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What is the alcoholic beverage similar to cider which is made from fermented pears? | Pear cider - definition of Pear cider by The Free Dictionary Pear cider - definition of Pear cider by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Pear+cider Also found in: Thesaurus , Encyclopedia , Wikipedia . per·ry n. pl. per·ries A fermented, often effervescent beverage made from pears. [Middle English pere, from Old French pere, from Vulgar Latin *pirātum : Latin pirum, pear; see pear + Latin -ātum, n. suff. (from neuter of -ātus, -ate).] perry (Brewing) alcoholic drink made of pears, similar in taste to cider [C14 pereye, from Old French peré, ultimately from Latin pirum pear] Perry (ˈpɛrɪ) n 1. (Biography) Fred(erick John). 1909–95, English tennis and table-tennis player; world singles table-tennis champion (1929); as a tennis player he won eight Grand Slam singles titles including the US Open three times (1933–34, 1936) and Wimbledon three times (1934–36) 2. (Biography) Grayson. born 1960, English potter, embroiderer, and film-maker; won the Turner Prize (2003). 3. (Biography) Matthew Calbraith. 1794–1858, US naval officer, who led a naval expedition to Japan that obtained a treaty (1854) opening up Japan to western trade 4. (Biography) his brother, Oliver Hazard. 1785–1819, US naval officer. His defeat of a British squadron on Lake Erie (1813) was the turning point in the War of 1812, leading to the recapture of Detroit Per•ry |
What former monetary unit was equal to a quarter of an old penny? | farthing - definition of farthing in English | Oxford Dictionaries Definition of farthing in English: farthing noun 1A former monetary unit and coin of the UK, withdrawn in 1961, equal to a quarter of an old penny. Example sentences ‘Back in 1698, the mill was used to forge copper blacks for the Royal Mint to strike farthings and halfpennies.’ ‘However, there were also crowns, farthings, guineas and sovereigns, all in varying amounts and none really compatible with any of the others.’ ‘The verdict went in favour of the companies, though with derisory damages of one farthing.’ ‘Nestled inside, laying on a cushion of cloth, lay a medallion about the size of a farthing.’ ‘Whistler won, but was bankrupted after the judge awarded him only one farthing's damages and told him to pay the costs of the trial.’ ‘Pennies were cut in half and quartered into farthings, but were never to become numerous enough or of low enough value to function as ‘small change’ during this period.’ ‘There were farthings, pennies, oxfords, crowns, florins, shillings, guineas, and pounds, among other divisions.’ ‘We didn't save the groat, the guinea or the farthing, and thrive without them.’ ‘During that period, he said, there was a national shortage of small-denomination half penny and farthing coins - so many local towns and even tradesmen took to minting their own tokens.’ ‘By next February, the punt and the penny will be going the way of the farthing and half crown, becoming curios and museum pieces.’ ‘The half-penny and farthing would gradually be replaced by a half-cent and quarter-cent.’ ‘Edward I carried out a grand recoinage in 1279-80, minting new coins, silver halfpennies and farthings, to remove the need to cut, and a fourpence groat, which was not at first successful.’ ‘The silver farthing was worth a quarter of a penny.’ ‘Renovation work at the Blenheim Road school has also unearthed an old shilling and a farthing hidden behind the children's coat pegs.’ ‘The Farthing Office was a part of the Mint and Charles II had introduced, in 1672, the copper half-penny and farthing with the Britannia type.’ ‘Well what do I get for my six pence and three farthings?’ ‘Prior to decimalization, the pound was divided into twenty shillings, each shilling into twelve pennies and each penny into four farthings.’ ‘He showed examples of some of the first minted Thai coins, which were actually modelled on the English farthing.’ ‘The penny piece is now worth less in real terms than either the farthing or the decimal halfpenny when they were withdrawn from circulation.’ ‘In the time of Samuel Pepys one farthing was worth roughly the same as a 10p coin would be today (you can compare monetary values since 1264 here).’ 1.1[usually with negative] The least possible amount: ‘she didn't care a farthing for the woman’ More example sentences ‘Anybody who slogs through the first five pages of it knows perfectly well the book cares not a farthing for ideas; it's entertainment.’ ‘Ivy Island was an inaccessible piece of barren land, not worth a farthing.’ ‘You don't give a farthing for any of the characters, and so the work, whatever its commercial value, is artistically nil.’ ‘The funny thing is that the cable TV company has never realized that the boxing public won't pay a farthing to see Jones do anything.’ ‘They don't care a farthing about other peoples' feelings.’ ‘But they did not care a farthing about defeat, to which they became accustomed.’ ‘Izumi was standing in the middle of vast darkness, so dark that not even a farthing of dust or any particle could be seen.’ ‘Have they, then, expended a single farthing on the improvement of that river?’ Origin Old English fēorthing, from fēortha ‘fourth’, perhaps on the pattern of Old Norse fjórthungr quarter. Pronunciation: Which of the following is a type of monkey or ape? cappuccino Which of the following is a type of monkey or ape? Diana monkey Which of the following is a type of monkey or ape? mandrill Which of the following is a type of monkey or ape? propolis monkey Which of the following is a type of monkey or ape? mar |
What is the name of the pig in Animal Farm? | Animal Farm Characters | GradeSaver Buy Study Guide Benjamin The donkey. He is the oldest animal on the farm and stereotypically stubborn and crotchety. He is also intelligent, being the only animal (aside from the pigs) that can read fluently. He never laughs, preferring to make cynical comments, especially the cryptic line, “donkeys live a long time.” Despite Benjamin’s unfriendly nature, he has a special affinity for Boxer. The Rebellion does not change Benjamin’s personality, although he eventually helps the animals read the lettering on the side of the van and the maxim that replaces the Seven Commandments. Benjamin represents the human (and also stereotypically Russian) tendency towards apathy; he holds fast to the idea that life is inherently hard and that efforts for change are futile. Benjamin bears a similarity to Orwell himself. Over the course of his career, Orwell became politically pessimistic and predicted the overtake of the West by totalitarian governments. Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher The dogs. When Bluebell and Jessie give birth to puppies, Napoleon confiscates them and secludes them in a loft, where he transforms them into fierce, elitist guard dogs. Boxer The male of the two horses on the farm. He is “an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together. A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in fact he was not of first-rate intelligence, but he was universally respected for his steadiness of character and tremendous powers of work” (26). Boxer has a special affinity for Benjamin. With his determination to be a good public servant and his penchant for hard work, Boxer becomes Napoleon’s greatest supporter. He works tirelessly for the cause of Animal Farm, operating under his personal maxims, “I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right.” The only time Boxer doubts propaganda is when Squealer tries to rewrite the story of Snowball’s valor at the Battle of the Cowshed, a “treachery” for which he is nearly executed. But Boxer recants his doubts when he learns that the altered story of the battle is directly from Napoleon. After Boxer is injured while defending the farm in the Battle of the Windmill, Napoleon sends him to be slaughtered for profit. The pigs use the money from the slaughter to buy themselves a case of whisky. Boxer is not pugnacious despite his name, but he is as strong as his name implies. In this way, Boxer is a painfully ironic character. He is strong enough to kill another animal, even a human, with a single blow from his hoof, and the dogs cannot manage to overpower him in Chapter VII. Still, Boxer lacks the intelligence and the nerve to sense that he is being used. Boxer represents the peasant or working class, a faction of humanity with a great combined strength--enough to overthrow a manipulative government--but which is uneducated enough to take propaganda to heart and believe unconditionally in the government’s cause. the Cat The only cat on Manor Farm. She is lazy and indifferent, but she does participate in the Battle of the Cowshed. Clover The female of the two horses on the farm. She is “a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.” Clover is Boxer’s faithful companion as well as a motherly figure to the other animals. Like Boxer, Clover is not intelligent enough to read, so she enlists Muriel to read the altered Seven Commandments to her. She sees the incongruities in the government’s policies and actions, but she is not smart or defiant enough to fight for the restoration of justice. Clover represents those people who remember a time before the Revolution and therefore half-realize that the government is lying about its success and adherence to its principles, but are helpless to change anything. the Dogs Nine puppies, which Napoleon confiscates and secludes in a loft. Napoleon rears them into fierce, elitist dogs that act as his security guards. The dogs are the only animals other than the pigs that are given special priv |
What was David Bowie's real name? | David Bowie - Biography - IMDb David Bowie Biography Showing all 147 items Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (2) | Trade Mark (10) | Trivia (62) | Personal Quotes (67) Overview (5) 5' 10" (1.78 m) Mini Bio (1) David Bowie is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of pop music. Born David Jones, he changed his name to Bowie in the 1960s, to avoid confusion with the then well-known Davy Jones (lead singer of The Monkees ). The 1960s were not a happy period for Bowie, who remained a struggling artist, awaiting his breakthrough. He dabbled in many different styles of music (without commercial success), and other art forms such as acting, mime, painting, and playwriting. He finally achieved his commercial breakthrough in 1969 with the song "Space Oddity," which was released at the time of the moon landing. Despite the fact that the literal meaning of the lyrics relates to an astronaut who is lost in space, this song was used by the BBC in their coverage of the moon landing, and this helped it become such a success. The album, which followed "Space Oddity," and the two, which followed (one of which included the song "The Man Who Sold The World," covered by Lulu and Nirvana ) failed to produce another hit single, and Bowie's career appeared to be in decline. However, he made the first of many successful "comebacks" in 1972 with "Ziggy Stardust," a concept album about a space-age rock star. This album was followed by others in a similar vein, rock albums built around a central character and concerned with futuristic themes of Armageddon, gender dysfunction/confusion, as well as more contemporary themes such as the destructiveness of success and fame, and the dangers inherent in star worship. In the mid 1970s, Bowie was a heavy cocaine abuser and sometime heroin user. In 1975, he changed tack. Musically, he released "Young Americans," a soul (or plastic soul as he later referred to it) album. This produced his first number one hit in the US, "Fame." He also appeared in his first major film, The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). With his different-colored eyes and skeletal frame, he certainly looked the part of an alien. The following year, he released "Station to Station," containing some of the material he had written for the soundtrack to this film (which was not used). As his drug problem heightened, his behavior became more erratic. Reports of his insanity started to appear, and he continued to waste away physically. He fled back to Europe, finally settling in Berlin, where he changed musical direction again and recorded three of the most influential albums of all time, an electronic trilogy with Brian Eno "Low, Heroes and Lodger." Towards the end of the 1970s, he finally kicked his drug habit, and recorded the album many of his fans consider his best, the Japanese-influenced "Scary Monsters." Around this time, he played the Elephant Man on Broadway, to considerable acclaim. The next few years saw something of a drop-off in his musical output as his acting career flourished, culminating in his acclaimed performance in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983). In 1983, he recorded "Let's Dance," an album which proved an unexpected massive commercial success, and produced his second number 1 hit single in the US. The tour which followed, "Serious Moonlight," was his most successful ever. Faced with this success on a massive scale, Bowie apparently attempted to "repeat the formula" in the next two albums, with less success (and to critical scorn). Finally, in the late 1980s, he turned his back on commercial success and his solo career, forming the hard rock band, Tin Machine, who had a deliberate limited appeal. By now, his acting career was in decline. After the comparative failure of Labyrinth (1986), the movie industry appears to have decided that Bowie was not a sufficient name to be a lead actor in a major movie, and since that date, most of his roles have been cameos or glorified cameos. He himself also seems to have lost interest in movie acting. Tin Machine toured extensively and released two alb |
Which sports commentator wrote the autobiography Unless I'm Very Much Mistaken? | Murray Walker: Unless I'm Very Much Mistaken - Books | WHSmith Murray Walker: Unless I'm Very Much Mistaken Add to wishlist + Description The voice of motor racing and much loved public figure - and the man responsible for introducing millions of viewers to the previously inaccessible world of Formula 1 - tells the story of his incident-packed life, with a brand new chapter on his globetrotting adventures since retirement. Murray Walker is a national treasure. When the man who made famous the catch phrase 'Unless I'm very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken!!!' announced that he was retiring as ITV's Grand Prix commentator, the media reacted as if the sport itself was losing one of its biggest stars. His reputation for mistakes was the making of Walker. He was the fan who happened to be given the keys to the commentary box - and never wanted to give them back. His high-octane delivery kept viewers on the edge of their seats, while his passion for talking about the sport he loved was matched by an all-encompassing knowledge gained through hours of painstaking research before every race. In his book he writes about his childhood and the influence that his father, British motorcycle champion Graham Walker, had on his career. Failing to match his father's achievements on the track after active service in World War II, he made a successful career for himself in advertising which catapulted him to the top of his profession. An offer from the BBC to take over the commentary seat for their F1 broadcasts was too good to turn down, and it wasn't long before the infamous 'Murrayisms' enlivened a sport which until then had been shrouded in a cloak of unfathomable technical jargon and mind-numbing statistics. He also talks about the biggest changes in the sport over the last 50 years, in particular the safety issues which came to the fore after the tragic death of Ayrton Senna, which he witnessed first hand. His partnership with James Hunt behind the microphone is the subject of some hilarious anecdotes, while his views on drivers past and present such as Stirling Moss, Jackie Stewart, Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher make for fascinating reading. Create a review About Author Murray Walker was born in Birmingham in 1923. His father, Graham was a motorcycle TT champion and Walker jnr saw his first race when he was two. After active service in World War II, he forged a succeesful career as an advertising executive, handling the accounts of blue-chip firms such as Mars, Esso and the Co-op. His debut as a sports commentator came in 1949, when he covered the British GP at Silverstone for BBC Radio. He has since spent more than 50 years commentating on motor racing and in particular F1, initially for the BBC before switching to ITV in 1997. He is the author of 14 books on motor racing. Product Details |
Who replaced Anneka Rice in the TV programme Treasure Hunt? | Treasure Hunt (2) - UKGameshows Treasure Hunt (2) Cameraman (on location): Graham Berry Video recordist (on location): Frank Meyburgh Broadcast Chatsworth Television for Channel 4, 28 December 1982 to 18 May 1989 (91 episodes in 7 series + 6 specials) Chatsworth Television for Thames (regional), 30 October 1985 (as part of Thames Telethon) Chatsworth Television for ITV, 29 to 30 May 1988 (as part of ITV Telethon) Chatsworth Television for BBC Two, 16 December 2002 to 2 August 2003 (15 episodes in 2 series) Synopsis If someone came up to you and said that Treasure Hunt was an hour of complete arse, not only do they have Tourette's Syndrome, but somewhat ironically they would be almost completely right. Golden girl Anneka Rice with her lightweight (for 1985) radio pack. That's because the show is infamous for Graham the Cameraman's need to film Anneka Rice 's bottom. In jump-suit as well! However, it was a groundbreaking game too, and one of Channel 4's most popular shows of the era, regularly clawing in 7-8 million viewers. A lucky young thing gets to spend quality time with Anneka, thanks to Jim'll Fix It. The game, then. Former BBC newsreader Kenneth Kendall helps two ordinary rich people (the first two contestants were fish farmers from Cornwall) to solve five devious cryptic clues in order to guide "Skyrunner" Anneka, transported by helicopter, around the five places of interest, usually on a 20x20 km map, within 45 minutes. Come on Penny. Give me the clue. Part of the game was that although they could communicate with Anneka via a two-way radio link, they couldn't actually see her. An unintentional difficulty factor was that the radio communications would sometimes break up, completely by accident, at unfortunate times. In the studio, the players have access to lots of reference works and they'll need them because the clues are somewhat cryptic. For example, one clue once was: "In a Seahawk, in a Seahawk, in a Seahawk." the contestants had to work out that an airbase in the area was known as the HMS Seahawk, and at that place was an actual Seahawk plane and inside that was a small model of a Seahawk plane, and the clue was in that. Often homonyms, anagrams, double meanings and other connotations needed to be solved, with a bit of quick research each time, to solve the clues. The plans before the show began. For most of the run of the series, back at the base was TV-AM weather girl and zoologist (a combination you tend to see everyday) Wincey Willis who gave absolutely no help whatsoever save for time checks, giving out the clues in the studio and giving the hint to the Treasure at the top of the show. Part of her job was to track what the helicopter was doing on her big board which seemed fairly pointless, truth be told. Anneka and her crew. What made the show entertaining were the things Anneka had to do to earn the clues and the treasure. Most of the time they just had to go to a certain place, but sometimes the clue is on a character on stage at a packed performance, under the water, in the middle of an Army Assault Course obstacle - that kind of malarkey. We all deserve a well earned break now and then. Even when the contestants were stuck on clues, there was always plenty to look at. The view from the helicopter was interesting (Graham the cameraman always doing his "low shot" to perk up the proceedings), and Anneka tried her best to chip in with solving the clues wherever possible. Bless her. The main problem with the format was that if there was only 3 minutes on the clock, and that the next location was miles away, we just knew they weren't going to make it. This was a bug that was solved in the next similar show in the genre, Interceptor . That said, Treasure Hunt got seven series, Interceptor got one. There's no justice. Skyrunner in the helicopter, Anneka Rice In the final series of the original run, Anneka Rice was replaced by tennis-player Annabel Croft , who went on to do the afore-mentioned Interceptor with the same production team/helicopter crew combo (Chatsworth Television and Castle Air). Annabel C |
Which is England's highest mountain? | What is England's Highest Mountain? - Geolounge 5 Total Shares The highest mountain in England is called Scafell Pike. Found at 978 metres (3,209 ft) above sea level, Scafell Pike is located in Lake District National Park in Cumbria. Ad: The mountain is comprised of igneous rock. The shattered rock debris, thought to be from weathering such as frost action, that covers the plateau makes Scafell Pike the highest altitude example of a summit boulder field in England. Scafell Pike also lays claim to the highest standing water in England. Broad Crag Tarn is found 820 m (2,700 ft), a quarter of a mile south of the summit. View of the Scafell range in the English Lake District, looking west from Crinkle Crags. Original photograph taken by Mick Knapton National Three Peaks Challenge Scafell Pike is one of three mountains that is part of the National Three Peaks Challenge. For this challenge, participants must climb all three peaks within 24 hours. The three mountains are: Ben Nevis (at 1,344 m or 4,409 ft it is the highest mountain in Scotland), Snowdon / Yr Wyddfa (which at 1,085 m or 3,560 ft is the highest mountain in Wales), and Scafell Pike. Location of the three mountains that make up the Three Peaks Challenge. References |
During the 1980s, which drink was promoted with the advertising slogan, 'the totally tropical taste'? | coca cola | Retro TV Ads Tweet Tab, stylized as TaB, is a diet cola soft drink produced by the Coca-Cola Company, first introduced in 1963. The soda was created by Coca-Cola after the successful sales and marketing of Diet Rite cola, owned by The Royal Crown Company; previously, Diet Rite had been the only sugarless soda on the market. Tab was “marketed to consumers who want to keep ‘tabs’ on their weight.” The soda was fairly popular throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and the Coca-Cola Company made several variations of it, including Tab Clear and Tab X-Tra, as well ascaffeine-free versions. Info gleaned from Wikipedia Tweet Coca Cola Christmas Hilltop “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing” TV Commercial. Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke (a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company in the United States since March 27, 1944). Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century. info gleaned from Wikipedia Tweet 80’s LILT commercial. Lilt is a brand of soft drink manufactured by The Coca Cola Company and sold in the United Kingdom, Gibraltar and Republic of Ireland only. During the 1980s, Lilt was promoted with the advertising slogan, “the totally tropical taste.” In the late 1990s it was heavily promoted with advertisements featuring two Jamaican women, Blanche Williams and Hazel Palmer. They became known in the media as the “Lilt Ladies.” Aspartame is added to the “regular” variety of Lilt, making it a de-facto diet soft drink. This means that Coca-Cola UK have given consumers the option of Diet Lilt, or Diet Lilt. |
Which 70s band that has recently been reformed by lead singer Les McKeown? | Les McKeown Archives - Towleroad Towleroad Bay City Rollers Singer Les McKeown Says He’s Had Gay Sex for Years Some of you may remember the 70’s band Bay City Rollers and its lead singer Les McKeown. McKeown recently appeared on a reality TV show about addiction, on which he told his wife he’d been having sex with men for years: “His wife Peko was furious whe… Sherry Vine is Ready for the Resistance with ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ – WATCH Sherry Vine, the drag performer known for her deliciously raunchy reboots of pop hits, has bigger things on her mind these days: Donald Trump and the culture wars he is bringing back to the nation. She’s back with a new clip using Billy Joel… Trump Plans to Cut Nat’l Endowment for the Arts, Nat’l Endowment for the Humanities Big cuts are coming. Trump plans to do away with the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among other things. The Hill reports: The departments of Commerce and Energy would see major reductions in funding, wi… Las Vegas Can Help You Start the New Year Right Making New Year’s resolutions is easy. Keeping them … well, sometimes that’s a little more of a challenge. But here’s one resolution you’ll want to keep for sure. Make Las Vegas a part of your 2017 plans and have the trip of a lifetime! While in Las… ‘Lord of the Dance’ Michael Flatley Coming Out of Retirement to Jiggle for Trump The Lord of the Dance Michael Flatley will be joining the unimpressive list of acts who have agreed to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration, the NY Daily News reports: Flatley, 58, has been featured on “Dancing with the Stars,” bu… |
What creature is carved into the handle of Mary Poppins' umbrella? | Her Loud Companion, a mary poppins fanfic | FanFiction Not even Mary Poppins can get anything past her intuitive parrot umbrella handle. She and the parrot reflect on how practically perfect people CAN permit sentiment to muddle their thinking. Rated: Fiction K - English - Friendship - Words: 834 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 7 - Published: 3/5/2012 - Status: Complete - id: 7898580 + - Full 3/4 1/2 Expand Tighten "You can't fool me, Mary Poppins," the parrot umbrella handle said. "I know exactly how you feel about those children and if you think I'm going to keep my mouth shut any longer I—" Mary Poppins clamped the bird's wooden beak together with her thumb and forefinger gently. "That'll be quite enough, thank you," she said. Mary Poppins could put children in line and adults in their place, but she couldn't show this bird how rude it was to interject when no one wanted it to no matter how many times she'd told it so. She knew just how she felt without an umbrella handle telling her so. She opened her umbrella and got a firm grip on her carpetbag and ascended into the sky on the wind. Below her, Michael and Jane were off flying their kite with Mr. and Mrs. Banks just as she had left them. Mary Poppins wondered what the children would do when they returned home and found she really had meant that she was leaving for good, because she knew in some part of their lovely hearts they believed she would be sitting in the nursery and humming, awaiting their arrival. But Mary Poppins was not in the nursery and humming. She was in the sky, her eyes trained on a nice looking cloud not too far away. It would make a good place to stay until she heard another call of a child in need of a nanny. "Don't get too sad, Mary Poppins," the bird handle said suddenly, causing her heart to skip a beat and her graceful floating to jolt for an instant. "I most certainly am not sad. Practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their thinking," she said sternly. "And I told you to be quiet." "Oh, let's talk about it," said the parrot. Mary Poppins ignored her opinionated bird handle. She landed gracefully on a cloud and set down her bag. "Yes, this will do quite nicely." She closed her umbrella with protests from the handle that quieted quickly. Mary Poppins reached into her magic bag and pulled out a small table. She set it down and brushed flecks of dirt off the surface. After a moment of silence so she could regroup and face the conversation at hand, sighing, Mary Poppins reached for the umbrella she'd discarded and opened it once again. The mouth on the parrot began moving immediately. "Mary Poppins, I've told you to please not do that while I'm talking. It gets awfully stuffy in there." There was a silence with the occasional clinking of china as Mary Poppins pulled out a teapot, a cup, and a saucer from the carpetbag. "Are you even listening to me?" Mary Poppins took a delicate sip of the tea she'd just poured for herself. "Of course I am, I always listen," she said matter-of-factly and not rudely in any way. "Well then, you listen to this," the handle said in a hear-me-now sort of tone. "You miss those children already and I'm not going to sit around and listen to you reminisce about things that happened not just a few hours ago. I know why it is you mope around for days after a job: closure, that's it. You never say goodbye," the bird concluded smugly. Mary Poppins gave the thing a hard look and put her cup on the table softly. She put her elbow on the table and sat her chin upon her hand, raising a brow at the parrot. "I've said goodbye many times, so you're quite wrong." "No, no," it said. "You never tell them how much you care. I hear everything when you leave the children, Miss Mary Poppins, so don't try to tell me that you've ever admitted anything as grand as your feelings." The bird paused and Mary Poppins did not reply. "Not even to Bert," it said, filling the silence with tension. "Now," said Mary Poppins as she crossed her legs tightly, "Bert has no need to be bothered with something as trivial as my feelings, |
There have been 12 prime ministers during the queen's reign. How many of them were Conservative? | Queen Elizabeth and her 12 Prime Ministers | History of government Queen Elizabeth and her 12 Prime Ministers — No 10 guest historian series , Prime Ministers and No. 10 , The Monarchy On her 21st birthday in 1947 Princess Elizabeth broadcast from Cape Town in South Africa: I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great Imperial country to which we all belong…God help me to make good my vow and God bless all of you who are willing to share it. The Queen’s relationship with her 12 Prime Ministers (eight Conservative and four Labour) over the past 60 years demonstrates how she has fulfilled that vow. Churchill was a formidable presence for the young Queen, who remained in awe of the great war leader. At their first audience, Churchill told the Queen he could advise her from a lifetime of experience, but the time would come when she would advise Prime Ministers younger than herself from a similar standpoint. So it has proved. The first of the 12 Prime Ministers younger than the Queen was John Major . Tony Blair and David Cameron were not even born when she acceded to the throne. The central assertion about the rights of a constitutional monarch, as defined by Walter Bagehot in 1867, remains as true as ever: ‘the sovereign has under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights – the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.’ The Queen has exercised all three rights. An early example was the issue of live television coverage of the Coronation in June 1953. Churchill opposed it, and, initially, the Queen was also doubtful. Eventually, the Queen’s view that the benefits would outweigh the disadvantages prevailed. Asked by an old court favourite whether Churchill was attempting to mentor her, as Melbourne had mentored the young Queen Victoria , she replied, ‘Not at all, I find him very obstinate.’ Nevertheless, she learned much from the old warrior. The weekly audience between monarch and Prime Minister remained a fixed point of contact. At these audiences, the Queen found her second Prime Minister, Anthony Eden , a sympathetic listener to her concerns. Dominating their early meetings was discussion of Princess Margaret’s possible marriage to the divorced Group Captain Peter Townsend. The Suez crisis in 1956 led to much speculation about the Queen’s views and what she knew of unfolding events. Eden believed that informing the Queen was of supreme importance and all the Suez papers were sent to her, the first time she was to be shown secret government papers. Their relationship was one of impeccable constitutional propriety and confidences were maintained. The Queen was able to draw on these experiences at later audiences with Margaret Thatcher during the Falklands War. The Queen has two prerogatives, to choose, or now to confirm, a new Prime Minister in office and to grant a dissolution of Parliament, triggering a general election. The first prerogative was exercised in 1957 and in 1963 when the leadership of the Conservative party became vacant between general elections. After taking advice from senior Conservatives, the Queen invited Harold Macmillan to become her third Prime Minister, a process repeated in October 1963 when Sir Alec Douglas-Home was appointed. At first, the Queen did not find Macmillan easy to deal with. He was unsure whether the Prime Minister’s annual visit to Balmoral was a social occasion, with ‘talking shop’ relegated to the margins, or a Highlands version of his weekly audiences at Buckingham Palace. However, it was not long before they were on the same wavelength. Indeed, the Queen soon came to rely on Macmillan to offer wise counsel, both while in office and after his retirement in 1963. They discussed issues including the inauguration of the memorial to President Kennedy at Runnymede in 1965, and the 250th anniversary of 10 Downing Street in 1985. Crucially, the Queen also sought his advice following the uncertain General Election outcomes of February and Octob |
When asked where should one wear perfume, who replied "Wherever one wants to be kissed" | Coco Chanel: Then & Now, Fashion in the Modern Era. | elephant journal Coco Chanel: Then & Now, Fashion in the Modern Era. “Fashion changes, but style endures.” ~ Coco Chanel Fashion is constantly changing. Hem lines go south, get cut shorter, and then grow back. Fabrics brighten, wilt, sprout flowers and die—starched, plain and clean again. It is not the styles we choose to embrace that make a person fashionable. No, it’s the way we wear those styles that determine if we are mindfully dressed. Coco Chanel knew this. Here are five pieces of advice from the fashion guru herself that even decades later are instrumental to today’s wardrobe. 1. “Fashion is architecture: It is a matter of proportions.” Isn’t that the truth? Fashion today is still based off of proportions. We may wear extra large wraps and sweaters around our shoulders, but we make sure that those are paired with tight leggings and skinny jeans. If we are rocking those genie pants, then you better believe we should have a smaller/fitted chemise on top. It is critical to balance our garments from top to bottom. Otherwise, our bodies will have no frame. Our frame is important. Coco strived to emphasize a woman’s frame. She “wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.” So, there we have it, ladies. If we are well-dressed, then we’re essentially wearing a second skin. Bonus, we look naked without actually being naked, and who doesn’t like prancing around in their birthday suit? 2. “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.” I generally agree with this statement because if our attire is too complicated, then the eye will not know where to look. We want to only draw the eye to select areas of the body for each outfit. We want to highlight the frame, the shape—not the garment. Simplicity is the best way to achieve this. However, I detest simplicity when it comes to jewelry. Coco advised that “a lady should look in the mirror and remove one accessory” before leaving the house each day. Girl, no. Oh hell, no. If you’ve got layered necklaces and earrings to boot, then go on with your bad self. My personal advice is to apply principle number one to your accessorizing decisions. Proportion out where the jewelry is located. If you’re wearing a ton of bracelets, then you probably don’t need rings on every finger. There is a definitive balance to accessorizing. It is a tactful art. 3. “A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.” This is beyond laughable. I personally do not wear perfume, but from this statement I probably should. While you still will have a future without perfume, perfume is nice. So, maybe lather up before leaving the house. In response to one woman who posed the question, “Where should one use perfume?” Coco replied “Wherever one wants to be kissed.” No spraying the lady flower, ladies, just saying. 4. “The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.” This summer I went to France, and I did a lot of shopping. In one boutique while picking out a new bathing suit, I asked the sales lady if I looked better in the green or the blue. My French did not translate. No matter how I rephrased, she told me over and over that the blue was magnifique. The blue was undoubtedly the more attractive color, but I knew it wouldn’t look magnifique on me. I chose the green instead. No matter what others tell you, dress in the colors that make you look the best. If you cannot decide what color looks best on you, then consider black or white. Coco said that “women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.” Black and white have never gone out of style—nor will they ever. If you truly do not know what color pallet matches your shading, then wear black or white. 5. “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.” This does not mean we need to spend extra dough on more expensive clothes. It is important to be well-p |
