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Which song was a top 40 hit for both the Bee Gees in 1979 and Steps in 1998? | Tragedy (Bee Gees song) !scope="row"| Total certified sales: In 1998, Steps covered "Tragedy", releasing it as a double A-side with "Heartbeat". It debuted at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, before climbing to the top spot in its eighth week, and achieving platinum status. Tragedy (Bee Gees song) "Tragedy" is a song released by the Bee Gees, written by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb, included on their 1979 album "Spirits Having Flown". The single reached number one on the UK in February 1979 and repeated the feat the following month on the US "Billboard" Hot 100. Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb wrote this | One (Bee Gees song) One (Bee Gees song) "One" is the second international single (and lead single in the U.S.) from the Bee Gees' album, "One". This was the song that returned the Bee Gees to American radio and would turn out to be their biggest US hit in the 1980s, and their last hit single to reach the US top ten. It peaked at number seven on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart in September 1989, and it stayed in the Top 40 for ten weeks. It also topped the American adult contemporary chart that same month, remaining at number one for two weeks. |
Catherine, wife of King Charles II of England, came from which Portuguese royal house? | House of Braganza in the Restoration War, resulting in the Duke of Braganza becoming King John IV of Portugal, in 1640. The Braganzas ruled Portugal and the Portuguese Empire from 1640 and with the creation of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, in 1815, and the subsequent independence of the Empire of Brazil, in 1822, the Braganzas came to rule as the monarchs of Brazil. The House of Braganza produced 15 Portuguese monarchs and 4 Brazilian monarchs, numerous consorts to various European kingdoms, such as Catherine of Braganza (wife of Charles II of England who introduced tea to Britain) and | Catherine of Alençon Catherine of Alençon Catherine d'Alençon (bef.1396 – 22 June 1462 in Paris) was a younger daughter of Peter II of Alençon and his wife Marie Chamaillart, Viscountess of Beaumont-au-Maine. Catherine was the second wife of Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria. Catherine was also maid of honour to Louis' sister, Isabeau of Bavaria. Catherine came from a branch of the French royal family, House of Valois, her family were known as The House of Valois-Alençon. Her brother John I, Duke of Alençon was killed at the Battle of Agincourt against Henry V of England. Catherine married in 1411 to the 30-year-old |
Which song was a top 40 hit for both The Pretenders in 1994 and Girls Aloud in 2004? | Girls Aloud "Jump". The single, which charted at number two, accompanied a new edition of "Sound of the Underground". After a brief hiatus, Girls Aloud released "The Show" in June 2004, the first single from "What Will the Neighbours Say?", the group's second album. The single entered the charts at number two. The next single, "Love Machine", also peaked at number two in September 2004. Girls Aloud then recorded a cover of The Pretenders' "I'll Stand by You" which was released as the official Children in Need charity single. The song was not well received by critics; however, the cover became Girls | The Show (Girls Aloud song) medley which closed the concerts. In 2013, the song was performed in full during the in the style of a Victoria's Secret show . These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "The Show". The Show (Girls Aloud song) "The Show" is a song recorded by British girl group Girls Aloud for their second studio album, "What Will the Neighbours Say?" (2004). It was released by Polydor Records on 28 June 2004, as the lead single from the album. The song was written by Miranda Cooper, Brian Higgins, Lisa Cowling, Jon Shave, and Tim Powell. The |
In which city is the opera Tosca set? | La Tosca two for the Japanese theatre and an English burlesque, "Tra-La-La Tosca" (all of which premiered in the 1890s) as well as several film versions. "La Tosca" is set in Rome on 17 June 1800 following the French victory in the Battle of Marengo. The action takes place over an eighteen-hour period, ending at dawn on 18 June 1800. Its melodramatic plot centers on Floria Tosca, a celebrated opera singer; her lover, Mario Cavaradossi, an artist and Napoleon sympathiser; and Baron Scarpia, Rome's ruthless Regent of Police. By the end of the play, all three are dead. Scarpia arrests Cavaradossi and | Tosca than Tosca. Joseph Kerman mocked the final music, "Tosca leaps, and the orchestra screams the first thing that comes into its head." Budden, however, argues that it is entirely logical to end this dark opera on its blackest theme. According to historian and former opera singer Susan Vandiver Nicassio: "The conflict between the verbal and the musical clues gives the end of the opera a twist of controversy that, barring some unexpected discovery among Puccini's papers, can never truly be resolved." The first complete "Tosca" recording was made in 1918, using the acoustic process. The conductor, Carlo Sabajno, had been |
Who played the part of Budgie in the 1970’s drama series? | Budgie (TV series) Budgie, and that he wants to leave Hazel for a stripper he has recently slept with who then tells him that she is moving abroad, makes Budgie even more depressed and eventually makes him head off into a new life. This is where the series ended; nothing more was heard of Budgie. The title role, a chirpy cockney petty criminal newly out of prison, was played by pop singer Adam Faith; it was his first starring role for television. The character's name was Ronald 'Budgie' Bird, nicknamed after the budgerigar birds sometimes kept as pets in England, and generally known | Budgie (TV series) his wife has been sleeping with a friend of Budgie's, from the same open prison, force Budgie to move back in with his girlfriend and his son Howard, who is now two years old. Budgie carried on much as he did in the first series, which also started with him being released from the same open prison from a previous sentence. the second series ended with him being beaten up by both his boss and one of his henchmen. This, combined with the fact that Budgie's mother has recently died, his father not wanting him, his girlfriend becoming pregnant by |
Who carved the tomb of Oscar Wilde at the Pere Lachaise cemetery? | Oscar Wilde's tomb Oscar Wilde's tomb The tomb of Oscar Wilde is located in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. It took nine to ten months to complete by the sculptor Jacob Epstein, with an accompanying plinth by Charles Holden and an inscription carved by Joseph Cribb. In 1908, Oscar Wilde's literary executor Robert Ross chose Jacob Epstein for the commission of the tomb at a cost of two thousand pounds, which had been anonymously donated for this purpose. Later, in a publication of letters between Ada Leverson and Ross in 1930, "Letters to the Sphinx", the anonymous donor was revealed to be Helen | Père Lachaise Cemetery of Oscar Wilde and then walk downhill to visit the rest of the cemetery. The cemetery of Pére Lachaise opened in 1804. The cemetery takes its name from the confessor to Louis XIV, Père François de la Chaise (1624–1709), who lived in the Jesuit house rebuilt during 1682 on the site of the chapel. The property, situated on the hillside from which the king watched skirmishing between the armies of the Condé and Turenne during the Fronde, was bought by the city during 1804. Established by Napoleon during this year, the cemetery was laid out by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart and later |
In 1979 Jerry Rawlings led the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council which took control of which African country/ | Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, Ghana Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, Ghana The Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) was the government of Ghana from June 4, 1979 to September 24, 1979. It came to power in a bloody coup that removed the Supreme Military Council, another military regime, from power. The June 4 coup was preceded by an abortive attempt on May 15, 1979 when Flt. Lt. Jerry Rawlings and other ranks were arrested. Their trial only served to make them popular till they were eventually released on the morning of June 4 by young officers and noncommissioned officers inspired by Rawlings. The regime started a 'House | Armed Forces Revolutionary Council murder, rape, outrages upon personal dignity, conscripting or enlisting children under the age of 15 years into armed forces, enslavement and pillage. It was notably the first-ever international court to bring a guilty verdict for the military conscription of children. Armed Forces Revolutionary Council The Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) was a group of Sierra Leone soldiers that allied itself with the rebel Revolutionary United Front in the late 1990s. While the AFRC briefly controlled the country in 1998, it was driven from the capital by a coalition of West African troops. It was no longer a coherent and effective |
Which 19th century artist illustrated Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” and Pope’s “Rape of the Lock”? | The Rape of the Lock Martini (1773-1847) in 1829. In 1717 Giles Jacob published his bawdy parody, "The Rape of the Smock", the plot of which turns on voyeurism and enforced seduction, building on erotic undertones present in Pope's poem which were to be taken up by its illustrators, and reached an apotheosis in Aubrey Beardsley's work. The 1714 edition of "The Rape of the Lock" and those that followed from Lintot's press had come with six woodcuts designed by Louis Du Guernier. Although the work of this artist has been described as unimaginative, he goes beyond his literal brief in making Belinda sleep in | Salome Dancing before Herod of King Herod's daughter is not stated in the New Testament, but it is Salome according to Flavius Josephus' "Antiquities of the Jews". Salome became widely known as a through the centuries, and has inspired numerous artists. The subject has become fashionable in the late 19th century, this work of art, along with Moreau's series, sparked a Salome craze lasting into the 20th century, permeating all forms of art. Oscar Wilde also wrote in 1891 a play titled "Salome". Salome Dancing before Herod Salome Dancing before Herod () is an oil painting produced in 1876 by the French Symbolist artist |
Which British Prime Minister was born in 1897 and first entered Parliament in 1923 as MP for Warwick and Leamington? | Warwick and Leamington (UK Parliament constituency) election, overturning a 6,606 vote lead (this was the 4th biggest lead overturned by Labour at this election). This made Matt Western just the second Labour MP for Warwick and Leamington in the seat's history. For 34 years the seat was represented by Anthony Eden, who was Prime Minister from 1955-57. In part of the early 1920s, the Solicitor General for England and Wales, then Attorney General for England and Wales represented the seat, Sir Ernest Pollock – Eden's successor was also in these senior positions, Sir John Hobson, in the part of early 1960s. General Election 1939/40: Another General | Warwick and Leamington (UK Parliament constituency) Warwick and Leamington (UK Parliament constituency) Warwick and Leamington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since the 2017 general election by Matt Western, of the Labour Party. The seat comprises the two eponymous towns, with modest hills surrounding them, in the upper valley of the River Avon (Warwickshire). The towns of Warwick and Royal Leamington Spa are still distinct, however, and form, in the modern seat, a contiguous urban area. Both towns are relatively affluent, although there are pockets of deprivation in Leamington. Warwick, with its historic castle, is an internationally advertised tourist |
Between 1963 and 1975, FRELIMO, a nationalist group, fought for the independence of which African country? | Viva, Viva a FRELIMO Viva, Viva a FRELIMO "Viva, Viva a FRELIMO" () was the national anthem of Mozambique from independence from Portugal on 25 June 1975 to 30 April 2002. It was written by Justino Sigaulane Chemane in 1975 and was adopted as the national anthem of the People's Republic of Mozambique on June 25th, 1975. The lyrics celebrate Mozambique's independence, socialism and Mozambique's main political party, FRELIMO, which brought the country to its independence in 1975. In 1994, multi-party elections were held in Mozambique and consequently the lyrics to it were often omitted from most public performances and radio broadcasts, as the | African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde The African Party of Independence of Cape Verde () is a former socialist party and currently a social-democratic political party in Cape Verde. Its members are nicknamed “os tambarinas” in Portuguese (the tamarinds), and they identify themselves with the color yellow. In 1956, its forerunner, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), was founded by the Bissau-Guinean nationalist leader Amílcar Cabral. PAIGC fought to overthrow the Portuguese Empire, unify Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, and use its vanguardism to advance socialist revolution. From 1961 on, the PAIGC fought |
Which Lerner and Leowe musical of 1958 features the songs “The Night They Invented Champagne” and “I Remember It Well”? | Gigi (1958 film) Gigi (1958 film) Gigi () is a 1958 American musical-romance film directed by Vincente Minnelli processed using MGM's Metrocolor. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is based on the 1944 novella of the same name by Colette. The film features songs with lyrics by Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, arranged and conducted by André Previn. In 1991, "Gigi" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The American Film Institute ranked it #35 in "AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions". The film is considered the last | A Night to Remember (1958 film) and a Blu-ray edition were released on 27 March 2012 to commemorate the centennial of the sinking. A Night to Remember (1958 film) A Night to Remember is a 1958 British drama film adaptation of Walter Lord's 1955 book, which recounts the final night of the . Adapted by Eric Ambler and directed by Roy Ward Baker, the film stars Kenneth More and features Michael Goodliffe, Laurence Naismith, Kenneth Griffith, David McCallum and Tucker McGuire. It was filmed in the United Kingdom. The film focuses on the story of the sinking, portraying the major incidents and players in a documentary-style |
In which film did Rod Steiger play a sheriff to win the 1967 Best Actor Oscar? | Rod Steiger been acclaimed as one of the greatest films ever made, and in 1998 was selected as the 39th best American film in the original AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list by the American Film Institute. Steiger had intended returning to the stage, and had signed on to play the title character in Bertolt Brecht's "Galileo", at the Lincoln Center Repertory Company in April 1967, but the production was cancelled when he became ill. Steiger won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Chief of Police Bill Gillespie in "In the Heat of the Night", opposite Sidney Poitier. He played a | Rod Steiger acclaimed for his performance, which garnered him the prize for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival and his second Best Actor nomination at the Oscars. Steiger was so certain that he had produced an Oscar-winning performance that he was shocked when he lost to Lee Marvin. In 1965, Steiger played an effeminate embalmer in Tony Richardson's comedy "The Loved One", about the funeral business in Los Angeles, based on the 1948 short satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh. His curly-haired appearance in the film was modeled on a bust of Apollo he once saw while meeting Richardson. Steiger offended |
