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“Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of”? | The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (painting) The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (painting) The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere is a 1931 painting by the American artist Grant Wood. It depicts the American patriot Paul Revere during his midnight ride on April 18, 1775. The perspective is from a high altitude as Revere rides through a brightly lit Lexington, Massachusetts. It was inspired by the poem "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Wood used a child's hobby horse as model for Revere's horse. The painting is located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, but is not on view as of spring, | Midnight Ride (album) in "Billboard" magazine as a "package of hard driving, pulsating rockers." Serene Dominic of the "Phoenix New Times" called the album "proof that [the band] squandered not a minute of that massive TV exposure." It is listed in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" by Robert Dimery and Michael Lydon. In 1966 the song "Kicks" was covered by the Monkees as an album track on their album "Then & Now... The Best of The Monkees". "Midnight Ride" was remastered and re-released on February 1, 2000 by Sundazed Records with bonus tracks. Midnight Ride (album) Midnight Ride |
Which Supreme Court justice announced their retirement this week? | Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination markets; on the PredictIt market, traders predicted that Srinivasan would be the nominee, trading as high as 97% on this outcome. Garland was widely seen as a leading contender for a nomination to the Supreme Court in the Obama administration following the announced retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens in 2010. In 2010, Obama interviewed Garland for a Supreme Court vacancy ultimately filled by Elena Kagan. At the time, Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, publicly said that he had urged Obama to nominate Garland as "a consensus nominee" who would win Senate confirmation. On March 11, 2016 (five | Bill Clinton Supreme Court candidates Bill Clinton Supreme Court candidates President Bill Clinton made two appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States, both during his first term. On March 19, 1993, Associate Justice Byron White announced his retirement (and assumption of senior status), effective at the end of the Supreme Court's 1992-1993 term. President Clinton announced Ruth Bader Ginsburg as White's replacement on June 15, 1993, and she was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 3, 1993. On April 6, 1994, Associate Justice Harry Blackmun announced his retirement (and assumption of senior status), which ultimately took effect August 3, 1994. President |
A precursor to today's United Nations, what inter-governmental organization was pushed by President Woodrow Wilson and disbanded itself on April 20, 1946? | Celestial Sphere Woodrow Wilson Memorial also as the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Sphere of the Palais des Nations it is today a symbol of Geneva International and of Geneva as the centre of dialogue and peace. Contacted in late 1935 by the Board of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Manship was asked to provide an idea for a memorial to President of the United States Woodrow Wilson as the founding father of the League of Nations. At that time the Palais des Nations was still under construction. The first idea for Manship’s contribution to the new buildings was to have him design two doors to the Assembly | Collaborative Inter-Governmental Scientific Research Institute Nations, that it "respectfully requests to be erased from the Annexes to Documents which have Registration Numbers 37543 and 37542" According to the Agreement, the organization has 3 organs: CISRI focusses on international cooperation with relevant United Nations General Assembly’ s Resolutions on international cooperation, social development as well as food and water improvement. CISRI focus on development activities started with the microalgae Spirulina, which has been indicated as a nutricious food source. Collaborative Inter-Governmental Scientific Research Institute The Collaborative Inter-Governmental Scientific Research Institute (CISRI) is an international organization based in Italy and established by the Free Agreement for co-operation |
The first world's fair in the United States since World War II, what city hosted the 1962 World's Fair, known as Century 21 Exposition? | Century 21 Exposition Century 21 Exposition The Century 21 Exposition (also known as the Seattle World's Fair) was a world's fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle, Washington. Nearly 10 million people attended the fair. Unlike some other world's fairs of its era, Century 21 made a profit. As planned, the exposition left behind a fairground and numerous public buildings and public works; some credit it with revitalizing Seattle's economic and cultural life ("see History of Seattle since 1940"). The fair saw the construction of the Space Needle and Alweg monorail, as well as several sports venues (Washington State | This World Fair This World Fair This World Fair was an American rock act based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The line-up included the singer-songwriter Chris Kalgren (vocals, piano, guitar), along with a touring band consisting of Alexander Young (drums) and Matt Lennander (guitar). This World Fair internationally released their first full-length album, self-titled "This World Fair", on December 16, 2008. This World Fair performed hundreds of shows per year and toured extensively across the United States. This World Fair formerly went by the name 'Kalgren'. "Home", which included "Waiting For You", was released independently in 2003 when This World Fair went by the |
What TV staple had its debut on April 19, 1987 as a short on The Tracy Ullman Show? | The Tracey Ullman Show producing three pilots a week. Ullman was the first British woman to be offered her own television sketch show in both the United Kingdom and the United States. The show is also known for producing a series of shorts featuring the Simpson family, which was later adapted into the longest running American scripted primetime television series "The Simpsons". "The Tracey Ullman Show" garnered Fox its first ever Emmy nomination and win; it was awarded a total of 11. "Rolling Stone" ranked "The Tracey Ullman Show" as the #25 best sketch comedy show in its "40 Greatest Sketch-Comedy TV Shows of | The Tracey Ullman Show The Tracey Ullman Show The Tracey Ullman Show is an American television variety show starring Tracey Ullman. It debuted on Fox on April 5, 1987 (the network's second original primetime series to air following "Married... with Children") and ran until May 26, 1990. The show was produced by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television. The show blended sketch comedy with musical numbers and dance routines, choreographed by Paula Abdul, along with animated shorts. The format was conceived by creator and executive producer James L. Brooks, who was looking to showcase the show's multitalented star. Brooks likened the show to |
What "important" day, started by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis), is celebrated in the U.S. on April 22, but by the U.N. on the day of the spring equinox? | Earth Day Conference in Paris. In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be celebrated on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations. A month later a separate Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970. Nelson was later awarded the | What U See Is What U Get What U See Is What U Get "What U See Is What U Get" is the first single from Xzibit's second album, "40 Dayz & 40 Nightz". In its first week the song peaked at #50 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, being Xzibit's highest charting single. It peaked at #3 on Hot Rap Singles, his highest on that chart. A music video directed by Gregory Dark was filmed in Los Angeles. The deceptively simplistic premise of the video is Xzibit's trek to a nearby shop after being asked to pick up some milk. On his way, Xzibit greets several friends, |
The second oldest ballpark in the Major Leagues, where do the Chicago Cubs play their home games? | 2019 Chicago Cubs season 2019 Chicago Cubs season The 2019 Chicago Cubs season will be the 148th season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 144th in the National League and the Cubs' 104th season at Wrigley Field. The Cubs will be managed by Joe Maddon, in his fifth year as Cubs manager, and will play their home games at Wrigley Field as members of Major League Baseball's National League Central Division. The Cubs will begin their season at the Texas Rangers on Thursday March 28 and will end their season at the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday September 29. The Cubs' 2019 home opener | History of the Chicago Cubs TBS, providing play-by-play for the Atlanta Braves. History of the Chicago Cubs The following is a franchise history of the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball, a charter member of the National League who started play in the National Association in 1870 as the Chicago White Stockings. The Chicago National League Ball Club is the only franchise to play continuously in the same city since the formation of the National League in 1876. They are the earliest formed active professional sports club in North America. In their history, they have also been known as the White Stockings, Orphans, Colts, Panamas, |
Dubbed the “warped creation of a syphilitic brain” by Stephen Colbert, what is the name of the new KFC sandwich that consists of “bacon, two different kinds of melted cheese, the Colonels secret sauce… pinched in between two pieces of Original Recipe chicken fillets.” | Bacon roll often served on toast, with watercress. Other recipes stuff the prune with cheese, almonds, smoked oysters or other things in place of the mango chutney. Other versions again use liver pieces in place of the prunes. Devils on horseback are commonly served as part of a Christmas feast. A Double Down is a sandwich offered by Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). The Double Down contains "bacon, two different kinds of melted cheese, the Colonel’s 'secret' sauce... pinched in between two pieces of Original Recipe chicken fillets." It is also available with grilled chicken fillets instead of the Original Recipe fried fillets. | KFC Original Recipe KFC Original Recipe The KFC Original Recipe is the secret mix of ingredients that fast food restaurant chain KFC uses to produce fried chicken. By the late 1930s, Harland Sanders' Corbin, Kentucky gas station was so well known for his fried chicken, that Sanders decided to remove the gas pumps and build a restaurant and motel in its place. While perfecting his secret recipe with 11 herbs and spices, Sanders found that pan frying chicken was too slow, requiring 30 minutes per order. French frying the chicken in a wire basket immersed in deep fat required half the time, but |
What comic strip, created by Lee Falk, tells the story of a line of costumed crime fighters who operate from the fictional African country of Bangalla? | Bangalla Bangalla Bangalla (), also known as Bengalla (in the 1996 movie adaptation), is a fictional African country that features in the Lee Falk created comic strip "The Phantom". Bangalla is the home of the Phantom, who resides in the Deep Woods of the jungle in the fabled Skull Cave. In the 1996 film, Bengalla is located in Asia instead of Africa. In the 2009 miniseries, Bangalla is a fictional small island nation located in the Malay Archipelago. Bangalla is located in East Africa, around the approximate region of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia. The capital of Bangalla is Mawitaan (formerly | The Boondocks (comic strip) The Boondocks (comic strip) The Boondocks was a daily syndicated comic strip written and originally drawn by Aaron McGruder that ran from 1996 to 2006. Created by McGruder in 1996 for Hitlist.com, an early online music website, it was printed in the monthly hip hop magazine "The Source" in 1997. As it gained popularity, the comic strip was picked up by the Universal Press Syndicate and made its national debut on April 19, 1999. A popular and controversial strip, "The Boondocks" satirizes African American culture and American politics as seen through the eyes of young, black radical Huey Freeman. McGruder's |
An erupting volcano in what country has blanketed most of Northern Europe with a layer of ash that is making air travel particularly difficult at the moment? | Disaster tourism 20 March 2010. At this time, about 500 farmers and their families from the areas of Fljótshlíð, Eyjafjöll, and Landeyjar were evacuated overnight, but allowed to return to their farms and homes after Civil Protection Department risk assessment. On 14 April 2010, Eyjafjallajökull erupted for the second time, requiring 800 people to be evacuated. In the wake of the first eruption, tour companies offered trips to see the volcano. However, the ash cloud from the second eruption disrupted air traffic over Great Britain and most of northern and western Europe, making it difficult to travel to Iceland even though Iceland's | Riding a Black Unicorn Down the Side of an Erupting Volcano While Drinking from a Chalice Filled with the Laughter of Small Children Riding a Black Unicorn Down the Side of an Erupting Volcano While Drinking from a Chalice Filled with the Laughter of Small Children Riding a Black Unicorn Down the Side of an Erupting Volcano While Drinking from a Chalice Filled with the Laughter of Small Children (more commonly referred to by its abbreviated name Riding a Black Unicorn...) is the eighth studio album by dark cabaret singer Aurelio Voltaire, released on September 2, 2011. Beginning with this album, Voltaire would start releasing his material under the moniker Aurelio Voltaire, in order to avoid confusion with other acts also called "Voltaire". |
Ornithology is the study of what? | Ornithology bred in captivity. Such "ex situ" conservation measures may be followed by reintroduction of the species into the wild. Ornithology Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds. The science of ornithology has a long history and studies on birds have helped develop several key concepts in evolution, behaviour and ecology such as the definition of species, the process of speciation, instinct, learning, ecological niches, guilds, island biogeography, phylogeography, and conservation. While early ornithology was principally | Journal of Ornithology journal has a 2012 impact factor of 1.632. Journal of Ornithology The Journal of Ornithology (formerly Journal für Ornithologie) is a scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft. It was founded by Jean Cabanis in 1853, becoming the official journal of the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft in 1854. The first issue was produced in January 1853 and Cabanis noted that although there were specialist journals in entomology and conchology that there was nothing to deal with ornithology in Germany. Among the first essays published in the journal was an essay by Reichenbach on the concept of |
Born Robert Matthew Van Winkle in Dallas, Tx, what rapper had his best known hit with 1990s Ice Ice Baby? | Vanilla Ice Vanilla Ice Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967), known professionally as Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor, and television host. Born in South Dallas, and raised in Texas and South Florida, Ice released his debut album, "Hooked", in 1989 on Ichiban Records, before signing a contract with SBK Records, a record label of the EMI Group, which released a reformatted version of the album in 1990 under the title "To the Extreme", which contained Ice's best-known hits: "Ice Ice Baby" and a cover of "Play That Funky Music". "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip hop single | Ice Ice Baby hard for me." Van Winkle lost some credibility among hip hop fans, but later began to regain some success, attracting a new audience outside of the mainstream audience that had formerly accepted him, and then rejected him. "Ice Ice Baby" continues to be the song that Van Winkle is best known for internationally, although Van Winkle states that his American fans like his newer music better. According to "Rolling Stone", the "Ice Ice Baby"–"Under Pressure" controversy is a landmark music copyright case, since it "sparked discussion about the punitive actions taken in plagiarism cases". The magazine's Jordan Runtagh added: "Though |