Which sit com actor went on to play the original Phantom in the West End and Broadway? | Top Ten Actors Playing the Phantom of the Opera says: March 17, 2012 at 1:29 am Who made up this list? Someone’s who’s deaf? Butler can’t sing AT ALL. And how completely irresponsible of you to omit Hugh Panaro. Hugh is the BEST BROADWAY Phantom ever. Shame on you. says: March 17, 2012 at 1:57 am I think the reason they probably posted Gerard Butler up there, is that I’m sure his role in the 2004 movie peaked a lot of interest in PotO in people that didn’t already have interest in it. Which, I think is a good thing. And, I wouldn’t say his singing was bad, it just wasn’t classically trained as everybody expected it to be. I used to really think that nobody could and would ever outdo Michael Crawford, but I do have to admit I’m entirely smitten with Ramin’s take on the Phantom. He puts so much emotion into that role, as they say, I’m surprised he has any left after each show. His singing actually makes my heart ache at the sad parts. Wondeful job to all the Phantoms on the list, especially my dear favorites ranked #1 and #2. Katherine says: March 17, 2012 at 12:09 pm Michael Crawford will always be my favorite. I never even got to see him on stage because the show came out when I was both (haha) but the amount of emotion I can hear just from the CD tells me he was amazing. But I definitely agree Hugh Panaro should be on the list! I finally got to see it in Broadway and his performance blew me away. Even the description for Butler you guys put for him describes why he shouldn’t be on this list. All of these Phantoms are experienced in their art and Butler didn’t even sing before the movie. He did decent, but definitely not on the top ten. Lindsay says: March 18, 2012 at 12:05 am Colm Wilkinson definitely deserved a top three spot, but I am SO happy to see you put Ramin up there in second… he deserves it!! Aside from his absolutely stunning voice, he has been one of the very few who managed to re-define the character (so well)! Katie says: March 18, 2012 at 1:19 am What about Davis Gaines?? He played the role both in LA and NY and totaled more performances than Michael himself. Having seen Michael, Davis and now Ramin, my top 3 are Ramin, Davis and Michael. Monique Hennessy says: March 18, 2012 at 1:45 am How is Gerard Butler 3rd and Anthony Warlow on 9th??!! What the?? Why is Gerard Butler even on this list? Kay says: March 18, 2012 at 3:03 am Come on, the favorite Phantom could be the acting as well as the singing. I think Gerard Butler was very good in the style of the original, Steve Harley. This was originally a “rocker” part until Crawford changed it up. Doing it on the big screen with closeups is a lot different than the stage versions so acting wise, I think Gerard excelled at bringing the “sexy” back and making most of us choose Phantom over Raoul. I know all the arguments, he was supposed to be a lot older, etc. but the fans of Ramin can’t agree with that. I thought Ramin did a great job of the stage version. I haven’t seen JOJ do the part on stage, but his voice in the 25th anniversary “blew me away”! Bobbie March 18, 2012 at 3:07 am Why has JOJ been left out and he’s much better than Gerry Butler Haley says: March 19, 2012 at 4:33 am Okay, I am pretty content with this list. Except for the addition of Bowman and Butler. Really, I never liked Bowman as Chris, and I didn’t even know he at one point even played Phantom, really he is not nearly as liked as other Phantoms. Gerard, really?!? I give him the benefit that his acting was pretty good, and that he gave international awareness to the musical, but really not top 10 material. I do say we need to have some more Broadway Phantoms up there! I would also switch Ramin with JOJ, even though I believe they are almost as equally good! But at least they got the basic and the most important thing right on this list, and that is making Michael Crawford #1! He created the role, and he embodied the Phantom with his voice, his acting, and his soul! Pretty good list overall! Gabrielle says: March 21, 2012 at 1:01 am Gerard beat John Owen Jones and Earl Carpen |
Which 80s pop act had their Grammy revoked for not singing the vocals on their album? | The Grammy Awards' Dumbest Decisions of the Past 30 Years The Grammy Awards' Dumbest Decisions of the Past 30 Years 96.19K Top The Grammy Awards air tonight at 8, which means for about three hours on Twitter, the Grammy Awards will be relevant. Otherwise, everyone knows they're a sham. They may look good on an artist's resume, mantle or ego, but after boosting sales for big winners for a week or two, the Grammys get tucked away in the recesses of our memories for the rest of the year. As the supposed elite-defining monolith of the recording industry, the Grammy Awards are damned either way they do. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' tendency to recognize established vets too late for lesser works is maddening (Steely Dan's Two Against Nature won a slew of awards including Album of the Year in 2001; Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters was named Album of the Year in 2008); the new development of recognizing less commercially visible but critically adored indie acts feels like a desperate attempt for coolness (Arcade Fire's The Suburbs won Album of the Year in 2011; Bon Iver was named Best New Artist last year). That said, when Grammy gets it wrong, it gets it really wrong. Legends who've never won include Diana Ross, the Beach Boys, Bob Marley and Teddy Pendergrass (who, adding insult to injury, was the recipient of a half-hearted tribute by the illogically chosen Lady Antebellum in 2011). Milli Vanilli famously had their Best New Artist Grammy revoked in 1990 as a result of Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus being exposed as frauds who did not sing on their records. The Grammys will never live that down, nor should they. Nor should Milli Vanilli's watery, weirdly sung and generic take on dance music have been recognized in the first place, even when people thought they were singing. The Grammys must account for "quality" (whatever that means) as well as popularity (because the ceremony is a commercial endeavor in itself that is being packaged for consumption), and the Best New Artist category is where the two forces meet and explode into incomprehensibility. Supposedly, the Academy members who vote for these awards are urged to ignore sales figures and chart performance when determining their picks, but Best New Artist, in general is riddled with flavors of yestermonth, particularly of the teenybopper variety: the Backstreet Boys, the Jonas Brothers, Justin Bieber, Hanson, Avril Lavigne, Britney Spears, Kris Kross and Chris Brown have all been nominated in that category. Tonight, Alabama Shakes, fun., Hunter Hayes, the Lumineers and Frank Ocean are all up for that trophy, and it generally takes years for us to gain some perspective on how off the mark the Grammys were (Hootie and the Blowfish won in 1996, which made sense then given their ubiquity but is almost unthinkable now). Looking back, the examples (in various categories) below strike me as egregiously out of touch, especially given the relevance of these artists in 2013. There are loads more examples — no one awards show can get everything right — these are just the ones that stick out from a particular pop fan's perspective: In 1985' Lionel Richie's trifling Can't Slow Down won over classics like Prince and the Revolution's Purple Rain and Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA. Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual and Tina Turner's Private Dancer were also nominated and still would have been better choices for their inventiveness. Prince was honored for the first time in 1985 with some trophies (Best R&B Song for writing "I Feel for You," which was a hit for Chaka Khan that year and Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for the Purple Rain album), once in 1987 (Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group - "Kiss") and then not again until 2005 for Musicology's "Call My Name" (Best R&B Vocal Performance - Male). This means his double-album masterwork, 1987's Sign "O" the Times, won nothing. Timbaland, who helped shape '90s hip-hop and R&B much like Prince did for R&B and pop in the '80s, didn't win anything until 2007 for Justin Timberlake's "Sex |
Which book published in 1988 and winner of the Whitbread Award, was the centre of a major international controversy? | Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie - Author Biography • Education—M.A., King's College, Cambridge, UK • Awards—Booker Prize, 1981 (named the best novel to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years in 1993); Whitbread Prize, 1988 and 1995 • Currently—lives in New York, New York Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions and migrations between East and West. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries, some violent. Death threats were made against him, including a fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on February 14, 1989. Rushdie was appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in January 1999. In June 2007, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him for his services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked him thirteenth on its list of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945. Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States, where he has worked at the Emory University and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent book is Joseph Anton: A Memoir, an account of his life in the wake of the Satanic Verses controversy. Career Rushdie's first career was as a copywriter, working for the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather, where he came up with "irresistibubble" for Aero and "Naughty but Nice" for cream cakes, and for the agency Ayer Barker, for whom he wrote the memorable line "That'll do nicely" for American Express. It was while he was at Ogilvy that he wrote Midnight's Children, before becoming a full-time writer. John Hegarty of Bartle Bogle Hegarty has criticised Rushdie for not referring to his copywriting past frequently enough, although conceding: "He did write crap ads...admittedly." His first novel, Grimus, a part-science fiction tale, was generally ignored by the public and literary critics. His next novel, Midnight's Children, catapulted him to literary notability. This work won the 1981 Booker Prize and, in 1993 and 2008, was awarded the Best of the Bookers as the best novel to have received the prize during its first 25 and 40 years. Midnight's Children follows the life of a child, born at the stroke of midnight as India gained its independence, who is endowed with special powers and a connection to other children born at the dawn of a new and tumultuous age in the history of the Indian sub-continent and the birth of the modern nation of India. The character of Saleem Sinai has been compared to Rushdie. However, the author has refuted the idea of having written any of his characters as autobiographical, stating... People assume that because certain things in the character are drawn from your own experience, it just becomes you. In that sense, I’ve never felt that I’ve written an autobiographical character. After Midnight's Children, Rushdie wrote Shame, in which he depicts the political turmoil in Pakistan, basing his characters on Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. Shame won France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book) and was a close runner-up for the Booker Prize. Both these works of postcolonial literature are characterised by a style of magic realism and the immigrant outlook that Rushdie is very conscious of as a member of the Indian diaspora. Rushdie wrote a non-fiction book about Nicaragua in 1987 called The Jaguar Smile. This book has a political focus and is based on his first-hand experiences and research at the scene of Sandinista political experiments. His most controversial work, The Satanic Verses, was published in 1988 (see below). Rushdie has published many short stories, including those collected in East, West (1994). The Moor's Last Sigh, a family epic ranging over some 100 years of India's histor |
Where did the Ossis and the Wessis meet for the first time in 28 years, in 1989? | NBC: Germany remains divided 15 years later - World news | NBC News + - MAINZ, Germany — The images of the collapse of the Berlin Wall were beamed around the world. At the open border crossings in Berlin, thousands of people from East and West, who met for the first time, hugged, kissed and danced in a joyous celebration. It all happened on Nov. 9. 1989, the culmination of years of protests and the exodus of hundreds of thousands of East Germans longing for more freedom, democracy and free elections. On the 15th anniversary of that historic moment, the enthusiasm and euphoria has disappeared and the mood has sobered for most Germans. Euphoria has vanished Opinion polls now show that one out of five eastern Germans would like the wall back and every fourth German who grew up in West Germany think that the two Germanys should be divided again. "An alarming signal," said Wolfgang Tierse, a former East German and head of the German parliament. "I call on German politicians not to further enhance the indifference and disintegration of eastern Germans," he warned. Economic and political divisions between the two parts of Germany seem to have grown over the last years, due to the country's poor economic performance and rising unemployment. Unemployment in the east is at around 18 percent, more than twice as high as in the west. Expectations for a brighter future and confidence in the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder have eroded among eastern Germans. They is little hope for delivery of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's famous promise of "blooming landscapes." Despite the fact that large eastern German cities like Dresden, Leipzig or Potsdam have been refurbished and are widely regarded as monuments to success, many east Germans, especially in rural areas, remain disillusioned. Exodus from the East Since 1990, millions of mainly young eastern Germans have left for better job opportunities in the west. Germany's Leibnitz Research Institute predicts that if the current migration trend continues, vast eastern regions will loose approximately half of their population in the next 40 years. In addition, many German companies are moving their production facilities to eastern European countries, leaving economically abandoned regions behind. Textile manufacturers, who used to provide thousands of jobs, have gradually moved further east since 1990, to Russia, Ukraine or Belarus. Fritz Reiss / AP file Two women walk past remnants of the Berlin Wall in the Wall Memorial Park. In Germany's Lausitz area, along the Polish border, once a stronghold for textile manufacturing and coal mining, some cities have already lost about 35 percent of their population. In the town of Freital, on the outskirts of Dresden, a local steel factory used to employ more than 5,000 people during communist times. Unlike many other technologically outdated factories, it survived reunification, but only has a total of 750 employees today. The growing pool of "unneeded" workers has burdened the German economy. Before the fall of the wall, unemployment in East Germany was more or less non-existent. Every citizen had a job, no matter whether the position was economically efficient or the person actually needed one. Criticism on both ends Productivity is another crippling problem. Gross domestic product and income per capita remain far lower in the eastern German states than in the west, despite transfers of approximately $106 billion each year. Eastern Germany still depends on subsidies, which make up about four percent of the total German gross domestic product. Many western Germans describe their countrymen from the east as lazy, claiming they depend too much on government support. They also blame the "Ossis,” as the easterners are often referred to, for the slump in their once-prosperous economy. Since reunification, more than one trillion euros ($1.28 trillion), have been transferred from west to east. Many Easterners, for their part, view the "Wessis," their western counterparts, as arrogant. In their eyes, the hope for government support is a call f |
Sue Johnston and Ricky Tomlinson play Jim and Barbara Royle in the Royle Family, but which other well known married couple did they play in the 80's? | Sue Johnston - Who is talking about Sue Johnston on FLICKR www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm0CJtVSQD8 Brookside is a British soap opera set in Liverpool, England. The series began on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982, and ran for 21 years until 4 November 2003. Originally intended to be called Meadowcroft, the series was produced by Mersey Television and it was conceived by Phil Redmond who also devised Grange Hill (1978–2008) and Hollyoaks (1995–present). Brookside became very successful and was often Channel 4's highest rated programme for a number of years in the 1980s and early 1990s, with audiences regularly in excess of 8 million viewers. It is notable for its tackling of realistic and socially challenging storylines. From the mid-1990s it began raising more controversial subjects under the guidance of new producers such as Mal Young and Paul Marquess. It is especially well known for broadcasting the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss on British television in 1994, as well as a powerful domestic abuse storyline resulting in murder. In 1996, the series caused an uproar when it featured a storyline of a consensual incestuous sexual relationship between two sibling characters. Brookside was also the first British soap to feature an openly gay character when Gordon Collins came out in 1985, and it was also the first to depict serious drug addiction with a number of different characters. Although the series had a long and successful run, by 2000 its viewing figures were in terminal decline and low ratings eventually led to its cancellation in 2003. The final episode was broadcast on 4 November 2003 and was watched by around 2 million viewers. The first episode of Brookside was repeated as part of Channel 4 at 25 on 1 October 2007. The episode aired on More4 in a season of celebratory Channel 4 programmes to mark the channel's first quarter century. Several classic episodes have also been available to view on 4oD, an online service, since 2009. After years of campaigning by fans, a special DVD was released in November 2012, just over 30 years after the series originally began, titled Brookside Most Memorable Moments. It features clips and episodes from every year of the programme's 21-year history. Brookside differed from other soap operas because it was filmed in real, brand-new houses, in a real cul-de-sac, situated off Deysbrook Lane in the North West city of Liverpool. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MvrrA7zv8s&list=PLHkDX58c6v3... Built by Broseley Homes, the houses were custom built in an attempt by the producers to add to the show's realism. In early 1982, Mersey Television, with Phil Redmond at the helm, bought thirteen houses altogether, six of which would be seen on-screen as sets. The remaining seven properties housed administration, postproduction and canteen facilities for the cast and crew. Phil Redmond was particularly enthusiastic about purchasing an entire 'close' of houses, partly as a means of achieving the desired realism of Brookside, but also in order to maintain total control of his creation. The Body Under the Patio plot www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT5T5mBg2BU One of Brookside's most famous storyline began in February 1993, with the story of wife beater and child abuser Trevor Jordache (Bryan Murray). His wife, Mandy (Sandra Maitland) and daughters Beth (Anna Friel) and Rachel (Tiffany Chapman) moved into number 10 under a shroud of mystery. The house had been vacated by the remaining Corkhill clan and sold to a Mrs Shackleton; however, unbeknown to the residents of the close, she was acting as a representative for a charity supporting abused families, and had purchased the property as a safe house. After the Jordache family moved in some disturbing facts began to emerge. It transpired that not only had Mandy suffered years of mental and physical abuse, but also that Beth had been sexually abused by her father. Before long Trevor, who had recently been released from prison for GBH against Mandy, found them in Brookside Close. He persuaded Mandy to let him back into the family home pretending to have be |
Which 1981 song contains the lyrics " And I've lost my light. For I toss and turn, I can't sleep at night"? | Soft Cell - Tainted Love Lyrics | MetroLyrics Tainted Love Lyrics New! Highlight lyrics to add Meanings, Special Memories, and Misheard Lyrics... Submit Corrections Cancel Sometimes I feel I've got to Run away I've got to Get away From the pain that you drive into the heart of me The love we share And I've lost my light For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night Once I ran to you (I ran) Now I'll run from you This tainted love you've given I give you all a boy could give you Take my tears and that's not nearly all Oh tainted love Now I know I've got to Run away I've got to Get away You don't really want it any more from me To make things right You need someone to hold you tight And you'll think love is to pray But I'm sorry I don't pray that way Once I ran to you (I ran) Now I'll run from you This tainted love you've given I give you all a boy could give you Take my tears and that's not nearly all Oh tainted love |
Charlotte, Desiree and Rooster are varieties of which type of vegetable? | Potatoes Potatoes Back to glossary list Potatoes Potatoes were first introduced to Ireland, and then to Britain, from America in the late 16th century and are now one of the most popular staple foods in the world. They are a valuable source of nutrition, particularly for their vitamin C, carbohydrate and fibre content, especially when they are cooked and eaten in their skins. Varieties such as King Edward and Maris Piper are best eaten this way. Varieties such as Desiree, Wilja and Estima are good all-round cooking potatoes. Potatoes are generally divided into two categories - waxy or floury (see below), if you are unsure of the variety of potato you have and want to know before cooking, mix one part salt to 11 parts water in a measuring jug and add the potato. A floury one will almost always sink to the bottom of the jug, while a waxy one will float. When it comes to seasonal availability, different varieties are available at different times of the year. Uses: Potatoes are extremely versatile and can be boiled, steamed, baked, roasted, fried and mashed. To store: It is essential that potatoes are stored in a cool, dark area away from sunlight and in a frost-free, airy place preferably in a brown paper sack. If potatoes are exposed to light they may turn green (which can be poisonous) or start sprouting. Small amounts of green can be removed but very green potatoes should be discarded. Do take potatoes out of the plastic bag that they are usually sold in - the potatoes are likely to go mouldy if kept in plastic. Potatoes should not be stored in the fridge. New potatoes should be eaten within 2-3 days of purchase, while old potatoes can, if stored correctly be kept for several months. Charlotte These long oval potatoes have a firm waxy texture and a subtle nutty flavour. They have a light yellow skin and a yellow flesh. Uses: Suitable for boiling, baking or salads. To prepare: Scrub thoroughly under cold running water or peel. Desiree One of the most popular red-skinned potatoes Desirees have a smooth skin and a creamy yellow flesh. They have a firm texture. Uses: Especially good cooked as wedges or roasted, because they hold their shape. Also suitable for boiling, mashing and chipping. To prepare: Scrub thoroughly under cold running water or peel. Estima A light yellow-skinned potato with a firm, moist texture and a mild flavour. They are usually oval-shaped with a yellowy flesh. Uses: Boiling, mashing and especially good for baking. To prepare: Peel and chop for boiling and chipping or scrub thoroughly for baking. Back to top Floury A type rather than a variety, floury potatoes are especially popular in Britain. They are suitable for baking, mashing and chipping as they have a soft, dry texture when cooked. They are not suitable for boiling, however because they tend to disintegrate. Popular varieties of floury potato include King Edward and Maris Piper. King Edward King Edwards have pinky red skins and distinctively flavoured creamy white flesh that's packed with carbohydrates, fibre, iron and vitamins, including folate. Cooking them in their skins provides the most nutritional value. Uses: Good for boiling, baking, chipping or roasting. To prepare: Rinse in cold water and peel for boiling, chipping and roasting. If necessary, cut out any bruises or green parts. New potatoes These are available all year round and the different varieties encompass a range of skin and flesh colours. They are small, waxy, oval-shaped potatoes. Buy little and often for the best flavour. Uses: Best boiled whole in their skins and delicious served warm or cold, with spring lamb, salmon and salads. To prepare: Rinse in cold water and cook whole or sliced. To obtain the most nutritional value, leave their skins on. If preferred, remove the skin by gently rubbing it away with your fingers. To cook: Place in a pan, add enough water to cover. Bring to the boil, cover, and simmer gently for 20 minutes for whole potatoes, 15 minutes for sliced potatoes. Drain, add a knob of butter and serve. Red Duke of York With a light yellow flesh and a distinct |
What rebellious event was organised in 1773 by the Sons of Liberty as a protest against taxation without representation? | The Boston Tea Party: Why Did It Occur and Who Was Involved? The Boston Tea Party: Why Did It Occur and Who Was Involved? by Pamela Kline and Paul Pavao Why did the Boston Tea Party Occur? Who was involved? We cover these facts and more on this page on one of the most momentous events of the American Revolution. The broadside below was posted all over Boston on November 29, 1773, shortly after the arrival of three ships carrying tea owned by the East India Company. This is the original handbill that was passed out to organize the Boston Tea Party. It reads ... Brethren, and Fellow Citizens! You may depend, that those odious Miscreants and detestable Tools to Ministry and Governor, the TEA CONSIGNEES, (those traitors to their Country, Butchers, who have done, and are doing every Thing to Murder and destroy all that shall stand in the Way of their private Interest,) are determined to come and reside again in the Town of Boston. I therefore give you this early Notice, that you may hold yourselves in Readiness, on the shortest Notice, to give them such a Reception, as such vile Ingrates deserve. JOYCE, jun. (Chairman of the Committee for Tarring and Feathering.) If any Person should be so hardy as to Tear this down, they may expect my severest Resentment. J. jun. Why Did the Boston Tea Party Occur? The beginning of the the Boston Tea Party is often sourced to what the Colonists felt was an unfair tax on tea. This is only partly true. The Tea Party was a protest in reaction to a tax meant to help raise funds following the French and Indian War. But the tax was also a political power move on behalf of Parliament, meant to reassert control over the colonies, as well as an economic decision designed to bail out the floundering East India Company, a threshold of English commercial interests. Background After the long and costly war between France and England, King George III and the British Parliament implemented a tax to help raise money to pay off the massive debts incurred. They chose to place this tax on tea sold in both England and in the English Colonies. They were convinced that people would rather pay a tax than give up their daily tea. It was also an item that the colonies were required to import only from England. Furthermore, the tax was a way to reign in the colonies, who had been neglected during the long war, and remind them that their allegiance belonged to England. This Sugar Act was passed in 1764 imposing customs duties on several different items, including tea. Prime Minister Grenville wanted to raise the revenue by putting a direct tax on the colonists instead of at the ports, so he delayed to give the colonists a chance to find a way to raise funds themselves. They didn't. The following year, the Stamp Act was passed. All official documents and papers were required to have an official stamp. The cost of this stamp went directly to the crown. The colonists were outraged. They complained bitterly that because of their distance from England, they were receiving inadequate representation in Parliament. They had not agreed to have these new taxes placed on their colonies. The Stamp Act was eventually repealed, but not before the Sons of Liberty had formed and begun to perform public demonstrations and boycott, sometimes with violence and looting. The Colonists were frustrated by the number of taxes Parliament kept trying to place on them without their consent. In 1767, the Townshend Acts rocked the colonies when they replaced the Stamp Act with an import duty on all kinds of essential goods. Parliament mistakenly thought the colonies objected to only internal taxes or purchases like the objects described in the Stamp Act, and that import taxes wouldn't be a problem. Parliament then offered a monopoly on tea importation to the colonies to the East India Company , who in turn raised their price on tea. The tea sold in the colonies wouldn't have a tax any more, instead it would be taxed at each individual port, and agents were appointed to receive and sell the tea and pay the tax. This was the Tea Act, passed by |
What is the spirit that is used in the cocktails Mai Tai and Daiquiri? | Cocktail Recipe: Mai Tai .5 oz Orgeat .25 oz Simple Syrup Mix all ingredients and shake with ice. Strain over crushed ice, garnish with a lime shell and a sprig of mint. I know what you’re thinking. You’re wondering how many times I think I can get away with posting the recipe for the Mai Tai and consider it a new post. It’s not my fault this time though. You see, Kevin Langmack at Beers in the Shower is hosting this month’s Mixology Monday and called for “Money Drinks.” If you aren’t sure what a “Money Drink” is, allow Kevin to explain: I feel a “Money” drink is something you can put in front of anyone, regardless of tastes or distastes about the spirits involved. Come up with a drink or a list based on spirits about drinks that would appeal to anyone. example: turning someone onto a Corpse Reviver #2 when they like lemon drops. I know just about everyone that preaches the gospel according to Saint Cocktail has their own special Money Drink. For some I’m sure that’s a perfect Manhattan. Others might serve the crispest Martini or the most sumptuous Last Word ever known. Any such drink, if made well, could convert someone to cocktails. I’m sort of into rum . As such, I tend to try to convert people to my favorite spirit quite often, and I can tell you that I have had success with no drink like I have with the Mai Tai. A true Bergeronistic Mai Tai is tart and refreshing with the wonderful notes of mint, orange, lime, and almond dancing on top of the deep, funky flavors within the rum. It’s a drink that defies seasons, despite its tropical nature. And I would know, I have had one or two Mai Tais in my time. I’ve even been known to up the ante on the Mai Tai by upgrading the basic spirits (I usually use Appleton Estate 12 and Clement VSOP ) to their top-shelf brethren, much like Paul Clarke suggested as an alternate expression of a “Money Drink:” Along with what you mentioned, I’m thinking it could include stuff along the lines of “there are some drinks that really prompt you to break out the good stuff”, including ways people upgrade drinks for special occasions — having old friends over, birthday drinks, etc, for example mixing your regular Sazerac, but breaking out the Red Hook Rye and the Jade Edouard absinthe for a Sazerac capable of breaking the sound barrier.” – the only rule to this one is you actually have to make it – Not a problem for me, as I’ve already taken the Mai Tai and the One Hundred Dollar Mai Tai and turned the knob all the way to eleven once before : $300 Mai Tai .75 oz Lime Juice 1 tsp Simple Syrup Combine all ingredients in a shaker, shake with ice, strain into a glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with sprigs of mint and a wedge of lime, and a hundred dollar bill I know it might seem a bit crazy to put such expensive rums into a cocktail, but when you consider that the original Mai Tai called specifically for Wray & Nephew 17 Year Old Rum, and that today that rum goes for about $60,000US, you’d have to say that the $300 Mai Tai is a real bargain, right? Question of the Day: What’s your go-to, Money Drink that no one can say “no” to and keeps people coming back for more? You might also like (automatically generated): Paul Etter December 23, 2009 at 1:57 pm I was playing around with black strap trying to come up with a suitably dark and scary tiki drink inspired by Martin Denny’s “Similau” and wound up with a cocktail I’m calling the Stone God. So far, I haven’t found anyone who’s asked for their proverbial “money” back. Dim the lights, throw on some exotica and conjure up a Stone God. Of course, this is just the $10 job. You could certainly up the ante by using Appleton Reserve, 12 Yr, 21 Yr or Master Blender’s Legacy. Stone God Paul Etter January 4, 2010 at 8:21 pm Ruben, to approximate the black strap, you might try adding in just a drop or two of mild unsulphered molasses. The hint of molasses is one of the underlying flavors that really makes this drink interesting. That, and the ginger syrup. That’s easy enough to make by thinly slicing a 2-inch long peice of ginger and placing it i |
Which biennial sporting fixture was cancelled due to 9/11? | Sports Events Cancelled or Postponed After Attacks in US Sports Events Cancelled or Postponed After Attacks in US Following are the sports events which have been cancelled or postponed in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington: September 11: Baseball: American Major League matches cancelled Football: American Major League Soccer programme cancelled Tennis: Hawaii womens tournament cancelled before second day's play. September 12: Football: European Champions League and UEFA Cup matches scheduled for September 12 and 13 were all postponed. Handball: German championship matches cancelled Skiing: German championships cancelled Cycling: American riders in the Tour d'Avenir, France , withdraw from the tour. Golf: Pro circuit tournaments at St Louis and Tampa Bay, United States cancelled. Boxing: World middleweight unification fight between Puerto Rico's Felix Trinidad and America's Bernard Hopkins, scheduled for September 15 in New York City, postponed. September 13: American football: NFL cancelled its weekend programme of 15 matches Cricket: New Zealand made a last minute withdrawal from a tour of Pakistan and also withdrew an "A" team from India . Canoe-kayak: World championships due to start September 13 on the Ocoee River, Tennessee, cancelled. September 14: Ice hockey: Warm-up matches for the 2001/2002 North American League season cancelled. Basketball: NBA exhibition matches in Shanghai and Taiwan cancelled. Tennis: United States versus India Davis Cup match scheduled for September 21 at Winston Salem North Carolina, cancelled. Golf: Tiger Woods dropped out of the Lancome Trophy scheduled for September 20 at Saint-Nom-La-Breteche, France. Squash: Boston's US Open cancelled September 15: Wrestling: World championships scheduled for New York September 26-29 cancelled. September 16: Golf: The Ryder Cup, pitting Europe against America event scheduled to start September 28 at The Belfry, Birmingham, England, postponed until next year. Field hockey: Men's Champions Trophy scheduled for November 3-11 in Pakistan relocated to an as yet undecided country. United States pulled out of Women's World Cup qualifying tournament September 18-30 at Amiens and Abbeville, France. Tennis: Jennifer Capriati and Serena Williams pulled out of Tokyo WTA tournament due to start September 17. September 17: |
