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You’re Driving Me Crazy by the Temperance Seven was, in May 1961, the first Number One single for which record producer? | The Temperance Seven Martin. It was featured on Parlophone PMC 1131, a 12-inch album called Peter and Sophia (Loren). In 1961 the Temperance Seven achieved national fame with the #1 hit "You're Driving Me Crazy", arranged by Frank Skinner and produced by George Martin. It was quickly followed by "Pasadena", which reached No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart. They toured the UK widely that year, often in shows promoted by their manager Ralph Peters and their performances acquired a set routine beginning with the last few bars of "Pasadena" (which became their signature tune) and ending with the stirring strains of the | You're Driving Me Crazy who have recorded the song include Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Mel Tormé, Della Reese, Betty Carter, Django Reinhardt, Peggy Lee, and Lester Young. A version by The Temperance Seven made number one in the UK Singles chart in 1961. The song has also been performed in the movies including: A cover version by The Temperance Seven, described as an art school band "who were retro before most of pop was even original," was recorded in 1961, reaching number 1 on the UK Singles Chart that May. Their version is a pastiche on |
Which French footballer, currently at Manchester United, won the Golden Boy Award, for the best Under 21 player in Europe in 2015? | Anthony Martial Anthony Martial Anthony Joran Martial (; born 5 December 1995) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Manchester United and the France national team. He was the recipient of the 2015 Golden Boy Award for the best under-21 player in Europe. Playing youth football for Les Ulis, he began his professional career at Lyon, then transferred to AS Monaco in 2013 for a fee of €6 million. He was a member of Monaco's squad for two seasons, and signed for Manchester United in 2015 for an initial fee of £36 million which could | Golden Boy (award) and "The Times" (United Kingdom). Each juror is allowed to nominate five players, the juror will allocate 10 points to the player that they perceive as the most impressive, 7 for second, 5 third, 3 fourth, and 1 point for fifth most impressive. Year in bold have shared the win with other clubs. Golden Boy (award) The Golden Boy is an award that is given by sports journalists to a young footballer playing in Europe perceived to have been the most impressive during a calendar year (two halves to two separate seasons). All nominees must be under the age of |
Which newspaper published by Trinity Mirror, launched on February 29th this year, closed on May 6th? | The New Day (newspaper) The New Day (newspaper) The New Day was a British compact daily newspaper published by Trinity Mirror, launched on 29 February 2016. It was mainly aimed at a middle-aged female audience, and was politically neutral. The editor, Alison Phillips, intended readers to get through the newspaper in under 30 minutes. The first edition was distributed as two million free copies, and the target for regular circulation was 200,000. After a drop in purchases to just 30,000 copies per day, it was announced on 4 May that the last edition would be published two days later, just two months after its | Sporting Life (British newspaper) 1998; a proposed relaunch was aborted in 1999. On 20 December 1996, before the newspaper arm closed, "Sporting Life" launched an online version of the paper, sportinglife.com. The site was run as a joint venture between Trinity Mirror and The Press Association until PA Sporting Life Ltd was sold to 365 Media Group (then known as ukbetting plc, now a division of British Sky Broadcasting) on 14 October 2001. In February 1998 the newspaper lost a High Court libel action with racehorse owners Jack and Linda Ramsden, as well as jockey Kieren Fallon. The newspaper closed down in May 1998 |
Which BBC TV comedy is set in Sparkhill, Birmingham, described as ‘the capital of British Pakistan’? | Sparkhill population of ethnic minorities, mainly of South Asian origin, which is reflected by the number of Asian eateries in the area. As a result, Sparkhill has become a main centre in the "Balti Triangle" of Birmingham. The BBC sitcom "Citizen Khan" focuses on the life of Mr Khan and his family, Pakistani immigrants in the Sparkhill area, which it dubbed "The capital of British Pakistan" in the credits. The first series was broadcast from August 2012 with a new series each year; currently up to series 5 in 2016. Sparkhill Sparkhill is an inner-city area of Birmingham, England, situated between | Sparkhill Library Sparkhill Library Sparkhill Library is a library located in Sparkhill. The Library falls under the jurisdiction of Birmingham City Council. In 2014 it was saved from being sold on the open market after local councillors made a plea for it to be offered for community use first. Sparkhill Police Station, which includes the West Midlands Police Museum is next door. Also next door to the library is the Sparkhill Pool which houses a pool alongside several other facilities. The large building currently houses a social/cultural centre in which events or daily lessons are held; however in more recent years a |
Which driver won the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix, the youngest ever winner of a Grand Prix? | 2016 Spanish Grand Prix One race, breaking the previous records held by Sebastian Vettel. In the process he also became the first Dutchman to win a Grand Prix and the first Grand Prix winner born in the 1990s. Both Mercedes drivers retired from the race following a collision with each other on the first lap, thus marking the first Mercedes double retirement since the 2011 Australian Grand Prix and the first time the team had not scored a point since the 2012 United States Grand Prix. Daniil Kvyat and Max Verstappen traded places ahead of the race. Verstappen joined Red Bull Racing while Kvyat | 2016 Spanish Grand Prix driver to win a race at 18 years and 228 days, he also was the youngest to stand on a Formula One podium, in both instances breaking Sebastian Vettel's record set at the 2008 Italian Grand Prix by more than two years. Vettel had been 21 years and 2 months at the time. Verstappen also became the youngest driver to lead at least one lap of a Grand Prix, again overcoming a record set by Vettel, at the 2007 Japanese Grand Prix. Verstappen also was the first driver born in the 1990s to win a Grand Prix. He received considerable |
Career of Evil is the third novel by Robert Galbraith to feature which detective? | Career of Evil Career of Evil Career of Evil is a 2015 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is the third novel in the "Cormoran Strike" series of detective novels and is followed by "Lethal White" in 2018. The story opens with an unidentified man secretly stalking Robin Ellacott, shortly after he has murdered another woman. He thinks of her as "The Secretary", and sees Robin as part of his plan to take revenge on Cormoran Strike, on whom he intends to "wreak havoc". Throughout the book the reader is regularly shown the viewpoint and | The Detective (novel) The Detective (novel) The Detective is a thriller/detective novel by author Roderick Thorp, first published hardcover in 1966. It was made into the 1968 movie of the same name, starring Frank Sinatra, as Detective Joe Leland. Billed as, "An adult look at police life," "The Detective" went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of 1968 and one of the strongest box-office hits of Sinatra's acting career. A 1979 sequel, "Nothing Lasts Forever", was later made into the 1988 film "Die Hard", which spawned a series totalling five films. Joe Leland, a private detective, begins investigating a case for |
HMY Victoria and Albert, the third of that name, served four sovereigns between 1901 and 1939. For what word does the Y stand? | HMY Victoria and Albert (1899) HMY Victoria and Albert (1899) HMY "Victoria and Albert" was a royal yacht of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. The yacht was designed by the Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy Sir William White, launched in 1899 and ready for service in 1901. This was the third yacht to be named "Victoria and Albert" and she was fitted with steam engines fired by Belleville water-tube boilers. She served four sovereigns, and was decommissioned as royal yacht in 1939, served in the Second World War, and was broken up in 1954. Queen Victoria had lobbied Parliament for many years | What Does the K Stand For? What Does the K Stand For? What Does the K Stand For? is a BBC Radio Four sitcom series based on the experiences of comedian Stephen K. Amos growing up as a teenager in south London in the 1980s. The broadcast of the first series began in November 2013; the third series commenced in January 2017. Reviewing Series 1, Episode 1 for "Radio Times", Tristram Fane Saunders found the show suited Amos "down to the ground; there's a touch of "Seinfeld" about "What Does the K Stand for?" in the way it flows from stand up into a deliciously awkward |
Which SI base unit is defined as ‘the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1 ⁄ 299792458 of a second’? | Speed of light This is one of the proposed changes to be incorporated in the next revision of the SI also termed the "New SI". Speed of light The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted , is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics. Its exact value is (approximately ). It is exact because by international agreement a metre is defined to be the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 second. According to special relativity, is the maximum speed at which all conventional matter and hence all known forms of | Unit of time Unit of time A unit of time or time unit is any particular time interval, used as a standard way of measuring or expressing duration. The base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), and by extension most of the Western world, is the second, defined as about 9 billion oscillations of the caesium atom. The exact modern definition, from the National Institute of Standards and Technology is: Historically units of time were defined by the movements of astronomical objects. These units do not have a consistent relationship with each other and require intercalation. For example, the |
On which Pacific island did Captain James Cook see the Transit of Venus in 1769? | 1769 Transit of Venus observed from Tahiti 1769 Transit of Venus observed from Tahiti On June 3, 1769, British navigator Captain James Cook, British naturalist Joseph Banks, British astronomer Charles Green and Swedish naturalist Daniel Solander recorded the transit of Venus on the island of Tahiti during Cook's first voyage around the world. During a transit, Venus appears as a small black disc travelling across the Sun. This unusual astronomical phenomenon takes place in a pattern that repeats itself every 243 years. It includes two transits that are eight years apart, separated by breaks of 121.5 and 105.5 years. These men, along with a crew of scientists, | First voyage of James Cook the voyage made by Captain Cook. One of the historians, Alexander Cook, documented the journey in his 2004 article "Sailing on "The Ship": Re-enactment and the Quest for Popular History". First voyage of James Cook The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS "Endeavour", from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which Cook was the commander. The aims of this first expedition were to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun (3–4 June of that year), and to |
The state of Qatar has a land border with only one other country. Which one? | Qatar Qatar Qatar (, , or ; ' ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar ( '), is a country located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Whether the sovereign state should be regarded as a constitutional or an absolute monarchy is disputed. Its sole land border is with neighboring Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) monarchy Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf. An arm of the Persian Gulf separates Qatar from the nearby Bahrain. In early 2017, Qatar's total | Hitler Has Only Got One Ball the second line from the Albert Hall to feature local buildings. Where Australian troops had served in North Africa, Rommel took the place of Göring in the second line. One variant reflects the respect in which Rommel was held by British soldiers during the war, describing him as having "four or five" balls. A common additional or third verses also contains lyrics that contain events that happen after the testicle has been cut off. The song has frequently been heard and seen in other media: Hitler Has Only Got One Ball "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" is a British |
Which insects are threatened by colony collapse disorder? | Colony collapse disorder Colony collapse disorder Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is the phenomenon that occurs when the majority of worker bees in a colony disappear and leave behind a queen, plenty of food and a few nurse bees to care for the remaining immature bees. While such disappearances have occurred throughout the history of apiculture, and were known by various names (disappearing disease, spring dwindle, May disease, autumn collapse, and fall dwindle disease), the syndrome was renamed colony collapse disorder in late 2006 in conjunction with a drastic rise in the number of disappearances of western honey bee ("Apis mellifera") colonies in North | Colony collapse disorder in the U.S. and a significant though somewhat gradual decline in the number of colonies maintained by beekeepers. This decline includes the cumulative losses from all factors, such as urbanization, pesticide use, tracheal and "Varroa" mites, and commercial beekeepers' retiring and going out of business. However, in late 2006 and early 2007, the rate of attrition was alleged to have reached new proportions, and people began to use the term "colony collapse disorder" to describe this sudden rash of disappearances (or sometimes "spontaneous hive collapse" or the "Mary Celeste syndrome" in the United Kingdom). Losses had remained stable since the |
Who succeeded Herman Van Rompuy as President of the European Council in 2014? | Euro summit takes place, the European Council President fulfils that role. In October 2011, the Eurozone head of states agreed to meet at least twice per year, as part of measures to improve governance of the Eurozone. Meetings were chaired by president Herman Van Rompuy from March 2010 to November 2014. Donald Tusk has been the Euro Summit president since December 1, 2014, and ends his term on May 31, 2017. The table below lists the date and summary reports of all previous Euro Summits. New procedure rules for "Euro summits" were adopted on 14 March 2013, regulating the Euro Summit shall | Herman Van Rompuy Herman Van Rompuy Herman Achille, Count Van Rompuy (, ; born 31 October 1947) is a Belgian politician, who formerly served as Prime Minister of Belgium and then as the first President of the European Council. A politician from Belgium's Christian Democratic and Flemish party, Van Rompuy served as the 49th prime minister of Belgium from 30 December 2008 until Yves Leterme (who was also his predecessor) succeeded him on 25 November 2009. On 19 November 2009 Van Rompuy was selected by the members of the European Council, which is the institution of the European Union (EU) comprising the heads |
The 1066 Country Walk and Normans Bay are in which traditional county? | 1066 Country Walk 1066 Country Walk The 1066 Country Walk is a waymarked long-distance footpath or recreational walk in southern England, United Kingdom. The 1066 Country Walk runs for . The route commemorates 1066, the year of the Battle of Hastings, and seeks to link the places and the people of that important year. It runs through East Sussex from Pevensey where William of Normandy gathered his invading army of Normans and prepared to meet King Harold to Rye, East Sussex, passing through Battle, East Sussex. The walk is mainly low level and passes through rolling countryside beside oast houses, windmills and parts | Asterix and the Normans given the Vikings in this volume. Indeed, the Norman chief tells the Gauls that they do not want to invade their country, but their descendants will do so, centuries later (they even briefly reference 1066). In the book, the Normans' heavy use of cream in recipes is a reference to stereotypes of the cuisine in Normandy. In the original French version, Justforkix is called "Goudurix" ("a taste for risks"), a name he lives up to only towards the end. In Finnish, the story is called "Asterix ja normannien maihinnousu" ("Asterix and the Landing of the Normans"). This is a reference |
