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Deba, boning, sashimi and paring are all types of what? | Knife Purposes & Types Gyuto (Chefs knife) Versatile cooking knife for cutting up, filleting and preparing meat and fish. Slim blades for intricate tasks, pull or push cuts. Most standard and popular blade among Western Style knives, so called “Chefs Knife”. Gyuto is one of the most versatile blade type, suitable design for cutting, slicing meats, vegetables and fishes. Santoku (All-Purpose knife) All-round knife for meat, fish and vegetables (Santoku = the three virtues). Wider and rounded shape is suitable design for especially vegetables, but also cutting, slicing well for the fishes, meats. Santoku knife is popular knife and can be recommended as Multi Purpose Home Chef knife. The Santoku is sometimes called "Bunka" Bocho. Slicing & Carving Sujihiki/ Slicer/ Carving knife "Sujihiki" or Slicer (or Carving knife, depending on the purpose and detailed shape) has narrower and longer blade. The Sujihiki is suitable design for the slicing tasks. If you often cut and slice (fillet) fishes, meats, hams etc, Sujihiki is the best choice for your needs. Chinese Cooking knife The Chinese Cooking knife is the rectangular-bladed, all-purpose knife traditionally used in China, and many other Asian countries to prepare a variety of meats, fish, and vegetables. After the world war II, made-in-Japan knife began to surface in Japan and recently in Asian countries. Fish Slaughtering Western Deba or Yo-Deba is the Western-style version of the traditional Japanese deba. The edge is generally double-edged. The Western Deba has heavier weight and more durable edge, designed for harder use --- for cutting a fish, chicken and shrimps, lobsters. Japanese Style Knives Deba The "Deba" is designed for cutting fish and light mincing. The back of the blade can be used to chop thin bones. Thick and Heavier blade of Deba has good durable edge, suitable for cutting a Fish, a Chicken, also for filleting tasks. Its history goes back to the Edo era in Sakai, Japan. Funayuki Deba A filet knife, a multi-purpose Japanese traditional one. The name "Funayuki" or "Going on a boat" in Japanese. The profile is similar to a Deba, but is thicker than Deba to meet multi-purpose on a boat. This lightweight knife is easy to use on smaller fish. Sashimi & Sushi Yanagiba (Sashimi) A Sashimi Knife, for cutting and filleting fish or ham with a pull stroke. Slim blade in the shape of a willow leaf or Katana (sword). Long and Narrower blade is suitable for slicing tasks. Especially for preparing fresh, good&beautiful shape of raw fishes (sashimi). The Yanagiba is called "Shobu" and popular in Western Japan (around Osaka and Kyoto). Takohiki (Sashimi) Square shape, longer blade of Sashimi Knife, designed for same purpose as Yanagiba. Not for slicing "Tako" (Octopus) but for making Sashimi. The edge line is almost straight, while Yanagiba knife's blade edge line is more curved towards the blade tip. The Takohiki was popular in Eastern Japan (around Tokyo). |
Managua is the capital of which South American country? | Names of Nationalties in Spanish: A Lesson Covering Central and South America Teaching Spanish: Vocabulary Practice with Country Names written by: Curt Smothers • edited by: Rebecca Scudder • updated: 3/2/2012 Learning Spanish opens new vistas to students. Spanish is spoken by millions of people in 20 countries south of the U.S. border and the Caribbean. This article is a suggested vocabulary resource that helps students in the vocabulary of country nationalities and geographical locations. slide 1 of 4 A Combination Vocabulary and Geography Approach Learning the Spanish name for nearly all Hispanic countries is not particularly difficult. With the sole exception of the island nation of the Dominican Republic (la República Dominicana), each country is a cognate (the same in spelling and meaning) of its English counterpart. However, there is a teaching opportunity using the associated nationality with each country. For example, a person from Ecuador is called un ecuatoriano, while someone from Paraguay is known as un paraguayo. So, many of the associated nationality labels must be memorized, though there is a discernible pattern. Likewise, teachers can use nationality vocabulary drills to familiarize students with where our Spanish-speaking neighbors are located on the map. For example, where are the tiny South American countries inhabited by los ecuatorianos and los paraguayos? This article includes