The rights to which children's book were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1929? | History | Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity Barrie requested that the amount raised from Peter Pan should never be revealed, and the hospital has always honoured his wishes. Legacy Although he and his wife were childless, Barrie loved children and had supported Great Ormond Street Hospital for many years. In 1929 he was approached to sit on a committee to help buy some land so that the hospital could build a much needed new wing. Barrie declined to serve on the committee but said that he "hoped to find another way to help". Two months later, the hospital board was stunned to learn that Sir James had handed over all his rights to Peter Pan. At a Guildhall dinner later that year Barrie, as host, claimed that Peter Pan had been a patient in Great Ormond Street Hospital and that "it was he who put me up to the little thing I did for the hospital". JM Barrie dedication plaque So began the enduring link between the author and the children of Great Ormond Street Hospital. On 14 December 1929, at Barrie’s suggestion, the cast of a London production of Peter Pan came to the hospital and they played out the nursery scene for the children, the first of a long tradition. Peter Pan archives and memorials Peter Pan and memorials to J M Barrie can be found throughout the hospital, for example: A bronze statue of Peter Pan and Tinker Bell outside the hospital entrance. A plaque dedicated to Barrie in the hospital chapel (unveiled in 1938 by J B Priestley). Tinker Bell play area in Octav Botnar Wing. A tiled mural created and donated by the art students of the University of Wolverhampton. You can view some of these archives and memorials in our Peter Pan photo gallery . Please note that the hospital is not a public place and some of the memorials are not accessible to the general public. |
Kopi Luwak, produced mainly in Indonesia, and a waste product of the civet, is the most expensive variety of what? | Kopi Luwak | The Coffee Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia File:Palmcivet.jpg Kopi luwak is produced mainly on the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, and also in the Philippines (where the product is called motit coffee in the Cordillera and kape alamid in Tagalog areas) and also in East Timor (where it is called kafé-laku). Contents [ show ] History In early 18th century The Dutch established the cash-crop plantations in their colony in Dutch East Indies islands of Java and Sumatra, including Arabica coffee introduced from Yemen. During the era of Cultuurstelsel (1830—1870), the Dutch prohibited the native farmers and native plantation workers to pick coffee fruits for their own use. Yet the native farmers desired to have a taste of the famed coffee beverage. Soon the natives learned that certain species of musang or luwak (Asian Palm Civet) consumed these coffee fruits, yet they left the coffee seeds undigested in their droppings. The natives collect these Luwak's dropping coffee seeds; clean, roast and grind it to make coffee beverage. The fame of aromatic civet coffee spread from locals to Dutch plantation owners and soon become their favorites, yet because of its rarity and unusual process, the civet coffee was expensive even in colonial times. Production Kopi is the Indonesian word for coffee. Luwak is a local name of the Asian palm civet in Sumatra and Johor, Malaysia. Palm civets are primarily frugivorous, feeding on berries and pulpy fruits such as from fig trees and palms. Civets also eat small vertebrates, insects, ripe fruits and seeds. Early production began when beans were gathered in the wild from where a civet would defecate as a means to mark its territory. On farms, civets are either caged or allowed to roam within defined boundaries. Coffee cherries are eaten by a civet for their fruit pulp. After spending about a day and a half in the civet's digestive tract the beans are then defecated in clumps, having kept their shape and still covered with some of the fleshy berry's inner layers. They are gathered, thoroughly washed, sun dried and given only a light roast so as to keep the many intertwined flavors and lack of bitterness yielded inside the civet. Raw Beans Blends Kopi luwak is a name for many specific cultivars and blends of arabica, robusta, liberica, excelsa or other beans eaten by civets, hence the taste can vary greatly. Nonetheless, kopi luwak coffees have a shared aroma profile and flavor characteristics, along with their lack of bitterness. Kopi luwak tastes unlike heavy roasted coffees, since roasting levels range only from cinnamon color to medium, with little or no caramelization of sugars within the beans as happens with heavy roasting. Moreover, kopi luwaks which have very smooth profiles are most often given a lighter roast. Iced kopi luwak brews may bring out some flavors not found in other coffees. Sumatra, Indonesa is the world's largest regional producer of kopi lowak. Sumatran civet coffee beans are mostly an early arabica variety cultivated in the Indonesian archipelago since the seventeenth century. Tagalog cafe alamid (or alamid cafe) comes from civets fed on a mixture of coffee beans and is sold in the Batangas region along with gift shops near airports in the Philippines. Price Kopi luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling for between US $100 and $600 per pound. The Kopi luwak is sold by weight mainly in Japan and the United States and served in Southeast Asian coffeehouses by the cup. Sources vary widely as to annual worldwide production. thumb|300px|right|KOPI LUWAK Only at Harvests of the World you can find this coffee at the cheapest price in the internet or in the world $190.00 USD a Pound so visit http://www.harvestsoftheworld.com for your civet poop coffee |
Who had a hit song in the late 60s with Hazy Shade Of Winter? | Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter - 1987 - Music Videos,Lyrics Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter - 1987 Lyrics Help preserve America's Music Tradition and suggest your lyrics here. Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter - 1987 Playlist: Pause Some trivia about Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter - 1987 "A Hazy Shade of Winter" is a song written by Paul Simon, recorded and released by Simon & Garfunkel in 1966, and then included on their 1968 album, Bookends (although it also appeared on their Live from New York City, 1967). It peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 making it the second highest-charting song on the album after "Mrs. Robinson", which reached #1 when it was released on the back of its inclusion on the soundtrack of The Graduate. In 1987, The Bangles were approached to record a song for the soundtrack of the film Less Than Zero. They chose to record a cover of "A Hazy Shade of Winter," a song they had been performing since their early days as a band. Their cover, simply titled "Hazy Shade of Winter," was vastly different from the original, turning it into a harder-edged rock song, and removing most of the bridge section [1] Play time: 2:24 FACEBOOK - CLICK HERE to see our top picks of the day on our music group on Facebook! To post this song into Facebook...just copy the URL and past it into the Facebook comment field More Bangles Free Music Videos and songs To Listen and watch Artist Bangles album music videos... Just click on the song title links that you see below, to play. Your Free Music Videos Playlist By default, we play all of our songs randomly selected from our playlist; however, you can choose the songs you want played by selecting all or some songs below and adding them to your playlist. You can also browse all songs and update your playlist at View/Edit Your Playlist . Step 1: Select your Free Music Videos. Step 2: click on 'Add Selections' button to update your list. Step 3: When you're logged in and ready, just click on 'Play Your Playlist' button. To stop playing from your playlist and to play all of our songs, just click on 'Play All Songs' button Status When completed, click on either Play Your Playlist or Play All Music Videos Bangles Song Tracks Bangles - Walking Down Your Street - 1987 [3:42] - Walking Down Your Street is the name of a song FAQ: Salestron Eclectic Video Jukebox Playlist Hit F11 key to full screen this site. Our Oldies Music ♫ Nostalgia Cloud is designed to allow you to sit back, listen, and watch free and legal music videos as we automatically shuffle, select and play old favorites such as "Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter - 1987" from our eclectic streaming video radio station jukebox playlist! Listen to the best songs from 1910s to the present! Over one hundred years of music! The MP3 music videos, lyrics, artist and album trivia are presented to you so that you do not need to click on anything. Automatically, at the end of the song music video, we select the next shuffled song and continously repeat the process. We all have our favorite songs that we want to play. That's why you can create your own playlist! Free, no less! Anytime you play a favorite song, just ckick on "Add Song to Playlist" that appears just below the video. You can also browse our library of songs and add more of your favorites...by singer, by year, etc. You can choose to run your private playlist or our complete songlist at any time. Just click Create Your Free Music Videos Playlist Music video song lyrics are displayed in the scrolling window on the right side of this page. Music Video Trivia are shown in the center column. You can select the next song track by clicking on the SKIP button. You can loop on the current song by clicking on the LOOP button. To search for your song, enter whatever you remember of the title or singer into the search box at the top right of this page. You can enter partial titles and/or singers. We then search our Jukebox Music Database and show the most likely matching songs. You can browse and click on any song title and singer in the list to play that song. We keep our audio and |
Winterfell is the house of what family in Game of Thrones? | House Stark - A Wiki of Ice and Fire House Stark A running grey direwolf, on an ice-white field (Argent, a direwolf courant cendrée) Words unknown; Bran Stark (de jure) Region King in the North /King of Winter (formerly) Lord of Winterfell (formerly) Age of Heroes House Stark of Winterfell is one of the Great Houses of Westeros and the principal noble house of the north . In days of old they ruled as Kings of Winter , but since Aegon's Conquest they have been Wardens of the North and ruled as Lords of Winterfell. Their seat, Winterfell , is an ancient castle renowned for its strength. Their sigil is a grey direwolf racing across a field of white. Their words are "Winter is Coming", one of only a few house mottoes to be a warning rather than a boast. [1] Several of the POV characters of A Song of Ice and Fire are members of House Stark. Aside from the Karstarks of Karhold , the Starks of Winterfell may have other, distant relatives in the north. White Harbor and Barrowton are considered to be likely options. [2] Some younger Starks have also held vassal holdfasts for the lords of Winterfell. [3] Contents Culture Traits The Stark look consists of a long face, a lean build, dark brown hair and grey eyes. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] In the current generation of Starks, several members (e.g., Arya and Bran Stark , and Jon Snow ) have the ability to enter the minds of their direwolf pets as wargs , giving them the ability to experience the senses of their direwolves [9] and to see through their eyes. The latter occurs most frequently when the children sleep, [10] [11] although they are able to do it at will when awake, once they are more practiced. [12] [11] Customs House Stark traditionally buries deceased members of their family in the crypts below Winterfell . [13] [14] The Kings of Winter and Lords of Winterfell are given a statue of their likeness, sitting by their tomb, whereas other normally family members do not. [15] The only exceptions are Brandon and Lyanna Stark , who have been given a statue by their brother, Lord Eddard Stark . [15] The statues of the kings and lords have stone wolves by their feet [16] [14] and have swords placed upon their lap, [14] which are said to keep the spirits of the dead at rest, locked within their tombs. [17] [13] House Stark traditionally follows the old gods . [18] [19] [20] [21] Following the marriage of Lord Eddard Stark to Lady Catelyn Tully , a follower of the Faith of the Seven , a small sept in honor of the seven gods from the Faith was constructed at Winterfell . [22] The Starks have traditionally been friends of the Night's Watch . [15] The four youngest men to have served as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch , including Osric Stark , were brothers, sons, or bastards of Kings in the North . [23] History Kings in the North The Starks are an ancient house of First Men descent. [1] House Stark was founded by Brandon the Builder , a legendary figure who lived during the Age of Heroes . Bran the Builder is said to have raised Winterfell , the seat of the Starks, as well as the Wall . [24] The Starks were Kings of Winter in the north for eight thousand years [25] since the Age of Heroes, possibly beginning with Bran the Builder. The Night's King , the attainted thirteenth Lord Commander of the Night's Watch , has been suggested to have been a Stark. [26] The ancient Starks gradually defeated rival kings, such as the Barrow Kings to their south and the Red Kings to their east. [27] For several millennia, the Starks were not the uncontested Kings in the North. However, their primary antagonists, the Red Kings from House Bolton of the Dreadfort , swore fealty some thousand years ago, ending their flesh-flaying ways. Meanwhile, King Jon Stark drove pirates from the White Knife , and the Wolf's Den was built at its mouth. This stronghold was often granted to sons and grandsons of the King in the North; one such branch, the Greystarks , was extinguished after allying with the Boltons against the Starks. [28] King Jon's son, Rickard , defeated the Marsh King and married his daughter, bringing |
What cocktail's original recipe contains the spirits tequila, vodka, light rum, triple sec, and gin, and has an alcohol content of 22%? | The Long Island Iced Tea Recipe and Variations Garnish with a lemon wedge . Making a Better Long Island Iced Tea The problem with the Long Island is that it is often made too strong. Many bartenders (professional and amateur alike) will over-pour the liquors . This not only makes the drink stronger, it also knocks the taste out of balance and reaches that point of too much booze (yes, there is such a thing). On the other hand, if this drink is treated with respect and the person pouring keeps in mind that taste is more important than potency, the Long Island Iced Tea is a good drink. Who Created the Long Island Iced Tea? The story of the LIIT is as sordid as its ingredient list and the disputes in the stories may be clouded by the drink itself. The 1970's credit for this concoction could go to Robert Bott, a bartender from Long Island. The Prohibition-era story credits Charles Bishop, a 1930's moonshiner in (then dry) Tennessee. Then there is the tale that the Long Island was an original drink of the T.G.I. Friday's franchise. The truth is that we may never know the truth. It is entirely possible that Bishop made it and the drink was forgotten for a few decades until Bott remade it. At some point, the restaurant probably caught wind of it and claimed it as their own (it's been known to happen). Again, we just don't know. Long Island Iced Tea Variations Once you learn how to make the Long Island, you may want to try one of the many recipes that followed it. They are all very similar and constructed in the same manner, they simple replace an ingredient here or there. Bartenders should know that a number of these drinks are just as popular as the Long Island. It will serve you well to at least have an understanding of what goes into each. They really are easy to remember if you do a little word association between the name and the ingredients. Long Beach Tea - Everything in the Long Island, but the cola is replaced with cranberry juice. Miami Iced Tea - Peach schnapps is added to the Long Beach, the tequila is dropped, and lemon-lime soda adds a bit of sparkle. Hawaiian Iced Tea - Using the Long Island recipe, top this drink with pineapple juice and skip the cola. Electric Iced Tea - Blue curacao replaces the triple sec and the soda is switched out to lemon-lime soda. It's a brilliant blue drink. Texas Tea - Simply add bourbon to the Long Island for an even more potent mix. Some people mistakenly refer to this as a Long Island, but whiskey is not included in the original (or accepted) recipe. Raspberry Long Island Iced Tea - The original LIIT with raspberry rum and vodka and lemon-lime soda instead of cola. Tip: The same theory can apply to any flavored spirits available. Pair like infusions (ie. vanilla vodka and rum with cola, passion fruit vodka and tequila with citrus soda) and don’t be afraid to use your own infusions . The possibilities are endless. A few notes to help your memory: Think “5 white spirits” then adapt the drinks to fit the descriptive name. Sour mix is essential in most recipes. Lemon-lime soda (7-Up, Sprite, etc.) is used in those with fruit. The Long Beach and the Hawaiian are the only two without soda (I associate that with the “healthy" lifestyle of both locations). The Miami is the only one to drop one of the 4 base liquors (in this case, tequila). How Strong is the Long Island Iced Tea? The Long Island is actually a deceptive cocktail. The six liquors make it seem like it would be a strong drink, but if you do the math, they add up to just 2 1/2 ounces total. If we were to use 80-proof liquors, a 60-proof triple sec, and top it with 2 ounces of soda, then it would be a relatively mild 16% ABV (32 proof) drink . That is about the same as a strong Rum & Coke . The Problem Is the Over Pour That is not to say that the LIIT cannot be a strong drink. If we get a zealous bartender who pours 1 ounce of each of the spirits and tops it with 1 ounce of cola (remember that ice takes up a lot of room ), the drink would be 21% ABV (42 proof). To put this into perspective, that is close to the avera |
How many flakes of snow have to fall in the 24 hours of the 25th December anywhere in the UK to be classified as a White christmas? | Snow and Ice -- Christmas Customs and Traditions -- whychristmas?com Snow and Ice Records Why Snow and Ice? Snow, Ice and Christmas often go together, although why it should is a bit strange! There is no snow or ice in the Christmas story told in the Bible. However, snow does fall in Israel. Bethlehem and Jerusalem are on a range of hills that go north to south between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan valley. The top of these hills are about 1600 ft (500 m) high. The hills often have very cold weather from November to April and snow can often fall. So, although the Bible story may not have snow in it, Jesus may well have seen some snow in his life! The reason that we think of Snow and Ice at Christmas is portably down to the Victorians! Although Christmas was taken over from the Pagan winter solstice festivals in Europe, it was the Victorians who gave us our 'traditional' Christmas in Europe and the USA At the start of the Victorian era, (1837) Britain was in a mini ice age that was from about 1550 to 1850. During this time, in London, a winter fair was held on the frozen River Thames! One of the main reasons that the Victorians put Snow and Christmas together was the book 'A Christmas Carol' written in 1843 by Charles Dickens. It tells the story of a mean old business man called Ebenezer Scrooge who hates Christmas. During the night of Christmas Eve, he is visited by three ghosts, one of Christmas Past, one of Christmas Present and one of Christmas yet to come. They show him how mean he really is. He realises that making friends is more important than making money. When he wakes up on Christmas Day, he is a changed man and give lots of money and presents away. (If you don't know the story, I recommend that you read the book or see a film of the story! A very famous film of it was made in 1951 [4 years after Britain had some of its heaviest snow of the 1900's], but my favorite version is the Muppet Christmas Carol!!!) When Charles Dickens was a child, Britain had very heavy snow falls around Christmas, so when he wrote 'A Christmas Carol' he put lots of snow and ice in it! He also put snow at Christmas in some of his other books like 'The Pickwick Papers'. Charles Dicken's books were very popular (and still are!) so when the Victorians read the books, they thought of snow and Christmas together! One of the other reasons that Snow and Ice became popular in Victorian times is because Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, came from Germany where it was colder and he was used to lots of snow and ice being around at Christmas. He made Christmas Trees popular in the UK as well as lots of other Christmas traditions. Christmas Cards also started in Victorian times with pictures of snow scenes becoming very popular. White Christmas's Another connection between snow and Christmas is the Song "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" It was first recorded, in 1942, by Bing Crosby and came from a film called 'Holiday Inn', set in the snowy countryside of Vermont, U.S.A in December (there is a 75% chance of it snowing on Christmas Day in Vermont!). Irving Berlin wrote "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" and it only took only 18 minutes to record! The original version sung by Bing Crosby has sold at least 30 million copies. The song has also been recorded by many other people and groups and it has sold over 100 million copies in single versions (by all artists that have done it!). Until 1997, Bing Crosby's recording of 'White Christmas' was the top selling single of all time! #116033488 / gettyimages.com Lots of people nowadays are interested to see if they will have a 'White Christmas'. For most people, a White Christmas means a complete covering of snow on the ground where they live, with some snow falling on Christmas Day. However, the British definition, used by the UK Meteorological Office (who say if it has been a White Christmas or not!), is that a single snow flake has been seen falling in the 24 hours of Christmas Day! This doesn't happen a lot in the UK!!! Statistics show that in the UK, we get an official White Christmas a |
Which book was made into a 26 minute animated TV special in 1982, and had David Bowie as the narrator in the US version? | the snowman : definition of the snowman and synonyms of the snowman (English) Language English The Snowman is a children's book without words by English author Raymond Briggs , first published in 1978 by Hamish Hamilton in the U.K., and by Random House in the U.S. that November. In the U.S. it received a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1979. The Snowman was adapted as a 26-minute animated film by Dianne Jackson for the fledgling British public-service Channel 4 . It was first telecast late on Christmas Eve in 1982 and was an immediate success. It was nominated for the 1982 Academy Award for Animated Short Film and it has been shown every year, becoming part of British and international popular culture at Christmas . The film story is told through pictures, action and music, scored by Howard Blake . It is wordless like the book, except for the song " Walking in the Air ". In addition to the orchestral score, performed in the film by the Sinfonia of London , Blake composed the music and lyrics of the song, performed by a St Paul's Cathedral choirboy Peter Auty . The film ranks 71 on the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes , a year 2000 list drawn up by the British Film Institute , based on a vote by industry professionals. It was voted number 4 in UKTV Gold 's Greatest TV Christmas Moments. Contents 9 External links Plot of the film The Snowman is the tale of a boy who builds a snowman one winter's day. That night, at the stroke of twelve, the snowman comes to life. The first part of the story deals with the snowman's attempts to understand the appliances, toys and other bric-a-brac in the boy's house, all while keeping quiet enough not to wake the boy's parents. The two then venture back outside and go for a ride on a motorcycle, disturbing many animals: pheasants, rabbits, a barn owl, a fox and a brown horse. In the second part of the story, the boy and the snowman take flight — the song "Walking in the Air" appears at this point. They fly over the boy's town, over houses and large public buildings before flying past the Royal Pavilion in Brighton and West Pier and then out into the ocean. They continue through an arctic landscape and fly past many sights and animals such as penguins . Flying into the aurora they reach their destination. The two wander hand-in-hand into a snow-covered forest and attend a snowmen's party, at which the boy is the only human. They meet Father Christmas and his reindeer, and the boy is given a scarf with a snowman pattern. The story ends after the return journey. However, the sun has come out the next morning and the boy wakes up to find the snowman has melted. The boy begins to wonder if the night's events were all a dream, but he discovers that he still has the snowman scarf given to him by Father Christmas. Realising the night's events were real, as the credits play, the boy mourns the loss of his friend. Plot of the book Pages 30 pp The original book has a slightly different plot. While the first half of the story remains the same, the boy and the snowman do not visit Father Christmas. In fact, all of the Christmas elements of the film were not present in the story. Notably, the boy's family does not have a Christmas tree in the house. After the snowman comes to life, they proceed to explore the boy's house. After they see the family car and play with the lights, the boy prepares a feast that the two eat by candlelight. Here the snowman takes the boy outside again, and they begin to fly. Once the boy and the snowman take flight, they only fly as far as the pier seen in the film. They stop there and wait for the sunrise. They hurry back, as the sun is rising, and the boy hurries inside again, like the film. The finale does not show James finding the scarf in his pocket, as they never made the trip to Father Christmas, but he finds the snowman melted in the same fashion. Alternative beginnings After the initial showing on Channel 4, and in its initial showings on U.S. television, an alternative introduction was sometimes used. Instead of Raymond Briggs describing how much it had |
Which 1983 film starring Glen Close, Jeff Goldbloom, Kevin Kline and Tom Berenger was nominated for 3 Oscars, including Best Picture? | The Big Chill (1983) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina winter house after the funeral of one of their friends. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 27 titles created 19 Feb 2012 a list of 26 titles created 28 Aug 2012 a list of 25 titles created 23 Jul 2014 a list of 36 titles created 13 Nov 2015 a list of 25 titles created 13 Dec 2015 Title: The Big Chill (1983) 7.2/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations. See more awards » Videos An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles. Director: Lawrence Kasdan In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband. Director: Lawrence Kasdan Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from ... See full summary » Director: Lawrence Kasdan Take two rival TV reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well and watch the sparks fly. Director: James L. Brooks Edit Storyline A seminal Thirty-Something movie in which a group of old college friends who are now all grown up and hardened by the big wide world come together for the funeral of Alex, a barely glimpsed corpse, who was at one time the brightest and the best of them, and yet who never managed to achieve half as much as any of the others. The friends use the occasion to reacquaint themselves with each other and to speculate as to what happened to their idealism which had been abundant when they were younger. Written by Mark Thompson <[email protected]> In a cold world, you need your friends to keep you warm! See more » Genres: 30 September 1983 (USA) See more » Also Known As: $56,968 (USA) (6 November 1998) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider . See more » Goofs The fog completely disappears after Harold's brief close-up shot when he and Nick are jogging through town. See more » Quotes Nick : [in a high-pitched voice] Hey. everyone, it's J.T. Lancer! Let's all go watch this incredible show! [everyone runs into the living room] Karen : Come on, Sam. Ok, I've seen it at last. Now what? 31 October 2001 | by ([email protected]) (Florida) – See all my reviews When I said I had never seen this film, people gasped and told me they couldn't belive it. They said it was a ground-breaking film, a cinematic landmark etc etc. Worth seeing for the soundtrack alone. So I rented it and watched it. What I saw was a group of unpleasant, self-obsessed, angst-ridden yuppies whom I liked not at all and cared about even less. We get a little light-relief once or twice with the Tom Beringer character but apart from that we are expected to spend a weekend with these people as they mull over the fact that one of the college friends has killed himself. A little sex thrown in for variety and Glenn Close chooses to have her hissy-fit in the shower so while we watch her acting we can also see her breasts. The piece ends suddenly, with little changed, nothing concluded and the audience thinking "So what?" We never find out why Alex killed himself but my theory is he realized that these people were the best he could do for friends so he threw in the towel. As for the soundtrack, a selection of fifteen or so different numbers of roughly the same period, well K-Tel have been doing that sort of thing for years. No need to put yourself through a movie like this to hear |
A famous guitarist, or an young attendant upon a person of rank? | Top 10 Greatest Guitar Players (Famous Guitarists) - Toptenz.net Toptenz.net Posted by Shell Harris on September 14, 2008 in Music , People | 135,814 Views | 559 Responses From guitar faces to the different kinds of axes, here is the Top 10 Greatest Guitar Players. Squeezing the talent that’s blessed our ears for all these years into a list of 10 is just as difficult as choosing which limbs to lose or keep. The list is by no means definitive, but it’s an accurate representation for the uniqueness of the music the guitarist has made. In short, these famous guitar players have played the melodies that have made grown men cry, and probably gave you a taste of how your guitar face would look like pretending to play that solo. Of course many great guitarists may not have made this top 10 list, but feel free to add your own favorites in the comments. 10. Tom Morello The guitar player who makes his guitar sound anything but a guitar. Helicopter rudders, disc scratching, and his use of the kill switch for staccato like guitar riffs has made him probably the most innovative guitar player of our time. He is a guitarist who can take feedback, and ground hum from his own body into coherent music. Be it Rage Against The Machine , or Audioslave you can always see Morello’s signature licks shining through. 9. John Mayer Whoa whoa wait, what? This pop artist? A guitar player? If all you’ve ever heard from Mayer is Your Body Is Wonderland, or Daughters, then you’ve got to give his album Continuum a listen to. He is no Shakespeare , but his guitar playing speaks to your soul. His songs will make most glorified tough guys miss their old girlfriend, and the rest just go to a corner and cry. If you think that his songs are all too depressing, then watch some videos of him playing. His guitar face is priceless. 8. Jack White Mr. White is an incredibly underrated guitarist. His singles (From the White Stripes) always span with just three to four chords and his simplistic blues rhythm and picking styles have him overlooked most of the time. However, his masterful use of the Digitech Whammy and is erratic playing make for some of the most memorable guitar solos ever. Check out Ball and a Biscuit and try not to like that solo. One of my favorite Jack White moments was during the 2004 Grammys , where he took 7 Nation Army and went into a cover of Son House’s Death Letter (another artist who I had to unwillingly cut out of the list). In an awards show celebrating Justin Timberlake and Missy Eliot, Jack White took time to give a salute to where things got started, to an artist born a century ago. 7. Jimmy Page Admit it. You’ve slow danced to Stairway To Heaven before. Page’s playing have influenced so many guitar players of today, and Led Zeppelin revolutionized Rock and Roll blending acoustic guitars, banjos , and mandolins while still staying with the same gritty rock image. His guitar riffs are forever etched into Rock and Roll’s hall of fame. How influential was he? Step into a guitar store, and you’ll see. Thousands of 12 year old kids across the globe are playing the intro to Stairway. Now that’s how you know you’ve made it. 6. BB King Yeah. He may have to sit down when he plays, but he’ll have you on your feet when he does. BB’s creamy yet piercing tone, his unique vibrato and his absolute flawless ability to express his emotions through the guitar earn him a spot in the top ten. King’s years of fame haven’t gone to his head. He is still as humble as ever giving front row seat tickets to fans waiting in a cold parking lot just to have a glimpse of him. BB King can’t play chords. Nor does he sing and play at the same time. But he has worldwide recognition of his accomplishments as an artist. That’s a mark of a truly great guitarist. 5. David Gilmour Gilmour was made famous by his haunting guitar scores in Pink Floyd. This “replacement” guitarist surpassed expectations and helped shape Pink Floyd’s unique sound. You can always expect hairs at the back of your neck to stand whenever you hear one of his solos – be it for the first or hundredth |
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This character lived at 11 Coronation Street, and is also the name of a leather maker? | "Coronation Street" Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb trailers and videos full cast and crew trivia official sites memorable quotes Overview 23 out of 24 people found the following review useful: Corrie on regardless from York 30 November 2000 TV is a fickle business and never more so than in one of its dramatic mainstays - the humble soap. Getting the balance between comedy and drama can be a tricky affair, not to mention having (and keeping) a cast of likeable characters who make you want to tune in for more week after week. While Eldorado and Albion Market failed to capture the imagination of the nation, there are others that manage to shrug off the birth pangs, cope with a difficult adolesence and settle down while seizing the heart of the nation. In case you didn't know it, Corrie is 40 this year and as one of the world's longest running soaps it has earned its place in the record books. It began not with a bang but with a whimper. The opening scenes are still etched in the mind of creator Tony Warren, who developed the show while still a mere slip of a lad. Mrs Lappin slipped a coin into a bubblegum machine outside her corner shop, and Ena Sharples, scowling like a bulldog beneath THAT hairnet, demanded: "Are those fancies today's? I'll take half a dozen - and no eclairs. NO eclairs." Lest we forget, the show gave rise to some of the best actors and writers in the business, including Joanna Lumley, Ben Kingsley and The Royle Family's much loved mate, Twiggy (Geoffrey Hughes). Scriptwriters like Jack Rosenthal (Yentl, London's Burning) and Frank Cottrell Boyce (Jude, Hillary and Jackie) gave us dialogue and scenes that went above and beyond the realms of most shows while it enlivened many a dull night's TV by its very presence alone. Over the years, we have relished the clashes between Ena (Violet Carson) and Elsie (Pat Phoenix), thrown soft furnishings at the TV while dithery Derek (Peter Baldwin) and Mavis (Thelma Barlow) tested the patience of saints and wept buckets as Judy Mallett (Gaynor Faye), Des Barnes (Phil Middlemiss) and most of Ken Barlow's (William Roache) wives became another statistic in the suspiciously high list of Weatherfield residents who met their maker far too early. This year has been as unmissable as any in its four decade history with the Tony Horrocks murder and the 'Martn' (Sean Wilson) and Rebecca (Jill Halfpenny) affair coming to a head, not to mention Jez (the excellent Lee Boardman) and Alison (Naomi Radcliffe) reaching a sticky end as polar opposite characters both cut short by some brutal scripting. The Street has become so ingrained in people's hearts that, over the years, many have lost sight of that thin line between fact and fiction. When Elsie Tanner was lying unidentified in a London hospital after being knocked down by a taxi, viewers wrote to her husband to tell him where she was. Dozens of women took up their knitting needles to make dustman Eddie Yates a new woolly hat when his own was shredded in the washing machine, and when Ena lost her post as secretary of the Glad Tidings mission, the job offers flooded in. People have even tried to book Christmas parties at the Rovers Return and rent the houses which become vacant in Britain's most celebrated terraced street. Former producer Bill Podmore once said: 'All over the country, old terraces like Coronation Street are disappearing, but a change in the Street could destroy the roots of the programme, because the architecture is as much a part of its character as the people.' But it was regular script writer Harry Kershaw who summed up it's enduring popularity and extraordinary success both at home and abroad. 'Coronation Street is about life,' he said, 'and life has its universal situations, its problems and laughter; therefore it has an international appeal.' We have laughed, cried and run screaming by the sight of hamster-faced Gail (Helen Worth) and the haircut from Hell, poodle-haired Liz (Beverley Callard) dressing like a woman half her age and Mike Baldwin (Johnny Briggs) working his way through the Street's female resident |
