
An Irish author who is best known for writing the novel The Blue Lagoon in 1909, but who also wrote exposing atrocities and injustice in the Congo under the pseudonym Tyler de Saix. He founded the Penguin Club, dedicated to helping birds injured by oil pollution. He moved to Bonchurch on the Isle of Wight where he wrote an anthology of poems In Bonchurch's Garden in 1937. He lived at Cliff Dene, which is commemorated by a plaque which reads:
Henry de Vere Stacpoole 1863-1951 Physician novelist poet lived here for thirty years until his death in 1951.
He died at Shanklin Hospital and is buried in Bonchurch, having donated Bonchurch Pond and a bird sanctuary to the village in memory of his wife.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
John Lockwood Kipling, the director of the Lahore School of Arts, and father of Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling , designed and created Osborne House's Durbar Wing with craftsman Bhai Ram Singh between 1890 and January 1891. Rudyard Kipling often visited the Island and took some leather wall coverings from the original Osborne House, that was demolished to make way for Queen Victoria's Italianate palace, to his home at Batemans. Kipling's poem A Centurion's Song was about a hero who had 'Served in Britain forty years from Vectis to the Wall', Vectis being the Roman name for the Isle of Wight.
Pearl Craigie (1867-1906)
Writing as John Oliver Hobbes, she was a successful novelist and the daughter of John Morgan Richards, owner of Steephill Castle in Ventnor. She wrote to support herself after separating from her husband. Her works includes the novel Some Emotions and a Moral (1891), a play The Ambassador (1898), a novel The School for Saints (1898) and its sequel Robert Orange (1902), which includes the real-life character Benjamin Disraeli.
Although she lived at Steephill Castle, she rented nearby St Lawrence Lodge for use as an office. She created the word 'Blimming', which was defined as 'the act in which a woman talks endlessly about pleasant things while revealing nothing of herself and successfully hiding the fact that she is cleverer than her husband.' She died tragically young in her 30s, and is commemorated by a plaque on St Lawrence Lodge, Wolverton Road, St Lawrence as well as the family memorial in Ventnor.
John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone (1868-1947)
Lord Mottistone, Deputy Lieutenant and MP for the Isle of Wight, wrote a biography about his horse, entitled My Horse Warrior. Warrior was a horse foaled at Yafford on the Island in 1908 and was at the battles of Marne, Ypres, the Somme and Cambrai, earning the nickname ' the horse the Germans could not kill '.
In 2011, Stephen Spielberg made a film, entitled War Horse, based on a fictional story by author Michael Morpurgo that drew inspiration from the tale of Isle of Wight horse Warrior.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
In 1880, at the age of six, Winston Churchill and his brother Jack were sent to Ventnor. He and his sister stayed in Ventnor in 1888, while he returned a year later to recover from an illness and later campaigned on the Island in 1910 to help the Liberal candidate in an election.
Churchill's parents, Jennie Jerome and Randolph Churchill, had met and became engaged in Cowes in 1873, the year before the future Prime Minister and Nobel Prize for Literature winner was born.
Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
The war poet who wrote The Isle of Wight in 1911, died in 1917 at the Battle of Arras.
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
Famous for poem The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes moved to the Isle of Wight with his wife Mary in 1929, where he wrote Orchard's Bay about his home near the Undercliff. He also wrote The Last Man in 1940, a novel about a man trapped at the bottom of the sea in an abandoned enemy submarine, who manages to escape and finds himself off the coast of the Isle of Wight, only to discover that everyone on the Island, and indeed the world, is dead, France having detonated their secret doomsday weapon.
It was there he wrote his books of poetry including Letter to Lucian and autobiography Two Worlds for Memory. Alfred Noyes died in Ryde Hospital in 1957 and is buried in St Saviour's churchyard in Totland.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Virginia Woolf often visited her great aunt, pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, at Dimbola Lodge in Freshwater. In 1923 she wrote a comic play entitled Freshwater.
DH Lawrence (1885-1930)
Lawrence visited the Isle of Wight in 1909 and his second novel The Trespasser was based on his friend Helen Corke’s diaries of her time in Freshwater. A film version made in 1981 was shot on the Island.
AA Milne (1882-1956)
The author of Winnie-the-Pooh was a patient at Osborne Convalescent Home during the Great War. His autobiography was entitled It's Too Late Now.
Aubrey de Sélincourt (1894-1962)
Aubrey de Sélincourt, translator of many Greek and Roman classics into English as well as writing the Vision of England series – including a volume on the Isle of Wight – and his wife, poet Irene Rutherford McCloud, retired to the Island in 1947. There they devoted their remaining years to writing. Aubrey's sister Dorothy married AA Milne and his daughter Lesley married Christopher Robin Milne, the young boy portrayed in Winnie-the-Pooh.
JB Priestley (1894-1984)
Author of 26 novels including The Good Companions, JB Priestly moved to the Island in 1933, where he wrote Rain Over Godshill and, in 1947, An Inspector Calls.
Any man from America or Australia might take one glance at the Island as something on a map, and then decide to give it a couple of hours. But you can spend days and days exploring the Isle of Wight, which, if you are really interested, begins magically enlarging itself for you.
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
Poet and novelist Robert Graves wrote the definitive English translation of Seutonius' Twelve Cæsars, written in 121 AD in Latin. His knowledge of this allowed him to write the phenomenal works of English literature, I, Claudius and Claudius the God, which became a renowned BBC television series in 1976. He is one of the 16 Great War poets commemorated in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. During the Great War he suffered from shell shock and was a patient at Osborne Convalescent Home. He wrote about his experiences there in his autobiography Goodbye to All That.
Edward Upward (1903-2009)
A novelist of Isle of Wight descent who was a close friend of Auden and Isherwood. He retired to his grandfather's Sandown home in the 1960s. He wrote The Island.
WH Auden (1907-73)
A British poet who later became an American citizen, is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the 20th Century. In the summer of 1917, the 10-year-old Wystan Hugh Auden first visited the Island with his mother and two older brothers. He later returned in 1926. WH Auden's most famous poem is perhaps Funeral Blues, better known for its first line 'Stop all the clocks'. He also wrote Night Mail, the opening lines of which are This is the Night Mail crossing the border / Bringing the cheque and the postal order.. One of his poem anthologies was entitled On This Island, with poems inspired by his experiences on the Isle of Wight.
Look, stranger, on this island now
The leaping light for your delight discovers
Stand stable here
That through the channels of the ear
May wander like a river
The swaying sound of the sea.
Christopher Isherwood (1904-86)
Most famous for Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, a novel that was later adapted into the musical Cabaret . He spent a lot of time on the Island in the 1920s and 30s with WH Auden.
John Betjeman (1906-84)
Poet Laureate and writer John Betjeman was a frequent visitor to the Island and was especially fond of Ventnor, visiting the Royal National Hospital there in 1969, where he wrote an account of his visit.
Louis MacNeice (1907-63)
Irish poet, novelist, playwright and translator, Louis MacNiece owned a holiday home at Chessell on the Island, which he bought from his friend JB Priestley. He published a poetry anthology Poetry from Iceland with his friend WH Auden.
David Emery Gascoyne (1916-2001)
Surrealist poet David Gascoyne, famous for A Short Study of Surrealism, spent his final years on the Island. While he was incarcerated in Whitecroft mental hospital, a woman named Judy Lewis volunteered to visit the patients and read them poetry. She later said:
One of my favourite poems was called September Sun. I read it one afternoon and one of the patients came up to me afterwards and said 'I wrote that'. I put my hand on his shoulder and said 'Of course you did, dear'. Then of course when I got to know him I realised he had.
They married five years later.
John Heath-Stubbs OBE (1918-2006)
Poet John Heath-Stubbs, most famous for his Arthur-inspired long poem Artorius, attended school at Bembridge as a teenager. He later described his experiences there in his autobiography Hindsights.
Ray Allen (1940+)
Born in Ryde, Ray Allen is famous for creating Frank Spencer and writing the first episode of sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em while working as a cleaner at Shanklin's Regal theatre.
Philip Norman (1943+)
Born in Ryde, he was a music correspondent for The Times and has written numerous biographies of the Beatles, Rolling Stones and other singers. His autobiographical novel The Skater's Waltz is about a childhood in Ryde as his father ran Ryde Pier 's Seagull Ballroom, and has also written about the Isle of Wight Music Festivals.
Alan Titchmarsh (1949+)
Television gardener and presenter who has moved to the Isle of Wight and taken up writing novels, some of which, such as Rosie, are set on the Island. He achieved the distinction of being voted the author of the worst sex scene written in the English language in his novel Mr MacGregor.
She planted moist, hot kisses all over his body. Beads of sweat began to appear on Guy's forehead as he became more entangled in the lissom limbs of this human boa constrictor. For fully 15 minutes their mutual passion heightened, with groans, sighs and liquid noises.
He could have learnt a thing or two from
Laura MacDonald
A local woman who has written numerous Mills & Boon romances.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
In the Virgin interview published in The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams revealed that his best childhood memory was of a holiday on the Isle of Wight. In The Meaning Of Liff, Douglas Adams defines 'Solent' as The state of serene self-knowledge reached through drink and 'Shanklin' as The hoop of skin around a single slice of salami.
Sir Anthony Minghella (1954-2008)
The talented Mr Minghella was an Oscar -winning screenwriter and director. Born in Ryde, he went to school in Sandown and featured the Isle of Wight in many of his films. He is most famous for films such as Truly, Madly, Deeply, The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley, Cold Mountain and for writing for television including Jim Henson's The Storyteller. His brother Dominic also writes plays.
Bear Grylls (1974+)
Though record-breaking survival expert and television presenter Edward Michael 'Bear' Grylls was born in Northern Ireland, he moved to Bembridge when he was four. He described his idyllic childhood on the Isle of Wight in his autobiography Mud, Sweat and Tears, and how climbing the Island's cliffs led to his becoming one of the youngest people to climb Mount Everest, only 18 months after breaking three vertebrate.
After giving a lecture on his adventure on his return to one of the Island's sailing club, the ex-SAS his career evolved into presenting television programme Man vs Wild. Since then he has circumnavigated the UK on a jet-ski, rowed a bathtub down the Thames, paramotored over Everest and taken part in the highest open-air formal dinner party, held at an altitude of 25,000 beneath a hot-air balloon. In 2009 he became the youngest Chief Scout to date.
He has written numerous books about his adventures including Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest, Facing the Frozen Ocean, Born Survivor: Bear Grylls, Bear Grylls Outdoor Adventures, A Survival Guide for Life , True Grit, Train For It, Living Wild, at least six Mission Survival children's books and Scouting For All.
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Cheatham has been with Chippendales for more than 10 years and now three years with the touring troupe. He's been in the entertainment business for more than 20 years and worked with nearly all the pop stars, the top stars in the business, he said.
And with that kind of show business background, Cheatham is quick to point out that the Chippendales of today is a far cry from group founded in 1979 by Somen Banerjee, Paul Snider, and Bruce Nahin.
"We try to let people know that its not the Chippendales of the '80s anymore," Cheatham said. "Its like a Disneyland for women, a state of the art show, and we are constantly trying to reinvent ourselves and keep it current. It is a challenge trying to get the word out that its a new day. Its current, fresh exciting and as always - hot."
Crowd interaction is a big part of each Chippendales show. COURTESY PHOTO
Staying current and also consumable by a wide variety of clientele is also a challenge and it takes work.
"We have a show director, and we have creative control over the show," Cheatham said. "Being in this particular field, I know what the women want. I think the reason we work, is we give the women a variety, something for everybody."
That also keeps it fresh for the audience members, who often get to see the performers up close and personal at each show.
"Pretty much every number has interaction with the audience, either on stage, or we go out into the audience," Cheatham said.
And to mix it up, Cheatham said the group brings in two or three new members, so its never the exact same show twice. Given that the group will be seen by by almost 2 million people worldwide each year, the formula seems to be working.
"One of the coolest things that happens at each show is we hear that its not what they expected, its even better," Cheatham said. "We want them to leave excited, talking about the show and having no voice because they screamed so much. We want those ladies to have the time of their lives."
The shows starts at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 27, at Pala Resort & Casino, 11154 California 76, Pala. Tickets are $22-$32, call 760-510-5100 or visit palacasino.com .
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Thomas Chippendale was a London cabinet maker, chair and furniture designer in Gothic, Rococo and Neoclassical styles. His book, The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director, was published in 1754 and became a bible for woodworkers and interior designers. Chippendale himself was commissioned by aristocratic clients to design entire furnishing for their stately homes. An ornate chest of drawers, the serpentine-shaped Harrison Commode dating from 1779, sold for £3.8 million at Sotheby’s in 2010, three times its high estimate. Even back in 1988 a Chippendale carved mahogany chair was sold at auction for more than $1 million. But the iconic Chippendale furniture legacy has now been overtaken by the “Chippendales”, a touring male dance troupe best known for exotic striptease. Members sport a distinctive bow tie, and white shirt cuffs worn on a bare torso. Since 1979 they have performed for mainly female audiences, and because of the high standard of choreography and
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Perhaps leaders of the male striptease group would have been better off doing so says CHARLES SAATCHI staging, the Chippendales eventually legitimised male stripping as popular entertainment, providing the fantasy of a naughty night with the hunky clean-cut boy next door. The Chippendale team are seen performing by two million worldwide each year, in cities in Central and South America, and more than 30 European capitals. According to the official Chippendale website, they each rehearse for four hours per day, and apparently maintain a healthy lifestyle and get a lot of sleep. The Chippendales are forbidden from accepting tips from the clientele but other male strippers leave the stage with wads of notes stuffed into
their thongs. Often, the female audience go wild at the sight of gyrating muscles slick with baby oil, and less fastidious groups try to raise the ante by wearing fireman, policeman, even gorilla costumes, or bizarrely employ bananas and whipped cream as props. Over the years, there have been many legal barriers for the Chippendales to overcome, though these are usually confl icts with “copycat” companies. More seriously, its founding partners have both become infamous murderers. Paul Snider killed his estranged wife, Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten, and then himself. Partner Somen Banerjee was charged with organising a hit-man to murder a business associate. Thoughtfully, he wanted to shield his wife from a wrongful death lawsuit and a $2 million fine, so he hanged himself in his cell before his trial was completed, also avoiding a probable life sentence. Perhaps they would have both been better off making decorative furniture.
The perils facing the social network generation By Rosamund Urwin I am often grateful that I never did anything of note as a teenager. The play I toyed with writing about adolescent excess - despite the strongest substance I had sampled being Vicks VapoRub - not only remained unpublished, I never made it past page two. By 17, my only achievements were some GCSEs and an A* in eyeliner application. Any public humiliations were destined to be adult humiliations. With the downfall this week of Britain’s first (and perhaps last) youth crime commissioner, 17-year-old Paris Brown, for racist and homophobic comments she made online, I was thankful for something else too: that I was part of the last generation to grow up in a Twitter and Facebook-free world. Even those who don’t emerge from adolescent obscurity to be exposed for making racist remarks on the front
page of a national newspaper may have more minor teenage transgressions re-emerge in adulthood. Digital footprints have indelibly marked exits from crime scenes people don’t even remember being at. Because of the internet, juvenile follies that would previously have left no mark have morphed into albatrosses hanging around the necks of the under-18s. We all must have said something as a teen that we’re lucky wasn’t on record. This week too, Unicef warned that Britain’s government was failing teenagers, with among the highest proportion in Europe not in education, training or work. Brown has also fuelled the stereotype of teenagers as boozed-up, foulmouthed Vicky Pollards, when in reality they have become less rebellious in recent years, drinking less and taking fewer drugs.
And there’s a wider worry: that now only those with an unblemished record in their teenage years can prosper in politics. The UK risks being left with virtuous but bland robots, or a country run by those who as teens did a remarkably good impression of middle age - a legion of William Hagues. Brown has said she wants other young people to learn from her mistakes, which is sensible when employers increasingly look at candidates’ online presence. I hope too that teachers and parents will instil in children that they are what they tweet. But I also think we will have to become more forgiving, to offer second chances in more plentiful supply. Either that, or someone should invent technology to expunge from the internet anything written in juvenile ignorance when someone turns 18. They’d make a fortune.
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o, Mr Netanyahu apologised to Turkey. Just a few weeks ago Mr Cameron, in Amritsar, expressed his regret for the unforgivable 1919 massacre there under command of Colonel [T/Brigadier] ‘Reggie’ Dyer CB, forebear, coincidentally, of the architect who built my villa in Paphos. That debacle happened when crowds of mainly Sikh citizens seeking the same kind of freedom enjoyed in UK rallied to hear some banned speakers. Thereupon the narrow exitways were pinpointed and in a ten-minute bloodbath almost two thousand rounds of small arms fi re was poured into the helpless crowd. Similar to the Nazi-SS massacre of recaptured POWs after the ‘Wooden Horse’ mass escape, trapped miscreants deliberately mown down. Some regarded it as ‘teaching the wogs a lesson’ or ‘saving
the empire.’ Rudyard Kipling was one such. Others saw it as a brutal slaying of perhaps a thousand aspiring colonials and the wounding of about three times as many. No-one is sure of the numbers, they were wogs, what did numbers matter? Anyway, have you too noticed this spate of apologising that’s going on all around? Never a day passes without someone apologising to someone or being expected to apologise or being criticised for not apologising, like crooked bankers, embezzling MPs, and so on. Blair apologised for the slave trade and for the Irish potato famine, though not for starting the Iraq war, I recall. I wait with bated breath to hear that the Duke of York has apologised for the behaviour of an erstwhile Duke of York for murdering the Princes in the Tower, if he did. What price the Argies, via their Pope perhaps, apologising
for invading the Falklands, or the Brits for cold-bloodedly sinking the Belgrano? What about France apologising for selling them Exocet missiles? Maybe Germany will apologise to millions killed in wars they started? After all, the Pope apologised to the Jews, mind you, I never before heard the Jews apologise for anything. Perhaps the next thing will be their apology to the Palestinians. Every day there are bleats and threats in the press about how badly the Jews are treating them. Yet seldom is heard a word about hundreds of missiles flying out of Gaza some days. You never hear anyone whine that just about every Arab on record agrees Middle East bloodshed will end only when the last Jew has been slaughtered. You never hear anyone criticise the alleged words of the prophets that destruction of the various tribes of we infidel is a major aim of so-called Islam, a word
derived from the Arabic salema, meaning peace, purity, submission and obedience; the word translates, roughly, as ‘the way of peace’ though this may not be immediately apparent. I reckon that if the Amritsar protests were threatening to happen today in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt or Syria we would be siding with the ‘rebels’ and, far from shooting at them, British troops would be sent in to assist their ‘political objectives.’ One public apology I took notice of was when HM Government apologised to Alan Turing in 2009, years after he had died at his own hand, and almost 60 years after he was prosecuted for gross indecency after admitting a sexual relationship with a man. Shades of Oscar Wilde must have smiled when Gordon Brown said that Turing - a genius mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist, who played as big a part in winning WW2
as any individual man - suffered ‘appalling’ treatment including chemical castration. Not a pretty thing to see, I promise you, and still done today. Turing was punished for offences against the then current law. But the point in apologising was to appease, some said throw a sop to, the growing number of voting members of the homosexual community. This then, is the reason behind all this apologising. It’s either flagrant vote trawling, self-protective or part of an export drive. Tories know it’s the economy that will cost them the next election not Same Sex Marriages. Furthermore, I remind readers of the reply attributed to the Earl of Arran in the Sixties, when asked to explain why the House of Lords had legalised homosexuality but refused to impose a ban on badger-baiting: ‘Not many badgers in the House of Lords, old chap.’
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people were arrested last weekend as hooliganism reared its ugly head on Saturday, before, during and after the Omonia – APOEL match in Nicosia and the Anorthosis – AEK match in Larnaca. Before the Omonia – APOEL game trouble started while APOEL fans were making their way into the GSP Stadium, with one fan and three police officers being injured. Police arrested one man to help their investigation into the incident. After the match three more were arrested. One had a sharp object in his possession and the other two caused damage to a police vehicle with a flare. after further trouble two more arrests were made. Ten minutes after the Anorthosis AEK match finished, some Anorthosis fans left the stadium, put hoods on and headed towards the stand where the AEK fans were, police said.Nine fans were later arrested.
Cyprus Airways employees protested outside the Presidential Palace on Wednesday at the same time that the cabinet was meeting to discuss the national carrier’s future. The employees asked for the government’s support to prevent the airline from closing and for them to take an immediate political decision. Employee representatives entered the Presidential Palace and met with head of the President’s office, Panayiotis Antoniou, and also spoke with Communications and Works Minister Tasos Mitsopoulos before he entered the cabinet meeting. “I have been working for Cyprus Airways for 21 years and it not only helped me feed my family but it is a large part of who I am,” one protester said. “We are not only losing our jobs but a large part of Cypriot history,” she added.
million euro could be raised as the island has agreed to sell excess gold to help finance its part of its bailout, according to an assessment of the island’s financing needs prepared by the European Commission, revealed on Wednesday. The draft assessment, referring to the gold sale, obtained by Reuters, also said that Cyprus would raise €10.6 billion from the winding down of Laiki Bank and the losses imposed on junior bondholders and the deposit-for-equity swap for uninsured deposits in the Bank of Cyprus. Nicosia would get a further €600 million over three years from raising the corporate income tax rate and the capital gains tax rate. The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) said however that selling the island’s gold had not been on the table.
names of individuals and companies were handed to lawmakers on Tuesday by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) featuring those who withdrew money from Cyprus up to 15 days before a controversial Eurogroup decision to force losses on depositors as a condition for a €10 billion bailout. However, the chairman of the House Ethics Committee, which was due to look into a list detailing transfers of more than €100,000 from the two major banks - Bank of Cyprus (BoC) and Laiki - said the list fell short of what he had requested. “It was with great disappointment and anger that, when we opened the envelope, we realised it contained data for only 15 days even though we had asked for a year,” MP Demetris Syllouris told reporters. “This kind of behaviour is unacceptable.”
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An affinity with numbers Bringing fun into maths has become a life’s work for one Limassol teacher. It is, after all, all around us she tells THEO PANAYIDES
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xhibit A: maths and marriage. An Oxford professor, James D Murray, has constructed mathematical models to predict whether a couple will divorce or not. A team from the University of Washington have gone even further, putting married couples in a room and observing them like guinea pigs. They studied the couples’ body
A sense of fun: Katerina Kaouri language while they argued about everyday matters, from money to mothers-in-law. They wired up the couples to record their pulse and heart-rate. They employed ideas like phase space, null clines and influence functions, which no-one but mathematicians even understands.
On stage: Katerina at the Tedx event
Armed with these data points (and the couples’ subsequent history), they created a model which claims to recognise unhappy marriages long before they actually go south. There’s even a book you can buy on Amazon, The Mathematics of Marriage. Cut to Katerina Kaouri, taking the stage in a bright red top at the recent TEDx event in Nicosia. Her manner is brisk and humorous. “Good morning,” she tells the audience. “As you have heard, I’m a mathematician. So I would like to ask you: who among you likes mathematics?” The response is mixed, to put it kindly – and that’s her point, that millions of people suffer from “mathematics phobia”. A 17-minute talk on how maths is actually quite fun isn’t necessarily a crowdpleaser, especially in the midst of sexier subjects like a restaurateur’s colourful past (Roddy Damalis, owner of Ta Piatakia) or the rigours of being a journalist (the Mail’s own Stefanos Evripidou) – but Katerina pulls it off, especially when she talks about love. “What if Romeo behaved like a typical man?” she ponders, and the audience responds with warm laughter. By the end, her talk is among the best-received of the whole event. The reference to Romeo is part of a mathematical model she cooks up to deconstruct the ultimate love sto-
ry, a series of differential equations illustrating the inevitable result when Romeo – like a typical male – responds to Juliet’s attention with growing indifference. Later in her talk, Katerina also presents a model (in the form of a multi-tiered equation) to measure men’s chances of getting a date with a beautiful girl. Mathematically speaking, this is basic stuff – but the underlying point is very dear to her. “You can translate everything into maths,” she tells me a few days later, sitting in Bono Bar & Restaurant near the beach road in Limassol with a dish of tempura prawns that remains largely untouched. “My life after my fi rst degree was to look into various problems from various disciplines, and see how maths can translate them”. Exhibit B: maths and cancer. Cancer modelling – one of the areas she worked in after her PhD – investigates “how you use magnets to heat up some little magnets inside a tumour”. Cells are loaded with magnetic nano-particles, then accumulated in the cancerous tumour; you then switch on a magnet outside the body and “convert magnetic energy into thermal energy”, essentially burning the tumour. Katerina didn’t think this up herself, obviously (she was part of a research team at the University of Nottingham), but it’s typical of the range of applications she’s studied. Her PhD in Applied
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Mathematics from Oxford University – following a Mathematics degree from Cambridge and an MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing – dealt with how to manage the sound from supersonic aeroplanes; a recent variation, the devastating sonic boom from the meteorite that landed in Russia last February, made its way into her TEDx talk.
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er current job, after returning to Cyprus in 2010, may be a bit of a comedown, teaching maths to university students with no special interest in maths. Her charges tend to be youngsters doing compulsory maths courses as part of a nonmaths degree (Hotel Management types roped into taking Statistics, that kind of thing) and it’s often a struggle to motivate them. “People are really afraid,” she reports. “I had a girl crying in a test”. Mathematics phobia is real, and it baffles her: “What makes mathematics so frightening for people? Is it bad teachers? Is it the parents? Is it our boring books, the way we teach it?” She herself loves teaching, and takes it seriously – a seriousness reflected in her demeanour, which sometimes obscures the real woman. Katerina is a warm, lively person who loves dancing and good food, but her default expression tends to be quite stern; it’s almost a surprise when she smiles and the face turns rascally, even naughty. She can come across as remote when she doesn’t know others well, she admits, maybe because she spent her formative years (she’s now in her 30s) being… well, the kind of teenage girl who goes on to study Maths at Cambridge. “I like meeting people,” she confi rms. “Actually I’m introverted – people laugh when I say that – but I really like connecting with people, and hearing stories. [Yet] I was very, very timid as a child. Up to 18 I was like this nerdy kid, not having many friends”. Family background may have something to do with it. Katerina’s the eldest of four, and the eldest child often tends to be serious and responsible. Both her parents were schoolteachers, which also tends to foster a studious character; her dad – “a strict father,” she recalls – taught Religious Studies (though he has a fi rst degree as an agriculturist), her mother taught
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French. Mathematics always came naturally to her, though maths lessons at school mostly consisted of solving endless equations – a thrill for a numbers junkie like herself, but probably not for her classmates. “It’s very few people,” she admits with dry understatement, “who like to solve an abstract equation”. Exhibit C: the golden ratio. If you take a stick and ask someone to split it in two, chances are they’ll choose a point about two-thirds of the way down (a ‘golden’ ratio of 1.618:1, if you want to be mathematical about it); “For some reason, the human eye sees that as the most pleasant section to cut this thing”. If you then create a shape where the ratio between the sides is the golden ratio, that shape is a ‘golden shape’. It can be a triangle, a pentagon, a decagon, anything – but here’s where it starts to get interesting, because a golden decagon also appears in the crosssection of a strand of human DNA. What’s more, plastic surgeons have synthesised golden shapes to create a ‘perfect’ face, which turns out to be a close match for movie-star faces
It’s yet another case of her basic thesis that maths is everywhere – but also a reminder that she herself has a strong artistic side He really is good looking: Brad Pitt
(Brad Pitt, Jessica Alba) commonly considered beautiful. The proportions of the Parthenon display the golden ratio. So do the proportions of supermodels and Playboy bunnies. So do the proportions of the human hand and forearm. So does some of our greatest art: “The Mona Lisa is all golden shapes”. Katerina spoke about the golden ratio at TEDx, and previously also at Famelab (the annual science competition, where she made the list of Cyprus fi nalists in 2011). It’s yet another case of her basic thesis that maths is everywhere – but also a reminder that she herself has a strong artistic side. Like many of her ilk, she’s very musical (music and maths tend to go together), having studied piano up to Grade 8 and become adept at Latin dancing (“I used to dance in the UK, and go to parties and stuff. In Cyprus I’m not so involved in the scene anymore”) – but she also painted
well as a child, and her greatest love is fi lmmaking which of course tends to synthesise all the other arts. She spent an exhilarating month at the New York Film Academy, and even thought of chucking it all in to make movies – but good sense prevailed, and she went back to numbers and equations. “OK, I will do mathematics,” she recalls telling herself, “and I’ll try to create within that sphere”. Does she still create? Well, she tries. It’s not just the teaching; she also does research, and remains very interested in unorthodox applications like “mathematical sociology” – “how you model interactions that make a phenomenon emerge” (like a riot, or a ‘viral’ YouTube video). Maths is increasingly creative, and proactive. It can predict behaviour, and increasingly does so; the algorithms are taking over. I mention the analyst who caused a stir last year by correctly predicting the election outcome in all 50 US states just by crunching numbers, outperforming pundits with years of political experience. Isn’t it dangerous to have that kind of knowledge? Or how about the ‘perfect face’ she mentioned – the plastic surgeon’s application of the golden ratio? If beauty can be created mathematically, won’t everyone want a variation on the perfect face? Wouldn’t we end up with a ‘perfect’ society where everyone looks the same? “I don’t know,” replies Katerina. “I think it’s a tool. It’s a very powerful tool”. She’s worked for three years as a strategy consultant in Athens, answering questions for corporate clients – but no-one knows the answer to how far mathematics can go, let alone when it stops being ethical. The one obvious fact is that maths is everywhere, not just in the classroom; it defi nes and colours everything we do – yet too many people continue to fear it, or don’t understand it, or even ignore it. The notion of popular science still carries a stigma (except perhaps in the States). Scientists are too often condescending, students uninterested. Teachers too often fail to make the subject interesting, falling back on simple equation-solving. It’s strange, I point out: religion is so much more outlandish than maths – so much harder to explain in real-life terms – yet everyone seems to understand ‘God’ and ‘miracles’. Why can’t they also understand phase space and differential equations? Exhibit D: Katerina Kaouri in her red top, winding up her speech at TEDx Nicosia. “There are 6,900 languages in the world, but only one language of mathematics. It unites people across countries and cultures. It can explain almost everything, from the sound of aeroplanes to how we make decisions to how we love, all the way to what we fi nd beautiful”. Her hands chop the air emphatically, her face settles into a frown – not a sign of annoyance but a sign of passion, the passion of a woman who’s always had a powerful affi nity with numbers, and only wants to share it with the world. “So I would like to urge you,” she appeals to her audience. “Rethink maths! Look at it with a fresh look. Forgive your bad teachers and forget the bad books. And to the fellow teachers out there: work on re-branding mathematics. Make it relevant, make it personal. Make it fun. Thank you”. The defence rests.
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Post axed The president cancelled the controversial appointment of Spyros Stavrinakis to the post of deputy Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) governor, the government spokesman said this week.
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The cabinet has decided to fire the chairman of Cyprus’ natural gas company, DEFA, because of serious misconduct, although details of his offences have not been revealed.
Church to pay up The Church of Cyprus is ready to pay to restore the crumbling Apostolos Andreas monastery in the occupied Karpas peninsula, Archbishop Chrysostomos II said this week.
Shooting trial A man suspected of killing another and injuring four other people in two separate shooting incidents in Kofinou on March 23, has been referred for trial on May 21.
Challenge withdrawn More than half of the district court judges appealing mandatory pay cuts as part of austerity measures legislation passed in late 2011 have withdrawn their appeals lodged with the Supreme Court. About time too.
AG suspension Attorney-general Petros Clerides used his position to suspend prosecution for his son, Christodoulos Clerides, who was caught driving over the alcohol limit in a car that had not passed an MOT and for which he did not have up-to-date road tax. He says he has done nothing wrong.
CY protest Around 300 Cyprus Airways employees protested outside the Presidential Palace at the same time that the cabinet was meeting to discuss the national carrier’s future. The employees asked for the government’s support to prevent the airline from closing, which seems unlikely although they have received job security until the end of the summer.
Hooligan arrests Hooliganism reared its ugly head last Saturday, before, during and after the Omonia – APOEL match in Nicosia and the Anorthosis – AEK match in Larnaca as police arrested a total of 15 people.
Abuse probe The Education Ministry has started an investigation into a claim from the Parents Association of the Evaggelismos Special School in Nicosia that a teacher has been verbally and physically abusing disabled children.
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Trainers with attitude: Hogan Loves Katie Grand
Who pimped my trainers? Cara, Jourdan and co can’t stop wearing them and top brands are lining up to add them to their collections. EMMA MCCARTHY hails the transformation of the humble running shoe
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oco Chanel once said “fashion has two purposes: comfort and love”. While I’m sure she wasn’t thinking about trainers when she said so, it is these reasons the humble running shoe has made the transition from fitness to fashion. While a recent swathe of pimped-out trainers spotted on celebrities have been making headlines - see Beyoncé’s new ostrich, stingray and anaconda skin pair - it is, in fact, the fashion pack who have given the humble trainer its real style kudos this spring. It all started - as a lot of things in fashion do - with Phoebe Philo. When the British designer stepped onto the Céline catwalk all those seasons ago in a pair of vintage Nike Air Max 1s, the front row took notice for two reasons: one, because it was Phoebe Philo, and two, because at the end of four weeks of shows their heel-clad soles were screaming for some spongy cushioning. After Philo’s endorsement, it was only a matter of time before trainers were spurred up the dizzying heights of fashion. But this season, it seems to have reached a crescendo - proven at recent fashion weeks. From the gaggle of off-duty models including Cara Delevingne and Jourdan Dunn, who seem to own no other type of footwear, to the fashion editors making a laid-back style statement on the front row, trainers of every shape, style and description - but preferably as loud as possible - were as ubiquitous as a Céline Trapeze bag or Smythson notebook. The increasingly fashionable connections in the sportswear arena have a lot to do with this; the likes of Stella McCartney for Adidas and Liberty for Nike. And thanks to
From left: Hogan Loves Katie Grand, Nike Air Max 1, Isabel Marant wedge sneaker. Below: Nike Blazer
the help of models of the moment Delevingne, Georgia May Jagger and Edie Campbell, it has been at the forefront of the fashion radar. The movement isn’t going unnoticed on the high street. After the peak in interest, Kurt Geiger made the decision to ditch the heels and dedicate its recent window displays with an expanding selection of trainers throughout London Fashion Week. “The very fact that we launched the new Kurt Geiger spring-summer collection with trainers speaks hugely about the shift towards shoes we can wear to run around in,” says creative director Rebecca Farrar-Hockley. “The appetite for trainers keeps growing and evolving season on season,” agrees Selfridges women’s shoe buying manager Helen Attwood. “Despite repeat reorders and a huge increase in our buying it’s still hard for us to keep up. From high street and sports labels to high fashion, it really is the most fun and democratic shoe trend we’ve seen in ages.” But while the major brands are clamouring to get in on the trainer action, the fashion pack seems to be in collective agreement when it comes to Nike. Since Philo’s initial choice of Air Max 1s, her followers aka, everyone in the industry - have retained a longstanding loyalty to the classic style. In fact, such is the clout of Nike among fashion insiders that the brand has dispatched personal trainers to each major fashion capital during show season to make sure those trainers are put to good use. Of course, the very reason trainers have found their way into the hearts of the fashion industry is the fact that a cherished pair of Air Max
After the peak in interest, Kurt Geiger made the decision to ditch the heels and dedicate its recent window displays with an expanding selection of trainers
a y 1s are just as relevant now as they were 25 years ago.
The Trainer edit Hogan Loves Katie Grand Andrea Della Valle is one smartt cookie. By enlisting the help of fash-ion royalty, LOVE Magazine’s Katie Grand, the president of little-known Italian trainer brand Hogan transformed the label’s style credentials practically overnight. But Grand and her gang of model mates are not done yet - the second collection for A/W13 is scheduled to hit stores in July. With more zebra print - and even more models - than ever before, the range is unlikely to fall off the fashion pack’s radar any time soon. And thankfully, they look just as good with denim as they do with micro jersey shorts (Hogan.com).
Air Max 1 This year, Nike’s Air Max 1 celebrates its 25th anniversary and it’s little surprise that the festivities kicked off with a birthday party entitled #airwebreathe. So the Air Max is to trainer nuts what sequins are to Strictly Come Dancing. Having seen many reincarnations in
its quarter decade lifetime, including the snakeskin pair, above, in celebration of Chinese New Year, the ever-stylish trainers are the most likely to be spotted on the feet of front rowers - currently, teamed with leather trousers and a Crombie (Nike.com).
Blazer For the teenage continent, Nike Blazers picked up where Converse left off. The high top of choice nods back to an era of nostalgic cool namely, a basketball court in the Seventies where the trainer fi rst made its mark. Simple, sleek and with seemingly infi nite colour combinations, the Blazer has a place in every trainer lover’s collection. There’s one rule: the brighter the better (Nike.com).
Isabel Marant wedge g sneaker As the proud owner own of one of the shoe world’s lon longest waiting lists, Isabel Marant’s wedge w sneakers kickstarted the co concealed heel trainer trend. Worn by the Primrose Hill set with yoga leggings leg and by Miranda Kerr with skin ski tight denim and bouncy baby on h hip, the wedge is a trend that keeps on running Beyoncé’s custom-d custom-designed Perfectly Made Kicks have seen to ((matchesfashthat ion.c ion.com).
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Just my cup of tea After a torturous journey ALIX NORMAN visits Cyprus’ only herbal tea factory
Natural Life herbal teas are available at most supermarkets Lavender
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t’s a long drive and I get lost twice. The elements are out in force today: the spring sun burning down and mad winds racing across fields. Olive trees shake and shiver, and ahead the foothills shimmer in the haze. Once you’re well outside the city, nature reasserts itself, and it seems fitting that I’m on my way to the premises of a company known for the medicinal benefits of its natural teas. Medicine and the Greeks go hand-in-hand, and the fertile soil of Cyprus has always proved excellent for the growing of natural remedies: ancient medical practice commonly employed olive oil, resins and bitter herbs grown locally, while the famed Apollodoros of Kition advocated rose wreaths for headaches. With such an abundance of natural herbs available to us on the island, it was only a matter of time before someone started producing and promoting their benefits on a larger scale. And it is this that the company Natural Life has set out to do, with its range of herbal teas. On my eventual arrival I’m greeted with a cup of lavender tea, perfect for calming the nerves and putting any fraught writer into a more collected frame of mind. Soothed and comforted, I ask where the tea was produced. “Right here in Cyprus,” says sales manager George Erotokritou. “We have an agreement with farmers around the island who produce exclusively for Natural Life,” he continues, explaining that the company was created on the amalgamation of two similar businesses who both sold pulses and legumes. “The teas came later, when we realised there was a market for them. We were already selling loose herbs grown here on the island, and decided to package them as teabags.” Wanting to offer a wide variety of teas, the company imports a number of herbs and spices that can’t be grown in Cypriot soil, such as senna and hibiscus from Egypt, elderflower from Bulgaria and cinnamon and cloves from India and Sri Lanka. But the vast majority are locally grown, and even exported to other countries. We may think the island is famous only for its halloumi exports, but Natural Life is already selling to Greece, Britain and Dubai, and by the end of the year will be marketing as far abroad as America and Australia. “People are familiar with our teas now,” says
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Everything possible is being done to ensure none of the aroma or flavour is lost en route to the supermarket and the teas arrive on the shelf fresh, tasty and full of healing benefits marketing manager Yiannis Kountouris. “We’re the only company in Cyprus producing herbal teas, and the consumers recognise they’re something special.” Indeed, Natural Life was the fi rst of the island’s companies in its sector to attain HACCP and ISO certification, co-operating only with qualified suppliers and ensuring both production methods and safety – for workers and consumers alike - are of the highest standard. I’m shown the room where the loose tea is packaged, fi rst into bags, then sealed envelopes, and fi nally boxes wrapped in cellophane. Everything possible is being done to ensure none of the aroma or fl avour is lost en route to the supermarket and the teas arrive on the shelf fresh, tasty and full of healing benefits. Even the warehouse adheres to European standards, and as we pass through, my two guides reveal the modifications: “The windows are all shuttered to protect the herbs from direct sunlight,” George points out, “the roof is insulated, and we’ve installed a ventilation system. Even the lights have special plastic covers.” I wonder why this should be so important, until he asks if I’ve ever read reports about broken glass found in food: “That’s what happens when a light bulb breaks and there’s nothing to stop the shards from falling into the products.” I begin to realise there’s a lot more to food
Basil fields
production than I ever knew; even the factory workers are dressed in protective clothing, headgear and gloves. But even though I’m impressed by such a professional operation, it’s the smell of the warehouse that really has me entranced. As we walk down the aisles between sacks of herbs, I catch a whiff of wild rose, a trace of cloves, a hint of anise. It’s an olfactory journey, and I stop dead when one of the piles conjures up a sudden image. “This is spearmint,” says Yiannis, opening the bag and offering me a handful. “Rub it between your palms, and then smell it.” I do as he suggests, and the aroma is released into the air, transporting me to a summer evening of beach-side mojitos. The next aisle is marigold, golden flowers cascading from an open sack and then, as we turn the corner, I can smell Christmas in the warmth of cinnamon.
“And this is nettle,” says George, holding out a handful of dried leaves. It may not have the ability to enrapture the nose, but apparently it’s packed with benefits: “Nettle has an incredibly high iron content, much more so than spinach. A friend of mine had a son with anaemia, and nothing the doctor recommended seemed to help. Then he persuaded the boy to start drinking nettle tea. Three months later, when they returned to the hospital, the doctor couldn’t believe the difference.” The two men are obviously proud of their work, and rightly so. Not only are they working for a company which is actively promoting the island’s bounty, the products they sell are natural remedies. “It’s more like a family than a business,” says Yiannis, and George agrees: “We want everyone here to feel it’s a second home, and that their work is important. Otherwise, as a company, we couldn’t succeed.” As I depart, the pair hand me boxes of tea, explaining how each can help. There’s Calendula to improve circulation, Basil for mental clarity and Hibiscus for menstrual cramps. There’s even some Jasmine, known not only as a cure for sore throats, but also as an aphrodisiac! I’m given something to alleviate what seems like every known ailment, or boost every process in the body. And I make a special note of the Chamomile, when Yiannis suggests it might be especially helpful with hysteria and stress. Next time I know I’m likely to get lost on the way to an interview, I’ll know what to take on the journey!
08 TRAVEL
MOSCOW MOMENT LOUISE JURY tours the city’s architectural landmarks, museums and famous theatres
Soviet sight: the Kremlin. Left: a Faberge egg from the armoury
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legant silver birch trees have been part of the scenery in almost every production of plays by Anton Chekhov I have ever seen. So row upon row of them shining in the roadside darkness seemed convincing fi rst proof I had landed in Russia. Moscow, on the other hand, was not the modern city of my imagination. Austere Sovietera concrete apartment blocks are still to be found. But what proved an unexpected delight was the abundance of onion-domed Orthodox churches, elegant villas and neoclassical theatres and museums. The friendly hotel concierge said it was the worst mid-March weather the city had ever suffered, with 30cm of snow in 24 hours. But in more clement conditions, a visitor could spend hours strolling the streets seeking out notable architecture such as the honeycomb effect house of Constructivist architect Konstantin Melnikov in the Arbatskaya district. And while battling with the Cyrillic alphabet makes a visit more exhausting than many city breaks,
mastering a few basics - that H means N and P means R is useful for fi nding a restaurant - has its own satisfactions. Red Square, familiar from Soviet-era demonstrations of tank and soldier power, must be a starting
Komsomolskaya metro station. Above: the Gorky house museum
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The Bolshoi A private security guard stands outside the Four Points hotel in Ahmedabad
point for any visit. Lenin’s Mausoleum is currently closed for repairs. Instead, explore the former staterun shopping mall GUM opposite, whose airy glass-roofed arcades now host luxury brands that must have the former Soviet leader turning in his grave, then get utterly lost in the highly decorated, icon-packed maze of chapels that is St Basil’s Cathedral. Staying at the Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya, itself an historical monument of which more later, I was just three Metro stops from the square – named not for communism but after the cathedral as “red” also
The lavish excess makes the 1917 revolution quite understandable. Another insight into Russian life can be found at the Tretyakov Gallery. While the main building of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts offers great Old Masters and its sister site topclass Impressionists, what the Tretyakov shows is Russian life. Whizz through the early galleries of largely less than thrilling dukes and counts of centuries past to fi nd scenes of native agricultural workers, carol singers and bustling urban Moscow. Other gems are totally free. The Gorky House museum charges 100 roubles only if you want to take pho-
Touring the Metro system is one of the cheapest must-dos of any trip, not just to survey Russian dress - full-length furs for the cold - but for the design and decoration means “beautiful”. I quickly got used to spotting it on the signs, even if more complicated journeys required a waving of a map and surprisingly effective exchange of gestures. But touring the Metro system is one of the cheapest must-dos of any trip, not just to survey Russian dress - full-length furs for the cold - but for the design and decoration. Unique and beautiful, Mayakovskaya has ceiling mosaics depicting Soviet scenes of aircraft and athletes - and is also a short walk from the Patriarch’s Pond, famous in the opening scenes of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita (required reading for this trip). Kropotkinskaya has a light, simple design and at Ploshchad Revolutsii there are lifesized bronze statues of heroic working class figures at every platform entrance. More pricey but essential viewing is the fortress of the Kremlin, seat of power for centuries and the heart of Moscow. The basic ticket, purchased at the small cabins at the foot of the walls, gives you access to the inner squares and the chance to stroll past buildings still used by government and tour the imposing churches and cathedrals. But it is worth buying the extra ticket to the Armoury, a treasury of jewel-encrusted crowns and bibles, Fabergé eggs, ornate religious vestments and gowns worn by empresses and tsars and the most preposterous over-the-top carriage ever created in the febrile imagination of a Disney animator.
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tographs - but do cough up. The socialist writer Maxim Gorky apparently disliked the Art Nouveau home the state assigned him but most visitors will admire the impressive curved staircase, decorated ceilings and stained glass. Even the door handles are worth a picture. And it seems modesty itself compared with the grandeur of my hotel. The Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya was one of the ‘Seven Sisters’, the fi rst high-rise buildings in Moscow, founded in 1947 on the 800th anniversary of the Russian capital, opened in 1954 and immediately hailed as a landmark hotel. I had no time for the spa or swimming pool in the former basement nuclear shelter. But even for those staying elsewhere, lunch in the lobby bar would be worth the price for the chance to view the gilded ceiling, ornamental gates modelled on a pair in the Kremlin and lion sculptures seized by Russian wartime forces from Germany and all restored in recent years. Try a local favourite, herring, blow the budget on black caviar or grab a mozzarella and tomato salad with Parma ham on toast for 700 roubles (about €20). The Bolshoi Ballet is one of Moscow’s most famous exports but can be caught on home turf. Tickets go on sale three months in advance and are quickly snapped up. If you fail to get a seat, you can still see inside the refurbished gilded auditorium on a tour, some in English - and catch them dancing at the Royal Opera House from July.
Hotel companies find a short cut through India's red tape Starwood Hotels & Resorts got a 104-room hotel up and running in India in less than 12 months, bypassing years of red tape by rebranding an existing property instead of building a new one. Capitalising on distress in the Indian hospitality sector, international operators such as Starwood and France's Accor SA are teaming up with investors to acquire hotels from debt-laden domestic owners and reopen them under their own corporate banners. Such conversions can help global players expand more quickly in a country where hotel construction has slowed since the downturn in 2008 as developers shun capital-intensive projects often delayed by bureaucratic and regulatory hurdles. "This is the first time we are seeing a reasonable num-
ber of assets on the market at the same time," said Gaurav Bhushan, chief development and investment officer for Asia Pacific at Accor. "There have been hotel assets for sale in the past but they have been more sporadic," he said. Slowing economic growth, an increase in the supply of hotel rooms and growing competition from foreign operators is hurting local chains such as Hotel Leelaventure Ltd, Royal Orchid Hotels Ltd and Kamat Hotels Ltd, which are selling assets to ease debt. International operators hope to succeed where local players have stumbled because they have deeper pockets and economies of scale that allow them to wait longer for an economic recovery. India's growth likely slowed to a decade low in the fiscal year that ended in March.
Early this month, Starwood, in partnership with Samhi, a Delhi-based hotel investment firm backed by US real estate investor Sam Zell, launched its fi rst conversion property in India - a 104room hotel in the western city of Ahmedabad under its Four Points by Sheraton brand. Starwood and Accor are leading the hunt for conversion opportunities in a country where the hospitality sector is expected to grow to $36 billion by 2018 from $17 billion in 2008, according to research firm Technopak Advisors. "You haven't seen these conversions in India before because there wasn't enough existing supply. The more mature a market becomes and the greater the supply added to it, you will see more opportunities for a brand change," said Accor's Bhushan.
Virgin America best US airline, United worst: study Virgin America did the best job of flying customers last year while United Airlines was the worst, though passengers experienced overall better performance, a study showed. The performance of the 14 leading carriers in 2012 was about the same as the best year ever in 2011, according to the 23rd annual national Airline Quality Rating (AQR), which ranks airlines based on US Department of Transportation figures. The industry improved in two of four areas: on-time performance and baggage handling. Involuntary denied boardings and customer complaint rates were
higher, the study said. "Every time there are more planes in the sky and more people flying, airline performance suffers," said Dean Headley, associate professor of marketing at the W Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University. Virgin America had the best baggage handling rate, 0.87 mishandled bags per 1,000 passengers, and American Eagle had the worst, at 5.80 mishandled bags per 1,000 passengers. Hawaiian Airlines, owned by Hawaiian Holdings Inc, was best at sticking to schedules, while Skywest Inc's ExpressJet and AMR Corp's American Airlines
were the worst, the study showed. Of Hawaiian's fl ights, 93.4 per cent were on time. The two worst performers were 76.9 per cent on time. Customer complaints per 100,000 passengers increased from 1.19 in 2011 to 1.43 in 2012, according to the study, a joint project funded as part of faculty research activities at Wichita State and Purdue universities. Only three of the 14 airlines improved their customer complaint rates for 2012. United Airlines, owned by United Continental Holdings Inc, had the highest complaint rate, and Southwest Airlines Co had the lowest.
10 FOOD & DRINK WINES with George Kassianos
Commandaria with friends
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rinking this wine is like waking up in paradise” - a very modern i nt e r p r e t a t i o n of Commandaria from a fellow sommelier who happens to be a world champion. “Layer after layer of flavour, close to sweet perfection,” he continued. So heard the Famagusta Association of Friends of Wine when I was asked to be a guest speaker at a packed room in Paralimni. More than 70 wine lovers had a chance to find out not only the history of Commandaria, but also the way it is produced and the best food matches. The wine has a rich history, said to date back to the time of the ancient Greeks. A dried grape wine from Cyprus was first known to be described in 800BC by the Greek poet Hesiod and was known as the Cypriot Manna. Legend has it that in the 13th century Philip Augustus of France held the first ever wine tasting competition. The event, branded The Battle of the Wines (La Bataille des Vins) was recorded in a notable French poem written by Henry d’ Andelin 1224. The competition which included wines from all over Europe and France was won by a wine from Cyprus widely believed to be Commandaria. Not forgetting another legend that has it that an Ottoman sultan invaded the island just to acquire Commandaria. Commandaria is made exclusively from two types of indigenous Cyprus grapes, Xynisteri and Mavro. Only grapes from vineyards that have been planted for at least four years are allowed - watering is prohibited. The grapes are left to overripen on the vine and when sugar content reaches acceptable levels they are harvested. More specifically, Xynisteri is picked when at around 12 baume and Mavro at 15-16 baume. The grapes are laid out in the sun to further increase the sugar density through evaporation. When the baume reaches 19-23 the juice is extracted through crushing and pressing.
Alasia LOEL Abv 15%
What Cyprus’ oldest wine has to offer Fermentation has to take place within the confines of the 14 designated villages that lie in the Commandaria region and the levels of alcohol achieved is up to 15%. Commandaria by law is aged for at least two years in oak barrels. Those present were shocked to find out that Commandaria is served cold and it has also a selection of varied food partners. In general, Commandaria is known for its longstanding contribution to the world of wine as both an aperitif and a dessert wine option. Many cheeses, nuts, cream-based desserts, chocolate desserts and fruit tortes have found a magnificent pairing partner in a fortified wine such as Commandaria. Fruit cake and chocolate ice cream with Commandaria are classed as matches made in heaven. Don’t forget the blue cheese too. There were three non-fortified Commandaria and four fortified. Non–fortified
Commandaria Anesperi, Coop Orinis Pitsilias, Abv 11% The fruit is Xinisteri white grape sourced from the villages of Kalo Chorio, Louvara and Ayios Pavlos. Amber colour with strong brown hues. Complex bouquet, which when stirred in the glass reveals aromas of dried fruit, nuts, coffee and cocoa. Very good structure, rich greasy taste, balances with strong ageing aroma and long-lasting aromatic aftertaste. €17 Bottle Size 50cl (Distributed by Oinotria) 2004 Kyperounda Winery Commandaria, Abv 13% Its taste reminds of vanilla and fresh-ground coffee, a honeyed bouquet layered with dry apricot and figs and golden raisins while the balance between the taste of honey and the
impressive acidity creates a remarkable long lasting finish. It can be laid down for 15-20 years and it should be served very chilled. It makes a luscious aperitif or can be served as a dessert wine accompanying perfectly fruit compotes, fruit tarts, chocolate deserts, and coffee. €13 Bottle size 50cl
2008 Commandaria Tsiakkas, Protected Designation of Origin, Av 13% This honey coloured dessert wine captures the essence of summer in a bottle. From the moment the bottled is opened intense fruit aromas of orange blossoms, sweet, ripe peaches, pineapple compote and dry apricots, figs, honey and touch of roast nut and cocoa touch the nose. These bright and fruit forward aromas are extended to the palate through luscious flavours of sweet fruit, preserves and honey. €25 Fortified
KEO Saint John, Abv 14% With its eye-catching Grand Marnier style bottle, a palate preening wine with saffron glints to its amber hue. A glorious nose shows spice, kid glove, walnuts and hazelnuts, savoury dates and maple syrup, which follow through on a brighter, plumper fruited mid-palate than is typical of Saint John. The finish is long and beautifully articulated by a fine nutty spine with a lovely balance. €12
Recession-era cooking with Jamie By Anthony Barnes TV chef Jamie Oliver is turning his attention to helping families cope with the fi nancial squeeze. His next project is a book and TV show later this year, designed to make meals which cost less and waste little. Campaigner and restaurant owner Oliver has had huge sales successes with his most recent books, regularly topping bestseller lists. In the UK, he has been at number one in the lucrative Christmas book chart for the past three years with Jamie's 30 Minute Meals, Jamie's Great Britain and Jamie's 15 Minute Meals.
His next book, Save With Jamie: Shop Smart, Cook Clever, Waste Less, is described by publisher Michael Joseph as "a bible for all those who want to affordably cook tasty, nutritious, inspiring meals". Jamie says: "This year I've got the message loud and clear that as everyone comes under bigger and bigger fi nancial pressure, they want help to cook tasty, nutritious food on a budget. So this book was born completely out of public demand. "Our biggest luxury is knowledge, whether times are hard or not. So get kitchen-smart and smash the recession."
An excellent amber colour with the desired green tint on the rim. It has a lifted, nutty aroma with obvious alcohol lift but not out of balance. More fruit on the nose, dry apricot, cacao, raisins and rancio as a tasting term is a bit hard to pin down. With exposure to air and maturing in small barrels a certain degree of maderisation or caramelised honey occurs. The palate is rich, partly from the retained sugar and partly from the concentration of flavours with evaporation. While this wine has had no yeast component there is a discernable nuttiness. The alcohol gives a clean lingering finish. €10
2002 Saint Barnabas, SODAP, Abv 15% Brownish gold in colour, as a great Commandaria should be, and made from Xinisteri grape. It has a fine aroma on the nose, where you can find predominant rich fruit, chocolate and coffee aromas, followed by fresh mint. The fruit follows in the mouth. A sweet wine with finesse, a subtle round taste that leaves an impression of earthiness in the centre of the mouth, and a luscious chocolate, heavier on the coffee, with a note of freshness flowing, that carries the taste through. €17
1984 Keo Saint John Abv 15% An outstanding, aged Commandaria from KEO, a blend of Xinisteri and Mavro. Pale, amber brown colour, light caramel with brown hues, this Commandaria has luscious and persistent aromas with notes of spices, marmalade, fresh hay and citrus and charred wood, a touch of aged balsamic vinegar and toasted coffee beans. This wine is suave; it has absorbed its sweetness and is velvety, soft and elegant on the palate. Ethereal, it belies its high sugar content with fresh fruit flavours and incisive acid structure. The wine is complex, savoury and earthy with subtle chary, nutty oak balanced by fresh citrus fruit, citrus peel and straw, with a touch of nettle on the finish. €70
British favourite: Jamie Oliver
The book is designed to help people make better choices by buying items more economically, as well as getting the most out of ingredients and saving time. Tom Weldon, Jamie's longtime publisher and CEO of Penguin UK, said: "We are always thrilled to announce a new cookbook from Jamie but we are particularly excited about Save With Jamie. It seems like just the right time for such a book from one of the nation's most trusted chefs." The book is due out on August 29 and will tie in with a series for Channel 4.
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11 RECIPES
with Maria Socratous
Dairy-free ideas Get into the spirit of the Greek Easter fast with these recipes Mixed Bean Salad with Mustard Dressing Serves 4 75g green beans, trimmed and halved 1 red onion, peeled and chopped 2 sticks celery, chopped 410g cooked cannellini beans 410g cooked borlotti beans (beans with reddish streaks) 6 cherry tomatoes, halved For the dressing 2tbsp wholegrain mustard 1tbsp runny honey Juice and finely grated zest 1 lemon 4tbsp olive oil Steam the beans for 3 minutes. Rinse in cold water and put into a large bowl. Rinse the chopped onion in a sieve, to remove the strong flavour. Add to the bowl. Gently mix in the celery, beans and tomatoes. To make the dressing, put the mustard, honey, lemon juice and zest into a small jar with the oil. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and shake to mix. Drizzle the dressing over the salad and stir lightly before serving.
Smoked Salmon Papardelle
a medium heat until softened. Remove from the heat. Put the capers, lemon zest, juice and rocket in a food processor and whizz until smooth. Spoon the mixture into the pan with the shallots. Drain the pasta, reserving a splash of the cooking water. Add the pasta and reserved water to the sauce, along with the smoked salmon strips. Season and toss together. Scatter with the remaining rocket and serve.
Soya Bean and Pea Soup Serves 4
Serves 4 300g pappardelle or any other pasta shape 3tbsp olive oil 5 shallots, finely chopped 3tbsp capers Zest and juice 2 lemons 75g rocket, plus a few extra leaves, to serve 200g smoked salmon, cut into strips Cook pasta according to packet instructions. Meanwhile, heat the oil in a pan, add the shallots and cook over
200g frozen soya beans 200g frozen peas 500ml hot vegetable stock 6 spring onions, trimmed and chopped 1 small bunch basil 50g rocket 300ml unsweetened soya milk
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Grilled Pineapple Serves 4 Zest and juice 2 limes 150g sugar 1 ripe pineapple Small bunch mint leaves, to serve Place the lime juice, half the zest and the sugar in a saucepan over a medium-high heat. Stir until dissolved.
Put the soya beans, peas, vegetable stock and spring onions in a pan. Bring to the boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the basil, rocket and soya milk.
Whyyoushouldeat Garlic Hold your breath: April 19 is Naonal Garlic Day! Yes, alright, that’s American Naonal Garlic Day, but Allium savum is such a wonder food why not celebrate it worldwide? Considered to be both a vegetable and a herb, garlic has been used medicinally for thousands of years, since ancient Greek and Roman mes. It’s rumoured that the Pyramids were built on a diet of bread, water and garlic, and in medieval mes not only was garlic used to ward off evil spirits but also as an andote to drunkenness and gluony. A member of the onion family, which also includes leeks and shallots, over 300 variees of garlic are grown around the world. Dubbed the ‘snking rose’ because of its overpowering taste and smell, garlic
Divide the mixture into 2 bowls. Blend the mixture in one of the bowls until it’s smooth, and leave the other bowl of soup chunky. Combine both mixtures and warm through to serve.
Using a sharp knife, cut the pineapple in half lengthwise right through the crown of the leaves. Halve again lengthways, so you have 4 quarters with the crown still attached. Heat a griddle pan to a medium heat. Brush a little of the glaze on the flesh of each pineapple quarter and cook 2 quarters at a time for 3 minutes on each side until soft and slightly charred. Using a large serrated knife, make a cut at the base between the pineapple shell and the flesh. Carefully continue along the full width of the shell. Then leaving the flesh in its shell, cut into bite-size chunks. Drizzle with the remaining glaze and scatter with the remaining lime zest and the mint leaves to serve.
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works best when eaten raw; if you want the full benefits without the bad breath, neutralise the odour by following up your pungent meal with some parsley. Despite the smelly aer effects, adding garlic to your diet is an excellent way to maintain good health and fight disease; it’s a superfood that has been scienfically proven to help with a variety of medical problems and is an amazing healing agent. Garlic cloves are oen used as a remedy for infecons, digesve disorders and fungal infecons such as thrush due to its bacteriostac and bacteriocidal properes garlic is excellent at helping stave off the common cold, bronchial coughs and asthma, it can also help decrease their length and severity. Employed as
an ansepc to prevent gangrene during World War I, clinical trials have shown that a mouthwash containing 2.5 per cent fresh garlic promotes good anmicrobial acvity, while in 1924 it was proven that the high vitamin C content in garlic could help prevent scurvy. More recently, the BBC has reported that Allium savum may be able to prevent and fight the common cold. Used by the Cherokee as an expectorant, this asseron has the backing of long tradion in herbal medicine, which has used garlic for hoarseness and coughs. Making garlic a regular part of your diet is great for your blood. Not only are insects repelled by the taste of garlic in your bloodstream, but you’ll also be decreas-
ing your risk of heart disease, lowering cholesterol levels, making blood vessels more flexible, and reducing blood pressure and the incidence of clot formaon. And whilee we’re on the subject, garlic is also alleged too aid in the regulaon of blood sugar levels; regular and prolonged use of therapeuc amounts of aged garlic extract lower blood homocysteine levels and have been shown to prevent some complicaons of diabetes mellitus. Rich in protein, vitamins A, B-1 and C and
conta containing essenal m minerals such as c calcium, magnesium and iron, garlic contains 17 different amino acids. As w as breaking well down and prevenng gallstones bladder stones gallstones, st and kidney stones, garlic helps with digeson and stomach upsets – if you’re in need of a laxave, try a clove of garlic: regular intake will regulate your output! Though don’t overdo it: an excess of the herb can be detrimental to the digesve tract! With garlic, as with most foods, moderaon is the key.
12 FOOD & DRINK Photos Janine Scott
RESTAURANT REVIEW by Nan Mackenzie OTHER PLACES TO TRY NICOSIA DISTRICT Aperitivo Kennedy Ave, Tel: 22 100990 Caraffa Bastione Athinas Ave, Tel: 22 730025 Au Bon Plaisir Alasias Str 15i, Tel: 96755111 Occhio Alkaiou Str Engomi, Tel: 22 255111 Domus Lounge Korai Street, Tel: 22 433722 Estiades Prevezis Street, Tel: 22 676233 TGI Friday’s Diagorou Ave, Tel: 22 674411 59 Knives Rigaenis Avenue, Tel: 22 664006 Marco Polo Holiday Inn, Tel: 22 712712 Rancho Bar & Grill Archbishop Makarios Avenue, Tel: 22 454454
LIMASSOL DISTRICT La Maison Fleurie Christaki Kranou, Tel: 25 320680 Aliada Eirinis Street, Tel: 25 340758 House Corner of Agiou Andreou and Christodoulou Sozou, Tel: 25 364040 Beige Ayios Andreous, Tel: 25 818860 Columbia Steak House Agiou Andreou 223, Tel: 25 278000 Cyan Amathus Hotel, Tel: 25 832000 Terra E Mare Amathoundos Avenue, Tel: 25 635343 Baguette Brasserie Andrea Themistocleous Str, Tel: 25 107398
LARNACA DISTRICT A33 Egiptou Avenue, Tel: 70006933 Cambanella’s Steak House Larnaka Dhekelia Road, Tel: 24 647877 Campanario Steak House Nikodimou Mylona Street, Tel: 24 626110 Flavours Kosma Lysioti Street, Tel: 24 823995 La Veranda Samou Street (Dhekelia Road), Tel: 24 646777 Lord Kitchener psematismenos,Tel: 24333484
PAPHOS DISTRICT Brasserie Ifestos Intercontinental Hotel, Tel: 26 829000 Meat Academy Posidonos & Polidefki Street, Tel: 26 965285 Oliveto Tafoi Ton Vasileon Street, Tel: 26 220099 The Bay Coral Bay Street, Tel: 26 342300 Old Town Polis Chrysohous, Tel: 26 322758
A restaurant worthy of its reputation Almond Tree, Paphos
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ou know how it is. You sit down, the waiter hands over the menu, you read and think, ‘Okay, nice’ but deep down what you really desire even from a short menu are dishes that proffer some genuine level of stimuli for one’s often recalcitrant taste buds. Believe me (please) reading the Almond Tree menu is akin to browsing through a culinary equivalent of the Kama Sutra - here you are introduced to flavour combinations which are both unusual, even adventurous, yet all are deliciously tempting and do promise hidden pleasures far beyond the bog standard we are often served. Chef and owner Andreas Michaelides has worked hard to create this unique outpost of civilised dining where good food doesn’t take itself too seriously, where lurking just
below its outwardly proper demeanour there lurks more than touch of tightly laced corsets with an instinct for all the baser things we need from food - the man obviously has deep lascivious feelings for his ingredients. It’s also food that is not exactly simple, instead it’s all about thoughtful complexity. This is a young man who cooks with real enthusiasm and an intensity that comes from oceans of experience and technique that allows him to freely create such distinctive and original plates of food. You enter into a welcoming reception area, where diners enjoy an aperitif before moving into a classic, comfortable dining area and it’s here I have to raise my sole complaint, the stark wall lighting above some of the tables is not at all in keeping with the mood of the menu. I don’t want a lights out experience exactly, but surely some dimmers or up-lighters would create more ambience than the ‘current’ level used. Three friends and I decide to move to shadier climes and await the starters. A platter of bruschetta with buffalo mozzarella tomatoes, garlic and basil starts the tasting session followed swiftly by a soft, perfectly cooked pile of skewered chicken satay partnered with a sweet chilli remoulade; key west crab cakes have long held their popularity since the restaurant open many moons ago and one taste and you know why.
VITAL STATISTICS SPECIALTY International WHERE 5 Konstantias Street, Kato Paphos PRICE Starters at around 4-6 euro, mains from under 15 and up to 21 euro
Then, it was a large and delicious mix of salad and excellent home made samosas which racked up the old taste buds. For mains we opted to share and, this was when friendship sort of died on the vine with one so called friend feveroushly protecting his portion of panko crusted cod fi llet with a mango salsa, so all I can say is he seemed to enjoy every sliver. The rest of us shared grilled chicken breast stuffed with rocket, prosciutto, and a five spiced duck breast, with a deliciously Moorish burnt honey sauce. Diners can also opt for a sharing seafood or meze platter both excellent value for money at fewer than 18 euro a head. Not forgetting the best afters, in the form of Chef’s delicious and properly executed New York style baked cheesecake or his equally famous key lime pie. Both have to be major contenders in the pudding nirvana stakes. Our liquid honour guard came in the form of a couple of bottles of Kyperounda winery’s excellent Petritis made from the indigenous Cypriot Xynisteri grape - here it’s a wine list that solidly supports some of our home grown quality boutique wineries. Finally when folk say they think a meal like this would be expensive then I won’t trouble you with my usual speech about the difference between being cheap and offering value, those who understand the difference are already stalwarts of this particular gem of a restaurant. The best comment however came from a fellow diner who after clearing his plate of Red Thai coconut chicken curry turned to his girlfriend and said ‘I wanted to just keep eating it’. In my book you can ask nothing more of a well made dish.
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games Army of Two: Devil’s Cartel Last summer, one man revolutionised the current WWE landscape. In a legendary moment at the end of Monday Night Raw, WWE Superstar CM Punk - as the voice of the voiceless - changed everything the world knew about WWE. Through his words and actions, a new leader emerged to set a higher standard, convey a new brand of attitude and ultimately ignite a revolution among the WWE Universe. His mantra? Best in the world. It’s not the first time WWE has seen such rebellion. Nearly 15 years ago, the legendary ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin also revolutionised the WWE realm, sparking a new generation of supporters through his relentless, antihero behaviour in one of WWE’s most celebrated time periods: the Attitude Era. Why did it happen? In his words, ‘Cause Stone Cold said so’. Today, a new crusade is on the horizon, and it doesn’t start with an iconic WWE Superstar on
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television, online or at a live event. The WWE game franchise returns to provide the most authentic, seamless and passionate experience to date - all while turning up the attitude. WWE ‘13 will transform WWE gameplay through the introduction of WWE Live, completely changing the way players embrace the videogame’s audio and presentation elements. Predator Technology returns to further implement critical gameplay improvements while
fan favourites in WWE Universe Mode and the franchise’s renowned Creation Suite are poised to offer the utmost in player freedom. Furthermore, WWE ‘13 will introduce a groundbreaking, single-player campaign based on the highly influential Attitude Era. Complete with a robust roster - the largest to date in the franchise along with a host of additional features, WWE ‘13 is ready to live a revolution all its own. Console: PS3, Xbox 360
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Wakin on a Pretty Daze Philadelphia guitarist Kurt Vile crossed over from lo-fi beginnings to cult stardom with his last album, Smoke Ring for My Halo, in 2011. On the follow-up, his fifth, he has the confidence to spread out and get comfortable. This one has the same number of tracks as its 47-minute predecessor, 11, but is almost two hours long. It’s strange to say that it isn’t really noticeable. His stoned, drifting style suits the pretty meanderings of the 13-minute Was All Talk and the echoing acoustic picking of Too Hard. There is more focus here and there but mostly this is slow-motion musical quicksand in which it’s worth drowning. By David Smyth
Shaking the Habitual Better known for wearing birdbeak masks than their disjointed music, endearingly silly Stockholm siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer have taken seven years to make their fourth album. With muffled production further muddying already murky waters, attention-seeking schoolboy lyrics (“A handful of elf pee/That’s my soul/spray it all over/Fill the bowl”) and a lack of interest in melody, Shaking the Habitual’s 13 tracks ramble for nearly 100 minutes and are not for the faint-hearted. Full of Fire takes some intriguing twists and turns and the 19-minute Old Dreams Waiting to Be Realized hisses and belches its way to the end. Ultimately, Shaking the Habitual is an album which, for all its cluttered clatter, lacks heart as well as focus. By John Aizlewood
English Electric Like many other outfits from the Eighties, Orchestral Meanderings in the Dark have decided to grace us with another record. English Electric, for those of a tender age, was a company that made fridges and other kitchen stuff in the good old days for a population that had a sense of its place in the world, which has since changed. This is a record along the same, somewhat anachronistic, lines. An old song called Enola Gay was used at the Olympics ceremony last year but there is nothing here to match it. Lead singer Andy McCluskey gives his all on attempted crowd-pleasers such as Helen of Troy and Dresden, while jokey techno nonsense like Please Remain Seated and Atomic Ranch might raise a smile from those with a withered sense of humour. It’s the old OMD formula: big choruses, electronic drums, no sweat. Pass. By Pete Clark
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the Beets promise built-in noise reduction, volume controls on the cord, a hard carrying case, and a donation will be made to the Second Harvest food bank for every pair that’s purchased.
Revealed while the internet is still recovering from last week’s barrage of fake April Fool’s products, OrigAudio’s Beets headphones - a parody of Dre’s Beats headphones - are real and will set you back considerably less Will they sound as ‘good’ as an authentic and considerably more expensive pair of Beats? Probably not, even when you consider that a good chunk of the Beats price tag is paying for the brand name. But April 14, 2013• SUNDAY MAIL
A modular, fully customisable wine rack for every type of drinker Regardless of whether you’re a sommelierhopeful or simply a diligent lush, you’re going to need a wine rack to match your distinct, personal tastes. This is exactly what makes the completely customisable and op-
tionally mountable Nucleus wine w rack from Thijs Goossink so fantastic. Constructed C of high-grade, scratch-proof anodised aluminscr ium, ium the beautifully minimalist holders ho come in three different colours. colo Rivets along the side offer a sturdy grip g as you slide one module into another, allowing you to effortlessly stack up or down to create the wine display of your dreams.
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Photoshop Touch If you’re an avid Photoshopper then you’ll want this power to extend to your mobile device, and boy does it rise to the challenge, with almost every single feature available on the software at play here on the app. These include the ability to tone, colour and layer, adjust, filter and select, add text should you so wish, and also take advantage of some features that are specific to the app itself, such as the seriously unique Camera Fill feature, which will fill an entire area to layer. The possibilities are endless but perhaps the most impressive is the ability to begin on your tablet, and finish (via the genius that is the free membership) on Creative Cloud with 2GB of storage. www.itunes.apple.com
Google Keep Are you an avid note-taker who has never been able to make the leap to digitally stored diary entries? Or perhaps you’re already entrenched in Evernote - the main contender to the note taking throne. Whichever of these applies, you’ll be interested to know about Google Keep, an addition that might well help you keep those memories for posterity, and in the form you like them to be. All manner of templates are on offer in which to keep your notes, lists and photos. Voice notes transcribed automatically (take that, Dragon Dictation software!). Colour coded notes to help you store it all and find it easier. A handy swipe to archive function for the notes you no longer need; ahhh satisfying and cloud based storage at drive.google.com/keep, not to mention the facility to push to all devices so that utterly important note will never disappear into the ether again. Google Keep on Google Play
the world will beat a path to your door. And the same will probably hold true for the first coffee shop to adopt this clever spoonsecuring NOTA coffee mug designed by Lee Hae Seung Scott. The NOTA mug features a set of built-in supports preventing a spoon from sliding around. It’s as brilliant a solution as it is simple, and while not for sale, it thankfully doesn’t look like a design that’s too difficult to steal.
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DIRECTED BY David O. Russell STARRING Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro US 2012 122mins
FILM REVIEW by Tracy Philips
Rom com with a silver lining A
nyone who has ever lived with someone with a mental illness will probably recognise the humour in this fi lm. In fact, I would think most people would fi nd it pretty funny; it is even laughout-loud hilarious at times (more so at the beginning than the end, it has to be said). There is nothing intrinsically amusing about two central characters recovering from a mental breakdown, but often the situations that arise out of misunderstandings and odd perceptions that those characters have, and the things they say, can be very funny. Listing competing medications over dinner for one. Given the high percentage of the population that will suffer from some sort of mental ill health during their lives (as high as one in four statistics tell us), it is a subject well worth tackling. It just doesn’t really happen in this movie. It is an interesting twist on the traditional romcom idea but that is all: an unusually offbeat romantic comedy, but a more enjoyable one than most. Bradley Cooper (The Hangover) plays an ex-teacher, Pat Solitano Jnr, who has just returned home to his parents after eight months in a psychiatric ward following the breakdown of his marriage. The reason his marriage broke down was that his wife, also a teacher, was having an affair with a colleague at school. Pat’s reaction on fi nding them having sex in their shower at home is not unreasonable but possibly excessively violent. This leads to a diagnosis
Although don’t expect Silver Linings Playbook to deliver much about mental health
of bipolar disorder and a restraining order from his wife. Still on medication and attempting to fi nd the silver lining in all this, Pat looks for ways to retrieve his marriage and his life. This ranges from reading every set text his wife is planning to teach to trying to bypass the restraining order to get a letter to her through a mutual friend. Having read Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Pat feels the need to apologise to his parents on behalf of the author for the ending at four in the morning. This is after throwing the text through the window. It is all very funny, as is the teenage neighbour who persists in turning up with a tape recorder to do an interview on mental illness for his “school project”. The fact that everyone in the Solitano household has some sort of mental ill health makes it all the more amusing. Pat Senior (Robert de Niro), has a gambling problem and OCD while his mother, Dolores (Jacki Weaver), constantly bakes to relieve the stress. Pat Senior just wants to bond with his son over his football team, the Philadelphia Eagles. This means sitting on the sofa together and willing his team to win.
Still on medication and attempting to find the silver lining in all this, Pat looks for ways to retrieve his marriage and his life
There is little other option, given that Pat Senior has been banned from attending the matches and usually has a load of money riding on it. Pat Junior has other ideas. He has made a new friend in Tiffany, whose social skills, or lack of, rival his own. Tiffany is played beautifully by Jennifer Lawrence. And I did enjoy her performance in the excellent Winter’s Bone. Tiffany is a young widow suffering from depression who has recently lost her job. Why? Because she had sex with everybody in the office. She says, with a completely straight face, it was because, “I was very depressed after Tommy died.” Tiffany and Pat are made for each other, it seems. Well it’s obvious to the audience, if not to the couple
themselves. Pat is just interested in using Tiffany to get a letter to his exwife and in return, Tiffany persuades Pat to enter a local dance competition with her. It is something that she has always wanted to do but Tommy would never agree. As the dance competition gets closer, it becomes obvious that Tiffany has her eye on more than winning the competition, even though Pat is still hoping to win over his ex-wife. Then there is a crucial last game of the season for the Eagles and Pat Senior ends up mixing his bets on the outcome of the dance competition and the football season. It’s edge of the seat stuff. Well, not really. This is where it all becomes pretty predictable rom-com stuff. However, the dance moves are great and there is a genuine chemistry between Cooper and Lawrence that is a pleasure to watch. But if you are expecting anything more serious on the issue of mental health in David O Russell’s adaptation of Matthew Quick’s novel, think again. Although it did win a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay!
filmsummaries Beautiful Creatures Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) is a young man who longs to escape his small Southern town. Lena (Alice Englert) is the new girl in town, beautiful and mysterious. The two fall in love – but Lena is a witch (a ‘Caster’) faced with a cosmic choice: on her 16th birthday, her true nature will emerge. Will it be light or dark? Her uncle Macon (Jeremy Irons) and other members of her family are trying to shepherd her to the light, while her mother and cousin are advocating that she embrace the dark side. Also starring Emma Thompson, Viola Davis and Emmy Rossum. Directed by Richard LaGravenese. (Romantic fantasy, 124 mins.) Our rating:
Pitch Perfect Beca (Anna Kendrick), a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining ‘The Bellas’, the
school’s all-girl a capella group, led by the demanding and headstrong Aubrey (Anna Camp), competing against the all-boy a capella group The Treblemakers. But The Bellas are stuck in an old groove, despite Beca’s attempts to make them more energetic and relevant. Meanwhile, Beca’s budding relationship with Treblemaker member Jesse (Skylar Astin) is causing all sorts of problems. Also starring Rebel Wilson and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Directed by Jason Moore. (Romantic comedy, 112 mins.) Our rating: N/A
G.I. Joe: Retaliation After a deadly surprise attack on a team of G.I. Joes in the field near North Korea, the survivors swear revenge. The attack seems to emanate from the highest levels within the government itself. Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson), Lady Jaye (Adrienne Palicki) and Mouse (Joseph Maz-
zello) enlist the help of retired Col. Joe Colton (Bruce Willis) to track down the threat, facing off against Zartan, his accomplices, and the world leaders he has under his influence. Also starring D.J. Cotrona and Channing Tatum. Directed by Jon M. Chu. In 3D. (Sci-fi action, 110 mins.) Our rating:
The Sessions At the age of 38, San Francisco poet and journalist Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes), who has been confined to an iron lung since childhood polio, decides he wants to lose his virginity before he dies. With the help of his therapist and his priest, he contacts Cheryl Cohen-Greene (Helen Hunt), a professional ‘sex surrogate’ – but otherwise a typical mother with a teenager, a house and a husband. An unusual relationship evolves between Cheryl and Mark as she takes him on his journey. Based on a true story. Also starring Wil-
liam H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood and Adam Arkin. Directed by Ben Lewin. (Drama, 95 mins.) Our rating:
Zarafa A grandfather tells his grandchildren the story of Maki, a young boy who escapes from slave traders, befriends a giraffe (the title character), crosses the desert, meets a pirate, and a few other things on a trip that takes him from Africa to Paris. Directed by Remi Bezancon and JeanChristophe Lie. DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Kids’ cartoon, 78 mins.) Our rating: N/A
Jack the Giant Slayer Jack (Nicholas Hoult) is a hapless farm boy who finds a pouch of magic seeds and inadvertently grows a gargantuan beanstalk that pierces the clouds and extends all the way up to a sky
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ZERO DARK THIRTY DIRECTED BY Kathryn Bigelow STARRING Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Joel Edgerton US 2012 157mins
Zero faults for CIA agent Maya I
n the past Kathryn Bigelow has made a point of stating that she is a fi lmmaker, rather than a female fi lmmaker. She didn’t mention the fact that she was the fi rst woman to get a Best Director Oscar when she received her Academy Award for Hurt Locker. Of course she has a point, on one level it can look a tad patronising to point out a woman’s gender when she does well. We would never do that if a man won a Best Director Award. Why would we? They always win. Or they always did until she won. No such luck with Zero Dark Thirty though. But you have to wonder how this fi lm is different, better even, than it might have been because it was directed by a woman. The fi lm received just one shared award for sound editing and Bigelow wasn’t even nominated for Best Director. Why? Because the fi lm has turned out to be rather controversial in the US, with many critics claiming it glorifies torture and is simply a vehicle for CIA propaganda. Even the Senate has been asking questions about what information the CIA passed to Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal. If there was a sharing of information, it was used to produce a truly engaging fi lm in which one strong female lead makes many of her male colleagues look like a bunch of incompetents who don’t understand the enemy they are dealing with. It has been a box office success, and personally I think it is great. It takes you on a riveting journey through the detail of this massive manhunt to the gripping fi nal scenes with the Navy Seal team getting their man. And it is all mediated through the eyes of one remarkable woman. Jessica Chastain is excellent as the central character, CIA agent Maya,
Zero Dark Thirty is a gripping tale despite some of its geographical errors
who is obsessed with fi nding Osama Bin Laden, or UBL, as she insists on calling him. Apart from the fact that Maya doesn’t seem to have any sense of humour, I can’t really fault her. Anyone prepared to dedicate that much time to hunting down an enemy like Bin Laden, putting themselves in some pretty disturbing and dangerous situations probably has a few social issues anyway. She is not quite Carrie in the excellent TV series Homeland but not far off. Unlike Carrie, she doesn’t seem to have a sex life. In fact, she doesn’t have the slightest interest in men at all, it seems. Or that side of her character is just not relevant, which is an unusual departure for Hollywood. She is a woman on a mission, not least to be taken seriously by the men she works with. What a surprise, nobody listens until she starts talking like a man, as in “I’m the motherfucker who discovered the place.” That gets the attention of CIA Director Leon Panetta (we assume although he is not named), played by James Gandolfi ni (Tony Soprano). The fi lm starts with 9/11 and covers the next ten years in two and a half hours. This necessarily means that some of the facts are compromised. However, the fi lm does claim at the start to be “based on fi rst hand accounts of actual events.” Bigelow has talked about composite characters. This means Maya may not be based on
world populated by giants. When the beanstalk grows, Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson), the heir to the realm of King Brahmwell (Ian McShane), is in the wrong place at the wrong time. She is caught in the vines and carried into the sky. Jack, along with Isabelle’s protectors Elmont (Ewan McGregor) and Crawe (Eddie Marsan) and her would-be groom Roderick (Stanley Tucci), head off in pursuit. Unfortunately, Roderick has an agenda that doesn’t involve rescuing Isabelle. In 3D. Directed by Bryan Singer. (Fantasy adventure, 114 mins.) Our rating:
The Last Stand Diabolical drug-cartel boss Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega) busts out of FBI custody and heads for the Mexican border. His plan is to cross over near the small town of Sommerton, and there’s only one man who can thwart him: the town’s pencil-pushing sheriff Ray Owens April 14, 2013 • SUNDAY MAIL
One thing we do know is that Hollywood is consistently sloppy when it comes to details about the rest of the world
(Arnold Schwarzenegger), armed with nothing more than years of experience as an LA narcotics cop and a team of inexperienced sidekicks. Also starring Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville and Peter Stormare. Directed by Kim Jee-woon. (Action thriller, 107 mins.) Our rating:
Oz the Great and Powerful Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a travelling circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz. At first he thinks he’s hit the jackpot: fame and fortune are his for the taking. That all changes, however, when he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he’s the great wizard everyone’s been expecting as per the prophecy. Nonetheless, he’s all they’ve got – and, as their new king, he’s expected to save them from evil. He is after all, the great and
any one real individual. Some people have speculated that she is based on a real female CIA agent called Jen. But it is disappointing to fi nd out that the journalist and author Peter Bergen, an authority on Bin Laden, says that the one CIA officer who spent eight years searching for Bin Laden and tracked him to the compound where he was killed was actually a man. So was it a deliberate choice to make it a female lead? And what does she add? A fascinating female character who never shows emotion even when others play on her femininity to try to undermine her. But you have to wonder if an organisation like the CIA would act on the say so of one woman against the better judgement of the men who did not believe they had Bin Laden. But then Hollywood does love an individual struggling against the odds, even when she is a woman. As for the actual details about what led to the eventual tracking down and killing of Bin Laden, the audience cannot really know all the facts and how accurately they are being presented. One thing we do know is that Hollywood is consistently sloppy when it comes to details about the rest of the world. This is an accusation Maya levels at some of her colleagues, their lack of understanding of the culture of the enemy. It is also an accusation that quite a few people in Pakistan have levelled at the fi lm on Facebook and Twitter. Showing the locals speaking Arabic for one, mispronouncing names like Abbottabad and Peshawar, giving inaccurate directions from Islamabad to Abbottabad and presenting the whole country as some kind of dusty war zone. You
powerful Oz. Also starring Zach Braff. Directed by Sam Raimi. In 3D. (Adventure fantasy, 130 mins.) Our rating:
Mama A man, having shot his ex-wife, kidnaps his two young daughters (aged one and three), and wanders with the kids through the woods till they come to a dilapidated cabin. Once inside, he prepares a double murder-suicide – but something emerges from the dark to snatch him away. Five years later, the girls, Victoria (Megan Charpentier) and Lilly (Isabelle Nelisse), now eight and six, have been discovered living on their own in the cabin. Feral, and frightened of people, they’re eventually released into the custody of their uncle Lucas (Nikolaj CosterWaldau) and his goth rocker girlfriend Annabel (Jessica Chastain). But the girls don’t come on their own: they bring with them “Mama”, their
might think that American fi lmmakers are a bit geographically and culturally challenged. Anyone who has seen the episode of Homeland in which the CIA has a safe house in “Nicosia by the sea” might think the same. Personally, I can’t get that worked up about a few geographical errors, although I can see why some might fi nd it patronising. The point is, does it make good viewing? I have no qualms about saying that it does. The fi nal scenes involving the Navy Seal mission in the compound in Abbottabad are tense and riveting. And beautifully shot. For anyone who has ever played the game Black Ops on PS3, it’s like that but better. As for the accusations levelled at the fi lm that it is simply CIA propaganda that glorifies their former “enhanced interrogation” techniques, it absolutely does not. If that is what it is attempting to do, it fails miserably. The fi lm is not even morally ambiguous about torture; it is neutral, allowing the viewer to form his or her own opinion. It does not even suggest that torture gave the CIA useful information. In fact, it is clear that it didn’t. It simply depicts those techniques, and it is uncomfortable viewing. Equally uncomfortable are the voices from the Twin Towers at the start of the fi lm, as are the scenes at the London bombings. As for being a mouthpiece for the CIA, I wonder why the organisation would want to look that pompous and incompetent. Maya sums it up when she responds to a question about how sure she is that she has found Bin Laden. She says, “100% he’s there. OK, 95 ’cause I know certainty freaks you guys out.”
‘friend’ from the cabin. Directed by Andres Muschietti. (Horror, 100 mins.)
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Barbie in the Pink Shoes Barbie is Kristyn, a ballerina with big dreams. When she tries on a pair of sparkling pink shoes, she and her best friend Hailey are whisked away to a fantastical ballet world where Kristyn discovers she must dance in her favourite ballets in order to defeat an evil Snow Queen. Directed by Owen Hurley. DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Kids’ cartoon, 75 mins.) Our rating: N/A
Sammy’s Great Escape Sammy and Ray, a pair of leatherback turtles, are captured by a poacher and shipped off to a spectacular aquarium show in Dubai. The kingpin of the place, Big D the seahorse, enlists TURN TO PAGE 16
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newreleases Oblivion 60 years have passed since Earth was nearly destroyed by an alien invasion. Jack Harper (Tom Cruise), a former Marine commander, is one of the last remaining men on the planet. He’s a drone mechanic, part of a huge operation to extract the planet’s remaining vital resources, and lives on a floating station thousands of metres above the ground. A couple of weeks before his mission is due to end, Jack rescues a young stranger named Julia (Olga Kurylenko) from a crashed spacecraft – and soon finds himself captured by an insurgency led by 102-year-old Malcolm Beech (Morgan Freeman), eventually making him question everything he knows about the society he lives in and the truth about the war with the alien race. Also starring Andrea Riseborough and Melissa Leo. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. (Sci-fi action, 126 mins.) Our rating:
Silver Linings Playbook Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything – his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his mother Dolores (Jacki Weaver) and father Pat Snr (Robert De Niro) after spending eight months in a mental health facility. All Pat’s parents want is for him to get back on his feet – but Pat is obsessed with reuniting with his estranged wife Nikki, even though she’s the reason he went off the rails in the first place. When he meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a mysterious girl with prob-
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lems of her own, things get complicated. Tiffany offers to help Pat reconnect with Nikki, but only if he’ll do something very important for her in return. As their deal plays out, an unexpected bond begins to form between them, and silver linings appear in both their lives. Directed by David O. Russell. (Drama with comedy elements, 122 mins.) Our rating:
Zero Dark Thirty Maya (Jessica Chastain) is a CIA agent whose life is transformed after 9/11. She reluctantly participates in extreme duress (read: torture) applied to detainees, but believes that the truth can only be obtained through such tactics. For several years, she’s single-minded – and increasingly obsessive – in her pursuit of leads to uncover the whereabouts of Al Qaeda’s leader, Osama Bin Laden. Finally, in 2011, it appears that her work will pay off, and a US Navy SEAL team is sent to kill or capture Bin Laden. But only Maya is confident that Bin Laden is where she says he is. Also starring Jennifer Ehle, Jason Clarke and Joel Edgerton. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. (Political action thriller, 157 mins.)
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Small Crime On a beautiful but ragged Greek island in the Aegean, Leonidas (Akis Servetalis) is a frustrated young policeman who’d much rather be in the big city than stuck on a sleepy island. He finds hope for action in the discovery of Zacharias’ body. Each person he talks to on the island has their own version of how Zacharias died – and, through his unorthodox investigation, Leonidas will get to know them all, fall in love, become part of the island and in the end solve the mystery of Zacharias’ death. Also starring Vicky Papadopoulou. Directed by Christos Georgiou. In Greek. (Comedy, 85 mins.)
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Padre Padrone
Zarafa (K)
Cine Studio, tonight at 8pm, Tuesday and Thursday at 9pm, presented by the Friends of the Cinema Society. Tel: 96-420491, www.ofk.org.cy
K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Jack the Giant Slayer (12)
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K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50pm; KCineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.50pm. Tel: 7777-8383
Oblivion (N/A)
The Last Stand (15)
Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383
Rio 6 at 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410 Oz the Great and Powerful (12) Rio 3, weekends only at 5.20pm. Tel: 25-871410
Silver Linings Playbook (N/A)
Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K)
Rio 4 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383
Rio 2 (in Greek), weekends only at 5 and 6.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) weekends only at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383
Zero Dark Thirty (N/A)
Sammy’s Great Escape (K)
Rio 2 at 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 5) at 7.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383
K-Cineplex (Screen 5), weekends only at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383
Zarafa (K)
K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383
them in his plans for a great escape – but, with their new friends Jimbo the bug-eyed blob fish and Lulu the snippy lobster, Annabel the sweet octopus and a whole family of penguins, Sammy and Ray hatch breakout plans of their own. That is when little Ricky and Ella arrive, determined to break in to rescue them. Directed by Vincent Kesteloot and Ben Stassen. DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Kids’ cartoon, 92 mins.)
Our rating:
Pitch Perfect (12)
K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383
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Padre Padrone The true story of Gavino Ledda (Saverio Marconi), the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father (Omero Antonutti). Directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani in 1977. In Italian, with Greek subtitles. (Drama, 113 mins.)
Rio 3 at 7.45pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12)
Oblivion (N/A)
K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383
Rio 1 at 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 3 and 5.15pm. Tel: 26-207000 Silver Linings Playbook (N/A)
Silver Linings Playbook (N/A)
Rio 5 at 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 3 and 5.15pm. Tel: 26-207000
K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Zero Dark Thirty (N/A)
K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.15 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Beautiful Creatures (12)
Zero Dark Thirty (N/A) Rio 2 at 9.45pm, weekends also at 4.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Beautiful Creatures (12)
Rio 4 at 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 5.15pm. Tel: 26-207000
K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.50 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383
Pitch Perfect (12)
Rio 7 at 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26207000
K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50pm. Tel: 7777-8383 G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12)
K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Zarafa (K)
K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383
Rio 6 at 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12) The Sessions (15)
Rio 3, weekdays at 7.30pm, weekends at 6 and 7.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Jack the Giant Slayer (12)
Rio 6 at 7.30pm, weekends also at 3 and 5.15pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Last Stand (15)
Jack the Giant Slayer (12)
Rio 3 at 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000
K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383
Oz the Great and Powerful (12)
Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K)
K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383
Rio 7, weekends only at 3 and 5.15pm. Tel: 26-207000 Mama (15)
K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383
Rio 2 at 7.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) Rio 4 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.30pm. Tel: 26-207000
Small Crime
Sammy’s Great Escape (K)
Thursday at 8.30pm, presented by the Larnaca Cinema Society. Tel: 99658831, 99-462903. www.lfcinema.org
Rio 3 (in Greek), weekends only at 3 and 4.30pm. Tel: 26-207000
Sammy’s Great Escape (K)
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17 Talent Show rd
Limassol Theatre Arts School presents the 3 Annual Open Talent Competition for young singers, dancers, musicians and entertainers Juniors aged 4 to 8, Intermediates aged 9 to 13 and
Seniors aged 14 to 18. Deadline for registration is April 16. To enter or to book tickets, call 99 784927 or check the website www.limassolarts.com. All competitors will be called for a technical rehearsal in the week leading up to the competition.
Workshop by Judge from the West End Well known West End performer and Dance Captain Richard Roe will give workshops on Sunday April 21 for all promising young performers between the ages of eight and 18 where he will work on material
from his last West End production: The Wizard of Oz. The workshops will run for 1 hour and 30 minutes and to secure your child’s place, email limassol.arts@ gmail.com. €12 per child. 10 – 11.30am 8 – 12 years; 12 – 1.30pm 13 – 18 years
Stars in the making
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alent. According to Simon Cowell, you’ve either got it or you haven’t. From The X Factor to Britain’s Got Talent, the public has been gleefully tuning into the spate of talent shows that have graced our airwaves in recent years. Who could forget Paul Potts, the shy mobile phone salesman from Wales who brought Britain to its knees with his rendition of Nessun Dorma, or church chorister Susan Boyle, who rocked the world with her hauntingly beautiful version of I Dreamed A Dream? Where the world leads, Cyprus follows, and the schools on the island have been quick to jump on the bandwagon, with almost every educational establishment now hosting a competition for its students to showcase their abilities. From hammering out Chopsticks on the piano to drumming in the garage, kids everywhere are pursuing their dreams. But what if your child really does have a unique talent? What if he or she really can go the distance – how then, when we live on such a small island, do you get them noticed on a world-wide stage? The answer lies in The Limassol Theatre Arts School, whose Open Talent Show is being judged this year by a panel of professionals – from West End Musical Theatre and the UK music industry. The driving force behind the competition is Lucy-Jane Georghiou, Course Director at The Limassol Theatre Arts School. Herself a talented performer, she’s performed with the Cambridge Footlights, and has a whole host of theatrical
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Could your child be the next big thing? If you think so, sign them up for an upcoming Talent Show says ALIX NORMAN credits to her name. “The world of performance is so competitive now – much more so than when I was younger. There are so many good people out there – and you have to be of an amazing standard to make it,” she says. “We’re lucky at the school to have such professional teachers, all dedicated to bringing out the best in the students.” The Talent Show is a great jumping off point for kids to be recognised, whether they attend the School or not. “When it comes to the Talent Show, there’s absolutely no differentiation between the kids who attend the school and those who don’t,” says Lucy-Ann. “It’s very important that all the entrants have equal standing; the judges won’t even know their names, just their number and age to ensure anonymity. It’s a totally fair competition.” This year, the judging panel consists of three renowned performers from the world stage: Richard Roe, Jo Davies and Laura Meaton. All three are experts in their fields: Richard – who has choreographed a number of West End productions - is taking a break from working on the Olivier
Awards to fly out to the island to judge the show, and also present a musical theatre workshop the following day. Jo is a renowned musician and accompanist who travels the world working with stars such as Kanye West, Muse and Andrea Bocelli, and Laura is a talented young actress who has already performed in and choreographed many shows at the Royal Holloway University of London. In previous years, the Talent Show has boasted every sort of act from pop songs to rhythmic gymnastics, to comedy routines: “The bar is set very high,” says Lucy-Ann. “Although the judges will not be looking for professional acts, the kids do need to have a fi nished and polished piece. And anyone who needs help will be given lots of positive feedback at the technical rehearsal beforehand.” Previous contestants have gone on to record albums, secure scholarships and have been offered places at renowned Theatre Schools in London, and the prizes this year are similarly coveted: the main sponsor, Soundscape Studios, is offering all winners the chance to record their own fully-produced cover song and video, while the child who judges believe personifies musical theatre will be offered a full scholarship to attend the 2013 summer school at Pineapple Studios in Covent Garden. With limited places available, acts need to declare their entry by April 16 to try their chances at being the next big thing. Sure, everyone deserves their moment of fame, but some talents are destined for a lifetime of recognition. If you think you’ve got a star in the making, sign them up and let them shine!