a geographical "factoid" for each Spanish-speaking country in our hemisphere, along with maps. slide 2 of 4 Country and Nationality Data for Vocabulary Practice with “Factoid" North America Factoid: Just south of the U.S. border Caribbean Factoid: Just 90 miles south of Florida, the largest Island in the Caribbean la República Dominicana Factoid: Shares the eastern half of the Island of Hispaniola with French-speaking Haiti. Puerto Rico (Spanish-speaking U.S. territory) Capital: San Juan Factoid: The small island just east of the Dominican Republic Central America Factoid: A lush, tropical country just north of Panama. El Salvador Factoid: Smallest Central American country. Located to the South of Guatemala and Honduras. Guatemala Factoid: Just south of Mexico Honduras Factoid: Due east of Guatemala. Nicaragua Factoid: South of Honduras, north of Costa Rica Panamá Factoid: Narrow country bridging Central and South America For extra credit: What is the only non-Spanish speaking country in Central America? What is its official language? Answer: Belize, English |
In the game of Bingo, ‘Jump and Jive’ is the nickname for which number? | Bingo Number-calling Nicknames 35.. Jump and jive - Flirty wives 36.. Three dozen - Perfect (as in 36-24-36) - Yardstick... he wishes! (USA) 37.. A flea in heaven - More than eleven 38.. Christmas cake 39.. Those famous steps - All the steps - Jack Benny 40.. Two score - Life begins at - Blind 40 - Naughty 40 - Mary (USA) 41.. Life�s begun - Time for fun 42.. That famous street in Manhattan - Whinny the Poo 43.. Down on your knees 44.. Droopy drawers - All the fours - Open two doors - Magnum (USA) 45.. Halfway house - Halfway there - Cowboy's friend - Colt (USA) 46.. Up to tricks 48.. Four dozen 49.. PC (Police Constable) - Copper - Nick nick - Rise and shine 50.. Bulls eye - Bung hole - Blind 50 - Half a century - Snow White's number (five-oh - five-oh..) - Hawaii five O, Hawaii (USA) 51.. I love my mum - Tweak of the thumb - The Highland Div[ision] - President's salute 52.. Weeks in a year - The Lowland Div[ision] - Danny La Rue - Pack 'o cards - Pickup (USA) 53.. Stuck in the tree - The Welsh Div[ision] - The joker 54.. Clean the floor - House of bamboo (famous song) 55.. Snakes alive - All the fives - Double nickels - Give us fives - Bunch of fives 56.. Was she worth it? 57.. Heinz varieties - All the beans (Heinz 57 varieties of canned beans) 58.. Make them wait - Choo choo Thomas 59.. Brighton line (engine 59 or it took 59 mins to go from London to Brighton) 60.. Three score - Blind 60 - Five dozen 61.. Bakers bun 62.. Tickety boo - Turn on the screw 63.. Tickle me - Home ball (USA) 64.. The Beatles number - Red raw 65.. Old age pension - Stop work (retirement age) 66.. Clickety click - All the sixes - Quack quack (USA) 67.. Made in heaven - Argumentative number 68.. Saving grace - Check your weight 69.. The same both ways - Your place or mine? - Any way up - Either way up - Any way round - Meal for two - The French connection - Yum yum - Happy meal (USA) 70.. Three score and ten - Blind 70 - Big O (USA) 71.. Bang on the drum - Lucky one 72.. A crutch and a duck - Six dozen - Par for the course (golf) - Lucky two 73.. Crutch with a flea - Queen B - Under the tree - Lucky three 74.. Candy store - Grandmamma of Bingo - Lucky four 75.. Strive and strive - Big Daddy - Granddaddy of Bingo - Lucky five 76.. Trombones - Seven 'n' six - was she worth it? - Lucky six 77.. Sunset strip - All the sevens - Two little crutches - The double hockey stick - Lucky seven 78.. Heavens gate - Lucky eight 79.. One more time - Lucky nine 80.. Gandhi's breakfast - Blind 80 - Eight and blank - There you go matey 81.. Fat lady and a little wee - Stop and run - Corner shot 82.. Fat lady with a duck - Straight on through 83.. Fat lady with a flea - Time for tea - Ethel's Ear 84.. Seven dozen 87.. Fat lady with a crutch - Torquay in Devon 88.. Two fat ladies - Wobbly wobbly - All the eights 89.. Nearly there - All but one 90.. Top of the shop - Top of the house - Blind 90 - As far as we go - End of the line Explanations of some nicknames: 1 Kelly's eye: In reference to the one-eyed Australian bushranger gangster Ned Kelly. (Note: apparently this explanation is incorrect. A viewer from Australia sent this message: "Ned Kelly didn't have one eye! He didn't even lose an eye in the shoot out at Glenrowan. And when he was wearing his helmet, you couldn't even see his eyes through the slot." But another Australian viewer sent this explanation: "The reason for "Kellys eye" may have been referring to Ned Kelly's helmet, which had one large slot for his eyes that looked like one eye.") 2 One little duck: The shape looks a bit like a swan. 3 One little flea: Looks a bit like a flea. 7 One little crutch: Looks like a crutch. 