Which former leader of the Conservative party was MP for Chingford & Woodford Green? | Chingford and Woodford Green (UK Parliament constituency) Chingford and Woodford Green (UK Parliament constituency) Chingford and Woodford Green is a Conservative held constituency in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 1997 creation by Iain Duncan Smith of the Conservative Party. The London Borough of Waltham Forest wards of Chingford Green, Endlebury, Hale End and Highams Park, Hatch Lane, Larkswood, and Valley, and the London Borough of Redbridge wards of Church End and Monkhams have been selected to form the seat since inception. Out of 24 council seats that make up Chingford and Woodford Green the Conservatives hold 18 and | Chingford and Woodford Green (UK Parliament constituency) Labour hold 5. The boundaries of Chingford and Woodford Green take in a large slice of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The constituency includes Chingford in the north bordering Enfield down through Highams Park and Hatch Lane into Woodford, and also takes in a part of the London Borough of Redbridge. Before 1945, both Woodford and Chingford were part of Epping for general elections, for which wartime Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill was MP. The constituency was created in 1997 from parts of the former seats of Chingford and Wanstead & Woodford. Both seats previously had well-known MPs, Norman |
Which family of birds has species called Little, Common and Glaucous? | Glaucous of some species of birds and sea and land animals causes their appearance to blend with their surroundings, making their detection by predators or prey difficult. Glaucous Glaucous (from the Latin "glaucus", meaning "bluish-grey or green", from the Greek "glaukós") is used to describe the pale grey or bluish-green appearance of the surfaces of some plants, as well as in the names of birds, such as the glaucous gull ("Larus hyperboreus"), glaucous-winged gull ("Larus glaucescens"), glaucous macaw ("Anodorhynchus glaucus"), and glaucous tanager ("Thraupis glaucocolpa"). The term "glaucous" is also used botanically as an adjective to mean "covered with a greyish, | Glaucous English was in the year 1671. The epicuticular wax coating on mature plum fruit gives them a glaucous appearance. Another familiar example is found in the common grape genus ("Vitis vinifera"). Some cacti have a glaucous coating on their stem(s). Glaucous coatings are hydrophobic so as to prevent wetting by rain. Their waxy character serves to hinder climbing of leaves, stem or fruit by insects. On fruits, glaucous coatings may function as a deterrent to climbing and feeding by small insects in favor of increased seed dispersal offered by larger animals such as mammals and birds. The blue-grey camouflage coloring |
Who commanded the German forces at the Battle of Stalingrad | Friedrich Paulus Friedrich Paulus Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was a German general during World War II who commanded the 6th Army. He attained the rank of field marshal two hours before the surrender of German forces in the Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 to February 1943). The battle ended in disaster for Nazi Germany when Soviet forces encircled and defeated about 265,000 personnel of the Wehrmacht, their Axis allies and collaborators. Paulus surrendered in Stalingrad on 31 January 1943, the same day on which he was informed of his promotion to field marshal by Adolf | The Battle of Stalingrad (film) The Battle of Stalingrad (film) The Battle of Stalingrad () is a 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta. In the Kremlin, Stalin analyzes the Wehrmacht's movements and concludes that the Germans aim to capture Stalingrad. Hitler, who believes the city is the key to final victory, orders his Generals take it at all costs. As the enemy approaches Stalingrad, the Red Army and the local population rally to defend it in a bitter house-to-house combat, stalling the German advance. In Moscow, Stalin plans the |
John Bird and Gordon Roddick founded which magazine in 1991? | John Bird, Baron Bird washing dishes, a venue he would later return to as a life peer. In September 1991, Bird launched "The Big Issue" with Gordon Roddick, co-founder of The Body Shop. In November 1995, he launched The Big Issue Foundation to further support vendors of "The Big Issue". He is currently on the board of directors for The Big Issue Group, which incorporates "The Big Issue", Big Issue Invest and The Big Issue Foundation. "The Big Issue" magazine started as a London venture, but expanded with specific editions and services to other British cities, and then to other countries. Bird is a | Anita Roddick husband, Gordon Roddick, founded 38 Degrees in her memory, explaining, "I knew what would make Anita really laugh would be to cause a lot of trouble." The Roddick Foundation, founded by Anita Roddick, gave four grants totalling £120,000 between 2009 and 2014 to CAGE, an organisation aiming "to raise awareness of the plight of the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and other detainees held as part of the War on Terror". The Foundation, along with 2 other charities, agreed to cease funding CAGE under pressure from the Charity Commission, which expressed concern that funding CAGE risked damaging public confidence in charity. |
Who wrote the political autobiography “Pulling No Punches”? | Hunter Davies Paul Gascoigne and Dwight Yorke. The Rooney biography led to a successful libel action in 2008 by David Moyes, the manager of his former club, Everton. He has also ghostwritten politician John Prescott's 2008 autobiography, "Prezza, My Story: Pulling no Punches". He writes a football column for the "New Statesman". A compilation of these articles was released as a book, "The Fan", in 2005 by Pomona Press. Davies writes "Confessions of a Collector" in "The Guardian"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Weekend colour magazine. He has written a book about his collections with the same title. Davies was appointed Officer of the Order of the | You Don't Pull No Punches, but You Don't Push the River date, an experimental peak which took a step beyond even his most ambitious work." In "The Uncut Ultimate Music Guide: Van Morrison" Jason Anderson describes "You Don't Pull No Punches, but You Don't Push The River" as "the mesmerising nine-minute centrepiece" of "Veedon Fleece". You Don't Pull No Punches, but You Don't Push the River "You Don't Pull No Punches, but You Don't Push the River" is a nine-minute song by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It appears on the album "Veedon Fleece", released in 1974. "You Don't Pull No Punches, but You Don't Push the River" was written on |
Lonicera is the Latin name for which fragrant climbing plant? | Lonicera caprifolium very fragrant, cream-coloured flowers, tinged with pink, appearing in midsummer. Lonicera caprifolium Lonicera caprifolium, the Italian woodbine, perfoliate honeysuckle, goat-leaf honeysuckle, Italian honeysuckle, or perfoliate woodbine, is a species of perennial flowering plants in the genus "Lonicera" of the Caprifoliaceae family. It is native to parts of Europe, and naturalised in South East Britain and northeastern North America. It can readily be distinguished from Europe's most common species, "Lonicera periclymenum", by its topmost leaves, which are perfoliate as the Latin name suggests (that is, the stem appears to grow through the centre of the leaf). It is a vigorous, deciduous | Fragrant Hills The Temple of Azure Clouds (Biyun Si) is located just outside the north gate of Fragrant Hills Park. Fragrant Hills Fragrant Hills Park (Xiangshan Park; ) is an imperial garden at the foot of the Western Mountains in the Haidian District, in the northwestern part of Beijing, China. It was also formerly known as Jingyi Garden or "Jingyiyuan" (靜宜園). It covers 1.6 km² (395 acres) and consists of a natural pine-cypress forest, hills with maple trees, smoke trees and persimmon trees, as well as landscaped areas with traditional architecture and cultural relics. The name derives from the park's highest peak, |
Which football club replaced Barrow in the Football League after the 1971-72 season? | 1971–72 in English football 1971–72 in English football The 1971–72 season was the 92nd season of competitive football in England. Leeds United won the FA Cup for the first time in their history by beating the previous year's winners, Arsenal, 1–0 in the final at Wembley. Allan Clarke scored the winning goal. 1971–72 marked the centenary of the FA Cup. Non-League club Hereford United of the Southern League provided one of the shocks of the season by knocking out Newcastle United 2–1 after extra time in the 3rd Round Replay. Stoke City won the 1972 Football League Cup Final to claim the only major | 1971–72 Northern Rugby Football League season 1971–72 Northern Rugby Football League season The 1971–72 Northern Rugby Football League season was the 77th season of rugby league football. This season saw the entry of rugby league's first sponsors: Joshua Tetley and John Player. This season saw the introduction of the League Cup competition as a major secondary competition to the Challenge Cup. Due to sponsorship it was never commonly known as the League Cup. It began in this year as the Player's No.6 Trophy and finished up as the Regal Trophy before being abandoned after 1995-96 when the sport switched to summer. Leeds won their third Championship |
The voice of which character in The Simpsons is provided by Nancy Cartwright? | Nancy Cartwright Nancy Cartwright Nancy Jean Cartwright (born October 25, 1957) is an American actress and voice actress, known for her long-running role as Bart Simpson on the animated television series "The Simpsons". Cartwright also voices other characters for the show, including Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, Kearney and Database. Cartwright was born in Dayton, Ohio. Cartwright moved to Hollywood in 1978 and trained alongside voice actor Daws Butler. Her first professional role was voicing Gloria in the animated series "Richie Rich", which she followed with a starring role in the television movie "Marian Rose White" (1982) and her first feature | The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield Springfield at Fox Interactive for the game, they conceived of the project to construct a real-life replica of the Simpsons' house and gave it away in a contest. Cast members of "The Simpsons", including Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Russi Taylor, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, and Phil Hartman, provided their voices for the dialog in the game. Bonita Pietila, who has worked on the show, directed the voice actors. The game also includes the theme song from "The Simpsons" by Danny Elfman. "Virtual Springfield" was rated Teen (T) in North America |
How many people sit on a jury in Scotland? | Trial by jury in Scotland possible. Some people were executed on majority verdicts in Scotland, such as Susan Newell, who had one juror dissenting. Criminal procedure in Scotland is generally regulated by the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (as amended) and various Acts of Adjournal passed by the High Court of Justiciary. Under Scots law a jury in a criminal trial must have at least fifteen jurors for a case to continue, and at least eight jurors must declare guilt into order to convict. The jury has a choice of three verdicts: guilty (a conviction), not guilty (acquittal) and not proven (also acquittal). The pool | How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? dancing on a needle's point occurs in an expository work by the English divine, William Sclater (1575-1626). In "An exposition with notes vpon the first Epistle to the Thessalonians" (1619), Sclater claimed that scholastic philosophers occupied themselves with such pointless questions as whether angels "did occupie a place; and so, whether many might be in one place at one time; and how many might sit on a Needles point; and six hundred such like needlesse points." Harrison proposes that the reason an English writer first introduced the "needle’s point" into a critique of medieval angelology is that it makes for |
Which word completes the title of a collection of keyboard music dated 1722 by Johann Sebastian Bach - The Well-Tempered ______? | The Well-Tempered Clavier The Well-Tempered Clavier The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846–893, is a collection of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, composed for solo keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. In Bach's time "Clavier" (keyboard) was a generic name indicating a variety of keyboard instruments, most typically a harpsichord or clavichord – but not excluding an organ either. The modern German spelling for the collection is (WTK; ). Bach gave the title to a book of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, dated 1722, composed "for the profit and use of musical youth | Keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach Keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach The harpsichord concertos, BWV 1052–1065, are concertos for harpsichord, strings and continuo by Johann Sebastian Bach. There are seven complete concertos for a single harpsichord (BWV 1052–1058), three concertos for two harpsichords (BWV 1060–1062), two concertos for three harpsichords (BWV 1063 and 1064), and one concerto for four harpsichords (BWV 1065). Two other concertos include solo harpsichord parts: the concerto BWV 1044, which has solo parts for harpsichord, violin and flute, and "Brandenburg Concerto" No. 5 in D major, with the same scoring. In addition, there is a nine-bar concerto fragment for harpsichord (BWV |
Which BBC TV drama that ran from 1985 to 1990, set in the fictional town of Tarrant, was filmed on the River Hamble and the Solent? | Howards' Way rated PG for Parental Guidance in Australia and PG in New Zealand for violence and coarse language. Howards' Way Howards' Way is a television drama series produced by BBC Birmingham and transmitted on BBC1 between 1 September 1985 and 25 November 1990. The series deals with the personal and professional lives of the wealthy yachting and business communities in the fictional town of Tarrant on the south coast of England, and was filmed on the River Hamble and the Solent. Most of the location filming for the series was carried out in Bursledon, Hamble, Swanwick, Warsash, Hill Head, Lee-on-the-Solent, Lymington, | River Hamble the Portsmouth to Southampton railway line and the A27 road on three substantial bridges. A further 2 miles (3 km) south of Bursledon, the river flows between the villages of Hamble-le-Rice and Warsash before entering Southampton Water. A passenger ferry crosses the river between Hamble-le-Rice and Warsash, forming an important link in the Solent Way and E9 European Coastal Path. The river is also the location for several large marinas, the largest being the Port Hamble Marina and boat yards, situated on both banks as far upstream as Bursledon. River Hamble The River Hamble is a river in Hampshire, England. |
Which ice cream company produces flavours including Cherry Garcia, Cone Sweet Cone and Caramel Chew Chew? | Ice cream cone cones were rolled by hand, from hot and thin wafers, but in 1912, Frederick Bruckman, an inventor from Portland, Oregon, patented a machine for rolling ice cream cones. He sold his company to Nabisco in 1928, which is still producing ice cream cones as of 2017. Other ice-cream providers such as Ben & Jerry's make their own cones. In 1918, a Lebanese immigrant, Albert George, started the George & Thomas Cone Company, and began to mass-produce baked ice cream cones to sell to restaurants, as well as the everyday consumer. That company became Joy Ice Cream Cone Company, now named | Ice cream cone the Joy Cone Company, located in Hermitage, Pennsylvania. The company has two facilities, its eastern facility located at 3435 Lamor Road in Hermitage, PA, and its western facility located at 2843 West Shamrell Blvd. in Flagstaff, Arizona. In July 2017, the company started construction of another $24 million plant at its Hermitage, PA location which will be fully operational in spring of 2018. The company produces over 2 billion ice cream cones (sugar, cake, and waffle cones) a year. Joy Cone is the largest ice cream cone maker in the world. The company is still owned/operated by the George family |
In which city did Gavrilo Princip assassinate a husband and wife in June 1914? | Nedeljko Čabrinović not enough to pay for rent and food, let alone books, which, for Čabrinović, were "the only sign of life." In the meantime, he met Gavrilo Princip, and joined the Black Hand in 1912. Two years later, Dragutin Dimitrijević leader of the Black Hand, ordered Čabrinović, Gavrilo Princip and five other conspirators to assassinate Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, giving them each a gun and two bombs. On Sunday, 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg were assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip during a visit that had been announced two months prior. | Park Gavrilo Princip its present appearance originates completely from the period after World War II. The park covers an area of today. It went through a complete reconstruction in 2004, after which a monument to prince Miloš was erected in the park. Another refurbishment ensued in 2011 and in 2015 a monument to Gavrilo Princip was constructed. On 18 April 2017, Belgrade City Assembly officially changed its name to Park Gavrilo Princip. Park Gavrilo Princip Park Gavrilo Princip () is a park in Belgrade, a capital of Serbia. Originating from 1836, it is one of the oldest parks in the city and in |