What’sonlistings Exhibitions Nicosia district
Alessandra Desole Solo painting exhibition. Until May 5. Dinos Art Café, 62-66 Irinis Street, Limassol. MondaySaturday: 10.30am to midnight and Sunday: 4pm to midnight. Tel: 25-762030
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Group Exhibition Group painting and sculpture exhibition. Opens April 15, 7.30pm until April 27. Opus 39 Gallery, 21 Kimonos Street. Monday: 5pm-8pm. Tuesday-Friday: 10.30am-12.30pm and 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-424983 Sutile Solo exhibition of appliqués by Susan Vargas. Opens April 16, 7.30pm until May 2. Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street. Monday-Friday: 10.30pm-12.45pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30pm-12.45pm. Tel: 22-760286 Atrapos Solo art exhibition by Mikella Psara. Until April 17. Argo Gallery, 64E D. Akrita Avenue. Monday-Friday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tel: 22754009. www.argogallery.org Women in a Period of Crisis Third Cypriot women artist exhibition. Until April 19. Katoi, 43 Agioi Omologites. Open daily: 10.30am-6pm and Saturday: 10.30am-2pm. Tel: 22-774157 Design Society Against Crisis photography, poster, and animation charity exhibition by the students of the Design Society / Department of Design & Multimedia, University of Nicosia with the theme Against Crisis in aid of students in need. Until April 19. Scarabeo Bar, 4 Nikokreontos Street. Tel: 96-696669 One Night Solo painting exhibition by Silvia Zwahlen Ragheb. April 19. Hilton Hotel, Othello Room. 6pm-9pm. Tel: 96-578996
Norwegian Architecture Three exhibitions highlighting recent achievements in Norwegian architecture: Contemporary Norwegian Architecture #7, The Oslo Opera House by Snøhetta and Palimpsest – Norway by Claudio Santambrogio. Until April 26. The Department of Architecture, University of Nicosia, 31 Michael Giorgalla ,Str., Engomi Industrial Zone. Open daily: 9am-6pm.Tel: 22-842600/601 email: [email protected] Costas Economou Solo painting exhibition. Until April 26. EKATE building, 11 Paeonos. Opening hours: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-466426 Island of Saints, Artist of Light Solo painting exhibition by Vartan Tashdjian. Until April 27. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou. Wednesday- Sunday: 10am-8pm. 22-864300 Children’s Dialogues Group children’s art exhibition. Throughout the exhibition there will be workshops and events that have been carefully designed by the creative children educators of Aigaia team. Until April 30. Aigaia School of Art and Design, 81 Agion Omologiton Avenue. Monday - Friday: 4pm-8pm. Saturday & Sunday: 10am-1pm & 4pm-7pm. Tel: 22-445757 Space, Colour, City – The City as a Large Home The exhibition presents twenty selected art works by young people of 17 to 22 years of age within the context of the art competition Space, Shade, State. Opens April 12, 6pm until April 30. The Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia, 15-17 Hippocrates Street, old Nicosia. Tel: 22-661475 A Fleur de Peau Group exhibition. Until May 4. Is Not Gallery, 11 Odysseus, Chrysaliniotissa. MondaySaturday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Tel: 22-343670
Foundations and Remains An exhibition by controversial British artist/ taxidermist Polly Morgan. Until May 5. The Office Gallery 32 Kleanthis Christophides Street, Old Nicosia. Tel: 99-848495. www. theofficegallery.com Terra Mediterranea – In Crisis Group contemporary art exhibition curated by Yiannis Toumazis scrutinising the current turbulence experienced globally, from both a political and a poetic stance. Until July 21. Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre 19, Palaias Ilektrikis. Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-3pm and 5pm-11pm. Sunday: 10am4pm. Tel: 22-797400. [email protected]. www.nimac.org.cy The project includes a second contemporary art exhibition curated by Re Aphrodite team. The exhibition deals with the unwritten feminine histories of Cyprus and their private and public structure. Until July 21. Ethological Museum – The House of Hagjigeorgakis Kornesios, 20, Patriarxou Grigoriou. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8.30am-3.30pm. Wednesday: 8.30am-5pm. Saturday: 9.30am-3.30pm. Tel: 22-305316 Cyprus Icons and Mosaics Makarios III Foundation, Archbishopric, old Nicosia. Monday-Friday 9am-4.30pm and Saturday 9am-1pm. Tel: 22-430008 Old Maps and Engravings 16th-19th Century Permanent exhibition: Cyprus and other Greek lands, Europe and America. Viewing by appointment. Gallery Leventi, 6 Polykleitos St. Tel/Fax: 22-348451/ 99658694. Cyprus Yesterday and Today Permanent exhibition. Diachroniki Gallery Idalion, 32 Makarios Ave., Dhali. Open Monday-Saturday 11am-5pm. Tel: 22525691
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18 WHAT’S ON Nightlife Nicosia district Turn up the Volume Club evening playing deep tech, house, Dutch progressive and trance, with go-go dance show. April 19. Buena Vista Club (Time Club), 107 Eptanisou, Nicosia. 11pm. €25/20 open bar. Tel: 99-549451 Marlenka Café Music Weekends Come and enjoy a glass of wine, your favourite cocktail or dinner while you listen to violin pedagogue Professor Robert Hovanesyan and member of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra. Marlenka Cafe, 92-94 Phaneromenis Street, old Nicosia. Every Saturday and Sunday evening from 8.30pm. Tel: 70-001129 Live Jazz Event Jazz music with band ‘D Lirious’, food and drinks available. Every Friday night at Baroque Lounge Bar, Cleopatra Hotel. 9:30pm.For reservations contact 22-844000 Music Nights Entechno and folk music at RED. Every Saturday. Red, Dionysus 15, old town hall square. Tel: 22-767711. www.music. net.cy/red Agapiou Escuela de Danza Parties Latin parties every Sunday at Sitio Cafè, 20 Makarious Avenue, Nicosia.10pm Milonga/Argentinean Tango Regular Milonga/Argentinean Tango every Thursday at Enallax,16-17 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia. 10pm
Baroque Live music every Thursday night from the 70s, 80s and 90s, 9.30pm until late. Open on a daily basis as regular bar from 10am2am.Baroque Lounge Bar, Cleopatra Hotel. Tel: 22-844000 The Petsteppers Trio playing live every Monday. Lotofagi Bar, 8 Athinas Avenue, Old Nicosia. 10pm. Tel: 22-347573 Funky Jelly at Domus With DJ Yiotis and Theo playing uplifting lounge tunes. Domus lounge bar, 5 Korai St, Old Nicosia. 10pm until late. Tel: 22-433722 Arabesque Sundays With belly dancers and ethnic music. Mberdema Gold, 30 Nikiforou St, Famagusta Gate. 11.30pm until late. Tel: 22345946 Club Red Live Greek music and various events. 15 Dionysiou St, Old Municipality Square, Nicosia. Thursdays-Sundays, 10pm onwards. Tel: 99-516799/ 22-767711 Lush Playing R&b, hip-hop, basement and old school music. Friday and Saturday, 11.30pm. 6 Evagorou Avenue. Tel: 99853333 Scorpios Platinum With various theme nights from Wednesday-Sunday. Stasinou 3, Engomi. Wednesday and Thursday 11pm- 3am, and Friday and Saturday 11pm-4am. Tel: 99-545690
Times Bar ‘Manic Sundays’ with Manic Mike playing progressive/electro. 73 Athens Avenue, Finikoudes Promenade. Tel: 24-625966 DMC An uplifting atmosphere with a range of stimulating weekly events. Laiki Gitonia, 1 Watkins St, Finikoudes. Open daily from 9.30pm. Tel: 99-458138 Salsa Island Regular event every other Friday featuring DJ Escobar. Music includes Pure Salsa, with a twist of Pure Salsa, Merengue, Mambo, Son and Cha Cha Cha. Blitz Roof and Pool Bar Terrace, 4th Floor, Kition Hotel. 10pm until late. Tel: 96-717271 Horseshoe Pub 60s, 70s and 80s music from MondaySunday. Horseshoe Pub, LarnacaDhekelia road, opposite Palm Beach Hotel. Tel: 24-646111
Limassol district Aroma Anatolis Nasma El Sahra dance group an evening of Oriental dance accompanied by music with infused with the flavours of the Middle East and Asia Minor. April 14. Apla Ellinika (formerly known as Underground). 8.30pm. €10. Tel: 97-791169/ 99-319021
Jazzy B With live jazz music on various nights each week. JazzyB, Corner of Anexartisias & Athinon str. €8. 10.30pm. Tel: 99-605502 Half Note Blue velvet play classic soul, funk and RnB every Saturday night. Half note Music Bar. Tel: 25-377050 Woodman’s Pub Traditional English pub, serving an excellent range of foods including Sunday Roast. Big Screen TV’s, Karaoke every Friday evening and a quiz with a rolling jackpot every Monday. 73 Georgiou Avenue. Tel: 25-879082
Blue Wine and Lounge Bar Serving over 140 selected wines from across the world. 96 Rigenis St, Classic Hotel, Old Nicosia. Open daily except Sunday. 12 noon until late at night. Tel: 22-664006 Marco Polo Playing live Latin music. Marco Polo Bar, Holiday Inn rooftop, 70 Regina St. 11pm until late. Monday- Thursday €10 with one drink. Friday and Saturday €20 including two drinks. Tel: 22-712712 Ithaki Bar Charismatic bar with outdoor summer area. 33 Nikiforou Foka St. Old Nicosia. 7pm-2am expect Mondays. Tel: 22-434193 Avlaia Music Stage Hosting live bands on weekdays and regular Greek music weekends with George Arestis and Dimitris Makris. Avlaia, Corner of Emmanuel Roidis and Prodromou St. Tel: 22 675638 Chateau Status A café/bar and restaurant with various theme rooms catering to different tastes. Ledra Palace Road. Monday-Sunday 10am2am. Tel: 77771167 Potopion to Ellinikon With live Greek music on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Potopion to Elinikon, 18 Theophani Theodotou St, Zina Palace building. 9pm until late. Tel: 22-722760 Brew Lounge and tea bar. Brew, 30b Hippocrates St, Nicosia. 11.30am-2am on weekdays, 11.30am-3am on weekends. Tel: 22-100133 Mystiagogia Relaxed bar playing both Greek and English rock, and a selection of chill out music. Mystiagogia, 42 Areos St, Old Nicosia. Open daily 8pm-2am. Tel: 99-788486
Skaraveos Restaurant, café and bar with Persian Cuisine. Wednesdays: electronic music, Thursdays: reggae and Fridays: progressive psychedelic and Saturdays: rock and funk. 11pm-2am. 4 Nikokreontos St. Tel: 99-935777 Amalfi Lounge Bar Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday live music with Yiota Louka, Christos Andreou, Konstantinos Koutras and Yiannos Hadjiloizou. Enjoy exotic cocktails, finger food and Cuban cigars daily from 5pm-2am. Hilton Park Hotel. Tel: 22-377777 Enallax With various live music shows each week, with a focus on English and Greek rock. Athinas St. old Nicosia. Wednesdays & Thursdays 11pm-2pm, Fridays-Saturdays 11.30-3pm. Reservations: 99-617820
Cyprotel Cypria Bay Hotel Every Monday Jezebel & Lisa-Marie present a themed show 9.45pm for an hour at Cyprotel Cypria Bay Hotel. Free Moonlight Bar Every Friday Jezebel sings golden oldies 9pm – midnight in the Moonlight Bar inside the Aloe Hotel on the harbour road in Kato Paphos. Free entry The Sea Gypsies Live acoustic blues and country music every Friday from 10pm. The Old Fishing Shack Ale and Cider House, Margarita Gardens, Tefkrou Street, Kato Paphos. Tel: 99-805390/99-170667 Latin Nights at Notos Latin music in a rooftop bar. Notos, Harbour area. Every Thursday and Saturday. 10 pm until late. Tel: 26-939616
Larnaca district Club Deep Mayday Fridays: with DJ Ruda, hosted by Marshall. €10 incl. 1 free drink. Super Saturdays: with DJs Dekzta and Ruda, hosted by Marshall. €10 incl. 1 free drink. Every Wednesday night, student night: Pure Vibes with DJs Cos and Dekzta, hosted by Marshall. Free entrance. Phinoikoudes Promenade. 12-4.30am. Tel: 97-843001 Cosmopolitan Lounge Bar Every Friday night: English & Greek music from 11-2am. Cocktail night with cocktails created and designed by Cyprus’ No.1 mixologist, Marios Zeniou. Music provided by DJ Tommy Gee. Every Saturday night: Live music & DJs from 11-late. Cocktails created by top mixologist, Marios Zeniou. Every Sunday night: Classic lounge bar grooves with DJ Harry Borg playing the best deep house grooves from 11pm. Free entry. Strictly over 21s. Phinoikoudes. Tel: 97-843001
The Latest Addition to Saripolou Square Just Kitchenbar, Limassol
the club’s guests, there will no striptease here ladies and gentlemen. Turn up the Volume Club evening playing deep tech, house, Dutch progressive and trance, with go-go dance show. April 19. Buena Vista Club (Time Club), 107 Eptanisou, Nicosia. 11pm. €25/20 open bar. Tel: 99-549451
Crowne Plaza Lounge-Bar On Mondays rediscover your romantic side with Violin Duo playing classical music and popular melodies on the violin. Every Wednesday, local guitarist - Byron Athinodorou will be playing a mix of Spanish melodies, pop-rock hits and Greek classics on the guitar, alongside his own compositions. Every Friday Jazz – Blues night with a mix of upbeat and smooth jazz classics. Crowne Plaza. Tel: 25-851515 Cuba Tropical Local band playing Cuban-Latin sounds every Sunday. Wet Beach Bar, Amathountos Avenue. 9pm-11.30pm. Tel: 25-320006 Harleys Café Bar Happy hour 10am-6pm. Every Tuesday, pub games. Every Thursday, quiz night. Special theme nights once a fortnight. Amathus Area. Tel: 25-328533 Electronic music at Barfly Quality house, techno and minimal beats with guest DJ. Every other Friday. Barfly, 1 Elenis Paleologinas St. 10pm until late. www.myspace.com/pmdj Mandaloun With Lebanese food and DJs every Friday and Saturday night playing a variety of ethnic, world and chill out music. Mandaloun, opposite Le Meridien Hotel. 7pm2am. Tel: 25-636845 Graffiti House, tribal house, oriental and mainstream hits. Enjoy your drink with finger food and nargile. Wednesdays- Saturdays, 9pm-2am. Graffiti bar, 236 Ayios Andreas St. Tel: 25-747552
by Anna Hassapi
Paphos district
Turn up the volume in Nicosia Techno may still rule the house in Berlin, but for all those dancing fiends out there who enjoy burning the midnight oil and hanging out with hyper-energetic types a little closer to home, there are a few colourful clubs in the capital who like to mix it up with go-go dancing and electronic music. On a good week, the city’s dance club scene presents a festive, fun atmosphere of memorable merrymaking and innocent debauchery and this Saturday is no exception as Buena Vista Club prepares to host Turn up the Volume. Locals and out-of-town visitors ought to head down there this weekend for a chance to shake your groove. The night will get underway with George Town & Andy on the decks warming the crowd up with really great high energy tracks varying from deep tech and house. The main set will be played by Michael-M spinning the latest Dutch progressive electro and house sounds and last but not least Nikolas Menicou rounds off the evening with a closing set of trance. And let’s not forget, Beuna Vista’s distinction from other club nights strikes a chord with a go-go dance show. Go-Go dancing is about being sexy and conveying a good time to
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Paphiessa Hotel Thursday: Dave Roberts sings hits, Paphiessa Hotel, Kato Paphos. Tel: 99-185952 Square Bistro Saturdays: David East entertains on the guitar. 8 pm. Square Bistro, Tala Square. Tel: 26-930408/99-966139
Famagusta district Sirena Bay Bar Playing a diverse range of music, from chill out to upbeat electronic tunes. Sirena Bay, near Golden Coast Hotel, Paralimni. 7am1am. Tel: 99-511701 Guru Bar Live music with DJ Dimi, bongos and dancers. Guru Bar, 11 Odysseos Elitis Street, Ayia Napa. Every Thursday, 10pm. Tel: 23721838 Vanilla Bar Playing funky house tunes. Vanilla Bar, 41 Makarios III Avenue, Ayia Napa. Monday-Sunday 9am2am. Tel: 23-721126 Cliff Bar Open air bar/café playing chill out music and offering a great selection of cocktails. Grecian Park Hotel, Konnos Bay, Cavo Creco, Protaras. 12noon-2am daily. Tel: 23-832000
Saripolou Square in Limassol’s old town centre is a vibrant space where charming bar restaurants abound; it is a sort of ‘social’ melting pot, busy day and night, frequented by students, hipsters, young families with children, and even the elderly. The ambience, however, is decidedly ‘young’. The latest addition to this busy square is Just Kitchenbar, a place that shares all the defining characteristics of its location. In this sense, there’s nothing exceptional or surprising about Just Kitchenbar, which is not necessarily a bad thing as the bar boasts all that it needs to. Trendy space: check; located in a stone-walled ‘old’ building, the bar features unprocessed wooden furniture and modern deco that contribute to an industrial look with a twist. Nice cocktails: check. Mediterranean fusion dishes: check. Slightly over priced food: check (as practically anywhere else in Limassol, a salad will cost you more than €10). Starters, however, are reasonably priced at €4-6 each, so it might be a good choice to order a starter to share with your drink. Just Kitchenbar also features a good variety of sitting options: you can sit at a table, or at the higher/island bar type of tables, at the bar, or at the tables outside. The latter choice will give you a view of life on this busy square, but less of the venue’s own atmosphere. As for the menu, it also offers a good selection of drinks, coffees and teas, as well as food mains and starters. This sense of variety also applies to the music played at Just Kitchenbar. Various DJs work the decks on different days of the week. According to its owners, Just Kitchenbar caters to a slightly more mature crowd of people in their thirties and above. In reality, it is a great place for anyone wishing to experience the ambience of one of Limassol’s most popular areas, whether it is for an afternoon coffee, a nice dinner, or some drinks with friends. Just Kitchenbar Where: 22 Kanari and Corner of Saripolou St, Limassol Reservations: 99 951925 When: Daily 5pm-2am
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19 What’sonlistings Larnaca district Water Stories Solo painting exhibition by Ero Farmaka. Opens April 17, 7.30pm until May 20. Kypriaki Gallery Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street. MondaySaturday: 10am-1pm and 4.30 pm-8pm. Sunday: 11am-2pm and 4pm- 7pm. Tel: 24621109 Helen Tumelty’s Mosaic Studio Permanent exhibition of mosaic pictures, tables and mirrors. Just off Zenon Kitieos St. Studio also offers mosaic classes in a small friendly environment throughout the year. Tel: 99-925315 Cyprus Artists Pieces from the Larnaca municipality’s permanent collection on display. Larnaca Municipal Gallery. Monday-Friday: 9am-4pm, Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tel: 24-657745
Limassol district My Utopia Solo art exhibition by Maria Tsiakka. Until April 15. Stegi Grammaton Kai Tehnon, June 16 1943 Avenue. Friday-Sunday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-7pm. Monday: 10am-10pm. Tel: 99-231912/25-749179 Mary-Lynne Stadler Solo art exhibition. Until April 17. Thesis Furniture Shop, 207 Saint Andrews Street. Tel: 25-359479. www.marylynnestadler.com Myth of Image Solo painting exhibition by Andreas Makariou. Until April 17. Thiseas Art Gallery, 9 Thiseos Street. Working hours (including the weekend):11am-1pm and 4pm-7pm. Tel: 99-674243/96-335889 Erick Vittorino Solo art exhibition by Brazilian interior designer/decorator, muralist and colour specialist. Until April 22. ArtHouse 59 Kitou Kyprianou Street Old Town Limassol. Open daily: 2pm-10pm Christos Michlis Solo painting exhibition. Until April 26. Rouan Gallery, 28 Dodekanisou. MondaySaturday: 10.30am-1pm and 4.30pm-7 .30pm. Tel: 25-350845 Random Walk Solo art exhibition by Dimitra Bista. Until May 4. 50-1 Gallery, 49 Ellados Street, Limassol. Monday-Friday: 11am-1pm & 4pm-8pm. Saturday: 12 midday-4pm. Email: [email protected] Alessandra Desole Solo painting exhibition. Until May 5. Dinos Art Café, 62-66 Irinis Street. Monday-Saturday: 10.30am to midnight and Sunday: 4pm to midnight. Tel: 25-762030 Blackdove Art Studio Permanent exhibition of artwork in oils, acrylic, print and mixed media, including painted driftwood, by Mary-Lynne Stadler. Commissions welcome and art tuition on offer in a number of media. Tel: 99-048369. www.marylynnestadler.com. Anoyira Mosaic Artwork Discover the magic of mosaics and Anoyira. Friday-Sunday 10am-4pm, other times by appointment. Tel: 99-108710 Katie Sabry Studio Permanent exhibition of paintings in oils, watercolours and pastels. Mosaics Workshop, 9 Georgiou Malekidi St, nr Rialto Theatre. Tel: 99-571139. www.katiecolours.com Art by Susanne Gallery with contemporary artwork. Shop 2, Marina Beach, Amathus Avenue. Daily 10am-4pm. Percentage of profits go to children with Cystic Fibrosis. Tel: 99-247668 Theomaria Art Gallery Permanent exhibition of Vera Parlalidou’s ceramics. 7 Vassilisis Karlotta St. MondayFriday 8am-1pm. Tel: 25-745777 Michael Owen Galleries Permanent exhibition of oil and watercolour paintings. Lania. Tel. 25-432404. www. michaelowengallery.com Olivera Papathoma Permanent exhibition in City Art Gallery. 255A Saint Andreas St. Monday-Friday 9am1pm, 4pm-7pm. Sat. 9am-2pm Sea King Permanent exhibition of old aviation photos. Sea King restaurant, near Akrotiri base. Tel: 25-954500
Paphos district Judith Constantinou Permanent exhibition of watercolours. The Studio, Stephanie Village, Tala. Tel: 26652760 Stewart B Johnson Open house viewings of Scottish artist’s works by appointment. G. Xenopoulou st. Tel: 26-930525 Gallery at Home with Theresa French Watercolours, prints and cards. 2 Modestou Panteli, 2 Nicolas Cliff, Yeroskipou. Tel: 26962597/ 99-316485 Stone Sculptures Permanent exhibition by Andreas Constantinou. Polis Chrysochous, near central square. Call artist for viewing. Tel: 26-321227/99585543 Michael Gorman Figurative paintings and prints. 20 Theodorou Kolokotroni, Peyia. Open daily. Tel: 99952376/99-006832/26-621424
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Harry and Sheila Hawkins Art by Harry Hawkins and books by Sheila Hawkins. Ayias Zonis St., Neo Chorio. Open daily. Tel: 26-321123 Herbs and Wild Flowers Arts and crafts inspired by the flora of Cyprus. Medicinal herbal teas and oils available. Information Centre for the Akamas National Park at the School of Pano Arodes. Tel: 99-616748 David Lester Working Studio in Peyia, with permanent exhibition of oil paintings and other works by the author of ‘Wishful Thinking’. Tel: 26621130
Famagusta district Blue Spice Restaurant Permanent exhibition of Carolina Alotus’ works. Blue Spice, 29 Aphroditis St (between Perneras and Protaras rd), Ayia Napa. Tel: 23832088. www.CarolinaAlotus.com Where are the Rights of the Children of Karpasia? Permanent photographic exhibition. Famagusta Cultural Centre, 35 Evagorou St, Dherynia. Closed Sundays. Monday-Friday 7.30am-4.30pm and Saturday 9.30am-4 .30pm. Tel: 23-740860
Music Paphos district Support Pafos A big charity concert with artists from Greece and Cyprus which aims to collect food, medicine and other essential items to be distributed to people in need. April 14. 28th October Square. 6pm
Theatre & Dance Nicosia district Communication... Generally Theatre for teens by Theatre Antidote. April 14. ARTos Foundation, 64, Ay. Omoloyiton Avenue. 4pm. €7/10. In Greek. Tel: 24822677/ 97-697000 The Good Body XMAS Productions presents a play by Tony award-winning playwright Eve Ensler. April 12-14. Melina Merkouri Hall, Famagusta Gate. 9 pm. The monologues will be performed mostly in English, with two exceptions in Greek. All net profits will go to local charities supporting Children in need and abused children, and the Shelter for Abused Women and Children in Cyprus. Tel: 99467966/22-797650. For reservations please email [email protected] Pinocchio Theatre Maskarini unique adaptation of well-known tale. Until April 14. Russian Cultural Centre, 16 Alassias Street. Every Sunday at 10.30am. In Greek. Tel: 22-761607/22270420 The Apple Idea Planners presents popular Greek romantic comedy starring Natalia Dragoumi and Gerasimos Gennatas. . 8.30pm. €20. In Greek. Tel: 99-300253. www.soldoutticketbox.com April 15: Strovolos Municipal Theatre April 17-18: Latsia Municipal Theatre, 57 Yiannos Kranidiotis Avenue Pasatempo New theatre group Attraversiamo, presents a show that consists of a compilation of scenes from Greek cinema from the 60s and 70s, blended together with dancing and singing. April 17-18. Melina Merkouri Hall, Famagusta Gate, Athina Avenue. 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 97-895323/22-797650 The Lost Island Little Box Theatre presents a hilarious production incorporating both film and theatre, written, devised, filmed and acted by the kids. April 19. Melina Mercouri Theatre, Famagusta Gate. 7.30pm. Entrance is free (donations welcome). The event will also feature an exhibition of the kids’ artwork on the project, and free snacks and drinks. Free, donations welcome. In Greek. Tel: 99-832370. www. littleboxtheatre.com The Eulogy A black comedy that breaks the mould on what we consider a typical monologue by Greek poet, playwright Iakovos Kambanelis. Until April 20. Epigoni Theatre, Kyriakos Karaolis Square, Old Aglantzia. Every Saturday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €8. Tel: 99-222974 The Monkey and the Sea King The Moscow children’s musical theatre of drama A-AI presents a musical based on African fairytales, myths and legends. April 20. Russian Cultural Centre. 11am. For kids from 3 to 9 years. In Russian. €10/5. Tel: 96302770 Trelantonis Stage 018 of THOC presents a classic work of Greek literature by Penelope Delta. Until April 28. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou. Every Sunday at 6pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-864300
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Theatre for kids by kids Cyprus offers a relatively impressive array of theatrical experiences, but did you know that also includes plenty of stage shows created with children and their parents in mind? It’s a great week for kids’ theatre and here are a couple of the children’s theatre companies to consider if you’d like to take the whole family out for an afternoon of kid-friendly stage entertainment. First up is Little Box Theatre, the children’s branch of the theatre company Theatro Transcendental. Founded over a year ago, the theatre company will present its first multimedia production on Friday at the Melina Merkouri Hall; written, directed, filmed and acted by a group of five to 12 year olds. The company’s first full-length show is entitled The Lost Island and centres on nine strangers stranded on island following a plane crash. Unbeknownst to them they’re actually part of new reality TV show and the whole thing is a set-up to entertain audiences. The show will be presented just the once and is in Greek, but an English group is currently being put together, so get in touch if you’d like to sign up your kids (any age from four to 18 is welcome). The second company worth mentioning is the Moscow children’s musical theatre of drama A-AI, who will present the musical The Monkey and the Sea King. Based on African fairytales, myths and legends, the production will suit the very little ones, ages three to nine years. The story unfolds in the good old days when In the Land of Peter Pan The Puppet Group of Satiriko Theatre presents work by James Barry. Until April 28. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 1115 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Αglantzia. Every Sunday at 10.30am. In Greek. €10. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609 Tom, Dick and Harry Satiriko Theatro presents comedy by Ray and Michael Cooney. Until April 28. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Αglantzia. Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. €15/10. Tel: 22-312940/ 22-421609 Kai Mi Heirotera Theatro Lexi presents comedy by Giorgos Tsiakkas which satirizes Europe and Cyprus today. Until May 1. Latsia Municipal Theatre, Yiannos Kranidiotis Avenue. Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. €15. In Greek. Tel: 22-878688 Gone With the Jobless A comedy performance by Marinos Hatzivasiliou who, together with other actors from the popular TV programme Patates, present a hilarious show with humour and laughter. Until May 5. Diachroniki Music Stage, 2 Yianni Koromia Street, Kaimakli. Every Sunday at 9pm. €15. In Greek. Tel: 99-783455 A Steady Rain The theatre group D-tale presents two-character melodrama by Keith Huff. Until May 16. WhereHaus 612, 5 Michael Kousoulide, Pallouriotissa Industrial Area. On Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8.30pm. €12/15. Tel: 99-535625 The Dispute Main Stage of THOC presents tragic comedy by Pierre de Marivaux. Until May 17. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou. Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday 6pm. In Greek. €12/10. Tel: 77-772717 Gethsemane A play about British public life by David Hare. Until May 31. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou. On specific days at 8.30pm and on Sundays at 6pm. In Greek. Performances on April 17-19 will be with Greek and English subtitles. €12/6. Tel: 77-772717/22-864300 Centuries Away from Alaska Dionysos Theatre presents play by Akis Dimou, directed by Tonia Misiali. Until June 2. Dionysos Theatre, 29 Diagorou Street. On Fridays and Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. In Greek. €15. Tel: 99621845/22-818999 Sovrakaless Play based on the book by Terrence McNally and the film The Full Monty. Until June 9. WhereHaus 612, 5 Michael Kousoulide, Pallouriotissa Industrial Area. On Specific days at 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 70-000612
the animals could talk, with the Lion (the King of beasts), Antelope, Zebra, Ostrich and the Monkey (the hero of musical). While the performance is in Russian, organisers are keen to point out the one thing we all relate and connect with is the language of music. The show will have its premiere on Friday at the Markideon Theatre in Paphos, and will then go on tour to Nicosia, Larnaca and Limassol. The Lost Island Little Box Theatre presents a hilarious production incorporating both film and theatre, written, devised, filmed and acted by the kids. April 19. Melina Mercouri Theatre, Famagusta Gate. 7.30pm. The event will also feature an exhibition of the kids’ artwork on the project, and free snacks and drinks. Free, donations welcome. In Greek. Tel: 99-832370. www.littleboxtheatre. com The Monkey and the Sea King The Moscow children’s musical theatre of drama A-AI presents a musical based on African fairytales, myths and legends. For kids from 3 to 9 years. In Russian. €10/5. Tel: 96-302770 April 19: Markideio Theatre, 27 Andrea Geroudi, Paphos. 6pm April 20: Russian Cultural Centre, Nicosia. 11am April 21: Theatre Skala, Larnaca. 11am April 21: Limassol Theatre Arts School. 5pm
Larnaca district The Monkey and the Sea King The Moscow children’s musical theatre of drama A-AI presents a musical based on African fairytales, myths and legends. April 21. Theatre Skala. 11am. For kids from 3 to 9 years. In Russian. €10/5. Tel: 96-302770 Playing Doctor Theatro Skala presents the contemporary American comedy by William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. Until May 26. Skala Theatre, 15 Kyriakou Matsi Street. On Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 24-652800
Limassol district Children of Cain Theatro Ena presents psychological thriller by Andreas Thomopoulos. April 13-14. B Municipal Market (Theatro Ena. 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Gethsemane A play about British public life by David Hare. April 16. Rialto Theatre. 8.30pm. In Greek with Greek and English subtitles. €12/6. Tel: 77-777745 Shear Madness popular Cypriot actor and director Loris Loizides presents adaptation of one of the longest-running nonmusical plays in the world, by American authors Marilyn Abrams and Bruce Jordan. April 10-17. Agios Athanasios Municipal Theatre, 42, Stavraetou tou Machera Str, Agios Athanasios. 8.30pm. In Greek. €20. Tel: 70-001910 Pasatempo New theatre group Attraversiamo, presents a show that consists of a compilation of scenes from Greek cinema from the 60s and 70s, blended together with dancing and singing. April 21 & 23. B Municipal Market (Theatro Ena). 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 97-895323 The Monkey and the Sea King The Moscow children’s musical theatre of drama A-AI presents a musical based on African fairytales, myths and legends. April 21. Limassol Theatre Arts School. 5pm. For kids from 3 to 9 years. In Russian. €10/5. Tel: 96-302770
Paphos district The Monkey and the Sea King The Moscow children’s musical theatre of drama A-AI presents a musical based on African fairytales, myths and legends. April 19. Markideio Theatre, 27 Andrea Geroudi. 6pm. For kids from 3 to 9 years. In Russian. €10/5. Tel: 96-302770
Other Events Nicosia district Second Motorbike Show & Exhibition The exhibition will include new motorbike models, special equipment, a large range of accessories and many other products for the modern motorcyclist. With Live music, shows and competitions. April 13-14. Pavilion Hall, Lakatameia. Saturday: 10am-9pm. Sunday: 11am-9pm. Tel: 22-322222 Baby, Toddler and Christening Exhibition An exhibition of products and services for expectant parents and infant children also covers the needs of organising a christening. April 13-14. Hilton Nicosia, Archbishop Makarios III Avenue. 1pm-8pm. €5. Tel: 22315474/22-315477 NDS Fashion Bazaar Nicosia Dog Shelter fundraiser with clothes (samples from London) for sale, games for kids, food & drink and dogs for adoption. April 14. Junior School. 11am-4pm. 10 per cent of proceeds will be donated to charity. Tel: 99-868512/22-357005 Cyprus Film Days 2013 A showcase of international and local productions, special tributes, parallel screenings, workshops and music events. April 19-28. Rialto Theatre, Limassol and Zena Palace, Nicosia. Tel: 77-777745/77-772552. All films screened in their original language with Greek and English subtitles. Free to all afternoon and late midnight screenings. €6 day card/€25 general entry card (for all festival screenings). A full, detailed programme at www.cyprusfilmdays. org Kyriakos Michaelides Tailor Museum A sightseeing attraction for visitors in the area as well as a space where the young and new generations may become aware of the richness of the traditional tailor’s craft dating back to the sixties. Old Nicosia, Phaneromeni area. Tel: 99-796333 Singing Group Singing for fun. All kinds of music in harmony small Nicosia group Tuesdays 5.30pm-7pm, all welcome. Call Olivia 99-497318 Rooftop Theatre Group Regular play script-writing workshop. In the room next to Kala Kathoumena coffee shop in old Nicosia (Phaneromeni Square). 6pm. In English. Tel: 22- 661354 Kindermusik with Vaso Come and see how music and movement can stimulate your young child’s developing mind and body. Tel: 96-693462. For full details please visit: www.kindermusikwithvaso.com. [email protected]
Childrens African DrumagiQ Includes: Drums and rhythm tuition with educational approach, psychological expertise, culture, customs, games, dance and innovative creative techniques. Every Friday. Kisa Centre, old Nicosia. 5-6pm for children under 12, 6-7pm for children 12-15. Tel: 22-878181 Serenity House Offering classes in yoga, tai chi and anger management, self awareness seminars traditional Thai and classic massage, and more. Serenity House, 2 Einstein St, Ay. Omologites. Tel: 99-434353, Rebecca (Yoga) 99487927 or [email protected] Healing Rooms Free 20 minutes healing sessions for the well-being of spirit, mind and body in a loving atmosphere. Confidential. Every second and fourth Thursday of the month. 8-9.30pm. 225 Strovolos Avenue, near Metro roundabout (above Afrikanos Bath Store). Tel: 99-771084 Inter-faith prayers and meditation Every Friday. Baha’i Centre, 11 Parthenonos, Kaimakli. Tel: 22-624283 HIV Discussion Group Discussing issues around HIV for sufferers and friends of sufferers. Every Thursday. UNESCO Amphitheatre, Intercollege, Makedonitissas Ave. 7pm. Free Nicosia Horrible Hash House Harriers Exercise, eat, drink and be merry with Nicosia Hash House Harriers. Meetings every Tuesday 7.30pm for a walk, jog or run around Nicosia. For directions to the run or more info, Tel: 99-308436 or visit www. nh4.com.cy Nicosia Writers’ Workshop If you enjoy creative writing and want to meet people with similar skills, then the Nicosia Writers’ Workshop is the place to be, so bring your ideas and we’ll open a new world together. 48 Rik Avenue, Angantzia. Every Sunday from 11am-1pm. Free membership to new candidates. Ring Machela on 99-867315 Writing Workshops Unleash your creative side with Rhay Christou. Rhay’s Studio, Old Nicosia. Tel: 99 522333 Italian for Beginners Lessons offered by the Dante Alighieri Society and the Italian Embassy. Monday and Wednesday 6.30pm-8pm.Tel: 22358168/99-339644 Children’s Theatre Workshop Dionysus Theatre brings kids closer to theatre. Three different age groups, ranging from 6-18+. Classes are in Greek. Dionysus Theatre, 29 Diagorou St. Tel: 22818999/99-621845 or visit www.music.net. cy/dionysos Play in a Day Fun theatre workshops geared towards adults. Every Thursday 6-8pm. (lessons for youths between 14 and 17 also take place on Wednesday 5pm-7pm). 15 per session or 50 per month. Taught in Greek and English. For registration Tel: 99-130916/99-552654. [email protected] Arts & Moods Creative workshops for children of all ages. 15 Averoff Street, Strovolos. Tel: 22313142. email: [email protected] Brocante Antique and vintage furniture market. Every Sunday 9am-7pm. In front of the old municipal market in old Nicosia and outside the Akanthos workshop space. Tel: 22-100984. www.facebook.com/akanthos. furniture St Paul’s Thrift Shop Thrift Shop for clothes and bric-a-brac is open every Saturday morning from 10ammidday in St Paul’s Cathedral car park. Lots of bargains on offer at very reasonable prices. Tel : 22-445221 St Paul’s Babies and Toddlers Non-religious, non-political and multi-national organisation that caters for newborn to pre-school kids with activities including outdoor and indoor play equipment and toys. St Paul’s Church Hall, Byron Avenue. No membership required. babiesandtoddlers.googlepages.com Cans for Kids Quiz Nights First Friday of every month. 8.30pm. Esogba, behind the Junior School. €5. Drinks and home cooked food available. Tel: 99666011. www.cansforkids.org Cyprus Go Association Meetings every Saturday to learn the game and improve skills. Oktana Café, 2 Aristidou St. 5pm. Tel: 99-476253. [email protected], cyprus.european-go.org Porcelain Painting Paint your own dinner set or special gift for your loved ones. Beginners classes morning and afternoon. Strovolos. Tel: 99620992 Saint Andrews Bridge Club Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 4pm, Saturday 7pm-10pm; 15 Heroes Avenue. Tel: 22-781063 or 96-510121 Tarot Card Game Lessons Not lessons in the divination art but rather the strategy and memory game. Every Wednesday evening. Brasserie Au Bon Plaisir, 15 Alasias Street. 8pm. Tel 96-755111
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Larnaca district Transformative Tarot Course Fun & educational, meet other like-minded people. Tuesdays and Wednesdays. 7.30-9 .30pm. contact: seekersofthetarot@yahoo. com for more details Kara – Mind & Body Centre Gain a certificate in Tarot Reading. An 18week course that covers symbology, colourology, numerology and much more. KARA - Mind & Body Centre, Oroklini. Tel: 99-029952. tarotcyprus.yolasite.com/aboutus.php Fisu Meditation Learn Fisu Meditation. Free introductory talks on why meditate and what meditation is all about. Book by appointment, 24532479/99-665330 Larnaca Hash House Harriers Every Monday, 5pm. For more information call Fred-the-web on 24-647175 Kition Hash House Harriers Run/jog/walk from a pub/taverna round the town and back. Wednesday evenings, 7.30pm. All welcome. Join us and have some fun. Tel: 24-647283 Antidote Theatre Workshops Drama workshops for children aged 5- can attend weekly workshops to learn about theatre through games and play, and participate in productions staged at the end of each year. Theatre Antidote also offers its students the Trinity Guildhall drama examinations in June, a useful qualification for university applications. Antidote Theatre, Apothikes st.Lazarus. Tel: 24-822677. info@ theatreantidote.com/ www.theatreantidote.com Baby Antidote Brings the young tots up to 3yrs in touch with theatre, by combining storytelling, fairytales and play. Through interactive performances inspired by favourite children’s books, the heroes come to life as the little ones embody them in their own unique way. Apothikes st. Lazarus. Every Monday and Friday, 9.30-11.30am. Entrance is €4 per family, and includes refreshments and snacks. Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos Social and benevolent organisation supporting charitable groups. The James Mercury Lodge meets at Dhekelia Barracks. Every Tuesday, 7.30pm. Next to ‘George’s Taxi’ on the South Road. Tel: 24-635812 RAFA Larnaca Bay Branch Social gathering taking place on second Tuesday of each month. Beachcomber Restaurant, Makenzie Beach . 7pm. Tel: 24363752. www.rafacyprus.co.uk/larnaca Larnaca Reading Group If you enjoy reading and debating the pros and cons of a book, you are welcome to join, the group endeavours to read a diverse selection of books. Larnaca Reading Group (LRG) meets the first Monday of each month in the Reading Lounge, upstairs in the Academic & General Bookshop, address: 41 Hermes Street. Tel: 24-628401/99-597094 /99-925315 Cash Bingo Eyes down every Wednesday, 8.30pm, and Sunday, 8.30pm, Makedonas restaurant, Dhekelia road. Food and drinks available at venues. Tel: 99-108391 Line Dancing Every Friday, 8pm. Makedonas restauraunt, Dhekelia road. Tel: 99-108391 Royal Engineers’ Association Meets on second Tuesday of the month at venues around the Island. For details of next meeting contact Bob Beer (Chair) on 97633728 Larnaca Chicago Bridge Club Thursdays, 9.30am-1pm. Tel: Pete on 24424899 Larnaca Walking Tours Wednesdays: Larnaca Past and Present, 10am from CTO office in Vassileos Pavlou Square. Fridays: Skala and its Craftsmen, 10am from Larnaca Fort. Tel: 24-654322 Leon Friendly Darts League Meetings carried out at selected pubs: Tuesdays, 8.30pm. Tel: Bob Johnson on 24427275
Mazotos Camel Park Adventures for the family. Camel rides, swimming, play areas and more. Tel: 24991243/99-416968. www.camel-park.com
Limassol district Mind Body & Spirit Exhibition Join wellbeing experts Discover natural health, organic products, the environment, yoga, spirituality free seminars or workshops and much more. April 13-14. St Raphael Hotel. Saturday: 11am-8pm. Sunday: 11am-7pm. €8. Tel: 25-834200/96-472717. www.mbscyprus.com Dragon Boat Challenge Open to all with crews expected to battle it out over the 200m course, watched by crowds of spectators, to be crowned champions on the day. April 14. Yeremasoyia Dam. 9am-2pm. €10 per person. Min crew 16 per team (Max 22). Tel: 99-424130. Facebook: https:// www.facebook.com/pages/Cyprus-Dragon-Boat-Association/175349099216647 LTAS Third Annual Talent Show Limassol’s stage school for kids is giving young singers, dancers, musicians and entertainers the opportunity to perform in a competition showdown which will be judged by a panel of professionals flying in from the West End, London and top musicians of Cyprus. April 20, deadline for registration is April 16. Limassol Theatre Arts School, Panathineon 13, Ayia Zoni. 3pm-9pm. €5. To enter or to book tickets, simply call 99-784927 www.limassolarts.com Operational Efficiency by Technology Danish-Cypriot marine seminar on how to operate your fleet competitively now and onwards. The seminar will be followed by a workshop and dialogue meetings with the delegation companies together with a reception, mini exhibition and dinner. April 18. Carob Mill, Vasilissis Street, Old Port. Tel: 22-660418 or e-mail [email protected] Cyprus Film Days 2013 A showcase of international and local productions, special tributes, parallel screenings, workshops and music events. April 1928. Rialto Theatre, Limassol and Zena Palace, Nicosia. Tel: 77-777745/77-772552. All films screened in their original language with Greek and English subtitles. Free to all afternoon and late midnight screenings. €6 day card/€25 general entry card (for all festival screenings). www.cyprusfilmdays. org NASA International Space Apps Challenge Limassol A two-day technology development event during which citizens from around the world will work together to address current challenges relevant to both space exploration and social need. April 20-21. Cyprus University of Technology, CUT Studies and Student Welfare building, Athinon Street. 9am to 6pm April 21 (36hours). During the event there will be offered coffees, energy drinks, juice and snacks. Tel: 97-719440/96-549344. misaakidis@yahoo. gr. [email protected]. http://spaceappschallenge.org/location/limassol International Christian Fellowship East Please join us, Sundays 10.30am, Angel’s English Nursery School, 37 Ampelakion, Germasogia. Sunday school available, small groups meet midweek. Tel: 99-815033. www.icf.org.cy Day out in Lania Visit the museum, church, olive mill, wine press and the artists’ galleries. Lania. [email protected] Island Blend Barber shop group sing a wide repertoire of songs at events and raise money for Friends for Life. Every Thursday at UKCA, 4pm-6pm. Tel: 25-397456 The World of Wine Beginners and advanced specialised courses for enthusiasts who wish to become more confident in understanding and enjoying fine wines and spirits. Spectus shops, Nicosia and Limassol. Tel: 22-511521/25-341525 Food for Friends Vegetarian social group, with monthly lunch-time outings to tavernas and short presentations on related subjects. Monthly lunch on last Saturday of month. Tel: 25634487/25-634487 Rising Star Youth Theatre of Limassol Theatre workshop for aspiring actors and actresses from the age of 6 years and up. Call 99-608826 for information. Children’s Theatre Workshop Organised by the Versus theatre group. Theatro Ena, Limassol Municipal Market, old town. Classes for ages: 5-9, 10-13, 17-17. Saturdays 9am-3pm. Tel: 99-428691. www. theatroversus.com
Water: no living thing exists without it. Water is essential to life as we know it and as it cycles from the air to the land to the sea and back again, water shapes our planet and nearly every aspect of our lives. Its beauty inspires art and this week at the Gallery Kypriaki Gonia in Larnaca visitors can bask in the watery master-
Get out to Gallery Kypriaki Gonia and drink it all in works by Ero Farmaka. Entitled Water Stories, this collection of stories of the sea and the ocean, stories of rain and rivers, stories of liquids and tears; an invitation to a wet world bright, dark, turbulent, motionless, real and metaphysical. Naturally, Farmaka’s paintings are executed in watercolours. There are two main themes: landscapes and space. Both are addressed with an abstract interpretation that occasionally evokes a raw, nostalgic flavour with a touch of mysticism thrown in to boot. Nature is analysed in colour, light, shadows and shapes move between abstraction and symbolism. Yellow hues and Magic Craft Supplies For the latest on Magic Craft Supplies & Penny’s Parties, please visit www.pennycyprusmagic.com 25-634487/99-304237 Theatre Workshops Open to students between six and 16. Every Saturday. ETHAL Theatre. Basement, 76 Franklin Roosevelt Ave. Tel: 25-877827 Premiere Group Theatre group producing annual musicals. The group conducts monthly social events that include camping, picnics and sports evenings. Tel: 25-775922. www.premiere. com.cy C3A Limassol Join us and share educational, creative and leisure activities in friendly, sociable groups. Attend Open meetings, listen to informative talks, enjoy social activities.: C3A gmail (c3a. [email protected]) C3A, PO Box 51922, 3509 Limassol. Find out more: http://c3acyprus.org/limassol/ Help Me Grow Lecture on child development by the Health Ministry. Every Wednesday. Lecture hall, New Limassol Hospital. 6pm. In Greek. Free Baha’is of Limassol Weekly discussion circle. Tel: 25-340021 Happy Valley Hash House Harriers Weekly runs on Thursdays around the southwest of the island, times vary, see www.hvh3.org.uk. Tel: 99-434794 Amathus Hash House Harriers Run, jog or walk every Sunday afternoon. For more info Tel: 99-905746. www.ah3. freeservers.com Limassol Walks Get to know the historical centre of Limassol. Mondays at 10am. Walks begin at the CTO Information Office, 115A Spyros Araouzos St. Free. Tel: 25-362756 Limassol Crusaders Rugby Club Training on grass for Cyprus League matches, or just to get fit, Tuesdays 6.30-8.30pm and Thursdays 7-9pm, AEK Katholiki Stadium, Tagmatarchou Pouliou St. Seniors and d Juniors. Tel: 96-323962. www.limassolcru-sadersrfc.com Table Tennis Monday and Friday at 10 am at UKCA, 37 Ter-mopilis Street. Contact Antonio 99-334706 Limassol Bridge Club Mondays and Fridays, 3.30pm at Limassoll Sporting Club. Tel 99-645338 Car Boot Sale Every Saturday and Sunday at Moni Station.. Tel: 25-323525/25-365102 Linopetra Corner Car boot sale on Saturdays, 8am-2pm. Tel:: 99-612832
iridescences move silently in grey-black skies and the deep blue sea. Born in Nicosia, Farmaka graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Many of you might be familiar with her work as her paintings are in public collections, such as the Public Library of Cyprus, at the Zambelas collection and the Cooperative Bank of Engomi. Water Stories Solo painting exhibition by Ero Farmaka. Opens April 17, 7.30pm until May 20. Kypriaki Gallery Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street, Larnaca. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm and 4.30 pm-8pm. Sunday: 11amRoyal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Social and benevolent organisation. Aphrodite Bitter Lake Lodge meet at the UKCA Club. Wednesdays, 6pm. Tel: 99-425527. The Troodos Pride of Cyprus Lodge meets at the UKCA Club. Every other Sunday, 10am. Tel: 99-345384 Riding for the Disabled Horse riding for disabled riders from The Red Cross and Theotokos Foundation every Thursday morning 8.30am-11.30am. Happy Valley, Episkopi. Volunteers greatly needed to assist with rides. Tel: 25-773058. Email: [email protected] RAFA Aphrodite Branch Social Meeting First Wednesday of every month. Sergeants Mess. Akrotiri. No food provided. 7.30pm. Tel: 25-932196 RAF Akrotiri Voluntary Band The band plays a large repertoire of classical music at military dinners, Episkopi Fete and charity fund raisers. Meetings every Monday: 7.30pm. Padre’s Centre at RAF Akrotiri. Tel: 99-925524 The Royal Military Police Association The Cyprus branch seeks new members. First Friday of every month. The RMP Corporals Mess, WSBA Episkopi. 2pm. Tel: 26642120/99-453867 Cyprus Donkey Sanctuary Visitor centre with shop, refreshments, hillside walk and picnic area. Friends of the Cyprus Donkey, Vouni. Daily 10am-4pm. Tel: 25-945488
Paphos district Swinging Jazz Evening Charity music evening featuring the Melanie from 4front entertainment and Michael Antoniou. April 19. Friends Bar in Kato Paphos. 7.30pm. €20 and include a 3 course hot buffet. €5 of the proceeds go to the Cancer Patient Support Group. Win 2 free tickets by entering the competition; please see the advertising section of the Cyprus Mail for details. Tel: 99-854375
Spiritualist Meetings. Monthly ‘Modern Spiritualists in Cyprus’ meetings are held on the last Sunday of the month in Stroumbi. 7pm start. For full details www.yvebrooks.org or Tel 97-801472 Paphos Flower Club Courses in flower arranging. Anglican Church Hall, Kato Paphos. Beginners 2pm, intermediate classes 12.30pm. Beginners. Tel: 99-475564/99-533704. Intermediate: 99-744635 Orphean Singers Three times a year this well established singing group delights audiences with an entertaining concert. Meetings every Friday at Kamaras club, 9.30am-12pm. Tel: 26-913249 Paphos Light Music Society A new group starting up in Paphos for the appreciation of light opera, Gilbert and Sullivan etc. Non-singers also welcome. Meetings every fourth Monday at 3.00pm in Paphos area. Tel: 26- 723002/ 99-370883 Paphos Town Centre Walking Tour Get acquainted with the newest part of the city and learn how the town evolved from the late Byzantine and Mediaeval times. Every Thursday, 10am. CTO Information Office, 3 Gladstonos St. Tel. 26932841 The Corona Society Go along and meet new friends at monthly meetings held every second Wednesday of the month, 2.30pm – 4pm. Coffee mornings held every last Tuesday of the month, 10.30am – 12.00pm. Annabelle Hotel. All proceeds go to local charities. Tel: 99177479 Scottish Country Dancing With the St Andrew’s Society, Paphos, at the Latin Parish Hall every Tuesday evening from September to May 6-8pm. Beginners welcome 5.30pm. Tel: 99-298512 Timi Village Car Boot Market Every Sunday 7am-1pm all through the year. Tel: 99-611637 Evans Plus Evans Comedy Magic Show, at the New Kikkos Bar Coral Bay - Alternate Tuesdays. 9.30pm. Tel 99-173801 Singles Nights at Ollie’s Bar Every second and fourth Saturday of the month. Ollie’s Bar, Trimithousa. 8pm. Tel: 99-769899 Quiz Nights Play for weekly prizes and a jackpot. Every Friday. Kings Hotel, Tomb of the Kings Road. 8.30pm. €2. Tel: 26-939075 Quiz night Quiz at the New Olympus Hotel. Every second Thursday of the month. 7.30pm. To register your team call: 26-932020 New Friendly Bridge Chicago bridge every Tuesday with all bridge partnerships welcome. Fantasia Club. 6.45pm. Tel: 26-937551 Table Tennis Club Night Coaching for all levels by Gordon Allen. Every Wednesday night. New venue, 7pm. Tel: 99-841471, 26-652763 Badminton Club Atromitos Badminton Club for children and adults meets four times a week, days and evenings, to suit all levels, coaching available or play just for fun. Tel: 99971150/99-519504.badmintonpaphos@ cytanet.com.cy www.atromitosbadmintonclub.org Emba Badminton club Emba Badminton club meets on Saturday mornings, and Tuesday and Friday afternoons. All levels of play are catered for. Tel: 99-276192. www.EmbaBadmintonClub. org
A glossy, kooky tale about a family of off-beat geniuses Are you a fan of Wes Anderson? The House of Arts and Literature in Paphos is hosting a special screening of Anderson’s beloved contemporary classic The Royal Tenenbaums. One of the key American films of the new millennium, Anderson mingles romance, tragedy, social observation and unforgettable characters in his buoyant third feature, about a family of off-beat geniuses living in New York. The House of Arts
and Literature has a as regular screenings throughout the year featuring an array of film genres, so make sure to look out for what’s on next. The Royal Tenenbaums A screening of Wes Anderson classic comedy/ drama. April 17. House Of Arts and Literature, 41-43 Athinas Street, Paphos. 8.30pm. Free. Tel: 26-818560
Paphos Adonis Lions Club Meetings every second and fourth Monday of the month at Paphos Gardens Hotel Resort. New members welcome as well as visiting members of other Lions Clubs. Tel: 26-622810/97-635883 Alzheimer Self Help and Support Group Offers dementia patients and their carers the opportunity to meet others with this condition, share feelings and exchange experiences. Latin Parish Hall, Coastal Rd. Chlorakas. Every first Wednesday of the month at 10am. Tel: 26-621530/96767164 Cancer Patients’ Support Group Association’s Day Centre - 84 Ellados Avenue, Paphos, near Carrefour’s on Polis Road. Tel: 26-952478. Coffee morning on the second Tuesday of the month, 10.30am. Craft group meet every Thursday, 10am-12pm. New members always welcome. Quiz nights and meal on Thursdays and meal, 7 for 7.30pm. Tel: 26654007 or visit www.cancerpatientssupport.net Cancer Patients’ Support Group – Paphos Information Help Line Trained volunteers who will listen and assist anyone needing information, emotional support, befriending or referral to an appropriate professional. Available from 9am-1pm Monday to Friday. Tel: 97760989 Paphos Bereavement Support Group The group meets the first Monday of the month from 2-4 pm at the Cyprus Samaritans Centre, Chlorakas. For more information please contact Sally on 99-312662 or Rita on 99-175510 Gamblers Anonymous Support group for gambling addicts, partners and families. Meetings every Tuesday. Ayia Kyriaki Anglican Church Hall, Kato Paphos. 7.30pm. Tel: 26-622289 Self-Improvement and Fulfilment Dr. Eva Bratslavsky clinical psychologist and psychotherapist weekly discussion group meetings on self-confidence, selfesteem, relationship enhancement, assertiveness. 3pm. Tel: 99-495467 Hemi-Sync sound technology of The Monroe Institute Metamusic CDs for quantum learning, deep relaxation, meditation, workshops. Contact Linda Leblanc, accredited Outreach Trainer of The Monroe Institute. Tel: 26-621272/ [email protected] Reiki Training Philip Westwood, Reiki Master/Teacher is now taking bookings for Reiki 1 & Reiki 2 training courses.Tel: 99-407526/26271640 or email [email protected]. cy Polis Charity Bookshop, Crafts and More Now open six days a week. Monday- Saturday, 10am- 1pm. Large stock of books, videos, talking books, jigsaws and greeting cards. Proceeds donated to local charities. Goods in first rate condition always needed. Arch. Makarios Avenue, Polis Chrysochous. Tel: 99-867511 Mums ‘n’ Toddlers Group Mums, Tots & Babies - Join us for a fun filled morning of Music & Movement, Story time, Arts & Crafts, Free Play, snack & coffee time etc. Spacious garden at our new location in Chloraka. Five groups per week offered. Also ongoing sale of nearly new clothing (1Euro per item) raising funds for local charities. Tel: 99-867662. First Time Mums’ Club Come and join us for a cup of tea. Bring baby with you and meet other mums and get tips, ideas and advice on caring for your little infant. Weekly meetings where topics include breastfeeding, bottle feeding, sleeping tips for baby and mom, milestones, what works and lots more. Thurs 10-12. Cholorakas. Tel: 96-429659 Apollo Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association Meeting on the third Thursday of every month. UKCA Clubhouse, Tombs of the Kings Road. 7pm. Tel: 26-991615 Basic Dog Training and Grooming Fridays. 3pm. Kallepia. Tel: 26-643079/99105557
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The World of Wine Beginners and advanced specialised courses for enthusiasts who wish to become more confident in understanding and enjoying fine wines and spirits. Tailor-made courses, wine classes and tasting can also be organised on request. Spectus shops, Nicosia and Limassol. Tel: 22-511521/25-341525 Coffee Morning A warm welcome for all women. Interesting talks and a chance to get together socially. Second Thursday of the month. (except July and August). 9.30am St.Paul’s Church Hall, Byron Avenue. In English. Tel: 99-924363 Walking Tours of Nicosia Mondays: Palouriotissa and Kaimakli: the past restored guided bus and walking tour. Thursdays: walking tour of Nicosia.. Free. Tel: 22-674264 Bird Watching in Cyprus Birdlife Cyprus regularly arranges bird watching trips around the island. Tel: 22455072, 99-059541. www.birdlifecyprus.org Horse Races Every Wednesday and Sunday at the Nicosia Race Club. Tel: 22-782727. Subject to change check website. www.nicosiaraceclub.com. cy
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Paphos Tigers RFC Mini Rugby: Tuesdays, 4.30pm-5.30pm. Kinyras Centre, Cypria Maris Sports Ground. Tel: 99-934315. [email protected] Paphos Cycling Club Newly founded to help promote cycling in Paphos as a great form of exercise, meeting and making new friends. Every Sunday at Hectors Barin Coral Bay at 9am. Tel: 99320213. www.paphoscyclingclub.com
Tours around Ayia Napa Ayia Napa and the Sea: a different dimension. Mondays in English and German; Fridays in English and Swedish, 10am from CTO office. Tel: 23-721796 Folk Art Workshop Art workshop for children. Cultural Centre of Famagusta, Evagorou 35, Dherynia. Tel: 23-721140 Bingo and Games Every Tuesday night. Quiz, bingo and games every Thursday night. Party night every Saturday. Woody’s Inn, Protaras. Tel: 23-831690 Charity Boot Sale Every Tuesday morning. Woody’s Inn, Protaras. 10am-12pm. Tel: 23-831690 Open Air Market Every Wednesday. St Thekla Beach restaurant, Ayia Thekla, 500m from the church. 9am-4pm. Tel: 23-743778
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It’s time to lighten up - but will you be burnt, baby, natural or even lavender this season? EMMA MCCARTHY on the fairest spring shades
The four new blondes 1. Lavender blonde Lady Gaga was right - this season, we’ll be loving that lavender blonde. “Ombre has been a massive trend but while last season’s tones were very soft, this season’s will be much stronger - particularly with hints of lavender and violet,” agrees Andrew John, colour director of Percy & Reed’s salon. “Lavender tones look really strong all over short or bobbed hair, while those with longer lengths should focus on the mid-lengths and ends.” They aren’t the only ones championing lavender locks either. “Playful, washed-out paintbox shades have grown up this season,” adds Jane Stacey, international technical director for Toni & Guy, who cites rich amethyst as a key shade, while international colour specialist Goldwell has also launched a new shade - Beautified Lilac. This is applied using the new “Transition” colour-dipping method to create a “melting” effect between the lavender hue and the blonde base.
2. Baby blonde Platinum hair is no longer about achieving an ice queenworthy blonde - in fact, it has been defrosted completely as spring/ summer 13 instead calls for the pale blonde seen on the head of a bouncing new-born babe. “Baby blonde is the perfect shade for
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spring - light, delicate and naturally luminous,” says Bruno Elorriroz, advanced creative director at Aveda. “With an almost-white, youthful angelic effect, the new platinum is all about appearing softer and natural, while retaining an iridescent glow. It’s all about getting the tonal balance right - we’re not going for harsh ice queen here,
With an almost-white, youthful angelic effect, the new platinum is all about appearing softer and natural, while retaining an iridescent glow more ethereal princess.”
3. Burnt blonde If anyone knows a thing or two about hair dye, it’s Bleach London. But the salon that fi rst brought us the dip-dye is taking its inspiration not from My Little Pony but from the Seventies this season. “The warm, rusty gold blondes of the likes of Marianne Faithfull and Stevie Nicks have replaced the ashy silver tones we’ve been obsessed with recently,” says the
salon’s founder Alex Brownsell, who counts Cara Delevingne as a modern-day devotee of the look. “As well as looking effortless and sexy, burnt blondes are also really easy to maintain as you don’t have to have regular salon trips to top up the colour. As we see more of the trend for Seventies fashion emerging, we’ll certainly be seeing a lot more of this hair shade too.”
4. New natural blonde Think you know a natural blonde when you see one? Well, after you’ve been introduced to the latest highlights you may not be able to tell so easily. The latest technique soon to be launched by L’Oréal is Nature Ombré, which promises to infuse hair with a subtle partial ombré effect using its fi rst no-ammonia blonde solution for a super-natural result. Over at Daniel Galvin, the salon has furthered last year’s popular Finger Painting highlights with the introduction of Freehand. As well as being applied by hand - rather than combs, brushes and foils – truly natural highlights are guaranteed thanks to a new Whitewash colour formula, which gently lifts and lightens the natural pigment of the hair with a low developer for a softer fi nish. It means you’ll be left with locks which look sunkissed, rather than bleached.
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Designers are conspiring to make us expose all our least favourite bits this summer. KAREN DACRE reveals all... or maybe not
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ands up if you hate your tummy. You’re not alone: a recent survey suggests that in the UK at least, 77 per cent of women share your pain. What about your hips? Join the other 96 per cent. Off the beach many expose middles with the same alacrity with which we
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book in for a smear test, and showcase the jingly bits underr our arms with the same enthusiasm as a horse might approach a freezer in the supermarket. ang over Our body hang-ups hang og. And our lives like a fi lthy smog. worse, stand between us and the clothes we’d like to wearr like a imming gaping crater that’s brimming ard. with calorie-infested custard. ne bothIt’s just a shame no one s of our ered to tell the designers on they plight because this season seem to have got togetherr to crefriendly ate some of the most unfriendly urgence fashion in years. The resurgence of the crop top serves as a suitably ing your hostile example. While baring ty saved midriff was once an activity ngers in for 15-year-old girls and singers bles, it Nineties Europop ensembles, is now a reputable fashion item als with the catwalk credentials to prove it. or In his final collection for sBalenciaga, Nicolas Ghesquière unveiled a host of tummy-button skimming tabpired ard tops which have inspired everyone this season. He is joined by Miuccia Prada,, Alathan exander Wang and Jonathan ppear Saunders, all of whom appear g us to to be set on encouraging ps. And showcase our muffi n-tops. it’s not just our bellies that the world’s most prestigious designers y’re after seem set on outing - they’re bly arms our thunder thighs, wobbly s” too. and (dear god) “side boobs” er In his latest summer collection, Haider Ackermann set out to expose
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flashes of flesh with cutaway dresses and plunging V-neck T gowns. The collection, which was met with huge critical acclaim, delighted and terrified in equal measures What works on svelte measures. d models doesn’t always translate A to your Average Joanna and is a valuable lesson most of us have gotten to grips with the hard way. Of cours course, in an ideal world we wouldn’t give giv a toss. We’d wear the tiny hotpants, hotpan squeeze into the lovehandle-hug handle-hugging bodycon dresses and shake our cellulite-speckled thighs like w we just don’t care. Except
few of us have the guts for that. Those who do should head to the high street, where the crop of unfriendly fashion is equally bountiful this season. And rightly so. After all, it is here that toe curlingly terrifying clothes belong. While splurging on a Balenciaga crop top you’d need to be tanked up to even think of putting on is nothing short of insanity, buying one from Topshop is a far more sensible alternative. Begin your valiant search at River Island. The store’s recently launched collaboration with Rihanna includes crop tops, slashed-tothe-thigh transparent dresses and high-shine Lycra knickers - and is a faultless example of the brand’s dedication to exposing our lumps and bumps this summer. Taking its lead from the catwalk, Topshop has some equally itsy-bitsy pieces in store and a collection of crop tops set to delight the under-16s. As does M&S, which, surprisingly, is embracing the trend for bloomers with gusto. Fancy it? On behalf of polo-neck wearing women everywhere, I salute you.
Vogue signs up to new 10-point code protecting models at work By Louise Jury The glossy fashion bible British Vogue has become the fi rst publication to sign up to a new code of conduct on working conditions for models. The influential title has taken the lead in agreeing to abide by a 10-point code drawn up by the models committee of Equity, the union that is better known for its campaigning for actors.
The deal means that models hired by British Vogue will work for no more than 10 hours a day, have suitable food provided and will do no nude or seminude shoots unless approved in advance. The code also includes breaks, transport, suitable temperatures for the clothes being modelled and prompt payment. It lays down that no model should be asked to do anything “dangerous, degrading, unpro-
fessional or demeaning”. It also means no models under the age of 16 can be used in photo shoots representing adult models. Model Dunja Knezevic, the chair of Equity’s models committee, said she hoped that other magazines, retailers and designers would now also sign up and “prevent treatment of the kind which would be wholly unacceptable in any other profession”. The code was drawn up
n to cover shoots both in on studios and on location nces based on the experiences rkof union members worky ing across the industry y ranging from “the very y good to the extremely bad”. Alexandra Shulman, n, e, editor of British Vogue, d said the magazine had been working with agencies to help in the education and mentor--
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merica’s ageing population is posing special challenges, fitness experts say, because it is difficult to design effective workout routines for people with such a wide range of abilities. For one 70-year-old, the goal may be to run a marathon, for another it’s getting out of a chair. “If you are teaching 10-year-olds, it’s perfectly reasonable to do an activity that everybody would participate in,” said Dr Wojtek ChodzkoZajko, an expert on ageing with the American College of Sports Medicine. “But 20 80-year-olds could be as different as chalk and cheese.” Some baby boomers could be athletic, he explained, while others would be unable to get out of bed. There are now more Americans age 65 and older than at any other time in US history, according to Census Bureau figures. Some 40 million people age 65 and over lived in the United States in 2010, accounting for 13 per cent of the total population. The older population grew from 3 million in 1900 to 40 million in 2010. Older adults should be doing aerobic activity to help maintain body weight, strengthening exercises to develop and maintain muscle mass and some type of flexibility training, according to Dr James Graves, Dean of the College of Health at the University of Utah. Physical activity can reduce the risk of diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and osteoporosis, he said, as well as improve the quality of life by maintaining functional capacity, such as the ability to climb stairs, open doors and carry groceries.
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Mary Ann Wilson is the creator and host of Sit and Be Fit, a senior fitness programme that has aired on US public television since 1987 “A very healthy 70-year-old can safely participate in high-intensity activity while a frail 60-year-old needs to lower the intensity,” said Graves. “My recommendation is to work with a personal trainer or group leader who has knowledge and qualifications to work with the elderly.” Mary Ann Wilson is the creator and host of Sit and Be Fit, a senior fitness programme that has aired on US public television since 1987. The majority of her viewers are women over 65. For that population, she said, the goal of exercise is health and well-being, not physical prowess. “Gravity has been working on them for 70 years,” said Wilson, a reg-
istered nurse who specialised in geriatrics. “Gravity is not our friend after many years of pulling our heads, shoulders and upper torsos forward and down.” The 30-minute class includes warm-up, circulation and strength segments, a finger segment (for stiffness), standing for balance, and fi nal relaxation. Posture, breathing, balance, cognitive functioning and reaction time are among the most important-and neglected-components of elder fitness, she said. “Focusing on gait is really important because as we age our gait changes,” said Wilson. Karen Peterson, author of Move with Balance: Healthy Aging Activities for Brain and Body, stresses a mind-body approach in workouts with seniors. “In our society it seems people don’t really like to do things unless they’re good at it already,” said Peterson, a kinesiologist based in Maui. “But what the brain likes is to be challenged.” Her exercises include tossing a bean bag to improve reaction time, walking a figure-eight pattern for balance, as well as eye stretches, jaw relaxers, childhood games and cognitive challenges to keep body and mind alert. “We take balance exercises and add conversation or math problems,” she said. “The concept is to always progress, always get more challenging.” To tackle the isolation and diversity of the older population, Peterson initiated a mentoring programme in which the fitter seniors work with the frailer. “Some partners will become friends,” she said. “They’ll get really turned on.” Experts agree that it’s never too late to do something. “Exercise is effective even in the most frail individual,” Wilson said. “If they can wiggle their toes, they can exercise.”
Hab Habitat: A self-supporting, climbing member of the Apocynaceae family, growing to about 10m in tropical rain forest ynac areas of central Africa. It is covered in grey/green, speararea shaped leaves and produces clusters of highly aromatic, azashap lea-type flowers, which go on to form hairy, fawn-coloured lea-t seed pods. All parts of the plant are very poisonous. Wha does it do: When an early English explorer in the 17th What century sailing off the coast of West Africa tried to make cent llandfall d to take on water and fruit he was assailed by a local tribe that fired on his ship with what were described as puny arrows; it was only when these missiles reached their targets that they were made fully aware of the potential. It was not necessary for the arrows to effect deep penetration, merely to scratch the victim, to achieve their purpose. The barbs
were coated in a resin made from the seed of kombe, which contains strophanin, an extremely powerful glucoside. In addition, the plant contains the alkaloids ouabain and ineine: all capable of causing death in any animal whose blood stream is pierced by the arrow tip. The resulting death was described as ‘living rigor mortis’ by the crew. The Victorian missionary David Livingstone and his botanist Kirk were the first to bring the plant back to Europe for scientific analysis, where it was found to have greater cardiac healing potential than digitalis, as it does not have the same harmful effects on the liver and kidneys as the latter, and was known to 19th century physicians as ‘milk for the ageing heart’. Kombe fell from popularity between the wars but has recently been restored to prominence mostly by the activity of German practitioners who prefer its action in the case of geriatric heart patients. Veterinarians use an extract from the plant to anaesthetise the eyes of dogs before surgery, but it has no effect on the eyes of humans. Next dangerous plant
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Disaster area: local Sri Lankans search the wreckage of the 2004 tsunami
Anne Frank step sister highlights post-Holocaust traumas By Belinda Goldsmith
Survivor’s overwhelming tale of family swept away By Claire Harman “I thought nothing of it at first,” Sonali Deraniyagala writes in Wave: A Memoir of Life after the Tsunami of the view from her hotel window on Boxing Day, 2004. “The ocean looked a little closer than usual. That was all.” Deraniyagala and her husband, both Cambridgetrained economists, their two small sons and her parents were packing up to leave the nature reserve in Sri Lanka where they had spent Christmas. Her husband was on the loo, her elder son was reading The Hobbit. What happened next was so peculiar and devastating that it seems to come from the pages of mythology rather than a young urbanite’s holiday. The sea came up the beach so fast that Deraniyagala and her husband didn’t even say
anything to each other but grabbed the children and fled, not even knocking next door to alert her parents. Minutes later they were in a Jeep, being driven away by someone from the hotel. Then, as quickly, they were submerged by the tsunami, and Deraniyagala was sent spinning away alone, the sole survivor from her family. Eight years later she is able to tell this appalling story with a skill that matches its strangeness. Deraniyagala was thrown instantly into a life that seemed to belong to someone else; she found no “coming to terms” with such a trauma but constant pain. Through the months of rage, self harm and alcoholism that followed the tsunami, she found it impossible to deal with the disaster. “Was I
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their mother?” she writes, poleaxed by a long-delayed return to the family’s London home. “They would be aghast to see the mess I am now. This is not who I was with them.” The author doesn’t need to solicit the reader’s sympathy with this story - most will find it overwhelmingly moving and dreadful. Deraniyagala’s style is spare and wryly realistic as she goes back through vignettes of her marriage and the lives of her five and seven-year-old sons, a collection of snapshots of ordinary life: cricket practice and sweet wrappers and belching competitions. There is no idealisation or portentousness: Deraniyagali understands that the best way to memorialise is to be honest, even about one’s false memories and hindsight. As if that
wasn’t enough, Deranayagali’s book also gives fascinating evidence of how people remember and narrate extreme experiences. The timescale of her account of the tsunami is inexplicable: some moments drag out, others pass unnoticed. When you don’t know what’s happening, there isn’t a “story”, and she doesn’t impose one. The chasm is as strange as the random remains: searching in the ruins of the hotel, all that she can recognise of the room where disaster struck is the bolthole in the floor that locked the window - her last instruction to her son. “Loss of life” has rarely seemed such a potent phrase. Memoir seems like a debased coin these days but this wrenching and deeply philosophical book restores the gold standard.
As the step-sister of World War II diarist Anne Frank, Eva Schloss was in great demand when she went public with her story of surviving Auschwitz but now she hopes a new memoir will highlight another issue - surviving life after the Holocaust. Schloss, 83, said it was increasingly important that ageing Holocaust survivors pass on their stories while they still can so younger generations understand the suffering Jewish people faced and the consequences of prejudice. With her memoir, After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank Schloss said she hoped to convey the message that the horrors continued for a lifetime. “People have no idea how traumatic it was to cope with such loss, with living in a different country,” Schloss said. “After the war Europe was in chaos and no one wanted to know what had happened to you. People felt guilty. You had to stay quiet and suppress your fears which came out in nightmares. You just had to try to live with it.” Schloss was arrested in Amsterdam in May, 1944, on her 15th birthday during the German occupation and, with her mother, was forced to listen to her brother and father being tortured in the next room while in detention. A similar fate befell Eva’s playmate and neighbour Anne Frank who died
in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Frank survived two years in hiding in Amsterdam where she wrote her diary that highlights real lives during the Holocaust. The two families had been friends and several years after the war Schloss’ mother married Anne Frank’s father, Otto, whose relentless optimism she cites as a key reason for her ability to cope with the post-war years. Schloss remained silent for nearly 40 years about her ordeals and it was not until she was invited to an exhibition about Anne Frank in London 1986 and asked about her own life that she started to talk. She never looked back. With her third book, Schloss said she wanted to focus on the lifetime of suffering faced by survivors after the slaughter of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators. She said she was one of the lucky ones because she had managed to build a new life in London where she lives with her husband of 60 years, Zvi, with whom she has three daughters. “All us survivors are quite elderly and in a few years we won’t be around so we need to tell our stories,” she said. “Racial tolerance is improving with more mixed marriages but religious tolerance seems to be getting worse with more fanatics now. It is my duty to try to explain and to promote more acceptance and tolerance in the new generations.”
By William Leith
Every Contact Leaves a Trace
The New Few
By Elanor Dymont
By Ferdinand Mount
Jon Ronson is an extremely funny writer and a brilliant journalist. If you read this collection of his stories you’ll see that he’s funny precisely because he is such a sharp reporter. He knows exactly where to look for stories that resonate - and writes them with perfect pitch. The North Pole, the boxes of stuff in Stanley Kubrick’s house, the underbelly of the credit economy, the artist who painted 50 self-portraits, each under the influence of a different drug. Ronson is both ruthless and empathetic - a perfect combination. He’s great on detail, too. He spots the tiniest things but always keeps the big picture in view.
This murder mystery, which gripped me with unusual force, starts on a summer evening at an Oxford college. Several years after graduating, Alex and Rachel have returned for a visit. He’s a lawyer. She’s an academic. They knew each other slightly when they were at the college, then they met again, years later, and had a very swift romance. Now they’re back. You’ll spend the whole novel wondering exactly why they have come to visit their old college. By the end of the evening, Rachel is dead - beaten to death with a rock. Horrible. Alex tries to find out why. Or is he the killer? This novel sucks you in beautifully, and will not let you go.
Ferdinand Mount, who wrote Cold Cream, an exquisite memoir, and Mind the Gap, about the British class system, has turned his mind to the problem of inequality. Why are a tiny number of people very, very rich? Why are so many so poor? In Mind the Gap, Mount made a brilliant point about how the Industrial Revolution had moulded Britain’s unique social mix. Here he’s good on what’s happened more recently. He explains how capitalism has subtly changed over the years. He’s very good on the relationship between shareholders and fund managers and unpicks financial products. The Few, it turns out, are very clever – and virtually unopposed.
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25 On the move: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in London
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BY SALLY BROMPTON
ARIES The past few weeks have been hectic but now the time has come to take back control of your life. You may have been able to ignore certain financial responsibilities in March 21 - April 20 the past but not any more. There are bills that have to be paid even if that means dipping into your reserves. Cosmic forces are focussing on what you earn and what you spend but really all you have to do is live within your means.
TAURUS In a few days time your solar year will begin and with Venus and Mars also moving into Taurus relationships are bound to be high on the agenda. If you’re not happy with your April 21 - May 21 situation this is the moment to do something about it. Just be sure you know what you want.
Americanah By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Becoming an outsider wherever you go
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himamanda Ngozi Adichie’s fi rst two novels, Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, were both firmly set in Nigeria, where Adichie was born. The first followed the dysfunctional family life of a teenage girl, Kambili; the second revolved around several characters before and during the Biafran war of the 1960s. A volume of stories, The Thing Around Your Neck, followed, with many tales set in America. Americanah spends time near the opening and close of the book in Nigeria, has an interlude in Britain, and resides, for its longest spell, in America, where Adichie has lived for much of the past decade. The pendulum-like structure provides its subject and its theme, largely about what moving between countries and cultures does to identity. Politics plays a part in the story, as it is in all Adichie’s writing. But the major dramas here are internal. Ifemelu and Obinze, the two main characters, both, by the end of the novel, part of “the Lagos youngish and wealthyish”, fall in love in Nigeria as teenagers in the Nineties. Ifemelu wins a scholarship to study in America, with Obinze vowing to join her. Denied a visa, Obinze goes to Britain instead. Ifemelu stays in America for than a decade, slowly - agonisingly – building a
Fresh depictions of Obama-era America and affluent Lagos life says JEROME BOYD MAUNSELL new life. She works as a babysitter, has American boyfriends, and starts an anonymous blog about race, written from the perspective of “a Non-American Black”. Adichie offers an unsparing portrait of being an incomer to America and Britain, tracing the emotional desolation Ifemelu and Obinze feel shedding their roots, and the economic traps they face, as they are initially forced to adopt new identities (and take on new names) to work. Ifemelu struggles to accommodate herself to misguided pity towards Africans. If some Americans see her in stereotypical terms, many of them are also seen stereotypically, drawn with a problematic flatness. In her blog, however, Ifemelu is wittily alive to nuanced shades of difference. Ifemelu’s blog entries appear in the novel and must have been fun to write. They also become wearying, as Americanah threatens to become a tract on
race. The distanced perspective of the blog is due to Ifemelu’s “outsider” status in America, allowing her to see and to say certain things. Yet when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, she has become an outsider there: an “Americanah”, looking “with American eyes”, as one friend teases. Two different writers within Adichie seem to be struggling with each other in Americanah: one preoccupied by inflammatory themes about society; the other concerned with characters and emotions. They don’t gel, as they could. One of the nicest touches is how Adichie tackles this very tension, showing Ifemelu’s growing disillusionment with her blog’s stridency. In Nigeria, race falls away as an issue for Ifemelu; in Britain, for Obinze, class, money and the threat of deportation dominate. While Adichie is not overly concerned with literary style, and sometimes writes merely robustly despite some careful, moody passages, she constructs situations with intricacy and subtlety. There is a particular freshness to the depictions of Obamaera America and affluent Lagos life, which neatly sidestep cliché. Yet the largest part of Americanah’s considerable power lies in its clear-sighted portrayal of its two main characters, who always, for all their incongruities, feel real.
Authorised Thatcher biography to be unveiled By Robert Dex The first volume of Margaret Thatcher’s authorised biography will be published after her funeral this week. The book, which was written by former Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore and is called Not For Turning, was commissioned in 1997 on the understanding it would not be published during her lifetime. Its author was allowed full access to Lady Thatcher’s private papers and also interviewed her extensively while researching the work.
Lady Thatcher, who did not read the manuscript which ends in November 1982, also supported requests for interviews with her family and people who worked with her and Moore was allowed to see government papers held back from public view under the 30-year rule. Stuart Proffitt, from publishers Allen Lane, said: “Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher immediately supersedes all earlier books written about her. Having worked closely with Lady Thatcher on both
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volumes of her autobiography, and read all the other main books about her, I was astonished at how much Moore says which has never been public before. At the moment when she becomes a historical figure, this book also makes her into a three dimensional one for the fi rst time. It gives unparalleled insight into her early life and formation, especially through her extensive correspondence with her sister, which Moore is the fi rst author to draw on. It recreates brilliantly the atmosphere of British
politics as she was making her way, and takes her up to what was arguably the zenith of her power, victory in the Falklands. Moore is clearly an admirer of his subject, but he does not shy away from criticising her or identifying weaknesses and mistakes where he feels it is justified. It is, by any standards, an exceptionally impressive book and to be publishing it at this moment is a rare privilege.” Moore is currently writing the second and final volume called Herself Alone.
GEMINI Mercury, your ruler, moves to focus on your dreams and desires encouraging you to make a number of important decisions about your future. Don’t rush: you have plenty of May 22 - June 21 time to consider all the pros and cons. The longer you take, the wiser your judgement will be.
CANCER This is an important time for you. So many of your dreams are now on the brink of success or failure that even a minor decision could make all the difference. Don’t rush into anything but be ready to act decisively when you see the June 22 - July 22 opening you have been waiting for.
LEO The Sun, your ruler, crosses the midheaven angle of your chart later this week, an auspicious omen by anyone’s standards. You may have to fight for something you want but that shouldn’t worry you in the least. Just remember July 23 - Aug 23 you don’t have to beat everyone into submission!
VIRGO
Aug 24 - Sep 23
No matter how mundane the things you have to do early in the week, try to make time to sit quietly and think about the wider implications of your life. You were born to make a difference, to add your little bit to the sum of human knowledge. Are you doing all you could?
LIBRA
Sept 24 -Oct 23
There are things no one knows about you, not even those who share your most intimate secrets. You may be tempted to tell all this week, to get matters off your chest but, in a word, don’t. The urge will pass but the repercussions of what you say could drag on for months.
SCORPIO At times you’re too independent for your own good: you certainly have no intention of compromising your freedom or beliefs. But with the Sun about to begin its annual transit Oct 24 - Nov 22 of Taurus there are certain things you cannot possibly do alone. Don’t be too proud to ask for help.
SAGITTARIUS
Nov 23 - Dec 21
Don’t sacrifice yourself too willingly this week: let partners and colleagues make all the running. Some people genuinely need your help but others are just trying to take advantage of you. You’re under no obligation to ease others’ burdens by adding to your own.
CAPRICORN
Dec 22 - Jan 20
As from this week you will begin to see just how fortunate you really are and just how much can be achieved if you don’t believe the world is against you. The Sun in Taurus is a hugely positive influence. Use it any way you want to but for goodness’ sake use it.
AQUARIUS
Jan 21 - Feb 19
So what if you made a mistake? You’ll make plenty more before the week is through, and so will everyone else. What matters is not the mistake but that you learned from it. Your current problem is one you have confronted before. But this time you’ll know how to deal with it.
PISCES Don’t let a failure in communication get you down. A loved one may overreact to what you say but since when have you been perfect? The reason they’re so emotional is because Feb 20 - March 20 they think the world of you. Perhaps it’s time to make your own feelings a little more clear.
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A whirlwind of colour from Dior Addict Dior Addict has declared its love for fashion with an electric whirlwind of colours in the Dior Addict Gloss range. This new accessory lets you enjoy the latest fashion trends with the ultimate shine. It comes in four shades: Spring Ball: a fine, soft, nude hue, while delicate and light, will complement all your favourite evening wear. Princess: a bright, lively and cheerful pink with all the elegance of a mischievous princess. Délice: a lively, peppery coral inspiring desire. Diablotine: this bright colour displays provocative red sensual passionate woman. Mix and match: new opportunities to make more refined your look and complete your style.
Rock the crisis ... new offers from Hard Rock Cafe The situation might change but our tastes stay the same and at Hard Rock Cafe Nicosia, the music never stops, and now there are more choices at one of the capital’s hottest spots. For the first time, Hard Rock Cafe offers Just About Noon set menu at really attractive prices. So boost your spirits with the new hearty options. The new set menu includes popular choices of appetizers, favourite dishes and, of course, classic rock desserts. For just €12.50 choose between an appetizer or dessert with your main course accompanied by a soda or coffee. The offer is valid only on weekdays, and excludes holidays. An excellent proposal for small rockers, on Sundays children dining up to age 12 at Hard Rock Cafe will enjoy food from the kids menu completely free! There is also an animator on site offering face painting, balloons and more.
Fasten your seat-belts, AXE Apollo ready to fly you away AXE is giving the opportunity to one lucky contestant to win a trip to space! AXE Apollo wants to show everyone they are hiding a hero inside by announcing the biggest competition ever realised by a brand. Mission ‘AXE Apollo Space Academy’ could send one lucky winner on a very real adventure to space. Among the winners there could even be a Cypriot! Take part in a unique test and compete in order to win a place at AASA’s Global Spacecamp. Through an interactive game, contestants will be asked to take part in a three-stage test, which will determine the one lucky winner who will travel to AASA’s camp in Orlando, Florida. There they will battle it out to see who can win a trip to space! The preliminary stages that contestants will have to compete in will be nerve-racking and will require speed and imagination. The road to AASA’s Global Spacecamp might be difficult but the prize will more than compensate the winners who will leave as normal
people but will return as real heroes! The first stage takes place until May 31. Candidates need to register their participation on the AXE Apollo Space Academy website (https:// www2.axeapollo.com/el_GR/) and get their friends to vote for them. The 50 candidates with the most votes will qualify for the next stage. The second stage will take place between May 31 and July 15. The 50 chosen winners will then do battle through AXE Apollo’s facebook page as they take part in a digital and social competition. Through the page they will show why they deserve to be in the top five. The public and a designated AXE committee will then decide who will be the lucky five who will qualify for the third stage of the competition. The third stage will take place between July 16 and the end of the calendar year. AXE Apollo Space Academy will train the five lucky winners and will decide which contestant to send to space. The candidate with the most votes will graduate in first place at AASA’s Global Spacecamp and will go on to compete for a seat for a journey to space!
Hyundai starts production of car hydrogen fuel cell technology
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New stylish and practical package Nestea Nestea has come up with another surprise, inviting consumers to enjoy its drinks in a handy 250ml bottle. The new package is smaller in size, modern and elegant. As usual, the tea will have the same great taste, but also 30 per cent less sugar, and therefore calories, thanks to being sweetened naturally by the stevia plant. The Nestea thus continues to innovate, not only in taste but also the appearance. The new special edition packs are available in all stores in classic flavours of lemon and peach.
Automaker Hyundai has begun operation of the first plant of new technology cars with hydrogen fuel cells. First off the assembly line was a proudly whitewashed Hyundai ix35. Hyundai is the first industry operating unit of mass production with the new technology, which offers market cars with zero emissions! At a special event held on the occasion, vice president of Hyundai Eok Jo Kim said: “With the ix35 Fuel Cell, Hyundai has ushered in the lead for a future without pollutants. The new model is the most eco-friendly car ever built and shows that fuel cell technology is not an impossible dream anymore.” Hyundai expects to get 1,000 of the cars into circulation, mostly in European cities by 2015. In January the ix35 Fuel Cell was honoured with an award during FuturAuto Motor Show in Brussels.
A new vision for eye make-up Hypnôse Palette is Lancôme’s new vision for eye make-up. In eight new palettes, Hypnôse Palette are revolutionising the use of wet products and are extremely bright, in addition to offering excellent coverage and duration. The four shades and eyeliner in each of the pallets can be used to create three gorgeous looks in five easy steps, achieving professional results even if you’re new to eye make-up. Choose between: Doll Eyes: cool, natural tones for an effortless look. Star Eyes: elegant, harmonious shades for a sophisticated look. Drama Eyes: intense smoky shades for a spectacular look. SUNDAY MAIL• April 14, 2013
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28 A MINUTE WITH...
Kyriacos Andreou (Bboy Kyri) Professional Dancer and Coach of Network Cartoon Crew, winners of Pancyprian break-dance competition boty Cyprus 2013 along with Marios Thoupis (both members of Looney Tunes crew)
Dream house: rural retreat or urban dwelling? Where would it be, what would it be like and why?
Rome
Where do you live? In an apartment in Nicosia with a childhood friend, from where I study business administration at University of Cyprus
Best childhood memory? The fi rst time I saw someone breakdancing on the internet and then trying out dancing moves with my friends. I’ll never forget the excitement and happiness I felt. I thought I wanted to learn that dance more than anything in the world.
Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish? My parents own a restaurant Kerkyra in Oroklini so I usually go there. My favourite dish would be barbecue ribs with extra sauce and chips . I absolutely love it
hours of dancing before I had something to eat. Usually I have a croissant from the bakery.
Would you class yourself as a day or night person? What’s your idea of the perfect night/day out? I would say it depends on the occasion. I like going out during the day with my friends but also going clubbing and dancing the night away. Perfect day I would say I wake up in the morning and go on a small trip or walk down town meet new people and at night time go dance at a club with my friends and some really nice music .
and pizza you can fi nd anywhere and you can’t have enough of the ice cream. What is more I went to practise with a dance crew and I loved op it - it opened my eyes to the level of dancing in Cyprus.
To learn from the master: Michael Jackson
Best book ever read? What’s your dream trip?
The Da Vinci Code. It made me e realise that there is a lot we don’t know about.
A trip around the world to experience as much as possible. The more you experience exp with our own eyes and body the more I feel I would be able to express with my da dancing.
Favourite film of all time? What food would you really turn your nose up to? I don’t like snails I tried them once when I was urged by my grandma but thought they weren’t all that great and I’ll never try them again. But I always try new stuff
What did you have for breakfast? Nothing. I always sleep late cause of uni and dancing and when I wake up I’m usually in a rush. Today I did 3
Battle of the year(boty) Chris Brown own gest is in it and its all about the biggest competition in breakdance.
What music are you listening to in the car at the moment?
Best holiday ever taken? A trip to Italy. I went to visit some me relatives and I went to Milan,, d Venice, up the mountains and e Rome. I absolutely loved the Italians, their language and culture but most of all I loved theirr sta food. They make the best pasta
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What is always in your fridge? W Orange juice DDi Dinner nner eerr ddate: aatte: Or OOs scaar W Wi ilde Oscar Wilde
My dream house would be on a hill near the sea and it would have a music studio and a huge dance hall where I could practise or make events so everybody can come and dance. I could dance and listen to my music all day and night cause dancing is what moves me in life and a house that is truly mine you would be allowed to dance anywhere. It would be near the sea so I could go swimming all the time and go running and exercise.
If you could pick anyone at all (alive or dead) to go out for the evening with, who would it be? Michael Jackson! Tell me how to moonwalk!!!
If the world is ending in 24 hours what would you do? Meet my family. Eat my favourite dishes. Stay in and dance until the end. It would be my last dream coming true.
What is your greatest fear? Me not being able to dance .
Tell me a joke… Why do men chase women they have no intention of marrying? For the same reason dogs chase cars they have no intention of driving
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Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera Local variety show, with entertainment options, cookery tips and more.
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Kaftis Piperies (rpt) Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.
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Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Megastructures
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Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Strivein Dia Tou Arravonos (rpt) Akros Oikogeneiakon (rpt) Fila To Vatraho Sou (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Panselinos (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Ta Koritsia Tou Baba (rpt) Oneiropagida (rpt) Lefta Sto Lepto Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt)
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Tin Patisa (rpt) Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) Laikes Paraskeves
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News Sports News Vradi Me Ton Petro Kostopoulo Horis Oria (rpt) Angigma Zois (rpt) News Deal (rpt)
Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Eheis Meson Yia Sena News Dr Cook New Greek cookey show.
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Sto Para Pente News Klemmena Oneira Piso Sto Spiti FILM: Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
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A low-rent gigolo tries to raise the money for legal fees when his friend and former manager gets into trouble in Amsterdam. Comedy sequel, starring Rob Schneider. 2005.
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Sitcom chronicling the domestic discord and disasters of middleaged couple.
Greek music show.
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Epomeni Mera (rpt) Master Chef (rpt) Greek competitive cooking reality show, open to amateur and home chefs.
With News at 18.00.
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Top Gear Seventeenth season. Episode 2: The trio travel to Italy to test high-performance hatchbacks.Also, petrolhead comedian Ross Noble is in the Reasonably Priced Car and the McLaren MP412C supercar comes under review.
FILM: Night Falls On Manhattan A rookie attorney is put in charge of the prosecution of a drugs lord who killed the lawyer’s father. Thriller, starring Andy Garcia. 1997. With News at 23.30.
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A look ahead to the tournament that will be staged in Brazil, which has already seen the qualification process begin in Africa, Asia and South America.
This ambitious account on the life of France’s best known literary rebel, George Sand as she settled in the country after a tumultuous life in Paris. Drama, starring. Raphaël Personnaz. 2010. Part 2 of 2.
News Patates 8 Local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.
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The making of the greatest structures and machines ever created.
Local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.
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Euronews Kids’ TV FIFA World Cup Magazine 2014
Amateur chefs each stage a dinner party to find who will be crowned the winning host.
Apo Mera Se Mera Entehnos
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Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora Proino Mou (rpt)
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Anna Paola (rpt) Protoselido Eleni
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Variety show featuring entertainment as well as segments on cooking, health, astrology, and more. Hosted by well-known presenter Eleni Menegaki.
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Vasiliki (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To’ Xeres News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Anna Paola Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites News Aspra Balonia Stin Igeia Mas
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Fotis Maria Live Mila Discussions about various issues based on a woman’s life.
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Exelixeis Stin Showbiz FILM: Nights In Rodanthe A doctor who is travelling to see his estranged son sparks with an unhappily married woman at a North Carolina inn. Romantic drama, starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane. 2008.
Greek variety show, with well-known guests pretending to have a good time for the benefit of You At Home.
News Dekati Entoli (rpt) Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mona Mia Fora (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)
Kid’s TV Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of I Kouzina Me Ti Dina (rpt) Mila (rpt) Berdema (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kids’ TV Berdema
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Magikos Kosmos Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Sto Mati Tou Kiklona (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models Kouzina Me Apopsi Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Pacific Blue With News at 18.30.
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News Sports Time O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: Odd Girl Out A tiff between best friends at high school sparks a cycle of bullying which grows increasingly vicious leading to emotional problems. Teen drama, starring Alexa Vega. 2005.
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FILM: A Lover’s Revenge Story about a female radio psychologist whose on-air advice makes her the target of a deranged man. Thriller, starring Alexandra Paul. 2005.
FILM: Fists Of Fury A kung-fu fighter avenges his relatives, slain by their gangster boss. Martial Arts action, starring James Tien and Bruce Lee 1971.
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FILM: K- Pax A mysterious mental patient, convinces both staff and fellow patients that he comes from a utopian plane. Drama, starring Kevin Spacey. 2001.
Raising Hope (Fox Life, 22.40)
01:15 Silk 02:05 The Weakest Link 02:50 EastEnders 03:20 Doctors 03:50 The Diamond Queen 04:45 Ideal 05:15 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff 05:45 My Family 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Tweenies 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Tweenies 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Me Too! 09:25 My Family 09:55 Keeping Up Appearances 10:25 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:40 Doctors 12:10 Hustle 13:05 The Diamond Queen 13:55 My Family 14:25 Mutual Friends 15:15 Keeping Up Appearances 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors 16:45 The Weakest Link 17:30 The Diamond Queen 18:20 Life On Air: David Attenborough’s 50 Years In Television 19:10 Walk on the Wild Side 19:40 Doctors 20:10 Casualty 21:00 My Family 21:30 2 Point 4 Children 22:00 The Diamond Queen 22:55 Lead Balloon 23:25 Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show 23:50 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 00:35 Mad Dogs
07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 The Aviators 08:40 Chasing Classic Cars 09:30 Prehistoric 10:15 Science Of The Movies 11:05 Deadliest Catch 11:50 Time Warp 12:15 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 13:05 Mighty Mississippi 13:50 Cafe Racer 14:35 Wild Fisher-
man: Mozambique 15:25 Prehistoric 16:10 Mythbusters 17:00 Unchained Reaction 17:50 Meteorite Men 18:40 Cafe Racer 19:30 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 20:20 Science Of The Movies 21:10 Prehistoric 22:00 Unchained Reaction 22:50 Meteorite Men 23:40 Deadliest Catch 00:30 Science Of The Movies 01:15 Mythbusters 02:05 Unchained Reaction 02:50 Meteorite Men 03:40 Cafe Racer 04:30 Prehistoric 05:20 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 06:10 Science Of The Movies
09:30 All Sports: Watts 10:30 Snooker: Haikou World Open 12:00 Gymnastics: European Championship 14:45 Athletics: Greene Light 15:00 Fitness: The Box 15:15 Snooker: China Open Beijing 16:30 Gymnastics: European Championship Russia 18:30 All Sports: Eurosport Top 10 19:00 All Sports: G Wars 21:00 Boxing: Bigger’s Better Heavy Weight Contest 00:00 Strongest Man: Champions League Lapland 01:00 All Sports: Watts
05:40 Desperate Housewives 7 06:25 Bones 07:10 Raising Hope 2 07:35 Scrubs 9 08:00 Grey’s Anatomy 8 08:50 Anthony Bourdain: No Reserva-
tions 7 09:40 Desperate Housewives 7 10:25 Bones 11:10 Raising Hope 11:35 Scrubs 9 12:00 Happy Endings 3 12:25 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 23 12:50 Last Man Standing 2 13:15 The Neighbors 13:40 Grey’s Anatomy 8 14:25 Jamie’s Ministry Of Food 15:20 Desperate Housewives 7 16:05 Bones 16:50 Raising Hope 17:15 Scrubs 9 17:40 Grey’s Anatomy 8 18:30 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple 19:25 Desperate Housewives 7 20:10 Bones 21:00 Happy Endings 3 21:25 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 23 2 21:50 Last Man Standing 22:15 The Neighbors 22:40 Raising Hope 2 23:05 Scrubs 9 23:30 Happy Endings 3 23:55 Don’t Trust The B... In Apartment 23 2 00:20 Last Man Standing 00:45 The Neighbors 01:10 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple 02:00 Desperate Housewives 7 02:45 Raising Hope 2 03:10 Scrubs 9 03:35 Surviving Suburbia 04:00 Grey’s Anatomy 8 04:50 Make It Or Break It 3
07:30 Love Affair 09:30 Red Riding Hood 11:15 Underbelly Files - Infiltration 13:00 Poseidon 15:00 Saint John Of Las Vegas 16:30 Neverending Story Ii: The Next Chapter 18:15 80 Minutes 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Prey 23:00 Whistleblower 01:00 Hustler TV 02:45 Corporate Affairs 04:30 Cash 06:30 LTV Sports News (E)
05:05:10 The Grey 07:05 In Her Shoes 09:20 The Artist 11:10 Crimson Tide 13:05 Beginners 14:50 X-Men: First Class 17:10 Action Zone 17:45 Albert Nobbs 19:50 Bridesmaids 22:00 The Double 23:45 We Bought A Zoo 01:55 Conan The Barbarian 03:50 Super 8
07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 2011 World’s Strongest Man 17:30 Planet Speed 18:00 Barclays Premier League World 18:30 Nba Action 19:00 La Liga World 19:30 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 23:30 Barclays Premier League Preview 00:00 La Liga Show 2012-13 00:30 2011 World’s Strongest Man 01:00 Barclays Premier League Review 02:00 La Liga Review 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13
07:15 Privileged 08:00 Friends 08:25 Top Boy 09:20 Luck 10:20 One Tree Hill 11:15 Strike Back 13:00 Gossip Girl 13:45 Privileged 14:30 Top Boy 15:25 Luck 16:15 Big Bang Theory 16:40 2 Broke Girls 17:25 Mentalist 18:10 C.S.I. Miami 19:00 Gossip Girl 19:45 Pan Am 20:30 Friends 21:00 Necessary Roughness 22:30 Closer 23:15 Fringe 00:05 Sherlock
ants At Milwaukee Brewers 16:00 European Tour Real Seguros Open De Espana Rd. 2 19:30 PRE GAME(E) 20:15 CHAMPIONSHIP 2012-13: APOLLON VS E.N.P (E) 22:15 POST GAME (E) 23:00 A DIVISION CYPRUS SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP 23:15 European Tour Real Seguros Open De Espana Rd. 2
Holmes: A Game Of Shadows 02:20 My Afternoons With Margueritte 03:45 Big Bang Theory 04:10 2 Broke Girls 05:00 Mentalist 05:45 C.S.I. Miami 06:30 Gossip Girl
19:10 The Hunting Party 21:00 Analyze That 22:40 Cine News 23:00 Paranormal Activity 3 00:30 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone 03:20 Outrage
08:15 Beautiful (2009) 10:00 Above The Law 12:00 Goodbye Girl (1977) 14:00 Space Cowboys 16:15 Safe Passage 18:00 Poltergay 20:00 Fathers And Sons 22:00 Easier With Practice 00:05 Daring! TV 04:05 Carnage 05:45 Art Of Travel
18:55 Take Shelter 21:00 Better Life 22:45 Room In Rome 00:40 Dirty Girl 02:15 Take Me Home Tonight 03:55 Cine News 04:25 The Names Of Love
06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV GreekLips 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 16:00 MTV Crash Canyon 17:00 MTV Pranked 18:00 MTV GreekLips 19:00 Only Hits 20:00 MTV Catfish 21:00 MTV Hitlist Hellas 22:00 MTV World Stage 23:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 01:00 MTV Geordie Shore 02:00 Only Hits
02:30 NHL: New Jersey Devils At Philadelphia Flyers 05:00 TBA 06:00 Sports Unlimited 07:00 School Of Golf - Chapter 7: Better Wedge Play 07:30 Feherty - Roger Maltbie 08:30 Academy - Bernhard Langer: Driver 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Playing Lessons - Ian Poulter 10:00 Golf Central International 10:30 NHL: New Jersey Devils At Philadelphia Flyers 13:00 MLB: San Francisco Gi-
07:00 The Angry Hills 08:50 The Great Lie 10:40 Bad Day At Black Rock 12:00 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 13:45 Texas Carnival 15:00 White Heat 16:55 Somebody Up There Likes Me 19:00 Grand Prix 22:00 Splendor In The Grass 23:50 Many Rivers To Cross 01:20 Bachelor In Paradise 02:05 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 04:40 East Side, West Side
05:45 Machine Gun Preacher 07:55 Cine News 10:30 Nicostratos: Le Pelican 12:10 Mad On Novacinema 12:50 The Way 15:00 Absence Of Malice 19:10 Darling Companion 21:00 Ncis 22:00 In Darkness 00:30 The Conspirator 02:35 Apollo 18 04:05 House Of The Rising Sun
By Preston Wilder
The Prey (LTV, 21.00) It’s all getting a bit French! A French gangster movie on Pick of the Day last night - and another French thriller tonight, its trailer (in French) asking “Who is the hunter? Who will be the prey?” which is all quite exciting. Albert Dupontel is the hunter (or possibly the prey), doing time for bank robbery but breaking out when his ex-cellmate - now a free man - turns out to be a serial killer with designs on Albert’s family; also at stake is the loot from the bank, which Albert managed to hide before being arrested - and fans of classic Hollywood may discern a touch of The Night of the Hunter but this is something else again, “a testosterone-packed thriller full of breathtaking stunts,
The Prey
convoluted plot lines, interesting characters and unexpected shock moments,” to quote a breathless fan at the Internet Movie Database. And you thought the French just made films where people smoked Gauloises and talked endlessly. Made in 2011.
In Darkness (Novacinema1, 22.00) Phew, that was close: fans of traditional European art cinema may be wondering what’s happened to their favourite continent, with all these gangsters and serial killers - but this is the kind of European film we know and love (or just know), a sober-minded drama for the middlebrow audience. It’s a Holocaust movie, the ultimate ‘serious’ genre (inevitably, it was nomi-
nated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar), telling the Schindler’s List-ish tale of Leopold Socha, a sewage inspector in the Polish city of Lvov who helped a group of Jews by hiding them in the sewers. As in Schindler, the point is a rather unworthy man becoming a hero despite himself; as in Diary of Anne Frank, the Jews bicker endlessly but remain (of course) sympathetic - and you also have a horrible setting (the sewers) for those close-ups of rats and so on. Wellmade, engrossing and probably unnecessary, with a gratuitous interlude in a concentration camp so we can all shake our heads at those eeeevil Nazis (they’d shoot a man for not wearing his cap!). Old-school Euro-cinema still lives. Mostly in Polish; made in 2011.
SundayMail Mercy The foibles of male vanity exposed as a man falls in love
That’s My Boy Adam Sandler bonds with son he fathered as a teenager
Tuesday, LTV3, 8pm
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Magic Mike Toned male flesh in this tale of ageing male strippers Sunday, NovaCinema1, 10pm
Complete guide to what’s on the small screen this week, including our selections and satellite choices
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Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera Early morning entertainment magazine featuring segments on cooking, fashion, lifestyle issues and more.
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Kaftes Piperies (rpt) Cookery show.
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Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.
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Apo Mera Se Mera Entehnos Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies Paizoume Kypriaka Local game show, asking questions having to do with the Cypriot dialect.
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News Vimata Stin Ammo Friends (rpt)
Code Europe Local investigative show.
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News Repeats
Amateur chefs each stage a dinner party to find who will be crowned the winning host.
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Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Megastructures
NRG Zone FILM: The School Of Rock
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Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Ellas To Magaleio Sou (rpt) Vodka Portokali (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Tis Agapis Mahairia (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri (rpt) Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Ta Koritsia Tis Haras (rpt) Oneiropagida (rpt) Lefta Sto Lepto Yia Tin Agapi Sou (rpt)
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Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Grey’s Anatomy US medical drama.
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News Sports News Radio Arvila
Greek sports show.
Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Retire Epomeni Mera (rpt) Master Chef (rpt) Greek competitive cooking reality show, open to amateur and home chefs.
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Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Eheis Meson Yia Sena News Erastis Ditikon Proastion (rpt) Sto Para Pente News Klemmena Oneira Me Ta Panetelonia Kato The Vampire Diaries
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News ‘Til Death Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora Proino Mou (rpt)
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Horis Oria (rpt) Angigma Psihis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)
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Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Epta Ouranoi Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To’ Xeres News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Anna Paola Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) News Aspra Balonia 60 Lepta
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News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mono Mia Fora (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)
Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of I Kouzina Me Ti Dina Mila (rpt) Berdema (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kid’s TV Berdema Fotis - Maria Live Mila Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Cold Case Fourth season. ‘Stalker’. A suicidal killer takes the entire team hostage while they investigate a 2006 murder case and the detectives must act quickly to avoid a tragedy. Season finale.
CSI: NY Fifth season. ‘Prey’. When a vocal coach is murdered in a theatre, a string of bizarre evidence inspired by previous cases leads Stella to believe someone is playing the CSIs. Flack checks the victim’s criminal record and discovers he had been in trouble for stalking, turning the spotlight on one of the women he harassed.
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Supernatural drama, about a young girl who becomes the object of passion for two vampire brothers - one good, one evil - both at war for her soul.
With News at 18.00.
Brothers & Sisters (rpt) Fourth season. ‘A Bone to Pick’. Kitty is advised to undergo a risky bone marrow transplant after her collapse at the beach, and asks Sarah to bring her a box of love letters from an old relationship that she wants to keep secret. Meanwhile, Kevin discovers Robert has been going to visit a woman and confronts him, but is mortified when he finds out the reason behind their meetings.
American comedy about the lives and loves of six New Yorkers.
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An idle guitarist spies a much-needed moneymaking opportunity, and poses as a supply teacher - only to end up creating a new rock band. Comedy, starring Jack Black and Joan Cusack. 2003.
Local period drama, based on true events.
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Euronews Kids’ TV Kati Psinetai (rpt)
The making of the greatest structures and machines ever created.
Local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.
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Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) LTV Sports News Star News
Magikos Kosmos Akti Oneiron (rpt) Ston Asterismo Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Sto Mati Tou Kiklona (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models Kouzina Me Apopsi (rpt) Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron News So Mati Tou Kiklona News Sports Time Capital Sports FILM: Annapolis A trainee cadet at a naval academy clashes with a senior officer and ends up having to fight him in a boxing match. Drama, starring James Franco. 2006.
Supernatural Sixth season. ‘Mannequin 3: The Reckoning’. The brothers investigate mannequins that have come to life and discover an ill-fated practical joke could be behind the bizarre events. Dean rushes away when he gets a call from Lisa’s son Ben, leaving Sam to take care of things alone.
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FILM: Lasko: Death Train A former soldierturned-priest tries to prevent a ruthless gang from unleashing a deadly virus. German action thriller, starring Jef Bayonne. 2001
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FILM: No Mercy Two cops pose as hitmen for an undercover sting, but when one ends up dead the other heads for New Orleans to catch the killer. Action thriller, with Richard Gere. 1986.
Safe House (Novacinema1, 19.55)
01:30 Only Fools and Horses 02:00 South Riding 02:55 Little Britain Christmas Special 2006 03:25 The Weakest Link 04:10 Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show 04:35 Only Fools and Horses 05:05 South Riding 05:55 Little Britain Christmas Special 2006 06:30 As Time Goes By 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Tweenies 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Tweenies 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 My Family 10:00 Lead Balloon 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Casualty 13:05 Himalaya With Michael Palin 13:55 My Family 14:25 The Weakest Link 15:10 Lead Balloon 15:40 EastEnders 16:10 Doctors 16:40 Casualty 17:30 Incredible Journeys With Steve Leonard 18:20 The Diamond Queen 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:15 The Weakest Link 21:00 My Family 21:30 Only Fools and Horses 22:00 Waking The Dead 22:50 Ideal 23:20 Paradox 00:15 South Riding
07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 Man, Woman, Wild 08:40 Way Of Life 09:30 The History Of Singapore 10:15 Science Of The Movies
11:05 Deadliest Catch 11:50 Time Warp 12:15 Sons Of Guns 13:05 Prophets Of Science Fiction 13:50 Chasing Classic Cars 14:15 Cafe Racer 14:35 1000 Places To See Before You Die 15:25 The History Of Singapore 16:10 Mythbusters 17:00 Mega World 17:50 Extreme Engineering 18:40 Cafe Racer 19:30 1000 Places To See Before You Die 20:20 Science Of The Movies 21:10 The History Of Singapore 22:00 Mega World 22:50 Extreme Engineering 23:40 Deadliest Catch 00:30 Science Of The Movies 01:15 Mythbusters 02:05 Mega World 02:50 Extreme Engineering 03:40 Cafe Racer 04:30 The History Of Singapore 05:20 1000 Places To See Before You Die 06:10 Science Of The Movies
09:30 Fitness: The Box 09:45 All Sports: Watts 10:00 Weightlifting: European Championship Albania 12:00 Snooker: Masters In London United Kingdom 14:00 All Sports: Watts 15:00 Weightlifting: European Championship Albania 17:00 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 19:00 All Sports: G Wars 21:00 All Sports: Watts 22:00 Boxing 00:00 Snooker: Masters In London United Kingdom 01:15 Car Racing: Lamporghini Super Trofeo Italy 01:45 Motorsports:
Motorsports Weekend Magazine 02:00 All Sports: Watts
05:40 Desperate Housewives 7 06:25 Bones 3 07:10 Raising Hope 07:35 Scrubs 9 08:00 Grey’s Anatomy 08:45 Jamie’s Ministry Of Food 09:40 Desperate Housewives 7 10:25 Bones 3 11:10 Raising Hope 2 11:35 Scrubs 9 12:00 Once Upon A Time 2 12:50 Revenge 13:40 Grey’s Anatomy 14:30 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple 15:20 Desperate Housewives 7 16:05 Bones 3 16:50 Raising Hope 2 17:15 Scrubs 9 17:40 Grey’s Anatomy 18:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 19:20 Desperate Housewives 7 20:10 Bones 21:00 Once Upon A Time 2 21:50 Revenge 2 22:40 Raising Hope 2 23:05 Scrubs 9 23:30 Once Upon A Time 2 00:20 Revenge 2 01:10 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 02:00 Desperate Housewives 7 02:45 Raising Hope 2 03:10 Scrubs 9 03:35 Surviving Suburbia 04:00 Grey’s Anatomy 04:50 Make It Or Break It
07:30 Dangerous Attraction 09:00 Kick-Ass 11:00 Trouble With Dee Dee 12:30 Book Of Eli 14:30 Mr. Troop Mom 16:00 Skellig 17:45 Dark City 19:30 Action Zone 20:00
LTV Sports News 21:00 Mercy 23:00 Eva 00:55 Hustler TV 02:35 Freeway Killer 04:10 Mystic River 06:30 LTV Sports News (E)
07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 19:00 Nba 2012-13 21:00 Barclays Premier League Review 22:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 00:00 Planet Speed 00:30 Best Premier League Games 01:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League Review 04:00 Ironman 05:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13
07:15 Friends 07:40 Necessary Roughness 09:30 Big Bang Theory 10:00 2 Broke Girls 10:50 Mentalist 11:35 C.S.I. Miami 12:30 Pan Am 13:15 Closer 14:00
Necessary Roughness 15:50 Big Bang Theory 16:15 Eastbound & Down 16:45 2 Broke Girls 17:30 Hawaii Five-0 19:00 Closer 19:45 One Tree Hill 20:30 Two And A Half Men 21:00 Strike Back 22:40 Ncis: Los Angeles 23:25 Underbelly Nz: Land Of The Long Green Cloud 00:20 Lesbian Vampire Killers 01:50 Goodbye Girl (1977) 03:40 Eastbound & Down 04:10 2 Broke Girls 05:00 Hawaii Five-0 06:30 Closer
07:35 Live Wire 09:05 ScoobyDoo 10:35 Fair Game 12:30 General’s Daughter 14:30 Bad Boys 16:30 Alaska 18:25 Magic Men 20:00 Whistleblower 22:00 Bleeding 23:30 Action Zone (E) 00:05 Daring! TV 04:05 Sympathy For Delicious 06:00 Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
05:10 The Skin I Live In 07:10 Ever After: A Cinderella Story 09:15 Sister 11:05 The Way 13:15 Flicka 3: Best Friends 15:00 Never Been Kissed 16:50 Cine News 17:30 The Iron Lady 19:20 Films & Stars 19:55 Safe House 22:00 Wanderlust 23:50 The Following 00:50 Opal Dream 02:20 Cine News 03:10 Love To Kill 04:45 Witchville
05:30 The Brave One 07:35 Good Neighbor Sam 09:50 Cine News 10:50 Intolerable Cruelty 12:30 $5 A Day 14:10 The Perfect Storm 16:20 Shallow Hal 18:15 Thor 20:15 Fun With Dick And Jane 22:00 Captain America: The First Avenger 00:10 Shame 01:55 Mad Dog And Glory 03:35 Cine News 04:15 Coriolanus
18:35 The Talented Mr. Ripley 21:00 Extreme Measures 23:05 Ncis 23:55 Cine News 01:00 Adult Zone
18:45 Anonymous 21:00 Manolete 22:40 A Distant Neighborhood 00:20 Friends With Benefits
02:00 TBA 05:00 America’s Game: 1976 Oakland Raiders 06:00 America’s Game: 1977 Dallas Cowboys 07:00 Big Break Greenbrier - Green With Envy 08:00 Big Break Greenbrier - Last Resort 09:00 Golf Central International LIVE From The Masters 10:00 The Masters Final Rd. Augusta, GA 15:00 TBA 18:00 The Masters Final Rd. Augusta, GA 23:00
Punk Payback With Bas Rutten To G-String Or Not To G-String 23:30 Best Stuff On Wheels 2
06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV GreekLips 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 16:00 MTV Crash Canyon 17:00 MTV Pranked 18:00 MTV GreekLips 19:00 Only Hits 20:00 MTV Mission Lydia 20:30 MTV Everyday Girls 21:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards Pre-Show 22:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 00:00 MTV Jersey Shore 01:00 Only Hits
07:00 Adam’s Rib 08:45 Cass Timberlane 10:45 The Rounders 12:10 The Younger Brothers 13:30 Tribute to a Bad Man 15:05 Hot Millions 16:50 Travels With My Aunt 18:35 Stay Away, Joe 20:20 Light In The Piazza 22:00 The Outfit 23:50 Butterfield 8 01:40 Tribute to a Bad Man 03:20 The Sandpiper 05:15 Stay Away, Joe
By Preston Wilder
The Whistleblower (LTV3, 20.00) “You’re not safe. Accidents do happen,” our heroine is warned. “You’d do better to shut your mouth,” someone tells her - but she won’t shut her mouth, that’s the problem: she’s uncovered a sex-trafficking scandal, and she’s doing her best to expose it. “I’m just doing my job,” is the way she sees it - and ‘she’ is based on a real person, a Nebraska cop called Kathryn Bolkovac who worked as a UN peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and was shocked by what she found there, not just corruption but also a prostitution network catering to UN officers and diplomats. Rachel Weisz plays her, flanked by two other British heavyweights (Vanessa Redgrave and Benedict Cumberbatch) plus an Italian
heavyweight (Monica Bellucci) - a fine cast for a littleknown movie, its obscurity possibly explained by the fact that it sounds a bit too virtuous. Do-gooders are admirable, but seldom entertaining. Made in 2011.
Wanderlust (Novacinema1, 22.00) George (Paul Rudd) and wife Linda (Jennifer Aniston) go on the road, having lost their jobs and trendy Manhattan lifestyle. They stop at a motel, where a lady shows our weary heroes to their room. “If you’re George ... then where’s John, Paul and Ringo?” quips this lady - then waits, smiling meaningfully, as if expecting a response to her ludicrous witticism. That kind of detail is the best part of Wanderlust, a patchy
Wanderlust
comedy where the main plot peters out but there’s always something fun on the fringes, minor characters turning out to be zany, bizarre and/or unreasonably annoying. Paul and Linda end up in Elysium, a hippy commune they find along the way, signposted by a nudist (“I’m a nudist,” he explains unnecessarily; “Oh yes, we noticed your penis earlier,” replies George politely). Some of the jokes are witty, like the hippies showing approval by rubbing their fingers (it’s “less aggressive than clapping”); some are over-the-top, like the infamous ‘mirror scene’ (you’ll know it when you see it); the result is amusing, with the two stars in good form - and a minor character usually comes to the rescue when things go flat. Made in 2012.
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Ego Ki Esi Local comedy series.
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Local Sketch News Savvato Ki Apovrado
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News Tete-A-Tete (rpt) Savvato Ki Apovrado (rpt) Me Kali Parea (rpt) Repeats
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06.00 06.30 07.00 07.30 08.00 08.50 09.40 10.30 11.20 12.10 13.50 16.50 18.00 18.10 18.30 20.20 21.20 23.00
Album Show News In English & Turkish (rpt) Euronews
Proini Enimerosi Dada Yia Oles Tis Douleies (rpt) To Pio Glyko Mou Psema (rpt) Men Kai Den (rpt) Paris Kai Eleni (rpt) Steps (rpt) Santa Yiolanta (rpt) O Tzitzigas Kai O Mermigas (rpt) Tihi Vouno (rpt) Laikes Paraskeves (rpt) Your Face Sounds Familiar (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Ekeino To Kalokairi To Kafe Tis Haras News Exairetika Afieromeno FILM: Indianna Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull The heroic archaeologist races against a sinister Russian scientist to recover a mysterious artefact of untold power. Action adventure, starring Harrison Ford. 2008.
Lost Fifth season. ‘Lighthouse’. Jacob sends Hurley on a mission across the island, but Jack must accompany him. In Los Angeles, Jack’s difficult relationship with his son is revealed. Meanwhile, Jin discovers that Claire thinks the people at the temple stole her son.
Variety show, with wellknown guests pretending to have a good time for the benefit of You At Home.
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News In English New In Turkish NRG Zone Weekend X-Factor USA (rpt) American version of the talent contest, in which solo singers and groups compete to win a recording contract by impressing judges Simon Cowell, Nicole Scherzinger, Paula Abdul and LA Reid.
Local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.
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FILM: Hannah Montana: The Movie As the popularity of ‘Hannah Montana’ hits new heights, Miley escapes from under the spotlight with a visit to her hometown of Tennessee, where she learns there is more to life than performing. Teen drama, starring Miley and Billy Ray. 2009.
Vivian Kanari hosts new show featuring a mix of news, information and live music.
16.30
Kids’ TV Shown till 12.30, then repeated till midafternoon.
Local drama series.
ANTENNA
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News Sports News Vradi Me Ton Petro Kotsopoulo Blackout Mavros Okeanos (rpt) News Eftyhismenes Meres (rpt)
MEGA 06.00 07.00 09.40 10.20 11.00
12.00 13.00 15.00 17.00
Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Proino Mou (rpt) Kid’s TV Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Chuck
SIGMA 08.30
Feature-length animated adventure, dubbed in Greek.
10.00
A computer geek finds himself in charge of the government’s most sensitive data.
14.00
Oi Vasiliades (rpt) Pername Kala (rpt) Mousiko Kouti Live (rpt) Epta Thanasimes Petheres (rpt)
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Me Ta Pantelonia Kato (rpt) Greek comedy series.
20.15 21.15 22.20 00.20 00.30
News Anonymous Mousiko Kouti - Live News Kapse To Senario Greek edition of the improvised comedy show, in which guests create spontaneous routines and sketches based on suggestions from the studio audience.
01.00 01.40 02.20 03.20 04.00 04.30 05.00 05.40
Kleise Ta Matia (rpt) Epafi (rpt) Eheis Meson (rpt) Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes (rpt) Patir, Yios Kai Pnevma (rpt) Oi Afthairetoi Palirroia (rpt) Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou
Mes Stin Kala Hara
Local comedy series.
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Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Fotis - Maria Best Of Mila (rpt) Stin Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt) Greek FILM: Enas Trellos Tha Mas Sosei Vathi Kokkino Exelixeis Sti Showbiz FILM: Tricks Of A Woman
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LTV Sports News Star News Repeats
Greek FILM: Afti Pou Den Ligise Telemarketing Greek FILM: To Katharma The Third Reich News FILM: The Fighting Temptations A man learns he has been left a considerable inheritance - but he must first ensure a choir wins a competition. Musical comedy, with Cuba Gooding Jr. 2003. With News at 17.30.
18.00 18.55 19.05 19.55 20.05 21.00
Remington Steele News Pacfic Blue News O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: Steel Magnolias Drama, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts. 1989. See Pick Of The Day.
Cold Case (rpt) Crime drama, starring Kathryn Morris as Lilly Rush, a detective working for the Philadelphia police department, who investigates unsolved homicide cases that happened years before.
Las Vegas (rpt)
News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Mes Stin Kali Hara (rpt) Magazino (rpt)
Kids’ TV LTV Sports News (rpt) Star News Diet.. Please (rpt)
A fashion photographer bets a rival that he can transform an ugly duckling into a beauty. Drama, starring Vincent Pastore. 2008.
Drama series focusing on a security team at a large casino.
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Comedy. 1988.
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News Al Tsantiri News (rpt) Live satirical comedy show that features Lakis Lazopoulos giving ‘his version’ of the news.
23.00
07.50 12.05
Weekend variety show, informative and entertaining.
talk-show that deals with human interest stories such as reuniting people, fulfilling dreams and connecting individuals who want to correct past mistakes.
With News at 18.00.
Barbie In The Pink Shoes
PLUS TV
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FILM: Primal Doubt A married romance novelist agrees to meet a man she met on a dating website, but finds herself caught up in a murder case. Thriller, starring Janine Turner. 2007.