Which British mathematician created a basic computer in 1835? | Ada Lovelace | British mathematician | Britannica.com British mathematician Alternative Titles: Ada King, countess of Lovelace, Augusta Ada Byron, Lady Byron Ada Lovelace Augusta Ada Byron, Lady Byron born London or Piccadilly Terrace, England died Charles Babbage Ada Lovelace, in full Ada King, countess of Lovelace, original name Augusta Ada Byron, Lady Byron (born December 10, 1815, Piccadilly Terrace, Middlesex [now in London], England —died November 27, 1852, Marylebone , London ), English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage , for whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been called the first computer programmer . She was the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron and Annabella Milbanke Byron, who legally separated two months after her birth. Her father then left Britain forever, and his daughter never knew him personally. She was educated privately by tutors and then self-educated but was helped in her advanced studies by mathematician-logician Augustus De Morgan , the first professor of mathematics at the University of London. On July 8, 1835, she married William King , 8th Baron King, and, when he was created an earl in 1838, she became countess of Lovelace. She became interested in Babbage’s machines as early as 1833 and, most notably, in 1843 came to translate and annotate an article written by the Italian mathematician and engineer Luigi Federico Menabrea, “ Notions sur la machine analytique de Charles Babbage ” (1842; “ Elements of Charles Babbage’s Analytical Machine ”). Her detailed and elaborate annotations (especially her description of how the proposed Analytical Engine could be programmed to compute Bernoulli numbers) were excellent; “the Analytical Engine,” she said, “weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.” Babbage only built a small part of the Analytical Engine, but Lovelace’s efforts have been remembered. The early programming language Ada was named for her, and the second Tuesday in October has become Ada Lovelace Day, on which the contributions of women to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are honoured. Learn More in these related articles: |
Of what is Selenology the study? | Selenologist - definition of selenologist by The Free Dictionary Selenologist - definition of selenologist by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/selenologist Also found in: Thesaurus , Encyclopedia . sel·e·nol·o·gy (sĕl′ə-nŏl′ə-jē) The astronomical study of the moon. sel′e·no·log′i·cal (-nə-lŏj′ĭ-kəl) adj. sel′e·nol′o·gist n. selenology (Astronomy) the branch of astronomy concerned with the moon, its physical characteristics, nature, origin, etc selenological adj sel•e•nol•o•gy (ˌsɛl əˈnɒl ə dʒi) n. the branch of astronomy that deals with the nature and origin of the physical features of the moon. [1815–25] se•le•no•log•i•cal (səˌlin lˈɒdʒ ɪ kəl) adj. sel`e•nol′o•gist, n. selenology The astronomical study of the moon. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: 1. selenology - the branch of astronomy that deals with the moon astronomy , uranology - the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole Translations Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us , add a link to this page, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content . Link to this page: Copyright © 2003-2017 Farlex, Inc Disclaimer All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
Which is the oldest theatre in current use in London? | Where’s London’s oldest…(still-in-use) theatre? | Exploring London A blog about London and its history… Where’s London’s oldest…(still-in-use) theatre? July 11, 2011 While the remains of some of London’s oldest purpose-built theatres – such as The Rose and The Globe – can be found in once notorious Southwark, London’s oldest, still-in-use theatre is in fact in the West End. The Theatre Royal Drury Lane (not to be confused with the Theatre Royal Haymarket) apparently takes the honor – the latest incarnation of a theatre which has still on the same location since 1663. First built on the orders of Restoration-era dramatist and theatre manager Thomas Killigrew, the original theatre on the site – where King Charles II’s mistress Nell Gwynn apparently trod the boards and which was originally known as the Theatre Royal in Bridges Street – was burnt down in 1672 only to be rebuilt to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren two years later. This building lasted for more than a century before it too was demolished – this time to make way for a larger theatre which opened its doors in 1794. Fire seems to have been a perennial problem, for it too burned down in 1809, being rebuilt and opened again in 1812 with a performance of Hamlet (the current building, designed by BenjaminWyatt). Now owned by star composer Andrew Lloyd Webber via his Really Useful Group, the building has associations with some of London’s theatreland’s finest names – everyone from eighteenth century actor David Garrick (one of the theatre’s managers) to early nineteenth century child actress Clara Fisher and, in more recent times, Monty Python. Currently hosting Shrek: The Musical, other recent productions there have included Miss Saigon and a musical adaption of Lord of the Rings. Share this: |
What is produced in a ginnery? | 1. What is made using soda, lime and silica? - Jade Wright - Liverpool Echo 1. What is made using soda, lime and silica? 2. What type of material is produced in a ginnery? Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email 2. What type of material is produced in a ginnery? 3. Who has written a series of letters entitled `Dear Fatty` in the form of an autobiography? 4. Who did Ted Turner, the media tycoon, marry in 1991? 5. What is the common name for epistaxis? 6. Who played Jane opposite Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan in 1932? 7. Which three letters did SOS as a Morse mayday signal? 8. Who created Wikipedia on the World Wide Web? 9. What was the breed of Columbo’s dog? 10. Which song contains the line “Spare him his life from this monstrosity”? 1. Glass; 2. Cotton; 3. Dawn French; 4. Jane Fonda; 5. Nose bleed; 6. Maureen O`Sullivan in Tarzan The Ape Man; 7. CQD - CQ was a general call to all ships and D signalled Distress; 8. Jimmy Wales; 9. Basset hound; 10. Bohemian Rhapsody Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent |
Which English Queen had 17 children and outlived all of them? | Queen Anne – 18 Pregnancies, No Living Children – the stars apart kate November 12, 2012 Thats terrible… I think at the back of my mind, where the facts I learnt at GCSE history live, I did know about this. One bit that strikes me is that at the start of 1687 she had a miscarriage and then lost both surviving children to small pox within a month! It is totally tragic but I bet this kind of thing happens today in developing countries. I spent some time working as a teacher in rural Kenya and there was a clinic in the same compound as the school (it was a convent community centre type place) Anyway in the month I was there we had several people bring in babies dying of tummy bugs that would be so quickly treated in the U.K and if you were premature then that was it, no NICU. Also, no proper operating theatre so if the baby was in distress there were no ceaserians, you just had to wait and see unless you had money and transport to go several hours in to the city to the big hospital- which most people didn’t. At least my boys, at 24 weeks +3 stood a chance here and were well cared for. they certainly wouldn’t there or indeed in the 1600s! Natasha Papousek November 12, 2012 Oh. Oh, how awful! How tragic! How did she manage to keep going? I can’t even imagine. I’ve had my own miscarriages (one in England when we lived there in 1994), and I eventually just stopped getting pregnant because I couldn’t deal with losing them all. What depth of tragedy for the women of earlier times. marwil November 13, 2012 What a terrible way to live back then, really horrific to lose so many babies. I can’t imagine how she could go on trying, how much heartbreak can one person hold I wonder. November 13, 2012 Wow. I can’t even imagine what her life must’ve been like losing that many children. Missymaise November 14, 2012 Wow that is incredibly sad – and to think she was one of the priviledged people what happened to the poor?! I heard a programme on the radio a while ago about a figure from history (I don’t recall who) Who had had 9 pregnancies and only 1 surviving child. In so many ways I’m so grateful to be alive now and have the health care that I do, knowing that my stillbirth was due to a placenta problem and that they will induce me early to try and prevent it happening again, along with loads of scans, aspirin and monitoring cord blood flow. I guess there are still places in the world where this could happen. It reminds me to count my blessings even after stillbirth. Thanks Fiona Caroline November 15, 2012 oh how awful. Given the time, the lack of support for such a horrible thing and how she was just expected to, and did, continue to try and produce a living heir to the throne – all the while probably not being allowed to publicly grieve for any of those babies. Just awful. So heartbreaking. Nick May 2, 2013 A particularly dreadful feature is that the one child who did survive infancy died at the age of eleven – William, Duke of Gloucester. It may reveal something about the other tragic deaths that poor William’s life was beset by illness – fevers, fits and water on the brain. Of course, he was so precious to the Stuart lineage that every quack remedy available was administered, making his short life all the more miserable. However, from a medical point of view it is worth pointing out that Anne’s sister Mary married her first cousin William (becoming William and Mary in the Glorious Revolution) and the two failed to produce any children – inter-breeding was a feature of European royalty with fairly tragic results at times. Anne married a relative – although a little more distant – in George of Denmark … perhaps no co-incidence that they produced so many frail offspring. Astonishingly, Anne did her duty and ascended to the throne on the death of her brother-in-law even though she was destroyed physically by her preganacies. Legend has it that she became so inactive she gorged herself half to death and had to be buried in a square coffin. Terribly sad – she was bitterly unhappy but felt unable to side-step her royal duty to produc |
Which Carry-On actor starred in Bless This House? | Sidney James - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 4:34 PM, UTC NEWS Actor | Soundtrack The star of the Carry On series of films, Sid James originally came to prominence as sidekick to the ground breaking British comedy actor Tony Hancock, on both radio and then television. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa and named Solomon Joel Cohen, James arrived in England in 1946, second wife in tow, having served with the South African Army ... See full bio » Born: |
What is the name for small round pieces of lamb, or chocolates with hazelnuts? | Noisette | Define Noisette at Dictionary.com noisette [nwah-zet; French nwa-zet] /nwɑˈzɛt; French nwaˈzɛt/ Spell [nwah-zets; French nwa-zet] /nwɑˈzɛts; French nwaˈzɛt/ (Show IPA) 1. a loin, fillet, or other lean section of meat: an entrée of lamb noisettes. Origin of noisette Latin 1890-1895 1890-95; < French: a round, rather thick slice of fillet or loin of lamb or mutton, diminutive of noix choice part of a cut of meat, literally, nut, kernel < Latin nucem, accusative of nux; see -ette Dictionary.com Unabridged |
Who narrated the Mr Men series? | Mr. Men (TV Series 1974– ) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error The Mr Men are a whole host of brightly colored characters that live in Misterland. All of them have names like Mr Happy, Mr Clumsy and Mr Greedy and their appearance and personality match their name. Narrated by Arthur Lowe. Creator: "No Small Parts" IMDb Exclusive: 'Edge of Seventeen' Star Hailee Steinfeld Hailee Steinfeld has received critical acclaim for her role in the coming-of-age comedy The Edge of Seventeen . What other roles has she played over the years? Don't miss our live coverage of the Golden Globes beginning at 4 p.m. PST on Jan. 8 in our Golden Globes section. a list of 294 titles created 04 Nov 2012 a list of 2739 titles created 23 Aug 2013 a list of 72 titles created 27 Feb 2014 a list of 79 titles created 22 Jul 2014 a list of 699 titles created 09 Aug 2014 Search for " Mr. Men " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Button Moon (TV Series 1980) Family Mr Spoon and his family live on Junk Planet. He travels in his baked bean tin spaceship across blanket sky to Button Moon. There he meets many strange characters and watches stories unfold on other planets using his telescope. Stars: Robin Parkinson The Wombles (TV Series 1973) Animation | Family The misadventures of a fantasy folk community dedicated to cleaning up litter and put it to their own use. Stars: Bernard Cribbins, Dieter Hallervorden The life of the Mr Men and little Misses presented in short skits. Stars: Alicyn Packard, Joey D'Auria, Paul Greenberg Children's puppet programme featuring music and stories. Stars: Geoffrey Hayes, Roy Skelton, Stanley Bates 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X A team of 6 contestants play a series of physical, mental, skill and mystery games across 4 themed zones gaining as many crystals as possible which determine how many seconds they get as they attempt to win a prize inside the Crystal Dome. Stars: Richard O'Brien, Edward Tudor-Pole, Sandra Caron Dungeons and Dragons-style show that lets contestants explore a computer-generated fantasy world, with wicked special effects and cunning puzzles. Stars: Hugo Myatt, David Learner, John Woodnutt The adventures of Spot, a little yellow puppy and his family and friends. Stars: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Paul Nicholas, Peter Hawkins A man runs a shop in Manchester with fun, mischievous puppets Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Little Cousin Scampi. Stars: Matthew Corbett, Brenda Longman, John Bird In a toy factory, after being made, a teddy bear is put in a storeroom after being deposed. The teddy bear is found by a cosmic being from outer space known as Spotty Man, and Spotty Man ... See full summary » Stars: Derek Griffiths, Peter Hawkins, Jon Pertwee Popular British children's animation series, repeated almost constantly since 1971. Mr Benn is the ordinary, bowler-hatted office worker who lives in the ordinary suburban street of Festive... See full summary » Stars: Ray Brooks The Trap Door (TV Series 1984) Animation | Adventure | Comedy 3D plasticine animation, featuring Berk, a blue creature who lives as servant to the unseen 'Thing Upstairs' in an old dark house. Every time the trap door opens a new adventure begins for ... See full summary » Stars: William Rushton |
Mick Robertson and Jenny Handley presented which Children's TV Programme? | Three for joy: Reunion of Magpie presenters after 29 years apart | Daily Mail Online Three for joy: Reunion of Magpie presenters after 29 years apart For a generation of children in the 1970s, they were the cooler, trendier alternative to the BBC’s conservative Blue Peter. Inevitably, these days the jawlines are slacker and the hair less luxuriant. But the years rolled away when the three main presenters of ITV children’s classic Magpie were reunited. Like old times: The presenters of 1970s Magpie - the Blue Peter rival - meet up again Jenny Hanley, Mick Robertson and Douglas Rae fronted the teatime programme together for three years, pulling in audiences of as much as 10million. They have remained in occasional contact but all three of them got together for the first time since 1980 at a fete in the Surrey village where Rae lives. Miss Hanley, now 61, was asked to open the fete and decided to organise the reunion by contacting Robertson, who grew up in the next village. Prime: Rae (left), Robertson and Hanley The trio greeted each other with hugs before spending the afternoon chatting about old times. Miss Hanley said: ‘It is so lovely to see the guys again – as if we last saw each other only yesterday. We worked together for three and a half years and got on so well together back then, and clearly still do now.’ Robertson, 65, said: ‘It is great to see Jenny and Douglas again – we used to really look out for each other.’ Magpie was first broadcast in 1968 and was initially presented by Susan Stranks, Tony Bastable and former Radio 1 DJ Pete Brady. The show’s mascot was a fat magpie named Murgatroyd. It had rock-based theme music which used the old rhyme about the bird ‘One for sorrow, two for joy’. Bastable and Brady left Magpie in 1972 and were replaced by Rae and Robertson. Miss Stranks left in 1974 after which Miss Hanley joined. The only other change came when Tommy Boyd took over from Rae in 1977. All the presenters were invited back for the last episode in 1980. In her heyday, Miss Hanley’s angelic blue-eyed, blonde look won her a legion of fans, while Robertson looked a bit like a pop star. Their image was in contrast to Blue Peter rivals such as John Noakes and Peter Purves. There was tremendous rivalry between the shows with many children branding the BBC’s show as too ‘goody two shoes’ and ‘worthy’. Magpie concentrated more on pop music, fashion and fun than its public service rival, but still ran charity campaigns and offered viewers badges for good work. But Rae, 61, who is now a film and television producer, revealed that the rivalry was sometimes friendly, describing how he had a brief fling with Blue Peter star Lesley Judd. They kept the relationship secret for fear of causing controversy. ‘Lesley was very pretty and, when I met her at a charity function I asked her out for dinner,’ he said. ‘She accepted and we had a bit of a fling. That was the most daring thing I could have done then.’ |
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What was Coronation Street originally to be called? | Coronation Street | Television New Zealand | Entertainment | TVNZ 1, TVNZ 2 In the beginning… Coronation Street began at 7pm on Friday 9 December 1960. The first episode was transmitted live. Nearly 8000 episodes later Coronation Street continues to be a ratings success, captivating audiences worldwide. A young scriptwriter called Tony Warren created the series, originally titled Florizel Street. The first episode was penned within 24 hours, 13 episodes were commissioned and the face of British television was set to change forever. Broadcast facts Viewers were given their first glimpse of Coronation Street in full colour when the first colour episode was transmitted on 3rd November 1969. A live episode was broadcast to mark the series' 40th anniversary in December 2000 - the first time the show had been broadcast live since 1960 and 1961. Another live episode aired to mark the 50th anniversary in 2010. The 1000th episode was transmitted on 24th August 1970. Famous fans include: Anthony Hopkins; Michael Parkinson; Julie Walters; Cliff Richard; Victoria Wood; Cilla Black; Cheryl Cole; Snoop Dogg. A number of famous faces have paid visits to the set including: Diana Dors; Dustin Hoffman; Alfred Hitchcock; Howard Keel; Boy George; Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair; Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh. On 8 August 1979, the programme was taken off air as part of an ITV strike. It returned to the screen on 24 October. The series originally aired twice a week. A third weekly episode was introduced in 1989, and a fourth in 1996. Coronation Street has broadcast five times a week since 2002. The production team has travelled abroad to film at foreign locations on seven occasions: Majorca (1974); Torremolinos (1987); Normandy (1994); Amsterdam (1998); Paris (2000 and 2006); Malta (2007). There have been five spin-off video/DVD releases: The Feature Length QE2 Special (1995); Viva Las Vegas (1997); Out of Africa (2008); Romanian Holiday (2009); A Knight's Tale (2010). A six-part series ('After Hours') set in Brighton, featuring the returns of Bet Gilroy and Reg Holdsworth, aired in November 1999. Cast facts William Tarmey and Elizabeth Dawn both appeared as background artists for several years before making their debuts as Jack and Vera Duckworth. Rita ( played by Barbara Knox ) first appeared on screen on 2 December 1964. Famous faces who have walked on the Weatherfield cobbles include: Joanna Lumley; Ben Kingsley; Ian McKellen; Stephanie Beacham; Patricia Routledge; Patrick Stewart; Martin Shaw; June Whitfield; Anna Friel; Nigel Havers. Celebrities who have appeared as background artists on the show include: Cliff Richard; Mel B; Peter Schmeichel. Roy Barraclough played three different characters during the 1960s, before first appearing as Alec Gilroy on 26 June 1972. After 13 years, Patricia Phoenix (Elsie Tanner) left the programme on 8 October 1973. She returned in 1976 and remained for 8 more years, appearing in 1641 episodes. Mike Baldwin made his first appearance on 11 October 1976 and bowed out 30 years later on 7 April 2006 after 2383 episodes. He remains one of the 10 longest-serving cast members in the show's 53 year history. Doris Speed was awarded an MBE by the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 29 November 1977. Violet Carson made her last appearance as Ena Sharples after 1150 episodes on 4 April 1980. Jean Alexander made her last appearance as Hilda Ogden on 25 December 1987 - an episode watched by 26 million people. In 1988, she became the first soap opera performer to be nominated for a BAFTA award. HRH The Prince of Wales made a pre-recorded cameo appearance in the 40th anniversary live episode on 8th December 2000. In HM Queen Elizabeth II's 2010 birthday honours, Barbara Knox and Eileen Derbyshire were awarded MBEs. Corrie firsts First birth: Elsie Tanner's grandson Paul Cheveski on 12 June 1961. First marriage: Jack and Annie Walker's daughter Joan to Gordon Davies on 8 March 1961. First death: The first death was the original resident of No.13, May Hardman, in Episode 7 on 31 December 1960 |
Who starred alongside Polly James in the first series of The Liver Birds? | BBC - Comedy - The Liver Birds The Liver Birds The Liver Birds The Liver Birds began life as a Comedy Playhouse pilot. Created by friends Carla Lane and Myra Taylor (who'd met at a writers' workshop), the show - their first contribution to television - was very much based on their own lives in Liverpool. With the BBC keen to develop the production into a series, the duo were assigned experienced writer Len Schwarz as a mentor during the early years, with Eric Idle on script-editing duties. The first series followed the exploits of Dawn and Beryl sharing a flat on Liverpool's Huskisson Street. With women beginning to enjoy new freedoms at the start of the 1970s, the show followed the friends as they hit the dating scene, partied and generally tried to improve their lot in life. After the first run, Pauline Collins left, to be replaced by Nerys Hughes as Sandra. It was here The Liver Birds' golden era dawned - the newcomer proving to be a refined foil to the outgoing Beryl. More change followed at the end of series four. With Polly James now deciding to move on, Beryl was married off, and in came scatty Carol. She brought with her an extended family - the Boswells. Clearly the inspiration for Lane's 1980s series Bread, this incarnation of the clan included rabbit-loving brother Lucien and God-fearing parents. The series came to a conclusion 1979, but that wasn't the end of the story. In 1996, The Liver Birds return for a seven-part, continuity-mangling reprise. Set 20 years on, the show's golden pairing of Sandra and Beryl were back together again, contemplating life after divorce. Lucien was now Beryl's sibling, while Carmel McSharry played her mother, Mrs Hennessy. Cast |
What was the name of the character played by Frances de la Tour in Rising Damp? | Frances de la Tour interview: From Shakespeare to Rising Damp, the actress has lit up stage and TV for 50 years - and found new fans in Vicious | The Independent Profiles Frances de la Tour interview: From Shakespeare to Rising Damp, the actress has lit up stage and TV for 50 years - and found new fans in Vicious Back in the 1970s, the TV sitcom ‘Rising Damp’ brought Frances de la Tour such recognition that she could be forgiven if she’d never been able to move on. But at 70, she continues to flourish - and to beguile Friday 22 May 2015 17:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online De la Tour's major strength is to radiate a slightly weary, seen-it-all romanticism Kalpesh Lathigra It takes approximately 90 seconds to register that Frances de la Tour is a shocking flirt. As she perches beside me on the sofa in the first-floor bar of the Ivy Club in Soho, her eyes lock on to mine, her expressive mouth widens into a cheerfully on-for-it grin and, as I babble through a chaotic question about her recent adventures, she cuts straight across it and says, fingering the sleeve of my suit: "This is a nice piece of schmatter – is it linen or cotton?" This year, in which she turns 71, she celebrates 50 years of stage acting at the highest level – at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and in London's West End. She has played classic roles from Chekhov, Webster, Shaw, Albee and Eugene O'Neill as well as the Bard, while descending, from time to time, to the less rarefied level of television comedy. Her major strength is to radiate a slightly weary, seen-it-all romanticism, expressing a perfect balance of disappointment and optimism via that uniquely rich contralto voice. She's equally at home playing tragedy or comedy – you could say that she had a head start, given that she possesses both the most melancholy eyes and the most dazzling smile in British theatre. In the public consciousness, she is stuck fast in the 1970s with her role in Rising Damp as Miss Ruth Jones, the poodle-haired and breathless object of Leonard Rossiter's urgent desire and seedy gallantry. Their double-act entered the collective cultural memory and stayed there, a fact that does not please De la Tour. "It's the tombstone thing, isn't it?" she says. "I just know that, when I die, the papers will say, 'Rising Damp Woman Kicks the Bucket'." To be fair, I say, the 1980 movie version won you Best Actress at the Evening Standard Film Awards. "Oh yes," she says, with a bitter laugh. "I remember. The Standard people got in touch and said, 'You're up for Best Actress in the Film Awards.' I said, 'But I haven't made a film this year.' They said, 'It's for Rising Damp.' I said, 'Oh, that.' It made me laugh so much." Thirty-five years later, she's playing a different quality of sex object in another TV sitcom, Vicious. The show stars two veteran stage knights, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi as Freddie and Stuart, a long-term gay couple and sparring partners in a battle of theatrical bitchiness that amuses or horrifies everyone drawn into its orbit. De la Tour plays Violet Crosby, the neighbour who pops in every day (as they do in sitcom-land) to exchange brittle banter with the senior queens and utter cougarish remarks of sleek seductiveness at Ash (Iwan Rheon), the handsome (and straight) 22-year-old boy upstairs. Remarkably, the show was the joint creation of Mark Ravenhill, the controversial playwright behind Shopping and Fucking and Mother Clap's Molly House, and Gary Janetti, the American TV writer and producer behind Family Guy and Will & Grace. Where fans of both writers might anticipate super-explicit or super-brittle dialogue, Vicious is rather sweetly old-fashioned in its gay bitchery and non-PC idiom. McKellen and Jacobi swish about with a camp extravagance that Kenneth Williams might have found a bit extreme, and relish the exchanges. When Violet is told that there's a strange man (namely Ash) in the gay pair's lavatory, she cries: "You let a complete stranger use your loo? What if he comes out of there and rapes me?" McKellen's mout |
1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota | Getting Ready for the 1940 Census This article appeared in the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly (December 2011). Background The US census has been taken every ten years starting in 1790.� In 1942, all censuses up to and including the 1870 census were made available to the public.� And since then, each census has been made available to the public 72 years after the census was taken (73 years in the case of the 1900 census).� As of this writing (October 2011), the last census that has been made available is the 1930 census. The pages of each of these censuses (with the exception of the 1890 census, most of which was destroyed due to a fire) have been scanned and placed online at various free and pay websites.� And the names of all people in these censuses have been indexed, making it possible to search for people in the census by name. Opening Day for the 1940 Census The census day for the 1940 census was April 1, 1940.� That doesn�t mean that the census taker knocked on the door on April 1 and took down the information.� He probably came a few days after April 1.� But the questions he asked pertained to April 1.� Uncle Sam wanted to get a snapshot of the nation as it existed on April 1. Since the census is sealed for 72 years, opening day for the 1940 census should be April 1, 2012.� But it will be delayed to April 2 since April 1 falls on a Sunday, and the National Archives is closed on Sundays. In previous years, the release of each census involved making microfilm copies of the master census microfilms (the original census pages have long since been destroyed).� These microfilm copies were then made available to various archives and libraries.� It was from these microfilm copies that several companies and organizations scanned the census images and placed them online. That will not be the case for the 1940 census.� The master microfilm will not be copied onto distribution microfilm.� Instead it will be scanned and put directly online. �That will make it available to anyone with Internet access on opening day.� Furthermore, it will be accessible to all for free. But a complete name index will not exist until at least six months (best guess at this time) after opening day.� That means that the only way to access the census initially will be by location.� However the census is not organized by address but rather by the Enumeration District (ED).� So to access the census, you will need to obtain the Enumeration District of your desired location. Enumeration Districts An Enumeration District is an area that can be canvassed by a single census taker (enumerator) in a census period.� Since 1880, all information in the census is arranged by Enumeration District.� If you do not know the Enumeration District, you cannot access the census by location! Each Enumeration District within a state has a unique number.� In 1930 and 1940, the number consists of two parts, such as 31-1518.� The first part is a prefix number assigned to each county (usually alphabetical) and the second part is a district number within the county.� In 1940 (but not in 1930) some of the larger cities have their own prefix number.� Such city prefix numbers come after the last county prefix. As an example, in 1930 the prefixes in California in 1930 went from 1 (Alameda County) to 58 (Yuba County).� Los Angeles County was somewhere in the middle with prefix number 19.� Long Beach City is in Los Angeles County, so in 1930 it too had prefix 19.� But in 1940 it was given its own prefix, namely 59.� It was followed by Los Angeles City (60), Oakland City (61) and San Diego City (62). Now that you know what an Enumeration District is, you�ll need to know how to obtain the Enumeration District for the location you are interested in. Where did the family live? Before you can determine the family�s Enumeration District, you�ll have to know where they were located.� If you don�t already have their address, here are several ways of finding it. Address |
Apt 56B, Whitehaven Mansions, Sandhurst Sq, London | Whitehaven Mansions Whitehaven Mansions Whitehaven Mansions Whitehaven Mansions A popular question asked at Hercule Poirot Central is: where in London is Whitehaven Mansions, Hercule Poirot's home as seen on the television series "Poirot"? Such a question deserves an article, c'est vrai. It is found on Charterhouse Square in London. Many buildings surround the square, but the residential building known as Florin Court (known as Poirot's "Whitehaven Mansions") is located on the eastern side of a park there. Finished in 1936, the building houses a swimming pool in the basement and a roof garden (as seen on satellite images). Florin Court (and Charterhouse Square) is just north of the Museum of London (at London Wall). The Museum of London's postcode is EC2Y 5HN, whereas it is known that Charterhouse Square's postcode is EC1. For visitors not familiar to London, Charterhouse Square is just west of Goswell Road/Aldersgate Street and one block north of Beech Street. One can always go to Holborn Circus, and from there take Charterhouse Street in a northeast direction up to the Square. Another thing: if you're near the Barbican Centre, home of the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Shakespeare Company, you know you're close. The Barbican Centre is adjacent to the Museum of London. There are some excellent photos of Florin Court (and Charterhouse Square) on the flickr site . The following satellite images below are taken from Google Earth. I have labeled a few places for idea of proximity/location. To enlarge a picture below, simply click on it. All original content © 2016, Hercule Poirot Central. This site is not endorsed by Agatha Christie Ltd. or the Acorn Media Group. |
52 Festive Road, Putney, London | Festing Road SW15 Residents Honour Their Doppelganger Festive Road Participate Sign up for our free weekly newsletter Comment on this story on the On Saturday author David McKee unveiled the commerative paving stone to him and his creation the cartoon character Mr Benn. This happened in Festing Road, Putney which he renamed Festive Road for the series. In the series Mr Benn leaves his terrace house and goes to a dressing up shop and from there into different adventures. On the day nearly twenty Mr Benn's and their families dressed as Mr Benn characters-clowns, chefs, knights, pirates, cavemen not to mention the distinctive shop keeper in his fez and coloured waistcoat �all turned up to celebrate. Nearly 100 turned up for the event which was filmed by ITV News and well as an independent film crew. Councillor ex Wandsworth mayor Jim Madden said a few words but the day belonged to David McKee and the present residents of Festing Road . The author personally drew Mr Benn in the dozen or so books which had been donated by the publishers as prizes for the children's fancy dress. Special mention must go to Ben Nicholson (wizard) and Zac Hyner (caveman). After the unveiling the party went back to no 52(Mr Benn's house in the series) and enjoyed refreshment and a specially made cake shaped as the distinctive bowler. Street resident and organiser Hugh Thompson said: �It was a wonderful day for the street and fans came from all over London, quite incredible. David was an absolute saint, such a modest genius. All Mr Benn stories end with the world being a better place and this one was no exception .Deeper friendships and a stronger sense of community have been achieved in the street and the world now has a permanent Residents dressed up as characters from Mr Benn's adventures reminder of one of its favourite cartoon characters". Current residents clubbed together to purchase the paving stone as a tribute to author & illustrator and ex-resident David. In 1965 When David McKee purchased his house on Festing Road he paid £4,200 - to buy it today would cost over £800,000! November 30, 2009 |