Which European country has provinces called Zeeland, Friesland and Gelderland? | Provinces of the Netherlands reducing their powers. There were 17 in total: from these unified Netherlands, seven northern provinces from 1588 formed the Republic of the Seven United Provinces, namely Holland, Zeeland, Gelderland, Utrecht, Friesland, Overijssel and Groningen. The Republic's lands also included Drenthe (one of the 17, but without the autonomous status of the others), and parts of the Duchy of Brabant, Duchy of Limburg and County of Flanders, which were considered to be "conquered lands" and were governed directly by the States General, hence their name Generality Lands. They were called "Staats-Brabant", "Staats-Limburg" and "Staats-Vlaanderen", meaning "governed by the States General". Each | States of Friesland of the States General to hold an inquiry into the causes of the unrest in Friesland. This commission consisted of a number of his henchmen from other provinces: Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (delegate for Gelderland), Gevaerts (Holland), Verelst (Zeeland), Perzoon (Overijssel). They arrived in Leeuwarden at the end of August and immediately started hearings of a number of people specifically selected by William himself (mostly "grietmannen" from well-known noble families) to inform them about what had been going on. It should not cause much surprise that the first conclusion the Commission arrived at after its inquiry was that the main |
Three Asian countries will play in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Two are Japan and South Korea. Which is the third | Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup stages, Iran wound up defeated 3–1. The 2018 FIFA World Cup, held in Russia, marked the first time five Asian teams qualified for the FIFA World Cup. Only Japan advanced past the group stage, a feat aided by fair-play points in tie-breaking, at the expense of Senegal. Aside from Australia, who only got a draw and two defeats, the other three had at least one win: Saudi Arabia got a 2-1 comeback over Egypt, Iran defeated Morocco, and in the biggest upset, South Korea beat the defending champions Germany. In the round of 16, Japan surprised a favored Belgium and | 2002 FIFA World Cup FIFA Confederations Cups, its fourth and fifth Confederations Cup appearance in a row. In the third place play-off match against South Korea, Turkey won 3–2, taking third place in only their second ever FIFA World Cup. South Korea and Japan were selected as hosts by FIFA on 31 May 1996. Initially, South Korea, Japan and Mexico presented three rival bids. FIFA officials brokered a united bid between the two Asian countries shortly before the decision was made, and they were chosen unanimously in preference to Mexico. This was the first World Cup to be hosted by more than one country, |
The Varicella Zoster Virus causes which disease in children? | Varicella zoster virus Varicella zoster virus Varicella zoster virus or varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is one of eight herpesviruses known to infect humans. It causes chickenpox (varicella), a disease most commonly affecting children, teens, and young adults, and shingles (herpes zoster) in adults; shingles is rare in children. VZV is a worldwide pathogen known by many names: chickenpox virus, varicella virus, zoster virus, and human herpesvirus type 3 (HHV-3). VZV infections are species-specific to humans, but can survive in external environments for a few hours, maybe a day or two. VZV multiplies in the lungs, and causes a wide variety of symptoms. After the | Varicella zoster virus FDA in October 2017. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended Shingrix for adults over the age of 50, including those who have already received Zostavax. The Committee voted that Shingrix is preferred over Zostavax for the prevention of zoster and related complications because phase 3 clinical data showed vaccine efficacy of >90% against shingles across all age groups, as well as sustained efficacy over a 4-year follow-up. Unlike Zostavax, which is given as a single shot, Shingrix is given as two intramuscular doses, two to six months apart. A herpes-zoster subunit (HZ-su) vaccine has shown to be immunogenic |
Which 88 year old Dame is currently appearing in Blithe Spirit in London? | Janie Dee Dee devised and produced the "London Concert For Peace", a charity concert celebrating the joy of life which was performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with a cast including Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen and David Tennant. Proceeds from the concert were donated to Amnesty International, CARE, Oxfam and the Red Cross. In June 2014, Dee organised a Noël Coward charity cabaret, entitled "I Went to a Marvellous Party" at London's historic Cafe de Paris, as a celebration of and farewell to Angela Lansbury, marking the end of the run of "Blithe Spirit" in London. The "Blithe Spirit" | Blithe Spirit (film) Blithe Spirit (film) Blithe Spirit is a 1945 British fantasy-comedy film directed by David Lean. The screenplay by Lean, cinematographer Ronald Neame and associate producer Anthony Havelock-Allan is based on producer Noël Coward's 1941 play of the same name, the title of which is derived from the line "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert" in the poem "To a Skylark" by Percy Bysshe Shelley. The film features Kay Hammond and Margaret Rutherford, in the roles they created in the original production, along with Rex Harrison and Constance Cummings in the lead parts of Charles and Ruth Condomine. |
Mrs Malaprop is a character in which Sheridan comedy? | Malapropism the type that attract the most attention and commentary, but bland malapropisms are common in speech and writing. The word "malapropism" (and its earlier variant "malaprop") comes from a character named "Mrs. Malaprop" in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 play "The Rivals". Mrs. Malaprop frequently misspeaks (to comic effect) by using words which don't have the meaning that she intends but which sound similar to words that do. Sheridan presumably chose her name in humorous reference to the word "malapropos," an adjective or adverb meaning "inappropriate" or "inappropriately", derived from the French phrase "mal à propos" (literally "poorly placed"). According to | Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (painting) Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh bought the artwork on 26 April 1937 and it was then donated to the National Gallery of Art. Citations Bibliography Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (painting) Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1787) is an oil on canvas portrait painted by Thomas Gainsborough between 1785 and 1787. It was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in 1937. Mrs. Sheridan (Elizabeth Ann Linley) was a talented musician who enjoyed professional success in Bath and London before marrying Richard Brinsley Sheridan in 1773 and abandoning her career. She was 31 when she sat for Gainsborough, dying from tuberculosis |
Which bird features on the flag of the US state of Louisiana? | Flag of Louisiana Flag of Louisiana The flag of Louisiana () consists of a "pelican in her piety," the heraldic charge representing a mother pelican "in her nest feeding her young with her blood[,]" on an azure field with state motto reworded to "Union Justice Confidence." First adopted in 1912, it was last modified in 2006. The Louisiana Pledge of Allegiance is as follows: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the state of Louisiana and to the motto for which it stands: A state, under God, united in purpose and ideals, confident that justice shall prevail for all of those abiding here." | Flag of Mon State Flag of Mon State The flag of Mon State depicts a hamsa in the centre of a red background. The current flag was approved by the Mon State Hluttaw and officially adopted on 8 June 2018. In local legend, the city of Bago, which was founded by the Mon people, was established on the location where a hamsa sought refuge during a massive flood, hence the adoption of the bird on the flag. Mon State's former flag, used until the adoption of the current flag on 8 June 2018, depicted a hamsa on a dark blue background and had "Mon |
The 1969 Derby winner Blakeney and the 1973 winner Morston were both named after villages in which English county? | Morston (horse) Morston (horse) Morston (1970–1993) was a French-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. He is best known for winning the 1973 Epsom Derby on his second racecourse appearance. He was then injured, and retired undefeated. Morston was bred in France by his owner Arthur Budgett's Park Farm Stud. He was sired by the Irish Derby winner Ragusa out of Budgett's mare Windmill Girl. This made him a brother of the 1969 Derby winner Blakeney. He was named after a village in Norfolk. Unraced at two, Morston made his debut in the Godstone Plate, at Lingfield in May 1973. He won comfortably, but showed | Morston 400 years ago, but is now only used by a small number of fishing boats, leisure craft and the regular seal watching trips which leave for Blakeney Point. Morston Hall restaurant owned by Galton Blackiston is located in the parish. Harold Davidson (1875 – 1937), the "Rector of Stiffkey" was also the parish priest here. The father of writer Annie Hall Cudlip commanded the local Coastguard station. The 1973 Derby Stakes winner was Morston, the horse being named after the village. Running for just the second time he was returned at odds of 25-1. His half-brother Blakeney won the same |
Who was MP for Makerfield from 1987 to 2010? | Ian McCartney is Ann Kevan Parkes, whom he married in 1988. Ian McCartney Sir Ian McCartney (born 25 April 1951) is a British Labour politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Makerfield between 1987 and 2010, and served in the Cabinet from 2003 to 2007, when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister. He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2010 Dissolution Honours List. He was born in Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire, to the Labour MP for Dunbartonshire East, Hugh McCartney, and his wife, Margaret, a trade unionist. McCartney had two sisters, Irene and Margaret. Educated at Lenzie Academy, he left the school at | Makerfield (UK Parliament constituency) Makerfield (UK Parliament constituency) Makerfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Yvonne Fovargue of the Labour Party. This seat was formed in 1983 mostly from the Ince and Wigan seats however with some of the Leigh seat. Makerfield is on some calculations, particularly a historical measure based on the period of time since a previous party served the area, the safest Labour seat in the country — with its predecessor constituencies, it has been held by Labour since the Parliamentary Labour Party was formed in 1906. In 2010 the constituency, |
Who was the husband of Saint Anne and father of the Virgin Mary? | Saint Anne (wall painting) Saint Anne; instead, she is mentioned in the Gospel of James – biblical apocryph from between the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE written in Greek and translated into many eastern and western languages. She also appears in the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and many other apocryphal texts. These texts describe events related to the birth and childhood of Virgin Mary, and are modelled on the Old Testament, in which the births of biblical patriarchs are described as the result of divine intervention to defeat women's infertility. Saint Anne and her husband, saint Joachim, a devout Jew from the family of David, | Virgin and Child with Saint Anne Virgin and Child with Saint Anne The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne or Madonna and Child with Saint Anne is a subject in Christian art showing Saint Anne with her daughter, the Virgin Mary, and her grandson Jesus. This depiction has been popular in Germany and neighboring countries since the 14th century. Names for this particular subject in other languages include: In the 13th century, Jacobus de Voragine incorporated apocryphal accounts from the Protoevangelium of James regarding the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary in his "Golden Legend". The cult of St. Anne spread rapidly and she became one |
Which motorway runs from near Preston to Colne? | M65 motorway M65 motorway The M65 is a motorway in Lancashire, England. It runs from just south of Preston through the major junction of the M6 and M61 motorways, east past Darwen, Blackburn, Accrington, Burnley, Nelson and ends at Colne. The M65 was opened in the following sections: The first section of the motorway was opened in 1981, connecting Burnley to Brierfield. Over the years, several extensions were made, the largest being the link from Whitebirk to the M6 and M61 motorways in 1997. This extension was the scene of a standoff between construction security workers and protesters (often known as 'eco-warriors'). | Colne Brook Colne Brook The Colne Brook is a river in England that is a distributary of the River Colne which runs from Uxbridge Moor, there forming the western border of Greater London, to the River Thames just below Bell Weir Lock in Hythe End, Wraysbury, Berkshire. On leaving the Colne at Uxbridge Moor in the Colne Valley regional park, the Colne Brook flows close by to the west until West Drayton then passes under the M25 motorway at the M4 "Thorney interchange", enters Berkshire and flows through the village of Colnbrook. South of Colnbrook it receives a proportion of water from |
In which sport do players use the penhold grip or the shakehand grip? | Table tennis styles This article describes some of the most common table tennis styles seen in international competition. These are stereotypes and almost all players possess some combination of these styles, with a few added "special" shots of their own. Competitive table tennis players grip their rackets in a variety of ways. The manner in which competitive players grip their rackets can be classified into two major families of styles; one is described as penhold and the other shakehand. The Laws of Table Tennis do not prescribe the manner in which one must grip the racket, and numerous variations on gripping styles exist. | Grip (sport fencing) French grip pommel it is not legal to use for competitive fencing. Grip (sport fencing) In fencing, the grip is the part of the weapon which is gripped by the fencer's hand. There are two types of grips commonly used today in competitive foil and épée: French, which is a straight grip with a pommel at the end of it, and the orthopedic or pistol grip. Virtually all high level foil fencers use a pistol grip; in épée, both types are used. Both kinds of grip optimize hitting with the point of the sword (a 'thrust'), which is the only |
Which member of The Pussycat Dolls was born in Hawaii? | The Pussycat Dolls which is composed of dancers from the Pussycat Doll Lounge Review including Chrystina Sayers from Girlicious, and features Nicole Scherzinger. In parallel with the Pussycat Dolls franchise as a recording act, a resident live show commenced at the "Pussycat Dolls Lounge" adjacent to Pure Nightclub in Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip. This show contains "cast members" who continue the burlesque-style show which began in Los Angeles during 1995. The saloon brings sex appeal into an interactive setting with non-stop performances, where dancers fill the room as eye candy, dancing inside a rhinestone-encrusted bathtub and on raised platforms throughout | Pussycat Dolls Present Dolls Present", in which young aspiring female singers/dancers compete in order to claim their spots to become a new member of the group The Pussycat Dolls. "Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious" was the second season of "Pussycat Dolls Present", in which young aspiring female singers/dancers compete in order to claim their spots to become the group Girlicious. Pussycat Dolls Present Pussycat Dolls Present was an American reality television series that premiered on March 6, 2007 on The CW, and took place over the course of eight weeks. It was a joint venture between Ken Mok's 10 by 10 Entertainment, Pussycat LLC, |