Commonly seen on clocks, what it the usual translation of the Latin phrase Tempus Fugit | Tempus fugit when you're having fun". The phrase's full appearance in the "Georgics" is: The phrase is a common motto, particularly on sundials and clocks. Tempus fugit Tempus fugit is a Latin phrase, usually translated into English as "time flies". The expression comes from line 284 of book 3 of Virgil's "Georgics", where it appears as "fugit" "inreparabile" "tempus": "it escapes, irretrievable time". The phrase is used in both its Latin and English forms as a proverb that "time's a-wasting". "Tempus fugit", however, is typically employed as an admonition against sloth and procrastination (cf. "carpe diem") rather than a motto in favor | Tempus Fugit (The X-Files) Tempus Fugit (The X-Files) "Tempus Fugit" is the seventeenth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series "The X-Files". It premiered on the Fox network on . It was directed by Rob Bowman, and written by Frank Spotnitz and series creator Chris Carter. "Tempus Fugit" featured guest appearances by Joe Spano, Tom O'Brien and Brendan Beiser, and saw the return of Scott Bellis as alien abductee Max Fenig. The episode helped to explore the overarching mythology, or fictional history of "The X-Files". "Tempus Fugit" earned a Nielsen household rating of 11.9, being watched by 18.85 million |
April 19, 1961 saw the CIA backed invasion of Cuba fall flat on it's face, when the invasion force met disaster at what southern Cuban location? | Bay of Pigs Invasion Pinar del Río Province. A flotilla containing equipment that broadcast sounds and other effects of a shipborne invasion landing provided the source of Cuban reports that briefly lured Fidel Castro away from the Bay of Pigs battlefront area. At about 00:00 on 17 April 1961, the two CIA LCIs "Blagar" and "Barbara J", each with a CIA 'operations officer' and an Underwater Demolition Team (UDT) of five frogmen, entered the Bay of Pigs "(Bahía de Cochinos)" on the southern coast of Cuba. They headed a force of four transport ships ("Houston", "Río Escondido", "Caribe" and "Atlántico") carrying about 1,400 Cuban | Special Activities Division Girón" in Cuba), was an unsuccessful attempt by a U.S.-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba and overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. The plan was launched in April 1961, less than three months after John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency of the United States. The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, trained and equipped by Eastern Bloc nations, defeated the exile-combatants in three days. The sea-borne invasion force landed on April 17, and fighting lasted until April 19, 1961. CIA Paramilitary Operations Officers Grayston Lynch and William "Rip" Robertson led the first assault on the beaches, and supervised |
Which of the essential knots, used extensively in climbing, consits of two opposed half hitches? | Two half-hitches Two half-hitches The two half-hitches is a type of knot, specifically a binding knot or hitch knot. It consists of an overhand knot tied around a post, followed by a half-hitch. Equivalently, it consists of a half-turn around a post followed by a clove hitch of the running end around the standing part. This knot is also sometimes referred to as a clove hitch over itself, or double half-hitch. The following three-step process for tying the two half-hitches is also explained in the image gallery below. Click on the images for high-resolution versions. To release the knot, pry apart the | History of knotting knot, and two half-hitches. The eleven main knots of Chinese knotting are the four-flower knot, six-flower knot, Chinese button knot, double connection knot, double coin knot, agemaki, cross knot, square knot, Plafond knot, Pan Chang knot, and the good luck knot. Knots of more recent origin include the friendship knot of Chinese knotting. The sheepshank knot originates from 1627 while the Western Union splice originates from the beginning of telegraphy. The reef knot is of ancient origin. History of knotting Knots and knotting have been used and studied throughout history. For example, Chinese knotting is a decorative handicraft art that |
An official Disney Princess, what is the name of the princess of Agrabah, heroine of the film Aladdin? | Princess Jasmine Princess Jasmine Princess Jasmine is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' animated feature film "Aladdin" (1992). Voiced by American actress Linda Larkin – with a singing voice provided by Filipina singer Lea Salonga – Jasmine is the spirited Princess of Agrabah, who has grown weary of her life of palace confinement. Despite an age-old law stipulating that the princess must marry a prince in time for her upcoming birthday, Jasmine is instead determined to marry someone she loves for who he is as opposed to what he owns. Created by directors Ron Clements and John Musker with | The Princess and the Frog heroine (Princess Emma) kisses a prince turned frog (Prince Eadric), only to become a frog herself. "The Princess and the Frog" returns to the musical film format used in many of the previously successful Disney animated films, with a style Musker and Clements declared, like with "Aladdin" and "The Little Mermaid", had inspiration from Golden Age Disney features such as "Cinderella". Musker and Clements thought that given all fairy tales were set in Europe, they could do an American fairy tale. They stated that they chose New Orleans as a tribute to the history of the city, for its "magical" |
The oldest annual marathon in the world, what well known road race got its start on April 19, 1897 and attracts a world wide field of entrants each April? | Around the Bay Road Race Around the Bay Road Race The Around the Bay Road Race is the oldest long distance road race in North America, held in Hamilton, Ontario since 1894. It is not marathon length, nor has it continuously run (thus the Boston Marathon, founded in April 1897, is the longest running marathon. The longest continually-running footrace in North America is the Bemis-Forslund Pie Race, founded in 1891. The 30 kilometre race is also known as the "Billy Sherring Memorial Road Race." It is also called the "30K Around The Bay." The 2007 addition of a 5 kilometre walk or run allows for | World Marathon Majors completed. The system allows runners to create a profile, search for their ‘stars’ and add them to their page. Following the WMM Series XI in April 2018, the verified total of Six Star Finishers was 3,786. World Marathon Majors The Abbott World Marathon Majors (AWMM) is a championship-style competition for marathon runners that started in 2006. It comprises six annual races for the cities of Tokyo (starting in 2013), Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York City (except 2012), a biennial race, the IAAF World Championships Marathon, and a quadrennial race, the Olympic Games Marathon. Each World Marathon Majors series |
What authors books includes such works as The Pale Horse, The Body in the Library, The Man in the Brown Suit, and Death on the Nile | The Man in the Brown Suit The Man in the Brown Suit The Man in the Brown Suit is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head on 22 August 1924 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The character Colonel Race is introduced in this novel. Anne Beddingfeld is on her own and ready for adventures when one comes her way. She sees a man die in a tube station and picks up | The Man in the Brown Suit A young man in a brown suit is identified as a suspect, having entered the house soon after the dead woman. Anne realises the examination of the dead man was oddly done, and becomes suspicious. At Mill House, she finds a canister of undeveloped film and she learns that "Kilmorden Castle" is the name of a ship sailing on 17 January 1922 from Southampton to Cape Town. She books passage on it. On board the ship, Anne meets Suzanne Blair, Colonel Race, and Sir Eustace Pedler. In addition to his secretary, Guy Pagett, Pedler employs Harry Rayburn. At 1:00 am |
What does the DSM-IV define as: A. A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following: (1) suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving him (2) is preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates (3) is reluctant to confide in others because of unwarranted fear that the information will be used maliciously against him (4) reads hidden demeaning or threatening meanings into benign remarks or events (5) persistently bears grudges, i.e., is unforgiving of insults, injuries, or slights (6) perceives attacks on his character or reputation that are not apparent to others and is quick to react angrily or to counterattack (7) has recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding fidelity of spouse or sexual partner B. Does not occur exclusively during the course of Schizophrenia, a Mood Disorder With Psychotic Features, or another Psychotic Disorder and is not due to the direct physiological effects of a general medical condition. | Paranoid personality disorder of suspicions or doubt (such as of being exploited, or that remarks have a subtle threatening meaning), in some cases regarding others in general or specifically friends or partners, and in some cases referring to a response of holding grudges or reacting angrily. PPD is characterized by a pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts. To qualify for a diagnoses, the patient must meet at least 4 out of the following criteria: The DSM-5 lists paranoid personality disorder essentially unchanged from the | Paranoia of paranoid cognition have been identified by Robins & Post: "a) suspicions without enough basis that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving them; b) preoccupation with unjustified doubts about the loyalty, or trustworthiness, of friends or associates; c) reluctance to confide in others because of unwarranted fear that the information will be used maliciously against them" (1997, p. 3). Paranoid cognition has been conceptualized by clinical psychology almost exclusively in terms of psychodynamic constructs and dispositional variables. From this point of view, paranoid cognition is a manifestation of an intra-psychic conflict or disturbance. For instance, Colby (1981) suggested that the |
According to the song, Davy Crockett was Born on a mountain top where(Greenest state in the land of the free.)? | Children's song studied in 19th century New York. Children also have a tendency to recycle nursery rhymes, children's commercial songs and adult music in satirical versions. A good example is the theme from the mid-1950s Disney film "Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier", "The Ballad of Davy Crockett", with a tune by George Bruns; its opening lines, "Born on a mountain top in Tennessee / The greenest state in the land of the free", were endlessly satirised to make Crockett a spaceman, a parricide and even a Teddy Boy. Some of the most popular playground songs include actions to be done | The Ballad of Davy Crockett The Ballad of Davy Crockett "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" is a song with music by George Bruns and lyrics by Thomas W. Blackburn. It was introduced on ABC's television series "Disneyland", in the premiere episode of October 27, 1954. Fess Parker is shown performing the song on a log cabin set in frontiersman clothes, accompanied by similarly attired musicians. The song would later be heard throughout the "Disneyland" television miniseries "Davy Crockett", first telecast on December 15, 1954. Parker played the role of Davy Crockett and continued in four other episodes made by Walt Disney Studios. It was sung |
What diet, developed by Dr. Arthur Agatston at the Mount Sinai Medical Center & Miami Heart Institute, focus on foods with a low glycemic index and foods rich in unsaturated fats and omega-3 fatty acids? | Arthur Agatston After a year, he took a position at the Mount Sinai Medical Center & Miami Heart Institute in Miami Beach, Florida where he later became director of the Non-Invasive Cardiac lab. He currently serves as the Medical Director, Wellness & Prevention at Baptist Health South Florida and practices at South Beach Preventive Cardiology. Arthur Agatston Arthur Agatston (born 1947) is an American cardiologist and celebrity doctor best known as the developer of the South Beach Diet, but also the author of many published scholarly papers in the field of noninvasive cardiac diagnostics. His scientific research led to the Agatston Score | Ratio of fatty acids in different foods diet rich in cold-water fish (which are a rich source of omega-3s) and completely devoid of omega-6-rich seed oils. To date, "no one knows what the optimal ratio in the diet is for these two families of fats." Susan Allport writes that the current ratio in Japan is associated with a very low incidence of heart and other diseases. A dietary ratio of 4:1 produces almost a 1:1 ratio of highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFAs) in cell membranes." Andrew Stoll, who advocates the consumption of the two fats in a 1:1 ratio, states, "Once in the body, omega-3 and omega-6 |
What jewelry firm is perhaps best remembered for the exquisite jeweled eggs that were popular Easter time gifts at the turn of the 20th century? | Easter United States holds an annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn for young children. Since the rabbit is a pest in Australia, the Easter Bilby is available as an alternative. Easter eggs are a widely popular symbol of new life in Poland and other Slavic countries' folk traditions. A batik-like decorating process known as pisanka produces intricate, brilliantly-colored eggs. The celebrated House of Fabergé workshops created exquisite jewelled Easter eggs for the Russian Imperial family from 1885 to 1916. Easter Easter, also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of | Turn of the century commonly meant the transition from the 19th century to the 20th century; however, as the generations living at the end of the 20th century survived into the 21st century, the specific number of the referenced century became necessary to avoid confusion. Turn of the century Turn of the century, in its broadest sense, refers to the transition from one century to another. The term is most often used to indicate a distinctive time period either before or after the beginning of a century or both before and after. Where no specific century is stated, the term usually refers to the |
Monterey Jack, Manchego, and Wensleydale are all types of what? | Manchego Four versions of maturity are sold: In Mexico and Spanish-speaking areas of the United States, or (manchego-type cheese) is the name given to a cow's milk cheese similar in taste to Monterey Jack. It melts well and is used as both a table cheese and for cooking. Apart from the name, this cheese has little in common with the Spanish variety. In Costa Rica, three companies (Dos Pinos, Los Alpes and Monteverde) produce a manchego-type cheese ("queso tipo manchego"), which can come with a drawing of Don Quijote on the labels. Manchego Manchego (officially , ) is a cheese made | Manchego CF Manchego CF Manchego Ciudad Real Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football team based in Ciudad Real in the namesake province, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. Founded in 2000, it holds home games at "Estadio Rey Juan Carlos I", with a capacity of 2,900 seats, but currently do not play in any championship. After the disappearance of CD Manchego in 2000, "Manchego CF" was created. In July 2009, after six seasons in the fourth division, the club was in risk of being dissolved due to its outstanding debts, which reached €1.5 million. After Manchego CF supporters decided the |
Which film director, who died today in 1980, directed the films “Marnie”, “Rear Window”, “The Trouble With Harry”, and “Frenzy”, among many others? | The Trouble with Harry was unavailable for nearly 30 years, other than a showing on NBC's "Saturday Night at the Movies" network television broadcast in the early 1960s. After protracted negotiations with the Hitchcock estate, Universal finally reissued it in 1984, along with four others, including "Rear Window" and "Vertigo" which in turn led to VHS and eventually DVD and Blu-ray versions for the home video market. The Trouble with Harry The Trouble with Harry is a 1955 American Technicolor black comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes was based on the 1950 novel by Jack Trevor Story. It | Harry S. Webb Harry S. Webb Harry S. Webb (October 15, 1892 – July 4, 1959) was an American film producer, director and screenwriter. He produced 100 films between 1924 and 1940. He also directed 55 films between 1924 and 1940. He was the brother of "B"-film producer and director Ira S. Webb and the husband of screenwriter Rose Gordon, who wrote many of his films. In 1933 Webb and Bernard B. Ray created Reliable Pictures Corporation with a studio at Beachwood and Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Reliable produced and released many Westerns, starting with "Girl Trouble" (1933), until the company closed in |