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FILM: Barb Wire A leather-clad bounty hunter becomes a fugitive in a fascist future America after helping rebels fight the government. Sci-fi thriller, starring Pamela Anderson. 1996
In Time (Novacinema1, 19.05)
01:20 Dara O’Briain Live From The Theatre Royal 02:15 The Weakest Link 03:00 Walk on the Wild Side 03:30 Doctors 04:00 Casualty 04:50 The Diamond Queen 05:40 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 06:30 My Family 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Tweenies 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Tweenies 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 The Weakest Link 10:15 My Family 10:45 Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show 11:10 Drop Zone 12:00 Incredible Journeys With Steve Leonard 12:50 2 Point 4 Children 13:20 My Family 13:50 After You’ve Gone 14:20 Walk on the Wild Side 14:50 Casualty 15:40 EastEnders 17:40 Walk on the Wild Side 18:10 My Family 18:40 Incredible Journeys With Steve Leonard 19:30 The Weakest Link 20:15 Doctor Who 21:00 Being Erica 21:45 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 22:30 Bedlam 23:15 Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle 23:40 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 00:15 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff 00:45 Doctor Who
07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 08:40 Mighty Mississippi 09:30 The History Of
Singapore 11:50 Time Warp 12:15 Unchained Reaction 13:05 Meteorite Men 13:50 Cafe Racer 14:40 Science Of The Movies 16:15 Mythbusters 17:00 Man, Woman, Wild 17:50 Risk Takers 18:40 Cafe Racer 19:30 Mega World 20:20 The Aviators 21:10 Unchained Reaction 22:00 Man, Woman, Wild 22:50 Risk Takers 23:40 River Monsters 00:30 Chasing Classic Cars 01:15 Man, Woman, Wild 02:05 Risk Takers 02:55 Cafe Racer 05:20 Chasing Classic Cars 06:10 The Aviators
09:30 Fitness: The Box 09:45 Snooker: World Championship Un. Kingdom 15:00 Gymnastics: European Championship 16:30 Snooker: World Championship Un. Kingdom 19:30 Football: Uefa Women’s Champions League 21:00 Snooker: World Championship Un. Kingdom 00:00 Equestrian Sports: Riders Club 00:15 Fight Sport: Superkombat 01:30 Snooker: World Championship Un. Kingdom
05:40 The Gates 06:30 Desperate Housewives 7 10:20 Raising Hope 2 11:10 Scrubs 9 12:00 Happy
Endings 3 12:25 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 23 2 12:50 Make It Or Break It 14:30 Grey’s Anatomy 15:20 Grey’s Anatomy 8 18:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 21:00 Once Upon A Time 2 21:50 Revenge 2 22:40 Modern Family 4 23:05 New Girl 2 23:30 Jane By Design 00:20 Bones 04:25 Raising Hope
07:30 Nine 09:30 Chain Of Fools 11:15 Monsters Vs. Aliens 13:00 Unknown (2011) 15:00 Battle Los Angeles 17:00 Pre-Game 18:00 A’ Division Cyprus Soccer Championship 2012-13 (Live) 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Private Benjamin 23:00 Paranormal Activity 00:35 Hustler TV 02:30 Last Days Of Disco 04:30 Machete 06:30 LTV Sports News (E)
07:00 Kids TV 13:15 Legion Of Super Heroes 13:40 Max Adventures 14:05 Barclays Premier League Preview 14:45 Ironman 15:45 Toyota Australian Football International 2012 16:15 Best Premier League Games 17:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 21:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 23:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 01:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 05:00 Best Clas-
sic Premier League Games
07:15 Pan Am 08:00 Friends 08:30 Big Bang Theory 09:00 2 Broke Girls 09:30 2 Broke Girls 10:00 Privileged 10:45 Strike Back 11:45 Mentalist 12:30 Hawaii Five-0 13:15 Top Boy 14:15 Necessary Roughness 15:00 Supernatural 00:05 Prey 02:00 80 Minutes 03:45 Action Zone 04:15 Closer
07:30 Scooby-Doo 09:00 Next Three Days 11:30 Up In The Air 13:30 Winning Season 15:30 Extract 17:15 Majestic 20:00 Somewhere 22:00 Whistleblower 00:05 Daring! TV 04:05 Corporate Affairs 06:00 Scanner Darkly
05:35 Encounter With Danger 07:05 Cine News 07:40 Amador 11:35 Cine News 12:00 Chicken With Plums 13:35 The Sitter 15:00 Ncis 16:50 Cine News 17:30 Flicka 3: Best Friends 19:05 In Time 22:00 That’s My Boy 00:05 Magic Mike 02:00 The Following Guilt 02:50 Sister 04:35 London
05:40 The Ghost And The Dark-
England 14:00 America’s Game: 1976 Oakland Raiders 15:00 European Tour Real Seguros Open De Espana Rd. 3 18:30 NHL: Nashville Predators At Chicago Blackhawks 21:00 MLB Player Poll 21:30 MLB On FOX: Washington Nationals At New York Mets
ness 07:30 Captain America: The First Avenger 09:40 Music Of The Heart 11:50 The Smurfs 15:40 Suddenly, Last Summer 17:40 Mad On Novacinema 18:20 Three On A Couch 20:15 Intolerable Cruelty 22:00 Gone Baby Gone 00:00 Passion Play 01:40 $5 A Day 03:20 There Will Be Blood
05:10 Payback 06:50 Tt: Closer To The Edge 08:35 Cine News 08:50 Fast Five 11:00 War Horse 13:30 Extreme Measures 15:30 The Bourne Identity 17:30 Transporter 2 19:05 Margin Call 21:00 Loyfa Kai Parallagi: Sirines Sti Steria 23:00 The Hit List 00:40 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone 03:50 Colombiana
06:10 Wings Of The Dove 07:50 Oneireyomai Tous Filous Mou
09:45 The Stone Angel 11:40 Let’s Make Love 13:50 My Father The Hero 15:25 Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked 17:00 War Of The Buttons 21:00 The Three Musketeers 22:55 Sweet Home Alabama 00:50 Restoration 02:50 Manolete 04:20 Our Day Will Come
02:30 TBA 03:30 NHL: Nashville Predators At Chicago Blackhawks 06:00 Pinks All Out Norwalk 07:00 Golf Fitness - Rotation 07:30 Golf Fitness - Women 08:00 Feherty 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Playing Lessons - Fred Couples & Mark Wahlberg 10:00 Golf Central International 10:30 NHL: Nashville Predators At Chicago Blackhawks 13:00 Super Bowl Highlights: XIX: San Francisco V Miami 13:30 Super Bowl Highlights: XX: Chicago V New
06:00 Only Hits 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV World Stage 13:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 15:00 MTV Crash Canyon 16:00 MTV Mission Lydia 16:30 MTV Everyday Girls 17:00 MTV Movies & Stars 18:00 MTV Megadrive 18:30 MTV Slips 19:00 Only Hits 20:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 22:00 Only Hits 00:00 S7S Lockdown Top10 00:30 MTV Party Zone 04:00 Only Hits
07:00 The Clock 08:35 Mr. Skeffington 11:00 High Society 12:50 The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm 15:00 Mildred Pierce 16:50 East Side, West Side 18:35 The Strawberry Blonde 20:10 Elvis: That’s the Way It Is 22:00 Wild Rovers 00:15 Grand Prix 03:05 The Biggest Bundle Of Them All 04:50 Eye of the Devil
By Preston Wilder
Steel Magnolias (Capital, 21.00) Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Julia Roberts and Olympia Dukakis are magnolias - gracious, beautiful Southern flowers - but beware, for they’re made of steel beneath the feminine trappings. “Looks like two pigs fightin’ under a blanket,” quips sharptongued Olympia when a rival makes the mistake of dancing, a reminder that the tag-line described this smash-hit chick-flick as “The funniest movie ever to make you cry”; the crying comes later, with irrepressible Julia (Oscar-nominated) who gets married, has a child despite being diabetic and ... well, you’ll find out. The ladies sit around in Dolly’s beauty parlour, feudin’ and bickerin’ and gossipin’; “I don’t see movies ’cause
they’re trash, and they got nothin’ but naked people in ‘em!” says grumpy Shirley at one point - and an audience of middle-aged women who feel similarly about (most) movies took this one to their hearts, making it a huge hit. Manipulative, but not trash - and no naked people, sorry Julia fans. Made in 1989.
That’s My Boy (Novacinema1, 22.00) I have a confession: I don’t hate Adam Sandler films. I mean yes, they’re obviously mindless and aimed at your inner cretin - but they usually manage a couple of mind-bending gags (even Jack and Jill had the whole Al Pacino sub-plot) that make them unexpected, if
That’s My Boy
not exactly good. That said, I haven’t seen this one, pairing Sandler with Andy Samberg from ‘Lonely Island’ (their comedy songs have over 40 million hits on YouTube); Adam is an irresponsible dad, Andy the son he fathered at age 13 (a schoolboy crush on a teacher that “went a little too far”) and raised as a single parent. Andy’s now a rich hedge-fund manager, Adam needs cash in a hurry - so he suddenly shows up just as his estranged son is about to get married, and of course the two ultimately bond and so on and so forth. Sounds pretty lame, then again all Adam Sandler films sound pretty lame - because they are pretty lame; still, I can’t bring myself to hate them. Also with 80s rapper Vanilla Ice (as himself). Made in 2012.
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Church Service Diagonismos Kypriajou Tragoudiou (rpt)
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Tasos Tryfonos interviews Greek celebrities from the world of showbiz.
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Album Show News In English & Turkish (rpt) Euronews
Aliki (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Dada Yia Oles Tis Douleies (rpt) To Pio Glyko Mou Psema (rpt) Oi Men Kai Oi Den (rpt) Paris Kai Eleni (rpt) Steps (rpt) Santa Yiolanta (rpt) O Tzitzikas Kai O Mermigas (rpt) Tihi Vouno (rpt) Exairetika Afieromeno (rpt) Yia Tin Agapi Sou (rpt) Tha Vreis Ton Daskalo Sou (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) With News at 18.00.
Lost Sixth and final season of drama. ‘The Substitute’. On the island, the being now occupying Locke’s body turns to Sawyer and promises to tell him why he’s on the island. Back in Los Angeles, Locke loses his job and encounters a number of familiar faces.
Ego Ki Esi
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NRG Zone Kid’s TV Mihanokinitos Athlitismos Album Show I Kypros Konta Sas (rpt) News In English News In Turkish Tete-A-Tete (rpt) NRG Zone Weekend X-Factor USA (rpt) American version of the talent contest, in which solo singers and groups compete to win a recording contract by impressing judges Simon Cowell, Nicole Scherzinger, Paula Abdul and LA Reid. Presented by Steve Jones.
Local talk-show, hosted by Vivian Kanari.
16.30 17.30
To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) News Your Face Sounds Familiar
07.00 09.40 10.20 12.10 13.00 13.50
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News Sports News Vradi Me Ton Petro Kotsopoulo Late night talk-show.
Blackout Game show in which places contestants in complete darkness.
02.40 04.00 04.40
Mavros Okeanos (rpt) News Eftyhismenes Meres (rpt)
Church Service Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Chuck Oi Kipouroi Tou Mega FILM: 13 Going On 30 A teenager wishes she could be a grown-up but struggles to cope when she wakes up to find 17 years have passed overnight. Romantic comedy, with Jennifer Garner. 2004.
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Piso Sto Spiti (rpt) Epta Thanasimes Petheres (rpt)
SIGMA 06.10 07.10 08.10 09.30
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Kleise Ta Matia (rpt) Epafi (rpt) Eheis Meson (rpt) Mia Stigmi, Dio Zoes (rpt) Patir, Yios Kai Pnevma (rpt) Oi Afthairetoi Palirroia Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou
Mes Tin Kali Hara (rpt) Kid’s TV Efta Ouranoi Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) The Cooking News Pame Paketo (rpt) Talk-show, that deals with human interest stories such as reuniting people, fulfilling dreams and connecting individuals who want to correct past mistakes in their lives.
Anonymous (rpt) News Mousiko Kouti - Live FILM: The Glass House Two orphaned youngsters are taken in by former neighbours - but the kids soon suspect their carers have an ulterior motive. Tense thriller, starring Leelee Sobieski. 2001. With News at 00.00.
Oi Adiafthoroi (rpt) Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) Zoi Podilato (rpt) UEFA Champions League Magazine A review of the latest matches in Europe’s premier club competition, plus a look ahead to forthcoming fixtures.
With News at 18.00.
Greek talent competition. See Pick Of The Day.
01.50
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News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Mes Tin Kali Hara (rpt) Magazino (rpt)
Kids’ TV Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz LTV Sports News Star News Quiz Fun Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Stin Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt) Mila (rpt) Exelixeis Sti Showbiz FILM: Doc Hollywood An arrogant plastic surgeon’s outlook on life radically changes when he is stranded in rural South Carolina on the way to Hollywood. Comedy, with Michael J Fox. 1991
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News Siga Min To’ Xeres Celebrity FILM: Rocky II Retired boxer Rocky Balboa is tempted back into the ring for another shot at Apollo Creed’s heavyweight title. Drama sequel, with Sylvester Stallone. 1979.
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PLUS TV
FILM: Romeo Must Die An avenging cop seeks out his brother’s killer and falls for the daughter of a businessman who is involved in a money-deal with his father. Action starring Jet Li. 2000.
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Kids’ TV Kouzina Me Apopsi (rpt) Greek FILM: To Nifopazaro Telemarketing Kipotehnia Greek FILM: Agapisa Kai Ponesa The Third Reich Star Stories FILM: Baby Snatcher A woman tries to keep her ailing marriage alive by passing off a kidnapped child as her own. Factbased thriller, starring Veronica Hamel . 1992. With News at 17.30.
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Remington Steele News Pacific Blue News O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: The Contractor A former assassin is coaxed back into service for one last mission, but ends up on the run after being framed for the murder of a policeman. Action thriller, starring Wesley Snipes. 2007.
FILM: Five Fingers Of Death A student of kung fu meets resistance on his way to a major Chinese tournament. Martial arts drama, starring Hsiung Chao 1972.
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FILM: Jesse Stone: Sea Change The hard-drinking chief of police of a sleepy backwater town pursues a serial killer and investigates the rape of a teenager. Detective drama, starring Tom Selleck. 2005.
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Late Programmes
X-Men: First Class (Novacinema2, 17.50)
01:40 As Time Goes By 02:10 Dara O’Briain Live From The Theatre Royal 03:05 My Family 03:35 The Weakest Link 04:20 Drop Zone 05:15 As Time Goes By 05:45 My Family 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Fimbles 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Fimbles 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Me Too! 09:25 The Weakest Link 10:10 My Family 10:40 One Foot In The Grave 11:15 Keeping Up Appearances 11:45 Only Fools and Horses 12:15 2 Point 4 Children 12:45 Rob Brydon’s Annually Retentive 13:15 Lead Balloon 13:45 Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show 14:05 As Time Goes By 14:35 One Foot In The Grave 15:10 Great Expectations 16:00 Doctors 18:20 My Family 18:50 Only Fools and Horses 19:20 Heart & Soul 20:10 Great Ormond Street 21:00 As Time Goes By 21:30 Little Britain Christmas Special 2006 22:00 Silk 22:50 Waking The Dead 23:45 Spooks 00:35 Dara O’Briain Live From The Theatre Royal
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ies 11:50 Time Warp 12:15 Man, Woman, Wild 13:05 Way Of Life 13:50 Chasing Classic Cars 14:40 Solving History With Olly Steeds 15:30 The History Of Singapore 16:15 Deadliest Catch 17:00 Sons Of Guns 17:50 Prophets Of Science Fiction 18:40 Chasing Classic Cars 19:05 Cafe Racer 19:30 Chasing Classic Cars 20:20 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 21:10 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 22:00 Sons Of Guns 22:50 Prophets Of Science Fiction 23:40 Mega World 00:30 The Aviators 01:15 Sons Of Guns 02:05 Prophets Of Science Fiction 02:55 1000 Places To See Before You Die
09:30 Motorsports: Motorsports Weekend Magazine 09:45 Superbike: World Championship Spain 10:30 Cycling: Amstel Gold Race
Netherlands 11:30 Tennis: Wta Tournament Poland 12:30 Weightlifting: European Championship Albania 14:30 All Sports: Watts 15:00 Football: Uefa Women’s Champions League 16:00 Cycling: Amstel Gold Race Netherlands 17:00 Snooker: Masters In London United Kingdom 18:15 Football: Eurogoals 19:00 All Sports: G Wars 21:00 All Sports: Watts 22:00 Pro Wrestling: This Week On World Wrestling Entertainment 22:30 Pro Wrestling: Vintage Collection 23:30 All Sports: G Wars 01:30 Football: Eurogoals 02:15 All Sports: Watts
05:40 The Gates 06:25 Scrubs 9 07:40 Raising Hope 08:05 Scandal 2 08:50 The Hour 2 09:45 Grey’s Anatomy 9 10:30 Private Practice 6 11:10 Once Upon A Time 2 12:00 Revenge 12:50 Modern Family 4 13:15 New Girl 2 13:40 Last Man Standing 2 14:05 The Neighbors 14:30 Bones 3 18:20 Jamie’s Ministry Of Food 19:15 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple 20:10 Happy Endings 3 20:35 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 23 21:00 Scandal 2 21:45 The Hour 2 22:45 Grey’s Anatomy 9 23:30 Private Practice 6 00:15 Raising Hope 2 01:55 Make It Or Break It 03:35 Scrubs 9
Ncis: Los Angeles 07:30 Easy A 09:30 World According To Garp 12:00 Wild Target 14:00 Family Man 16:15 Magic Men 18:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 (Live) 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Whistleblower 23:00 Love Don’t Cost A Thing 00:45 Hustler TV 03:00 Best In Show 04:45 Education N 06:30 LTV Sports News (E)
07:00 Kids TV 13:15 Legion Of Super Heroes 13:40 Max Adventures 14:05 Nba Action 14:40 2013 Wtcc 15:10 Liga Bbva 2012-13 17:00 Pre-Game 18:00 A’ Division Cyprus Soccer Championship 201213 20:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 22:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 00:00 Best Premier League Games 00:30 Liga Bbva 2012-13 02:30 Planet Speed 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 05:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 07:15 Big Bang Theory 07:40 How To Make It In America 08:10 Eastbound & Down 08:40 Friends 09:05 2 Broke Girls 10:00 One Tree Hill 10:45 Strike Back 11:35 C.S.I. Miami 12:25 Hawaii Five-0 13:15 Luck 14:15 Necessary Roughness 15:00 Gossip Girl 00:05 Sympathy For Delicious 01:50 Botched 03:30
08:15 Riding Tornado 10:15 Mars Attacks! 12:15 Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’hoole 14:00 Fork In The Road 16:00 Jeremiah Johnson 18:00 Green Hornet 20:00 Henry’s Crime 22:00 Mirror Has Two Faces 00:15 Daring! TV 03:45 Ma Part Du Gateau (My Piece Of The Pie) 05:45 Lionheart
05:50 The Hit List 07:20 Cine News 07:45 Home Alone 09:30 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 11:05 The Conspirator 15:00 Bury The Lede 15:50 Cine News 19:05 Adikos Kosmos 21:00 Person Of Interest 22:00 Magic Mike 23:55 Zookeeper 01:50 Encounter With Danger 03:20 Rampart
05:30 The Grey 09:50 Cine News 10:05 The Deep End Of The Ocean 11:55 Bridesmaids 16:00 The Artist 17:50 X-Men: First Class 20:05 Shampoo 22:00 Beginners 23:50 Hide And Seek 01:40 Paul 03:30 Albert Nobbs
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lyze That 10:05 Salvation Boulevard 11:40 Transporter 2 13:10 Margin Call 15:00 The Haunting 16:55 Tt: Closer To The Edge 18:45 Fast Five 21:00 The Eyes Of Laura Mars 22:50 The Bourne Identity 00:55 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone 03:15 The Son Of No One 04:50 30 Minutes Or Less
At Minnesota 15:00 The Masters Rd.3 Augusta, GA 19:00 Super Bowl Highlights: XVII: Washington V Miami 19:30 Super Bowl Highlights: XVIII: Los Angeles Raiders V Washington 20:00 America’s Game: 1975 Pittsburgh Steelers 21:00 The Masters Final Rd. Augusta, GA
05:45 Let’s Make Love 07:50 Cine News 08:40 Twins 10:25 I Don’t Know How She Does It 11:55 Cine News 12:20 Illegal 13:55 Les Emotifs Anonymes 15:15 The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn 17:00 Paper Moon 18:45 Cine News 19:15 Chalet Girl 21:00 I Skoni Toy Chronou 23:15 Restoration 01:15 Cyberbully 02:45 The Names Of Love 04:30 Wings Of The Dove
06:00 Only Hits 11:00 Pure Local 11:30 S7S Lockdown Top10 12:00 MTV Hitlist Hellas (E) 13:00 MTV Movies & Stars 14:00 MTV Daria 15:00 MTV Crash Canyon 16:00 MTV Catfish 17:00 Only Hits 19:00 MTV Megadrive 19:30 MTV Slips 20:00 MTV Paris Hilton my new BFF 23:00 MTV Underemployed 00:00 MTV Young and Married 01:00 Only Hits
02:00 TBA 03:00 MLB: Los Angeles Dodgers At Arizona Diamondbacks 06:00 TBA 7:00 The Golf Fix 07:30 Golfnow - Hawaii 08:00 The Haney Project: Michael Phelps 09:00 Golf Central International LIVE From The Masters 10:00 MLB: Los Angeles Dodgers At Arizona Diamondbacks 13:00 Big Ten Men’s Gymnastics Big Ten Team Championships
07:00 Suzy 08:30 The Gazebo 10:10 Young Tom Edison 11:45 The Merry Widow 13:30 The Wheeler Dealers 15:15 Adventures of Don Juan 17:00 The Rounders 18:20 The Honeymoon Machine 19:50 The Champ 22:00 Period Of Adjustment 00:00 The Outfit 01:40 The Law And Jake Wade 03:05 Suzy 04:50 The Merry Widow
By Preston Wilder
Your Face Sounds Familiar (Antenna, 21.00) I recall a time, not too long ago, when Greek was king and speaking English marked you out as a traitor or worse - but things have changed, and local audiences are now expected to recite the English title of this new (Greek) variety show and indeed to get the joke, such as it is. The joke is that various Greek celebs dress up as other, mostly non-Greek celebs - Michael Jackson, Rihanna, Freddie Mercury, Lady Gaga - and attempt to sing in the style of the people they’re imitating; familiar-looking faces with songs attached, hence ‘your face sounds familiar’. The show sounds familiar too, the usual talent-show malarkey only with Joe
and Jane Bloggs replaced by has-beens looking for a quick career boost - but Antenna proudly reports that it’s “broken TV viewing records in China, Holland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Turkey, Chile, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia and Vietnam”, so it’s obviously what people want. Imagine what it’ll do in countries where they actually understand the title.
Magic Mike (Novacinema1, 22.00) Ladies! Has your weekend been dull or frustrating? Don’t despair: get your girlfriends together and check out the toned male flesh (plus some female flesh) in this tale of male strippers, starring hunk du jour Channing Tatum! That’s how Magic Mike was marketed, as
Magic Mike
a film for a girls’ night out - which is fair enough but there’s also something more in this excellent drama, an undertow of melancholy and the wry realisation that there’s something sad about a 40-year-old male stripper. ‘Magic’ Mike (that’s Tatum) isn’t quite there yet - but he’s not getting any younger, and his fantasy life as a “cock-rocking king” on the stage of the Xquisite strip-joint is rapidly giving way to the problems of his offstage life. The best scene is a wild party with a hurricane raging outside (the film is set in Florida), the lashing rain and gale-force winds ignored by the revellers - just as the strippers themselves are in denial, strutting their ageing stuff as long as the women keep cheering (and paying). Recommended. Made in 2012.
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Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera Local variety show, with entertainment options, cookery tips and more.
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Paizoume Kypriaka New season of local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect.
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Moiraia Fengaria Local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.
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Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Megastructures The making of the greatest structures and machines ever created.
Live cookery show.
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Euronews Kids’ TV Kati Psinetai (rpt) Greek version of reality show featuring a group of amateur chefs each staging a dinner party to find who will be crowned the winning host.
Kaftes Piperies (rpt) Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be longest-running weekly show on Cyprus television.
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Local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.
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NRG Zone George Et Fanchette
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This ambitious account on the life of France’s best known literary rebel, George Sand as she settled in the country after a tumultuous life in Paris. Drama, starring. Raphaël Personnaz. 2010. Part 1 of 2.
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Motor Sports Kati Psinetai (rpt) News In English & Turkish (rpt) Proti Enimerosi (rpt) Biz/Emeis (rpt) Apo Mere Se Mera (rpt) Euronews
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Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Strivein Dia Tou Arravonos (rpt) Vodka Portokali (rpt) Fila To Vatraho Sou (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Tis Agapis Mahairia (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Ta Koritsia Tou Baba (rpt) Oneiropagida (rpt) Lefta Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) With News at 18.00.
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News Sports News Ola Bahalo Fetos Horis Oria (rpt) Angigma Psihis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)
Enimerosi Tora Eheis Meson Yia Sena News Erastis Ditikon Proastion (rpt) Sto Para Pente News Klemmena Oneira
SIGMA 07.00 08.20 10.00 10.50 12.00 14.30 15.20 17.15 18.00 18.05 18.45 19.30 20.20 21.15 23.20
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Oi Vasiliades FILM: When A Stranger Calls A babysitter at a remote lakeside home is terrorised by threatening phone calls that seem to be coming from inside the house. Horror, starring Camilla Belle. 2006.
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News ‘Til Death Sitcom chronicling the domestic discord and disasters of middleaged couple.
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Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt)
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Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Anna Paola Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites News Pame Paketo CSI: NY Fifth season. ‘Greater Good’. When a man is released from an 18-month jail term for killing a cyclist, Mac reopens the case to investigate new evidence suggesting he was not the driver of the vehicle. Mac has a breakthrough when the ex-convict’s daughter reveals a prior conviction for drink driving. Meanwhile, Lindsay gives birth.
Greek drama series.
US medical drama. Local topical talk-show.
Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Proino Mou Hosted by real-life couple Giorgos Liagas & Fay Skorda.
Local comedy series.
Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Grey’s Anatomy
Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Retire Epomeni Mera (rpt) Master Chef (rpt) Greek competitive cooking reality show, open to amateur and home chefs.
Aiyia Fuxia (rpt)
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American comedy about the lives and loves of six New Yorkers.
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News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mono Mia Fora (rpt) Se Fonta Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)
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Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of I Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt) Mila (rpt) Berdema (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kid’s TV Berdema Fotis Maria Live Mila Exelixeis Stin Showbiz Fringe Third season. ‘Immortality’. The team investigates a bio-terrorist armed with an insect that has a taste for human flesh. Meanwhile, Walternate discovers there are some lines he will not cross in his plans to save the world, and alt-Olivia is reunited with Frank following his return from Texas.
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Kids’ TV Magikos Cosmos Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Epi Topou (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Telemarketing Top Models Kouzina Me Apopsi Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Sto Mati Tou Kiklona News Sports Time O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: Mermaids A mermaid enlists the help of her two sisters to track down the human who killed their father. Fantasy adventure, starring Sarah Laine. 2003.
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FILM: Nightwaves After the death of her husband, an investigative reporter hears about a murder over a police scanner. Drama, starring Bruce Dinsmore. 2003
Colde Case (rpt) FILM: If Tomorrow Comes Fighting to escape the demons of his past, a young man involves his best friend in a struggle for survival. Drama, starring James Madio 2000.
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FILM: Shakedown An earthquake traps a cult leader and his followers after they infiltrate a building that contains biological weapons. Action, starring Ron Perlman, 2002.
Luck (LTV2, 21.55)
01:05 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff 01:35 My Family 02:05 The Weakest Link 02:50 EastEnders 03:20 Doctors 03:50 Silk 04:40 After You’ve Gone 05:10 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 06:00 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff 06:30 My Family 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Tweenies 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Tweenies 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Charlie and Lola 09:25 My Family 09:55 One Foot In The Grave 10:25 The Weakest Link 11:10 EastEnders 11:40 Doctors 12:10 Great Expectations 13:00 Silk 13:50 My Family 14:20 Mutual Friends 15:10 One Foot In The Grave 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors 16:45 The Weakest Link 17:30 Hustle 18:20 Silk 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:10 The Weakest Link 21:00 My Family 21:30 Keeping Up Appearances 22:00 Spooks 22:50 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff 23:20 Rob Brydon’s Annually Retentive 23:50 Ideal 00:20 The Diamond Queen
07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 River Monsters 08:40 Rodeo 09:30 The History Of Singapore 10:15 Science Of The Movies 11:05 Deadliest Catch 11:50 Time Warp 12:15 The Aviators 13:05 Chasing Classic
Snooker: China Open Beijing 16:30 Gymnastics: European Championship Russia 18:30 All Sports: Eurosport Top 10 19:00 All Sports: G Wars 21:00 Boxing: Bigger’s Better Heavy Weight Contest 00:00 Strongest Man: Champions League Lapland 01:00 All Sports: Watts
Cars 13:50 Cafe Racer 14:35 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 15:25 The History Of Singapore 16:10 Mythbusters 17:00 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 17:50 Mighty Mississippi 18:40 Cafe Racer 19:05 Cafe Racer 19:30 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 20:20 Science Of The Movies 21:10 Prehistoric 22:00 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 22:50 Mighty Mississippi 23:40 Deadliest Catch 00:30 Science Of The Movies 01:15 Mythbusters 02:05 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 02:50 Mighty Mississippi 03:40 Cafe Racer 04:30 Prehistoric 05:20 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 06:10 Science Of The Movies
09:30 All Sports: Watts 10:30 Snooker: Haikou World Open 12:00 Gymnastics: European Championship 14:45 Athletics: Greene Light 15:00 Fitness: The Box 15:15
05:40 Desperate Housewives 7 06:25 Bones 07:10 Raising Hope 2 07:35 Scrubs 9 08:00 Grey’s Anatomy 8 08:50 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 7 09:40 Desperate Housewives 7 10:25 Bones 11:10 Raising Hope 2 11:35 Scrubs 9 12:00 Scandal 2 12:45 The Hour 2 13:45 Grey’s Anatomy 8 14:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 7 15:20 Desperate Housewives 7 16:05 Bones 16:50 Raising Hope 17:15 Scrubs 9 17:40 Grey’s Anatomy 8 18:30 Jamie’s Ministry Of Food 19:30 Desperate Housewives 7 20:15 Bones 21:00 Scandal 21:50 The Hour 2 22:50 Raising Hope 23:15 Scrubs 9 23:40 Scandal 00:25 The Hour 2 01:25 Jamie’s Ministry Of Food 02:25 Desperate Housewives 7 03:10 Raising Hope 03:35 Surviving Suburbia 04:00 Grey’s Anatomy 8 04:50 Make It Or Break It 3
07:30 Desert Son 09:15 Switch 11:00 Road Trip: Beer Pong 12:45 Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark 14:30 Executive Decision 16:45 Midnight In Paris 18:30 Carnage 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Underbelly Files - The Man Who Got Away 23:00 Runaways 00:55 Hustler TV 03:20 Boxer (2009) 05:00 Youth In Revolt 06:30 LTV Sports News (E)
07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 A’ Division Cyprus Soccer Championship 2012-13 19:00 Barclays Premier League Review 20:00 2011 World’s Strongest Man 20:30 La Liga World 21:00 Barclays Premier League World 21:30 La Liga Show 2012-13 22:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 00:00 Toyota Australian Football International 2012 01:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13
07:35 2 Broke Girls 08:00 Two And A Half Men Ix 08:30 Hawaii Five-0 10:00 Friends 10:30 Pan Am 11:15 Necessary Roughness 13:05 Gossip Girl 13:50 2 Broke Girls 14:40 Hawaii Five-0 15:25 Hawaii Five-0 16:10 Two And A Half Men 16:35 One Tree Hill 17:20 Strike Back 19:00 Gossip Girl 19:45 Privileged
20:30 Friends 21:00 Top Boy 21:55 Luck 22:50 Closer 23:35 Fringe 00:20 Due Date 01:55 Imagine That 03:40 Two And A Half Men Ix 04:05 One Tree Hill 04:50 Strike Back 06:30 Gossip Girl
07:45 Lesbian Vampire Killers 09:30 Haunting Of Bryan Beckett 11:15 Groupie 13:00 Bruc 14:45 Warrior’s Way 16:30 Dead Calm 18:15 Oscar Et La Dame Rose (Oscar And The Lady In Pink) 20:15 Incendiary 22:00 Running With Scissors 00:05 Daring! TV 03:35 Action Zone (E) 04:05 Alive 06:15 Stone
05:05 League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen 06:55 Cine News 07:25 This Must Be The Place 09:25 A Thousand Words 11:00 Action Zone 11:35 Treasure Buddies 13:10 What’s Your Number? 15:00 Shall We Dance? 16:50 Cine News 17:35 Bad Teacher 19:15 Mad On Novacinema 19:55 Intouchables 22:00 A Gang Story 23:50 The Big Year 01:30 Sacrifice 03:10 Cine News 03:55 Contraband
05:45 London 07:20 To Tango Ton Christougennon 09:05 The Harder They Fall 10:55 Cine News 11:25
Pay It Forward 13:30 The Portrait Of A Lady 15:55 Two For The Road 17:50 Hollywood 1 On1 18:25 Young Adult 20:05 Seeking Justice 22:00 The Transporter 23:40 High Crimes 01:40 Suspect Zero 03:25 Martha Marcy May Marlene
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00:00 Sports Unlimited 24:00 Golf Central International 01:30 Mobil 1 The Grid 02:00 NHL: Montreal Canadiens At Pittsburgh Penguins 04:30 MLB: Kansas City Royals At Atlanta Braves 07:00 Morning Drive 08:00 The Haney Project: Michael Phelps 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Titleist Performance Institute: Putting 10:00 MLB: Kansas City Royals At Atlanta Braves 13:00 Golf Central International 13:30 NHL: Montreal Canadiens At Pittsburgh Penguins 16:00 European Tour Real Seguros Open De Es-
pana Rd. 1 19:30 MLB Player Poll 20:00 MLB: San Francisco Giants At Milwaukee Brewers 23:00 European Tour Real Seguros Open De Espana Rd. 1
06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV GreekLips 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 16:00 MTV Crash Canyon 17:00 MTV Pranked 18:00 MTV GreekLips 19:00 Only Hits 20:00 MTV Young and Married 21:00 MTV Underemployed 23:00 MTV Ridiculousness 00:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 02:00 Only Hits
07:00 Song Of Love 09:00 The Charge Of The Light Brigade 11:00 Across The Pacific 12:35 Cimarron 15:00 Bad Day At Black Rock 16:20 Beau Brummell 18:10 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 20:00 Somebody Up There Likes Me 22:00 Flareup 23:35 Splendor In The Grass 01:25 ...Tick...Tick...Tick 03:05 At The Circus 04:40 Bachelor In Paradise
By Preston Wilder
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (Novacinema4, 21.00) “If you thought breaking up was hard ... try breaking up with a superhero!” This must happen a lot, because superheroes are notoriously volatile - but Luke Wilson doesn’t know that Uma Thurman is a superheroine named G-Girl when he meets her alter ego on the subway and strikes up a relationship. Alas, Uma turns obsessively jealous, needy and controlling (“the trifecta,” notes Luke’s best friend sagely) so our hero decides to break up - and of course she takes revenge as a Woman Scorned is wont to do, throwing maneating sharks through his bedroom window and that kind of thing. A comedy that was criticised for
perpetuating stereotypes of women as insecure and oestrogen-addled - but it’s actually quite good fun, a cheesy men’s-magazine joke about Women in Control (help!). Uma’s a threat even before she becomes an ex-girlfriend, in the way she takes charge of everything and tells Luke he’s using his tongue all wrong; immature men will laugh, women will laugh at men for being immature. Everybody wins. Made in 2006.
A Gang Story (Novacinema1, 22.00) Not the most memorable title, but I guess ‘The People From Lyon’ didn’t sound like a winner either. That’s the original French title - Les Lyonnais - those people
A Gang Story
from Lyon being gangsters, specifically Serge and Momon (Tcheky Karyo and Gerard Lanvin) who’ve been friends since they were kids. Both men are now middle-aged, and Momon has retired from ‘the business’ - but he’s forced back into action when Serge is arrested and a ruthless cop tries to make him snitch on his old friend. “There’s one code at play here: a hood’s gotta do what a hood’s gotta do,” sighed Henry Barnes in The Guardian, dismissing the film as dull and flashback-heavy - and it’s certainly erratic, with far too much plot to fit into 100 minutes, but writer-director Olivier Marchal used to be a French cop himself and has a feel for this kind of pungent underworld milieu. Shame about the title, though. Made in 2011.
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Kaftes Piperies (rpt) Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.
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Local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.
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News Vimata Stin Ammo Friends (rpt) American comedy about the lives and loves of six New Yorkers.
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NRG Zone FILM: Hocus Pocus
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Three witches are accidentally resurrected by a teenager and cause mayhem in modern-day Salem. Supernatural Disney comedy, with Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy. 1993.
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Fourth season of American drama series. ‘The Science Fair’. Expectant fathers Kevin and Scotty help Paige prepare for a science fair, leaving Sarah upset that she is not needed by her daughter. Saul asks Holly to give Ryan another chance, and Simon pays a visit to Nora.
Local period drama, based on true events.
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Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Megastructures The making of the greatest structures and machines ever created.
Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies Paizoume Kypriaka Local game show, asking questions having to do with the Cypriot dialect.
Euronews Kids’ TV Kati Psinetai (rpt) Show where contestants try to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party, which is then judged on its merits by their rivals.
Cookery show.
More Repeats Euronews
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Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Ellas To Megaleio Sou (rpt) Vodka Portokali (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Tis Agapis Mahairia (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Ta Koritsia Tou Baba (rpt) Oneiropagida (rpt) Lefta Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt)
MEGA 06.00 06.30 07.00 08.00
Greek competitive cooking reality show, open to amateur and home chefs.
09.00 10.00 11.40 14.00 16.00 18.00 18.30 19.30 20.20 21.15 22.20 23.10
Aiyia Fuxia(rpt) Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Grey’s Anatomy US medical drama.
Enopion Tou Laou News Sports News Radio Arvila Greek parody show.
01.40 02.30 03.20 04.40
Horis Oria (rpt) Angigma Psihis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)
Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Eheis Meson Yia Sena News Erastis Ditikon Proastion (rpt) Sto Para Pente News Klemmena Oneira Oi Vasiliades The Vampire Diaries Season one. ‘You’re Undead to Me’. Elena discovers some shocking stories about Stefan’s past, while Damson grows weaker as his imprisonment continues and he tries to get Caroline’s help to escape. Bonnie’s special powers manifest themselves, leaving her scared and confused, and Logan uses Aunt Jenna to further his secret agenda.
With News at 18.00.
Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Retire Epomeni Mera (rpt) Master Chef (rpt)
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News ‘Til Death Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora Proino Mou (rpt)
SIGMA 07.00 08.20 10.00 10.50 12.00 14.30 15.20 17.10 18.00 18.05 18.40 19.30 20.20 21.30 23.30
Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Aspra Balonia (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Anna Paola Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites News Al Tsantiri News CSI: NY Fifth season. ‘The Past, Present and Murder’. A media mogul is suspected of murder, but claims he was acting in self-defence - and matters are complicated by the disappearance of the alleged victim’s body. As inquiries continue, Mac discovers that the case is connected to an earlier investigation involving a missing flash drives.
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News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mono Mia Fora (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)
PLUS TV 06.45 07.20 08.30 09.00 10.00 10.45 11.40 12.30 13.00 15.30 17.00 17.50 19.40
Classic Cartoons Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of I Kouzina Me Ti Dina (rpt) Mila (rpt) Berdema (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kids’ TV Berdema Fotis - Maria Live Mila Popular tear-jerking talk-show.
21.00 21.25
Exelixeis Sti Showbiz FILM: A Perfect Murder A businessman decides to have his unfaithful wife murdered and hires her unwitting lover to do the deed. Thriller remake, with Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow and Viggo Mortensen. 1998.
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CAPITAL 06. 45 Kids’ TV 09.05 Magikos Cosmos (rpt) 09.35 Akti Oneiron (rpt) 10.00 Ston Asterismo Tis Imeras 11.00 Kouzina Me Apopsi 11.30 Capital Sports (rpt) 12.30 Milagros 13.20 Kids’ TV 14.25 Telemarketing 15.25 Top Models 16.15 Kouzina Me Apopsi (rpt) 16.45 Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis 17.40 Akti Oneiron 18.15 Sto Mati Tou Kiklona 19.15 News 19.50 Sports News 20.05 Igeia & Zoi 21.00 FILM: Blue Tornado An Air Force squadron leader investigates the disappearance of jets near a mysterious mountain. Action, starring Patsy Kensit. 1991.
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A hot-tempered soldier infiltrates the Seattle Mafia intent on revenge. By-the-book thriller, starring Eddie Cibrian and Chuck Norris. 1998.
Ta Kopelia Local comedy series.
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LTV Sports News Star News Repeats
FILM: Logan’s War: Bound By Honor
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FILM: The Defender A bodyguard battles an unknown attacker who has ambushed a secret meeting between an American official and a terrorist. Action, starring Dolph Lundgren. 2004.
Kick-Ass (LTV3, 12.00)
01:10 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 01:40 Ideal 02:10 The Weakest Link 02:55 My Family 03:25 Only Fools and Horses 03:55 EastEnders 04:25 Doctors 04:55 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 05:25 Ideal 05:55 Only Fools and Horses 06:25 My Family 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Tweenies 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Tweenies 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 My Family 10:00 Only Fools and Horses 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Great Ormond Street 13:05 Waking The Dead 13:55 My Family 14:25 Mutual Friends 15:15 Only Fools and Horses 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors 16:45 The Weakest Link 17:30 Great Ormond Street 18:20 Waking The Dead 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:15 The Weakest Link 21:00 My Family 21:30 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 22:00 Lark Rise To Candleford 22:50 As Time Goes By 23:20 Rev. 23:50 Silk 00:40 After You’ve Gone
07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 Sons Of Guns 08:40 Prophets Of Science Fiction 09:30 The History Of Singa-
pore 10:15 Science Of The Movies 11:05 Deadliest Catch 11:50 Time Warp 12:15 Mega World 13:05 Extreme Engineering 13:50 Cafe Racer 14:35 1000 Places To See Before You Die 15:25 The History Of Singapore 16:10 Mythbusters 17:00 River Monsters 17:50 Rodeo 18:40 Cafe Racer 19:30 1000 Places To See Before You Die 20:20 Science Of The Movies 21:10 The History Of Singapore 22:00 River Monsters 22:50 Rodeo 23:40 Deadliest Catch 00:30 Science Of The Movies 01:15 Mythbusters 02:05 River Monsters 02:50 Rodeo 03:40 Cafe Racer 04:30 The History Of Singapore 05:20 1000 Places To See Before You Die 06:10 Science Of The Movies
09:30 All Sports: Watts 11:00 Cycling: Amstel Gold Race Netherlands 12:00 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 14:00 All Sports: Watts 15:00 Cycling: Amstel Gold Race Netherlands 16:00 Cycling: Fleche Wallonne, Belgium 18:15 Snooker: Haikou World Open 19:00 All Sports: G Wars 21:00 All Sports: Watts 22:00 Athletics: Greene Light 22:15 All Sports: Campus 22:45 All Sports: Wednesday Selection 22:50 Equestrian Sports: Riders Club 22:55 Golf: Masters In Augusta 23:55 Golf: Golf Club 00:00
Sailing: Yacht Club 00:05 All Sports: Wednesday Selection 00:15 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 01:30 All Sports: Watts
05:40 Desperate Housewives 7 06:25 Bones 3 07:10 Raising Hope 2 07:35 Scrubs 9 08:00 Grey’s Anatomy 08:50 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple 09:40 Desperate Housewives 7 10:25 Bones 3 11:10 Raising Hope 2 11:35 Scrubs 9 12:00 Modern Family 4 12:25 New Girl 2 12:50 Glee 3 13:40 Grey’s Anatomy 14:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 15:20 Desperate Housewives 7 16:05 Bones 16:50 Raising Hope 2 17:15 Scrubs 9 17:40 Grey’s Anatomy 8 18:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 7 19:20 Desperate Housewives 7 20:10 Bones 21:00 Modern Family 4 21:25 New Girl 2 21:50 Jane By Design 22:40 Raising Hope 2 23:05 Scrubs 9 23:30 Modern Family 4 23:55 New Girl 2 00:20 Jane By Design 01:10 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 7 02:00 Desperate Housewives 7 02:45 Raising Hope 2 03:10 Scrubs 9 03:35 Surviving Suburbia 04:00 Grey’s Anatomy 8 04:50 Make It Or Break It
07:30 Action Zone (E) 08:00 Guitar
09:45 Detroit Rock City 11:30 Action Zone (E) 12:00 Shelter 14:00 City Of Angels 16:00 Other Guys 18:00 Hollywood Buzz (E) 18:30 Felicity: An American Girl Adventure 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Primal Fear 23:15 Unthinkable 01:00 Hustler TV 03:00 Unnatural & Accidental 04:30 Life As We Know It 06:30 LTV Sports News (E)
07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 Nba Action 17:30 Barclays Premier League World 18:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 20:00 Best Premier League Games 20:30 La Liga Review 201213 21:45 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 23:45 2011 World’s Strongest Man 00:30 Planet Speed 01:00 Ironman 02:00 Spirit Of Golf 02:30 Best Premier League Games 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13
07:15 One Tree Hill 08:00 Two And A Half Men Ix 08:30 Strike Back 10:20 2 Broke Girls 10:45 Eastbound & Down 11:15 Hawaii Five-0 12:45 Closer 13:30 One Tree Hill 14:15 Strike Back 16:00 Friends 16:25 Privileged 17:10 Closer 18:05 Luck 19:00 Gossip Girl 19:45 2 Broke Girls 20:30 Big Bang Theory 21:00 Mentalist 21:45 C.S.I. Miami 22:30
Ncis: Los Angeles 23:15 Underbelly Nz: Land Of The Long Green Cloud 00:10 Majestic 03:00 Action Zone 03:30 Friends 03:55 Privileged 04:40 Closer 05:30 Luck 06:30 Gossip Girl
07:30 Action Zone (E) 08:00 Rudo Y Cursi 10:00 You’re A Big Boy Now 12:00 Kick-Ass 14:00 Season Of The Witch 16:00 Sammy’s Adventures: The Secret Passage 17:30 Biutiful 20:00 Mercy 21:30 Action Zone (E) 22:00 Bird 00:40 Daring! TV 04:05 Freeway Killer 05:45 G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra
06:15 Against All Odds 08:25 Management 10:00 My Future Boyfriend 11:20 Films & Stars 11:55 Five 13:25 Puss In Boots 15:00 Bounce 16:50 Cine News 17:10 Do No Harm 18:45 Hollywood 1on1 19:20 Hemingway & Gellhorn 22:00 Game Of Thrones 23:10 The Rum Diary 01:15 Demeni Kokkini Klosti 03:05 Cine News 03:50 Unthinkable
06:20 Old School 07:50 A Dangerous Method 09:30 Tower Heist 11:15 Larry Crowne 12:55 The Caine Mutiny 15:00 Cine News 15:35 Michael 17:25 Man On A Ledge 19:15 There Will Be Blood 22:00 Walk The Line
15:00 MLB: Philadelphia Phillies At Cincinnati Reds 18:00 PRE GAME(E) 18:45 CHAMPIONSHIP 2012-13: AEP VS OMONOIA (E) 20:45 POST GAME (E) 21:30 A DIVISION CYPRUS SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP 22:00 NHL: San Jose Sharks At Phoenix Coyotes
00:25 The Woman In Black 02:10 Transit 03:40 Point Blank
21:00 Salvation Boulevard 22:40 Cine News 23:50 Quarantine 2: Terminal 01:30 Adult Zone
19:30 The Art Of Getting By 21:00 Jane Eyre 23:05 Paradeisos 00:55 Majority
00:00 Sports Unlimited 02:00 MLB: Philadelphia Phillies At Cincinnati Reds 05:00 NHL: San Jose Sharks At Phoenix Coyotes 07:30 Morning Drive 08:30 Top 10 - Fred Couples Highlights 09:00 Golf Central International 10:00 School Of Golf - Chapter 6: Working The Ball 10:30 NHL: San Jose Sharks At Phoenix Coyotes 13:00rag Race High 13:30 My Ride Rules 14:00 Pinks All Out Atlanta
06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV GreekLips 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 16:00 MTV Crash Canyon 17:00 MTV Pranked 18:00 MTV GreekLips 19:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 21:00 MTV Underemployed 22:00 MTV Catfish 23:00 MTV The Inbetweeners 00:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 02:00 Only Hits
07:00 Captains Courageous 09:00 The Hook 10:40 Hot Millions 12:30 Some Came Running 14:45 Travels With My Aunt 16:35 The Sandpiper 18:35 Butterfield 8 20:25 Boys Town 22:00 Mutiny on the Bounty 01:00 It! 02:40 Betrayed 04:30 Bhowani Junction
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There Will Be Blood (Novacinema2, 19.15) There will be gasps. There will be oohs and aahs. There will be Oscars (and in fact there were, Daniel DayLewis winning Best Actor as ‘Daniel Plainview’). There will be puzzlement, especially towards the end when DDL yells “I drink your milkshake!” and Paul Dano - as a preacher named Eli Sunday - doesn’t seem to have aged at all after many years. There may also be complaints that this famous film doesn’t have much to say, and that’s probably true - but it’s still irresistible, a character study of a strange, tormented man, spiced with outlandish set-pieces and a hypnotic score. Plainview is an “oilman” in the early 20th century, churn-
ing out black gold from the rocky innards of the Western landscape; he claims to be accompanied by his “wonderful son H.W.” but in fact the boy is an orphan, adopted by Plainview after H.W.’s dad was killed in a drilling accident - and the lie eats away at this plainspoken man, finally destroying his relationship to oil; oil gives him a son, and oil takes him away. There will be layers. There will be excellence. Made in 2007.
Mercy (LTV3, 20.00) If you’re a novelist, beware women whose names start with ‘M’ and end with ‘y’. Misery made life a misery for snowbound author James Caan (actually the psycho’s name in Misery was ‘Annie’, but work with me here) -
Mercy
and a woman named Mercy does the same to Scott Caan (son of James) in this tart romantic drama, which Caan also wrote. He’s a successful author who writes about Love but “Love as I see it”, meaning one-night stands with no intention of settling down - at least till he meets Mercy (Wendy Glenn), a woman (and literary critic) who resists his easy blandishments and hooks him like no other. The film’s problem may be that Mercy is an impossible character to play - a woman so smart and beautiful she instantly turns this shallow hack into a true romantic - but the script is apparently quite strong on the foibles of male vanity. Caan writes from experience, with doting dad James also on hand to offer good advice: “Love is a myth!”. Made in 2009.
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Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera Early morning entertainment magazine featuring segments on cooking, fashion, lifestyle issues and more.
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Cookery show. Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.
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CYBC 2 07.00 08.00 17.00 18.00 18.50 19.00 19.10
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Apo Mera Se Mera Lottery Draw Entehnos Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies Paizoume Kypriaka Local game show, asking questions having to do with the Cypriot dialect.
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Moiraia Fengaria Local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.
20.00 21.15
Friends (rpt) American comedy about the lives and loves of six New Yorkers.
22.30 23.30 23.45
The making of the greatest structures and machines ever created.
09.30 10.25 11.15
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NRG Zone A Touch Of Frost: Near Death Experience
Brothers & Sisters (rpt) Fourth season. ‘Run Baby Run’. Saul takes offence at Nora’s offer of help with the taxes, while Kitty considers a career in the Senate when Robert grows disillusioned with politics. Sarah goes on a date with a man she met at Paige’s science fair, but discovers his opinions differ from hers on children’s rights.
News Vimata Stin Ammo Local period drama, based on true events.
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Euronews Kids’ TV Kati Psinetai (rpt) Kato Apo Ton Idio Ourano News In English News In Turkish Megastructures
The irascible copper finds his methods are called into question when a colleague is seriously injured during an attempt to thwart a suicide. The murder of a widow soon gives Frost a chance to prove his worth again, but the investigation only reveals an intriguing web of deceit, and it isn’t until a forensic psychologist joins the team that they realise a serial killer is at work.
Local cultural show.
I Kypros Konta Sas News Repeats 23.35
12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00 14.50 15.45 16.40 17.30 17.40
Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Ellas To Megaleio Sou (rpt) Vodka Portokali (rpt) Fila To Vatraho Sou (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Tis Agapis Mahairia (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras Ta Koritsia Tou Baba (rpt) Oneiropagida (rpt) Lefta Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) With News at 18.00.
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Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Local comedy series, with village setting.
19.30 20.15 21.15 22.20
Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Grey’s Anatomy
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Oikonomahies News Sports News Ola Bahalo Fetos Horis Oria (rpt) Angigma Psihis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)
US medical drama.
MEGA 06.00 06.30 07.00 08.00
Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Retire Epomeni Mera (rpt) Master Chef (rpt) Greek competitive cooking reality show, open to amateur and home chefs.
09.00 10.00 11.40 14.00
Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Eheis Meson
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News Erastis Ditikon Proastion (rpt)
Current affairs show. Local talk-show.
Greek drama series.
Sto Para Pente News Klemmena Oneira
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Oi Vasiliades
SIGMA 07.00 08.20 10.00 10.50 12.00 14.30 15.20 17.15 18.00 18.05 18.40 19.30 20.20 21.15 22.20 23.20
Fifth season. ‘Yahrzei’. A jewellery valuer is murdered at an auction and tests reveal the gun that killed him dates back to World War II. Mac’s first suspect is a neoNazi, but as the case continues, he finds the key to solving it lies in events that took place during the Holocaust.
Greek drama series. Greek comedy series.
23.10
The Vampire Diaries US supernatural drama series.
00.00 00.10 01.00 03.00 04.30
News ‘Til Death
Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Aspra Balonia (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To’ Xeres News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Anna Paola Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites News Aspra Balonia Oikogeneiakes Istories CSI: NY
US sitcom about a married couple.
00.20 00.55
Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora Proino Mou (rpt)
01.20 02.10 02.40 03.00 04.00
News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mono Mia Fora (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)
PLUS TV 07.20 08.30 09.05 10.00 10.45 11.40 12.30 13.00 15.30 17.00 17.50 19.40
Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of I Kouzina Me Ti Dina (rpt) Mila (rpt) Berdema (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kids’ TV Berdema Fotis - Maria Live Mila Discussions about various issues based on a woman’s life (men, relationships, sex, kids etc.) with showbiz guests.
21.15 22.00
Vathi Kokkino Greek drama series.
23.30
Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.
00.15 01.15 02.20
09.05 09.35 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.30 13.25 15.25 16.15 16.45 17.40 18.15 19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00
LTV Sports News Star News Repeats
Magikos Cosmos Akti Oneiron (rpt) Ston Asterismo Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Igeia & Zou (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models Kouzina Me Apopsi (rpt) Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Sto Mati Tou Kiklona News Sports News Epi Topou FILM: Everybody Wins A shady woman lures a private eye into a New England town’s pool of corruption. Drama, starring Will Patton. 1990.
Exelixeis Sti Showbiz The Closer Sixth season of detective drama. ‘War Zone’. After returning home from duty in Afghanistan, three soldiers are gunned down outside a club; Brenda’s investigation puts her on a collision course with Major Edward Dorset.
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The term Ivy League commonly refers to a group of eight, east-coast colleges and universities renowned for their high academic standards and significant history. These schools were some of the earliest American institutions founded: Harvard in 1636, Yale in 1701, Penn in 1740, Princeton in 1746, Columbia in 1754, Brown in 1764, Dartmouth in 1769 and Cornell in 1865.
Taken more literally, the Ivy League refers to the athletic conference in which the eight colleges' sports teams compete. The term 'Ivy League' was conceived in the 1930s by Stanley Woodward, a New York Herald Tribune sports writer. It was not until years later that an official coalition was actually formed by the universities.
In 1945, the presidents of each university created committees whose tasks were to establish athletic policies on issues like eligibility, budgets, and length of season play. These policies were (and still are) meant to balance scholarship and athletics. Although Ivy League sports teams compete in Division I athletics, the schools do not offer athletic scholarships and maintain the same academic standards for both athletes and non-athletes.
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These comprehensive universities offer graduate degrees in fields such as liberal arts, engineering, medicine, business and law. For smaller colleges with more of an undergraduate focus, check out the list of top liberal arts colleges . I won't make the arbitrary distinctions needed to decide whether Harvard or Princeton or Stanford is the better school. Listed alphabetically, these ten universities have the reputations and resources to rank them among the best in the country.
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Brown University
Located in Providence Rhode Island, Brown University has easy access to both Boston and New York City. The university is frequently considered the most liberal of the Ivies, and it is well known for its flexible curriculum in which students construct their own plan of study. Brown, like Dartmouth College , places more emphasis on undergraduate study than you'll find at research powerhouses like Columbia and Harvard.
Costs, aid, and other information: Brown profile
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Columbia University
Strong students who love an urban environment should definitely consider Columbia University. The school's location in upper Manhattan sits right on a subway line, so students have easy access to all of New York City. Keep in mind that Columbia is a research institution, and only about a third of its 26,000 students are undergraduates.
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Duke University
Duke's stunning campus in Durham, North Carolina , features impressive Gothic revival architecture in the campus center, and extensive modern research facilities spreading out from the main campus. With an acceptance rate in the teens, it is also the most selective university in the South. Duke, along with nearby UNC Chapel Hill and NC State , make up the "research triangle," an area purported to have the highest concentration of PhDs and MDs in the world.
Costs, aid, and other information: Duke profile
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Harvard University
For better or worse, Harvard University almost always tops the rankings of national universities, and its endowment is by far the largest of any educational institution in the world. All of those resources bring some perks: students from families with modest incomes can attend for free, loan debt is rare, facilities are state of the art, and faculty are often world-renowned scholars and scientists. The university's location in Cambridge, Massachusetts, places it within an easy walk to other excellent schools such as MIT and Boston University .
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University of Pennsylvania
Benjamin Franklin's university, Penn, is frequently confused with Penn State , but the similarities are few. The campus sits along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, and Center City is just a short walk away. The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School is arguably the strongest school of business in the country, and numerous other undergraduate and graduate programs place high in national rankings. With close to 12,000 undergraduates and graduate students, Penn is one of the larger Ivy League schools.
Costs, aid, and other information: Penn profile
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Yale University
Like Harvard and Princeton, Yale University frequently finds itself near the top of rankings of national universities. The school's location in in New Haven, Connecticut, allows Yale students to get to New York City or Boston easily by road or rail. The school has an impressive 5 to 1 student / faculty ratio , and research and teaching are supported by an endowment of nearly $20 billion.
Costs, aid, and other information: Yale profile
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The universities listed here don't do justice to the wealth of great schools in the U.S. Also, this list has a clear focus on the Ivy League . For more top picks, check out this list of ten more great universities .
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Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan
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Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan was a fictional character first created in the book M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker . Actress Sally Kellerman portrayed her in the Robert Altman film adaptation (where the character was renamed "O'Houlihan"; however, like many of the M*A*S*H* characters, Hot Lips is probably best known from the television series, where her part was played by actress Loretta Swit . Having the advantage of an 11-year run on television, Swit's Houlihan became a significantly more developed character than originally portrayed in the film by actress Sally Kellerman , in many ways demonstrating characteristics that would have been almost antithetical to the cinematic Hot Lips.
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Main article: Prototypes for Margaret Houlihan
Several real-life Korean War MASH nurses are said to be the prototypes for the character of "Hotlips Houlihan". Most notable among them is Capt. Ruth Dickson, Chief Nurse of the 8055th MASH. Also mentioned is one "Hotlips Hammerly," said to be a very attractive blonde, of the same disposition, and also from El Paso, Texas. A third name found in some internet resources is Capt. Jane Thurness. All of them were career Army nurses who eventually rose to high rank.
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Major Houlihan is a member of the Army Nurse Corps and in charge of all the nurses at the MASH 4077 unit. She is devoted to her army career, having been born into the tradition. Her father, Colonel Alvin "Howitzer Al" Houlihan, was her role model for her career. {An inconsistent later episode shows that he was in the cavalry instead of the artillery and that he is alive-although in a early epsiode she refers to him as dead} (Season 3 when asking Frank for money, she refers to her father being dead and her mother being a drunk and kleptomaniac.) As an army brat, she was born in an army hospital and grew up on army posts, most notably Fort Ord.
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On their wedding night her parents gave each other gifts-her father received a .25 pistol about as big as a cigarette lighter and her mother received a whiskey flask. Both her parents are divorced. Her mother is an alcoholic kleptomaniac whose antics of either being dried out or being bonded from jail take up nearly all of Houlihan's salary. In one early episode Margaret remarks that her younger sister, who is only a Captain, is getting married. In one episode on her birthday and she is lost in Korea with Klinger she confesses that she envies him for having something she never had, a hometown, because as an army brat she never had one. One episode "The Gun" has a goof in which has Houlihan remarking over a pistol Burns had stolen from a patient is that of an 1873 Colt's Single Action Army revolver, sometimes referenced as the "Peacemaker"; in fact it is a model 1921 US Army revolver. She has a knack for winning MASH 4077 betting pools; her favorite song is When the Caissons Go Rolling Along and her greatest fear is loud noises. Although she acts tough, she can be a emotionally vulnerable person (coming from a broken home with a distant father and an alcoholic mother) she devotes most of her energies to caring for her nursing staff and her Army career, although not only does she have to put up with Major Burns-who dashes her hopes of leaving his wife to marry her, an unfaithful husband {Penobscot}, and a Sgt front line lover {Scully} who also do not give her the emotional caring that she secretly craves; she has to equally put up with civilians in uniform who deeply offended her upbringing of military duty-such as a drunken commanding officer Henry Blake who exercises no discipline at all and Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John and later B.J. Hunnicut to whom the Army is one big joke which deeply offends an "army brat" like herself. During the series Houlihan character varied from a strict soulless by-the-book army nurse then to a crazy party girl and then to someone who is afraid to restrain a hysterical patient because she has to touch him...depending on who was writing the character for her.
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Hot Lips spent the early part of the series battling Hawkeye and Trapper along with Frank and, additionally, criticizing Lt. Col. Henry Blake for his lack of authority and when not going over his head, filing formal complaints. Many early jokes were at her expense, such as when a gassed boxer fell on her and Frank and when she said the oxymora description of Hawkeye and Trapper John: "They're ruining this war for all of us!" While she didn't seem to hate Henry as an individual, she once described him as a "golf playing figurehead" and later as a "fly fishing impostor". She also referred to him as "Col. Bubble-Head." Henry generally let her criticisms roll off his back, but at one point he mocked Hot Lips by saying that she'd gone over his head so many times she'd given him "athlete's scalp" and another time he refers to her as Herman Goering in drag. Still, she and Frank both wept for Henry when they heard of his death. By contrast, she got along very well with Colonel Sherman T. Potter, the camp's 2nd CO, who was something of a father figure to her. A running gag is that Houlihan relationships with men { Frank Burns , Donald Penobscot , and {Jack Scully} are all disasters-when she confess to Hawkeye that she is looking for love and never finding it-Hawkeye tells her in a compassionate way that she will know when this happens-in contrast with early episodes of the series which hint that Houlihan had relationships with every General in both stateside and in the Asia-Pacific theater-with the exception of Douglas MacArthur! There's another running gag where the male main characters give her a big dip/kiss when saying "good bye" to her - Hawkeye does it several times and Henry does it in his last episode; "Hot Lips" also kisses Col. Potter in an episode while he's drunk "I like a major with hot lips!". She does like pet dogs and has a gift of learning the Korean language. In episode "Run for the Money" {11/9} Houlihan is jealous of the head nurse of the 8063rd MASH Judy "Parallel" Parker who stole a Chief Petty officer of the USS Coral Sea {CV-43} from Houlihan! {One Goof is that the "Coral Sea" was never stationed in Korea!}; in "Hot Lips and Empty Arms" Houlihan confess that she let a rival marry a rich doctor and who ended up with a fine house; a swimming pool and two children-all of which Houlihan bitterly regrets could have been hers! Like all members of the Staff of MASH 4077 she is an alcoholic-although in real life if she had been drinking that much she would have been useless a nurse and would have been kicked out of the Army and the nursing profession. In a later season episode an old friend of hers who was a drinking three day party girl like Houlihan -gets the DTs while drying out and has to be hospitalized-of course the creators of MASH couldn't left Houlihan leave the show this way.
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The most noticeable of her physical feminine attributes among her male counterparts was her well-shaped voluptuous rear-end housed in very tight Army pants and was often literally the "butt" of jokes. One of which was when Hawkeye needed to give her an inoculation shot and coaxed her into letting him give it to her in the caboose. Hawkeye had only one word to say and that was "Magnificent!" Another was when a rash of practical jokes was sweeping through the camp including an unknowing Margaret parading around the camp in her bathrobe with the backside portion cut out resulting in several whistles, howls and a marriage proposal. (It was later revealed in the episode that Margaret made up the latter incident as part of B.J.'s elaborate practical joke on Hawkeye.) There is also an episode where Hawkeye is shoving a large amount of people in a jeep to break a world record. Hotlips became among them. As Hawkeye shoves her in, her butt is seen sitting out and she even asks him to make sure her "better side" gets in the shot.
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Over the run of the show Margaret mellowed from a completely "by-the-book" head nurse (who was also not above using her romantic contacts with superior officers to attempt to get her way), to a more reasonable member of the cast who tempered her authority with humanity. Key episodes in this development were "The Nurses" which had Margaret making an emotional tirade to her nurses about how their disdain of her hurt her, which thoroughly stuns them, and "Comrades In Arms" where Hawkeye and Margaret make peace once and for all while lost in the wilderness. When the show ended Margaret was on her way back to the US to take up a position in an army hospital. Not coincidentally, the change came when Linda Bloodworth and Mary Kay Place joined the show's writing team.
Some fans regretted the change of heart in Hot Lips' character. While some loved how she became a kinder, more gentle person, others felt that she worked better as strict, no-nonsense antagonist with a slight problem regarding her passion. Even at her most antagonistic, she was generally allowed more humanity than her fellow antagonist, Frank Burns. {One goof is that several episodes show Houlihan wearing long hair--she would have had to have it cut short in a real military situation; likewise other episodes show her in out of Uniform wearing a non-military black sweater! Had Houlihan really been in Korean War, she would have been 32 {b.1920-gone to nursing college 1938-graduate 1942 and joins service}. Ironically this is close to the real age of Sally Kellerman and Loretta Swit!}
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The name "Hot Lips" originates from an infamous scene in M*A*S*H, the movie, in which Margaret O'Houlihan is played by Sally Kellerman. During sex with Frank Burns, Margaret is unaware that the public address microphone has been planted beneath their cot, broadcasting graphic details of their sexual encounter throughout the camp on its public address system. "Yes frank! oh yes kiss my hot lips baby" (presumably her labia). This nickname was used - without the sexual meaning - more in the earlier seasons of the TV series but was used less and less as time went on.
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United Nations Service Medal
World War II Victory Medal -when Potter reviews her service record after his arrival in September 19, 1952 he remarks she has been in the service ten years {1952-10=1942} presumably she joined after she graduated from Nursing school -although there are no details if she was stationed in the US or overseas in either the Pacific or European theaters. {One goof in the series is that her rank is shown as a Major; according to the 1959 US Army Almanac {p.149} after 10 years in the service the rank for an officer could be a Captain; a Major after 14 years service}
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During the TV series, Margaret is absent from the episodes " The Moose ", " Cowboy ", " Henry Please Come Home ", " The Incubator ", " Deal Me Out ", " The Chosen People ", " Adam's Ribs ", " A Full Rich Day ", " Private Charles Lamb ", " Love and Marriage ", " The Late Captain Pierce ", " The Bus ", " Hawkeye ", " Some 38th Parallels :, " The Novocaine Mutiny " and " The Interview ".
The Swan song episode for Major Houliahan was Margaret's Marriage (TV series episode) when Houlihan is shown going off on her honeymoon-presumably the lonely Major would have found love at last and this would have been the last seen of her character; as it was indeed the last seen of Major Frank Burns ; however she was brought back again for the remaining 7 new seasons of MASH 4077
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A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines. Existing in various forms, the quatrain appears in poems from the poetic traditions of various ancient civilizations including Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and China; and, continues into the 21st century, where it is seen in works published in many languages. During Europe's Dark Ages, in the Middle East and especially Iran, polymath poets such as Omar Khayyam continued to popularize this form of poetry, also known as Ruba'i, well beyond their borders and time. There are twelve possible rhyme schemes, but the most traditional and common are: AAAA, AABB, and ABAB.
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a poem in four lines
a stanza of four lines
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Just like other forms of writing, poetry needs to be organized. Stanzas provide a structure for that organization. Each stanza is made up of a varying number of lines, just like paragraphs are made up of sentences. Each line can be a phrase or complete sentence, depending on the format of the poem. When put together in a stanza, these lines convey a larger idea. Many poets use one of these common formats to create stanzas. Certain types of poems also use a combination of them.
Couplet
A couplet is a set of two lines that usually rhyme. One More © Maranda G. Brice When the sunny skies turn from blue to gray, I can't help but wonder just what you would say? I wonder if you know how many lives you have touched, Do you know that people here love you so much? Can you even know how many dreams you made come true, Or if you can hear the voices saying I love you? Do you know how many lives you have changed, And how many lives you completely rearranged? I wish I could have just one more year, Because I can't picture the rest of my life without you here. Just another chance to spend the night, and share a laugh, Another day of school with you is what I'd like to have. Do you know you'll be greatly missed by us all? Just one more time I want to hear you're voice when I call. Just one more laugh, one more time to see you walk through the door Another smile, another story, another hug, another day...Just one more. Examples of poems with couplets: You Were Inside Me If Only I Knew Inside Out Lost In The Past Make It Green Childhood Why Play At Being Real? All Good Things Come To An End Brothers
Tercet
A tercet is a set of three lines that may or may not rhyme. A Minute © Patricia A. Gordon Every one young or old Needs someone to listen As their stories are told The difference is yours to make A minute from your busy day Is all it would take Take a minute and lend an ear Listen intently To what you hear Take a minute and you will see Just how powerful Listening can be Take a minute to offer a smile and a touch You sincerity Means so much Take a minute and simply be kind A friend for life May be what you find. Examples of poems with tercets: Remember In Time
Quatrain
A quatrain is a set of four lines that may or may not rhyme. The Butterfly © Andres Diaz With a symphony of colors Spread on her wings, She strolls in the garden With a light footprint. She smile to the flowers, She flew by the pond, And freshen her breath By kissing the rose. Examples of poems with quatrains: Never Stop Being You I Wish I Wasn't Alone Life Without You How Can I Forget? Love's Frist Words Mask
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Laguna del Carbon (Coal Lagoon) is the lowest point in which South American country? | Lowest Point By Continent (Below Sea Level) - InfopediaPk - All facts in one site
Lowest Point By Continent (Below Sea Level)
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A view from the Israeli side looking across to Jordan
Dead Sea Lowest Point In Asia
The Dead Sea (Arabic: البحر الميت Al-Bahr al-Mayyit or less commonly bahr lut,بحر لوط, "the Sea of Lot", Hebrew: Yam Ha-Melah, "Sea of Salt",Urdu بحیرہ مردار), also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west.
Its surface and shores are 422 metres (1,385 ft) below sea level,the lowest elevation on the Earth's surface on dry land. The Dead Sea is 378 m (1,240 ft) deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. It is 8.6 or 9 times more salty than the ocean.This salinity makes for a harsh environment where animals cannot flourish, hence its name. The Dead Sea is 67 kilometres (42 mi) long and 18 kilometres (11 mi) wide at its widest point. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.
The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years. It was one of the world's first health resorts (for Herod the Great), and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from balms for Egyptian mummification to potash (Potassium,K) for fertilizers. People also use the salt and the minerals from the Dead Sea to create cosmetics and herbal sachets. In 2009, 1.2 million foreign tourists visited on the Israeli side.
The sea has a density of 1.24 kg/L, making swimming difficult but providing a relaxing floating experience for tourists.
Climate
The Dead Sea's climate offers year-round sunny skies and dry air. It has less than 100 millimetres (3.94 in) mean annual rainfall and a summer average temperature between 32 and 39 °C (90 and 102 °F). Winter average temperatures range between 20 and 23 °C (68 and 73 °F).
Religious View
According to the tradition of Islam, the Dead Sea was near the land in which the Prophet Lut lived. The people in this area were considered wicked for their acts of homosexuality, robbery and murder, and therefore Allah had ordained punishment to the people of Lut for these deeds. The punishment arrived when three angels in the form of handsome men were sent down by Allah as guests for Lut to host. When Lut's people heard of the men, they rushed to Lut's house and said that those men were very handsome and they wanted to marry them. This was the final test for the people of Lut in which they failed, so the angel Jibrail raised the land where the prophet's people lived, tipped it upside down and threw it back on earth, causing the ground near the impact to cave in. Thus, the lowest land on Earth was formed because of this punishment. The non-believers (in the monotheism doctrine) were destroyed and the followers were saved.
Modern times
Explorers and scientists arrived in the area to analyze the minerals and research the unique climate. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, hundreds of religious documents dated between 150 BCE and 70 CE were found in caves near the ancient settlement of Qumran, about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea (presently in the West Bank). They became known and famous as the Dead Sea Scrolls. A golf course named for Sodom and Gomorrah was built by the British at Kalia on the northern shore.
The world's lowest road, Highway 90, runs along the Israeli and West Bank shores of the Dead Sea at 393 m (1,289 ft) below sea level.
The first major hotels were built in nearby Arad, and since the 1960s at the Neve Zohar resort complex. On Jordanian side, three international franchises have opened seaside resort hotels near the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center along the eastern coast of the Dead Sea.
Lake Assal
Lake Assal Lowest Point In Africa
Lake Assal (French: Lac Assal) is a crater lake (A crater lake is a lake that forms in a volcanic crater or caldera, such as a maar, or in an impact crater caused by a meteorite) in central Djibouti, located at the southern border of Tadjoura Region, touching Dikhil Region, some 120 km (75 mi) west of Djibouti city (Capital of the Republic of Djibouti). It lies 155 m (509 ft) below sea level in the Afar Depression and its shores comprise the lowest point on land in Africa and the second lowest land depression on Earth after the Dead Sea. It measures 19 by 7 km (4.3 mi) and has an area of 54 km2 (21 sq mi). The maximum depth is 40 m (130 ft), whereas the mean depth is 7.4 m (24 ft), which makes for a water volume of 400 million cubic metres (320,000 acre·ft). The catchment area measures 900 km2 (350 sq mi), and there is just a residual runoff of fresh water into the lake.
Lake Assal is considered the most saline body of water on earth outside Antarctica, with 34.8 percent salt concentration (up to 40% at 20 m (66 ft) depth), similar to Garabogazköl and higher than the 33.7 percent level in the Dead Sea (often incorrectly considered the world's most saline lake), and an average of 3.5 percent in the world's oceans. Only some hypersaline lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica such as Don Juan Pond have a higher salinity.
One thing that makes Assal unique is that, unlike the other major hypersaline lakes of the world, its major source of water is not from incoming streams. The sources of the lake are hot springs whose salinity is close to sea water, which are fed by the Gulf of Tadjoura (French: Golfe de Tadjoura), the western extension of the Gulf of Aden, specifically the nearly closed-off bay Ghoubet Kharab, about 10 km southeast of the lake.
The area is wild and desert-like, and no fauna or flora can be seen in the syrupy waters of the lake. The high temperature of the water (33-34 °C) favors evaporation, and it is surrounded by a salt pan (extending west and mainly northwest). The salt is mined and transported by caravan to Ethiopia.
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Badwater Basin Lowest Point In North America
Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, noted as the lowest point in North America, with an elevation of 282 ft (86 m) below sea level.
The site itself consists of a small spring-fed pool of "bad water" next to the road in a sink; the accumulated salts of the surrounding basin make it undrinkable, thus giving it the name. The pool does have animal and plant life, including pickleweed, aquatic insects, and the Badwater snail.
Adjacent to the pool, where water is not always present at the surface, repeated freeze–thaw and evaporation cycles gradually push the thin salt crust into hexagonal honeycomb shapes.
The pool itself is not actually the lowest point of the basin: the lowest point (which is only slightly lower) is several miles to the west and varies in position. However, the salt flats are hazardous to traverse (in many cases being only a thin white crust over mud), and so the sign is at the pool. The area is often mistakenly described as the lowest elevation in the Western Hemisphere, however, the record goes to Laguna del Carbón in Argentina at -105 m (−344 ft).
At Badwater, significant rainstorms flood the valley bottom periodically, covering the salt pan with a thin sheet of standing water. Each newly-formed lake does not last long though, because the 1.9 in (48 mm) of average rainfall is overwhelmed by a 150 in (3,800 mm) annual evaporation rate. This, the United States' greatest evaporation potential, means that even a 12-foot-deep, 30-mile-long lake would dry up in a single year. While the basin is flooded, some of the salt is dissolved; it is redeposited as clean crystals when the water evaporates.
A popular site for tourists is the sign marking "sea level" on the cliff above Badwater.
Laguna del carbon Lowest Point In South America
Laguna del Carbón (Spanish: Coal Lagoon) is an endorheic salt lake in the Gran Bajo de San Julián (Great San Julián Depression) of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, 54 km from Puerto San Julián. At 105 metres (344 ft) below sea level, it is the lowest point of both the Western and Southern Hemispheres, and the seventh lowest point on Earth.As in several other locations in Patagonia, dinosaur fossils have been found in the area.
Lake Eyre salt crust
Lake Eyre Lowest Point In Australia
Lake Eyre is the lowest point in Australia, at approximately 15 m (49 ft) (AHD) below sea level, and, on the rare occasions that it fills, it is the largest lake in Australia. It is the focal point of the vast Lake Eyre Basin and is found some 700 km (435 mi) north of Adelaide.
The lake was named after Edward John Eyre who was the first European to sight it in 1840. It is located in the deserts of central Australia, in northern South Australia. The Eyre Basin is a large endorheic system surrounding the lakebed, the lowest part of which is filled with the characteristic salt pan caused by the seasonal expansion and subsequent evaporation of the trapped waters. Even in the dry season there is usually some water remaining in Lake Eyre, normally collecting in a number of smaller sub-lakes on the playa.
Typically a 1.5 m (5 ft) flood occurs every three years, a 4 m (13 ft) flood every decade, and a fill or near fill four times a century. The water in the lake soon evaporates with a minor and medium flood drying by the end of the following summer.
An aerial view of the southern Caspian coast as viewed from atop the Alborz mountains in Mazandaran, Iran
The Caspian Sea Lowest Point In Europe
The Caspian Sea Persian: دریای خزر or دریای مازندران, Russian: Каспийское море, Kazakh: Каспий теңізі, Turkmen: Hazar deňzi,Azerbaijani: Xəzər dənizi) is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea.The sea has a surface area of 371,000 km2 (143,200 sq mi) (Not including Garabogazköl Aylagy) and a volume of 78,200 km3 (18,800 cu mi).It is in an endorheic basin (it has no outflows) and is bounded by northern Iran, southern Russia, western Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and eastern Azerbaijan.
The ancient inhabitants of its littoral perceived the Caspian Sea as an ocean, probably because of its saltiness and seeming boundlessness. It has a salinity of approximately 1.2%, about a third the salinity of most seawater. The Caspian Sea has been called Gilan (جیلان or بحر جیلان) on ancient maps. In Iran, it is sometimes referred to as Daryâ-ye Mazandaran (دریای مازندران), meaning "the Sea of Mazandaran" in Persian.
Over 130 rivers provide inflow to the Caspian, with the Volga River being the largest. A second affluent, the Ural River, flows in from the north, and the Kura River flows into the sea from the west. In the past, the Amu Darya (Oxus) of Central Asia in the east often changed course to empty into the Caspian through a now-desiccated riverbed called the Uzboy River, as did the Syr Darya farther north. The Caspian also has several small islands; they are primarily located in the North and have a collective land area of roughly 2,000 km2 (770 sq mi). Adjacent to the North Caspian is the Caspian Depression, a low-lying region 28 metres (92 ft) below sea level.Is the lowest point in europe.
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Chapter 6 South America
Identifying the Boundaries
Europeans called the Western Hemisphere the New World. South America is the realm consisting of the southern portion of the New World. This realm includes the entire continent of South America, which is smaller in physical area than North America. As a continent, South America is larger in physical area than Europe, Antarctica, or Australia but is smaller in physical area than Africa or Asia. The South American continent is located farther east than North America and is smaller in physical area. Almost the entire landmass of South America lies to the east of the same meridian that runs through Miami, Florida. The Atlantic Ocean borders the continent to the east and the Pacific Ocean borders the continent on the west. The narrow Isthmus of Panama creates a natural break between the South American continent and its neighbors to the north. The Caribbean Sea creates the northern boundary.
The continent covers an extensive range of latitude. The equator cuts through the northern part of the continent directly through the mouth of the mighty Amazon River. The country of Ecuador is located on the equator—hence its name. The equatorial region is dominated by the tropical climates of the immense Amazon Basin. The Tropic of Capricorn runs directly through the latitude of São Paulo, Brazil, and Chile’s Atacama Desert, which reveals that most of the continent is in the zone of the tropics to the north. South of the Tropic of Capricorn is the Southern Cone of South America, home to the physical regions of the Pampas and Patagonia. Tierra del Fuego is the southern tip of the realm with territory in both Argentina and Chile. On the south side of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago is Cape Horn, which is considered the southernmost land point of the continent. The Diego Ramírez Islands south of Cape Horn mark the southern boundary of South America.
A number of noted island groups are usually affiliated with the physical region of South America. The Galapagos Islands are territorially a part of the country of Ecuador. The Falkland Islands, often referred to as the Malvinas, are located off the southern coast of Argentina. They are physically associated with South America but are administered and controlled by Great Britain as an overseas territory. Argentina has claimed the Falkland Islands and has battled Great Britain for them. Chile controls the noted Easter Island and the Robinson Crusoe Island in the Pacific Ocean. Various islands in the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean—such as the Dutch islands of Aruba, Curacao, and Bonaire—are sometimes associated with South America because of their proximity to the continent. They are included in Section 5.4 "The Caribbean" on the Caribbean and are more often associated with Middle America.
Figure 6.1 South America: Political Map of the Countries and Various Physical Regions
The main two physical features of South America are the Andes Mountains and the Amazon River.
6.1 Introducing the Realm
Summarize the main physical features and characteristics of South America.
Explain how European colonialism dominated the realm and divided up the continent.
Describe the ethnic, economic, and political patterns in the Guianas.
Outline the main cultural realms of South America. Describe each realm’s main ethnic majority and explain how colonialism impacted each region.
Summarize how the South American countries are attempting to integrate their economies.
The continent of South America has a wide diversity of physical landscapes, from the high Andes Mountains to the tropical forests of the Amazon Basin. This assortment of physical features offers many resource bases, allowing people to engage in economic activity, gain wealth, and provide for their needs. The long range of the Andes holds mineral riches that have been being extracted since ancient times. Precious metals have been mined from the mountains to grant great opportunities for those fortunate enough to be recipients of its wealth. Fossil fuels have been found in abundance in the far northern regions of Venezuela and Colombia. The Amazon Basin has been a source of hardwood lumber and, more recently, extensive mineral wealth. Some of the largest iron-ore mines in the world are located here. The massive plains of Brazil and the rich soils of the Pampas allow for enormous agricultural operations that provide food products for the continent and for the world. Even the inhospitable Atacama region in northern Chile holds some of the world’s largest copper reserves. In addition, the wide variety of climate zones allows a diverse range of species to develop. The extremes in physical geography in South America have created both barriers and opportunities to those who live there.
Before the era of European colonialism, many local groups organized themselves into states or empires. The Inca Empire was the largest in existence at the time the Europeans arrived. The early empires developed massive structures that required huge cut stones weighing many tons to be moved into place without the benefit of modern tools or technology. European colonialism altered the continent in several ways. Not only did the Europeans defeat and conquer indigenous Amerindian groups such as the Inca, but cultural exchanges also took place that altered the way of life for countless South Americans. Colonialism created many of the current country borders and influenced trade relationships with the newly created colonies. The plantation system and the introduction of slaves from Africa drastically changed the ethnic makeup of the people living along the eastern coast. After slavery was abolished, indentured servitude brought workers from Asia to support the labor base.
Indentured servants were usually poor individuals who agreed to work for an agreed upon period of time, usually less than seven years, in return for the necessities of life such as lodging, food, and transportation or clothing. These individuals did not usually receive a salary but may have received a lump sum payment upon completion of the agreed upon service. Under favorable conditions indentured servants were treated like relatives and gained important experience and job skills to provide for their future. Many situations were much less favorable and resembled a form of slavery where individuals did not survive their servitude but succumbed to disease, harsh conditions, or death.
The physical environment and the influence of colonialism were both responsible for the cultural attributes of the regions of South America. The continent can be divided into regions by ethnic majorities influenced by early colonial development. The mixing of ethnic groups from Europe, Africa, and Asia with each other or with the indigenous population has created a diverse cultural mosaic. For example, most people in Guyana and Suriname are from Asia, most people in Argentina and Uruguay are from Europe, most people in Peru and Bolivia are Amerindian, and most people in many areas along the eastern coast of Brazil are of African descent. A large percentage of the population of South America is of a mixed ethnic background. Understanding the cultural geography of South American supports comprehension of the realm’s human development patterns.
South America’s modern economic development has helped integrated it with the global economy. The levels of economic development vary widely within the realm. There are clear indications of core-peripheral spatial patterns within various regions of the continent, and rural-to-urban shift has been strong in many areas. The rural regions in the Andes or the interior suffer from a lack of economic support needed to modernize their infrastructure. At the same time, metropolitan areas are expanding rapidly and are totally integrated with global markets and the latest technologies. Most of the large cities are located along the coastal regions. This pattern of urbanization is mainly a result of colonial activity and influence. The countries of South America are working among themselves to network trade and commerce activities. Trade agreements and economic unions have become standard methods of securing business partnerships to enhance the realm’s economic opportunities.
Physical Geography
The far-reaching Andes Mountains and the massive Amazon River system dominate South America’s physical geography. The five-thousand-mile-long Andes Mountain chain extends along the entire western region of the continent from Venezuela to southern Chile. The Andes are the longest mountain chain on Earth and the highest in the Americas. The Andes Mountain range has more than thirty peaks that reach at least twenty thousand feet in elevation, many of which are active volcanoes. The Andes has provided isolation to the Inca Empire, mineral wealth to those with the means for extraction, and a barrier to travelers crossing the continent. The Andes’ minerals include gold, silver, tin, and other precious metals. Mining became a major industry in the colonial era and continues to the present.
At the core of the continent is the mighty Amazon River, which is more than two thousand miles long and has an enormous drainage basin in the largest tropical rain forest in the world. The Amazon’s many tributaries are larger than many other world rivers. Flowing parallel to the equator, the Amazon is in contention with the Nile as the longest river in the world. In 2007, a dispute arose over the actual length of the Amazon River. Brazilian scientists using satellite imagery and teams on the ground using a global positioning system (GPS) calculated a new length for the Amazon. Using similar methods, the Nile River also had a new length calculated. Both were determined to be longer than originally measured. At this time, the actual length of each river is openly disputed. The most accurate statement is that the Amazon River has the greatest discharge of any river in the world, and it is potentially also the longest river in the world.
The Amazon carries about a fifth of all river water in the world. The Amazon and its many tributaries drain the entire interior region of the continent, covering 40 percent of South America. During the rainy season, the Amazon River can be more than one hundred miles wide. No bridges span the Amazon River. Its source is a glacial stream located high in the Peruvian Andes, about 150 miles from the Pacific Ocean.
The Amazon’s extended tributaries—such as the Rio Negro, the Madeira, and the Xingu—move massive amounts of water through the Amazon Basin and are major rivers in their own right. The Amazon has more than 1,100 tributaries; a dozen are more than one thousand miles long. Hydroelectric dams are located on the tributaries to produce electricity for the region’s fast-growing development. South America has additional large rivers that drain the continent, including the Orinoco, which flows through Venezuela; the Sao Francisco, which flows through southeast Brazil; and the Paraguay and the Paraná Rivers, which flow south from Brazil into the Rio de la Plata between Argentina and Uruguay.
Lake Titicaca rests in the middle of the Altiplano Region of the Central Andes on the border between Peru and Bolivia. The Altiplano Region is a wide basin between two main Andean mountain ranges. The word altiplano Spanish term for “valley.” The Altiplano in South America is the region located around Lake Titicaca between two ranges of the Andes. means “valley” in Spanish. There are a substantial number of altiplanos in South America. They provide for agricultural production and human habitation. The Altiplano Region has been home to ancient civilizations that date back to early human settlements. Lake Titicaca is a large freshwater lake about 120 miles long and 50 miles wide. The surface is at an elevation of about twelve thousand feet above sea level, and the lake is more than nine hundred feet deep in some areas. Usually at such high elevations, the temperature would dip below freezing and restrict agriculture. However, the large lake acts as a solar energy collector by absorbing energy from the sun during the day and giving off that energy in the form of heat during the night. The energy redistribution allows for a moderate temperature around the lake that is conducive to growing food crops. With abundant fresh water and the ability to grow food and catch fish, the Altiplano Region has supported human habitation for thousands of years. On the Bolivian side of the lake is the ancient stone site of Tiahuanaco, which has had some artifacts dated to 1500 BCE or earlier. People continue to live around and on Lake Titicaca and maintain a subsistence lifestyle.
Figure 6.2 Lake Titicaca with Traditional Reed Boat Made by Amerindian Locals
Lake Titicaca is the highest-elevation navigable lake in the world.
Source: Photo courtesy of Benedict Adam, http://www.flickr.com/photos/backpackerben/2791685045 .
Across the Andes Mountains from the Altiplano Region is the Atacama Desert. The Atacama is one of the driest places on Earth: in some parts, no rain has fallen in recorded history. In normal circumstances, the Atacama would be a desolate region without human activity, but that is not the case. Some of the world’s largest copper reserves are found here. Nitrates, which are used in fertilizers, are also found in large quantities. Mining the Atacama has brought enormous wealth to people fortunate enough to be on the receiving end of the profits. The rain shadow effect is responsible for the extraordinary dryness of the Atacama. The Andes are quite high at this latitude, and the winds blow in rain clouds from the east. When the clouds reach the mountains, they ascend in elevation, releasing their precipitation without ever reaching the western side of the Andes.
South America has large agricultural plateaus east of the Andes, such as the Mato Grosso Plateau, which includes a portion of the great cerrado agricultural region of central Brazil. The Cerrado is a vast plain that has been developed for agriculture and produces enormous harvests of soybeans and grain crops. Bordering the Cerrado to the southeast are the Brazilian Highlands, an extensive coffee-growing region. The Pampas in eastern Argentina, Uruguay, and southernmost Brazil is another excellent agricultural region with good soils and adequate rainfall. Farming, cattle ranching, and even vineyards can be found here, making the Pampas the breadbasket of the Southern Cone. To the south of the Pampas is the lengthy expanse of Patagonia, which covers the southern portion of Argentina east of the Andes. Patagonia is a prairie grassland region that does not receive a very much rainfall because of the rain shadow effect of the Andes to the west. The main activities in Patagonia are the raising of cattle and other livestock. The region is starting to attract attention for the extraction of natural resources such as oil, natural gas, and valuable minerals.
To the northern part of the continent in Venezuela and Colombia, sandwiched between the Andes Mountains and the Guiana Highlands, is a grassland region with scrub forests called the Llanos Term referring to a treeless grassland region or plateau. Most noted for the region between the Andes and the Guiana Highlands along the Orinoco River basin of northern South America.. The human population is small because of the remoteness of the region along the Orinoco River basin. The Guiana Highlands of southeast Venezuela and the Guianas are an isolated set of mountainous plateaus mixed with rugged landscapes and tropical climates. Angel Falls, the highest waterfall in the world, with a free fall of more than 2,647 feet and a total drop of about 3,212 feet (more than half a mile), is located here. To the northwest of the Llanos and the Guiana Highlands in Venezuela is Lake Maracaibo, a large inland lake open to the Caribbean Sea. A coastal lake, Maracaibo rests atop vast oil reserves that provide economic wealth for Venezuela.
European Colonialism
South America’s colonial legacy shaped its early cultural landscape. The indigenous people, with their empires and local groups, were no match for the Iberian invaders who brought European colonialism to the continent. South America was colonized exclusively by two main Iberian powers: Spain colonized the western part of the South America, and Portugal colonized the east coast of what is present-day Brazil. The only region that was not colonized by those two powers was the small region of the Guianas, which was colonized by Great Britain, the Netherlands, and France.
Figure 6.3 Colonial Activity in South America
Everything changed with the invasion of the Iberian colonizers. The underlying tenets of culture, religion, and economics of the local indigenous people were disrupted and forced to change. It is no mystery why the two dominant languages of South America are Spanish and Portuguese and why Roman Catholicism is the realm’s dominant religion. Colonialism also was responsible for transporting food crops such as the potato, which originated in the Peruvian Andes, to the European dinner table. Today, coffee is a main export of Colombia, Brazil, and other countries in the tropics. Coffee was not native to South America but originated in Ethiopia and was transferred by colonial activity. The same is true of sugarcane, bananas, and citrus fruits; oranges were not native to South America, but today Brazil is the number one exporter of orange juice. Colonialism was driven by the desire for profit from the quick sale of products such as gold or silver, and there was a ready market for goods not found in Europe, such as tobacco, corn, exotic animals, and tropical woods.
Plantation agriculture introduced by the Europeans led to a high demand for manual laborers. When the local populations could not meet the labor demand, millions of African workers were brought through the slave trade. These African slaves introduced their own unique customs and traditions, altering the culture and demographics of the Western Hemisphere. The current indigenous Amerindian population, a fraction of what it was before the Europeans arrived, makes up only a small percentage of South America’s total population. Europeans colonizers generally took the best land and controlled the economic trade of the region. The acculturation in South America is directly related to the European colonial experience.
The Inca Empire and Francisco Pizarro
Not long after Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire of Mexico in 1521, a young Spanish conquistador named Francisco Pizarro, stationed in what is now Panama, heard rumors of silver and gold found among the South American people. He led several sailing excursions along the west coast of South America. In 1531 CE, he founded the port city of Lima, Peru. Since 1200 CE, the Inca had ruled a large empire extending out from central Peru, which included the high-elevation Altiplano Region around Lake Titicaca. The Inca Empire dominated an area from Ecuador to Northern Chile. The Inca were not the most populous people but were a ruling class who controlled other subjugated groups. Pizarro, with fewer than two hundred men and two dozen horses, met up with the Inca armies and managed to defeat them in a series of military maneuvers. The Inca leader was captured by the Spanish in 1533. Two years later, in 1535, the Inca Empire collapsed.
Figure 6.4 Colonialism in South America
The two main colonizers in South America were Spain and Portugal. The Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro defeated the Inca Empire.
The Inca Empire was significant thanks to the high volume of gold and silver found in that region of the Andes. The story is told that Pizarro placed the captured Inca leader in a small room and told him that if the room was filled with gold to the top of the Inca leader’s head, Pizarro would let the Inca leader go free. Gold was summoned from the people and the countryside, and the room was filled. The conquistadors forced the Inca leader to convert to Catholicism and be baptized and then killed him. The gold was melted down and transported back to Spain. The mineral wealth of the Andes made the conquistadors rich. Lima was once one of the wealthiest cities in the world. Europeans continued to dominate and exploit the mining of minerals in Peru and Bolivia throughout the colonial era. European elites or a Mestizo ruling class has dominated or controlled the local Amerindian groups in the Andes since colonial times.
Figure 6.5 The Jesuit Church of La Compañia de Jesús on the Plaza de Armas in Cuzco, Peru
The original church was constructed in 1571 on the site of the ancient Incan palace. The earthquake of 1650 caused severe damage to the building, so it had to be reconstructed in about 1688. Many Catholic cathedrals in Latin America were built with stones from ancient sites. This cathedral is claimed to be the Western Hemisphere’s most ideal example of colonial baroque architecture.
Source: Photo courtesy of James Preston, http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamespreston/1125218299 .
Many Amerindian groups inhabited this region before the Inca Empire, such as the people who built and lived in the ancient city of Tiahuanaco, which could have bordered Lake Titicaca during an earlier climate period, when the lake was much larger. Clearly, humans have lived in South America for thousands of years. There is speculation that travel between South America and the Mediterranean region occurred earlier than current historic records indicate. Many of the ruins in the western region of South America have not been thoroughly excavated or examined by archaeologists, and the size and scope of many of the stone structures stand as testimony to the advancements in engineering and technology employed in an era that, according to historical records, had only primitive tools.
The Iberian Division of the Continent
The Spanish conquistadors were not the only European invaders to colonize South America. Colonial influence—which forced a change in languages, religion, and economics—also came from the small European kingdom of Portugal. Portuguese ships sailed along the eastern coast of South America and laid claim to the region for the king. The Portuguese did not find large gold or silver reserves, but they coveted the land for the expansion of their empire. Soon the Spanish and the Portuguese were fighting over the same parts of South America. In 1494, the issue was brought before the Roman Catholic Church. The Tordesillas Line was drawn on a map to divide South America into the Spanish west and the Portuguese east. The region that is now Brazil became the largest Portuguese colonial possession in South America, a center for plantation agriculture similar to that in the Caribbean. For this reason, a large African population lives in Brazil, and most of the people in Brazil speak Portuguese and are Roman Catholics.
Independence did not come for the Spanish colonies until 1816 and 1818, when Chile and Argentina broke away in an independence movement in the south. Simón Bolívar led liberation movements in the north. By 1824, the Spanish were defeated in South America. Brazil did not gain independence from Portugal until 1822, when the prince of Portugal declared an independent Brazil and made himself Brazil’s first emperor. It was not until 1889 that a true republic was declared and empire was abolished.
Colonialism and the Guianas
The Guianas in the northeast were the only European colonies in South America that were not under Spanish or Portuguese control. The British, Dutch, and French all held claims to different parts of the Guianas. French Guiana remains a colony (department) of France to this day. The transition from colony to independent state has required persistence, time, and patience. Guyana and Suriname only just received their independence in the latter part of the twentieth century.
Figure 6.6 The Guianas of South America
The coastal location of the Guianas provided European colonialists with an excellent site for plantation agriculture. Coastal cities had easy access to the Atlantic trade system. The active slave trade in the Atlantic brought African slaves to the Guianas to work the plantations. When slavery was abolished, indentured servants were brought in from other parts of the world that were colonized by the same European powers. Colonialism and plantation agriculture entirely changed the cultural dynamics of the Guianas. Port cities along the coast are the dominant urban centers. The Guianas follow a pattern similar to that of the rimland of the Caribbean and are included with the Caribbean in many studies. At the present time, bauxite (aluminum ore) mining and oil deposits along the coast provide modest income, and many people make their living in subsistence agriculture.
Guyana
Guyana and its neighbors have a tropical type A climate. The main interior regions are covered with dense forests. Some deforestation has taken place in Guyana; even so, forests cover more than 80 percent of Guyana’s land area with a diverse range of forests, ranging from dry evergreen forests to tropical rain forests, and with thousands of species of plants that are only found in this region. Guyana’s natural habitats and biodiversity are unparalleled, which is attributable to the climate, distinctive landforms, and largely well-preserved ecosystems. Its large rain forests play host to a myriad of species not found elsewhere. The interior regions remain more than 70 percent pristine, but this will change if logging, mining, and deforestation are not managed appropriately.
Guyana was called British Guiana before it became independent in 1966. The region was home to Carib and Arawak groups before the arrival of the Dutch, who established the first colony there in 1616. By 1831, the British had taken control and declared the colony British Guiana. African slaves were the main source of plantation labor until slavery was abolished in 1834. At that point, indentured servants from many countries were targeted for labor; most were East Indians from South Asia. There were also thousands of servants from China and other countries.
The ethnic background of Guyana’s population, which is less than one million, is a mix of African (36 percent), East Indian (50 percent), and Amerindian (7 percent). The remainder are mixed and European. The religious background of the East Indians includes both Hindus and Muslims. About 50 percent of the population has converted to Christianity. Ethnic divisions create difficulties in organizing politics and social activities. For example, one political concern is that minority groups with greater economic advantages will dominate the political arena without regard to the wishes of other ethnic groups.
Most of Guyana’s people live in the coastal regions. The almost impenetrable interior has large uninhabited areas with dense tropical forests. To protect its unique biodiversity, large areas have been placed in conservation areas and national parks. More than one million acres have been placed in the Konashen Community-Owned Conservation Area (COCA) to help preserve the natural environment and provide a sustainable economic relationship with local Waiwai people. In a similar effort, the government created the Kaieteur National Park, which features the spectacular Kaieteur Falls, which is about five times higher than Niagara Falls in North America. For its size, the falls has an enormous amount of water volume flowing over its crest. Other areas of the Guyana are also being considered for preservation.
Figure 6.7 Kaieteur Falls, Guyana
Kaieteur Falls has the largest single-drop waterfall by volume in the world. A national park has been created in this area to include the falls.
Source: Photo courtesy of Paul Arps, http://www.flickr.com/photos/slapers/5354124503 .
Guyana’s economy is based on agricultural activities and the export of extracted natural resources. Sugarcane is a main cash crop, and timber sales are increasing. Fishing is common in the coastal areas. Bauxite mining has been the main mining activity, and mining of gold and other minerals has only advanced in recent years. Guyana’s economy is similar to that of many islands of the Caribbean, a relationship exemplified by its membership in CARICOM (the Caribbean Community). CARICOM’s headquarters is located in Georgetown, the capital of Guyana.
Suriname
Suriname’s colonial name was Dutch Guiana. The name was changed when independence was granted in 1975. The cultural background of the colony is as diverse as its history. Dutch Guiana was divided between British and Dutch colonists. Slavery and plantation agriculture were introduced in the colonial period, and the harsh conditions of slavery caused many slaves to escape the plantations and live in the forests. These runaway slaves, called Maroons, eventually organized into viable independent groups. Peace treaties were finally made with the Maroons to grant them legitimate rights. After slavery was abolished, indentured servants from South Asia and the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) were conscripted into the colony’s labor base.
Most of the half-million people who live in Suriname today reside along the coast. The ethnic background of the people includes East Indian (37 percent), Creole (31 percent), Indonesian (15 percent), African (10 percent), Amerindian (2 percent), Chinese (2 percent), and European (about 1 percent). All three of the Guianas are ethnically diverse, and in this setting, the diversity creates tensions related to social and economic stability. Guyana and Suriname are the least Latin regions of South America; the Creoles, for example, are mainly a mix of African and Dutch mixed with Asian or Amerindian. Establishing a stable government and conducting civil affairs are often complicated by the ethnic groups that vie for power and political control. The religious background in Suriname includes Hindu, Muslim, Christian, and a mix of African religions such as Winti.
Figure 6.8 Ethnic Groups of Suriname by Percentage of the Population
Source: Data courtesy of CIA World Factbook 2010, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ns.html .
Suriname depends on agriculture and natural resources as its two main economic activities. Suriname has the smallest physical area of all the independent South American states, and it has a limited ability to provide opportunities and advantages for its growing population. Bauxite is the country’s main export product. In 1941, during World War II, the United States occupied the country to secure the valuable bauxite mines that were critical to the war effort. Suriname has also been expanding its gold mining, oil extraction, logging, and fishing industries. To protect its natural environment and its extensive biodiversity, the country has established national parks and created the large Central Suriname Nature Reserve, which UNESCO has named a World Heritage Site. Suriname hopes to benefit from these measures to create an ecotourism market.
Both Guyana and Suriname have had border disputes with their neighbors. Guyana has been locked in a challenge with Venezuela over its western region, which Venezuela claimed during the colonial era. A 1905 treaty ruled in Guyana’s favor, but a small portion is still under dispute. The corner of Surname that borders Brazil and Guyana has been an issue of contention fueled by the potential for mining of gold and other minerals in the area. The maritime boundary between Suriname and Guyana is also a point of contention. Suriname’s border with French Guiana has a disputed area along the southern corner next to Brazil. These disputes emerged out of colonial agreements and poorly defined treaty boundaries.
French Guiana
French Guiana is still a colony (department) of France. With fewer than 250,000 people in an area slightly smaller than Kentucky, this is a sparsely inhabited area. Half the population lives in the capital city of Cayenne. Most of the population is Creole, mainly a combination of African and French with various Asian groups mixed in. The people work in subsistence agriculture or for the French government. A noted feature of the colony’s heritage is the former off-shore prison on Devil’s Island, which France used to secure its most undesirable prisoners. More than fifty thousand French prisoners were delivered to the Devil’s Island facility during the colonial era, but less than 10 percent survived. The prison was closed in 1951.
Figure 6.9 The Ariane 42P Carrying the TOPEX/Poseidon Spacecraft
This Ariane 42P was launched from the European Space Agency’s Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, on August 10, 1992.
Source: Photo courtesy of NASA, http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/topexposeidon/general/?ImageID=104 .
The European Space Agency maintains a launch center in French Guiana because of its favorable climate and launch conditions. France maintains the facility and has highly subsidized the department’s economy. This European support provides the population with a higher standard of living than in many other South American countries. Economic activities have included fishing, agriculture (bananas and sugar), and logging. Deforestation from the sale of hardwood lumber has become a problem throughout the Guianas as it leaves the soil open for erosion. Logging endangers the area’s fragile but extensive biodiversity. Roads, dams, and gold mining have also contributed to the erosive destruction of the environment.
Cultural Regions of South America
It is impossible to understand the current conditions in South America without first understanding what occurred to create those conditions. This is why studying European colonialism is so important. Colonialism changed the ethnicity, religion, language, and economic activities of the people in South America. The past five hundred years have tempered, stretched, and molded the current states and regions of the South American continent. To identify standards of living, ethnic majorities, and economic conditions, it is helpful to map out South America’s various cultural regions.
In South America, five main cultural regions indicate the majority ethnic groups and the main economic activities:
Tropical Plantation Region
6.2 Urban North and Andean West
Learning Objectives
Understand the dynamics of Venezuela’s urban society and why Venezuela has not experienced a robust rural-to-urban shift to the extent that other countries have.
Summarize the production of the three main export products of Colombia and explain the US role in their export.
Compare the three main countries in the Andean West region of South America and understand how they gained their wealth and who has benefited the most over the years from that wealth.
Outline how Paraguay’s geographical setting has allowed it to gain wealth and provide opportunities for its people.
Venezuela: Oil, Politics, and Globalization
Bordering the Caribbean is the large urban country of Venezuela. The Andes Mountains reach into the northern part of the country and make up the terrain of the northern coastal region all the way to the capital city of Caracas. The large grassland plains of the Llanos extend farther south from the Colombian border to the Orinoco River delta. The Llanos is a large, sparsely populated region that makes up about one-third of the country. It is remote, susceptible to flooding, and used mainly for raising cattle. In the southeast of Venezuela are the Guiana Highlands, which make for a spectacular physical landscape of tropical forests and rugged mountainous terrain. The highlands include Angel Falls, the tallest waterfall in the world. Angel Falls drops 2,647 feet and is Venezuela’s most popular tourist attraction. Lake Maracaibo, a large inland sea located in the western region of the country, is not a true lake in that it is open to the Caribbean Sea, but it is considered the largest inland body of water in South America. Lake Titicaca, located in the Andean region of the Altiplano on the border between Peru and Bolivia, is considered the continent’s largest freshwater lake.
Figure 6.14 Northern South America and Venezuela
Notice that most of the main cities are located along the northern coast.
Source: Map courtesy of the CIA World Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ve.html .
Figure 6.15 Angel Falls, Venezuela
The total falls is estimated at 3,212 feet; the largest free fall is estimated to be about 2,647 feet—about half a mile. Angel Falls is the country’s number one tourist attraction.
Source: Photo courtesy of Inti, http://www.flickr.com/photos/inti/3102779830 .
Venezuela has an assortment of physical regions, but most of the population lives along the northern coast. About 90 percent live in urban areas, and the capital Caracas has the highest population. Less than 5 percent of the population lives south of the Orinoco River, and Amerindian groups live in the interior and along the river.
Included in the Mixed Mestizo Cultural Region, Venezuela has a heavy Spanish influence laid over an Amerindian base in a plantation region known for its African infusion. There is also a strong Caribbean cultural flavor, which is evident in the region’s music and lifestyle. The official language is Spanish, but more than thirty indigenous languages are still spoken in the country.
Venezuela gained its independence from Spain in 1821 and has developed into an urban country with an economy based on oil production. A large extent of the interior is undeveloped. Venezuela does not have extensively developed agricultural production, so most food goods are imported. Lake Maracaibo has vast oil reserves beneath it that have provided substantial wealth to the country.
As much as 90 percent of Venezuela’s export earnings are from the export of oil. Venezuela’s national oil company, CITGO, has made extensive inroads into the US gas station market. The country was one of the founding members of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), which is usually associated with the oil-rich states of the Persian Gulf. In the past decade, Venezuela has been one of the top five countries exporting oil to the United States. The other four are Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Nigeria.
As is the case with many countries, national wealth in Venezuela does not filter down to most of the population. The wealthy elite who have benefited the most from the nation’s wealth often find themselves on the opposite side of the political debate from the majority, who are likely to live in poor conditions. Caracas has many upscale neighborhoods, but it also has a large number of slums on the outskirts of the city. Slums in South America go by different names, such as barrios Term used to describe a slum in the northern parts of South America and Middle America. in Venezuela or favelas Term used to describe a slum in parts of South America, particularly Brazil. in Brazil. Many of Venezuela’s barrios are built on the mountainsides of the Andes.
Figure 6.16 The Two Sides of Caracas, the Capital City of Venezuela
The photo on the left is of the main urban core, with upscale neighborhoods. The photo on the right is a barrio located on a steep mountainside. Barrios are usually self-constructed slum areas and are similar to favelas in Brazil.
Sources: Photo on the left courtesy of Cristóbal Alvarado Minic, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctam/4732562277 . Photo on the right courtesy of Danila Medvedev, http://www.flickr.com/photos/danila/29987096 .
Exporting oil to the United States does not inherently lead to a friendly political relationship between the United States and Venezuela. There has been some political unrest within the country related to the current president, Hugo Chavez, holding continuous terms in office without term limits. President Chavez has held close ties with socialist Cuba and with the Castro regime and has made somewhat antagonistic statements about the world’s core economic countries. From time to time, his rhetoric and his positions are not geared toward enhancing the country’s political relationship with the United States. This situation has caused concern within the US political establishment with regard to the position that the United States takes toward Venezuela. Nevertheless, the United States remains Venezuela’s number one trading partner in both imports and exports.
Politics in Venezuela often plays the wealthy elites against the poorer majority, and President Chavez has not been an exception. Chavez has supported socialist political leaders from other Latin American states and has pushed a globalization agenda along the same lines. The country’s enormous oil revenues and its current political climate have increased Venezuela’s visibility in the global arena, but how this will play out over the long term is unclear. In the past, Latin America has had a greater number of elected political leaders with more progressive or socialist views. These trends continue to shape the economic trade agreements between countries. Venezuela has been working to increase sales of oil to countries in Mercosur (the Southern Cone Common Market), which is the most significant trade association in South America.
Globalization is also evident in Venezuela’s cultural and social dynamics. In many Latin American countries, soccer (European football) is the most popular sport, but Venezuela’s biggest sport is baseball because of the influence of early US activity in the country’s oil industry. Soccer is gaining attention and support, however. Orchestras and classical music performances have also gained notoriety in recent years. Concert halls from the Americas to Europe have experienced the performances of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra. The Miss Venezuela pageant is a major production for the country, and Venezuela has won the top title at least five times in each of the following pageants: Miss World, Miss Universe, and Miss International.
Colombia: Drugs, Coffee, and Oil
Three ranges of the Andes Mountains run from north to south through Colombia, which is larger than the nine most southeastern US states. With a land area covering about 440,839 square miles, Colombia is more than ten times larger than the US state of Kentucky and close to twice the size of France. Colombia borders five countries, with the Caribbean to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Orinoco River to the east, and a short segment of the Amazon River to the far south. Even though agriculture has been a mainstay of the country’s economic activities, because of the influence of the mountainous terrain, about 75 percent of the population lives in urban areas.
Figure 6.17 Physical Size of Colombia: 440,839 Square Miles
Colombia was a Spanish colony during the time that Spain controlled most of western South America. Colombia became independent in 1819. The region of Panama, which was first a part of Colombia, broke away in 1903 when the United States backed Panama’s independence movement. After Colombia became independent of Spain, the conservatives (wealthy elite) and the liberals (poor workers) struggled to gain control of the government. Since 1948, the conflict, known as La Violencia, has caused more than two hundred thousand casualties. During the twentieth century the government in Colombia has not always been peaceful or stable. By the beginning of the twenty-first century the government has become more unified and the country has even witnessed an increase in tourism.
Colombia and the Drug Trade
Colombia’s tropical climate and its many remote areas contributed to its development as a major coca-growing region. By the 1970s, extensive drug smuggling had developed, and powerful drug cartels became major political brokers within the country, competing against the government for control of Colombia. The largest and most organized cartels operated out of Medellin and Cali, the second- and third-largest cities in the country after the capital city of Bogotá.