Which character in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland recites the poem which begins Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you’re at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea tray in the sky? | Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star but further stanzas typically contain minor variations. Additional variations exist such as from 1896 in "Song Stories for the Kindergarten by Mildred J. Hill. A parody of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" titled "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat" is recited by the Mad Hatter in of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". An adaptation of the song, named "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Earth", was written by Charles Randolph Grean, Fred Hertz and Leonard Nimoy. It is included on Nimoy's first 1967 album "Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space", with him reciting the text as Spock explaining how the star-people wish | Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is a popular English lullaby. The lyrics are from an early-19th-century English poem by Jane Taylor, "The Star". The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in "Rhymes for the Nursery", a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann. It is sung to the tune of the French melody "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman", which was published in 1761 and later arranged by several composers including Mozart with Twelve Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman". The English lyrics have five stanzas, although only the first is widely |
The olfactory nerve carries the sensory information for which of the senses? | Olfactory nerve Olfactory nerve The olfactory nerve is typically considered the first cranial nerve, or simply CN I, that contains sensory nerve fibers relating to smell. The afferent nerve fibers of the olfactory receptor neurons transmit nerve impulses about odors to the central nervous system, where they are perceived by the sense of smell (olfaction). Derived from the embryonic nasal placode, the olfactory nerve is somewhat unusual among cranial nerves because it is capable of some regeneration if damaged. The olfactory nerve is sensory in nature and originates on the olfactory mucosa in the upper part of the nasal cavity. From the | Sensory nerve which contributes to the rate of lower limb amputations among this population. Overall, the poor sensation and detection may lead to changes in skin, hair, joint, and bone damage over the years for many people. Sensory nerve A sensory nerve, also called an afferent nerve, is a nerve that carries sensory information toward the central nervous system (CNS). It is a cable-like bundle of the afferent nerve fibers coming from sensory receptors in the peripheral nervous system (PNS). A motor nerve carries information from the CNS to the PNS, and both types of nerve are called peripheral nerves. Afferent nerve |
Which 1961 Western is the only film directed by Marlon Brando? | Marlon Brando S. Ruddy, whom Paramount assigned to produce the film, agreed with the choice of Brando. However, Paramount studio heads were opposed to casting Brando due to his reputation for difficulty and his long string of box office flops. Brando also had "One-Eyed Jacks" working against him, a troubled production that lost money for Paramount when it was released in 1961. Paramount Pictures President Stanley Jaffe told an exasperated Coppola, "As long as I'm president of this studio, Marlon Brando will not be in this picture, and I will no longer allow you to discuss it." Jaffe eventually set three conditions | Marlon Brando was "trapped in another dog of a movie ... Not for the first time, Mr. Brando gives us a heavy-lidded, adenoidally openmouthed caricature of the inarticulate, stalwart loner." Although he feigned indifference, Brando was hurt by the critical mauling, admitting in the 2015 film "Listen to Me Marlon", "They can hit you every day and you have no way of fighting back. I was very convincing in my pose of indifference, but I was very sensitive and it hurt a lot." Brando portrayed a repressed gay army officer in "Reflections in a Golden Eye", directed by John Huston and costarring |
In Through The Looking Glass which characters recite the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter to Alice? | The Walrus and the Carpenter The Walrus and the Carpenter "The Walrus and the Carpenter" is a narrative poem by Lewis Carroll that appeared in his book "Through the Looking-Glass", published in December 1871. The poem is recited in , by Tweedledum and Tweedledee to Alice. The poem is composed of 18 stanzas and contains 108 lines, in an alternation of iambic trimeters and iambic tetrameters. The rhyme scheme is ABCBDB, with masculine rhymes throughout. The rhyming and rhythmical scheme used, as well as some archaisms and syntactical turns, are those of the traditional English ballad. The Walrus and the Carpenter are the characters in | The Walrus and the Carpenter good-natured Alice attempts to determine which of the two leading characters might be the more sympathetic, but is thwarted by the twins' further interpretation: The characters of the Walrus and the Carpenter have been interpreted many ways both in literary criticism and popular culture. Some, including the character Loki in the film "Dogma", interpret the Walrus to be a caricature of the Buddha and the Carpenter to be a caricature of Jesus Christ. British essayist J. B. Priestley argued that the figures were political, as does Walter Russell Mead, who utilises the Walrus and the Carpenter as an allegory for |
The screenplay of the 1961 horror film The Pit and the Pendulum was based on a short story by which author? | The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film) only Luana Anders was available at the time, and the new sequence featured her character, Catherine Medina, confined to a lunatic asylum. After much screaming and hair pulling, Catherine reveals the details of her horrific story to her fellow inmates, at which point the film itself follows as a flashback. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film) The Pit and the Pendulum is a 1961 horror film in Panavision and Pathe Color directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, and Luana Anders. The screenplay by Richard Matheson was loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short | The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film) the Body" (1963), had "shown me an Italian print of "The Pit and the Pendulum" before I started writing it: 'Give us something like this', they said." When asked if another of his films, "The Long Hair of Death" (1964), was inspired by Corman's film, Gastaldi replied, "Yes, of course! "The Pit and the Pendulum" had a big influence on Italian horror films. Everybody borrowed from it." Stephen King felt that one of the film's most powerful shocks—the discovery of Elizabeth's hideously decayed corpse—had a major impact on the genre and served as one of the most significant horror sequences |
Which musical, currently running in London, includes the song Tomorrow is a Latter Day? | The Book of Mormon (musical) Price and Cunningham arrive just in time to use Cunningham's lies of the latter being resurrected after being eaten by lions to scare the General and his men away. Price rallies the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the Ugandans to work together to make this their paradise. Later, the newly minted Ugandan elders go door to door to evangelize "The Book of Arnold" ("Tomorrow Is a Latter Day"/"Hello! [Reprise]"/"Encore"). † This song is not on the cast album. "The Book of Mormon" uses a nine-member orchestra: A cast recording of the original Broadway production | It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow "It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow" is a song written in 1938 by composer Irving Berlin. The song came out of a conversation with British / Hungarian film producer Alexander Korda in a New York taxi cab in 1938. The Munich agreement had just depressed both men. Korda asked Berlin if he had written a war song yet, and a few blocks later Berlin came up with the tune and lyrics. It was first performed in London at the start of the war in 1939 before its American release, which caused a sensation at the time. |
Mrs Bardell is the landlady of which Dickens character who she sues for breach of promise? | Pickwick (1969 film) misunderstandings, he inadvertently leads his landlady, Mrs. Bardell, to believe he has proposed marriage to her. Pickwick is charged with breach of promise and hauled into court, where he is found guilty as charged and sentenced to prison when he stubbornly refuses to pay her compensation. Pickwick (1969 film) Pickwick is a British television musical made by the BBC in 1969 and based on the stage musical "Pickwick", which in turn was based on "The Pickwick Papers" written by Charles Dickens. It stars Harry Secombe as Samuel Pickwick and Roy Castle as Sam Weller. This television production was based on | Breach of promise of Justice - A Woman's Privilege" recounts the unusual case of a man who sues a woman for breach of promise following a cruise ship romance engagement. In the mockumentary film "A Hard Day's Night", the character playing Paul McCartney's grandfather is pursued by young women who wish to sue the older man for breach of promise. In season 8 of the TV show "Frasier", Donny files a suit against Daphne for running away with Niles on the day of their wedding. Breach of promise Breach of promise is a common law tort, abolished in many jurisdictions. It was also |
Fritz Haber won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesising which chemical compound? | Fritz Haber Fritz Haber Fritz Haber (; 9 December 1868 – 29 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. This invention is of importance for the large-scale synthesis of fertilizers and explosives. The food production for half the world's current population involves this method for producing nitrogen fertilizers. Haber, along with Max Born, proposed the Born–Haber cycle as a method for evaluating the lattice energy of an ionic solid. Haber is also considered | Fritz Haber current world population is based on the Haber–Bosch process. Haber was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work (he actually received the award in 1919). Haber was also active in the research on combustion reactions, the separation of gold from sea water, adsorption effects, electrochemistry, and free radical research (see Fenton's reagent). A large part of his work from 1911 to 1933 was done at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry at Berlin-Dahlem. In 1953, this institute was renamed for him. He is sometimes credited, incorrectly, with first synthesizing MDMA (which was first synthesized |
In which film does Dustin Hoffman play Michael Dorsey and Dorothy Michaels? | Dustin Hoffman he made you want to do for him—to give him one." In "Tootsie" (1982), Hoffman portrays Michael Dorsey, a struggling actor who finds himself dressing up as a woman to land a role on a soap opera. His co-star was Jessica Lange. "Tootsie" earned ten Academy Award nominations, including Hoffman's fifth nomination. Under direction by Sydney Pollack, Hoffman's role demanded "a steady bombardment of opposites—edgy then funny, romantic then realistic, soft then quivering." To film critic David Denby, Hoffman's character "embodies vulnerability and drive in perfect proportion. He has the knack of making everything he does seem perilous, and so | Dustin Hoffman filmography Dustin Hoffman filmography American actor Dustin Hoffman began his career by appearing in an episode of "Naked City" in 1961. His first theatrical performance was 1961's "A Cook for Mr. General" as Ridzinski. Following several guest appearances on television, he starred in the 1966 play "Eh?"; his performance garnered him both a Theatre World Award and Drama Desk Award. Hoffman made his film debut in 1967 when he appeared in the comedy "The Tiger Makes Out". In the same year, his breakthrough role as Benjamin "Ben" Braddock, the title character in Mike Nichols' comedy-drama "The Graduate", led to Hoffman achieving |
The Outside-Half Factory and The Pontypool Front Row were written by which Welsh performer? | Pontypool legendary 'Pontypool Front Row' in the 1970s, of Bobby Windsor, Charlie Faulkner and Graham Price was immortalised in song by Max Boyce. The club's contribution to Wales was seen again in 1983, when Pontypool's "forward factory" produced five of the Welsh pack in the Five Nations Championship. Other rugby union clubs based in or near the town are Pontypool United RFC, Garndiffaith RFC, Talywain RFC and Blaenavon RFC. Pontypool's rugby league club are called the Torfaen Tigers and play in the Rugby League Conference Welsh Premier. Pontypool is twinned with the following towns: All four towns are twinned with each | Pontypool RFC the most notable clubs, being present at the formation of the Welsh Rugby Union in 1881, but disbanding before the turn of the 19th century. The club reformed in 1901, the club's accepted formation date, and produced many notable Wales and British Lions international players; most notably the Jones brothers in the early 20th century and the "Pontypool Front Row" of Charlie Faulkner, Graham Price and Bobby Windsor in the 1970s. The club's 'Golden Era' is generally accepted as the 1970s and 1980s when under the coaching of Ray Prosser the first team won the Welsh Club Championship in 1973 |
Which author who created Adrian Mole died last month aged 68? | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ is the first book in the Adrian Mole series of comedic fiction, written by Sue Townsend. The book is written in a diary style, and focuses on the worries and regrets of a teenager who believes himself to be an intellectual. The story is set in 1981 and 1982, and in the background it refers to some of the historic world events of the time, such as the Falklands War and the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana as well as the birth | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ Barnes. Townsend adapted the book for the stage in 1984 with music by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. There was also a 1985 television series. A successful stage production ran at the Wyndham's Theatre, London, in 1984-1986, that included Simon Gipps-Kent and followed with a road tour. A stage musical adaptation by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary opened at Leicester's Curve Theatre in March 2015. Townsend had been working on the project at the time of her death. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ is the first book in the |
Which cricket team will play 5 test matches against England in July and August this year? | West Indian cricket team in England in 1939 1940 Wisden). West Indies did not play test cricket again until January 1948 when England came to the Caribbean and played four test matches. England did not play test cricket after August 1939 until their 1946 season when India toured. The 1940 Wisden had Learie Constantine of Barbados as Cricketer of the Year along with English players Bill Edrich, Walter Keaton, Brian Sellars and Doug Wright (see Wisden on Cricinfo). The manager of the team was John Kidney, who played 11 first-class matches for Barbados between 1909 and 1932 and who had managed the 1933 touring team in England. Of | Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016 Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016 The Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. The two first-class matches were both drawn |
At which race course is the King Richard III Stakes run in April? | King Richard III Stakes status. It was promoted to Group 3 level in 1999, and relegated back to Listed class in 2004. The race was given its present title in 2013. It is now named after King Richard III, whose skeleton was discovered in Leicester and identified earlier that year. The race was held at Doncaster in 2000, and Newmarket in 2001. <br> ---- King Richard III Stakes The King Richard III Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older. It is run over a distance of 7 furlongs at Leicester in April. During | Ellis Park Race Course and Raceway for $4 million, to help fund the installation of Instant Racing machines. Saratoga purchased the remaining 70 percent in 2018. Among the stakes race run at Ellis Park, is their signature race and only Graded stakes race the Groupie Doll Stakes which is a Grade III event. Other listed stakes races that are run at Ellis Park include: the Ellis Park Breeders' Cup Turf, the Governor's Handicap, the Tri-State Handicap and the Audubon Oaks. The track was designed after the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York, and features a 1.125-mile dirt track. The track features chutes |