What state, known as The Volunteer State, was the 16th state to join the Union on June 1, 1796? | Volunteer State Athletic Conference 1962 season, over two decades before the conference dissolved with regard to its other sports. Other founding members of the VSAC included East Tennessee State University, Middle Tennessee State University, Austin Peay State University, and Tennessee Technological University; these schools all left the VSAC to join the Ohio Valley Conference, in which Austin Peay and Tennessee Tech continue to hold membership as of 2017. Volunteer State Athletic Conference The Volunteer State Athletic Conference (VSAC) was a college athletic conference which was predominantly for smaller colleges in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The VSAC was organized in the 1940s and dissolved | 1796 State of the Union Address care may still be extended to the United States, that the virtue and happiness of the people may be preserved, and that the Government which they have instituted for the protection of their liberties may be perpetual." 1796 State of the Union Address The 1796 State of the Union Address was given by George Washington, the first President of the United States, on Wednesday, December 7, 1796. It was given in Congress Hall, Philadelphia. He gave it directly to Congress. He began with, "In recurring to the internal situation of our country since I had last the pleasure to address |
The Louisiana Purchase was signed today in 1803. Which country sold the land to the USA? | Louisiana Purchase Louisiana Purchase The Louisiana Purchase ( "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory () by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs ($11,250,000) and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs ($3,750,000) for a total of sixty-eight million francs ($15 million, equivalent to about $600 billion given the GDP of 2017. The Louisiana territory included land from fifteen present U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The territory contained land that forms Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; the portion of Minnesota west of the Mississippi River; a large portion | Louisiana Purchase Exposition dollar some $15 million, which paid for some of land. The treaty was signed on April 30, 1803, and, although there was some question as to whether there was constitutional power for such a purchase, the American Senate ratified the treaty on October 20, 1803. The United States took formal possession two months later. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States, and today forms much of the center of the country. Desirous of honoring the centennial of the purchase, Congress passed authorizing legislation for an exposition; the bill was signed by President William McKinley on March 3, 1901. |
On April 29, 1789, Lt William Bligh and 18 others were set adrift in a lifeboat as Fletcher Christian mutinied and took control of what famous ship? | William Bligh served simultaneously in his naval career. In the early 1780s, while in the merchant service, Bligh became acquainted with a young man named Fletcher Christian (1764–1793), who was eager to learn navigation from him. Bligh took Christian under his wing, and the two became friends. The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMAV Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Led by Master's Mate / Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, disaffected crewmen seized control of the ship, and set Bligh and 18 loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch. The mutineers variously settled on Tahiti or on | Mutiny on the Bounty Mutiny on the Bounty The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain Lieutenant William Bligh and set him and 18 loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch. The mutineers variously settled on Tahiti or on Pitcairn Island. Bligh meanwhile completed a voyage of more than in the launch to reach safety, and began the process of bringing the mutineers to justice. "Bounty" had left England in 1787 on a mission to collect and transport breadfruit plants |
Representing the province of Sarangani, Philippines, what is the more famous day job of Filipino congressman Manny Pacquiao? | Jinkee Pacquiao Jinkee Pacquiao Jinkee Capeña Pacquiao ( Jamora; January 12, 1979) is the wife of professional Filipino boxer and incumbent Senator Manny Pacquiao and a former vice governor of Sarangani, in Mindanao, the Philippines. In 2013, Pacquiao decided to run for vice governor of Sarangani province in Mindanao, after her husband was reluctant to choose between two friends who both wanted his support for the position. She was elected in the May 2013 election as the candidate of the United Nationalist Alliance. After her first and only term, Jinkee decided to retire from politics to focus on their family and her | Manny Pacquiao November 21, 2009, Pacquiao confirmed that he would run again for the congressional seat, but this time in Sarangani province, the hometown of his wife Jinkee. He originally planned to run for congress under his own party, the People's Champ Movement, but has since joined the Nacionalista Party headed by Manny Villar. Villar said arrangements were made to accommodate Pacquiao's People's Champ Movement in a coalition with the Nacionalista Party for the May 2010 elections in Sarangani. On May 13, 2010, Pacquiao was officially proclaimed congressman of the lone district of Sarangani. He scored a landslide victory over the wealthy |
April 30 saw George Washington sworn in as the very first US President on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York. What year was his inauguration? | George Washington Inaugural Bible George Washington Inaugural Bible The George Washington Inaugural Bible is the bible that was sworn upon by George Washington when he took office as the first President of the United States on April 30, 1789. The Bible has subsequently been used in the inauguration ceremonies of several other U.S. presidents. The Bible is the King James Version, dated 1767, complete with the Apocrypha and elaborately supplemented with the historical, astronomical and legal data of that period. St. John's Lodge No. 1, Ancient York Masons, are the custodians of what is now known as the George Washington Inaugural Bible. The Bible | Federal Hall in the history of the United States and, particularly, the foundation of the United States government and its democratic institutions. Engraved renditions of Federal Hall appear twice on U.S. postage stamps. The first stamp showing Federal Hall was issued on April 30, 1939, the 150th anniversary of President Washington's inauguration, where he is depicted on the balcony of Federal Hall taking the oath of office. The second issue was released in 1957, the 200th anniversary of Alexander Hamilton's birth. This issue depicts Alexander Hamilton and a full view of Federal Hall. Notes Sources Federal Hall Federal Hall is the name |
April 25 is celebrated as Anzac day in many parts of the world, a day to honor soldiers from what nations? | Anzac Day "The Knights of Gallipoli". Marches were held all over Australia; wounded soldiers from Gallipoli attended the Sydney march in convoys of cars, accompanied by nurses. In Egypt, General John Monash paraded the troops on Anzac Day 1916. For the remaining years of the war, Anzac Day was used as an occasion for patriotic rallies and recruiting campaigns, and marches of serving members of the AIF were held in most cities. From 1916 onwards, in both Australia and New Zealand, Anzac memorials were held on or about 25 April, mainly organised by returned servicemen and school children in cooperation with local | Anzac Day match Anzac Day match The Anzac Day match is an annual Australian rules football match between Collingwood and Essendon, held on Anzac Day (25 April) at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). During many wars, Australian rules football matches have been played overseas in places like northern Africa and Vietnam as a celebration of Australian culture and as a bonding exercise between soldiers. Despite this, League football was not played on Anzac Day for many years; in 1959, for example, when all VFL games were played on Saturday afternoons, Anzac Day also fell on a Saturday, and the entire round was postponed |
April 24, 1800 saw the founding what institution when President John Adams sign an act of congress appropriating $5,000 “for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress …, and for fitting up a suitable apartment for containing them….” | Library of Congress John Adams signed an act of Congress providing for the transfer of the seat of government from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington. Part of the legislation appropriated $5,000 "for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress ... and for fitting up a suitable apartment for containing them." Books were ordered from London, and the collection consisted of 740 books and 3 maps which were housed in the new United States Capitol. President Thomas Jefferson played an important role in establishing the structure of the Library of Congress. On January 26, | National library was established on April 24, 1800, when president John Adams signed an act of Congress providing for the transfer of the seat of government from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington. Part of the legislation appropriated $5,000 "for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress ... and for fitting up a suitable apartment for containing them." Books were ordered from London and the collection, consisting of 740 books and 3 maps, was housed in the new Capitol. The Imperial Public Library was established in 1795 by Catherine the Great, whose private |
Arrange these traditional dry goods measurements from largest to smallest: Bushel, Gallon, Peck? | Winchester measure the widespread belief that the Winchester units of dry capacity measure, i.e., the bushel and its dependent quantities the peck, gallon and quart, must have originated in the time of King Edgar. However, contemporary scholarship can find no evidence for the existence of any these units in Britain prior to the Norman Conquest. Furthermore, all of the units associated with Winchester measure (quarter, bushel, peck, gallon, pottle, quart, pint) have names of French derivation, at least suggestive of Norman origin. Prior to the Norman Conquest, the following units of capacity measure were used: "sester", "amber", "mitta", "coomb", and "seam". A | Dry gallon (exactly ). Dry gallon The dry gallon, also known as the corn gallon or grain gallon, is a historic British dry measure of volume that was used to measure grain and other dry commodities and whose earliest recorded official definition, in 1303, was the volume of 8 pounds of wheat. It is not used in the US customary system – though it implicitly exists since the US dry measures of bushel, peck, quart, and pint are still used – and is not included in the handbook that many states recognize as the authority on measurement law. The fluid gallon is |
On the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, a diamond is at the hardest end of the scale with a value of 10. What substance is the softest with a value of 1? | Friedrich Mohs harder. This became the basis of the hardness scale developed by Mohs. The hardest mineral, diamond was given a value of 10 and softer minerals such as talc were given the very low value of 1 (unity). Other minerals were given intermediate values, depending on their ability to scratch another mineral in the scale. Thus gypsum was given the value 2 because it will scratch talc crystals, and calcite the value 3 because it will scratch gypsum. Minerals are also now classified by chemical characteristics, but the physical properties are still useful in field examination. In 1812, Mohs became a | Mohs scale of mineral hardness testing the resilience of certain flat panel display components (such as cover glass for LCDs or encapsulation for OLEDs). The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is based on the ability of one natural sample of mineral to scratch another mineral visibly. The samples of matter used by Mohs are all different minerals. Minerals are chemically pure solids found in nature. Rocks are made up of one or more minerals. As the hardest known naturally occurring substance when the scale was designed, diamonds are at the top of the scale. The hardness of a material is measured against the scale by |
This year's honor goes to Tim Toone of Weber State, who earned what coveted title by being the last person chosen in the NFL draft? | Tim Toone Tim Toone Timothy Lee Toone (born February 14, 1985) is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions with the final pick (255th overall) of the 2010 NFL Draft, earning the title of Mr. Irrelevant. He played two years of NCAA Division I FCS college football at Weber State in Ogden, Utah. After serving a two-year mission to West Africa for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Toone began a four-year college football career with the Weber State Wildcats. In his first Wildcats season, Toone had more punt returns (10) than catches (7) | Tim Toone but had 275 yards and 2 touchdowns receiving with 95 yards and a touchdown returning punts. He finished with an average of 39.28 yards per reception (34.37 yards per game). Toone had a more productive season as a wide receiver in his second season with 32 catches, 698 yards, and 10 touchdowns, having started all 11 games for the Wildcats (12 of 19 games started in his two seasons). He averaged 63.45 yards per game (21.81 yards per reception and 2.9 receptions per game) and had 10 touchdowns. Heading into the 2010 NFL Draft, Toone finished his college career with |
In April, 1967, what boxer was stripped of his title after refusing induction into the US Army? | Jerry Quarry by the loss to Machen, Quarry ran off a streak of wins over good, second-tier heavyweights and rose in the rankings. In mid-1967, the World Boxing Association (W.B.A.) held a tournament to replace Muhammad Ali, a heavyweight champion who had been stripped of his title for refusing induction into the military after being drafted. The tournament was expanded to include eight heavyweights, and did not include Joe Frazier, who had accepted a title belt outside the WBA. When the tournament was expanded, Quarry was included. Quarry's first tournament bout was a rematch of his fourth draw fight earlier that year | Fight of the Century in Manila (1975), both won by Ali. In 1971, both Ali and Frazier had legitimate claims to the title of World Heavyweight Champion. An undefeated Ali had won the title from Sonny Liston in Miami Beach in 1964, and successfully defended his belt up until he had it stripped by boxing authorities for refusing induction into the armed forces in 1967. In Ali's absence, the undefeated Frazier garnered two championship belts through knockouts of Buster Mathis and Jimmy Ellis. He was recognized by boxing authorities as the World Champion. Unlike Mathis and Ellis, Frazier was plausibly Ali's superior, which created |
The African countries of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged on April 26, 1964 to form what new country? | Tanganyika Tanganyika Tanganyika was a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania, that existed from 1961 until 1964. It first gained independence from the United Kingdom on 9 December 1961 as a state headed by Queen Elizabeth II before becoming a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations exactly a year later. After signing the Articles of Union on 22 April 1964 and passing an Act of Union on 25 April, Tanganyika officially joined with the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar on Union Day, 26 April 1964. The new state | People's Republic of Zanzibar receive support from communist countries and by February was known to be receiving advisers from USSR, East Germany and China. At the same time, western influence was diminishing and by July 1964 just one Briton, a dentist, remained in the employ of the Zanzibari government. It has been alleged that Israeli spymaster David Kimche was a backer of the revolution with Kimche in Zanzibar on the day of the Revolution. The deposed Sultan made an unsuccessful appeal to Kenya and Tanganyika for military assistance, although Tanganyika sent 100 paramilitary police officers to Zanzibar to contain rioting. Other than the Tanganyika |
April 30, 1803 saw Robert R. Livingston sign a treaty in Paris that allowed the United States to spend $15 million for what? | Robert R. Livingston (chancellor) the Declaration fo Independence. Following Thomas Jefferson's election as President of the United States, once Jefferson became President on March 4, 1801, he appointed Livingston U.S. Minister to France. Serving from 1801 to 1804, Livingston negotiated the Louisiana Purchase. After the signing of the Louisiana Purchase agreement in 1803, Livingston made this memorable statement: We have lived long but this is the noblest work of our whole lives ... The United States take rank this day among the first powers of the world. During his time as U.S. minister to France, Livingston met Robert Fulton, with whom he developed the | Robert R. Livingston (Palmer) Robert R. Livingston (Palmer) Robert R. Livingston is an 1875 bronze sculpture of Robert R. Livingston, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, executed by the New York born sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer. The state is installed in the United States Capitol, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. It is one of two statues donated by the state of New York. In 1873, after receiving the commission to create the Livingston statue, Palmer moved to Paris to work on the statue. This was a departure from the usual tendency of American artists of |