Moon River and Days of Wine and Roses won Grammy Awards as Record of the Year in the early 1960s for which composer? | Grammy Award for Record of the Year Record of the Year are Henry Mancini ("Moon River", "Days of Wine and Roses"); Art Garfunkel ("Mrs. Robinson", "Bridge over Troubled Water"); The Fifth Dimension ("Up, Up and Away", "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In"); Eric Clapton ("Tears in Heaven", "Change the World"); Norah Jones ("Don't Know Why", "Here We Go Again"); Mark Ronson ("Rehab", "Uptown Funk"); Adele ("Rolling in the Deep", "Hello") and Bruno Mars ("Uptown Funk", "24K Magic"). Frank Sinatra has the most nominations for Record of the Year for an artist and a male artist with seven nominations; he won the award once in 1967 for "Strangers in the | Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners said that the record plays as 'a series of individual moments, not as a cohesive collection'. Erlewine praises "The Way You Look Tonight" as one of Sinatra's 'classic performances', and rates "Three Coins in the Fountain" and "All the Way" highly. Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners (or simply Academy Award Winners) is a 1964 album by Frank Sinatra, focusing on songs that won the Academy Award for Best Song. The orchestra is arranged and conducted by Nelson |
Who had the best selling single in the UK in 1999 with ...Baby One More Time? | ...Baby One More Time (album) wanting to be the poster on the wall. Whereas other children develop at their own pace, Britney was developing at a pace set by the ferociously competitive American entertainment industry". "...Baby One More Time" is Spears' most successful album to date, with worldwide sales of 32 million copies, and also the best-selling album by a teenage solo artist. "...Baby One More Time" was ranked as the 41st best album of all time on the "Billboard Top 200 Albums of All Time". Notes Credits adapted from "...Baby One More Time"s liner notes. Notes ...Baby One More Time (album) ...Baby One More | ...Baby One More Time (song) mere three days. Spears broke a first-week sales record for a female act in the UK at the time when "...Baby One More Time" sold a total of 460,000 copies. Eventually, the British Phonographic Industry certified it two-times platinum on March 26, 1999. The single went on to sell over 1,445,000 units by the end of 1999, making it the highest-selling single of that year and the 8th biggest song of the 1990s. As of 2018, it is the 32nd best-seller of all-time in the UK. Additionally, "...Baby One More Time" is the fifth best-selling single by a female artist |
The word calcaneal refers to which part of the body? | Calcaneal spur aspect of the calcaneus and is typically a response to plantar fasciitis over a period, but may also be associated with ankylosing spondylitis (typically in children). A posterior calcaneal spur develops on the back of the heel at the insertion of the Achilles tendon. An inferior calcaneal spur consists of a calcification of the calcaneus, which lies superior to the plantar fascia at the insertion of the plantar fascia. A posterior calcaneal spur is often large and palpable through the skin and may need to be removed as part of the treatment of insertional Achilles tendonitis. Major symptoms consist of | Calcaneal fracture calcaneus. In 1991, Kathol conducted a study which showed a correlation between calcaneal insufficiency avulsion fractures (a fracture in which the Achilles tendon removes a portion of the bone as it rescinds) and diabetes mellitus. The diabetic population is more susceptible to the risks of fracture and potential healing complications and infection that may lead to limb amputation. Diabetes can be regulated and prevented through diet and exercise. Conventional radiography is usually the initial assessment tool when a calcaneal fracture is suspected. Recommended x-ray views are (a) axial, (b) anteroposterior, (c) oblique and (d) views with dorsiflexion and internal rotation |
Which is the only one of the English Classic horse races for which the Queen has not owned the winner? | Queen of Trumps Queen of Trumps Queen of Trumps (1832–1843) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare best known for winning the classic Oaks and St Leger Stakes in 1835, becoming the first horse to win both races. In a racing career which lasted from October 1834 until October 1836 she won ten of her eleven races. After being successful in her only race as a two-year-old, she defeated the 1000 Guineas winner Preserve in the Oaks on her three-year-old debut. Later that year she started favourite for the St Leger and won from a field which included Preserve and The Derby winner | Everything which is not forbidden is allowed forbidden is compulsory." This quote has been suggested as a principle of physics. The claim that “everything which is not fobidden is allowed” is a principle only of English law does not stand the test of reality. In fact, it is a common principle of liberal democracies. In Germany, it has constitutional rank under Art. 2(1) of the GG which protects the general freedom to act (Allgemeine Handlungsfreiheit), as demonstrated e.g. by the judgment of the Bundesverfassungsgericht known as “Reiten im Walde” (BVerfGE 80, 137). Everything which is not forbidden is allowed "Everything which is not forbidden is allowed" is |
Which painter killed a young man in a brawl in Rome in 1606? | Saint Francis in Prayer (Caravaggio) before, and this painting could be connected. Gentileschi’s evidence seems to be the main argument behind a 1602/1604 date; but Robb, on the grounds of the austere approach and less painterly technique of the work, believes that it may date from 1606, when Caravaggio had fled Rome as an outlaw following a death in a street brawl. Saint Francis in Prayer (Caravaggio) Saint Francis in Prayer (c. 1602-1604) is a painting from the Italian master Caravaggio, in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome. The painting is unrecorded and therefore difficult to date, or even to distinguish the original from | A Man Could Get Killed and Tony Franciosa did not get on well and their fight in the film became a real brawl. This was the last film Sandra Dee made under contract of Universal. According to a 1965 interview with the actress, she "begged [the producers] not to make [her] do the picture. So I spent a miserable four months in Lisbon, little fishing villages and in Rome, making a picture that should have taken eight weeks. We had two changes of directors, and I ended up playing "Come September" all over again." The score for "A Man Could Get Killed" was composed by |
Who was Chief Minister to Louis XIII from 1624 until his death in 1642? | Cardinal Mazarin Cardinal Mazarin Cardinal Jules Raymond Mazarin 1st Duke of Rethel, Mayenne and Nevers (; 14 July 1602 – 9 March 1661), born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino or Mazarino, was an Italian-born cardinal, diplomat, and politician, who served as the Chief Minister to the kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV from 1642 until his death. After serving as a papal diplomat for Pope Urban VIII, Mazarin offered his diplomatic services to Cardinal Richelieu and moved to Paris. Following the death of Richelieu and then of Louis XIII, Mazarin became the head of the government for Anne of Austria, the Regent | Louis XIII of France age of three. In 1635, Louis XIII composed the music, wrote the libretto and designed the costumes for the "Ballet de la Merlaison." The king himself danced in two performances of the ballet the same year at Chantilly and Royaumont. In the sphere of the men's fashion, Louis helped introduce the wearing of wigs among men in 1624 that became fashionable for the first time since antiquity. This would be a dominant style among men in European and European-influenced countries for nearly 200 years until the fashion changes brought about by the French Revolution. Louis XIII of France Louis XIII |
In Yorkshire, what are the Huddersfield Narrow and the Huddersfield Broad? | Huddersfield Narrow Canal Ring which is a circular route crossing the Pennines twice - the other crossing is the Rochdale Canal. The canals are linked at the western (Lancashire) end by the Ashton Canal and at the eastern (Yorkshire) end by the Huddersfield Broad Canal and a length of the Calder and Hebble Navigation. The South Pennine Ring takes in Huddersfield, Golcar, Slaithwaite, Marsden, Saddleworth, Diggle, Uppermill, Greenfield, Stalybridge, Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester, Failsworth, Rochdale, Littleborough, Todmorden, Hebden Bridge, Sowerby Bridge, Elland and Brighouse. The Huddersfield Canal area is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Huddersfield Narrow Canal The Huddersfield Narrow Canal is an | Huddersfield Cricket League Huddersfield Cricket League The Drakes Huddersfield Cricket League is the premier cricket competition in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. The league has been in existence since 1891 and has 30 teams representing suburbs of Huddersfield and villages in the Huddersfield District area. There are now teams from South Yorkshire and Saddleworth in the League. A number of local players have come from the Huddersfield League to play for in the English County Championship, mainly for Yorkshire and then have gone on to represent England. Other county players have played club cricket in the Huddersfield League. Many Huddersfield Cricket League players have |
Which post was held by Lord Denning from 1962 to 1982 and Lord Donaldson from 1982 to 1992? | Peter Oliver, Baron Oliver of Aylmerton practice. He became a Privy Counsellor in 1980, when he was promoted to become a Lord Justice of Appeal. He joined with Lord Denning in ruling that the Greater London Council's "Fares Fair" policy was illegal (a decision which was later upheld by the House of Lords). He was a leading contender to succeed Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls on his retirement in 1982, but the post went to Sir John Donaldson instead. In 1986, Oliver was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and was created a life peer with the title Baron Oliver of Aylmerton, of | Tom Denning, Baron Denning a letter to the Lord Chancellor detailing his resignation, effective as of 29 September. On 5 July George Thomas held a dinner in Denning's honour at the Speaker's House. Attending were Margaret Thatcher, Robert Runcie, Quintin Lord Hailsham, Geoffrey Howe, Geoffrey Lord Lane, Willie Whitelaw, Michael Havers and Christopher Leaver. On 30 July 1982, his last day in court, Denning prepared four judgments and, dressed in his official robes and in the company of the Lord Chief Justice, delivered his farewell speech to over 300 lawyers crowded into the court. He delivered his last judgment on 29 September in "George |
Who had the best-selling single in the UK in 1994 with Love Is All Around? | Love Is All Around the chart a total of 16 weeks, and ranked number 40 for all of 1968. "Love Is All Around" has been covered by numerous artists, including R.E.M., with whom the Troggs subsequently recorded their 1992 comeback album "Athens Andover". R.E.M.'s cover was a B-side on their 1991 "Radio Song" single, and they also played it during their first appearance at MTV's "Unplugged" series that same year. Wet Wet Wet's cover, for the soundtrack to the 1994 film "Four Weddings and a Funeral", was an international hit and spent 15 consecutive weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart. On | Love Is All Around by Barry Manilow. Singer Marti Pellow related that the decision to pick "Love is All Around" was an easy choice "because we knew we could make it our own". The song, which has a different introduction from the Troggs' version, was recorded in B flat major on 4 January 1994 and released in May. On 15 May 1994, "Love Is All Around" entered the UK Singles Chart at number four. After climbing to number two the following week, it finally got to number one on 29 May. It then remained there for 15 weeks, the second-longest UK chart reign of |
The Battlefield Line Railway that runs between Shackerstone and Shenton in Leicestershire is named after which battle? | Battlefield Line Railway Battlefield Line Railway The Battlefield Line Railway is a heritage railway in Leicestershire, England. It runs from Shackerstone (Grid ref ) to Shenton (), via Market Bosworth, a total of . Shenton is near Bosworth Field, (the location of the final battle of the Wars of the Roses immortalised in Shakespeare's "Richard III"), giving the railway its name. The railway runs steam and diesel-hauled trains every weekend and Bank Holiday from March to December, as well as a summer mid-week service on Tuesday, Wednesdays, Thursdays in July and August and Wednesdays in September; the latter is operated by the Heritage | Shenton railway station line between Moira West Junction and Nuneaton. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders. Shenton railway station Shenton railway station is located about 0.5 miles from the village of Shenton, Leicestershire, England. It is the current southern terminus of the Battlefield Line Railway, which runs to here from Shackerstone. The station is located at the foot of Ambion Hill and is actually the reconstructed Humberstone Road Station from Leicester. The original station closed in 1965 and was dismantled and relocated (except for a small lamp room that now serves as the Station Pottery). The |
Whose name is missing from the first line of the Book of Proverbs in the Authorized Version of the Bible – ‘The proverbs of ________ the son of David, the King of Israel’? | Book of Proverbs of Proverbs": Book of Proverbs The Book of Proverbs (Hebrew: מִשְלֵי, "Míshlê (Shlomoh)", "Proverbs (of Solomon)") is the second book of the third section (called Writings) of the Hebrew Bible and a book of the Christian Old Testament. When translated into Greek and Latin, the title took on different forms: in the Greek Septuagint (LXX) it became Παροιμίαι "Paroimiai" ("Proverbs"); in the Latin Vulgate the title was "Proverbia", from which the English name is derived. Proverbs is not merely an anthology but a "collection of collections" relating to a pattern of life which lasted for more than a millennium. It | The Proverbs of Alfred late 12th century. There is no reason to suppose that any of the proverbs go back to King Alfred. King Alfred, who translated several works into the vernacular, is not known to have translated or composed proverbs. However, his legendary status in later tradition gave him a reputation for having done so, as the Middle English poem "The Owl and the Nightingale" likewise suggests. Some of the proverbs in the "Proverbs of Alfred" appear elsewhere under another name ("Hendyng", which may itself be less of a proper name than an adjective). The proverbs are in alliterative verse, but the verse |
Roberta Flack was the first artist to win the Grammy for Record of the Year in consecutive years. Which group were the second, for Beautiful Day in 2001 and Walk On in 2002? | Grammy Award for Record of the Year Troubled Water" in 1971, and "Graceland" in 1988). Tom Elmhirst has won three times as an engineer/mixer (2008, 2012 and 2017). Roberta Flack was the first artist to win Record of the Year in two consecutive years for the years 1973 ("The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face") and 1974 ("Killing Me Softly with His Song"). This happened again when the group U2 won for the years 2001 ("Beautiful Day") and 2002 ("Walk On"), the only occurrence of an artist winning the award two consecutive years with records from the same album. Other artists to receive two Grammys for | Roberta Flack Roberta Flack Roberta Cleopatra Flack (born February 10, 1937 or 1939) is an American singer. She is known for her #1 singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "Feel Like Makin' Love", and for "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of her many duets with Donny Hathaway. Flack is the only solo artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year on two consecutive years: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" won at the 1973 Grammys as did "Killing Me Softly |