How many years of marriage is usually associated with a gift of pearl? | Light Years (Pearl Jam song) 21 and stayed there for three weeks. "Light Years" reached the top 60 in the UK and the top 30 in Italy. In Allmusic's review of the "Light Years" single, it was stated that "with [Pearl Jam's] more enduring and darker tones set in place, fans of Pearl Jam receive a raw and sincere taste of the band's new musical and melodic direction, perhaps ignited with the additional presence of newcomer Matt Cameron on drums." "NME" called the song "painfully beautiful" in its review of "Binaural", while Keith Cameron of "NME" said in his review of the song, "The specifics | How Many More Years How Many More Years "How Many More Years" is a blues song written and originally recorded by Howlin' Wolf (born Chester Burnett) in July 1951. Recorded at the Memphis Recording Service – which later became the Sun Studio – it was released by Chess Records and reached no.4 on the "Billboard" R&B chart. Musician and record producer T-Bone Burnett has described "How Many More Years" as "in some ways... the first rock’n’roll song...". It was a double-sided hit with "Moanin' at Midnight", which reached no.10 on the R&B chart. After military service, Chester Burnett performed as a blues singer and |
Ian McCartney was Labour Party Chair from 2003 to 2006 when he was succeeded by which Salford born MP, who as a child played a street urchin in the film A Taste of Honey? | Ian Stewart (Labour politician) Ian Stewart (Labour politician) Ian Stewart (born 28 August 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Eccles from 1997 until 2010, when his seat was abolished and he was subsequently defeated in the selection process to be the Labour Parliamentary Candidate for the new parliamentary constituency of Salford and Eccles by Hazel Blears. Standing as the Labour candidate for the new elected post of Mayor of Salford, he was elected as Mayor in the 2012 Salford mayoral election. Stewart attended Calder Street Junior Secondary School (now Auchinraith Primary School) in Blantyre and | A Taste of Honey (film) A Taste of Honey (film) A Taste of Honey is a 1961 British film adaptation of the play of the same name by Shelagh Delaney. Delaney wrote the screenplay, aided by director Tony Richardson, who had directed the play on the stage. It is an exemplar of a gritty genre of British film that has come to be called kitchen sink realism. The film opened on 15 September 1961 at the Leicester Square Theatre in London's West End. Jo (played by Rita Tushingham) is a 17-year-old Salford schoolgirl, with a difficult, 40-year-old alcoholic mother, Helen (Dora Bryan). After a fall |
According to the Acts of the Apostles on which island was Saint Paul shipwrecked on his way to Rome to appeal to Caesar? | Paul the Apostle appeal as a Roman citizen to Caesar, Paul was shipwrecked on "Melita" (Malta), where the islanders showed him "unusual kindness" and where he was met by Publius. From Malta, he travelled to Rome via Syracuse, Rhegium and Puteoli. He finally arrived in Rome around 60, where he spent another two years under house arrest. The narrative of Acts ends with Paul preaching in Rome for two years from his rented home while awaiting trial. Irenaeus wrote in the 2nd century that Peter and Paul had been the founders of the church in Rome and had appointed Linus as succeeding bishop. | Conversion on the Way to Damascus Conversion on the Way to Damascus The Conversion on the Way to Damascus ("Conversione di San Paolo") is a masterpiece by Caravaggio, painted in 1601 for the Cerasi Chapel of the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, in Rome. The painting depicts the moment recounted in Chapter 9 of Acts of the Apostles when Saul, soon to be the apostle Paul, fell on the road to Damascus. He heard the Lord say "I am Jesus, whom you persecute, arise and go into the city" (see Conversion of Paul). The "Golden Legend", a compilation of medieval interpretations of biblical events, may |
What name was given to the Dock in Wapping where pirates and smugglers were hanged? | Execution Dock Execution Dock Execution Dock was a place in the River Thames near the shoreline at Wapping, London, that was used for more than 400 years to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts. The "dock" consisted of a scaffold for hanging. Its last executions were in 1830. The British Admiralty's legal jurisdiction was for all crimes committed at sea. The dock symbolised that jurisdiction by being located just beyond the low-tide mark in the river. Anybody who had committed crimes on the seas, either in home waters or abroad, would eventually be brought | Wapping Dock Wapping Dock Wapping Dock is a dock on the River Mersey, England, and part of the Port of Liverpool. It is situated in the southern dock system, connected to Salthouse Dock to the north, Queen's Dock to the south. King's Dock was originally located to the west, but has since been filled in. The dock was opened in 1852. It was named after the road it runs alongside and which also gave its name to the Wapping Tunnel. The large brick warehouse built in 1856 along the eastern side of the dock was designed by Jesse Hartley. The building is |
In which sport is a domestique a team member who works to ensure the best position for the team leader? | Domestique being used to stop the clock. Therefore, one rider often sprints towards the finish line to tow the teammates. Domestique In road bicycle racing, a domestique is a rider who works for the benefit of his or her team and leader, rather than trying to win the race. In French, "domestique" translates as "servant". The use of the term dates back to 1911, although such riders had existed before then. Much of a cyclist's effort is to push aside the air in front of him. Riding in the slipstream of another rider is easier than taking the lead. The difference | Team leader Team leader A team leader is someone who "provides guidance, instruction, direction and leadership to a group" of individuals (the team) for the purpose of achieving a key result or group of aligned results. The team leader monitors the quantitative and qualitative achievements of the team and reports results to a manager (a manager may oversee multiple teams). The leader often works within the team, as a member, carrying out the same roles but with the additional 'leader' responsibilities - as opposed to higher level management who often have a separate job role altogether. In order for a team to |
Starbuck’s Coffee traditionally has three sizes – venti, grande and which other? | Stealth Starbucks Stealth Starbucks A stealth Starbucks is a Starbucks coffeehouse which does not advertise the Starbucks brand. These stores are operated in Metropolitan areas to do market research on how customers react to experiments in coffee service and coffeehouse design. These stores do not exhibit the traditional icons of the Starbucks brand, including the siren logo, the green aprons for baristas, and the Starbucks-specific "tall, grande, venti" coffee size terminology. The door of the coffeehouse says, "Inspired by Starbucks". The first Stealth Starbucks opened in 2009. In that year, at least three stores in Seattle were de-branded to remove the logo | Venti servers. Included are examples using different kinds of backend storage. Venti is a user space daemon. Clients connect to Venti over TCP and communicate using a simple RPC-protocol. The most important messages of the protocol are listed below. Note that there is no message to delete an address or modify data at a given address. The data block stored by Venti must be greater than 512 bytes in length and smaller than 56 kilobytes. So, if a Venti user/client wants to store larger data blocks, it has to make a datastructure (which can be stored in Venti). For example, Fossil |
In 1966 Muhammad Ali had two fights in England – the first against Henry Cooper and the second against which boxer who he knocked out in the third round? | Muhammad Ali Athletic Commission refused to sanction the fight, citing technicalities. Instead, Ali traveled to Canada and Europe and won championship bouts against George Chuvalo, Henry Cooper, Brian London and Karl Mildenberger. Ali returned to the United States to fight Cleveland Williams in the Houston Astrodome on November 14, 1966. The bout drew a record-breaking indoor crowd of 35,460 people. Williams had once been considered among the hardest punchers in the heavyweight division, but in 1964 he had been shot at point-blank range by a Texas policeman, resulting in the loss of one kidney and of his small intestine. Ali dominated Williams, | Muhammad Ali vs. Henry Cooper Muhammad Ali vs. Henry Cooper Muhammad Ali and Henry Cooper fought two boxing matches with each other. Their first match took place on 18 June 1963 and the second on 21 May 1966. Ali won both matches.The first fight was stopped by the referee in the fifth round, and the second in the sixth round. Both fights were stopped after Cooper started bleeding excessively. The first Ali-Cooper bout is remembered for being one of the four fights in which Ali was officially knocked down in the ring by his boxing opponent. After a close victory over Doug Jones, Ali's management |
Which word completes the popular name of the final movement of Handel’s Suite Number 5 for Harpsichord – The ______________ Blacksmith? | The Harmonious Blacksmith Handel and English musical comedy”, hence the title. The composer made various versions of the work, most notably, a piano solo version (1930). Only the final movement, "Air and Variations", on harpsichord. The Harmonious Blacksmith The Harmonious Blacksmith is the popular name of the final movement, "Air and variations", of George Frideric Handel's Suite No. 5 in E major, HWV 430, for harpsichord. This instrumental air was one of the first works for harpsichord published by Handel and is made up of four movements. An air is followed by five doubles (variations in the English division style): semiquavers in the | The Harmonious Blacksmith the so-called Royal Academy of Music. Handel published his first eight harpsichord suites in 1720 with the following explanation: Among the eight suites published for harpsichord in 1720, G. F. Handel published his Suite no. 5 in E Major, HWV 430. This suite consists of four movements: The Prelude, Allemande, Courante and Air and Variations; the first three movements having stylized dance rhythms. This suite was promulgated a year after Handel became Master of the Orchestra at the Royal Academy of Music, also known as the first Italian opera company in London. Handel lived the remainder of his life in |
Which BBC game show presented by Noel Edmonds ran from 1985 until 1998? | Noel Edmonds came loose. Noel Edmonds quit the show immediately afterwards. In late June 1986, he hosted "The Noel Edmonds Show" on the ABC network in the United States. The series was a one-week trial week in late night, following "Nightline". "Telly Addicts" was a BBC1 game show hosted by Edmonds, broadcast from 3 September 1985 until 29 July 1998. Questions were based on past and present television programmes, and generally took the form of a short clip being shown followed by a series of questions either specifically about the clip or more generally about the programme from which it had been | The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow is a BBC television light entertainment show which was broadcast on Saturday evenings from 3 September 1988 to 15 December 1990. It was presented by Noel Edmonds, his first major TV project since the demise of "The Late, Late Breakfast Show" in 1986. The pre-recorded programme contained several elements which had been found in its predecessor, such as phone-in quizzes, celebrity interviews and bands performing in the studio. The premise for the new show was that unlike "The Late, Late Breakfast Show", which had been broadcast from the BBC's studios |
In which sport did violinist Vanessa-Mae compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics? | Vanessa-Mae Vanessa-Mae Vanessa-Mae (陈美 Chén Měi) (born 27 October 1978) also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, is a British violinist with album sales reaching several million, having made her the wealthiest entertainer under 30 in the United Kingdom in 2006. She competed under the name Vanessa Vanakorn (her father's surname) for Thailand in alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was initially banned from skiing because a qualifying race for her benefit was alleged to be corrupt, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport later nullified the ban, citing lack of evidence for her own wrongdoing or any manipulation. Vanessa-Mae was | Vanessa-Mae 2018 Winter Olympics. Vanakorn withdrew from competition due to suffering a shoulder injury, in January 2018. With her withdrawal, the placement for Thailand would go to 21-year-old Alexia Schenkel. Vanessa-Mae's long-term boyfriend was French wine expert Lionel Catelan. Vanessa-Mae has expressed a lack of interest in marriage, saying "you don't need a ring to say I love you". Vanessa-Mae Vanessa-Mae (陈美 Chén Měi) (born 27 October 1978) also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, is a British violinist with album sales reaching several million, having made her the wealthiest entertainer under 30 in the United Kingdom in 2006. She competed under the |
Who is the Bishop of London? | Bishop of Islington Bishop of Islington The Bishop of Islington is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of London, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Islington, an inner-city district of London, and the first suffragan bishop, who lived at Clapton Common, was simultaneously Rector of St Andrew Undershaft. Between 1923 and 2015, the title remained in abeyance. It was reported in 2015 that Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, had proposed to take the see out of abeyance for the appointment of a national "bishop for church plants", and this | Bishop of Edmonton (London) Bishop of Edmonton (London) The Bishop of Edmonton is an episcopal title used by an area bishop of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Edmonton, an area in the North of the London Borough of Enfield. The bishops suffragan of Edmonton have been area bishops since the London area scheme was founded in 1979. The post of suffragan fell vacant following the retirement of Peter Wheatley, who began his ministry as suffragan bishop in March 1999 and retired at the end of 2014. On 9 July 2015, |
At noon on December 31st in which year did Panama gain full control of the Panama Canal? | Panama Canal Torrijos–Carter Treaties. On September 7, 1977, the treaty was signed by President of the United States Jimmy Carter and Omar Torrijos, "de facto" leader of Panama. This mobilized the process of granting the Panamanians free control of the canal so long as Panama signed a treaty guaranteeing the permanent neutrality of the canal. The treaty led to full Panamanian control effective at noon on December 31, 1999, and the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) assumed command of the waterway. The Panama Canal remains one of the chief revenue sources for Panama. Before this handover, the government of Panama held an international | Panama Canal Zone Panama. Bunau-Varilla was initially the Panamanian representative in the United States, though he was about to be displaced by actual Panamanians, and hastily negotiated a treaty, giving the United States a zone wide and full authority to pass laws to govern that zone. The Panama Canal Zone (Canal Zone, or Zone) excluded Panama City and Colón, but included four offshore islands, and permitted the United States to add to the zone any additional lands needed to carry on canal operations. The Panamanians were minded to disavow the treaty, but Bunau-Varilla told the new government that if Panama did not agree, |