What does the DSM-IV define as: A. Recurrent episodes of abrupt awakening from sleep, usually occurring during the first third of the major sleep episode and beginning with a panicky scream. B. Intense fear and signs of autonomic arousal, such as tachycardia, rapid breathing, and sweating, during each episode. C. Relative unresponsiveness to efforts of others to comfort the person during the episode. D. No detailed dream is recalled and there is amnesia for the episode. E. The episodes cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. F. The disturbance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or a general medical condition. | Night terror sleep that does not progress into a full episode of a night terror. These episodes can include tachycardia. Night terrors are also associated with intense autonomic discharge of tachypnea, flushing, diaphoresis, and mydriasis—that is, unconscious or involuntary rapid breathing, reddening of the skin, profuse sweating, and dilation of the pupils. In children with night terrors, there is no increased occurrence of psychiatric diagnoses. However, in adults who suffer from night terrors there is a close association with psychopathology or mental disorders. There may be an increased occurrence of night terrors—particularly among those suffering or having suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder | Sleep inversion The disturbance in sleep must not be due to the direct physiological effects of a substance, whether used for medication or abuse, or to a general medical condition. The delayed sleep phase type of the disorder requires a persistent pattern of delayed sleeping and awakening and an inability to change the pattern. The jet lag type requires sleepiness and wakefulness at inappropriate times relative to the local time zone; there must be repeated travel more than one time zone away. The shift work type requires excessive sleepiness during the desired wake period and an inability to sleep during the desired |
The goal of what popular Nintendo game is to navigate through the Mushroom Kingdom on a quest to save Princess Toadstool? | Mario Mario saves Princess Toadstool (later known as Princess Peach) of the Mushroom Kingdom from King Koopa. To save Princess Toadstool, Mario conquers the eight worlds of the Mushroom Kingdom by going to the castle in each to defeat a minion of King Koopa. To reach each castle, Mario battles through three sub-worlds by defeating King Koopa's henchmen. If Mario successfully fights his way through the castle and defeats the minion, he frees a Mushroom Retainer. Inside the eighth castle, Mario has a final fight with King Koopa and frees Princess Toadstool. In "Super Mario Bros. 2", the player can choose | Super Mario World Super Mario World Super Mario World is a 1990 side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). The story follows Mario's quest to save Princess Toadstool and Dinosaur Land from the series antagonist Bowser and his children, the Koopalings. The gameplay is similar to that of earlier "Super Mario" games: Players control Mario or his brother Luigi through a series of levels in which the goal is to reach the flagpole at the end. "Super Mario World" introduced Yoshi, a dinosaur who can eat enemies and gain abilities by eating the shells of |
Who's missing: Grant Imahara, Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, Adam Savage | Kari Byron on "MythBusters" from Season 1 until Season 12. Along with fellow cast members Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara they comprised what is commonly referred to as "The Build Team" or B Team. This Build Team worked with Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman to test the plausibility of various myths throughout their tenure with the show. She and the others also hosted their own segments. She became involved in the show after persistently showing up at Hyneman's M5 Industries workshop in a desire to get hired by his company. She and the other Build Team members were given a more prominent | Grant Imahara "geek" of the Build Team. He often makes the robots that are needed for the show and otherwise specializes in operating the computers and electronics for the myths. On August 21, 2014, Hyneman and "MythBusters" co-host Adam Savage announced that Imahara, along with cast members Kari Byron and Tory Belleci, would be leaving the show. Along with colleagues Kari Byron and Tory Belleci, Imahara hosted the Netflix Original Series "White Rabbit Project", in which the team investigated topics such as jailbreaks, superpower technology, heists, and bizarre World War II weapons, evaluated against a defined set of criteria and explored through |
According to legend, who fell asleep in the Catskill Mountains for 20 years, following a game of 9-pins with the ghosts of Henry Hudson's crew? | Sleep the Christian legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, in which seven Christians flee into a cave during pagan times in order to escape persecution, but fall asleep and wake up 360 years later to discover, to their astonishment, that the Roman Empire is now predominately Christian. The American author Washington Irving's short story "Rip Van Winkle", first published in 1819 in his collection of short stories "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.", is about a man in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep on one of the Catskill Mountains and wakes up twenty years later | Catskill Mountains towers have been renovated and opened to the public as observation posts with panoramic views. The remaining towers are: The Catskill Mountain House, built in 1824, was a hotel near Palenville, New York, in the Catskill Mountains overlooking the Hudson River Valley. In its prime at the turn of the century, visitors included United States Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Chester A. Arthur and Theodore Roosevelt. Shortly after it was completed, the Mountain House became a regular subject for Washington Irving and artists from the new Hudson River School, most notably artists Thomas Cole and William Henry Bartlett. From 1872, the |
On the steps of Federal Hall, George Washington took the first ever Oath of Office on the 30th of April, 1789 in what city? | Presidency of George Washington City, Washington received triumphal welcomes in almost every town he passed through, including Alexandria, Georgetown, Maryland, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Trenton. He arrived in New York City on April 23, where he was greeted by New York Governor George Clinton as well as many congressmen and citizens. Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States on April 30, 1789, at Federal Hall in New York, then the nation's capitol. As judges of the federal courts had not yet been appointed, the presidential oath of office was administered by Chancellor Robert Livingston, the highest judicial officer in the state | Oath of office of the President of the United States affirmation, to support this Constitution." The presidential oath, on the other hand, requires much more than this general oath of allegiance and fidelity. This clause enjoins the new president to swear or affirm that he "will to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." While the Constitution does not mandate that anyone in particular should administer the presidential oath of office, it is typically administered by the Chief Justice. There have been several exceptions, however. George Washington was sworn into office during his first inauguration, on April 30, 1789, by Chancellor of |
Who is “watching you” in George Orwell’s book 1984? | Little Brother Is Watching we do is on display, for better or worse. I think mostly for better, but sometimes for worse. This is the world we live in. Wikileaks... a police beating... our neighbor falling on his butt. Whatever it is, or something of us we want to put on display. We're watching each other and we're being watched" He later expanded "It comes from the old George Orwell book "1984", there is a whole concept of government watching everything you do and it says “Big Brother is Watching You.” I thought about how that was what they predicted years ago. But, they | Statue of George Orwell of the Orwell Society, responded in "Private Eye"'s letters page that "the plinth on which the statue stands seems to fit in perfectly with the building". On BBC Radio 4's "Front Row", the critic Sarah Gaventa also questioned the use of a plinth for this "man of the people". Gaventa was approving of the sculpture itself. "You can see he wants to get into the conversation and give you his very honest and forthright opinions. It's Orwell. Who else could it be? When you look at the canon of Martin Jennings's work… it's about brave people who speak out. I’m |
What comic strip, created by Mort Walker, tells the tale of a goldbricking US Army private? | Mort Walker in 1985. His second wife was Catherine Prentice, whom he married on August 24, 1985. Mort had three step-children via Cathy and her previous marriage. Walker died from complications of pneumonia on January 27, 2018, at his home in Stamford, Connecticut. He was 94 years old. He was interred at Willowbrook Cemetery in Westport, Connecticut. Mort Walker Addison Morton Walker (September 3, 1923 – January 27, 2018) was an American comic strip writer, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips "Beetle Bailey" in 1950 and "Hi and Lois" in 1954. He signed Addison to some of his strips. Walker | Swamp (comic strip) Swamp (comic strip) Swamp is a comic strip created by Australian Gary Clark. It was first published in 1981 in the Sunshine Coast Daily. According to Clark, the inspiration and model for this strip was the creeks and lagoons in a bushy suburban Brisbane where he grew up in the 1960s. He describes the strip as a "down-to-earth look at a bewildered society thriving in an ever-increasing complex world." The popular characters in the comic strip are : Ding Duck, Wart & Mort Frog, Old Man Croc, Bob the Crayfish, The Dung Beetles, Air Traffic Controller, The Ants, The Bludgerigar. |
Which scandal ridden singer, who married his 13 year old second cousin, is cousins with scandal plagued televangelist Jimmy Lee Swaggart? | Jimmy Swaggart led the Assemblies of God to defrock him. As a result of the scandals, Swaggart temporarily stepped down as the head of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. Jimmy Lee Swaggart was born on March 15, 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana. By relation, he is the nephew of Arilla ( Swaggart) Wells (1916–2015), who was also the manager of Wells Grocery in Tunica, Louisiana. He is the cousin of rock'n'roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and country music star Mickey Gilley. He also had a sister, Jeanette Ensminger (1942–1999). With his parents, Swaggart attended a small, 25-member Assemblies of God church in Ferriday. In 1952, | Jimmy Swaggart commentaries on the Bible. The ministry also publishes a monthly magazine, "The Evangelist". Since October 10, 1952, Swaggart has been married to Frances Swaggart ( Anderson) (born August 9, 1937). They have one son, Donnie (born October 18, 1954), named after Jimmy Swaggart's brother who died in infancy. He has three grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Donnie and Gabriel are also preachers, making three generations of the Swaggart family to have become involved in ministerial work. Jimmy Swaggart Jimmy Lee Swaggart (; born March 15, 1935) is an American Pentecostal evangelist. Swaggart's TV ministry, which began in 1971, has a viewing |
What circus billed itself as “The Greatest Show on Earth”? | The Greatest Show on Earth (film) The Greatest Show on Earth (film) The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 American drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in Technicolor, and released by Paramount Pictures. Set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the film stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze artists competing for the center ring, and Charlton Heston as the circus manager running the show. James Stewart also stars in a supporting role as a mysterious clown who never removes his make-up, even between shows, while Dorothy Lamour and Gloria Grahame also play supporting roles. In addition | The Greatest Show on Earth (TV series) NBC aired "The Richard Boone Show" at the same 9 p.m. Tuesday slot. The series was canceled after one season. The Greatest Show on Earth (TV series) The Greatest Show on Earth is an American drama series starring Jack Palance about the American circus, which aired on ABC from September 17, 1963, to April 28, 1964. It was produced by Desilu, the production company founded by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Sr.. Palance portrayed Johnny Slate, the circus manager, who became involved in the personal lives of the circus performers. "The Greatest Show on Earth" faced competition from two comedy |
Which frequent Saturday Night Live guest talent created such memorable characters as half of the Festrunk Brothers and Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber? | Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber was a recurring comedic sketch on the American television show "Saturday Night Live" during the late 1970s. The title character was a barber surgeon played by comedian Steve Martin, a frequent host of the show. The central gag revolved around Theodoric's insistence on using bloodletting as a solution to any complaint or illness by his customers. In one memorable episode, Theodoric said: Also, during the sketch he would propose profound, innovative ideas that had the potential to change the course of history, but he would ultimately dismiss them, as in: | Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber to the "Book of Common Wisdom" (a huge, dusty tome) to decide appropriate punishment. In the case of a man found guilty of adultery, Theodoric could not seem to find an appropriate punishment specified in the Book, so he pondered aloud, putting his hand on his chin and gazing up at the ceiling: As with Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber, Martin would end his Medieval Judge skits by proposing modern legal concepts such as trial by a jury of one's peers, provision of defense counsel, innocence until proven guilty, prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments, etc., but end by saying... |
What kind of animal does “The Ugly Duckling” turn out to be in Hans Christian Andersen’s children’s story? | The Ugly Duckling for children was created in aid of Unicef. The Ugly Duckling read by Stephen Fry is included in this collection of fairy tales along with other stories. The Ugly Duckling "The Ugly Duckling" (Danish: "Den grimme ælling") is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). The story tells of a homely little bird born in a barnyard who suffers abuse from the others around him until, much to his delight (and to the surprise of others), he matures into a beautiful swan, the most beautiful bird of all. The story is beloved around the | The Ugly Duckling Ugly Duckling is not confronted with the tasks, tests, or trials of the typical fairy tale hero. “No need to accomplish anything is expressed in “The Ugly Duckling”. Things are simply fated and unfold accordingly, whether or not the hero takes some action.” In conjunction with Bettelheim’s assessment, Maria Tatar notes in ’’The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen’’ that Andersen suggests that the Ugly Duckling‘s superiority resides in the fact that he is of a breed different from the barnyard rabble, and that dignity and worth, moral and aesthetic superiority are determined by nature rather than accomplishment. According to Carole Rosen, |
Doctor Who is back! Currently played by Matt Smith, how many different actors have portrayed the Doctor on the TV series (from 1963 to today) | Doctor Doctor (Australian TV series) Doctor Doctor (Australian TV series) Doctor Doctor (also known outside of Australasia as The Heart Guy) is an Australian television drama that premiered on the Nine Network on 14 September 2016. It follows the story of Hugh Knight, a rising heart surgeon who is gifted, charming and infallible. He is a hedonist who, due to his sheer talent, believes he can live outside the rules. His "work hard, play harder" philosophy is about to come back and bite him. On 28 September 2016, Nine renewed the program for a second season after just two episodes having been aired. On 11 | The Doctor (Doctor Who) was to cast an actor in his mid-30s to 40s for the role of the Eleventh Doctor, despite casting Matt Smith, who is the youngest actor to ever have played the role. The actors who have played the lead role of the Doctor in the programme and the dates of their first and last regular television appearances in the role, are: Jodie Whittaker took over the role as the Thirteenth Doctor in the 2017 Christmas special. In addition to the above-listed actors, others have played versions of the Doctor for the duration of particular storylines. Notably, John Hurt guest starred |