Which three time world champion is the non-executive chairman of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team? | Toto Wolff WilliamsF1 to become an executive director of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team, with his business partner Rene Berger becoming non-executive director. In addition to joining the team as managing partner, he also acquired 30% of Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd, with a further 10% held by Niki Lauda and 60% by the parent company. Wolff took over the co-ordination of all Mercedes-Benz motorsport activities, a responsibility previously held by Norbert Haug. In 2014, Wolff sold 10% of Williams to American businessman Brad Hollinger. On 9 March 2016, Wolff sold his remaining 5% shares in the Williams team. As co-owner | Petronas sponsors all Mercedes-AMG DTM cars since 2011 season (replacing Mobil 1) for only providing the lubricants. Since 2010, PETRONAS is also the main sponsor of Mercedes Grand Prix team. Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsports won F1 Constructors' Champion for the 4th time consecutively in 2017 Formula One Season after the team won it previously in 2016 Formula One Season, 2015 Formula One Season and 2014 Formula One season. PETRONAS awards education sponsorships in the form of convertible loans to Malaysian and international students to further their studies at local or foreign universities. The PETRONAS unit that is responsible for handling education |
In what year was the Royal Yacht Britannia launched – one year either way? | Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, which was built by Higgs and Hill and practically completed in 1905. The first term of cadets entered at the R.N. College Osborne were transferred to Dartmouth in September 1905. The college was originally known as the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (BRNC). As a Royal Naval shore establishment, it was later known also by the ship name HMS "Britannia (a battleship called operated from 1904 to 1918). The college was named (ship name: HMS "Dartmouth) in 1953, when the name "Britannia" was given to the newly launched royal yacht . The training ship moored in the River Dart | HMY Britannia (Royal Cutter Yacht) 1879, and the 216-ton schooner "Aline" (Benjamin Nicholson, 1860) in 1881. "Britannia" faced many opponents in her 43-year career. The most notable were: HMY Britannia (Royal Cutter Yacht) His Majesty's Yacht "Britannia" was a gaff-rigged cutter built in 1893 for RYS Commodore Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII. She served both himself and his son King George V, with a long racing career. "Britannia" was ordered in 1892 by Edward, Prince of Wales and designed by George Lennox Watson. She was a near sister ship to the Watson-designed which challenged for the 1893 America's Cup. |
The symbol for which SI derived unit is a letter from the Greek alphabet? | Henry (unit) inductor: where "V"("t") denotes the resulting voltage across the circuit, "I"("t") is the current through the circuit, and "L" is the inductance of the circuit. The henry is a derived unit based on four of the seven base units of the International System of Units: kilogram (kg), metre (m), second (s), and ampere (A). Expressed in combinations of SI units, the henry is: in which the following additional derived units occur: coulomb (C), farad (F), joule (J), weber (Wb), tesla (T), volt (V), hertz (Hz), and ohm (Ω). The International System of Units (SI) specifies to write the symbol of | SI derived unit m), the SI derived unit of density. The names of SI derived units, when written in full, are in lowercase. However, the symbols for units named after persons are written with an uppercase initial letter. For example, the symbol for hertz is "Hz"; but the symbol for metre is "m". The International System of Units assigns special names to 22 derived units, which includes two dimensionless derived units, the radian (rad) and the steradian (sr). Some other units such as the hour, litre, tonne, bar and electronvolt are not SI units, but are widely used in conjunction with SI units. |
Compositions by Mozart are given K numbers after which musicologist and composer who catalogued them? | Symphony, K. 74g (Mozart) numbered symphonies. The unnumbered symphonies (some, including K. 74g, published in supplements to the Alte-Mozart Ausgabe until 1910) are sometimes given numbers in the range 42 to 56, even though they were written earlier than Mozart's Symphony No. 41 (written in 1788). The symphony K. 74g is given the number 54 in this numbering scheme. This symphony (among others) was known to Ludwig Ritter von Köchel only by an incipit in the catalogue of Breitkopf & Härtel, and so he placed it in the Anhang of the Köchel catalogue as Anh. 216. A set of parts (now lost) was discovered | Haydn and Mozart and Vanhal, though little-remembered now, were well-known composers (particularly of symphonies) of the time. (Many, if not most, now believe that Dittersdorf actually played first violin, given his world-class technique, and Haydn second.) The composer Maximilian Stadler also remembered chamber music performances in which Haydn and Mozart participated: the two of them took the viola parts in performances of Mozart's string quintets, K. 515, 516, and 593. Haydn freely praised Mozart, without jealousy, to his friends. For instance, he wrote to Franz Rott, To the musicologist Charles Burney, he said, "I have often been flattered by my friends with having |
Which botanist, who was President of the Royal Society for 41 years, accompanied Cook on his 1768-1771 voyage? | Joseph Banks mix of historical fact and conjecture about Banks' early life include: Joseph Banks Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. Banks made his name on the 1766 natural history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771), visiting Brazil, Tahiti, and, after 6 months in New Zealand, Australia, returning to immediate fame. He held the position of President of the Royal Society for over 41 years. He advised King George III on the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and by sending | First voyage of James Cook the voyage made by Captain Cook. One of the historians, Alexander Cook, documented the journey in his 2004 article "Sailing on "The Ship": Re-enactment and the Quest for Popular History". First voyage of James Cook The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS "Endeavour", from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which Cook was the commander. The aims of this first expedition were to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun (3–4 June of that year), and to |
In the 1964 film Mary Poppins, what was the occupation of George Banks, Mary’s employer? | Mary Poppins (film) of wind blows them away, and Jane and Michael witness a young nanny descending from the sky using her umbrella. Presenting herself to Mr. Banks, Mary Poppins calmly produces the children's restored advertisement, and agrees with its requests, but promises the astonished banker she will be firm with his children. As Mr. Banks puzzles over the advertisement's return, Mary Poppins hires herself, and convinces him it was originally his idea. She meets the children, then helps them tidy their nursery through song, before heading out for a walk in the park. Outside, they meet Bert, working as a screever; Mary | Mary Poppins Chim Cher-ee"), Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects, and Best Original Score. The movie takes place in the year 1910. In 1983, the story was adapted by the Soviet Union's Mosfilm studios into the Russian-language TV musical film "Мэри Поппинс, до свидания!" ("Mary Poppins, Goodbye"), starring Natalya Andreychenko (acting) and Tatyana Voronina (singing) as Mary Poppins, Albert Filozov as George Banks, and Oleg Tabakov as Miss Andrew. Author P. L. Travers resisted selling the stage rights to the Mary Poppins stories for many years, as a result of her dislike of the 1964 film version, and her perception of being |
The last two editors of which reference book, known as the ‘Bible of Cricket’ have been Lawrence Booth and Scyld Berry? | Lawrence Booth (cricket writer) In March 2013, he won Scoop of the Year at the SJAs after revealing that Kevin Pietersen had sent text messages to the touring South Africans the previous summer. He has written, edited or co-written 12 books, including "Arm-Ball to Zooter", "Cricket, Lovely Cricket?" and the last seven editions of "Wisden", including the 150th, published in 2013. Lawrence Booth (cricket writer) Lawrence Booth (born 2 April 1975) is an author and a cricket writer for the "Daily Mail", cricket correspondent of the "Mail on Sunday", and editor of "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack" - the youngest for 72 years when he was | First Master of the Bible Historiale of Jean de Berry works as well as religious treatises written in vernacular French. First Master of the Bible Historiale of Jean de Berry The First Master of the Bible Historiale of Jean de Berry was a French manuscript illuminator active between 1390 and 1400. Little is known about him; his name comes from a manuscript of the "Historical Bible", now held by a library in Paris, in which he painted several miniatures. The manuscript was once owned by John, Duke of Berry, and with most books containing other work ascribed to the artist seems to have been produced in Paris. This would indicate |
In which 1935 novel does a 14 year old girl ride The Piebald to victory in The Grand National? | National Velvet National Velvet National Velvet is a novel by Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), first published in 1935. "National Velvet" is the story of a 14-year-old girl named Velvet Brown, who trains and rides her horse, named The Piebald, to victory in the Grand National steeplechase. The novel focuses on the ability of ordinary people, particularly women, to accomplish great things. Velvet is a teenager in the late 1920s, living in a small English coastal village in Sussex, dreaming of one day owning many horses. She is a high-strung, shy, nervous child with a delicate stomach. Her mother is a wise, taciturn woman | A Year in the Merde is an emotional rollercoaster ride. In all, West has sex with four different women during that year: Élodie, his boss's daughter; Alexa, who eventually cannot put up with his apolitical outlook on life; Marie, a black girl who willingly drops him when her boyfriend returns from abroad; and Florence, half Indian, the girl with whom he plans to open his own tea room in Paris at the end of the novel. A Year in the Merde A Year in the Merde is a comic novel by Stephen Clarke first published in 2004 under the pen name Paul West. In later |
The word buccal refers to which part of the body? | Buccal cirri Buccal cirri Buccal cirri are feeding structures found in the oral hood of primitive jawless organisms called amphioxus. The word buccal is derived from the term "bucca" which means "cheek" and cirri is derived from the Latin word "cerrus" meaning a tendril or a small and flexible appendage. Cirri, plural for cirrus, are small, filament-like appendages that act like tentacles. Tentacles are elongated appendages from the cephalic region of organisms that aid in sensory and locomotive abilities. Buccal cirri extend from the oral hood on the anterior portion of the organism. The buccal cirri possess receptors, some of which are | Buccal cirri believed to be mechanoreceptors. Mechanoreceptors are sensory receptors on the surface of the body. The presence of external particles can be detected by an organism possessing buccal cirri due to the sensory abilities associated with the mechanoreceptors. Additionally, the touch and pressure sensory receptors aid in the mechanical sorting of food particles. Chemical sorting of particles occur through the use of chemoreceptors, which are believed to be present within the buccal cirri structure. Food and fluid particles passing through buccal cirri are sorted using chemoreceptors, which respond to chemical stimuli. Responses to stimuli are sent to higher order processing centers |
Whose painting “Samson and Delilah”, from about 1609, is in the National Gallery in London? | Samson and Delilah (Rubens) seen in Frans Fracken the Younger's painting "Banquet at the House of Burgomaster Rockox", where the painting is hanging above the mantlepiece. Jacob Matham, a Haarlem printmaker, used the Cincinnati oil sketch of "Samson and Delilah" as a modello for an engraving he made in circa 1613. The engraving is a reverse image of "Samson and Delilah". Samson and Delilah (Rubens) Samson and Delilah is a painting by the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) which is currently on display in the National Gallery. It dates from about 1609 to 1610. Two preliminary copies of the painting also exist | Samson and Delilah (Rembrandt) home in 1906. Samson and Delilah (Rembrandt) Samson and Delilah is a 1629–1630 painting by Rembrandt, now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. It is first recorded in Frederick Henry of Orange's collection in the Hague in 1632 and passed down through the family until Huis Honselaarsdijk and its contents were bequeathed to Frederick I of Prussia on the death of William III of Orange. Frederick's son Frederick the Great probably moved the painting to Berlin in 1742. It was mentioned in the inventory of the Berlin Stadtschloss in 1793 as a work by Govert Flinck - it remained there until moving |
Which element with atomic number 7 forms about 78% of the Earth’s atmosphere? | Period 2 element fats, and aromatic esters, carotenoids and terpenes. With nitrogen it forms alkaloids, and with the addition of sulfur also it forms antibiotics, amino acids, and rubber products. With the addition of phosphorus to these other elements, it forms DNA and RNA, the chemical-code carriers of life, and adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the most important energy-transfer molecule in all living cells. Nitrogen is the chemical element with atomic number 7, the symbol N and atomic mass 14.00674 u. Elemental nitrogen is a colorless, odorless, tasteless and mostly inert diatomic gas at standard conditions, constituting 78.08% by volume of Earth's atmosphere. The element | Rare-earth element by X-ray crystallography) by Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley made it possible to assign atomic numbers to the elements. Moseley found that the exact number of lanthanides had to be 15, and that element 61 had yet to be discovered. Using these facts about atomic numbers from X-ray crystallography, Moseley also showed that hafnium (element 72) would not be a rare-earth element. Moseley was killed in World War I in 1915, years before hafnium was discovered. Hence, the claim of Georges Urbain that he had discovered element 72 was untrue. Hafnium is an element that lies in the periodic table immediately |
Later in 1961 George Martin produced “My Boomerang Won’t Come Back”. Which comedian and actor was the singer on the record? | My Boomerang Won't Come Back My Boomerang Won't Come Back "My Boomerang Won't Come Back" was a novelty record by British comedian Charlie Drake which became a hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1961. The tune concerns a young Aboriginal lad (with Drake's signature Cockney accent) cast out by his tribe due to his inability to toss a boomerang. After months of isolation (and fighting off "nasty bushwackin' animals"), the local witch doctor takes pity on the lad and informs him ""if you want you boomerang to come back/well, first you've got to throw it!"" He does, and proceeds to bring down an | My Boomerang Won't Come Back aeroplane, which crashes with a loud boom. "Oh, my Gawd," the lad says in horror, "I've hit The Flying Doctor!" The lad and the witch doctor argue over payment ("you still owe me fourteen chickens!") as the record fades out. The record was produced by George Martin, who went on to even more enduring fame by producing the Beatles. Martin used studio tricks to approximate the sound of Aborigine instruments. "My Boomerang" is not exactly a paragon of political correctness, even by 1961 standards. In the song an Aboriginal meeting is described as a "pow-wow"--something more appropriate for Native Americans--while |
Which US President was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University? | University of Oxford R. D. Bandaranaike (former Prime Minister of Ceylon), Norman Washington Manley of Jamaica, Eric Williams (Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago), Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (former President of Peru), Abhisit Vejjajiva (former Prime Minister of Thailand) and Bill Clinton (the first President of the United States to have attended Oxford; he attended as a Rhodes Scholar). Arthur Mutambara (Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe), was a Rhodes Scholar in 1991. Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana, spent a year at Balliol College. Festus Mogae (former president of Botswana) was a student at University College. The Burmese democracy activist and Nobel laureate, Aung | University of Oxford its alumni have won 160 Olympic medals. Oxford is the home of the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the world's oldest international scholarships. The University of Oxford has no known foundation date. Teaching at Oxford existed in some form as early as 1096, but it is unclear when a university came into being. It grew quickly in 1167 when English students returned from the University of Paris. The historian Gerald of Wales lectured to such scholars in 1188 and the first known foreign scholar, Emo of Friesland, arrived in 1190. The head of the university had the title of chancellor from |