What is the stage name of singer-songwriter Eliza Caird? | Eliza Doolittle (singer) Eliza Doolittle (singer) Eliza Sophie Caird (born 15 April 1988), better known by her stage name Eliza (formerly Eliza Doolittle), is an English singer and songwriter from Westminster, London. After performing her music in live venues around London from the age of 15, Eliza signed to Parlophone in 2008. Her debut eponymous album was released on 12 July 2010 and went Platinum in the UK. The album, "Eliza Doolittle", produced two UK top 40 hits: "Skinny Genes" and "Pack Up", the latter of which peaked within the top five on the UK Singles Chart. In 2013, Eliza contributed her writing | IJK (singer songwriter) IJK (singer songwriter) Imad Jack Karam, known by his initials and stage name IJK, is a Lebanese singer-songwriter now based in Dubai. He is best known for his alternative rock style and crooner sound and has released songs in English despite being a native Lebanese artist. Born in Beirut in 1981, Karam was raised in a Greek Orthodox Christian family and showed a keen interest for music and singing since a very young age. In 2000, Karam took part in the Lebanese Karaoke Championship, which was broadcast on Télé Liban, and won the third place in the male category. This |
In which city was the TV series Peaky Blinders set? | Peaky Blinders (TV series) Peaky Blinders (TV series) Peaky Blinders is a British crime drama television series primarily set in Birmingham, England in the aftermath of World War I. The series, which was created by Steven Knight and produced by Caryn Mandabach Productions, Screen Yorkshire and Tiger Aspect Productions, follows the exploits of the Shelby crime family. Screen Yorkshire provided funding for the production through the Yorkshire Content Fund. It was the first production to receive funding from the Yorkshire Content Fund, which in turn made certain the majority of the show was filmed in Yorkshire as part of the deal. Cillian Murphy plays | Peaky Blinders (TV series) Tommy Shelby, the gang's leader, and Sam Neill as Chester Campbell is a commissioned detective from Belfast who is tasked with suppressing the gang. The series creators have reused the name of Peaky Blinders, a 19th century urban youth gang who were active in the city from the 1890s and were believed to sew razor blades into their caps. The first series aired on BBC Two on 13 September 2013 and ran for six episodes. The second series premiered on 2 October 2014. The third series premiered on 5 May 2016. On 26 May 2016, the BBC announced they had |
"Which historical figure has been played on film and TV by ""Richard Harris"", ""Tim Roth"" and ""Dominic West""?" | Dominic West Tate Show", alongside ""Frankie Howerd" impressionist". In 2007 he played Detective Poppil in "Hannibal Rising". West played the disfigured supervillain, Jigsaw, in the 2008 film "Marvel's ". In 2010 he had a role as General Virilus in Neil Marshall's adventure thriller "Centurion". West starred in the UK ghost film, "The Awakening". West has done other work on TV and radio. He appeared in the role of Oliver Cromwell in the Channel 4 series "The Devil's Whore". He also performed as "Dr. West", the opening track on Eminem's 2009 album "Relapse", as a doctor discharging Eminem from a rehab facility. West | Dominic Harris by Priveekollektie Contemporary Art / Design, a Dutch gallery based in Heusden, the Netherlands, and with a regular presence on the international art and design circuits. In October 2015 Dominic Harris was additionally shown with PHOS ART + DESIGN Gallery, in Mayfair, London, UK. The majority of Harris's work has been bought by private collectors. Since 2012 Harris's work is also being acquired by several large institutional collections, including the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. Dominic Harris Dominic Harris (born November 16, 1976) is a British artist and architect primarily concerned with interaction, video, and light. Dominic Harris was |
Sir Arthur Pearson founded which newspaper in 1900; the current editor is Hugh Whittow? | Daily Express Daily Express The Daily Express is a daily national middle-market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom. It is the flagship of Express Newspapers, a subsidiary of Northern & Shell (which is owned by publisher Trinity Mirror). It was first published as a broadsheet in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson. Its sister paper, the Sunday Express, was launched in 1918. In December 2016, it had an average daily circulation of 391,626. The paper was acquired by Richard Desmond in 2000. Hugh Whittow was the editor from February 2011 until he retired in March 2018. Gary Jones took over as editor-in-chief in | Hugh Whittow In February 2011, he was promoted to become Editor of the paper. He retired from his role at the "Express" at the beginning of March 2018. Hugh Whittow Hugh Whittow is a British newspaper editor. Whittow worked for the "Western Telegraph" and the "South Wales Echo", before moving to London to work on the "London Evening News", and then the "Daily Star". In the mid-1980s, he joined "The Sun", where he became known for obtaining scoops. In October 1986, Whittow became one of the first journalists to report that Queen singer Freddie Mercury could be suffering from AIDS, just a |
In Greek mythology, who built the Labyrinth? | Labyrinth Labyrinth In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth ( "labúrinthos") was an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur, the monster eventually killed by the hero Theseus. Daedalus had so cunningly made the Labyrinth that he could barely escape it after he built it. Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit branching (multicursal) patterns, the single-path (unicursal) seven-course "Classical" design without branching or dead ends became associated with the Labyrinth on coins as early as 430 BC, and similar non-branching patterns became widely used as | The General in His Labyrinth of his former self. The labyrinth also recalls the labyrinth built to imprison the minotaur in Greek mythology, and the endless travelling and searching of ancient Greek heroes. In Danow's view, "The Labyrinth mirrors the wanderings and travails of the hero in search for meaning and resolution to the vicissitudes of life". García Márquez depicts the General's body itself as a labyrinth. His doctor observes that "everything that enters the body, adds weight, and everything that leaves it is debased." The General's body is described as a "labyrinth coming to a literal dead end". The labyrinth is also expressed in |
Which organisation was established in London by Eglatine Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton in 1919, originally to alleviate starvation in Germany after the war? | Save the Children and violence. Save the Children has general consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. In 2016, former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt was appointed Chief Executive. The Save the Children Fund was founded in London, England, on 15 April 1919 by Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton as an effort to alleviate starvation of children in Germany and Austria-Hungary during the Allied blockade of Germany of World War I which continued after the Armistice. The Fight the Famine Council was initially started earlier in 1919 in order to put political pressure on the British government to | Dorothy Buxton to her and her husband are held at the London School of Economics. Dorothy Buxton Dorothy Frances Buxton (née Jebb; 3 March 1881 – 8 April 1963) was an English humanitarian, social activist and commentator on Germany. Dorothy Frances Jebb was born 3 August 1881 in Ellesmere, Shropshire, the youngest of three sisters born to Arthur Trevor Jebb (1739–1825) and Eglantyne Louisa Jebb. Her mother's brother was the Cambridge classicist Richard Claverhouse Jebb, and Dorothy was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1904 she married Charles Roden Buxton, at that time a Liberal politician, and the pair were active in |
"Who played Alex Jeffreys, the discoverer of genetic fingerprinting, in the recent ITV drama ""The Code of a Killer"", the story of the first murderer convicted by DNA?" | Colin Pitchfork be eligible for parole again in 2020. In November 2018, Colin Pitchfork was spotted walking around Bristol, so it has been assumed that he was moved to HM Prison Leyhill. In 2014, ITV commissioned a two-part television drama, "Code of a Killer", based on Pitchfork's crimes and the creation of DNA profiling. It starred John Simm as researcher Alec Jeffreys and David Threlfall as David Baker, the lead police detective. Pitchfork was played by Nathan Wright. The drama was the first broadcast in two 90-minute episodes, on 6 and 13 April 2015. It was subsequently reformatted as three episodes and | Code of a Killer Code of a Killer Code of a Killer is a two-part British police drama television series which tells the true story of Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its introductory use by Detective David Baker in catching the double murderer Colin Pitchfork. Filming commenced in late September 2014, and the program aired on the ITV network, on 6 and 13 April 2015. Endemol Shine handled international distribution of the series. "The Blooding: The True Story of the Narborough Village Murders" (1989), written by Joseph Wambaugh, is a non-fiction account of this event. Set in 1984, DCS David Baker leads |
Henry Fleming is the narrator and hero of which 1894 war novel? | The Red Badge of Courage The Red Badge of Courage The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a "red badge of courage," to counteract his cowardice. When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts as standard-bearer, who carries a flag. Although Crane was born after the war, and had not at the time experienced battle first-hand, the novel is known | Death of a Hero than for me to say what I don't believe. Death of a Hero Death of a Hero is a World War I novel by Richard Aldington. It was his first novel, published by Chatto & Windus in 1929, and thought to be partly autobiographical. "Death of a Hero" is the story of a young English artist named George Winterbourne who enlists in the army at the beginning of World War I. The book is narrated by an unnamed first-person narrator who claims to have known and served with the main character. It is divided into three parts. The first part |
Which vegetable has the Latin name Apium graveolens? | Apium Apium Apium (including celery and the marshworts) is a genus of about 20 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, with a subcosmopolitan distribution in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Australia. They are medium to tall biennials or perennials growing up to 1 m high in the wet soil of marshes and salt marshes, and have pinnate to bipinnate leaves and small white flowers in compound umbels. Some species are edible, notably "Apium graveolens", which includes the commercially important vegetables celery, celeriac and Chinese celery. "Apium bermejoi" from the island of Menorca is one of the rarest plants | Psilocybe graveolens Psilocybe graveolens Psilocybe graveolens is an extremely rare psilocybin mushroom which has psilocybin and psilocin as main active compounds, discovered in the salt marshes or "meadows" of Hackensack, New Jersey. This mushroom is known for its strong and persistent odor. It is in the section "Zapotecorum" of the genus "Psilocybe", other members of this section include "Psilocybe muliercula", "Psilocybe angustipleurocystidiata", "Psilocybe aucklandii", "Psilocybe collybioides", "Psilocybe kumaenorum", "Psilocybe zapotecorum", "Psilocybe pintonii", "Psilocybe subcaerulipes", "Psilocybe moseri", "Psilocybe zapotecoantillarum", "Psilocybe zapotecocaribaea", and "Psilocybe antioquiensis". The species name means “strongly smelling”: Latin gravis “heavy” and olens participle present of olere “smell”. "Psilocybe graveolens" is |
Her best known creation was played by George Baker on TV, she died on the 2nd May 2015 aged 85 - who was she? | George Baker (actor) George Baker (actor) George Morris Baker, MBE (1 April 19317 October 2011) was an English actor and writer. He was best known for portraying Tiberius in "I, Claudius", and Inspector Wexford in "The Ruth Rendell Mysteries". Baker was born in Varna, Bulgaria. His father was an English businessman and honorary vice consul and his mother a Red Cross nurse who moved to Bulgaria to help fight cholera. He attended Lancing College, Sussex; he then appeared as an actor in repertory theatre and at the Old Vic. Baker's third wife, Louie Ramsay, who died earlier in 2011, played his onscreen wife | She Was Pretty below, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings. A Turkish remake of the drama, titled "Seviyor Sevmiyor" was aired in 2016 on ATV (Turkey). A Chinese remake of the drama, titled "Pretty Li Hui Zhen" started airing on Hunan TV in 2017. A Tamil remake of the drama, titled Kannum Kannum Kollaiyadithal started aring on Vasantham TV. She Was Pretty She Was Pretty () is a 2015 South Korean television series starring Hwang Jung-eum, Park Seo-joon, Go Joon-hee and Choi Si-won. It aired on MBC from September 16 to November 11, 2015, |
"Who composed the orchestral march ""Crown Imperial"", it was used for the coronation of King George VI in 1937?" | Crown Imperial (march) Crown Imperial (march) Crown Imperial is an orchestral march by the English composer William Walton. Walton derived the march's title from the line "In beawtie berying the crone imperiall" from William Dunbar's poem "In Honour of the City of London". The march was first performed at the coronation of King George VI in 1937 and was substantially revised in 1953. Walton originally composed the march for performance at the coronation of King Edward VIII, scheduled for 12 May 1937, but Edward abdicated in 1936. The coronation was held on the scheduled day, with Edward's brother being crowned instead. "Crown Imperial" | King George VI Coronation Medal a total number to be produced, then allocated a proportion to each of the Commonwealth countries and Crown dependencies and possessions. The award of the medals was then at the discretion of the local government authority, who were free to decide who would be awarded a medal and why. A total of 90,279 medals were awarded, including: King George VI Coronation Medal The King George VI Coronation Medal was a commemorative medal, instituted to celebrate the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. This medal was awarded as a personal souvenir of King George VI's coronation. It was awarded |
Which Ex Chief Secretary to the Treasury (2010 - 2015) was defeated by Drew Hendry of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the General Election in May 2015? | Danny Alexander Danny Alexander Sir Daniel Grian Alexander (born 15 May 1972) is a Scottish former Liberal Democrat politician who was Chief Secretary to the Treasury between 2010 and 2015. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey constituency from 2005 until the general election in May 2015, when he was defeated by Drew Hendry of the Scottish National Party (SNP). He is currently serving as vice president and corporate secretary at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. In his first parliamentary term (2005–2010), Alexander was the Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary for Work and Pensions, the chief | Drew Hendry Drew Hendry Andrew Egan Henderson Hendry (born 21 May 1964), known as Drew Hendry, is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey since 2015. He was a councillor in Highland from 2007–15 and was Council Leader from 2012−15. He is the SNP Transport spokesperson in the House of Commons. He grew up in Edinburgh. Although as a teenager he was too young to vote in the Scottish referendum of 1979 he feels this sparked his interest in politics and representation. He worked for Electrolux. He lived and worked in |
"Released in 1976, on which album would you find the songs, ""Life in the Fast Lane"", ""New Kid in Town"" and ""Wasted Time""?" | Life in the Fast Lane Life in the Fast Lane "Life in the Fast Lane" is a song written by Joe Walsh, Glenn Frey and Don Henley and recorded by the American rock band the Eagles on their 1976 studio album "Hotel California". It was the third single released from this album, and peaked at No. 11 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The song tells the story of a couple that takes their excessive lifestyle to the edge. On "In the Studio with Redbeard", Glenn Frey revealed that the title came to him one day when he was riding on the freeway with a drug | Life in the Fast Lane Henley, and Walsh are credited in the "lyrics by" portion of the liner notes. Rascal Flatts and Carrie Underwood sang the song at the 2007 Grammy Awards. The song was used as the soundtrack for the roller coaster The Eagles' Life In The Fast Lane, opened at Hard Rock Park in May 2008. The country music group Williams Riley released their version of the song to country radio on August 23, 2010. The super group Metal Allegiance released a version of the song with vocals by Alissa White-Gluz. Life in the Fast Lane "Life in the Fast Lane" is a |