Who was the captain of the HMS Bounty, set adrift with 18 of his loyal officers by Fletcher Christian, on April 28, 1789? | Mutiny on the Bounty Mutiny on the Bounty The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain Lieutenant William Bligh and set him and 18 loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch. The mutineers variously settled on Tahiti or on Pitcairn Island. Bligh meanwhile completed a voyage of more than in the launch to reach safety, and began the process of bringing the mutineers to justice. "Bounty" had left England in 1787 on a mission to collect and transport breadfruit plants | HMS Bounty Tahitian woman. Others of the "Bounty"s warrant officers and seamen were also said to have formed "connections" with native women. After five months in Tahiti, the "Bounty" set sail with her breadfruit cargo on 4 April 1789. Some west of Tahiti, near Tonga, mutiny broke out on 28 April 1789. Despite strong words and threats heard on both sides, the ship was taken bloodlessly and apparently without struggle by any of the loyalists except Bligh himself. Of the 42 men on board aside from Bligh and Christian, 22 joined Christian in mutiny, two were passive, and 18 remained loyal to |
Craniometry is a technique to measure what? | Craniometry craniometry and the study of skeletons to demonstrate his theory of evolution first expressed in "On the Origin of Species" (1859). More direct measurements involve examinations of brains from corpses, or more recently, imaging techniques such as MRI, which can be used on living persons. Such measurements are used in research on neuroscience and intelligence. Swedish professor of anatomy Anders Retzius (1796–1860) first used the cephalic index in physical anthropology to classify ancient human remains found in Europe. He classified brains into three main categories, "dolichocephalic" (from the Ancient Greek "kephalê", head, and "dolikhos", long and thin), "brachycephalic" (short and | Craniometry others. Virchow later rejected measure of skulls as legitimate means of taxinomy. Paul Kretschmer quoted an 1892 discussion with him concerning these criticisms, also citing Aurel von Törok's 1895 work, who basically proclaimed the failure of craniometry. Craniometry was also used in phrenology, which purported to determine character, personality traits, and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head and thus of the skull. At the turn of the 19th century, Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1822) developed "cranioscopy" (Ancient Greek "kranion": skull, "scopos": vision), a method to determine the personality and development of mental and moral faculties on the |
Two titans in their field, Malcom Sargent (1895) and Thomas Beecham (1879) were both born on April 29th. What profession did they practice? | Thomas Beecham of the Hallé Orchestra taking part in the action and playing pieces associated with Beecham. In 1980 the Royal Mail put Beecham's image on the 13½p postage stamp in a series portraying British conductors; the other three in the series depicted Wood, Sargent and Barbirolli. The Sir Thomas Beecham Society preserves Beecham's legacy through its website and release of historic recordings. In 2012, Beecham was voted into the inaugural "Gramophone" magazine "Hall of Fame". Beecham's published books were: The last of these was reissued in 1975 by Severn House, London, with an introduction by Felix Aprahamian and a discography by | Thomas Beecham (chemist) was William Eardley Beecham. Another great grandchild was the poet Audrey Beecham. Thomas Beecham (chemist) Thomas Beecham (3 December 1820 – 6 April 1907) was the founder of Beechams, a large pharmaceutical businesses. Born in Curbridge in Oxfordshire, Beecham became a shepherd's boy at the age of 8 and it is in this role that he learnt about herbal medicine. For a while he worked as the village postman in Kidlington but in 1847 he moved to Wigan where he started selling Beecham's Pills which were a laxative. By 1859 he was based in St Helens where he started advertising |
According to the nursery rhyme, where did Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater put his wife? | Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13497. Common modern versions include: <poem style="margin-left: 2em;">Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had a wife but couldn't keep her; He put her in a pumpkin shell And there he kept her very well. Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had another and didn't love her; Peter learned to read and spell, And then he loved her very well.</poem> The first surviving version of the rhyme was published in "Infant Institutes, part the first: or a Nurserical Essay on the Poetry, | Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater Lyric and Allegorical, of the Earliest Ages, &c.", in London around 1797. It also appears in "Mother Goose's Quarto: or Melodies Complete", printed in Boston, Massachusetts around 1825. A verse collected from Aberdeen, Scotland and published in 1868 had the words: <poem style="margin-left: 2em;">Peter, my neeper, Had a wife, And he couidna' keep her, He pat her i' the wa', And lat a' the mice eat her.</poem> This verse is also considered to be an older version of the rhyme Eeper Weeper. Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud |
The Treaty of San Francisco, which came into effect on April 28, 1952, officially ended what? | Treaty of San Francisco treaty served to officially end Japan's position as an imperial power, to allocate compensation to Allied civilians and former prisoners of war who had suffered Japanese war crimes during World War II, and to end the Allied post-war occupation of Japan and return sovereignty to that nation. This treaty made extensive use of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to enunciate the Allies' goals. This treaty, along with the Security Treaty signed that same day, is said to mark the beginning of the "San Francisco System"; this term, coined by historian John W. Dower, signifies | Treaty of San Francisco payment was made to the Philippines on July 22, 1976. Germany: Treaty of San Francisco The , or commonly known as the Treaty of Peace with Japan, Peace Treaty of San Francisco, or San Francisco Peace Treaty), mostly between Japan and the Allied Powers, was officially signed by 48 nations on September 8, 1951, in San Francisco, California. It came into force on April 28, 1952 and officially ended the American-led Allied Occupation of Japan. According to Article 11 of the Treaty, Japan accepts the judgments of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and of other Allied War |
Who famously owned a bicycle shop at 22 South Williams Street, Dayton, Oh? | Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park Decades earlier, Henry Ford had also relocated one of the Wrights' bicycle shops from Dayton to its present location in Greenfield Village, Michigan, for display. Sharkey's quest to preserve the Wright brothers' legacy began when he purchased their last surviving bicycle shop in Dayton for just $10,000, which saved the building from demolition. He also founded the Aviation Trail Inc., a nonprofit group dedicated to the creation of a potential national park or historic district encompassing the Wright brothers' buildings. Sharkey enlisted the help of local political and media figures to lobby for the creation of the park. Notable figures | Wright Cycle Company left-hand threads to prevent the pedal from coming unscrewed while cycling. The brick building at 22 South Williams St., where the Wrights worked from 1895 to 1897, is the only extant building on its original foundation and in its original location that housed a Wright bicycle shop. They ran their printing shop on the second-floor. The 22 South Williams Street building is part of Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park and the National Aviation Heritage Area. The Wrights used the profits from the Wright Cycle Company to finance their aviation experiments. In 1901 they fitted a third bicycle wheel horizontally |
May 7, 1915 saw German U-boat U-20 fired a single torpedo at what Cunard passenger liner, sinking it with the loss of 1,198 lives and helped turn public opinion against Germany and contributed to America's entry into WWI? | Sinking of the RMS Lusitania Sinking of the RMS Lusitania The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS "Lusitania" occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat and sank in 18 minutes. The vessel went down off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,198 and leaving 761 survivors. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, contributed to the American entry into World War I and became an iconic symbol in military | SM U-20 (Germany) SM U-20 (Germany) SM "U-20" was a German Type "U 19" U-boat built for service in the Imperial German Navy. She was launched on 18 December 1912, and commissioned on 5 August 1913. During World War I, she took part in operations around the British Isles. "U-20" became infamous following her sinking of the British ocean liner on 7 May 1915, an act that dramatically reshaped the course of World War I. On 7 May 1915, "U-20" was patrolling off the southern coast of Ireland under the command of Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger. Three months earlier, on 4 February, the Germans |
Named for the developer of the steel plow, what Moline, Il. company is the largest producer of agricultural machinery in the world? | Moline Plow Company Company (both of Minneapolis, Minnesota), to form the Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Company. 5. http://MolinePlowCo.Com Moline Plow Company The Moline Plow Company was an American manufacturer of plows and other farm implements, headquartered in Moline, Illinois, USA. Moline Plow was formed in the 1870s when the firm of Candee & Swan, a competitor of Deere and Company (also of Moline), won a lawsuit against Deere allowing it to use the "Moline Plow" name. Reorganized under the new name, it built a line of horse-drawn plows and other implements to serve the large American agricultural market. The implement line included wagons and | Moline Plow Company of production in 1923. The Stephens brand of automobiles ended in 1924. With the end of these two business lines, Moline Plow had divested itself from the tractor and automobile businesses, and it chose the implement line for its future focus. It changed its name to the Moline Implement Company to reflect this. Several famous people served as executives or engineers at Moline Plow, including Frank Gates Allen, William P. Bettendorf, George Peek, and Hugh S. Johnson. In 1929, the Moline Implement Company was merged with two other companies, the Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Company and the Minneapolis Threshing Machine |
May 4, 1970 saw 4 students killed and an additional 13 wounded when National Guard soldiers opened fire on unarmed students at what mid-western University? | Allison Krause Allison Krause Allison Beth Krause (; Hebrew: ברכה בת אברהם שלמה הכהן; April 23, 1951 – May 4, 1970) was an American honor student at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, when she was killed by soldiers of the Ohio Army National Guard in the Kent State shootings, while protesting against the invasion of Cambodia and the presence of the National Guard on the Kent State campus. National Guardsmen opened fire on a group of unarmed students, killing four of them, at an average distance of about 345 ft (106 m). Krause was shot in the left side of her | Australian National University Students' Association Australian National University Students' Association Australian National University Students' Association is the student's union of the Australian National University. It is better known by its acronym, ANUSA. It exists to represent The Australian National University undergraduate students in the University's decision-making, to act as the voice for students in the national higher education policy debate, and to provide direct services to the student body. It is not to be confused with ANU Union, a not-for-profit association that once managed retail operations in the former ANU Union Building. The 1996 ANUSA elections saw the losing "Rage" ticket embroiled in scandal. 146 |
Located in Holyoke, Ma, the town in which the sport was created, what Hall of Fame is located at 444 Dwight St? | Volleyball Hall of Fame Volleyball Hall of Fame The International Volleyball Hall of Fame (IVHF) was founded to honor extraordinary players, coaches, officials, and leaders who have made significant contributions to the game of volleyball. The Hall of Fame is located in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan at the local YMCA. In 1971 the Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce established a committee to campaign for the founding of the Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Massachusetts. In 1978, the committee incorporated as Holyoke Volleyball Hall of Fame, Inc., a nonprofit corporation established for the purpose of planning, | Holyoke City Hall Holyoke City Hall Holyoke City Hall is the historic city hall of Holyoke, Massachusetts. It is located at 536 Dwight Street, on the south east corner of High Street and Dwight Street. Serving both as the administrative center and a public timepiece for the industrial city's workers, construction began on the Gothic Revival structure in 1871 to a design by architect Charles B. Atwood. Difficulties and delays in construction were compounded by Atwood's failure to deliver updated drawings in a timely manner, and the design work was turned over to H. F. Kilburn in 1874. The building was completed two |
Although never seen in the comic book, which Peanuts character is in love with The Little Red-Haired Girl? | Little Red-Haired Girl Little Red-Haired Girl The Little Red-Haired Girl is an unseen character in the "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, who serves as the object of Charlie Brown's affection, and a symbol of unrequited love. While never seen in the strip, she appears onscreen in several television specials, in which her name has been revealed as Heather Wold. Charlie Brown most often notices her while eating lunch outdoors, always failing to muster the courage to speak to her. She figures prominently in Valentine's Day strips, several of which focus on Charlie Brown's hope of getting a valentine from her. Charlie | Little Red-Haired Girl turned him down, saying she was already engaged. Schulz was devastated, but he and Donna remained friends for the rest of his life. Said Schulz of the relationship, "I can think of no more emotionally damaging loss than to be turned down by someone whom you love very much. A person who not only turns you down, but almost immediately will marry the victor. What a bitter blow that is." Only one known Schulz drawing (aside from the aforementioned silhouette) of the little red-haired girl exists. It was drawn in 1950, long before she was mentioned in "Peanuts". The girl |
Prior to adopting the euro, what was the name of the currency shared by Germany and Finland? | Montenegro and the euro government of Montenegro will adopt some certain elements which should fulfil the conditions for further use of the euro, such as adopting fiscal rules." Unlike official members of the eurozone, Montenegro does not mint coins and therefore has no distinctive national design. Montenegro and the euro Montenegro has no currency of its own. From 1996 the Deutsche Mark was the "de facto" currency in all private and banking transactions and it was formally adopted as Montenegro's currency in November 1999. The mark was replaced by the euro in 2002 without any objections from the European Central Bank (ECB). The European | History of the euro adopting the currency on that date. In 2013 Latvia gained the support of the European Commission, Central Bank and Parliament for accession on 1 January 2014 with Latvia adopting the currency on that date. On 23 July 2014 Lithuania became the last Baltic state to gain permission to join the euro, which was adopted on 1 January 2015. The chart below provides a full summary of all applying exchange-rate regimes for EU members, since the European Monetary System with its Exchange Rate Mechanism and the related new common currency ECU was born on 13 March 1979. The euro replaced the |
May 5, 1925 saw one John T. Scopes of Dayton, TN, charged with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of what? | John T. Scopes John T. Scopes John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970) was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. He was tried in a case known as the Scopes Trial, in which he was found guilty and fined $100. Scopes was born in 1900 and his parents were Thomas Scopes and Mary Alva Brown who lived on a farm in Paducah, Kentucky, John was the fifth child and only son. The family moved to Danville, Illinois when John was | John T. Scopes game show "To Tell the Truth". In June 1967, Scopes wrote "Center of the Storm: Memoirs of John T. Scopes". In his life, John T. Scopes “made a quiet gentle sacrifice of livelihood for principle” which affected his personally and professionally. Scopes married Mildred Elizabeth Scopes (née Walker) (1905–1990). Together they had two sons: John Thomas Jr. and William Clement "Bill". He died on October 21, 1970 of cancer in Shreveport, Louisiana at the age of 70. Books Web John T. Scopes John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970) was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was |