The coca plant grows throughout the slopes of the Andes, from Colombia to Bolivia. Historically, locals have chewed it or brewed it into tea. Coca can alleviate elevation sickness and act as a mild stimulant. Using modern methods and strong chemicals, the coca leaves can be converted into coca paste and then into cocaine hydrochloride, a powerful narcotic. It often takes up to a ton of such chemicals as sulfuric acid, kerosene, methyl alcohol, and additional substitutes to produce a kilo of cocaine. Once the process is completed, most of the chemicals are discarded and frequently find their way into nearby rivers and streams, which are the same water supplies that local people drink, clean with, and bathe in. Birth defects have become a problem in coca-growing regions because of the high levels of chemical pollution in water supplies.
It must be noted that the short, leafy coca plant that cocaine comes from is not the same as the cacao tree that produces the beans that chocolate or cocoa comes from. They are two completely different plants with separate processes.
The United States is the largest cocaine market. Secret airfields and private boats transport the cocaine from Colombia to distribution centers in Mexico, Central America, or the Caribbean. From there, the drugs are smuggled into the United States. Colombian drugs are a multibillion-dollar industry that makes up a large portion of the Colombian economy. The effect of the drug industry on the people of Colombia is extensive—from the gunfire on the streets to the corruption of government officials. In recent years, the same drug cartels that have operated the cocaine industry have imported opium poppies, which grow well on the higher and more arid slopes of the Andes. Opium poppies are native to Asia but have been transported to South America. Opium is extracted from the seedpod and can be further refined into heroin. Colombian drug cartels, with a Mexican distribution network, have muscled into as much as 20 percent of the US heroin market. The US government has supported the Colombian government in the fight against the drug cartels and the trafficking of illegal drugs out of Colombia.
Colombian Coffee and Oil
Colombia’s two main legal exports to the United States are coffee and oil. Coffee is only grown in the tropics, since coffee trees must be grown in a frost-free environment. Coffee trees, which originally grew in Ethiopia, have since been grown throughout the world. Coffee trees can grow in elevations from sea level to six thousand feet, but most of the best specialty coffee is grown at elevations between three thousand to six thousand feet. Colombia has ideal conditions for growing coffee and was once the world’s largest coffee producer; now Brazil and Vietnam each produce more.
Early coffee production in Colombia was initially promoted by Catholic priests who were influential in supporting local parishioners to grow the crop. The industry was greatly enhanced in 1927 with the formation of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia. Coffee production on the mountain ranges of the Andes in Colombia supports up to a half million small farms and local growers that make up a large portion of the coffee economy. Harvesting coffee is labor intensive and can employ large numbers of workers. The seasonal nature of the harvest also leaves workers to find employment during the rest of the growing season.
In recent years, there has been growing concern about how climate change will continue to affect the region’s coffee production. In the past century, parts of Colombia experienced up to a 1 ºC average temperature increase and up to a 25 percent increase in precipitation. These climate changes have negatively affected coffee output and reduced coffee production as much as 25 percent in some areas. New agricultural methods are being developed in an attempt to counter these effects.
Oil has now become Colombia’s number one legal export. Oil is found in fields in the northern and central regions of Colombia. Immense quantities of coal are also found in the same regions, but oil is more valued on the export market. Pipelines connect the interior oil fields of Colombia with the northern ports. The US market size and population make it the world’s largest oil consumer. US oil companies have been investing in the development of Colombian oil for many years. Colombia has been a developing oil source even though its total extractable resources are not as vast as in other countries. For example, in 2006 the United States imported more oil from Colombia than from Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Qatar, and Yemen combined.
Figure 6.18 Insurgent Areas
Learning Objectives
Summarize the main physical features and regions of the Southern Cone.
Identify and locate the urban centers and understand the pattern of population distribution in the three countries of the region.
Describe the ethnic consistency of each country. Explain the pattern of immigration that created the region’s heritage.
Explain why Argentina has great potential for economic growth.
Outline how Chile has emerged as a strong and stable country and discuss its human and natural resources.
The Southern Cone region of South America includes the countries of Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile. The name is an indication of the physical shape of the southern portion of the continent. The region is located south of the tropics. The Tropic of Capricorn runs just north of Uruguay and cuts across the northern regions of Argentina and Chile. The Southern Cone has more moderate temperatures than the tropics. Type C climates dominate in Uruguay, the Pampas region of Argentina, and central Chile. The region has extremes in weather and climate. The Atacama Desert and Patagonia both have type B climates because of a lack of precipitation, which stems from the rain shadow effect of the Andes Mountains. Highland type H climates follow the Andes chain through the region and exhibit their typical pattern of warmer temperatures at lower elevations and colder temperatures at higher elevations.
Figure 6.35 The Three Main Regions of Chile (left); Argentina and Uruguay with the Regions of Argentina Outlined and Labeled (right)
Source: Updated from maps courtesy of CIA World Factbook.
The countries of the Southern Cone share similar economic and ethnic patterns. Agriculture has been a major focus of the region’s early development pattern, but today a large percentage of the population is urbanized. The European heritage of most of the population ties this region to Europe as an early trading partner. The global economy has given cause for these countries to form trade relationships with many countries. The physical geography has provided many opportunities for human activities. The mountains, plains, and coastal areas provide a diversity of natural resources that have been exploited for national wealth. All three countries have primate cities that hold a high percent of the country’s population. Primate cities are usually twice as large as the next largest city and usually are exceptionally expressive of the national feeling and culture. In this case, all three primate cities are also the capital cities of each country. The Southern Cone is an urban region with higher incomes and higher standards of living than many other parts of South America.
Uruguay
Uruguay is located along the South Atlantic coast bordering Argentina and Brazil. The only South American country smaller in physical area is Suriname. French Guiana is also smaller than Uruguay but remains a department of France. Uruguay has the location, natural resources, and global trade connections to provide ample opportunities and advantages for its people. The agricultural lands of the Pampas extend into Uruguay and provide for an extensive agricultural industry with livestock, small grains, vegetables, and dairy. This agricultural base has been the foundation of Uruguay’s growing economy.
Uruguay has been able to integrate itself into the global trade arena and has entered into a postindustrial development status. Postindustrial activities have included computer software development and advancements in information technologies. Uruguay is a modern and well-developed country. About 88 percent of the population is of European descent, and more than 92 percent of the population is urban. The capital city of Montevideo, a cosmopolitan city with a population of about 3.5 million, is home to about 40 percent of the population. The coastal region is an attractive place for tourists and locals who enjoy the beautiful beaches along the shores of the Atlantic.
Figure 6.36 Beachfront in Punta del Este, Uruguay
Notice the high-rise apartments and commercial buildings. Uruguay is highly urbanized and has been an attractive place for tourism.
Source: Photo courtesy of Ernesto Jorysz, http://www.flickr.com/photos/jorysz/2186231204 .
Montevideo is also the location of the headquarters for Mercosur (the Southern Cone Common Market). Mercosur was created in 1991 to open trade of goods and services among South American countries and promote development within the realm. Current members of Mercosur include Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina. Venezuela’s application for full membership is pending. Additional associate members of Mercosur include Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, and Bolivia. Mercosur is on a parallel path to compete with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the European Union, and other global trade associations.
Argentina
South America’s second-largest country is Argentina. In physical area, Argentina is ranked eighth in the world. The Andes Mountains span its entire western border with Chile. At the southern end of the continent is Tierra del Fuego. Argentina is a land of extremes. Mt. Aconcagua is the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere at 22,841 feet in elevation, and Laguna del Carbon is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere at −344 feet below sea level. Parts of the northern region have a tropical climate; the southern region extends into tundra-like conditions with treeless plains. Argentina also claims the Falkland Islands, which are now controlled by Great Britain. In 1982, Argentina’s ruling military junta attempted to retake control of the Falklands, but the British navy halted the action in what became known as the Falklands War.
Physical Regions
Argentina can be categorized into a number of regions that correlate roughly with the varied physical and cultural landscapes of the country. The main regions include Chaco, Northern, Mesopotamia, Cuyo, Pampas, and Patagonia. The Northern region of Argentina has one of the highest average elevations because of the Andes Mountain Ranges. The Andes ranges widen as they proceed northward to the west of Chaco and are home to fertile river valleys. The northern ends of the ranges extend into Bolivia and enter the Altiplano of the Central Andes.
The Chaco region, which is formally called the Gran Chaco, extends from northern Argentina into western Paraguay. Scrublands and subtropical forests dominate the landscape. There is a wet season as well as a dry season suitable for raising livestock and some farming. Western Chaco, which is closer to the Andes, is drier with less vegetation and is known for its high temperatures during the summer months. To the east, the Chaco region receives more rainfall and has better soils for agriculture. The agrarian lifestyle dominates the cultural heritage of this region. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Chaco region attracted a large number of Mennonite immigrants from Canada and Russia who established successful farming operations mainly on the Paraguay side of the border and also extending into Argentina.
To the east of the northern region—on the other side of the Paraná River and reaching to the banks of the Uruguay River—is the region called Mesopotamia, whose name means “between rivers.” This unique region has a variety of features, from flatlands for grazing livestock to subtropical rain forests. The most noteworthy feature is the expansive Iguazú Falls on the Iguazú River, located on the border of Brazil and Argentina. It is a series of 275 parallel waterfalls that are just short of two miles across. It has the greatest average annual flow of any waterfall in the world. Most of the falls are more than 210 feet high; the tallest is 269 feet. The spectacular Iguazú Falls is a major tourist attraction, drawing people from all over the world.
Figure 6.37 The Iguazú Falls on the Iguazú River on the Border between Brazil and Argentina
The headwaters of the Iguazú River are near Curitiba in Brazil. The river converges with the Paraná River about 14 miles downstream from the Iguazú Falls at the point where Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina meet—called the Triple Frontier. The falls is approximately 1.7 miles along its edge, which is divided by rocky islands on both the Argentinean and Brazilian sides. The Iguazú Falls are a major tourist attraction for the region.
Source: Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Bary, http://www.flickr.com/photos/70118259@N00/2701569937 .
The Cuyo region is located along the Andes Mountains in the west central part of the country. Mt. Aconcagua is located here, along with other high mountain peaks. This arid region gets most of its moisture from melting snow off the mountains, which irrigate the rich agricultural lands that produce fruits and vegetables. The Cuyo is a major wine-producing region; it accounts for up to three-quarters of the country’s wine production. Picturesque vineyards and farms make the Cuyo a favorite tourist destination in Argentina. Mendoza is the country’s fourth-largest city. Low mountain ranges form the eastern border between the Cuyo and the Pampas.
The Pampas is a large agricultural region that extends beyond Argentina and includes a large portion of Uruguay and the southern tip of Brazil. With adequate precipitation and a mild type C climate, the Pampas is well suited for both agriculture and human habitation. The rich agricultural lands of the Pampas include the largest city and the country’s capital, Buenos Aires, which is home to up to a third of the nation’s population. The Pampas provides some of the most abundant agricultural production on the planet. The western grasslands host large haciendas (prestigious agricultural units) with cattle ranching and livestock production. This area has elevated Argentina to its status as a major exporter of beef around the world. Agricultural production has been a major part of the nation’s economy. One hundred years ago, the export of food products made Argentina one of the wealthiest countries in the world. In today’s global economy, the profit margins in agricultural products are not as lucrative, and industrialized countries have turned to manufacturing for national wealth. Argentina continues to have a strong agricultural sector but has been increasing its industrial production in order to secure a strong economy.
Figure 6.38 Rain Shadow Effect
The rain shadow effect in southern South America creates the Atacama Desert and an arid Patagonia.
Source: Updated from map courtesy of University of Texas Libraries, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/samerica_95.jpg .
Patagonia is a large expanse of the south that is semiarid because of the rain shadow effect. This area possesses enormous natural resources, including large amounts of oil and natural gas. Deposits of gold, silver, copper, and coal can be found here. Raising livestock has been the main livelihood in Patagonia, which is otherwise sparsely populated. Patagonia includes the southern region of Tierra del Fuego and the rugged Southern Andes, which have some of the largest ice sheets outside Antarctica and many large glaciers that provide fresh water that feeds the region’s streams and rivers. Patagonia also has a number of scenic lakes. Abundant wildlife can be found along the Atlantic coast, including elephant seals, penguins, albatrosses, and a host of other species. This region demonstrates that Argentina is blessed with a variety of physical landscapes and natural resources that can help support its economy and its people.
Population and Culture
Argentina, with a population of about forty million, is a country of immigrants and a product of the colonial transfer of European culture to the Western Hemisphere. During the colonial era, millions of people immigrated to Argentina from Western European countries such as France, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Greece, the British Isles, and Scandinavia. Additional immigrants came from Eastern Europe and Russia. Eighty-five percent of the population is of European descent; the largest ethnic groups are Spanish and Italian. The Mestizo population is only at about 8 percent. A small number of people from the Middle East or East Asia have immigrated and make up about 4 percent of the population. Less than 2 percent of Argentines declare themselves to be Amerindians.
Old World European customs mix with New World Latin American traditions to form a cultural heritage unique to Argentina. This cultural heritage can be experienced in the metropolitan city of Buenos Aires, where all facets of society and culture can be found. With a population of about thirteen million—one-third of Argentina’s total population—Buenos Aires is a world-class city. Argentina is an urban country: more than 90 percent of the population lives in cities. The rural side of the culture has often been characterized as the traditional gaucho (cowboy) image of the self-reliant rancher who herds cattle and lives off the land. Beef is a mainstay of the cuisine in much of the country. The urban culture includes the traditional Argentine tango with music and camaraderie in upscale night clubs. These traditional images may be stereotypes, but the cultural scene in Argentina is heavily invested in the international trends of the modern world. The cultural landscape has become integrated with fashions and trends from across the globe.
Figure 6.39 Palermo District, Buenos Aires
This photo illustrates the enormous expanse of the most populous area of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Source: Photo courtesy of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buenos_Aires_-Argentina-_136.jpg .
People and Politics
The people of Argentina have a good standard of living, and the country is up-and-coming on a world scale. The main problem has been the instability of the government during the twentieth century. The Argentine constitution provides for a balance of powers between the judicial, legislative, and executive divisions, similar to that of the United States. For many decades in the twentieth century, the state vacillated between a democratically elected government and military rule. The swings back and forth have been consistent and regular, which has wreaked havoc on the economy, resulting in everything from hyperinflation to brutal authoritarian rule.
An example of the national swings in Argentina occurred between 1946 and 1955, when General Juan Perón was elected president. His wife, Eva (popularly known as Evita), became a public sensation. “ Peronism Temporary movement in support of Argentina’s populist president Juan Perón and his wife, Eva, in response to their concern for the poor and the working class.” started out with populous support and a shift toward improving working conditions and increasing government spending. At the same time, censorship, isolationism, and repression of civil rights were elevated to a point of social unrest. Opposition members were imprisoned or killed. Eva Perón died of cancer in 1952, and Juan Perón was eventually ousted from office and fled to Spain. He later returned from exile to gain prominence in politics once again but died in office in 1974. Other presidents came to power only to be deposed or ousted by military coups. The instability in the political arena created problems for the economic sector, which had to deal with inflated currency and an unattractive environment for foreign investments. More recently, there has been some progress in stabilizing both the government and the economy, but political instability remains a factor. Argentina has abundant natural resources, adequate infrastructure, and an educated work force. The country has all the necessary means to launch into the future with a strong economy—as long as it is able to establish a stable government and a sound economic agenda.
Chile
Chile is a long, narrow country on the western edge of southern South America. Chile is 2,500 miles long and only 90 miles wide on average. This country borders the Pacific Ocean on one side and the Andes Mountains on the other. Chile has a variety of environmental zones, administrative districts, and climate patterns. Temperatures are cooler as one moves south toward Tierra del Fuego, which is split between Chile and Argentina. Rain has never fallen in select areas of northern Chile, which includes the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth and home to one of the world’s greatest copper and nitrate reserves. The sodium nitrates found in the Atacama Desert are used in plant fertilizers, pottery enamels, and solid rocket fuel.
The Rain Shadow Effect
The climate is due to the rain shadow effect. In northern Chile and the Atacama region, prevailing winds reach northern Chile from the east and hit the Andes Mountain chain, which are some of the highest mountains on the continent. The height of the Andes causes any moisture from rain clouds to precipitate on the eastern slopes. The western side of the Andes Mountains at that latitude receives little or absolutely no precipitation, causing extreme desert conditions in the Atacama region of Chile. Southern Chile receives a large amount of rainfall because the prevailing winds at that latitude come from the west. Here the winds, which have picked up moisture over the South Pacific Ocean, hit the western side of the Andes. The air then precipitates out its moisture as it rises up the mountainsides of the western slopes of the Andes. Less moisture reaches the eastern side of the mountains, creating a rain shadow with arid and dry conditions for the region called Patagonia in southern Argentina. The Andes are not as high in elevation in the south, which allows some precipitation to fall on the rain shadow side.
Figure 6.40 Mt. Fitz Roy’s Rugged Landscape
Mt. Fitz Roy is in the Andes on the border between Chile and Argentina. The mountain range borders Patagonia on the Argentinean side in the remote region of the south. The village of El Chaltén, which is the main access to the mountain, can be seen in the lower right of the photo. The unique terrain of the mountain is often photographed but seldom climbed.
Source: Photo courtesy of Josh and Erica Olson Silverstein, http://www.flickr.com/photos/sacire/5577982949 .
Chile can be divided into three regions:
Northern Chile, with the dry Atacama Desert
Central Chile, with a mild type C climate, adequate rainfall, and good farmland
Southern Chile, with lots of rainfall, rural, isolated islands, and mountains
Central Chile is the core region because it has a valuable port in Valparaiso and the country’s capital city, Santiago, which is also Chile’s most populous city. Central Chile is also home to more than 90 percent of the country’s population.
Socioeconomic Conditions
The people of Chile are 95 percent European and Mestizo. They have worked to establish a good education system and an increasing standard of living. The country had a relatively stable government until the 1970s when a short revolution brought a military dictatorship to power until 1989. The 1990s brought about a surge in economic development that has continued into the twenty-first century. The political situation has stabilized, and the first female president, Michelle Bachelet, was elected in 2006. The political system is faced with the unequal distribution of wealth that is common in Latin America and many other countries of the world. Half the country’s wealth is concentrated in the hands of about 10 percent of the population. About 50 percent of the population is on the lower end of socioeconomic scale. Dire poverty exists in Chile, but it is not as prevalent here as it is in the Central Andes, Paraguay, or Northeast Brazil. Chile has a thriving middle class that has made good use of the opportunities and education that Chile has offered them.
Chile is blessed with natural resources that include the minerals of the Atacama Desert, extensive fishing along the coast, timber products from the south, and agricultural products from central Chile. All these factors have brought about an emerging development boom and have attracted international trading partners. The stable government and the growing economy have successfully kept inflation low, kept employment high, reduced poverty, and brought in foreign investment. In the globalized economy, Chile has managed to work with various trading partners to increase its advantages and opportunities in the international marketplace.
Chile and NAFTA
Chile has been increasing its trading activities with its counterparts in the Pacific Rim in Europe and North America. Chile has an abundance of fish in its coastal waters and copper and minerals in the Atacama Desert and has been exporting timber products from its southern region. The United States is one of Chile’s main trading partners. Chile’s main commodity exports to the United States include paper, minerals, metals, and copper. Major agricultural products that are shipped to the United States include processed fruits, tomatoes, grapes, vegetables, and wines. There are several good reasons why the United States trades with Chile even though it is the farthest country from the United States in South America. International trade and the seasonal patterns of agriculture have much to do with the benefits. The seasonal variations between the northern and southern hemisphere create a balance between the two. When it is winter in the north, it is summer in the south. Each has an opposing growing season for fruits and vegetables that can complement the other. Chile is an excellent counter to the opposite growing season in the Northern Hemisphere.
If you recall Section 5.2 "Mexico" on Mexico and NAFTA, you will remember that after NAFTA was implemented, Chile was considered a “silent” partner. In 1994 during a summit meeting, the president of Mexico, Canada’s prime minister, and the US president agreed to allow Chile to join the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Chile’s president declared his support for his country to join NAFTA. The agreement could not be completed because of negotiation approval by the US Congress. At this time Chile entered into independent free trade agreements with both Canada and Mexico. A free trade agreement was later signed between the US and Chile in 2003. Thus, Chile has free trade agreements with all three North American countries and can benefit by the mutual agreements that parallel NAFTA. In this situation, Chile is an associate trading partner and enjoys the privileges of NAFTA membership without technically being listed as a member. The United States was really looking to counter Chile’s trade with Japan and Europe. Increased trade with North America diminished Chile’s trade with the European Union or the East Asian community.
As copper and natural resource prices fluctuate, creating unstable economic conditions, Chile has been expanding into the manufacturing sector. To retain the highest value-added profits and expand its economy, Chile will have to enlarge its manufacturing sector. Today Chile produces modest quantities of basic chemicals and electronic goods. Chile’s expansion of business and commerce has been endorsed as a model of successful economic development to be emulated by other Latin American countries.
Figure 6.41 NAFTA Members and US Dollar Users as of 2010
Chile is not a full member of NAFTA but has separate free-trade agreements with all three NAFTA countries and is considered an unofficial member.
Source: Updated from map courtesy of University of Texas Libraries, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/americas_pol96.jpg .
Chile has strong ties to the economies of North America, but in spite of close ties with the north, Chile has retained its unique status in the Southern Cone. Chile still has its own currency even though countries with smaller economies, such as Ecuador and El Salvador, have adopted the US dollar as their medium of exchange. As of 2010, the NAFTA members of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, along with their trading partner of Chile, all used different currencies. The US dollar is the most widely used currency in the world and is also used in other Latin American countries. There has been talk of creating a similar currency within NAFTA called the Amero that would replicate the European Union’s solution, which was to create a single currency, the euro. World currencies fluctuate in value, and a stable currency would increase the capacity for creating larger trading blocs that could do business on a more even economic playing field. Chile has individual free-trade agreements with all three members of NAFTA, so any change in currency with the NAFTA countries would also affect Chile.
Key Takeaways
The Southern Cone possesses large, diverse physical landscapes. Variations in terrain include tall Andean mountain peaks, desert conditions, prairie grasslands, and semitropical regions to the north.
The Southern Cone is an urban realm with high percentages of the population living in large cities. Primate cities dominate each country. Large sections of each country’s interior make up the extensive rural periphery with activities based on natural resources.
The Southern Cone is a European commercial area, and more than 85 percent of the population is of European ancestry. There are few Amerindian minorities or immigrants from Africa or Asia in the Southern Cone.
Argentina is a large country in physical area and has a number of important regions that provide opportunities for economic prosperity. The country, however, has lacked a stable government and a consistent business climate to take advantage of Argentina’s favorable geographic situation.
Chile has emerged on the global stage as a model for economic growth and stability. Its people have a higher standard of living, and the country has abundant natural resources. Chile has been a trading partner with NAFTA countries.
Discussion and Study Questions
6.5 End-of-Chapter Material
Chapter Summary
The equator runs through the center of South America at its widest point and parallels the Amazon River. The two main physical features are the mighty Amazon River and the extensive Andes Mountains. The Andes, the longest mountain chain in the world, run from Venezuela to southern Chile. The Amazon River has the largest flow of water of any river on Earth, and the Amazon Basin is home to the world’s largest tropical rain forest. Rain forests cover less than 5 percent of the earth’s surface but have the richest biodiversity of any biome (environmental region), holding up to 50 percent of the world’s organisms.
All of South America except for the Guianas was colonized by Spain and Portugal. The Guianas were located along the coast, where plantation agriculture was prominent. African slaves were the main labor base on the plantations. When slavery was abolished, slaves were replaced by indentured servants from the Asian colonies. Most of the population in Guyana and Suriname is from Asia. The cultural geography of South American can be understood by identifying the cultural regions formed by the majority ethnic groups the human activity in which they are engaged.
Venezuela and Colombia dominate the countries of northern South America. Venezuela is an urban country, and much of its wealth is generated from the export of oil. Colombia is mountainous with vast tropical forests bordering the Amazon. Illegal drugs, oil, and coffee are Colombia’s three main export products. The United States is the main buyer of these products. The control of the physical territory of Colombia is divided between the government, drug cartels, and insurgent groups.
South America’s Andean West region was the home to the ancient Inca Empire, which was conquered by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1533. Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia have regions with high elevations in the Andes, including the Altiplano region with Lake Titicaca. Most of the population is Amerindian and holds to the customs and traditions of their heritage. Oil and mineral resources have been a main source of wealth for the region, but the profits have not always reached the majority population; instead, they the wealth is often are held by a minority at the top of the socioeconomic layer.
Brazil was colonized by Portugal, which gave the country the Portuguese language and the Catholic faith. During the colonial era, a large number of African slaves were introduced to the country, which added to the country’s multicultural society. Many other Europeans and Japanese also immigrated to Brazil. The country’s large size allows for diverse human activities. The core urban area is located along the southeast coast, where the large cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are located. The forward capital of Brasilia is positioned inland on the edge of the core area.
The rural periphery of Brazil includes the large Amazon Basin, with tropical rain forests and large undeveloped regions. Originally inhabited by Amerindian groups, the Amazon Basin is being developed for agriculture, mining, and the timber industry. This type of development is devastating large tracts of rain forest and placing increasing pressure on the few remaining indigenous groups. Large mining operations have fueled development, causing serious environmental concerns over habitat loss and the destruction of the tropical rain forest.
The Southern Cone region of South America has a wide range of physical landscapes, from the semitropical areas of the north to the arid grasslands of the south in Patagonia. The Atacama Desert on the west coast is a product of the rain shadow effect from the high Andes. The rich agricultural lands of the Pampas are the breadbasket of the region, producing large amounts of grain and livestock. Coastal areas are good for fishing and allow access to foreign markets.
The southern regions of South America also have heavily European populations. There are few Amerindians or people of African heritage. Most people live in urban areas, and one-third of Argentineans live in Buenos Aires. Chile has been a major trading partner with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) nations and has a stable and growing economy. Argentina is a large country in physical area and has great potential for economic development.
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BMW of North America will introduce its new brand advertising on Saturday, reinforcing its image as “the ultimate driving machine” as it introduces 14 new models in the United States this year.
BMWNA will being a new brand advertising campaign on Saturday. The “Ultimate Driving Machine” slogan returns replacing the highly-controversial “Joy” ads that ran for the past two years.
BMW’s new ad agency, Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners, is responsible for the creative work and will debut its first 30-second TV spot on NBC during the NFL’s wild-card games. The new spot will also run during prime-time programs like “House,” “The Big Bang Theory,” “Modern Family” and “Law and Order: SVU” on the Fox, CBS, ABC and NBC networks. It also will run nationally on cable channels throughout the year.
The new spot starts with the almighty BMW M3 Coupe GTS, followed by the X5 SAV, the brand’s future, the i8, and the flagship, 7 Series and ends with a quick succession of other BMW models. The voice-over and imagery showcases the dynamics and sportiness of BMW’s line-up: “We don’t make sports cars. We don’t make S.U.V.’s. We don’t make hybrids, and we don’t make luxury sedans. We only make one thing, the ultimate driving machine.”
According to Dan Creed, vice president of marketing for BMW of North America, the company plans to introduce 14 models in 2014: “We’re in the middle of an extremely significant product offensive.”
For New York Times , Ed Brojerdi, co-chief creative officer of Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal, said the agency was dealing “with one of the most iconic taglines in marketing. We needed to make sure the marketing is as encompassing as the portfolio. Big brands have a focused point of view, they stand for something. BMW evokes the joy and passion for driving, sheer driving pleasure.”
According to Trudy Hardy, manager of marketing for BMW North America, the ad is aimed at the company’s “normal buying demographic,” men and women age 35 to 54.
To properly market the vast upcoming line-up, BMW will increase their advertising budget which totaled $109 million in the first nine months in 2011.
Christopher Cedergren, managing director of Iceology, a Los Angeles consulting and research company, is also a proponent of the “Ultimate Driving Machine” and very vocal about the previous “Joy” ads. “The previous campaign was too nebulous. It blurred the image of the BMW brand, made it too much like its competitors. It kind of walked away from its positioning about its driving performance,” said Cedergren.
Christie L. Nordhielm, an associate professor of business administration at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, puts BMW on the same pedestal as Apple: “In a sense is the Apple of the automotive industry. Apple delivers great user experience across products, and BMW delivers an exceptional experience across all types of automobiles.”
BMW’s first use of the “Ultimate Driving Machine” slogan dates back in 1975 and it was created by Martin Puris, then the CEO of Ammirati & Puris.
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BMW of North America has revived – make that reinforced – its famous tagline, “The Ultimate Driving Machine.”
A recent TV ad says, “We don’t make sports cars. We don’t make SUVs. We don’t make hybrids. We don’t make luxury sedans. We only make one thing. The Ultimate Driving Machine.”
That’s stating the obvious. The Ultimate Driving Machine has been BMW’s unforgettable identity since the 1970s.
Yet the tagline is a touchy subject inside BMW. BMW came up with what eventually became a worldwide ad campaign called “Joy,” in time for its sponsorship of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada. The idea was to reinforce the user benefit of owning The Ultimate Driving Machine.
BMW never entirely abandoned “Ultimate Driving Machine,” but the “Joy” campaign started a public uproar that BMW was turning its back on one of the best taglines ever.
Dan Creed has been vice president, marketing for BMW of North America LLC, since October 2010. He’s spent much of that time stoutly maintaining that BMW never, ever dropped the old tagline. The following are edited excerpts from an interview earlier this spring:
What’s up with “Ultimate Driving Machine?”
It’s The Ultimate Driving Machine whether it’s the 3, the 5 or the 7, and as we look at other segments, like smaller cars, like front-wheel drive, it will be there, too. We have great confidence in the product.
Is there a danger that more fuel-efficient cars aren’t seen as high-performance?
When you’re a premium brand, it all comes down to authenticity and credibility. Because with a smaller car you run the risk that “efficient” is at the expense of “dynamic.” But I think we have a lot of credibility for doing that.
So Ultimate Driving Machine is back?
We never got rid of Ultimate Driving Machine. We had a campaign called the “Joy” campaign, but Ultimate Driving Machine, we never ever, never ever, moved away from it. The idea of the Joy campaign was that if there was one group that was not always our strength, but that we could do better with, it was women. “Joy” would warm the brand up and make it approachable. And it did that. The brand is still seen as dynamic, it’s still The Ultimate Driving Machine, but “Joy” is still at the center of the experience.
The Ultimate Driving Machine, for us, I think, is something that’s got legs of its own – but yes, we are back.
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Which is the eighth planet from the sun? | Neptune - Pictures and Planetary Analysis
By John P. Millis, Ph.D
Discovery of Neptune
Neptune, the 8th and final planet from the Sun, is the only planet in our solar system that is not visible to the naked eye.
As a result it was the first planet to be discovered by mathematically calculating its position based on its gravitational influence on other solar system bodies.
However Neptune was “seen” much earlier than we credit its discovery. The planet can be detected using even very low-powered telescopes, but it is such a great distance that it appears fixed in the night sky, particularly as it enters retrograde.
It is for this reason that Galileo , the first thought to have seen Neptune, mistakenly categorized it as a star when he observed it around 1612.
It wasn’t until 1821 when astronomers began to look more closely at Neptune. In that year Alexis Bouvard published an astronomical table that predicted the orbital path of Uranus , Neptune’s nearest neighbor.
However, follow-up observations of the pale world revealed that something was influencing its motion, making it veer off course.
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Bouvard, confident in his work, concluded that another object was gravitationally influencing Uranus’ motion.
Several calculations were offered to pinpoint the position of this mystery planet, the most accurate, ultimately, performed by Urbain Le Verrier, but astronomers at the largest observatories had little interest in doing the leg work.
But a student at the Berlin Observatory suggested to Johann Gottfried Galle, a principle astronomer at the observatory, that they could simply point the telescope in the direction of where the planet was predicted to be and compare what they saw to a recent star chart created of the region. By looking for discrepancies they might be able to located this new planet.
That first night of observation, they were able to locate and identify Neptune. As it happened, they had actually observed it twice before, but had overlooked it, believing it to be a star, and not bothering to check its position against a star chart.
Naming of Neptune
As with the discovery of Uranus, the revelation of a new planet set off a race to name the bluish orb.
Verrier, upon claiming the right to name the planet since it was his calculation that ultimately lead to its discovery, offered the name Neptune. (Even falsely claiming that the French naming authority had approved his suggestion.)
Soon after, Verrier himself changed his mind, wanting to name the new planet after himself. However, there was a significant refusal from British authorities, since their push to have Uranus named after its discoverer, Sir William Herschel, had been similarly shot down.
Therefore Neptune, the Roman God of the Sea, eventually won out.
Structure of Neptune
Neptune is structured very similarly to its nearby cousin, Uranus. The core, containing about 1.2 times the Earth’s mass, is composed of rock, iron and nickel.
The core is surrounded by a thick, liquid mantel ranging in temperature from 2,000 – 5000 kelvin. Some models place the mass of the mantel at nearly 15 times that of Earth.
Interestingly, a mantel of this type is often referred to as “icy”, despite the incredibly high temperatures. This is owed to the fact that because of the high pressure, the mantel exists in a highly conductive semi-liquid ocean.
The outermost part of Neptune is the atmosphere that gets ever more thin as it moves away from the core. At nearly 20% of the planet’s radius (and approaching 10 Earth masses), the atmosphere is made up of various gasses, including methane ammonia and water.
Storms on Neptune
The most famous storm in the solar system is the Great Red Spot on Jupiter , however it is not unique. Neptune has a very similar feature.
The Great Dark Spot, discovered in 1989 by the probe Voyager 2 . Later, in 1994, the Hubble Space Telescope located several other, smaller but similar storms in the southern part of the planet.
Moons of Neptune
Only 17 days after Neptune was discovered, astronomer William Lassell found the planet’s largest moon, Triton . Unlike every other moon in our solar system, Titan has a retrograde motion, leading scientists to believe that it is likely a captured Kuiper Belt object and didn’t form in orbit around the planet.
In addition to Triton, Neptune has an additional 12 planets. Though even combined the remaining moons are less than 1% of Titan’s mass. And Titan is the only one with enough mass to have formed into a spheroidal shape.
With the exception of Triton, none of the moons were discovered until after 1949, with most of the being discovered by Voyager 2 in 1989.
Neptune’s Rings
Like the other Jovian planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) Neptune has rings. Though, unlike Saturn the rings around the rest of the worlds are difficult to see. Typically they require special instrumentation and telescopes to make out.
Neptune has four identified rings. They are mainly composed of ice and rock particles, perhaps remnants of an early moon or other object that was broken apart by the planet’s gravity.
Neptune by the Numbers
Equatorial Radius: 24,764 ± 15 km (3.88 Earth Radii)
Mass: 1.0243×1026 kg (17.15 Earth Masses)
Gravity (at Equator): 11.15 m/s2 (1.14 times Earth’s gravity)
Orbital Period: 60,190 Earth Days (~165 Earth Years)
Mean Orbital Radius: 4.5×109 km (~30 times the Sun to the Earth)
Rotational Period: 0.67 Earth Days (16 hours, 6 minutes, 36 seconds)
Number of Moons: 13
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What was the name of the horse ridden by jockey Frankie Dettori in the 2007 Epsom Derby? | Is Pluto or Neptune farthest from the Sun?
Is Pluto or Neptune farthest from the Sun?
Answer:
Pluto is usually farthest from the Sun. However, its orbit "crosses" inside of Neptune's orbit for 20 years out of every 248 years. Pluto last crossed inside Neptune's orbit on February 7, 1979, and temporarily became the 8th planet from the Sun. Pluto will cross back over Neptune's orbit again on February 11, 1999 to resume its place as the 9th planet from the Sun for the next 228 years.
So will Pluto and Neptune ever collide? No! You can see this in the image below, which shows a view as seen from the side as the planets orbit around the Sun. Most planets only make small excursions in the vertical and radial directions, but Pluto is an exception. Pluto at times will move closer to the Sun than Neptune, but it is always well above the orbit of Neptune when this happens. The orbits never actually cross the same point in space.
You can read more about the orbital patterns of Pluto at:
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Who played the father, Col. William Ludlow, in the 1994 film ‘Legends of the Fall’? | Super Reviewer
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A movie that I feel is both good and bad at the same time. While it is a powerful story, the script is so overly corny that it is ruined. The acting is so-so, Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins gave the only decent performances.
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"Legends of the Fall" is an epic set in the early 1900s about a close-knit family that randomly comes together and breaks apart. Tristan (Brad Pitt), Alfred (Aidan Quinn), and Samuel (Henry Thomas) have always been real close. One thing that all three brothers have in common is that they all go into war together and see how tough it is to experience such a struggle, even though their father, Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) doesn't like the idea. Another thing they have in common is that they all love Susannah (Julia Ormond). All of the characters in "Legends of the Fall" have their own separate personalities that can clash or come together at the drop of a hat. I could explain each of them, but that would give the movie away. Throughout the film, the different characters provide commentary about different events such as reading letters that are written, or telling personal thoughts. "Legends of the Fall" won the 1994 Oscar for best cinematography in a motion picture, and it's true, this film does have spectacular scenery and landscapes, but that's the least that "Legends of the Fall" has to offer. There are both good times and bad times in "Legends of the Fall." Overall, it's a fairly depressing movie, but that's just because it's a realistic film about how jealousy and bad times such as war ruled the world back in the early 1900's, and probably even more these days. As I mentioned earlier, all of the main cast put out their absolute best effort in "Legends of the Fall." As always, I was the utmost impressed by Anthony Hopkins's performance. Brad Pitt, who was the main star in this film, puts out what is his best effort ever, in my opinion. I can tell when a movie is one of my favorites of all time by how much I want to see it after I see it for the first time, and especially by how often I watch it after seeing it several times. "Legends of the Fall" is one of those movies that never has and never will get old to me. No matter what kind of movie you like, even if you're not crazy about epics or dramas, give "Legends of the Fall" a chance. It just might become one of your favorite motion picture legends. NOTE: That was my Amazon review from the year 2001. Indeed, Pitt's best, one of Hopkins's best, and one of my favorites.
Jason Owens
Super Reviewer
½
Dazzling, riveting and amazingly beautiful! There was a lot more to this film than just it's eye-pleasing visuals though, because it's also blessed with a well-written script, and a cast that leaves little to complain about (the most notable actors of which being Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Julia Ormond, who all shine in their respective roles). Great music score as well by James Horner. For all it's cinematic beauty, however, you'll not find your usual Hollywood ending here. It's more a tale of loss, revenge and tragedy, than anything else. Perhaps a tad too tragic for my taste, as I would have prefered to see a happier fate for its characters. A good movie either way though, and an emotional journey well worth taking.
Mike S
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Who was the spouse of Queen Mary I of England? | Legends of the Fall Movie Review
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What's the story?
Set during the early 1900s, LEGENDS OF THE FALL is the epic tale of the three Ludlow brothers, Tristan (Brad Pitt), Alfred (Aidan Quinn), and Samuel (Henry Thomas). Tristan is the wild brother, as opposed to the cultured-but-innocent brother (Samuel) and the savvy-and-ambitious brother Alfred. Growing up, the three were tight, led by their headstrong father, Col. William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins). But when Samuel returns home from college with his bride-to-be, Susannah, things get complicated, even more so after Samuel is killed in the war. Tristan and Alfred fight over Susannah and later Susannah fights with Tristan's wife, Isabel (Karina Lombard), over Tristan.
Is it any good?
QUALITY
Legends of the Fall goes a long way to preserve as many stereotypes about settlers in the Wild West as it can, including Native Americans, and the treatment of women in that era. While Hopkins does a good turn as the firm yet emotionally vulnerable father, the rest of the cast is less than stellar. This goes double for Pitt, though the gratuitous shots of his upper torso that appear throughout the film are what made it a major box office hit.
Best viewed on a big screen TV for its breathtaking Academy-Award winning cinematography (we're not talking about Brad's personal landscape), Legends of the Fall is undoubtedly a chick flick. Though unfortunately, women in this film do not fare very well.
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What is the Zodiac sign of someone born on 31st May? | Birthday Horoscope May 31st Gemini, If your Birthday is May 31
Birthday Horoscope for May 31st
If your Birthday is May 31 and your Zodiac Sign is Gemini
Birthday Persona Profile
People born specifically on the 31st of May are conceived to be clever, communicative, capable and determined with lots of the typical Gemini charm. The ruling astrological planet for this particular day is Uranus gracing you with plenty of imaginative creativity and intelligence. If you have this birthday your versatility and practicality allow you to approach problems with calmness and responsible competence. You will usually possess a strong streak of seriousness and although you are friendly and easygoing you do not ordinarily let feelings get in the way of good judgment. Entertaining and witty you love sharing your views and ideas with others but you can be quite argumentative and may have a tendency to repeat yourself. Individuals with a May the thirty first birthday are fairly confident on the outside yet emotionally you are less self assured. Your loving considerate temperament is soon hurt but you appear to have the ability to bounce back quickly.
Work and Finances
Career choices are usually easily made to a person born on the thirty first of May as you often have predetermined favored professions in mind. You are particularly attracted to public service type work that offers daily challenges and maybe a degree of danger. Once you decide on the most satisfying occupation you will be highly dedicated and likely to stay in the same job for many years. Managing financial matters is not one of your fortes. You are sometimes far too generous and occasionally a little careless with finances making it difficult to keep to a budget or save up for something special.
Personal Relationships
For a Gemini, the person born on the thirty first of May is typically attractive, talented and popular with many admirers. Your emotions are often more stable than most twins but you are not really sentimental or romantic and dislike feeling tied down. Despite this you long for emotional security and so tend to put a lot into a personal relationship to make it successful. You seek to build a comfortable lifestyle with someone who shares your quiet ambitions and makes you feel truly loved and complete. Affectionate and sincere you express desires well verbally and appreciate the physical side of a soul mate relationship as it helps you dispel any built up stress. Your lusty libido enjoys lighthearted fun and games with a partner as it soothes your nerves and induces relaxation. Loyal and devoted you are protective but not as a rule the jealous sort.
Health
Periods of ill health experienced by those born on May 31st are often more frequent due to your somewhat casual attitude to staying healthy. You can regularly neglect basic bodily demands as you are inclined to take healthiness for granted and only visit the doctor if you have no choice. As you mature you generally improve your mindset and take more interest in looking after yourself. People born on this day can be prone to bouts of self pity and may suffer low mood as a result. Adjustments in your diet could be of great assistance in regulating moodiness and helping you stay cheerful and less fatigued.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Your main strengths of character are seen in your efficiency, adaptability and the realistic outlook you have. These positive traits sit alongside your considerable determination and serious air of authority giving you all you need to make steady progress in life. Recognizable personality weaknesses for those born on May 31st stem from your pronenesses to soon become restless causing your opinionated quarrelsome characteristics to emerge. Aside from these negative tendencies another weakness that appears frequently when you are nervous or upset is your likelihood to be unnecessarily repetitive in words and actions.
Dreams and Goals
Being born on the 31st of May means that you are quietly and not openly ambitious but still very desirous of life's comforts and pleasures. You are not usually concerned with the future or the past and much prefer to live in and think about the present directing you to take life as it comes. When contemplating setting goals you make decisions speedily and try to stick to them, working through obstacles or delays tirelessly in order to accomplish the things you want. If you are able to remember your dreams and analyze them it could prove advantageous to give you inspiration or help solve dilemma's.
Birthday Luck and Significance
As you were born on the thirty first day of the month the total of your birth date produces a Root number of Four. This numerical reference to your birthday has the keyword 'Honesty' in relation to your admirable qualities of sincerity, openness and dedication. The 4th card in the Major Arcana Tarot symbolizing the Emperor is closely associated with your birthday. It highlights your wisdom, energy and steadfastness in addition to your proclivities to be nervy and moody. The lucky gemstone especially chosen for May the thirty first birthdays is Topaz promising it's wearer happiness, wealth and harmony.
Summation
Mercury is the planet assumed to be the strongest influence astrologically in determining the possibilities of Gemini personalities. The actual day you were born on, the thirty first of May is believed governed by Uranus's dominance give reason for your differences to others of the same star sign. Your numerous capabilities, cleverness and resilience lavish upon you the motivation to achieve and succeed. Your versatile, creative and thoughtful attributes assist you to think from a fresh balanced perspective. If you can gain control of your touch of contentiousness it should better your interactions with others. A reviewing final thought for people born on May the 31st is that arguments are a waste of your time, spirit and vigor. Finding alternative outlets for your temperamental moments is advised.
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English singer/songwriter Stephen Nice, born 1951, is better known by what name? | May Zodiac Sign | Zodiac Signs
May Zodiac Sign
See what is the zodiac sign for each day of May
May 1 (1st)
Gemini
Taurus April 20 – May 20
Those born under the Taurus sign make good companions as they are very dependable. If you have made plans with a Taurus, rest assured he/she will be there and on time too! They are also patient creatures but can be intolerant and narrow-minded as well. Other negative traits include obstinacy, greediness, being unimaginative and easily offended. Tauruses have a great need for security which drives them to be meticulous yet creative in what they do. This makes them resourceful and successful business people. Though a Taurus may seem shy, hidden inside is a faithful person longing to show love and commitment to a worthy mate.
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Gemini May 21 – June 20
Those bearing the Gemini zodiac are incredibly flexible people who can adapt to almost any situation. They also possess a tenacity that not only enables them to rise above major setbacks but to take full advantage of negative situations as well. Inherently curious, Geminis are also experts at unraveling mysteries of any sort.
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Sovereignty of the Liancourt Rocks is disputed between which two Asian countries? | K-Pop Star And North Korean Defectors to Perform on Korean-Japanese Disputed Territory | Hollywood Reporter
K-Pop Star And North Korean Defectors to Perform on Korean-Japanese Disputed Territory
11:46 PM PDT 7/30/2014 by Lee Hyo-won
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Lee Seung-chul
South Korean singer Lee Seung-chul has collaborated with Grammy-winning artist Steve Hodge to promote peace messages on the controversial Liancourt Rocks.
SEOUL — South Korean singer Lee Seung-chul and a group of North Korean defectors will perform on the Liancourt Rocks, a disputed territory between South Korea and Japan.
The veteran K-pop artist, who is also known as a judge on a local television talent show, will headline the concert on Aug. 14, ahead of Korea's Aug. 15 Independence Day from colonial Japan (1910-1945) . Called Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan, the Liancourt Rocks are located between the two Asian countries. It stands as a symbol of Japanese imperialism for Koreans, and North Korea has fully backed South Korea's sovereignty claim over the islets.
Lee will premiere a new song featuring With-U, a choir comprised of 55 young men and women in their 20s-30s who have defected from North Korea. The concert is part of the ON (One Nation) Campaign, a local effort to promote reunification of the two Koreas . In addition to addressing Northeast Asian geopolitical issues, however, the initiative raises humanitarian concerns about the plight of North Korean defectors.
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Since the Korean War (1950-53), some 25,000 North Koreans are estimated to have escaped the reclusive hermit state, and according to Seoul's Ministry of Unification some 1,500 have annually arrived in South Korea in recent years. However, as chronicled in the internationally acclaimed film by Park Jung-bum, The Journals of Musan , North Korean defectors often face discrimination and poverty in South Korea.
Il Gun Yoon, a North Korean defector, initiated the ON Campaign with Lee to bring together other defectors and ultimately promote Koreas' unification. Esteemed Spanish painter Eva Airmisen also espouses the effort and has designed its logo. The campaign efforts are currently being broadcast in South Korea as a TV documentary.
"Dokdo is one issue where North Korea and South Korea stand on a united front. Both polarized nations believe that Dokdo is inherently Korea's. Performing at Dokdo would be the ultimate symbolic gesture of unification that defines the 'ON' campaign and what Il Gun Yoon first envisioned," said campaign organizers.
"I believe that hope can be conveyed through music, even in the most desperate times. Because music is universal and transcends cultural boundaries, it has a special way of bringing people together. That's what inspired me to start this unification campaign," said Lee.
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Lee composed "The Day" for the event next month. It is a collaborative effort with Japan-based Korean composer Yang Bang-ean, Grammy-winning mix engineer Steve Hodge and the Korea Symphony Orchestra. Three versions of "The Day" including an English rendition are due to be released in Korea in August.
"I hope the concert can serve as a stepping stone to help curb the plight of North Koreans," added the singer, who wishes to perform with the defectors at other symbolic venues such as the United Nations headquarters in New York or the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas.
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On which part of the body would a barrette be worn? | Liancourt Rocks Dispute
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Liancourt Rocks Dispute
The Liancourt Rocks dispute is a territorial dispute between South Korea and Japan . Both claim sovereignty over the Liancourt Rocks , a group of small islets in the Sea of Japan (East Sea). North Korea also claims sovereignty of the islands.
The Liancourt Rocks have been administered by South Korea since 1954 via its coast guard. This action was taken after the United States stated in the Rusk documents that the Japanese claim to the Liancourt Rocks would not be renounced in their peace treaty with Japan. In 1954, Japan proposed a reference to the International Court of Justice, which South Korea rejected, believing that the Liancourt Rocks are irrefutably South Korean territories, and thus should not be dealt through diplomatic negotiations or judicial settlement between South Korea and Japan.
There are conflicting interpretations about the historical state of sovereignty over the islets . Korean claims are partly based on references to a Korean island called Usan-do (우산, 于山島/亐山島) in various historical records, maps, and encyclopedia such as Samguk Sagi, Annals of Joseon Dynasty, Dongguk Yeoji Seungnam, and Dongguk munhon bigo. According to the Korean view, these refer to today's Liancourt Rocks , while the Japanese researchers of these documents have claimed the various references to Usan-do refer at different times to Jukdo, its neighboring island Ulleungdo, or a non-existent island between Ulleungdo and Korea .
Researchers disagree on who first had administrative control over the islets due to ambiguities in early historical records and maps, partly due to changes in the names of the islands in the area over the years.
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Which is the largest city in Europe by population? | Largest Cities In Europe - WorldAtlas.com
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Largest Cities In Europe
Moscow remain the most populous urban area on the European continent in terms of its respective metro area populations. Many other national capitals are also large cities.
The Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Europe's most populous metropolis, has housed Russian Dukes, Tsars, Soviet First Secretaries, and Presidents since the 1400s.
Europe has a relatively slow growing population compared to all of the other inhabited continents of the world. As of 2010, the population of the continent was found to be 740 million, as per the estimates released by the United Nations. This figure represented only 11% of the world's population, and it is expected that by 2050, the European population's relative proportion will further fall to represent only 7% of the world population. A rapidly declining birth rate contributes to this dramatic decline in the continent’s population. However, despite the fall in the continent of Europe's population, a large influx of immigrants from the developing and underdeveloped countries of the world, many in search of a better life in these European countries, are largely responsible for the booming populations that nonetheless do exist in the large metropolitan cities on the continent. If we observe the data on the most populous cities in Europe, we find that four cities of Europe make it across the 10 million-strong population mark, while 11 cities have a population of more than 3 million. This data clearly indicates that, despite the slow growth rate of the continent’s population, its major metropolitan areas are still huge crowd pullers.
Largest City In Europe
The list of Europe’s most populous cities reveals that the Russian capital of Moscow, the country’s largest city, ranks the highest in the list with a metropolitan population of 16.2 million. Moscow serves as a major economic, political, cultural and scientific center, and a bridge of sorts between Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Asia. This is the reason for the city’s enormous population, despite Moscow being one of the northernmost and coldest metropolises on Earth. According to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Moscow is ranked as an "alpha global city", meaning it has one of the world’s largest urban economies. In the past, the city has served as the capital of major empires, and currently is the seat of power of the Russian Government. The rich infrastructure of the city, its prosperity and cosmopolitan nature, and its powerful presence in the world economy all act as catalysts to attract people to this most populous of European metropolises. Another Russian city, regarded to be the most "Westernized" Russian city as well, is the financially thriving and culturally rich former imperial capital of Russia. Namely, this is St. Petersburg, which, with a population of 5.1 million people, is the 10th most populous European city.
European National Capitals Dominate The List
When we look at the data on Europe’s most populous cities, we also find that 5 German metropolitan areas feature on the list, with the Ruhr-Essen-Dusseldorf region of Germany, with a population of 13.4 million people, being the second most populous European metropolitan area. Despite occupying a smaller land area than many European countries, Germany is Europe’s second most populated nation. This could be the result of the high immigration rates of people, primarily from Southern and Eastern Europe, into Germany, and the country’s liberal policies regarding harboring of refugees and political asylum seekers. The attractive economic prospects of Germany also bring people to the country. Besides Russia and Germany, the capital cities of the major European countries of the United Kingdom (London), France (Paris), Spain (Madrid), Italy (Rome), and Greece (Athens) also feature upon the list of the most populous cities in Europe. Among these cities, Paris and London each have metropolitan populations of over 10 million. Both of these cities are famous for their world-class infrastructures, high living standards, thriving economies, cultural richness, and multiculturalism. All of these factors act as huge crowd pullers, attracting immigrants from all over the globe to these cities. Besides these capital cities, Milan in Italy and Barcelona in Spain also feature among the 15 most populous cities on the European continent today.
Future Trends Of Major Cities
Over the years, there has been a drastic change in the demographics in most of Europe’s major cities. These populations are now more multicultural in nature than ever before. For example, 36.7% of London’s population is foreign born. However, despite the high rates of immigration, the growth of European population is predicted to be slow in the coming years when compared to the population growth of other continents, estimated to be seen peaking in 2050, and then declining afterwards. Though the growth will be slow, the tendency of people to gather at Europe’s urban areas will put ongoing stresses on the existing infrastructures of Europe’s most populous cities. More houses, hospitals, schools, and transport infrastructure will be thus needed to accommodate the growing populations in these large cities. Hence, city planners in Europe need to focus their attention on such tasks to ensure that the population of Europe's cities will continue to be able to enjoy the high standards of living offered in these cities.
Largest City Metro Populations In Europe
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With a population of more than eight million, Moscow, Russias capital city, emerged as the largest European city in City Mayors' survey of Europes 500 largest towns and cities. London, the UK capital, is placed second, followed by St Petersburg, Berlin, Madrid and Rome. The City Mayors survey of European cities identified 36 cities with populations of more than one million. Another four cities have populations of above 900,000.
The survey of 500 European cities includes all cities with populations of more than 150,000 (497 cities) and three cities with populations of 149,000 citizens. While City Mayors carried out its research in the autumn of 2003, some of the statistical raw material is based on local censuses going back to the mid-nineties. For example, the figures for UK towns and cities were collected between 1996 and 1998. The data for Germany is based on 1999 government statistics, while the figures for France go back more than ten years. Some of the most recent statistics are from Russia (1999) and Denmark (2001).
With the exception of UK towns, the City Mayors survey provides population figures for cities with legally defined boundaries, with recognised urban status and with their own local government. The figures do not take into account suburban settlements or other heavily populated areas outside city boundaries. Some of the population figures for towns in the United Kingdom include neighbouring rural areas if they and the towns share local government.
Some 212 million people, or more than 29 per cent of Europes total population, live in the Continent's 500 largest cities. Europes population is estimated at 727 million, with 379 million people living in the European Union, prior to its expansion in 2004.
The percentage of people living in large cities (Großstädte in German), ie those with populations of more than 150,000 residents, varies noticeably from country to country. Of Europes largest countries, France has the lowest number of large-city dwellers. Only 10.4 per cent of French men and women live in the country's larger cities. Russia has one of the highest figures. Here almost 42 per cent of inhabitants are residents of large towns and cities. Countries, that belonged to the former Soviet Union are credited with similar high percentage figures. In the Ukraine, 37 per cent of the countrys citizens live in cities with more than 150,000 residents. The equivalent figure for Belarus is 40 per cent.
The development historically of Germany and Italy led to the formation of a large number of important but smaller cities. The percentage of people living in larger cities or Großstädte is therefore relatively low. In Germany some 26 per cent of the population live in Großstädten, while only 21 per cent of Italians reside in cities with populations of more than 150,000 people.
In Poland, in a country where the rural population is still a major force, some 24 per cent of people live in large towns and cities. With more than seven million residents, London, the UK capital, accounts for almost 12 per cent of the countrys population. On paper, some 51 per cent of Britons live in towns and cities with more than 150,000 inhabitants. However, this figure is distorted because some smaller towns have been administratively amalgamated with their surrounding rural districts.
Russia boasts 116 cities with more than 150,000 residents, while in Germany 51 cities enjoy Großstadt status. France is a large country with relatively few large cities. Only 16 French towns and cities house above 150,000 people. The equivalent figures for Spain, Italy and Poland are 37, 25 and 24 respectively.
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What is a female zebra called? | What is a female zebra called? | Reference.com
What is a female zebra called?
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As with horses, female zebras are called mares, and males are called stallions. All baby zebras are called foals, but young males are colts, and young females are fillies.
Full Answer
Zebras are social animals that travel in herds and graze together in grassy plains. Their herds usually consist of a stallion, several females and their offspring. These smaller units often combine to create large groups that can sometimes consist of thousands of zebras. These large numbers help them defend themselves against predators such as lions and hyenas. Each zebra's striped pattern is unique, and these patterns are often compared to a human's fingerprint in that no two are alike.
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What is a line called that goes straight from the centre of a circle to the circumference? | Zebra (Equus zebra, Equus quagga, Equus grevyi) - Animals - A-Z Animals - Animal Facts, Information, Pictures, Videos, Resources and Links
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Zebra Classification and Evolution
The Zebra is a large species of equine that is natively found roaming the grassy plains of sub-Saharan Africa. They are the largest and most distinctive wild horses with bodies that are patterned with white and black stripes, the exact placement of which is unique to each individual. There are three different species of Zebra that are found in Africa which are the Common Zebra (also known as the Plains Zebra and the Burchell's Zebra), the Grevy's Zebra (also known as the Imperial Zebra) and the Mountain Zebra. They are incredibly sociable animals that can travel vast distances in search of fresh grass and water but are severely threatened throughout much of their natural range due to increasing levels of human activity. Today, both the Grevy's Zebra and the Mountain Zebra are considered to be endangered species and although the Common Zebra is more widespread and numerous, there have been sharp population declines in certain areas.
Zebra Anatomy and Appearance
Zebras are heavy bodied animals that are perfectly designed for speed with their long and slender legs and narrow hooves helping them to reach speeds of 40kph when running. In the same way as horses, they only have a single toe on each foot which they walk on the tip of and is protected by their tough hooves. Their black and white stripes are unique to each individual and help them to identify each other when in the herd. Zebras have long necks and heads that mean they can easily reach the grass on the ground and a mane that extends from their forehead and along their back to the tail. The pattern of their stripes varies between the species with Grevy's and Mountain Zebras having narrower stripes and white undersides, while the Common Zebra has broad stripes that cover it's entire body. The Grevy's Zebra is not only the largest of the Zebra species but is also easily identifiable by it's large, rounded ears.
Zebra Distribution and Habitat
Zebras are found inhabiting the open grasslands and plains of East and Southern Africa where they spend almost of their time grazing on the grasses. The Common Zebra is the most numerous and has the widest natural range throughout East Africa where they are found roaming the grassy plains. The Mountain Zebra can be found grazing on the mountain grasslands of South-West Africa, while the Grevy's Zebra is confined to the arid grasslands and sub-desert steppe throughout Ethiopia, Somalia and in northern Kenya. Zebras have evolved to run incredibly fast so they are able to escape from dangerous predators and so rely heavily on the open plains for their survival. Although the Common Zebra has been least affected, all three species are at risk from population declines due to the loss of their natural habitats caused by by increasing levels of human activity.
Zebra Behaviour and Lifestyle
Zebras are highly sociable animals that roam the savanna in herds for protection from predators. The Grevy's Zebra occupies herds more loosely than the other species with a stallion (male) patrolling enormous territories of up to 10 square kilometres, with mares (females) and their foals grazing freely and occasionally forming small groups that feed together. Both the Common Zebra and the Mountain Zebra inhabit their native regions in long-term herds that split into smaller family groups which are led by a dominant stallion and contain between one and six mares with their young. Their strong social bonds can make them very affectionate towards one another, often grooming each other using their teeth. During the mating season, males will fight fiercely for the right to breed with the females and do so by rearing up on their back legs whilst kicking and biting one another.
Zebra Reproduction and Life Cycles
The Zebra is a relatively slow-developing mammal with females not being able to first breed until they are at least a few years old. After a gestation period that can last for between 10 months and a year, the female gives birth to a single foal that is born with it's stripes, mane and also has a little patch of hair in the middle of it's tummy. Zebra foals are able to stand within minutes of birth which is vital to ensure that they are able to run away to escape from predators. They are able to begin eating grass after a week and are weaned by the time they are 11 months old. Young Zebras remain with their mother until they are mature at around three years old when the males leave their natal herd to join an all-male bachelor group, while females stay with their mother. These bachelor groups begin to challenge the dominant stallions to try and take over the harem during the mating season.
Zebra Diet and Prey
The Zebra is a herbivorous animal meaning that it only eats plant-matter in order to gain the nutrition that it needs to survive. The majority of the Zebra's diet (in fact around 90%) is comprised of a wide variety of different grasses with other plant matter including leaves and buds making up the rest. They use their sharp front teeth to nibble on the tough ends of grasses before grinding them up using the flat molars along it's cheeks. Due to the fact that grass has little nutritional value, Zebras must spend between 60% and 80% of the day grazing. Common Zebras are often seen drinking at water holes which they do every day but, due to the fact that the Grevy's Zebra and the Mountain Zebra inhabit drier, more arid regions, they often don't drink for several days at a time. In the dry season Zebras can travel vast distances in search of fresh grass and water holes that haven't yet dried up, with the Grevy's Zebra also known to dig into the ground of dried up river beds to access the water underground.
Zebra Predators and Threats
The Zebra is a large and powerful animal that despite being herbivorous can easily outrun many of it's predators. Zebras are preyed upon by Lions, Leopards, Hyenas and African Wild Dogs, along with numerous other large carnivores such as Crocodiles when they are crossing rivers or drinking. Although their first instinct is to run away, Zebras are sometimes known to attack the animal that is threatening it by kicking and biting. However, when danger is spotted, Zebras alert one another of the threat and by running away from their predator as a tight herd, they often either confuse or simply intimidate their attacker. The biggest threat though to Africa's remaining Zebra populations is the increasing encroachment on their natural habitats by people, with the loss of their open plains to grazing for livestock and to clear land for agriculture.
Zebra Interesting Facts and Features
The stripes of the Zebra remain a slight mystery to science even today as they were once thought to camouflage them into the natural light and shade of their surroundings to confuse predators, as once running as a herd, it is extremely difficult to remain focused on a single animal. The formation of the stripes on their rear end of the Zebra differs greatly between the three species with Common Zebras having horizontal stripes on it's haunches where those of the Grevy's Zebra curve upwards. These patterns on their rear ends are thought to differ so greatly so that members of the same herd are able to easily identify the individual at the front of the pack when running. As with other male horses, Zebra stallions are known to curl their top lips up which is thought to heighten their sense of smell. This so-called "horse laugh" is thought to prove vital for the male to be able to detect when a female is ready to mate.
Zebra Relationship with Humans
Due to the free-roaming nature of Zebras and over vast distances, the increasing human presence throughout the world has meant that Zebras have been affected by the loss of their habitats throughout much of the natural range. However, one of the most intriguing things about Zebras to people is that because they are so closely related to other equines including Horses and Donkeys, Zebras has actually been able to breed with them to produce a hybrid foal, known as a Zonkey (Zebras and Donkeys) or as a Zorse (Zebras and Horses). Although it is not thought that the two species would naturally be able to mate in the wild due to geographical differences, a number of both Zonkey and Zorse individuals now exist around the world. Zebras are thought to have natural protection to certain parasites which has led people to breed Horses and Donkeys with Zebras to produce an animal that has the character and size of a Horse or Donkey but with the power and resilience of a Zebra. As with other cross-breed offspring though, Zonkeys and Zorses are infertile and so are unable to reproduce themselves.
Zebra Conservation Status and Life Today
Today, two out of the three Zebras species are listed by the IUCN as animals that are Endangered and therefore face extinction from their natural habitats in the future. The Grevy's Zebra and the Mountain Zebra are found in increasingly isolated regions and their numbers continue to fall throughout their natural ranges. The Common Zebra is an animal that is listed as being Near Threatened by extinction in the wild and although they are still widespread and numbers appear to be relatively stable, they like the other species, are threatened by habitat loss throughout much of their natural range.
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‘Ebony and ‘what’ is the title of a 1982 hit single by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder? | Ebony & Ivory-Stevie Wonder & Sir Paul McCartney - YouTube
Ebony & Ivory-Stevie Wonder & Sir Paul McCartney
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A good video with a good message from the early 80s.I remember having the 45RPM single of this.(Disclaimer:To YouTube,the record company,and to all viewers,I do not claim copyrights to this,I'm simply posting it because I love the video)
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In 2001, protester Craig Evans was arrested after throwing what at politician John Prescott? | Stevie Wonder | New Music And Songs |
Stevie Wonder
About Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder is a much-beloved American icon and an indisputable genius not only of R&B but popular music in general. Blind virtually since birth, Wonder's heightened awareness of sound helped him create vibrant, colorful music teeming with life and ambition. Nearly everything he recorded bore the stamp of his sunny, joyous positivity; even when he addressed serious racial, social, and spiritual issues (which he did quite often in his prime), or sang about heartbreak and romantic uncertainty, an underlying sense of optimism and hope always seemed to emerge. Much like his inspiration, Ray Charles, Wonder had a voracious appetite for many different kinds of music, and refused to confine himself to any one sound or style. His best records were a richly eclectic brew of soul, funk, rock & roll, sophisticated Broadway/Tin Pan Alley-style pop, jazz, reggae, and African elements -- and they weren't just stylistic exercises; Wonder took it all and forged it into his own personal form of expression. His range helped account for his broad-based appeal, but so did his unique, elastic voice, his peerless melodic facility, his gift for complex arrangements, and his taste for lovely, often sentimental ballads. Additionally, Wonder's pioneering use of synthesizers during the '70s changed the face of R&B; he employed a kaleidoscope of contrasting textures and voices that made him a virtual one-man band, all the while evoking a surprisingly organic warmth. Along with Marvin Gaye and Isaac Hayes, Wonder brought R&B into the album age, crafting his LPs as cohesive, consistent statements with compositions that often took time to make their point. All of this made Wonder perhaps R&B's greatest individual auteur, rivaled only by Gaye or, in later days, Prince. Originally, Wonder was a child prodigy who started out in the general Motown mold, but he took control of his vision in the '70s, spinning off a series of incredible albums that were as popular as they were acclaimed; most of his reputation rests on these works, which most prominently include Talking Book, Innervisions, and Songs in the Key of Life. His output since then has been inconsistent, marred by excesses of sentimentality and less of the progressive imagination of his best work, but it's hardly lessened the reverence in which he's long been held.
Wonder was born Stevland Hardaway Judkins in Saginaw, Michigan, on May 13, 1950 (his name was later altered to Stevland Morris when his mother married). A premature infant, he was put on oxygen treatment in an incubator; it was likely an excess of oxygen that exacerbated a visual condition known as retinopathy of prematurity, causing his blindness. In 1954, his family moved to Detroit, where the already musically inclined Stevie began singing in his church's choir; from there he blossomed into a genuine prodigy, learning piano, drums, and harmonica all by the age of nine. While performing for some of his friends in 1961, Stevie was discovered by Ronnie White of the Miracles, who helped arrange an audition with Berry Gordy at Motown. Gordy signed the youngster immediately and teamed him with producer/songwriter Clarence Paul, under the new name Little Stevie Wonder. Wonder released his first two albums in 1962: A Tribute to Uncle Ray, which featured covers of Wonder's hero Ray Charles, and The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie, an orchestral jazz album spotlighting his instrumental skills on piano, harmonica, and assorted percussion. Neither sold very well, but that all changed in 1963 with the live album The 12 Year Old Genius, which featured a new extended version of the harmonica instrumental "Fingertips." Edited for release as a single, "Fingertips, Pt. 2" rocketed to the top of both the pop and R&B charts, thanks to Wonder's irresistible, youthful exuberance; meanwhile, The 12 Year Old Genius became Motown's first chart-topping LP.
Wonder charted a few more singles over the next year, but none on the level of "Fingertips, Pt. 2." As his voice changed, his recording career was temporarily put on hold, and he studied classical piano at the Michigan School for the Blind in the meantime. He dropped the "Little" portion of his stage name in 1964, and re-emerged the following year with the infectious, typically Motown-sounding dance tune "Uptight (Everything's Alright)," a number one R&B/Top Five pop smash. Not only did he co-write the song for his first original hit, but it also reinvented him as a more mature vocalist in the public's mind, making the similar follow-up "Nothing's Too Good for My Baby" another success. The first signs of Wonder's social activism appeared in 1966 via his hit cover of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" and its follow-up, "A Place in the Sun," but as Motown still had the final say on Wonder's choice of material, this new direction would not yet become a major facet of his work.
By this time, Wonder was, however, beginning to take more of a hand in his own career. He co-wrote his next several hits, all of which made the R&B Top Ten -- "Hey Love," "I Was Made to Love Her" (an R&B number one that went to number two pop in 1967), and "For Once in My Life" (another smash that reached number two pop and R&B). Wonder's 1968 album For Once in My Life signaled his budding ambition; he co-wrote about half of the material and, for the first time, co-produced several tracks. The record also contained three more singles in the R&B chart-toppers "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day," "You Met Your Match," and "I Don't Know Why." Wonder scored again in 1969 with the pop and R&B Top Five hit "My Cherie Amour" (which he'd actually recorded three years prior) and the Top Ten "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday." In 1970, Wonder received his first-ever co-production credit for the album Signed, Sealed & Delivered; he co-wrote the R&B chart-topper "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" with singer Syreeta Wright, whom he married later that year, and also scored hits with "Heaven Help Us All" and a rearrangement of the Beatles' "We Can Work It Out." In addition, two other Motown artists had major success with Wonder co-writes: the Spinners' "It's a Shame" and the Miracles' only pop number one, "Tears of a Clown."
1971 proved a turning point in Wonder's career. On his 21st birthday, his contract with Motown expired, and the royalties set aside in his trust fund became available to him. A month before his birthday, Wonder released Where I'm Coming From, his first entirely self-produced album, which also marked the first time he wrote or co-wrote every song on an LP (usually in tandem with Wright), and the first time his keyboard and synthesizer work dominated his arrangements. Gordy was reportedly not fond of the work, and it wasn't a major commercial success, producing only the Top Ten hit "If You Really Love Me" (plus a classic B-side in "Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer"). Nonetheless, it was clearly an ambitious attempt at making a unified album-length artistic statement, and served notice that Wonder was no longer content to release albums composed of hit singles and assorted filler. Accordingly, Wonder did not immediately renew his contract with Motown, as the label had expected; instead, he used proceeds from his trust fund to build his own recording studio and to enroll in music theory classes at USC. He negotiated a new deal with Motown that dramatically increased his royalty rate and established his own publishing company, Black Bull Music, which allowed him to retain the rights to his music; most importantly, he wrested full artistic control over his recordings, as Gaye had just done with the landmark What's Going On.
Freed from the dictates of Motown's hit-factory mindset, Wonder had already begun following a more personal and idiosyncratic muse. One of his negotiating chips had been a full album completed at his new studio; Wonder had produced, played nearly all the instruments, and written all the material (with Wright contributing to several tracks). Released under Wonder's new deal in early 1972, Music of My Mind heralded his arrival as a major, self-contained talent with an original vision that pushed the boundaries of R&B. The album produced a hit single in the spacy, synth-driven ballad "Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)," but like contemporary work by Hayes and Gaye, Music of My Mind worked as a smoothly flowing song suite unto itself. Around the same time it was released, Wonder's marriage to Wright broke up; the two remained friends, however, and Wonder produced and wrote several songs for her debut album. The same year, Wonder toured with the Rolling Stones, taking his music to a larger white audience.
For the follow-up to Music of My Mind, Wonder refined his approach, tightening up his songcraft while addressing his romance with Wright. The result, Talking Book, was released in late 1972 and made him a superstar. Song for song one of the strongest R&B albums ever made, Talking Book also perfected Wonder's spacy, futuristic experiments with electronics, and was hailed as a magnificently realized masterpiece. Wonder topped the charts with the gutsy, driving funk classic "Superstition" and the mellow, jazzy ballad "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," which went on to become a pop standard; those two songs went on to win three Grammys between them. Amazingly, Wonder only upped the ante with his next album, 1973's Innervisions, a concept album about the state of contemporary society that ranks with Gaye's What's Going On as a pinnacle of socially conscious R&B. The ghetto chronicle "Living for the City" and the intense spiritual self-examination "Higher Ground" both went to number one on the R&B charts and the pop Top Ten, and Innervisions took home a Grammy for Album of the Year. Wonder was lucky to be alive to enjoy the success; while being driven to a concert in North Carolina, a large piece of timber fell on Wonder's car. He sustained serious head injuries and lapsed into a coma, but fortunately made a full recovery.
Wonder's next record, 1974's Fulfillingness' First Finale, was slightly more insular and less accessible than its immediate predecessors, and unsurprisingly, imbued with a sense of mortality. The hits, however, were the upbeat "Boogie On, Reggae Woman" (a number one R&B and Top Five pop hit) and the venomous Richard Nixon critique "You Haven't Done Nothin'" (number one on both sides). It won him a second straight Album of the Year Grammy, by which time he'd been heavily involved as a producer and writer on Syreeta's second album, Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta. Wonder subsequently retired to his studio and spent two years crafting a large-scale project that would stand as his magnum opus. Finally released in 1976, Songs in the Key of Life was a sprawling two-LP-plus-one-EP set that found Wonder at his most ambitious and expansive. Some critics called it brilliant but prone to excess and indulgence, while others hailed it as his greatest masterpiece and the culmination of his career; in the end, they were probably both right. "Sir Duke," an ebullient tribute to music in general and Duke Ellington in particular, and the funky "I Wish" both went to number one pop and R&B. The hit "Isn't She Lovely," a paean to Wonder's daughter, became something of a standard. Not surprisingly, Songs in the Key of Life won a Grammy for Album of the Year; in hindsight, though, it marked the end of a remarkable explosion of creativity and of Wonder's artistic prime.
Having poured a tremendous amount of energy into Songs in the Key of Life, Wonder released nothing for the next three years. When he finally returned in 1979, it was with the mostly instrumental Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants, ostensibly the soundtrack to a never-released documentary. Although it contained a few pop songs, including the hit "Send One Your Love," its symphonic flirtations befuddled most listeners and critics. It still made the Top Ten on the LP chart on Wonder's momentum alone -- one of the stranger releases to do so. To counteract possible speculation that he'd gone off the deep end, Wonder rushed out the straightforward pop album Hotter Than July in 1980. The reggae-flavored "Master Blaster (Jammin')" returned him to the top of the R&B charts and the pop Top Five, and "Happy Birthday" was part of the ultimately successful campaign to make Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday (Wonder being one of the cause's most active champions). Artistically speaking, Hotter Than July was a cut below his classic '70s output, but it was still a solid outing; fans were so grateful to have the old Wonder back that they made it his first platinum-selling LP.
In 1981, Wonder began work on a follow-up album that was plagued by delays, suggesting that he might not be able to return to the visionary heights of old. He kept busy in the meantime, though; in 1982, his racial-harmony duet with Paul McCartney, "Ebony and Ivory," hit number one, and he released a greatest-hits set covering 1972-1982 called Original Musiquarium I. It featured four new songs, of which "That Girl" (number one R&B, Top Five pop) and the lengthy, jazzy "Do I Do" (featuring Dizzy Gillespie; number two R&B) were significant hits. In 1984, still not having completed the official follow-up to Hotter Than July, he recorded the soundtrack to the Gene Wilder comedy The Woman in Red, which wasn't quite a full-fledged Stevie Wonder album but did feature a number of new songs, including "I Just Called to Say I Love You." Adored by the public (it was his biggest-selling single ever) and loathed by critics (who derided it as sappy and simple-minded), "I Just Called to Say I Love You" was an across-the-board number one smash, and won an Oscar for Best Song.
Wonder finally completed the official album he'd been working on for nearly five years, and released In Square Circle in 1985. Paced by the number one hit "Part Time Lover" -- his last solo pop chart-topper -- and several other strong songs, In Square Circle went platinum, even if Wonder's synthesizer arrangements now sounded standard rather than groundbreaking. He performed on the number one charity singles "We Are the World" by USA for Africa and "That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne Warwick & Friends, and returned quickly with a new album, Characters, in 1987. While Characters found Wonder's commercial clout on the pop charts slipping away, it was a hit on the R&B side, topping the album charts and producing a number one hit in "Skeletons." It would be his final release of the '80s, a decade capped by his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
New studio material from Wonder didn't arrive until 1991, when he provided the soundtrack to the Spike Lee film Jungle Fever. His next full album of new material, 1995's Conversation Peace, was a commercial disappointment, thought it did win two Grammys for the single "For Your Love." That same year, Coolio revived "Pastime Paradise" in his own brooding rap smash "Gangsta's Paradise," which became the year's biggest hit. Wonder capitalized on the renewed attention by cutting a hit duet with Babyface, "How Come, How Long," in 1996. During the early 2000s, Motown remastered and reissued Wonder's exceptional 1972-1980 run of solo albums (Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants excepted) and also released The Definitive Collection, a representative single-disc primer.
In 2005, after a decade had transpired without a new studio album, Wonder released A Time to Love, which was bolstered by collaborations with Prince and Paul McCartney, as well as one with daughter and "Isn't She Lovely" inspiration Aisha Morris. His far-reaching influence continued to be felt through samples, cover versions, and reinterpretations, highlighted by Robert Glasper Experiment and Lalah Hathaway's Grammy-winning version of "Jesus Children of America." Well into the late 2010s, Wonder continued to appear on albums by other artists, including Snoop Dogg, Raphael Saadiq, and Mark Ronson. All the while, Wonder regularly toured. From November 2014 through 2015, he celebrated the approaching 40th anniversary of Songs in the Key of Life with lengthy set lists that included all 21 songs of the classic album. ~ Steve Huey & Andy Kellman, Rovi
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Mount Etna is on which European island? | Mount Etna Volcano, Italy: Map, Facts, Eruption Pictures
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Mount Etna: Introduction
Mount Etna is Europe's highest and most active volcano . Towering above the city of Catania on the island of Sicily, it has been growing for about 500,000 years and is in the midst of a series of eruptions that began in 2001. It has experienced a variety of eruption styles , including violent explosions and voluminous lava flows. More than 25% of Sicily's population lives on Etna's slopes, and it is the main source of income for the island, both from agriculture (due to its rich volcanic soil) and tourism.
Map: Where is Etna?
Map showing the location of Mount Etna on the east coast of Sicily. Map by Geology.com and MapResources. Nearby Volcanoes: Stromboli , Vesuvius
Mount Etna: Plate Tectonic Setting
Mount Etna is associated with the subduction of the African plate under the Eurasian plate, which also produced Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei, but is part of a different volcanic arc (the Calabrian rather than Campanian). A number of theories have been proposed to explain Etna's location and eruptive history, including rifting processes, a hot spot, and intersection of structural breaks in the crust. Scientists are still debating which best fits their data, and are using a variety of methods to build a better image of the Earth's crust below the volcano.
Simplified plate tectonics cross section (A to B)
Simplified plate tectonics cross-section showing how Mount Etna is located above a subduction zone formed where the Eurasian and African plates collide. In this subduction zone a window has torn in the subducting slab.
Facts About Mount Etna
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Mount Etna: Eruption History
Etna's eruptions have been documented since 1500 BC, when phreatomagmatic eruptions drove people living in the eastern part of the island to migrate to its western end. The volcano has experienced more than 200 eruptions since then, although most are moderately small. Etna's most powerful recorded eruption was in 1669, when explosions destroyed part of the summit and lava flows from a fissure on the volcano's flank reached the sea and the town of Catania, more than ten miles away. This eruption was also notable as one of the first attempts to control the path of flowing lava.
The Catanian townspeople dug a channel that drained lava away from their homes, but when the diverted lava threatened the village of Paterno, the inhabitants of that community drove away the Catanians and forced them to abandon their efforts. An eruption in 1775 produced large lahars when hot material melted snow and ice on the summit, and an extremely violent eruption in 1852 produced more than 2 billion cubic feet of lava and covered more than three square miles of the volcano's flanks in lava flows. Etna's longest eruption began in 1979 and went on for thirteen years; its latest eruption began in March 2007, and is still ongoing.
Mt. Etna Eruption (October 30, 2002)
An oblique photograph of Mount Etna looking to the southeast taken by astronauts onboard the International Space Station on October 30,2002. The dark plume rising from the top of the volcano is an ash cloud. The broad white cloud streaming from areas of lower elevation is smoke produced by forest fires ignited as a hot lava flow moved through a pine forest. The ash and smoke caused air traffic to be diverted and forced the closing of roads, schools and businesses. Larger Image
Mt. Etna Eruption (October 30, 2002)
An oblique photograph of Mount Etna on the west coast of the island of Sicily. This photo is looking to the southeast with the Mediterranean Sea in the background and was taken by astronauts onboard the International Space Station on October 30,2002. The scene shows the ash plume from the eruption being carried by wind across the Mediterranean Sea to Libya, over 350 miles away. Larger Image
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Jessica Ball is a graduate student in the Department of Geology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her concentration is in volcanology, and she is currently researching lava dome collapses and pyroclastic flows. Jessica earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the College of William and Mary, and worked for a year at the American Geological Institute in the Education/Outreach Program. She also writes the Magma Cum Laude blog , and in what spare time she has left, she enjoys rock climbing and playing various stringed instruments.
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A view of snowcapped Mount Etna. Image © iStockphoto / Domenico Pellegriti.
Google Satellite Image of Mount Etna
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Mount Etna Geology and Hazards
Mount Etna consists of two edifices: an ancient shield volcano at its base, and the younger Mongibello stratovolcano , which was built on top of the shield. The basaltic shield volcano eruptions began about 500,000 years ago, while the stratovolcano began forming about 35,000 years ago from more trachytic lavas. The volcano's slopes currently host several large calderas which formed when the roofs of magma chambers collapsed inward, including the east-facing, horseshoe-shaped Valle de Bove. Etna's current activity consists of continuous summit degassing, explosive Strombolian eruptions, and frequent basaltic lava flows. Ash clouds from the explosive eruptions are especially hazardous to aircraft, since ash that is pulled into a jet engine can melt, coat moving parts with a layer of glass, and cause the engine to shut down. These dangerous ash clouds are often visible from space.
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Etna has also produced pyroclastic flows, ash falls, and mudflows, but the lava flows are the most immediately hazardous type of activity, especially to the city of Catania. While the flows themselves usually do not move fast enough to threaten humans, they can cover large areas and destroy crops and buildings. In the event of a large flank (fissure) eruption, evacuating the inhabitants of towns and cities near the volcano would be a huge challenge.
Ruins: House buried by Etna
Ruins of a small house partially buried by volcanic debris from Mount Etna. Image © iStockphoto / Peeter Viisimaa.
Did You Know?
. In 122 BC, when an explosive eruption rained so much ash and lapilli onto the town of Catania that many of its buildings were destroyed by roof collapses, the town's inhabitants were exempted from paying taxes to Rome for ten years.
. There have been two attempts to control the path of lava flows threatening to destroy the town of Catania. The first was in 1669, and the second was in 1992. During the 1992 attempt, the United States Marines worked with Italian volcanologists to develop "Operation Volcano Buster", in which they used explosives to blast a hole in a lava tunnel on Etna's flank and then dropped large blocks of concrete into the hole to try and stem the flow of the lava. Like the 1669 attempt, however, this plan was ultimately unsuccessful.
Sicilian Vineyard in the shadow of Mount Etna
A Sicilian vineyard growing in the shadow of Mount Etna. The inhabitants of Sicily must balance the advantage of rich volcanic soil with the dangers of losing their crops and farms to an eruption from the still-active volcano. Image © iStockphoto / Domenico Pellegriti.
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How many wings does a bee have? | Deadly beauty: Lava flow at Italy’s Etna volcano (PHOTOS) — RT News
On Sunday, the lava flow at Etna has descended to approximately 2,000 meters, stopping just a few kilometers west of the provincial road to La Sapienza, Volcano Discovery website said.
Etna Eruption# extraordinary power# pic.twitter.com/Cq4wZVufpa
— Buy In Sicily R.E. (@BuyinSicily) February 2, 2015
The volcano began erupting on December 28, 2014, which was the most activity recorded from Etna since December 2013.
#Etna , il fiume di #fuoco tra la #neve . L' #eruzione vista da sudovest, #spettacolare foto di Claudio Maria Fusto. pic.twitter.com/MrE4yxucBS
— Turi Caggegi (@TuriCaggegi) February 1, 2015
Etna is one of the world’s most active volcanoes, and is almost constantly in a state of activity. The first recorded observation of its eruption was made by Greek historian Diodorus Siculus in 425 BC.
Effusive eruption at Mount Etna, Sicily this evening. pic.twitter.com/HVO2bX6S1b
— Kerry Mason (@kerry_mason) February 1, 2015
For centuries Etna has been threatening the heavily populated towns and villages surrounding the foothills of mountain, despite the volcano’s character. Due to this character and own persistency, the coastal town of Catania had to be rebuilt on several occasions after being hit by lava between 122 BC and 1185 AD.
Some 1,500 people were killed in 1669 when the town of Nicoli was decimated by an earthquake originating beneath Mount Etna. In 1928, the village of Mascali was destroyed in just two days when a fissure opened up near the foot of the mountain. Only the involvement of the US Marines allowed the town of Zafferana to be saved from the lava flow in 1992.
READ MORE: Skiing over cold lava: Italian thrill seekers zoom down Mt Etna (VIDEO)
Despite the threat, Mount Etna is a cornerstone of the Sicilian economy as it provides fertile land for agriculture, due to fallen ash, and attracts thousands of tourists to the region.
Italy and the Mediterranean seen by @NASANPP early Monday morning. Big eruption of Mount #Etna in the middle-right! pic.twitter.com/JgMB9FWXmn
— Simon Proud (@simon_rp84) February 2, 2015
The 3,329-meter-tall volcano, which has four summit craters, has been added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in June 2013.
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The name of which city translates into English as ‘River of January’? | January River - definition of January River by The Free Dictionary
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Rio de Ja·nei·ro
(dā zhə-nâr′ō, dē, dĭ) Familiarly known as "Rio."
A city of southeast Brazil on Guanabara Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. The city's name, Portuguese for "River of January," reflects the fact that the first European explorers to visit the bay, in January 1502, believed it was the mouth of a river. The city, founded in 1565, was the capital of Brazil from 1763 until 1960, when the government was transferred to Brasília.
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1. (Placename) a port in SE Brazil, on Guanabara Bay: the country's chief port and its capital from 1763 to 1960; backed by mountains, notably Sugar Loaf Mountain; founded by the French in 1555 and taken by the Portuguese in 1567. Pop: 11 469 000 (2005 est).
2. (Placename) a state of E Brazil. Capital: Rio de Janeiro. Pop: 14 724 475 (2002). Area: 42 911 sq km (16 568 sq miles)
Ri•o de Ja•nei•ro
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1. a state in SE Brazil. 13,316,455; 17,091 sq. mi. (44,268 sq. km).
2. the capital of this state, on Guanabara Bay: former capital of Brazil. 5,184,292.
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The musical ‘West Side Story’ is based on which Shakespeare play? | Rio de Janeiro - definition of Rio de Janeiro by The Free Dictionary
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Rio de Ja·nei·ro
(dā zhə-nâr′ō, dē, dĭ) Familiarly known as "Rio."
A city of southeast Brazil on Guanabara Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. The city's name, Portuguese for "River of January," reflects the fact that the first European explorers to visit the bay, in January 1502, believed it was the mouth of a river. The city, founded in 1565, was the capital of Brazil from 1763 until 1960, when the government was transferred to Brasília.
Rio de Janeiro
Rio
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1. (Placename) a port in SE Brazil, on Guanabara Bay: the country's chief port and its capital from 1763 to 1960; backed by mountains, notably Sugar Loaf Mountain; founded by the French in 1555 and taken by the Portuguese in 1567. Pop: 11 469 000 (2005 est).
2. (Placename) a state of E Brazil. Capital: Rio de Janeiro. Pop: 14 724 475 (2002). Area: 42 911 sq km (16 568 sq miles)
Ri•o de Ja•nei•ro
(ˈri oʊ deɪ ʒəˈnɛər oʊ, dʒə-, di, də)
n.
1. a state in SE Brazil. 13,316,455; 17,091 sq. mi. (44,268 sq. km).
2. the capital of this state, on Guanabara Bay: former capital of Brazil. 5,184,292.
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According to the Bible, whose wife was turned into a pillar of salt as soon as she looked back at Sodom? | Who saw Lot's wife become pillar of salt?
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QUESTION: Did anyone witness Lot's wife becoming a pillar of salt when she looked back at Sodom ?
ANSWER: In regard to anyone seeing Lot's wife becoming salt we sometimes have to simply trust God and the Bible . We could ask a question like this one such as: Who saw God create the universe , all life and even the first man? Another Biblical example is that we have no written eyewitness accounts of a great fish swallowing Jonah or of the same fish being seen spitting him out on some beach three days later. It all comes down to faith.
Lot's wife did not merely take a quick glance behind her to see the destruction of the cities. The English word "look" used to describe her action in Genesis 19:17 and 26, comes from the Hebrew nabat ( Strong's Concordance #H5027), which means to look intently at in a favorable manner. In short, she turned to longingly and (no doubt) regretfully witness the destruction of the places she really liked. Lot's wife's attitude about Sodom, and the willingness to minimize or overlook the gross sins and self-destructive behavior occurring where she resided, may have rubbed off on her daughters. It could have played a part in their willingness, just a short time after Sodom's demise, to do whatever it took to ensure they would have children (see Genesis 19:30 - 38).
Lot, not suprisingly, hesitated as he left Sodom. The two angels , who were sent to escourt Lot and his family out of Sodom before its destruction, had to grab their hands and lead them quickly out of harm's way. As they dashed out of 'sin city' the angels told the family 'Run for your lives! DON'T LOOK BACK and don't stop in the valley.' (Genesis 19:17). When the family reached the small town of Zoar , just as the sun was rising, 'Suddenly the Lord rained burning sulfur on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah . . .' (Genesis 19:24). It was then that the wife of Lot turned to look at what was happening and became a pillar of salt (verse 26).
Lot's wife stopped running away from the city just long enough to turn around and view the destruction of where she use to live. As she stood amazed at what she saw, many Bible commentaries agree some of the burning or molten sulphur (translated as " brimstone " in the KJV Bible ) likely fell on her from the sky and crystallized her into a salt pillar.
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What is the name of a butterfly and a punctuation mark? | Remember Lot's Wife
Remember Lot's Wife
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"Remember Lot's wife," said Jesus. That is probably the most dramatic, potent illustration the Master ever used in a sermon.
As we read the context, it is very obvious that the words were being applied to those living on this planet right now. "In that day" refers to the "day when the Son of man is revealed." Here is what Jesus actually said:
"Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Remember Lot's wife." Luke 17:28-32.
What did Jesus mean by that cryptic expression "Remember Lot's wife"? What does that woman of long ago have to do with people who are watching the closeout of history? Why did the Master relate Mrs. Lot to our day? Jesus used her as a fearful warning. That woman became cold, careless, and disobedient. Finally the judgments of God fell upon her, and she became a pillar of salt on the plains of Sodom.
I gather that one of the most deadly perils for God's people in the last days will be to slowly slip away from the truth as Mrs. Lot did. Jesus warned that the loss of spiritual power takes place almost imperceptibly: "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." Matthew 24:12. As pressures of conformity and compromise crowd in, the faith gradually erodes and disappears.
I confess to you that this is the pastor's most perplexing problem today. Perhaps a newly baptized family in the church is bubbling with that wonderful first-love experience. They are willing to go anywhere and do anything for the Lord. Their contagious enthusiasm is a joy to behold. But soon the pastor notices that the ardor is beginning to wane a little bit, and the family is no longer excited about their faith. They slowly begin to withdraw from participation and even attendance at church. The pastor visits the family and tries to uncover the problem. To his surprise, he discovers that they still believe as much as ever, but they have lost their love for the truth.
How can we explain this slacking of spiritual power? How does the devil steal the very heart out of the Christian experience? One thing is certain: it does not happen suddenly or overnight. People lose their love for the truth by degrees. Little by little they lower the standards and compromise the faith, until nothing remains except a dead, empty formalism.
After reading all that Jesus said about those who are saved, we see one grand absolute truth standing out clearly. There will be no divided heart in heaven. There will be no half surrender on the part of the redeemed. Those who enter God's kingdom will be there because they wanted eternal life more than anything else in the whole world. The Lord Jesus used Lot's wife as an example of those in the last days who will not be single-minded for the truth; who will love material things more than the things of God. Christ said, "So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:33.
Do you remember the story in the Bible about the businessman who went searching for the most priceless gem in the world? At last he located it and learned that it was for sale. But the price was outrageous! In order to buy that pearl he would have to sell his home, his business, and use every penny of his lifelong savings. But mark this: The man's desire for that pearl was so deep and compelling that he did not argue about the cost. He did not consider waiting until he could better afford the purchase. Nor did he attempt to bargain for a lower price. Immediately and eagerly he hurried away, sold everything he had, and brought the money back to buy the gem from the owners. The pearl, of course, represents eternal life, and those who desire it must be prepared to invest everything they have in order to obtain it.
Lot's Good Intentions
But let's come back to the story of Lot's wife and try to understand what Jesus wants us to learn from her example. According to the Bible record, she belonged to one of the finest families in the East. As the nephew of Abraham, Lot shared the tremendous faith of his uncle and prayed at Abraham's altar. When God's call came to get out of Mesopotamia, Lot went right along with Abraham, not knowing where the call might lead. Together they brought their families to the entering place of the Promised Land and offered their sacrifices of thanksgiving.
Then dissension erupted between the herdsmen of the two wealthy kinsmen. Their vast combined flocks and herds didn't have enough room to graze in such a restricted area, and they had to separate. Lot was given the choice of direction as the whole land stretched out before him. On one side lay the verdant hills with their lofty trees; the other led down into the crowded centers of commerce and trade. The materialistic appeal of the prosperous cities had an immediate impact on Lot, and the Bible records very simply that he "pitched his tent toward Sodom." Genesis 13:12. The predictable pattern of future tragedy was settled by that early decision to move near those wicked cities.
Lot stands forth as a man of good intentions. Quite obviously he did not actually plan to take his family into the urban environment of sinful Sodom. He would only live in the vicinity, where he could take advantage of the economic opportunities of such a bustling trade capital. Very likely he made special mental reservations about letting his family mingle with the degraded inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah. In fact, he had no idea at all of giving up his religion. His move was prompted by selfish concern over temporal advantages, and he had no intention of losing anything.
But what happened in spite of all the wonderful intentions? Poor Lot lost his wife, his possessions, and almost his own life. Good intentions were not good enough. He moved closer and closer to the cities until finally he actually moved in to dwell with the Sodomites. His plans to guard the spiritual interests of his children failed to materialize. All his rationalization about counteracting the wickedness with stricter prayer schedules and family-altar religion just didn't seem to work out as planned. He gradually compromised with the environment and watched his children slowly assimilate the ways of their heathen neighbors.
I'm sure Lot did not feel at ease when he first settled among the evil citizens of that abominable place. Every day he heard news of the mushrooming crime rate. He must have been repulsed and even horrified by the vile jokes and obscene language. Then he had to watch with alarm the growing fascination of his family for the perverted lifestyle of their friends and associates.
Finally, his daughters fell in love with worldly men and married them. Outside of the home, united with the enemies of God, they lost all faith in the ancestral religion of their childhood and youth. They began to look upon Lot as narrow and bigoted and soon expressed their extreme loathing of his half-hearted appeals to establish true worship in their homes.
Nevertheless, we still tend to sympathize with Lot in his frustrated attempts to hold the reins on his unregenerate wife and children. He had much against him, but most of it had been created by his own weakness and indecision. One compromise led to another, until finally he must have become totally demoralized over the rebellion of his worldly family.
Mrs. Lot's Response to Sodom
Still, it was an act of flagrant presumption when Lot actually settled within the city. The society there was shameless, degenerate, and entirely sex-perverted. Mrs. Lot not only moved into Sodom, but Sodom moved into her. She was the type who loved fine things, and the mad whirl of social activities fascinated her from the beginning. She was soon caught up in the excitement of party rounds of pleasure, and the evidence seems to indicate that she eventually shared much of the materialistic mind-set of the Sodomites.
Can we analyze the cause of such a shocking turnabout? How could it happen to the wife of Abraham's relative? Was it, perhaps, because no one was praying for her in that provocative situation? No, indeed. Abraham was presenting his prayers and sacrifices night and morning for his nephew's family. Was it because no warnings were given concerning the spiritual dangers? We cannot believe that those angel messengers left them without full information concerning the snares of Sodom. Then what brought terrible soul-ruin to this woman? Was it because she disbelieved the call of God to get out? No. She did not mock the message as did her married daughters and their husbands. She believed the warning and actually started on her way to safety.
But mark this - there was no eagerness in her heart and no enthusiasm for the program. She was so reluctant to leave the fine appointments of her affluent Sodom home that she lingered. Her heart and life had been so bound to material things that she could hardly pull away from the accumulated treasures of those finely furnished rooms. With death at her heels, she lingered. With life and security awaiting her on the mountaintop, she lingered. What was wrong with the woman? She loved the world more than she loved God. She still believed the truth; she knew what she ought to do; she wanted to be saved - yet she lingered.
We still find many people exactly like Mrs. Lot. They also believe the truth, know what they ought to do, and want to be saved. They linger, too, just as she did. Like Lot's wife, many of them wait until the pull of the world overpowers the will to act, and they are not able to let go of "things." Why will people linger over the call of God? Have you ever done it? Millions have lingered until the best years of their life are gone. They linger until their children grow up and are lost in the world. They linger until the world holds them with bands of steel and the voice of God dimly fades away.
But at last Mrs. Lot began to move. The record describes how angels had to take hold of their hands to hurry them out of the doomed city. The angels cried,
"Escape for thy life; look not behind thee." Genesis 19:17. But Lot's wife did not reach the safety of the mountains. Why? The Bible tells us that she "looked back," and immediately she was turned into a pillar of salt. Why did God deal with her so severely? Was it not the smallest offense of all just to move the head slightly? The Word of God has a name for that type of action: sin. She disobeyed the commandment of the Lord, and her judgment underlines the urgency of obedience. God means what He says. There is no excuse for sin, and God cannot overlook it.
Is There a Little Sin??
Nowhere in the Bible does God give the slightest tolerance for men to modify His revealed will. God says what He means to say, and He accepts nothing less than full compliance with His commandments. Some dramatic experiences are recorded in the Scriptures which emphasize this urgent truth. Two sons of the high priest offered strange fire before the Lord, and they died on the spot. God had required that they use only the sacred fire in the sanctuary during their priestly ministry. To them it seemed unreasonable that one fire could not burn sacrifices as well as another fire. Using such human judgment, Nadab and Abihu disobeyed the direct command of the Lord and died. They did not understand the seriousness of violating the sanctity of that which God had set apart for a holy use.
Similar arguments are used today in connection with things which have been sanctified by God. Often it is asked, "What is the difference between worshiping on the Sabbath and worshiping on Sunday? One day is just as good as the other." The tremendous difference is that God made one day holy and wrote an unchangeable law about it on tables of stone. The day is different because it has God's special blessing upon it. Woe to the man who touches with common hands those holy institutions of God!
Nadab and Abihu were not guilty of any rebellious defiance of their faith in other areas of their religious office. They never considered refusing to carry out the proper type of offering in the manner prescribed by the Levitical statutes. The small matter of the fire was the only command which struck them as frivolous and arbitrary. In that area alone, they felt justified in making a tiny change that would more easily and smoothly fit into their idea of functional worship. They reasoned that such a minor deviation in the interests of such a sanctified program could not bring any serious consequences. God would certainly not count it a sin to improve on a program to worship Him.
What an irony that much disobedience of God's law takes place in the name of religion! Christ acknowledged that men would be worshiping Him while they substituted the "commandments of men" for His requirements. He rejected such worship as vain and empty. In the sermon on the mount, He described a large class who would seek entrance into the kingdom because they had prophesied, cast out demons, and done many wonderful works "in thy name." Yet Jesus will say to them, "I never knew you: depart from me." Matthew 7:23.
How can people become so blind and deceived that they feel securely saved while willfully breaking God's commandments? In their vain worship, they bowed regularly in prayer, sang songs of praise, and probably never missed a church service. They professed great love for God and gave moving testimonies of the same.
Is the same problem with us today? Do religious people still disobey God's law while professing to love Him? On any given Sabbath, look around you to see what is going on. People will be ignoring the very heart commandment which God wrote on the tables of stone: "The seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work." Exodus 20:10.
Who are these people who ignore God's Sabbath commandment? As you see them hurrying about their regular work program, pursuing their own pleasure on the seventh day, there seems to be no remorse for violating the clear command of God. Yet tomorrow many of them will be in church - praying, singing, and talking about how much they love Jesus. Where did they get their definition of love? Was it from the bumper stickers on the interstate - "Smile if you love Jesus," "Wave if you love Jesus," "Honk if you love Jesus"? That is not what Jesus said, is it? He declared, "If ye love me, keep my commandments." John 14:15.
To Obey is Better
Why do people feel secure in breaking one of the Ten Commandments? For the same reason Saul felt secure in bringing back the forbidden sheep and oxen. God had told him not to bring back a thing after he defeated the Amelekites. But Saul was going to use those animals to sacrifice in his worship of God. Notice the incredible illogic of his actions. He disobeyed in taking the animals and then tried to justify the disobedience by using the stolen animals in worshiping God. In the same way, modern church members disobey God by taking the Sabbath for their own use. Then they do like Saul and try to justify their disobedience by worshiping God in the name of what they have stolen.
God declared through the prophet Samuel, "To obey is better than sacrifice." It is also better than all the vain worship of a thousand religious services performed in conjunction with the willful violation of His specific command. Obedience is better than anything else in revealing our love. Jesus said so. "If ye love me, keep my commandments." Disobedience is worse than anything because it is an act of disloyalty in its very nature. Observing a counterfeit day derived from the pagan worship of the sun is no more acceptable to God than Saul's prize-winning sheep and cattle. He is not honored by disobedience, and He is especially offended by the breaking of His commandments in the name of worship.
Have you noticed that in the stories of Nadab, Abihu, and Uzzah the seemingly slight offense had to do with things God had set apart for sacred use? The fire was holy and the ark of the covenant was holy. Both were to be reserved and preserved for one sacred purpose only. Common hands were not to be laid on the ark and common fire was not to replace the holy fire. When those "set apart" things were treated just like other things, the judgments of God fell.
Are there sanctified things today which God has set apart for a holy use? Indeed there are. The Sabbath has been described by God as "my holy day." Isaiah 58:13,14. That one-seventh of time has been signally blessed and commanded by God for rest and worship.
The tithe is something else which has been separated by the Word of God for a special, sacred purpose. To appropriate that one-tenth for ourselves is actually to steal from the very coffers of God. The Scriptures describe it thus: "Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings." Malachi 3:8.
Some people are horrified to read about the judgments which fell upon Uzzah when he touched the ark of God and upon Lot's wife when she simply turned her head. Are tiny infractions so serious that sudden death can ensue? Does this indicate that the quantity of sin is not so significant as the quality of it? If Eve's simple act of biting the fruit could precipitate six millenniums of planetary suffering and death, surely we dare not measure disobedience in terms of size or appearance.
No wonder, then, that Lot's wife suffered the same terrible consequences as all others who trifled with the word of a holy God. The offense of looking back indicated a divided will. It also revealed the fact that her heart was still bound up with the affairs of a corrupt, condemned social order. Two voices were competing for her allegiance: one, the voice of the highlands - the voice of God calling her to liberty, purity, and salvation; the other, the voice of the lowlands - the voice of popularity and pleasure, the voice of Sodom. Slowly the voice from beneath gained the mastery of a badly bent conscience, and Mrs. Lot stands before us as a tragic example of a divided heart.
Jesus said, "Remember Lot's wife," and He said it to those who would live through the final traumatic moments of earth's history. He is saying it to us right now - "Remember Lot's wife." We need that message. Millions are just as double-minded as Mrs. Lot. They find no time to pray with their family. Like Mrs. Lot, many read magazines more than the Bible, and thus they have only a superficial form of religion. Like Mrs. Lot, they linger around the edges of sin and make no strong decision to go all the way in obedience to God.
God's Ultimatum to Lot
What did God think about the namby-pamby way Lot had neutralized his influence in Sodom? You know the story of how those angels visited Abraham and then Lot, telling him that God had tolerated their fence-straddling long enough. They had reached the limits of their double life, so God faced them with an ultimatum: get out or get in! "This is it!" God said. "You can't be neutral any longer. Choose right now what you will do. Come all the way out, or stay there and perish."
What a fantastic confrontation: a final call, a last-minute chance to slip from death to life! Does it sound familiar? If it doesn't, you had better look around again and see what's happening to the world. The same fiery fate which loomed over Sodom has been decreed for this wicked age as well. Jesus pointed to the parallel conditions between the two periods of history. After describing the excesses and indulgences of Lot's day, Jesus said, "Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed." Luke 17:30.
What did He mean by "even thus"? Similar moral and social problems? No doubt about that. Did He also foresee a startling final appeal to lingering Lots and Mrs. Lots whose wills have almost been paralyzed by indecision? Indeed, the language of the Master seems to indicate that the whole sordid picture of a dying world was before Him. As in the days of Sodom, men would have just one last opportunity to say Yes or No; then it would be over.
Some, like Lot's wife, will be so wedded to the world that they cannot let go in time. They will have to perish with the things which they loved more than they loved God. Others, like Lot, will arouse just in time to choose quickly and decisively. Without a backward glance, they will move out in complete obedience to the will of God. This is the choice every-one faces.
The same issues which precipitated the dramatic showdown in Sodom are leavening the Christian churches at almost every level. Materialism and lukewarmness have placed a mold upon the lifestyle of millions who profess to be followers of truth today. While the winds of destruction are slowly slipping through the fingers of the four apocalyptic angels who have been holding them back, the professed people of God relax in a carnally secure dream world. Like Lot's family, they have become comfortable in the society of money markets and a compromised faith.
God looks upon the nauseous blend of flesh and spirit as intolerable. As the True Witness of the Laodicean church, He calls upon this last-day religious remnant to repent. Just as those heavenly messengers laid down the ultimatum so long ago, we are also being called to leave it all or perish. There is no more time to be divided. Get off the fence, God says, and be either hot or cold. Come all the way out and live, or stay lukewarm and perish. There is no place for half-surrender in the church of the translation!
The story of Lot and his family proves that God will not long tolerate a double lifestyle on the part of His professed people. Those who are trying to live in two worlds must make a decision. God's Word declares that the friendship of the world is enmity with God. "Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." James 4:4. Another Bible writer, who was the closest of Christ's disciples, declared, "If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." 1 John 2:15.
What One Sin Can Do
Why did Jesus say, "Remember Lot's wife?" Because He knew that many others would be just as attached to "things" as she was. They would linger, and then look back with longing heart upon those things which are forbidden. "Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:33.
What do modern church members know about the principle of self-denial and forsaking all? The book of Revelation foresaw the unholy mixture of Laodicean Christianity which would make God sick on the stomach. He said, "I will spue [vomit] thee out of my mouth." Revelation 3:16. Those words are probably the most graphic that ever passed the lips of our Lord. He was addressing the subject of hypocrisy in the end times. Similar strong language was used by Jesus in describing the same condition among the religious leaders of His day. He called them hypocrites, a generation of vipers, and whited sepulchers.
In the Old Testament, God used equivalent rhetoric in calling for His vacillating people to get off the fence. "If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him." 1 Kings 18:21.
In all these instances, God was speaking to those who laid claim to being His favored, chosen ones. Yet their practice was not the same as their profession. There was a mingling, in their experience, of the holy and unholy. They were saying one thing and doing something else. The result was a weak, wishy-washy witness which made no positive impact on others. God found such conduct repulsive. That is why He demanded that choices be made; but take note that only two alternatives were ever available. It was either God or Baal, obedience or disobedience.
One of the strangest obsessions of modern churchianity is to blithely blend the concepts of salvation and sin. The Bible makes it very clear that willful transgression is the antithesis of spiritual security. God's call is to "come out of her and be ye separate." Deliberate disobedience cannot coexist with a clear Christian conscience. The Word of God has much to say about sin, but never a good word. No one has ever read the slightest inspired intimation that sin should be reduced or diminished. Whenever it is mentioned, sin is declared to be non-negotiable. It is to be abandoned, rejected, and utterly repudiated. Jesus did not say to the adulterous woman, "Go and taper off on this sin." He said, "Go and sin no more." John did not write: "My little children, these things write I unto you that ye sin less and less." He plainly declared, "I write unto you that ye sin not."
The story of Lot's wife is a dramatic illustration that the presence of one small act of willful disobedience can lead to eternal loss. Any effort to reconcile God's love, character, or righteousness with a tolerance for sin must end with miserable failure.
How is it with you today? In this final fragment of probationary time, have you renounced every competitor of Christ for first place in your heart?
Just as the angels pleaded with Lot and his family to make a total surrender, the Holy Spirit urges upon us the same kind of commitment today. The call is for separation and urgent action. Multitudes linger in the twilight zone of indecision while the fires of destruction are poised for the annihilation of this world. Worldlings and professed Christians alike are hearing the plea of God to turn loose. The door of probation is open for just a few moments more.
To every soul there comes a golden last moment of decision before the door shuts. Will all be able to recognize that moment? Tragically, no. Some, with senses dulled by worldly compromise, will not even discern the final departure of God's messenger of salvation. The sins of Sodom are just as hypnotizing and appealing today as they were long ago. The same perverse practices have become more commonplace and popular than they ever were in the doomed city of the plains.
Lot had no time to take anything with him. Neither do we. There must be a willingness to deny self and cut away from the abominations of the flesh in every form. Our only hope is to move quickly in separating from the evil attachments of a corrupt society. A loving Saviour stands behind the invitation, "Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord."
The secret of being able to resist and reject the appeal of a perverse, renegade society is to look at the cross of Jesus Christ. We might abhor the evil and desire deliverance, but there is only one source of strength to break the pattern of sin. Christ's substitutionary death at Calvary satisfied the penalty which transgression had placed against every living soul in the world. The broken law demanded death, and when Jesus suffered that penalty for every man on the cross, a glorious trans-action was made.
On that cross Christ made provision for the most fantastic exchange imaginable. He offered to take upon Himself the accumulated guilt and condemnation of every sinner since time began. And even more incredibly, He agreed to accept all the consequences which those dark, unspeakable deeds had brought upon the heads of those miserable sinners.
Can you fathom such a provision and such a selfless offer? And what did He provide in exchange for those deadly assumptions of shame and guilt? To everyone who would accept it, Christ imputed the merits of His own sinless life of obedience. Through simple faith, the ugly past of even the most despicable criminal could be instantly covered with a perfect righteousness. Clothed in that robe of credited perfection, all believers could be counted by God as though they had never sinned. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Isaiah 1:18.
Paul described the experience of the ones who claim personal justification through faith in His blood. He wrote: "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." Romans 3:24-26. Here is clearly revealed a picture of individual acceptance of all those who claim Jesus as forgiver and justifier.
What is accomplished for the ones who enter this intimate relationship of justification by faith? Are they merely delivered from the guilt of sin, or do they also receive deliverance from the sin itself? Paul answered that question. "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." Galatians 6:14.
In this verse we find that victory over the world system of evil is definitely tied to the atonement of the cross. No one has been delivered from sins of the flesh without receiving that deliverance as a gift through the merits of Christ's suffering and death. We are made dead to the world's appeal by looking into the face of our Substitute and Saviour. His agape love, revealed at the cross, melts the stubborn will and weans the heart away from every attraction the world can devise. That is how Jesus is "made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption." 1 Corinthians 1:30. It is all in the cross. Look at it daily and remember Lot's wife, that you may be saved from her terrible fate.