1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights, USA. | Grandpa Munster – Mockingbird Heights, USA | Home › Television › Grandpa Munster – Mockingbird Heights, USA Grandpa Munster – Mockingbird Heights, USA Posted on December 4, 2014 by jaholst — Leave a comment Grandpa Munster is a 350-year-old vampire (Count Dracula) who has a dungeon laboratory at 1313 Mockingbird Lane on the CBS fantasy comedy THE MUNSTERS (1964-66). Grandpa (Al Lewis) lives with his 157-year-old vampire daughter, Lily (Yvonne DeCarlo) ; her Frankenstein husband, Herman Munster (Fred Gwynne); their wolfboy son, Eddie (Butch Patrick), and Grandpa’s pet bat Igor who hangs out in family’s basement with Grandpa who concocts things like an alarm-clock pill that wakes you up on time, and a pill that turns water into gasoline. Grandpa main reference book is the “ Encyclopedia of Voodoo .” Occasionally, Grandpa’s potions require the assistance of special spell to get them going. Some sample spells: “Abracadabra and asee dosee, allakazam and Bela Lugosi!” (to help Herman wrestle); “Ibbidy-bibiddy, rinkidy-dink, make like a statue and freeze, you fink! (to hold a criminal frozen for police); “Don’t let time and space detain ya, off you go to Transylvania (the spell backfired and sent the whole family to Happy Valley Motel in Kansas City). Here are some of Grandpa’s potions: Episode No. 2 “My Fair Munster” – Grandpa creates a love potion to improve his niece Marilyn’s sagging love life (the potion backfired and influenced the wrong Munster). Episode No. 12 “Sleeping Cutie” – One of Grandpa’s potions puts Marilyn into a state of semi-permanent sleep. Episode No. 19 “Eddie’s Nickname” – Eddie’s schoolmates call him “Shorty” so Grandpa mixes up a “magic milkshake” to make him grow six-inches. Instead, Eddie grows a beard. Episode No. 32 “Mummy Munster” – A sleeping pill created by Grandpa gets Herman mistaken for an Egyptian mummy when he falls a sleep in a museum sarcophagus. Episode No. 43 “Herman, Coach of the Year” – Grandpa made a pill to enhance the athletic performance of his nephew Eddie Munster (Butch Patrick). The vitamin pill’s ingredients included “a derby flown in from Kentucky; a feather from “the worlds’ fastest bird,” the ostrich; a bit of lint from the pouch of a kangaroo; and a zap of lightning from Grandpa’s fingertip to top it off.” Episode No. 62 “The Musician” – Grandpa whips up a potion to improve Eddie’s trumpet playing. The potion included: “Three strands of Leonard Bernstein’s favorite sauerkraut; a glass of water from the “Blue Danube”; one chopped photograph of Ludwig van Beethoven; a stein of beer from the “Whiffenpoof” song; and a bucket of bilge water from the “HMS Pinafore.” Episode No. 41 “Bronco Bustin’ Munster” – Herman Munster begs Grandpa to concoct an instant bravery potion to steady his nerves before a rodeo bronco ride. Grandpa once whipped up an instant bravery pill for King Richard in the Middle Ages. “I’ll have you know that before he took these, he was known as Chicken-Dickie.” Episode No. 48 “A Man for Marilyn” – Grandpa attempts to make a husband for his niece in his laboratory. Other inventions and potions included a pill that turned water into gasoline; a medicine for which there is no disease; a machine that takes electricity from the air and stores it; a cough medicine that gives you a three-day cough; and an alarm clock pill that can be set to make you sleep and wake at chosen times. Beside his potions and pills, Grandpa was quite a mechanic. When his son-in-law Herman Munster (Fred Gwynne) needed to win a drag race, he whipped up a stylish dragster called the “Drag-u-la” using a gold coffin for the car’s body. NOTE: On the 1988 syndicated remake of the series THE MUNSTERS TODAY, Vladimir “Grandpa” Dracula (Howard Morton) enjoyed eating leeches and cream; had a computer named Sam; a rat named Stanley; and belonged to the AVA (American Vampire Association). This time round, the Munsters lived in the future because one of Grandpa’s experiment backfired, suspending the family in time until they awoke 22 years later to discover a much different would. Grandpa Munster |
What name was given to privateers, authorized to conduct raids on shipping of a nation at war with France, on behalf of the French crown? | The Last Corsaire by Frank Leguen - YouTube The Last Corsaire by Frank Leguen Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jul 2, 2014 Corsairs (French: corsaire) were privateers, authorized to conduct raids on shipping of a nation at war with France, on behalf of the French crown. Seized vessels and cargo were sold at auction, with the corsair captain entitled to a portion of the proceeds. Although not French Navy personnel, corsairs were considered legitimate combatants in France (and allied nations), provided the commanding officer of the vessel was in possession of a valid Letter of Marque (Lettre de Marque or Lettre de Course, the latter giving corsairs their name), and the officers and crew conducted themselves according to contemporary admiralty law. By acting on behalf of the French Crown, if captured by the enemy, they could claim treatment as prisoners of war, instead of being considered pirates. Because corsairs gained a swashbuckling reputation, the word "corsair" is also used generically as a more romantic or flamboyant way of referring to privateers, or even to pirates. The Breton town of St Malo is famous for its Corsairs and this song is about my three times great-grandfather reputed to be the "Last Corsair of St Malo". Having fought the English during the Napoleonic wars, he later teamed up with his English brother-in-law in a number of commercial enterprises, not least opening up China to the opium trade something which would be frowned upon today but was considered a fine initiative at the time! As fate would have it most of his descendants ended up living in England although there are still a number in France and even Belgium! The song is written, performed and produced by Frank Leguen and published by TuneCore publishing (c) 2014 Category |
In 2002, who filed for divorce from his wife Lisa Marie Presley after being married for just three months? | Cele|bitchy | Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from fourth husband, Michael Lockwood Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from fourth husband, Michael Lockwood Divorces , Lisa Marie Presley Lisa Marie Presley has filed for divorce from her fourth husband, Michael Lockwood, after ten years of marriage. The two have seven year-old twin girls together, Harper and Finley. Lisa has an adult daughter and son, Riley and Benjamin Keogh, from her first marriage to Danny Keough. In between she was married to Michael Jackson and to Nicolas Cage (who is coincidentally just separated from his wife, not that I’m suggesting that has anything to do with this). ET confirms that Lisa has filed: These are Lockwood's only children, while Presley also has a daughter and a son -- Riley and Benjamin Keough -- from her first marriage to Danny Keough, which ended in 1994. In addition to Lockwood and Keough, Presley was married to Michael Jackson from 1994 to 1996, and to Nicolas Cage from 2002 to 2004. [From ET Online] TMZ reports that they have a postnup and that Lisa is seeking full custody and wants to give Michael visitation, but that she wants it monitored for some reason. She is not seeking spousal or child support and lists their date of separation as June 13th. Their source states “She doesn’t want any of his money.” I’m surprised that we’re just hearing this news, because I assumed these two had already separated or filed for divorce. The National Enquirer reported in February of this year that they hadn’t been seen together in nine months at that point. They live in Tennessee with their daughters according to the Enquirer’s reporting and had previously lived in East Sussex England, where Lisa used to own a very large estate. She put her property up for sale last year. Lisa has a ton of money, having sold the rights to her father Elvis’s name and image in 2004, before she married Michael, for $100 million. It will be interesting to see how this divorce pans out. I’ve also heard that Lisa either left Scientology or has major issues with it, and it’s thought that Michael is a Scientologist . I wonder if that factors into their divorce at all, or maybe he’s out of Scientology too. She keeps a lockdown on her personal life so I doubt we’ll get any insider information. photos credit: WENN.com |
What was the original name of Wembley Stadium? | Old 1923 Wembley Stadium - England | Football Tripper Capacity: 82,000 Opened: 1923 The original Wembley Stadium officially went by the name of Empire Stadium but fans of the iconic sporting venue almost never referred to the ground by this name. Stadium Guide History England’s Wembley Stadium first opened in 1923 under the grandiose yet horribly colonial sounding title of “British Empire Exhibition Stadium”. Constructed by Sir Robert McAlpine and costing £750,000, the stadium was ready to be demolished after the end of the exhibition but it managed to survive and become a fully fledged football stadium at the suggestion of Sir James Stevenson who was the Chairman of the organising committee for the Empire Exhibition. Following a period immediately after construction when Wembley’s ownership changed hands, Wembley really came into its own as the original piece of “Hallowed Turf” after World War 2 when the popularity of Football exploded. With the F.A Cup final held each season at the iconic venue, The Twin Towers became synonymous with English football and part of history as the F.A Cup was then regarded as one of the most prestigious tournaments back in the 20th Century. Outside of Britain, Wembley Stadium gained a famous reputation by hosting the 1966 World Cup with legendary Brazilian footballer Pele calling it “The cathedral of football. It is the capital of football and it is the heart of football”. For English fans, the only thing better than hosting the World Cup would be winning it, and the three lions managed to do this in their own backyard, by defeating West Germany 4-2 in extra time in an event which we haven’t managed to shut up about ever since. 30 years later England hosted Euro 1996 , and the Germans got their revenge when they defeated England in a penalty shoot-out after a 1-1 draw. Once again Wembley Stadium hosted the final as well as all of England’s home matches, and further weaved it’s way into Britain’s footballing history. The final game at Wembley was held on the 7th October once again against rivals Germany, with Dietmar Hamann scoring the winner in a narrow 1 nil defeat. New Wembley Stadium opened 7 years later in 2007 with a slightly larger capacity of 90,000 seats. Stands The Original Wembley Stadium consisted of four stands: North, East, South and West. Click the thumbnails above to enlarge an image of each stand. By Football Tripper |
Charles-Ădouard Jeanneret-Gris was better known as who? | 1000+ images about Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris) on Pinterest | Le corbusier, Chandigarh and Pierre jeanneret Pinterest • The world’s catalog of ideas Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris) Swiss architect, urban planner, painter, writer, designer and theorist, active mostly in France. In the range of his work and in his ability to enrage the establishment and surprise his followers, he was matched in the field of modern architecture perhaps only by Frank Lloyd Wright. He adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier for his architectural work c. 1920 and for his paintings c. 1930 174 Pins866 Followers |
Which British aircraft manufacturer produced the Spitfire? | Spitfire | British aircraft | Britannica.com British aircraft R.J. Mitchell Spitfire, also called Supermarine Spitfire, the most widely produced and strategically important British single-seat fighter of World War II . The Spitfire, renowned for winning victory laurels in the Battle of Britain (1940–41) along with the Hawker Hurricane , served in every theatre of the war and was produced in more variants than any other British aircraft. Supermarine Spitfire, Britain’s premier fighter plane from 1938 through World War II. Quadrant/Flight The Spitfire was designed by Reginald Mitchell of Supermarine Ltd., in response to a 1934 Air Ministry specification calling for a high-performance fighter with an armament of eight wing-mounted 0.303-inch (7.7-mm) machine guns . The airplane was a direct descendant of a series of floatplanes designed by Mitchell to compete for the coveted Schneider Trophy in the 1920s. One of these racers, the S.6, set a world speed record of 357 miles (574 km) per hour in 1929. Designed around a 1,000-horsepower, 12-cylinder, liquid-cooled Rolls-Royce PV-12 engine (later dubbed the Merlin), the Spitfire first flew in March 1935. It had superb performance and flight characteristics, and deliveries to operational Royal Air Force (RAF) squadrons commenced in the summer of 1938. A more radical design than the Hurricane, the Spitfire had a stressed-skin aluminum structure and a graceful elliptical wing with a thin airfoil that, in combination with the Merlin’s efficient two-stage supercharger , gave it exceptional performance at high altitudes. The version of the Spitfire that fought in the Battle of Britain was powered by a Merlin engine of 1,030 horsepower . The plane had a wingspan of 36 feet 10 inches (11.2 metres), was 29 feet 11 inches (9.1 metres) long, and reached a maximum speed of 360 miles (580 km) per hour and a ceiling of 34,000 feet (10,400 metres). Faster than its formidable German opponent the Bf 109 at altitudes above 15,000 feet (4,600 metres) and just as maneuverable, Spitfires were sent by preference to engage German fighters while the slower Hurricanes went for the bombers. More Hurricanes than Spitfires served in the Battle of Britain, and they were credited with more “kills,” but it can be argued that the Spitfire’s superior high-altitude performance provided the margin of victory. Similar Topics F-16 Meanwhile, Supermarine was developing more-capable versions of the Spitfire driven by progressively more-powerful Merlins. The eight 0.303-inch machine guns gave way to four 0.8-inch (20-mm) automatic cannons, and by war’s end the Spitfire had been produced in more than 20 fighter versions alone, powered by Merlins of up to 1,760 horsepower. Though outperformed by the German Fw 190 upon that aircraft’s introduction in 1941, the Spitfire restored parity the following year and eventually regained the advantage. It remained a first-line air-to-air fighter throughout the war. Spitfires were used in the defense of Malta , in North Africa and Italy , and, fitted with tail hooks and strengthened tail sections, as Seafires from Royal Navy aircraft carriers from June 1942. Spitfires helped to provide air superiority over the Sicily , Italy, and Normandy beachheads and served in the Far East from the spring of 1943. Fighter-bomber versions could carry a 250- or 500-pound (115- or 230-kg) bomb beneath the fuselage and a 250-pound bomb under each wing. One of the Spitfire’s most important contributions to Allied victory was as a photo-reconnaissance aircraft from early 1941. Superior high-altitude performance rendered it all but immune from interception, and the fuel tanks that replaced wing-mounted machine guns and ammunition bays gave it sufficient range to probe western Germany from British bases. In late 1943 Spitfires powered by Rolls-Royce Griffon engines developing as much as 2,050 horsepower began entering service. Capable of top speeds of 440 miles (710 km) per hour and ceilings of 40,000 feet (12,200 metres), these were used to shoot down V-1 “buzz bombs.” During World War II, Spitfires we |
Who said When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life? | When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life: Samuel Johnson The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page -> London -> When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. "Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." — Samuel Johnson Boswell and Johnson were discussing whether or not Boswell's affection for London would wear thin should he choose to live there, as opposed to the zest he felt on his occasional visits. (Boswell lived in Scotland, and visited only periodically. Some people are surprised to learn that Boswell and Johnson were far from inseparable over the last twenty years of Johnson's life, the period Boswell knew him.) This discussion happened on September 20, 1777, and Johnson, someone who hated to spend time alone, was always going out and enjoying what London had to offer. For more of what Johnson had to say about London, click here . For more of what he had to say about city life, click here . |
What was Marble Arch in London originally designed to be? | Pastscape - Detailed Result: MARBLE ARCH MORE INFORMATION & SOURCES + / - Triumphal arch designed in 1828 by John Nash who was inspired by Percier and Fontaine's Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, and modelled on the Arc of Constantine in Rome. Originally the arch was intended to commemorate the victories of Trafalgar and Waterloo but was changed with panels representing the Spirit of England inspiring Youth, Valour, Virtue, Peace and Plenty, with much of this work executed by Flaxman, Westmacott, Rossi and Baily. The arch was originally designed as the grand forecourt gateway to Buckingham Palace but was finished by Edward Blore without much of its intended sculpture, for example the equestrian statue of George IV which now stands in Trafalgar Square. It is constructed of Seravezza marble and comprises three archways flanked by Corinthian columns rising from plinths. The bronze gates were by Samuel Parker. The arch was moved to present position, the north east entrance to Hyde Park in 1851 but is now isolated from the park on a roundabout. (1-2) The arch was designed by John Nash in 1825 and was originally intended as a national memorial to British Military and naval triumphs during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) and would bear trophies and commemorative sculptures. It was also the formal, ceremonial entrance to Buckingham Palace. John Flaxman was commissioned for the commemorative sculpture. The east front and north end would depict a record of the Battle of Waterloo, the west front and south end the Battle of Trafalgar. The top of the arch would have an equestrian statue of the king. However, following Flaxman's death in 1826 several sculptors were commissioned; Sir Richard Westmacott was offered the principal frieze around the attic level of the arch comprising a continous panel of the Battle of Waterloo, and three sections depicting Nelson's life and a low relief of Fame displaying Britain's recent military and naval triumphs. He was also to be responsible for the east side of the arch which depicted the Battle of Waterloo - which included two reliefs, three keystones, six victories and four warrior statues to surmount columns on the Waterloo side. Edward Hodges Bailey was commissioned work on the Trafalgar side of the arch - four statues for the columns, two panels, and for the attic pedestal - a relief of Britannia supporting a medallion of Nelson flanked by a lion and a unicorn. The attic pedestal would also have a Victory at each corner. John Charles Rossi was commissioned to undertake the relief on the other side of the pedestal comprising Europe seated on a horse and Asia on a camel, supporting a medallion bearing the head of the Duke of Wellington. Francis Chantrey designed the equestrian statue for the summit of the arch. Construction started in 1827 and was undertaken by Joseph Browne. However, due to rising construction costs work ceased in 1830 and Nash was replaced by Edward Blore. A much simplified plan of the arch which excluded the attic stage, much of its sculpture and equestrian statue was imposed in 1832 and work was completed in 1833. The gates at the centre of the arch, originally designed by Samuel Parker, were made by the firm Bramah and Prestage and erected in 1837. Pieces of the unused sculpture including parts of Westmacott's frieze of Waterloo and Nelson panels were used at Buckingham Palace. His victory statues and Rossi's relief of Europe and Asia were used at the National Gallery. In 1843 the equestrian statue was installed on one of the granite pedestals in Trafalgar Square. Due to expansion of Buckingham Palace the arch was dismantled by Thomas Cubitt in the autumn of 1850 and rebuilt at Cumberland Gate as a ceremonial entrance in the northeast corner of Hyde Park following a decision by Decimus Burton and W A Nesfield. The rebuilding of the arch was by Thomas Cubitt, who incorporated three internal rooms, was completed in March 1851. From December 1851 the arch was used by the Metropolitan Police as a Police Station. The arch measures 18.3 metres east-west by 9.1 metres north-sout |
Winner in a poll of Classic FM's most popular piece of music in 2016, which composer also wrote A London Symphony | Hall of Fame - Radio - Classic FM Hall of Fame Now Playing Schedule The Classic FM Hall of Fame The annual Classic FM Hall of Fame is the largest poll of the world's favourite classical music. Every January we ask you to get in touch to tell us which are your three top pieces of music. Then, come Easter, we count down from Number 300 and reveal the new Classic FM Hall of Fame. Mozart, Rachmaninov and Vaughan Williams have been among the composers who've topped the poll in recent years. But Bruch also took the Number 1 spot for several years. And, although Beethoven always has a strong presence in the top 300, he's never taken that coveted top spot. Since 2013, soundtracks for video games like Final Fantasy, Banjo Kazooie and The Elder Scrolls have been climbing up the chart. In 2014 Final Fantasy reached Number 3, the highest ever position for a video game soundtrack. |
Canary Wharf is in what London borough? | Canary Wharf | London Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia HSBC World Headquarters and One Canada Square, from the western end of West India Quay Canary Wharf in the evening Canary Wharf is built on the site of the old West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs. From 1802 to 1980, the area was one of the busiest docks in the world, with at one point 50,000 employed. During World War II, the docks area was bombed heavily and nearly all the original warehouses were destroyed or badly damaged. After a brief recovery in the 1950s, the port industry began to decline. Containerisation, a limit of 6,000 long tons (6,096 MT) imposed by the dock gates, and a lack of flexibility made the upstream docks less viable than the Port of London dock at Tilbury, and by 1980 these docks were closed. Many traditional local industries closed, with thousands out of work and the 295 acres (1.2 km2) West India Docks lay derelict, and largely unused. The project to revitalise the 8 square miles (21 km2) of derelict London docklands began in 1981 with the establishment of the London Docklands Development Corporation by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher. Initially regeneration of the area was focused on small-scale, light industrial schemes. This inward investment was encouraged by low rents, and a remission from business rates. Canary Wharf itself takes its name from No. 10 Warehouse (30 Shed) of the South Quay Import Dock. This was built in 1952 for Fruit Lines Ltd, a subsidiary of Fred Olsen Lines for the Mediterranean and Canary Island fruit trade. At their request, the quay and warehouse were given the name Canary Wharf. The company moved to Millwall Docks, in 1970. Between 1981–89 this warehouse was converted to television studios, known as Limehouse Studios. At one time this was the largest single project within the LDDC. These were sold to Olympia and York in 1988 for £25m to expand their own development at One Canada Square to the west of the Docklands Light Railway. The origins of the idea for Canary Wharf Edit Canary Wharf, from a high-level walkway on Tower Bridge In 1984 the restaurateurs the Roux Brothers were looking for several thousand square feet of space to prepare pre-cooked meals. The late Michael von Clemm, chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) and also chairman of Roux Restaurants, was invited for lunch by the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) on the boat Res Nova moored alongside Shed 31 at Canary Wharf, to promote the idea of this food packaging factory being based on the Isle of Dogs. Von Clemm came from Boston and when he looked through the porthole at Shed 31, a simple brick-concrete infill, he commented that it reminded him of the warehouses in Boston harbour which had been converted into back offices and small business premises. Reg Ward, at the time LDDC Chief Executive, remembers him suddenly leaning back and saying: "I do not know why we do not go for a shed like 31 as a 200,000 sq ft (20,000 m2) back office." This led on to discussions at CSFB's offices, during which their American property adviser G Ware Travelstead, said: "We're asking ourselves the wrong question. Of course we can take Shed 31 and convert it into a back office, but we have spent the last five years courting at the Court of the City of London for a new site for a new configuration of building without success. The question is: 'Can we move our front office to the Isle of Dogs?'." This idea came from a basic need. The Big Bang deregulation of financial services in London had radically changed the way merchant banks operated. Instead of the small, corridor and office based buildings occupied in the traditional square mile, the demand was now for large floor-plate, open plan space which could be used as a trading floor. The Corporation of the City of London had been resisting such development, preferring instead to conserve its historical architecture and views. So banks like CSFB had spent years trying without success to locate suitable space close to the financial heart of London. At the meeting, Travelstead's idea provoke |
Which battle of 1066 is also the name of a football ground? | BBC - History - British History in depth: 1066 Print this page Claims to the throne It all began with the death of Edward the Confessor, in January 1066. The Bayeux tapestry depicts Edward on his deathbed, offering the English crown to Harold, and this event is reflected in most of the chronicles of the time. Edward's corpse was eventually borne in state to his own new cathedral church at Westminster, and the tapestry shows Harold there, being offered the crown by the magnates of England, among whom must have been Edwin and Morcar. Harold was crowned at Westminster Abbey by Archbishop Stigand of Canterbury and Archbishop Ealdred of York. It is significant that only the former is depicted (and actually named) on the Bayeux tapestry, as his appointment had never been recognised by the Pope, allowing the Norman propaganda machine to portray Harold's coronation as illegal. On the tapestry, the members of the congregation shown as witnessing the event are facing Harold, but their eyes are turned towards Halley's Comet, which is depicted in the sky as a portent of the doom to come. Harold is seen receiving news of the Comet with fear in his eyes. William decided on invasion... These bad omens for Harold were important to William of Normandy, who was set on claiming the English crown for himself - omens as important as the 'promise' of 1051 and the 'oath' of 1064. This was because, despite his pre-eminent position, he required the active co-operation of his nobles for the great venture he was planning - the venture to invade England and become the English king. William could not just demand support from his nobles, he had to convince them of his case. He needed to show his followers that his claim was a lawful one, and that he had God on his side. So when he decided on invasion, he took elaborate measures to ensure he had strong support, and even sent an envoy to the Pope asking for his blessing. William did not move immediately. He only began plans for an invasion after Tostig arrived in neighbouring Flanders, looking for support against Harold in a projected invasion of Northumbria. This was the lever that William needed: with Harold occupied in the north, William could invade in the south. Whether or not he thought God was on his side, William's preparations were very down to earth. Top Harold becomes king Westminster Abbey, the site of Harold's coronation © On top of anything else, William must have been painfully aware that his claim to England's throne was actually the least legitimate of all the putative contenders. It rested entirely on a spurious promise, made over 15 years previously, and on the fact that William's great-grandfather was Edward's maternal grandfather. Harold had an equally weak blood claim, through the brother-in-law of King Cnut, although it was he who was Edward's last nominated heir. There were others with much stronger blood claims, among them Swegn Estrithson, King of Denmark, who was the nephew of King Cnut; and Edgar the Aetheling, grandson of Edmund Ironside, from whom Cnut had wrested the kingdom in 1016. Aetheling actually means 'throneworthy' and was the title given to the most legitimate heir; but a legitimate blood claim was only part of the issue. The crown would go to the claimant who could muster most support amongst the 'great and the good' of England. In January 1066, Edgar Aetheling was a minor, and with the wolves breathing at the door, the English magnates could not afford to risk the kingdom in such inexperienced hands. So they turned to Harold, the obvious power behind the throne, who, as we have seen, had prepared his ground well. Instead, William watched, and he waited... Immediately after Edward's death, the cards were flying and everyone was gambling madly. Tostig enlisted the help of a powerful Joker in the pack, the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada, an adventurer who had fought for the Byzantines in the Varangian Guard and was now trying to recreate the Viking kingdom of Northumbria. William had the other Joker, the Pope, in his pocket, and was drawing his Aces aroun |
Statues of which political leader stand in Tavistock Square and Parliament Square? | London's New Gandhi Statue Represents Everything Gandhi Opposed - VICE London's New Gandhi Statue Represents Everything Gandhi Opposed Mahatma Gandhi, a man who dedicated his life to freeing India from the yoke of Westminster, is being put on a pedestal overlooking British Parliament. The statue of Gandhi in London's Tavistock Square, not the one being unveiled in Westminster tomorrow. Photo by Fredda Brilliant via . This article originally appeared on VICE UK. Tomorrow morning, a nine-foot bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi—the iconic nonviolent freedom fighter who led India's liberation from British rule—will be unveiled in Parliament Square. It's a pretty big deal, with India's finance minister, Arun Jaitley, joining culture secretary Sajid Javid, UK Indian-diaspora champion Priti Patel, Lord Desai of the Gandhi Memorial Trust, and Bollywood superstar Amitabh "The Big B" Bachchan getting together to make the most of the photo opportunity. However, it seems slightly perverse that Gandhi—a man who dedicated his life to freeing India from the yoke of Westminster—is being put on a pedestal overlooking Parliament. So why is Gandhi joining statesmen including Churchill, Disraeli, Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela? And why now? According to Jeremy Clarkson's mate David Cameron, the statue "will enrich the firm bond of friendship between the world's oldest democracy and its largest." However, it's more revealing that the statue was announced during Chancellor George Osborne and Foreign Secretary William Hague's high-profile trade visit to India in July of last year to brownnose India's new government and Prime Minister Modi, and to hustle for British businesses in India and Indian investment in Britain. Osborne and Hague's editorial in the Times of India on July 7 last year makes no bones about it: "We want British firms who built the infrastructure for the London Olympics to help build the 100 new cities Prime Minister Modi is planning, our world-leading transport companies to help develop your new roads, railways, and ports, and our defense and aerospace companies to help bring India more cutting-edge technology, skills, and jobs." Gandhi's great-grandson Tushar Gandhi, a social activist, peace campaigner, and author who runs the Gandhi Foundation in India, points out George Osborne announced the statue of the most celebrated advocate of nonviolent resistance in history the day after a $370 million arms deal between India and Britain had been secured. "The chancellor made the announcement about Bapu-ji's [Bapu means father and Gandhi, as the father of independent India is often called Bapu-ji] statue when he came to sell weapons to India, which I find amusing and hypocritical," he says. Tushar feels it's "false worship" to use his grandfather's image to symbolize a brave new world of corporate trade between Britain and India, particularly when Gandhi rejected British goods in favor of Indian goods and actively cultivated and championed traditional industries in rural India. "This statue represents the development of the haves, it does not care for have-nots—trade represents one of the biggest differences we have in India between the haves and have-nots," explains Tushar. Indeed, the Gandhi Statue charity reveals the majority of the $1.5 million funding for the statue came from corporate donors, including Infosys founder N. R. Narayana Murthy ($300,000), Indian industrialist R. Bajaj ($300,000), multibillionaire steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal ($150,000)—whose Arcelor Mittal Orbit tower looms large in Stratford's Olympic Park—and UK businessmen Vivek Chadha ($150,000) and Rami Ranger ($150,000). Considering that, after the unveiling, India's finance minister, Arun Jaitley, will meet with George Osborne to discuss closer UK-India ties and also meet top business leaders and investors , it's apparent that Gandhi is being cynically exploited. I repeatedly contacted the Department of Media, Culture, and Sport press office for comment on the problematic nature of the Gandhi statue, but my phone calls and emails weren't returned. "Gandh |
What is the name of London's largest underground river? | The Fleet – London’s Underground River ~ Kuriositas The Fleet – London’s Underground River 13 October 2014 If you listen carefully just above this unassuming grate you can hear the ripple and splash of flowing water. This is the sound of the River Fleet, London’s largest subterranean river. Forced underground by the city’s burgeoning populace the river still flows from its source to its mouth where it joins London’s main waterway, the Thames. Yet what lies beneath? Image Credit Flickr User sub-urban.com Below the ground there is a remarkable network of tunnels and chambers, put in to place by Victorian engineers, the final step in a process which took centuries. For over a thousand years there had been a shipping dock at the mouth of the river – its name comes from the Anglo-Saxon fleot which means a tidal inlet. Yet it was not destined to persevere as a river in its own right. Image Credit Flickr User sub-urban.com The Fleet remains tidal and these incredible pictures, taken by Flickr photographer sub-urban, show the river at its lowest level. Visitors must remain vigilant of the time as it fills to the roof in thirty minutes. Even as the time draws towards low tide the water is way above the height of a man. A short time at the upper levels and it empties out although it would be easy for the unwary traveller to be trapped and drowned on its return. Image Credit Flickr User sub-urban.com Everything is in place, thanks to the ingenuity of the Victorian engineers, to ensure that the Fleet is confined to these tunnels. Yet it was not always like that. If we travel back a few centuries we find a different story altogether – one which is not without its own pathos if such an emotion can be felt for a river. Image Credit Flickr User xynt4x Then, the waters of the Fleet were renowned for being clear and sparkling. As the medieval city began to grow, mills, tanneries and meat markets sprang up along its banks. Water was vital to keep these industries functioning and growing and gradually the river was polluted with blood, sewage and other waste – it effectively became a waste tip, a handy repository to discard anything unwanted including the carcasses of dead livestock. Image Credit Wikimedia As a result, over the years the river became shallower and the water much slower than in previous generations, only exacerbating the burgeoning problem of the health hazard it now presented. It would silt up in the summer and although the spas and wells upstream remained open and functioning the Fleet in the city of London became an open sewer with a mix of slums and prisons on its banks. Something had to be done. Image Credit Wikimedia The Great Fire of London in 1666 provided that opportunity. The architect Sir Christopher Wren was afforded the chance of transforming the lower Fleet. By 1680 this part of the river had been turned in to the New Canal. It was hailed as the Venice of England but its days were numbered from the very beginning. It was poorly used as a canal and, despite its new clothes, it still stank to high heaven. The satirical cartoon, right, shows the new canal and the undesirables it attracted. Within a generation it was no longer fit for purpose as a canal. The river was channelled underground in the 1730s from Holborn to Fleet Street, which still bears its name. Decades later it was filled in and arched over from Fleet Street down to the river Thames and is covered by what is now New Bridge Street. Image Credit Wikimedia The mouth of the river on the Thames was still used by ships in 1750, as the painting above by Samuel Scott testifies, but that was all. Towards its source it fared no better as the Industrial Revolution spread and the population of London increased. Urban growth and the creation of what came to be known as suburbia meant that it was further submerged in the early years of the nineteenth century. Image Credit Flickr User IanVisits Yet the final blow was to come in the 1860s. It was at this point that the sunken river was incorporated in to the new network of sewers – an asto |