What Louisville, Ky track is home to the Kentucky Derby, the annual race known as “The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports”? | Kentucky Derby Kentucky Derby The Kentucky Derby , is a horse race that is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry and fillies . The race is often called "The Run for the Roses" for the blanket of roses draped over the winner. It is also known in the United States as "The Most Exciting Two Minutes In Sports" or "The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports" in reference | Louisville, Kentucky Insider", "Goldfinger", "Stripes", "Lawn Dogs", "Elizabethtown", "Demolition Man", and "Secretariat". Louisville is home to many annual cultural events. Perhaps most well-known is the Kentucky Derby, held annually during the first Saturday of May. The Derby is preceded by a two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival, which starts with the annual Thunder Over Louisville, the largest annual fireworks display in North America. The Kentucky Derby Festival also features notable events such as the Pegasus Parade, The Great Steamboat Race, Great Balloon Race, a combined marathon/mini marathon and about seventy events in total. Esquire magazine has called the Kentucky Derby "the biggest party in |
Which planet, which received its name on May 1, was named for the Roman god of the underworld, appropriate for such a presumably dark and cold world? | Pluto uses "Sao Diêm Vương", which was derived from the Chinese term 閻王 (Yánwáng), as "minh" is a homophone for the Sino-Vietnamese words for "dark" (冥) and "bright" (明)). Some Indian languages use the name Pluto, but others, such as Hindi, use the name of "Yama", the God of Death in Hindu and Buddhist mythology. Polynesian languages also tend to use the indigenous god of the underworld, as in Māori "Whiro". Once Pluto was found, its faintness and lack of a resolvable disc cast doubt on the idea that it was Lowell's Planet X. Estimates of Pluto's mass were revised downward | A Dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World was the end for which God created the world. Edwards instead puts forth the idea that the reason for God's creation of the world was not human happiness, but the magnification of his own glory and name. Edwards then continues to argue that since true happiness comes from God alone, human happiness is an extension of God's glory, and that there are "ultimate" ends and "chief" ends, but they all end at the same conclusion. Edwards, like in "Virtue", discusses how there is no true happiness without being happy in God. Modern day evangelicals such as John Piper still use |
What American author, a founding influence on the school of transcendentalism, is perhaps best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings? | Walden detail Thoreau's experience living in the wilderness. At the location there stands a small house which is said to be the same house Thoreau built and stayed in. In 2018, MC Lars and Mega Ran released a song called Walden where they discuss the book and it's influence. Walden Walden (; first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance. | The Influence of a Book "The Influence of a Book", an English language translation by Claire Rothman, was published in 1993 and won the John Glassco Translation Prize in 1994. The Influence of a Book The Influence of a Book () is a novel by the Canadian writer Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé, first published in 1837. It is considered to be the first French Canadian novel, and although the book was not well received initially, it has come to be recognized as a major landmark in Canadian literature. It is the tale of Charles Amand's quest for gold. Between alchemy, the courtship of his |
Played by Paul Johansson in the recent movie, what is the name of the hero in Ayn Rand's seminal classic Atlas Shrugged? | Atlas Shrugged: Part II Atlas Shrugged: Part II Atlas Shrugged: Part II (or Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike) is a film based on the novel "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. It is the second installment in the "Atlas Shrugged" film series and the first sequel to the 2011 film "", continuing the story where its predecessor left off. The film was released on October 12, 2012. Dagny Taggart pilots an airplane in pursuit of another plane. Dagny asks herself, "Who is John Galt?" before apparently crashing into a mountainside. Nine months earlier, Dagny is trying to understand the abandoned prototype of an advanced motor | Atlas Shrugged: Part I list of 2012's worst films, "The A.V. Club" said "The irony of "Part II"s mere existence is rich enough: The free market is a religion for Rand acolytes, and it emphatically rejected "Part I"." Atlas Shrugged: Part I Atlas Shrugged: Part I (referred to onscreen as simply Atlas Shrugged) is a 2011 American political science fiction drama film directed by Paul Johansson. An adaptation of part of Ayn Rand's controversial 1957 novel of the same name, the film is the first in a trilogy encompassing the entire book. After various treatments and proposals floundered for nearly 40 years, investor John |
“But wait, there’s more!” May 3, 1935 saw the birth of what prolific inventor and marketing personality, known for such products as Mr. Microphone, Showtime Rotisserie, and GLH-9 Hair in a Can spray, among many others? | Ron Popeil was first published in "The New Yorker" in 2000. Ron Popeil Ronald M. "Ron" Popeil (; born May 3, 1935) is an American inventor and marketing personality, best known for his direct response marketing company Ronco. He is well known for his appearances in infomercials for the Showtime Rotisserie and the coined phrase "Set it, and forget it!" as well as popularizing the phrase, "But wait, there's more!" on television as early as the mid-1950s. Popeil was born to a Jewish family in New York City in 1935. When he was 6 his parents divorced and he and his brother | Spray-on hair Spray-on hair Spray-on hair or hair in a can is a hairstyling product consisting of an aerosol spray applied to balding areas of the scalp to create artificial hair covering that area. Spray-on hair generally works in one of two ways. Either it directly colors the scalp and enhances whatever hair is in the area by thickening it, or it generates hair-like filaments that cling to the scalp and existing hair. Spray-on hair was one of the products pioneered by Ronco in the 1980s, under the name "GLH-9" (Great Looking Hair Formula #9). The product "was popular in the 1990s |
Which bruising 19th century American, the last of the bare knuckle boxing heavyweight champions, was the first athlete to earn over one million dollars? | Bare-knuckle boxing the magazine "National Police Gazette", which set up matches and issued championship belts throughout the 1880s. The "Police Gazette" sanctioned what is considered the last major bare-knuckle heavyweight world championship, between John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain on July 8, 1889, with Sullivan emerging as the victor. Since then, other claimants to being sanctioned bare-knuckle championship bouts include the August 5, 2011, match at Fort McDowell Casino on the Yavapai Nation reservation in Arizona. The Native American tribe sanctioned the bout between Rich Stewart of New Castle, Delaware and Bobby Gunn, with Gunn emerging as the victor. Other noted champions | Bare Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame and inductees associated with ice hockey are inducted for their contributions to the fighting aspects of the game (to date, both hockey-related honorary inductees have been associated with the Buffalo Sabres, who play from Belfast). The honorary inductees were included as an acknowledgement that bare-knuckle boxing ended as a mainstream sport over a century ago, and that the honorary inductee system allows notable figures that promoted activity similar to bare knuckle boxing, who might be more recognizable to modern audiences, to be included in the Hall. For the inaugural induction ceremony in 2009, former undisputed heavyweight champion Leon Spinks was |
May 5, 1821 saw the death of a pretty major asshat when Emperor Napolean I, who probably died from stomach cancer, while he was exiled on what South Atlantic island? | Emperor of the French the French Empire. Napoleon's reign lasted until 22 June 1815, when he was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, exiled and imprisoned on the island of Saint Helena, where he died on 5 May 1821. His reign was interrupted by the Bourbon Restoration of 1814 and his own exile to Elba, from where he escaped less than a year later to reclaim the throne, reigning as Emperor for another 94 days before his defeat and final exile. Less than a year after the French coup d'état of 1851 by Napoleon's nephew Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, which ended in the successful dissolution of | Stomach cancer In 2012, it represented 8.5% of cancer cases in men, making it the fourth most-common cancer in men. Also in 2012, the number of deaths was 700,000 having decreased slightly from 774,000 in 1990, making it the third-leading cause of cancer-related death (after lung cancer and liver cancer). Less than 5% of stomach cancers occur in people under 40 years of age with 81.1% of that 5% in the age-group of 30 to 39 and 18.9% in the age-group of 20 to 29. In 2014, stomach cancer resulted in 0.61% of deaths (13,303 cases) in the U.S. In China, stomach |
What NPR staple, set in a fictional Minnesota town "where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average", debuted in 1974? | Garrison Keillor quintessentially Minnesota small town characterized by the narrator as a place "... where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." The original "PHC" ran until 1987, when Keillor ended it to focus on other projects. In 1989, he launched a new live radio program from New York City, "The American Radio Company of the Air", which had essentially the same format as "PHC". In 1992, he moved ARC back to St. Paul, and a year later changed the name back to "A Prairie Home Companion"; it has remained a fixture | All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave (1982) is a landmark feminist anthology in Black Women's Studies printed in numerous editions, co-edited by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith. Hull received the National Institute's Women of Color Award for her contribution to this book. Her contribution to this "landmark scholarship directed attention to the lives of Black women and, combined with the numerous articles she wrote thereafter, helped remedy the emphasis within Feminist |
The first issue of what women's magazine, known for its seal of approval, first appeared on May 2, 1885? | Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval led to users mistakenly publishing what was intended to be a private response, or vice versa. Some of the guidelines from GNKSA 2.0 Additional requirements concern accurate codice_1 headers, signature block formatting, and the ability to cancel and supersede articles. Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval The Good NetKeeping Seal of Approval or GNKSA is a designation that indicates a piece of Usenet newsreader (client) software meets a set of usability and formatting standards. The name is a play on the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval", a set of consumer reports issued by Good Housekeeping Magazine. The original GNKSA author thought | Seal of Approval Dalkala (Prix de l'Opera) were made the 7-2 co-favourites with the other runners being Waila (Aphrodite Stakes), Nymphea (Grosser Preis von Berlin), Igugu (Durban July) and Belle de Crecy (Blandford Stakes). Ridden by Baker, Seal of Approval raced in fifth place before being switched to the outside to obtain a clear run in the straight. She took the lead approaching the final furlong and drew clear of the field to win by four lengths from Belle de Crecy. Seal of Approval made a fairly promising start as a five-year-old when running fourth in the Yorkshire Cup in May but ran |
What Kentucky city plays host to the "fastest 2 minutes in sports", the Kentucky Derby? | Kentucky Derby Kentucky Derby The Kentucky Derby , is a horse race that is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry and fillies . The race is often called "The Run for the Roses" for the blanket of roses draped over the winner. It is also known in the United States as "The Most Exciting Two Minutes In Sports" or "The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports" in reference | Road to the Kentucky Derby Derby Championship Season). The 2014 season consisted of 34 races (18 races for the Kentucky Derby Prep Season and 16 races for the Kentucky Derby Championship Season). The 2015 season consisted of 35 races (19 races for the Kentucky Derby Prep Season and 16 races for the Kentucky Derby Championship Season). The 2016 season consisted of 35 races (19 races for the Kentucky Derby Prep Season and 16 races for the Kentucky Derby Championship Season). The 2017 season consisted of 37 races (19 races for the Kentucky Derby Prep Season, 16 races for the Kentucky Derby Championship Season, and 2 |
May 4, 1970 saw 4 students killed and an additional 13 wounded when National Guard soldiers opened fired on unarmed students at what mid-western University? | Ohio Army National Guard long history, the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970. Called to the campus Kent State University to quell demonstrations and anti-war protests, members of the guard — in what was recently described as "one of America's most horrific campus tragedies" — killed four unarmed students and wounded several more, garnering severely negative international attention and criticism, especially as some of the victims were simply passersby. After the United States withdrew from Vietnam, the Ohio Guard, like the rest of the military, was faced by the challenges of significantly decreased funding and adapting to new missions. Increasing attention was directed | Australian National University Students' Association Australian National University Students' Association Australian National University Students' Association is the student's union of the Australian National University. It is better known by its acronym, ANUSA. It exists to represent The Australian National University undergraduate students in the University's decision-making, to act as the voice for students in the national higher education policy debate, and to provide direct services to the student body. It is not to be confused with ANU Union, a not-for-profit association that once managed retail operations in the former ANU Union Building. The 1996 ANUSA elections saw the losing "Rage" ticket embroiled in scandal. 146 |
Which comic strip, created by Bil Keane, focuses on parents Bill and Thelma, and kids Billy, Dolly, Jeffy, and P.J.? | The Family Circus appearing in 1,500 newspapers. Compilations of "Family Circus" comic strips have sold over 13 million copies worldwide. The central characters of "Family Circus" are a family whose surname is rarely mentioned (although the cartoon of August 26, 2013, in which Billy refers to "Grandma Keane" and "Grandma Carne" indicates the same surnames as the author's family). The parents, Bil and Thelma (Thel), are modeled after the author and his wife, Thelma Carne Keane. Their four children, Billy, Dolly, Jeffy, and P.J., are fictionalized composites of the Keanes' five children. With the exception of P.J., no characters have aged appreciably during | Thelma Keane worked on a local reforestation project. She lived with relatives in Gympie while in high school and returned home to her family on the weekends. Thelma Carne met her future husband, Bil Keane, an American, while working in the United States war bonds office in Brisbane, Australia, during World War II. Bil Keane was a United States Army promotional artist who drew posters and flyers for the war effort. Thelma had been hired as an accounting secretary for the office. Their desks and workstations were next to each other. Cartoonist Bil Keane later spoke of meeting Thelma in the office |
On Star Trek, Mr. Spock's mother hailed from earth. From what planet did his father hail? | Star Trek (2013 video game) mission sees Kirk and Spock land on the planet New Vulcan; a colony created by Vulcans following the destruction of their homeworld in the 2009 film. There are further types of gameplay in "Star Trek" seen in the mini-games that appear throughout, such as those featuring "space dives" as seen in both 2009's "Star Trek" and 2013's "Star Trek Into Darkness". Other elements of the game break from the third-person shooter style. These include swimming levels that have Spock and Kirk move past obstacles using a teleportation gun, and levels featuring turret-based shooting on board "Enterprise". Climbing and platforming are | Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space is the debut album of Leonard Nimoy, recorded in character as Mr. Spock. It was released in June 1967 by Dot Records. The album capitalized on the popularity of the Spock character on "Star Trek". The songs contain many outer-space elements, science fiction-themed narrations, and space sound effects. "A Visit to a Sad Planet" was released as a single, with "Theme from Star Trek" on the b-side. It became Nimoy's only hit single, reaching number 121 on the Billboard chart. The album |