The lines on the Lisbon Metro are identified by colours. What colour is Linha Amarela? | Marquis of Pombal Square the powerful prime-minister who ruled Portugal from 1750 to 1777. In the middle of the roundabout there is a large column dedicated to him, built between 1917 and 1934 and created by Adães Bermudes, António Couto and Francisco Santos. A bronze statue of the Marquess is on the top, with a lion - symbol of power - by his side. The Marquess is shown looking towards the "Baixa Pombalina", the area of Lisbon that was rebuilt under his direction after the disastrous 1755 Lisbon earthquake. The Blue and Yellow lines ("Linha Azul" and "Linha Amarela") of the Lisbon Metro ("Metropolitano | Lisbon Metro station to the Lisbon Airport now only lasts about 16 minutes. The Oriente Line also serves the Moscavide neighbourhood, and will carry some 400 000 extra passengers each year. The Lisbon Metro comprises four lines running on of route and serving 55 stations. The lines were formerly known by picturesque names; logos based on the former names are still used. These picturesque names are still used as secondary names. Metro service starts every day at 06:30 and stops at 01:00 (the last trains arrive at the terminal stations by 01:30). However, some station exits close before 01:00. Trains run at |
Eight year old Bailey Matthews who has cerebral palsy won an award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2015 ‘for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity’ named after which late female Sports presenter? | BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award is an award given annually as part of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony each December. The award is given "for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity", and the winner is selected by BBC Sport. The award is named after the BBC sports presenter Helen Rollason, who died in August 1999 at the age of 43 after suffering from cancer for two years. Helen Rollason was the first female presenter of "Grandstand". After being diagnosed with cancer, she | BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award is an award given annually as part of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony each December. The award is given to a sportsperson "who has made a major impact on the world of sport during their lifetime". The winner is selected by BBC Sport. When football manager Alex Ferguson won the award in 2001, the BBC described the award as "a new accolade" to be presented annually; however, two people had already received the Lifetime Achievement Award. The inaugural |
The last print edition of which national newspaper was on March 26th this year? | I (newspaper) print the paper and the increasingly difficult environment which print journalism finds itself in. The "i" was named National Newspaper of the Year in 2015. On 11 February 2016, it was revealed that regional publisher Johnston Press, owners of the "Yorkshire Post" and "The Scotsman", were in the advanced stages of talks to buy the "i" for around £24 million. A "significant number" of staff joined the team from "The Independent". The new editorial team was announced in April 2016. On 30 September 2017, a new, redesigned, version of the weekend edition of the "i" went on sale, costing 80p. | Last Year Was Complicated Last Year Was Complicated Last Year Was Complicated is the third solo album by American singer Nick Jonas. It was released on June 10, 2016, by Island and Safehouse Records. The album features collaborations with Tove Lo, Ty Dolla $ign, Big Sean and Daniella Mason. The album's lead single, "Close", was released on March 25, 2016. On August 5, 2015, Jonas debuted and performed a new song, "Under You", at the iHeartRadio Music Summit. In February 2016, Jonas covered the February/March 2016 edition of "Complex" magazine he mentioned the songs "Chainsaw" and "Don't Make Me Choose", and also revealed a |
The TV comedy of the late 1970s and early 1980s Citizen Smith was set in which district of London? | Citizen Smith was written. Main Wilson loved the script, and saw the potential for a series; it was put into production almost immediately as a pilot for "Comedy Special"—a showcase for new talent, which had succeeded "Comedy Playhouse"—under the title "Citizen Smith". The pilot was a success, and four series and a Christmas special were produced between 1977 and 1980. It has been claimed that the "Tooting Popular Front"—fictionally based near to writer John Sullivan's childhood home of Balham—was partly inspired by a real-life fellow-South London far-left group, the Brixton-based Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought, activities of which were reported in | The Late Show (1992 TV series) The Late Show (1992 TV series) The Late Show was a popular Australian comedy sketch and satire show, which ran for two seasons on the ABC. It aired weekly on Saturday nights from 18 July 1992 to 30 October 1993. "The Late Show" has its roots in the 1980s comedy group, "The D-Generation". Consisting mostly of Melbourne University students, "The D-Generation" managed to gain a cult following with their radio and TV appearances. After the breakup of the original "The D-Generation", some of the members went on to perform on the commercial TV programme "Fast Forward". The remaining members filmed |
What was the name of the man-eating monster defeated by Beowulf? | The dragon (Beowulf) The dragon (Beowulf) The final act of the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is about the hero Beowulf's fight with a dragon, the third monster he encounters in the epic. On his return from Heorot, where he killed Grendel and Grendel's mother, Beowulf becomes king of the Geats and rules peacefully for fifty winters until a slave awakens and angers a dragon by stealing a jewelled cup from its lair. When the angry dragon mercilessly burns the Geats' homes and lands, Beowulf decides to fight and kill the monster personally. He and his thanes climb to the dragon's lair where, upon seeing | The dragon (Beowulf) trigger a chain of events in "The Hobbit". The "Beowulf" dragon is the earliest example in literature of the typical European dragon and first incidence of a fire-breathing dragon. The "Beowulf" dragon is described with Old English terms such as "draca" (dragon), and "wyrm" (reptile, or serpent), and as a creature with a venomous bite. Also, the "Beowulf" poet created a dragon with specific traits: a nocturnal, treasure-hoarding, inquisitive, vengeful, fire-breathing creature. The fire is likely symbolic of the hellfire of the devil, reminiscent of the monster in the Book of Job. In the Septuagint Bible, Job's monster is characterized |
In the Hindu religion Mohini, Krishna and Rama are all incarnations of which god? | Hindu denominations the "parampara" of a living guru, one belongs to its proper "sampradaya". Vaishnavism is a devotional sect of Hinduism, which worships the god Vishnu as the Supreme Lord (Svayam Bhagavan). As well as Vishnu himself, followers of the sect also worship Vishnu's ten incarnations (the Dashavatara). The two most-worshipped incarnations of Vishnu are Krishna and Rama, whose stories are told in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana respectively. The adherents of this sect are generally non-ascetic, monastic and devoted to meditative practice and ecstatic chanting. Vaishnavites are deeply devotional. Their religion is rich in saints, temples and scriptures. The Vaishnava "sampradayas" | Rama Rama Krishna Krishna soundtrack was composed by M.M. Keeravani, All Lyrics given by Ananth Sriram and released worldwide by Aditya Music. The album featured six tracks: Rama Rama Krishna Krishna Rama Rama Krishna Krishna is a 2010 Telugu action drama film that stars Ram Pothineni, Priya Anand and Bindu Madhavi in the lead role, whilst prominent actors Arjun Sarja, Nassar and Brahmanandam play pivotal roles. This film, directed by Srivas ("Lakshyam" fame) and produced by noted producer, Dil Raju, released on 12 May 2010. Upon release the film received mixed reviews, critics mainly praising Ram's and Sarja's performance. The film failed at the |
Fray Bentos is a seaport and capital of the Río Negro Department of which country of South America? | Fray Bentos Fray Bentos Fray Bentos () is the capital city of the Río Negro Department, in southwestern Uruguay. Its port on the Uruguay River is one of the nation's most important harbors. The city hosts the first campus of the Technological University, beside the historically relevant industrial complex Anglo, a World Heritage site. One of the biggest pulp mills in the world is situated close to Fray Bentos and the Libertador General San Martín Bridge; it was the center of the largest political dispute between Uruguay and Argentina during the 21st century. The city is close to the border with Argentina | Fray Bentos plant where the meat was cooked, a laboratory, etc. It also has a museum for the artist Luis Alberto Solari, who was born in the city. The Miguel Young Theatre is an important cultural landmark. Fray Bentos has its own football league, the Liga Departamental de Fútbol de Río Negro, established in 1912, made up of 14 teams. Among the most notable are Fray Bentos Fútbol Club, Club Atlético Anglo and Laureles Fútbol Club. The title character of Borges' short story "Funes el Memorioso" was from Fray Bentos. Villa Independencia Airport serves Fray Bentos, but has no commercial air service. |
"""Appassionata"" is a name given to Piano Concerto number 23 by which composer?" | Piano Sonata No. 23 (Beethoven) Piano Sonata No. 23 (Beethoven) Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (colloquially known as the Appassionata, meaning "passionate" in Italian) is among the three famous piano sonatas of his middle period (the others being the "Waldstein", Op. 53 and "Les Adieux", Op. 81a); it was composed during 1804 and 1805, and perhaps 1806, and was dedicated to Count Franz von Brunswick. The first edition was published in February 1807 in Vienna. Unlike the early Sonata No. 8, "Pathétique", the "Appassionata" was not named during the composer's lifetime, but was so labelled in 1838 by | Piano Concerto No. 23 (Mozart) Piano Concerto No. 23 (Mozart) The Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (K. 488) is a composition for piano and orchestra written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was finished, according to Mozart's own catalogue, on March 2, 1786, two months prior to the premiere of his opera, "Le nozze di Figaro", and some three weeks prior to the completion of his next piano concerto. It was one of three subscription concerts given that spring and was probably played by Mozart himself at one of these. The concerto is scored for piano solo and an orchestra consisting of one flute, |
Which famous sauce is manufactured by McIlhenny & Co of Avery Island Louisiana? | Edward Avery McIlhenny Edward Avery McIlhenny Edward Avery "Ned" McIlhenny (29 March 1872 – 8 August 1949), son of Tabasco brand pepper sauce tycoon Edmund McIlhenny, was an American businessman, explorer, bird bander and conservationist. He established a private wildlife refuge around his family estate on Avery Island and helped in preserving a large coastal marshland in Louisiana as a bird refuge. He also introduced several exotic plants into Jungle Gardens, his private wildlife garden. McIlhenny is sometimes blamed for the introduction of exotic coypu into Louisiana where they are a major ecological problem although it is now known that he was neither | Edward Avery McIlhenny black vultures. In 1941, he wrote on the potential extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker, noting its presence in his estate on Avery Island and suggesting that the destruction of old growth forests was key to its demise. The subspecies of white-tailed deer on Avery Island was named after McIlhenny as "Odocoileus virginianus mcilhennyi" by Frederic W. Miller in 1928. McIlhenny used his personal estate, known as Jungle Gardens, to propagate both Louisiana-native and imported plant varieties, including azaleas, irises, camellias, papyrus, and bamboo. He wrote numerous academic articles, mainly about birds and reptiles, oversaw the publication in English of two |
The Flamengo Vs Fluminense football derby, also known as the Fla–Flu is contested between two teams based in which city? | Fla–Flu Fla–Flu Fla–Flu (truncation of Flamengo-Fluminense) is an association football match between cross-town rivals Flamengo and Fluminense. Matches take place in the 78,000-seat Maracanã Stadium, located near downtown Rio de Janeiro, in the city's Maracanã district. The world record football match attendance between clubs is a Fla 0–0 Flu with 194,603 in 1963. The moniker Fla–Flu was coined by the journalist Mário Filho during the professionalization of Rio de Janeiro's football. Flamengo is the most successful team in Rio State Championship by one championship. Flamengo has won it 34 times while Fluminense has won 31. Flamengo has won six Brazilian National | Fla–Flu the particular merits of institutions or associations and their services rendered to sport, conquered in 1949. The rivalry between these two clubs began in October 1911, when a group of dissatisfied players from Fluminense left the club, and went to Flamengo, which at the time had no football department. The first Fla–Flu ever was played the following year, on July 7, 1912 at Laranjeiras stadium. Fluminense won this match 3-2, with 800 people in attendance. The Fla–Flu matches are mentioned in Lamartine Babo's unofficial, but very popular, Flamengo anthem composed in 1942. On November 23, 1941, Flamengo and Fluminense disputed |
Gevrik and Yarg cheeses come from which English county? | Cornish Yarg Cornish Yarg Cornish Yarg is a semi-hard cow's milk cheese made in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Before being left to mature, this cheese is wrapped in nettle leaves to form an edible, though mouldy, rind. The texture varies from creamy and soft immediately under the nettle coating to a Caerphilly cheese-like crumbly texture in the middle. Despite its historic connotations, Cornish Yarg is actually the product of the British cheesemaking renaissance in the 1980s while its roots are inspired by traditional British Territorial cheeses. The cheese is produced at Lynher Dairies Cheese Company on Pengreep Farm near Truro, by Catherine | Culture of England ice cream and there are now over 750 different cheeses. Recent decades have seen English replicas of French cheeses, such as Brie, Camembert and chèvre. Homegrown artisanal cheeses are made by both long-established and new producers. These include hard cheeses such as Keen's Cheddar, Montgomery's Cheddar, Westcombe Cheddar (these three producers forming the Artisan Somerset Cheddar Presidium) and Lincolnshire Poacher, and semi-soft or soft cheeses, such as Stinking Bishop, Cornish Yarg, Wigmore and Waterloo, Rollright, Renegade Monk, and Oxford Blue. Tea and beer are typical and rather iconic drinks in England. Beer is used metaphorically to refer to pleasure, as |
On the standard UK Cluedo game board, which room can be reached by taking the secret passage from the lounge? | Cluedo to the first room than any of the other players. Professor Plum can move to the study, and then take the secret-passage to the Kitchen, the hardest room to reach. Traditionally, Miss Scarlett had the advantage of moving first. This has been eliminated with the implementation of the high roll rule in modern versions. The next opportunity is choice of initial rooms to enter. Again Mrs. Peacock has an advantage in that she is closest to the Conservatory, a corner room with a secret-passage, enabling a player on their turn to move immediately to another room and make a suggestion | Cluedo (UK game show) Cluedo (UK game show) Cluedo is a British game show based on the board game of the same name. Each week, a reenactment of the murder at the stately home Arlington Grange of a visiting guest was played and, through a combination of interrogating the suspects (of whom only the murderer could lie) and deduction, celebrity guests had to discover who committed the murder, which of six weapons (not usually the original six from the board game) and in which room it was committed, whilst viewers were invited to play along at home. "Encyclopedia of Television" suggests the Australian version |