Which area of London is believed to derive its name from a former hunting cry? | How did Soho in London get its name? | Notes and Queries | guardian.co.uk SEMANTIC ENIGMAS How did Soho in London get its name? THE ORIGIN is not well defined, but it is believed to have derived from a hunting cry. Before the Great Fire of London in 1666, Soho was almost entirely made up of fields (hence the name Soho Fields) with a few farm buildings. In 1650, there were only about sixty cottages in Soho, these were in the vicinity of Wardour Street, then named Coleman Hedge Lane. Hunting is rumoured to have been enjoyed in the area, hence the cry and the name. (Dr.) Peter J. Gibbs, University College London ([email protected]) |
Which sea has no coast? | What is the Sargasso Sea? Home Ocean Facts What is the Sargasso Sea? What is the Sargasso Sea? The Sargasso Sea, located entirely within the Atlantic Ocean, is the only sea without a land boundary. Mats of free-floating sargassum, a common seaweed found in the Sargasso Sea, provide shelter and habitat to many animals. Image credit: University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. The Sargasso Sea is a vast patch of ocean named for a genus of free-floating seaweed called Sargassum . While there are many different types of algae found floating in the ocean all around world, the Sargasso Sea is unique in that it harbors species of sargassum that are 'holopelagi' - this means that the algae not only freely floats around the ocean, but it reproduces vegetatively on the high seas. Other seaweeds reproduce and begin life on the floor of the ocean. Sargassum provides a home to an amazing variety of marine species. Turtles use sargassum mats as nurseries where hatchlings have food and shelter. Sargassum also provides essential habitat for shrimp, crab, fish, and other marine species that have adapted specifically to this floating algae. The Sargasso Sea is a spawning site for threatened and endangered eels, as well as white marlin, porbeagle shark, and dolphinfish. Humpback whales annually migrate through the Sargasso Sea. Commercial fish, such as tuna, and birds also migrate through the Sargasso Sea and depend on it for food. While all other seas in the world are defined at least in part by land boundaries, the Sargasso Sea is defined only by ocean currents. It lies within the Northern Atlantic Subtropical Gyre . The Gulf Stream establishes the Sargasso Sea's western boundary, while the Sea is further defined to the north by the North Atlantic Current, to the east by the Canary Current, and to the south by the North Atlantic Equatorial Current. Since this area is defined by boundary currents, its borders are dynamic, correlating roughly with the Azores High Pressure Center for any particular season. Search Our Facts |
Which Royal dynasty followed the Normans? | The Norman Dynasties The Norman Dynasties Formation of the Duchy of Normandy [Normandie] in France (c.911). In the eight and early ninth centuries, over population in the Scandinavian regions of what are today modern Norway and Denmark caused the inhabitants to seek other lands. These 'Northmen' or 'Vikings' launched different kinds of expeditions. The first of these were war-like reconnaissance raids along the sea routes of the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Whenever successful over the local defenders, these Northmen attempted to establish more permanent communities at some of the more desirable regions. The Northmen's most remarkable and enduring efforts were in northwestern France, which became the French province of 'Normandie'. In the early ninth century, the Northmen's attempted settlements at Bordeaux and in the Charente regions failed. They concentrated their raids in the Seine valley, sacking Paris in 845 and 861, but being dramatically repulsed in 885. Failing to advance further into northern France, the Northmen consolidated their settlement around the ancient town of Bayeux, which had been a Roman town and an important episcopal city, that developed from an earlier Gaulish capital of the Bajocasses. Prior to the arrival of the Northmen, the region had been raided by Bretons and Saxons. One of the last Carolingian kings of the Franks, Charles III 'the Simple' (893-922) designed to create a 'marche' in northwest border of his kingdom to defend against further waves of raids by the Northmen and Saxons. In 911, those Northmen already occupying much of the extreme northwest of France suffered a severe defeat by Richard 'le Justicier' duc de Bourgogne [Burgundy] near Chartes. Taking advantage of this set back, Charles III negotiated the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte with the leader of the Northmen settlement, Rollo [Rollon; or Rolf 'the Walker' or 'the Ganger']. Rollo accepted Christanity and paid homage to Charles for the duchy of Normandy. Duke Rollo (911-927) married Popa, the daughter of Count B�ranger, governor of Bayeux. Rollo made the center of his duchy at Rouen. In 905, Rollo and Popa had a son, who became the next duke (927-942) as William 'Longsword'. William's son, Richard I 'the Fearless' followed as duke (942-996); and his son, Richard II 'the Good', was duke from 996 to 1027). By the end of the reign of duke Richard II, the population had stopped speaking Norse and spoke French 'in the vernacular' of the inhabitants of northwestern France. Richard III, son of Richard II, was duke (1027-1028). Robert 'the Devil', another son of Richard II, was duke from 1028 to 1035. Duke Robert had a natural son, William, by a girl called Arlette. William, despite the status of his birth, was chosen by his relatives to succeed his father [who died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land] as duke. William quickly demonstrated military prowess and established his clear claim as duke of Normandy [duc de Normandie] (1035-1087). In his claim, duke William was assisted by the French king, Henri I. William went on to win control of the counties of Maine and Brittany, during which he had to contend against the count of Anjou. William married Matilda, daughter of the count of Flanders. French Norman Conquest of the English Kingdom (1066). William would go on to be most famous as William 'the Conqueror' [Guillaume 'le Conqu�rant'] and founder of the Norman dynasty of English kings. There had developed close associations between the Normans in France and the rulers of Anglo-Saxon England. William was a cousin to Edward 'the Confessor', king of England who was childless. Edward spent considerable time in Normandy as a guest of duke William, who had been led to believe that he migh be heir to the English throne. When another Anglo-Saxon cousin, Harold of Wessex was shipwrecked on the Norman shore, William was credited as saving Harold and claimed to have extracted from Harold William's claim to succeed Edward's English crown. Upon Edward's death in 1066, Harold claimed the English crown. William of Normandy led an invasion and |
Hans Riegel of Bonn, Germany, formed which confectionary company in 1920? | Hans Riegel Hans Riegel Bachelor of Arts / Science, University of Bonn Hans Riegel on Forbes Lists #490 Billionaires (2013) #546 in 2012 Candy maker Hans Riegel is the Gummi Bear billionaire -- and business has been growing, despite economic malaise in Europe. Riegel's estimated fortune has climbed an impressive $600 million in the past year as a result of increased sales. He is credited with inventing more than 200 sweets, including Gummi Bears, Vademecum sugar-free gum and Maoam fruit chewies, and has said he gets his inspiration from reading comic books and watching movies for children. The candies are produced by Riegel's ultra tight-lipped, family-owned Haribo candy company, which does not even disclose its revenues -- estimated at $2.9 billion (2.2 billion Euros) in 2011. He and his brother Paul rebuilt the company after World War II and ran it together until Paul's death in 2009, avoiding use of any debt. Hans, who is single and has no children, owns 50% of the company, still runs it and is in charge of marketing. The remaining 50% is owned by Paul's heirs. Paul's son Hans Guido Riegel heads production and technical questions. Two other sons of Paul, Hans Juergen Riegel and Hans Arndt Riegel, also sit on the supervisory board. More » More On Forbes Billionaires In Memoriam, 2014 Rosalia Mera began producing a line of clothing at home; she eventually built international retailer Zara. Ray Dolby pioneered noise cancelling audio filtration technology that would become so ubiquitous it would eventually be referred to simply as “Dolby sound.” In 1920, Hans Riegel built a candy company that would develop over 200 products, read » China Electronics Maker's IPO Creates Billionaire Fortunes The wealth of Chinese couple Liu Shaobo and Huang Xiaofen rose to more than $1 billion earlier this week following an increase in the share price of Shanghai-listed Shenzhen Kinwong Electric. Liu is chairman of Kinwong, a maker of printed circuit boards; Huang, his wife, is a director with a 37% stake. The read » China Real Estate Billionaire's Video Takes Shot At Trump A new video by one of China’s most successful real estate billionaires has taken a shot at incoming U.S. president Donald Trump, though it doesn’t name Trump explicitly. (Click here for the Chinese-language video.) The annual year-end video by Soho China’s chairman Pan Shiyi is cheerful for the first few read » Billionaire Carlos Slim Best Suited To Face Donald Trump, New Poll Shows A new poll from Mexican newspaper El Universal found that a vast majority of Mexicans believe discrimination and deportations of immigrants will increase under Donald Trump, but only a minority say the new president can force Mexico to pay for the proposed border wall. read » |
In the Harry Potter books, what type of mythical creature is 'Fawkes'? | Fawkes | Harry Potter Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia —Fawkes saving Harry from Salazar Slytherin's basilisk [src] Fawkes attacks the Basilisk down in the chamber In 1993 , Fawkes saved Harry Potter 's life from Salazar Slytherin's basilisk , blinding the serpent and dropping the Sorting Hat into Harry's lap, which in turn revealed Godric Gryffindor's Sword . Harry then used the sword to slay Slytherin's basilisk. Fawkes shed healing tears upon Harry's wounds, inflicted by the Basilisk before its death, and cured him of its venom. Fawkes then dropped Tom Riddle's Diary into Harry's lap, giving Harry the chance to destroy it with one of the basilisk's fangs . Fawkes the phoenix carrying Harry , Ron , Ginny , and Lockhart out of the Chamber of Secrets A phoenix can lift a great weight with its tail in flight; when Harry grasped Fawkes' tail in the Chamber of Secrets , he felt as if he were becoming weightless — which is saying something, as Ron , Ginny , and Gilderoy Lockhart were in turn hanging on to him. Later, in his office, Dumbledore revealed where Fawkes had come from — when the memory of Tom Riddle declared that he would go on to become the greatest sorcerer in the world, Harry responded that "Albus Dumbledore is the greatest wizard in the world!", and went on to ridicule Voldemort's supposed fear of Dumbledore during the First Wizarding War . This act of supreme loyalty was apparently enough to summon Fawkes to the Chamber. Post-Tournament Comfort After Harry witnessed Voldemort's resurrection and Cedric Diggory 's death, Fawkes was present when Harry told Dumbledore and Sirius Black what had taken place. During this conversation, Dumbledore revealed that Fawkes was the phoenix who had donated his tail feathers to Harry and Voldemort's wands, while Fawkes used his tears to heal the wound in Harry's leg that was caused by an acromantula in the third task of the tournament . Order of the Phoenix In late 1995 , Fawkes served as a means of communication between members of the Order and Dumbledore, after learning Arthur Weasley had been attacked by Voldemort's snake, Nagini , while Arthur was guarding The Prophecy . In mid- 1996 , Fawkes departed from Hogwarts with Dumbledore when Cornelius Fudge , along with Dolores Umbridge , and John Dawlish tried to arrest the latter for supposedly planning to overthrow the Ministry , through Dumbledore's Army . Battle of the Department of Mysteries During Dumbledore's duel against Lord Voldemort in the ministry atrium in 1995 , Fawkes swallowed a Killing Curse intended for Dumbledore, thus giving Dumbledore time to defend himself against Voldemort's second oncoming attack. He burst into flame upon swallowing the curse and was later reborn from the ashes. He later returned to Dumbledore's office after Harry Potter was sent there, following his departure from the Ministry of Magic . Departure Fawkes flies away from Hogwarts "Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before; a stricken lament of terrible beauty... They all fell silent. Fawkes's lament was still echoing over the dark grounds outside." —The Phoenix Lament [src] After Dumbledore died during the Battle of the Astronomy Tower in 1997 , Fawkes sang his Lament to the assembled mourners, affecting all with its beauty. Fawkes subsequently left Hogwarts. Physical appearance Fawkes has crimson feathers on his body and a golden tail as long as a peacock's. His claws and beak are gleaming gold and his eyes are black. The scarlet body feathers glow faintly in darkness, while the golden tail feathers are hot to the touch, though it is unknown if they are actually capable of burning someone as neither Harry — when Fawkes carried him from the Chamber of Secrets in 1993 — nor Dumbledore — when he escaped the Ministry officials with Fawkes's help in 1996 — were burned by his tail feathers, however it is possible that Fawkes can control the temperature of his tail feathers and chose not to burn them. Personality and traits Fawkes served as Albus Dumbledore 's messenger and his constant compani |
The songs 'Tell Me It's Not True' and 'Marilyn Monroe' come from which stage musical? | Music and Lyrics Music and Lyrics Blood Brothers CD Soundtrack Blood Brothers the musical has been and continues to be extremely successful, as it has played continuously to London audiences since 1988 and has become the longest-running show ever at the Phoenix Theatre , its current home. The show has seen a host of celebrities take to the stage in leading roles, and the soundtrack which was released in 1995 by the current cast at the time, has become popular amongst fans of the musical. The music was in fact composed by playwright Willy Russell, who also wrote the story of Blood Brothers, as well as other plays including Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine. The cast recording included Stephanie Lawrence as Mrs. Johnstone and Paul Crosby and Mark Hutchinson as brothers Mickey and Eddie. Songs in the musical include ‘Marilyn Monroe’ which is sung by Mrs. Johnstone and sees two reprisals later on in the show. Others include ‘Kids’ Game’, ‘Bright New Day’, ‘Shoes Upon the Table’, ‘Long Sunday Afternoon/My Friend’ and the emotional closing song, ‘Tell Me It’s Not True’, again sung by Mrs. Johnstone. Full track listing of the songs in the musical is as follows: 1. Overture |
What name is given to a folded pizza? | How To make pizza pockets ( Calzones ) an intro to folded Italian pizza, stuffed pizza - YouTube How To make pizza pockets ( Calzones ) an intro to folded Italian pizza, stuffed pizza Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jan 20, 2012 An intro to folded pizza. Some call them hot pockets, some call them pizza pockets, some call them Calzones. No matter what you call them, they are delicious ! Let's see a little intro into Italian folded pizza. Calzone is nothing more than a regular pizza that is folded over, and then baked. Some pizza places will deep fry them instead of baking them. These are awesome, but really add on those calories, but oh so so good All videos are filmed in HD / High Definition Category |
Which poet was buried standing upright in Westminster Abbey? | Ben Jonson - Westminster Abbey History Ben Jonson Ben Jonson, dramatist and poet, is the only person buried in an upright position in Westminster Abbey. He was born on 11 June 1572 but little is known about his parents. The family was of Scottish descent and his father became a clergymen. He was educated at Westminster School at the expense of one of the masters there, William Camden, and later possibly attended St John's College, Cambridge. He went into trade as a bricklayer for a short time (his stepfather's occupation). In Flanders he fought with the English troops there and on returning to London he married, but no children survived him. He became an actor and playwright. In 1598 he killed a fellow actor in a duel but escaped hanging and was imprisoned as a felon for a short time. This incident does not seem to have affected his reputation. His play Every Man in his Humour included Shakespeare in its cast. Jonson was a well-known writer of masques and a tutor to Sir Walter Raleigh's son. He became Poet Laureate in 1619 (although it was not a formal appointment). Burial Jonson always seemed to be poor, in spite of gifts from royalty, and he died in great poverty in August 1637 in a house near the Abbey. One story says that he begged "eighteen inches of square ground in Westminster Abbey" from King Charles I. Another story says that one day, being railed by the Dean of Westminster about being buried in Poets' Corner, the poet is said to have replied "I am too poor for that and no one will lay out funeral charges upon me. No, sir, six feet long by two feet wide is too much for me: two feet by two feet will do for all I want". "You shall have it" said the Dean. So Jonson was buried standing on his feet in the northern aisle of the Nave and not in Poets' Corner. At this period the design on the Nave floor included several lines of stones measuring eighteen inches square (the rest being in a lozenge pattern), to which Jonson was obviously referring in his conversation with the Dean. The simple inscription "O Rare Ben Johnson", was said to have been cut at the expense of Jack Young who was walking by when the grave was covered and gave the mason eighteen pence to inscribe it. The inscription has also been ascribed to Sir William D'Avenant, Jonson's successor as Poet Laureate, on whose own gravestone in the Abbey the words "O Rare..." also appear. Jonson's original stone was moved in the l9th century to the base of the wall opposite the grave to preserve it when the whole nave floor was re-laid and many larger gravestones taken away. His grave site is today marked with a small grey lozenge stone, just to the east of the brass to John Hunter. The inscription is the same as on the original stone although Ben himself always used the form Jonson. In 1849, the place was disturbed by a burial nearby and the clerk of works saw the two leg bones of Jonson fixed upright in the sand and the skull came rolling down from a position above the leg bones into the newly made grave. There was still some red hair attached to it. It was seen again when Hunter's grave was dug. Monument A monument to Jonson was erected in about 1723 by the Earl of Oxford and is in the eastern aisle of Poets' Corner. It includes a portrait medallion and the same inscription as on the gravestone (again shown as Johnson). At the base are three masks, linked by a ribbon through the eyes. This was designed and signed by James Gibbs and attributed to the sculptor J.M. Rysbrack. It seems Jonson was to have had a monument erected by subscription soon after his death but the English Civil War intervened. A photograph of the stone and monument can be purchased from Westminster Abbey Library. Further reading: Peter Cunningham: Handbook of London, 1850 (reprint 1978 p.536) Arthur P.Stanley: Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey. Addenda to 1 stedition 1868 and Supplement to the 1st and 2 ndeditions p.117. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004 "Ben Jonson of Westminster" by Marchette Chute,1954 Related Links |
Pierre Basile fired the crossbow that caused the death of which English king? | ExecutedToday.com » 1199: Pierre Basile, marksman 1199: Pierre Basile, marksman April 6th, 2010 Jonathan Shipley (Thanks to Jonathan Shipley of A Writer’s Desk for the guest post. -ed.) If you kill a king, expect swift retribution . Expect avengers . Expect to not live long after you deal the final fatal blow to a royal personage. A boy, Pierre Basile , was executed on this date in 1199 for shooting King Richard the Lionhearted* with an arrow expelled from his crossbow. The wound wasn’t fatal to Richard I; the gangrene was . (French page) Although the king pardoned the boy for the shot before dying, Richard’s right hand man, French Provencal warrior Mercadier , would hear none of it. After the king’s death, Mercadier stormed Chateau de Chalus-Chabrol , defended weakly by Basile, then flayed him alive before hanging him. Little is known of the boy defender. Also known as Bertran de Gurdun and John Sabroz (the various names suggest we’ll never know his real name), Basile was one of only two knights defending the castle against the king’s siege. This castle protected the southern approach to Limoges and was betwixt routes from Paris and Spain and the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The English army openly mocked its defenses as the siege continued. The ramparts were cobbled together with makeshift armor. A shield was constructed out of a frying pan. Knowing the castle would fall sooner than later, the English were lax in their siege, though eager for the riches inside. (Supposedly within the castle walls was a treasure trove of Roman gold.) Richard I, as feudal overlord, claimed it for himself and no boy knights were going to get in his way. The king had been in the area suppressing a revolt by Viscount Aimar V of Limoges . The viscount’s forces had been decimated by the king’s army. The riches for the win lay in the castle and Basile stood atop it. It was early evening, March 25, 1199, when Richard walked around the castle perimeter without his chainmail on. Arrows had been shot from the ramparts by Basile but were paid little attention. The king applauded when one arrow was aimed at him. The next arrow fired struck the king in the left shoulder near the neck. Richard the Lionhearted, mortally wounded . The king returned to the privacy of his tent to pull it out. He couldn’t. The surgeon Hoveden, Mercadier’s personal physician, was summoned. He removed the arrow, but not swiftly, or cleanly. Gangrene quickly set in. The king asked for the crossbowman. The boy, Basile, appeared before the stricken king, expecting to be executed on the spot. The boy spoke first, saying he had tried to kill Richard because the king had killed the boy’s father and two brothers. “Live on,” the king replied, “and by my bounty behold the light of day.” He ordered the boy set free and, further, sent him away with 100 shillings. Deliriously jubilant at the king’s decision, the boy quickly returned to the castle. On April 6, in the arms of his mother , Richard I died. His remains were buried at the foot of the tower from which Basile shot the arrow. And with the king died his chivalry towards Basile. Mercadier, who had entered the king’s service in 1184 and fought in battles in Berry and Brittany, Flanders and Normandy, brought the castle’s defenders to a swift and punishing death. Hanging the defenders, he took the boy and flayed him first — that is, he removed the boy’s skin while he was still alive. Then Pierre Basile was hung, and his body consigned in an unmarked grave. * Last seen in these parts slaughtering Muslims on Crusade . On this day.. |
Which Beatles song was commissioned by the BBC to represent the United Kingdom in the first global satellite television link? | The Beatles - All You Need Is Love - YouTube The Beatles - All You Need Is Love Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Jan 28, 2011 Category |
Who played lead guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps, on The White Album? | The Beatles — While My Guitar Gently Weeps — Listen, watch, download and discover music for free at Last.fm the beatles "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" written by George Harrison for The Beatles on their double album The Beatles (also known as The White Album). George Harrison originally performed the song with a solo acoustic guitar and an organ; a demo version, longer than the officially released version, can be heard on the Anthology 3 album and in reworked form on the Love album. Eric Clapton, who was a good friend of George's, played lead guitar on the album version of… read more Similar Tracks |
What was the name of the US stadium where the Beatles played their last ever live concert? | 29 August 1966: The Beatles' final concert in Candlestick Park, San Francisco | The Beatles Bible Ringo Starr Anthology The Park's capacity was 42,500, but only 25,000 tickets were sold, leaving large sections of unsold seats. Fans paid between $4.50 and $6.50 for tickets, and The Beatles' fee was around $90,000. The show's promoter was local company Tempo Productions. The Beatles took 65% of the gross, the city of San Francisco took 15% of paid admissions and were given 50 free tickets. This arrangement, coupled with low ticket sales and other unexpected expenses resulted in a financial loss for Tempo Productions. Candlestick Park was the home of the baseball team the San Francisco Giants. The stage was located just behind second base on the field, and was five feet high and surrounded by a six-foot high wire fence. The compère was 'Emperor' Gene Nelson of KYA 1260 AM, and the support acts were, in order of appearance, The Remains, Bobby Hebb, The Cyrkle and The Ronettes. The show began at 8pm. I was the MC, and, as any Giants fans will know, Candlestick Park in August, at night, was cold, foggy and windy. The funniest thing this night was one of the warm-up acts, Bobby Hebb. He stood up on the stage at Candlestick Park, with the fog, and the wind blowing, and he was singing 'Sunny'! It was tough anyway to work a ballpark as an MC, especially as The Beatles were taking their time to get out. I was trying to entertain a crowd that was shouting, 'Beatles, Beatles, Beatles.' The dressing room was chaos. There were loads of people there. The press tried to get passes for their kids and the singer Joan Baez was in there. Any local celebrity, who was in town, was in the dressing room. They were having a party in there. They were having a perfectly wonderful time, while I was freezing my buns off on second base! 'Emperor' Gene Nelson The Beatles Off The Record, Keith Badman The Beatles took to the stage at 9.27pm, and performed 11 songs: Rock And Roll Music , She's A Woman , If I Needed Someone , Day Tripper , Baby's In Black , I Feel Fine , Yesterday , I Wanna Be Your Man , Nowhere Man , Paperback Writer and Long Tall Sally . The group knew it was to be their final concert. Recognising its significance, John Lennon and Paul McCartney took a camera onto the stage, with which they took pictures of the crowd, the rest of the group, and themselves at arm's length. Before one of the last numbers, we actually set up this camera, I think it had a fisheye, a wide-angle lens. We set it up on the amplifier and Ringo came off the drums, and we stood with our backs to the audience and posed for a photograph, because we knew that was the last show. George Harrison The Beatles Off The Record, Keith Badman As The Beatles made their way to Candlestick Park, Paul McCartney asked their press officer Tony Barrow to make a recording of the concert on audio cassette, using a hand-held recorder. The cassette lasted 30 minutes on each side, and, as Barrow didn't flip it during the show, the recording cut off during final song Long Tall Sally . There was a sort of end of term spirit thing going on, and there was also this kind of feeling amongst all of us around The Beatles, that this might just be the last concert that they will ever do. I remember Paul, casually, at the very last minute, saying, 'Have you got your cassette recorder with you?' and I said, 'Yes, of course.' Paul then said, 'Tape it will you? Tape the show,' which I did, literally just holding the microphone up in the middle of the field. As a personal souvenir of the occasion, it was a very nice thing to have and the only difference was that it wasn't a spectacular occasion. It was nothing like Shea Stadium, there was nothing special about it at all, except that The Beatles did put in extra ad-libs and link material which they hadn't put in before on any other occasion. Tony Barrow The Beatles Off The Record, Keith Badman Barrow gave the original tape of the Candlestick Park concert to McCartney. He also made a single copy, which was kept in a locked drawer in Barrow's office desk. |
Which Album cover features 5 Beatles? | Favorite Beatles album cover | Page 5 | Fab Forum Favorite Beatles album cover | Page 5 | Fab Forum Favorite Beatles album cover | Page 5 | Fab Forum Please consider registering My favorite Album Covers are Abbey Road , Sgt Peppers and With the Beatles 14 December 2011 Sitting singing songs for everyone by the mountain stream Candlestick Park Offline 82 Just quickly looking through this again and I realized no one is really a fan of Magical Mystery Tour or Beatles For Sale . Does no one like George's turnip hair? Well we all shine on like the moon, the stars, and the sun. 14 December 2011 83 I love George's turnip hair! also the orangey background. "Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that." "What happens to them?" insisted Milo. "Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I’ve heard that they walk among the stars." –The Phantom Tollbooth What's turnip hair? Sounds funny... My favorite covers are Revolver and Abbey Road . Such great covers!! Love Klaus Voormann's work. Anyone ever checked out his website? He has some great Hamburg era drawings. "You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?" John Lennon- Skywriting by Word of Mouth 14 December 2011 85 Paul described in the Anthology George's hair in Beatles For Sale cover as "George's turnip" I think. Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie…… Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower… Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go. Beware of Darkness… Offline 86 Ohhhhh I can't decide! Well, if your saying album only then a hard days night, or help. I carved my pumpkin at Halloween this year like the cover of help! But I you taking about albums OR singles, the hands down the Twist And Shout ep. Idk why, but I just love the pictures of them jumping! ***? "A Hard Day's Night" opening chord ?*** 14 December 2011 Offline 87 BFS is my second favourite album cover. Its such a contrast to smiley happy cheery media presented beatles and shows that they were willing to be honest in how they were presenting themselves, even if it wasnt particularly noticed back in 1964. They could easily have done fake smiles and a real cheesy cover. The cover and album title brilliantly sums up how they felt at that time. And they still look great. I was actually given a BFS poster that is absolutely massive, about 3 times the size of a standard poster, years ago from my brother. Its in a cupboard somewhere. "I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris) "Don't make your love suffer insecurities; Trade the baggage of 'self' to set another one free" ('Paper Skin' - Kendall Payne) 17 December 2011 98 fabfouremily said I think mine might be With The Beatles . Not the obvious choice, I know, and not one of their 'iconic' covers either but I dunno, I like the simplicity of it, the sombre-ness, the fact that George looks so young still.... Actually, I think that's one of the most iconic album covers. It's also my favorite. parlance Beware of sadness. It can hit you. It can hurt you. Make you sore and what is more, that is not what you are here for. - George Check out my fan video for Paul's song "Appreciate" at Vimeo or YouTube . 2 March 2013 100 fabfouremily said Do you think so? When I speak to a lot of people (fans and not), they always mention Sgt. Pepper 's (obviously), Abbey Road and the White Album , too. I think sometimes it's trendier to focus on the later albums. But of the early ones, I think WTB is the most recognizable/parodied (thinking of Seinfeld, for instance). parlance Beware of sadness. It can hit you. It can hurt you. Make you sore and what is more, that is not what you are here for. - George Check out my fan video for Paul's song "Appreciate" at Vimeo or YouTube . |
For whom did Paul McCartney write Hey Jude? | Hey Jude, wrote by Paul McCartney for Julian Lennon | OldiesMusicBlog The story of Jude Posted by diana Nov - 12 - 2010 0 Comment “ Hey Jude ” is a song Paul McCartney wrote to comfort John Lennon’s son, Julian, during his parents’ divorce. “Hey Jude” was released in August 1968 as the first single from The Beatles’ record label Apple Records. More than seven minutes in length, “Hey Jude” was, at the time, the longest single ever to top the British charts. It also spent nine weeks as number one in the United States—the longest run at the top of the American charts for a Beatles single. The single has sold approximately eight million copies and is frequently included on professional lists of the all-time best songs. In 1968, John Lennon and his wife Cynthia Lennon separated due to John’s affair with Yoko Ono. Soon afterwards, Paul McCartney drove out to visit Cynthia and Julian, her son with Lennon. “We’d been very good friends for millions of years and I thought it was a bit much for them suddenly to be personae non gratae and out of my life,” McCartney said. Cynthia Lennon recalled, “I was truly surprised when, one afternoon, Paul arrived on his own. I was touched by his obvious concern for our welfare…. On the journey down he composed ‘Hey Jude’ in the car. I will never forget Paul’s gesture of care and concern in coming to see us.” The song’s original title was “Hey Jules”, and it was intended to comfort Julian Lennon from the stress of his parents’ divorce. McCartney said, “I started with the idea ‘Hey Jules’, which was Julian, don’t make it bad, take a sad song and make it better. Hey, try and deal with this terrible thing. I knew it was not going to be easy for him. I always feel sorry for kids in divorces … I had the idea by the time I got there. I changed it to ‘Jude’ because I thought that sounded a bit better.” Julian Lennon discovered the song had been written for him almost twenty years later. He remembered being closer to McCartney than to his father: “Paul and I used to hang about quite a bit—more than Dad and I did. We had a great friendship going and there seems to be far more pictures of me and Paul playing together at that age than there are pictures of me and my dad.” Although McCartney originally wrote the song for Julian Lennon, John Lennon thought it had actually been written for him: “But I always heard it as a song to me. If you think about it… Yoko’s just come into the picture. He’s saying. ‘Hey, Jude—Hey, John.’ I know I’m sounding like one of those fans who reads things into it, but you can hear it as a song to me … Subconsciously, he was saying, Go ahead, leave me. On a conscious level, he didn’t want me to go ahead.” Source: wikipedia.org |