8 One fat lady: Resembles the two halves of a large lady. 9 Doctor's orders: A pill known as Number 9 was a laxative given out by army doctors in Britain. Apparently in the second world war in Britain doctors wrote on sick notes a 9 pm curfew, thus if patients were found out of their homes after that time they were violating their sick note. (Provided by a visitor) The curfew story's not true. In the Great War, however, there was su |
‘Crome Yellow’ is the title of which author’s first novel? | Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley, First Edition - AbeBooks Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley, First Edition You Searched For: Results (1 - 30) of 34 1 Published by Penguin Books (1955) Used First Edition Published by Bantam Books: Modern Classic Editions, New York, NY (1968) Used Paperback First Edition Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Bantam Books: Modern Classic Editions, New York, NY, 1968. Paperback. First Edition Thus [1968], so stated. First Edition Thus [1968], so stated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just the former owner's name inscribed in ink at the upper front endpaper and the mildest rubbing to the wrapper covers; a couple of very faint smudges; the pages have tainned very slightly. The binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 152pp. First published in the USA by Doubleday in 1922; Bantam published its first paperback edition in 1955 and followed with several formats and covers, all Mass Market Paperback editions. This is the first printing of a new edition in the Modern Classics Series. Mass Market Paperback. Huxley's talent, especially in his first novel, is to pour out ideas (the subjects and issues covered here are staggeringly diverse for such a short book) without losing the human spark or light touch that keeps you reading. Crome Yellow, the story (I use the word loosely) of fairly lazy aristocrats whiling the weeks away at a luxurious country estate, manages to be at once a dozen (or more) intelligent essays--on all different subjects and from many points of view, a romantic comedy, a character(s) study, a social satire, and a charming short story collection. Aldous Huxley was a young man and when he wrote Crome Yellow in the early twenties (not long out of college) he was more agnostic skeptic and social critic than the psychedelic mystic and dystopian prophet he would become. Yet the themes, and sometimes more, of his later work are all present here. There's a suggestion of mysticism and the "other world," albeit in a more comic manner than The Doors of Perception. Denis, with his anxieties around women and self-loathing, hand-wringing intelligence, is an early version of Bernard in Brave New World. And early in the book (at a pig pen of all places) a character hypothesizes about the future--and describes almost exactly the world Huxley would portray in Brave New World! It's fascinating to see, in this modernist society tale, the seeds of Huxley's future work. But better yet are all the ideas and separate stories Huxley crams into Crome Yellow: the historical tale of a dwarfish aristocrat and his gigantic son, a romantic escapade on the roof between a dashing visitor and the well-read yet thick Mary, the frequent and inept attempts of Denis to woo Anne, and cynical but comparatively content Mr. Scogan, who imagines stories to fill the mock books in the library, and cross-dresses as a fortune teller to scare the villagers at the annual fair. All in all, a great, quick read and a touchstone for all of Huxley's themes in a most unlikely vehicle. Bookseller Inventory # 44741 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: The Albatross [c.1938], Leipzig, 1938. Mass Market Paperback. Book Condition: Fair. First Edition Thus; Second Printing. Leipzig: The Albatross [c.1938]. Fair. 1938. First Edition Thus; Second Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Later [2nd] impression thus. The Albatross Modern Continental Library Volume 64. Decorated orange wrappers, [182]+ pages [last numbered page is 181]. Reading/filler copy [two pieces of clear tape across the spine, 3 pieces of clear tape inside the cover, spine toned with heavy tearing to the edges and with shallow chipping to the ends, shallow corner creasing to the cover].; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 182 pages . Bookseller Inventory # 67307 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, NY, 1922. First American Edition. Very Good hardcover in blue cloth boards. No dustjacket. First American Edition with GW |