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Terry McCann and Arthur Daley are characters in which UK television series? | The Terry McCann Years 1979-1989
The Terry McCann Years: 1979-1989
'The Minder'
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When the series began it focused on Arthur Daley's over worked and under paid Minder, Terry McCann played by Dennis Waterman. The idea for Minder came from writer Leon Griffiths, who had previously written many scripts for film & television. The inspiration for the show came from stories he had heard in North London drinking clubs. Leon's original title for the series was simply 'The Minder' and many of his original ideas on how he envisaged the series can be read in his novel 'Minder - A Novel By Leon Griffiths' published around three months before the first series started in July 1979.
In this novel we learn a little more about how Arthur & Terry came to meet each other, Terry's involvement in boxing and his criminal record as well a little background on Arthur Daley and even his wife's first name (which the book tells us is Sarah). After writing scripts for the first series, Leon suffered a stroke and did not return to writing for the show until its third series in 1982. Because of this, several regular script writers contributed to the series, including Tony Hoare and Andrew Payne.
'Minder how you go' - 1985 Interview with Leon Griffiths
Leon Griffiths continued to write for the series until the end of its sixth series in 1985 and he sadly passed away in June 1992. After Minder had reached the end of its fifth series in 1985, most involved believed it would be the end of the show. Leon's final contribution to the series was the final episode of the sixth series 'Waiting For Goddard'.
At this time Leon Griffiths was interviewed about Minder. To read this short interview, click on the image above.
George Cole & Dennis Waterman ... 'Fright' & 'The Sweeney'
Little did they know that at this time they were soon to become the duo that was Arthur Daley & Terry McCann - enjoyed by millions each week in the 1980s.
The superb 1970s police series 'The Sweeney' is really where the Minder story begins, also made by Euston Films. When 'The Sweeney' ended, Euston Films were looking for a new series for Dennis Waterman and the idea of Minder came along. Already an established actor, Dennis Waterman had become a familiar face on TV as a result of 'The Sweeney' and George Cole had appeared alongside him in this show in an episode called 'Tomorrow Man' in 1976.
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Interestingly, 'The Sweeney' was not the first time that George Cole and Dennis Waterman had been cast together. Even before 'Tomorrow Man', the pair had previously appeared in the 1971 thriller 'Fright' starring Susan George, Ian Banner, Honor Blackman and Roger Lloyd Pack. The film is about the story of a teenage babysitter Amanda (played Susan George) who arrives at the Lloyd home (Mr Lloyd played by George Cole) to babysit their young son for the evening.
Mrs Lloyd (played by Honor Blackman) is hiding a shocking secret that could cost Amanda her life. Dennis Waterman plays the role of Amanda's boyfriend. This is the first time the two actors had appeared together on screen though neither of them was aware that they had appeared in the film until several years later when they were discussing the film while sitting in a car. They were unware of this as they appear in different parts of the film.
When 'The Sweeney' ended and with Dennis Waterman already in place, Euston Films needed an actor to play Arthur Daley. Several actors were considered, including Denholm Elliot but eventually it was decided that George Cole would play the part of Arthur Daley. At that time Dennis Waterman had reservations about casting George Cole as he believed he was 'too posh' for the role. However, in no time the pair hit it off and it is reported that the pair worked very well together and had a great relationship both on and off screen.
Opening Titles
The original series of Minder had a very memorable opening sequence, where Terry is considering whether or not to accept a white Ford Capri from Arthur's car lot. Although it is assumed that Terry does agree to take the car, the car itself is rarely seen in the series. Dennis Waterman stayed with the show for seven series, between 1979 and 1989. During these series, we learn much about the characters of Arthur & Terry, although very little about their backgrounds. Series 7 showed slight changes in the opening titles with black and white shots of Terry, Arthur and Dave the barman (played by Glynn Edwards), socialising at their favourite hang out, the Winchester Club. The series was by no means an overnight success, and it wasn't until around 1982 when Minder was in its third series that the show became a real success.
Keep an eye open during this opening sequence for the window of the Ford Escort in the car lot - notice anything strange happening? The final Dennis Waterman series kicked off with the 1988 90 minute Christmas special 'An Officer and A Car Salesman', with the show having been off the air for almost three years. It is been stated that each time a series of Minder was filmed, the cast and crew often thought it would be the last, with the series originally intended to finish with 'Waiting For Goddard' at the end of series six. A seventh series reintroduced Terry with him having served '18 moons in the shovel' (a prison sentence) as a result of some dodgy videos that Arthur had left in his flat. This would be Dennis Waterman's final series.
Throughout his time as Arthur's Minder, Terry got himself into all sorts of scrapes often being dumped on by Arthur at every opportunity. Where the earlier series featured far more grittier storylines than the later episodes, it is certainly true that on-screen violence in the later series was much less. This is one of the reasons why Dennis Waterman felt the character of Terry had run his course. He has stated publicly that the show no longer became about the Minder, rather about Arthur Daley.
The end sequence of the Terry McCann Years were always the same, featuring specially shot photographs never actually seen in any episode. They showed Terry and Arthur at various locations throughout London and again feature in our Locations section. For detailed information of the 72 episodes in 'The Terry McCann Years', including facts, locations and bloopers - visit our episode guide here .
Series One
Filming of the first series took place between the end of April 1979 until October 1979. The series opening titles were filmed one week before the the filming of the very first episode to be filmed #1.5 The Bounty Hunter which started (likely - but not confirmed) on or around the 23rd April 1979. Although the filming of a Minder episode generally took place over two full working weeks i.e. 10 working days but not at the weekend, with both pre- and post-production the total time to produce the finished product was usually about six weeks. A notable exception to this 10 day filming rule was the second episode to be filmed #1.1 Gunfight At the OK Laundrette which took three weeks to film and was rumoured to have a larger budget the other episodes in the very first series.
The Theme Tune
Each week the episode would start and end with the very notable theme tune: I Could Be So Good For You from The Terry McCann Years, sung by Dennis Waterman. This was originally released on EMI records and can be found on The Minder Songs page. If you are looking for the song on CD, find this in our shop!
It's Plod!
DC 'Taff' Jones & DS Chisholm
DS Rycott & DC Melish
DC MacDonald & DS 'Taff' Jones
As the series progressed so did the relationship between Arthur, Terry and their local law, DS Chisholm and DS Rycott, played wonderfully by Patrick Malahide and Peter Childs. Both of the these actors have had very successful careers besides Minder. Patrick Malahide appeared in numerous TV and movie roles, including a notable appearance alongside Dennis Waterman in the action movie of the TV series 'Sweeney 2' from 1978. Sadly, Peter Childs passed away in 1989, just months after series 7 was broadcast. The character of Chisholm would appear in 24 episodes of first seven series and Rycott would appear in 15. Both of these officers had their sidekicks - Chisholm teamed up with DC Taff Jones, played by Michael 'Meic' Povey and Rycott alongside DC Tom Melish, played by Michael Troughton.
In the final series Dennis Waterman series, series 7, DC Jones was promoted to DS Jones - with Chisholm having moved on to become Chief Security officer for a security firm. In this final series Jones was accompanied by Scottish DC MacDonald for two episodes, played by Robin Cameron. Michael Troughton who played DC Melish has appeared in a number of UK TV shows which has included playing Alan B'Stard's assistant Piers Fletcher-Dervish in comedy series 'The New Statesman'. Michael has his own website here .
In 2007, Meic Povey (DS and DC Jones) very kindly agreed to be interviewed for minder.org - read the whole interview here .
Tube Mice
In 1988, George Cole and Dennis Waterman provided the voices for a children's cartoon series called 'Tube Mice'.
Created by TSW (Television South West), this was shown briefly between 1988 and 1990 on CITV (Children's ITV) and featured the adventures of mice who lived in Oxford Circus underground station. George Cole provided the voice of Vernon, while Dennis Waterman was his sidekick Toaster. Vernon and Toaster were similar in many ways to Arthur and Terry, though whereas George Cole's voice of Vernon is clearly Arthur Daley-like, Toaster's voice is hardly recognisable as Dennis Waterman. Each episode was about five minutes long and although two videos were released at the time, they have long since been deleted.
After Minder...
Dennis Waterman left the series in 1989 after filming series 7. He was reported to be reluctant about leaving the series though felt the character of Terry McCann had done pretty much everything he could do and wanted more out of the character. Interviews at the time suggested he thought the show had become too focused on Arthur's character and that the show had become 'The Arthur Daley Comedy Hour'. Despite his departure, George Cole and Dennis Waterman remained good friends after Dennis's departure from the show.
In 1989 Dennis set about producing the film 'Cold Justice' that starred himself and Roger Daltery, based in America. This film is one of the few times Dennis starred in anything produced stateside and unfortunately the film was not as successful as he would have hoped and Dennis suffered substantial financial problems as a result.
Since 1989 Dennis Waterman has appeared in a number of different roles both in films, TV and pantomime. On television, Dennis appeared alongside Jan Francis and Leslie Ash as the character Thomas Gynn (a character similar to parts of Terry McCann) in the series "Stay Lucky" and with the late Joan Sims as the character Tony Carpenter in the BBC1 sit-com 'On The Up'. During the 1990s Dennis played ex-SAS man John Neil in the excellent 'Circles of Deceit'.
Since 2000, he has starred in the comedy Arthur's Dyke (2001), Murder In Mind (2002), Canterbury Tales (2003) and Back In Business (2007).
New Tricks
In 2004 Dennis Waterman was back a regular face on British TV in the police drama series 'New Tricks' as former Detective Inspector Gerry Standing.
The series four episode "Powerhouse" filmed in 2007 saw Dennis starring alongside his former Minder co-star George Cole once again!
Click here to see the IMDB entry for Dennis Waterman.
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Whose 1988 autobiography is entitled ‘Moonwalk’? | George Cole: Star of Minder dies at 90 - BBC News
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George Cole: Star of Minder dies at 90
6 August 2015
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Media captionDavid Sillito looks back at George Cole's life on screen
Actor George Cole, best known for playing Arthur Daley in TV's Minder, has died aged 90.
Cole played the Cockney wheeler dealer Daley for 16 years, between 1979 and 1994.
He also starred in a number of St Trinian's films as shady businessman Flash Harry.
Agent Derek Webster said Cole had died at the Royal Berkshire hospital following a short illness, surrounded by his family.
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Image caption Dennis Waterman's Terry McCann was always exasperated with Arthur Daley's antics
Cole played opposite Dennis Waterman's Terry McCann, an affable bodyguard, in ITV's Minder for more than a decade.
Media captionActor Dennis Waterman described George Cole as "a dream to work with"
Waterman said he had "the privilege of spending Tuesday afternoon with him and Penny and, although very frail, his wit was as evident as ever".
"I am so sad to hear of George's death. His family must be devastated, and I am absolutely certain that anybody who ever knew him, will feel the same.
"I'm so grateful to have been a friend of this wonderful man. We worked together for many years and my boast is that we laughed all day every day.
"He was an amazing man, a wonderful actor and besotted with his family. Farewell old friend."
Waterman, who sang the Minder theme tune, left the show to be replaced by Gary Webster for the final two series.
Talking to BBC News, Webster called Cole a "comic genius" who "made you realise there's an Arthur Daley in every family".
"He was one of those characters you never thought you are going to be without, both as an actor and a character," he added.
"He was a great guy to work with and a real genuine gentleman."
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Image caption Gary Webster appeared alongside Cole in two series of Minder
Arthur Daley became a TV legend as a small-time crook who was always dreaming of bigger things, with the series regularly drawing in audiences of 17 million.
Cole also played Flash Harry, a remarkably similar character, in four St Trinian's films between 1954-66, starring alongside the likes of Terry Thomas, Joyce Grenfell and Sid James in the boarding school comedies.
It also allowed him to work with Alistair Sim, who had become his mentor after taking him into his home at the age of 15 alongside his adoptive mother.
They had such a close relationship that eventually Cole opted to build and live in a house next door to Sim and his wife, continuing to appear in a number of films together.
Cole began acting in the early 1940s, appearing with Lawrence Olivier in The Demi-Paradise, and taking a small role in Olivier's star-studded Henry V.
He joined the war effort in 1944, joining the Royal Air Force, before resuming his acting career when the conflict ended.
He found himself consistently in work, on stage, television film and radio.
As well as the St Trinian's films, he also starred opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra, and gothic horror The Vampire Lovers.
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Image caption Cole appeared in four St Trinian's films
Cole was 70 when Minder finished but he still worked regularly, with guest roles in the likes of Midsomer Murders, Heartbeat and New Tricks, which also starred Waterman.
Cole, who was made an OBE in 1992, married his second wife Penny in 1967.
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How many dice are used in a standard game of ‘Craps’? | Craps Rules, How To Play
Rules and how to play Craps:
The basics
Casino Craps (or Bank Craps), a dice game, is one of the most exciting casino games. It is common to hear yelling and shouting at a craps table. It is played on a purpose-built table and two dice are used. The dice are made after very strict standards and are routinely inspected for any damage. As a matter of course, the dice are replaced with new ones after about eight hours of use, and casinos have implemented rules in the way a player handles them.
To begin, the Shooter (one of the players) must bet at least the table minimum on either the Pass Line or the Don't Pass Line (sometimes called 'win' or 'right' bets and 'don�t win' or 'wrong' bets). The shooter is presented with multiple dice (normally five) by the Stickman, and must choose two to roll with. The remaining dice are returned to the Stickman's Bowl and are not used.
The shooter must handle the dice with one hand only when throwing and the dice must hit the walls on the opposite end of the table. In the event that one or both dice are thrown off the table, they must be inspected (usually by the stickman) before putting them back into play.
The craps table can accommodate up to about 20 players, who each get a round of throws or at 'shooting' the dice. If you don't want to throw the dice, you can bet on the thrower. Several types of bets can be made on the table action. The casino crew consist of a Stickman, Boxman and two Dealers.
The game is played in rounds, with the right to roll the dice by each player moving clockwise around the craps table at the end of each round. A player may choose not to roll but can continue to bet.
Each round has two phases: Come Out and Point. To start a round, the shooter makes one or more Come Out rolls. A Come Out roll of 2, 3 or 12 (called Craps, the shooter is said to 'crap out') ends the round with players losing their Pass Line bets. A Come Out roll of 7 or 11 (a Natural) results in a win for Pass Line bets. The shooter continues to make Come Out rolls until he rolls 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10, which number becomes the Point. The dealer then moves an On button to the point number signifying the second phase of the round. If the shooter rolls the point number, the result is a win for bets on the Pass Line. If the shooter rolls a seven (a Seven-out), the pass line loses and the round ends.
The first roll of the dice in a betting round is the Come Out roll - a new game in Craps begins with the Come Out roll. A Come Out roll can be made only when the previous shooter fails to make a winning roll, that is, fails to make the Point or makes a Seven-out (rolls a seven).
A new game then begins with a new shooter. If the current shooter does make his Point, the dice are returned to him and he then begins the new Come Out roll. This is a continuation of that shooter's roll, although technically, the Come Out roll identifies a new game about to begin.
When the shooter fails to make his or her Point, the dice are then offered to the next player for a new Come Out roll and the game continues in the same manner. The new shooter will be the person directly next to the left of the previous shooter - so the game moves in a clockwise fashion around the craps table.
The dice are rolled across the craps table layout. The layout is divided into three areas - two side areas separated by a center one. Each side area is the mirror reflection of the other and contains the following: Pass and Don't Pass line bets, Come and Don't Come bets, Odds bet, Place bets and Field bets. The center area is shared by both side areas and contains the Proposition bets.
Pass bets win when the come out roll is 7 or 11, while pass bets lose when the come out roll is 2, 3, or 12. Don't bets lose when the come out roll is 7 or 11, and don't bets win when the come out roll is 2 or 3. Don't bets tie when the come out roll is 12 (2 in some casinos; the 'Bar' roll on the layout indicates which roll is treated as a tie).
A player joining a game and wishing to play craps without being the shooter should approach the craps table and first check to see if the dealer's 'On' button is on any of the point numbers. If the point number is Off then the table is in the Come Out round. If the dealer's button is 'On', the table is in the Point round where most casinos will allow a Pass Line bet to be placed. All single or multi roll 'Proposition bets' may be placed in either of the two rounds.
Between dice rolls there is a period for the dealers to make payouts and collect the losing bets, after which players can place new bets. The stickman monitors the action at the table and decides when to give the shooter the dice, after which no more betting is allowed.
Below is a list of the various bets you can make at craps.
Pass Line Bet - You win if the first roll is a natural (7, 11) and lose if it is craps (2, 3, 12). If a point is rolled (4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10) it must be repeated before a 7 is thrown in order to win. If 7 is rolled before the point you lose.
The fundamental bet in craps is the Pass Line Bet, which is a bet for the shooter to win their point number. A Pass Line Bet is won immediately if the Come Out roll is a 7 or 11. If the Come Out roll is 2, 3 or 12, the bet loses (known as 'crapping out'). If the roll is any other value, it establishes a Point; if that point is rolled again before a seven, the bet wins. If, with a point established, a seven is rolled before the point is re-rolled, the bet loses ('seven out'). A Pass Line win pays even money.
Odds on Pass Line Bet - After a point is rolled you can make this additional bet by taking odds. There are different payoffs for each point. A point of 4 or 10 will pay you 2:1; 5 or 9 pays 3:2; 6 or 8 pays 6:5. You only win if the point is rolled again before a 7.
Come Bet - It has the same rules as the Pass Line Bet. The difference consists in the fact you can make this bet only after the point on the pass line has been determined. On a Come Out roll the Come Bet is placed on the pass line as they are an identical bet. After you place your bet the first dice roll will set the come point. You win if it is a natural (7, 11) and lose if it is craps (2, 3, 12). Other rolls will make you a winner if the come point is repeated before a 7 is rolled. If a 7 is rolled first you lose.
A Come Bet is played in two rounds and is played similar to a Pass Line Bet. The main difference is that a player making a Come Bet will bet on the first point number that 'comes' from the shooter's next roll, regardless of the table's round. If a 7 or 11 is rolled on the first round, it wins. If a 2, 3 or 12 is rolled, it loses. If instead the roll is 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 then the Come Bet will be moved by the base dealer onto a Box representing the number the shooter threw. This number becomes the Come Bet point and the player is allowed to add odds to the bet. The dealer will place the odds on top of the Come Bet, but slightly off center in order to differentiate between the original bet and the odds. The second round wins if the shooter rolls the Come Bet before a seven. If the seven comes before the number (the Come Bet), the bet loses. On a Come Out roll for the pass line the Come Bet is in play, but traditionally the odds are not working unless the player indicates otherwise to the dealer.
Because of the Come Bet, if the shooter makes their point, a player can find themselves in the situation where they have a Come Bet (possibly with odds on it) and the next roll is a Come Out roll. In this situation odds bets on the come wagers are presumed to be not working for the Come Out roll. That means that if the shooter rolls a 7 on the Come Out roll, any players with active Come Bets waiting for a 'come point' lose their initial wager but will have their odds money returned to them. If the 'come point' is rolled the odds do not win but the Come Bet does and the odds are returned. The player can tell the dealer that they want their odds working, such that if the shooter rolls a number that matches the 'come point', the odds bet will win along with the Come Bet, and if a seven is rolled both lose.
Odds on Come Bet - Exactly the same thing as the Odds on Pass Line Bet except you take odds on the Come Bet not the Pass Line Bet.
Don't Pass Line Bet - This is the reversed Pass Line bet. If the first roll of a dice is a natural (7, 11) you lose and if it is a 2 or a 3 you win. A dice roll of 12 means you have a tie or push with the casino. If the roll is a point (4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10) a 7 must come out before that point is repeated to make you a winner. If the point is rolled again before the 7 you lose.
Don't Come Bet - The reversed Come Bet. After the come point has been established you win if it is a 2 or 3 and lose for 7 or 11. 12 is a tie and other dice rolls will make you win only if a 7 appears before them on the following throws.
Place Bets - This bet works only after the point has been determined. You can bet on a dice roll of 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10. You win if the number you placed your bet on is rolled before a 7. Otherwise you lose. The Place Bets payoffs are different depending on the number you bet on. 4 or 10 will pay 9:5; 5 or 9 pays 7:5, and 6 or 8 pays 7:6. You can cancel this bet anytime you want to.
Field Bets - These bets are for one dice roll only. If a 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12 is rolled you win. A 5, 6, 7 and 8 make you lose. Field Bets have the following different payoffs: 2 pays double (2:1) while 12 pays 3:1. Other winning dice rolls pays even (1:1).
Big Six, Big Eight Bets - Placed at any roll of dice these bets win if a 6 or 8 comes out before a 7 is rolled. Big Six and Big Eight are even bets and are paid at 1:1.
Proposition Bets - These bets can be made at any time and, except for the hardways, they are all one roll bets:
Any Craps: Wins if a 2, 3 or 12 is thrown. Payoff 8:1
Any Seven: Wins if a 7 is rolled. Payoff 5:1
Eleven: Wins if a 11 is thrown. Payoff 16:1
Ace Duece: Wins if a 3 is rolled. Payoff 16:1
Aces or Boxcars: Wins if a 2 or 12 is thrown. Payoff 30:1
Horn Bet: it acts as the bets on 2, 3, 11 and 12 all at once. Wins if one of these numbers is rolled. Payoff is determined according to the number rolled. The other three bets are lost.
Hardways: The bet on a hardway number wins if it's thrown hard (sum of pairs: 1-1, 3-3, 4-4...) before it's rolled easy and a 7 is thrown. Payoffs: Hard 4 and 10, 8:1; Hard 6 and 8, 10:1
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Which character begins play in a standard game of Cluedo? | How to Play Craps | HowStuffWorks
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Even blindfolded in a crowded casino, anyone can find the craps table when the dice are hot. Just follow the screams, shouts, and cheers. Jackpot winners on slot machines may be the loudest individuals in the house, but nothing is quite like the collective excitement that builds at a craps table. Whereas blackjack players are quiet studies in concentration, craps players let loose as they win or lose together.
Conversely, nothing is quite as dead as a craps table when the dice are cold. At peak hours, when you see three or four somber individuals at the big table for 24, you can be sure the loser 7s have been coming up all too frequently.
Craps is the fastest-moving of casino table games. An average speed at a busy blackjack table runs around 60 hands per hour, but the house expects about 100 decisions per hour at craps. That, along with the tendency of craps players to have several bets working at once, means that craps requires a larger bankroll than other table games. And craps offers the widest variety of bets in the casino, with dozens of wagering options on the table.
All this can be pretty intimidating to a newcomer. But casino games were not designed to chase customers away, and craps is easier than it looks at first glance. Yes, there are an enormous number of bets available, but only a few are really worth playing. And those few are among the best bets in the casino. In this article, we'll discuss the fundamentals of craps, as well as the wide variety of bets and which ones to place at the right times to increase your odds of winning. We will begin with the layout of the table and the common terminology used for a game.
The Table and Personnel
Most craps tables today are double layouts. At the center of one side of the table is the boxman, who supervises the game and takes cash collected by the dealers and deposits it in a drop box. Directly opposite him is the stickman, who uses a stick to push the dice to the shooter. The stickman controls the tempo of the game. He calls out the results of each roll and keeps up a continuous patter, urging players to get their bets down.
At the center of the table between the boxman and stickman are boxes for proposition bets -- one-roll bets. Also here are areas for hard-way bets -- betting that a 6, for example, will be rolled as two 3s before either a 7 or any other 6 is rolled.
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The standard craps table layout for American casinos.
On the sides are two dealers who take bets, pay off winners, and collect losing bets. The players encircle these side areas. In front of the players is the "Pass" line, a bar that extends all around the table for players who are betting with the shooter. A smaller, "Don't Pass" bar is for players betting against the shooter. The areas marked "Come" and "Don't Come" are for bets similar to Pass and Don't Pass but are placed at different times of the game.
Also on the layout in front of the players is an area marked "Field" for a one-roll bet that one of seven numbers will show up. Boxes marked 4, 5, Six, 8, Nine, and 10 are for "Place" or "Buy" bets that the number chosen will be rolled before the next 7. Six and nine are spelled out because players are standing on both sides of the table -- no need to wonder if that's a 6 or an upside-down 9. Down in the corner at either end of the double layout are boxes marked 6 and 8 -- the "Big 6" and "Big 8" bets that a 6 or 8 will roll before a 7.
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What is the boiling point of water in degrees Farenheit? | What Is the Boiling Point of Water?
What Is the Boiling Point of Water?
What Is the Boiling Point of Water?
Boiling Point of Water
The boiling point of water is 100 degrees Celsius or 212 degrees Fahrenheit at 1 atmosphere of pressure (sea level). Jody Dole, Getty Images
Updated July 21, 2016.
Question: What Temperature Does Water Boil?
At what temperature does water boil? What determines the boiling point of water? Here's the answer to this common question.
Answer: The boiling point of water is 100°C or 212° F at 1 atmosphere of pressure (sea level).
However, the value is not a constant. The boiling point of water depends on the atmospheric pressure, which changes according to elevation. The boiling point of water is 100°C or 212° F at 1 atmosphere of pressure (sea level), but water boils at a lower temperature as you gain altitude (e.g., on a mountain) and boils at a higher temperature if you increase atmospheric pressure (lived below sea level ).
The boiling point of water also depends on the purity of the water. Water which contains impurities (such as salted water ) boils at a higher temperature than pure water. This phenomenon is called boiling point elevation , which is one of the colligative properties of matter.
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US Singer Bobby, Australian actor Bryan and British politician Gordon all share which surname? | Fahrenheit: Facts, History & Conversion Formulas
Fahrenheit: Facts, History & Conversion Formulas
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Fahrenheit is a temperature scale that bases the boiling point of water at 212 and the freezing point at 32. It was developed by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, a German-born scientist who lived and worked primarily in the Netherlands. Today, the scale is used primarily in the United States and some Caribbean countries. The rest of the world uses the Celsius scale.
In 1714, Fahrenheit developed the first modern thermometer — the mercury thermometer, with more refined measurements than previous temperature gauges. Fahrenheit’s thermometer was a take on an alcohol-based thermometer invented by Olaus Roemer, a Danish scientist. Roemer marked two points on his thermometer — 0 as the lowest point, 60 as the temperature of boiling water, 7.5 as the point where ice melted and 22.5 as body temperature.
Because the mercury thermometer was more accurate, Fahrenheit decided to expand the Roemer scale by multiplying its values by four. He made adjustments to those metrics based on further research, even putting the thermometer under his wife’s armpit to gain a body temperature.
In his initial scale, the zero point was determined by placing the thermometer in an equal mix of ice, water, and salt (ammonium chloride). This stable temperature was set as 0. The second point, at 32, was an equal mix of ice and water. The third point, 96, was approximately the human body temperature, referred to as "blood-heat."
While Fahrenheit documented in an article that he used the boiling and freezing points of water to build his scale, there were some conspiracy theorists who thought he had other motives for using those numbers. Some believe that Fahrenheit was a Freemason, and because there are 32 degrees of enlightenment, he chose to use 32 as the melting temperature of water. However, there is no record that the scientist was a Freemason.
In yet another story, it is said that Fahrenheit believed that a person would freeze to death at 0 degrees and would succumb to a heat stroke at 100.
The scale was recalibrated after his death, marking 32 and 212 as the exact melting and boiling points of plain water, minus the salt. It also makes the normal body temperature 98.6 , which is what has become the standard.
That change made Celsius-to-Fahrenheit conversions easier. The size of the Fahrenheit "degree" is five-ninths the size of the same unit on Celsius and Kelvin temperature scales. This makes it easier to provide more exact measurements without using fractions in the Fahrenheit scale.
The Fahrenheit and Celsius scales converge at minus 40 F, so that minus 40 F and minus 40 C represent the same temperature.
Who uses Fahrenheit?
Fahrenheit has widely been replaced by Celsius in most countries and for most applications. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the Celsius scale was phased in by governments around the world as part of the move to standardize on metric measurements.
Today, the scale is primarily used in the United States, and is also used in the Cayman Islands, Palau, Bahamas and Belize. While other branches of science use the Celsius scale, U.S. meteorologists continue to use the Fahrenheit scale for weather forecasting and reporting. Canadian meteorologists sometimes use the Fahrenheit scale alongside the Celsius scale.
Supporters of the Fahrenheit scale note that a degree on the Fahrenheit scale is the temperature change that the average person can detect.
Conversion formulas
Fahrenheit to Celsius: Subtract 32, then multiply by 5, then divide by 9
Celsius to Fahrenheit: Multiply by 9, divide by 5, then add 32
Fahrenheit to Kelvin: Subtract 32, multiply by 5, divide by 9, then add 273.15
Kelvin to Fahrenheit: Subtract 273.15, multiply by 1.8, then add 32
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What is the cube root of 27? | Cubes and Cube Roots
Cubes and Cube Roots
To understand cube roots, first we must understand cubes ...
How to Cube A Number
To cube a number, just use it in a multiplication 3 times ...
Example: What is 3 Cubed?
3 Cubed
Note: we write down "3 Cubed" as 33
(the little 3 means the number appears three times in multiplying)
Some More Cubes
A cube root goes the other direction:
3 cubed is 27, so the cube root of 27 is 3
3
The cube root of a number is ...
... a special value that when cubed gives the original number.
The cube root of 27 is ...
... 3, because when 3 is cubed you get 27.
Note: When you see "root" think
"I know the tree, but what is the root that produced it?"
In this case the tree is "27", and the cube root is "3".
Here are some more cubes and cube roots:
4
216
Example: What is the Cube root of 125?
Well, we just happen to know that 125 = 5 × 5 × 5 (if you use 5 three times in a multiplication you will get 125) ...
... so the answer is 5
The Cube Root Symbol
This is the special symbol that means "cube root", it is the "radical" symbol (used for square roots) with a little three to mean cube root.
You can use it like this:
(we say "the cube root of 27 equals 3")
You Can Also Cube Negative Numbers
Have a look at this:
When we cube 5 we get 125:
When we cube −5 we get −125:
So the cube root of −125 is −5
Perfect Cubes
The Perfect Cubes are the cubes of the whole numbers :
3375
...
It is easy to work out the cube root of a perfect cube, but it is really hard to work out other cube roots.
Example: what is the cube root of 30?
Well, 3 × 3 × 3 = 27 and 4 × 4 × 4 = 64, so we can guess the answer is between 3 and 4.
Let's try 3.5: 3.5 × 3.5 × 3.5 = 42.875
Let's try 3.2: 3.2 × 3.2 × 3.2 = 32.768
Let's try 3.1: 3.1 × 3.1 × 3.1 = 29.791
We are getting closer, but very slowly ... at this point, I get out my calculator and it says:
3.1072325059538588668776624275224...
... but the digits just go on and on, without any pattern. So even the calculator's answer is only an approximation !
(Further reading: these kind of numbers are called surds which are a special type of irrational number )
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Instructor: Yuanxin (Amy) Yang Alcocer
Amy has a master's degree in secondary education and has taught Math at a public charter high school.
After watching this video lesson, you will understand the process of finding the cube root of a number. Learn which numbers have an easy cube root to find and what the cube root means.
What Is a Cube Root?
In this video lesson, we will look at cube roots and how to find them. To begin, did you know that a cube root actually has a lot to do with cubes? In math, we define a cube root as the special value that when multiplied three times gives you your desired number. For example, the cube root of 27 is 3 because 3 * 3 * 3 (3 multiplied three times or cubed) gets you 27.
What does this have to do with cubes? Well, if we were to visualize the multiplication problem of 3 * 3 * 3, we would see a cube that is three blocks wide, three blocks long, and three blocks high. It is a cube because all three sides are the same length. All the sides have three blocks each. Every cube root will be like that.
In math, we have a special symbol for the cube root. We use the same symbol as we do for the square root, but this time, we will have a little 3 in the dip of the square root symbol. It looks like this:
Perfect Cubes
The example that we just saw also happens to be an example of a perfect cube. A perfect cube is a cube of a whole number. 27 is a perfect cube because to get 27, we need to cube the 3. Think back to the cube. It's a perfect cube because all the building blocks are whole pieces. To find a perfect cube, we take any whole number and cube it, meaning we multiply it by itself three times. Knowing our perfect cubes helps us to find cube roots easily. If we started with the 1 and found perfect cubes for our numbers up to 10, we would get this list:
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During which month of the year is the US PGA golf tournament held? | PGA Championship at a glance | FOX Sports
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PGA Championship at a glance
FILE - In this July 1, 2016, file photo, Jordan Spieth tees off on the third hole during the second round of the Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Heading into the PGA Championship the last week of July, Spieth is having a very good year, and he needs to be reminded of that every now and then. He already has won two times, including in his home state of Texas. He was one bad swing away from winning the Masters again. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
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SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (AP) Facts and figures for the PGA Championship:
Event: 98th PGA Championship
Site: Baltusrol Golf Club (Lower Course)
Length: 7,462 yards.
Field: 156 players (136 tour pros, 20 club pros).
Prize money: TBA ($10 million in 2015).
Winner's share: $1.89 million.
Defending champion: Jason Day.
Last year: Jason Day became the first player in major championship history to finish at 20-under par. He closed with a 5-under 67 at Whistling Straits for a three-shot victory over Jordan Spieth, who was trying to be the first player to sweep the American majors.
Last time at Baltusrol: Phil Mickelson got up-and-down for birdie on the 18th hole for a 2-over 72 and a one-shot victory over Steve Elkington and Thomas Bjorn.
Major champions at Baltusrol: Phil Mickelson (2005 PGA), Lee Janzen (1993 U.S. Open), Jack Nicklaus (1980, 1967 U.S. Open), Ed Furgol (1954 U.S. Open), Tony Manero (1936 U.S. Open), Jerome Travers (1915 U.S Open), Willie Anderson (1903 U.S. Open).
Check the calendar: The PGA Championship was moved to the last week in July because of golf being on the Olympic program for the first time since 1904. The last time the PGA was not played in August was in 1971, when it was held at PGA National in Florida in February. The last time it was held in July was in 1968 at Pecan Valley Country Club in San Antonio.
No Tiger: Tiger Woods is not playing, the first time he has missed all four majors in the same year.
Key statistic: Eleven of the last 12 winners of the PGA Championship had already won a tournament earlier in the year.
Noteworthy: The PGA Championship has been held in every month of the year except for January, March and April.
Quoteworthy: ''The PGA Championship alone could become one of the most special weeks I've ever had.'' – Jordan Spieth.
Television (all times EDT): Thursday and Friday, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., TNT. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., TNT Sports; 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. CBS. Sunday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., TNT; 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., CBS.
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Which US television sitcom, starring Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker, debuted in January 1971? | Prince William County Shines During PGA Tournament
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Last week's Quicken Loans National golf tournament drew nearly 105,000 people to the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course in Prince William County. The PGA event allowed the county to showcase all the amenities it has to offer, including the improved changes along the Rt. 29 Corridor.
The last time the PGA Tour came to Prince William County was in 2005 when Robert Trent Jones hosted The Presidents Cup. Over the past 10 years, the County has had new high-end retail and restaurant establishments developed along Route 29; and just this summer, the much anticipated Route 29/I-66 interchange project was completed.
"Prince William County is a growing and thriving community," said Corey Stewart, Chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors. "When I first joined the Board, the community was clamoring for more commercial development and high-end retail and restaurant establishments. Route 29/I-66 was the worst commuting interchange in the Commonwealth. During the tournament, we were able to showcase the great strides Prince William County has made over the past 10 years."
The Quicken Loans National is hosted by the Tiger Woods Foundation. During a press conference on July 28, Woods said he was pleased to be playing again in Prince William County. "First off, I want to thank a few people. Obviously, Quicken Loans for their support of this event, Robert Trent Jones Club here for having us here this year the first time, DMV, and obviously, Prince William County for all their support."
Proceeds from the tournament support the Tiger Woods Foundation, whose learning centers promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education for students in grades five through 12.
Tournament goers parked at Jiffy Lube Live and boarded coach buses to transport them along the new University Boulevard and Route 29 roadways. They passed the new Cabella's site, which celebrated a ground-breaking event last month; Virginia Gateway and all its new shops and restaurant amenities; Lake Manassas and its executive suburban residences; and ultimately, pulled into the beautiful grounds around the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club.
Doug Stock of Fairfax County said everyone he met on the course was as happy as he was with the event. "We had a great day out here. The sun was shining. Couldn't have made it any better."
This was the first year the tournament was held in Prince William County. The Tiger Woods Foundation has committed to playing at Congressional Country Club in the upcoming alternating years. Whether the tournament will return to Robert Trent Jones Golf Club is yet to be determined. However, Gary DeLuca, of Gainesville, said he was happy that the tournament was being held so close to home and hopes it returns. "I think the golf course is great and it's very well run. I'd like to see it come back here," DeLuca said.
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In humans, Polyphagia is an excessive desire to do what? | Polyphagia | Define Polyphagia at Dictionary.com
polyphagia
[pol-ee-fey-jee-uh, -juh] /ˌpɒl iˈfeɪ dʒi ə, -dʒə/
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Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
2.
Zoology. the habit of subsisting on many different kinds of food.
Origin of polyphagia
1685-95; < New Latin < Greek polyphagía; see poly- , -phagy
Related forms
[puh-lif-uh-jist] /pəˈlɪf ə dʒɪst/ (Show IPA), noun
polyphagous
[puh-lif-uh-guh s] /pəˈlɪf ə gəs/ (Show IPA), polyphagic
[pol-ee-faj-ik, -fey-jik] /ˌpɒl iˈfædʒ ɪk, -ˈfeɪ dʒɪk/ (Show IPA), adjective
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noun
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an abnormal desire to consume excessive amounts of food, esp as the result of a neurological disorder
an insatiable appetite
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the habit of certain animals, esp certain insects, of feeding on many different types of food
Derived Forms
C17: New Latin, from Greek, from poluphagos eating much; see poly-, -phagy
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1690s, "eating to excess," medical Latin, from Greek polyphagia "excess in eating," from polyphagos "eating to excess," from polys "much" (see poly- ) + phagein "to eat" (see -phagous ). Attested from 1890 in sense "feeding on various kinds of food." Nativized as polyphagy. Related: Polyphagic; polyphagous.
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If you want to eat more often or in larger quantities than you’re used to, your appetite has increased. If you eat more than your body requires, it leads to weight gain. Read more
If you want to eat more often or in larger quantities than you’re used to, your appetite has increased. If you eat more than your body requires, it leads to weight gain.
It’s normal to have an increased appetite after physical exertion or some other activities. But if your appetite is significantly increased over a prolonged period of time, it could be a symptom of a serious illness, such as diabetes or hyperthyroidism.
Mental health conditions, such as depression and stress, can also lead to appetite changes and overeating. If you’re experiencing excessive ongoing hunger, make an appointment with your doctor.
Your doctor may refer to your increased appetite as hyperphagia or polyphagia. Your treatment will depend on the underlying cause of your condition.
Causes of increased appetite
You may have an increased appetite after engaging in sports or other exercise. If it persists, it might be a symptom of an underlying health condition or other issue. For example, increased appetite can result from:
bulimia , an eating disorder in which you binge eat and then induce vomiting or use laxatives to avoid gaining weight
hyperthyroidism , or overactive thyroid gland
Graves’ disease , an autoimmune disease in which your thyroid produces too much thyroid hormones
hypoglycemia , or low blood sugar
diabetes , a chronic condition in which your body has trouble regulating blood sugar levels
People who have used cannabis (marijuana) regularly and stop taking it may experience increased appetite as a withdrawal syndrome.
Diagnosing the cause of your increased appetite
If your appetite has significantly and persistently increased, contact your doctor. It’s particularly important to contact them if changes in your appetite are accompanied by other symptoms.
Your doctor will probably want to perform a thorough physical examination and note your current weight. They will likely ask you a series of questions, such as:
Are you trying to diet?
Have you gained or lost a substantial amount of weight?
Did your eating habits change prior to your increased appetite?
What is your typical daily diet like?
What is your typical exercise routine like?
Have you previously been diagnosed with any chronic diseases?
What prescription or over-the-counter medications or supplements do you take?
Does your pattern of excessive hunger coincide with your menstrual cycle?
Have you also noticed increased urination?
Have you felt more thirsty than normal?
Have you been regularly vomiting, either intentionally or unintentionally?
Are you feeling depressed, anxious, or stressed?
Do you use alcohol or illegal drugs?
Do you have any other physical symptoms?
Have you recently been ill?
Depending on your symptoms and medical history, they may order one or more diagnostic tests. For example, they may order blood tests and thyroid function testing to measure the level of thyroid hormones in your body.
If they can’t find a physical cause for your increased appetite, your doctor may recommend a psychological evaluation with a mental health professional.
Treating the cause of your increased appetite
Don’t attempt to treat changes in your appetite using over-the-counter appetite suppressants without talking to your doctor first. Their recommended treatment plan will depend on the cause of your increased appetite. If they diagnose you with an underlying medical conditions, they can help you learn how to treat and manage it.
If you’re diagnosed with diabetes, your doctor or dietitian can help you learn how to control your blood sugar levels. They can also instruct you how to recognize the early warning signs of low blood sugar, and how to take steps to correct the problem quickly.
Low blood sugar is also known as hypoglycemia and can be considered a medical emergency. If not properly treated, it can lead to loss of consciousness or even death.
If your appetite problems are caused by medications, your doctor may recommend alternative drugs or adjust your dosage. Never attempt to stop taking prescription medication or change your dosage without talking to your doctor first.
In some cases, your doctor may recommend psychological counseling. For example, an eating disorder, depression, or other mental health conditions usually include psychological counseling as part of the treatment.
Written by Ann Pietrangelo
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What type of creature is a Smooth Hound? | smooth hound | fish | Britannica.com
Smooth hound
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Alternative Titles: Mustelus canis, Mustelus laevis, Mustelus mustelus, smooth dogfish
Smooth hound, any of a number of small sharks of the family Triakidae, among them the well-known smooth dogfish. See dogfish .
Starry smooth-hound (Mustelus asterias).
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Who became Secretary General of the United Nations in January 1972? | Dusky smoothhound videos, photos and facts - Mustelus canis | ARKive
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Dusky smoothhound biology
The unusual teeth of the dusky smoothhound are adapted to crushing and grinding prey, rather than biting and tearing it like most other shark species (1) (3) (6) . It is an active, nocturnal predator (2) (3) (7) which feeds mainly on large crustaceans , such as rock crabs (Cancer irroratus), lady crabs (Ovalipes ocellatus), blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus) and lobsters. The dusky smoothhound also eats squid, small fish, worms, razor clams (Ensis directus) and other molluscs , and occasionally garbage, such as discarded chicken heads (2) (3) (4) (8) . Juveniles feed mainly on crabs, small shrimps and worms (3) (9) .
In the North Atlantic Ocean, the dusky smoothhound mates from mid to late summer. The young are born the following May to July (2) (3) (9) (10) , after a gestation period of 10 to 12 months (2) (3) (5) (10) . In other parts of its range, births may be less seasonal (11) . The dusky smoothhound is viviparous , giving birth to live young which have been nourished inside the female by a yolk-sac placenta (2) (3) (4) (5) . The female may give birth to between 3 and 20 young at a time, with larger females having larger litters. The young measure about 28 to 39 centimetres at birth (2) (3) (4) (5) (9) (10) .
The dusky smoothhound has been recorded using shallow estuaries and tidal marshes as nursery grounds, where the females give birth and where the young then remain and develop for several months (9) . This species grows relatively quickly for a shark, with males reaching maturity from about 82 to 99 centimetres in length, and females from about 90 to 108 centimetres (2) (4) (5) (11) (12) . These lengths correspond to ages of two to three years and four to five years, respectively (3) (10) . The female dusky smoothhound may grow larger than the male (11) , and maximum body size is reached at around seven to eight years of age (3) . Females may live for up to 16 years in the wild, and males for around 10 years (3) (12) .
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Dusky smoothhound range
The dusky smoothhound is found in the western Atlantic Ocean, from Massachusetts to Florida in the USA, in the northern Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda, and along the coast of South America from southern Brazil to northern Argentina (1) (3) (4) (5) (6) . It may occur in several quite widely separated populations, with little movement of individuals between them (1) (2) (6) .
The subspecies M. c. insularis is found only around a number of Caribbean islands, including Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas, and east to Bermuda (5) . In the northern parts of its range, the dusky smoothhound migrates in response to changes in water temperature, moving south in the autumn and north again in spring (2) (3) (4) .
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Dusky smoothhound habitat
A bottom-dwelling, coastal shark, the dusky smoothhound is typically found in inshore waters to depths of around 200 metres (1) (2) (3) 4) (6) . In some areas, it may move into the mouths of rivers, but it is unlikely to be able to survive for long in freshwater (2) (3) (4) .
The dusky smoothhound generally prefers areas with muddy or sandy bottoms (2) (4) and it avoids coral reefs (2) . The subspecies M. c. insularis is found in deeper water than M. c. canis, having been recorded to depths of 808 metres, and appears to prefer rocky bottoms (5) .
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Dusky smoothhound threats
The dusky smoothhound appears to be an abundant shark species in parts of its range (1) (2) (3) (4) (6) . However, it is fished off Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico and probably also elsewhere in the Caribbean (2) (4) , and commercial interest in the species has increased in recent years (1) (3) (6) . Rapid increases in directed gillnet fishing has caused a decline in the dusky smoothhound in some areas (1) (6) .
Many houndsharks (sharks in the family Triakidae) do well in captivity, and species such as the dusky smoothhound are kept in public aquaria, as well as being used as lab animals (3) (4) .
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Dusky smoothhound conservation
There are currently no management plans or specific protection in place for the dusky smoothhound (1) (6) . Although it appears to grow and reproduce relatively fast for a shark species (10) (12) , it is still potentially vulnerable to overexploitation (11) . More work is needed to predict how the dusky smoothhound population will respond to increased fishing activity, which will help scientists to develop the most appropriate management measures for this species (1) (6) (11) .
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Causes
There were many tensions that led up to the Denshawai Incident. The Egyptian peoples had a rising sense of nationalism long before the British occupation of the country in 1882. The occupation was touched off by the mutiny of Ahmed Orabi . This mutiny was started by the idea of revolution and liberation of the Egyptian people from their Turkish and European overlords. The British occupation brought commerce and related development to Egypt. The Egyptian government was taken and directed by Lord Cromer . He was in charge of economic reforms and trying to eliminate the debt caused by the khedival regime. These reforms, and their successes, were mainly enjoyed by the upper and middle classes, leaving the poor even poorer.
Since the khedival regime and the upper class enjoyed the British occupation and its abundant success, the middle class was left to the resistance of the British occupation. In the late 1890s and early 20th century, there were many newspapers that exposed the British for their mistakes and the khedival governmental corruption. The positions in the Egyptian government were filled by the British officers. The writers for the newspapers were protesting that those positions could have been as easily filled by capable, educated Egyptians, but that the racism of the British stopped it.
The incident
On 13 June 1906 five officers of the occupying British army , with their interpreter and a police official, visited Denshawai ( AR : دنشواي) to go pigeon shooting. They shot pigeons belonging to villagers who kept them as domestic animals, angering the owners. However, the major catalyst was the accidental shooting of the wife of the prayer leader at the local mosque. Enraged, the Egyptians mobbed the British officers and camp. The British officers opened fire on the villagers, wounding five, and set fire to the grain of Abd-el-Nebi.
Abd-el-Nebi, whose wife had been seriously injured, struck one of the officers with a stick. He was joined by the elderly Hassan Mahfouz, whose pigeons had been killed. Other villagers threw stones at them. The officers, two Irishmen and three Englishmen , surrendered their weapons, along with their watches and money, but this failed to appease the angry villagers.
Two officers escaped, one of whom managed to contact the British Army, but the other died of heatstroke some distance from the village. An Egyptian peasant who tried to help the sick man was killed by British soldiers who came across them, and wrongly assumed that the peasant had murdered the soldier. Meanwhile, in the village the elders had intervened, saving the remaining soldiers and allowing them to return to their base.
British response
"Instead of showing understanding for the peasants' self-defense against the officer's tactless blundering, the colonial administrators viewed the natives' actions as a dangerous popular insurgency that had to be dealt with harshly." [1]
Concerned about a growing nationalist movement, Egyptian officials used the Denshawai incident as a pretext to harshly punish any resistance to British rule. The next day, the British army arrived, arresting fifty-two men in the village, including Abd-el-Nebi, Hassan Mahfouz, a man called Darweesh and Zahran. At a summary trial (where the judges were mostly British) Hassan, Darweesh, Zahran and one other man were convicted of murdering the officer who had died of sunstroke, and were sentenced to death. One of the judges was Boutros Ghali . [2] Abd-el-Nebi and another villager were given a life sentence of penal servitude and twenty-six villagers were given various terms of hard labour and ordered to be flogged. The officers stated that they had been "guests" of the villagers and had done nothing wrong. [3]
Hassan was hanged in front of his own house. Darweesh said from the gallows:
“May God compensate us well for this world of meanness, for this world of injustice, for this world of cruelty.”
The Egyptian police official accompanying the soldiers to the village did not confirm their story. He testified in court that after Abd-el’s wife had been shot, the officers fired twice more on the mob. For his testimony, he was stood down, and a court of discipline sentenced him to two years imprisonment and fifty lashes.
Consequences
Concerned with growing Egyptian nationalism, British officials chose to show their strength and make an example of the villagers involved. Many were arrested, and four charged with murder. This decision inflamed Egyptian nationalist sentiment. [4] Some Egyptian leaders later affirmed that the incident and the British response confirmed their growing belief that co-operation with the British empire was "totally unacceptable" [5] and impossible. This belief was a direct cause for the Egyptian leaders to push harder for the removal of British forces in Egypt.
In the long run, this incident and its rising nationalism gave way to an anti-colonial struggle in Egypt during World War I. During the war, large companies of Entente powers were gathered in Egypt which led to a major shortage of food and resources. As the war continued, the unrest sparked by the Denshawai Incident was further instigated by inflation as well as by the food shortages and even starvation. By 1919, Egypt was ripe for revolt. While the Allies were attempting to reach a post-war agreement, the Egyptian leaders, known as the Wafd, which later gave its name to the major political party, were denied entrance into France to meet with the Versailles peacemakers. This led to most of the Egyptian government resigning, and then a mass demonstration of riots. These riots, and the grievances that went along with them, provided the nationalists with both a focus for unified action and a broad base of support that far exceeded any they had attracted in the prewar decades. [6]
This decision inflamed public opinion in both the United Kingdom and Egypt. Those who called the tribunal and its legality into question were accused of being unpatriotic and supporting the “venal agitators” in Egypt.
Guy Aldred , who in 1907 compared the execution of Madan Lal Dhingra with the immunity given to the British officers in this incident, was sentenced to twelve months hard labour for publishing The Indian Sociologist .
Commentary
George Bernard Shaw , in the preface to his play John Bull's Other Island , says that because "they had room for only one man on the gallows, and had to leave him hanging half an hour to make sure [he was dead] and give his family plenty of time to watch him swinging, thus having two hours to kill as well as four men, they kept the entertainment going by flogging eight men with fifty lashes each."
If her [England’s] empire means ruling the world as Denshawai has been ruled in 1906 – and that, I am afraid, is what the Empire does mean to the main body of our aristocratic-military caste and to our Jingo plutocrats – then there can be no more sacred and urgent political duty on earth than the disruption, defeat, and suppression of the Empire, and, incidentally, the humanization of its supporters…
—George Bernard Shaw
Fifty years later, the Egyptian journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal said "the pigeons of Denshawai have come home to roost", to describe the eventual defeat of the Anglo-French strikes in Egypt in 1956.
"The Hanging of Zahran" is a poem by Salah Abdel-Sabour about the incident, and Nagui Riad made the film Friend of Life, based on the poem.
"27 June 1906, 2pm" is a related also poem by Constantine P. Cavafy , that starts up as follows : When the Christians took and hanged/ the innocent boy of seventeen/ his mother who there beside the scaffold/ had dragged herself...
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Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, ( Template:Audio-IPA , Egyptian : Kemet; Coptic : Template:Script/Coptic Kīmi; Template:Lang-ar Template:Transl ; Egyptian Arabic : Template:Transl ) is a country in North Africa . The Sinai Peninsula is part of northeastern Egypt, which also forms a land bridge to Asia . Covering an area of about Template:Convert , Egypt borders Libya to the west, Sudan to the south and the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east. The northern coast borders the Mediterranean Sea ; the eastern coast borders the Red Sea .
Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa and the Middle East . The great majority of its estimated 75 million [1] live near the banks of the Nile River , in an area of about Template:Convert , where the only arable agricultural land is found. The large areas of the Sahara Desert are sparsely inhabited. About half of Egypt's residents live in urban areas, with the majority spread across the densely-populated centres of greater Cairo , Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta .
Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most famous monuments, including the Giza pyramid complex and its Great Sphinx . The southern city of Luxor contains numerous ancient artifacts, such as the Karnak Temple and the Valley of the Kings . Egypt is widely regarded as an important political and cultural nation of the Middle East .
News and Sport
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More than 70 people died and 1,000 were injured in soccer-related violence in Egypt (also known as EGY )
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Egypt at the Olympics
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Egypt first participated at the Olympic Games in 1912 , and has sent athletes to compete in most editions of the Summer Olympic Games since then. The nation boycotted the 1956 Games in protest of the British and French involvement in the Suez Crisis . However, the equestrian events for the 1956 Games were held in Stockholm , Sweden five months earlier (because of Australian quarantine regulations), and three Egyptian riders competed there. Egypt withdrew from the 1976 Summer Olympics after three days of competition to join the broad African boycott in response to the participation of New Zealand , who still had sporting links with apartheid South Africa . Egypt also participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics . Egypt's lone participation at the Winter Olympic Games was a single alpine skier in 1984.
Egyptian athletes have won a total of 23 medals, with weightlifting as the top medal-producing sport.
The National Olympic Committee for Egypt is the Egyptian Olympic Committee, and was created in 1910.
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Template:Hiero One of the ancient Egyptian names of the country, Kemet ( Template:Transl ), or "black land" (from kem "black"), is derived from the fertile black soils deposited by the Nile floods, distinct from the deshret, or "red land" ( Template:Transl ), of the desert. Template:Fact The name is realized as Template:Lang and Template:Lang in the Coptic stage of the Egyptian language, and appeared in early Greek as Template:Polytonic ( Template:Lang ). Template:Fact Another name was Template:Lang "land of the riverbank". The names of Upper and Lower Egypt were Ta-Sheme'aw ( Template:Transl ) "sedgeland" and Ta-Mehew ( Template:Transl ) "northland", respectively.
Template:Transl , the Arabic and modern official name of Egypt ( Egyptian Arabic : Template:Transl ), is of Semitic origin, directly cognate with other Semitic words for Egypt such as the Hebrew Template:Lang-Hebrew2 ( Template:Transl ), literally meaning "the two straits" (a reference to the dynastic separation of upper and lower Egypt). [2] The word originally connoted "metropolis" or "civilization" and also means "country", or "frontier-land".
The English name "Egypt" came via the Latin word Template:Lang derived from the ancient Greek word Aígyptos ( Template:Lang ). The adjective aigýpti, aigýptios was borrowed into Coptic as gyptios, kyptios, and from there into Arabic as Template:Transl , back formed into Template:Transl , whence English Copt . The term is derived from Late Egyptian Hikuptah "Memphis", a corruption of the earlier Egyptian name Hat-ka-Ptah ( Template:Transl ), meaning "home of the ka (soul) of Ptah", the name of a temple to the god Ptah at Memphis . Template:Fact Strabo provided a folk etymology according to which Aígyptos ( Template:Lang ) had evolved as a compound from Template:Lang ( Template:Transl ), meaning "below the Aegean".
History
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The Egyptian Nile Valley was home to one of the oldest cultures in the world , spanning three thousand years of continuous history. When Egypt fell under a series of foreign occupations after 343 BC, each left an indelible mark on the country's cultural landscape . Egyptian identity evolved in the span of this long period of occupation to accommodate, in principle, two new religions, Christianity and Islam ; and a new language, Arabic , and its spoken descendant, Egyptian Arabic . Template:Fact The degree to which Egyptians identify with each layer of Egypt's history in articulating a sense of collective identity can vary. Questions of identity came to fore in the last century as Egypt sought to free itself from foreign occupation for the first time in two thousand years. Three chief ideologies came to head: ethno-territorial Egyptian nationalism, secular Arab nationalism and pan-Arabism , and Islamism . Egyptian nationalism predates its Arab counterpart by many decades, having roots in the nineteenth century and becoming the dominant mode of expression of Egyptian anti-colonial activists and intellectuals until the early 20th century. [12] Arab nationalism reached a peak under Nasser but was once again relegated under Sadat ; meanwhile, the ideology espoused by radical muslim groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood is present in small segments of the lower-middle strata of Egyptian society. [13]
Geography
White Desert, Farafra
At Template:Convert , [14] Egypt is the world's 38th-largest country (after Mauritania ). It is comparable in size to Tanzania , twice the size of France , four times the size of the United Kingdom , and is more than half the size of the US state of Alaska .
Nevertheless, due to the aridity of Egypt's climate, population centres are concentrated along the narrow Nile Valley and Delta, meaning that approximately 99% of the population uses only about 5.5% of the total land area. [15]
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Egypt is bordered by Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, and by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east. Egypt's important role in geopolitics stems from its strategic position: a transcontinental nation , it possesses a land bridge (the Isthmus of Suez) between Africa and Asia , which in turn is traversed by a navigable waterway (the Suez Canal ) that connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Indian Ocean via the Red Sea .
Apart from the Nile Valley, the majority of Egypt's landscape is a sandy desert. The winds blowing can create sand dunes more than Template:Convert high. Egypt includes parts of the Sahara Desert and of the Libyan Desert . These deserts were referred to as the "red land" in ancient Egypt, and they protected the Kingdom of the Pharaohs from western threats.
Towns and cities include Alexandria , one of the greatest ancient cities, Aswan , Asyut , Cairo , the modern Egyptian capital, El-Mahalla El-Kubra , Giza , the site of the Pyramid of Khufu, Hurghada , Luxor , Kom Ombo , Port Safaga , Port Said , Sharm el Sheikh , Suez , where the Suez Canal is located, Zagazig , and Al-Minya . Oases include Bahariya , el Dakhla , Farafra , el Kharga and Siwa . Protectorates include Ras Mohamed National Park, Zaranik Protectorate and Siwa. See Egyptian Protectorates for more information. Template:MapLibrary
Climate
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Egypt does not receive much rainfall except in the winter months. [16] South of Cairo , rainfall averages only around 2 to 5 mm (0.1 to 0.2 in) per year and at intervals of many years . On a very thin strip of the northern coast the rainfall can be as high as Template:Convert , [17] with most of the rainfall between October and March. Snow falls on Sinai's mountains and some of the north coastal cities such as Damietta, Baltim, Sidi Barrany, etc. and rarely in Alexandria, frost is also known in mid-Sinai and mid-Egypt.
Temperatures average between Template:Convert and Template:Convert in summer, and up to Template:Convert on the Red Sea coast . Temperatures average between Template:Convert and Template:Convert in winter. A steady wind from the northwest helps hold down the temperature near the Mediterranean coast. The Khamaseen is a wind that blows from the south in Egypt in spring, bringing sand and dust, and sometimes raises the temperature in the desert to more than Template:Convert .
The rise in sea levels due to global warming threatens Egypt’s densely populated coastal strip and could have grave consequences for the country’s economy, agriculture and industry. Combined with growing demographic pressures, a rise in sea levels could turn millions of Egyptians into environmental refugees by the end of the century, according to climate experts. [18]
Politics
Egypt has been a republic since 18 June 1953 . President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak has been the President of the Republic since October 14 1981 , following the assassination of former-President Mohammed Anwar El-Sadat . Mubarak is currently serving his fifth term in office. He is the leader of the ruling National Democratic Party . Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Nazif was sworn in as Prime Minister on 9 July 2004 , following the resignation of Dr. Atef Ebeid from his office.
Although power is ostensibly organized under a multi-party semi-presidential system , whereby the executive power is theoretically divided between the President and the Prime Minister , in practice it rests almost solely with the President who traditionally has been elected in single-candidate elections for more than fifty years. Egypt also holds regular multi-party parliamentary elections. The last presidential election, in which Mubarak won a fifth consecutive term, was held in September 2005 .
In late February 2005, President Mubarak announced in a surprise television broadcast that he had ordered the reform of the country's presidential election law, paving the way for multi-candidate polls in the upcoming presidential election. For the first time since the 1952 movement , the Egyptian people had an apparent chance to elect a leader from a list of various candidates. The President said his initiative came "out of my full conviction of the need to consolidate efforts for more freedom and democracy." [19] However, the new law placed draconian restrictions on the filing for presidential candidacies, designed to prevent well-known candidates such as Ayman Nour from standing against Mubarak, and paved the road for his easy re-election victory. [20] Concerns were once again expressed after the 2005 presidential elections about government interference in the election process through fraud and vote-rigging, in addition to police brutality and violence by pro-Mubarak supporters against opposition demonstrators. [21] After the election, Egypt imprisoned Nour, and the U.S. Government stated the “conviction of Mr. Nour, the runner-up in Egypt's 2005 presidential elections, calls into question Egypt's commitment to democracy, freedom, and the rule of law.” [22]
As a result, most Egyptians are skeptical about the process of democratization and the role of the elections. Less than 25 percent of the country's 32 million registered voters (out of a population of more than 72 million) turned out for the 2005 elections. [23] A proposed change to the constitution would limit the president to two seven-year terms in office. [24]
Thirty-four constitutional changes voted on by parliament on March 19 , 2007 prohibit parties from using religion as a basis for political activity; allow the drafting of a new anti-terrorism law to replace the emergency legislation in place since 1981, giving police wide powers of arrest and surveillance; give the president power to dissolve parliament; and end judicial monitoring of election. [25] As opposition members of parliament withdrew from voting on the proposed changes, it was expected that the referendum would be boycotted by a great number of Egyptians in protest of what has been considered a breach of democratic practices. Eventually it was reported that only 27% of the registered voters went to the polling stations under heavy police presence and tight political control of the ruling National Democratic Party. It was officially announced on March 27,2007 that 75.9% of those who participated in the referendum approved of the constitutional amendments introduced by President Mubarak and was endorsed by opposition free parliament, thus allowing the introduction of laws that curb the activity of certain opposition elements, particularly Islamists.
Human rights
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Several local and international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch , have for many years criticized Egypt's human rights record as poor. In 2005, President Hosni Mubarak faced unprecedented public criticism when he clamped down on democracy activists challenging his rule. Some of the most serious human rights violations, according to HRW's 2006 report on Egypt, are routine torture, arbitrary detentions and trials before military and state security courts. [26]
Discriminatory personal status laws governing marriage, divorce, custody and inheritance which put women at a disadvantage have also been cited. Laws concerning Coptic Christians which place restrictions on church building and open worship have been recently eased, but major construction still requires governmental approval, while sporadic attacks on Christians and churches continue. [27] Intolerance of Bahá'ís and unorthodox Muslim sects, such as Sufis and Shi'a , also remains a problem. [26] The Egyptian legal system only recognizes three religions: Islam , Christianity and Judaism . When the government moved to computerize identification cards, members of religious minorities, such as Bahá'ís, could not obtain identification documents . [28] An Egyptian court ruled in early 2008 that members of other faiths can obtain identity cards without listing their faiths, and without becoming officially recognized. [29] (For more on the status of religious minorities, see the Religion section.)
In 2005, the Freedom House rated political rights in Egypt as "6" (1 representing the most free and 7 the least free rating), civil liberties as "5" and gave it the freedom rating of "Not Free." [30] It however noted that "Egypt witnessed its most transparent and competitive presidential and legislative elections in more than half a century and an increasingly unbridled public debate on the country's political future in 2005." [31]
In 2007, human rights group Amnesty International released a report criticizing Egypt for torture and illegal detention. The report alleges that Egypt has become an international center for torture, where other nations send suspects for interrogation, often as part of the War on Terror . The report calls on Egypt to bring its anti-terrorism laws into accordance with international human rights statutes and on other nations to stop sending their detainees to Egypt. [32] Egypt's foreign ministry quickly issued a rebuttal to this report, claiming that it was inaccurate and unfair, as well as causing deep offense to the Egyptian government. [33]
Consensual homosexual conduct between adults is criminalized under Egyptian law as a "practice of debauchery". [34] Since 2001, Egyptian authorities have made hundreds of arbitrary arrests of young gay men, many of whom have been tried and convicted for acts of "debauchery", while hundreds of others have been harassed and tortured, according to HRW. [35] In February 2008, a new round of arrests and torture of HIV -positive citizens followed a man's admission to the police that he was HIV-positive, sparking international outcry that the Egyptian government was treating the AIDS disease as a homosexual "crime" instead of providing care, prevention and education. [36]
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) is one of the longest-standing bodies for the defence of human rights in Egypt . [37] In 2003, the government established the National Council for Human Rights, headquartered in Cairo and headed by former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali who directly reports to the president. [38] The council has come under heavy criticism by local NGO activists, who contend it undermines human rights work in Egypt by serving as a propaganda tool for the government to excuse its violations [39] and to provide legitimacy to repressive laws such as the recently renewed Emergency Law. [40] Egypt had announced in 2006 that it was in the process of abolishing the Emergency Law, [41] but in March 2007 President Mubarak approved several constitutional amendments to include "an anti-terrorism clause that appears to enshrine sweeping police powers of arrest and surveillance", suggesting that the Emergency Law is here to stay for the long haul. [42]
Foreign relations
Main article: Foreign relations of Egypt
Egypt's foreign policy operates along moderate lines. Factors such as population size , historical events, military strength, diplomatic expertise and a strategic geographical position give Egypt extensive political influence in Africa and the Middle East . Cairo has been a crossroads of regional commerce and culture for centuries, and its intellectual and Islamic institutions are at the center of the region's social and cultural development .
The permanent Headquarters of the Arab League are located in Cairo and the Secretary General of the Arab League has traditionally been an Egyptian. Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa is the current Secretary General. The Arab League briefly moved from Egypt to Tunis in 1978, as a protest to the signing by Egypt of a peace treaty with Israel, but returned in 1989.
Egypt was the first Arab state to establish diplomatic relations with Israel , with the signing of the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty in 1979. Egypt has a major influence amongst other Arab states, and has historically played an important role as a mediator in resolving disputes between various Arab states, and in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute . Most Arab states still give credence to Egypt playing that role, though its effects are often limited and recently challenged by Saudi Arabia and oil rich Gulf States . Template:Fact It is also reported that due to Egypt's indulgence in internal problems and its reluctance to play a positive role in regional matters had lost the country great influence in Africa and the neighbouring countries. Template:Fact
Former Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali served as Secretary General of the United Nations from 1991 to 1996.
Governorates and markazes
Main article: Demographics of Egypt
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Egypt is the most populated country in the Middle East and the second-most populous on the African continent , with an estimated 75 million people (as of mid-2008). Almost all the population is concentrated along the banks of the Nile (notably Cairo and Alexandria), in the Delta and near the Suez Canal . Approximately 80-90% of the population adheres to Islam and most of the remainder to Christianity, primarily the Coptic Orthodox denomination. [43] Apart from religious affiliation, Egyptians can be divided demographically into those who live in the major urban centers and the fellahin or farmers of rural villages. The last 40 years have seen a rapid increase in population due to medical advances and massive increase in agricultural productivity, [44] made by the Green Revolution . [45]
Egyptians are by far the largest ethnic group in Egypt at 94% of the total population. [43] Ethnic minorities include the Bedouin Arab tribes living in the eastern deserts and the Sinai Peninsula , the Berber -speaking Siwis ( Amazigh ) of the Siwa Oasis , and the ancient Nubian communities clustered along the Nile. There are also tribal communities of Beja concentrated in the south-eastern-most corner of the country, and a number of Dom clans mostly in the Nile Delta and Faiyum who are progressively becoming assimilated as urbanization increases.
Egypt also hosts an unknown number of refugees and asylum seekers, but they are estimated to be between 500,000 and 3 million. [46] There are some 70,000 Palestinian refugees , [46] and about 150,000 recently arrived Iraqi refugees , [47] but the number of the largest group, the Sudanese , is contested. [48] The once-vibrant Jewish community in Egypt has virtually disappeared , with only a small number remaining in the country, but many Egyptian Jews visit on religious occasions and for tourism. Several important Jewish archaeological and historical sites are found in Cairo , Alexandria and other cities.
Religion
Main article: Religion in Egypt
Cairo's unique cityscape with its ancient mosques
Religion plays a central role in most Egyptians' lives. The rolling calls to prayer that are heard five times a day have the informal effect of regulating the pace of everything from business to entertainment. Cairo is famous for its numerous mosque minarets and church towers.
Egypt is predominantly Muslim, at 80-90% of the population, with the majority being adherents of the Sunni branch of Islam. [43] A significant number of Muslim Egyptians also follow native Sufi orders , [49] and there is a minority of Shi'a .
Christians represent 10-20% of the population, [50] more than 95% of whom belong to the native Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria . Other native Egyptian Christians are adherents of the Coptic Catholic Church , the Coptic Evangelical Church and various Coptic Protestant denominations. Non-native Christian communities are largely found in the urban regions of Alexandria and Cairo , and are members of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria , the Melkite Greek Catholic Church , the Armenian Apostolic Church , the Roman Catholic Church , the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East , the Maronite Church , the Armenian Catholic Church , the Chaldean Catholic Church , the Syriac Catholic Church , or the Syriac Orthodox Church .
According to the Constitution of Egypt , any new legislation must at least implicitly agree with Islamic laws . The mainstream Hanafi school of Sunni Islam is largely organised by the state, through Wizaret Al-Awkaf (Ministry of Religious Affairs). Al-Awkaf controls all mosques and overviews Muslim clerics. Imams are trained in Imam vocational schools and at Al-Azhar University . The department supports Sunni Islam and has commissions authorised to give Fatwa judgements on Islamic issues.
Over ten million Egyptians follow the Christian faith as members of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria .
Egypt hosts two major religious institutions. Al-Azhar University is the oldest Islamic institution of higher studies (founded around 970 A.D ) and considered by many to be the oldest extant university. The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, headed by the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria , attests to Egypt's strong Christian heritage. It has a following of approximately 15 million Christians worldwide; affiliated sister churches are located in Armenia , Ethiopia , Eritrea , India , Lebanon and Syria .
Religious freedom in Egypt is hampered to varying degrees by extremist Islamist groups and by discriminatory and restrictive government policies. Being the largest religious minority in Egypt, Coptic Christians are the most negatively affected community. Copts have faced increasing marginalization after the 1952 coup d'état led by Gamal Abdel Nasser . Until recently, Christians were required to obtain presidential approval for even minor repairs in churches. Although the law was eased in 2005 by handing down the authority of approval to the governors, Copts continue to face many obstacles in building new or repairing existing churches. These obstacles are not found in building mosques. [51] [52]
In addition, Copts complain of being minimally represented in law enforcement, state security and public office, and of being discriminated against in the workforce on the basis of their religion. [53] The Coptic community, as well as several human rights activists and intellectuals (such as Saad Eddin Ibrahim and Tarek Heggy ), maintain that the number of Christians occupying government posts is not proportional to the number of Copts in Egypt, who constitute between 10 and 15% of the population in Egypt. Of the 32 cabinet ministers , two are Copts: Finance Minister Youssef Boutros Ghali and Minister of Environment Magued George; and of the 25 local governors, only one is a Copt (in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Qena ). However, Copts have demonstrated great success in Egypt's private business sector; Naguib Sawiris , an extremely successful businessman and one of the world's wealthiest 100 people is a Copt. In 2002, under the Mubarak government, Coptic Christmas (January 7) was recognized as an official holiday. [54] Nevertheless, the Coptic community has occasionally been the target of hate crimes and physical assaults. The most significant was the 2000-2001 El Kosheh attacks , in which 21 Copts and one Muslim were killed. A 2006 attack on three churches in Alexandria left one dead and 17 injured, although the attacker was not linked to any organisation. [55]
Annex of the Library of Jewish Heritage in Egypt, Ben Ezra Synagogue , Old Cairo .
Egypt was once home to one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world. Egyptian Jews , who were mostly Karaites , partook of all aspects of Egypt's social, economic and political life; one of the most ardent Egyptian nationalists, Yaqub Sanu ' (Abu Naddara), was a Jew, as were famous musician Dawoud Husni, popular singer Leila Mourad , and prominent filmmaker Togo Mizrahi. For a while, Jews from across the Ottoman Empire and Europe were attracted to Egypt due to the relative harmony that characterized the local religious landscape in the 19th and early 20th centuries. After the 1956 Suez Crisis , a great number of Jews were expelled by Gamal Abdel Nasser , many of whom holding official Egyptian citizenship. Their Egyptian citizenship was revoked and their property was confiscated. A steady stream of migration of Egyptian Jews followed, reaching a peak after the Six-Day War with Israel in 1967. Today, Jews in Egypt number less than 100. [56]
Bahá'ís in Egypt, whose population is estimated to be a few thousand, have long been persecuted , having their institutions and community activities banned. Since their faith is not officially recognized by the state, they were not allowed to use it on their national identity cards ; a court case in 2008 allowed Bahá'ís to obtain birth certificates and identification documents, so long as they omit their religion on court documents. [29]
There are Egyptians who identify as atheist and agnostic , but their numbers are largely unknown, as openly advocating such positions risks legal sanction on the basis of apostasy (if a citizen takes the step of suing the 'apostating' person, though not automatically by the general prosecutor). In 2000, an openly atheist Egyptian writer, who called for the establishment of a local association for atheists, was tried on charges of insulting Islam in four of his books. [57]
While freedom of religion is guaranteed by the Egyptian constitution, according to Human Rights Watch , "Egyptians are able to convert to Islam generally without difficulty, but Muslims who convert to Christianity face difficulties in getting new identity papers and some have been arrested for allegedly forging such documents. [58] The Coptic community, however, takes pains to prevent conversions from Christianity to Islam due to the ease with which Christians can often become Muslim. [59] Public officials, being conservative themselves, intensify the complexity of the legal procedures required to recognize the religion change as required by law. Security agencies will sometimes claim that such conversions from Islam to Christianity (or occasionally vice versa) may stir social unrest, and thereby justify themselves in wrongfully detaining the subjects, insisting that they are simply taking steps to prevent likely social troubles from happening. [60] In 2007, a Cairo administrative court denied 45 citizens the right to obtain identity papers documenting their reversion to Christianity after converting to Islam. [61] However, in February 2008 the Supreme Administrative Court overturned the decision, allowing 12 citizens who had reverted back to Christianity to re-list their religion on identity cards, [62] but they will specify that they had adopted Islam for a brief period of time. [63]
Culture
Main article: Culture of Egypt
Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a commemoration of the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt's second largest city.
Egyptian culture has five thousand years of recorded history . Ancient Egypt was among the earliest civilizations and for millennia, Egypt maintained a strikingly complex and stable culture that influenced later cultures of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. After the Pharaonic era, Egypt itself came under the influence of Hellenism , Christianity , and Islamic culture. Today, many aspects of Egypt's ancient culture exist in interaction with newer elements, including the influence of modern Western culture , itself with roots in ancient Egypt.
Egypt's capital city, Cairo, is Africa's largest city and has been renowned for centuries as a center of learning, culture and commerce. Egypt has the highest number of Nobel Laureates in Africa and the Arab World. Some Egyptian born politicians were or are currently at the helm of major international organizations like Boutros Boutros-Ghali of the United Nations and Mohamed ElBaradei of the IAEA .
Renaissance
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The work of early nineteenth-century scholar Rifa'a et-Tahtawi gave rise to the Egyptian Renaissance, marking the transition from Medieval to Early Modern Egypt. His work renewed interest in Egyptian antiquity and exposed Egyptian society to Enlightenment principles. Tahtawi co-founded with education reformer Ali Mubarak a native Egyptology school that looked for inspiration to medieval Egyptian scholars, such as Suyuti and Maqrizi , who themselves studied the history , language and antiquities of Egypt. [64] Egypt's renaissance peaked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the work of people like Muhammad Abduh , Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed , Tawfiq el-Hakim , Louis Awad , Qasim Amin , Salama Moussa , Taha Hussein and Mahmoud Mokhtar . They forged a liberal path for Egypt expressed as a commitment to individual freedom, secularism and faith in science to bring progress. [65]
Art and architecture
Eighteenth dynasty painting from the tomb of Theban governor Ramose in Deir el-Madinah .
The Egyptians were one of the first major civilizations to codify design elements in art and architecture. The wall paintings done in the service of the Pharaohs followed a rigid code of visual rules and meanings. Egyptian civilization is renowned for its colossal pyramids, colonnades and monumental tombs. Well-known examples are the Pyramid of Djoser designed by ancient architect and engineer Imhotep , the Sphinx , and the temple of Abu Simbel . Modern and contemporary Egyptian art can be as diverse as any works in the world art scene, from the vernacular architecture of Hassan Fathy and Ramses Wissa Wassef , to Mahmoud Mokhtar 's famous sculptures, to the distinctive Coptic iconography of Isaac Fanous .
The Cairo Opera House serves as the main performing arts venue in the Egyptian capital. Egypt's media and arts industry has flourished since the late nineteenth century, today with more than thirty satellite channels and over one hundred motion pictures produced each year. Cairo has long been known as the "Hollywood of the Middle East;" its annual film festival, the Cairo International Film Festival , has been rated as one of 11 festivals with a top class rating worldwide by the International Federation of Film Producers' Associations. [66] To bolster its media industry further, especially with the keen competition from the Persian Gulf Arab States and Lebanon , a large media city was built. Some Egyptian-born actors, like Omar Sharif , have achieved worldwide fame.
Literature
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Literature constitutes an important cultural element in the life of Egypt. Egyptian novelists and poets were among the first to experiment with modern styles of Arabic literature , and the forms they developed have been widely imitated throughout the Middle East. Template:Fact The first modern Egyptian novel Zaynab by Muhammad Husayn Haykal was published in 1913 in the Egyptian vernacular . [67] Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz was the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature . Egyptian women writers include Nawal El Saadawi , well known for her feminist activism , and Alifa Rifaat who also writes about women and tradition. Vernacular poetry is perhaps the most popular literary genre amongst Egyptians, represented by the works of Ahmed Fouad Negm (Fagumi), Salah Jaheen and Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi .
Music
Main article: Music of Egypt
Upper Egyptian folk musicians from Kom Ombo .
Egyptian music is a rich mixture of indigenous, Mediterranean, African and Western elements. In antiquity , Egyptians were playing harps and flutes, including two indigenous instruments: the ney and the oud . Percussion and vocal music also became an important part of the local music tradition ever since. Contemporary Egyptian music traces its beginnings to the creative work of people such as Abdu-l Hamuli, Almaz and Mahmud Osman, who influenced the later work of Egyptian music giants such as Sayed Darwish , Umm Kulthum , Mohammed Abdel Wahab and Abdel Halim Hafez . These prominent artists were followed later by Amr Diab . He is seen by many as the new age "Musical Legend", whose fan base stretches all over the Middle East and Europe. From the 1970s onwards, Egyptian pop music has become increasingly important in Egyptian culture, while Egyptian folk music continues to be played during weddings and other festivities.
Festivals
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Egypt is famous for its many festivals and religious carnivals, also known as mulid. They are usually associated with a particular Coptic or Sufi saint, but are often celebrated by all Egyptians irrespective of creed or religion. Ramadan has a special flavor in Egypt, celebrated with sounds, lights (local lanterns known as fawanees) and much flare that many Muslim tourists from the region flock to Egypt during Ramadan to witness the spectacle. The ancient spring festival of Sham en Nisim ( Coptic : Template:Coptic shom en nisim) has been celebrated by Egyptians for thousands of years, typically between the Egyptian months of Paremoude (April) and Pashons (May), following Easter Sunday.
Sports
Cairo International Stadium during the 2006 African Cup of Nations
Football (soccer) is the de facto national sport of Egypt. Egyptian Soccer clubs El Ahly and El Zamalek are the two most popular teams and enjoy the reputation of long-time regional champions. The great rivalries keep the streets of Egypt energized as people fill the streets when their favorite team wins. Egypt is rich in soccer history as soccer has been around for over 100 years. The country is home to many African championships such as the Africa Cup of Nations . While, Egypt's national team has not qualified for the FIFA World Cup since 1990, the Egyptian team won the Africa Cup Of Nations an unprecedented six times, including two times in a row in 1957 and 1959 and again in 2006 and 2008, setting a world record.
Squash and tennis are other popular sports in Egypt. The Egyptian squash team has been known for its fierce competition in international championships since the 1930s. Amr Shabana is Egypt's best player and the winner of the world open three times and the best player of 2006.
The Egyptian Handball team also holds another record; throughout the 34 times the African Handball Nations Championship was held, Egypt won first place five times (including 2008), five times second place, four times third place, and came in fourth place twice. The team won 6th and 7th places in 1995, 1997 at the World Men's Handball Championship, and twice won 6th place at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics.
In 2007, Omar joined Ben Stephens (England), Victoria James (Wales) and Greg Maud (South Africa) in putting together an expedition to climb Mount Everest from its South side. The Everest expedition began on the 25th of March 2007 and lasted for just over 9 weeks. On the 17th of May at precisely 9:49AM Nepal time, Omar became the first and youngest Egyptian to climb 8,850m Mount Everest. He also became the first Egyptian to climb Everest from its South face, the same route taken by Sir Edmund Hilary and Sherpa Tenzing in 1953.
Egypt has a long history of participation at the Summer Olympics since 1912.
Best results
Main article: Military of Egypt
Two Egyptian Mi-17 helicopters after unloading troops during an exercise.
The Egyptian Armed forces have a combined troop strength of around 450,000 active personnel. [68] According to the Israeli chair of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Yuval Steinitz , the Egyptian Air Force has roughly the same number of modern warplanes as the Israeli Air Force and far more Western tanks, artillery, anti-aircraft batteries and warships than the IDF . [69] The Egyptian military has recently undergone massive military modernization mostly in their Air Force. Other than Israel, Egypt is speculated by Israel to be the first country in the region with a spy satellite , EgyptSat 1 , and is planning to launch 3 more satellites (DesertSat1, EgyptSat2, DesertSat2) over the next two years.Egypt is considered to be the leading military power in the Middle East along with Israel [70]
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Introduction – by Sir Anthony Seldon
10 Downing Street, the locale of British prime ministers since 1735, vies with the White House as being the most important political building anywhere in the world in the modern era. Behind its black door have been taken the most important decisions affecting Britain for the last 275 years.
In the 20th century alone, the First and Second World Wars were directed from within it, as were the key decisions about the end of the empire, the building of the British nuclear bomb, the handling of economic crises from the Great Depression in 1929 to the great recession, and the building up of the welfare state.
Some of the most famous political figures of modern history have lived and worked in Number 10, including Robert Walpole, Pitt the Younger, Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone, David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher.
Number 10 has 3 overlapping functions. It is the official residence of the British Prime Minister: it is their office, and it is also the place where the Prime Minister entertains guests from Her Majesty The Queen to presidents of the United States and other world leaders. The Prime Minister hosts countless receptions and events for a whole range of British and overseas guests, with charitable receptions high up the list.
The building is much larger than it appears from its frontage. The hall with the chequered floor immediately behind the front door lets on to a warren of rooms and staircases. The house in Downing Street was joined to a more spacious and elegant building behind it in the early 18th century. Number 10 has also spread itself out to the left of the front door, and has taken over much of 12 Downing Street, which is accessed by a corridor that runs through 11 Downing Street – the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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Downing Street Approach
Entrance Hall
Many famous feet have trodden across this entrance hall: from world leaders to sporting heroes. But this is also where the PM's staff enter each day to work among the myriad corridors and staircases which snake around the building. 10 Downing Street fulfils many roles – as meeting place, home and office. The Prime Minister does not have keys to Number 10 but there is always someone on duty to let him in.
Grand Staircase
Sir Robert Walpole took up residence as Prime Minister in 1735 and wanted the design of Number 10 to match his status. He employed a famous architect of the day to renovate the crumbling building and many of the features he installed, including the central staircase, still exist. Portraits of every Prime Minister line the walls in chronological order, with the most recent incumbents at the top and group photographs from past Cabinets and Imperial Conferences at the bottom.
White Drawing Room
Until the 1940s Prime Ministers and their wives kept the White Room for their private use. It was here that Edward Heath kept his grand piano. The room contains works by one of the most important English landscape painters of the nineteenth century, J M W Turner. These days it is often used as the backdrop for television interviews and is in regular use as a meeting room for Downing Street staff. The room links through to the Terracotta Room next door.
Cabinet Room
Gordon Brown held Cabinet meetings every Tuesday but they were previously held on Thursday mornings. The only exceptions were during the Second World War and when the house was being renovated.
The room was extended in 1796 by knocking a wall down and inserting columns to carry the extra span. The Cabinet room is separated from the rest of the house by soundproof doors. A terrorist bomb exploded in the garden of Number 10 in 1991, only a few metres from where John Major was chairing a Cabinet meeting.
Terracotta Room
This was used as the dining room when Sir Robert Walpole was PM. The name of this room changes according to the colour it is painted. When Margaret Thatcher came to power it was the Blue Room and she had it re-decorated and re-named the Green Room. It is now painted terracotta. There are many famous works of art in this room, on loan from the Government Art Collection.
Pillared Room
The Pillared Room is the largest of the three rooms and is used when international agreements are being signed or as the main staging area for receptions. This is where the England Rugby Union team was entertained after winning the World Cup in 2003. The inventor John Logie Baird used the room to demonstrate one of his new-fangled television sets to Ramsey MacDonald and his children.
The room contains a striking Persian carpet, copied from a 16th century original which can be found in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Small Dining Room
The Small Dining Room was once known as the breakfast room. Prime Ministers and their families used this room to have their meals until the flat upstairs was renovated. This was a favourite room of Lloyd George and can hold up to 12 people.
Sir John Soane designed it in 1827 following a commission from PM Viscount Goderich. The most unusual feature of this room is the fireplace without a chimney breast. The flues used to get so hot that the substance holding the window together would melt, causing the glass to fall out.
State Dining Room
Double doors lead you from the Small Dining Room to the larger State Dining room, which is built over the original vaulted stone kitchen. As with the small dining room, this room was designed by Sir John Soane in 1827. On the 250th anniversary of Number 10, in 1985, all the surviving Prime Ministers had dinner together here. This room is used to host the PM's press conferences, where he is quizzed by the world's media.
The Study
The study was a regular workplace for Harold Wilson and also Margaret Thatcher (later Lady Thatcher), who worked on important documents held in her “red boxes” and held meetings with her officials, a tradition restored by Gordon Brown. Sir Winston Churchill used the room as sleeping quarters.
The Garden
The Number 10 garden is in constant use. Often used to host events it is kept in pristine condition by a small team of gardeners.
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Hundreds of people enter 10 Downing Street every week to attend meetings and receptions and to hand petitions over to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Downing Street Approach
Walking up Downing Street from Whitehall you have the imposing Foreign and Commonwealth building to your left and the Prime Minister’s residence on your right.
Explore 10 Downing Street's most famous rooms and significant events in more detail at the Google Cultural Institute .
Origins and early inhabitants
The area around Downing Street was home to ancient Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Norman settlements, and was already a prestigious centre of government 1,000 years ago.
The Romans first came to Britain under the command of Julius Caesar in 55 BC. Making their capital at Londinium downriver, the Romans chose Thorney Island – a marshy piece of land lying between two branches of the river Tyburn that flowed from Hampstead Heath to the Thames – as the site for their early settlement.
These Roman settlements, and those of the Anglo-Saxons and Normans who supplanted them, were not very successful. The area was prone to plague and its inhabitants were very poor. A charter granted by the Mercian King Offa in the year 785 refers to “the terrible place called Thorney Island”. It took royal patronage to give the area prestige. King Canute (reigned 1017 to 1035) built a palace in the area, and Edward the Confessor (reigned 1042 to 1066) and William the Conqueror (reigned 1066 to 1087) maintained a royal presence there. The position of Westminster (as the area became known) as the centre of government and the church was solidified following the construction of the great abbey nearby, on Edward's orders.
Whitehall from St James's Park – Hendrick Danckerts c.1675
The earliest building known to have stood on the site of Downing Street was the Axe brewery owned by the Abbey of Abingdon in the Middle Ages. By the early 1500s, it had fallen into disuse.
Henry VIII (reigned 1509 to 1547) developed Westminster's importance further by building an extravagant royal residence there.
Whitehall Palace was created when Henry VIII confiscated York House from Cardinal Wolsey in 1530 and extended the complex. Today's Downing Street is located on the edge of the Palace site.
The huge residence included tennis courts, a tiltyard for jousting, a bowling green, and a cockpit for bird fights. Stretching from St James's Park to the Thames, it was the official residence of Tudor and Stuart monarchs until it was destroyed by fire in 1698. It made the surrounding real estate some of the most important and valuable in London – and the natural home of power.
The first domestic house known to have been built on the site of Number 10 was a large building leased to Sir Thomas Knyvet in 1581 by Queen Elizabeth I (reigned 1558 to 1603). He was one of the Queen's favourites and was an MP for Thetford as well as a justice of the peace for Westminster. His claim to fame was the arrest of Guy Fawkes for his role in the gunpowder plot of 1605. He was knighted in 1604 by Elizabeth's successor, King James I (reigned 1603 to 1625), and the house was extended.
After the death of Sir Knyvet and his wife, the house passed to their niece, Elizabeth Hampden, who continued to live there for the next 40 years.
The middle of the 17th century was a period of political upheaval and Mrs Hampden's family was right in the middle of it. Her son, John Hampden, was one of the MPs who opposed King Charles I (reigned 1625 to 1649), and Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector, was Mrs Hampden's nephew.
Hampden House, as it was then known, gave Mrs Hampden a prime view of the tumultuous events during the Civil War and the Commonwealth and the early years of the Restoration.
The execution of Charles I in 1649 took place on a scaffold in front of Banqueting House in Whitehall, within earshot of the house. Mrs Hampden was still living there when King Charles II (reigned in Scotland from 1649 to 1685) was restored to the English throne in 1660.
The Parliamentary Commissioners, who took over Crown lands during the time of the Commonwealth, described the house in 1650:
“Built part of Bricke and part with Tymber and Flemish qalle and covered with Tyle, consistinge of a Large and spacious hall, wainscoted round, well lighted, and Paved with brick Pavements, two parls wherof one is Wainscoted round from the seelinge to ye floor, one Buttery, one seller, one Large kitchen well paved with stone and well fitted and Joynted and well fitted with dresser boards…
And above stayres in the first story one large and spacious dyneinge Roome, Wainscoted round from the seelinge to the floore, well flored, Lighted and seeled, and fitted with a faire Chimney with a foote pace of paynted Tyle in the same. Also 6 more Roomes and 3 Closetts in the same flore all well lighted and seeled. And in the second story 4 garretts…”
The emergence of Downing Street
George Downing gave his name to the most famous street in the world. It is unfortunate that he was such an unpleasant man. Able as a diplomat and a government administrator, he was miserly and at times brutal.
However, George Downing was responsible for the street, its name and the building we know today. A former diplomat at The Hague serving the Commonwealth, he changed allegiance with finesse. He traded enough secrets to gain a royal pardon in March 1660 and, by the Restoration in May 1660, to be rewarded with a knighthood.
Interested in power and money, he saw an opportunity to make his fortune in property. He had already gained the Crown interest in the land around Hampden House, but could not take possession as it was under lease to Knyvet's descendants. In 1682 he secured the leases to the property and employed Sir Christopher Wren to design the houses.
Between 1682 and 1684, existing properties were pulled down and in their place a cul-de-sac of 15 to 20 terraced houses was built along the north side of the new street, Downing Street. In order to maximise profit, the houses were cheaply built, with poor foundations for the boggy ground. Instead of neat brick façades, they had mortar lines drawn on to give the appearance of evenly spaced bricks. In the 20th Century, Prime Minister Winston Churchill wrote that Number 10 was:
Shaky and lightly built by the profiteering contractor whose name they bear.
A rather important neighbour complained, however. The new houses were built directly behind a large and impressive house overlooking Horse Guards. Its occupier, the Countess of Lichfield, daughter of Charles II, was less than pleased with the emergence of the unwelcome terrace behind. She complained to her father, who wrote back with advice:
I think that it is a very reasonable thing that other houses should not look into your house without your permission, and this note will be sufficient for Mr Surveyor to build up your wall as high as you please.
The original numbering of the Downing Street houses was completely different from what we see today. The sequence of numbers was haphazard, and the houses tended to be known by the name or title of their occupants. The current Number 10 started out life as Number 5, and was not renumbered until 1779.
The Downing Street house had several distinguished residents. The Countess of Yarmouth lived at Number 10 between 1688 and 1689, and was followed by Lord Lansdowne from 1692 to 1696 and the Earl of Grantham from 1699 to 1703. The last private resident of Downing's terrace was one Mr Chicken. Little is known about him except that he moved out in the early 1730s.
King George II presented both the house on Downing Street and the house overlooking Horse Guards to Sir Robert Walpole, who held the title First Lord of the Treasury and effectively served as the first Prime Minister. Walpole refused the property as a personal gift. Instead, he asked the king to make it available as an official residence to him and to future First Lords of the Treasury – starting the tradition that continues today. The brass letterbox on the black front door is still engraved with this title.
Walpole took up residence on 22 September 1735, once the townhouse on Downing Street and the house overlooking Horse Guards had been joined together and completely refurbished. Walpole employed architect William Kent – who had already worked on Walpole's Norfolk home, Houghton Hall – to undertake the work.
Kent carried out extensive work on the 2 houses, connecting them on 2 storeys. The main entrance now faced onto Downing Street rather than towards Horse Guards, and the Downing Street building became a passageway to the main house. At the back of the house, where the Walpoles lived, Kent created grand new rooms suitable for receiving important guests, and built an unusual, 3-sided staircase. It is still one of the most impressive features of the building.
Walpole used the ground floor for business, taking the largest room, on the north-west side of the house, as his study. This is now the Cabinet Room. Upstairs on the first floor, the Walpoles lived in the rooms facing onto Horse Guards Parade. Lady Walpole used today's White Drawing Room as her sitting room, and the present day Terracotta Room served as their dining room. The Walpoles were soon entertaining important guests in their smart house, including George II's wife Queen Caroline, politicians, writers and soldiers. Number 10 became – as it continues to be today – a place for politics and entertainment.
Pelham to Pitt
When Walpole left Downing Street in 1742, it was over 20 years before another First Lord of the Treasury moved in. His successors saw the house as a perk of the job, and Prime Ministers Henry Pelham (1743 to 1754) and the Duke of Newcastle (1757 to 1762) preferred to live in their own residences.
In 1763 George Grenville (1763 to 1765) took up residence but was sacked by King George III in 1765 for imposing stamp duty on the American colonies. The next Prime Minister to move into Downing Street was Lord North (1770 to 1782). He was very fond of the house and often entertained there. Visitors included the writer Samuel Johnson and Thomas Hansard, founder of the parliamentary reporting system that is still in use today. One guest, Clive of India, was so popular that furniture was made for him, which is still present today in the first floor anteroom and Terracotta Room.
During one memorable dinner party held by Lord North on 7 June 1780, civil unrest broke out in the street outside when angry Protestants unhappy with North's policy towards Roman Catholics rioted all over London, in what became known as the Gordon Riots. The Grenadier Guards held off a large mob, a situation that might have ended with bloodshed had North not gone outside to warn the protestors of the dangers of being shot, following which the crowd dispersed. North's dinner guests climbed to the top of the house to view the fires burning all over London.
Major improvements were made to the house during North's time, including the addition of many distinctive features: the black and white chequerboard floor in the entrance hall, the lamp above the front door and the famous lion's head door knocker.
Following the loss of the American colonies, North resigned and was followed by the Duke of Portland, who was Prime Minister for only 9 months in 1782.
Fall and rise of Number 10
At the turn of the 19th century, Downing Street had fallen on hard times. Although Number 10 continued to serve as the Prime Minister's office, it was not favoured as a home. Most prime ministers preferred to live in their own townhouses.
But by the 1820s, Downing Street had emerged as the centre of government. Prime Minister Viscount Goderich employed the brilliant, quirky architect Sir John Soane, designer of the Bank of England , to make the house more suitable for its high-profile role. Soane created the wood-panelled State Dining Room and the Small Dining Room for elegant entertaining.
But this wasn't good enough for his successor, Lord Wellington, who only moved in while his own lavish home, Apsley House , was being refurbished. Later leaders such as Lord Melbourne and Viscount Palmerston used Number 10 only as an office and for Cabinet meetings. In 1828, Number 11 became the Chancellor of the Exchequer's official residence, but the surrounding area was becoming seedier, with brothels and gin parlours multiplying. Things became so bad that by 1839 there were plans to demolish Number 10 and the other buildings on the north side of Downing Street to make way for a remodelled Whitehall.
Security also became an issue. In 1842, Edward Drummond, secretary to Prime Minister Robert Peel (1841-1846), was murdered in Whitehall on his way back to his home in Downing Street by an assassin who mistook him for Peel. The prestige of Downing Street was reduced even further by the building of the magnificent new Foreign Office building at the end of the 1860s. George Gilbert Scott's creation, with a huge open court and elaborate state rooms, dwarfed Number 10 opposite. It even had its own Cabinet Room in which the Cabinet sometimes met, rather than at Number 10.
By the time Benjamin Disraeli became Prime Minister, the house was in poor shape. The living quarters had not been used for 30 years and Disraeli described it as “dingy and decaying”. It was time for modernisation.
The late 19th and early 20th century saw 10 Downing Street transformed from a humble terraced house into a grand residence with modern facilities – a home and office fit for the most powerful politician in the country. Disraeli persuaded the state to pay for renovation to the entrance halls and public rooms, though he paid for the refurbishment of the private rooms himself. His own first floor bedroom and dressing room were improved, and a bath with hot and cold water in the First Lord's Dressing Room was installed for the sum of £150.3s.6d.
When William Gladstone moved into the house for the first time in 1880, he insisted on redecorating, spending £1,555.5s.0d – an enormous sum for the time – on furniture. During his occupancy in 1884, electric lighting was fitted and the first telephones were installed.
The Marquess of Salisbury, who succeeded Gladstone on one occasion, was the last Prime Minister not to live at Number 10. Salisbury never liked the Cabinet Room, describing it as a “cramped close room”. Preferring to work in the larger Cabinet Room in the Foreign Office and live in Arlington Street, he offered Number 10 to his nephew, Arthur Balfour, who would later become Prime Minister himself. Balfour was the first inhabitant of Number 10 to bring a motor car to Downing Street.
Over the years, more and more changes and improvements were made to the house. When Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald first entered the house, he wanted Number 10 to regain some of the grandeur it had during the times of Walpole and Pitt. Missing a proper library (or at least, one containing more than just Hansard reports), MacDonald set about creating one. He started the Prime Minister's Library, originally housed in the Cabinet Room. The custom of the Prime Minister and other ministers donating books to the library continues to this day. Central heating was installed in 1937 and work began to convert the labyrinth of rooms in the attic, which had formerly been used by servants, into a flat for the Prime Minister.
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World War One
In 1912, Herbert Henry Asquith found himself at odds with Ulster and the Tory opposition following renewed attempts to introduce Irish Home Rule. This unrest and fierce opposition would continue, and civil war in Ireland was only averted with the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.
The Cabinet Room at Number 10 was the nerve centre of Britain's war effort. Asquith's Cabinet included future Prime Ministers David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, in their posts as Chancellor and First Lord of the Admiralty respectively. Asquith had been forced to take on the additional role of Secretary of State for War following the resignation of the incumbent in March 1914, but quickly appointed Lord Kitchener following the outbreak of war.
On 15 April 1916, Number 10 was the site of a meeting between General Haig, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in France, and the Cabinet to go over the detail of the planned Somme offensive, later known as the Battle of the Somme.
During a Cabinet split on 25 May 1915 (caused by public outcry at allegations the army had been under-supplied with shells and the failed offensive in the Dardanelles, for which Kitchener and Churchill respectively were blamed), Kitchener was stripped of his control over munitions and strategy, and Churchill lost his post as First Lord of the Admiralty. As a result of the split, Asquith formed a coalition government with the opposition Conservatives, whose leader was future Prime Minister, Andrew Bonar Law.
Asquith remained leader of the coalition until his resignation on 5 December 1916. After Andrew Bonar Law refused to form a government, David Lloyd George became leader of the coalition and Prime Minister on 7 December 1916.
Under Prime Minister Lloyd George the number of staff at Number 10 expanded and offices spilled out into the garden to cope with the demands of the administration of the war.
Lloyd George immediately formed his ‘War Cabinet’, whose members included Lord Curzon, Bonar Law and Arthur Henderson. In the first 235 days of its existence, the War Cabinet met 200 times.
This cabinet took total responsibility for the war, and on 3 occasions it sat as the Imperial War Cabinet when prime ministers from the Dominions attended. It provided a vigour previously lacking from the war effort.
Highly able young men were appointed to collect and collate data and to bypass slow moving government departments. These men were nicknamed the ‘Garden Suburb’ because they lived in huts at the end of gardens near to Downing Street. They were not liked by diehard civil servants, who they continually bypassed. However, the men from the Garden Suburb gave Lloyd George the one thing Asquith seemingly never had – up-to-date, meaningful statistics. Their work was invaluable, providing the War Cabinet with data on merchant ships sunk and UK farm production, issues essential to address if the country was not to be starved into defeat.
When armistice was finally declared on 11 November 1918, crowds thronged Downing Street chanting ‘LG’. Lloyd George made an appearance at one of the first floor windows to acknowledge them.
World War Two – Chamberlain
During the 1930s the world's eyes rested on Europe. With rising tensions between Germany and Czechoslovakia, the prime ministers of France and Britain did what they could in an attempt to avoid another war. On 12 September 1938, thousands gathered at Downing Street to listen to Hitler's speech on the final night of the Nuremberg Rally, convinced Britain stood on the brink of war.
As tension mounted further in Europe, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made several attempts to appease the situation, and Number 10 became the focus of international attention. On the morning of 29 September 1938, Chamberlain travelled to Germany for the final time as Prime Minister to hold talks with the French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier, Hitler, and Mussolini.
The Munich Agreement was signed and war – for now – had been averted. Before leaving for England, Chamberlain held a private meeting with Hitler where he obtained his signature on the famous “Peace in our Time” document, which declared that any future disputes between Britain and Germany would be settled peacefully.
Upon Chamberlain's return to Heston Airfield, he was mobbed by large crowds and gave the resounding “Peace in Our Time” speech, waving aloft the document signed by Hitler.
When he returned to Downing Street following a meeting with George VI, the Prime Minister found Downing Street and Number 10 itself packed with people. Chamberlain gave the speech a second time, from a first floor window of Number 10:
My good friends, this is the second time there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Now I recommend you go home, and sleep quietly in your beds.
But over the following 12 months tension did not lift, and on 3 September 1939, Chamberlain broadcast to the nation from the Cabinet Room at Number 10, announcing that the country was now at war with Germany. Chamberlain resigned as Prime Minister on 10 May 1940 and advised King George VI to ask Winston Churchill to form a government.
When Winston Churchill replaced Chamberlain as Prime Minister, he and his wife moved into Downing Street's second-floor flat, where Churchill did much of his work.
He often dictated speeches, memos and letters to his secretary while lying propped up in bed in the morning or late in the evening, cigar in hand.
By October 1940, the intense bombing period known as the Blitz began. On 14 October, a huge bomb fell on Treasury Green near Downing Street, damaging the Number 10 kitchen and state rooms, and killing three Civil Servants doing Home Guard duty. Churchill was dining in the Garden Rooms when the air raid began. As he recalled in his memoir Their Finest Hour (1949):
We were dining in the garden-room of Number 10 when the usual night raid began. The steel shutters had been closed. Several loud explosions occurred around us at no great distance, and presently a bomb fell, perhaps a hundred yards away, on the Horse Guards Parade, making a great deal of noise.
Suddenly I had a providential impulse. The kitchen in Number 10 Downing Street is lofty and spacious, and looks out through a large plate-glass window about 25 feet high. The butler and parlour maid continued to serve the dinner with complete detachment, but I became acutely aware of this big window. I got up abruptly, went into the kitchen, told the butler to put the dinner on the hot plate in the dining-room, and ordered the cook and the other servants into the shelter, such as it was.
I had been seated again at the table only about 3 minutes when a really loud crash, close at hand, and a violent shock showed that the house had been struck. My detective came into the room and said much damage had been done. The kitchen, the pantry and the offices on the Treasury were shattered.
Keeping Downing Street safe became the priority of the Prime Minister and the War Cabinet. Steel reinforcement was added to the Garden Rooms, and heavy metal shutters were fixed over windows as protection from bombing raids. The Garden Rooms included a small dining room, bedroom and a meeting area which were used by Churchill throughout the war. In reality, though, the steel reinforcement would not have protected him against a direct hit.
In October 1939, the Cabinet had moved out of Number 10 and into secret underground war rooms in the basement of the Office of Works opposite the Foreign Office, today's Churchill War Rooms .
Following near misses by bombs, in 1940, Churchill and his wife moved out of Downing Street and into the Number 10 Annex above the war rooms. Furniture and valuables were removed from Number 10 and only the Garden Rooms, Cabinet Room and Private Secretaries' office remained in use.
Churchill disliked living in the Annex and, despite it being almost empty, he continued to use Number 10 for working and eating.
A reinforced shelter was constructed under the house for up to 6 people, for use by those working in the house. Even George VI sought shelter there when he dined with Churchill in the Garden Rooms. Although bombs caused further damage to Number 10, there were no direct hits to the house, allowing Churchill to continue to work and eat there right up until the end of the war.
As soon as war was over, Churchill and his wife moved back to Number 10, where he made his Victory in Europe (VE) Day broadcast, which was delivered from the Cabinet Room at 3pm on 8 May 1945.
Falklands Conflict – Margaret Thatcher
On 19 March 1982, the Argentinian flag was raised by a group of scrap metal merchants on the island of South Georgia, a British overseas territory and dependant of the Falkland Islands. There had been a lengthy dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the sovereignty of the Islands and this action was seen as a precursor to the Argentinian invasion which would follow.
Argentine General Leopoldo Galtieri ordered the invasion of the Falklands to be brought forward to 2 April 1982, pre-empting any reinforcement of the United Kingdom's military presence in the area. Margaret Thatcher responded by sending a naval task force to recapture the islands, which set sail from Portsmouth on 5 April following a meeting of the Cabinet and the granting of a UN Resolution.
The Prime Minister stayed up all night in the Downing Street flat for the entire Falklands conflict. Margaret Thatcher's personal assistant, Cynthia Crawford, who moved into the flat at Number 10 to keep the Prime Minister company during the all-night vigils, recalls the 74 days of the conflict inside Number 10:
She did not once change into her nightclothes in the flat for the duration of the war. We would sit in the flat listening to the BBC World Service for news of the task force. She couldn’t sleep because she wanted to be ready in case anything happened.
She wanted to be able to go to any briefings with the naval commanders at any time without the fuss and bother of having to get dressed. She also wanted to know everything that was happening, every single detail, so she could keep on top of events. She had to know how the soldiers, sailors and airmen were getting on.
She was so worried about them. It was awful when we heard any reports of our ships being hit. Her determination and powers of endurance were unbelievable. Denis was in the room next door. The 2 of us would sit in armchairs either side of a two-bar electric fire, listening to the radio.
Crawford recalls the Prime Minister leaving Downing Street at 8am each morning to attend military briefings for an update of events during the night and to discuss the next part of the campaign:
I would take advantage of that and jump into bed at the flat so I could get some sleep. I'd tell the Downing Street switchboard to wake me when she was on her way back so I could be ready for work. We don't all have her energy.
The conflict ended with Argentinian surrender on 14 June 1982. Margaret Thatcher looked back on this period:
When I became Prime Minister I never thought that I would have to order British troops into combat and I do not think I have ever lived so tensely or intensely as during the whole of that time.
Margaret Thatcher – The Downing Street Years.
Restoration and modernisation
By the 1950s, the material state of 10 Downing Street had reached crisis point. Bomb damage had worsened existing structural problems: the building was suffering from subsidence, sloping walls, twisting door frames and an enormous annual repair bill.
The Ministry of Works carried out a survey in 1954 into the state of the structure. The report bounced from Winston Churchill (1951 to 1955) to Anthony Eden (1955 to 1957) to Harold Macmillan (1957 to 1963) as one Prime Minister followed the other. Finally, a committee set up by Macmillan concluded that drastic action was required before the building fell or burnt down.
The committee put forward a range of options, including the complete demolition of Number 10, 11 and 12 and their replacement with a new building. That idea was rejected and it was decided that Number 12 should be rebuilt, and Numbers 10 and 11 should be strengthened and their historic features preserved.
The architect Raymond Erith was selected to supervise the work, which was expected to take 2 years and cost £500,000. It ended up taking a year longer than planned and costing double the original estimate. The foundations proved to be so rotten that concrete underpinning was required on a massive scale.
Number 10 was completely gutted. Walls, floors and even the columns in the Cabinet Room and Pillared Room proved to be rotten and had to be replaced. New features were added too, including a room facing onto Downing Street and a veranda at Number 11 for the Chancellor.
It was also discovered that the familiar exterior façade was not black at all, but yellow. The blackened colour was a product of two centuries of severe pollution. To keep the familiar appearance, the newly cleaned yellow bricks were painted black to match their previous colour. Erith's work was completed in 1963, but not long afterwards, dry rot became apparent and further repairs had to be undertaken.
Margaret Thatcher (1979 to 1990) appointed architect Quinlan Terry to refurbish the state drawing rooms at the end of the 1980s. Two of the rooms, the White Drawing Room and Terracotta Room, gained ornate plasterwork ceilings. In the White Drawing Room, this included adding the national emblems of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
All the building work of the past few decades could have been ruined when a terrorist bomb exploded in 1991. An IRA mortar bomb was fired from a white transit van in Whitehall and exploded in the garden of Number 10, only a few metres away from where Prime Minister John Major (1990 to 1997) was chairing a Cabinet meeting to discuss the Gulf War.
Although no one was killed, it left a crater in the Number 10 gardens and blew in the windows of neighbouring houses. John Major and some of his staff moved into Admiralty Arch while damage caused by the bomb was repaired.
By 2006, it was clear that the Downing Street complex was no longer able to support the business of the Prime Minister's Office reliably. Independent surveys established that the building was no longer weather-tight, the heating system was failing, and the information and communications technology (ICT) network was at the limits of its operation. Power outages and water leaks were frequent occurrences and impacted significantly on the day-to-day operation of the Prime Minister's Office.
In addition to deterioration through age, pressures on the buildings had increased dramatically over recent years, through an increase in occupancy (stable at around 50 for many years) to around 170. In 2006, Prime Minister Tony Blair (1997 to 2007) authorised a new programme of improvements, with the building remaining operational throughout. Work was launched to address structural failure, renew the infrastructure, improve access and enhance the building's sustainability.
Structural issues were among the first to be tackled, and a phased exterior repair project was launched to address failing lead guttering, cracking brickwork and other structural issues. The distinctive black colourwash was also renewed, as it had faded away in many areas to reveal the yellow brickwork beneath. During the course of the works it was discovered that the façade of 11 Downing Street was unstable, and had to be secured using 225 stainless steel pins. All work was carried out in consultation with English Heritage .
Other projects have been undertaken to renew the building's ageing infrastructure and to replace many of the building's key services, including heating, fire protection and electrical power distribution. Sustainability is a key feature of the programme and a 10% reduction in carbon emissions was achieved during 2011. Rainwater harvesting was introduced in 2009, providing a sustainable source of water for the garden. Accessibility for disabled visitors has been significantly improved through the introduction of ramps and modernisation of lifts. Many of the public areas of the building have also been restored, including the front entrance hall, the state and small dining rooms and the study.
An ongoing programme is in place to upgrade facilities to modern standards, and to ensure the preservation of this historic building for years to come.
A place of entertainment
Every week, Number 10 is the venue for official functions including meetings, receptions, lunches and dinners.