What are the two States that are rectangular? | The Mathematical Tourist: Rectangular States and Kinky Borders August 30, 2007 Rectangular States and Kinky Borders On many maps of the United States, the states of Colorado and Wyoming appear to be rectangles. Indeed, the enabling legislation creating the two states specifies their extent strictly in terms of lines of latitude and longitude, rather than rivers, mountain divides, or other geographical features. Wyoming stretches from 41°N to 45°N latitude and from 104° 3'W to 111° 3'W longitude. Colorado 's borders lie between 37°N and 41°N latitude and between 102° 3'W and 109° 3'W longitude. Originally, the lines of longitude were measured west from Washington, D.C. However, on the surface of a sphere, although lines of latitude are parallel, lines of longitude converge as you go north or south away from the equator. So, the northern border of each state is a little shorter than its southern border. The difference for Colorado is about 21 miles. Hence, to a first approximation, both states appear to be trapezoids rather than rectangles, though on a curved surface. A trapezoid has one set of parallel sides. But there's an additional wrinkle that complicates the picture. When the states were created, surveyors mapped their boundaries using transit and compass, chronometer, and astronomical readings. They also relied on data from previous surveys and interviews with residents of the affected areas. Following the appropriate lines of latitude and longitude as best as they could, the surveyors established the borders, marking them from milepost to milepost over distances stretching hundreds of miles. The boundary between Utah and Colorado runs 276 miles from Four Corners (the only place in the United States where four states share a point) to the Wyoming border, for example. On its northward trek, the original survey ended up about 1 mile west of where the surveyors had expected to intersect the Wyoming line, indicating that the surveyed border had at least one kink in it. Indeed, subsequent surveys revealed a discrepancy between mileposts 81 and 89 (northward from Four Corners) and another between mileposts 100 and 110. The errors put kinks into what should have been a straight line. There were similar surveying errors along other borders, including those that define Wyoming. Interestingly, once a border is defined on the ground and accepted by the interested parties, it becomes official, even if it doesn't follow the written description. So, perhaps it's best to describe Colorado and Wyoming as polygons. And Utah can then join the group of states that are polygons. The trickier question is determining exactly how many sides these polygons have. Colorado's legal border, for example, "is a polygon formed by a series of line segments that run between physical monuments that were put in place by . . . survey parties," Stan Wagon and John J. Watkins comment in the September College Mathematics Journal. "This polygon has hundreds of sides." It's time to take a closer look at the borders and start counting. The main kink in the Utah-Colorado border is visible with a few clicks on a Google map , as is an abrupt jog in the border between Colorado and New Mexico. References: 2007. Which states are polygons? College Mathematics Journal 38(September):259. |
What is the longest river in the USA ? | Longest Rivers in USA Longest Rivers in USA Map of Americas Longest Rivers in USA USA Map locating some of the longest rivers of USA. Missouri, Mississippi, Yukon, Rio Grande, St. Lawrence, Arkansas, Colorado, Atchafalaya, Ohio, Red, Brazos, Columbia and Snake are the longest rivers in USA. Disclaimer Close Disclaimer : All efforts have been made to make this image accurate. However Compare Infobase Limited,its directors and employees do not own any responsibility for the correctness or authenticity of the same. Longest Rivers in the US America is a land of geographical diversities. The water discharge of Rocky mountains and the Great Lakes flows through the Great Plains of America. The Missouri River, the longest river in North America, rises from the Rocky Mountains of western Montana. The river flows southeast for 2,540 miles before joining the Mississippi River north of St. Louis in Missouri state. Lauded in many literary works, the river Mississippi is the chief river of the largest drainage system in the North American continent. Its headwaters lie in northern Minnesota and the river flows southwards for 2,340 miles to reach the Gulf of Mexico. Native Americans have lived along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and its tributaries for centuries. The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. The lower half of this river lies in Alaska. The Rio Grande in Texas is one of the major rivers in the southwestern US. The Saint Lawrence River is the primary drainage outflow of the Great Lakes Basin. The Arkansas River, Colorado River, Ohio River, Red River, and Columbia River are among the longest rivers in the US. |
What State was purchased from Russia in 1867 for 7.2 million dollars? | Milestones: 1866–1898 - Office of the Historian Milestones: 1866–1898 Purchase of Alaska, 1867 The purchase of Alaska in 1867 marked the end of Russian efforts to expand trade and settlements to the Pacific coast of North America, and became an important step in the United States rise as a great power in the Asia-Pacific region. Beginning in 1725, when Russian Czar Peter the Great dispatched Vitus Bering to explore the Alaskan coast, Russia had a keen interest in this region, which was rich in natural resources and lightly inhabited. As the United States expanded westward in the early 1800s, Americans soon found themselves in competition with Russian explorers and traders. St. Petersburg, however, lacked the financial resources to support major settlements or a military presence along the Pacific coast of North America and permanent Russian settlers in Alaska never numbered more than four hundred. Defeat in the Crimean War further reduced Russian interest in this region. Signing of the Alaska Treaty, 1867 Russia offered to sell Alaska to the United States in 1859, believing the United States would off-set the designs of Russia’s greatest rival in the Pacific, Great Britain. The looming U.S. Civil War delayed the sale, but after the war, Secretary of State William Seward quickly took up a renewed Russian offer and on March 30, 1867, agreed to a proposal from Russian Minister in Washington, Edouard de Stoeckl, to purchase Alaska for $7.2 million. The Senate approved the treaty of purchase on April 9; President Andrew Johnson signed the treaty on May 28, and Alaska was formally transferred to the United States on October 18, 1867. This purchase ended Russia’s presence in North America and ensured U.S. access to the Pacific northern rim. For three decades after its purchase the United States paid little attention to Alaska, which was governed under military, naval, or Treasury rule or, at times, no visible rule at all. Seeking a way to impose U.S. mining laws, the United States constituted a civil government in 1884. Skeptics had dubbed the purchase of Alaska “Seward’s Folly,” but the former Secretary of State was vindicated when a major gold deposit was discovered in the Yukon in 1896, and Alaska became the gateway to the Klondike gold fields. The strategic importance of Alaska was finally recognized in World War II. Alaska became a state on January 3, 1959. |
Which Oscar nominated film of 2014 chronicles Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march? | Read User Reviews and Submit your own for Selma - Metacritic 6 Ungapungiuk Jan 15, 2015 This movie is extremely slow moving. The acting is spot on but the story itself requires patience from the viewer while it moves along. If you decide to watch this movie, be prepared for the long haul but it may be worth it. Not my cup of teaThis movie is extremely slow moving. The acting is spot on but the story itself requires patience from the viewer while it moves along. If you decide to watch this movie, be prepared for the long haul but it may be worth it. Not my cup of tea but still well done.… Expand 4 of 5 users found this helpful41 6 longjetty7 Jan 28, 2015 I completely understand why the critics raved about this movie, although I feel like the civil rights movement is one of those subjects that will elicit great reviews no matter what. I'll admit that the movie was executed rather well, withI completely understand why the critics raved about this movie, although I feel like the civil rights movement is one of those subjects that will elicit great reviews no matter what. I'll admit that the movie was executed rather well, with strong acting and well-written dialogue, but overall this just wasn't a movie I cared about. MLK's character was disappointingly underdeveloped, and the pacing was pretty slow, especially the last half hour (and I'm typically not a fan of history lessons to begin with). Also, I couldn't help but feel like this movie was a bit pointless. Race relations are certainly contentious these days, but EVERYONE at least realizes that voting equality is a no-brainer. If this movie is trying to make a political statement (which is probably the case considering the song during the credits), it's not going to change any opinions. However, if it's merely supposed to be a historical lesson, then it serves its purpose, although it is certainly not the first of its kind.… Expand 4 of 7 users found this helpful43 9 TVJerry Jan 15, 2015 The 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery was a turning point in the fight for equal voting rights. This film examines the event from historical and personal perspectives. David Oyelowo remarkably inhabits the role of Martin Luther King, Jr.,The 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery was a turning point in the fight for equal voting rights. This film examines the event from historical and personal perspectives. David Oyelowo remarkably inhabits the role of Martin Luther King, Jr., as he leads the campaign, while facing his own doubts and demons. The performances are universally compelling and director Ava DuVernay has masterfully crafted an authoritative work of cinema. Bradford Young's beautiful, intimate cinematography adds to the film's artistic appeal. Almost every encounter and speech could have been shorter, which would have helped build more dramatic tension, but this remains an important, ambitious historical drama.… Expand 5 of 9 users found this helpful54 9 bmaster4616 Jan 11, 2015 To me it paints a portrait of what real cinema should focus on. Not this over analyzed ideas of "black vs. whites" or scenes after scenes of brutality. Also of over abundance emotion that sucks the life out of the scene. Emotion is good andTo me it paints a portrait of what real cinema should focus on. Not this over analyzed ideas of "black vs. whites" or scenes after scenes of brutality. Also of over abundance emotion that sucks the life out of the scene. Emotion is good and this movie does its share of its. Though it sticks to action and a certain code. Telling the story as well and as straight forward as possible. No fluff, no boundaries, and nothing that would distract from the story itself. It shows us that there are movies out there that can produce great cinema. Overall the story is great and the performances were the best part. 9.3… Expand 3 of 6 users found this helpful33 8 HaithamB Jan 25, 2015 Following Hollywood’s infamous habit of releasing terrible movies in January (Previous years include: “The Legend of Hercules” (2014), “Texas Chainsaw 3D” (2013), “The Devil Inside” (2012), “One Missed Call |
Who was the last British King to rule over the US colonies? | The Colonies Under British Rule The Colonies Under British Rule Historian Pauline Maier: "The British colonists saw the year 1763 as a great watershed in American history. In the past, a great semi-circle of "Catholic enemies" had hemmed them in from French Canada and Louisiana on their north and west to Spanish Florida in the south. But in 1763, the Peace of Paris gave all the lands between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River to Britain's young King George III. That change, the colonists assumed, would bring peace and security beyond anything they or their parents or their parents' parents had known. And now nothing would keep them from spilling beyond the Appalachian Mountains. In the wave of patriotism that swept the colonies after the French and Indian War, no one doubted that the America of the future would be British. At the time, in fact, the various colonies had no ties with each other except through London and their shared British identity. The Americans were particularly proud of being governed under the "British constitution," that is, Britain's form of government, which divided power among the King, Lords, and Commons, and which they, like many enlightened Europeans, considered the best mankind had ever devised for the protection of liberty. (Though they were appalled at the corruption and bribery involved in British politics.) Affection reinforced the imperial bond. One set of colonists after another testified that their hearts were "warmly attached to the King of Great Britain and the royal family." The mystery is why, only thirteen years later, they declared their Independence. That mystery is not ours alone. It was the colonists' too. As events unfolded, they wondered at the unexpected course their history was taking, and sought explanations." The Boston Tea Party In 1773, however, trouble began again after Parliament tried to help the East India Company sell tea in the colonies at a price lower than that of smuggled tea. (Because it was sold directly to customers, the tea, even with the still-existing tax, was cheaper than before.) Colonists saw this "poisoned cheap tea" as an attempt by Parliament to lure them into accepting Parliament's right to tax them -- to raise a revenue, as the colonists said. They also objected to Parliament's actions in wiping out a whole class of American merchants. Parliament refused, however, to remove the old duty on tea, which, from the colonists' perspective, "poisoned" the East India Company's cheap tea. Again they resisted, but in as peaceful a manner as they could. Colonists in New York and Philadelphia, for example, convinced the captains of tea ships to turn around and take their cargoes back to England without paying the tea tax. In Boston, however, the tea ships entered the harbor before the opposition organized. Townsmen spent the next twenty days trying without success to get clearances so the ships could go back to sea. Governor Thomas Hutchinson, however, insisted that the tea would not be sent back -- that the law would be enforced. Then, on the night before the tea could be seized by the customs service, a group of men disguised as Indians boarded the ships and emptied 342 chests of tea into the water. The proceedings were amazingly quiet except for the "ploop, ploop, ploop" of tea dropping into the sea. A young lawyer from the town of Braintree named John Adams, an obscure cousin of the better- known Boston leader, Samuel Adams, and by no means a lover of mobs, found the event "magnificent." The "Boston Tea Party," as it was later called, was "so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid, and inflexible," and would have such important and lasting consequences, he said, that "I cannot but consider it as an epoch in history." The British government proved him right. For the first time also the King became involved, viewing the actions of the Bostonians as rebellious. With George III's hearty approval, Parliament punished Boston with a series of "Coercive Acts" that the colonists promptly ren |
What drink was invented by pharmacist Caleb Bradham in North Carolina in 1893, and marketed under the heading Delicious and Healthful? | ‘Pop’ Culture: Patent Medicines Become Soda Drinks - CSI Skeptic Authors Steven Salzberg and Joe Nickell to Receive Balles Prize in Critical Thinking June 14, 2013 Forbes columnist Steven Salzberg and author-investigator Joe Nickell will each be awarded the 2012 Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, to be presented by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry at the CFI Summit in October. ‘Pop’ Culture: Patent Medicines Become Soda Drinks Skeptical Inquirer Volume 35.1, January/February 2011 Mineral water, including naturally carbonated water, has long been promoted as a curative for various ailments. The soda fountains of yesteryear-a particularly American phenomenon-were in drug stores for a reason. Introduced in pharmacies at the end of the eighteenth century and increasing in the 1830s, they were an effective means of dispensing medications: adding a small amount of flavoring along with some seltzer (effervescent water) made medicine more palatable (New Orleans, n.d.; Mariani 1994, 291). As part of my studies of snake oil and other cure-alls (Nickell 1998, 2005, 2006)-which ranged over several years and included collecting antique bottles and ephemera and visiting such sites as the Coca-Cola museum-I was struck by the fact that several famous soft drinks had originated as patent medicines, which in turn had their origin in herbal and other folk remedies (see figure 1). Pharmacists claimed the added ingredients “made medicines taste so good, people wanted them, whether they needed them or not, and that's how soft drinks evolved” (New Orleans, n.d.). Figure 1 Advent of Soda ‘Pop' Mineral water, including naturally carbonated water (figure 2), has long been promoted as a curative for various ailments. As early as the beginning of the sixteenth century, scientists tried to duplicate nature's carbonation process. It fell to Dr. Joseph Priestley (discoverer of oxygen) to advance the first practical process in 1772, thus helping to launch the soda-water industry. In time, flavored soda waters caught on. Figure 2 Some early soda bottles, such as those for English ginger ale, had rounded bottoms, so they could not be stood upright. This prevented their corks from drying out and shrinking, which kept the gas pressure from causing them to “pop.”1 Later “pop” bottles had patented stoppers (again, see figure 2), including the familiar one from 1891 still used today, called the crown cork (a crimped metal cap with a cork liner) (Munsey 1970, 101–10). Root Beer and Sarsaparilla Two plant roots particularly, sarsaparilla and sassafras (figure 1), were early recognized for their potent flavor and presumed medicinal properties. In 1830, in his treatise on medical botany, Constantine Rafinesque described the American sassafras tree (an aromatic member of the laurel family) and its qualities, noting that “Indians use a strong decoction to purge and clear the body in the spring.” Sassafras has long been used as a tea and “home-remedy spring tonic and blood purifier” (Rafinesque 1830). (I dug the root as a boy in Kentucky, seemingly coming by my interest naturally: my great, great grandparents, Harry and Martha Murphy, were Appalachian herbalists and folk doctors.) Sassafras was an original, major ingredient in many recipes for root beer, which was brewed in the eighteenth century as a mildly alcoholic beverage. Reportedly, in 1870 an unknown pharmacist created a formula that he billed as a cure-all and offered to the public. However, it was not actually marketed until Philadelphia pharmacist Charles Hires produced a liquid concentrate in small bottles (see figure 3), introducing it at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876. By 1893 the Hires family was selling bottled versions of their carbonated drink, thus securing a place in soft drink history (“History” 2010; “Root beer” 2010). One slogan was “Join Health and Cheer/Drink Hires Rootbeer [sic]” (Munsey 1970, 274). Figure 3 Ironically, in time, root beer's healthfulness was seriously questioned after safrol (a substance in s |
The Path Of The Righteous Man quote from the film Pulp Fiction comes from which Book of the Bible? | Pulp Fiction - Wikiquote Pulp Fiction Jump to: navigation , search Pulp Fiction is a 1994 film about the lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits that intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino . You won't know the facts until you've seen the fiction. Taglines Contents Jules Winnfield[ edit ] I been saying that shit for years. And if you heard it, that meant your ass. I never gave much thought to what it meant. I just thought it was some cold-blooded shit to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this morning made me think twice. See, now I'm thinking, maybe it means you're the evil man, and I'm the righteous man, and Mr. 9 Millimeter here? He's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could mean you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. Now I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is…you're the weak, and I am the tyranny of evil men. But I'm trying, Ringo. I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd. Marsellus Wallace[ edit ] [to Butch] The night of the fight, you may feel a slight sting. That's pride fucking with you. Fuck pride. Pride only hurts. It never helps. You fight through that shit. [to Butch] This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic motherfuckers. Motherfuckers who think their ass will age like wine. If you mean it turns to vinegar...it does. If you mean it gets better with age...it don't. Captain Koons[ edit ] [To young Butch] Hello, little man. Boy, I sure heard a bunch about you. See, I was a good friend of your dad's. We were in that Hanoi pit of hell together over five years. Hopefully, you'll never have to experience this yourself, but when two men are in a situation like me and your dad were for as long as we were, you take on certain responsibilities of the other. If it'd been me who'd - not made it, Major Coolidge'd be talking right now to my son Jim. But the way it turned out, I'm talking to you. Butch. I got somethin' for ya. This watch I got here was first purchased by your great-grandfather during the first World War. It was bought in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. Made by the first company to ever make wrist watches. Up 'til then, people just carried pocket watches. It was bought by Private Doughboy Erine Coolidge on the day he set sail for Paris. This was your great-grandfather's war watch and he wore it everyday he was in that war, and when he'd done his duty, he went home to your great-grandmother, took the watch off, put it in an old coffee can, and in that can it stayed until your granddad, Dane Coolidge, was called upon by his country to go overseas and fight the Germans once again. This time they called it World War II. Your great-grandfather gave this watch to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Dane's luck wasn't as good as his old man's. Dane was a Marine and he was killed -- along with all the other Marines at the battle of Wake Island. Your granddad was facing death. He knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leavin' that island alive, so three days before the Japanese took the island, your granddad asked a gunner on an Air Force transport, name of Winocki - a man he had never met before in his life - to deliver to his infant son who he'd never seen in the flesh, his gold watch. Three days later, your granddad was dead, but Winocki kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother, delivering to your infant father his dad's gold watch. This watch. [He holds the watch up] This watch was on your daddy's wrist when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured, put in a Vietnamese prison camp. He knew that if the gooks ever saw the watch, it'd be confiscated and taken away. The way your Dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any slope's gonna put their greasy, yellow hands on his boy's birthright, so he hid it in one place he knew he could hide something - his ass |
Which 2004 movie mapped the journey across South America by a young Che Guevara? | Watch The Motorcycle Diaries Online | 2004 Movie | Yidio Watch The Motorcycle Diaries "Before he changed the world the world changed him." An international co-production, The Motorcycle Diaries details an eight month journey taken by the young revolutionary Che Guevara and his friend, Alberto Grenado across South America. During the movie attempts are made to provide details of how and why Guevara became a Marxist revolutionary after initially setting out on a fun road trip designed to end with a stint as a volunteer at a leper colony in the Peruvian jungle. The Motorcycle Diaries is based on the memoir written by Guevara about his trip and uses Grenado's own memoir as source material. The Motorcycle Diaries begins in 1952 with the traveler's, Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Grenado leaving their family homes in Buenos Aires, Argentina and setting out on a journey to Peru. At the outset of the journey the two men are looking solely for a good time, their aspirations go so far as to meet women and party in different South American countries. Problems with Grenado's Norton 500 motorcycle force the pair to seek refuge in poverty stricken regions of South America before the motorcycle finally gives out and the pair are forced to hitch rides. After the motorcycle breaks down the tone of the movie changes with the images of poverty and social inequality between the peasant's and rich people of South America. By the time the pair finally arrive in the leper colony in Peru Guevara has become a political radical beginning to believe in the Communist manifesto. The colony serves as a metaphor for South America with the staff of the colony and patients separated at the end of the working day by a river that divides the island. After celebrating his birthday Guevara swims across the river and sleeps in a leper building to show his solidarity with the patients. The Motorcycle Diaries was warmly received by critics and won many awards at international film festivals. Brazilian director Walter Sallas and star Gael Garcia Bernal were singled out for particular praise. |
Which film contains the line I'm going to cut your heart out with a spoon! | Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon - TV Tropes Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon × — The Sheriff of Nottingham, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves This trope is when a threat — usually a death threat — is Played for Laughs by being a bit, well, odd. This can include a threat that's unnecessarily long and convoluted, and the one making it gets a bit lost; or a threat that simply incorporates some really bizarre elements ; or a pathetically nonthreatening sort of threat ("Do X, or I'll... give you some really evil looks when your back is turned !"). Sometimes, Fridge Horror makes the more bizarre elements even more terrifying and Squickier . It's one thing to threaten someone with a sharp knife or even a gun; those cut pretty quickly and can be almost painless (at first; ever heard of the term "clean cut"?). However, going after someone with a spoon dictates hours of potential digging into a person very crudely to get the same effect . Rusty and/or dull cutlery seems to be a particular favorite, though. This trope is usually seen in comedy, for obvious reasons. See also Cool and Unusual Punishment or Cruel and Unusual Death , for when these bizarre threats are actually effective. To the Pain is usually invoked if played seriously, " I'll Kill You! " when it's not so convoluted. " I Will Tear Your Arms Off !" is a specific Sub-Trope . Freudian Threat for when the threat focuses specifically on a character's naughty bits. Compare Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement . Examples open/close all folders Anime and Manga Fullmetal Alchemist : Ed says some random things whenever someone hits his Berserk Button . "I'll break down your feet and stick them on your head!" "I'll turn you all into fish!" In the western (like, cowboy) shōjo manga Miriam , a crooked sheriff has the protagonists locked up on false charges. When they start complaining, he says he'll add to the charges if they don't shut up... then says he'll add things like stealing a hotel ashtray, cheating in cards, and hitting on girls in stores. Haruhi Suzumiya managed to combine two of her chief preoccupations in this threat: Haruhi: "Anyone accepting defeat will be punished by running 10 laps around the school! Naked! And you'll have to yell ' Green martians are chasing me' for the whole 10 laps!" Haruhi: "First, you are to leap up a wall with a dry salted fish in your mouth and fight for territory with other wild cats! And you have to wear cat ears while doing it!" Nearly all of the threats she makes qualify somewhat, due to being so serious and over-the-top . Inuyasha in English Dub: Inu-Yasha (to Sesshoumaru): I'm gonna rip your guts out and put them in a bowl! Hellsing had a few; most from Jan Valentine. "I'm gonna fuck that bitch, shoot her in the head, and fuck her there!! Fruits Basket : Yuki tells Kakeru he'll never speak to him again, and it's only just out of his mouth when he realizes how embarrassingly childish that sounds. Forunately, Kakeru is embarrassingly childish. Kakeru later threatens to make Yuki "walk through a red light district". In the Australian version, rather than threatening Kakeru with silence, Yuji threatens to 'break up with him.' Hilarity Ensues Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu : when Tessa was spending some R&R in Jindai disguised as a US transfer student, Mardukas gave an ultimatum to Sousuke: if anything happens to her or he tries to take advantage of the situation by doing something dirty, he'll be loaded in the TDD-1's torpedo tube and launched. The Hungarian dub also mentions something about being thrown into the submarine's reactor until he glowed. The English dub of Chrono Crusade uses this in the first episode, literally with a spoon after The Elder looks up her skirt. She even attempts to do it, stabbing the spoon into the ground. Rosette (to The Elder): I'll kill you with this spoon! In one of the latest chapter of Sket Dance , Agata was threatened by Saaya's "kidnapper" that if he doesn't come within the time limit for |
Which country singer's story was filmed as The Coalminers Daughter in 1980? | Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Biographical story of Loretta Lynn , a legendary country singer that came from poverty to worldwide fame. She rose from humble beginnings in Kentucky to superstardom and changing the sound and style of country music forever. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 32 titles created 28 Apr 2011 a list of 27 titles created 28 Jan 2012 a list of 24 titles created 16 Mar 2013 a list of 29 titles created 20 Jan 2015 a list of 28 titles created 09 Jan 2016 Title: Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) 7.5/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 1 Oscar. Another 8 wins & 13 nominations. See more awards » Photos Jessica Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame. Director: Karel Reisz A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved. Director: Martin Ritt In the Deep South in the 1930s, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends. Director: Robert Benton It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to... See full summary » Director: Jack Fisk A woman is determined to reveal the truth about an insidious political corruption. In doing so she risks her safety, career and reputation but will not stop asking questions until the truth is known. Director: Roger Donaldson Edit Storyline At only thirteen years of age, Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a sizeable family. Loretta appears destined to a life of homemaking, but Doolittle recognises his wife's musical talent, and buys her a guitar as an anniversary present one year. At eighteen, the mother of four children and busy housewife still finds time to write and sing songs at small fairs and local honky-tonks. This gift sets Loretta Lynn on the gruelling, tumultuous path to superstardom and country music greatness. Written by Shannon Patrick Sullivan <[email protected]> See All (54) » Taglines: She was married at 13. She had four kids by the time she was 20. She's been hungry and poor. She's been loved and cheated on. She became a singer because it was the only thing she could do. She became a star because it was the only way she could do it. Genres: 7 March 1980 (USA) See more » Also Known As: La hija del minero See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Joe Don Baker , who bears a strong resemblance to the real Doolittle Lynn, was the producers' first choice to play him, but he was unable to accept the offer. See more » Goofs The modern "Ludwig" logo on her drummer's bass drum did not appear until many years later. Levon Helm , who played Loretta's father, might have noticed this, since he was the drummer for The Band, a successful rock group of the '60's and 70's, but he was not on set during the filming of Loretta's successful country music singing career See more » Quotes Excellent Performances Touch Every High Note. 13 August 2004 | by tfrizzell (United States) – See all my reviews The true-life story of Loretta Lynn (dominant Oscar-winner Sissy Spacek) from her youth where she married at the tender age of 13 all the way to country music stardom. Along for the ride is her husband (Tommy Lee Jones' first legitimate role), an amazingly complex individual who has anger management and jealousy issues. Beverly D'Angelo (in arguably her finest career performance) is also a solid scene-stealer playing doomed singer Patsy Cline. Spacek and D'Angelo actually did all the singing themselves and that just elevates an al |
What was the name of the Yorkshire pub featured in the 1981 movie An American Werewolf in London? | Film locations for An American Werewolf in London (1981) Surrey: Drink at: The Black Swan , Old Lane, Martyr's Green (tel: 01932 862364) (rail: Effingham Junction from London Waterloo or London Blackfriars) Trivia The dull and belated sequel, An American Werewolf in Paris, was filmed largely in Luxembourg. An American Werewolf in London location: David Kessler goes through changes in the flat of nurse Alex Price: 64 Coleherne Road, Earl's Court, London SW10 Unsurprisingly, the locations for John Landis ’ horror-comedy can be found mainly around London , with a brief detour into Wales , standing in for ‘Yorkshire’. An American Werewolf in London location: arriving in the village: Crickadarn, near Builth Wells, Wales Photograph: Kevin Thomas A pub full of character actors rhubarbing away on the 'Yorkshire Moors' can only mean bad news for two American backpackers. The moors were filmed around the Black Mountains in Wales , and 'East Proctor' is in reality the tiny village of Crickadarn, about six miles southeast of Builth Wells off the A479. The ‘Angel of Death’ statue was a prop added for the film, but the red phone box is real enough – though Welsh the road signs were covered by a fake tree. An American Werewolf in London location: the exterior of the ‘Slaughtered Lamb’: Crickadarn, near Builth Wells, Wales Photograph: Kevin Thomas If you want to join the locals here for a pint at 'The Slaughtered Lamb', you’ll have quite a journey. Although the exterior was an empty (now restored – so please do not disturb the residents) cottage dressed up for the movie. An American Werewolf in London location: the phonebox and village church at ‘East Proctor’: Crickadarn, near Builth Wells, Wales Photograph: Kevin Thomas The interior of ‘The Slaughtered Lamb’ is in Surrey . It’s The Black Swan , Old Lane at the junction with Ockham Lane, Martyr’s Green, about a mile northwest of Effingham Junction between Guildford and Leatherhead. The photogenic pub, also featured in TV’s Inspector Morse, but has been given a radical makeover since the Eighties. An American Werewolf in London location: ‘The Slaughtered Lamb’ interior – no pentagram: The Black Swan, Martyr's Green, Surrey It’s now a smart restaurant-pub and you’ll need to use a little imagination to recognise it as the old-world inn where Lila Kaye tended bar, a young Rik Mayall played chess and Brian Glover held court. The wall which bore the pentagram was a false addition for the film (it’s actually the doorway to what is now the main dining room) and the bench seats are gone, but the layout remains the same. Oh, and there’s no longer a dartboard. An American Werewolf in London location: ‘The Slaughtered Lamb’ interior – no dartboard: The Black Swan, Martyr's Green, Surrey The hospital in which David Kessler ( David Naughton ) recovers from a nasty wolf bite was the Princess Beatrice Maternity Hospital on Finborough Road at Lillie Road in Earl’s Court, London SW5. The building is still there, and is now a hostel for the homeless. A block east, around the corner at 64 Coleherne Road, SW10, you can see the flat of nurse Alex Price ( Jenny Agutter ), where David does some shape-shifting to Bad Moon Rising (tube: Earl’s Court). Unusually, the tube station, where the city gent gets chomped, was filmed, during the wee small hours, at Tottenham Court Road Station (London Transport’s all-purpose location, the closed Aldwych Station in the Strand, is almost invariably used for filming). An American Werewolf in London location: mayhem in central London: Piccadilly Circus The undead victims pop up in a studio recreation of the old Eros News Cinema (now a branch of GAP clothes store, more recently featured in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 ) on the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue in Piccadilly Circus. You can see the cinema in its heyday in 1949 when the kids go to see the Siege of Burgundy in classic Ealing comedy Passport To Pimlico . And once again John Landis demonstrates his talent for staging major set-pieces in impossible locations by setting the climactic mayhem smack in the m |