In Greek mythology, Hypnos was the god of what? | Hypnos Hypnos See More Hypnos Pictures > Hypnos was a primordial deity in Greek mythology, the personification of sleep. He lived in a cave next to his twin brother, Thanatos , in the underworld , where no light was cast by the sun or the moon; the earth in front of the cave was full of poppies and other sleep-inducing plants. The river Lethe (the river of forgetfulness) flowed through the cave. He was the son of Nyx (night) and Erebus (darkness), while his wife, Pasithea, was one of the youngest of the Graces and was given to him by Hera . Hypnos and Pasithea had a number of sons called the Oneiroi (the dreams), who according to some sources were three in number; Morpheus , Phobetor and Phantasos. Hypnos managed to put Zeus to sleep twice, when he was asked by Hera . The first time, Hera devised a plan to avenge the ransacking of Troy by Heracles , Zeus ' son; so, Hypnos put Zeus to sleep and Hera unleashed angry winds on the oceans while Heracles was sailing home from Troy . When Zeus awoke, he was infuriated and tried to find Hypnos , who managed to hide with his mother, Nyx . The second time, Hypnos was reluctant to trick Zeus again, afraid of his wrath. Hera , however, told him that she would give him Pasithea, one of the youngest Charites (Graces), for his wife. After Hypnos made Hera swear an oath by the river Styx that she would fulfill her part of the bargain, he agreed to help her. Hera , dressed beautifully and having a charm that Aphrodite had given to her, went to Zeus , and lied to him, saying that her parents were quarreling, and that she wanted his approval to go and stop them. Zeus agreed, but he was so enchanted by her beauty that he took her in his embrace; at that moment, Hypnos made Zeus fall asleep. He immediately went to Poseidon to inform him that he could now help the Greeks in the Trojan War . That's how the myth has it that the Greeks won the war; Zeus never realised that he had been tricked once again. Hypnos Is also called Somnus, Hypnus. |
Who directed the 1968 film ‘Rosemary’s Baby’? | Rosemary's Baby (1968) - 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 young couple move into an apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life. Director: User Lists Related lists from IMDb users a list of 25 titles created 30 Jan 2011 a list of 36 titles created 16 Apr 2014 a list of 24 titles created 24 May 2015 a list of 47 titles created 28 May 2015 a list of 32 titles created 11 months ago Search for " Rosemary's Baby " 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. Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 12 nominations. See more awards » Videos When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter. Director: William Friedkin Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son? Director: Richard Donner Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom. Director: Brian De Palma A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence. Director: Roman Polanski Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again. Director: John Carpenter A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. Director: Roman Polanski Two siblings visit their grandfather's grave in Texas along with three of their friends and are attacked by a family of cannibalistic psychopaths. Director: Tobe Hooper A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people. Director: Alfred Hitchcock 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.5/10 X Several people are hunted by a cruel serial killer who kills his victims in their dreams. While the survivors are trying to find the reason for being chosen, the murderer won't lose any chance to kill them as soon as they fall asleep. Director: Wes Craven Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl. Director: Tomas Alfredson A family's home is haunted by a host of ghosts. Director: Tobe Hooper A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption and murder. Director: Roman Polanski Edit Storyline Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into an apartment in an opulent but gothic building in Manhattan. Their landlord Edward "Hutch" Hutchins attempts to dissuade them from doing