Into which body of water does the River Tiber flow? | Tiber in part (e.g., the Ponte Milvio and the Ponte Sant'Angelo) or in whole (Fabricius' Bridge). Tiber The Tiber (; ; ) is the third-longest river in Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing through Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio, where it is joined by the river Aniene, to the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Ostia and Fiumicino. It drains a basin estimated at . The river has achieved lasting fame as the main watercourse of the city of Rome, founded on its eastern banks. The river rises at Mount Fumaiolo in central Italy and flows in a generally southerly direction | Tiber Tiber' < *Tiferis 'Tiber') and "Teperie" (via the Latin hydronym "Tiber"). The legendary king Tiberinus, ninth in the king-list of Alba Longa, was said to have drowned in the river Albula, which was afterward called "Tiberis". The myth may have explained a memory of an earlier, perhaps pre-Indo-European name for the river, "white" ("alba") with sediment, or "from the mountains" from preindoeuropean word "alba, albion" mount, elevated area. "Tiberis/Tifernus" may be a preindoeuropean substrate word related to Aegaean "tifos" still water, Greek phytonym "τύφη" a kind of swamp and river bank weed ("Typha angustifolia"), Hiberian hydronyms "Tibilis, Tebro" and Numidian |
"""Barwick Green"" is the name of the title music of which serial drama show?" | Barwick Green Barwick Green "Barwick Green" is the theme music to the long-running BBC Radio 4 soap opera "The Archers". A "maypole dance" from the suite "My Native Heath" written in 1924 by the Yorkshire composer Arthur Wood, it is named after Barwick-in-Elmet in Yorkshire's West Riding. The recording used between 1950 and the 1990s was played by Sidney Torch and his orchestra. Sidney Torch recorded a commercial release of "Barwick Green" in the 1950s, but it was not used on "The Archers" itself. The familiar opening 7 notes are echoed in the pizzicato in Benjamin Britten's "Simple Symphony", written in 1934. | The Green Hornet (serial) criminal syndicate controlling those rackets. Source: In 1990, under the same title, GoodTimes Home Video released a feature-length version of the serial on VHS tape, re-edited from the footage in last six chapters. Under the title "The Green Hornet: Movie Edition", VCI Entertainment released its version of the serial, which includes the first and last chapter, and selected other chapters. Their DVD was released on January 11, 2011. The 1960s "Batman" television series was created because of the popularity of a re-release of Columbia's "Batman" serial. The success of both led to the production of a "Green Hornet" TV series, |
"Who wrote the books ""In the Night Kitchen"", ""Outside Over There"" & ""Seven Little Monsters""?" | Outside Over There Outside Over There Outside Over There is a picture book for children written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. It concerns a young girl named Ida, who must rescue her baby sister after the child has been stolen by goblins. "Outside Over There" has been described by Sendak as part of a type of trilogy based on psychological development from "In the Night Kitchen" (toddler) to "Where the Wild Things Are" (pre-school) to "Outside Over There" (pre-adolescent). Ida's father is away at sea. She plays her horn each night to make her baby sister sleep. One night while she is playing | Monsters books (Doctor Who) first three books. Monsters books (Doctor Who) The Doctor Who Monsters Books are a series of guide books related to the long-running BBC science fiction television programme "Doctor Who". The books are published by BBC Books. The first three books, released from 2005 to 2007, dealt with the monstrous foes faced by the Doctor in the television series. The fourth book, released in 2008, focused on spaceships rather than monsters, similar to the fifth book, "Companions and Allies" by Steve Tribe, which dealt with The Doctor's companions. "The Ultimate Monster Guide" is the sixth, and contains completely revised and updated |
Who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate? | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine dinner, although it was originally six courses in 1901. Each Nobel Prize laureate may bring up to 16 guests. Sweden's royal family attends, and typically the Prime Minister and other members of the government attend as well as representatives of the Nobel family. The first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in 1901 to the German physiologist Emil Adolf von Behring. Behring's discovery of serum therapy in the development of the diphtheria and tetanus vaccines put "in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths". In 1902, the award went to Ronald Ross for | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine age of 43. Ivan Pavlov, whose work Nobel admired and supported, received the prize in 1904 for his work on the physiology of digestion. Subsequently, those selecting the recipients have exercised wide latitude in determining what falls under the umbrella of Physiology or Medicine. The awarding of the prize in 1973 to Nikolaas Tinbergen, Konrad Lorenz, and Karl von Frisch for their observations of animal behavioral patterns could be considered a prize in the behavioral sciences rather than medicine or physiology. Tinbergen expressed surprise in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech at "the unconventional decision of the Nobel Foundation to award |
In the nursery rhyme Who Killed Cock Robin, which animal dug the grave? | Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935 film) killed. The police arrive at the scene and arrest a Harpo Marx-like cuckoo, an Edward G. Robinson-inspired sparrow (possibly an homage to the original story) and a Stepin Fetchit-based blackbird as suspects. The next day a trial is held over the identity of Cock Robin's assassin, with an owl serving as the judge and a parrot as the prosecutor, interrogating the suspects and showing Cock Robin's body as evidence. The blackbird confesses he hadn't done, seen, or known anything about it. The sparrow refuses to say anything. The cuckoo doesn't know either, but continually points to the judge and the | Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935 film) is in his armpit. Jenny revives Robin and they kiss, to the excitement of the jury. Who Killed Cock Robin? was released on the Walt Disney Treasures DVD Silly Symphonies. Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935 film) Who Killed Cock Robin is a Silly Symphonies short released on June 26, 1935 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by David Hand. It is based on the nursery rhyme "Who Killed Cock Robin?". An extract from the cartoon was featured the following year in Alfred Hitchcock's "Sabotage". While Cock Robin (caricatured after Bing Crosby) serenades the Mae West-esque Jenny Wren, |
Which Scottish socialist was the first leader of the Labour Party and became its first sitting member of parliament in 1900? | Scottish Labour Party (1888) Scottish Labour Party (1888) The Scottish Labour Party (SLP), also known as the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party, was formed by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, the first socialist MP in the parliament of the United Kingdom, who later went on to become the first president of the Scottish National Party, and Keir Hardie, who later became the first leader of the British Labour Party. The initial spur for the party's foundation was Hardie's unsuccessful independent Labour candidature in the Mid Lanarkshire by-election, 1888. He had tried and failed to gain Liberal Party support for his candidature, and the experience convinced many | Organisation of the Scottish Labour Party Unions & Affiliates. Office Bearers Elected Members CLP Section (Membership) Trade Union Section Co-operative Party & Socialist Societies Scottish Young Labour Vice Chairs of the Scottish Labour Party The Scottish Policy Forum (SPF) is a body of the Scottish Labour Party responsible for developing a rolling policy programme on devolved matters. The Scottish Annual Conference approves policies of the SPF programme every year with the Scottish Executive Committee (in conjunction with a committee from the Scottish Parliament Labour Group) deciding which items of the programme are to be incorporated in Labour's manifesto for the Scottish Parliament elections. The SPF policy-making |
How did the world better know actor Carlo Pedersoli who sadly died last week, he is best known for the 16 films he appeared in with Mario Girotti, who used the name Terence Hill? | Terence Hill Terence Hill Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. Hill started his career as a child actor and went on to multiple starring roles in action and comedy films, many with longtime film partner and friend Bud Spencer. During the height of his popularity Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors. Hill's most widely seen films include comic and standard "Westerns all´Italiana" ("Italian-style Westerns", colloquially called "Spaghetti Westerns"), some based on popular novels by German author Karl May about the American frontier. Of these, the most famous are "Lo chiamavano | Terence Hill married to Lori Hill "née" Zwicklbauer. He has two sons, Jess (born 1969) and Ross (1973-1990). Ross was killed in a car accident in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in the winter of 1990, while Terence was preparing to film "Lucky Luke" (1991) on the Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has directed several films as well as several television productions: Terence Hill Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. Hill started his career as a child actor and went on to multiple starring roles in action and comedy |
Which U.K. no.1 single was based on Psalm number 173 from the bible? | Psalm 137 on, or referring to, Psalm 137 include: Phrases from the psalm have been referenced in numerous works, including: Psalm 137 Psalm 137 is the 137th psalm of the Book of Psalms, and as such it is included in the Hebrew Bible. In English it is generally known as "By the rivers of Babylon", which is how its first words are translated in the King James Version. It is Psalm 136 in the slightly different numbering system of the Greek Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate versions of the Bible. Its Latin title is "Super flumina Babylonis". The psalm is a Communal | German submarine U-173 German submarine U-173 German submarine "U-173" was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" during World War II. She was laid down at the DeSchiMAG AG Weser yard in Bremen as yard number 1013, launched on 11 August 1941 and commissioned on 15 November with "Fregattenkapitän" Heinz-Ehler Beuke in command. "U-173" began her service career with training as part of the 4th U-boat Flotilla. She was reassigned to the 2nd flotilla for operations on 1 July 1942. German Type IXC submarines were slightly larger than the original Type IXBs. "U-173" had a displacement of when at the surface and |
Polaris or the north star, is the brightest star in which constellation? | Polaris Polaris has long been important for the cosmic distance ladder because, prior to Gaia, it was the only Cepheid variable for which direct distance data existed, which had a ripple effect on distance measurements that use this "ruler". Polaris in stellar catalogues and atlases Polaris Polaris, designated Alpha Ursae Minoris ( Ursae Minoris, abbreviated Alpha UMi, UMi), commonly the North Star or Pole Star, is the brightest star in the constellation of Ursa Minor. It is very close to the north celestial pole, making it the current northern pole star. The revised Hipparcos parallax gives a distance to Polaris of | Binary star nature of this system. Another eclipsing binary is Beta Lyrae, which is a semidetached binary star system in the constellation of Lyra. Other interesting binaries include 61 Cygni (a binary in the constellation Cygnus, composed of two K class (orange) main-sequence stars, 61 Cygni A and 61 Cygni B, which is known for its large proper motion), Procyon (the brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor and the eighth-brightest star in the night time sky, which is a binary consisting of the main star with a faint white dwarf companion), SS Lacertae (an eclipsing binary which stopped eclipsing), V907 Sco |
In which year of the 1930’s did Fred Perry first win the Wimbledon men’s singles title? | Fred Perry Fred Perry Frederick John "Fred" Perry (18 May 1909 – 2 February 1995) was a British tennis and table tennis player from England and former World No. 1 who won 10 Majors including eight Grand Slams and two Pro Slams single titles, as well as six Major doubles titles. Perry won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships from 1934 to 1936 and was World Amateur number one tennis player during those three years. Prior to Andy Murray in 2013, Perry was the last British player to win the men's Wimbledon championship, in 1936, and the last British player to win a men's | 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles of a Grand Slam after Jerzy Janowicz defeated countryman Łukasz Kubot in the quarterfinals. Andy Murray defeated Novak Djokovic in the final in straight sets, 6–4, 7–5, 6–4 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, becoming the first British man to win the Wimbledon singles title since Fred Perry in 1936, ending a 76-year drought, as well as the first British winner in singles since Virginia Wade won the women's event in 1977. He was also the first Scot to win the Wimbledon title since Harold Mahony in 1896. Djokovic had advanced to the final |
Detective Richard Poole until his death, and following that detective Humphrey Goodman, have both been the main protagonists in which BBC drama series? | Humphrey Goodman Humphrey Goodman Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman is a character in the crime drama television series "Death in Paradise", portrayed by Kris Marshall. Goodman is assigned to Saint Marie after the murder of D.I. Richard Poole at the start of Series 3. Clues from Poole's investigation helped Goodman reveal the motive and the killer's identity; Goodman commented that Poole had 'solved his own murder.' Goodman stayed on in Saint Marie after his wife Sally announced she would not be joining him on the Caribbean island. He became the chief inspector on the island, and took to Poole's old habit of announcing | Death in Paradise (TV series) Richard Poole (Ben Miller) is assigned to investigate the murder of a British police officer on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie. After he successfully finds the murderer, he is reluctantly required by his supervisors to replace the victim and stay on as the detective inspector (DI) of the island, solving new cases as they appear, and being the object of many fish-out-of-water jokes. At the start of Series 3, Poole is killed and uncoordinated London detective Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall) arrives to investigate the death of his strait-laced predecessor. He then stays in the job as chief investigator |
Which legendary rock band was formed in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young? | Malcolm Young Firebird. Malcolm Young Malcolm Mitchell Young (6 January 1953 – 18 November 2017) was a Scottish-Australian musician and songwriter, best known as a co-founder, rhythm guitarist, backing vocalist and songwriter for the hard rock band AC/DC. Except for a brief absence in 1988, he was with the band from its November 1973 beginning until retiring in 2014 due to health reasons. Young and the other members of AC/DC were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. Though his younger brother Angus was the more visible of the brothers, Malcolm was described as the driving force and | George Young (rock musician) duo with Vanda in 1970, as Vanda & Young, initially living in London. They provided pop and rock songs for other recording artists, and for themselves under various stage names: Paintbox, Tramp, Eddie Avana, Moondance, Haffy's Whiskey Sour, and Band of Hope. The pair worked with Young's elder brother Alex in Grapefruit. Young and Vanda returned to Sydney in 1973 where they worked for Ted Albert, at his Albert Productions recording studio to become the in house producers. One studio-based group, Marcus Hook Roll Band, was joined in 1974 by Young's brothers, Malcolm and Angus. The brothers had already formed |
The Kingdom of Navarre is the setting for which one of Shakespeare’s plays? | Shakespeare authorship question for the common players". That same year Derby was recorded as financing one of London's two children's drama companies, Paul's Boys; he also had his own company, Derby's Men, which played multiple times at court in 1600 and 1601. Derby was born three years before Shakespeare and died in 1642, so his lifespan fits the consensus dating of the works. His initials were W. S., and he was known to sign himself "Will", which qualified him to write the punning "Will" sonnets. Derby travelled in continental Europe in 1582, visiting France and possibly Navarre. "Love's Labour's Lost" is set in | The Plays of William Shakespeare to Johnson's "Preface to Shakespeare": a discussion of Shakespeare's "greatness" especially in his "portrayal of human nature"; the "faults or weakness" of Shakespeare; Shakespeare's plays in relationship to contemporary poetry and drama; and a history of "Shakespearean criticism and editing down to the mid-1700's" and what his work intends to do. Johnson begins: That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; |