In 1919, Chaplin formed United Artists with 3 other Hollywood greats. Name one. | Charlie Chaplin Blog Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin was a British-born actor, considered to be one of the pivotal stars of Hollywood `s early days. He was often associated with his popular Little Tramp character, with a toothbrush mustache, bowler hat, cane, and funny walk. An early career start Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London, England, on April 16, 1889. His parents were stage actors and singers. His father was Charlie Chaplin Sr. and his mother was Hannah Harriette Hill, stage name: Lily Harley. His father died when Charlie was 10 years old, and his mother suffered from bouts of severe mental illness. As a result, Charlie and his half-brother, Sydney, moved in and out of charity homes and workhouses. The brothers inherited talent from their parents and took to the stage. Charlie made his professional debut at the age of eight as a member of The Eight Lancashire Lads, and became an outstanding tap dancer. When Charlie was 18, he began to tour with Fred Karno`s vaudeville troupe, and traveled with it to the United States in 1910. In 1913, he joined the Keystone Film Company; his weekly salary was $150. Given his virtually overnight success, Charlie initiated negotiations for his services from other producers. At the end of his contract with Keystone, he signed with the Essanay Company in 1915, with a large salary increase. Sydney moved over from England and took Charlie�s old place at Keystone. A career flourishes In 1916, Chaplin signed with Mutual Film Corporation for an even larger salary, to make 12 two-reel comedies. Some of them were The Vagabond, One A.M., in which he was virtually the only character for the entire two reels; and Easy Street, considered to be his greatest production up to that time. Chaplin entered an agreement with First National Studios in 1917, to build Chaplin Studios. His first film under the new deal was A Dog�s Life. He then turned his attention to a national tour on behalf of the World War I effort, followed by a film, The Bond, which he made for the U.S. government to popularize the Liberty Loan drive. In 1919, Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks , Mary Pickford , and D.W. Griffith formed United Artists (UA). Chaplin was obligated to complete his contract with First National before he could take on responsibilities with United Artists. He came out with The Kid (1921), a six-reel masterpiece that introduced Jackie Coogan, one of the world`s greatest child actors. Under his agreement with United Artists, Chaplin created eight full-feature films from 1923 to 1966. Woman of Paris was the first (1923). Chaplin only had a cameo role, but wrote, directed, and produced that film. In 1940, he played a dual role and talked for the first time on screen in The Great Dictator, a parody of Adolf Hitler . In 1947, a new Charlie emerged without his mustache, baggy pants and wobbly cane in Monsieur Verdoux. In 1966, he produced A Countess from Hong Kong, his last picture, starring Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando . Under scrutiny Chaplin resided in the United States from 1914 to 1952, but retained his British nationality. Like other Hollywood personalities, he became a suspected communist, and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover initiated what became an extensive file on the actor. When Chaplin left on a trip to England, Hoover negotiated with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to revoke his re-entry permit. Chaplin and his family then took up residency in Vevey, Switzerland. He briefly returned to the States in 1972, to receive an honorary Oscar for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century." Queen Elizabeth II bestowed a knighthood upon Chaplin on March 4, 1975. The veteran actor/producer displayed other talents, including musical scores he composed for many of his films. He also wrote two books, My Autobiography in 1964, and My Life in Pictures in 1974. A tumultuous private life Chaplin was married four times and had 11 children. His first marriage was to Mildred Harris in 1918. She was 12 years younger than he. The union produced one son who d |
How many roles did Alec Guinness play in Kind Hearts And Coronets? | Alec Guinness - Biography - IMDb Alec Guinness Biography Showing all 119 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (2) | Spouse (1) | Trade Mark (4) | Trivia (68) | Personal Quotes (36) | Salary (4) Overview (4) 5' 10" (1.78 m) Mini Bio (2) Alec Guinness de Cuffe was born on April 2, 1914 in Marylebone, London, England, and was raised by his mother, Agnes Cuffe. While working in advertising, he studied at the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art, debuting on stage in 1934 and played classic theater with the Old Vic from 1936. In 1941, he entered the Royal Navy as a seaman and was commissioned the next year. Beyond an extra part in Evensong (1934), his film career began after World War II with his portrayal of Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946). A string of films, mostly comedies, showed off his ability to look different in every role, eight of them, including a woman, in one movie alone, Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). His best known recent work was as the Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and its sequels. He earned a Best Actor Oscar and Golden Globe Award in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and an Honorary Academy Award (1980) for "advancing the art of screen acting through a host of memorable and distinguished performances". Academy nominations have included The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) (actor); The Horse's Mouth (1958) (screenplay); Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) (supporting) and Little Dorrit (1987) (supporting). He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1959 Queen's Honours List for his services to drama. Sir Alec Guinness died at age 86 of liver cancer on August 5, 2000. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Pedro Borges Spouse (1) ( 20 June 1938 - 5 August 2000) (his death) (1 child) Trade Mark (4) Known for playing multiple complex characters and changing his appearance to suit. Often played noble and fiercely proud leaders and authority figures Often worked with David Lean and Ronald Neame Deep smooth voice Trivia (68) Reportedly hated working on Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) so much, Guinness claims that Obi-Wan's death was his idea as a means to limit his involvement in the film. Guinness also claims to throw away all Star Wars related fan mail without even opening it. Father of actor Matthew Guinness and grandfather of Sally Guinness . He was one of the last surviving members of a great generation of British actors, which included Sir Laurence Olivier , Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson . "de Cuffe" is his mother's surname; he never knew the identity of his father (source: obituary, Daily Telegraph, 7 August 2000). He was awarded the Companion of Honour in the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1955 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama. He was awarded Knight Bachelor in the 1959 Queen's New Year Honours List for his services to drama. He was a huge fan of the television series Due South (1994). Despite popular belief, he never uttered the line "May the force be with you" in any of the Star Wars films (the closest he came was "the force will be with you"). He was voted third in the Orange Film 2001 survey of greatest British film actors. The qualities he claimed to most admire in an actor were "simplicity, purity, clarity of line". He made his final stage appearance at the Comedy Theatre in London on May 30, 1989, in a production called "A Walk in the Woods", where he played a Russian diplomat. His widow, Merula Salaman, died on October 17, 2000, just two months after her husband. In his last book of memoirs, "A Positively Final Appearance", he expressed a devotion to the television series The Simpsons (1989). His films were studied by Ewan McGregor in preparation for his role as the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) to ensure accuracy in everything from his accent to the pacing of his words. Received an honorary D.Litt degree from Oxfo |
The Life of Brian was produced by Handmade Films. Who owned Handmade Films? | BFI Screenonline: Film Studios and Industry Bodies > HandMade Films (d. John Mackenzie, 1979) and Mona Lisa (d. Neil Jordan, 1986) breathed new life into the much-maligned gangster genre. And while not all of the 23 films that HandMade produced during its 1978-90 heyday were up to that exalted level, the quality threshold was often enviably high. HandMade was born in highly unusual circumstances. EMI had originally backed Life of Brian , but the company's chairman Lord Delfont got cold feet about the subject matter and pulled out just days before shooting was due to start. This left the Monty Python team faced with the prospect of writing off what was already a considerable investment. Eric Idle had recently struck up a friendship with the former Beatle George Harrison , a fan of Idle's affectionate parody The Rutles (1978), and as Harrison was by far the richest person that any of the Pythons knew, Idle asked him to bail out the film. Harrison read the script, loved it, and agreed to help, forming HandMade Films with his business manager Denis O'Brien in order to produce it. It was a shrewd investment, as the film was an enormous success. HandMade was originally intended to produce that one film, but Harrison and O'Brien soon became involved in another salvage operation. In this case, The Long Good Friday had already been completed, but its production company Black Lion Films (owned by Lew Grade , Lord Delfont's brother) was nervous about its prospects, due to the level of violence and a key subplot involving the IRA. Severe cuts were proposed, along with the redubbing of lead actor Bob Hoskins, whose strong Cockney accent was felt to be a liability. HandMade agreed to buy the rights for £700,000, and released the film in its originally intended form. A solid critical hit, if not the commercial triumph of Life of Brian , it made Hoskins (previously best known for the BBC's Pennies from Heaven , 1978) a bona fide star. Harrison and O'Brien next agreed to back Time Bandits (1981), Terry Gilliam's second solo feature. The first film HandMade had funded from the start, this elaborate fantasy achieved impressively lavish production values on a relatively small investment of £4 million. More importantly, it was a surprise hit in the US, grossing over $40 million, and ensuring HandMade's future as a going concern. The Python connection was maintained with The Missionary (d. Richard Loncraine, 1981), written by and starring Michael Palin as a naively well-meaning cleric administering to "fallen women". 1982 saw a stepping-up of HandMade's production ambitions. Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (d. Terry Hughes) was a filmed record of a live show, and Privates On Parade in an adaptation of Peter Nichols' stage hit about an Army light entertainment troupe in Singapore in the late 1940s. Against this comedic backdrop, the relentlessly harsh Scrubbers (d. Mai Zetterling) seems out of place, but this study of life in a women's borstal came in the wake of the success-cum-notoriety of its male counterpart Scum (d. Alan Clarke, 1979), with which it shared a screenwriter. After this, HandMade's output slowed to one release per year. Bullshot (d. Dick Clement, 1983) was the company's first serious critical and commercial failure, an only intermittently amusing spoof of Sapper's Bulldog Drummond adventure stories of the 1920s and 30s. The underrated Water (d. Clement, 1985), revisiting colonial territory mined by the Boulting Brothers' Carleton Browne of the F.O. (1957), fared little better, but A Private Function (d. Malcolm Mowbray, 1984) was recognised from the start as a bona fide gem. Alan Bennett's first original script for the big screen was brought to life by a superlative cast, many of whom had starred in The Missionary fared far better, its quirky tale of the relationship between a high-class black prostitute ( Cathy Tyson ) and her middle-aged Cockney "chauffeur" ( Bob Hoskins ) adding unexpected warmth to what could otherwise have been a straightforward gangster film in the mould of Get Carter (d. Mike Hod |
Which film still hold the record for using the highest number of extras? | first appearance - Which movie holds the record for using the highest number of extras in a scene? - Movies & TV Stack Exchange Which movie holds the record for using the highest number of extras in a scene? up vote 8 down vote favorite 1 Often they make use of extras in a movie scene typically for depicting a crowd, a stadium filled with people, a rally, a procession etc. I want to know that in which movie the highest number of extras were used for filming a scene. The record for most extras is with 1982 classic Gandhi , which used over 300,000 extras for the funeral scene. IMDb Trivia snippet: 300,000 extras appeared in the funeral sequence. About 200,000 were volunteers and 94,560 were paid a small fee (under contract). The sequence was filmed on 31st Jan 1981, the 33rd anniversary of Mohandas K. Gandhi's funeral. 11 crews shot over 20,000 feet of film, which was pared down to 125 seconds in the final release. |
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A novel by Irvine Welsh set in Edinburgh was made into which 1996 film? | Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh - Google Books Irvine Welsh 19 Reviews https://books.google.com/books/about/Trainspotting.html?id=tDsmsXeVZyQC Brace yourself, America, for Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting—the novel and the film that became the cult sensations of Britain. Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter. Trainspotting was made into the 1996 cult film starring Ewan MacGregor and directed by Danny Boyle (A Shallow Grave). What people are saying - Write a review User ratings LibraryThing Review User Review - qkennedy - LibraryThing The crazy and deranged lifestyle of the characters in this book was absolutely shocking, however the content of their internal dialogue was thoroughly entertaining. A character would will the pages ... Read full review Classic Class and Drugs Tale User Review - marsattacks28 - Overstock.com Saw the movie before I read the book and that was a shame because this book is great. Not to mention the original printing of this book was a plus. Way to go Overstock Read full review Selected pages The Skag Boys JeanClaude Van Damme and Mother 3 Scotland Takes Drugs In Psychic Defence The Glass 95 Inter Shitty Na Na and Other Nazis The First Shag 153 Courting Disaster Junk Dilemmas No 66 Deid Dugs 177 View all » Common terms and phrases All Book Search results » About the author (2002) Irvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh on September 27, 1958. After leaving school, he lived in London for awhile, but eventually returned to Edinburgh where he worked for the city council in the housing department. He received a degree in computer science and studied for an MBA at Heriot Watt University. His first novel, Trainspotting, was published in 1993 and was adapted as a film starring Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle in 1996. He became a full-time writer in August 1995. His other works include The Acid House (1994), Marabou Stork Nightmares (1995), Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance (1996), Filth (1998), Glue (2001), and Porno (2002). He also wrote the plays Headstate (1994) and You'll Have Had Your Hole (1998). Bibliographic information |
The multi Oscar winning Chariots of Fire was based on the lives of which 2 athletes? | Super Reviewer ½ The UK re-release of Chariots of Fire to coincide with the London Olympics gives us a golden opportunity to re-examine the film which revitalised the British film industry. Long after writer Colin Welland's fateful cry of "The British are coming!" at the Oscars, the film still stands as one of the defining moments in 1980s cinema, for better or worse. Neither the disappointment of Hugh Hudson's subsequent career, nor the seemingly endless stream of parodies and imitations, has tarnished what remains a truly great piece of British filmmaking. For those of us not caught up in the patriotic fervour of the Olympics, it would be tempting to dismiss Chariots of Fire as an outdated, backward piece of filmmaking. Lindsay Anderson, who has a supporting role in the film, was very scathing about the seeming resurgence of British filmmaking following its Oscar success. The pioneer of Free Cinema and the British New Wave claimed that, in their quest for international success, British films had abandoned the unique style and adventurous spirit that they had in the past. He remarked that "the British came, but their first-class air fares were paid for in dollars." In spite of Anderson's comments, which carry more than a grain of truth, it is very difficult to come out of Chariots of Fire without having had one's spirits even slightly raised. While the tone of Hudson's film is light and respectful, not to say uplifting, it scores over many subsequent epics on the grounds that it actually has something to say. It even knocks Gandhi into a cocked hat by giving us characters to admire without holding them at arms' length. It wants us to understand the history through the pleasures and pains of the people who made it, not by remonstrating about the reputations they accrued. David Puttnam once described Chariots of Fire as being essentially about "Christianity and Judaism, getting on". He wanted to make a film about the relationship between the Abrahamic faiths, at a time when anti-Semitism was as rife in British culture as Christianity was strong. The film depicts these anti-Semitic tendencies very delicately, with a series of barbed off-hand comments about Harold Abrahams "not going to be singing in the church choir" or being "semi-deprived" because of his background. But Hudson is also careful not to labour the point, playing on the absurdity of his predicament in the restaurant scene, where Sybil accidentally orders two plates of pigs' trotters. The film shows a great amount of reverence for the respective faiths of the central characters. While it doesn't ask the kind of deep, difficult spiritual questions that something like Shadowlands does, nor does it shy away from demonstrating the problems that come from such devotion, whether it be Eric's quarrels with Jennie about missionary work or his refusal to run on the Sabbath. In an age where religious belief is dismissed as always being irrational, idiotic or rooted in hatred, it is refreshing to see a depiction of religious belief (be it Christian, Jewish or otherwise) which recognises the good intentions of the people upholding those beliefs and the positive impact which they can have on one's character and works. Alongside its examination of the practical workings of faith, Chariots of Fire also tackles the issue of sportsmanship and the reasons why people may represent their country, whether in the track and field or on the battlefield. Both Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams have multiple motivations which lead them to run for Britain. Neither of them are doing it explicitly for their country, as shown by Liddell's resistance to the Prince of Wales about running on the Sabbath or Abrahams' personal obsession with beating Liddell. While Abrahams' relationship with God is rather ambiguous, Liddell runs because that is God's purpose for him at this point in time. The affections of women also play a role, with Liddell looking to reconcile with his sister Jennie and Abrahams vying for the affections of Sybil. For a film which appears so reverential and respectful to |
Which 1985 romantic comedy starring Alexandra Pigg and Margi Clarke was set in Liverpool? | Letter to Brezhnev (1985) - Cast, Ratings, Awards Letter to Brezhnev Letter to Brezhnev (1985) Romantic Comedy | 1 hour and 32 minutes Be the first to review Smart Rating Director: Chris Bernard In this English romantic comedy, two young women in Thatcher-era Liverpool, Elaine (Alexandra Pigg) and Teresa (Margi Clarke), meet a pair of Soviet sailors, Peter (Peter Firth) and Sergei (Alfred Molina), who are on shore leave. While Teresa and Sergei seem content to have a carefree night, Elaine and Peter fall in love, leading to heartbreak when the officers have to return to duty on their ship. Can Elaine find a way to escape her gritty working-class surroundings and reunite with Peter? See All Movies Did You Like The Movie? Advertisement More Movies With Alexandra Pigg How famous is the cast of "Letter to Brezhnev"? PrettyFamous Score The PrettyFamous score quantifies the fame of the film's cast members based on the number of awards the actors and actresses have ever been nominated for, combined box office gross of all the movies the actors and actresses have been in, and the current internet popularity of the cast. Ranking Every George Clooney Movie from Worst to First PrettyFamous looked at Clooney's entire filmography (excluding TV movies and documentaries) and ranked each film from his worst to his best. 7 minute read › |
Peter Howitt is probably best known for playing the part of Joey Boswell in Bread, but what film did he write the screenplay for, and direct in 1998? | John Hannah Interviews - 1998 At his most disarming Somaliland and World Media Actor John Hannah uses celebrity to oppose the arms trade. He tells ANN DONALD of his stance THE woman next to me says: "He's not just a pretty face. He's quite a politically motivated person, you know." The character summation is directed towards a shady looking man lurking beside a drainpipe in a long coat. Looking younger than his 35 years, East Kilbride actor John Hannah could be posing for an upmarket gent's magazine fashion shoot. Grey Crombie, sleek leather boots, silver chain, and subtle pinstripe trousers that wouldn't go amiss in a Savile Row tailor. An Edinburgh alleyway provides the perfect seedy backdrop. However, preening and personal promotion are not on the agenda today. What is certainly up for grabs on the conversational menu is Oxfam. Specifically Hannah's part in publicising the charity's Cut Conflict Campaign. Its aim - "for restrictive international codes of conduct to stem the flow of small arms and weapons to areas where they are likely to kill civilians". The Government is being targeted in an attempt to persuade it to implement a strong Code of Conduct on arms sales as part of its much-vaunted ethical foreign policy. The campaign has struck a chord with the McCallum star which is why he is willing to play the awkward media game of talking and posing down alleyways. Upstairs in the tiny attic that doubles as Oxfam's Edinburgh base, the actor is sitting with his back to the overblown poster depicting a broken gun amid a frightening stockpile. The facts and figures of the campaign flow easily from Hannah. "You're an actor so it's easier for you to learn" comments the Oxfam woman. It's true, Hannah is obviously well-versed in the politicised and emotive language of change, and is more than eloquent in voicing his opinions. The phrases "non-specific politically motivated" and "the West's desire to profit from arms" roll easily into conversation. But to question the actor's motives for his involvement would be peevish at least, and downright offensive at worst. 'This is no passing interest or some kind of sop for my conscience:' he asserts. Yet, his attitude to charities remains unresolved "What made a difference for me is that this campaign is pro-active:' he declares. "I think that a lot of organisations learnt a lot of lessons in the eighties where previously they perhaps threw money and aid at an emergency situation but ultimately it didn't create a framework for people to rebuild that infrastructure." Oxfam, he feels, is different. "It is more concerned with the long-term reduction of conflict not just in Somaliland but throughout the world where there are still 30 wars going on today" His commitment to the charity began with the voice-overs for its TV ads, deploying the gravitas so moving in Four Weddings, and most recently he has just returned from a l0-day fact-finding mission to Somaliland. He is still distilling what was an "overwhelming" experience. Perched awkwardly on a chair, the actor skates over a brief history of a country which is still trying to rebuild itself after the civil war which left tens of thousands dead and poverty a fact of life. He says: "Somaliland got its independence from Britain in 1960 and joined up with Somalia, and they had nine years of secure democracy under a president who tried to decommission what was a huge stockpile of arms. This arose from the strategic importance of the country during the Cold War, with America and then Russia using it as a satellite nation. However, the president was overthrown in a coup backed by the Russians to maintain their position in relation to the Middle East" DESTRUCTION was inevitable: an abundance of arms, civil war, and clan and political tension. An uncertain peace has in the main prevailed since 1996. Going out as an observer, Hannah felt himself overwhelmed by the sheer scale of rebuilding a country. He recalls: "You can feel quite naive about the enormity of it all � trying to rebuild the houses they used to live in, to recovering the lan |
Which 80s Top 10 hit begins with the line “I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour”? | 55 Killer Opening Lines That Kicked Off Amazing Songs - NME NME 11:22 am - Mar 2, 2015 0shares 0shares The first line of a track is crucial. In a few words a songwriter needs to set up a story and a mood that will keep the listener engaged, especially in today’s attention-deficit world. From St Vincent to Prince and Jay-Z to The Kinks, here’s 55 of the most memorable opening lines in song. 1/55 “I don’t believe in an interventionist god / but I know darling that you do.” Somehow Nick Cave manages to combine the wildly romantic with the nerdy and weirdly theological at the outset of ‘Into My Arms’. Credit: Press 2/55 “It’s so relieving / To know that you’re leaving as soon as you get paid.” Kurt Cobain could be catty when he wanted to be, and on ‘Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle’ he laid out his stall and his opprobrium from the very beginning. Credit: Getty 3/55 “Oh what an ordinary day / Take out the garbage, masturbate.” It might have sounded like a throwaway description of a Groundhog situation, but this one line received more column inches than any other Annie Clark has written thus far. Thankfully St Vincent’s genius is so vast that people find plenty of other things to talk about her too. Credit: Shamil Tanna/NME 4/55 “What kind of fuckery is this? / You made me miss the Slick Rick gig.” It’s hard to imagine anyone being too fussed about a Slick Rick gig these days, but the frustration is still palpable when you hear this line, and funny too. The jazzy little number ‘Me & Mr Jones’ was apparently about Amy Winehouse’s friend, the New York rapper, Nas. Credit: Dean Chalkley/NME 5/55 “Trudging slowly over wet sand / Back to the bench / Where your clothes were stolen.” Morrissey perfectly conveys the misery, the ennui and the petty irritation one can feel trapped in a British seaside town on his great single ‘ Every Day Is Like Sunday’. Credit: Getty 6/55 “As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent, you asked for the latest party.” By 1974 the glam rock party was waning, and one of its progenitors David Bowie was immersing himself in art rock and a concept album about a dystopian future. ‘Diamond Dogs’ still rocked in a glamorous kind of way though. Credit: Getty 2014Kanyewest_Runaway_press_231214 copy “For my theme song / my leather black jeans on.” A brilliant track with a killer opening line, Kanye was at his most focused on ‘Black Skinhead’, which playfully inverted racial stereotypes and presented them in way that was as thought-provoking as it was confrontational. Credit: Press 8/55 “In France a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name.” Prince wrote with sensitivity and insight on ‘Sign o’ the Times’, moved as he was by the day’s bete noires. The big disease with the little name everyone was talking about was of course AIDS. Credit: Press 9/55 “Like a bird on the wire / like a drunk in a midnight choir / I have tried in my way to be free.” Few if any can lay claim to the incredible innate ability Leonard Cohen has with words. He effortlessly elevates mere lyrics to poetry, as the opening line of ‘Bird On The Wire’ attests. The music is pretty great too. Credit: Getty 10/55 “Please allow me to introduce myself / I’m a man of wealth and taste.” Mick Jagger distilled the very spirit of Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita in the lyrics of ‘Sympathy For The Devil’, and its first line made you sit up and take notice. The book was apparently recommended to him by his then girlfriend Marianne Faithfull. Credit: Getty 11/55 “All the leaves are brown / And the sky is grey.” It’s a lyric you hear so often that it’s easy to forget how evocative it is. The Mamas and the Papas brought us a little Autumnal sadness in amongst all that sunshine pop on ‘California Dreaming’. Credit: Getty 12/55 “Now, who’s hot who not / Tell me who rock / Who sell out in the stores.” Biggie Smalls was one of the best MCs to ever pick up a mic, and he was also one of the bluest too. The opening line from ‘Mo Money Mo Problems’ is not only great, but it’s also printable too. Credit: Getty 13/55 “And if one day I should bec |
Which comedian was the host of the short lived Channel 4 programme, TV Heaven Telly Hell? | Bill Bailey | Black Books Wikia | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit Bailey was born on January 13, 1964 , in Bath and was raised in Keynsham, a town between Bath and Bristol. The only child of a hospital ward sister and a general practitioner, he lived in a house which also doubled as his father's surgery. Bailey attended King Edward's School in Bath, in which he was considered a gifted student with a skill for learning. However, at the age of 15, he began to drift away from acedemics and towards music and performing in the school band, Behind Closed Doors. However, he remained in school and was the only student to study A-level music and passed with an A-grade. He was also a talented sportsmen, and was captain of the KES 2nd XI cricket team in 1982 . He earned his nickname Bill by his music teacher, Ian Phillips, as he was so good as playing the song, Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey. After school, he briefly attended Westfield College, however, he left a year later. In his earlier years, he performed with a band entitled The Famous Five, who Bailey admits was very bad and unusually had only four members. However, he continued to pursue a career in music and received an Associateship Diploma from the London College of Music as well as being made an honorary member of the Society of Crematorium Organists. However, he always felt an urge to add jokes and comedy into his musical performances, which influenced him to pursue a career in comedy. He had a variety of jobs before becoming a comedian, including a hotel lounge pianist, a crementorium organist and a musician for a mind-reading dog, and even claims to have been a door-to-door door salesman. Career in stand-up comedy Edit Bailey began to perform stand-up comedy, and toured the country with comedians such as Mark Lamarr. In 1986, he formed a comedy double act with fellow King Edward's School pupil Toby Longworth, who was later replaced by Martin Stubbs in 1988. They achieved a certain amount of success in the comedy circuit with their off-the-wall musical act, and followed a rigourous schedule, sometimes performing three or four gigs a night. It was here that Bailey developed his own unique style of comedy, with musical parodies and disections of various traditional jokes. When a critic complained that the act was short on jokes, Bailey returned to the stage the following night and performed a routine comprised entirely of punchlines. After Stubbs left the act, Bailey joined fellow comedian Sean Lock, and performed a show entitled Rock, about an aging rockstar and his roadie. The show did not prove popular and Bailey turned solo in 1995 and started performing his one-man show, Cosmic Jam. This time, the show impressed audiences, and was recorded at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London and was later broadcasted in 1996 on Channel 4. Only after Bailey earned international status was the show released on DVD in 2005. After winning a Time Out, he was nominated for a Perrier Award, and was beaten by Black Books co-star Dylan Moran by the narrowest margin in the award's history. Bailey went on to win the Best Live Stand-Up award at the British Comedy Awards in 1999. In 2001, Bailey toured the globe with his sell-out tour, Bewilderness, which thrusted him into the public eye and earned him a wide fanbase. In the show, Bailey parodied such theme tunes as The Magic Roundabout and Countdown, and demonstrated his unique style of disecting traditional jokes. A DVD of the show was recorded in Swansea and the show also proved popular in America. In 2003, Bailey performed his next show, Part Troll, which proved popular with critics and fans alike. He first performed it at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, before transferring it to the West End, where tickets sold out in less than 24 hours and the show had to be extended. He then toured the globe with the show, performing in such countries as America, Australia and New Zealand. The show sees the first appearance of Bailey's political humour, in which he gives his comical views on the Iraq war and George Bush. 2006 saw Bailey performing his next |
The band Heaven 17 took their name from which Stanley Kubrick film? | From Blur To Bowie, 18 Ingenious Music Moments Inspired By Stanley Kubrick Movies - NME NME 4:54 pm - Nov 27, 2014 0shares 0shares 1/19 Stanley Kubrick is the flavour of the month right now – ‘Barry Lyndon’ is set for a BFI re-release and there’s a new Kubrick-inspired exhibition at Somerset House. To celebrate, we’ve delved into history to find out what influence his movies had on music. Here’s a guide to how Kubrick’s spell has spilled out into rock, pop and hip-hop… Credit: Press 2/19 Blur’s ‘The Universal’ video Blur’s ‘The Universal’ video: An obvious one to kick us off, paying deft homage to the iconic opening scene of ‘A Clockwork Orange’, in the film’s Korova Milk Bar. Shout out to Damon for nailing the movie’s violent leading man Alex’s eye makeup and crooked smiles to the camera, while his ‘droog’ bandmates linger ominously in the background. Credit: Press 3/19 Guns N’ Roses’ ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ video: Guns N’ Roses’ ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ video: In which a straight-jacket-clad Axl Rose is strapped to a device that stretches his eyelids open, forcing him to absorb the TV images of horror in front of him? Sound familiar? It should do to anyone who’s sat through the gristly second half of ‘A Clockwork Orange’. Credit: Press 4/19 Kanye West’s ‘Runaway’ Kanye West’s ‘Runaway’: Yeezy’s sprawling ‘…Dark Twisted Fantasy’ highlight was directly inspired by the angsty eroticism of Kubrick’s last film. Kanye posted screencaps from the movie on Twitter during its recording while the austere piano motif threaded through the track is borrowed from the score: check out 1.53 in this video if you don’t believe us . Credit: Press 5/19 Heaven 17 Heaven 17: Another easy one. Early ’80s Sheffield new wavers Heaven 17 took their name from one of the fictional bands in Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and Anthony Burgess’ source novel – they’re mentioned at being number 4 in the charts with as Alex roams a record shop with a song called ‘Inside’. Credit: Getty 6/19 Pink Floyd, ‘Echoes’ and ‘2001’ synchronisation rumours Pink Floyd, ‘Echoes’ and ‘2001’ synchronisation rumours: Much like ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ is said to sync up with ‘The Wizard of Oz’, a long-standing rumour among prog fans is ‘Echoes’ was written to fit the chilling ‘Infinite’ scene in ‘2001’. The band denied it, but later confessed they deeply admired Kubrick and would have loved to soundtrack one of his cinematic masterworks. Credit: Press 7/19 Slipknot’s ‘Spit it Out’ video Slipknot’s ‘Spit it Out’ video: How better to announce your band as new kings of primal horror-rock than with a video channeling the terror of what’s pretty universally agreed upon as the most chilling horror film ever made? One of the Iowa group’s earliest video was a neat remake of ‘The Shining’ – creepy twins and all. Credit: Press 8/19 The Ramones’ ‘Too Tough To Die’ sleeve The Ramones’ ‘Too Tough To Die’ sleeve: “Johnny [Ramone] wanted a picture that would evoke memories of the gang in ‘A Clockwork Orange’,” photographer George DuBose said in 2005 of his shot for the New Yorkers’ eighth album. Thus a dark, starkly illuminated shot that recalls both the movie’s otherworldly blue-hued night sequences and the tunnel in which Alex’s gang beat a homeless man. Credit: Press 9/19 Strangelove Strangelove: Where do you reckon these Bristol ’90s rockers got their name from? Duh! Kubrick’s ‘Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’ of course. Credit: Getty 10/19 Moloko Moloko: Heaven 17 weren’t the only Sheffield band with ‘A Clockwork Orange’ to thank for their band name. Moloko is Alex and his gang’s slang word for milk in the movie and Burgess’ source novel. It’s also the Russian word for milk but neither Róisín Murphy nor Mark Brydon, the group’s central duo, look like they holiday in St Petersberg so we’ll assume ‘A Clockwork Orange’ is responsible. Credit: Getty 11/19 Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’: We’ll let Dave field this one: “In England, it was always presumed that [‘Space Oddity’] was written about the space landing, because it kind of came t |
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