May 7, 1945 saw which Axis member nation sign a treaty of unconditional surrender, ending their participation in WWII? | Unconditional surrender Franklin D. Roosevelt stated it to the press as the objective of the war against the Axis Powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan; in doing so, he surprised the leaders of fellow Allied Powers. When Roosevelt made the announcement at Casablanca, he made reference to General Grant's use of the term during the American Civil War. The term was also used in the Potsdam Declaration issued to Japan on July 26, 1945. Near the end of the declaration, it said, "We call upon the government of Japan to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces" and warned | Unconditional surrender longer means of defence, has surrendered at discretion", and it is part of the customary laws of war. Unconditional surrender An unconditional surrender is a surrender in which no guarantees are given to the surrendering party. In modern times, unconditional surrenders most often include guarantees provided by international law. Announcing that only unconditional surrender is acceptable puts psychological pressure on a weaker adversary, but may also prolong hostilities. Perhaps the most notable unconditional surrender was by the Axis powers in World War II. After the Battle of the Trench, in which the Muslims tactically overcame their opponents while suffering very |
Cinco de Mayo (the fifth of May), is heavily celebrated in the US as an excuse to drink Corona. In Mexico, however, it's receives a minor nod as a day to commemorate an unexpected Mexican victory at the Battle of Puebla over what European heavyweight? | Cinco de Mayo Cinco de Mayo Cinco de Mayo ( in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May") is an annual celebration held on May 5. The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican Army's victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla, on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza. In the United States, Cinco de Mayo has taken on a significance beyond that in Mexico. More popularly celebrated in the United States than Mexico, the date has become associated with the celebration of Mexican-American culture. In Mexico, the commemoration of the battle continues to be mostly | Puebla economies. The largest important events include the Day of the Dead in Huaquechula, the Carnival of Huijotzingo, Spring Equinox in Cantona, Fiesta de Santo Entierro y Feria de las Flores, the Fería del Café y el Huipil, the Huey Atlixcáyotl Festival, the Quetzalcoatl Ritual and Cinco de Mayo, celebrated in the entire state. Cinco de Mayo—or the fifth of May—is a holiday that celebrates the date of the Mexican army's 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War (1861-1867). A relatively minor holiday in Mexico, in the United States Cinco de Mayo has evolved into |
What is the name of the umbrella company under which local gabazillionaire Paul Allen does most of his work, such as owning the Seahawks, some of the Sounders, the Cinerama, and the Flying Heritage Collection, among others? | Paul Allen Times" about Allen's decision to buy the team, "I'm not sure anybody else in this community would have done what [Allen] did." The Seahawks are valued at $1.33 billion in August 2014 by "Forbes", which says the team has "one of the most rabid fan bases in the NFL". Under the helm of Allen, the Seahawks went to the Super Bowl three times winning Super Bowl XLVIII and three NFC Championships (2005, 2013, 2014). Allen's Vulcan Sports & Entertainment is part of the ownership team of the Seattle Sounders FC, a Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise that began play in | History of the Seattle Seahawks A potential buyer was found in Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who reached an agreement to buy the club if a new stadium would be built. After funding a special statewide election for stadium financing, a new stadium for the Seahawks went forward and Allen purchased the team. Under the new ownership, Bob Whitsitt was installed as president of the club and big-name players such as Chad Brown, Warren Moon, and Ricky Watters were brought in raising hopes in Seattle that a page had been turned. What followed instead was more mediocrity as the club in 1997 and 1998 failed to |
May 5, 1821 saw Emperor Napoleon I die of what was likely stomach cancer on what British possession? | Frederic Hervey Foster Quin physician to Napoleon I at St. Helena, but the emperor died (on 5 May 1821) before he left England. In July 1821 he commenced practice at Naples, and his social gifts made him popular with all the English residents there, who included Sir William Gell, Sir William Drummond, and the Countess of Blessington. At Naples, too, Quin met Dr. Neckar, a disciple of Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, and was favourably impressed by what he learned of the homeoopathic system of medicine. After visiting Leipzig in 1826, to study its working, Quin returned to Naples a convert. On the | I Saw What I Saw were the same." A review posted on "TVFanatic" says:"The question is whether it worked. We're going to go with a definitive yes ... and no." I Saw What I Saw "I Saw What I Saw" is the sixth episode of the sixth season of the American television medical drama "Grey's Anatomy", and the show's 108th episode overall. It was written by Peter William Harper and directed by Allison Liddi-Brown. The episode was originally broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States on October 22, 2009. The episode begins "in medias res", depicting events following a whodunit style, |
The Hippocratic Oath is taken by what profession? | Hippocratic Oath the oath) that it preclude abortion. As with Scribonius Largus, there seemed to be no question to Soranus that the Hippocratic Oath prohibits abortion, although apparently not all doctors adhered to it strictly in his time. According to Soranus' 1st or 2nd century AD work "Gynaecology", one party of medical practitioners banished all abortives as required by the Hippocratic Oath; the other party—to which he belonged—was willing to prescribe abortions, but only for the sake of the mother's health. The Oath stands out among comparable ancient texts on medical ethics and professionalism through its heavily religious tone, a factor which | Hippocratic Oath have made reference to the classical Hippocratic Oath, either upholding or dismissing its bounds for medical ethics: "Roe v. Wade", "Washington v. Harper", "Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington" (1996), and "Thorburn v. Department of Corrections" (1998). In antiquity, the punishment for breaking the Hippocratic oath could range from a penalty to losing the right to practice medicine. Hippocratic Oath The Hippocratic Oath is an oath historically taken by physicians. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form, it requires a new physician to swear, by a number of healing Gods, |
In what state is Kent State University located? | Kent State University at Salem Kent State University at Salem Kent State University at Salem, also known as Kent State University Salem and Kent State Salem Campus, is a public university offering baccalaureate and associate degree programs located in Salem Township and Salem, Ohio, USA. Kent State Salem is administered with Kent State University at East Liverpool as Kent State University's Columbiana County Campuses. As of September 2011, enrollment at Kent State Salem is 2,023 with total enrollment for the Columbiana Campuses at over 3,500. Kent State Salem occupies two buildings, the City Center and the Main Building. The City Center is located in downtown | Kent State University features a lake, outdoor classroom, and nature walk. Kent State University at Salem also owns and operates the "City Center" facility in the former home of Salem Middle School and Salem High School, in which administrative offices, classes, and student services are located. The Stark Campus is the largest regional campus of Kent State University, with an enrollment of over 3,600 students, . The campus serves around 11,000 students total each year through professional development and other academic coursework classes. It is located on in Jackson Township in Stark County. The campus includes seven major buildings and a natural pond. |
What does the DSM-IV define as: A. Disturbance in the normal fluency and time patterning of speech, characterized by frequent occurrences of one or more of the following: (1) sound and syllable repetitions (2) sound prolongations (3) interjections (4) broken words (5) audible or silent blocking (6) circumlocutions (word substitutions to avoid problematic words) (7) words produced with an excess of physical tension (8) monosyllabic whole-word repetitions B. The disturbance in fluency interferes with academic or occupational achievement or with social communication. C. If a speech-motor or sensory deficit is present, the speech difficulties are in excess of those usually associated with these problems. | Speech and language impairment Speech and language impairment Speech and language impairment are basic categories that might be drawn in issues of communication involve hearing, speech, language, and fluency. A speech impairment is characterized by difficulty in articulation of words. Examples include stuttering or problems producing particular sounds. Articulation refers to the sounds, syllables, and phonology produced by the individual. Voice, however, may refer to the characteristics of the sounds produced—specifically, the pitch, quality, and intensity of the sound. Often, fluency will also be considered a category under speech, encompassing the characteristics of rhythm, rate, and emphasis of the sound produced A language impairment | Speech sound disorder are not caused by hearing problems, congenital deformities, motor disorders or selective mutism. The DSM-5 diagnostic criteria are as follows: For most children, the disorder is not lifelong and speech difficulties improve with time and speech-language treatment. Prognosis is poorer for children who also have a language disorder, as that may be indicative of a learning disorder. Speech sound disorder A speech sound disorder (SSD) is a speech disorder in which some speech sounds (called phonemes) in a child's (or, sometimes, an adult's) language are either not produced, not produced correctly, or are not used correctly. The term protracted phonological |
What famed documentarian, a staple of PBS, has produced films on The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, World War II, and National Parks? | American Civil War ranging from the reenactment of battles, to statues and memorial halls erected, to films being produced, to stamps and coins with Civil War themes being issued, all of which helped to shape public memory. This varied advent occurred in greater proportions on the 100th and 150th anniversary. Hollywood's take on the war has been especially influential in shaping public memory, as seen in such film classics as "Birth of a Nation" (1915), "Gone with the Wind" (1939), and more recently "Lincoln" (2012). Ken Burns produced a notable PBS series on television titled "The Civil War" (1990). It was digitally remastered | World War II Lost Films World War II Lost Films World War II Lost Films is the first documentary to show World War II as it really was, in original, immersive colour. Selected from thousands of hours of never seen before since the 1940s or rarely seen archive footage obtained from an exhaustive worldwide search, World War II Lost Films will forever change how we view the war. Featuring the voices of well-known actors, including Rob Lowe and LL Cool J, this visually astonishing landmark series presents the story of World War II through the eyes of 12 Americans who experienced the conflict firsthand. Using |
According to the company, the Arm and Hammer logo represents which Roman god, the god of fire and metalworking? | Arm & Hammer 1860s. James A. Church, son of Dr. Austin Church, ran a spice business known as Vulcan Spice Mills. According to the company, the Arm and Hammer logo represents Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalworking. It is often claimed that the brand name originated with tycoon Armand Hammer; however, the Arm & Hammer brand was in use 31 years before Hammer was born. Hammer was so often asked about the Church & Dwight brand, however, that he attempted to buy the company. While unsuccessful, Hammer's Occidental Petroleum in 1986 acquired enough stock for him to join the Church & | The Hammer of God (Clarke novel) The Hammer of God (Clarke novel) The Hammer of God is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke originally published in 1993. It deals with an asteroid named Kali headed toward Earth. Captain Robert Singh of the spacecraft "Goliath" is sent to deflect it. Kali is discovered by Dr. Angus Miller, an amateur astronomer on the planet Mars. A good portion of the book details the life of spaceship-captain Robert Singh (including his running a marathon race on the Lunar surface and uprooting his life and moving to Mars). When it is discovered that the asteroid Kali is likely |
Although the 6th book written, what was the first James Bond film to be released (in 1969)? | Motifs in the James Bond film series next film to be produced was also usually named, in the format "James Bond will return..." or "James Bond will be back", although these were sometimes incorrect: "The Spy Who Loved Me" promised James Bond would return in "For Your Eyes Only", but after the success of "Star Wars", the producers decided to make "Moonraker" instead and "For Your Eyes Only" followed in 1981. The first Bond film, "Dr. No", included the introduction of the character of James Bond. Bond was introduced in an exchange near the beginning of the film in a "now-famous nightclub sequence featuring Sylvia Trench", to | The Book of Bond edition of this book was published with a false slipcover printed with the title "The Bible to be Read as Literature". In one of the early Bond novels, Bond carries his gun in a hollowed out book of this title. Amis, a close friend of Fleming's, was also responsible for two other works related to the James Bond series. In 1965, he wrote "The James Bond Dossier", a collection of essays on the book and film series, and in 1968, under the pseudonym Robert Markham, he wrote the Bond novel "Colonel Sun". The Book of Bond The Book of Bond |
Who is missing: April O'Neil, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael | Raphael (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) help him save them from Sacks Industries, where he fights Shredder to buy April and Vern time to do so. After rescuing Leonardo, Donatello, and Michaelangelo and defeating the Shredder, Raphael and his brothers use the mutagen to save Splinter's life. He along with Donatello and Leonardo don't try to get April's attention unlike Michelangelo who does voice his feelings to April. Although in the end of the movie he does show appreciation to her for sacrificing everything for them. In this incarnation, Raphael isn't as hot headed and doesn't clash with Leonardo over leadership however they have a brief | Raphael to give subtlety to his painting of flesh, and develops the interplay of glances between his groups, which are much less enigmatic than those of Leonardo. But he keeps the soft clear light of Perugino in his paintings. Leonardo was more than thirty years older than Raphael, but Michelangelo, who was in Rome for this period, was just eight years his senior. Michelangelo already disliked Leonardo, and in Rome came to dislike Raphael even more, attributing conspiracies against him to the younger man. Raphael would have been aware of his works in Florence, but in his most original work of |
What is the name of the single cell that results from the union of the parents sex cells at fertilization? | Human fertilization fertilization process. Human fertilization Human fertilization is the union of a human egg and sperm, usually occurring in the ampulla of the fallopian tube. The result of this union is the production of a zygote cell, or fertilized egg, initiating prenatal development. Scientists discovered the dynamics of human fertilization in the nineteenth century. The process of fertilization involves a sperm fusing with an ovum. The most common sequence begins with ejaculation during copulation, follows with ovulation, and finishes with fertilization. Various exceptions to this sequence are possible, including artificial insemination, "in vitro" fertilization, external ejaculation without copulation, or copulation shortly | Alternative explanations of the "grandmother" cell contexts. The distributive explanation argues that the grandmother cell is nothing but the single-neuron output stage of a neural network trained to recognize a person. The hypothetical grandmother cell does not have any extraordinary binding properties. They are properties of the neural network instead. Although Kreiman's and Quiroga's results may seem to challenge the distributive model of the brain, the distributive theory offers a simple explanation of these phenomena. Such cells serve as the output neurons for neural networks trained to recognize the famous persons in question. Paul Churchland's accessible account of a network that distinguishes between sonar echoes of |