It is not only heads of state and official dignitaries who visit – functions are held for people from all areas of UK society, including notable achievers, public service employees and charity workers.
Receptions tend to be informal gatherings. Lunches and dinners are more formal events. The Small Dining Room will sit a maximum of 12, and the State Dining Room up to 65 around a large, U-shaped table. The dining table is laid with items from the state silver collection: a range of modern silverware pieces commissioned by the Silver Trust to promote modern British craftsmanship.
Installations at Number 10 timeline
Since 10 Downing Street became the official residence of the premier, the building has performed the dual role of both residence and place of work for Britain's Prime Ministers.
Number 10 has been upgraded – including new technology – throughout its history, to ensure both an acceptable standard of living for its residents and to keep the Prime Minister at the heart of decision making within government. Often, the prompt for new technology or an upgrade was the arrival of a new Prime Minister.
Here are some of the more notable developments across 3 centuries of history, from the arrival of hot running water to the first tweet:
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1877 – hot and cold running water installed. The living quarters were renovated for Benjamin Disraeli – including a bath.
1894 – installation of electric lighting and first telephones. Following Disraeli's departure William Gladstone redecorated the building and oversaw the installations.
1902 – first motor-car driven onto Downing Street. Arthur Balfour brought the first car and since then, Prime Ministers have looked to select British marques for their official car, with a procession of Wolseleys, Humbers, Rovers, Daimlers and Jaguars sweeping successive Prime Ministers into – and out of – Downing Street.
1937 – first central heating.
1963 – electrical and telephone systems were replaced. 1963 was a major period of renovation for the building.
1982 – the first direct hotline between No10 and Washington was established during Margaret Thatcher's first term of office.
1982 – first ‘micro-computer’ and microfilm reader installed.
1983 – wider roll-out of computers machines for Number 10 staff following a review of the building's needs.
1990s – first video conference. John Major used the technology from his study.
1996 – desktop PCs installed at all workstations.
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Margaret Thatcher, in full Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, née Margaret Hilda Roberts (born October 13, 1925, Grantham , Lincolnshire , England —died April 8, 2013, London ), British Conservative Party politician and prime minister (1979–90), Europe’s first woman prime minister. The only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms and, at the time of her resignation, Britain’s longest continuously serving prime minister since 1827, she accelerated the evolution of the British economy from statism to liberalism and became, by personality as much as achievement, the most renowned British political leader since Winston Churchill .
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Early years
The daughter of Alfred Roberts, a grocer and local alderman (and later mayor of Grantham), and Beatrice Ethel Stephenson, Thatcher formed an early desire to be a politician. Her intellectual ability led her to the University of Oxford , where she studied chemistry and was immediately active in politics, becoming one of the first woman presidents of the Oxford University Conservative Association. After graduating in 1947 she worked for four years as a research chemist, reading for the bar in her spare time. From 1954 she practiced as a barrister , specializing in tax law. In 1951 she married a wealthy industrialist, Denis Thatcher (b. 1915—d. 2003), who supported her political ambition. The couple had twins, a son and a daughter, in 1953.
Thatcher first ran for Parliament in 1950 but was unsuccessful, despite increasing the local Conservative vote by 50 percent. In 1959 she entered the House of Commons , winning the “safe” Conservative seat of Finchley in northern London. She rose steadily within the party, serving as a parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (1961–64), as chief opposition spokesman on education (1969–70), and as secretary of state for education and science (1970–74) in the Conservative government of Edward Heath . While a member of the Heath cabinet (Thatcher was only the second woman to hold a cabinet portfolio in a Conservative government), she eliminated a program that provided free milk to schoolchildren, provoking a storm of controversy and prompting opponents in the Labour Party to taunt her with cries of “Thatcher the milk snatcher.” She also created more comprehensive schools—introduced by the Labour Party in the 1960s to make rigorous academic education available to working-class children—than any other education minister in history, though they were undermined during her tenure as prime minister. After Heath lost two successive elections in 1974, Thatcher, though low in the party hierarchy , was the only minister prepared to challenge him for the party leadership. With the backing of the Conservative right wing, she was elected leader in February 1975 and thus began a 15-year ascendancy that would change the face of Britain.
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Thatcher led the Conservatives to a decisive electoral victory in 1979 following a series of major strikes during the previous winter (the so-called “Winter of Discontent”) under the Labour Party government of James Callaghan . As a prime minister representing the newly energetic right wing of the Conservative Party (the “Dries,” as they later called themselves, as opposed to the old-style moderate Tories, or “Wets”), Thatcher advocated greater independence of the individual from the state; an end to allegedly excessive government interference in the economy, including privatization of state-owned enterprises and the sale of public housing to tenants; reductions in expenditures on social services such as health care, education, and housing; limitations on the printing of money in accord with the economic doctrine of monetarism ; and legal restrictions on trade unions. The term Thatcherism came to refer not just to these policies but also to certain aspects of her ethical outlook and personal style, including moral absolutism, fierce nationalism , a zealous regard for the interests of the individual, and a combative, uncompromising approach to achieving political goals.
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The main impact of her first term was economic. Inheriting a weak economy, she reduced or eliminated some governmental regulations and subsidies to businesses, thereby purging the manufacturing industry of many inefficient—but also some blameless—firms. The result was a dramatic increase in unemployment, from 1.3 million in 1979 to more than double that figure two years later. At the same time, inflation doubled in just 14 months, to more than 20 percent, and manufacturing output fell sharply. Although inflation decreased and output rose before the end of her first term, unemployment continued to increase, reaching more than three million in 1986.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the Tory Party conference in Blackpool, England, 1981.
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Thatcher embarked on an ambitious program of privatization of state-owned industries and public services, including aerospace, television and radio, gas and electricity, water, the state airline, and British Steel. By the end of the 1980s, the number of individual stockholders had tripled, and the government had sold 1.5 million publicly owned housing units to their tenants.
Nonetheless, rising unemployment and social tensions during her first term made her deeply unpopular. Her unpopularity would have ensured her defeat in the general election of 1983 were it not for two factors: the Falkland Islands War (1982) between Britain and Argentina, over possession of a remote British dependency in the South Atlantic, and the deep divisions within the Labour Party, which contested the election on a radical manifesto that critics dubbed the “longest suicide note in history.” Thatcher won election to a second term in a landslide—the biggest victory since Labour’s great success in 1945—gaining a parliamentary majority of 144 with just over 42 percent of the vote.
Thatcher entered office promising to curb the power of the unions, which had shown their ability to bring the country to a standstill during six weeks of strikes in the winter of 1978–79. Her government enacted a series of measures designed to undermine the unions’ ability to organize and stage strikes, including laws that banned the closed shop, required unions to poll their members before ordering a strike, forbade sympathy strikes, and rendered unions responsible for damages caused by their members. In 1984 the National Union of Mineworkers began a nationwide strike to prevent the closing of 20 coal mines that the government claimed were unproductive. The walkout, which lasted nearly a year, soon became emblematic of the struggle for power between the Conservative government and the trade union movement. Thatcher steadfastly refused to meet the union’s demands, and in the end she won; the miners returned to work without winning a single concession .
A terrorist bombing at a Conservative Party conference in Brighton in 1984, the work of the Irish Republican Army , nearly killed Thatcher and several senior members of her government. After battling Ken Livingstone’s Labour-led London government, Thatcher abolished the Greater London Council in 1986. By the end of Thatcher’s second term, few aspects of British life had escaped the most sweeping transformation of Britain since the postwar reforms of the Labour Party.
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In foreign affairs, the Falklands War illuminated her most significant international relationship, with Ronald Reagan , president of the United States (1981–89). Thatcher and Reagan, who together made the 1980s the decade of conservatism , shared a vision of the world in which the Soviet Union was an evil enemy deserving of no compromise, and their partnership ensured that the Cold War continued in all its frigidity until the rise to power of the reform-minded Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985. In keeping with her strong anticommunism—a 1976 speech condemning communism earned her the nickname “Iron Lady” in the Soviet press—Thatcher strongly supported the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent, a stance that proved popular with the electorate, given the Labour Party’s repudiation of Britain’s traditional nuclear and defense policies. In Africa, Thatcher presided over the orderly establishment of an independent Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) in 1980 after 15 years of illegal separation from British colonial rule under a white minority. However, she encountered considerable criticism both at home and abroad for her opposition to international sanctions against the apartheid regime of South Africa .
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher at the White House, Washington, D.C., July 17, 1987.
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The second half of Thatcher’s tenure was marked by an inextinguishable controversy over Britain’s relationship with the European Community (EC). In 1984 she succeeded, amid fierce opposition, in drastically reducing Britain’s contribution to the EC budget. After her third electoral victory in 1987, she adopted a steadily more hostile attitude toward European integration . She resisted “federalist” continental trends toward both a single currency and a deeper political union. Her traditionally pro-European party became divided, and a string of senior ministers left the Cabinet over the issue.
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The implementation of a poll tax in 1989 produced outbreaks of street violence and alarmed the Conservative rank-and-file, who feared that Thatcher could not lead the party to a fourth consecutive term. Spurred by public disapproval of the poll tax and Thatcher’s increasingly strident tone, Conservative members of Parliament moved against her in November 1990. Although she defeated her most senior opponent, former defense minister Michael Heseltine, by 204 votes to Heseltine’s 152, her total fell four votes short of the necessary majority plus 15 percent, and she decided not to contest the election in a second ballot. On November 22 she announced her resignation as Conservative Party leader and prime minister, paving the way for her replacement by John Major six days later.
Later years
In retirement, Margaret Thatcher remained a political force. She continued to influence internal Conservative Party politics (often to the dismay of Major), and Thatcherism shaped the priorities of the Labour Party, which she had kept out of office for more than a decade. She remained a member of Parliament until the 1992 election and was subsequently elevated, as a peeress for life, to the House of Lords . She continued to speak and lecture, notably in the United States and Asia, and established the Thatcher Foundation to support free enterprise and democracy , particularly in the newly liberated countries of central and eastern Europe. In 1995 she became a member of the Order of the Garter .
Following a series of minor strokes, she retired from public speaking in 2002. Thatcher’s daughter, Carol, revealed in her 2008 memoir A Swim-On Part in the Goldfish Bowl that her mother had been showing symptoms of progressive dementia since 2000.
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Only one U.S. state has one syllable — Maine. It's also the only state to border only one other state — New Hampshire. No one is really sure where Maine's name came from. Some surmise that it was named after an ancient French province — the Province of Maine; others believe it was a derivation of the world "mainland." The word "Maine" was first officially used in 1665 in a request by the King's Commissioners that "The Province of Maine" be used in official documents.
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Only five countries in the world have one syllable: Chad, France, Spain, Greece, Laos, though Wales might make six depending on how you pronounce it (Way-als).
The most syllables in a state's name is five. Three states share this trait: Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Three states have only four letters in their name: Ohio, Iowa and Utah.
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Simple, elegant and easy, one-syllable baby names are a great choice. If you are searching for the perfect one-syllable name for your baby, then this is for you.
Every new parent and parent-to-be wants to find just the right name for their child. It has to match up with your last name and work with the right middle name. And, if you have a naming tradition in your family, it has to fit in with that too. If your perfect name comes in the form of a one-syllable name, then these lists are for you.
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1330 – Born on June 15th in Woodstock, England. Edward, Prince of Wales, known as "The Black Prince", the eldest son of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainaut.
1333 – He was made Earl of Chester.
1337 – Was made Duke of Cornwall, being the first duke ever created in England.
1338 – Was the nominal warden of England during his father’s absences abroad.
1343 – He was created Prince of Wales.
1346 – His real career begins, however, with Edward III’s Norman campaign.
1349-1350 – He was one of the original Knights of the Garter, and participated in his father’s chivalrous adventures at Calais and in the battle of Winchelsea.
1355 – He was sent to Gascony at the head of an English army, having been appointed his father’s lieutenant.
1361 – In October, Edward married his cousin Joan, Countess of Kent, the daughter and heiress of Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent.
1376 – His last public act was to inspire the attack on Lancaster’s influence made by the Good Parliament.
– Died on June 8th in Westminster, England.
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The title of Prince of Wales was instituted in 1307 by King Edward I, when he invested his eldest son, Edward, as the first English Prince of Wales, at Lincoln. The traditional ostrich feather badge and the motto 'Ich dien' ( I serve) were adopted by Edward, the Black Prince after the battle of Crecy, they were previously believed to have belonged to the blind King John of Bohemia, who died in the battle.
(1) EDWARD OF CAERNARFON
The first English Prince of Wales was born at Caernarfon on 25 April, 1284, the fourth and eldest surviving son of Edward I and Eleanor of Castille. On the completion of his father's conquest of the province, he was created Prince of Wales on 7 February, 1301, at the age of 16, at a parliament at Lincoln. Edward was married to Isabella 'the She-Wolf of France' daughter of Philip IV of France and Joan I of Navarre and had issue, which included the future Edward III.
He reigned as Edward II from 1307-1327. He was deposed by a rebellion lead by his wife and Roger Mortimer, Earl of March and forced to abdicate in favour of his son. Edward II was murdered in a bestial manner at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire. He was buried at Gloucester Cathedral.
(2) EDWARD OF WOODSTOCK, THE BLACK PRINCE
Edward of Woodstock, later known as the Black Prince for the colour of his armour, was born on 15 June, 1330, the eldest son of Edward III and Phillipa of Hainault. He was created Prince of Wales on 12 May, 1343, aged 12, at Westminster and was also Earl of Chester and Duke of Cornwall, making him the first English Duke. At fourteen he was amongst the first of the knights of the Order of the Garter, which was founded by his father.
He participated in the Hundred Years War with France and famously won his spurs at the Battle of Crecy, adopting as his personal emblem the Ostrich feather badge of the blind King John of Bohemia, who was killed in the battle. He also fought at the battle of Battle of Poiters. Edward married his cousin, Joan, Countess of Kent, known as 'the Fair Maid of Kent', daughter of Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Kent, the marriage was said to be a love match and produced two sons, Edward of Angouleme, who died yound and the future King Richard II. The Black Prince was never to reign as King, he predeceased his father, dying on 8 June, 1376. He was buried in Canterbury Cathedral, near to the shrine of St. Thomas A' Beckett.
(3) RICHARD OF BORDEAUX
The second and eldest surviving son of Edward, the Black Prince and Joan, Countess of Kent, Richard was born on 6 January,1367 at Bordeaux. After the death of his famous father, he was created Prince of Wales on 20 November, 1376, aged nine, at Havering.
He succeeded his grandfather, Edward III, as King Richard II in 1377. Richard married twice, firstly to Anne of Bohemia in 1383 and secondly to Isabelle of Valois in 1396, neither marriage produced issue. A volatile and brooding character, Richard proved an unpopular King and was forced to abdicate in favour of his cousin, Henry of Bolingbroke. He was either murdered or starved to death at Pontefract Castle in 1400, he was known to be certainly dead by 17 February of that year.
(4) HENRY OF MONMOUTH
The future Henry V was born in August or September, 1386-7 at Monmouth, the eldest son of Henry, Earl of Derby (the future Henry IV) and Mary de Bohun. On his father's accession to the throne he was created Duke of Lancaster and Prince of Wales on 15 October, 1399, aged 12, at Westminster.
He succeeded his father in 1413. Due to his conquest of France he was to become one of the most famous of the Plantagenet Kings and an English national hero. Henry married Catherine of Valois, the daughter of Charles VI, King of France and Isabeau of Bavaria the marriage produced one child, the future Henry VI. Henry V died of dysentery at Bois de Vincennes whilst on campaign in France on 31 August, 1422. His body was returned to England where it was buried at Westminster Abbey.
(5) EDWARD OF WESTMINSTER
The fifth Prince of Wales, Edward, the only offspring of the marriage of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou, was born on 13 October,1453, at Westminster. He was created Prince of Wales on 15 March, 1454, aged 5 months at Windsor.
After his father was deposed by the Yorkists, Edward shared his mother's French exile. In December 1470 he was married to Anne Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, later known to history as Warwick 'the Kingmaker', the marriage produced no issue. Whilst parcipitating in a campaign to restore his father to the throne, Edward was killed either during or after the Battle of Tewksbury at the age of seventeen on 4 May, 1471,�there are several versions concerning how Edward, met his end, one states he was cut down as he fled north in the aftermath of the battle another states that following the rout of the Lancastrians at Tewkesbury, a small contingent of men under the Duke of Clarence found Edward near a grove, where he was immediately beheaded on a makeshift block, despite pleas for mercy to his brother-in-law Clarence.
An alternative version was given by three other sources: The Great Chronicle of London, Polydore Vergil and Edward Hall, which was the version used by Shakespeare. This records, that Edward, having survived the battle and was taken captive and brought before Edward IV who was with George, Duke of Clarence; Richard, Duke of Gloucester; and William, Lord Hastings. The king received the prince graciously, and asked why he had taken up arms against him. The prince replied defiantly, "I came to recover my father's heritage." The king then struck the prince across his face with his gauntlet hand and those present with the king then suddenly stabbed Prince Edward with their swords.He was buried at Tewksbury Abbey in Gloucestershire.
(6) EDWARD OF SANCTUARY
The eldest son of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, Edward was born in sanctuary at Westminster Abbey, on 4 November, 1470 during the brief restoration of Henry VI. He was created Prince of Wales on 26 June, 1471, aged 7 months, at Westminster.
He succeeded his father as Edward V on 9 April, 1483. His throne was usurped by his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Edward and his younger brother, Richard, Duke of York, known as 'the Princes in the Tower' were imprisoned in the Tower of London and believed to have been murdered there. Bones which were discovered at the Tower in 1674 and assumed to be those of Edward V and his brother were re-interred at Westminster Abbey by order of Charles II.
(7) EDWARD OF MIDDLEHAM
Edward of Middleham was the only son of Richard III and his wife Anne Neville, previously the wife of the Lancastrian Prince of Wales (5). He was born around 1473 at Middleham Castle in Yorkshire and created Earl of Salisbury in 1478 and Prince of Wales amongst great celebration on 24 August, 1483 aged 10, at York Minster.
Known to be a delicate child, Edward died on 9 April, 1484, at about ten years old, possibly of tuberculosis and was buried at Sherrif Hutton Church in Yorkshire.
(8) ARTHUR TUDOR
Arthur Tudor the first Tudor Prince of Wales was born on 20 September, 1486 at Winchester, the son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York , daughter of Edward IV. He was created Prince of Wales at the age of 3 on 29 November, 1489 and invested with the title on 27 February, 1490 at Westminster.
As part of a political alliance, Arthur was married to the Spanish Princess, Katherine of Aragon, daughter of the joint sovereigns Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille, in November, 1501 at St. Paul's Cathedral. He died at the age of sixteen, during an epidemic of sweating sickness at Ludlow Castle, in the Welsh Marches on 20 April, 1502. He was buried at Worcester Cathedral.
(9) HENRY TUDOR
The future Henry VIII was born on 28 June, 1491 at Greenwich, the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. He was created Duke of York in 1494 and after the death of his elder brother Arthur, Prince of Wales, was created Prince of Wales on 18 February, 1504, aged 12.
He succeeded to the throne in as Henry VIII 1509 and famously married 6 times. (1) Katherine of Aragon (2) Anne Boleyn (3) Jane Seymour (4) Anne of Cleves (5) Katherine Howard (6) Katherine Parr. Henry had issue from his first three marriages and all three of his children were to reign after him. He died on 28 January, 1547 at the Palace of Whitehall. He was buried at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and shares his tomb with his third wife, Jane Seymour.
(10) HENRY FREDERICK STUART
The first Stuart Prince of Wales was born on 19 February,1594, at Stirling Castle, Scotland, he was the eldest son of James VI of Scotland (later I of England) and Anne of Denmark and was named Henry Frederick after both his grandfathers. He became Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick and Lord of the Isles from birth. On the accession of his father to the throne of England he was further made Duke of Cornwall in 1603.
He was created Prince of Wales on 4 June, 1610, aged 16, at Westminster. Although a promising young man, Henry was never to reign as King, he predeceased his father, dying of typhoid on 6 November, 1612 at the age of eighteen. He was buried at Westminster Abbey
(11) CHARLES STUART
Charles, the second Stuart Prince of Wales, was born on 19 November, 1600 at Dunfermline Palace, Fife, the second son of James I and VI and Anne of Denmark. Charles was a delicate and sickly child who experienced difficulties walking and talking. He was made Duke of Albany in 1603 and Duke of York in 1605.
On the death of his elder brother Henry, he was created Prince of Wales in his place on 4 November, 1616, at 15 years old, at Whitehall. He succeeded his father as Charles I in 1625. On 13 June 1625, he married Henrietta Maria of France, the youngest daughter of King Henry IV of France (Henry III of Navarre) and his second wife, Marie de' Medici.
Civil War broke out with parliament and Charles was tried and executed on the order of Oliver Cromwell, on 30 January, 1649, at Whitehall and buried in the tomb of a past Prince of Wales, Henry VIII, at St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
(12) CHARLES STUART
The future Charles II was born on 29 May, 1630 at St. James' Palace, the eldest surviving son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria of France. He was Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay from birth and was created Prince of Wales around 1638-41 in London, aged 8-11. Due to the upheavals of the Civil War he was never formally invested with the title. On the death of his father in 1649 Charles was already in exile.
Charles was restored to the throne in 1660 and married in 1662 the Portuguese Princess Catherine of Braganza, daughter of John II, Duke of Braganza and his wife, Luisa de Guzm�n. King Charles II left no legitimate issue. He died of uremia on 6 February, 1685 and was buried at Westminster Abbey.
(13) JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART
James Francis Edward Stuart was born on 10 January, 1688 at St. James' Palace, London, the only surviving son of James II and his Italian second wife, Mary Beatrice of Modena. He was created Prince of Wales on 4 July,1688, at St. James' Palace and went into French exile with his parents on his father's vacating the throne after a rebellion lead by William of Orange.
On the death of his father he was declared ' James III ' and recognised as such by Louis XIV of France. He married a Polish Princess, Maria Clementina Sobieski (1667-1737) daughter of James Louis Sobieski , the eldest son of King John III, and Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg on 3 Sept, 1719, by whom he had issue, Charles Edward Stuart, otherwise known as 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' and Henry Benedict Stuart, Cardinal York. Three failed Jacobite uprisings were led in his name, in 1715, 1719 and 1745, James died in Rome on 1 January, 1766 and was buried within St.Peter's Basilica, the Vatican.
(14) GEORGE AUGUSTUS OF HANOVER
The first of the Hanoverian Princes of Wales was born at Schloss Herrenhausen, Hanover on 10 November, 1683, the only son of George Ludwig, Prince of Brunswick-Luneberg (later George I ) and his first cousin, Sophia Dorothea of Celle. George's parents divorced in 1694. He was created Duke of Cambridge in 1706 and Prince of Wales on 27 September, 1714, aged 30, after the accession of his father to the English throne.
He was married in 1705 to the German Princess Caroline of Anspach, daughter of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach by whom he had issue, including Frederick, Prince of Wales(15). George succeeded his father as George II in 1727 and died of an aortic dissection on 25 October, 1760. He was buried at Westminster Abbey.
(15) FREDERICK LEWIS OF HANOVER
Frederick Lewis was born in Hanover on 1 February, 1707, the eldest son of George, Prince of Brunswick-Luneberg ( later George II ) and Caroline of Brandenburg-Anspach. He was created Duke of Edinburgh by his grandfather, George I, in 1726 and Prince of Wales on 8 January, 1729 at London, at the age of 21.
Frederick married the Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, the daughter of Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1676-1732) and Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst (1676-1740), by whom he had issue, including the future George III. Frederick never succeeded to the throne, having predeceased his father. He died at Leicester House in London of a burst abscess in the lung, on 31 March, 1751 and was buried at Westminster Abbey.
(16) GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK OF HANOVER
The future George III was born prematurely on 4 June,1738 at Norfolk House, London, the eldest son of Frederick, Prince of Wales (15) and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. He was created Prince of Wales after the death of his father by his grandfather, George II, on 20 April, 1751, aged 12 years.
George succeeded his grandfather in 1760 and was married in 1761 to Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz, daughter of Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Prince of Mirow and his wife Princess Elizabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen, by whom he had issue, including Kings George IV and William IV. Afte one of the longest reigns in British history, George died of porphyria at Windsor Castle on 29 January, 1820 and was buried at Windsor.
(17) GEORGE FREDERICK AUGUSTUS OF HANOVER
The last Hanoverian Prince of Wales was born at St. James' Palace, London on 12 August, 1762, the eldest son of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He was Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay from birth. He was created Prince of Wales on19 August,1762 aged 1 week.
He became Regent in 1811 and King George IV in 1820. George was married twice, firstly and in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act, to Maria Fitzherbert and secondly to his first cousin, Caroline of Brunswick, the daughter of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenb�ttel and Princess Augusta of Great Britain, by whom he had one child, Princess Charlotte of Wales. Princess Charlotte died in childbirth before her father. George died of a ruptured blood vessel in the stomach on 26 June, 1830 and was buried at Windsor.
(18) ALBERT EDWARD OF SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA
Prince Albert Edward was born on 9 November, 1841 at Buckingham Palace, the eldest son of Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. He was created Prince of Wales on 8 December, 1841 at 4 weeks old.
Albert Edward married Alexandra of Denmark daughter of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gl�cksburg and Louise of Hesse-Kassel on 10 March, 1863, the marriage produced six children, including the future King George V. His eldest son, Albert Victor Christian Edward died of pneumonia before his father.
He succeeded his mother in 1901 as Edward VII and became a popular King. Edward died at Buckingham Palace of bronchitis and a series of heart attacks on 6 May, 1910. He was buried at Windsor Castle.
(19) GEORGE FREDERICK ERNEST ALBERT WINDSOR
The first Prince of Wales of the Windsor dynasty was born Prince George of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha on 3 June,1865 at Marlborough House, London, the second son of Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark. He was created Duke of York by his grandmother, Queen Victoria in 1892 and Prince of Wales by his father on 9 November, 1901 at the age of 36.
George married his second cousin once removed, Victoria Mary of Teck, the daughter of Francis, Duke of Teck and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, by whom he had issue, including Edward VIII and George VI. He succeeded to the throne in 1910 as George V . He died at Sandringham, Norfolk of a bronchial illness on 20 January, 1936 and was buried at Windsor.
(20) EDWARD ALBERT CHRISTIAN GEORGE ANDREW PATRICK DAVID WINDSOR
David, Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, as he was then called, was born at White Lodge, Richmond, Surrey on 23 June, 1894, the eldest son of George, then Duke of York (later George V ) and Mary of Teck. He was created Prince of Wales on 23 June, 1910, aged 16 and invested with the title at Caernarfon Castle on 13 July, 1911. He was a popular Prince of Wales and made a number of successful tours of the Empire.
He succeeded to the throne as Edward VIII on 20 January, 1936 and abdicated on 10th/11th December, 1936 to marry the American divorcee, Wallis Warfield-Simpson. After his abdication he became the Duke of Windsor and thereafter spent his life in exile. There was no issue from his marriage to Mrs. Simpson, which took place in 1937, in France. He died of throat cancer in Paris on 28 May, 1972 and was buried at Frogmore, Windsor.
(21) CHARLES PHILLIP ARTHUR GEORGE MOUNTBATTEN -WINDSOR
Prince Charles was born at Buckingham Palace on 14 November, 1948 the eldest son of the then Princess Elizabeth and Phillip Mountbatten. He was created Prince of Wales on 26 July, 1958 aged 9 and invested with the title at Caernarfon Castle on 1st July, 1969.
He has been married twice. firstly to Lady Diana Spencer in 1981, by whom he had issue and secondly to divorcee Mrs. Camilla Parker-Bowles , who is known as the Duchess of Cornwall, in 2005.
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noun
1.
(in mountaineering) the act or method of moving down a steep incline or past an overhang by means of a double rope secured above and placed around the body, usually under the left thigh and over the right shoulder, and paid out gradually in the descent.
verb (used without object), rappelled, rappelling.
2.
to descend by means of a rappel.
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Climbing Ropes: How to Choose
If you’re shopping for a climbing rope, there are four main considerations:
Rope type: The choice between single, half, twin and static ropes depends on what type of climbing you do.
Diameter and length: The diameter and length of a rope affect the rope’s weight and durability and largely determine its best use.
Rope features: Features like dry treatments and middle marks affect how you use the rope.
Safety ratings: Looking at these ratings while thinking about what type of climbing you will be doing can help you choose a rope.
Remember: Climbing safety is your responsibility. Expert instruction is absolutely essential if you're new to climbing.
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Types of Climbing Ropes
There are two main types of ropes: dynamic and static. Dynamic ropes are designed to stretch to absorb the impact of a falling climber. Static ropes stretch very little, making them very efficient in situations like lowering an injured climber, ascending a rope, or hauling a load up. Never use static ropes for top roping or lead climbing as they are not designed, tested or certified for those types of loads.
If you are looking for a dynamic rope for climbing, you’ll have three choices: single, half, and twin ropes.
Single Ropes
These are best for trad climbing, sport climbing, big-wall climbing and top roping.
The vast majority of climbers buy single ropes. The name “single” indicates that the rope is designed to be used by itself and not with another rope as some other rope types are.
Single ropes come in many different diameters and lengths, making them suitable for a wide range of climbing disciplines, and they’re generally easier to handle than two-rope systems.
Some single ropes are also rated as half and twin ropes, allowing you to use them with any one of the three climbing techniques.
Single ropes are marked with a circled 1 on each end of the rope.
Half Ropes
These are best for trad climbing on wandering multi-pitch rock routes, mountaineering and ice climbing.
When climbing with half ropes, you use two ropes and clip them alternately to protection. This technique is effective at limiting rope drag on wandering routes, but it takes some getting used to.
Half ropes have a couple advantages and disadvantages compared to single ropes:
Advantages
Half-rope technique reduces rope drag on wandering routes.
Tying the two ropes together when rappelling allows you to go twice as far as you can with a single rope.
Two ropes give you the peace of mind that if one is damaged during a fall or cut by rockfall you still have one good rope.
Disadvantages
Half ropes require more skill and effort to manage compared to a single rope due to the fact that you’re climbing and belaying with two ropes.
The combined weight of two ropes is heavier than a single rope. (However, you can share the load with your climbing partner by each carrying one rope.)
Half ropes are designed and tested only for use as a matching pair; don’t mix sizes or brands.
Some half ropes are also rated as twin ropes, allowing you to use them with either technique. There are also some triple-rated ropes that can be used as half, twin and single ropes for maximum versatility.
Half ropes have a circled ½ symbol on each end.
Twin Ropes
These are best for trad climbing on non-wandering multi-pitch rock routes, mountaineering and ice climbing.
Similar to half ropes, twin ropes are a two-rope system. However, with twin ropes, you ALWAYS clip both strands through each piece of protection, just like you would with a single rope. This means there will be more rope drag than with half ropes, making twin ropes a good option for non-wandering routes. On the plus side, twin ropes tend to be a bit thinner than half ropes, making for a lighter and less bulky system.
Twin ropes share many of the advantages and disadvantages that half ropes have compared to single ropes:
Advantages
Tying the two ropes together when rappelling allows you to go twice as far as you can with a single rope.
Two ropes give you the peace of mind that if one is damaged during a fall or cut by rockfall you still have one good rope.
Disadvangates
Twin ropes require more skill and effort to manage compared to a single rope due to the fact that you’re climbing and belaying with two ropes.
The combined weight of two ropes is heavier than a single rope. (However, you can share the load with your climbing partner by each carrying one rope.)
Just as with half ropes, twin ropes are designed and tested only for use as a matching pair; don’t mix sizes or brands. Some twin ropes are also rated as half ropes, allowing you to use them with either technique. There are also some triple-rated ropes that can be used as twin, half and single ropes for maximum versatility. Twin ropes have a circled infinity symbol (∞) on each end.
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Static Ropes
These are best for rescue work, caving, climbing fixed lines with ascenders and hauling loads. Static ropes excel in situations where you don't want the rope to stretch, such as when you are lowering an injured climber, ascending a rope, or hauling a load up with the rope. Never use a static rope for top roping or lead climbing as they are not designed, tested or certified for those types of loads.
Climbing Rope Diameter and Length
Climbing Rope Diameter
Generally speaking, a skinnier rope is lighter. However, skinnier ropes can be less durable and require more skill to safely belay with. Thicker-diameter ropes can be more abrasion-resistant and often stand up better to frequent use. If you’re top roping at the local crag, you’ll probably want a thicker rope. If you’re hiking long distances for multi-pitch climbs, you’ll want a skinnier, lighter rope.
Single ropes up to 9.4mm: Ropes in this range are very lightweight, making them ideal for long multi-pitch climbs where weight is important. However, skinny single ropes are not rated to hold as many falls as thicker ropes, they are harder to handle and they tend to be less durable.
If you plan to do lots of top-roping or take repeated falls while figuring out the moves on a sport climb, choose a thicker rope.
Be aware that a skinny rope can move quickly through a belay device, so you need a very experienced and attentive belayer to climb with one.
9.5 – 9.9mm single ropes: A single rope in this range is good for all-around use, including trad and sport climbing. These ropes are light enough to take into the mountains yet durable enough for top-roping at the local crag. They’re generally more durable than very skinny ropes and they are easier to handle.
Single ropes 10mm and above: Ropes with a diameter of 10mm and above are best for gym climbing, frequent top roping, figuring out the moves on sport routes and big-wall climbing. These styles of climbing can wear out a rope faster so it’s wise to go with a thicker, more durable rope.
Half and twin ropes: Half ropes typically have a diameter of about 8 – 9mm, while twin ropes are usually about 7 - 8mm thick.
Static ropes: Static ropes have a diameter of 9 – 13mm, and are commonly measured in inches, so you may see the diameter stated as 7/16”, for example.
Climbing Rope Length
Dynamic ropes for rock climbing range in length from 30m to 80m. A 60m rope is the standard and will meet your needs most of the time.
Outdoor climbing ropes: When deciding what length to buy, remember that your rope needs to be long enough so that half its length is equal to or greater than the route or pitch you’ll be climbing.
For example, if a climbing route is 30m long, then you need at least a 60m rope to be able to climb up and be lowered back down off of an anchor at the top of the climb. Some modern sport-climbing routes require a 70m rope in order to lower to the ground.
Indoor climbing ropes: Shorter-length ropes, about 35m long, are commonly used for gym climbing because indoor routes tend to be shorter than outdoor routes. Again, be sure the length of rope is long enough to lower a climber.
Static ropes: Static ropes for rescue work, caving, climbing fixed lines with ascenders and hauling loads come in a variety of lengths and are sometimes sold by the foot so you can get the exact length you need.
If you’re unsure what length rope you need for a particular climbing area, it’s best to ask other climbers and consult a guidebook.
Climbing Rope Weight
The overall weight of a climbing rope is largely determined by the diameter and length. Generally, a skinnier rope will be lighter than a thicker rope, but core construction is a factor that can make a skinny rope heavier than a thick rope.
It’s standard for weight of dynamic climbing ropes to be listed as grams per meter (eg. 58 g/m), making it easy to compare rope weight regardless of the overall length. Use the grams per meter number and the length of a rope to calculate a rope’s overall weight.
Weight for static ropes is often given as weight per foot.
Climbing Rope Features
Look for these features when you are comparing climbing ropes. They can make a difference in performance and ease of use.
Dry Treatment: When a rope absorbs water, it gets heavier and is less able to withstand forces generated in a fall (the rope will regain all of its strength when dry). When it’s cold enough for absorbed water to freeze, a rope gets stiff and unmanageable. To combat this, some ropes include a dry treatment that reduces water absorption.
Dry-treated ropes are more expensive than non-dry-treated ropes so consider whether or not you need dry treatment. If you primarily sport climb, a non-dry rope is probably sufficient since most sport climbers will pull their ropes and go home when it rains. If you will be ice climbing, mountaineering or multi-pitch trad climbing, you will encounter rain, snow or ice at some point, so choose a dry-treated rope.
Dry ropes can have a dry core, a dry sheath or both. Ropes with both offer the greatest moisture protection.
Middle mark: Most ropes include a middle mark, often black dye, to help you identify the middle of the rope. Being able to identify the middle of your rope is essential when rappelling.
Bicolor: Some ropes are bicolor, which means they have a change in weave pattern that clearly differentiates the two halves of the rope and creates a permanent, easy-to-identify middle mark. This is a more effective (if more expensive) way to mark the middle of a rope than black dye because dye can fade and become difficult to see.
End warning marks: Some ropes include thread or black dye showing that you are coming to the end of the rope. This is helpful when you’re rappelling or lowering a climber.
Climbing Rope UIAA Safety Ratings
The Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA) is the international mountaineering and climbing federation that creates safety standards to which all climbing ropes must adhere. Independent labs are responsible for carrying out the tests. All dynamic ropes carried by REI pass the UIAA tests.
The packaging on dynamic climbing ropes lists the test results for UIAA safety standards, including fall rating, static elongation, dynamic elongation and impact force. Looking at these ratings while thinking about what type of climbing you will be doing can help you choose a rope.
Fall Rating
The UIAA tests ropes to see how many falls they can hold before failing. Lab falls create much greater force than most real-world climbing falls. Therefore, the fall rating is mostly a comparative value.
Single ropes are tested by dropping an 80kg weight onto the rope, half ropes are tested by dropping a 55kg weight on a single strand, and twin ropes are tested by dropping an 80kg weight on 2 strands. All single ropes and half ropes must withstand a minimum of 5 UIAA falls. Twin ropes must withstand a minimum of 12 UIAA falls.
All ropes that meet the UIAA fall rating standard are safe for climbing. A rope with a higher fall rating may mean that that rope will last longer than a rope with a lower rating. However, always inspect your rope closely after a severe fall and consider retiring it if any damage is detected.
Static Elongation
Static elongation, also called working elongation, is the amount that a dynamic rope stretches with an 80kg weight hanging from it. Elongation on single and twin ropes cannot exceed 10 percent of the total rope length and half ropes cannot exceed 12 percent.
Static elongation is important to consider when top-rope climbing, hauling gear and climbing fixed ropes with ascenders. Higher static elongation generally indicates less efficiency because energy is wasted through rope stretch.
Dynamic Elongation
Dynamic elongation is the distance the rope stretches during the first UIAA fall. Higher elongation equals a longer fall, so generally speaking, a lower number is better because less stretch may prevent a falling climber from hitting a ledge or the ground. However, less dynamic elongation means a higher impact force on the climber, belayer and gear. The UIAA allows ropes to stretch no more than 40 percent of the length of the entire rope.
Impact Force
Impact force is the amount of force in kilonewtons that is put on the falling weight during the first UIAA fall. A lower number indicates less force on the falling climber, the belayer and the gear. The higher the dynamic elongation, the lower the impact force.
Lower impact forces make for a soft landing on the rope when you fall, but with that usually comes greater stretch, which can be less efficient when top roping.
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king of Jerusalem
Alternative Titles: Baldwin of Boulogne, Baudouin de Boulogne
Baldwin I
Raymond IV
Baldwin I, byname Baldwin of Boulogne, French Baudouin de Boulogne (born 1058?—died April 2, 1118, Al-ʿArīsh , Egypt ), king of the Crusader state of Jerusalem (1100–18) who expanded the kingdom and secured its territory, formulating an administrative apparatus that was to serve for 200 years as the basis for Frankish rule in Syria and Palestine.
Son of Eustace II, count of Boulogne, and Ida d’Ardenne, Baldwin was the younger brother of Godfrey of Bouillon , whom he accompanied on the First Crusade (1096–99). While Baldwin was campaigning against the Seljuq Turks in Anatolia, Toros, the Christian prince of Edessa (now Urfa, Turkey), promised to make him his heir in return for military aid. Baldwin forced Toros to abdicate and took possession of Edessa in 1098. He consolidated his new principality and strengthened its ties with the native Armenians by marrying Arda, the daughter of an Armenian noble.
In July 1100 his brother Godfrey died in Jerusalem , and Baldwin was summoned by the nobles to succeed him as Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri (Defender of the Holy Sepulchre). In December, after leading a campaign in the south to impress the Egyptian Fāṭimids with his strength and after subduing the opposition of the Crusader nobles, he was crowned the first king of Jerusalem.
Once he had consolidated his strength at home, Baldwin seized the coastal cities of Arsuf (Tel Arshaf, Israel) and Caesarea (H̱orbat Qesari, Israel) in 1101; by 1112 he had captured all the coastal cities except Ascalon and Tyre. In 1115 he built the castle of Krak de Montréal to protect the kingdom in the south.
In 1113 Baldwin forced his wife to enter a convent and married Adelaide of Saona, countess dowager of Sicily. He died without an heir and was succeeded by Baldwin of Bourcq , a cousin whom he had named count of Edessa in 1100.
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Alternative Titles: Baldwin of Bourcq, Baldwin of Le Bourcq, Baudouin du Bourcq
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Baldwin II, byname Baldwin of Bourcq, French Baudouin du Bourcq (died August 1131, Jerusalem ), count of Edessa (1100–18), king of Jerusalem (1118–31), and Crusade leader whose support of the religious-military orders founded during his reign enabled him to expand his kingdom and to withstand Muslim attacks.
A son of Hugh, count of Réthel, in the Ardennes region of France , he held the castle of Bourcq as a feudal domain and was at first referred to as Baldwin of Bourcq. He accompanied his cousins Godfrey of Bouillon and Baldwin of Boulogne (later King Baldwin I of Jerusalem) to Palestine with the First Crusade (1096). In 1100 he was named count of Edessa (now Urfa, Turkey) by Baldwin I when the latter became king of Jerusalem. The Seljuq Turks moved against Edessa in 1104, capturing Baldwin on May 7. Ransomed in 1108, he fought his way into Edessa to reclaim his principality from the regent, Tancred , and later recovered most of the lost territory.
On April 14, 1118, Baldwin was crowned king of Jerusalem. Though captured by the Turks and held hostage from 1123 until 1124, in subsequent years he succeeded in expanding his territory and directing attacks against Muslim Damascus with the aid of the Hospitallers and the Templars , Crusading religious-military orders. Having had only daughters with his Armenian wife, Morfia, Baldwin gave his daughter Melisende in marriage to Fulk V , count of Anjou and Maine, in 1129 and named them as his successors.
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H.G. Wells, in full Herbert George Wells (born Sept. 21, 1866, Bromley, Kent , Eng.—died Aug. 13, 1946, London ), English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds and such comic novels as Tono-Bungay and The History of Mr. Polly.
H.G. Wells, photograph by Yousuf Karsh.
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Early life
Wells was the son of domestic servants turned small shopkeepers. He grew up under the continual threat of poverty, and at age 14, after a very inadequate education supplemented by his inexhaustible love of reading, he was apprenticed to a draper in Windsor. His employer soon dismissed him; and he became assistant to a chemist, then to another draper, and finally, in 1883, an usher at Midhurst Grammar School. At 18 he won a scholarship to study biology at the Normal School (later the Royal College) of Science, in South Kensington, London, where T.H. Huxley was one of his teachers. He graduated from London University in 1888, becoming a science teacher and undergoing a period of ill health and financial worries, the latter aggravated by his marriage, in 1891, to his cousin, Isabel Mary Wells. The marriage was not a success, and in 1894 Wells ran off with Amy Catherine Robbins (d. 1927), a former pupil, who in 1895 became his second wife.
Early writings
Wells’s first published book was a Textbook of Biology (1893). With his first novel , The Time Machine (1895), which was immediately successful, he began a series of science fiction novels that revealed him as a writer of marked originality and an immense fecundity of ideas: The Wonderful Visit (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The First Men in the Moon (1901), and The Food of the Gods (1904). He also wrote many short stories, which were collected in The Stolen Bacillus (1895), The Plattner Story (1897), and Tales of Space and Time (1899). For a time he acquired a reputation as a prophet of the future, and indeed, in The War in the Air (1908), he foresaw certain developments in the military use of aircraft. But his imagination flourished at its best not in the manner of the comparatively mechanical anticipations of Jules Verne but in the astronomical fantasies of The First Men in the Moon and The War of the Worlds , from the latter of which the image of the Martian has passed into popular mythology.
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Behind his inventiveness lay a passionate concern for man and society, which increasingly broke into the fantasy of his science fiction, often diverting it into satire and sometimes, as in The Food of the Gods, destroying its credibility. Eventually, Wells decided to abandon science fiction for comic novels of lower middle-class life, most notably in Love and Mr. Lewisham (1900), Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul (1905), and The History of Mr. Polly (1910). In these novels, and in Tono-Bungay (1909), he drew on memories of his own earlier life, and, through the thoughts of inarticulate yet often ambitious heroes, revealed the hopes and frustrations of clerks, shop assistants, and underpaid teachers, who had rarely before been treated in fiction with such sympathetic understanding. In these novels, too, he made his liveliest, most persuasive comment on the problems of Western society that were soon to become his main preoccupation. The sombre vision of a dying world in The Time Machine shows that, in his long-term view of humanity’s prospects, Wells felt much of the pessimism prevalent in the 1890s. In his short-term view, however, his study of biology led him to hope that human society would evolve into higher forms, and with Anticipations (1901), Mankind in the Making (1903), and A Modern Utopia (1905), he took his place in the British public’s mind as a leading preacher of the doctrine of social progress. About this time, too, he became an active socialist, and in 1903 joined the Fabian Society , though he soon began to criticize its methods. The bitter quarrel he precipitated by his unsuccessful attempt to wrest control of the Fabian Society from George Bernard Shaw and Sidney and Beatrice Webb in 1906–07 is retold in his novel The New Machiavelli (1911), in which the Webbs are parodied as the Baileys.
Middle and late works
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After about 1906 the pamphleteer and the novelist were in conflict in Wells, and only The History of Mr. Polly and the lighthearted Bealby (1915) can be considered primarily as fiction. His later novels are mainly discussions of social or political themes that show little concern for the novel as a literary form. Wells himself affected not to care about the literary merit of his work, and he rejected the tutelage of the American novelist Henry James , saying, “I would rather be called a journalist than an artist.” Indeed, his novel Boon (1915) included a spiteful parody of James. His next novel, Mr. Britling Sees It Through (1916), though touched by the prejudice and shortsightedness of wartime, gives a brilliant picture of the English people in World War I .
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World War I shook Wells’s faith in even short-term human progress, and in subsequent works he modified his conception of social evolution, putting forward the view that man could only progress if he would adapt himself to changing circumstances through knowledge and education. To help bring about this process of adaptation Wells began an ambitious work of popular education, of which the main products were The Outline of History (1920; revised 1931), The Science of Life (1931), cowritten with Julian Huxley and G.P. Wells (his elder son by his second wife), and The Work, Wealth, and Happiness of Mankind (1932). At the same time he continued to publish works of fiction, in which his gifts of narrative and dialogue give way almost entirely to polemics. His sense of humour reappears, however, in the reminiscences of his Experiment in Autobiography (1934).
In 1933 Wells published a novelized version of a film script, The Shape of Things to Come. (Produced by Alexander Korda , the film Things to Come [1936] remains, on account of its special effects, one of the outstanding British films of the 20th century.) Wells’s version reverts to the utopianism of some earlier books, but as a whole his outlook grew steadily less optimistic, and some of his later novels contain much that is bitterly satiric. Fear of a tragic wrong turning in the development of the human race, to which he had early given imaginative expression in the grotesque animal mutations of The Island of Doctor Moreau , dominates the short novels and fables he wrote in the later 1930s. Wells was now ill and aging. With the outbreak of World War II , he lost all confidence in the future, and in Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945) he depicts a bleak vision of a world in which nature has rejected, and is destroying, humankind.
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In spite of an awareness of possible world catastrophe that underlay much of his earlier work and flared up again in old age, Wells in his lifetime was regarded as the chief literary spokesman of the liberal optimism that preceded World War I. No other writer has caught so vividly the energy of this period, its adventurousness, its feeling of release from the conventions of Victorian thought and propriety. Wells’s influence was enormous, both on his own generation and on that which immediately followed it. None of his contemporaries did more to encourage revolt against Christian tenets and accepted codes of behaviour, especially as regards sex, in which, both in his books and in his personal life, he was a persistent advocate of an almost complete freedom. Though in many ways hasty, ill-tempered, and contradictory, Wells was undeviating and fearless in his efforts for social equality, world peace, and what he considered to be the future good of humanity.
As a creative writer his reputation rests on the early science fiction books and on the comic novels. In his science fiction, he took the ideas and fears that haunted the mind of his age and gave them symbolic expression as brilliantly conceived fantasy made credible by the quiet realism of its setting. In the comic novels, though his psychology lacks subtlety and the construction of his plots is often awkward, he shows a fund of humour and a deep sympathy for ordinary people. Wells’s prose style is always careless and lacks grace, yet he has his own gift of phrase and a true ear for vernacular speech, especially that of the lower middle class of London and southeastern England . His best work has a vigour, vitality, and exuberance unsurpassed, in its way, by that of any other British writer of the early 20th century.
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In 1866, (Herbert George) H.G. Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884, to study biology under Thomas Henry Huxley at the Normal School of Science. Wells earned his bachelor of science and doctor of science degrees at the University of London. After marrying his cousin, Isabel, Wells began to supplement his teaching salary with short stories and freelance articles, then books, including The Time Machine In 1866, (Herbert George) H.G. Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884, to study biology under Thomas Henry Huxley at the Normal School of Science. Wells earned his bachelor of science and doctor of science degrees at the University of London. After marrying his cousin, Isabel, Wells began to supplement his teaching salary with short stories and freelance articles, then books, including The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).
Wells created a mild scandal when he divorced his cousin to marry one of his best students, Amy Catherine Robbins. Although his second marriage was lasting and produced two sons, Wells was an unabashed advocate of free (as opposed to "indiscriminate") love. He continued to openly have extra-marital liaisons, most famously with Margaret Sanger , and a ten-year relationship with the author Rebecca West , who had one of his two out-of-wedlock children. A one-time member of the Fabian Society, Wells sought active change. His 100 books included many novels, as well as nonfiction, such as A Modern Utopia (1905), The Outline of History (1920), A Short History of the World (1922), The Shape of Things to Come (1933), and The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1932). One of his booklets was Crux Ansata, An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church. Although Wells toyed briefly with the idea of a "divine will" in his book, God the Invisible King (1917), it was a temporary aberration. Wells used his international fame to promote his favorite causes, including the prevention of war, and was received by government officials around the world. He is best-remembered as an early writer of science fiction and futurism.
He was also an outspoken socialist. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Fathers of Science Fiction". D. 1946.
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Martinique was originally inhabited by Arawaks from South America , and the majority of those early inhabitants were killed by an eruption of Mount Pelee in 295 AD.
Near 400 AD, the long-vanquished Arawaks returned to the island. Around 600 AD, the cannibalistic Caribs arrived, exterminated the Arawaks and permanently settled on the island.
Columbus charted the island in 1493, then landed on Martinique (near Le Carbet) in 1502 during his fourth voyage to the 'New World.' However, the Spanish found little value here, and sailed south for greener pastures.
In 1635, from the island of St Kitts , the French sent a group of one hundred settlers to Martinique; they built a small settlement and over the next few decades they took control of the island, and destroyed many of the Caribs that still called it home.
In short order the growing and trading of sugar became the major business on the island, and by order of King Louis XIV, African slaves were forced from their homelands to work the plantations as slaves.
For over one hundred and fifty years, slavery, and slave revolts, would be a major influence on the economy and politics of the Martinique.
After on-going battles with the Carib Indians, the Seven Years' War with the English, and additional periods of British control, the French took firm control in 1815.
In 1848, the French government signed an Emancipation Proclamation document, which ended all slavery in the French West Indies . However, indentured laborers from India were brought to arrive in Martinique to replace the black slaves.
By 1888, Martinique's population neared 175,000. On May 8, 1902, Mt. Pelee erupted, destroying the once thriving capital city of Saint Pierre, and killing its 30,000 residents in less than three-minutes.
Adding misery on top of misery, the world market for sugar began to collapse in 1921, and island cultivators sought a new crop. In 1928 they introduced bananas, which along with sugarcane, tourism, and light industry form the island's economy today.
As a long-time French colony, Martinique was declared an official French overseas department in 1946, and the island's beauty, charm and historical sites continue to attract visitors from around the world.
Fort-de-France, fronted by lush, green mountains, surrounds a yacht-filled harbor, and is one of the most strikingly beautiful ports in the Caribbean .
Point du Bont is the island's main resort area, offering a wide selection of hotels, along with casinos, great golf, shopping and night life.
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Saint Lucia
Form of government
constitutional monarchy with a Parliament consisting of two legislative chambers (Senate [111]; House of Assembly [182])
Head of state
British Monarch: Queen Elizabeth II , represented by Governor-General: Dame Pearlette Louisy
Head of government
Literacy: percentage of population age 15 and over literate
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(2013) 7,090
1Seats are appointed by the governor-general.
2One seat is reserved for the speaker, who may be elected from outside the House of Assembly.
Saint Lucia, island state in the Caribbean Sea . It is the second largest of the Windward group in the Lesser Antilles and is located about 24 miles (39 kilometres) south of Martinique and some 21 miles northeast of Saint Vincent .
Marigot Bay, Saint Lucia.
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Saint Lucia is 27 miles long and has a maximum width of 14 miles. The capital and major port is Castries . Saint Lucia is a member of the Commonwealth .
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Land
Relief and drainage
The island is of volcanic origin and is bisected from north to south by a central ridge of wooded mountains, the highest point being Mount Gimie (3,145 feet [958.6 metres]). Many streams flow from the mountains through fertile valleys. In the southwest are the Gros and Petit Pitons (2,619 feet and 2,461 feet, respectively), two immense pyramids of rock rising sharply from the sea and enclosing a small bay. Near Petit Piton, in the crater of an ancient volcano , are the boiling sulphur springs from which the nearby town of Soufrière takes its name. A choice tourist site, the springs also contain substantial energy potential.
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Climate
Saint Lucia lies in the path of the northeastern trade winds and has a tropical maritime climate. Rainfall and temperature vary with elevation. Average annual rainfall ranges from 51 inches (1,295 millimetres) on the coast to as much as 150 inches (3,810 millimetres) in the interior. There is a dry season roughly from January to April and a rainy season from May to November. The mean temperature is about 80 °F (27 °C), with highs sometimes ranging into the upper 80s and lows into the upper 60s.
Plant and animal life
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The forest, which has been reduced through lumbering, contains colourful orchids and anthurium. The rich birdlife includes the Saint Lucian parrot (the endangered national bird), the Saint Lucia black finch, and the Saint Lucia oriole. There is also a lizard unique to Saint Lucia, and the agouti is common.
Tropical vegetation on the hills overlooking Marigot Bay, Saint Lucia.
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People
No Caribs remain on the island; the vast majority of the inhabitants of the island are black and there is a small minority of mulattoes and other mixtures. The remainder are whites or of East Indian extraction. A French patois is spoken by most of the inhabitants but is being gradually supplanted by English, the official language. The main religion is Roman Catholicism , and Seventh-day Adventists and other Protestants are important minorities. The rate of population growth for Saint Lucia is slightly higher than the Caribbean average. The main population centres are Castries and Vieux Fort.
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Transportation
There is an international airport at Vieux Fort , at the southern tip of the island, and a smaller airport at Vigie for domestic and regional flights. International shipping lines operate from the ports at Castries and Vieux Fort. In addition, there is an oil transshipment terminal near Castries.
Government and society
Constitutional framework
Saint Lucia is a constitutional monarchy with the British monarch as head of state, represented by a governor-general. The bicameral parliament consists of the House of Assembly elected by universal adult suffrage and the Senate, with members appointed on the advice of the prime minister, on the advice of the opposition leader in the House, and by the governor-general. The prime minister, leader of the majority party, heads the government.
Justice
Saint Lucia has retained its association with the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, consisting of a court of appeal and a high court.
Health and welfare
Several general hospitals and many health centres are distributed throughout the island. There is also a private hospital operated by a religious order at Vieux Fort.
Education
Primary education is free and compulsory, and there is a branch of the University of the West Indies at Castries. There is also a technical college and a teacher-training college. Many of the primary schools are parochial , principally Roman Catholic.
Communications
Several newspapers are published on the island, and radio and television broadcasts are widely received.
History
French and British territorial rivalry
The exact date of the European discovery of Saint Lucia is not known, but it is thought to have been about 1500. The first attempts at colonization were made by the English in 1605 and 1638, but they were frustrated by sickness and the hostility of the native Caribs. A successful settlement was achieved in 1650 by the French from Martinique, who made a treaty with the Caribs in 1660. In 1664 Thomas Warner, son of the governor of Saint Kitts, regained the island, but it was restored to France by the Peace of Breda in 1667. In 1674 it was claimed by the crown of France and made a dependency of Martinique.
Another British settlement under a grant made in 1722 by George I to the Duke of Montague was frustrated by France, which had granted the island to Marshal d’Estrées in 1718, and the island was declared neutral. In 1743 the French resumed possession, retaining the island until the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, in which the two countries again agreed to regard Saint Lucia as neutral. In 1762 it was captured by Admiral George Rodney and General Robert Monckton, only to be given up once more by the Treaty of Paris (1763). In 1778 it again surrendered to the British, who used its harbours as a naval base, but, by the Peace of Versailles, Saint Lucia was once more restored to France. Between 1782 and 1803 the possession of Saint Lucia passed several times between Britain and France, the British having to suppress a vigorous revolutionary party, which was aided by insurgent slaves, before gaining possession in 1803. Saint Lucia was finally ceded to Britain in 1814 by the Treaty of Paris , after which it became a crown colony. During 1838–85, together with the other islands of the Windward group, it was administered by the governor of Barbados.
French influence on the development of Saint Lucia is illustrated by the dominance of the Roman Catholic Church and the survival of a French patois. In the years following 1763, French planters came from Saint Vincent and Grenada and established cotton and sugar plantations. In 1834, when the slaves were emancipated, there were in Saint Lucia more than 13,000 black slaves, 2,600 free blacks, and 2,300 whites. Prosperity was impeded by the decline of the sugarcane industry. Improvement came with the increase of banana and cacao cultivation and the revival of sugarcane.
Independence
Representative government was obtained by the constitution of 1924, which introduced an elective element into the legislative council; the constitution of 1936 provided for an unofficial majority in the council.
In 1958 Saint Lucia joined the West Indies Federation, although its colonial status remained unchanged. Under the 1960 constitution the post of governor of the Windward Islands was abolished, and Saint Lucia became an autonomous unit within the federation, also achieving a greater degree of internal self-government. After the federation was dissolved on May 31, 1962, the status question was eventually settled by the West Indies Act of 1967, in which Saint Lucia assumed a status of association with the United Kingdom on March 1, 1967.
Independence was finally achieved on February 22, 1979, with Saint Lucia remaining a parliamentary democracy within the Commonwealth. In the first elections following independence, the left-leaning Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) defeated the more conservative United Workers’ Party ( UWP). The SLP governments favoured the socialist regimes of the Caribbean, establishing relations with Cuba and joining the nonaligned movement . They also helped form the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States in 1981.
The SLP’s attempts at a mixed economy proved unable to deal with the staggering problems of the new country, especially after Hurricane Allen wiped out the banana crop in 1980. Rivalry within the party led to the resignation of two prime ministers in two years, and political instability caused the tourist trade to drop to one-half of its pre-independence level. In May 1982 the UWP was voted into power on a platform of inviting foreign investment and decentralizing government administration. The agricultural sector was gradually rebuilt after the hurricane, and the end of a recession in the United States increased tourism. The UWP retained power in elections held in 1987 and 1992.
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The island nation of Saint Lucia is situated between the islands of Martinique and Saint Vincent in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It is the second largest of the Windward Islands group of the West Indies. Castries is the capital city and the main port. Roughly oval in shape, the island is volcanic in origin. The volcano Qualibou in the southwest emits steam and gases and is a major tourist site. The climate is tropical with heavy rainfall and a mean temperature of 80F (27C). Area 238 square miles (617 square kilometers). Population (2016 est.) 173,100.
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Some studios have vanity plates that are recognized everywhere . The moment you see a ring of stars swirling into place above a serene-looking mountain, for example, you know you're looking at a Paramount production. That little kid who tosses a fishing line into the water while sitting in the crook of the moon is instantly recognizable as DreamWorks . Such logos, once they climb to a certain point of universal recognition and cause a globe to spin on the movie screens , are a sure fire form of brand name recognition.
Every once in a while, though, a creator will have fun with it. The Vanity Plate will be changed in some way, just enough to put a new spin on it usually being tied into the movie it's featured in. Match Cuts are also a common form of this. More rarely, the logo will show up in a scene in the middle of the show.
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A popular way to open a DreamWorks Animation movie is to pan down from the scene with the boy in the moon, so even logos that are otherwise normal will have the sky altered to match the opening scene.
Shark Tale : The boy casts his line and the action switches to the worm at the end, which segues into the movie proper.
Bee Movie : A bee scares away the boy and takes his place on the moon.
Madagascar : Escape 2 Africa: The penguins knock out the boy and take his place.
Penguins of Madagascar : After a "20 Years" version of the regular DreamWorks logo, the logo appears on an ice cliff face with the boy in the moon. Part of the cliff then breaks off to reveal the silhouettes of the four penguins on top of each other, taking the boy's place with the penguin on top holding the fishing rod .
Monsters vs. Aliens : A UFO abducts the boy with a tractor beam. Furthermore, the logo appears in grainy black-and-white and in the 3D version appears flat.
Kung Fu Panda : A leopard in a coolie hat in a Ninja Run , skips across a body of water, fishing pole in hand, leaping up onto the crescent moon to take the boy's place.
Kung Fu Panda 2 picks up on Master Oogway's death in the first film by having him go to the moon and take the boy's place.
In Kung Fu Panda 3 , Po wears himself out climbing a long flight of stairs to get to the moon, and ends up flopping across it, exhausted.
Medal of Honor : As the piano theme tune changes to a military fanfare, the boy throws away his fishing rod to pull out a rifle and put on a helmet. He then jumps off the moon, deploying a parachute, but it gets stuck at the bottom of the moon.
The Ring : The moon becomes the Ring for a split second, along with videotape glitches.
Shrek : The S in both " DreamWorks " and "SKG" turn green and grow ogre ears.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park for PlayStation and Sega Saturn : The boy's line gets a tug, he exclaims "Caught something!", and the boy is violently yanked off the moon as a raptor squeal is heard. This is referenced during the end-game cutscene , where the camera pans over a pair of raptors before panning up to show the boy on the moon.
Small Soldiers for PlayStation: The Commando Elite climb up the line and tie the kid up.
How to Train Your Dragon : a Night Fury flies around in the background. This otherwise introduces the new vanity plate for DreamWorks Animation (which exploits the 3D with a more elaborate fishline-swinging). The usual pan down opening shot is inverted as the scene transitions by the night fury flying in front of the logo, revealing it to be a reflection in the water, which then follows a pan up to the opening scene.
Halloween Special Scared Shrekless: The boy is scared by a wolf howl and hides behind the crescent moon.
Puss in Boots : The animation is accompanied by lively Spanish music, including the sound of a whip-crack which coincides with the boy casting out his fishing line.
The Adventures of Puss in Boots : Puss sits in the moon instead of the boy. He catches a fish which he tosses directly into his mouth.
Rise of the Guardians : Jack Frost takes the boy's place in the crescent moon, his staff in the place of the fishing rod. He lazily knocks the snowflake off towards the screen, causing the camera to zoom out, and the 'DreamWorks' title then freezes up with frost and explodes into snowflakes.
The Croods : The logo is painted on a cave wall, then flakes off and is blown away.
Dawn of the Croods : The entire family piles onto the moon as it rocks them to sleep.
Mr. Peabody & Sherman : Sherman sits on the crescent moon, casting the fishing line.
The New Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show : The WABAC drops Sherman off on the moon, who then fishes up "Dreamworks Television Animation", on which Peabody is sitting on.
Dinotrux : Revvit puts the finishing touches on carving a Dreamworks logo that features Ty Rux and him fishing on the moon into the rock, and uses his tail air blower to blow the dust away.
Home : The boy is sucked up into a Boov transport and is then replaced by a Boov who then casts the fishing line.
Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh : Oh is in the moon in place of the boy, he fishes up the controller for his saucer, and activates it, flying off into the opening proper.
Voltron: Legendary Defender : Voltron cuts a chunk out of the moon leaving only the crescent shape remaining, standing behind it where the boy would normally go.
All Hail King Julien : Julien sits in a straw moon hanging above the jungle, pulls up his line to reveal that Mort is on the end, and then catches a shark. Mort yells "I'm okay!" as Julien laughs.
Dragons: Riders of Berk : Hiccup and Toothless are sitting in the moon together, Hiccup is reading a book while Toothless has a fishing line tied to his tail. Toothless then fires on the camera, which Match Cuts with the opening, depicting Hiccup and Toothless flying out of the moon.
Trollhunters : The Amulet of Merlin opens into the crescent moon, Jim steps out of the crescent where the fishing boy would go and holds his sword high.
Lucasarts
Doing the "normal" logo was usually the exception rather than the rule for LucasArts :
Jedi Knight series and The Force Unleashed : multiple variations on drawing a lightsaber / using force powers etc.
Afterlife , where the Gold Man first falls into a flaming-red lava pit ... and then flies out with a halo and wings into a heavenly white light off the screen.
Rogue Squadron : Logo is blown up by dueling starfighters.
In the sequel, the shape of the Gold Man is formed by hundreds of tap-dancing stormtroopers.
Rogue Squadron III: The Star Wars characters dance to a disco version of the main theme, including the Gold Man.
Armed and Dangerous : features three versions of the 'Gold Man' based on the game characters drinking tea.
The Secret of Monkey Island : Special Edition : 90's era Guybrush walks on screen with a treasure map and digs up the logo, which changes to its modern form.
Escape from Monkey Island also had the logo change to a monkey holding a banana.
In The Curse of Monkey Island the game starts with the letters C M I done in the style of the THX sound preface, complete with the THX noise, with their slogan replaced with "The monkeys are listening."
The end credits of Day of the Tentacle featured Purple Tentacle scaring the Gold Guy away and taking his place.
Big Sky Trooper : The Slug leader and a lackey descend on the Gold Man, discuss how it has bones and appears to be an ad, then destroy it - as the Slug leader declares, the two things he hates are bones and advertising.
Star Wars : Starfighter: The Gold Man ducks under a Naboo starfighter as it flies above him, then hangs on for dear life as he finds himself on the nose of another one.
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds : The Gold Man falls over to reveal a battle droid hiding behind him, who then shoots the camera.
Star Wars Episode I: Racer : A podracer breaks the Gold Man, who is then repaired by some pit droids.
Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles features the Gold Man leaping off of his base and the design above him becoming a lightsaber. Promptly then attacking the screen.
Bounty Hunter : Jango ties up the Gold Man and yanks him off the logo, then flies onto it with his jetpack and uses his flamethrower to produce his own golden arc to hold. That gold guy just can't keep his job, can he?
In Grim Fandango we see the Gold Man turn into a skeleton, with the ray above also skeletonized.
Star Wars: Republic Commando features the Gold man rendered in monochrome and static, in keeping with the Darker and Edgier theme of the game.
The trailer for the cancelled Sam & Max: Freelance Police !! features the Gold Man investigating the logo with a magnifying glass. He drops it, causing the logo to shatter like glass.
Secret Weapons Over Normandy features the Gold Man come under attack by a German fighter plane, and then rescued by an American fighter, before wiping his brow in relief and projecting the arc.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
On several different Tom and Jerry cartoons, principally those directed by Chuck Jones , Tanner the Lion is replaced by Tom, who gives his best housecat "roar".
At the end of "Switchin' Kitten", Jerry runs into a mouse hole and imitates the lion.
In "Tail In The Trap", the logo appears as a "Wanted!" Poster which gets shot at.
In "Sorry Safari", the words "A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon" appear over a cartoon lion from later in the short.
A few MGM cartoons from 1942 had Tanner roaring to the tune of the Tiger Rag.
The Tex Avery short "Batty Baseball" started with no logo, just the title of the short. After about 30 seconds into the action, one of the players pauses to ask the narrator what happened to the MGM logo. The narrator apologizes and we then see the logo and credits.
In the trailer for A Night at the Opera , the lion was replaced by the Marx Brothers themselves, under the banner "Marx Gratia Marxes" (instead of "Ars Gratia Artis"), each taking turns miming the lion's roar. (When it was Harpo, his ever-present taxi-horn sounded instead.)
In Tarzan , the Ape Man (the 1981 critical dud starring Bo Derek), Tarzan's yell is in place of the MGM lion's roar.
In The Remake }} of The Pink Panther (2006) , after the lion roars, an animated version of Inspector Clouseau appears within the MGM logo, followed by the Pink Panther, then the lion again, reacting Monty Python style.
Strange Brew : Standard MGM opening, but the lion, instead of roaring, belches and appears disinterested. The camera then pulls back from the logo and pans towards the Great White North set, where Bob and Doug are trying to make him roar to no avail. A few minutes later, the lion roars in the background, and Bob comments, "Geez, now that hoser's growling!"
Silent Movie : The Big Picture Studios logo is essentially that of MGM, but with the studio boss in place of the lion and a seal barking replacing the roar.
Steve Irwin's The Crocodile Hunter : Collision Course had an alligator instead of the lion.
The trailer for the film had Irwin stepping into the frame and commenting on the lion.
The original European version is the lion morphing into a vampire where a drop of blood drops off his fang and segues into the opening credits
.
The American version is at the end of the cartoon opening where animated versions of Abronsius and Alfred are celebrating as the lion zooms in, roars then sprouts vampire fangs causing them to run off.
One more blood drops from its fangs and segues to the opening credits
The opening of the Sherie Lewis Home Entertainment series from MGM/UA Home Video would start with a painting of the MGM lion logo. The fanfare plays, And then Lamb Chop pops through the board (similar to Looney Tunes' Porky Pig breaking out the drum) and remarks "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists present the Shari Lewis Home Entertainment library. Rawr!"
The Movie of Josie and the Pussycats (a co-production between Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) begins with Boy Band music playing over the Universal logo but is immediately followed by the MGM logo as the music continues, with the lion morphing into a squealing teenage girl.
Howling III: Marsupials replaced the lion roar with a quick film clip a thylacine
roaring.
The trailer for Clean Slate has the main character's dog in place of the lion doing the roar. This wasn't in the film though (which instead had a special "70th Anniversary" logo shown on MGM's 1994 lineup).
Robocop 2014 . Instead of the lion roaring, we have the sound of talk show host Pat Novak doing vocal warm-up exercises.
Night of Dark Shadows and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (American adaptation): The lion's roars are muted out.
Dr. Strangelove was going to have one . Specifically, the film would be presented by "Macro-Galaxy-Meteor Pictures" instead, and instead of the lion, there's, as the script describes, "A WEIRD, HYDRA-HEADED, FURRY CREATURE". This tied in with the unused Framing Device of the movie being presented as a Found Footage film discovered by aliens and presented as part of a documentary series called "The Dead Worlds of Antiquity".
In Of Thee I Sing , the election night newsreel ends with the MGM lion opening its mouth, not to roar, but to crow like the Pathé rooster.
MTM Productions/Enterprises
Mary Tyler Moore 's film company, MTM, uses a logo that is a parody of the MGM logo, using a meowing kitten (acquired from an animal shelter and nicknamed "Mimsey") instead of a roaring lion. MTM has used variations of its own logo for various shows produced by them over the years.
For Christmas Episodes , such as those on The Bob Newhart Show , Mimsey was shown encircled by a Christmas wreath in place of the usual gold ribbon. Although the original ribbon appears for a split-second, possibly due to an editing error.
At the end of the "Put on a Happy Face" episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show , Mary Tyler Moore herself appeared in place of Mimsey and mouthed the words "Th-th-th-that's all folks!"
At the end of the 1991 Mary Tyler Moore Reunion Show , Mimsey does not meow, she says "Bye!" in Mary Tyler Moore's voice.
Similarly, a blooper reel for the final season ends with an audio swap of Mary saying "Bye!" and the cat.
On videos produced by MTM Home Video, the kitten holds a remote control. After meowing, the kitten hits "rewind". The picture winds backwards (and loses color), and the kitten meows again.
The Duck Factory: Before the logo starts, a voiceover asks "Where's the cat?" or "Here's the cat!" The cat then quacks.
Eisenhower and Lutz: Mimsey's "meow" is sung by a group.
The Graham Kerr Show: As befits a Cooking Show , the kitten wore a chef's hat. Also, her head does not move as much.
Similarly, on Hill Street Blues , the kitten wore a policeman's hat.
Newhart : Bob Newhart's voice says "Meow" — except for the first episode, where she meows normally, and the last episode, where Darryl and Darryl scream "QUIET!".
A variant within a variant: In the season 5 episode "Dick The Kid", Bob's meow is in a duller tone than usual.
The New WKRP in Cincinnati: Instead of a meow, you hear Les Nessman saying "Ooooh!".
For Remington Steele the cat wears a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap and has a meerschaum pipe in its mouth; when it meows, the pipe falls and lands in front of the word "Productions".
Also, there is a mockup on YouTube , but the letters move slowly, and Mimsey drops a gun, firing a hole into an "M".
St. Elsewhere : The kitten is dressed for surgery in mask and smock. In the final episode, the kitten appeared beneath the closing credits, hooked up to life support machinery, and flatlined at the end of the credits, with the normal, rather upbeat show theme playingnote though in the original broadcast, a network promo voiceover covered up the theme for most of the credits sequence. (This variant doesn't always appear when shown in syndication.)
By a sad coincidence , the real-life Mimsey would die later that same year (1988).
The Steve Allen Show: The kitten wears heavy black eyeglasses and declares "Schmock!" in the voice of Steve Allen.
The White Shadow: A different kitten from the usual Mimsey bounces a basketball off the MTM logo.
An extended person appeared in the pilot where the kitten throws the ball off-camera.
Xuxa: The kitten uses the voice of Xuxa saying "Ciao!"
The feature film A Little Sex has an animated cartoon version of Mimsey crying, followed by a second kitten appearing; the two then rub heads affectionately and purr.
Bay City Blues has a cartoon Mimsey catching a baseball. This one and several of the other variations mentioned above can be seen in this compilation
.
Lou Grant , Paris, the theatrical release Just Between Friends, and the pilot for Three for the Road all feature a silent, still image of Mimsey in lieu of the meowing.
Speaking of Three for the Road, that short-lived show's final episode had an unusual variation: after Mimsey meowed, the gold ribbon and the shot of Mimsey within turned upside down for no apparent reason.
Carlton Your Doorman, MTM's only animated production — a TV special/pilot for a spinoff from Rhoda (itself a spinoff from The Mary Tyler Moore Show ) — ends with a very annoyed looking white cartoon cat
(not a kitten) glaring at the camera ("C'mon, say 'meow'... damn cat," grumbles Carlton).
Most startling of all, the TV movie/ Poorly Disguised Pilot Vampire has "AN MTM ENTERPRISES INC. PRODUCTION" in blood-red against a black background - and no kitten at all!
Two unique variants each appeared in a different episode of The Bob Newhart Show .
In the third season premiere "Big Brother Is Watching", the cat growls.
at the end of a documentary on The Mary Tyler Moore Show .
Mutant Enemy Productions
Note that the variants are all exclusive to Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and so the entries refer to episodes of that show.
"Becoming, Part 2": The zombie says "Ohhh, I need a hug." (This was the episode where Buffy killed Angel and left Sunnydale.)
"Amends" puts the zombie in a Santa Claus hat.
"Graduation Day, Part 2" puts the zombie in a graduation cap.
At the end of "Storyteller", the zombie sings, "We are as gods!"
"Once More With Feeling": the zombie sings "Grrr... argh."
"Bargaining, Part 1": the signoff is actually included in the episode itself, with Tara putting on a zombie finger puppet and going "grrr... argh."
"Chosen", the final episode of the series: the zombie looks at the camera, growls, then keeps walking.
Parodied
in an episode of Robot Chicken , with the zombie doing the normal "Grrr... argh." before going on a rampage & killing people. The scene then cuts to show that it's Joss Whedon messing around, as an executive walks in and says, "Come on, Joss. That's why you got kicked off Wonder Woman ."
Viacom/Paramount Pictures
Alfie (2004 Version): The entire logo sequence is colored in pink.
The Avengers (2012) : On the 3D Blu-Ray release, both the Paramount and Marvel logos fade into blue energy, and are seen as different faces on the Tesseract as it rotates.
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan has Mount Fuji as the mountain.
The Beautician and the Beast : After the logo sequence is finished, the text disappears and the same mountain becomes the first shot of an animated sequence setting up the events of the film.
which the Applecopter promptly flies out from behind, again via a fade. Paramount loves the Match Cut .
Chinatown opens with the 1930s logo.
Coach Carter : The logo briefly changes into a drawn version on a notebook.
Coming to America : the camera zooms in to the mountain — and then over it, until it reaches the fictional African country .
The Core : As it finishes, it zooms into the mountain, then starts to move down to the core of the earth.
Event Horizon : The camera flies past the mountain and into a black hole in space as the opening credits roll.
The trailer for Everybody Wants Some!! features the end of the 1980-era Paramount logo, but with the Viacom byline in its contemporary font, making it almost indistinguishable from the studio's current print logo. (The film itself has the stock 2016 logo sequence.)
Exit Through the Gift Shop : As seen on the poster, guerrilla artist Banksy 's vanity production company is Paranoid Pictures, whose logo is very similar to Paramount's.
Four Brothers : Blowing snow begins to swirl around the mountain, and causes the logo to become more and more obscured.
In Friday the 13th (2009) , the logo is tinted blood red.
'The Geisha Boy'': Jerry Lewis is seeing the sights in Japan - at Mount Fuji he does a double take as stars surround it like the studio logo.
G.I. Joe: Retaliation : The stars fly up to the logo with the sounds of the deadly fireflies used by the villain of the same name.
Hard Rain : The logo forms amidst a huge storm.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull : ...a molehill .
And there's the gag before the fade, as the mountain itself is not of the contemporary design: keeping in tune with the period during which the movies are set, they use the logo from the 1950s.
The Last Airbender : The Paramount stars are accompanied with splashes of water and "hit" the logo, causing it to freeze. The Nickelodeon Movies logo afterwards is on fire, and gets covered by earth.
The Little Prince : For its international release, the sky around the Paramount logo glows bright-yellow as the stars reach the mountain, and there are several larger gold stars that come into focus as the sequence ends.
Nebraska opens with the 1950s Paramount logo (though this time, with a Viacom byline at the corner).
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones : As the logo forms, the screen begins glitching and tearing, similar to a VHS tape.
Popeye :
At the end of the 1951 cartoon Alpine For You, after Popeye punches Bluto, Bluto slams into a mountain peak, forming stars around the mountain . After that, "A Paramount Picture" appears over said mountain, closing the cartoon. This joke was preserved on the AAP prints.
, where stars from the logo would zoom in with the characters' headshots.
Rear Window : The logo appears on closing window blinds during the end.
Road to Utopia : Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are sledding through the Klondike countryside and enjoying the scenery, when something catches Bob's eye:
Hope: Hey, get a load of that bread and butter!
(Cut to a shot of a snow-covered mountain)
Crosby: Bread and butter? That's a mountain!
(The "Paramount Pictures" logo suddenly appears in front of said mountain)
Hope: Maybe a mountain to you, but it's bread and butter to me!
Scrooged : Amid holiday caroling in the background, the camera zooms past the logo and into the sky to focus on a star above a bed of clouds.
Soap Dish : White bubbles begin to fill up the frame as the logo appears.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut : The mountain changes into a construction-paper mountain in the skyline of South Park, Colorado. This one was ruined when Warner Bros. took over the European distribution of the film.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows : The stars are replaced by ninja throwing stars.
The Ten Commandments : the logo is cued over an image of Mount Sinai, rather than the usual mountain.
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life : The Paramount and Mutual Film Company logos appear as images that float on the surface of the ocean and dissipate soon afterwards.
Transformers : The Blu-Ray release for the live-action films has the stars flying up to the logo and circling it with the sounds of an Autobot transforming.
A Very Brady Sequel : The mountain in the logo transitions to an actual mountain in California.
When Wings received a new soundtrack in 2012, it also had a montage of Paramount logos playing in reverse-chronological order added to the opening.
World War Z : The stars graze the water accompanied by the sound of what appears to be a falling missile, while there are muted sounds of war in the background and a darker color scheme.
Sega
A large number of games released on pre-Saturn Sega hardware
had customised versions of the Sega logo at the start. Do note that Logo Jokes for Sega CD and Master System games are less common than for Genesis, Game Gear and 32X games because their BIOSs displayed a Sega logo of their own.
Note that the site says that the logo used for Sonic the Hedgehog was also used in Sonic 3 & Knuckles , which is not true:
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 4 actually had Sonic run to the right of the screen to make half of the logo appear, and then run back to the left to complete the logo. Trailers for Sonic 4: Episode 1 have a black background, with Sonic (in the form of a blue streaking blur) coming towards the viewer three times, the third time in the middle of the screen & leaving the Sega logo in his wake.
Sonic 3 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles displayed the Sega logo, then the background turns black and Sonic jumps out from behind the logo. And then the screen flashes white for a second before cutting to the Sonic 3 title screen.
Sonic & Knuckles on its own starts out just like the Sonic 3 version, but the background behind the logo fades into Sonic and the Death Egg falling through the sky, with the Death Egg landing in the volcano and causing the Sega logo to shake itself out of existence.
The Game Gear version of Sonic the Hedgehog depicts Sonic jumping back and forth, forming the logo, as a reference to Japanese Sega ads that would end with a clay model of Sonic doing the same thing.
Aladdin (Virgin Games) has the Genie, clad in referee garb, fire a starting pistol and accidentally shoot Iago.
Astal has Astal using his breath attack on four enemies, transforming them into the letters of Sega, then doing his signature Fist Pump as the bird flies in over the right part of the logo.
Ast�rix and the Great Rescue has the title character coming upon the Sega logo, then adjusting his hat.
Barney 's Hide and Seek Game accompanies it with "Boing!"
Bass Master Classics puts the logo underwater.
Ecco: The Tides of Time did the same, but better-looking.
Beavis And Butthead has Butt-head come across the logo and whack it.
Cool Spot shows the titular mascot hopping up and down in the logo.
Eternal Champions had variations for the nine playable characters
- each would approach the logo and then harm it in some way (usually blowing it up ). For example, Xavier would turn the logo yellow.
The Bonkers game had the four letters of SEGA fall from the top of the screen and bounce asynchronously before settling down.
Boogerman showed the titular hero fart-flying a missing S to the EGA logo, then run over to Interplay's logo and launch a booger at the screen. The Interplay part was retained in the SNES version, where it is the only logo shown.
Comix Zone has the logo in Deliberate Monochrome , contorting in various ways, while an odd jazz person says the company's name. The villain's hand then writes in "Presents..."
Darxide has the logo on an asteroid... in 3D.
Desert Demolition has the Road Runner run up to the logo, then jump as Wile E. runs after him, scattering the letters in the process.
A Doraemon game has the eponymous robot underneath the logo, performing the jingle.
Earthworm Jim has the titular worm showing off his muscles... until his pants fall down.
The second game actually sets up the plot, showing Psy-Crow distracting Jim long enough to kidnap Princess What's-Her-Name. For this reason, it was the only Saturn game to retain its Genesis brethren's Sega logo as well as one of the few Super Nintendo Entertainment System , Game Boy Advance and DOS games to have a real Logo Jokenote In those cases, it's done over, respectively, the "Licensed by Nintendo" screen, the Majesco logo and the Funsoft logo.. The PS1 version, on the other hand, outright axed the logo.
The special edition of the first game Jim performing a variety of inane acts on a Deliberately Monochrome Sega logo (Sega CD) or on the title screen (PC).
Garfield: Caught in the Act has Garfield dancing on the logo.
The Magical Taruruuto-kun Licensed Game has Taruruuto-kun doing the "Seee-Gaaa!" shout.
Panic ! for the Sega CD opens with the letters in the logo all mixed up so that they read "GASE", accompanied by an edited version of the clip used for the Sonic games: "Gaaa-Seee". Then Slap and Stick (the game's protagonists) fall from above and land on the logo, which snaps back to normal and is accompanied by the standard "Seee-Gaaa!"
The Magic School Bus on Genesis did similar by initially spelling the logo "ASEG" before the Magic School Bus bumps the "A" from below, snapping the logo back to normal. No voiceover though.
Ristar has the logo letters forming in space in black and white, with calm music playing. After they form, Ristar says "Come On!"
Star Trek: The Next Generation : Echos from the Past has the Sega logo beaming in then out, complete with Star Trek transporter sound effects.
The Taz-Mania game has Taz spin up to the logo and eat the "S".
Tempo has the logo do a water ripple effect, accompanied by a *BING* sound.
ToeJam & Earl shows the duo's ship flying toward the Sega logo, then immediately flying over it as they get too close.
Vectorman easily gets the best, where you can play a minigame that might get your game started on later levels if you do well enough and, using an off-screen power-up, you can blow up the Sega logo.
Virtua Racing demonstrates the power of its cart's SVP chip from the get-go with an elaborate polygonal Sega logo animation
.
Wiz 'n Liz has a cameo of the player character from The Killing Game Show flying by and exploding in front of the Sega logo for no apparent reason.
Some recent games have also taken to "recreating" the classic jingle with a voice actor/ voice synthesizer .
For K-On! Houkago Live on the PSP, the "Seee-Gaaa!" yell is done
by Aki Toyosaki in-character as Yui.
Similarly, the Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA series (done by the same staff as the K-On! game) opens with Miku singing the SEGA sound. Later on, Rin, Len, Luka, KAITO, and MEIKO can also heard singing the jingle.
Puyo Puyo Tetris has Arle Nadja's English voice actor singing the jingle.
As a non-sexual-fanservice-laden game, Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed uses the Genesis Sonic Sega logo and jingle after the copyright disclaimers.
Additionally, the credits contain a parody "Sumo" logo, complete with yell.
Sumo Digital was responsible for the game's development.
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit also opens with the Genesis Sega logo, although in its original, digitized 16-bit format, rather than a remastered version like in All-Stars Racing Transformed.
The Alien: Isolation trailers feature the Sega logo in an 80s low-quality video style, fitting with the entire game's retraux Zeerust style homage to the original Alien .
Ubisoft
Watch_Dogs opens with Ubisoft's logo being patched in through connections in a ctOS map of Chicago.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Reshelled featured the four tutles falling into the Ubisoft logo in the same manner they fall into time holes in the game. This was later recycled for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up (despite the two games' different art styles).
Another of Ubisoft's includes the Raving Rabbids series. Most notably in Rabbids Go Home , where after the logo appears, the 2-D Rabbids seen during level intros run in and swipe the logo in their cart.
The Assassin's Creed series gets Animus-inspired variants of the then-current logos
.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag includes, right after Ubisoft, the Abstergo Entertainment Logo, the The Omniscient Council of Vagueness and Big Bad for the franchise. This is a justified joke, as the whole plot is that Abstergo is producing this very same video game as a facade for their real plans, and to get money so.. Congratulations, you just gave the big bads sixty bucks!
Ghost Recon : Future Soldier has the Ubisoft and " Tom Clancy 's" logos fading in from the trippy background that's supposed to represent the game's Diegetic Interface . Following that is a shot of three shell casings falling to the ground, with the names of the Ubisoft divisions that developed the game printed on them.
H.A.W.X. 2 has an afterburning jet engine fade into the Ubisoft logo.
Rayman Origins shows Lums being sucked into the logo vortex, accompanied by sound effects from the game mixed in with the jingle. Afterwards, Globox smacks the Ubisoft logo, transitioning it into the UbiART logo. This same logo sequence is reused in Rayman Legends .
At the intro of Myst IV: Revelation , after the logo appears, it explodes and changes into the symbol for Tomahna, with the words "Team Revelation" below it. Then it fades into the window that Atrus is looking out of in his study.
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon loads to a logo sequence done in an 80s style, complete with VHS scan lines and a superimposed play symbol.
Far Cry 2 has an image of a man walking in front of a sunset, shifting into a firey version of the logo by way of an explosion of flame. This game has a thing for fire.
The Far Cry Primal trailers has an the Ubisoft logo being done in a cave painting style, matching the game's mild Stone Punk setting.
Red Steel 2 has the normal logo at the time of its release, but then it turns orange and dusty as sand is blown across it.
On recent Just Dance games, the logo starts normal, but then turns a pink/purple color and transforms into a disco ball.
Rainbow Six Siege shows the Ubisoft logo and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six logo being sewn onto military gear.
United Artists
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum : The United Artists logo is written in a messy Roman font, making it look like "VNITED ARTISTS".
Sleeper , Manhattan , Stardust Memories and Raging Bull featured a black & white Transamerica/UA logo. Three of those films were shot in black & white.
Fiddler on the Roof originally began with a timpani piece playing over the United Artists logo.
A Bridge Too Far originally began with a sepia-toned United Artists hexagon.
Some prints of the infamous Heaven's Gate had the words "A Transamerica Company" fading underneath the hexagon underneath.
The James Bond film For Your Eyes Only originally began with a UA logo similar to the 1975 logo, but with the "Entertainment from Transamerica Corporation" byline from 1968 fading underneath. Given the year this film came out (1981), and the situation UA was going through at the time, this could be interpreted as UA saying "Farewell" to Transamerica, after 14 years.
The indie film Undertow used the early 1980's version of the United Artists logo rather than the current United Artists logo as the film's director wanted the logo to tie in with the film's setting.
Universal Studios
Battlestar Galactica : The Plan: The planet behind the Universal text isn't Earth, but Caprica.
The 'Burbs : The Universal Globe appears (in a rendition done specially for the movie by Industrial Light and Magic ). The text fades out, leaving only the globe, into which the camera then zooms until it turns into a flyover shot of the town the film takes place in.
Casper : The globe turns into the moon.
Serenity : The Universal spinning-planet logo becomes Earth That Was , with the colony ships blasting off for space.
The Flintstones and its Prequel The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas : the Universal logo is made of bones, named "Univershell",
and hovers over Pangaea (prehistoric Earth).
In the first film it doesn't appear until the Flintstones go to the drive-in (accompanied by the Revue/Universal Television logo music of the 1960s!), whereas Viva Rock Vegas begins with this variation - actually noticed in the movie by the Great Gazoo ("Did anyone else see those big letters circling the planet?").
Changeling and Leatherheads both use the 1930s logo ... which is inaccurate, as both films are 1920s period pieces (that coincidentally both happened to be released in 2008).
An ad for Universal Studios Theme Park featured the camera zooming in on the Universal Earth until arriving at the park itself.
Jurassic Park III : The Universal Earth as well as the Amblin Entertainment logo ripple like water from the sound of heavy footstep.
Van Helsing : The Universal Earth is in black and white, and transforms into the flaming end of a torch carried by a member of a Torches and Pitchforks mob.
The Wolfman (2010) features two versions. In the theatrical cut, the Universal Earth reveals a full moon. The unrated director's cut kept the Art-Deco Globe logo featured in the original 1941 version , albeit a darker version.
Br�no : To fit with "Brüno", " Üniversal ".
Doom : Mars is used instead of Earth.
Land of the Lost , Inglourious Basterds and Drag Me to Hell : The 70s/80s version of the Universal logo.
The secret probation edition of National Lampoon's Animal House DVD tile has the universal earth get bigger and bigger until it explodes...with John Belushi's character Bluto exclaiming "I'm a zit, get it?".
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band : The 1929 Byplane logo is used since the first scene is a flashback to World War I.
Smokey and the Bandit Part 2: Animated versions of Bandit's TransAm and Sheriff Justice's police car chase around the globe.
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World displays the logo and fanfare in old-school-games style
.
Also inverted or something when Lucas Lee makes his entrance to the tune of the original fanfare.
Pitch Perfect has the Universal fanfare performed a capella then cuts to characters performing it; the sequel begins with the fanfare done as a duet by Elizabeth Banks and John Michael Higgins. (Coincidentally, Anna Kendrick is in these movies and the above Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.)
Like the Pitch Perfect example above, Minions features said little yellow people singing along with the fanfare. One of them even holds a note even after the fanfare is over, that he ends up passing out at the Illumination Entertainment logo.
The 2010 documentary Catfish, about social media, replicates the Universal logo
by using a computer cursor to spin a mildly pixelized Brand X version of Google Earth. Production companies Relativity Media and Rogue Pictures are pixelized and represented as a desktop icon, respectively.
The international release of Josie and the Pussycats had the Universal logo turn into a tongue ring shown on a screaming girl's tongue. Although the film opens with both logos, this variation is not on the US release (which got the MGM logo joke seen above; the joke appears on the logo of the company that didn't release it in that territory).
The Last Remake of Beau Geste had a variation of 1936 Art Deco Globe� with continents on it, followed by Marty Feldman walking in, knocking off all the letters over the sound of glass breaking, stopping the globe, and forming it into a cube, causing all the continents (except for Africa, where the story takes place) to fall off.
Land of the Dead and Dead Silence use the 1929 logo.
Hop has an egg-shaped globe.
The game Wanted : Weapons of Fate had "UNIVERSAL" in keyboard keys flying over a globe model.
Man on the Moon uses "Fanfare for Andy", a whimsical acappella piece associated with Andy Kaufman 's wrestling career, instead of the standard vanity plate music.
Cape Fear : the logo is underwater.
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life : The music stops with a record-scratching noise, and the globe starts getting smacked against something. Which turns out to be the result of God trying to fit the round Earth into a square hole.
Ted begins with the standard Universal logo (the 100th Anniversary logo in this case), following which it takes a zoom into the globe to arrive on our hero's home.
Oblivion (2013) : The logo has a ruined, bombed-out Earth with the "Tet" space station floating over it. And the Odyssey in its blind spot on the opposite side of the planet.
Waterworld : The Universal Studios spinning-planet logo shows the ocean levels rising up and flooding the continents. The camera zooms into the globe down to sea level, and the Mariner's boat, starting the movie.
Xanadu : A recreation of the 1929 Universal globe with biplane flying around opens the film. As the opening credits appear, the globe remains on screen and a succession of increasingly modern flying machines (four-engine airliner, Concorde, flying saucer) emerge from behind the Earth. The music changes in different styles of music as the objects appear.
In the original release of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , the Universal logo runs backwards (as if to emphasize the space bearing on the plot); in the 2002 special edition, the iconic "bike silhouette" flies in front of the logo.
The Sting opens with a sepia-tinted version of the 1936-46 Art Deco logo.
In Unfriended , the logo becomes pixelated and the audio quality worsens, the fanfare sounding like a ghastly moan by the end.
The 2011 film, The Little Engine That Could has the titular engine pulling the Universal logo.
Warner Bros
Since it's just the unveiling of a shield and a snippet of " As Time Goes By ", the Warner Bros logo often receives a different tint
and audio (generally one that starts the movie).
Mars Attacks! starts with the usual "sky-borne" WB Shield, from behind which a Martian saucer emerges and wobbles sinisterly off-screen to the strains of a Theremin.
The Matrix trilogy: The WB Shield and Village Roadshow Pictures logos are tinted green and made of the running green Matrix Raining Code .
Sherlock Holmes : The WB shield, Village Roadshow Pictures logo, and Silver Pictures square appear as metal-worked sewer covers on a cobblestone street. The camera then pulls back to reveal the street as part of the movie's opening chase.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows : The Warner Bros/Village Roadshow Pictures/Silver Pictures logos, and opening title, appear in the pages of Dr. Watson's manuscript.
Constantine : The Warner Bros. logo starts out in front of the traditional blue sky with fluffy white clouds. Then the sky and clouds turn red and the logo crumbles and blows away, which is a reference to events later in the movie when Constantine goes to Hell. Again.
Dreamcatcher : The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow logos are covered in snow, while the Castle Rock Entertainment lighthouse beams its light across a lake covered in snow.
Osmosis Jones : The logo appears as a one-celled organism floating in a dark background.
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird : an animated Big Bird blows up a balloon in the shape of the WB shield and says "Sesame Street is brought to you today by the letters W and B."
Sucker Punch : WB and Legendary Pictures appear in two consecutive red curtains in a theater - in which the opening scene is first a stage play, then a movie.
300 : The WB and Legendary Pictures logos are rendered to look like unearthed ancient gold. In addition, the "As Time Goes By" jingle is also done in a Greek-sounding style .
300: Rise of an Empire : The WB and Legendary logos are emblazoned on doors in a Greek temple that open to the opening scene... literally.
Rock N Rolla : The WB and Dark Castle Entertainment logos are spray-painted onto the side of a brick wall.
Batman: The Animated Series : The WB Logo fades into a police zeppelin .
Batman Forever and Batman & Robin : The Warner Brothers logo morphs into the shapes of the Bat Emblem. The latter has the logo freezing.
Superman Returns and Superman IV: The Quest For Peace : The opening logo isn't changed, but the accompanying music has a few notes added at the end, effectively playing the Superman fanfare.
Gremlins 2: The New Batch : This movie's 1990 release coincided with the 50th anniversary of the first Bugs Bunny cartoon, so Bugs is lounging on top of the WB shield when it zooms into view. Daffy Duck immediately appears and attempts to usurp his place. The characters reappear during the closing credits.
The trailer for Batman Begins had the WB shield dissolving into hundreds of bats.
In Batman Begins , The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises the logo has a dark shading matching Batman and Gotham's feeling.
The classic Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies cartoons traditionally began with the WB shield surrounded by brightly colored concentric rings. Some twists: Many of the classic Bugs Bunny cartoons start with Bugs reclining on the shield, and in some cases pulling down the card reading "Looney Tunes" or "Merrie Melodies".
One Road Runner cartoon ended with the Coyote essentially quitting, and placing a sign in view advertising for "one gullible coyote" to speak to the movie theater manager , then pulling the closing "Th-Th-That's All Folks" card onto the screen.
"Lumberjack-Rabbit", the only Bugs Bunny cartoon in 3-D, started with the WB shield bouncing toward the audience, nearly filling the screen before settling to its normal size, in an effort to play with the 3-D effects.
This was also reused for the 2003 Looney Tunes shorts WB made in a short-lived revival attempt (for tying in with Looney Tunes: Back in Action ), but the effect was not as convincing. It was also reused on the intro for The Looney Tunes Show , but seemed partly out-of-place because the show wasn't produced in 3-D.
In "Porky in Wackyland" (and the remake "Dough for the Do-Do"), the Do-Do rides the WB shield as it emerges from the vanishing point, bops Porky on the head and rides it back out of sight.
A variation: For many of their TV cartoons and animated movies, WB would use an intro with Bugs Bunny leaning on the shield and eating a carrot while the last few notes of the Merrie Melodies theme plays. Animaniacs replaced it with the last four notes of their theme ("Those are the facts!"), and that was used until 2008 (at which point, a remade intro returned the Merrie Melodies tune).
Wakko's Wish featured Bugs coming out as usual, followed by Wakko coming out and taking a bite out of the WB shield
.
The �Mucha Lucha! movie opened with the usual logo with Bugs, but then fades into The Flea leaning against the shield and eating a donut in the same fashion.
In The '90s , this Bugs-based opening was also used for live-action family films released under the specific banner of Warner Bros. Family Entertainment.
In Tiny Toon Adventures , Wackyland's first appearances showed the WB shield chasing the 1970s WB "Big W" in the background, with the former hitting the latter with a mallet. HARD .
Later, "The Making of Kon Ducki" showed the Warner lot's water tower with the caption "AFTER WE BOOTED OUT COLUMBIA." note Columbia Pictures had been renting half of the Warner lot from WB since 1972, and WB's purchase of Lorimar also got them the old Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot — which they promptly sold to Columbia not long after Sony bought them.
In Green Lantern , the logo as a power ring construct, as well as the DC logo.
The WB shield at the beginning of each Harry Potter movie becomes Darker And Rustier as the series progresses
. The accompanying music is "Hedwig's Theme," the Bootstrapped Theme for the Harry Potter films, becoming each time more sinister too.
The normally bright sky for the background of the logo is replaced with grim, overcast conditions for Twister ; the clouds part briefly to reveal the WB shield and then cover it again. The movie was released outside North America by Universal, however (it was a co-production between the two studios), and it's their logo which is revealed internationally... leaving the impression that the solar system is in the middle of a storm.
Mortal Kombat 9 has the camera go around from one side of the WB water tower (with the WB logo on the tower and the normally bright sky background) to the other side (with the WB Games logo and, uhhh, a Mortal Kombat dragon logo skyline).
Lollipop Chainsaw does a similar gag, starting with the tower having a sparkly rainbow background, then turning around to a darker background with zombies being slaughtered.
In The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo episode "That's Monstertainment," the gang is sucked into an old monster movie playing the character roles. The movie starts with Scooby Doo's face in a mock-up of the M-G-M logo reading "A Ranna-Rarrera Extravaganza" below and "Limitus Animatus" around Scooby's face.
Scooby-Doo A Bite is taken out of the Warner Bros. shield, although you don't see him Scooby's laugh is heard. Then the logo dissapears and Scooby's Dog Tag reading "SD" appears, underneath it says 'A Mystery Inc. Company".
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated features the Warner Bros. logo and the Merry Melodies theme that accompanies most modern Warner Bros. animation productions, but played with a creepy organ, and the logo is surrounded by a spooky, green fog.
, which was designed by Saul Bass .
Magic Mike director Steven Soderbergh fought long and hard to convice Time Warner heads to allow him to use the Bass logo on the film (he also attempted to utilize it for his Ocean's Eleven movies, but was also shot down). It took the studio president's claims that it wouldn't destroy Warner Bros.' reputation did they finally give it a get-go. Soderbergh claimed
that the logo harkened back to an era of "great American films" and expressed his admiration of Bass' work.
Jonah Hex : The "As Time Goes By" jingle is done in a Western-sounding style .
On New York Minute , the theme is played on an electric guitar.
Unaccompanied Minors : The Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow logos get covered in an avalanche of snow.
In V for Vendetta the WB logo is in black and white. In addition, the opening notes of the 1812 Overture are playing in the background.
On the 2009 version of The Firm, the shield glows neon colors and the fanfare is replaced by Soft Cell 's "Tainted Love".
Where the Wild Things Are : Each of the logos are static, and have apparently been drawn on by Max. The WB logo has a "wild thing" sort of shape drawn around it, with Max scribbling over the Time Warner byline and replacing it with his name. The Legendary Pictures logo has Max drawing a monster eating it. The Village Roadshow logo has Max turning the logo into his own name, with the "V" becoming an upside down "A", and a crude sword along the bottom of the logo.
Yogi Bear has the Warner Bros. logo in green and wood-paneled. The sky in the background is also done in a more realistic style than the animated sky usually seen.
You've Got M@il : The background changes into a computer screen and the Warner Brothers logo moves to up-left corner.
In Man of Steel , The Warner Brothers, Legendary Pictures, DC Comics and Syncopy Inc logos appear in swirls and bends of Kryptonian metal, similar to a Kryptonian computer display.
Wrath of the Titans : The Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures logos are each scrawled on a wall.
The LEGO Movie has the Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow logos built out of LEGO bricks, like everything else in the movie .
Get Smart : The Warner Brothers logo is a CONTROL-like door, and the Village Roadshow logo is a billboard.
The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow logos in Legend Of The Guardians The Owls Of Ga Hoole appear after the film starts and are shown in the sky with Noctus flying around them, followed by the film's title.
Ghost Ship uses the 1948-1967 Warner logo to tie in with its grisly 1962 prologue scene. Village Roadshow and Dark Castle Entertainment don't have period-appropriate logos though, so they had to settle for a sepia tone instead.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory : The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow logos emerge in an overcast, snowy sky, setting up the long tracking shot around and into the factory that most of the opening credits are run over, and Danny Elfman's score substitutes for the "As Time Goes By" music.
Orphan : The WB and Dark Castle logos are covered in glow paint that flicker on and off, foreshadowing Esther's usage of UV paint to hide the "Crazy" part of her Room Full of Crazy in the movie itself. Additionally, Dark Castle is missing its gargoyle head.
The trailer for Suicide Squad (2016) has both Warner and DC's logo covered in flickering lights and graffiti
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Since The Nice Guys is set in 1977, instead of the WB Shield it opens with the Saul Bass Warner Communications logo that Warner used at the time the movie is set.
Multiple Companies
The intro to My Sesame Street Home Video has an animated Cookie Monster taking a bite on the Sesame Street logo. As the title fades out, Cookie Monster remarks "Delicious!"
In Zodiac , co-produced by Warner and Paramount, both companies' logos are presented in period-appropriate (i.e., 1970s) versions .
Gladiator : The DreamWorks and Universal logos are sepia-toned.
In the film adaptation of Watchmen , all of the logos (Warner Brothers, Paramount, Legendary Pictures, DC Comics) are rendered in static, monotone black on a yellow background with the "Futura Condensed" font when applicable, mimicking the cover of the comic book.
Monty Python's Flying Circus parodied the 20th Century-Fox and MGM logos in the same sequence.
For The Powerpuff Girls Movie, Cartoon Network had every single character that the studio created sitting in a movie theater, continuously blinking their eyes as the projector in that theater started to roll and the camera started to pan out. As the lights in the theater dimmed and the camera had each seat in full view, the eyes, still visible in the dark, continued to blink until they slowly formed the then-current Cartoon Network logo.
The Cat in the Hat : The Universal, DreamWorks and Imagine Entertainment logos are all drawn and colored Dr. Seuss style. Plus, the DreamWorks logo's kid is wearing the titular hat, and you can see Fish-In-a-Dish swim away in the ripples of the Imagine logo. By far, the only good thing about this atrocity of a movie.
The third and current "Cartoon Network Studios" logo
is a grungy, 1992 version of the network logo that stops blinking when a green scanner runs over it. However, most series/movies have it open up to some rough, animatic-like animation of the main characters (for example, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy has Grim trying to chop off Billy and Mandy's heads; Samurai Jack has Jack posing with his sword before making a quick slash and cutting the lines holding the logo open; etc).
The second version of the logo only had one variation: Dee Dee dances by it, causing some of the letters to spin. Dexter, shortly after, crashes through the logo in a giant robot.
One variation of the Cartoon Network Studios logo involves three squares jumping on a black background with a small clip from the show playing below. Regular Show and occasionally Adventure Time are the only shows with this logo so far.
The Amazing World of Gumball features a vanity plate on which a bug jumps on the classic Cartoon Network logo, lighting it up as it jumps. It then realizes that the last part of the logo isn't lit up, so it jumps again. The bug then grins as the words "Development Studio Europe" appear below the logo.
Michael Bay Transformers films: While the visuals are unchanged, the logos are accompanied by transformation sound effects.
Though in one fan-made trailer, two of the stars are replaced with the Autobot and Decepticon logos, then the spaceship from the 80's cartoon crashes into the Paramount mountain in a homage to that respective scene from the cartoon. Also, in said fan-made trailer's DreamWorks segment, Cybertron is reflected in the water instead of the crescent moon.
Minority Report : Fox and DreamWorks are black and white and look like they're underwater, to fit in the Precog tank opening scene.
The final shot of Who Framed Roger Rabbit combines the closing logo-gimmicks of Warner Brothers and Disney, with Porky Pig stammering his " That's All, Folks! !" and Tinkerbell giving him a parting tap with a magic wand.
David Fincher claimed he did the Logo Joke purely as self-compensation
for being disappointed by all the Artistic Title proposals pitched to himnote all of which being, in his words, "this sort of antique, sepia, old china cup kind of feeling [...] like a grandma�s idea of a title sequence" rather than out of any thematic integration to the film.
The logos in The Losers are printed on a comic book page.
In Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street , both the DreamWorks and Warner Bros. logos have desaturated colors to match the look of the film proper.
In The Avengers , the Marvel Studios and Paramount logos (Paramount sporting a 100th anniversary bannernote though the logo is only there due to Executive Meddling ; long story short, Disney bought out Marvel, and Paramount sold its distribution rights for The Avengers and Iron Man 3 to Disney in exchange for a piece of the action. Since Paramount's original contract ended before Thor: The Dark World , the Marvel Cinematic Universe from that point on is branded as purely Marvel Studios; there's no Disney castle to be found taking the place of the Paramountain.) disappear into a glowing swirling mist, which turns out to be the interior of the Tessaract.
In Terminator Salvation , the logos for distributor (Warner Bros. in the US, Columbia worldwide) and production company (Halcyon, which only did this film before going bankrupt shortly afterwards and thus don't even have a regular logo to speak of) are shocked by static.
The parody The Silence of the Hams was apparently co-produced by Silvio Berlusconi Productions and... Thirtieth Century Wolf
(which, confusingly, parodies Fox's name but the MGM logo, with the wolf howling in lieu of the lion growling).
In Meet the Parents , logo jokes are incorporated into the opening song, "A Fool In Love" by Randy Newman. A chorus can be heard singing "Look at the light coming out of the earth" at the beginning of the song, which coincides the Universal logo in the movie. Then, after a few lines by Randy, you hear the chorus singing "Look at the boy, sitting on the moon", which coincides with the DreamWorks logo. (Because the movie is handled outside North America by DreamWorks, this musical joke isn't heard on international prints.)
In The Smurfs 2 , the white & blue hues of the Columbia Torch Lady's dress are more Smurf-like. A Smurf hat flies by her then lands on the title logo of Sony Pictures Animation. The fireworks on The K Entertainment Company logo are also colored Smurf blue instead of white as usual and if you look closely, you can notice some Smurfs on the rails.
Casino Royale (2006) : Deliberately Monochrome MGM and Columbia logos, to fit with the Deliberately Monochrome prologue scene.
American Hustle : 1976 Columbia logo. Atlas Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures were founded in The '90s and in 2011 respectively however, so they both had to make do with rendering their logos in the style of neon signs.
It's never spelled out in the text , but Holy Wood Hill in the Discworld book Moving Pictures is implied to be a worn-down, aged version of the Paramountain, and in Ginger's dreams is shown surrounded by huge stars (which is Fridge Horror when, as well as being a Shout-Out , these appear to be connected with the established large stars in the skies of the Dungeon Dimensions). Also, when they awaken the Golden Knight from his slumber beneath the Hill, Ginger is carrying a torch and Detritus bangs a gong. In Ginger's dream there's a lion roaring as well, but that never actually happens.
The Muppets Goes To The Movies has parodies of multiple film company logos, including Fozzie taking Leo's place for "Metro Goldwyn Bear" and Link Hogthrob on the gong for "J. Arthur Link".
Krampus features both the Universal Studios logo and the associated Legendary Pictures logo frosted over, with the word "Universal" coated in icicles.
Pinball
In Zen Studios ' The Avengers , Iron Man is on the right side of the playfield fiddling with various computer screens, one of which displays the Marvel Comics logo.
Not exactly a joke, but in Creature from the Black Lagoon , the old Universal-International logo pops up when you start the game's multiball.
Video Games
) gets turned into a charred, burning battlefield with helicopters zooming past, and the title card is momentarily seen in Kyrillic spelling, sporting Soviet colours and the hammer and sickle
.
Massive Entertainment's logo gets a similar treatment, as now silhouettes of American soldiers are seen dodging explosions in the foreground.
The SNES version of Mortal Kombat II has a hidden alternative intro: Shao Kahn walks next to the Acclaim logo and taunts it while Kintaro walks in from the right, roars and uses his teleport stomp attack to bend it downwards. Shao Kahn then taunts it again.
bite Kenny's head off.
Another iguana example in Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion. The lizard is lounging on top of the Acclaimnote By that time, Iguana Entertainment was rebranded into Acclaim Studios Austin, but the iguana mascot was retained logo as usual, when lightning strikes it and turns it into a skeleton, which promptly falls apart.
, before jumping back up and shooting him to death with what appeared to be dual Sawed Off Shotguns .
Various NBA Jam games feature the iguana wearing a basketball jersey and spinning a basketball.
Holding the Z-button down on the Nintendo GameCube controller while turning on the system would play different music. Gives different results if you hold the button down on one controllers, or all four.
Rare seemed to like these in the Nintendo 64 era:
Banjo-Kazooie has the N64 logo walk into the frame and stop to watch a dragonfly whiz by. After a brief consideration on what it just saw, it shrugs and continues on its way. The Rareware logo then pops up, which is promptly crashed into by the dragonfly. Later in the intro, Mumbo plays a xylophone with the Nintendo logo on it (replaced with the Microsoft logo in the HD version).