Which shipping forecast area lies immediately east of Fair Isle? | Shipping Forecast August 2017 was the 150th anniversary of the shipping forecast. The 31 sea areas covering the waters around the British Isles are as defined by the map shown here: The areas were already roughly as listed above by 1949. In 1955, meteorologists from countries with North Sea coastlines met and recommended that the UK's sea area 'Heligoland' be renamed 'German Bight' to reflect more general usage amongst the nations concerned. They also recommended the divisions of 'Dogger' (with the north-eastern portion to be named 'Fisher') and 'Forties' (with the northern half becoming 'Viking'), and the renaming of 'Iceland' as 'South-east | Shipping Forecast in Rockall, Malin, Hebrides, Bailey, and Fair Isle"). This sometimes follows the opposite format (e.g., "There are warnings of gales in all areas except Biscay, Trafalgar and FitzRoy"). The "General Synopsis" follows, giving the position, pressure (in millibars) and track of pressure areas (e.g., "Low, Rockall, 987, deepening rapidly, expected Fair Isle 964 by 0700 tomorrow"). Each area's forecast is then read out. Several areas may be combined into a single forecast where the conditions are expected to be similar. Wind direction is given first, then strength (on the Beaufort scale), followed by precipitation, if any, and (usually) lastly visibility. |
What is the main ingredient of Coulibiac, a type of Russian pie? | Coulibiac Coulibiac A coulibiac (from ) is a type of Russian pirog usually filled with salmon or sturgeon, rice or buckwheat, hard-boiled eggs, mushrooms, onions, and dill. The pie is baked in a pastry shell, usually of brioche or puff pastry. The dish was so popular in Russia in the early part of the 20th century that Auguste Escoffier, the famed French chef, brought it to France and included recipes for it in his masterwork, "The Complete Guide to the Art of Modern Cookery". A classic grand coulibiac features several fillings, often a mixture of some white fish and rice for | Coulibiac the top and bottom layers with fillets of sturgeon or salmon between. The most unusual ingredient commonly included in the grand version of the dish is vesiga, the spinal marrow of the sturgeon. Coulibiac is also made with simpler, vegetarian fillings like cabbage or potatoes. Coulibiac A coulibiac (from ) is a type of Russian pirog usually filled with salmon or sturgeon, rice or buckwheat, hard-boiled eggs, mushrooms, onions, and dill. The pie is baked in a pastry shell, usually of brioche or puff pastry. The dish was so popular in Russia in the early part of the 20th century |
Who makes the car models called Legend and Prelude? | Honda Prelude considerably more aerodynamic and with large glass surfaces. As with the predecessor, it was amply equipped, with an air of "mini-gran turismo" rather than that of a sports car. It also offered, as an option, Honda's new "A.L.B." anti-lock brakes. In Japan, the Prelude was one of the key models sold at Japanese Honda dealership sales channels, called "Honda Verno", which offered performance-oriented products. All "Honda Verno" products, like the Vigor, initially shared the concealed headlights introduced with this generation Prelude that would help identify "sports" products from Honda in Japan however, the approach was short-lived. The model with the | Honda Prelude Canada, the Si was called the SR, and the VTEC was called the SR-V. Due to the width dimensions and the engine displacement exceeding Japanese government regulations for vehicles classified as "compact", this generation Prelude obligated Japanese owners to yearly taxes, and the Prelude became known as a luxury car in Japan as a result. This model also marked the end for the pop-up headlights. The 1992 Prelude incorporated other design features that had also become the "Prelude standard". The rear end was rounded and fairly high in comparison to the previous square trunk line. The front fascia of the |
Who wrote the plays “Nuts in May” and “Abigail’s Party”? | Nuts in May Bob Mortimer chose the film to end "At Home with Vic and Bob" (1993), which was an evening of programmes scheduled by the duo. Nuts in May Nuts in May is a television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, filmed in March 1975, and originally broadcast as part of the BBC's "Play for Today" series on 13 January 1976. It is the comical story of a nature-loving and rather self-righteous couple's exhausting battle to enjoy what they perceive to be the idyllic camping holiday. Misunderstandings, awkward clashes of values and explosive conflicts occur when less high-minded guests pitch their | Nuts in May (film) Nuts in May (film) Nuts in May (1917) is a silent comedy short, directed by Robin Williamson, produced by Isadore Bernstein, and featuring Stan Laurel, billed as Stan Jefferson, in his onscreen debut. The short was filmed at Bernstein Studios, in Hollywood, California. Very little of the film survives (a little over 60 seconds). Stan plays a resident of "Home for the Weak-Minded", apparently a lunatic asylum. Stan's particular delusion is that he thinks he's Napoleon. Stan walks the grounds of the cuckoo-hatch sticking his right hand into his shirt and wearing a Napoleon hat. He thinks he's Napoleon, but |
Who was Sepp Blatter's opponent for the job of FIFA President on 29th June 2015? | 2016 FIFA Extraordinary Congress 2016 FIFA Extraordinary Congress The 2016 FIFA Extraordinary Congress was held at the Hallenstadion in Zürich, Switzerland, on 26 February 2016. This special session of the FIFA Congress, called as a result of the 2015 FIFA corruption case, included the passage of a major statutory reforms proposal as well as the election of Gianni Infantino to replace Sepp Blatter as the President of FIFA. Amid a major corruption scandal at FIFA, incumbent Sepp Blatter was re-elected to a fifth term as FIFA President during the 65th FIFA Congress on 29 May 2015, defeating Prince Ali bin Hussein of Jordan. On | Sepp Blatter Sepp Blatter Joseph "Sepp" Blatter (born 10 March 1936) is a Swiss football administrator who was the eighth President of the FIFA (French: "Fédération Internationale de Football Association") from 1998 to 2015. He is currently serving a six-year ban from participating in FIFA activities. From a background in business, public relations, and sports administration, Blatter became general secretary of FIFA in 1981 and was then elected president at the 51st FIFA Congress on 8 June 1998, succeeding João Havelange, who had headed the organization since 1974. Blatter was reelected in 2002, 2007, 2011, and 2015. Like his predecessor Havelange, Blatter |
What links the ship Dr Crippen was caught on in 1910 and a coastal resort town in Scotland? | Hawley Harvey Crippen Inspector Dew from Scotland Yard." After a pause, Crippen replied, "Thank God it's over. The suspense has been too great. I couldn't stand it any longer." He then held out his wrists for the handcuffs. Crippen and Le Neve were arrested on board the "Montrose" on 31 July 1910. Crippen was returned to England on board the . The Crippen murder was featured in a popular song: <poem> Dr Crippen killed Belle Elmore Ran away with Miss le Neve Right across the ocean blue Followed by Inspector Dew Ship's ahoy, naughty boy! </poem> The pathologists appearing for the prosecution, including | Dr. Crippen (1962 film) Dr. Crippen (1962 film) Dr. Crippen is a 1962 British biographical film directed by Robert Lynn and starring Donald Pleasence, Coral Browne and Samantha Eggar. The film's plot concerns the real-life Edwardian doctor Hawley Harvey Crippen, who was hanged in 1910 for the murder of his wife. The cinematography was provided by Nicolas Roeg. The film ostensibly covers Crippen’s trial but the story is fleshed out with flashbacks to the doctor’s relationship with his coarse, overbearing wife and his affair with a young mistress. Bosley Crowther in "The New York Times" wrote, "well, one must give good scores to Mr. |
The Lemur is native to where? | Eastern woolly lemur meridionalis" are the brown mouse lemur ("Microcebus rufus"), the greater dwarf lemur ("Cheirogaleus major"), the fat-tailed dwarf lemur ("Cheirogaleus medius") and the collared brown lemur ("Eulemur collaris") in Sainte Luce Forest, and the southern lesser bamboo lemur ("Hapalemur meridionalis") in Mandena Forest. Eastern woolly lemur The eastern woolly lemur ("Avahi laniger"), also known as the eastern avahi or Gmelin's woolly lemur, is a species of woolly lemur native to eastern Madagascar, where it lives in the wet tropical rainforest at low elevations along the eastern coast of the island or they can also inhabit the northern tip of the island | Ptilocnemus lemur fluids. Ptilocnemus lemur Ptilocnemus lemur is a species of feather-legged bug in the family Reduviidae native to Australia. Commonly known as the feather-legged assassin bug, it is a predator with a specialized gland called a trichome that it uses to attract and paralyse ants before feeding on them. "Ptilocnemus lemur" is a moderate sized assassin bug. It has a small head with a pair of feathery antennae with three segments, and a large down-curving proboscis, a wide thorax and a moderately broad abdomen. The wings have three veins. The hind pair of legs are much larger than the other two |
"Who makes the car models ""Jetta"" and ""Passat""?" | Volkswagen Passat (B6) Volkswagen Passat (B6) The Volkswagen Passat (B6 & B7) is a front-engine D-segment large family car manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen from 2005-2010 (B6) and from 2010-2015 (B7, facelift). Respectively the six and seventh generation Passat, and internally designated "B6" and "B7", they were marketed in sedan and wagon body styles in front-wheel as well as all-wheel drive configurations, with a range of petrol and diesel engines. The B6 debuted at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2005, and launched in Europe in the summer of 2005, using a long-wheelbase version of the fifth-generation Golf and Jetta, along with a | Kurt Jetta Kurt Jetta Kurt Jetta (born 21 July 1961) is a consumer researcher who studies data about multinational corporations through his firm, TABS Analytics, which is based in Shelton, Connecticut. The corporations Jetta has analyzed include Amazon, Family Dollar, Dollar Tree, Walmart, Apple, Kmart, JcPenney, and Sears. In addition, Jetta has also studied the organic food industry, the vitamin industry, and the online grocery industry. Other investigations led by Jetta include sociological research that pertains to the purchasing habits of various ethnic groups. In the area of trade promotion, Jetta has developed an alternative methodology to current industry baseline models. Jetta |
"""Prince of Wales"", ""Gunpowder"" and ""Russian Caravan"" are all types of what?" | Russian Caravan for the greater expense and difficulty of its carriage by this route. Anecdotal evidence had it that during the camel caravan journeys, the teas took on the smoky taste of the campfires. Only the lapsang souchong (if present) in the blend, however, is actually smoke-dried. Some blends use yunnan black tea, together with keemun and lapsang souchong to achieve full bodied, strong copper colored, smokey, and heavy flavored tea with a smooth and mellow aftertaste. Russian Caravan Russian Caravan is a blend of oolong, keemun, and lapsang souchong teas, all produced from "Camellia sinensis" the Chinese tea plant. It is | Prince of Wales (cocktail) Maraschino and pineapple playing off each other and the bubbly tying it all together." According to André Dominé, Prince of Wales has bitter, sweet, and sour in perfect harmony. Prince of Wales (cocktail) Prince of Wales is a cocktail composed by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, later to be King Edward VII. There are several variations of the cocktail, but what they usually have in common is champagne, angostura bitters on sugar, either rye whiskey or cognac, and a liqueur. Anonymous biography of King Edward, "The Private Life of King Edward VII", credits the drink to Prince himself. The cocktail |
Which fruit has the Latin name Rubus fruiticosis? | Rubus armeniacus fruit production. The cultivars "Himalayan Giant" and "Theodore Reimers" are particularly commonly planted. "Rubus armeniacus" soon escaped from cultivation and has become an invasive species in most of the temperate world. Because it is so hard to contain, it quickly got out of control, with birds and other animals eating the fruit and then spreading the seeds. Rubus armeniacus Rubus armeniacus, the Himalayan blackberry or Armenian blackberry, is a species of "Rubus" in the blackberry group "Rubus" subgenus "Rubus" series "Discolores" (P.J. Müll.) Focke. It is native to Armenia and Northern Iran, and widely naturalised elsewhere. Both its scientific name | Rubus parviflorus among the largest of any "Rubus" species, making its Latin species name "parviflorus" ("small-flowered") a misnomer. The plant produces edible composite fruit approximately a centimeter (0.4 inches) in diameter, which ripen to a bright red in mid to late summer. Like other raspberries it is not a true berry, but instead an aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets around a central core. The drupelets may be carefully removed separately from the core when picked, leaving a hollow fruit which bears a resemblance to a thimble, perhaps giving the plant its name. Thimbleberry fruits are smaller, flatter, and softer than raspberries, and |
Peter Kay and Sian Gibson star in which BBC sitcom about two supermarket employees who are forced to commute together? | Sian Gibson In January 2018 she appeared in an episode of "Inside No. 9" and "Death in Paradise". Sian Gibson is married to Ian Gibson, a gasfitter. They have one child. Sian Gibson Siân Gibson (née Foulkes, born 15 July 1976) is a Welsh stand-up comic, actress, impressionist and writer, known for her collaborations with Peter Kay, including starring in and co-writing the comedy series "Peter Kay's Car Share", for which she won the 2016 BAFTA TV Award for Best Scripted Comedy and the National Television Award for Best Comedy. Gibson was born and raised in Mold, Wales. Her father was a | Peter Kay With his public profile raised, in 2000, he co-wrote and starred in "That Peter Kay Thing" for Channel 4. This resulted in a spin-off sitcom, "Phoenix Nights", which ran for two series from 2001-02, and in turn generated another spin-off, "Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere", in 2004. In 2005, he recorded a promotional video in which he mimed to Tony Christie's 1971 hit "Is This the Way to Amarillo", which was re-released in aid of the Children In Need charity and credited to "Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay". The song reached #1 in the UK Singles Chart, remained at |
Jean Nidetch who died on 29th April 2015 was the founder of which organisation? | Jean Nidetch Jean Nidetch Jean Evelyn Nidetch (née Slutsky, October 12, 1923 – April 29, 2015) was an American business entrepreneur who was the founder of the Weight Watchers organization. Nidetch was born to an American Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, to David Slutsky, a cab driver, and Mae Slutsky, a manicurist. A graduate of Girls' High School, Nidetch received a partial scholarship to Long Island University but was unable to attend due to a lack of financial resources. Instead, she enrolled in a business course at City College of New York. When her father died in 1942, Nidetch dropped out | Jean Nidetch and started working. Nidetch's first job was at the Mullin Furniture Company in Jamaica, New York. She later worked for Man O'War Publishing Company and the Internal Revenue Service. Nidetch met her husband at the IRS. An overweight housewife with a self-confessed obsession for eating cookies, Nidetch had experimented with numerous fad diets before she followed a regimen prescribed by a diet clinic sponsored by the New York City Board of Health in 1961. After losing 20 pounds (9.07 kg), and finding her resolve weakening, she contacted several overweight friends and founded a support group which developed into weekly classes, |