What are measured and classified on the Saffir-Simpson scale? | Saffir–Simpson scale as six seconds on a building it’s going to cause rupturing damages that are serious no matter how well it's engineered." Nonetheless, the counties of Broward and Miami-Dade in Florida have building codes that require that critical infrastructure buildings be able to withstand Category 5 winds. Saffir–Simpson scale The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS), formerly the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale (SSHS), classifies hurricanesWestern Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical stormsinto five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds. To be classified as a hurricane, a tropical cyclone must have one-minute maximum sustained winds | Saffir–Simpson scale (2008), Joaquin (2015), Harvey (2017), and Michael (2018). Catastrophic damage will occur Category 5 is the highest category of the Saffir–Simpson scale. These storms cause complete roof failure on many residences and industrial buildings, and some complete building failures with small utility buildings blown over or away. Collapse of many wide-span roofs and walls, especially those with no interior supports, is common. Very heavy and irreparable damage to many wood frame structures and total destruction to mobile/manufactured homes is prevalent. Only a few types of structures are capable of surviving intact, and only if located at least inland. They include |
Which Spanish confectionary company’s logo was designed in 1969 by artist Salvador Dalí? | Chupa Chups abroad, and has a turnover of €500,000,000. In 1991, Bernat passed formal control of the company to his son Xavier. The Smint subsidiary brand/company was founded in 1994. In July 2006 the company as a whole was acquired by the Italian group Perfetti Van Melle. The Chupa Chups logo was designed in 1969 by the artist Salvador Dalí. Its first marketing campaign was the logo with the slogan ""Es rodondo y dura mucho, Chupa Chups"", which translates from Spanish as ""It's round and long-lasting"". Later, celebrities like Madonna were hired to advertise the product. In the 1980s, owing to falling | Eurovision Song Contest 1969 in this case) had a winning ESC entry two years in a row. This is so far the only occasion Spain has hosted the contest. The venue selected to host the 1969 contest was the Teatro Real, an opera house located in Madrid. The theatre reopened in 1966 as a concert theatre and the main concert venue of the Spanish National Orchestra and the RTVE Symphony Orchestra. The final featured an onstage metal sculpture created by surrealist Spanish artist, Salvador Dalí. The surrealist Spanish artist Salvador Dalí was responsible for designing the publicity material for the 1969 contest as well |
"Which French Post-Impressionist painter produced the works ""Surprised!"", ""In a Tropical Forest"", ""Combat of a Tiger and a Buffalo"" and ""The Football Players""?" | Tiger in a Tropical Storm Tiger in a Tropical Storm Tiger in a Tropical Storm or Surprised! is an 1891 oil-on-canvas painting by Henri Rousseau. It was the first of the jungle paintings for which the artist is chiefly known. It shows a tiger, illuminated by a flash of lightning, preparing to pounce on its prey in the midst of a raging gale. Unable to have a painting accepted by the jury of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, Rousseau exhibited "Tiger in a Tropical Storm" in 1891 under the title "Surpris!", at the Salon des Indépendants, which was unjuried and open to all | Tiger in a Tropical Storm (c. 1895), in which humans are the predators; "Jungle with Buffalo Attacked by a Tiger" (1908); and "Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo" (1908). His work continued to be derided by the critics up to and after his death in 1910, but he won a following among his contemporaries: Picasso, Matisse, and Toulouse-Lautrec were all admirers of his work. Around 1908, the art dealer Ambroise Vollard purchased "Surprised!" and two other works from Rousseau, who had offered them at a rate considerably higher than the 190 francs he finally received. The painting was later purchased by the National Gallery, |
SVG Air is the national flag carrier airline of which country? | SVG Air SVG Air SVG AIR is an airline company located at the Argyle International Airport, Argyle, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines that operates both scheduled and charter flight services within the Eastern Caribbean islands as far north as Jamaica and as far south as Guyana. St. Vincent and the Grenadines Air or SVG AIR, is a national airline of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, along with Mustique Airways. SVG Air and Mustique Airways have combined to form a SVG Air / Grenadine Air Alliance, operating 17 Aircraft, with bases in St. Vincent, Antigua and Grenada. Offering visitors and residents a wider | Flag carrier a state-owned enterprise, or completely privatized. The aviation industry has also been gradually deregulated and liberalized, permitting greater freedoms of the air particularly in the United States and in the European Union with the signing of the Open Skies agreement. One of the features of such agreements is the right of a country to designate multiple airlines to serve international routes with the result that there is no single "flag carrier". The chart below lists airlines considered to be a "flag carrier", based on current or former state ownership, or other verifiable designation as a national airline. Flag carrier A |
Who wrote the novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra? | Thus Spoke Zarathustra Thus Spoke Zarathustra Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (, also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra) is a philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885 and published between 1883 and 1891. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the "eternal recurrence of the same", the parable on the "death of God", and the "prophecy" of the "Übermensch", which were first introduced in "The Gay Science". "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" was conceived while Nietzsche was writing "The Gay Science"; he made a small note, reading "6,000 feet beyond man | Thus Spoke Zarathustra as a teenager, but this work remains unpublished. The short score of the third symphony by Arnold Bax originally began with a quotation from Thus Spoke Zarathustra: ‘My wisdom became pregnant on lonely mountains; upon barren stones she brought forth her young’. Latin American writer Giannina Braschi wrote the philosophical novel "United States of Banana" based on Walter Kaufman's translation of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"; in it, Zarathustra and Hamlet philosophize about the liberty of modern man in a capitalist society. Italian progressive rock band Museo Rosenbach released in 1973 the album "Zarathustra", with lyrics referring to the book. "Also Sprach |
First Impressions was the original title of which Jane Austen novel? | First Impressions (musical) the novel does on Mrs. Bennet's perspective and on her tireless attempts to marry off her five marriageable daughters despite the family's lack of money. The emphasis on Mrs. Bennet is the result of having cast a star (Hermione Gingold) in what was meant by Austen to be a secondary role. When Jane Austen wrote her first novel, a novel about the Bennet family of Longbourn, she called it First Impressions, but she couldn’t find a publisher. However, once "Sense & Sensibility", Austen’s second novel, became a popular success, T. Egerton of Whitehall, the publisher of "Sense & Sensibility", agreed | Jane Austen fan fiction Jane Austen fan fiction Jane Austen fan fiction is the collection of numerous sequels and spin-offs produced by authors who have either used the plot of Austen's original novels, or have extended them, to produce new works of fiction. Austen's posthumous popularity has inspired fan fiction that runs the gamut through numerous genres, but the most concentrated medium has remained the novel. According to Pucci and Thompson in their 2003 survey on the contemporary evolution of Jane Austen's work, at the turn of the 20th century (over 150 years after the final publication of her first collected works), over one |
In the world of technology how is Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 better known? | Hiroshi Yasuda Text for MPEG" in 2002 and The Text for Content Distribution in 2003. Hiroshi Yasuda Prof. Dr. of Engineering Hiroshi Yasuda (born 1944) is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Tokyo and works as a Consultant for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. In the sphere of international standardization, together with Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione he founded the Moving Picture Experts Group which standardized MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, better known as MP3. Prof. Hiroshi Yasuda received his B.E., M.E. and Dr.E. degrees from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1967, 1969, and 1972 respectively. Thereafter, he joined the Electrical Communication Laboratories of | Moving Picture Experts Group Moving Picture Experts Group The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is a working group of authorities that was formed by ISO and IEC to set standards for audio and video compression and transmission. It was established in 1988 by the initiative of Hiroshi Yasuda (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and Leonardo Chiariglione, group Chair since its inception. The first MPEG meeting was in May 1988 in Ottawa, Canada. As of late 2005, MPEG has grown to include approximately 350 members per meeting from various industries, universities, and research institutions. MPEG's official designation is ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 – "Coding of |
In Norse mythology who was the god of beauty, innocence, peace, and rebirth? | Norse mythology and possesses a resounding horn; the jötunn Loki, who brings tragedy to the gods by engineering the death of the goddess Frigg's beautiful son Baldr; and numerous other deities. Most of the surviving mythology centres on the plights of the gods and their interaction with various other beings, such as humanity and the jötnar, beings who may be friends, lovers, foes or family members of the gods. The cosmos in Norse mythology consists of Nine Worlds that flank a central cosmological tree, Yggdrasil. Units of time and elements of the cosmology are personified as deities or beings. Various forms of | Norse mythology Norse mythology Norse mythology is the body of myths of the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period. The northernmost extension of Germanic mythology, Norse mythology consists of tales of various deities, beings, and heroes derived from numerous sources from both before and after the pagan period, including medieval manuscripts, archaeological representations, and folk tradition. Numerous gods are mentioned in the source texts such as the hammer-wielding, humanity-protecting thunder-god Thor, who relentlessly fights his foes; the one-eyed, raven-flanked god Odin, who craftily pursues knowledge |
The U.S. horseracing Triple Crown is a title awarded to a three-year-old Thoroughbred horse who wins the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and which other race? | Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States) Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States) In the United States, the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, commonly known as the Triple Crown, is a title awarded to a three-year-old Thoroughbred horse who wins the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes. The three races were inaugurated in different years, the last being the Kentucky Derby in 1875. These races are now run annually in May and early June of each year. The Triple Crown Trophy, commissioned in 1950 but awarded to all previous winners as well as those after 1950, is awarded to a Triple Crown winner. The first | 1947 Preakness Stakes 1947 Preakness Stakes The 1947 Preakness Stakes was the 57th running of the $100,000 added Preakness Stakes, a horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds. The second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series took place on May 10, 1947 and was run seven days after the 1947 Kentucky Derby. Ridden by Douglas Dodson, who was praised by the "Daily Racing Form" for a smart ride, Faultless won the mile and three sixteenths race by one and a quarter lengths over runner-up On Trust with the betting favorite Phalanx in third. Jet Pilot, winner of the Kentucky Derby, finished fourth.The race was |
Kampala is the capital city of which country? | Kampala Capital City Authority Kampala Capital City Authority Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) is the legal entity, established by the Ugandan Parliament, that is responsible for the operations of the capital city of Kampala in Uganda. It replaced the Kampala City Council (KCC). The headquarters of KCCA are located on Nakasero Hill in the central business district of Kampala. The headquarters are immediately south-west of the Uganda Parliament Building. The main entrance to the KCCA Complex is located on Kimathi Avenue, which comes off of Parliament Avenue. The coordinates of this building are 0° 18' 54.00"N, 32° 35' 9.00"E (Latitude:0.315000; Longitude:32.585832). The affairs of | Kampala Capital City Authority As of December 2018, the key officials responsible for KCCA affairs were: (1) Beti Kamya-Turwomwe, Cabinet Minister of Kampala Capital City Authority, since June 2016 (2) Benna Namugwanya, Minister of State for Kampala Capital City Authority, since 2016 (3) Erias Lukwago, the Lord Mayor of Kampala since 2011 (4) Sarah Kanyike, the Deputy Lord Mayor of Kampala, since 2016 (5) Andrew Kitaka, the Acting Executive Director of Kampala Capital City Authority since December 2018 (6) Samuel Sserunkuuma, the Acting Deputy Executive Director of Kampala Capital City Authority, since May 2017. Kampala is divided into five divisions, each headed by a |
"""An Agony in Eight Fits"" is the subtitle of which literary work, first published in 1876, it was written by Lewis Carroll?" | Snark (Lewis Carroll) Snark (Lewis Carroll) The snark is a fictional animal species created by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark". His descriptions of the creatures were, in his own words, unimaginable, and he wanted that to remain so. According to Carroll, the initial inspiration to write the poem – which he called an "agony in eight fits" – was the final line, "For the snark was a boojum, you see". Carroll was asked repeatedly to explain the snark. In all cases, his answer was he did not know and could not explain. Later commentators have offered many | Lewis Carroll: A Biography Lewis Carroll: A Biography Lewis Carroll: A Biography is a 1995 biography of author Lewis Carroll by Morton N. Cohen, first published by Knopf, later by Macmillan. It is generally considered to be the definitive scholarly work on Carroll's (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) life. Cohen's approach is mainly chronological, with some chapters grouped by theme, such as those on Carroll's religion, his love of little girls, and his guilty feelings. Cohen, a Carroll scholar for 30 years, opts to use Dodgson's first name, Charles, throughout the work, because it "seems most appropriate in a book dealing with the intimacy |
"Who was known as ""The Father of Antiseptic Surgery""?" | Father of surgery the veins. He has been called the "father of ancient surgery". The Scotsman John Hunter (1728–1793) was known for his scientific, experimental approach to medicine and surgery. He has been called the "father of modern surgery". The American surgeon Philip Syng Physick (1768–1837) worked in Philadelphia and invented a number of new surgical methods and instruments. He has been called the "father of modern surgery". The Englishman Joseph Lister (1827–1912) became well known for his advocacy of the use of carbolic acid (phenol) as an antiseptic, and was dubbed the "father of modern surgery" as a result. The German Theodor | Father of surgery of Day Surgery". Father of surgery Various individuals have advanced the surgical art and, as a result, have been called the father of surgery by various sources. Sushruta (Sanskrit: सुश्रुत, lit. "well heard") was an ancient Indian physician, known as the main author of The Sushruta Samhita (ca. 600 BCE), an important early medical text. He is one of a number of individuals described as the "Father of surgery". The Arab physician Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (936-1013) wrote "Al-Tasrif" (The Method of Medicine), a 30-part medical encyclopedia in Arabic. In the encyclopedia, he introduced his collection of over 200 surgical instruments, |