Donkey Kong 64 has the N64 logo dancing to the beats of the opening drums.
Conker's Bad Fur Day opens with Conker cutting the N64 logo with a chainsaw . He then replaces it with the Rareware logo.
Perfect Dark opens with the typical Nintendo and Rare logos looming out of the dark at first, then you are treated to the typical spinning N64 logo... and watch as it slowly changes into a spinning model of the PD logo instead.
Neversoft really likes this trope, as seen
In real life, what did Neversoft do to mark their merging with Infinity Ward, given that the Infinity Ward brand is the only one used after the merger? Set (a prop of) their own logo on fire.
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Guitar Hero : Warriors of Rock has a collection of different Neversoft logos as an unlockable.
OgreBattle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber had a group of soldiers stab a fallen block until they carved out the Nintendo 64 logo.
nVidia sponsorship sometimes plays with this. Call of Juarez has you shooting down the logo so that it falls on an opposing gunfighter. Unreal Tournament 2003 had a player punching through the logo
, and UT2004 followed that up with a Skaarj pounding him through it
.
Borderlands has the logo appear without the nVidia voice. Claptrap comes up, pounds on it, sighs, and then the Nvidia voice plays, making Claptrap go "Ta-da!"
A Boy and His Blob ( Wii ): The Boy and the Blob appear on the Majesco Entertainment logo, then the Boy throws a jellybean over to the nearby WayForward Technologies logo, which is strangely missing the "O"; the Blob moves over, eats the bean, and turns into the "O".
The Homestar Runner faux video game company Videlectrix has a logo with a white man running onscreen, tripping and falling, and then getting up in time with the music. In Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People : 8-Bit Is Enough, Strong Bad himself takes the white man's place when he first enters the Videlectrix mainframe.
The Awexome Cross '98 game has The Cheat, inside a tire, run over the Videlectrix guy.
The 50k Racewalker shows the Videlectrix guy marching across the screen at about the same pace as the characters in the game. The game abruptly cuts to the title screen before he even reaches the center of the screen.
Peasant's Quest has the Videlectrix guy, carrying a sword and shield, trip and fall on his sword. When he doesn't get up on cue, the cue plays again. When there's still no response, a a lower note is played and the guy's leg goes limp.
Where's an Egg has a shady man walk in screen and shoot the Videlectrix logo. The shot ricochets off the logo and kills him.
Stinkoman: 20X6 has a Mega Man style version of the white man.
The early 90's Konami logo featured on their Mega Drive/Genesis , Super NES , and PC Engine games varied a little depending on the system ( see them here
). For SNES, the laser that shoots out at the beginning of the logo is purple, while the Genesis version is green, and the PCE version blue, and of course, the jingle sounds a little different on all three systems due to their differing sound-chips.
There are even more variations of the standard Konami logo for a few games. Playstation games had two major ones: the "Logo coming out of earth" one for Western-released games, and the "Walking Logo" one for Japan-released games; most of the Tokimeki Memorial games had the games' heroines cheerfully shouting "Konami!" as the logo appears ; and who could forget the legendary Metal Gear Solid Konami logo, whose music was a Shout-Out to Hideo Kojima 's previous game Policenauts ? (sadly, this and all other Policenauts references in the game were lost on gamers outside of Japan, due to the game never making it outside of Japanese territory )
No two Nitrome game will ever show the developer's logo forming in the exact same way. Test Subject Blue has the logo as blobs of Blue Enzyme, in Steamlands it's made out of two steam-tanks blasting away at each other, Fault Line has it formed from the nodes when two screens get joined together, etc...
The Star Trek games done by Activision always feature the Activision logo de-cloaking in space, and then getting torpedoed by either the Enterprise-E (and in the case of Bridge Commander , possibly the Sovereign) or the Voyager , in the case of Star Trek: Elite Force as they fly by.
The Flash game Color My World opens with the Armor Games logo as a billboard in Black And White City. On the Newgrounds site, it also has the Newgrounds logo.
A few Electronic Arts games have the double-lined circle "EA Games" logo done in the style of the game in question.
Command & Conquer: Tiberium titles generally have a green logo with a tiberium crystal growing through the background; their Red Alert counterparts features a red-and-black icon with the hammer and sickle . Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath does it a little differently with the logo glowing red while featuring the Nod scorpion tail inside of it, helping indicate that the game has a Campaign for the Wicked Only .
Bulletstorm has the main character lasso the EA logo and kick it away, turning it into the Epic Games logo.
The Mass Effect 3 version sports the logo in an omniblade.
In Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City, a basketball becomes the sphere in Electronic Arts' 1990s logo.
The cover for the NTSC version of MySims Kingdom has a bite taken out of the logo with crumbs falling down, courtesy of the hungry pig beside it.
At least some games in the series have the iconic plumbob appear over the logo before the title screen.
Rockstar Games loves to make use of this trope, examples from their flagship Grand Theft Auto franchise include:
Grand Theft Auto (Classic) (the first game) first depicts the logo for DMA (now Rockstar North) running along a white background, and then getting run over by a car. The Rockstar logo is, appropriate to the name, brought in with the sounds of cameras flashing and paparazzi shouting.
Grand Theft Auto 2 has police car lights rush past the DMA logo, causing it to spin out and fall to the ground.
Grand Theft Auto III has a faux-computer boot up saying "RAM OK" and "ROM OK" before forming the Rockstar logo using fast moving lines to create a wireframe.
In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City , the opening credits depict the Rockstar Games logo as a Commodore 64-style loading screen.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has the Rockstar Games and Rockstar North logos appearing on screen with the sound of spray cans, kinda like graffiti (fitting for the game's 90s-era hip-hop mood).
The DS version of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has the logo appear on the outside of a suitcase full of drugs (based on one of the game's main mechanics), which then opens up to reveal the other Rockstar studios involved in the game's development. In the PSP version, however, the logos for various Rockstar studios involved in the game's development are shown through a moving train.
After having a rather mundane logo intro for the fourth numbered game in the series, Grand Theft Auto V returns to having a nice elaborate logo intro where, after sitting through a small lightshow accompanied by the sounds of a car chase, police sirens, and gunfire, the Rockstar Games logo is formed from one of the stars of the series famous "Wanted Level."
The other Wide Open Sandbox games join in the fun as well, with Rockstar logos based on their theme:
Bully has the Rockstar logo appearing as the last of three targets - the first two fall as soon as they're hit by baseball balls, while the Rockstar Logo doesn't.
L.A. Noire shows the Rockstar logo as a frame in an old film reel.
Red Dead Redemption shows the Rockstar logo inside a classic six-bullet gun. A shot is heard, and then the logo of the Rockstar studio that developed the game is shown in another slot.
In Body Harvest , predating the Rockstar days, the DMA logo walks towards the screen, only for alien goo to appear and drag it away.
Volition Inc. is fond enough of this trope that they did an official video
showcasing all of their Logo Jokes up to Saints Row: The Third .
Terminal Reality's logo normally depicts a frightening, ghostlike face against a black background with the company's name below it. In Ghostbusters: The Video Game , it gets an appropriate sendoff: the name fades out after a second, and a Ghost Trap flies from offscreen left. The ghostly face is satisfyingly pulled into the trap's cone of light, which gives off a puff of smoke and beeps to confirm a successful capture. Fittingly, the game itself uses Columbia Pictures' 1980s-era logo.
In Vampire: The Masquerade � Bloodlines the nVidea logo is filled with blood, which a vampire then drains.
Every Apogee Software game featured a different take on their theme and logo.
The flash game Gyossait features the tank in the Newgrounds logo abandoned and is covered in weeds.
In Bubsy II, on the screen showing Accolade 's logo and slogan "Games With Personality," a paw takes off the "per" and replaces it with "purr."
For Call of Duty : Finest Hour, Spark included a bonus gag in the animation reel: a German soldier runs up to the logo, and, Pixar style, attempts to crush the "S." When he is unsuccessful, he pulls out a machine gun and shoots the letter down to size, after which it springs back up and propels him into the air.
Call of Duty: Black Ops has the developer and publisher's logos appearing on 60's-era paperwork, in the midst of several shots of American soldiers in Vietnam . Black Ops II has the developer's logo appearing over the background from the Strike Force loading screen, representing the normal time period , and then goes back to the paperwork-and-historical-footage for the publisher's logo, representing the flashback missions set in The '80s .
A few of the edutainment titles by Br�derbund Software would show their logo with a fanfare, followed by a character from the game in question slicing out the "o" to turn it into an "ø". To be more specific...
In Logical Journey of the Zoombinis , it starts off with a few zoombinis walking past the logo, with one then jumping up and cutting the "o".
In Darby the Dragon, the title character flies around for a bit and uses his wand to slice out the "o".
In Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon, the fanfare first plays, and then the title character's dog-like pet lizard crawls around on the "o" causing the slice to fall out.
The Nintendo 64 port of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn has the N64 logo appear in wireframe before filling in with color... and then a Commando runs up, plants C4, and blows it up.
The Team Fortress 2 retraux fan game Gang Garrison 2
opens with a mock plate for "Faucet", an 8-bit rendition of Valve 's plate. Except that here, someone actually opens the faucet, filling the "Faucet" logo on the bottom left with water.
Even though Bayonetta does show regular logos when the game is started, there is a nifty little Logo Joke in the prologue: The development team's logo (Team Little Angels) and the developing company's logo ( PlatinumGames ) appear on gravestones, as well as the names of the development team. This sequence then ends with Enzo taking a leak on the director's grave.
The Wonderful 101 is the first game from Platinum to show no logos upon starting the game, due to it being a Nintendo-published game. note Most, if not all, Nintendo-published games ever since the Wii 's release do not display logos upon starting, due to the Nintendo logo already appearing on the game's start menu screen on the hardware's firmware. Instead, the Nintendo, Platinum, and dev team logos appear in the prologue on city buildings, along with names of the dev staff, then ending with the camera panning into the school bus.
Cyan had a couple of variations of their logos within the Myst saga.
realMyst starts with the original logo, then the circle within the logo itself changes into a sun that sets over a silhouetted Myst Island while the words "real Myst" form in front of it one by one, much like how the original Myst's logo formed against a black screen.
Riven began with a dark sphere most likely the Age of Riven itself within the Star Fissure with the company's name forming in front of it. Then the background changes to a cloudy blue sky, and the C of the logo then covers that, with the sphere serving as the center of the logo.
From Uru: Ages Beyond Myst onward, the company changed its name to Cyan Worlds. The animation they used from there was a hi-res version of the usual 3D polygonal landscape, except now with a Moiety dagger, and the Myst rocketship and library thrown in.
Sierra did one in its release of 3D Ultra Pinball: The Fastest Pinball in Space. After the usual fanfare plays, a strange cartoon character walks up carrying the words "Jeff Tunnel Productions", then stops, points to the logo and says, "Phew, Sierra!"
This troll-like character appears on the logo screen of several other Sierra games of the era; in 3D Ultra Pinball 3: The Lost Continent, he takes on a dinosaur-like appearance.
In Globdule, the " Psygnosis Presents" screen has Globdule in place of the Owlball.
In Earthworm Jim 3D, Earthworm Jim is dancing with an accordion when he is squashed by a falling Nintendo 64 logo, which is in turn squashed by a cow . (The PC version averts this by having a fridge instead of the N64 logo.)
Phoenotopia has Gale driving the Newgrounds tank.
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies and OSS 117: Lost in Rio use period-appropriate Gaumont logos.
In the second season of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet the opening Central logo (a white globe) shrinks down and dissolves into a live action shot of a white roulette ball at the start of the opening credits.
One episode of Thames Television 's The Kenny Everett Video Show had Kenny bursting through the opening logo. The shot was repeated in reverse for the closing logo.
Another of Cuddly Ken's programmes replaced the London buildings that made up the Thames logo with women's breasts
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One edition of the Morecambe and Wise Christmas shows produced by Thames used a re-recorded version of the Thames logo jingle: "Here they are now, Morecambe and Wi-i-i-i-i-ise!"
For the Des O'Connor show, the Thames jingle was played with different instruments. It would then swoop off into the stars, starting off the credits for the show.
Armchair Thriller used a nighttime version
of the normal logo.
For Storyboard , the last note would be reverbed as white streaks would fly in.
In the Lakeshore Entertainment title card for Underworld , the normally sunlit sky turns dark, and a full moon comes out.
National Treasure , The Jerry Bruckheimer production company had lightning striking a tree as its logo. The thunder sounds accompanying the logo faded into the thunder sounds of the storm in the first scene.
Even the "single bolt of lightning" is a reference in itself. The original logo was two lightning bolts striking in the same place from different parts of the screen — being the logo for Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer's company. After Don Simpson's death, Bruckheimer altered the logo to the single bolt of lightning it presently is.
Two other Bruckheimer Productions logo jokes: Hurely from G-Force runs on the road, trips on the logo's border frame when it zooms in and flees offscreen when the lighting strikes, and before The Sorcerer's Apprentice the lighting bolts make the same sound that the Tesla coil lighting makes in the film.
For Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) , after the logo frames the lightning tree road, it zooms through the frame and resumes running up the road.
D�j� Vu has the normal strike, then it rewinds and strikes again.
The Lone Ranger features railroad track instead of the road that usually leads to the tree.
Another ITV company who went along with the Logo Joke idea was Yorkshire Television - perhaps the best remembered example was their chevron logo zooming off like a firework in the titles to game show 3-2-1.
Early editions of Tiswas featured the ATV logo running backward. It was eventually stopped.
LWT's adaptation of Just William featured the titular character smashing the logo with a catpult after it had formed up. The endboard after the credits rolled showed it being held together with duct tape.
Another variation on LWT's red, white and blue 'ribbon' logo was used at the start of the interview show Russell Harty Plus, where the end of the ribbon would loop into a circle from which the picture would iris in.
The short-lived sketch show End of Part Onenote A Sound to Screen Adaptation of The Burkiss Way begins one episode with the ribbon starting at the top left of the screen as usual, but instead of turning horizontal to form the "L" it continues straight down and falls offscreen with a loud crash.
The THX logo has quite a few variations, but the funniest is probably the one with the cows.
: " The Moment is here..."
For Time Heist , the opening credits "time tunnel" are shown at the start of the episode... Which turns out to be Clara's washing machine with the Doctor peering into it.
sweded . (Compare with the real deal
.)
The logo for Shadow Projects, involved in the production of a number of puppet shows, featured a dog. It would normally be heard barking at the end of one of these shows, but on Bear in the Big Blue House , sometimes it would make a different noise, such as meowing or quacking.
Taxi : For the Christmas Episode , the off-screen female voice in the John Charles Walters Productions logo says "Merry Christmas, Mr. Walters!" instead of "Good night, Mr. Walters!"
When The Beatles ' black-and-white movie A Hard Day's Night premiered on NBC in 1967, the network's "In Living Color" peacock intro was replaced with a "lively black and white" animated penguin
.
That said, NBC still likes to play around with their peacock logo:
On the week of Earth Day, it is totally green.
In the Marsupilami episode, "Toucan Always Get What You Want", Maurice grabs the NBC Peacock. To which the evil Jaguar named Eduardo said "I don't want no stinky bird today, My stomach is craving for the little spotty guy with the tail".
Ads for some NBC shows will sometimes play with the logo at the end of the ad. At the end of commercials for Revolution , the logo has a glowing yellow outline, and at the end of the commercials for Hannibal , the logo is blood red.
Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger , The Movie : The Toei logo takes place on a beach. Here, the logo quickly pans to the left, for the first scene is on a beach too.
Gokaiger Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle : The Toei logo is unchanged, but the Super Sentai 35th Anniversary logo is directly intergrated into the opening as Gosei Red is sent flying through it by the enemy, breaking it to reveal the Legend War. A second one occurs later in the movie when Yogoshimacritein mentions that the movie he was making in his dimension is a "Goei" production (Complete with his own Vanity Plate )- which Agri smashes with his FIST.
The third part of the Kamen Rider Decade and Double Movie Wars begins on a split screen, representing how Double's chasing of the Dummy Dopant will involuntarily converge with Decade's final battle against Super Shocker . Of course, both screens show the Toei logo twice.
In the Double and OOO Movie Wars, the Toei logo is shown in red, yellow, green and purple, mirroring the color schemes of both Riders' basic forms (green and purple for Double and red, yellow and green for OOO).
Girl Meets World : "Girl Meets the New World" plays with the Michael Jacobs production ending guitar riff, by having Auggie's new friend (named "Dewey", but insists on being called "Doy" ) sing the guitar riff in nothing but "Doy"s. It Makes Sense in Context .
Liv and Maddie always uses this trope. No Disney Channel show loves this trope as much as this one does...
In "Flashback-A-Rooney" Liv sees the picture of Liv and Maddie when they were younger on their bedroom wall come to life, with their real faces in place of the drawing; consequently the Beck & Hart Productions Vanity Plate after the end credits has the real faces of creators John D. Beck and Ron Hart superimposed on their drawn bodies.
"Helgaween-A-Rooney" has the Helga drawing in the logo, with Beck and Hart presenting offerings of pizza and sandwiches while Helga is heard shouting " KNEEL BEFORE HELGA! "
"Rate-A-Rooney" has Beck and Hart holding up sheets of paper with "10" on them, with Karen saying "What'cha doing, Honeybunch?"
"Cook-A-Rooney" has Beck and Hart holding up copies of the home ec teacher's self-published memoirs .
"Band-A-Rooney" replaces Beck and Hart with a picture of Crispy Kitty's album cover while Joey and Artie - i.e. Crispy Kitty - shout the band name in unison.
"Triangle-A-Rooney" leaves Beck and Hart alone - but has Johnny Nimbus standing next to them with Nimbus At Night's chicken puppet Janice squawking.
"Continued-A-Rooney" has two planes in the background - one with Diggie's face on it, the other following with the faces of Maddie and Joey on it.
"Co-Star-A-Rooney" has (real) Artie right in front of Beck and Hart while he shouts "END SCENE!"
"Voltage-A-Rooney" has (real) Liv as SkyVolt, the superhero alterego of her Voltage character Tess, zapping Beck and Hart.
"Cowbell-A-Rooney" replaces the drawing of Beck and Hart holding up food with a photograph of them on the back of a cow while Maddie shouts "YOU JUST GOT MILKED!"
"Grandma-A-Rooney" has the Beck & Hart Productions logo accompanied with Maddie saying " What a crazy pair! "
At the start of the 2nd series of the original Life On Mars , BBC 1 replaced its usual idents with a recreation of the mirror-globe ident
used in the early '70s (the show's setting). BBC Wales opted out of this, choosing instead to use their actual model
, replete with bilingual Cymru/Wales branding, and an original BBC Wales announcer.
Promos for the American Life On Mars featured a 1970s ABC logo and an Ernie Anderson soundalike.
The Marvel Comics "Flipping Pages" logo changes with each film, with the pages shown being altered to the series the film is based on — So the Spider-Man Trilogy films featured images from the Spider-Man comics, and so on. Some films also alter the color of the Marvel logo from the traditional red to a color more suited to the series, such as Fantastic Four to blue and Hulk to green. Ghost Rider had the writing getting burned and turned into spiked metal.
In a movie-oriented skit, Monty Python did a Terry Gilliam animated logo for "20th Century Vole" pictures, with a small furry rodent rising into the MGM crest with a squeak.
In And Now For Something Completely Different, it got changed to "20th Century Frog" along with a croaking frog in the crest. Either done because it sounded better or because it was assumed international moviegoers wouldn't know what a vole is.
A later episode opens with the actual Thames Television logo, followed by Thames announcer David Hamilton stating, �We�ve got an action-packed evening for you tonight on Thames but right now, here�s a rotten old BBC programme !�
An example at the end of an episode: the A.K.A. Cartoon logo at the end of every Ed Eddn Eddy episode is remarkably different in every season, episode and even The Movie .
There was a parody of the NBC peacock on Laugh In where the peacock sneezes her feathers off
.
Studio Canal:
Attack the Block has an all-black version of the Studio Canal logo (completle with unusually black clouds), to match the colors of the film's aliens.
Irreversible has ominous red clouds, to match the colors of the film's closing (uhhh, "opening" if you want) credits and the N in the logo is backwards (reverse letters are also the case with the Mars Distribution logo in the French print), to match the typography of the film's logo.
"...Blood Pact."
"...Native American History Exhibit."
"...Spectacle." And so on... This lasted until season 4, when both Dan Harmon and the Russo brothers both left the series. When Dan Harmon returned for season 5, the stock Harmonic Claptrap logo was used.
The Knights Of Prosperity had the B, & and B of the B&B animated logo perform a different magic act on every episode, such as the ampersand ("The Amazing Ando" - get it?) sawing the two B's apart.
When The Nostalgia Critic reviewed Moulin Rouge! (see above), he parodied said film's variation of the Fox logo, except with Chester A. Bum conducting the Channel Awesome fanfare.
, to celebrate an event, whether minor or major.
The otherwise forgettable 1971 film The Christian Licorice Store doesn't have the Cinema Center Films logo
(or indeed the title of the film) until about 15 minutes in when a character starts running a film on a home projector and the logo (and title) come up on screen. On the screen in the film, that is.
Take Me Home Tonight, set in 1988, opens with the 1980s version of the Imagine Entertainment logo (which is technically inaccurate, as the Imagine logo usually appeared at the end of their movies at the time).
During the 1980s, WDIV in Detroit would broadcast Detroit Tigers baseball games, and at the end of the broadcast would feature an animated version of what was then the Detroit Tigers logo
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after a victory or mewling with an ice pack on its head
after a loss.
On the occasions where the opponent's logo would be eaten, there were usually special versions as well. For example, a victory against the Baltimore Orioles would have the tiger spitting out orange feathers.
While the practice has declined in popularity, it used to be common for the Christmas issue of British gaming magazines to show the magazine logo covered in snow.
When Josh Schwartz's production company changed from College Hill Pictures to Fake Empire, the logo became a sketch pad with "FAKE EMPIRE" on it, though what's drawn on the pad depends on what show precedes it. See for yourself
.
Jack the Giant Slayer : The Bad Hat Harry logo has five giants walking in place of five men .
Shoot 'em Up . The sprocket holes in the New Line Cinema logo appear to the sound of gunshots.
IMAX:
For the 2013 IMAX 3-D release of The Wizard of Oz , the IMAX logo sequence
preceding it was in a sepia tone instead of the regular blue.
No Warner Bros. variant in Godzilla (2014) itself (unusually given how WB loves doing this), but IMAX viewers were treated to a special version of the pre-movie countdown
.
Suicide Squad received a custom countdown
.
The Video Games Awesome! website has dozens of banners done in the style of various video game franchise's logos.
The Twelve Tasks of Ast�rix has Studios Idefix
(the Latin text is even changed to "Delirant Est Romani", "These Romans Are Crazy" ).
In Annie (2014) , as the Overbrook Entertainment logo appears, the record player starts playing Hard-Knock Life.
Every episode of Brutalmoose opens with his own logo altered to resemble a logo pertaning to the game he's reviewing.
In The Last Witch Hunter , Summit 's logo is first written in runic script the movie uses for its magic before morphing into latin alphabet.
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Some studios have vanity plates that are recognized everywhere . The moment you see a ring of stars swirling into place above a serene-looking mountain, for example, you know you're looking at a Paramount production. That little kid who tosses a fishing line into the water while sitting in the crook of the moon is instantly recognizable as DreamWorks . Such logos, once they climb to a certain point of universal recognition and cause a globe to spin on the movie screens , are a sure fire form of brand name recognition.
Every once in a while, though, a creator will have fun with it. The Vanity Plate will be changed in some way, just enough to put a new spin on it usually being tied into the movie it's featured in. Match Cuts are also a common form of this. More rarely, the logo will show up in a scene in the middle of the show.
A very specific type of inside joke. A subtrope of Special Edition Title . More examples in the IMDb's Crazy Credits
section, or at the Closing Logos Group Wiki
Examples:
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DreamWorks and DreamWorks Animation
A popular way to open a DreamWorks Animation movie is to pan down from the scene with the boy in the moon, so even logos that are otherwise normal will have the sky altered to match the opening scene.
Shark Tale : The boy casts his line and the action switches to the worm at the end, which segues into the movie proper.
Bee Movie : A bee scares away the boy and takes his place on the moon.
Madagascar : Escape 2 Africa: The penguins knock out the boy and take his place.
Penguins of Madagascar : After a "20 Years" version of the regular DreamWorks logo, the logo appears on an ice cliff face with the boy in the moon. Part of the cliff then breaks off to reveal the silhouettes of the four penguins on top of each other, taking the boy's place with the penguin on top holding the fishing rod .
Monsters vs. Aliens : A UFO abducts the boy with a tractor beam. Furthermore, the logo appears in grainy black-and-white and in the 3D version appears flat.
Kung Fu Panda : A leopard in a coolie hat in a Ninja Run , skips across a body of water, fishing pole in hand, leaping up onto the crescent moon to take the boy's place.
Kung Fu Panda 2 picks up on Master Oogway's death in the first film by having him go to the moon and take the boy's place.
In Kung Fu Panda 3 , Po wears himself out climbing a long flight of stairs to get to the moon, and ends up flopping across it, exhausted.
Medal of Honor : As the piano theme tune changes to a military fanfare, the boy throws away his fishing rod to pull out a rifle and put on a helmet. He then jumps off the moon, deploying a parachute, but it gets stuck at the bottom of the moon.
The Ring : The moon becomes the Ring for a split second, along with videotape glitches.
Shrek : The S in both " DreamWorks " and "SKG" turn green and grow ogre ears.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park for PlayStation and Sega Saturn : The boy's line gets a tug, he exclaims "Caught something!", and the boy is violently yanked off the moon as a raptor squeal is heard. This is referenced during the end-game cutscene , where the camera pans over a pair of raptors before panning up to show the boy on the moon.
Small Soldiers for PlayStation: The Commando Elite climb up the line and tie the kid up.
How to Train Your Dragon : a Night Fury flies around in the background. This otherwise introduces the new vanity plate for DreamWorks Animation (which exploits the 3D with a more elaborate fishline-swinging). The usual pan down opening shot is inverted as the scene transitions by the night fury flying in front of the logo, revealing it to be a reflection in the water, which then follows a pan up to the opening scene.
Halloween Special Scared Shrekless: The boy is scared by a wolf howl and hides behind the crescent moon.
Puss in Boots : The animation is accompanied by lively Spanish music, including the sound of a whip-crack which coincides with the boy casting out his fishing line.
The Adventures of Puss in Boots : Puss sits in the moon instead of the boy. He catches a fish which he tosses directly into his mouth.
Rise of the Guardians : Jack Frost takes the boy's place in the crescent moon, his staff in the place of the fishing rod. He lazily knocks the snowflake off towards the screen, causing the camera to zoom out, and the 'DreamWorks' title then freezes up with frost and explodes into snowflakes.
The Croods : The logo is painted on a cave wall, then flakes off and is blown away.
Dawn of the Croods : The entire family piles onto the moon as it rocks them to sleep.
Mr. Peabody & Sherman : Sherman sits on the crescent moon, casting the fishing line.
The New Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show : The WABAC drops Sherman off on the moon, who then fishes up "Dreamworks Television Animation", on which Peabody is sitting on.
Dinotrux : Revvit puts the finishing touches on carving a Dreamworks logo that features Ty Rux and him fishing on the moon into the rock, and uses his tail air blower to blow the dust away.
Home : The boy is sucked up into a Boov transport and is then replaced by a Boov who then casts the fishing line.
Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh : Oh is in the moon in place of the boy, he fishes up the controller for his saucer, and activates it, flying off into the opening proper.
Voltron: Legendary Defender : Voltron cuts a chunk out of the moon leaving only the crescent shape remaining, standing behind it where the boy would normally go.
All Hail King Julien : Julien sits in a straw moon hanging above the jungle, pulls up his line to reveal that Mort is on the end, and then catches a shark. Mort yells "I'm okay!" as Julien laughs.
Dragons: Riders of Berk : Hiccup and Toothless are sitting in the moon together, Hiccup is reading a book while Toothless has a fishing line tied to his tail. Toothless then fires on the camera, which Match Cuts with the opening, depicting Hiccup and Toothless flying out of the moon.
Trollhunters : The Amulet of Merlin opens into the crescent moon, Jim steps out of the crescent where the fishing boy would go and holds his sword high.
Lucasarts
Doing the "normal" logo was usually the exception rather than the rule for LucasArts :
Jedi Knight series and The Force Unleashed : multiple variations on drawing a lightsaber / using force powers etc.
Afterlife , where the Gold Man first falls into a flaming-red lava pit ... and then flies out with a halo and wings into a heavenly white light off the screen.
Rogue Squadron : Logo is blown up by dueling starfighters.
In the sequel, the shape of the Gold Man is formed by hundreds of tap-dancing stormtroopers.
Rogue Squadron III: The Star Wars characters dance to a disco version of the main theme, including the Gold Man.
Armed and Dangerous : features three versions of the 'Gold Man' based on the game characters drinking tea.
The Secret of Monkey Island : Special Edition : 90's era Guybrush walks on screen with a treasure map and digs up the logo, which changes to its modern form.
Escape from Monkey Island also had the logo change to a monkey holding a banana.
In The Curse of Monkey Island the game starts with the letters C M I done in the style of the THX sound preface, complete with the THX noise, with their slogan replaced with "The monkeys are listening."
The end credits of Day of the Tentacle featured Purple Tentacle scaring the Gold Guy away and taking his place.
Big Sky Trooper : The Slug leader and a lackey descend on the Gold Man, discuss how it has bones and appears to be an ad, then destroy it - as the Slug leader declares, the two things he hates are bones and advertising.
Star Wars : Starfighter: The Gold Man ducks under a Naboo starfighter as it flies above him, then hangs on for dear life as he finds himself on the nose of another one.
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds : The Gold Man falls over to reveal a battle droid hiding behind him, who then shoots the camera.
Star Wars Episode I: Racer : A podracer breaks the Gold Man, who is then repaired by some pit droids.
Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles features the Gold Man leaping off of his base and the design above him becoming a lightsaber. Promptly then attacking the screen.
Bounty Hunter : Jango ties up the Gold Man and yanks him off the logo, then flies onto it with his jetpack and uses his flamethrower to produce his own golden arc to hold. That gold guy just can't keep his job, can he?
In Grim Fandango we see the Gold Man turn into a skeleton, with the ray above also skeletonized.
Star Wars: Republic Commando features the Gold man rendered in monochrome and static, in keeping with the Darker and Edgier theme of the game.
The trailer for the cancelled Sam & Max: Freelance Police !! features the Gold Man investigating the logo with a magnifying glass. He drops it, causing the logo to shatter like glass.
Secret Weapons Over Normandy features the Gold Man come under attack by a German fighter plane, and then rescued by an American fighter, before wiping his brow in relief and projecting the arc.
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On several different Tom and Jerry cartoons, principally those directed by Chuck Jones , Tanner the Lion is replaced by Tom, who gives his best housecat "roar".
At the end of "Switchin' Kitten", Jerry runs into a mouse hole and imitates the lion.
In "Tail In The Trap", the logo appears as a "Wanted!" Poster which gets shot at.
In "Sorry Safari", the words "A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon" appear over a cartoon lion from later in the short.
A few MGM cartoons from 1942 had Tanner roaring to the tune of the Tiger Rag.
The Tex Avery short "Batty Baseball" started with no logo, just the title of the short. After about 30 seconds into the action, one of the players pauses to ask the narrator what happened to the MGM logo. The narrator apologizes and we then see the logo and credits.
In the trailer for A Night at the Opera , the lion was replaced by the Marx Brothers themselves, under the banner "Marx Gratia Marxes" (instead of "Ars Gratia Artis"), each taking turns miming the lion's roar. (When it was Harpo, his ever-present taxi-horn sounded instead.)
In Tarzan , the Ape Man (the 1981 critical dud starring Bo Derek), Tarzan's yell is in place of the MGM lion's roar.
In The Remake }} of The Pink Panther (2006) , after the lion roars, an animated version of Inspector Clouseau appears within the MGM logo, followed by the Pink Panther, then the lion again, reacting Monty Python style.
Strange Brew : Standard MGM opening, but the lion, instead of roaring, belches and appears disinterested. The camera then pulls back from the logo and pans towards the Great White North set, where Bob and Doug are trying to make him roar to no avail. A few minutes later, the lion roars in the background, and Bob comments, "Geez, now that hoser's growling!"
Silent Movie : The Big Picture Studios logo is essentially that of MGM, but with the studio boss in place of the lion and a seal barking replacing the roar.
Steve Irwin's The Crocodile Hunter : Collision Course had an alligator instead of the lion.
The trailer for the film had Irwin stepping into the frame and commenting on the lion.
The original European version is the lion morphing into a vampire where a drop of blood drops off his fang and segues into the opening credits
.
The American version is at the end of the cartoon opening where animated versions of Abronsius and Alfred are celebrating as the lion zooms in, roars then sprouts vampire fangs causing them to run off.
One more blood drops from its fangs and segues to the opening credits
The opening of the Sherie Lewis Home Entertainment series from MGM/UA Home Video would start with a painting of the MGM lion logo. The fanfare plays, And then Lamb Chop pops through the board (similar to Looney Tunes' Porky Pig breaking out the drum) and remarks "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists present the Shari Lewis Home Entertainment library. Rawr!"
The Movie of Josie and the Pussycats (a co-production between Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) begins with Boy Band music playing over the Universal logo but is immediately followed by the MGM logo as the music continues, with the lion morphing into a squealing teenage girl.
Howling III: Marsupials replaced the lion roar with a quick film clip a thylacine
roaring.
The trailer for Clean Slate has the main character's dog in place of the lion doing the roar. This wasn't in the film though (which instead had a special "70th Anniversary" logo shown on MGM's 1994 lineup).
Robocop 2014 . Instead of the lion roaring, we have the sound of talk show host Pat Novak doing vocal warm-up exercises.
Night of Dark Shadows and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (American adaptation): The lion's roars are muted out.
Dr. Strangelove was going to have one . Specifically, the film would be presented by "Macro-Galaxy-Meteor Pictures" instead, and instead of the lion, there's, as the script describes, "A WEIRD, HYDRA-HEADED, FURRY CREATURE". This tied in with the unused Framing Device of the movie being presented as a Found Footage film discovered by aliens and presented as part of a documentary series called "The Dead Worlds of Antiquity".
In Of Thee I Sing , the election night newsreel ends with the MGM lion opening its mouth, not to roar, but to crow like the Pathé rooster.
MTM Productions/Enterprises
Mary Tyler Moore 's film company, MTM, uses a logo that is a parody of the MGM logo, using a meowing kitten (acquired from an animal shelter and nicknamed "Mimsey") instead of a roaring lion. MTM has used variations of its own logo for various shows produced by them over the years.
For Christmas Episodes , such as those on The Bob Newhart Show , Mimsey was shown encircled by a Christmas wreath in place of the usual gold ribbon. Although the original ribbon appears for a split-second, possibly due to an editing error.
At the end of the "Put on a Happy Face" episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show , Mary Tyler Moore herself appeared in place of Mimsey and mouthed the words "Th-th-th-that's all folks!"
At the end of the 1991 Mary Tyler Moore Reunion Show , Mimsey does not meow, she says "Bye!" in Mary Tyler Moore's voice.
Similarly, a blooper reel for the final season ends with an audio swap of Mary saying "Bye!" and the cat.
On videos produced by MTM Home Video, the kitten holds a remote control. After meowing, the kitten hits "rewind". The picture winds backwards (and loses color), and the kitten meows again.
The Duck Factory: Before the logo starts, a voiceover asks "Where's the cat?" or "Here's the cat!" The cat then quacks.
Eisenhower and Lutz: Mimsey's "meow" is sung by a group.
The Graham Kerr Show: As befits a Cooking Show , the kitten wore a chef's hat. Also, her head does not move as much.
Similarly, on Hill Street Blues , the kitten wore a policeman's hat.
Newhart : Bob Newhart's voice says "Meow" — except for the first episode, where she meows normally, and the last episode, where Darryl and Darryl scream "QUIET!".
A variant within a variant: In the season 5 episode "Dick The Kid", Bob's meow is in a duller tone than usual.
The New WKRP in Cincinnati: Instead of a meow, you hear Les Nessman saying "Ooooh!".
For Remington Steele the cat wears a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap and has a meerschaum pipe in its mouth; when it meows, the pipe falls and lands in front of the word "Productions".
Also, there is a mockup on YouTube , but the letters move slowly, and Mimsey drops a gun, firing a hole into an "M".
St. Elsewhere : The kitten is dressed for surgery in mask and smock. In the final episode, the kitten appeared beneath the closing credits, hooked up to life support machinery, and flatlined at the end of the credits, with the normal, rather upbeat show theme playingnote though in the original broadcast, a network promo voiceover covered up the theme for most of the credits sequence. (This variant doesn't always appear when shown in syndication.)
By a sad coincidence , the real-life Mimsey would die later that same year (1988).
The Steve Allen Show: The kitten wears heavy black eyeglasses and declares "Schmock!" in the voice of Steve Allen.
The White Shadow: A different kitten from the usual Mimsey bounces a basketball off the MTM logo.
An extended person appeared in the pilot where the kitten throws the ball off-camera.
Xuxa: The kitten uses the voice of Xuxa saying "Ciao!"
The feature film A Little Sex has an animated cartoon version of Mimsey crying, followed by a second kitten appearing; the two then rub heads affectionately and purr.
Bay City Blues has a cartoon Mimsey catching a baseball. This one and several of the other variations mentioned above can be seen in this compilation
.
Lou Grant , Paris, the theatrical release Just Between Friends, and the pilot for Three for the Road all feature a silent, still image of Mimsey in lieu of the meowing.
Speaking of Three for the Road, that short-lived show's final episode had an unusual variation: after Mimsey meowed, the gold ribbon and the shot of Mimsey within turned upside down for no apparent reason.
Carlton Your Doorman, MTM's only animated production — a TV special/pilot for a spinoff from Rhoda (itself a spinoff from The Mary Tyler Moore Show ) — ends with a very annoyed looking white cartoon cat
(not a kitten) glaring at the camera ("C'mon, say 'meow'... damn cat," grumbles Carlton).
Most startling of all, the TV movie/ Poorly Disguised Pilot Vampire has "AN MTM ENTERPRISES INC. PRODUCTION" in blood-red against a black background - and no kitten at all!
Two unique variants each appeared in a different episode of The Bob Newhart Show .
In the third season premiere "Big Brother Is Watching", the cat growls.
at the end of a documentary on The Mary Tyler Moore Show .
Mutant Enemy Productions
Note that the variants are all exclusive to Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and so the entries refer to episodes of that show.
"Becoming, Part 2": The zombie says "Ohhh, I need a hug." (This was the episode where Buffy killed Angel and left Sunnydale.)
"Amends" puts the zombie in a Santa Claus hat.
"Graduation Day, Part 2" puts the zombie in a graduation cap.
At the end of "Storyteller", the zombie sings, "We are as gods!"
"Once More With Feeling": the zombie sings "Grrr... argh."
"Bargaining, Part 1": the signoff is actually included in the episode itself, with Tara putting on a zombie finger puppet and going "grrr... argh."
"Chosen", the final episode of the series: the zombie looks at the camera, growls, then keeps walking.
Parodied
in an episode of Robot Chicken , with the zombie doing the normal "Grrr... argh." before going on a rampage & killing people. The scene then cuts to show that it's Joss Whedon messing around, as an executive walks in and says, "Come on, Joss. That's why you got kicked off Wonder Woman ."
Viacom/Paramount Pictures
Alfie (2004 Version): The entire logo sequence is colored in pink.
The Avengers (2012) : On the 3D Blu-Ray release, both the Paramount and Marvel logos fade into blue energy, and are seen as different faces on the Tesseract as it rotates.
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan has Mount Fuji as the mountain.
The Beautician and the Beast : After the logo sequence is finished, the text disappears and the same mountain becomes the first shot of an animated sequence setting up the events of the film.
which the Applecopter promptly flies out from behind, again via a fade. Paramount loves the Match Cut .
Chinatown opens with the 1930s logo.
Coach Carter : The logo briefly changes into a drawn version on a notebook.
Coming to America : the camera zooms in to the mountain — and then over it, until it reaches the fictional African country .
The Core : As it finishes, it zooms into the mountain, then starts to move down to the core of the earth.
Event Horizon : The camera flies past the mountain and into a black hole in space as the opening credits roll.
The trailer for Everybody Wants Some!! features the end of the 1980-era Paramount logo, but with the Viacom byline in its contemporary font, making it almost indistinguishable from the studio's current print logo. (The film itself has the stock 2016 logo sequence.)
Exit Through the Gift Shop : As seen on the poster, guerrilla artist Banksy 's vanity production company is Paranoid Pictures, whose logo is very similar to Paramount's.
Four Brothers : Blowing snow begins to swirl around the mountain, and causes the logo to become more and more obscured.
In Friday the 13th (2009) , the logo is tinted blood red.
'The Geisha Boy'': Jerry Lewis is seeing the sights in Japan - at Mount Fuji he does a double take as stars surround it like the studio logo.
G.I. Joe: Retaliation : The stars fly up to the logo with the sounds of the deadly fireflies used by the villain of the same name.
Hard Rain : The logo forms amidst a huge storm.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull : ...a molehill .
And there's the gag before the fade, as the mountain itself is not of the contemporary design: keeping in tune with the period during which the movies are set, they use the logo from the 1950s.
The Last Airbender : The Paramount stars are accompanied with splashes of water and "hit" the logo, causing it to freeze. The Nickelodeon Movies logo afterwards is on fire, and gets covered by earth.
The Little Prince : For its international release, the sky around the Paramount logo glows bright-yellow as the stars reach the mountain, and there are several larger gold stars that come into focus as the sequence ends.
Nebraska opens with the 1950s Paramount logo (though this time, with a Viacom byline at the corner).
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones : As the logo forms, the screen begins glitching and tearing, similar to a VHS tape.
Popeye :
At the end of the 1951 cartoon Alpine For You, after Popeye punches Bluto, Bluto slams into a mountain peak, forming stars around the mountain . After that, "A Paramount Picture" appears over said mountain, closing the cartoon. This joke was preserved on the AAP prints.
, where stars from the logo would zoom in with the characters' headshots.
Rear Window : The logo appears on closing window blinds during the end.
Road to Utopia : Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are sledding through the Klondike countryside and enjoying the scenery, when something catches Bob's eye:
Hope: Hey, get a load of that bread and butter!
(Cut to a shot of a snow-covered mountain)
Crosby: Bread and butter? That's a mountain!
(The "Paramount Pictures" logo suddenly appears in front of said mountain)
Hope: Maybe a mountain to you, but it's bread and butter to me!
Scrooged : Amid holiday caroling in the background, the camera zooms past the logo and into the sky to focus on a star above a bed of clouds.
Soap Dish : White bubbles begin to fill up the frame as the logo appears.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut : The mountain changes into a construction-paper mountain in the skyline of South Park, Colorado. This one was ruined when Warner Bros. took over the European distribution of the film.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows : The stars are replaced by ninja throwing stars.
The Ten Commandments : the logo is cued over an image of Mount Sinai, rather than the usual mountain.
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life : The Paramount and Mutual Film Company logos appear as images that float on the surface of the ocean and dissipate soon afterwards.
Transformers : The Blu-Ray release for the live-action films has the stars flying up to the logo and circling it with the sounds of an Autobot transforming.
A Very Brady Sequel : The mountain in the logo transitions to an actual mountain in California.
When Wings received a new soundtrack in 2012, it also had a montage of Paramount logos playing in reverse-chronological order added to the opening.
World War Z : The stars graze the water accompanied by the sound of what appears to be a falling missile, while there are muted sounds of war in the background and a darker color scheme.
Sega
A large number of games released on pre-Saturn Sega hardware
had customised versions of the Sega logo at the start. Do note that Logo Jokes for Sega CD and Master System games are less common than for Genesis, Game Gear and 32X games because their BIOSs displayed a Sega logo of their own.
Note that the site says that the logo used for Sonic the Hedgehog was also used in Sonic 3 & Knuckles , which is not true:
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 4 actually had Sonic run to the right of the screen to make half of the logo appear, and then run back to the left to complete the logo. Trailers for Sonic 4: Episode 1 have a black background, with Sonic (in the form of a blue streaking blur) coming towards the viewer three times, the third time in the middle of the screen & leaving the Sega logo in his wake.
Sonic 3 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles displayed the Sega logo, then the background turns black and Sonic jumps out from behind the logo. And then the screen flashes white for a second before cutting to the Sonic 3 title screen.
Sonic & Knuckles on its own starts out just like the Sonic 3 version, but the background behind the logo fades into Sonic and the Death Egg falling through the sky, with the Death Egg landing in the volcano and causing the Sega logo to shake itself out of existence.
The Game Gear version of Sonic the Hedgehog depicts Sonic jumping back and forth, forming the logo, as a reference to Japanese Sega ads that would end with a clay model of Sonic doing the same thing.
Aladdin (Virgin Games) has the Genie, clad in referee garb, fire a starting pistol and accidentally shoot Iago.
Astal has Astal using his breath attack on four enemies, transforming them into the letters of Sega, then doing his signature Fist Pump as the bird flies in over the right part of the logo.
Ast�rix and the Great Rescue has the title character coming upon the Sega logo, then adjusting his hat.
Barney 's Hide and Seek Game accompanies it with "Boing!"
Bass Master Classics puts the logo underwater.
Ecco: The Tides of Time did the same, but better-looking.
Beavis And Butthead has Butt-head come across the logo and whack it.
Cool Spot shows the titular mascot hopping up and down in the logo.
Eternal Champions had variations for the nine playable characters
- each would approach the logo and then harm it in some way (usually blowing it up ). For example, Xavier would turn the logo yellow.
The Bonkers game had the four letters of SEGA fall from the top of the screen and bounce asynchronously before settling down.
Boogerman showed the titular hero fart-flying a missing S to the EGA logo, then run over to Interplay's logo and launch a booger at the screen. The Interplay part was retained in the SNES version, where it is the only logo shown.
Comix Zone has the logo in Deliberate Monochrome , contorting in various ways, while an odd jazz person says the company's name. The villain's hand then writes in "Presents..."
Darxide has the logo on an asteroid... in 3D.
Desert Demolition has the Road Runner run up to the logo, then jump as Wile E. runs after him, scattering the letters in the process.
A Doraemon game has the eponymous robot underneath the logo, performing the jingle.
Earthworm Jim has the titular worm showing off his muscles... until his pants fall down.
The second game actually sets up the plot, showing Psy-Crow distracting Jim long enough to kidnap Princess What's-Her-Name. For this reason, it was the only Saturn game to retain its Genesis brethren's Sega logo as well as one of the few Super Nintendo Entertainment System , Game Boy Advance and DOS games to have a real Logo Jokenote In those cases, it's done over, respectively, the "Licensed by Nintendo" screen, the Majesco logo and the Funsoft logo.. The PS1 version, on the other hand, outright axed the logo.
The special edition of the first game Jim performing a variety of inane acts on a Deliberately Monochrome Sega logo (Sega CD) or on the title screen (PC).
Garfield: Caught in the Act has Garfield dancing on the logo.
The Magical Taruruuto-kun Licensed Game has Taruruuto-kun doing the "Seee-Gaaa!" shout.
Panic ! for the Sega CD opens with the letters in the logo all mixed up so that they read "GASE", accompanied by an edited version of the clip used for the Sonic games: "Gaaa-Seee". Then Slap and Stick (the game's protagonists) fall from above and land on the logo, which snaps back to normal and is accompanied by the standard "Seee-Gaaa!"
The Magic School Bus on Genesis did similar by initially spelling the logo "ASEG" before the Magic School Bus bumps the "A" from below, snapping the logo back to normal. No voiceover though.
Ristar has the logo letters forming in space in black and white, with calm music playing. After they form, Ristar says "Come On!"
Star Trek: The Next Generation : Echos from the Past has the Sega logo beaming in then out, complete with Star Trek transporter sound effects.
The Taz-Mania game has Taz spin up to the logo and eat the "S".
Tempo has the logo do a water ripple effect, accompanied by a *BING* sound.
ToeJam & Earl shows the duo's ship flying toward the Sega logo, then immediately flying over it as they get too close.
Vectorman easily gets the best, where you can play a minigame that might get your game started on later levels if you do well enough and, using an off-screen power-up, you can blow up the Sega logo.
Virtua Racing demonstrates the power of its cart's SVP chip from the get-go with an elaborate polygonal Sega logo animation
.
Wiz 'n Liz has a cameo of the player character from The Killing Game Show flying by and exploding in front of the Sega logo for no apparent reason.
Some recent games have also taken to "recreating" the classic jingle with a voice actor/ voice synthesizer .
For K-On! Houkago Live on the PSP, the "Seee-Gaaa!" yell is done
by Aki Toyosaki in-character as Yui.
Similarly, the Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA series (done by the same staff as the K-On! game) opens with Miku singing the SEGA sound. Later on, Rin, Len, Luka, KAITO, and MEIKO can also heard singing the jingle.
Puyo Puyo Tetris has Arle Nadja's English voice actor singing the jingle.
As a non-sexual-fanservice-laden game, Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed uses the Genesis Sonic Sega logo and jingle after the copyright disclaimers.
Additionally, the credits contain a parody "Sumo" logo, complete with yell.
Sumo Digital was responsible for the game's development.
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit also opens with the Genesis Sega logo, although in its original, digitized 16-bit format, rather than a remastered version like in All-Stars Racing Transformed.
The Alien: Isolation trailers feature the Sega logo in an 80s low-quality video style, fitting with the entire game's retraux Zeerust style homage to the original Alien .
Ubisoft
Watch_Dogs opens with Ubisoft's logo being patched in through connections in a ctOS map of Chicago.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Reshelled featured the four tutles falling into the Ubisoft logo in the same manner they fall into time holes in the game. This was later recycled for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up (despite the two games' different art styles).
Another of Ubisoft's includes the Raving Rabbids series. Most notably in Rabbids Go Home , where after the logo appears, the 2-D Rabbids seen during level intros run in and swipe the logo in their cart.
The Assassin's Creed series gets Animus-inspired variants of the then-current logos
.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag includes, right after Ubisoft, the Abstergo Entertainment Logo, the The Omniscient Council of Vagueness and Big Bad for the franchise. This is a justified joke, as the whole plot is that Abstergo is producing this very same video game as a facade for their real plans, and to get money so.. Congratulations, you just gave the big bads sixty bucks!
Ghost Recon : Future Soldier has the Ubisoft and " Tom Clancy 's" logos fading in from the trippy background that's supposed to represent the game's Diegetic Interface . Following that is a shot of three shell casings falling to the ground, with the names of the Ubisoft divisions that developed the game printed on them.
H.A.W.X. 2 has an afterburning jet engine fade into the Ubisoft logo.
Rayman Origins shows Lums being sucked into the logo vortex, accompanied by sound effects from the game mixed in with the jingle. Afterwards, Globox smacks the Ubisoft logo, transitioning it into the UbiART logo. This same logo sequence is reused in Rayman Legends .
At the intro of Myst IV: Revelation , after the logo appears, it explodes and changes into the symbol for Tomahna, with the words "Team Revelation" below it. Then it fades into the window that Atrus is looking out of in his study.
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon loads to a logo sequence done in an 80s style, complete with VHS scan lines and a superimposed play symbol.
Far Cry 2 has an image of a man walking in front of a sunset, shifting into a firey version of the logo by way of an explosion of flame. This game has a thing for fire.
The Far Cry Primal trailers has an the Ubisoft logo being done in a cave painting style, matching the game's mild Stone Punk setting.
Red Steel 2 has the normal logo at the time of its release, but then it turns orange and dusty as sand is blown across it.
On recent Just Dance games, the logo starts normal, but then turns a pink/purple color and transforms into a disco ball.
Rainbow Six Siege shows the Ubisoft logo and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six logo being sewn onto military gear.
United Artists
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum : The United Artists logo is written in a messy Roman font, making it look like "VNITED ARTISTS".
Sleeper , Manhattan , Stardust Memories and Raging Bull featured a black & white Transamerica/UA logo. Three of those films were shot in black & white.
Fiddler on the Roof originally began with a timpani piece playing over the United Artists logo.
A Bridge Too Far originally began with a sepia-toned United Artists hexagon.
Some prints of the infamous Heaven's Gate had the words "A Transamerica Company" fading underneath the hexagon underneath.
The James Bond film For Your Eyes Only originally began with a UA logo similar to the 1975 logo, but with the "Entertainment from Transamerica Corporation" byline from 1968 fading underneath. Given the year this film came out (1981), and the situation UA was going through at the time, this could be interpreted as UA saying "Farewell" to Transamerica, after 14 years.
The indie film Undertow used the early 1980's version of the United Artists logo rather than the current United Artists logo as the film's director wanted the logo to tie in with the film's setting.
Universal Studios
Battlestar Galactica : The Plan: The planet behind the Universal text isn't Earth, but Caprica.
The 'Burbs : The Universal Globe appears (in a rendition done specially for the movie by Industrial Light and Magic ). The text fades out, leaving only the globe, into which the camera then zooms until it turns into a flyover shot of the town the film takes place in.
Casper : The globe turns into the moon.
Serenity : The Universal spinning-planet logo becomes Earth That Was , with the colony ships blasting off for space.
The Flintstones and its Prequel The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas : the Universal logo is made of bones, named "Univershell",
and hovers over Pangaea (prehistoric Earth).
In the first film it doesn't appear until the Flintstones go to the drive-in (accompanied by the Revue/Universal Television logo music of the 1960s!), whereas Viva Rock Vegas begins with this variation - actually noticed in the movie by the Great Gazoo ("Did anyone else see those big letters circling the planet?").
Changeling and Leatherheads both use the 1930s logo ... which is inaccurate, as both films are 1920s period pieces (that coincidentally both happened to be released in 2008).
An ad for Universal Studios Theme Park featured the camera zooming in on the Universal Earth until arriving at the park itself.
Jurassic Park III : The Universal Earth as well as the Amblin Entertainment logo ripple like water from the sound of heavy footstep.
Van Helsing : The Universal Earth is in black and white, and transforms into the flaming end of a torch carried by a member of a Torches and Pitchforks mob.
The Wolfman (2010) features two versions. In the theatrical cut, the Universal Earth reveals a full moon. The unrated director's cut kept the Art-Deco Globe logo featured in the original 1941 version , albeit a darker version.
Br�no : To fit with "Brüno", " Üniversal ".
Doom : Mars is used instead of Earth.
Land of the Lost , Inglourious Basterds and Drag Me to Hell : The 70s/80s version of the Universal logo.
The secret probation edition of National Lampoon's Animal House DVD tile has the universal earth get bigger and bigger until it explodes...with John Belushi's character Bluto exclaiming "I'm a zit, get it?".
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band : The 1929 Byplane logo is used since the first scene is a flashback to World War I.
Smokey and the Bandit Part 2: Animated versions of Bandit's TransAm and Sheriff Justice's police car chase around the globe.
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World displays the logo and fanfare in old-school-games style
.
Also inverted or something when Lucas Lee makes his entrance to the tune of the original fanfare.
Pitch Perfect has the Universal fanfare performed a capella then cuts to characters performing it; the sequel begins with the fanfare done as a duet by Elizabeth Banks and John Michael Higgins. (Coincidentally, Anna Kendrick is in these movies and the above Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.)
Like the Pitch Perfect example above, Minions features said little yellow people singing along with the fanfare. One of them even holds a note even after the fanfare is over, that he ends up passing out at the Illumination Entertainment logo.
The 2010 documentary Catfish, about social media, replicates the Universal logo
by using a computer cursor to spin a mildly pixelized Brand X version of Google Earth. Production companies Relativity Media and Rogue Pictures are pixelized and represented as a desktop icon, respectively.
The international release of Josie and the Pussycats had the Universal logo turn into a tongue ring shown on a screaming girl's tongue. Although the film opens with both logos, this variation is not on the US release (which got the MGM logo joke seen above; the joke appears on the logo of the company that didn't release it in that territory).
The Last Remake of Beau Geste had a variation of 1936 Art Deco Globe� with continents on it, followed by Marty Feldman walking in, knocking off all the letters over the sound of glass breaking, stopping the globe, and forming it into a cube, causing all the continents (except for Africa, where the story takes place) to fall off.
Land of the Dead and Dead Silence use the 1929 logo.
Hop has an egg-shaped globe.
The game Wanted : Weapons of Fate had "UNIVERSAL" in keyboard keys flying over a globe model.
Man on the Moon uses "Fanfare for Andy", a whimsical acappella piece associated with Andy Kaufman 's wrestling career, instead of the standard vanity plate music.
Cape Fear : the logo is underwater.
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life : The music stops with a record-scratching noise, and the globe starts getting smacked against something. Which turns out to be the result of God trying to fit the round Earth into a square hole.
Ted begins with the standard Universal logo (the 100th Anniversary logo in this case), following which it takes a zoom into the globe to arrive on our hero's home.
Oblivion (2013) : The logo has a ruined, bombed-out Earth with the "Tet" space station floating over it. And the Odyssey in its blind spot on the opposite side of the planet.
Waterworld : The Universal Studios spinning-planet logo shows the ocean levels rising up and flooding the continents. The camera zooms into the globe down to sea level, and the Mariner's boat, starting the movie.
Xanadu : A recreation of the 1929 Universal globe with biplane flying around opens the film. As the opening credits appear, the globe remains on screen and a succession of increasingly modern flying machines (four-engine airliner, Concorde, flying saucer) emerge from behind the Earth. The music changes in different styles of music as the objects appear.
In the original release of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , the Universal logo runs backwards (as if to emphasize the space bearing on the plot); in the 2002 special edition, the iconic "bike silhouette" flies in front of the logo.
The Sting opens with a sepia-tinted version of the 1936-46 Art Deco logo.
In Unfriended , the logo becomes pixelated and the audio quality worsens, the fanfare sounding like a ghastly moan by the end.
The 2011 film, The Little Engine That Could has the titular engine pulling the Universal logo.
Warner Bros
Since it's just the unveiling of a shield and a snippet of " As Time Goes By ", the Warner Bros logo often receives a different tint
and audio (generally one that starts the movie).
Mars Attacks! starts with the usual "sky-borne" WB Shield, from behind which a Martian saucer emerges and wobbles sinisterly off-screen to the strains of a Theremin.
The Matrix trilogy: The WB Shield and Village Roadshow Pictures logos are tinted green and made of the running green Matrix Raining Code .
Sherlock Holmes : The WB shield, Village Roadshow Pictures logo, and Silver Pictures square appear as metal-worked sewer covers on a cobblestone street. The camera then pulls back to reveal the street as part of the movie's opening chase.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows : The Warner Bros/Village Roadshow Pictures/Silver Pictures logos, and opening title, appear in the pages of Dr. Watson's manuscript.
Constantine : The Warner Bros. logo starts out in front of the traditional blue sky with fluffy white clouds. Then the sky and clouds turn red and the logo crumbles and blows away, which is a reference to events later in the movie when Constantine goes to Hell. Again.
Dreamcatcher : The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow logos are covered in snow, while the Castle Rock Entertainment lighthouse beams its light across a lake covered in snow.
Osmosis Jones : The logo appears as a one-celled organism floating in a dark background.
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird : an animated Big Bird blows up a balloon in the shape of the WB shield and says "Sesame Street is brought to you today by the letters W and B."
Sucker Punch : WB and Legendary Pictures appear in two consecutive red curtains in a theater - in which the opening scene is first a stage play, then a movie.
300 : The WB and Legendary Pictures logos are rendered to look like unearthed ancient gold. In addition, the "As Time Goes By" jingle is also done in a Greek-sounding style .
300: Rise of an Empire : The WB and Legendary logos are emblazoned on doors in a Greek temple that open to the opening scene... literally.
Rock N Rolla : The WB and Dark Castle Entertainment logos are spray-painted onto the side of a brick wall.
Batman: The Animated Series : The WB Logo fades into a police zeppelin .
Batman Forever and Batman & Robin : The Warner Brothers logo morphs into the shapes of the Bat Emblem. The latter has the logo freezing.
Superman Returns and Superman IV: The Quest For Peace : The opening logo isn't changed, but the accompanying music has a few notes added at the end, effectively playing the Superman fanfare.
Gremlins 2: The New Batch : This movie's 1990 release coincided with the 50th anniversary of the first Bugs Bunny cartoon, so Bugs is lounging on top of the WB shield when it zooms into view. Daffy Duck immediately appears and attempts to usurp his place. The characters reappear during the closing credits.
The trailer for Batman Begins had the WB shield dissolving into hundreds of bats.
In Batman Begins , The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises the logo has a dark shading matching Batman and Gotham's feeling.
The classic Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies cartoons traditionally began with the WB shield surrounded by brightly colored concentric rings. Some twists: Many of the classic Bugs Bunny cartoons start with Bugs reclining on the shield, and in some cases pulling down the card reading "Looney Tunes" or "Merrie Melodies".
One Road Runner cartoon ended with the Coyote essentially quitting, and placing a sign in view advertising for "one gullible coyote" to speak to the movie theater manager , then pulling the closing "Th-Th-That's All Folks" card onto the screen.
"Lumberjack-Rabbit", the only Bugs Bunny cartoon in 3-D, started with the WB shield bouncing toward the audience, nearly filling the screen before settling to its normal size, in an effort to play with the 3-D effects.
This was also reused for the 2003 Looney Tunes shorts WB made in a short-lived revival attempt (for tying in with Looney Tunes: Back in Action ), but the effect was not as convincing. It was also reused on the intro for The Looney Tunes Show , but seemed partly out-of-place because the show wasn't produced in 3-D.
In "Porky in Wackyland" (and the remake "Dough for the Do-Do"), the Do-Do rides the WB shield as it emerges from the vanishing point, bops Porky on the head and rides it back out of sight.
A variation: For many of their TV cartoons and animated movies, WB would use an intro with Bugs Bunny leaning on the shield and eating a carrot while the last few notes of the Merrie Melodies theme plays. Animaniacs replaced it with the last four notes of their theme ("Those are the facts!"), and that was used until 2008 (at which point, a remade intro returned the Merrie Melodies tune).
Wakko's Wish featured Bugs coming out as usual, followed by Wakko coming out and taking a bite out of the WB shield
.
The �Mucha Lucha! movie opened with the usual logo with Bugs, but then fades into The Flea leaning against the shield and eating a donut in the same fashion.
In The '90s , this Bugs-based opening was also used for live-action family films released under the specific banner of Warner Bros. Family Entertainment.
In Tiny Toon Adventures , Wackyland's first appearances showed the WB shield chasing the 1970s WB "Big W" in the background, with the former hitting the latter with a mallet. HARD .
Later, "The Making of Kon Ducki" showed the Warner lot's water tower with the caption "AFTER WE BOOTED OUT COLUMBIA." note Columbia Pictures had been renting half of the Warner lot from WB since 1972, and WB's purchase of Lorimar also got them the old Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot — which they promptly sold to Columbia not long after Sony bought them.
In Green Lantern , the logo as a power ring construct, as well as the DC logo.
The WB shield at the beginning of each Harry Potter movie becomes Darker And Rustier as the series progresses
. The accompanying music is "Hedwig's Theme," the Bootstrapped Theme for the Harry Potter films, becoming each time more sinister too.
The normally bright sky for the background of the logo is replaced with grim, overcast conditions for Twister ; the clouds part briefly to reveal the WB shield and then cover it again. The movie was released outside North America by Universal, however (it was a co-production between the two studios), and it's their logo which is revealed internationally... leaving the impression that the solar system is in the middle of a storm.
Mortal Kombat 9 has the camera go around from one side of the WB water tower (with the WB logo on the tower and the normally bright sky background) to the other side (with the WB Games logo and, uhhh, a Mortal Kombat dragon logo skyline).
Lollipop Chainsaw does a similar gag, starting with the tower having a sparkly rainbow background, then turning around to a darker background with zombies being slaughtered.
In The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo episode "That's Monstertainment," the gang is sucked into an old monster movie playing the character roles. The movie starts with Scooby Doo's face in a mock-up of the M-G-M logo reading "A Ranna-Rarrera Extravaganza" below and "Limitus Animatus" around Scooby's face.
Scooby-Doo A Bite is taken out of the Warner Bros. shield, although you don't see him Scooby's laugh is heard. Then the logo dissapears and Scooby's Dog Tag reading "SD" appears, underneath it says 'A Mystery Inc. Company".
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated features the Warner Bros. logo and the Merry Melodies theme that accompanies most modern Warner Bros. animation productions, but played with a creepy organ, and the logo is surrounded by a spooky, green fog.
, which was designed by Saul Bass .
Magic Mike director Steven Soderbergh fought long and hard to convice Time Warner heads to allow him to use the Bass logo on the film (he also attempted to utilize it for his Ocean's Eleven movies, but was also shot down). It took the studio president's claims that it wouldn't destroy Warner Bros.' reputation did they finally give it a get-go. Soderbergh claimed
that the logo harkened back to an era of "great American films" and expressed his admiration of Bass' work.
Jonah Hex : The "As Time Goes By" jingle is done in a Western-sounding style .
On New York Minute , the theme is played on an electric guitar.
Unaccompanied Minors : The Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow logos get covered in an avalanche of snow.
In V for Vendetta the WB logo is in black and white. In addition, the opening notes of the 1812 Overture are playing in the background.
On the 2009 version of The Firm, the shield glows neon colors and the fanfare is replaced by Soft Cell 's "Tainted Love".
Where the Wild Things Are : Each of the logos are static, and have apparently been drawn on by Max. The WB logo has a "wild thing" sort of shape drawn around it, with Max scribbling over the Time Warner byline and replacing it with his name. The Legendary Pictures logo has Max drawing a monster eating it. The Village Roadshow logo has Max turning the logo into his own name, with the "V" becoming an upside down "A", and a crude sword along the bottom of the logo.
Yogi Bear has the Warner Bros. logo in green and wood-paneled. The sky in the background is also done in a more realistic style than the animated sky usually seen.
You've Got M@il : The background changes into a computer screen and the Warner Brothers logo moves to up-left corner.
In Man of Steel , The Warner Brothers, Legendary Pictures, DC Comics and Syncopy Inc logos appear in swirls and bends of Kryptonian metal, similar to a Kryptonian computer display.
Wrath of the Titans : The Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures logos are each scrawled on a wall.
The LEGO Movie has the Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow logos built out of LEGO bricks, like everything else in the movie .
Get Smart : The Warner Brothers logo is a CONTROL-like door, and the Village Roadshow logo is a billboard.
The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow logos in Legend Of The Guardians The Owls Of Ga Hoole appear after the film starts and are shown in the sky with Noctus flying around them, followed by the film's title.
Ghost Ship uses the 1948-1967 Warner logo to tie in with its grisly 1962 prologue scene. Village Roadshow and Dark Castle Entertainment don't have period-appropriate logos though, so they had to settle for a sepia tone instead.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory : The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow logos emerge in an overcast, snowy sky, setting up the long tracking shot around and into the factory that most of the opening credits are run over, and Danny Elfman's score substitutes for the "As Time Goes By" music.
Orphan : The WB and Dark Castle logos are covered in glow paint that flicker on and off, foreshadowing Esther's usage of UV paint to hide the "Crazy" part of her Room Full of Crazy in the movie itself. Additionally, Dark Castle is missing its gargoyle head.
The trailer for Suicide Squad (2016) has both Warner and DC's logo covered in flickering lights and graffiti
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Since The Nice Guys is set in 1977, instead of the WB Shield it opens with the Saul Bass Warner Communications logo that Warner used at the time the movie is set.
Multiple Companies
The intro to My Sesame Street Home Video has an animated Cookie Monster taking a bite on the Sesame Street logo. As the title fades out, Cookie Monster remarks "Delicious!"
In Zodiac , co-produced by Warner and Paramount, both companies' logos are presented in period-appropriate (i.e., 1970s) versions .
Gladiator : The DreamWorks and Universal logos are sepia-toned.
In the film adaptation of Watchmen , all of the logos (Warner Brothers, Paramount, Legendary Pictures, DC Comics) are rendered in static, monotone black on a yellow background with the "Futura Condensed" font when applicable, mimicking the cover of the comic book.
Monty Python's Flying Circus parodied the 20th Century-Fox and MGM logos in the same sequence.
For The Powerpuff Girls Movie, Cartoon Network had every single character that the studio created sitting in a movie theater, continuously blinking their eyes as the projector in that theater started to roll and the camera started to pan out. As the lights in the theater dimmed and the camera had each seat in full view, the eyes, still visible in the dark, continued to blink until they slowly formed the then-current Cartoon Network logo.
The Cat in the Hat : The Universal, DreamWorks and Imagine Entertainment logos are all drawn and colored Dr. Seuss style. Plus, the DreamWorks logo's kid is wearing the titular hat, and you can see Fish-In-a-Dish swim away in the ripples of the Imagine logo. By far, the only good thing about this atrocity of a movie.
The third and current "Cartoon Network Studios" logo
is a grungy, 1992 version of the network logo that stops blinking when a green scanner runs over it. However, most series/movies have it open up to some rough, animatic-like animation of the main characters (for example, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy has Grim trying to chop off Billy and Mandy's heads; Samurai Jack has Jack posing with his sword before making a quick slash and cutting the lines holding the logo open; etc).
The second version of the logo only had one variation: Dee Dee dances by it, causing some of the letters to spin. Dexter, shortly after, crashes through the logo in a giant robot.
One variation of the Cartoon Network Studios logo involves three squares jumping on a black background with a small clip from the show playing below. Regular Show and occasionally Adventure Time are the only shows with this logo so far.
The Amazing World of Gumball features a vanity plate on which a bug jumps on the classic Cartoon Network logo, lighting it up as it jumps. It then realizes that the last part of the logo isn't lit up, so it jumps again. The bug then grins as the words "Development Studio Europe" appear below the logo.
Michael Bay Transformers films: While the visuals are unchanged, the logos are accompanied by transformation sound effects.
Though in one fan-made trailer, two of the stars are replaced with the Autobot and Decepticon logos, then the spaceship from the 80's cartoon crashes into the Paramount mountain in a homage to that respective scene from the cartoon. Also, in said fan-made trailer's DreamWorks segment, Cybertron is reflected in the water instead of the crescent moon.
Minority Report : Fox and DreamWorks are black and white and look like they're underwater, to fit in the Precog tank opening scene.
The final shot of Who Framed Roger Rabbit combines the closing logo-gimmicks of Warner Brothers and Disney, with Porky Pig stammering his " That's All, Folks! !" and Tinkerbell giving him a parting tap with a magic wand.
David Fincher claimed he did the Logo Joke purely as self-compensation
for being disappointed by all the Artistic Title proposals pitched to himnote all of which being, in his words, "this sort of antique, sepia, old china cup kind of feeling [...] like a grandma�s idea of a title sequence" rather than out of any thematic integration to the film.
The logos in The Losers are printed on a comic book page.
In Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street , both the DreamWorks and Warner Bros. logos have desaturated colors to match the look of the film proper.
In The Avengers , the Marvel Studios and Paramount logos (Paramount sporting a 100th anniversary bannernote though the logo is only there due to Executive Meddling ; long story short, Disney bought out Marvel, and Paramount sold its distribution rights for The Avengers and Iron Man 3 to Disney in exchange for a piece of the action. Since Paramount's original contract ended before Thor: The Dark World , the Marvel Cinematic Universe from that point on is branded as purely Marvel Studios; there's no Disney castle to be found taking the place of the Paramountain.) disappear into a glowing swirling mist, which turns out to be the interior of the Tessaract.
In Terminator Salvation , the logos for distributor (Warner Bros. in the US, Columbia worldwide) and production company (Halcyon, which only did this film before going bankrupt shortly afterwards and thus don't even have a regular logo to speak of) are shocked by static.
The parody The Silence of the Hams was apparently co-produced by Silvio Berlusconi Productions and... Thirtieth Century Wolf
(which, confusingly, parodies Fox's name but the MGM logo, with the wolf howling in lieu of the lion growling).
In Meet the Parents , logo jokes are incorporated into the opening song, "A Fool In Love" by Randy Newman. A chorus can be heard singing "Look at the light coming out of the earth" at the beginning of the song, which coincides the Universal logo in the movie. Then, after a few lines by Randy, you hear the chorus singing "Look at the boy, sitting on the moon", which coincides with the DreamWorks logo. (Because the movie is handled outside North America by DreamWorks, this musical joke isn't heard on international prints.)
In The Smurfs 2 , the white & blue hues of the Columbia Torch Lady's dress are more Smurf-like. A Smurf hat flies by her then lands on the title logo of Sony Pictures Animation. The fireworks on The K Entertainment Company logo are also colored Smurf blue instead of white as usual and if you look closely, you can notice some Smurfs on the rails.
Casino Royale (2006) : Deliberately Monochrome MGM and Columbia logos, to fit with the Deliberately Monochrome prologue scene.
American Hustle : 1976 Columbia logo. Atlas Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures were founded in The '90s and in 2011 respectively however, so they both had to make do with rendering their logos in the style of neon signs.
It's never spelled out in the text , but Holy Wood Hill in the Discworld book Moving Pictures is implied to be a worn-down, aged version of the Paramountain, and in Ginger's dreams is shown surrounded by huge stars (which is Fridge Horror when, as well as being a Shout-Out , these appear to be connected with the established large stars in the skies of the Dungeon Dimensions). Also, when they awaken the Golden Knight from his slumber beneath the Hill, Ginger is carrying a torch and Detritus bangs a gong. In Ginger's dream there's a lion roaring as well, but that never actually happens.
The Muppets Goes To The Movies has parodies of multiple film company logos, including Fozzie taking Leo's place for "Metro Goldwyn Bear" and Link Hogthrob on the gong for "J. Arthur Link".
Krampus features both the Universal Studios logo and the associated Legendary Pictures logo frosted over, with the word "Universal" coated in icicles.
Pinball
In Zen Studios ' The Avengers , Iron Man is on the right side of the playfield fiddling with various computer screens, one of which displays the Marvel Comics logo.
Not exactly a joke, but in Creature from the Black Lagoon , the old Universal-International logo pops up when you start the game's multiball.
Video Games
) gets turned into a charred, burning battlefield with helicopters zooming past, and the title card is momentarily seen in Kyrillic spelling, sporting Soviet colours and the hammer and sickle
.
Massive Entertainment's logo gets a similar treatment, as now silhouettes of American soldiers are seen dodging explosions in the foreground.
The SNES version of Mortal Kombat II has a hidden alternative intro: Shao Kahn walks next to the Acclaim logo and taunts it while Kintaro walks in from the right, roars and uses his teleport stomp attack to bend it downwards. Shao Kahn then taunts it again.
bite Kenny's head off.
Another iguana example in Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion. The lizard is lounging on top of the Acclaimnote By that time, Iguana Entertainment was rebranded into Acclaim Studios Austin, but the iguana mascot was retained logo as usual, when lightning strikes it and turns it into a skeleton, which promptly falls apart.
, before jumping back up and shooting him to death with what appeared to be dual Sawed Off Shotguns .
Various NBA Jam games feature the iguana wearing a basketball jersey and spinning a basketball.
Holding the Z-button down on the Nintendo GameCube controller while turning on the system would play different music. Gives different results if you hold the button down on one controllers, or all four.
Rare seemed to like these in the Nintendo 64 era:
Banjo-Kazooie has the N64 logo walk into the frame and stop to watch a dragonfly whiz by. After a brief consideration on what it just saw, it shrugs and continues on its way. The Rareware logo then pops up, which is promptly crashed into by the dragonfly. Later in the intro, Mumbo plays a xylophone with the Nintendo logo on it (replaced with the Microsoft logo in the HD version).
Donkey Kong 64 has the N64 logo dancing to the beats of the opening drums.
Conker's Bad Fur Day opens with Conker cutting the N64 logo with a chainsaw . He then replaces it with the Rareware logo.
Perfect Dark opens with the typical Nintendo and Rare logos looming out of the dark at first, then you are treated to the typical spinning N64 logo... and watch as it slowly changes into a spinning model of the PD logo instead.
Neversoft really likes this trope, as seen
In real life, what did Neversoft do to mark their merging with Infinity Ward, given that the Infinity Ward brand is the only one used after the merger? Set (a prop of) their own logo on fire.
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Guitar Hero : Warriors of Rock has a collection of different Neversoft logos as an unlockable.
OgreBattle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber had a group of soldiers stab a fallen block until they carved out the Nintendo 64 logo.
nVidia sponsorship sometimes plays with this. Call of Juarez has you shooting down the logo so that it falls on an opposing gunfighter. Unreal Tournament 2003 had a player punching through the logo
, and UT2004 followed that up with a Skaarj pounding him through it
.
Borderlands has the logo appear without the nVidia voice. Claptrap comes up, pounds on it, sighs, and then the Nvidia voice plays, making Claptrap go "Ta-da!"
A Boy and His Blob ( Wii ): The Boy and the Blob appear on the Majesco Entertainment logo, then the Boy throws a jellybean over to the nearby WayForward Technologies logo, which is strangely missing the "O"; the Blob moves over, eats the bean, and turns into the "O".
The Homestar Runner faux video game company Videlectrix has a logo with a white man running onscreen, tripping and falling, and then getting up in time with the music. In Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People : 8-Bit Is Enough, Strong Bad himself takes the white man's place when he first enters the Videlectrix mainframe.
The Awexome Cross '98 game has The Cheat, inside a tire, run over the Videlectrix guy.
The 50k Racewalker shows the Videlectrix guy marching across the screen at about the same pace as the characters in the game. The game abruptly cuts to the title screen before he even reaches the center of the screen.
Peasant's Quest has the Videlectrix guy, carrying a sword and shield, trip and fall on his sword. When he doesn't get up on cue, the cue plays again. When there's still no response, a a lower note is played and the guy's leg goes limp.
Where's an Egg has a shady man walk in screen and shoot the Videlectrix logo. The shot ricochets off the logo and kills him.
Stinkoman: 20X6 has a Mega Man style version of the white man.
The early 90's Konami logo featured on their Mega Drive/Genesis , Super NES , and PC Engine games varied a little depending on the system ( see them here
). For SNES, the laser that shoots out at the beginning of the logo is purple, while the Genesis version is green, and the PCE version blue, and of course, the jingle sounds a little different on all three systems due to their differing sound-chips.
There are even more variations of the standard Konami logo for a few games. Playstation games had two major ones: the "Logo coming out of earth" one for Western-released games, and the "Walking Logo" one for Japan-released games; most of the Tokimeki Memorial games had the games' heroines cheerfully shouting "Konami!" as the logo appears ; and who could forget the legendary Metal Gear Solid Konami logo, whose music was a Shout-Out to Hideo Kojima 's previous game Policenauts ? (sadly, this and all other Policenauts references in the game were lost on gamers outside of Japan, due to the game never making it outside of Japanese territory )
No two Nitrome game will ever show the developer's logo forming in the exact same way. Test Subject Blue has the logo as blobs of Blue Enzyme, in Steamlands it's made out of two steam-tanks blasting away at each other, Fault Line has it formed from the nodes when two screens get joined together, etc...
The Star Trek games done by Activision always feature the Activision logo de-cloaking in space, and then getting torpedoed by either the Enterprise-E (and in the case of Bridge Commander , possibly the Sovereign) or the Voyager , in the case of Star Trek: Elite Force as they fly by.
The Flash game Color My World opens with the Armor Games logo as a billboard in Black And White City. On the Newgrounds site, it also has the Newgrounds logo.
A few Electronic Arts games have the double-lined circle "EA Games" logo done in the style of the game in question.
Command & Conquer: Tiberium titles generally have a green logo with a tiberium crystal growing through the background; their Red Alert counterparts features a red-and-black icon with the hammer and sickle . Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath does it a little differently with the logo glowing red while featuring the Nod scorpion tail inside of it, helping indicate that the game has a Campaign for the Wicked Only .
Bulletstorm has the main character lasso the EA logo and kick it away, turning it into the Epic Games logo.
The Mass Effect 3 version sports the logo in an omniblade.
In Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City, a basketball becomes the sphere in Electronic Arts' 1990s logo.
The cover for the NTSC version of MySims Kingdom has a bite taken out of the logo with crumbs falling down, courtesy of the hungry pig beside it.
At least some games in the series have the iconic plumbob appear over the logo before the title screen.
Rockstar Games loves to make use of this trope, examples from their flagship Grand Theft Auto franchise include:
Grand Theft Auto (Classic) (the first game) first depicts the logo for DMA (now Rockstar North) running along a white background, and then getting run over by a car. The Rockstar logo is, appropriate to the name, brought in with the sounds of cameras flashing and paparazzi shouting.
Grand Theft Auto 2 has police car lights rush past the DMA logo, causing it to spin out and fall to the ground.
Grand Theft Auto III has a faux-computer boot up saying "RAM OK" and "ROM OK" before forming the Rockstar logo using fast moving lines to create a wireframe.
In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City , the opening credits depict the Rockstar Games logo as a Commodore 64-style loading screen.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has the Rockstar Games and Rockstar North logos appearing on screen with the sound of spray cans, kinda like graffiti (fitting for the game's 90s-era hip-hop mood).
The DS version of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has the logo appear on the outside of a suitcase full of drugs (based on one of the game's main mechanics), which then opens up to reveal the other Rockstar studios involved in the game's development. In the PSP version, however, the logos for various Rockstar studios involved in the game's development are shown through a moving train.
After having a rather mundane logo intro for the fourth numbered game in the series, Grand Theft Auto V returns to having a nice elaborate logo intro where, after sitting through a small lightshow accompanied by the sounds of a car chase, police sirens, and gunfire, the Rockstar Games logo is formed from one of the stars of the series famous "Wanted Level."
The other Wide Open Sandbox games join in the fun as well, with Rockstar logos based on their theme:
Bully has the Rockstar logo appearing as the last of three targets - the first two fall as soon as they're hit by baseball balls, while the Rockstar Logo doesn't.
L.A. Noire shows the Rockstar logo as a frame in an old film reel.
Red Dead Redemption shows the Rockstar logo inside a classic six-bullet gun. A shot is heard, and then the logo of the Rockstar studio that developed the game is shown in another slot.
In Body Harvest , predating the Rockstar days, the DMA logo walks towards the screen, only for alien goo to appear and drag it away.
Volition Inc. is fond enough of this trope that they did an official video
showcasing all of their Logo Jokes up to Saints Row: The Third .
Terminal Reality's logo normally depicts a frightening, ghostlike face against a black background with the company's name below it. In Ghostbusters: The Video Game , it gets an appropriate sendoff: the name fades out after a second, and a Ghost Trap flies from offscreen left. The ghostly face is satisfyingly pulled into the trap's cone of light, which gives off a puff of smoke and beeps to confirm a successful capture. Fittingly, the game itself uses Columbia Pictures' 1980s-era logo.
In Vampire: The Masquerade � Bloodlines the nVidea logo is filled with blood, which a vampire then drains.
Every Apogee Software game featured a different take on their theme and logo.
The flash game Gyossait features the tank in the Newgrounds logo abandoned and is covered in weeds.
In Bubsy II, on the screen showing Accolade 's logo and slogan "Games With Personality," a paw takes off the "per" and replaces it with "purr."
For Call of Duty : Finest Hour, Spark included a bonus gag in the animation reel: a German soldier runs up to the logo, and, Pixar style, attempts to crush the "S." When he is unsuccessful, he pulls out a machine gun and shoots the letter down to size, after which it springs back up and propels him into the air.
Call of Duty: Black Ops has the developer and publisher's logos appearing on 60's-era paperwork, in the midst of several shots of American soldiers in Vietnam . Black Ops II has the developer's logo appearing over the background from the Strike Force loading screen, representing the normal time period , and then goes back to the paperwork-and-historical-footage for the publisher's logo, representing the flashback missions set in The '80s .
A few of the edutainment titles by Br�derbund Software would show their logo with a fanfare, followed by a character from the game in question slicing out the "o" to turn it into an "ø". To be more specific...
In Logical Journey of the Zoombinis , it starts off with a few zoombinis walking past the logo, with one then jumping up and cutting the "o".
In Darby the Dragon, the title character flies around for a bit and uses his wand to slice out the "o".
In Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon, the fanfare first plays, and then the title character's dog-like pet lizard crawls around on the "o" causing the slice to fall out.
The Nintendo 64 port of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn has the N64 logo appear in wireframe before filling in with color... and then a Commando runs up, plants C4, and blows it up.
The Team Fortress 2 retraux fan game Gang Garrison 2
opens with a mock plate for "Faucet", an 8-bit rendition of Valve 's plate. Except that here, someone actually opens the faucet, filling the "Faucet" logo on the bottom left with water.
Even though Bayonetta does show regular logos when the game is started, there is a nifty little Logo Joke in the prologue: The development team's logo (Team Little Angels) and the developing company's logo ( PlatinumGames ) appear on gravestones, as well as the names of the development team. This sequence then ends with Enzo taking a leak on the director's grave.
The Wonderful 101 is the first game from Platinum to show no logos upon starting the game, due to it being a Nintendo-published game. note Most, if not all, Nintendo-published games ever since the Wii 's release do not display logos upon starting, due to the Nintendo logo already appearing on the game's start menu screen on the hardware's firmware. Instead, the Nintendo, Platinum, and dev team logos appear in the prologue on city buildings, along with names of the dev staff, then ending with the camera panning into the school bus.
Cyan had a couple of variations of their logos within the Myst saga.
realMyst starts with the original logo, then the circle within the logo itself changes into a sun that sets over a silhouetted Myst Island while the words "real Myst" form in front of it one by one, much like how the original Myst's logo formed against a black screen.
Riven began with a dark sphere most likely the Age of Riven itself within the Star Fissure with the company's name forming in front of it. Then the background changes to a cloudy blue sky, and the C of the logo then covers that, with the sphere serving as the center of the logo.
From Uru: Ages Beyond Myst onward, the company changed its name to Cyan Worlds. The animation they used from there was a hi-res version of the usual 3D polygonal landscape, except now with a Moiety dagger, and the Myst rocketship and library thrown in.
Sierra did one in its release of 3D Ultra Pinball: The Fastest Pinball in Space. After the usual fanfare plays, a strange cartoon character walks up carrying the words "Jeff Tunnel Productions", then stops, points to the logo and says, "Phew, Sierra!"
This troll-like character appears on the logo screen of several other Sierra games of the era; in 3D Ultra Pinball 3: The Lost Continent, he takes on a dinosaur-like appearance.
In Globdule, the " Psygnosis Presents" screen has Globdule in place of the Owlball.
In Earthworm Jim 3D, Earthworm Jim is dancing with an accordion when he is squashed by a falling Nintendo 64 logo, which is in turn squashed by a cow . (The PC version averts this by having a fridge instead of the N64 logo.)
Phoenotopia has Gale driving the Newgrounds tank.
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies and OSS 117: Lost in Rio use period-appropriate Gaumont logos.
In the second season of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet the opening Central logo (a white globe) shrinks down and dissolves into a live action shot of a white roulette ball at the start of the opening credits.
One episode of Thames Television 's The Kenny Everett Video Show had Kenny bursting through the opening logo. The shot was repeated in reverse for the closing logo.
Another of Cuddly Ken's programmes replaced the London buildings that made up the Thames logo with women's breasts
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One edition of the Morecambe and Wise Christmas shows produced by Thames used a re-recorded version of the Thames logo jingle: "Here they are now, Morecambe and Wi-i-i-i-i-ise!"
For the Des O'Connor show, the Thames jingle was played with different instruments. It would then swoop off into the stars, starting off the credits for the show.
Armchair Thriller used a nighttime version
of the normal logo.
For Storyboard , the last note would be reverbed as white streaks would fly in.
In the Lakeshore Entertainment title card for Underworld , the normally sunlit sky turns dark, and a full moon comes out.
National Treasure , The Jerry Bruckheimer production company had lightning striking a tree as its logo. The thunder sounds accompanying the logo faded into the thunder sounds of the storm in the first scene.
Even the "single bolt of lightning" is a reference in itself. The original logo was two lightning bolts striking in the same place from different parts of the screen — being the logo for Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer's company. After Don Simpson's death, Bruckheimer altered the logo to the single bolt of lightning it presently is.
Two other Bruckheimer Productions logo jokes: Hurely from G-Force runs on the road, trips on the logo's border frame when it zooms in and flees offscreen when the lighting strikes, and before The Sorcerer's Apprentice the lighting bolts make the same sound that the Tesla coil lighting makes in the film.
For Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) , after the logo frames the lightning tree road, it zooms through the frame and resumes running up the road.
D�j� Vu has the normal strike, then it rewinds and strikes again.
The Lone Ranger features railroad track instead of the road that usually leads to the tree.
Another ITV company who went along with the Logo Joke idea was Yorkshire Television - perhaps the best remembered example was their chevron logo zooming off like a firework in the titles to game show 3-2-1.
Early editions of Tiswas featured the ATV logo running backward. It was eventually stopped.
LWT's adaptation of Just William featured the titular character smashing the logo with a catpult after it had formed up. The endboard after the credits rolled showed it being held together with duct tape.
Another variation on LWT's red, white and blue 'ribbon' logo was used at the start of the interview show Russell Harty Plus, where the end of the ribbon would loop into a circle from which the picture would iris in.
The short-lived sketch show End of Part Onenote A Sound to Screen Adaptation of The Burkiss Way begins one episode with the ribbon starting at the top left of the screen as usual, but instead of turning horizontal to form the "L" it continues straight down and falls offscreen with a loud crash.
The THX logo has quite a few variations, but the funniest is probably the one with the cows.
: " The Moment is here..."
For Time Heist , the opening credits "time tunnel" are shown at the start of the episode... Which turns out to be Clara's washing machine with the Doctor peering into it.
sweded . (Compare with the real deal
.)
The logo for Shadow Projects, involved in the production of a number of puppet shows, featured a dog. It would normally be heard barking at the end of one of these shows, but on Bear in the Big Blue House , sometimes it would make a different noise, such as meowing or quacking.
Taxi : For the Christmas Episode , the off-screen female voice in the John Charles Walters Productions logo says "Merry Christmas, Mr. Walters!" instead of "Good night, Mr. Walters!"
When The Beatles ' black-and-white movie A Hard Day's Night premiered on NBC in 1967, the network's "In Living Color" peacock intro was replaced with a "lively black and white" animated penguin
.
That said, NBC still likes to play around with their peacock logo:
On the week of Earth Day, it is totally green.
In the Marsupilami episode, "Toucan Always Get What You Want", Maurice grabs the NBC Peacock. To which the evil Jaguar named Eduardo said "I don't want no stinky bird today, My stomach is craving for the little spotty guy with the tail".
Ads for some NBC shows will sometimes play with the logo at the end of the ad. At the end of commercials for Revolution , the logo has a glowing yellow outline, and at the end of the commercials for Hannibal , the logo is blood red.
Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger , The Movie : The Toei logo takes place on a beach. Here, the logo quickly pans to the left, for the first scene is on a beach too.
Gokaiger Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle : The Toei logo is unchanged, but the Super Sentai 35th Anniversary logo is directly intergrated into the opening as Gosei Red is sent flying through it by the enemy, breaking it to reveal the Legend War. A second one occurs later in the movie when Yogoshimacritein mentions that the movie he was making in his dimension is a "Goei" production (Complete with his own Vanity Plate )- which Agri smashes with his FIST.
The third part of the Kamen Rider Decade and Double Movie Wars begins on a split screen, representing how Double's chasing of the Dummy Dopant will involuntarily converge with Decade's final battle against Super Shocker . Of course, both screens show the Toei logo twice.
In the Double and OOO Movie Wars, the Toei logo is shown in red, yellow, green and purple, mirroring the color schemes of both Riders' basic forms (green and purple for Double and red, yellow and green for OOO).
Girl Meets World : "Girl Meets the New World" plays with the Michael Jacobs production ending guitar riff, by having Auggie's new friend (named "Dewey", but insists on being called "Doy" ) sing the guitar riff in nothing but "Doy"s. It Makes Sense in Context .
Liv and Maddie always uses this trope. No Disney Channel show loves this trope as much as this one does...
In "Flashback-A-Rooney" Liv sees the picture of Liv and Maddie when they were younger on their bedroom wall come to life, with their real faces in place of the drawing; consequently the Beck & Hart Productions Vanity Plate after the end credits has the real faces of creators John D. Beck and Ron Hart superimposed on their drawn bodies.
"Helgaween-A-Rooney" has the Helga drawing in the logo, with Beck and Hart presenting offerings of pizza and sandwiches while Helga is heard shouting " KNEEL BEFORE HELGA! "
"Rate-A-Rooney" has Beck and Hart holding up sheets of paper with "10" on them, with Karen saying "What'cha doing, Honeybunch?"
"Cook-A-Rooney" has Beck and Hart holding up copies of the home ec teacher's self-published memoirs .
"Band-A-Rooney" replaces Beck and Hart with a picture of Crispy Kitty's album cover while Joey and Artie - i.e. Crispy Kitty - shout the band name in unison.
"Triangle-A-Rooney" leaves Beck and Hart alone - but has Johnny Nimbus standing next to them with Nimbus At Night's chicken puppet Janice squawking.
"Continued-A-Rooney" has two planes in the background - one with Diggie's face on it, the other following with the faces of Maddie and Joey on it.
"Co-Star-A-Rooney" has (real) Artie right in front of Beck and Hart while he shouts "END SCENE!"
"Voltage-A-Rooney" has (real) Liv as SkyVolt, the superhero alterego of her Voltage character Tess, zapping Beck and Hart.
"Cowbell-A-Rooney" replaces the drawing of Beck and Hart holding up food with a photograph of them on the back of a cow while Maddie shouts "YOU JUST GOT MILKED!"
"Grandma-A-Rooney" has the Beck & Hart Productions logo accompanied with Maddie saying " What a crazy pair! "
At the start of the 2nd series of the original Life On Mars , BBC 1 replaced its usual idents with a recreation of the mirror-globe ident
used in the early '70s (the show's setting). BBC Wales opted out of this, choosing instead to use their actual model
, replete with bilingual Cymru/Wales branding, and an original BBC Wales announcer.
Promos for the American Life On Mars featured a 1970s ABC logo and an Ernie Anderson soundalike.
The Marvel Comics "Flipping Pages" logo changes with each film, with the pages shown being altered to the series the film is based on — So the Spider-Man Trilogy films featured images from the Spider-Man comics, and so on. Some films also alter the color of the Marvel logo from the traditional red to a color more suited to the series, such as Fantastic Four to blue and Hulk to green. Ghost Rider had the writing getting burned and turned into spiked metal.
In a movie-oriented skit, Monty Python did a Terry Gilliam animated logo for "20th Century Vole" pictures, with a small furry rodent rising into the MGM crest with a squeak.
In And Now For Something Completely Different, it got changed to "20th Century Frog" along with a croaking frog in the crest. Either done because it sounded better or because it was assumed international moviegoers wouldn't know what a vole is.
A later episode opens with the actual Thames Television logo, followed by Thames announcer David Hamilton stating, �We�ve got an action-packed evening for you tonight on Thames but right now, here�s a rotten old BBC programme !�
An example at the end of an episode: the A.K.A. Cartoon logo at the end of every Ed Eddn Eddy episode is remarkably different in every season, episode and even The Movie .
There was a parody of the NBC peacock on Laugh In where the peacock sneezes her feathers off
.
Studio Canal:
Attack the Block has an all-black version of the Studio Canal logo (completle with unusually black clouds), to match the colors of the film's aliens.
Irreversible has ominous red clouds, to match the colors of the film's closing (uhhh, "opening" if you want) credits and the N in the logo is backwards (reverse letters are also the case with the Mars Distribution logo in the French print), to match the typography of the film's logo.
"...Blood Pact."
"...Native American History Exhibit."
"...Spectacle." And so on... This lasted until season 4, when both Dan Harmon and the Russo brothers both left the series. When Dan Harmon returned for season 5, the stock Harmonic Claptrap logo was used.
The Knights Of Prosperity had the B, & and B of the B&B animated logo perform a different magic act on every episode, such as the ampersand ("The Amazing Ando" - get it?) sawing the two B's apart.
When The Nostalgia Critic reviewed Moulin Rouge! (see above), he parodied said film's variation of the Fox logo, except with Chester A. Bum conducting the Channel Awesome fanfare.
, to celebrate an event, whether minor or major.
The otherwise forgettable 1971 film The Christian Licorice Store doesn't have the Cinema Center Films logo
(or indeed the title of the film) until about 15 minutes in when a character starts running a film on a home projector and the logo (and title) come up on screen. On the screen in the film, that is.
Take Me Home Tonight, set in 1988, opens with the 1980s version of the Imagine Entertainment logo (which is technically inaccurate, as the Imagine logo usually appeared at the end of their movies at the time).
During the 1980s, WDIV in Detroit would broadcast Detroit Tigers baseball games, and at the end of the broadcast would feature an animated version of what was then the Detroit Tigers logo
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after a victory or mewling with an ice pack on its head
after a loss.
On the occasions where the opponent's logo would be eaten, there were usually special versions as well. For example, a victory against the Baltimore Orioles would have the tiger spitting out orange feathers.
While the practice has declined in popularity, it used to be common for the Christmas issue of British gaming magazines to show the magazine logo covered in snow.
When Josh Schwartz's production company changed from College Hill Pictures to Fake Empire, the logo became a sketch pad with "FAKE EMPIRE" on it, though what's drawn on the pad depends on what show precedes it. See for yourself
.
Jack the Giant Slayer : The Bad Hat Harry logo has five giants walking in place of five men .
Shoot 'em Up . The sprocket holes in the New Line Cinema logo appear to the sound of gunshots.
IMAX:
For the 2013 IMAX 3-D release of The Wizard of Oz , the IMAX logo sequence
preceding it was in a sepia tone instead of the regular blue.
No Warner Bros. variant in Godzilla (2014) itself (unusually given how WB loves doing this), but IMAX viewers were treated to a special version of the pre-movie countdown
.
Suicide Squad received a custom countdown
.
The Video Games Awesome! website has dozens of banners done in the style of various video game franchise's logos.
The Twelve Tasks of Ast�rix has Studios Idefix
(the Latin text is even changed to "Delirant Est Romani", "These Romans Are Crazy" ).
In Annie (2014) , as the Overbrook Entertainment logo appears, the record player starts playing Hard-Knock Life.
Every episode of Brutalmoose opens with his own logo altered to resemble a logo pertaning to the game he's reviewing.
In The Last Witch Hunter , Summit 's logo is first written in runic script the movie uses for its magic before morphing into latin alphabet.
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The warmest of welcomes awaits you on the English Riviera, South Devon’s Beautiful Bay. Surrounded by stunning coast and countryside, the towns of Torquay, Babbacombe, Paignton and Brixham offer fantastic all year round holidays for everyone, from couples to families, who want their holiday pound to go that little bit further.
A Beach Holiday and So Much More
The English Riviera may be most famous for its award winning beaches and exotic palm trees, but it has much more to offer than just seaside holidays. The English Riviera has more attractions than any other resort in the UK and is also a Global Geopark. Getting out on the water is what our visitors love to do, and there is a great selection of boat trips and tasty local food and fresh fish to enjoy. Torquay is the birthplace of crime writer Agatha Christie, and the whole resort is the location for a packed programme of all year events and festivals including the annual Agatha Christie Festival.
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Rob Baxter is a proud Devonian and loves living in this beautiful county, so who are we to argue with the Exeter Chiefs’ coach.
Here are just a few reasons why you should visit Devon and the West Country:
Dartmoor
Many people come to Dartmoor to enjoy the stunning scenery and some come to get active. With over 450 miles of public rights of way, there are walking routes to suit all tastes and abilities. Other activities which can be enjoyed include cycling, rock climbing, horse riding, letterboxing and kayaking.
Exeter
With the brilliant Rugby World Cup currently taking place we have to mention The Exeter Chiefs. All three matches which are being held at Sandy Park have sold out and first indications are that it has been a huge success. Exeter itself sits on the eastern bank of the River Exe and the city centre provides substantial shopping facilities, restaurants and pubs, not forgetting the historic Cathedral.
The English Riviera
The towns of Torquay, Paignton and Brixham are located around the east-facing natural harbour of Torbay. The seaside resort of Torquay has palm trees, a busy harbour and an international marina. For water sports, visit Paignton where you can water ski, paddleboard and even go skimboarding. For a day to remember, enjoy a cruise on a heritage trawler across the bay from the thriving fishing town of Brixham.
Great Tourist Attractions
Paignton Zoo Environmental Park. The South Devon Railway and The Dartmouth Steam Railway. Numerous National Trust houses and gardens, including Greenway, the former holiday home of Agatha Christie. Adventure & Theme Parks (for kids of all ages) such as Crealy, The Milky Way and Woodlands.
Plymouth
Also known as Britain’s ocean city, Plymouth is home to The Barbican and Sutton Harbour, with a wealth of independent shops, galleries, bars, cafes and restaurants along the water’s edge creating a metropolitan feel. Plymouth Hoe is where Sir Francis Drake is renowned to have played his last game of bowls before his sailing voyage to engage with the Spanish Armada; and the city centre itself has many independent retailers as well as national brands and high street names.
Beaches
On the north coast there are golden sandy beaches perfect for rock-pooling, swimming and surfing, and dramatic coastlines. To the south there are beautiful stretches of coastline from wide open expanses of sand to shingly or pebbly coves. Also, the dramatic Jurassic Coast (195 million years of geological history) starts in Exmouth and is easily accessible from several towns and along the South West Coast Path.
There is so much to see and do in Devon you’ll just have to come and experience it for yourself.
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In September every year, the English Riviera transforms itself into the murder mystery capital of the country for the annual Agatha Christie Festival in honour of the Queen of Crime, who was born in Torquay on 15th September 1890.
This year the festival will take place from the 9th – 16th September. The week offers a range of murder mystery dinners, tea dances and garden parties. The celebrations begin with the traditional Agatha Christie Fete on Torquay seafront; stallholders dress up in period costumes and there are jazz bands, Punch and Judy shows and fairground rides as Agatha Christie fans gather from all over the world to celebrate her life works.
The official Agatha Christie Theatre Company will be performing Murder on the Nile at the Princess Theatre and Toads Theatre Company present Agatha Christie’s Cards on the Table at the Little Theatre, Torquay for two weeks commencing the 10th September.
If you would like to visit the English Riviera during the festival then why not stay at North Park in Maidencombe. The South West Coast Path can be joined close by at Maidencombe Beach, a delightful little cove surrounded by red sandstone cliffs, with lots of rock pools.
The nearby village of St Marychurch has delightful tearooms and for a hearty meal and warm hospitality try The Thatched Tavern, just a five minute drive away.
A new property, The Nook dates back to the 17th century. These former stables have been converted to create a unique and delightful holiday retreat just for two. The Nook has the 14th century village church of St Andrews as its stunning backdrop and is an idyllic, romantic hideaway.
Another property within easy reach of the English Riviera is the stunning Park Farm in Bishopsteignton. Dating back to the 14th century this stunning central passage house has been thoughtfully renovated and furnished to create a truly exceptional, semi-detached holiday home. The approach, along a narrow country lane, belies the peaceful location and the splendour of the accommodation offered at Park Farm, which nestles overlooking the Teign estuary.
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The English Riviera, recently featured on Channel 4’s ‘The Hotel’, is one of the most popular holiday destinations in the UK. The Victorians were the first to use the term Riviera due to Torbay’s similarity to the French Riviera. Famous for its palm trees and mild climate, the stunning coastline makes the towns of Torquay, Brixham and Paignton a year round holiday resort for families, couples and groups of friends.
The English Riviera has more attractions than any other resort in the UK most notably Paignton Zoo, Kents Cavern and Living Coasts. The area is also home to the Michelin starred restaurant, The Elephant, just right for that special occasion.
Torquay is the birthplace of crime writer Agatha Christie; the resort hosts an exciting programme of themed events and festivals, including the annual Agatha Christie Festival every September. If you visit the bay in June or July you can enjoy one of Agatha Christie’s famous plays at the Palace Theatre in Paignton.
For a family holiday try Seacrest or Blue Haze situated in Goodrington, Paignton. Nearby attractions include Quaywest Water World, Paignton Zoo and the family friendly beach at Goodrington.
If you are looking for a relaxing stay Knockmain in Torquay is tucked away but within close walking distance of the beach and harbour.
For a slower pace of life we have some excellent properties in Brixham, with a traditional fishing harbour and the world
famous Golden Hind , a full sized replica of one of the most iconic ships from the age of exploration. Try the stunning Chiseldon Foot Cottage or Red Sails . The area is excellent for exploring the coastline. Take a look at our personal account of a walk around the bay .
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St Michael's Mount is a tidal island located 366 m off the Mount's Bay coast of Cornwall.
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English monarch King John signed Magna Carta in which century? | Mount St Michael - Review of St. Michael's Mount, Marazion, England - TripAdvisor
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Owner description: Cross the causeway where a legendary giant once walked. Follow the footsteps of pilgrims or boat hop to an island where modern life meets layers of history. Discover an evocative castle, a sub-tropical garden paradise and a close-knit island community.
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Reviewed August 19, 2013
This charm of this castle is the location. However, the legend of this place was not well told through the exhibits. We walked over and took the boat back (which is what most people would do - the adventurous ones waded back waist high at high tide). It takes some effort to climb and would not be suitable for the infirmed. The garden was a little disappointing as they charged £4 for entry. Would rather they add one extra pound and opened the garden to all.
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We went to st Michaels Mount on 15th August 2013 when the gardens and castle were open with family. We arrived in the car park about 10:30 and walked through Marazion to the ferry port (as the tide was in) . We got the boat over for £2 per adult and £1 per child return fare if the tide was still in. You can fit 12 people inside a ferry boat no access for wheelchairs or the infirm. We arrived at the bay at st Michaels mount,to get out the boat you had to climb out onto the high harbour causeway. On the way up to the castle it is a steep incline with uneven (sometimes slippery )cobbled stones,thus asking it inaccessible to those in wheelchairs or infirm. For those who can manage the incline on the way up you come across the famous giants heart in the cobbles on the ground (clearly indicated) and the giants well. Once at the top you can see the town of Marazion and on the high terraces of the castle you can see Lizard point ,England's Most southerly point . To fully appreciate the castle I recommend you read everything as it may get confusing (there was lots of visitors there when we went ) young children (or those young at heart) can have a go at the castle quiz making it a fun way of getting young people fascinated by the history and better understanding. Once you have finished in the castle you can visit the gardens (if they're open) which are situated on the south facing wall of the mount,once again you have to climb to get to some levels of the gardens and some surfaces are uneven.the gardens have many different plants such as mothers tongue and many palm trees. To get into the gardens you either pay at the main mount entrance along with your castle fee or you pay separately at the gardens. The gift shops on the mount are quite expensive and there is a cafe for light meals and a restaurant (I recommend getting there early to avoid queues and to get a table) . There are also 2 ice cream kiosks selling a variety of Cornish ice cream for £1.65p. Once we had finished our day on the mount the tide was nearly out and some people were wading through the water on the causeway,so we joined them on the walk back to Marazion beach.
Visited August 2013
“Sitting on top of the world”
Reviewed August 19, 2013
I had a lovely day at St Martin's mount. It isn't the easiest of walks up to the castle, I wouldn't recommend it to someone who is impaired, the path isn't smooth but I am sure that if you had a need there would be options available. The view and rooms at the castle are lovely and I had a fantastic time. They also had activities for children who get a medal at the end of the experience, all of the families I walked past were having a marvellous time.
The gardens were also interesting and beautiful.
If you don't want to pay for the boat, make sure you pay attention to the tidal times - you won't get stuck on the island when the causeway closes but it is 2 pounds each...
Visited July 2013
“Well worth a visit”
Reviewed August 19, 2013
We arrived early to make sure we had a car park space.it cost us £3 for the whole day.We walked along to where the boats were transporting visitors over the water as the tide was in.It cost £2 for adults and £1 for 17 and under.If you decide to visit the mount then an early start is recommended as the queues for the boats become long.Once on the mount the ground becomes cobbled and very uneven so wear some sensible footwear.I would suggest visiting when the gardens and the castle are open.It is a very steep uneven footpath up to the castle.The castle is beautiful inside and out.The gardens are very steep but beautiful.there is a lack of facilities to sit and eat.People were queuing to get into the restaurant and the cafe has limited seating and lots of wasps.There are 2 shops on the island but they only sell a small amount of (tourist)gifts.On leaving we walked over the causeway which was fun for the children as the water was up to our knees.An ice cream in Marazion was a tasty end to a good day
Visited August 2013
“Visit to St Michaels Mount”
Reviewed August 19, 2013
We had a great day the weather was perfect. Parked in the station car park and waliked into Marizion. The toilets are 20p to use with a nice cafe on site. Only to find the car parks further into town are cheaper and have free toilets ( albeit portaloos). There is plenty of parking in Marizion. We caught the boat to and from the castle. £2.00 per adult £1.00 under 17s , very helpful boat drivers a value for money. We have enjoyed a walk across the causeway other times when the tide is right. Castle was very interesting , the gardens were lovely although only open on Thursday and Friday. The castle is closed on Saturdays. There is a lot of walking on steep slopes and steps which some are quite uneven. We had a lovely meal in the Cafe, it has a range of specials which are well cooked and value for money. The volunteers are very helpful and knowledgeable. There are two shops on the mount which have interesting gifts for sale. The website is very useful.
Visited August 2013
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Julian Casablancas (born August 23, 1978 in New York City, New York) is the lead singer and songwriter of the American rock band The Strokes
Julian Casablancas is half American and half Danish and the son of John Casablancas and Jeanette Christiansen. His parents divorced when he was young. He attended kindergarten with future bandmate Nikolai Fraiture.
Early in his teens, Julian's father sent him to the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. This was where Julian first met Albert Hammond… read more
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In music, what is the name of a whole note which has the time value of two minims or four crotchets? | Basic Music Theory
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Time Values: Semibreves, Minims, Crotchets, Quavers & Semiquavers
Crotchets, Minims and Semibreves
When we tap our feet or clap our hands 'in time' to a piece of music, we are clapping the steady beats of the music. At this level, our beats are shown like this:
. This sign is called a crotchet or quarter note .
The sign,
, is used for a sound which lasts as long as two (2) crotchets. It is called a minim or half note .
The sign,
, is used for a sound which lasts as long as four (4) crotchets. It is called a semibreve or whole note .
A semibreve lasts as long as four crotchets or two minims. We can also say that a semibreve has the same time value as four crotchets or two minims. Therefore a minim has the same time value as two crotchets and half the time value of a semibreve.
Quavers and Semiquavers
There are also time values that are shorter than crotchets/quarter notes! The quaver or eighth note ,
, lasts for half the length of a crotchet, i.e. 1/2 of a beat.
The semiquaver or sixteenth note ,
, lasts for quarter of the length of a crotchet, i.e. 1/4 of a beat.
Therefore, two quavers last as long as one crotchet; and four semiquavers also lasts as long as one crotchet.
Note
When two quavers/eighth notes are written together, they can be beamed together as below:
When four semiquavers/sixteenth notes are written together, they can be beamed together as below:
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The following chart shows the two names that can be given to each note symbol. The names on the left are American and the names on the right are British (you can use either form). The chart also shows the number of beats each note gets:
Click here to be taken to a set of flashcards about this topic. Use these cards to help you learn and remember the note names and note values presented in this topic. For instructions on how to use the flashcards click here .
Happy studying!