Early prospectors often confused pyrite (FeS2) with what mineral they were seeking? | Pyrite Cattierite (Co S) and vaesite (Ni S) are similar in their structure and belong also to the pyrite group. Bravoite is a nickel-cobalt bearing variety of pyrite, with > 50% substitution of Ni for Fe within pyrite. Bravoite is not a formally recognised mineral, and is named after Peruvian scientist Jose J. Bravo (1874–1928). It is distinguishable from native gold by its hardness, brittleness and crystal form. Natural gold tends to be anhedral (irregularly shaped), whereas pyrite comes as either cubes or multifaceted crystals. Pyrite can often be distinguished by the striations which, in many cases, can be seen on | Pyrite ; at around "p" is about . A newer commercial use for pyrite is as the cathode material in Energizer brand non-rechargeable lithium batteries. Pyrite is a semiconductor material with a band gap of 0.95 eV. During the early years of the 20th century, pyrite was used as a mineral detector in radio receivers, and is still used by crystal radio hobbyists. Until the vacuum tube matured, the crystal detector was the most sensitive and dependable detector available – with considerable variation between mineral types and even individual samples within a particular type of mineral. Pyrite detectors occupied a midway |
What name was given to the team consisting of Iron Man, Ant-Man, Wasp, Thor, and the Hulk? | Ant-Man and the Wasp with Reed in order to ensure story elements would line up between the films. Joe Russo added that "Ant-Man and the Wasp" would have "some [plot] elements that stitch in" closely with "Avengers: Infinity War", more so than some of the other films leading up to the Avengers films. Reed knew "Ant-Man and the Wasp" would be "a fairly stand-alone movie but... could not ignore the events of "Infinity War"", with the biggest connection occurring in the film's mid-credit scene. Since the events of "Ant-Man and the Wasp" occur over 48 hours, the timeline in relation to "Infinity War" was | Ant-Man and the Wasp van Dyne as well. He had "definite ideas" of who should portray that character. Reed said the alternate title "Wasp and the Ant-Man" was briefly considered, but was not chosen due to fan expectation given the comics history of the phrase "Ant-Man and the Wasp". That month, Adam McKay, one of the writers of "Ant-Man", expressed interest in returning to write the film, and Douglas confirmed that he was in talks to return as well. Reed stated in early December that the film may "call back" to the heist film genre and tone of "Ant-Man", but that "Ant-Man and the |
Who, along with fellow reporter Lois, acts as a mentor and role model for young photojournalist Jimmy Olsen? | Jimmy Olsen He is seen in the bibliography section of the game. In "DC Universe Online", Jimmy appears as a supporting character for the heroes, voiced by Brandon Young. Jimmy Olsen will appear in "Lego DC Super Villains" with Max Mittelman reprising his role. Jimmy Olsen James Bartholomew Olsen, better known as Jimmy Olsen, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Olsen is a young photojournalist working for the "Daily Planet". He is close friends with Lois Lane and Clark Kent/Superman, and has a good working relationship with his boss Perry White. Olsen looks up to | Jimmy Olsen to reveal that the current President is a holographic projection. His attempts to publicize the truth are halted by Lex Luthor as Metropolis is destroyed (killing hundreds, including Jimmy, Lois, and Perry) by BrainIAC. A young Jimmy Olsen makes an appearance in "All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder" #6. He helps Vicki Vale, whom he appears to be attracted to, escape from a hospital and giving her files on Batman and the Flying Graysons. This incarnation is described as a cub reporter for the "Gotham Gazette" as opposed to his regular position at the "Daily Planet" and as |
What is the official call sign of the Boeing 747 that carries the president? | Boeing VC-25 Boeing VC-25 The Boeing VC-25 is a military version of the Boeing 747 airliner, modified for presidential transport and operated by the United States Air Force as "Air Force One", the call sign of any U.S. Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States. Only two examples of this aircraft type are currently in service; they are highly modified Boeing 747-200Bs, designated VC-25A and having tail numbers 28000 and 29000. Although technically the "Air Force One" designation applies to the aircraft only while the President is on board, the term is commonly used to refer to the VC-25 | Boeing 747-8 Volga-Dnepr signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Boeing for the purchase of 20 more 747-8Fs at the 2015 Paris Air Show. This acquisition was finalized at the 2016 Farnborough Airshow. On October 27, 2016, UPS announced an order for 14 747-8Fs with options for an additional 14. The 14 options were then converted to official orders on February 1, 2018. Deliveries are scheduled from 2017 through 2022. On September 7, 2017, it was reported that Turkish Airlines is in negotiations with Boeing for purchasing 8 747-8Is to strengthen its widebody fleet. The 747-8 is a development of the Boeing |
Tattinger, Veuve Clicquot, and Delbeck are all makers of what? | Delbeck largest Champagne imported to the United States and Canada. Delbeck The Delbeck Champagne house was established in 1832 by Félix-Désiré Delbeck in Reims. Delbeck was a Flemish banker who invested in vineyards, and the husband of baronne Balsamie Ponsardin who was a niece of the Veuve Clicquot. Delbeck champagne found favour with the court of Louis-Philippe of France, and was in 1838 named the official Champagne of the French monarchy. Subsequently Delbeck is the exclusive Champagne allowed to bear the royal emblem & the motto "Fournisseurs de l'Ancienne Cour de France". The reputation of Delbeck grew during the years 1870 | Veuve Clicquot of the Veuve Clicquot company. With her "Vin de la comète" (comet vintages), Madame Clicquot reinvigorated her business which began to take off again, thanks to the success of the Russian venture that made the name Veuve Clicquot famous overnight. She went from being a minor player to a brand name that everyone known to all. During the years that followed, Russia continued to buy Veuve Clicquot wines. Sales rocketed: from 43,000 bottles in 1816, they climbed to 280,000 in 1821 and increased until the 1870's. Within two years, the widow Clicquot had become famous and was at the helm |
May 6, 1856 saw the birth of what Austrian neurologist, credited as the father of psychoanalysis? | Psychoanalysis of the father in Freud's own analysis is itself indebted to the prominence given to the father in Western metaphysics and theology since Plato. Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders. The discipline was established in the early 1890s by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud and stemmed partly from the clinical work of Josef Breuer and others. Freud first used the term "psychoanalysis" (in French) in 1896. "Die Traumdeutung" ("The Interpretation of Dreams"), which Freud saw as his "most significant | The Foundations of Psychoanalysis make definitive claims about the causes of neuroses. However, he believed that Grünbaum's criticism of "clinical wisdom" ignored the effectiveness of psychoanalytic theory. Klerman considered the book important. He credited Grünbaum with refuting hermeneutic interpretations of psychoanalysis, as well as with refuting Popper's views, and showing that psychoanalysts could not rely on clinical evidence to support psychoanalytic propositions. He concluded that the work showed that the scientific status of psychoanalysis had not been established. Leibin credited Grünbaum with providing a useful discussion of a range of views on psychoanalysis, and agreed with him that the views of Habermas, Ricœur, and |
It appears that this year's presidential election is going to the dogs. We don't know the name of the dogs that Barak Obama ate, but what was the name of the pooch that Mitt Romney strapped to the roof of his car during a road trip to Canada? | Mitt Romney 2008 presidential campaign the poll. In June 2007, a section of a four-part series on Romney from the "Boston Globe" documented how during a family vacation taken in 1983, Romney strapped a kennel with his dog Seamus to the roof of his station wagon for the 12-hour trip from Massachusetts to Ontario. Presented in the articles as an example of Romney's ability to deal with trying circumstances, the incident received nationwide media attention when journalists and animal activists criticized Romney's strapping of the dog to the roof for a 12-hour summer trip. Romney said that the dog had a windshield and he "jumped | Going to the Dogs Underdog", protested against what they saw as animal abuse. A performance of the play was released in 2008 on the two DVD set of Schippers' television drama series "Op zoek naar Yolanda" (1984), along with the television productions "Sans rancune" (1987) and "De bruine jurk" (1988). In 2011, lead actress Ilja van Vinkeloord (1981–1996) was honored with a portrait in the Stadschouwburg's gallery, hung among portraits of such veteran Dutch actors as Kitty Courbois, Joop Admiraal, and Mary Dresselhuys. Going to the Dogs Going to the Dogs is a 1986 play by Dutch writer, artist, and television director Wim T. |
May 8 is known as Victory in Europe day when the Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of Germany, in what year? | Victory in Europe Day Victory in Europe Day Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day, was celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. The formal surrender of the German forces occupying the Channel Islands did not occur until the following day, 9 May 1945. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. The term VE Day existed as early as September 1944, in anticipation of victory. On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler, the Nazi | Victory in Europe Day (Israel) Victory in Europe Day (Israel) Victory in Europe Day (Israel) is an Israeli national day of remembrance celebrated annually on the ninth of May, to commemorate victory over the Nazis, ending World War II in Europe. Victory in Europe Day was created by the Israeli Knesset on July 26 2017 as part of the Victory in Europe Day Law. According to the law, Victory in Europe Day shall be held once a year, on May 9, to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. While May 8 |
Which US city is known as The Big Easy, the Crescent City, or NOLA? | Crescent City Connection Louisiana, on March 17. The name was selected over the second-place finisher, the Greater New Orleans Superspan, as the name for the spans. Other names voted on for the naming of the spans included: the Crescent City Twins, the Delta Twins, the Crescent City Bridge, the New Orleans Metro Span, the Crescent City Gateway, the Crescent City Twin Span, the Crescent City River Bridge, The Big Easy and the Li'l Easy, the Jazz City Bridge, the Big East Twin Spans, The Pelican Bridge, the Fleur-de-Lis, the Greater Mississippi River Bridge, the Unity Bridge, the Mississippi River Twins, The Friendship Connection, | Crescent City, Illinois Crescent City, Illinois Crescent City is a village in Iroquois and Crescent townships, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. The population was 615 at the 2010 census. Crescent City is located in central Iroquois County at (40.770448, -87.857823). U.S. Route 24 passes through the center of the village, leading east to Watseka, the county seat, and west to Gilman near Interstate 57. Illinois Route 49 crosses US 24 on the western side of Crescent City; it leads north to US Routes 45 and 52 near L'Erable, and south to Rankin. According to the 2010 census, Crescent City has a total area |
The Oompa-Loompas appear in which book(s) and film(s)? | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical) contains a three-course meal. Violet and her father are overjoyed, as they believe the new product can catapult Violet into gum superstardom. Despite Wonka's warning that there is a problem with the dessert course and the gum is not yet safe to chew, Violet takes the gum and accidentally swallows it. The excess of juice in the gum causes her to swell up and turn into a human blueberry. Wonka sends Violet and her father to the Oompa Loompas for help, and is quickly distracted from the situation by Mrs. Teavee asking about the origin of the Oompa Loompas. Wonka | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory published edition, the Oompa-Loompas were described as African pygmies, and were drawn this way in the original printed edition. After the announcement of a film adaptation sparked a statement from the NAACP expressing concern that the transportation of Oompa-Loompas to Wonka's factory resembled slavery, Dahl found himself sympathizing with the NAACP's concerns and published a revised edition. In this edition, as well as the subsequent sequel, the Oompa-Loompas were drawn as being white and appearing similar to hippies, and the references to Africa were deleted. Dahl later expressed regret over the original version, saying that his original intention of depicting |
Where do The Monkees take the last train to in their 1966 hit? | Last Train to Clarksville Last Train to Clarksville "Last Train to Clarksville" was the debut single by The Monkees. It was released August 16, 1966 and later included on the group's 1966 self-titled album, which was released on October 10, 1966. The song, written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, was recorded at RCA Victor Studio B in Hollywood on July 25, 1966 and was already on the Boss Hit Bounds on 17 August 1966. The song topped the "Billboard" Hot 100 on November 5, 1966. Lead vocals were performed by The Monkees' drummer Micky Dolenz. "Last Train to Clarksville" was featured in seven | The Monkees (album) The Monkees (album) The Monkees is the first album by the band The Monkees. It was released in October 1966 by Colgems Records in the United States and RCA Victor in the rest of the world. It was the first of four consecutive U.S. number one albums for the group, taking the top spot on the "Billboard" 200 for 13 weeks, after which it was displaced by the band's second album. It also topped the UK charts in 1967. "The Monkees" has been certified quintuple platinum by the RIAA, with sales of over five million copies. The song "Last Train |
How long is a US patent good for (as of June 9, 1995)? | Term of patent EEA member states this is by means of a supplementary protection certificate. In the United States, for utility patents filed on or after June 8, 1995, the term of the patent is 20 years from the earliest filing date of the application on which the patent was granted and any prior U.S. or Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications from which the patent claims priority (excluding provisional applications). For patents filed prior to June 8, 1995, the term of patent is either 20 years from the earliest filing date as above or 17 years from the issue date, whichever is longer. | As Good as Dead (1995 film) charges and finally gets a chance to get to know her father. Tony Scott of "Variety.com" called the film "filled with possibilities longing to be realized" and complained that "San Diego is being used as L.A.’s stand-in." The film holds a 38% rating on "Rotten Tomatoes". As Good as Dead (1995 film) As Good as Dead is a 1995 television film written, produced, and directed by Larry Cohen. The psychological thriller, originally broadcast on USA Network, stars Crystal Bernard and Traci Lords. The film was released on VHS in 1998. Nicole (Traci Lords) is a makeup artist with an ulcer |
What would your astrological sign be if you were born today? | Astrological sign those that end with an odd number are Yin (representing feminine, passive and darkness). Astrological sign In Western astrology, astrological signs are the twelve 30° sectors of the ecliptic, starting at the vernal equinox (one of the intersections of the ecliptic with the celestial equator), also known as the First Point of Aries. The order of the astrological signs is Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. The concept of the zodiac originated in Babylonian astrology, and was later influenced by Hellenistic culture. According to astrology, celestial phenomena relate to human activity on the | If You Were a Movie, This Would Be Your Soundtrack music video for "Roger Rabbit" was released on October 10, 2012 via mtvU. All lyrics written by Kellin Quinn and Jesse Lawson unless noted, all music composed by Sleeping with Sirens If You Were a Movie, This Would Be Your Soundtrack If You Were a Movie, This Would Be Your Soundtrack is the first EP by American post-hardcore band Sleeping with Sirens. This album was released on June 26, 2012 through Rise Records and debuted at no. 17 on the Billboard Top 200 charts, selling 17,486 in the first week. This EP features acoustic versions of "If I'm James Dean, |
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