Which traditional books of the Bible are no longer in the modern versions? | Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible The non-canonical books referenced in the Bible includes pseudepigrapha, writings from Hellenistic and other non-Biblical cultures, and lost works of known or unknown status. By the "Bible" is meant those books recognised by most Christians and Jews as being part of Old Testament (or Tanakh) as well as those recognised by Christians alone as being part of the Biblical apocrypha or of the Deuterocanon. It may also include books of the Anagignoskomena () that are accepted only by Eastern Orthodox Christians. For the purposes of this article, "referenced" can mean direct quotations, paraphrases, or | Books of the Bible from the Jewish Masoretic Text and most modern Protestant Bibles. Catholics, following the Canon of Trent (1546), describe these books as deuterocanonical, while Greek Orthodox Christians, following the Synod of Jerusalem (1672), use the traditional name of "anagignoskomena", meaning "that which is to be read." They are present in a few historic Protestant versions; the German Luther Bible included such books, as did the English 1611 King James Version. Empty table cells indicate that a book is absent from that canon. Several of the books in the Eastern Orthodox canon are also found in the appendix to the Latin Vulgate, |
Who was the architect of the Albert Memorial in Kensington gardens? | Albert Memorial Albert Memorial The Albert Memorial is situated in Kensington Gardens, London, directly to the north of the Royal Albert Hall. It was commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her beloved husband Prince Albert, who died in 1861. The memorial was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic Revival style. Opened in July 1872 by Queen Victoria, with the statue of Albert ceremonially "seated" in 1876, the memorial consists of an ornate canopy or pavilion, in the style of a Gothic ciborium over the high altar of a church, containing a statue of the prince facing south. The | Kensington Gardens there are other public buildings such as the Albert Memorial (at the south-east corner of Kensington Gardens, opposite the Royal Albert Hall), the Serpentine Gallery, and Speke's monument. The park also contains the Elfin Oak, an elaborately carved 900-year-old tree stump. The park is the setting of J.M. Barrie's book "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens", a prelude to the character's famous adventures in Neverland. The fairies of the gardens are first described in Thomas Tickell's 1722 poem "Kensington Gardens". Both the book and the character are honoured with the Peter Pan statue by George Frampton located in the park. Rodrigo |
Name the year: Britain joins the Common Market, the Cod war begins and Red Rum wins his 1st Grand National. | Red Rum Red Rum Red Rum (bay gelding; 3 May 1965 – 18 October 1995) was a champion Thoroughbred steeplechaser. He achieved an unmatched historic treble when he won the Grand National in 1973, 1974 and 1977, and also came second in the two intervening years, 1975 and 1976. The Grand National is a notoriously difficult race that has been described as "the ultimate test of a horse’s courage". He was also renowned for his jumping ability, having not fallen in 100 races. The 1973 race in which Red Rum secured his comeback victory from 30 lengths behind is often considered one | Red Rum Grand National, and remains the only horse to win both in the same season.) Red Rum came second in 1975 and 1976; Tommy Stack replaced Fletcher as jockey in the last race after Fletcher angered trainer Ginger McCain by telling the press the horse no longer felt right after a defeat in a race away from Aintree. Again, Red Rum saved his best for Aintree but was held off by Rag Trade. The following year, Stack rode the 12-year-old Red Rum to his record third Grand National triumph, in what is regarded as one of the greatest moments in horse |
Pegasus airlines are based in which country? | Pegasus Airlines to acquire an A380 but later cancelled the order. In 2007, Pegasus carried more passengers in Turkey than any other private airline. In 2008, it carried a total of 4.4 million passengers. In 2013 the passenger traffic grew even further to 16.8 million passengers carried. In 2012, Pegasus Airlines, the second largest airline in Turkey, has signed for up to 100 A320neo Family aircraft (57 A320neo and 18 A321neo models), of which 75 are firm orders. Pegasus becomes a new Airbus customer and the first Turkish airline to order the A320neo. This was the largest single commercial aircraft order ever | Pegasus Airlines are fully licensed and are used to train new staff members both on the ground and in the air. Pegasus Airlines is one of the official sponsors of Türk Telekom Arena, newly built stadium for Turkish Club Galatasaray SK. Pegasus Airlines has codeshare agreements with the following airlines: As of October 2018, the Pegasus Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft: Pegasus Airlines Pegasus Airlines () () is a Turkish low-cost airline headquartered in the Kurtköy area of Pendik, Istanbul with bases at several Turkish airports. On 1 December 1989 two businesses, Net and Silkar, partnered with Aer Lingus to |
Tony Gallagher is the editor of which Daily Newspaper? | Tony Gallagher as the editor-in-chief of "The Sun" on 2 September 2015. He is a fan of West Ham United, a team he came to support because his father worked in London's East End. He is married with three children. Tony Gallagher Tony Gallagher (born 2 November 1963) is a British newspaper editor. He was appointed as editor-in-chief of "The Sun" in early September 2015. He is a former editor at "The Daily Telegraph" and was joint deputy editor of the "Daily Mail" before his current post. Gallagher attended Finchley Catholic High School and Bristol University and then City University London. He | Tony Gallagher reporter at the "Daily Mail" in 1990. He attracted attention for his Princess Diana-related exclusives. He later became news editor and finally assistant editor in 2006. He joined "The Daily Telegraph" in October 2006 as head of news. He became deputy editor in September 2007. As deputy editor, Gallagher took the lead on exclusives relating to the MPs' expenses scandal. In November 2009, he was promoted to editor. Gallagher relinquished his post with immediate effect in January 2014. The following April he became joint deputy editor of the "Daily Mail" and shared the role with John Steafel. Gallagher was appointed |
Name the yean Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader, cruise liner Achille Lauro is attacked and Wigan beat Hull 26-25 in the Challenge Cup Final? | MS Achille Lauro MS Achille Lauro MS "Achille Lauro was a cruise ship based in Naples, Italy. Built between 1939 and 1947 as MS "Willem Ruys, a passenger liner for the Rotterdamsche Lloyd, she was hijacked by members of the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985. In other incidents, she also suffered two serious collisions (in 1953 with the and in 1975 with the cargo ship "Youseff") and four onboard fires or explosions (in 1965, 1972, 1981, and 1994). In the last of these, in 1994, the ship caught fire and sank in the Indian Ocean off Somalia. Ordered in 1938 to replace the | 2017 Challenge Cup 2017 Challenge Cup The 2017 Challenge Cup, (also known as the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 116th staging of the Challenge Cup the main rugby league knockout tournament for teams in the European Super League, the British National Leagues and a number of invited amateur clubs. The defending champions were Hull F.C. who beat Warrington Wolves 12–10 in the 2016 final at Wembley Stadium. Hull F.C. retained the trophy beating Wigan Warriors 18–14 at Wembley on 26 August 2017. The format of the competition was eight knock-out rounds followed by a final. The first two rounds were |
Who was die leader of the gunpowder plot? | Gunpowder Plot in popular culture Chuzzlewit" it is said that a member of the Chuzzlewit family was "unquestionably" involved in the Gunpowder Plot, and that Fawkes himself may indeed have been a scion of the family's "remarkable stock." By the 19th century, Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot had begun to be used as the basis for pantomimes. One early example is "Harlequin and Guy Fawkes: or, the 5th of November", which was performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on 16 November 1835. After the Plot is discovered, Fawkes changes into Harlequin and Robert Catesby, the leader of the Plot, into Pantaloon, following which "pure | Gunpowder Plot Gerard (who, following the plot's discovery, had evaded capture), wrote an account called "What was the Gunpowder Plot?", alleging Salisbury's culpability. This prompted a refutation later that year by Samuel Gardiner, who argued that Gerard had gone too far in trying to "wipe away the reproach" which the plot had exacted on generations of English Catholics. Gardiner portrayed Salisbury as guilty of nothing more than opportunism. Subsequent attempts to prove Salisbury's involvement, such as Francis Edwards's 1969 work "Guy Fawkes: the real story of the gunpowder plot?", have similarly foundered on the lack of any clear evidence. The cellars under |
"Which chemical element has a name meaning ""Devil's Copper"" in German?" | Chemical element native solid elements occur in alloys, such as that of iron and nickel. The history of the discovery and use of the elements began with primitive human societies that found native elements like carbon, sulfur, copper and gold. Later civilizations extracted elemental copper, tin, lead and iron from their ores by smelting, using charcoal. Alchemists and chemists subsequently identified many more; all of the naturally occurring elements were known by 1950. The properties of the chemical elements are summarized in the periodic table, which organizes the elements by increasing atomic number into rows ("periods") in which the columns ("groups") share | Chemical element of metals. Cu comes from Cuprum, Fe comes from Ferrum, Ag from Argentum. The symbols were not followed by a period (full stop) as with abbreviations. Later chemical elements were also assigned unique chemical symbols, based on the name of the element, but not necessarily in English. For example, sodium has the chemical symbol 'Na' after the Latin "natrium". The same applies to "W" (wolfram) for tungsten, "Fe" (ferrum) for iron, "Hg" (hydrargyrum) for mercury, "Sn" (stannum) for tin, "K" (kalium) for potassium, "Au" (aurum) for gold, "Ag" (argentum) for silver, "Pb" (plumbum) for lead, "Cu" (cuprum) for copper, and |
Where in Paris would you find The Richelieu Wing, The Sully Wing and The Napoleon Hall? | Lescot Wing the Pavillon de Beauvais. This northern extension was begun in 1624 under Louis XIII and Richelieu, but work was halted around 1626 due to lack of funds and only completed in 1639–1642 to the designs of Jacques Lemercier. The Lemercier Wing is a symmetrical extension of Lescot's Wing in exactly the same Renaissance style. With the addition of the Lemercier Wing, the last external vestiges of the medieval Louvre were demolished. Lescot Wing The Lescot Wing (in French, the Aile Lescot or Aile Henri II) is the oldest portion above ground of the Louvre Palace, in Paris, France. It was | The West Wing considerable discussion. While "The West Wing" is not completely accurate in its portrayal of the actual West Wing, former White House staffers described the show as capturing the feel of the real West Wing. However, President Gerald Ford's daughter Susan made the comment "I can't watch [the show]. They turn left and right where you are not supposed to." Former Senate aide Lawrence O'Donnell and former White House aide and presidential campaign speechwriter Eli Attie were both longtime writers on the show (O'Donnell for seasons 1–2 and 5–7, Attie for seasons 3–7). Former White House Press Secretaries Dee Dee Myers |
Which city is situated at the confluence of the Eden and Caldew rivers? | City of Carlisle making the city the largest in England by area. Although 70% of the city's 100,750 people live in central Carlisle, 98% of the city's land use is rural. The city is traversed by several major rivers, including the Caldew, Eden, and Petteril, and is bisected by the M6, A74(M) motorways. Along the City of Carlisle's northern extent is the Solway Firth, which forms the western section of the Anglo-Scottish border, and thus divides the city from Dumfries and Galloway, one of the council areas of Scotland. To the east is the English county of Northumberland; to the south is the | River Caldew the castle before emptying into the River Eden opposite Stanwix. " Probably 'the cold river', from OE 'cald' and OE 'éa' 'river', influenced by OFr 'ewe' 'water'...However, the possibility that this is a Brit.[ish] name meaning 'swift river' from the same root as 'Calder' cannot be ruled out altogether." (OE=Old English, OFr=Old French, Brit.=British language). River Caldew The River Caldew is a river running through Cumbria in England. Historically, the county watered by the Caldew was Cumberland. The Caldew's source is high up on Skiddaw, between the summit and Sale How, in the Lake District, from where it runs east |
What is the better known name of the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories? | George K. Miley Baltimore, as well as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University. Miley served as vice-president of the International Astronomical Union from 2006 to 2012, where his focus was on astronomy and development. In Manchester, Miley was active at Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories in radio astronomy, where he was involved in developing long-baseline interferometry, a high-resolution technique that Miley used to study the properties of quasars. Miley continued this research during his stay at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, establishing a relation between the size and distance of quasars. Upon his transfer to Leiden, Miley began to work at the newly-completed | Radio astronomy Radio astronomy Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies. The first detection of radio waves from an astronomical object was in 1932, when Karl Jansky at Bell Telephone Laboratories observed radiation coming from the Milky Way. Subsequent observations have identified a number of different sources of radio emission. These include stars and galaxies, as well as entirely new classes of objects, such as radio galaxies, quasars, pulsars, and masers. The discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation, regarded as evidence for the Big Bang theory, was made through radio astronomy. Radio astronomy is |
In the human body, what is the 'Trachea more commonly known as? | Trachea the larynx and then the pharynx where it can be either swallowed into the stomach or expelled as phlegm. This self-clearing mechanism is termed mucociliary clearance. Inflammation of the trachea is known as tracheitis. When the trachea is inflamed as well as the larynx and bronchi, this is known as croup, which often causes a distinct, barking cough. Tracheal intubation refers to the insertion of a catheter down the trachea. This procedure is commonly performed during surgery, in order to ensure a person receives enough oxygen when sedated. The catheter is connected to a machine that monitors the airflow, oxygenation | History of beliefs about the human body much on discourse about bodies, rather than on material bodies themselves. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's 1965 "Rabelais and His World", they promoted a more materially orientated direction in the history of the body. The Ebers Papyrus is an Egyptian medical text and is the oldest known record of the human body, dating back to 3000 BC. The Ebers Papyrus describes the body by physical examination and what can be felt. Clinical investigations such as the Pulse, percussion of the body, the recognition of diseased or disordered states. “If thou examinst a swelling of the covering of his belly’s horns above |