[b] [u]Crotchets, Minims and Semibreves [/b] [/u] When we tap our feet or clap our hands 'in time' to a piece of music, we are clapping the steady [b] beats [/b] of the music. At this level, our beats are shown like this: {https://s3.amazonaws.com/engrade-myfiles/4079538625169196/quarter-note_small.jpg} . This sign is called a [b] crotchet [/b] or [b] quarter note [/b]. The sign, {https://s3.amazonaws.com/engrade-myfiles/4099985869727737/half-note_small.jpg} , is used for a sound which lasts as long as [i] two (2) [/i] crotchets. It is called a [b] minim [/b] or [b] half note [/b]. The sign, {https://s3.amazonaws.com/engrade-myfiles/4047273754956979/whole-note_small.jpg} , is used for a sound which lasts as long as [i] four (4) [/i] crotchets. It is called a [b] semibreve [/b] or [b] whole note [/b]. A semibreve lasts as long as four crotchets or two minims. We can also say that a semibreve has the same [b] time value [/b] as four crotchets or two minims. Therefore a [i] minim [/i] has the same time value as two crotchets and [i] half [/i] the time value of a semibreve. [b] [u]Quavers and Semiquavers [/b] [/u] There are also time values that are shorter than crotchets/quarter notes! The [b] quaver [/b] or [b] eighth note [/b], {https://s3.amazonaws.com/engrade-myfiles/4040305421343735/eighth-note_small.jpg} , lasts for half the length of a crotchet, i.e. 1/2 of a beat. The [b] semiquaver [/b] or [b] sixteenth note [/b], {https://s3.amazonaws.com/engrade-myfiles/4053862224923404/sixteenth-note_small.jpg} , lasts for quarter of the length of a crotchet, i.e. 1/4 of a beat. Therefore, two quavers last as long as one crotchet; and four semiquavers also lasts as long as one crotchet. [b]Note[/b] When two quavers/eighth notes are written together, they can be [b]beamed[/b] together as below: {https://s3.amazonaws.com/engrade-myfiles/4047979614184231/Quavers_detached_and_beamed.jpg} When four semiquavers/sixteenth notes are written together, they can be [b]beamed[/b] together as below: {} The following chart shows the two names that can be given to each note symbol. The names on the left are American and the names on the right are British (you can use either form). The chart also shows the number of beats each note gets: {https://s3.amazonaws.com/engrade-myfiles/4043815681604556/Note_Values_Table__British__American_Nam.jpg} [http://www.flashcardmachine.com/2598951/d34q Click here] to be taken to a set of flashcards about this topic. Use these cards to help you learn and remember the note names and note values presented in this topic. For instructions on how to use the flashcards [https://lessons.engrade.com/howtouseflashcardsonflas/1 click here]. Happy studying!
Time Values: Semibreves, Minims, Crotchets, Quavers & Semiquavers
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The Semibreve (Whole Note)
So far, we have learned about quavers (eighth notes), crotchets (quarter notes) and minims (half notes). So, it is reasonable to ask, "An eighth, or a quarter, or a half of what?".
Unsurprisingly, a note that lasts as long as eight quavers or four crotchets or two minims is called (in American English) a whole note. In British English, it has the confusing name "semibreve" - the "semi" part refers to it being half of a note called a breve, lasting eight crotchet beats, that is no longer used. Equally confusing is the fact that "breve" comes from the Latin word for "brief", which seems a strange name to give to such a long note, however these names were invented in medieval times when even longer notes (the "longa" and "maxima") were also used.
Confusing or not, we (in Britain at least) are stuck with the name semibreve for a note lasting as long as four crotchets, and this is the longest note that is currently in general use - we will see later how notes can be tied to make a note longer than a semibreve. The notation for a semibreve/whole note is a hollow head like that of a minim, with no stem:
A semibreve rest is a black rectangle similar to that used for a minim rest, but hanging down from the second line of the staff, rather than sitting on top of the third line.
The semibreve rest is generally used to indicate a whole bar's rest for any time signature of less than 4 crotchet beats (e.g. 2/4, 3/4 or 6/8), not just 4/4 where it would fit the bar length exactly.
Counting the semibreve is very simple: "ONE, (two), (three), (four)" - so we will skip the obvious examples and move on to the more complicated subject of notes shorter than a quaver.
The Semiquaver (Sixteenth Note)
A note that lasts half as long as a quaver is called, quite logically, a semiquaver (or sixteenth note in American English). To distinguish it from a quaver, a single semiquaver has a double flag, which is changed to a double beam for groups of semiquavers. The semiquaver rest resembles a quaver rest with the curved part doubled, as shown here:
To count a rhythm that uses semiquavers, we need four syllables for each crotchet beat. We already have the number of the beat on the beat itself, and use "and" for the second quaver of the beat, so to make this into four syllables, we say "ee" on the second semiquaver, and "a" on the fourth. So, a 4/4 bar of semiquavers would be counted like this:
We can combine semiquavers with quavers to make more complex rhythms - listen carefully to the three examples and try to hear the difference the position of the quaver makes. Notice how the beams are still joined together in groups of one crotchet beat:
"ONE-ee-and, two-ee-and, three-ee-and, four-ee-and"
"ONE-(ee)-and-a, two-(ee)-and-a three-(ee)-and-a four-(ee)-and-a"
Even shorter notes ...
Occasionally, composers want to squeeze in even more than four notes per beat. Again, we can make a shorter note by dividing a semiquaver (sixteenth note) in half to give us a demisemiquaver (thirty-second note). Again, we notate this by adding another flag or beam to a semiquaver note, and another curl to the semiquaver rest. There is no generally agreed upon set of syllables to count these, other than just imagining semiquavers but playing or counting at double speed. This is what they sound like:
... and the shortest of all
Believe it or not, there are even shorter notes than this! Divide a demisemiquaver in half and you get two hemidemisemiquavers or sixty-fourth notes. However, these are very rarely used, so don't worry about spending time practising counting them. Just for the sake of completeness, this is what they sound like:
Here's a table to remind you about all the notes we've looked at:
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Gephyrophobia is the irrational fear of crossing what? | What Is Gephyrophobia? - Gephyrophobia Help Guide
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Understanding Your Fear Of Bridges
What Is Gephyrophobia?
Gephyrophobia is the irrational fear of bridges. For most sufferers this is driving or walking over a bridge. However for some their fear can strike anxiety at the sight of a bridge. Those who suffer from this condition typically avoid any routes they know where a bridge is present and turn around when they encounter one.
Symptoms
A sufferer of this phobia will experience immediate and intense anxiety when they are faced with crossing a bridge. Many exert the same symptoms. Let’s take a closer look at what these are.
Turning Around
The easiest way to deal with their fear of bridges is to simply turn around and runaway from it. Gephyrophobia will always take the longer route around a bridge to avoid ever having to cross it. Typically when these sufferers are capable of turning around or escaping the thing they fear their anxiety will calm down.
Anxiety Attacks
When a Gephyrophobia sufferer cannot escape their fear they tend to go into a state of panic. For example, when there is no other way except across the bridge to get whether they need to be the sufferer will be overwhelmed with extreme anxiety. This anxiety can cause a full blow panic attack.
The Symptoms of A Panic Attack Include:
Nausea
Feeling An Impeding Sense of Doom or That They’re Going To Die
Avoidance
The most common symptom that all Gephyrophobia exert is avoidance of their fear. They plan their lives and daily activities around avoiding bridges. Most sufferers don’t even realize they are making these decisions because they have become regular practice in their lives.
A few examples of these might help you better identify the things you personally due to avoid your fear. When planning trips or vacations you will route the way you get there around bridges, and you will typically avoid vacationing spots that require you to cross a bridge to get there. In your daily life you may take a route that takes twenty minutes longer just to avoid going across a bridge.
This can even affect your lifestyle decisions. You may turn down a job you really want because it’s on the other side of town that you know the only way there is by crossing a bridge.
Causes
Gephyrophobia, just as many other phobias that people tend to develop throughout their lives, is the result of the sufferers life experiences. These experiences fall into three different categories that cause their phobia. Let’s take a look at each type.
Traumatic Event
This is one of the more common reasons that people develop phobias. This involves having endured a traumatic event in your past, typically in childhood, that sticks with you into adulthood. You tend to associate the traumatic event with danger.
For example, you were in a car accident on a bridge. Now every time you are faced with crossing a bridge you relive the traumatic experience of the accident. Your brain associates the bridge with a dangerous places.
Observational Experience
This is when the sufferer doesn’t endure the traumatic event themselves, but rather witness someone else experience the event. The sufferer witnessed the danger that the other person endured during the event and now associates that event with danger.
For example, someone you know got into a car accident on a bridge and was injured. This causes your brain to associate bridges with car accidents and injury. You now fear what may happen when you cross a bridge.
Informational Experiences
Instead of just one event leading to the development of your fear, this is where a combination of things you have learned throughout life and warnings you were give create your fear. Information sources could include movies, books, and warnings from adult-like figures, such as your parents.
You may have watched a movie or television show where a bridge collapsed when people where on it. This makes you associate a bridge with tragedy. You may have read books on how unsafe bridges can be. Your parents may have avoided bridges themselves while you were growing up. These parental cues of taking the long way around to avoid crossing the bridge sticks with you into adulthood.
Treatment
Treatment for specific phobias generally fall into three different categories . Let’s take a look at each one.
Desensitization Therapy
Through the help of a trained therapist you will visually expose yourself to your fear. Through this exposure your body will learn to desensitize it’s anxiety through a series of relaxation and breathing techniques.
In Vivo Therapy
This is also termed Exposure Therapy. This treatment involves a therapist physically exposing you to your fear. It’s been proven effective that over repeat exposures your body will start to get used to your fear. This will allow you to gradually decrease your anxiety when you are exposed to your fear.
Self-Help Programs
This is best for those sufferers who do not want to talk about their fear with others and those who don’t want to spend money on a therapist’s help. Many phobia sufferers have found great success in working through their phobias alone with the guidance of these self help programs.
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Are you someone who loves to get in the car and go? Someone who loves to travel? Seeing the scenery is your idea of a good time? Driving can be very relaxing and a way to release stress . However, if you have to cross a bridge, a simple drive can turn into an awful nightmare. Gephyrophobia, or a fear of crossing bridges, especially over large bodies of water, can be quite traumatic . If you suffer from this phobia, know that you are not alone, as it is a very common phobia.
Symptoms of Gephyrophobia
A feeling of being trapped
Causes of Gephyrophobia
Gephyrophobia is defined as a fear of crossing over bridges. This fear can be heightened when crossing over water or driving over narrow bridges. As with many phobias, the root of the problem can be attributed to a variety of factors. The development of Gephyrophobiacan be induced from feelings of claustrophobia (a fear of being closed in) or acrophobia (a fear of heights). People with this phobia may have witnessed a traumatic accident, or may have had direct contact with someone who experienced an incident while driving across a bridge. When people with this fear drive over bridges, they may flash back to moments where they thought they were in impending danger. They may also feel that disaster could happen at any moment, maybe the bridge could collapse or the driver could lose control of the vehicle. All of these situations are valid and there are solutions to overcome this phobia.
Treatment of Gephyrophobia
Most cases of Gephyrophobia are self-diagnosed. There are many treatment options. The most common method is to face the actual fear. In Maryland, drivers who suffer with Gephyrophobia can receive special accommodation when crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. They have the option of having a driver meet them at the beginning of the bridge, get into the car and drive the car across the bridge for them. As of 2007, there was a fee of $25 roundtrip for this service.
Other treatment options for this phobia include talk therapy, hypnotherapy , cognitive therapy or desensitization therapy, self-help techniques, relaxation techniques , and anti-anxiety medication in severe cases. One of the most important things to remember is that when overcoming any phobia, it is imperative to surround yourself with others who are facing the fear. Support groups are one way to discuss your fears with others who suffer from the same phobia and they give you a chance to share different coping techniques and strategies. Overcoming a phobia can be a huge step in starting a new life. Talk with your doctor for the best referral and get your life back on track.
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The number one bestseller, Alan Sugar 'What You See Is What You Get' documents his amazing journey which led him to be a successful businessman, out now in paperback.
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British athlete Dai Green competes in which track event? | 'What you see is what you get' - the meaning and origin of this phrase
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What you see is what you get (wysiwyg)
Meaning
A computer screen display which appears on screen as it will be seen when printed on paper.
Origin
'Wysiwyg', pronounced 'whizzywig', is one of the best-known of all acronyms. It is generally supposed that the phrase 'what you see is what you get', the acronym 'wysiwyg' and the computer interface that they referred to emerged in close succession. This isn't the case; each of those elements has its own independent genesis.
Firstly, the phrase. 'What you see is what you get' is widely reported as being coined by Flip Wilson in performances as his drag character Geraldine in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and then later on The Flip Wilson Show. Wilson certainly popularized the expression but it was already in general use before he adopted it as a catchphrase. A form of the phrase had been used by advertisers in the USA since at least the 1940s to indicate a straightforward, no-fuss form of trading. An advert for a Filmo Sportster camera in The Charleston Gazette came close to 'what you see is what you get' in November 1949:
You just sight, press a button and what you see, you get!
The precise phrase came into print some years later. For instance, this text from an advert for a house sale, in The Oakland Tribune, May 1966:
"So with the exception of landscaping and decorator furnishings, what you see is what you get."
Next comes the acronym 'wysiwyg'. This is generally thought to have been coined from the phrase and in reference to the graphical computer user interfaces that were emerging from Xerox PARC in the 1970s, but it isn't known who first used the acronym in that context. The first such reference that I can find comes surprisingly late, in Byte magazine, April 1982:
'What you see is what you get' (or WYSIWYG) refers to the situation in which the display screen portrays an accurate rendition of the printed page.
However, he first citation I have found of the acronym in print comes several years earlier in a non-computer related context. In January 1972, a student business competition was organised in Victoria, Texas and an account of it published in the local newspaper the Victoria Advocate on the 23rd January. Each team of students chose a name for the dummy businesses that they were going to manage. They were clearly encouraged to use acronyms, as the names they chose were:
SPOT - Selling Products of Tomorrow
LIFE - Lets Insure Future Existence
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
So, unless earlier computer related citations are found - which would that seem unlikely as the first wysiwyg software didn't emerge until after 1972 - the prize for coining 'wysiwyg' goes to a bunch of Texan high school kids, not to the boffins of Palo Alto.
'What you see is what you get' later came to be used in a general context, often by individuals - like Flip Wilson's Geraldine - to describe themselves. It is shorthand for 'I may be a plain-speaking rough diamond, but I have no hidden agenda - let my reputation precede me', in the same way that people used to say 'take me as you find me'. The British entrepreneur Sir Alan Sugar is known for such an attitude and used 'What You See Is What You Get' as the title of his autobiography.
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An eighth month ban on which Dire Straits song was lifted by Canadian radio in September 2011? | Dire Straits’ ‘Money For Nothing’ Canadian Radio Ban Lifted
Dire Straits’ ‘Money For Nothing’ Canadian Radio Ban Lifted
By Amy Sciarretto September 2, 2011 11:20 AM
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The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) announced that the eight-month ban on Dire Straits ’ ‘Money For Nothing’ has been lifted! The song was yanked from national playlists on radio stations in Canada in January after a listener complained about the usage of the word “faggot” when said listener heard the song on CHOZ-FM in Newfoundland. Now, broadcasters can return to playing the song at will.
‘Money For Nothing’ was a hit for the band in 1985, and has enjoyed recurring status on the airwaves, but once the complaint was lodged, it was immediately deemed a breach of the Human Rights Clauses of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Code of Ethics and Equitable Portrayal Code. Much of the public didn’t quite agree with that labeling of the song and supported efforts to get it back on the air.
Veteran radio broadcasters were also appalled by the decision. “It made us look silly in the eyes of the broadcast community around the world,” writer/broadcaster Alan Cross, a 30-year veteran of the Canadian radio biz, told Rolling Stone . “I talked to people from the US and the UK and they were like, ‘What’s wrong with you people? Don’t you get it? It’s a joke. It’s a satire. You didn’t understand the context?'”
The decision to lift the band came about after the CBSC weighed what they called “considerable additional information” – such as learning that alternative versions of “Money For Nothing” have existed since 1985, proving “the band and the composer considered that there was a less offensive way of presenting the song to the public long ago” and the context in which the word is used demonstrates that “the composer’s language appears not to have had an iota of malevolent or insulting intention.”
In layman’s terms, that means there were edited versions of the song created long before the Newfoundland listener made a fuss, indicating that Dire Straits were sensitive about the weight of the word. Station programmers have the choice to play the original or any of the alternates.
The CBSC is not admitting it was wrong in yanking the song, though. The organization (or organisation, in Canadian English) said that the Atlantic Regional Panel was “correct in its view of the inappropriateness of the word” for broadcast on Canadian airwaves.
Cross addressed the CBSC’s comments, saying, “When it comes to things like foul language and discriminatory language, it’s really tough for the CBSC to rule in any direction but for the plaintiff.”
“Every single incident is taken as an isolated case,” Cross reasoned. “So what happens when somebody complains about the Tragically Hip’s ‘At The Hundredth Meridian’ with the F-bomb in it? What if somebody complains about the Who from 1978, ‘Who Are You’ with ‘Who the f— are you’ in it? Under the rules, the CBSC would have to rule those songs unplayable on Canadian airwaves because of language.”
Talk about a possible snowball effect!
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January 19, 1974, was a Saturday. The morning papers headline the decision to send the controversy over the 18-1/2 minute gap in one of the Watergate tapes to a grand jury for investigation. Today, President Nixon gives a noontime radio address on the energy crisis, and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger prepares for another round of shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East. South Vietnam and China battle in the South China Sea over some disputed islands. Hewlett-Packard introduces its first programmable calculator, the HP-65, nicknamed the Superstar; list price $225. NASA takes a photograph of Comet Kohoutek, which was hyped as the Comet of the Century when it was discovered last year. Although still visible to the naked eye through the end of this month, it is not nearly the spectacle it was made out to be. Trailing 70-
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59 with 3:30 to go, Notre Dame scores the last 12 points to defeat UCLA 71-70, snapping UCLA’s record-setting 88-game winning streak.
Future comedian Frank Caliendo and future NFL player Walter Jones are born. Future hockey Hall-of-Famer Jacques Laperriere of the Montreal Canadiens suffers an injury that ends his career. The current edition of TV Guide features an article about celebrity homes , with a photo of actor Paul Lynde in his mirrored dining room. On TV tonight, new episodes of M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, and The Carol Burnett Show air on CBS; shows on NBC include Emergency; on ABC, The Partridge Family and Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law. Later tonight, guests on this weekend’s edition of Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert are Rod Stewart and Faces, Livingston Taylor, and Osibisa. Bob Dylan plays two shows in Hollywood, Florida, Wishbone Ash plays Passaic, New Jersey, and Charles Mingus plays Carnegie Hall.
At WCFL in Chicago , “The Joker” by the Steve Miller Band holds at Number One, and “Sister Mary Elephant” by Cheech and Chong climbs to Number Two. “One Tin Soldier” by Coven, which is Number One across town at WLS, sits at Number Three. New in the Top 10 are “Let Me Be There” by Olivia Newton-John, “You’re Sixteen” by Ringo Starr, and “Living for the City” by Stevie Wonder. Tops on the album chart are Jim Croce’s You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, the Carpenters’ compilation The Singles, and Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Northwest of Chicago, in the farm country of southern Wisconsin, a radio-crazed eighth-grader listens every minute he can, and shares his obsession with his friends, most of whom are not nearly as obsessed as he is.
Perspective From the Present: The fall of 1973 and winter of 1974 are among the bleakest seasons of the 1970s for the Top 40. Lots of bland pop music and funkless R&B (“Living for the City” excepted, which is one of the deepest grooves ever to hit AM radio), although there are some gems to be found: “Rockin’ Roll Baby,” “Love’s Theme,” the Staple Singers’ “If You’re Ready,” and “Hello It’s Me” by Todd Rundgren, although the bubblegum geek in me also digs the DeFranco Family’s “Abracadabra.” The best record of the season is probably “Until You Come Back to Me” by Aretha Franklin, written and produced by Stevie Wonder, although it’s a song I probably didn’t hear much back then. I was still listening to WLS in the winter of 1974, and they charted it for just three weeks. But I would discover it years later, and it would eventually earn a spot on my Desert Island list. Here’s a 2005 performance with Aretha and Stevie together that does a nice job of capturing the vibe of the original.
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One of the first people I ever met in the musical blogosphere (“met” in the Internet sense, as opposed to the actual physical handshake sense) is Homercat of Good Rockin’ Tonight. Over the weekend, he went off on a strange decision by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council to forbid Canadian radio stations from playing “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits —which has never been off the radio in the quarter-century since it was released. It seems that a listener in Newfoundland complained about the song’s use of the word “faggot” (“little faggot got his own jet airplane/the little faggot he’s a millionaire”), and on the basis of a single complaint, the record was blacklisted. The CBSC is an arm of the Canadian broadcasting industry and not a government organization, so it doesn’t have much power to enforce its decrees—and in fact, three Canadian radio stations responded to the ban with marathon broadcasts of the record. Nevertheless, the decision tells us a lot about the world we live in right now. The listener’s complaint, that “by airing [‘Money for Nothing’] unapologetically on the radio, this station is indirectly propagating hate,” and the CBSC’s response, that the word is inappropriate in today’s context, make the incident remarkably similar to the recent decision by a publisher to edit the word “nigger” from a new edition of Huckleberry Finn.
George Carlin—who, if we had philosopher kings , would have been one—once observed that there are no bad words, only bad thoughts. Yet we have decreed that some words—regardless of their application, regardless of the thoughts behind them—are so bad that they must not be spoken by anybody, ever. The CBSC even observed that “faggot” is used in a “lightly sarcastic” fashion in “Money for Nothing” and is not in a “sneering, derisive, nasty tone,” but their decision means that the intent of the user doesn’t matter—it’s how the listener perceives the word that makes all the difference. And defining “offense” as “anything that offends anybody anywhere for any reason” is something no reasonable modern society can abide.
Similarly, Huckleberry Finn uses a word that contemporary culture has demonized beyond all other words—you’ll get in a lot more trouble in a lot more places for saying “nigger” than you’ll ever get into for saying “fuck,” so much so that we’ve euphemized it to “the n-word,” like we were all in first grade—but when Mark Twain used the word in 1884, he chose it for a particular purpose, and it was considered appropriate. It’s us, over a century later, who have attached such toxicity to the word, something that has nothing to do with Twain—or his book.
As a blogger for a Vancouver newspaper noted, context mattters . Treating the uses of these words in art like they were slurs shouted from passing cars is the sort of overreaction we’ve come to expect from a society obsessed with the appearance of “values”—which should not be confused with actually living by a coherent set of values. That such a manifestation of American priggishness is happening in Canada, which this American has always considered a less-wacky analogue to the land in which he lives, is unfortunate.
More Recommended Reading: Charlie at Bloggerhythms reviews an autobiography by Chicago drummer Danny Seraphine , which provides a look inside the life of one of the most popular American rock bands. In the city of Chicago nearly 40 years ago, the great Charlie Van Dyke (whose voice you would recognize even if you don’t know his name) held down morning drive at WLS—today, his son debuted on Chicago’s KISS-FM as morning guy. Chicago media-watcher Robert Feder has the surprising story . And over the weekend, I wrote a post at WNEW.com about the impact of the Persian Gulf War , which began 20 years ago, on popular music.
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I lived in the Quad Cities region of Iowa and Illinois for a long time—and for Quad Citizens of a certain age, certain sets of call letters call back a whole host of memories. From the mid 50s to the early 80s, KSTT , licensed to Davenport, Iowa, and its great competitor, WQUA , licensed to Moline, Illinois, went nose-to-nose in the sort of epic radio duke-out you just don’t get anymore.
In the early 70s, KSTT’s playlists were pretty adventuresome. The one dated January 14, 1972 , contains the mega-hits of the day ranked from 1 to 11 (with “American Pie” at the top), but further down, the playlist goes in alphabetical order, and in that list, we find some, well, fascinating things.
“Fascinating Things”/Gary Wright. Wright, as yet four years away from The Dream Weaver, had come out of Spooky Tooth in 1971; on his second solo album, Footprint, he’s joined by a guitarist who called himself George O’Hara. Just returning the favor, as Wright had appeared on O’Hara’s 1970 album All Things Must Pass. “Fascinating Things” is a great rock record that deserved a better hearing. And if you are still puzzling over the identity of George O’Hara, you’re reading the wrong blog.
“Brian’s Song”/Michel Legrand. It’s been largely forgotten, I think, just how big a deal the TV movie Brian’s Song was. Broadcast on November 30, 1971, it’s the story of Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970 at age 26, and his friendship with teammate Gale Sayers. James Caan and Billy Dee Williams starred in the film, which any sports-crazed 11-year-old boy was going to watch—and then debate with other sports-crazed 11-year-old boys on the morning after whether it was OK for sports-crazed 11-year-old boys to cry while watching the movie. The official title of the theme is “The Hands of Time,” and it’s surprisingly evocative of the film, even though I haven’t seen it since that night in 1971.
“Rock ‘n’ Roll”/Detroit. Shown on the KSTT survey as “Rock ‘n’ Rock,” it’s actually “Rock ‘n’ Roll,” by some guys who knew how. Detroit was yet another hard-rockin’ Michigan band, featuring Mitch Ryder and John Badjanek of the Detroit Wheels. Their album was produced by Bob Ezrin, who would go on to greater things with Alice Cooper, Pink Floyd, and the Kings.
“Take It Slow (Out in the Country)”/Lighthouse. Lots of people know the Lighthouse song “One Fine Morning.” At this blog, we pride ourselves on digging “Sunny Days” and “Pretty Lady,” too—although I missed “Take It Slow” in early ’72, mainly because if WLS didn’t play it, I didn’t hear it.
“To Claudia on Thursday”/Denny Doherty. Billed to Doherty (of the Mamas and the Papas) on the KSTT survey, this is a track from California ’99 by Hollywood composer/arranger Jimmie Haskell, who assembled a concept album about a young man who must find love in a dystopian future America. Some of the song choices are odd: The Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” sung by bluesman Jimmy Witherspoon and “Underture” from Tommy. The album also features a nearly unrecognizable Joe Walsh singing on a couple of tracks, and it was produced by future Eagles producer Bill Szymczyk. Our friend Larry Grogan wrote about the album last year over at Iron Leg.
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The Mrs. and I are both growing increasingly conscious of just how long we’ve been together. Last weekend we realized it’s been, impossibly, 20 years since our first cat, Abby , came home with us from the Humane Society. Today there’s more evidence. When we met , I was 19 and she was 18. And today, she is celebrating a birthday. I won’t say which one, except that it’s a milestone.
I doubt that we would have met if it wasn’t for the radio. She read news on my show during her first semester in college. During the next semester, she made her debut as a jock. As new DJs frequently did, she debuted during an all-request weekend. I contrived to be in the studio that day in case she needed help, although she didn’t need too much. At one point, however, she fouled up a break, got out of it by giving the call letters, and then sighed in frustration and muttered something under her breath. I stepped up behind her . . . and flicked the mike switch off. I don’t think she ever forgot to turn it off again.
She liked being on the air, but never felt she was especially good at it. (I think the last DJ show she did was probably the year we got married.) The fulltime gigs she held in radio were in copywriting, traffic, and sales, but she hasn’t collected a radio paycheck in almost 25 years. That doesn’t mean she hasn’t been involved in the biz—she’s been my runner on remotes, she’s brought me countless sandwiches in countless studios, and she’s listened to me obsessing about various aspects of my radio career for almost as long as I’ve had one.
For the last 13 years or so, she’s worked in the health insurance industry, but for more years than that, it’s been her full-time paychecks (and the health insurance accompanying them) that have made possible my winding career path. And in every decision along that path, she’s offered invaluable counsel and support—frequently, she believes in me when I don’t believe in myself. When I went back to college as a full-time student, she went off to work so I could do it. When I bagged my lucrative corporate job to become a freelancer, she went off to work so I could do it. When she sees me screwing around with this blog or with one of my other non-paying enthusiasms, she never asks me whether I should be doing work that I will get paid for, although she must certainly wonder sometimes. So, in no small way, this blog owes its continued existence in part to her.
So, dear, happy birthday, and thanks. If you’re up for a few more years of this, I am too.
Here’s a band from Montello , Wisconsin, who were managed by longtime Madison DJ Jonathan Little; their biggest hit crept into the lower reaches of the top 40 in the summer of 1969. It reached Number Two on WLS in Chicago, and it was Number One in St. Charles, Missouri.
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I’ve got a piece up at WNEW.com today about Gerry Rafferty’s career . (Link just added.) In my role as chief historian over there, I thought it was important to make clear that his career did not begin and end with “Baker Street.”
Can’t remember where I read it exactly, but I saw a piece suggesting that while “Baker Street” was about leaving behind rock-star craziness (“he’s got this dream about buying some land/he’s gonna give up the booze and the one-night stands”), its success threatened to make Rafferty into the very thing the protagonist of “Baker Street” didn’t want to be. And he resisted. There was no big tour in the wake of City to City, no slot opening for the Eagles or the Doobie Brothers or the like, as far as I know. What Rafferty did instead was go back to work, and it would be barely a year before he released Night Owl.
That is not to suggest that he never played live, ever. The fabulous ROIO bootleg archive dug up a show recorded in Hamburg, Germany, in 1993 , in which Rafferty plays a handful of hits (“Baker Street,” “Right Down the Line,” and “Get it Right Next Time”), but mostly ignores the rest of his hitmaking period, playing just one other track from City to City, nothing else from Night Owl, and nothing from the 1980 album Snakes and Ladders. He does, however, perform a changed-up version of Stealers’ Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle With You.”
The ROIO archive is quite something, featuring an array of concert recordings, studio outtakes, and other ephemera by artists of all sorts, Gerry Rafferty to Miles Davis, classical to world music. Postings sometimes stick around for a while and sometimes they disappear quickly, and not every one of them will be of interest to everybody. But holy cow, the stuff you’ll find over there.
On Another Matter: The Internet nearly collapsed next week under the weight of the Ted Williams story—the homeless guy with the amazing pipes. Millions of Americans got all happy when Williams landed a couple of jobs utilizing his talents, although a few dissenting voices have been heard. Legendary DJ Dan Ingram is one of them, shooting a note to Ken Levine complaining about the way Williams got a job at the expense of union voiceover artists. Commenters to Levine’s post are upset with Ingram, although many of them take shots at the idea of union voiceover artists in general rather than addressing Ingram’s broader point—that there are many skilled and experienced voiceover artists out there who are just as deserving of the sort of gigs Williams got, but their hard work and dedication has gone for naught. Ingram’s not the only person who’s made this point in the last week, and it can’t be entirely dismissed. But neither can the role of serendipity, as some of the commenters observe. We’ve all gotten breaks. In the end, it’s up to us to make the best of what we get. If Williams is deserving, he’ll make a life out of it. If not, he’ll be back on I-70 before too long.
One of these things is not like the others. See if you can figure out which is the oddball.
“You’re So Vain”/Carly Simon
“Superstition”/Stevie Wonder
“Me and Mrs. Jones”/Billy Paul
“Clair”/Gilbert O’Sullivan
“Funny Face”/Donna Fargo
That’s the top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated January 13, 1973. It’s a chart loaded with AM radio pleasure: the rest of the Top 10 are “It Never Rains in Southern California” by Albert Hammond, “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu” by Johnny Rivers,” “Your Mama Don’t Dance” by Loggins and Messina, Curtis Mayfield’s “Superfly,” and Al Green’s “You Ought to Be With Me.” And so I ask again: of those five songs up there, which one is not like the others?
Donna Fargo’s brief run to the top of the pop charts, three seasons from the summer of 1972 through the winter of 1973, is one of the more unlikely I can think of. Fargo, a North Carolina girl born Yvonne Vaughn, had a rural quaver and big hair; she was trained as an English teacher, and she had not seriously considered a career in music before she met the manager who eventually became her husband. She was unusual in a couple of ways, however. She wrote her own songs, which most female country singers of the time did not, and she had not gone to school at some North Carolina teachers’ college—she was a graduate of the University of Southern California. So she was neither unlettered nor unsophisticated.
Her first pop hit landed on the charts in May 1972 and slow-cooked its way to Number 11 in August: “Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.” is an ode to newly wedded bliss in which one can guess what Donna and her husband have been doing before the alarm clock rang. That would explain the joy in Fargo’s voice, which makes the song title not so much a wish or a boast as a statement of fact. It’s nicely arranged, too: three little notes to get it started and a stuttering rhythm guitar to take it out. It’s doubtful that the same people who were buying Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out” on 45 that summer were buying “Happiest Girl,” but they wouldn’t have had to. With Richard Nixon riding high on his way to a landslide reelection, there would have been a large audience for Fargo’s countrified slice of domestic life, opposed as it was to, say, “School’s Out.” But “Happiest Girl” was an international hit as well; Fargo sang a Spanish version and there was a cover version with lyrics in Danish .
Fargo’s next single was even bigger: “Funny Face” (not the greatest audio at that link, but at least it’s the original recording) was at its chart peak this week 38 years ago this week. It, too, is extremely well-produced by Fargo’s husband Stan Silver: coming out of a jingle onto the radio, that three-second intro built momentum to the vocal and it got your attention every time. It’s a waltz, which you didn’t hear on the radio every day and it’s pretty in a cheesy sort of way. But it’s not as distinctive as “Happiest Girl,” and the gender politics of the lyric are a little skeevy to modern ears. He calls her “funny face,” and she’s glad he forgives her “when I say those mean things that we know are not true”—which probably do not include “stop calling me ‘funny face,’ you jackwagon,” although maybe they should.
Both “Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.” and “Funny Face” topped the country charts. “Happiest Girl” won a Grammy and Fargo took the Academy of Country Music’s top female vocalist award for 1972. Fargo’s next two singles, “Superman” and “You Were Always There,” would go Number-One country, too, and although both hit the Hot 100, neither cracked the Top 40. Eleven more Top-10 country hits followed through 1978, including the 1974 Number-One hit “You Can’t Be a Beacon If Your Light Don’t Shine.” Fargo fought multiple sclerosis around the turn of the 1980s and departed the charts a couple of years later. She’s pursued a career writing greeting cards and poetry in recent years, and has a successful catalog of songs to bank on.
What I love most about the Top 40 music of the 1970s is the crazed variety of it. Damn near anything could get to be a hit, and over the course of those fascinating years, damn near everything did. Even the unlikely country music of Donna Fargo.
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What is the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival? | Don't Miss the Many Categories Recognized at the Cannes Film Festival
Prizes Awarded at the Cannes Film Festival
written by: Aunindita•edited by: Rhonda Callow •updated: 3/20/2015
If you are looking for traditional prizes awarded at the Cannes Film Festival then you will definitely be disappointed. The prizes given at the film festival are quite distinct. Check out the list of the top 14 awards here.
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A prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival is a prize like no other. The Cannes Film Festival is considered as of the most prestigious
award festivals among the whole film industry. Started in 1946, this festival is organized every year in Cannes at the Resort town. There are several distinct prizes given out in the Cannes Film Festival. Unlike other prestigious film awards, this private festival has some very unique categories which they base their awards from and this makes them listed among the top film festivals .
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Palme d’Or
The most coveted prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival is the Palme d’Or or the Golden Palm. This award is the equivalent of the best picture in other film awards and was first awarded in 1955. This high honors is given to the best film in the entire Cannes Film Festival.
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Grand Prix
The Grand Prix prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival is considered to be the second best award of the event and is given to one of the competing feature films. The film is selected by a bench of jury members.
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Jury Prize
The Prix du Jury or the Jury Prize is awarded for the Official Section of the event. The Official Section is organized into several sections as well. It is also considered the main award of the festival. The Competition includes 20 films selected by the jury of the festival that competes for the well-known award Palme d’Or. The Un Certain Regard contains a bunch of films representing different cultures that are considered original. Out of the competition, however, are films shown in the festival that are not part of the main event’s competition.
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Short Film Award
Palme d’Or du Court metrage or Short Film Palme d’Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival for the short films shown during the festival. This is equivalent to the Palme d’Or for short films. If there is more than one short film which should be awarded, the festival presents a jury prize or special mention in this section as well and thus considered the best film festival for respecting talent.
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Best Actress Award
Unlike other award festivals, the Best Actress Award is not presented to a group of actresses that are part of the top movies of the year. The Best Actress Award is a prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival that is given to an actress in a film under the Official Section of the film festival. You can expect to have the award given to actresses that are not widely known to all. Since the Cannes Film Festival focuses more on the quality, storyline, production and the technical side of a film, you can find small film companies from different parts of the world invited. The award was first presented in 1946.
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Prize Un Certain Regard
Prize Un Certain Regard is a prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival for films in the Un Certain category of the Official Section. This award was founded to recognize young film makers. Unlike the other awards given in the festival, a grant is given together with the award to help the distribution of the winning film. The prize money for this award is 30,000 Euro.
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Best Actor Award
The best actor award was first awarded to Ray Milland in 1946. The award is presented to best male actor among the films shown in the festival. The French name of the award is Prix d'interprétation masculine.
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Best Director Award
Among the films showcased in the festival, the jury chooses a best director who is presented with the award. The award was first presented in the year 1946. It is also known as Prix de la mise en scène.
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Best Screenplay Award
With the French name Prix du scénario, the award is presented to the best screen play writer of the films shown in the festival. It is another award chosen in the official section by the jury members for screenplay writing .
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Cinéfondation
This award is basically a program to facilitate the film students and to introduce them to the world cinema. The program and award was started in 1998 with the aim to encourage young film makers. This program and section receives more than 1000 films from various film students from all over the world. The program is divided in three sections: Atelier, Residence and Selection.
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Golden Camera
The award was first presented to Robert M. Young in 1978. It is presented to a debut film maker, who made his/her first film. The best film is chosen by special jury and is presented on the closing day of the festival. The French name of the award is Caméra d'Or.
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Vulcain Prize of the Technical Artist
This award was introduced in 2003 to encourage and reward technicians involved in the film making. It is also known as Prix Vulcain de l’Artiste Technicien, and is basically an independent film award.
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International Critic's Week
This special week was created to facilitate and award film makers who make parallel cinema and experimental films . The critics award is for those who are new to film making and made their first or second film. Also known as La Semaine Internationale de la Critique, the winner is chosen among the only top seven feature film and short films.
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The medical condition glaucoma affects which part of the body? | Cannes Film Festival: Overview
Cannes Film Festival
Date: May 13 - May 24 2009 Location: Cannes, France
Location: Cannes, France
Notes:
The festival takes place since 1946.
In the years before 1955 the main festival award was named 'Grand Prix du Festival International du Film'.
The current form of the Golden Palm has been used since 1997 and has been designed by Caroline Scheufele-Gruosi, CEO of Chopard.
Awards
Palme d'Or
1939: The first Cannes Film Festival had been planned for 1939. It had to be canceled, because World War II broke out. For its 55th anniversary in 2002 the festival decided to screen 12 films from the original selection, seven of which would be "in competition" and be retrospectively judged by a contemporary jury.
1959: The atomic bombs of 1945 are still taboo as a subject. Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour is excluded from the official selection in order not to upset the US government.
1964: The name of the festival's grand prix 'Golden Palm' is abandoned and changed to 'Grand Prix International du Festival'. (It will be called 'Golden Palm' again from 1975.)
1966: The Grand Prix is named 'Grand prix du vingtième anniversaire du Festival international du film' for the festival's 20th anniversary.
1966: A new non-competitive festival section called "Directors' Fortnight" is created.
1973: A new non-competitive and informative festival section called 'Étude et documents' is created.
1973: Another non-competitive festival section called 'Perspectives du Cinéma Français' is initiated by the French Film Directors' Society (1973-1991).
1975: The name of the festival's grand prix is again changed to 'Golden Palm' after it had been abandoned in 1964.
1975: A new non-competitive festival section called 'Les Yeux Fertiles' is created, focusing on films dealing with other arts (1975-1977).
1975: A day before the festival opens a bomb is found in the Palais. The 'People's Struggle Against the Perversion of Humanity', is never heard of again.
1976: A new non-competitive festival section called 'L'Air du temps' is created, focusing on films dealing with contemporary subjects (1976-1977).
1977: A new non-competitive festival section called 'Le Passé composé' is created, solely for compilations. It will be celebrated in 1977 only.
1978: A new non-competitive festival section called 'Un Certain Regard' is created replacing the sections 'Les Yeux Fertiles' (1975-1977), 'L'Air du temps' (1976-1977) and 'Le Passé composé' (1977).
1980: The surprise film, Tarkovsky's Stalker , is interrupted due to strikes held by the electricians.
1982: The festival poster is designed by Federico Fellini .
1983: The festival poster is designed by Akira Kurosawa .
1990: The retrospectives are introduced, from 1992 on called 'Cinéma de toujour'.
1992: The retrospectives become an official name: 'Cinéma de toujour'.
1992: The section formerly known as 'Perspectives du Cinéma Français' (1973-1991) is renamed to 'Cinémas en France'.
1998: The festival will have a short film jury from now on.
2002: The winning film for the first festival, which actually was canceled in 1939 due to the beginning of World War II, was decided on retrospectively by a jury in 2002.
2004: For the first time in the history of the festival, president Gilles Jacob gave the jury an opportunity to explain their Golden Palm choices.
Golden Palm
Given: 1955-
The winning movie is chosen by a jury from the pool of movies which are part of the festivals 'official selection' (sélection officielle).
Grand Prize of the Festival
Given: 1946-1947, 1949, 1951-1954
1959: The atomic bombs of 1945 are still taboo as a subject. Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour is excluded from the official selection in order not to upset the US government.
The winning movie was chosen by a jury from the pool of movies which were part of the festivals 'official selection' (sélection officielle).
Grand Prize of the Jury
The winning movie is chosen by a jury from the pool of movies which are part of the festivals 'official selection' (Sélection officielle).
Jury Prize
The winning movie is chosen by a jury from the pool of movies which are part of the festivals 'official selection' (Sélection officielle).
International Jury Prize
Critics Week Grand Prize
Given: 2000-
The award is given by the press to the best feature film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival. Journalists and film critics are invited to vote after each screening.
If the winner is a French speaker, an additional grant of EUR 3,000 will be added by the Beaumarchais Foundation. (as of 2005)
Mercedes-Benz Award
Given: 1993-1999
The award is given to the best feature film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival.
SACD Screenwriting Award
Given: 2004-
The award is given to the best screenwriter of a feature film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival.
SACD Award
Given: 1991-1992
The award is given to the best feature and short film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival.
ACID Award
The award is given by a jury formed of directors, who are members of ACID, in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival.
Canal+ Award
Given: 1992-
The award is given to the best short film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival.
Kodak Short Film Award
The award is given to a short film revelation.
Kodak Short Film Award - Special Mention
Prix Grand Cru
Given: 2006-
The award is given to the best screenwriter of a short or mid-length film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival.
Young Critics Award
Given: 2000-
The award is given to the best feature and short film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival.
Grand Golden Rail
Given: 1995-
The award is given by a group of cinephile railwaymen to the best feature film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival.
Small Golden Rail
Given: 1995-
The award is given by a group of cinephile railwaymen to the best short film in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival.
Hohoa Award
Given: 2003-
The award is given to the best short film script (<20min) from the French overseas territories in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) (as of 2008)
Golden Coach
Given: 2002-
The award is a tribute paid by directors - and only directors - to fellow filmmakers for their courage and intransigence in their art. It is a homage to independence and pure cinematic genius.
SACD Prize (Directors' Fortnight)
The award is given to a French-language feature film in the Directors Fortnight selection.
Label Europa Cinemas
Given: 2003-
The award is given to a European film in the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) section of the festival to further its distribution.
C.I.C.A.E. Award
Cinémas de Recherche - Special Mention
SFR Prize
The award is given to the most audacious French short film from the Director's Fortnight international selection. It is awarded by a jury of professionals and young directors brought together by SFR.
SACD Short Film Award
Unifrance Short Film Grand Prize
Given: 2008-
Unifrance Short Film Special Prize
Gras Savoye Award
Given: 1998-2007
The juried award is given to a producer/director of the best short film from a selection of films not awarded at other international festivals. (as of 2003)
Gras Savoye Award - Special Mention
Perspectives du Cinéma Award
Perspectives du Cinéma Award - Special Mention
Young Cinema Award
'La Chance de Cannes' Award
Gary Cooper Award
Given: 1961, 1963
The award is given in recognition of the human valor of the film's content and treatment.
International Peace Award
France Culture Award
Given: 1999-
The award is given to a domestic and a foreign film to honor the best cineaste of the year, who is not yet known widely.
Award of the Youth
Given: 1982-
A jury of seven young European cineastes (age 18-25) decides on the awards given to a French and a foreign film each, a first, second or third work from the parallel sections of the festival (La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Un Certain Regard, La Semaine de la Critique).
From 1982 to 1988 the jury had been built from five young French.
Since 2003 the traditional distinction between French and foreign film has been given up and just one film is awarded.
Special Award of the Youth
Regards Jeunes Prize
Prix Regards Jeune
Given: 2003-
The award is decided on by an European jury of seven young cinephiles and given to a feature film (first or second feature) in each of the two sidebars: the Directors' Fortnight and the International Critics Week. (2009)
The award is given to the best feature and short film in the critics week (La Semaine de la Critique) or Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) section of the festival. (old rule)
Cannes Junior Award
Best Film for the Youth
François Chalais Award
The award is given to a documentary or a feature film which best captures life.
Norman McLaren Award
Given: 2005-
The Norman McLaren Prize, created by the National Film Board of Canada under the aegis of the Cannes Film Festival, will be presented each year to the winner of the Short Film Palme d'Or.
NFB Online Short Film Competition
Given: 2005-
Ten finalists are selected, the winner is then decided on by the online audiences.
Cinema Prize of the French National Education System
Given: 2003-
Award of the City of Rome
American Pavillon's Emerging Filmmaker Showcase
Given: 2009-
The award is given to both a male and female acting revelation. (as of 2005)
DVD Design Award
The DVD awards aim to recompense the artistic work of film companies latest releases.
The award is given for DVD releases with films released after 1 January 1979.
DVD Heritage Award
The award is given for DVD releases which include restored copies, exclusive notes and material.
Palme d'Or - Best Short Film
Birks Canadian Diamond
Un Certain Regard - Best Director
Critics Week - Special Mention
Un Certain Regard - Special Distinction of the Jury
France 4 Visionary Award
Nikon Discovery Award - Special Mention
Vulcain Prize for the Technical Artist
SACD Prize (Directors' Fortnight) - Special Mention
Illy Prize
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Hirudin is a naturally occurring peptide in the salivary glands of which creatures used in medicine? | Hirudin/Leeches Salivary Secretion | Tinnitus Talk Support Forum
http://www.ijpsonline.com/article.a...ssue=2;spage=127;epage=137;aulast=Abdualkader
Hirudin is a naturally occurring peptide in the salivary glands of medicinal leeches that has a blood anticoagulant property
It was reported that leeches and their salivary secretion were successfully used for the treatment of tinnitus, acute and chronic otitis [95] . Leeching has been applied in sudden hearing loss. In such cases, the therapist used just two leeches; one behind the ear and the other one over the jaw in front of the ear, and the treatment was repeated 2-3 times at intervals of 3-4 days. Despite the unexplained reasons of tinnitus, leeches were proven to be of great benefits in the treatment of this disorder
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Hi Eddylee, I did hear a positive story about treatment of Multiple sclerosis (first hand) with leeches but not yet one for Tinnitus.
The info you mention comes from:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3757849/
Hematophagous animals including leeches have been known to possess biologically active compounds in their secretions, especially in their saliva. The blood-sucking annelids, leeches have been used for therapeutic purposes since the beginning of civilization. Ancient Egyptian, Indian, Greek and Arab physicians used leeches for a wide range of diseases starting from the conventional use for bleeding to systemic ailments, such as skin diseases, nervous system abnormalities, urinary and reproductive system problems, inflammation, and dental problems. Recently, extensive researches on leech saliva unveiled the presence of a variety of bioactive peptides and proteins involving antithrombin (hirudin, bufrudin), antiplatelet (calin, saratin), factor Xa inhibitors (lefaxin), antibacterial (theromacin, theromyzin) and others. Consequently, leech has made a comeback as a new remedy for many chronic and life-threatening abnormalities, such as cardiovascular problems, cancer, metastasis, and infectious diseases. In the 20thcentury, leech therapy has established itself in plastic and microsurgery as a protective tool against venous congestion and served to salvage the replanted digits and flaps. Despite the efficacious properties of leech therapy, the safety, and complications of leeching are still controversial.
Then the information you mention:
Audiology and ear abnormalities:
It was reported that leeches and their salivary secretion were successfully used for the treatment of tinnitus, acute and chronic otitis[ 95 ]. Leeching has been applied in sudden hearing loss. In such cases, the therapist used just two leeches; one behind the ear and the other one over the jaw in front of the ear, and the treatment was repeated 2-3 times at intervals of 3-4 days. Despite the unexplained reasons of tinnitus, leeches were proven to be of great benefits in the treatment of this disorder[ 17 ].
See also: 17. Michalsen A, Roth M, Dobos G, Aurich M. Stattgurt, Germany: Apple Wemding; 2007. Medicinal Leech Therapy. [ Ref list ]
And here another medical report: https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/278932
Abstract
Medicpal leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) and the native secretion of their sali-vary glands diluted with saline (5 times) were successfully used for the treatment of some ear diseases: tinnitus caused by inner-ear affections, acute external otitis and chronic Otitis media. The effect of diluted leech saliva injected into the region of the mastoid process by microelectrophoresis was 25-30% lower than that of the medicinal leeches.
Somehow I'm too scared to try a treatment with leeches yet, though from what I heard the treatment is not painful.
And they breed the medicinal leeches in e.g. Germany in special centers.
Anyway if I would hear about some succes stories here be sure that it would help with Tinnitus I would probably try it!
Only I did not yet hear success stories here from treatment with leeches.
Anybody ??
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Hi Hotaru,
Yes, there are official accredited docs who use leeches. For example in the netherlands there is Dr Gilazowa http://www.gilazowa.nl . She uses medicinal leeches for treatment of T (and some other..)
In Germany and Austria leeches are also used, even much more then in the Netherlands.
You can read also an article here about the comeback of leeches within the medical world: http://www.healthline.com/health/what-is-leech-therapy
Leeches have been used in medicine since the beginning of human civilization. They’ve been used to treat a variety of ailments, including nervous system abnormalities, dental problems, skin diseases, and infections.
Today, they’re mostly used in plastic surgery and other microsurgery. This is because leeches secrete peptides and proteins that work to prevent blood clots. This keeps blood flowing to wounds to help them heal.
But leech therapy is seeing a revival due to its simple and inexpensive means of preventing complications.
Here another article, where you read that leeches were used for treatment of ear infections.
National Geographic has also made a movie about the subject:
Leeches Cure
And here another german movie about pain treatment with leeches.
Blutegeltherapie Blutegelbehandlung bei...
Here another movie in which they show T treatment with leeches unfortunately the movie does not give so much information ;-(
Blutegel Therapie bei Tinnitus
So my regular doctor says I should not try this leech therapy, and I'm also scared to try it.
but if I know or hear of success stories from persons on this forum that could probably change my opinion ..
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1.Hirudin is a naturally occurring peptide in the salivary glands of medicinal leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) that has a blood anticoagulant property. This is fundamental for the leeches’ alimentary habit of hematophagy, since it keeps the blood flowing after the initial phlebotomy performed by the worm on the host’s skin
2.Thrombin is produced from prothrombin, by the action of an enzyme, prothrombinase, in the final states of coagulation. Fibrin is then cross linked by factor XIII to form a blood clot. The principal inhibitor of thrombin in normal blood circulation is antithrombin III.
3.Similar to antithrombin III, the anticoagulatant activity of hirudin is based on its ability to inhibit the pro-coagulant activity of thrombin.Hirudin is the most potent natural inhibitor of thrombin. Unlike antithrombin III hirudin binds to and inhibits only the activity of thrombin forms with a specific activity against fibrinogen.
4.Therefore, hirudin prevents or dissolves the formation of clots and thrombi (i.e. it has a thrombolytic activity), and has therapeutic value in blood coagulation disorders, in the treatment of skin hematomas and of superficial varicose veins, as a topical application cream. In some aspects, hirudin has advantages over more commonly used anticoagulants and thrombolytics, such as heparin, as it does not interfere with the biological activity of other serum proteins and can also act on complexed thrombin.
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In the animal kingdom, what is the world’s largest land predator? | Top Ten Wild Predators - TheTopTens®
Top Ten Wild Predators
funckygarcon They can attack from anywhere, on the ground, in the air and even under the water, let's see who is the best hunter and the most feared one?
The Top Ten
1 Killer Whale
The killer whale or orca is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family, of which it is the largest member.
As the name suggests, the killer whale is a deadly predator, combining remarkable skill with awesome physical power. Orcas have a number of ingenious techniques in their hunting arsenal, giving them one of the most diverse diets of all aquatic predators. For example, they are fond of knocking seals and penguins from ice floes in order to seize them as they fall into the water. They have also been known to intentionally beach themselves in order to reach seals onshore. Highly social animals, killer whales tend to live in pods made up of dozens of individuals working cooperatively to snag prey. Some have even been known to successfully prey on great white sharks. - funckygarcon
Currently the ultimate predator of the oceans, which is saying it is the terror of 70% of the world's oceans. With size (being able to reach almost 9 metres long), speed (able to swim faster than any other whale/dolphin in short bursts), teamwork (almost always hunting in a pack, no matter the prey item) and ingenuity (able to pick baby seals off the beach/ice floes and beating great whites due to their knowledge of tonic immobility, which means flipping the shark upside down, rendering it immobile) on their side, the orca is able to take on almost anything within its range. Definitely the no. 1 predator living today
The apex predator of the world (besides us)
Honestly, the killer whale is so impressive, it has been known to hunt the Blue Whale.
No I don't know about you, but preying on the biggest animal that ever lived is remarkable. Put it like this, that would be like the great white shark preying upon the Sperm Whale etc
Nothing preys on the orca and it is the perfect killing machine with strength, speed and intelligence.
Killer whales have also been known to kill great whites so I don't know how people think they're the apex predator of the world. In my opinion, bull sharks are more impressive than the great white.
Killer whales lose to Polar bears because polar bears have been known to eat killer whales.
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2 Siberian Tiger
The Siberian tiger, also known as the Amur tiger, is a tiger subspecies inhabiting mainly the Sikhote Alin mountain region with a small population in southwest Primorye Province in the Russian Far East.
Agile, strong, clever and fast, this animal has everything, no animal on Earth can top it, it's hard to compare am orca to a Siberian tiger as they are completely different but I would say tigers have a lot more attributes than orcas, with their incredible eye sight, power and the ability to evade and even climb trees. They are solitary hunters as they need no help when taking down their prey unlike orcas who hunt I'm groups. Also it is known that before humans had guns, they were at the top of the worlds food chain! Definitely number 1.
When you see a Siberian tiger, you can just see how much strength that animals holds.
The power and musculature of their upper body is breathtaking. Not only that, they are filmed to carry immense weight with only their jaw, unlike mammals like bears & wolverines, where people claim they can lift a record breaking amount with no evidence whatsoever. Also, if you have handled a cat, you will realise how strong they are, so imagine how powerful a even bigger cat would be. Golly!
It has been shown over and OVER that tigers reign supreme as the real king of the jungle. They are bigger, stronger, more ferocious, etc.
The tiger is undeniably one of, if not the greatest land predators on the planet. I've seen a Bengal tigress hold off two lions. I mean sure, different fights have different results, and there's probably evidence that lions can kill tigers, but overall, the tiger will win more than the lion. Even Bengal tigers can take down crocodiles, while Siberian tigers have taken down male Kodiak bears, which are far bigger and stronger than the tiger. (basically larger grizzly bears)
No offense, but some of you need to get your facts straight before you vote.
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I an well aware that lions are incredibly impressive predators, but male lions really only have to fight other lions for possession of their pride. After that, it's basically naps and meals.
Lions will end up killing the tiger at any single time even though Siberian tigers are cutter
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3 African Lion
This animal is known as the "king of the jungle, " and for good reason. Lions hunt some of the largest prey on Earth, including buffalo and wildebeest. Part of their terrific success as predators comes from the fact that they cooperate in their kills. Lions live in social groups called prides, and all members work together in the hunt. Young lions learn their place in the pride early in life by play-fighting, which teaches them the skills they'll need for the hunt and determines what role they are most suited to perform. Lions' hunting success rate is only about one in five, but those odds are impressive when you consider that their prey species are massive creatures with plenty of fighting power of their own. - funckygarcon
Lions are not known as the "King of the Jungle", nor the "King of the Savannah", for that matter. The proper terminology is "King of Beasts". It is the impressive mane the males have that gave them this title, like a crown. In Africa they reign supreme. However, in the feline family they take the back seat to the larger, faster, stronger, and more agile Siberian Tiger. Anyone that claims otherwise is biased, or misinformed.
Lions are awesome the lion should be number 1 the lion would win the fight against the tiger due to lack of experience and the tiger does all the neck bites and it won't be able to get a killing hold and for number the orca shouldn't even be on it it lives in the sea so that's why I think the lion should be at number 1
They are King of the jungle and on land plus killer whales don't live on land
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4 Great White Shark
The great white shark, also known as the great white, white pointer, white shark, or white death, is a species of large lamniform shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans.
Any animal that has the misfortune of being preyed upon by the great white shark stands very little chance of surviving the attack. This animal is No. 1 on our countdown for its remarkable predatory abilities. With its streamlined body and strong jaws, the great white is a powerful animal: a fast swimmer and an agile aquatic acrobat able to leap high out of the water to surprise its prey. The great white shark also has multiple rows of sharp serrated teeth, each being replaced as soon as one is lost. In fact, a single shark can go through more than 50, 000 teeth in its lifetime. Great whites typically begin their attacks with a single punishing bite. The shark then waits for its victim to be weakened by the wound before it returns to eat - a technique that allows the predator to feed in relative safety. - funckygarcon
Great white sharks are harmless to humans, in most attacks no flesh is removed its caused of blood loss. And I think it the movies as well, like jaws that was made in the 1970's. It was made just to scare people! It was a fake shark, and they had made the fins the wrong size and if the shark were real it would sink. Stop killing them now or they will be gone.! #save them!
I love Great Whites, I have since I was just a kid. There's just something about those jaws that really make you feel insignificant. However, it is still just a fish, a magnificent fish, but just a fish, with a fish brain. No way it's a superior predator to the Orca. They just lack the intelligence that the mammal has. There's no contest.
I think it should be the number 1 predator
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5 Gray Wolf
Grey wolves are not only among the smartest animals on earth, smarter than any animal on this list exempt possibly the killer whale, they also are among the top distance runners in the animal kingdom capable of continuing a chase for hours longer than any of these other animals. The wolf therefore is not only a highly social, it runs in packs up to 30 strong, and highly intelligent animal it will virtually never stop chasing you
Guys, a shark at no1? PLEASE, a grey wolf is easily smarter, has impressive stamina, hunts in packs, its perfect
It's very clear why wolves should be up on the list: They're smart, successful, strategists with a good enough bite to get the job done and fast enough paws to keep them going.
It's the most cunning animal on here, speed, ferociousness and most importantly brains. The killer whale better watch out.
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6 Polar Bear
The polar bear is a carnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses.
Polar bears used to be brown bears whom wondered the north for food, then they adapted to the freezing environment and grew white fur, learned how to swim and most importantly created a new species of bear! # I love them
Polar bears can bring down "number one" on this list, the Killer Whale! Just because an animal is feared through stories doesn't mean it is dangerous
Polar bears by far are the most powerful land predators on earth. They kill seals and walruses and can pull a 1 ton beluga whale out of the icy ocean. No other land carnivore can match the power of a polar bear. Kodiak Bears number 2 and grizzly bears number 3 and Siberian tigers number 4
They are the only animals that like to hunt humans
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7 Saltwater Crocodile
Has the strongest bite on earth (almost as the T-Rex's), his preys can be great whites-like or any other thing in the australian sea, that's why it's the ultimate carnivore.
At contrary than the other crocs, this one never gets tired, and if this it's not enough, it's the most intelligent reptile, 7 times more than the Great White.
A combination of size (possibly more than 6 metres), power (unrivalled by any modern-day predator in terms of bite force), armour (normal guns can't do major harm through that thick skin) and aggression (highly territorial, saltwater crocs would attack anything if they come too close) means that almost nothing alive today can challenge a big male saltwater croc. Should be no. 2 behind the orca/killer whale
You can't improve perfection and that's why this beast has been almost unchanged (the size of crocs has changed) for millions of years. They can take down anything they want and have stealth and power better then anything else on this list. Should be #1
They have an armor, strong bite and sharp teeth. What could be better for a predator
8 Bengal Tiger
Its should be here. It is the biggest and ferocious cat of all.
They are the fastest biggest land beast. They also can and like to swim! Lions hunt together prides so no way they should be ahead. The Grizzly is a close second land wise.
Bengal tigers are wonderful animals we should learn to love them too, stop the fur hunting and pretend you're the species being wiped out. How would you feel! #tigers rule
Biggest tiger
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9 Eagle
Eagle is a common name for many large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae; it belongs to several groups of genera that are not necessarily closely related to each other. Eagles are also one of America's national symbols.
Eagles are the best birds. There strong, fast and agile. It's no wonder the US chose a bald EAGLE to symbolize there country.
Top of food chain. Who hunts eagles?
The Golden eagle is the best eagle.They are at the top of the food chain and Golden eagles also hunt wolves! Golden eagles are also very large eagles and they have a grip about 430 pounds per square inch! Even though it is not the most powerful eagle it yet hunts the largest prey of any bird! They are also the 2nd fastest animals in the world losing only to the Peregrine falcon.But Golden eagles are apex predators and peregrine falcons are not apex predators.Also Golden eagles eat Peregrine falcons.
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10 Black Mamba
The most fearsome animal in all Africa may well be the black mamba, the giant venomous snake found throughout the southeastern portion of the continent. It gets its name from the black skin on the inside of its mouth, which it displays just before it strikes. These animals are usually quite shy, but can be extremely aggressive when confronted. When they do attack, they tend to strike their victims repeatedly, releasing a lethal mix of neurotoxin and cardiotoxin. In the past, a bite from a black mamba was 100 percent fatal. Now, that figure is decreasing due to the increased use of anti-venom throughout the continent. - funckygarcon
My comparison his BLACK MAMBA, wild predator of in principal woman film Kill Bill. BLACK MAMBA, his poison snake I comparison to principal woman in Kill Bill 1 and 2. Yellow costum danger woman. Name actress is Uma Thurman. Yellow woman and magic zord is attacker offer world Yakuza.
They are good for catching mice 2
They slither and are upon you without you even knowing
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11 Grizzly Bear
The grizzly bear less commonly called the silvertip bear, is any North American morphological form or subspecies of brown bear.
The grizzly bear, also known as the brown bear, is probably the most feared animal in North America. This powerful predatory animal can stand 7 feet tall and weigh more than 800 pounds. Its strong limbs and huge paws can kill a man in a single swipe, and its powerful crushing jaws allow it to feed on a variety of foods, including large mammals. Grizzlies are also strong swimmers and fast runners. Coming face to face with this animal in the wild can be a harrowing experience, but the best response is to stand tall and resist the urge to run. These animals have been clocked at more than 40 miles per hour, and running away from them can trigger their chase response. - funckygarcon
Have you ever seen the size of a Kodiak's paw? It's twice the size of your head and has really long powerful claws. Except for maybe a polar bear no other land predator could touch it (well, maybe a giant crocodile could, but grizzlies have pretty impressive stamina). These monoliths are able to shrug off bullets very easily unless it's a high-caliber straight shot to the heart or head. A Lion or Tiger would be destroyed in seconds since their hunting tactics revolve around tackling, and the Kodiak is just too big for that. Definitely the baddest land predator.
I found on a website that the Grizzly bear Will eat and kill anything in its path other than humans
Have you hared of strong as a bear?
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12 Cheetah
The cheetah, also known as the hunting leopard, is a big cat that occurs mainly in eastern and southern Africa and a few parts of Iran. The cheetah is the fastest land animal, able to run up to 75 mph and can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in just 3 seconds
The fastest land predator, can run as fast as 109.4 to 120.7 km/h (68.0 to 75.0 mph), faster than any other land animal. It covers distances up to 500 m (1,640 ft) in short bursts, and can accelerate from 0 to 96 km/h (0 to 60 mph) in three seconds.
Cheetah is not only fast, they also have a strong bite
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13 Nile Crocodile
The strongest reptile in the world. It can kill anything including lions and hyenas. The strongest bite force in the world.
14 Bald Eagle
15 Bear
Bears are mammals of the family Ursidae. Bears are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans, with the pinnipeds being their closest living relatives.
16 Falcon
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17 Hyena
Hyenas or hyaenas are any feliform carnivoran mammals of the family Hyaenidae /haɪˈɛnᵻdiː/. With only four extant species, it is the fifth-smallest biological family in the Carnivora, and one of the smallest in the class Mammalia.
Hyena's have one of the most powerful jaws in the world. Their bite is significantly tougher than a lions plus hyenas are pack hunters giving them an extra edge.
Hyenas are actually second only to lions for top land predators
Hyena lose to leopard on one to one basis
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18 Tiger
The tiger is the largest cat species, most recognisable for their pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside. V 2 Comments
19 Komodo Dragon
The Komodo dragon, also known as the Komodo monitor, is a large species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang, and Padar.
The largest of all lizards, the Komodo dragon is a mighty reptile that weighs up to 300 pounds and can reach a length of more than 10 feet. This animal takes our No. 6 spot for having multiple predatory advantages: speed, strength and the tenacity to bring down prey species twice its size. They also have a toxic bite; any victim that survives a Komodo dragon attack is likely to succumb to their wounds soon after. Komodos mainly hunt by ambushing their prey, but they are also fast runners and good swimmers. What's more, their incredible predatory skills are matched by an equally impressive ability to consume meat, up to half their own body weight in a single meal. - funckygarcon
Have the coolest adaption of having so much bacteria in there mouth that after they bite something once they can just sit back and wait for an easy meal to collapse in front of them. Should be in the top 10 at least
One reason is because they're HUGE! Another reason is just because of their bite, A. Their saliva is toxic, B. Their mouths are full of bacteria which can cause an infection for its victims.C. their teeth alone would hurt. They're also pretty agile.
They prey on humans they are unstoppable
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20 Lion
The lion is one of the big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the family Felidae. The commonly used term African lion collectively denotes the several subspecies in Africa.
Lion has the heart of a warrior. He is the king of all the animals
It can kill an anaconda in seconds. It much bigger
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The 10 Most Deadly Apex Predators on Earth
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By definition, an Apex predator is any adult animal that has no natural predator within its ecosystem. That includes a long list of razor-clawed carnivores and creepy crawlies. But which critter is really the deadliest of them all? Here are the 10 that make my short list for the baddest of the bad boys from around the world.
Let us know whose tops on your list by taking our exclusive “ Deadliest Poll ” and add your favorite bad guys in the comments section.
Polar Bear
On the Arctic icecap every creature fears the polar bear and with good reason. These mighty nomads are the largest land carnivores on earth (a position shared with the Kodiak brown bears of southern Alaska) and anything on the ice, and sometimes just below it, is food.
Ursus maritimus is a master of stealth dressed in snow camo. Polar bears have been known to stake out blowholes in the ice for hours, waiting for seals to come up for a gulp of air. When unsuspecting seals surface, one swipe of the paw is all it takes to put seal tartar on the menu.
Deadly Stats
Weight: 750 – 1,200 pounds
Size: Over 4 feet at the shoulder. When standing on hind legs, large males can reach more than 10 feet.
Weapons: Two-inch claws, brutish strength, may have the best sense of smell in the entire animal kingdom. Hearing is at least the equal of humans.
Attitude: aggressive. Anything on the ice is fair game.
Creepy characteristic: They are excellent swimmers—able to reach swimming speeds of just over 6 miles per hour. By contrast, the average human swimmer can only swim about 2 miles per hour.
Sharks
The ocean is literally swimming with deadly candidates, from poisonous puffer fish and lethal jellyfish, to toxic sea snakes. But it’s the guys in the gray suits that set that little voice in the back of our minds to screaming “uh, oh!”
And, while falling overboard at night in the Florida Keys would put you squarely on the dining room table of ultra-aggressive bull shark, it’s the great white that tops my list in the pelagic category.
Yes, Carcharodon carcharias has all the requisites for being at the top of the food chain in his environment. He’s fast (GW’s have been clocked at speeds of up to 35 miles per hour), he can turn on a dime and he is seemingly always hungry.
Deadly Stats
Weight: 1,500 to 2,400 pounds
Size: According to the Canadian Shark Research Center , the world’s largest, accurately measured great white measured 20 feet in length — that’s longer than a lot of flats or bass boats.
Weapons: About 300 serrated teeth, skin like #4 sandpaper, deadly sense of smell capable of detecting even tiny amounts of blood in water up to 3 miles away.
Attitude: Curious is probably a good way to describe GW’s, but put a few drops of blood in their water and let the Cuisinarting begin.
Creepy characteristic: They eat anything. Oddities found in the stomachs of sharks over the years have included a box of nails, shoes, chairs, the back half of a horse, bottles of wine and even a torpedo.
Crocodiles
The American South is gator city and Alligator mississippiensis certainly deserves our respect, but it’s Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) that are the true bad boys. Accounts vary widely on death tolls per annum, but numbers range from 200 to 2,500 deaths every year. And those are only the deaths that are reported. No doubt many more head down to the local river to wash clothes or fetch water and simply disappear.
Their Australian cousins, Crocodylus porosus, may actually be even worse culprits. Australia’s deadly saltwater crocodiles hold dual titles as the largest living reptiles (up to 2,200 pounds) as well as the largest terrestrial predators on Earth. They are very aggressive and are saltwater cruisers, making them death incarnate on practically every estuary north of Brisbane.
Deadly Stats
Weight: Up to 1,650 pounds
Size: Up to 20 feet in length.
Weapons: Tons of teeth, ultra-stealthy, extremely quick at close range.
Attitude: Pea-brained but always looking for an easy meal.
Creepy characteristic: Can eat up to half its weight at a single feeding.
African Lions
What list would be complete without mentioning Panthera leo , the “king of beasts?” And who better to hold the man-eating record than the famous “Man-eaters of Tsavo.”
This duo of maneless male lions racked up an incredible tally of some 135 kills while feasting on a virtual smorgasbord of human workers building a bridge across the Tsavo River in Kenya in 1898 for the Kenya-Uganda Railway. Though modern forensic research puts the number closer to 35 victims, that’s still quite a total.
Interestingly, though, in the natural world, it is the female lioness that does most of the killing.
Deadly Stats
Weight: 330 to 500 pounds
Size: 4 feet at the shoulder and 5 to 8 feet in length.
Weapons: Ultra cunning, keen senses of sight, smell and hearing.
Attitude: Lethargic on a full stomach, but when the pride goes out for a midnight snack, watch out.
Creepy characteristic: Like the velociraptors in Jurrasic Park, lionesses like to hunt in pairs.
Hyenas
Lovable dogs? Hardly. Ask most African locals what animal they fear most, and old laughing boy is usually right near the top. Crocuta crocuta is persistent and, like the coyote , never very far from humans or an easy meal.
Hyenas like to prey on the aged and infirm. When elderly tribesmen disappear in the bush, these guys are usually responsible for the ax work.
Deadly Stats
Weight: 89 to 120 pounds
Size: 2 ½ to 3 feet at the shoulder
Weapons: Bone-crushing jaws capable of generating 80 kgf/cm2 of force — some 40 percent more than a leopard and more bone-crushing ability that the brown bear. They are also capable of running 40 miles per hour.
Attitude: Ultra cunning, keen senses of sight, smell and hearing
Creepy characteristic: Though they generally shy away from man, hyenas are not against adding people to the menu. Hyenas have been reported sneaking into camps and biting the faces off sleeping victims.
Wolves
In their eco-system, few can rival the sheer killing power of these amazing predators . Renowned for their intelligence and a strict hierarchy within their own societal packs, Canis lupus fears no one (other than armed man). The damage done to western deer and elk herds in recent years is a testament to their killing abilities.
Think wolves killing humans is a myth? The chilling stories of Candice Berner, a schoolteacher in Alaska who was out for a jog in March 2010 and Ken Joel Carnegie, who went for a walk outside a geological survey camp in northern Saskatchewan are two of the most recent examples.
Neither returned. Coroner’s reports said both fatalities were caused by wolves that mauled the victims to death.
Deadly Stats
Weight: 110 pounds
Size: 2 ½ feet at the shoulder.
Weapons: Speed (wolves have been clocked up to 37 miles per hour), cunning. Gang mentality and the tactical smarts of a wilderness general.
Attitude: Ultra cunning, keen senses of sight, smell and hearing. Speed and bone-cracking jaws.
Creepy characteristic: A wolf can eat 20 percent of its body weight in a single feeding and they have a fondness for internal organs — heart, liver and lungs.
Grizzly bears
Ursus horriblis. With a name like that what’s not to be afraid of? While incidences of grizzlies actually killing people are few, stats are up on run-ins by hikers and hunters with Brar bear; few of which end well for those on two legs.
Deadly Stats
Weight: While adult inland grizzlies generally top out at around 850 pounds, though their Alaskan brown bear cousins easily reach 1,500 pounds owing to their high-protein diet of salmon.
Size: 5 to 8 feet.
Weapons: Speed (few animals are faster in the 40-yard dash), strength, and knife-like claws that open prey with not-so-surgical precision. Add a keen sense of hearing and smell and you have a very potent adversary here.
Attitude: Depends on the day and the encounter. Surprise a bear on a trail and it’s even odds that the bear will either false charge, in hopes you’ll turn tail and run or he’ll just keep coming and turn you into puree. Get between a mother and her cubs and you have problems. Some 70 percent of human fatalities are caused by mother grizzlies defending their cubs.
Creepy characteristic: They like to cover their victims with brush and come back later for the full dining experience.
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Scorpions
The brown recluse spider is nasty ( check out what happens to your skin when you’re bitten by one of these guys , but be warned, parental guidance is advised. But the arachnid that truly gives one reason to pause (and shiver) is the scorpion. They’re wide spread and come in a variety of colors and flavors (1,500 species worldwide).
Of all the varieties, however, the red scorpion of India is the most deadly. While it is only the size of a cigarette lighter, Buthus Tamulus packs a powerful bite. Depending on the amount of venom injected, victims can experience nausea, heart problems, and in severe cases, pulmonary edema, which may cause death.
Deadly Stats
Size: 50-90mm
Weapons: Small pinchers and a nasty stinger.
Attitude: Though red scorpions don’t go looking for trouble, most bites occur at night when scorpions accidently crawl into beds or fall from ceilings.
Creepy characteristic: Fatality rates run between 8 to 40 percent. Primary victims are children.
Black Mamba
I could have just as easily chosen the deadly Taipan from Australia here, as they are the most feared land predator Down Under. And the Eastern diamondback, with its neurotoxic venom, has sent numerous victims to a painful exit here in North America. But I have had first-hand experience with the Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), so he tops my list.
Years ago, while hunting in Zambia, I had a rather smallish 4-footer visit me in my hut. He literally shot in through a small hole at the base of the shower stall where the water drained outside.
He took one look at me, rose up off the ground about half his length and just swayed there for the longest 3 or 4 seconds of my life. Fortunately, he decided I was much larger than the mice he’d come into my hut to chase and flew back out the way he came.
Minutes later, with half the camp beating the bushes, he was quickly dispatched, but I still get the shivers every time I think of how close I came to being struck.
Deadly Stats
Speed: The black mamba is the fastest snake in Africa and possibly the world and while mythical stories claim the mamba can outrun a horse, its fastest official recorded speed is just under 7 mph.
Size: Adults range from 6 ½ to 9 ½ feet, although some sources claim some measurements in excess of 14 feet.
Weapons: Deadly venom causing collapse in humans within 45 minutes.
Attitude: While the mamba can be extremely aggressive when disturbed, like most snakes, it will attempt to flee unless cornered.
Creepy characteristic: The black mamba takes its name, not from the color of its skin, which is gray, but from the interior of its mouth, which is black as night. Given its deadly reputation, it should come as no surprise that the black mamba’s heads is, well, coffin shaped.
Hippo
Ah, the jolly fat man of the animal kingdom. Hippopotamus amphibius is no man-eater. He is an herbivore.
However, get between a hippo and the safety of its waterhole and watch out. And in the water kingdom they call home, they will readily attack small boats. In Niger’s capitol of Niamey, 13 people, including 12 children, were killed in 2014 when their boat was overturned by a hippo.
Deadly Stats
Weight: 3,300 pounds
Size: Nearly 5 feet at the shoulder and 11 to 17 feet long.
Weapons: Massive canine tusks (incisors can reach over a foot in length, while canines can reach up to 1 ½ feet) and the ability to beat feet at an amazing 19 mph when running on dry land.
Attitude: Very aggressive. Territorial bulls or mothers protecting their calves are both forces to be reckoned with. Hippos will attack and capsize small boats and often engage in raiding crops on land, stomping those they encounter into raspberry jam.
Creepy characteristic: Hippos can stay under water for up to 6 minutes and have a lifespan of 40 to 50 years.
Man
Yes, we make the list, but just barely. Any of the animals on this list are fully capable of taking us out in their own habitat, but the statistics would show that man’s inhumanity to man is the biggest killer on earth with humans accounting for some 475,000 deaths worldwide every year.
When it comes to efficiency, no one is better able to devise more ways to kill more people than man himself.
Deadly Stats
Weight: 180 pounds
Size: 5 feet, 9 inches
Weapons: Highly evolved brains that lead to the invention of weapons of mass destruction from firearms to explosives to atomic bombs.
Creepy characteristic: Highly creative, ability to reason and use deadly tools.
See what it’s like to come face to face with some of North America’s deadliest animals on Sportsman Channel’s Apex Predator , Thursday’s at 8:00 EP. And be sure to join this week’s LIVE Tweet with @RemiWarren during the show.
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James Bond is back again and his new mission is to find out how a Royal Navy Polaris submarine holding sixteen nuclear warheads simply disappears whilst on patrol. Bond joins Major Anya Amasova and takes on a a web-handed mastermind, known as Karl Stromberg, as well as his henchman Jaws, who has a mouthful of metal teeth. Bond must track down the location of the missing submarine before the warheads are fired. Written by simon
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Just like the highly disappointing "Die another day" is a regrettable class example of how to do everything in a James Bond film completely wrong, legendary "The Spy who loved me" is a prototype of a perfect 007 adventure. Everything seems to work here.
First of all this was the first Bond movie that really showed what a modern pre-credits sequence should look like. After all in Roger Moore's first two flicks "Live and let die" and "The Man with the golden gun" we don't even see 007 until after the credits.
From the opening ski chase to the underwater car, stunts are amazing. In many ways this has to be one of the most imaginative Bonds. Story is excellent, especially because it doesn't only deal with Stromberg's evil plot against the unaware world but because it has a pleasant little sideplot about 007's relationship with Major Anya Amasova.
Villains are of course splendid, why should I even bother to mention that (almost literally) larger-than-life character Jaws is perhaps the most beloved bad guy James Bond has ever been against with. Curd Jürgens also gives a magnificent performance as the insane mastermind Stromberg.
I'm one of the people who thinks that in the end Sean Connery is the one and only true James Bond. Nevertheless, "The Spy who loved me" is still better than some of Connery's Bond movies. At least it surpasses "From Russia with love", "Thunderball" and "Diamonds are forever" and I must admit these films are most terrific experiences too.
Everyone should see this film, not only the big Bond fanatics. Why? Simply because "The Spy who loved me" is not only a significant film in the movie series, it's much more than that. It's an important part of the pop culture.
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In a globe-trotting assignment that has him skiing off the edges of cliffs and driving a car deep underwater, British super-spy James Bond (Roger Moore) unites with sexy Russian agent Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) to defeat megalomaniac shipping magnate Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens), who is threatening to destroy New York City with nuclear weapons. Bond's most deadly adversary on the case is Stromberg's henchman, Jaws (Richard Kiel), a seven-foot giant with terrifying steel teeth.
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Do you want to witness of the largest most amazing Highland games in the world? Head out to the Cowal Highland Gathering in Dunoon, Scotland. You will not be alone as you join the other 23,000 people who are all excited to experience the intense demonstration of traditional Scottish strength and athleticism. I doesn’t hurt that the games are set in a gorgeous Highland location.
At the annual Cowal Highland Games, you will able to see the best of the best battle it out in various sports events such as heavy athletics and traditional Scottish backhold wrestling. Heavy athletics involve several unique sports events such as caber tossing, Cowal Stone shot-putting and Scottish hammer throwing. The brawny athletes are really competitive and never fail to thrill the joyful crowd. The most unique thing about seeing these sports is that the men participating are wearing that iconic Scottish skirts (the kilt).
But the Highland Games are not only about watching sports as there are other events that display the richness of Scottish Highland and Celtic heritage, making the Games exude a truly distinct atmosphere. There will be grand pipe bands and a strong presence of Ceilidh music at the event. In fact, the Cowal Games is where the world’s best pipe bands compete to win the coveted Cowal Pipe Band Championship, first held in the early 20th century.
To maximize your experience at the Cowal Games, stay until the end of the Pipe Band Championship, when more than 130 pipe bands gather and play a salute the Chieftain. The bands that are made up of about 3000 drummers and pipers will play “Highland Laddie” in unison, and will march through town. This amazing gathering is the largest of its kind in Europe, and is a highlight not to be missed at the Games.
If the pipe playing is not enough, you can also watch other crowd pleasers such as the Drum Major Challenge, which features adult and junior drum majors showing off their impressive skills; and the Scottish and World Highland Dancing Championship. The Cowal Games will also offer entertainment for the kids and a fun run, making the event a highly suitable destination for families.
Don’t worry about being hungry while watching the spectacles unfolding around you. The Cowal Highland Gathering features a food court that offers a wide variety of local and international cuisine. There will also be food vendors catering stalls all around the main stadium. The organizers will also set up a refreshment tents. One of them is the Patron’s tent, which does not only provide great food but also fantastic views of the arena and the games. The tent is only open for sponsors and patrons. However, it is possible to acquire the patron status at a reasonable rate.
Usually held the last week of August, the Cowal Highland Gathering is performed at the Scottish town of Dunoon, which is easily accessible from Glasgow via public transport. You can drive to the town following the scenic route called A82. There are regular bus as well as train services that leave Glasgow Central to Gourock ferry terminal. From here, you can take the ferry to Dunoon.
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Highland games are events held in spring and summer in Scotland and other countries as a way of celebrating Scottish and Celtic culture and, especially that of the Scottish Highlands. Certain aspects of the games are so well known as to have become emblematic of Scotland, such as the bagpipes, the kilt, and the heavy events, especially the caber toss. While centred on competitions in piping and drumming, dancing, and Scottish heavy athletics, the games also include entertainment and exhibits related to other aspects of Scottish and Ga ... (展开) elic culture. The Cowal Highland Gathering, better known as the Cowal Games, held in Dunoon, Scotland, every August, is the largest Highland games in the world, attracting around 3,500 competitors and somewhere in the region of 23,000 spectators from around the globe. Worldwide, however, it is exceeded in terms of spectators by two gatherings in the United States: the estimated 30,000 that attend Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina and the even larger gathering—the largest in the Northern Hemisphere—that has taken place every year since 1866 hosted by the Caledonian Club of San Francisco. This event is currently held on Labor Day weekend in Pleasanton, California, and their Sesquicentennial Games held on September 5–6, 2015, attracted record crowds close to 50,000. The games are claimed to have influenced Baron Pierre de Coubertin when he was planning the revival of the Olympic Games. De Coubertin saw a display of Highland games at the Paris Exhibition of 1889.
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Highland games History
The origin of human games and sports predates recorded history. An example of a possible early games venue is at Fetteresso, although that location is technically a few miles south of the Scottish Highlands.
It is reported in numerous Highland games programs, that King Malcolm III of Scotland, in the 11th century, summoned contestants to a foot race to the summit of Craig Choinnich (overlooking Braemar). King Malcolm created this foot race in order to find the fastest runner in the land to be his royal messenger. Some have seen this apocryphal event to be the origin of today's modern Highland games.
There is a document from 1703 summoning the clan of the Laird of Grant, Clan Grant. They were to arrive wearing Highland coats and "also with gun, sword, pistol and dirk". From this letter, it is believed that the competitions would have included feats of arms.
However, the modern Highland games are largely a Victorian invention, developed after the Highland Clearances.
Heavy events
In their original form many centuries ago, Highland games revolved around athletic and sports competitions. Though other activities were always a part of the festivities, many today still consider Highland athletics to be what the games are all about—in short, that the athletics are the Games, and all the other activities are just entertainment. Regardless, it remains true today that the athletic competitions are at least an integral part of the events and one—the caber toss—has come to almost symbolize the Highland games.
Although quite a range of events can be a part of the Highland athletics competition, a few have become standard.
Caber toss: A long tapered pine pole or log is stood upright and hoisted by the competitor who balances it vertically holding the smaller end in his hands (see photo). Then the competitor runs forward attempting to toss it in such a way that it turns end over end with the upper (larger) end striking the ground first. The smaller end that was originally held by the athlete then hits the ground in the 12 o'clock position measured relative to the direction of the run. If successful, the athlete is said to have turned the caber. Cabers vary greatly in length, weight, taper, and balance, all of which affect the degree of difficulty in making a successful toss. Competitors are judged on how closely their throws approximate the ideal 12 o'clock toss on an imaginary clock.
Stone put: This event is similar to the modern-day shot put as seen in the Olympic Games. Instead of a steel shot, a large stone of variable weight is often used. There are also some differences from the Olympic shot put in allowable techniques. There are two versions of the stone toss events, differing in allowable technique. The "Braemar Stone" uses a 20–26 lb stone for men (13–18 lb for women) and does not allow any run up to the toeboard or "trig" to deliver the stone, i.e., it is a standing put. In the "Open Stone" using a 16–22 lb stone for men (or 8–12 lb for women), the thrower is allowed to use any throwing style so long as the stone is put with one hand with the stone resting cradled in the neck until the moment of release. Most athletes in the open stone event use either the "glide" or the "spin" techniques.
Scottish hammer throw: This event is similar to the hammer throw as seen in modern-day track and field competitions, though with some differences. In the Scottish event, a round metal ball (weighing 16 or 22 lb for men or 12 or 16 lb for women) is attached to the end of a shaft about 4 feet in length and made out of wood, bamboo, rattan, or plastic. With the feet in a fixed position, the hammer is whirled about one's head and thrown for distance over the shoulder. Hammer throwers sometimes employ specially designed footwear with flat blades to dig into the turf to maintain their balance and resist the centrifugal forces of the implement as it is whirled about the head. This substantially increases the distance attainable in the throw.
Weight throw, also known as the weight for distance event. There are actually two separate events, one using a light (28 lb for men and 14 lb for women) and the other a heavy (56 lb for men, 42 lb for masters men, and 28 lb for women) weight. The weights are made of metal and have a handle attached either directly or by means of a chain. The implement is thrown using one hand only, but otherwise using any technique. Usually a spinning technique is employed. The longest throw wins.
Weight over the bar, also known as weight for height. The athletes attempt to toss a 56-pound (4-stone) weight with an attached handle over a horizontal bar using only one hand. Each athlete is allowed three attempts at each height. Successful clearance of the height allows the athlete to advance into the next round at a greater height. The competition is determined by the highest successful toss with fewest misses being used to break tie scores.
Sheaf toss: A bundle of straw (the sheaf) weighing 20 pounds (9 kg) for the men and 10 pounds (4.5 kg) for the women and wrapped in a burlap bag is tossed vertically with a pitchfork over a raised bar much like that used in pole vaulting. The progression and scoring of this event is similar to the Weight Over The Bar. There is significant debate among athletes as to whether the sheaf toss is in fact an authentic Highland event. Some argue it is actually a country fair event, but all agree that it is a great crowd pleaser.[citation needed]
Maide Leisg (Scots Gaelic meaning 'Lazy Stick'): Trial of strength performed by two men sitting on the ground with the soles of their feet pressing against each other. Thus seated, they held a stick between their hands which they pulled against each other until one of them was raised from the ground. The oldest 'Maide Leisg' competition in the world takes place at the Carloway show and Highland Games on the Isle of Lewis.
Many of the Heavy Events competitors in Scottish highland athletics are former high school and college track and field athletes who find the Scottish games are a good way to continue their competitive careers.
Increasingly in the USA, the Heavy Events are attracting women and master class athletes which has led to a proliferation of additional classes in Heavy Events competitions. Lighter implements are used in the classes.
Music
For many Highland games festival attendees, the most memorable of all the events at the games is the massing of the pipe bands. Normally held in conjunction with the opening and closing ceremonies of the games, as many as 20 or more pipe bands will march and play together. The result is a thunderous rendition of Scotland the Brave or Amazing Grace, and other crowd-pleasing favourites.
It is, in fact, the music of the bagpipe which has come to symbolize music at the Games and, indeed, in Scotland itself. In addition to the massed bands, nearly all Highland games gatherings feature a wide range of piping and drumming competition, including solo piping and drumming, small group ensembles and, of course, the pipe bands themselves.
Music at Highland games gatherings also includes other forms, such as fiddling, harp circles and Celtic bands, usually spiced with a large amount of bagpipe music.
Highland games Notes
^ Cowal Highland Gathering can be verified as the world's largest highland games on the Official Scottish Tourist Board Website at VisitScotland.com
^ For a modern-day fictional account of this event, see The origins of the Braemar Games Hill Race, by Les Wheeler
^ Many Highland games web sites contain a brief sketch on the history of the Highland games. Most will mention this hill climb, some referring to it as a story or legend, others as if it were an established fact. Webster, in Scottish Highland Games recounts the story, labelling it as story, or legend only. Thomas Owen Clancy and Barbara E. Crawford, in the Bibliographical essay to chapter 2 (The Formation of the Scottish Kingdom) of The New Penguin History of Scotland state: "Little of significance has been written about the eleventh century kingdom otherwise, except on the dispute over the reliability of the early documentary sources. . .".
^ As quoted on the history page of the Aboyne Highland Gathering web site
^ The web site of the International Wrestling Association reports rather more expansively on the role of the 1889 Paris event and its effect on the development of the Olympics, considering it to have had a "huge impact" on world sport. An article published in 2004 in the Christian Science Monitor points to two other events, including that of Much Wenlock, a small English village in Shropshire
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Triticum aestivum (bread wheat)
Bread wheat is more widely cultivated than any other crop, and world trade is of greater monetary value than all other cereals combined.
Triticum aestivum 'Florence Aurore' on a test plot in Lebanon
Species information
bread wheat, common bread wheat, spring wheat, ordinary wheat, common wheat, field wheat
Conservation status:
Unknown in the wild; cultivated from the near-Arctic to the tropics.
Key Uses:
Food, drink, textiles, building materials.
Known hazards:
Wheat gluten allergy is a condition caused by an adverse immune system reaction to gliadin, a gluten protein found in wheat.
Taxonomy
Genus: Triticum
About this species
Bread wheat is one of the world’s three main cereal crops, along with rice and maize. The generic name Triticum derives from the Latin for threshing or bruising, and the specific epithet aestivum is from the Latin for summer.
Triticum aestivum is a cultigen (a plant that has been altered by humans through a process of selective breeding) and as such is only known in cultivation. First domesticated at least 9,000 years ago, its origins have been the subject of intensive botanical and genetic research.
It is a member of the grass family (Poaceae), which includes cereals such as rice (Oryza sativa), maize (Zea mays) and oat (Avena sativa), and ornamentals such as pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana) and bamboos.
Synonym:
Triticum sativum Lam., Triticum vulgare Vill., Triticum cereale Schrank, Triticum aristatum Schübl. (for a full list refer to the World Checklist)
Genus:
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Cultivars of bread wheat
There are about 5,000 cultivars of bread wheat in current use. Historically, about 35,000 cultivars have been developed, but the vast majority of these are no longer cultivated on a commercial scale.
A modern cultivar of bread wheat growing near Buttinge, the Netherlands
In order to determine whether a particular form of bread wheat differs enough from existing cultivars to be named as a new one, the ‘DUS test’ is applied. They must be Distinct (in morphology), Uniform (the whole field must look the same) and Stable (subsequent years of cultivation must produce similarly looking plants).
Names relating to particular cultivars include bukshee wheat, lammas wheat, Talavela wheat, velvety awned wheat, and many others.
Geography and distribution
Bread wheat is the result of a cross between a wild goatgrass, Aegilops tauschii, and a cultivated wheat, probably macaroni wheat (Triticum durum). Genetics suggests this cross took place in the Caspian region of Iran; archaeology suggests that this took place about 9,000 years ago.
The closely related spelt wheat (T. spelta), in which the grains are enclosed by a tight husk, originated in central Europe much more recently, about 5,000 years ago, from a cross between cultivated bread wheat and emmer wheat (T. dicoccum). Spelt wheat is often incorrectly described as a biblical wheat, but it was never grown in the ancient Near East.
Bread wheat is cultivated in every continent except Antarctica. It is grown at a wide elevational range from 260 m below sea level in the Jordan Valley up to 4,000 m on the Tibetan plateau. Although it is possible to grow bread wheat in a wide variety of soil types and climates, it is generally more successful in dry to sub-humid areas with a seasonal annual rainfall of 250–750 mm.
It is the world’s most widely planted crop, occupying 225 million hectares in 2009 (compared with 161 million ha of rice and 159 million ha of maize in that same year). China and India are the largest producers of bread wheat, nearly all of which is destined for their domestic markets.
A modern, ‘awnless’ winter wheat cultivar from the Netherlands
Description
Overview: An annual, largely hairless grass, producing a spike (flowering and fruiting part) on each of its 1–5 culms (stems). Height is variable, from about 1.2–1.5 m for 1930s cultivars to about 85 cm for most modern cultivars, with a simultaneous strengthening of the culm so as to bear the increased weight (resulting from the increased grain yield) of the spike. This has been achieved by incorporating dwarfing genes, from Japanese cultivar Norin 10, into most modern (post 1960s) varieties. The shorter height of modern cultivars enables them to be grown with fertiliser and irrigation; otherwise they would grow too tall and fall over (lodging).
Culms (stems): Hollow with hairless or hairy nodes. Each culm bearing around six leaves with blades up to 20 mm wide and up to 35 cm long. The position of the uppermost ‘flag leaf’ blade (upright, semi-nodding or nodding) is an important character as it plays a leading role in the metabolic assimilation rate and hence productivity of the plant.
Spikes (flowering and fruiting parts): Up to 15 cm long, almost square in cross-section, with 2–5 rudimentary spikelets (clustered units of flowers and bracts) at the base of 10–25 fertile spikelets (of which the number and density in the spike varies greatly among cultivars).
Glumes (empty bracts that enclose the spikelet) are keeled in the upper half, the keel extending into a tooth. Lemmas (bracts) are toothed or awned; when awned these increasing in length up to around 13 cm near the apex of the spike. Truly awnless bread wheat cultivars do not exist as there is always at least a short awn on some of the lemmas.
Seeds: Typically an average of two per spikelet (but significant variation has been recorded), oval in shape with a central groove on the ventral surface and a terminal tuft of hairs. Endosperm mealy (or sometimes flinty).
Agricultural, as opposed to botanical, terminology
In agricultural terminology, culms are known as tillers, spikes as ears and awns as beards. For example, a cultivar might be described as having ‘four tillers per plant and bearded ears’. Rather than quoting variation in number of grains per spike, agricultural cultivar descriptions are more likely to include the average 1,000 seed weight.
Summer and winter wheat
Two main groups of wheat have been developed:
spring or summer wheat - sown in spring and harvested in late summer
winter wheat - sown in autumn and harvested in early summer
A third group, known as facultative or intermediate wheat, can be grown under a wider range of environmental conditions and combines characteristics of the other two groups.
Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus used the name Triticum aestivum to refer to the (conspicuously awned) summer or spring wheats, whereas he proposed T. hybernum for the (‘awnless’) winter wheats.
In the late 18th century, German priest and botanist Franz von Paula Schrank observed that there was no correlation between the perceived presence or absence of awns and the cultivar being a summer or winter form of wheat.
It is now accepted that summer, spring and winter wheats are all the same species, for which the correct, approved name is Triticum aestivum.
Threats and conservation
About 250,000 samples of bread wheat are held in agricultural gene banks around the world, so the plant is far from being threatened. However, there is cause for concern in terms of bread wheat landraces, which are being replaced by modern cultivars and under threat of extinction if not already conserved in ex-situ collections.
Wheat landraces are varieties that have been developed by farmers over many years and through natural and human selection have become adapted to local environmental conditions and management practices. These distinct plant populations are named and maintained by farmers who often rely on them to fulfil their specific, local needs and are a valuable source of biodiversity for possible use in breeding programs.
Uses
Harvesting of bread wheat in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.
Food
Domestication of wheat around 10,000 years ago is credited with enabling the transition from nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyles to formation of the first major human settlements. Today, wheat is an important part of the human diet, contributing 20% of all food calories consumed by humans.
The wheat kernel or grain can be ground into flour; germinated and dried creating malt; crushed or cut into cracked wheat; and parboiled (or steamed), dried, crushed and de-branned to create bulgur (also known as groats in countries including Georgia in the Transcaucasus).
When grains are milled, the outer husk or bran that encloses them becomes a by-product. Wheat bran contains starch, protein, vitamins and minerals, and its dietary soluble fibres are good for the digestive system. It is used to enrich bread and breakfast cereals and foods such as borscht soup in eastern Europe.
Bread wheat is a major ingredient in foods such as breads, crackers, biscuits, pancakes, pies, pastries, cakes, sauces, muesli and breakfast cereals.
Wheat gluten allergy (coeliac disease) is a condition caused by an adverse immune system reaction to gliadin, a gluten protein found in wheat. The only remedy is a lifelong gluten-free diet.
Drink
Wheat is used to produce boza (a fermented beverage, produced mainly in the Balkans and Turkey) and wheat beer (production of which is minor compared to beer made using barley). It is also distilled to produce vodka and other spirits.
Textiles and building materials
Bread wheat straw is used for thatching and weaving, for example to make straw hats.
There is anecdotal evidence from the Yemen where the tall, flexible culms of local cultivars are of more monetary value than the grain, due to their use as thatch and, when chopped-up, as admixture to enhance the strength of plaster for houses. Farmers are therefore loath to accept yield-improved but short-stemmed, modern varieties. As a result most grain used in Yemen is imported from Australia.
Other uses
Wheat bran has been used for tanning leather and is apparently also a good slug ‘poison’ (it swells so much after ingestion that the slugs ‘pop’).
Triticum aestivum seeds
Millennium Seed Bank: Seed storage
The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership aims to save plant life worldwide, focusing on plants under threat and those of most use in the future. Seeds are dried, packaged and stored at a sub-zero temperature in our seed bank vault.
Six collections of Triticum aestivum seeds are held in Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank based at Wakehurst in West Sussex.
Wheat seeds are known for their potential longevity in storage: research indicates that for a sample starting ex situ life with maximum viability, it would take 900 years to fall to 75% viability.
Straw hat from Kew’s Economic Botany Collection
This species at Kew
Common bread wheat can be seen growing in Kew’s Grass Garden.
Pressed and dried specimens of Triticum aestivum are held in Kew’s Herbarium where they are available to researchers by appointment. Details of specimens of other species of Triticum can be seen online in Kew’s Herbarium Catalogue.
Triticum aestivum flowers, seeds and a straw hat, breakfast cereals and packaging material made from it are held in Kew’s Economic Botany Collection, where they are available to researchers by appointment.
References and credits
Bettencourt, E. & Konopka, J. (1990). Directory of Germplasm Collections 3: Cereals (Avena, Hordeum, Millets, Oryza, Secale, Sorghum, Triticum, Zea and Pseudocereals). International Board for Plant Genetic Resources, Rome.
Dvorak, J., Deal, K. R., Luo, M. C., You, F. M., von Borstel, K. & Dehghani, H. (2012). The origin of spelt and free-threshing hexaploid wheat. Journal of Heredity 103: 426–441.
Hanelt, P., Schulze-Motel, J. & Jarvis, C. E. (1983). (715) Proposal to conserve Triticum aestivum L (1753) against Triticum hybernum L. (1753) (Gramineae). Taxon 32: 492–498.
Jaradat, A. A. (2011). Wheat Landraces: Genetic Resources for Sustenance and Sustainability. USDA-ARS, Maine, USA.
Jonard, P. (1951). Les Blés Tendres Cultivés en France – Détermination et Caractéristiques Culturales. Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Paris.
Löve, Á. (1982). Generic evolution of the wheatgrasses. Biologisches Zentralblatt 101: 199–212.
Mabberley, D. J. (2008). Mabberley’s Plant-book: a Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classification and Uses. 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Mac Key, J. (2005). Wheat: its concept, evolution, and taxonomy. In: Durum Wheat Breeding: Current Approaches and Future Strategies, C. Rojo, M. M. Nachit, N. Di Fonzo, W. H. Pfeiffer & G. A. Slater (eds), Food Products Press, Binghamton, New York, USA.
Oklahoma State University (2013). World Wheat Production. Available online (accessed 15 April 2013).
Schrank, F. von Paula (1789). Baierische Flora. Joh. Bapt. Strobl, München.
Stubbs, R. W., Prescott, J. M., Saari, E. E. & Dubin, H. J. (1986). Cereal Disease Methodology Manual. Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT).
Wang, J., Luo, M. C., Chen, Z., You, F. M., Wei, Y., Zheng, Y. & Dvorak, J. (2013). Aegilops tauschii single nucleotide polymorphisms shed light on the origins of wheat D‐genome genetic diversity and pinpoint the geographic origin of hexaploid wheat. New Phytologist 198: 925–37.
Kew science editor: Michiel van Slageren
Kew contributors: John Dickie, Mark Nesbitt
Copyediting: Emma Tredwell
Kew would like to thank the following contributors: Dr Khaled Abulaila (National Center for Agricultural Research and Extension (NCARE), Jordan), Simon Khairallah (formerly of Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute (LARI), Lebanon), Prof. Abdul-Nasser Al-Gifri (University of Aden, Yemen), Dr Tomas Payne (The International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center (CIMMYT, Int.)), Dr Zewdie Bishaw (International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)).
Although every effort has been taken to ensure that the information contained in these pages is reliable and complete, notes on hazards, edibility and suchlike included here are recorded information and do not constitute recommendations. No responsibility will be taken for readers’ own actions.
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The two main cereal crops: at the left is barley (Hordeum vulgare) and at the right is common wheat or bread wheat (Triticum aestivum). As the primary constituent of most breads and cakes and many other baked goods wheat is a vitally important cereal crop for much of the world. Barley is sued for producing malt, often for beer or whisky production, and is used in multi-grain foods. It is also an important part of many animal feeds.
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Who composed the opera ‘The Marriage of Figaro’? | Who Composed The Marriage Of Figaro
Who Composed The Marriage Of Figaro
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The Marriage Of Figaro is a well known comic opera. It is based on a play written by Pierre Beaumarchais in 1784, which was originally banned in Vienna because of its controversial content. The play is now recognized as a key feature of the French Revolution. In fact, Napoleon Bonaparte called it “a revolution in action.” This controversy helped to make the opera a runaway success. To find out who composed this famous and controversial opera, continue reading to find out.
Who composed The Marriage Of Figaro?
The Marriage Of Figaro was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, best known simply as Mozart, in 1786. He completed the work quickly, but although there are reports he wrote it in only 6 weeks the evidence for this has not been found. The Italian text written for the opera was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It opened in Vienna in 1786 and due to the subject of this opera, it quickly became one of Mozart’s most successful compositions. The musical complexity of this opera was never seen before and it caused some problems for the performers.
Even though many of his operas are no longer performed, The Marriage Of Figaro is still being performed today (ranked 5th for the most performed today). It is still considered to be one of the most important operas ever written.
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What is the young of a shark called? | Cheat sheet: The Marriage of Figaro | The Opera Blog
Cheat sheet: The Marriage of Figaro
Get to know Mozart’s classic comedy.
Who was the composer?
“Wolfgang-amadeus-mozart 1” by Barbara Krafft — Deutsch, Otto Erich (1965) Mozart: A Documentary Biography. Stanford: Stanford University Press.. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons .
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
How do you know you’re listening to Mozart? He wrote stunning melodies, often with lots and lots of notes.
When Mozart lived in Salzburg, the emperor is said to have remarked of his music: “Too beautiful for our ears, my dear Mozart, and vastly too many notes!” To which Mozart supposedly replied, “Just as many as are necessary, your majesty!”
Mozart sought out stories for the music he already wished to write, believing “in an opera the poetry must at all costs be the obedient daughter of the music”.
What happens in the story?
The Count has his eye on Susanna, his valet Figaro’s bride-to-be. She might just be a servant, but Susanna’s pretty savvy and determined he won’t have his way — especially on their wedding day!
Figaro is outraged, but he’s got bigger problems: he owes money to a spinster who will only let the debt go if he marries her.
The Countess is sick to death of her husband’s wandering eye, and enlists Susanna to help win him back.
They all need the help of Cherubino, the lovesick youth who loves not just the Countess, but anyone who looks his way.
But Susanna is smarter than all of them. After a crazy day of disguise and duplicity, will she get her happily ever after?
Who are the main characters?
Count Almaviva — Head of the household
The Countess — Almaviva’s wife (you might know her as Rosina, from The Barber of Seville)
Susanna — the Countess’ maid
Figaro — personal valet to the Count
Cherubino — The Count’s Page
What’s the big hit?
‘Non più andrai’ — as the Count orders Cherubino off to war, Figaro jokes about the new life in store for him: one with no women!
Where have I heard the music?
The Shawshank Redemption features a beautiful duet from The Marriage of Figaro (as the Countess and Susanna compose a letter), in a fantastic scene that revels in Mozart’s beautiful music:
Something to listen out for
The madness of The Marriage of Figaro takes place on a single summer’s day, and Mozart sets the pace in the overture: the strings scurrying all over the scale while the cellos and basses murmur away under it all.
When Cherubino sings to the Countess, listen to how the string section imitates the plucking of a giant guitar for his serenade.
A little history
An original poster for The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart apparently sifted through 100 plays before settling on Beaumarchais’ revolutionary The Marriage of Figaro — a play so popular at its première that people were crushed to death in the crowd. It had both delighted and outraged the aristocracy, so both Mozart and librettist Da Ponte were very aware of censorship.
Determined to get Emperor Joseph II’s approval, Da Ponte’s libretto stripped the play of its overt political messaging, replacing Figaro’s rant about the upper class with an equally angry tirade against the fickleness of women. But Da Ponte and Mozart didn’t take all the bite out of Beaumarchais’ subversive work. The servants may not denounce aristocratic privilege, but notice that regardless of station, each character is equal in wit, passion and cunning.
With the emperor’s permission, Mozart began work on the opera. “As fast as I wrote the words, Mozart set them to music,” wrote Da Ponte in his memoirs. In just six weeks, Mozart wrote the opera other composers described as a miracle. “I find it absolutely incomprehensible how someone can create something so absolutely perfect,” exclaimed Brahms. Haydn wrote that he heard the opera in his dreams.
An enthusiastic Vienna crowd at its première in 1786 deemed the opera a success, but it took the first performance in Prague a few months later to catapult it to a sensation. A few music lovers paid for Mozart to visit the city and hear the production, and by the end of that trip, Mozart and Da Ponte had a new commission: Don Giovanni.
Fun facts
• French women so enjoyed the clever female characters of Beaumarchais’ original play that fashionable French ladies had lines from the play inscribed on their fans
• Mozart churned out The Marriage of Figaro in just six weeks.
• Mozart conducted the first two performances of the opera, seated at his fortepiano as was customary.
• The opera was such a success that the emperor requested a private performance. He also outlawed an excessive number of encores at performances of The Marriage of Figaro.
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What is the surname of Eric in the animated television series ‘Stressed Eric’? | Stressed Eric | Variety
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August 11, 1998 | 12:00AM PT
"Stressed Eric" is being billed as NBC's first primetime animated series since "The Flintstones," but Bedrock was never like this. The show's antihero is so unfathomably pathetic that he makes Homer Simpson look like Bill Gates.
“Stressed Eric” is being billed as NBC’s first primetime animated series since “The Flintstones,” but Bedrock was never like this. The show’s antihero is so unfathomably pathetic that he makes Homer Simpson look like Bill Gates. The show has things that earlier cartoons couldn’t have imagined: vomit jokes, booze jokes, self-absorbed twit jokes — even jokes about the sex life of doctors. It’s what nighttime cartoons have become in the age of “South Park.”
This is not to say that “Stressed Eric” is just another doltish product of the adult cartoon trend. Quite the contrary.
For one thing, the show is wry and smart. For another, it was born in England, airing originally on Britain’s BBC2. In fact, the pair of episodes supplied for screening are the British version rather than the Americanized edition featuring “Simpsons” vet Hank Azaria as lead voice and co-producer.
What it means is that this review isn’t based entirely on what viewers will be watching this week. The version meant for American ears was being edited right up until airtime, though an NBC spokeswoman insisted that it is pretty much the same script and show minus the pesky British accent of the lead character.
Evidently, NBC believes that folks on this side of the Atlantic could have some problems deciphering English as spoken in the country of its birth. “Stressed Eric” may, then, be the first English-language TV series ever to be redubbed into English.
Anyway, if the Americanized edition of “Stressed Eric” is half as inspired as what Brits and a few U.S. TV critics have seen, then audiences are in for a midsummer night’s treat with this short-run summertime cartoon about a Type-A worker drone and father traveling perilously close to the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Eric Feeble (voiced by Azaria in the unpreviewed American version) belongs in the Stress Hall of Fame. As the first episode opens, he’s late for work, his pants are drying in the microwave, his hyper-allergic daughter has just eaten cereal that’s grotesquely swollen her tongue, his mute son is dressed like a sheep, the au pair is hungover after a night of pub crawling and his self-centered ex-wife is off getting her body waxed and prodded. (She: “I’m going for a swim in the lake of me.”)
The premiere from scribes Carl Gorham and Michael Hatt is pretty much one stress-producing disaster after another for lovable loser Eric, complete with humiliation from an abusive boss and neighbors who are so cloyingly perfect that even their surname is Perfect.
A second seg has Eric getting slammed by every indignity that can possibly occur in a hospital. It’s more than a little bit sadistic, yet wickedly funny at the same time.
What sends “Stressed Eric” beyond the bounds of mere sick toon is its deftly inserted social commentary. In the second episode, Eric is appalled to find every doctor, nurse, surgeon and orderly rushing off to attend to a privately insured patient sporting a cracked fingernail. And we see that his daughter Claire Feeble is playing with a doll labeled “Non-Allergic Desecration Dolly — All of the Cuddles With None of the Rash!”
Whether “Stressed Eric” is too twisted to find anything approaching a mass audience is more or less a moot point, given its low-expectation August launch. If it shows any signs of Nielsen life at all, however, it should inspire NBC to be more open to bolder comedy material to snare the beloved 18-49 demo.
Of course, this is all contingent on the American English version being anything like the British English version. Perhaps subtitles would have served as a sound compromise.
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In art, the Dada movement (Dadaism) originated in which European country during World War I? | NBC Buy's BBC's "Stressed Eric"
NBC Buys BBC's Stressed Eric
Dateline: August 6, 1998
Updated: August 22, 2000
In 1998, NBC , no doubt "stressed" by record low ratings that summer, made a deal to show Stressed Eric, an animated series first run on the BBC earlier that year. The six episodes were shown beginning August 12th each Wednesday at 9:30 PM (ET/PT) (ironically opposite Whose Line Is It Anyway? on ABC, another British import - is this the first sign of an "invasion"?). This is the first time for over 30 years that NBC have broadcast a prime time animated comedy since The Famous Adventures of Mr Magoo.
The series was created and written by Carl Gorham in association with Los Angeles-based Klasky Csupo (the animation studio that also makes Rugrats and Duckman). As seen on the BBC, Stressed Eric concerns a corporate drone and father, Eric Feeble, who leads an impossible existence. And to prove the point, at the end of every episode a throbbing vein in his forehead leaps out and throttles him. But that's about the extent of the jokes. Okay, some of it is funny, but Duckman tackled this same territory (single fathers living a hellish existence) but was much better and funnier. Clearly the BBC (and probably NBC) was banking on duplicating the success of The Simpsons .
NBC also hedged its bet by redubbing the voice of English Everyman Eric into an American, namely Hank Azaria (The Simpsons). But if there's one thing that's been proven time after time, it's that Americans don't want to watch losers on television. And Eric is a loser of epic proportions. He never gets a break. Everything that can go wrong in his life does. It's just depressing to watch. And, as I expected, NBC took it off after only a few episodes due to low ratings.
The BBC meanwhile viewed the whole thing a huge success and a second season went out in 2000.
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