"Who composed the ""War Requiem"" for the opening of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962?" | Coventry Cathedral for the new Coventry Cathedral provides an element of unity between the buildings. The foundation stone of the new cathedral was laid by Elizabeth II on 23 March 1956. The unconventional spire (known as a "flèche") is tall and was lowered onto the flat roof by a helicopter, flown by Wing Commander John Dowling in April 1962. The cathedral was consecrated on 25 May 1962, and Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem", composed for the occasion, was premiered in the new cathedral on 30 May to mark its consecration. Coventry's modernist design caused much discussion, but on opening to the public it | Coventry Cathedral and presented to Coventry Cathedral by the ship's Captain and colleagues. The cross was subsequently presented first to the next in 1988 until she was decommissioned in 2002, and then to , which is affiliated to Coventry, during her commissioning ceremony on 6 May 2011 by Captain David Hart-Dyke, the commanding officer of "Coventry" when she was sunk. BBC broadcast a documentary in 1962 entitled "Act of Faith", narrated by Leo Genn, detailed the history of Coventry Cathedral, its destruction and rebuilding. The precentor of the new Coventry Cathedral at the opening service was Joseph Poole. The service was televised |
Which European Country's flag is an upside-down version of Monaco's flag? | Flag of Utrecht (province) flag to represent the province. Flag of Utrecht (province) The flag of Utrecht () has been in use since 1952. It consists of two horizontal stripes of equal width, the upper one white and the lower one red. Similar to the flag of Poland or an upside-down flag of Monaco. In the top left corner of the flag there is a red square with a white cross. The flag originates from two other flags, one part of the Archdiocese of Utrecht, and the other of the (territorial) Archbishopric of Utrecht. In 1951 the province was advised by the Hoge Raad | Flag of Monaco white field. Flag of Monaco The national flag of Monaco () has two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and white, both of which have been the heraldic colors of the House of Grimaldi since at least 1339. The present bicolor design was adopted on April 4, 1881, under Prince Charles III. Monaco's original flag, which was similar to its current state flag but bore an older version of its coat of arms, was in use from the principality's early days (except during its annexation to France from 1793 to 1814) until the present, simpler design was adopted in 1881. |
In the recent general election, who lost his seat to conservative Andrea Jenkins at Morley and Outwood? | Morley and Outwood (UK Parliament constituency) Normanton constituency. At the same time, the Leeds suburb of Middleton was transferred to Leeds Central. The remainder of the former Normanton constituency was divided between the Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford constituency and the Wakefield constituency. At the 2010 general election, Morley and Outwood was won by Ed Balls of the Labour Party, who had been MP for Normanton since 2005, and served as Labour's Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2011 to 2015. Balls narrowly lost the seat at the 2015 general election to the Conservative Party candidate Andrea Jenkyns which was described by Larry Elliott of "The Guardian" | Morley and Outwood (UK Parliament constituency) rapid population increase in other regions. The constituency comprises the following electoral wards: In the September 2016 Boundary Commission constituency proposals, this seat is set to disappear and its territory split between two new constituencies; Batley and Morley, & Normanton, Castleford and Outwood. The 2017 snap election saw the Green Party stand aside in the Morley and Outwood constituency following discussions with the Labour candidate, in an attempt to prevent a victory for the Conservative candidate. However, Andrea Jenkyns retained the seat for the Conservatives with an increased majority. Morley and Outwood (UK Parliament constituency) Morley and Outwood is a |
In which Scottish city is Dalcross Airport? | Dalcross, Highland between Aberdeen and Inverurie and similar work to Dalcross at Kintore. Dalcross railway station, which closed in 1965, is due to be re-opened between 2014 and 2019. Dalcross, Highland Dalcross, in the original Gaelic, Dealgan Cros, later shortened to Dealgros, is a location in the Highland region of Scotland. It is on the Moray Firth about 10 km (6 miles) east-north-east of Inverness and contains Inverness Airport, Dalcross industrial estate, Dalcross Castle and Dalcross Forest. On 16 October 2015, the principle contractor for the forthcoming modernisation of the Inverness-Aberdeen line was announced. Included in the project is infrastructure that will | Bălți City Airport Bălți City Airport Bălți City Airport (""Aeroportul Bălți-Oraș"" in Romanian, ""Аэропорт Бельцы-Город"" in Russian) is one of two airports in Bălți, Moldova. Contrary to the Bălți Airport, which occasionally operates international flights, Bălți City is a regional airport. Bălți City airport is located in the very city of Bălți, at its Eastern fringe (district "Autogara"). This airport is easily and quickly reachable with the trolleybus line 1, ten minutes from the city centre. Bălți City airport and its heliport serve primarily for local destinations in neighbouring districts of Moldova. The airplanes and helicopters based at Bălți City airport are mostly |
"Released in 1977, on which album would you find the songs ""Go Your Own Way"", ""Dreams"" and ""Never Going Back Again""?" | Never Going Back Again Never Going Back Again "Never Going Back Again" is a song written by Lindsey Buckingham that was first released by Fleetwood Mac on their eleventh studio album "Rumours" (1977). It was also released as the B-side to the Top Ten single "Don't Stop" in the US and of the "You Make Loving Fun" single in the UK. It was also the B-side of "Dreams" in the Netherlands. It has been covered by other artists, including Colin Reid and Matchbox Twenty. Music historian George Case described "Never Going Back Again" as a "gorgeous" song with "bubbly SoCal philosophies about relationships." It | Go Your Own Way can realize where you are – and that's what that deejay was confused about. Fleetwood on the other hand blamed his drumming: "Go Your Own Way"s rhythm was a tom-tom structure that Lindsey demoed by hitting Kleenex boxes or something...I never quite got to grips with what he wanted, so the end result was my mutated interpretation. It became a major part of the song, a completely back-to-front approach that came, I'm ashamed to say, from capitalizing on my own ineptness. Despite this, Fleetwood has declared "Go Your Own Way" as one of his favorite songs to play, and cherishes |
Alfred Harmsworth founded which newspaper in 1903, as a newspaper for women, run by women? | Daily Mirror it or any other daily (non-Sunday) British newspaper since. The "Mirror" was owned by Robert Maxwell between 1984 and 1991. The paper went through a protracted period of crisis after his death before merging with the regional newspaper group Trinity in 1999 to form Trinity Mirror. During the 1930s the paper was editorially sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists. The paper has consistently supported the Labour Party since the 1945 general election. "The Daily Mirror" was launched on 2 November 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) as a newspaper for women, run by women. Hence | Votes for Women (newspaper) Votes for Women (newspaper) Votes for Women was a newspaper associated with the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. Until 1912, it was the official newspaper of the Women's Social and Political Union, the leading suffragette organisation. Subsequently, it continued with a smaller circulation, at first independently, and then as the publication of the United Suffragists. The newspaper was founded in October 1907 by Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence. The couple became joint editors of the newspaper, which was published by the St Clement's Press. It was adopted as the official newspaper of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), |
Actress Wanda Ventham is the mother of which famous actor? | Wanda Ventham couple appeared together in the second series of BBC drama "The Lotus Eaters" in 1973, and in the third and fourth series of BBC's "Sherlock" in 2014 and 2017, where they played the title character's parents. Their son, actor Benedict Cumberbatch, played Sherlock. Wanda Ventham Wanda Ventham (born 5 August 1935) is an English actress, known primarily for her role as Colonel Virginia Lake in the 1970s science-fiction television series "UFO", and for her recurring role as Cassandra Trotter's mother Pamela Parry in the sitcom "Only Fools and Horses" from 1989–92. She also appeared in two episodes of "The Saint" | Wanda Ventham Wanda Ventham Wanda Ventham (born 5 August 1935) is an English actress, known primarily for her role as Colonel Virginia Lake in the 1970s science-fiction television series "UFO", and for her recurring role as Cassandra Trotter's mother Pamela Parry in the sitcom "Only Fools and Horses" from 1989–92. She also appeared in two episodes of "The Saint" alongside Roger Moore. In April 2014, "People" magazine featured her in its "Most Beautiful People in the World" edition. Ventham was born in Brighton, the daughter of Gladys Frances (née Holtham) and Frederick Howard Ventham. Originally aspiring to become an artist, she attended |
In the 2015 Cricket Test Series between England and New Zealand, which batsman scored the first century? | New Zealand cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2015 Kane Williamson. New Zealand won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20I series 1–0. New Zealand's Mitchell Santner was ruled out of the tour after fracturing his thumb. He was replaced by George Worker. Ross Taylor was injured in training the day before the 3rd ODI and was ruled out of the rest of the tour. New Zealand cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2015 The New Zealand cricket team toured Zimbabwe between 2 and 9 August 2015. The tour consisted of three One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). For the first ODI, New Zealand played under | New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015 New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015 The New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs for the first time in |
"Who wrote the ""Sword of Honour"" trilogy of novels?" | Sword of Honour is a resigned rather than an idealistic Guy who goes to Yugoslavia, and it is made clear that the future belongs not to idealism but to the cynical Trimmer or the empty American Padfield. The reader is never quite sure whether it is that Guy is powerless to resist the world's decline from a Golden Age of chivalry or whether the Golden Age was a romantic illusion. There have been five dramatisations of "Sword of Honour" for television and radio: Sword of Honour The Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh consists of three novels, "Men at Arms" (1952), "Officers | The Sword of Shannara Trilogy The Sword of Shannara Trilogy The Sword of Shannara Trilogy consists of the first three "Shannara" novels ("The Sword of Shannara", "The Elfstones of Shannara" and "The Wishsong of Shannara") by Terry Brooks. Though not originally written as a trilogy, the novels were published as "The Sword of Shannara Trilogy" by Del Rey Books. The first novel of "The Original Shannara Trilogy" chronicles the adventures of the brothers Shea and Flick Ohmsford in their quest to retrieve the Sword of Shannara to defeat the Warlock Lord who threatens the Four Lands. The second novel of "The Original Shannara Trilogy" follows |
What is the plural of Opus? | Opus number word "Opus" is used to describe the best work of an artist with the term "magnum opus". Etymologically, the words "opus" (singular) and "opera" (plural) are related to the Latin words "opera" (singular) and "operae" (plural), the ancestor of the Italian words "opera" (singular) and "opere" (plural). In English usage, besides the word "opus", the word "opera" occasionally was used to identify a musical work. In contemporary usage, however, the word "opera" specifically denotes the dramatic musical genre of opera or ballet, which were developed in Italy. In the arts, an opus number usually denotes a work of musical composition, | Opus the Penguin Opus the Penguin Opus the Penguin (Opus T. Penguin) is a fictional character created by artist Berkeley Breathed. Breathed has described him as an "existentialist penguin" and the favorite of his many characters. Opus has appeared in several of Breathed's creations, most notably his 1980s comic strip "Bloom County". Breathed also included Opus in the sequel strip to "Bloom County", "Outland", and later made him the star of his own self-titled strip. Opus was originally introduced in June, 1981, as a one-time gag about hapless Mike Binkley bringing home what he thought was a German Shepherd, which turned out to |
What was the surname of the wartime British agent known as 'Odette'? | Odette Hallowes Odette Hallowes Odette Sansom Hallowes (28 April 1912 – 13 March 1995), also known as Odette Sansom and Odette Churchill, was an Allied intelligence officer during the Second World War. Her wartime exploits and endurance of a brutal interrogation and imprisonment, which were chronicled in books and a motion picture, made her one of the most celebrated members of the Special Operations Executive, the British sabotage and espionage organisation, and one of the few to survive Nazi imprisonment. She was the first woman to be awarded both the George Cross, and to be appointed a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. | Odette (1950 film) Odette (1950 film) Odette is a 1950 British war film based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück trials. She was awarded the George Cross in 1946; the first woman ever to receive the award, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. Anna Neagle plays Odette Sansom and Trevor Howard plays Peter |
Which US city lies closest to the same latitude as Cairo? | Cairo, Illinois district has one elementary school, Emerson Elementary School. Middle and high school students attend Cairo Junior/Senior High School. Bennett Elementary School closed in 2010. Amtrak service to Cairo ended on October 25, 1987 when the "City of New Orleans" began bypassing the city. The nearest stops are Carbondale, Illinois, [] to the north, and Fulton, Kentucky []. Major highways include: Cairo's location on a spit of land that lies between the Mississippi and Ohio rivers made overlapping US 60 and 62 briefly through Illinois more practical than directly connecting Missouri and Kentucky. The closest airports with regular service are Barkley | Cairo the older parts of the city. Old Cairo, located south of the centre, holds the remnants of Fustat and the heart of Egypt's Coptic Christian community, Coptic Cairo. The Boulaq district, which lies in the northern part of the city, was born out of a major 16th-century port and is now a major industrial centre. The Citadel is located east of the city centre around Islamic Cairo, which dates back to the Fatimid era and the foundation of Cairo. While western Cairo is dominated by wide boulevards, open spaces, and modern architecture of European influence, the eastern half, having grown |
In which year did Freddie Mercury die of AIDS? | The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness was a benefit concert held on Easter Monday, 20 April 1992 at Wembley Stadium in London, England for an audience of 72,000. The concert was produced for television by Ray Burdis and broadcast live on television and radio to 76 countries around the world, with an audience of up to one billion. The concert was a tribute to Queen's lead vocalist, Freddie Mercury, who died of complications related to AIDS on November 24, 1991. The show marked bassist John Deacon's final full-length concert with Queen (save a | Freddie Mercury heroes", alongside England's 1966 FIFA World Cup winning captain Bobby Moore, children's author Roald Dahl, novelist Jane Austen, pioneering pilot Amy Johnson, and aviation entrepreneur Sir Freddie Laker. As the first major rock star to die of AIDS, Mercury's death represented an important event in the history of the disease. In April 1992, the remaining members of Queen founded The Mercury Phoenix Trust and organised "The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness", to celebrate the life and legacy of Mercury and raise money for AIDS research, which took place on 20 April 1992. The Mercury Phoenix Trust has since |
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