Who had a number one hit in 1961 with Runaway? | Runaway (Del Shannon song) Runaway (Del Shannon song) "Runaway" is a number-one "Billboard" Hot 100 song made famous by Del Shannon in 1961. It was written by Shannon and keyboardist Max Crook, and became a major international hit. It is No. 472 on "Rolling Stone"s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, compiled in 2010. Singer-guitarist Charles Westover and keyboard player Max Crook performed together as members of "Charlie Johnson and the Big Little Show Band" in Battle Creek, Michigan, before their group won a recording contract in 1960. Westover took the new stage name "Del Shannon", and Crook, who had invented | Anyone Who Had a Heart (song) Anyone Who Had a Heart (song) "Anyone Who Had a Heart" is a song written by Burt Bacharach (music) and Hal David (lyrics) for Dionne Warwick in 1963. In January 1964, Warwick's original recording hit the Top Ten in the United States, Canada, Spain, Netherlands, South Africa, Belgium and Australia. In the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and New Zealand, Warwick's recording lost out to a cover version by Cilla Black. Black's version was a UK number-one hit for three weeks in February/March 1964 and was also the fourth best-selling single of 1964 in the UK, with sales of |
Turkish Van, Ragamuffin and Devon Rex are all breeds of which animal? | Devon Rex by Beryl Cox in Buckfastleigh, Devon, UK, in 1959. The breed was initially thought to be linked with the Cornish Rex; however, test mating proved otherwise. Cats have three types of hair: guard hair, awn hair, and down hair. The Devon Rex's coat is unusual because there is little guard hair. The curl in Devon Rex fur is caused by a different mutation and gene than that of the Cornish Rex and German Rex, and breeding of a Devon with either of those cats results in cats without rexed (curled) fur. Devons, which are medium-sized cats, are often called "pixie | Shetland animal breeds Shetland animal breeds The Shetland Islands of Scotland have long had their own distinct animal breeds, due to the remoteness of the archipelago. Below is a list of Shetland's domesticated animals. The Shetland pony is a very small, robust breed of pony. Shetlands range in size from a minimum height of approximately 710mm to an official maximum height of 1070mm at the withers. 1200mm for American Shetlands) Shetland ponies have heavy coats, short legs and are considered quite intelligent. They are a very strong breed of pony, used for riding, driving, and pack purposes. The original Shetland Sheepdog was of |
What was the name of Americas answer to Alf Garnett? | Alf Garnett "All in the Family", featured Archie Bunker as Garnett's analog. Like Garnett in British popular culture, Bunker became an icon in American popular culture for his very conservative views, although the Bunker character was portrayed as somewhat more likable than Garnett ever was. Bunker, in turn, served as an inspiration for Eric Cartman of "South Park". The German version of the show, "Ein Herz und eine Seele", featured Alfred Tetzlaff as Garnett's analog, although Tetzlaff was also designed as a parody of Adolf Hitler. In the movie "Till Death Us Do Part", Alf receives a letter advising him that he | Alf Garnett Smoker of the Year in 1967 for services to pipesmoking. The character's name has become a standard description of anyone ranting at the world in general, and has even found its way into politics, Oswald Mosley dismissing Enoch Powell after his Rivers of Blood speech as "a Middle Class Alf Garnett", former Prime Minister Harold Wilson also criticising Powell for making Alf Garnett 'politically articulate' and conferring upon him 'a degree of political respectability' Denis Healey accusing Margaret Thatcher of possessing "the diplomacy of Alf Garnett" and more recently has been used in criticism of politicians such as Ken Livingstone |
Which car manufacturer makes models called Up, Jetta and Phaeton? | Volkswagen Jetta (China) the Volkswagen Jetta. The Jetta King was the result of the technical combination between the Volkswagen Jetta and design scheme from the fourth generation Volkswagen Passat in 1997. Production started in August 1998, and its name was changed to "Jetta King" (or 大众捷达王 in Mandarin). The second facelift was revealed in March 2004 (taking influences from Volkswagen's most expensive model, the Phaeton). On 29 July 2007, it was announced that First Automotive Works expanded its production of the Mark 2 Jetta by building a new assembly plant in Chengdu, Sichuan Province in Southwest China. The expansion was driven by the | Phaeton body passengers were separated from the driver and the front passengers by a cowl or bulkhead, often with its own folding windshield. The phaeton and the touring car were popular up to the 1930s, after which they were largely replaced by the convertible, which also had a retractable roof, but also included side windows so that the car could be completely enclosed. The Willys-Overland Jeepster was the last true phaeton produced by a major US automaker, and was introduced ten years after the previous phaeton to be offered by an American manufacturer. In 1952, a year after Willys last offered the |
Don't Rain on My Parade and Second Hand Rose are songs from which musical? | Don't Rain on My Parade Don't Rain on My Parade "Don't Rain on My Parade" is a popular song from the 1964 musical "Funny Girl". It was also featured in the 1968 movie version of the musical. The song was written by Bob Merrill and Jule Styne. Both the movie and stage versions feature Barbra Streisand performing the song. In 2004 it finished No. 46 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. Streisand has sung the song live on many occasions, including during her comeback tour "Barbra Streisand: The Concert Tour" (1993–1994), "Timeless Live In Concert Tour" (1999–2000), "" (2006–2007) | Don't Rain on My Parade International champion barbershop quartet Max Q covered it on their 2009 album, "Journey". It was covered by Wé McDonald in the season 11 finale of "The Voice". January 13, 2017, the American Pops Orchestra presents “Don’t Rain on My Parade: 75 Years of Streisand”celebrating her 75th birthday. Hosted by Fran Drescher, featuring a parade of special Broadway guests, including Amber Iman, Lindsay Mendez, Will & Anthony Nunziata, Laura Osnes. On April 2, 2018, Joey McIntyre performed a live cover of the song for the "Broadway Backwards" benefit at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Don't Rain on My Parade "Don't Rain on |
Which chemist discovered Nitrous Oxide in 1772? | Nitrous oxide and inhibit pain signalling. Exactly how causes the release of endogenous opioid peptides remains uncertain. Nitrous oxide is a colourless, non-toxic gas with a faint, sweet odour. Nitrous oxide supports combustion by releasing the dipolar bonded oxygen radical, thus it can relight a glowing splint. The above reaction is the route adopted by the commercial chemical industry to produce azide salts, which are used as detonators. The gas was first synthesised in 1772 by English natural philosopher and chemist Joseph Priestley, who called it "phlogisticated nitrous air" (see phlogiston) or "inflammable nitrous air". Priestley published his discovery in the book | Nitrous oxide (medication) or pneumothorax. Use in the early part of pregnancy is not recommended. Breastfeeding can occur following use. Nitrous oxide was discovered between 1772 and 1793 and used for anesthesia in 1844. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the most effective and safe medicines needed in a health system. It often comes as a 50/50 mixture with oxygen. Devices with a demand valve are available for self-administration. The setup and maintenance is relatively expensive for developing countries. Nitrous oxide (NO) is itself active (does not require any changes in the body to become active), and so |
Airbaltic is an airline of which country? | Vilnius Airport these Soviet-era aircraft types with modern Boeing 737 and Boeing 757 jets and Saab 340, Saab 2000 turboprops. Operations were suspended effective 17 January 2009 as a result of growing financial difficulties. With the collapse of flyLAL, the airport lost its scheduled services to Amsterdam, Budapest, Istanbul, Madrid and Tbilisi. flyLAL used to operate to Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Milan and Paris in competition with Aer Lingus, airBaltic or Lufthansa. AirBaltic, the national airline of Latvia and under Scandinavian Airlines part-ownership, opened up a second base at Vilnius in 2004 to complement its Riga operation and became the largest carrier at | AirBaltic be next generation Q400 aircraft. AirBaltic had strong links with SAS, which owned 47.2% of the airline, and operated frequent flights to SAS hubs in Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm, and the airline formerly used the SAS EuroBonus frequent flyer programme, but it now has its own frequent flyer programme called PINS. Some of AirBaltic's products and services are still shared with SAS, including co-ordinated timetabling and shared airport lounges. AirBaltic is not a member of any airline alliance, but does have codeshare agreements in place with several Star Alliance member airlines and others. AirBaltic had secondary hubs at Vilnius International |
In which bond film did Britt Ekland play Mary Goodnight | Britt Ekland as the lead Bond girl, Mary Goodnight, in the James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974), which received mixed reviews but furthered Ekland's status as a sex symbol. In 1976 she provided the French spoken part at the end of then boyfriend Rod Stewart's hit single "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)". Ekland also portrayed biographical characters, such as the one based on real-life actress Anny Ondra (boxer Max Schmeling's wife) in the television movie "Ring of Passion" (1978). Ekland was also featured in the horror pictures "The Monster Club" (1980) and "Satan's Mistress" (1982). Ekland had | Britt Ekland Film Festival, where she became highly emotional when she saw the film. In the 2018 film "My Dinner with Hervé", Ekland was played by Helena Mattsson. Britt Ekland Britt Ekland (; born Britt-Marie Eklund; 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress and singer. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including critically acclaimed roles in William Friedkin's "The Night They Raided Minsky's" (1968), and the British crime film "Get Carter" (1971), which established her as a movie sex symbol. She also starred in the British cult horror film "The Wicker Man" (1973) and appeared |
In which country is the Tower of Hercules, the oldest roman lighthouse still in use today? | Tower of Hercules Tower of Hercules The Tower of Hercules (Galician and ) is an ancient Roman lighthouse on a peninsula about from the centre of Corunna, Galicia, in north-western Spain. Until the 20th century, the tower itself was known as the "Farum Brigantium". The Latin word "farum" is derived from the Greek "pharos" for the Lighthouse of Alexandria. The structure is tall and overlooks the North Atlantic coast of Spain. The structure, built in the 2nd century and renovated in 1791, is the oldest Roman lighthouse in use today. There is a sculpture garden featuring works by Pablo Serrano and Francisco Leiro. | Tower of Hercules Portugal) in the former province of Lusitania, as an offering dedicated to the Roman god of war, Mars. The tower has been in constant use since the 2nd century and is considered to be the oldest extant lighthouse. The base of the building has 18 sides, the tower is 4 sided, continuing to be 7 sided, then 5 sides with a final dome on top. The earliest known reference to the lighthouse at Brigantium is by Paulus Orosius in "Historiae adversum Paganos" written around 415–417: Secundus angulus circium intendit, ubi Brigantia Gallaeciae civitas sita altissimum farum et inter pauca memorandi |
Which British Prime Minister declared war on Russia on the 28th March 1854? | Crimean War war") for declaring war against Russia. On 28 March 1854, after Russia ignored an Anglo-French ultimatum to withdraw from the Danubian Principalities, the UK and France declared war. Britain was concerned about Russian activity and Sir John Burgoyne, senior advisor to Lord Aberdeen, urged that the Dardanelles should be occupied and works of sufficient strength built to block any Russian move to capture Constantinople and gain access to the Mediterranean Sea. The Corps of Royal Engineers sent men to the Dardanelles, while Burgoyne went to Paris, meeting the British Ambassador and the French Emperor. Lord Cowley wrote on 8 February | Prime Minister of Russia does not have the majority and fails to form a coalition, the President may need to appoint a loyalist to the position of Prime Minister. For example this occurred in 1998 when the state Duma (which had most of the opposition to the President of the party) twice refused to appoint Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and Boris Yeltsin appointed Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, who supported the left opposition. In the mid-90s in Russia there was a term "Technical Prime Minister". This term refers to the Prime Minister, who is not an independent political figure, is only the nominal head of |
Which character in Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel is obsessed with Lolita? | Vladimir Nabokov he expanded into paragraphs and chapters and rearranged to form the structure of his novels, a process that has been adopted by many screenplay writers in subsequent years. Nabokov published under the pseudonym "Vladimir Sirin" in the 1920s to 1940s, occasionally to mask his identity from critics. He also makes cameo appearances in some of his novels, such as the character "Vivian Darkbloom" (an anagram of "Vladimir Nabokov"), who appears in both "Lolita" and "Ada, or Ardor", and the character Blavdak Vinomori (another anagram of Nabokov's name) in "King, Queen, Knave". Nabokov is noted for his complex plots, clever word | Vladimir Nabokov as a "culture shock." T. Coraghessan Boyle said that "Nabokov's playfulness and the ravishing beauty of his prose are ongoing influences" on his writing, and Marisha Pessl has also been influenced by Nabokov. Nabokov appears in W. G. Sebald's 1993 novel "The Emigrants". The song cycle "Sing, Poetry" on the 2011 contemporary classical album "Troika" comprises settings of Russian and English versions of three of Nabokov's poems by such composers as Jay Greenberg, Michael Schelle and Lev Zhurbin. Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (; , also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-born novelist, |
American Fuzzy Lop, Jersey Wooly and British Giant are all breads of which animal? | American Fuzzy Lop They are very fuzzy, as their name indicates, and make excellent pets. American Fuzzy Lop The American Fuzzy Lop is a rabbit breed recognized by the American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA). It is similar in appearance to a Holland Lop. However, the American Fuzzy Lop is a wool breed and will have wool similar to the Angora breeds although the wool will be shorter than that of a commercial Angora. The American fuzzy lop has to weigh up to 4 pounds in order to be shown. The background of the American Fuzzy Lop is interwoven with the history of the | American Fuzzy Lop her Fuzzy Lops to Convention in Madison, Wisconsin because of limited cage space. The American Fuzzy Lop had to pass that year to become a recognized breed or else its proponents would have to start the procedure all over again. Fortunately, Patty's presentation passed at this Convention, and the American Fuzzy Lop became a new recognized breed. In 1989 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Helen McKie's "Herbie" was selected as the first Best of Breed (BOB) American Fuzzy Lop at an ARBA Convention. Herbie's picture graced the ARBA Standard of Perfection, 1991–95, representing Fuzzies well but only the American Fuzzy Lop presented |
What colour is the Circle Line on the London Underground? | Circle line (London Underground) Circle line (London Underground) The Circle line is a London Underground line in a spiralling shape, running from Hammersmith in the west to Edgware Road and then looping around central London back to Edgware Road. The railway is below ground in the central section and on the loop east of Paddington. Unlike London's deep-level lines, the Circle line tunnels are just below the surface and are of similar size to those on British main lines. Coloured yellow on the Tube map, the line serves 36 stations, including most of London's main line termini. Most of the route and all of | Circle line (London Underground) open in 2018, is expected to reduce crowding on Circle line services between Paddington and Aldgate. "The line then continues to Edgware Road where trains terminate, then reverse to traverse the loop in an anticlockwise direction to Hammersmith." Owing to its traditionally circular nature, the line has generated many urban myths over the years, including a dead man travelling around undiscovered, a school or office using the service to save infrastructure costs and, as an April fool in the Independent, a new particle accelerator to coexist alongside passenger services. Circle line (London Underground) The Circle line is a London Underground |
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