so: the building has an unsavory history. They discover that their neighbors are a very friendly elderly couple named Roman and Minnie Castevet, and Guy begins to spend a great deal of time with them. Strange things begin to happen: a young woman Rosemary meets in the laundry commits suicide, Rosemary has strange dreams and hears strange noises and Guy becomes remote and distant. Then Rosemary falls pregnant and begins to suspect that her neighbors have special plans for her child. Written by Goth <[email protected]> 12 June 1968 (USA) See more » Also Known As: El bebé de Rosemary See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Rosemary's Baby is closely associated with The Omen and The Exorcist. But whereas those movies both became big franchises, with many sequels and prequels and remakes between them, Rosemary's Baby only had o |
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Fratricide is the killing of one’s what? | fratricide - Wiktionary fratricide The killing of one's brother (or sister ). 1856, Mrs. William Busk, Mediæval Popes, Emperors, Kings, and Crusaders: Or, Germany, Italy and Palestine, from A.D. 1125 to A.D. 1268 [1] , volume IV, London: Hookham and Sons, OCLC 2480341 , page 294: The new accusation brought by Urban against Manfred of murdering his sister-in-law's embassador – it may be observed that, tacitly, he acquits him of parricide, fratricide, and nepoticide – requires a little explanation. 2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects ISBN 978-1-4408-0344-4 , pages 205–206: Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew). A person who commits this crime . 1936, H. A. L. Fisher, A History of Europe, Edward Arnold Publishers, p.376, The conversion of Russia to Christianity was effected, it would seem by a monster of cruelty and lust. That Vladimir (980–1015) was a fratricide, who maintained 3,500 concubines, has not prevented his canonization as a saint. (military, by extension) The intentional or unintentional killing of a comrade in arms . 1999, Richard M. Swain, Lucky War: Third Army in Desert Storm , DIANE Publishing, page 180, From January on, Third Army also spent a good deal of energy trying to solve the problem of fratricide, the killing or injuring of one's own forces by what is ironically called 'friendly fire,'... |
Dubris was the Roman name for which English port? | PORTVS DVBRIS Portvs Dvbris Type: Fort, Villa, Pharos, Town Roads Possible Coastal Road: E (5) to Folkestone (Kent) N (12) to Rvtvpiae (Richborough, Kent) Trackway: WSW (13) to Portvs Lemanis (Lympne, Kent) N (9) to Worth Portus Dubris - The Port on the river Dubras The town appears as one of the termini of the third route in the British section of the Antonine Itinerary of the late-second century. Iter III is entitled "the route from Londinium to Portus Dubris - sixty-six thousand paces", and places Portum Dubris 13 miles away from Durovernum (Canterbury, Kent). Dover is next mentioned in the Notitia Dignitatum of the late-fourth century. Under the heading "at the disposal of the respectable man, the Count of the Saxon shore in Britain", the entry Dubris is listed between the entries for Othona (Bradwell, Essex) and Portus Lemanis (Lympne, Kent). The final mention of the Roman port occurs in the Ravenna Cosmology (R&C#71) of the seventh century, which lists the name Dubris between the entries for Portus Lemanis (Lympne, Kent) and Durovernum Cantiacorum (Canterbury, Kent). "Dover Kent. Dubris 4th cent., Dofras c.700, Dovere 1086 ( DB ). Named from the stream here, now called the Dour, a river-name (Welsh/Gaelic) *dubras meaning simply 'the waters'." (Mills) Epigraphic Evidence from Portus Dubris There are only three inscriptions on stone recorded in the R.I.B. for Dover, all of them added since the work was first published. There is an excellent inscription dedicated to the Matres by a government official from the provincial capital (vide infra), and another text which reads EVSEB III IV IV or "Euseb[ius?] three four four" (RIB 65c; Britannia xiv (1983), p.336, no.1). The final text is severely damaged, reading ... ... ...VSI... ...ST... (RIB 65d; Britannia ix (1978), p.474, no.3), which defies translation. Dedicatory Inscription to the Mother Goddesses by a Stator Consularis ST COS OL CORDIVS CANDID MATRIB ITALICIS AEDEM FECIT VSLM "The governor's messenger from the offices of London,¹ Cordius Candidus, for the Mother Goddesses of the Italians, has made this temple, willingly and deservedly fulfilling a vow." (RIB 65b; Britannia viii (1977), pp426-7, no.4) This portion of the text has been expanded ST[ator] CO[n]S[ularis] O[fficina] L[ondini] . The title stator consularis is literally translated as 'one who establishes or upholds [the edicts] of the consular governor'. The Dover Entry in the Notitia Dignitatum Praepositus militum Tungrecanorum, Dubris ( Notitia Dignitatum xxviii.14; 4th/5th C.) Garrison Port of the Classis Britannica A major fort of the Classis Britannia was established at Dover c.85AD as a replacement for their old fort at Richborough. The town developed during the late-1st century. Around 90AD twin lighthouses or Pharos were built on the north cliffs (at NGRef. TR3141 and TR3241). These were originally around 25m high with 4m thick walls made of stone with a rubble infill, octagonal in exterior shape with a 4m square central space. The second century fort covered (0.8ha) and is the suspected headquarters of the Classis Britannica or 'the British Fleet'. Around 270AD the second-century fort was replaced with a substantial 'Saxon Shore' fort, and it ceased to be a base of the Classis Britannica at the same time. By the fourth century there were two lighthouses at Dubris, set on the cliff tops overlooking the port to either side of the River Dour. The north-eastern pharos was the first to be built, possibly as early as the first century. Only a fragment of the south-western lighthouse has survived, which contained re-used roof-tile material stamped Classis Britannica, giving an early fourth century construction date. Only the northern pharos has survived to any extent, protected within the confines of Dover Castle, beside St. Mary's Church. See: Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names by A.D. Mills (Oxford 1998); The Roman Inscriptions of Britain by R.G. Collingwood and R.P. Wright (Oxford 1965); All English translations, including any inherent mistakes, are my own. This page was last modified: 27/1/ |
Which 18th century British author described a second marriage as ‘The triumph of hope over experience’? | Project MUSE - Love and Marriage in 18th-Century Britain Love and Marriage in 18th-Century Britain Wendy Moore (bio) William Hogarth graphically depicted the pitfalls of arranged marriage in his cautionary cartoon series Marriage à-la-mode, published in 1745. Samuel Johnson famously described second marriages as the "triumph of hope over experience." The Georgians' fixation with wedlock was no accident. The secret of a successful marriage was one of the most hotly debated topics in the salons and coffee-houses of 18th-century England, and the outcome of this febrile discourse set the tone for our modern-day Western approach to marriage based on the ideal of a harmonious, companionable partnership founded in mutual love. 1 The shift in ideas about marriage was profound. At the beginning of the 18th century most marriages among landed or moneyed families were essentially financial arrangements designed to cement powerful alliances and exchange or acquire land and property. Although people in working-class and agricultural communities were more or less free to choose their own partners for life—albeit generally within the same narrow economic group and geographical area—the vast majority of marriages among aristocratic, wealthy, and middle-class families were arranged by parents with the prospective bride and bridegroom having little or no say. Children were often betrothed in infancy and married in their teens, frequently to partners they barely knew and sometimes with disastrous consequences. Lord Halifax in his Advice to a Daughter, published in 1688, made the prospects plain when he explained: "It is one of the Disadvantages belonging to your Sex, that young Women are seldom permitted to make their own Choice." 2 But if Lord Halifax—and presumably his daughter—was prepared to accept such an arrangement, others were not. In a scathing indictment of marriage published in 1700, the writer Mary Astell demanded to know: "If Marriage be such a blessed State, how comes it, may you say, that there are so few happy marriages?" 3 She remained a spinster. When the 23-year-old Lady Mary Pierrepont was betrothed by her father in 1712 to an Irish aristocrat she had never met, she described her wedding arrangements as "daily preparations for my journey to Hell." 4 Rather than descend into eternal torment, she eloped and married her lover, Edward Wortley Montagu, just days before the planned ceremony. Click for larger view View full resolution From William Hogarth's Marriage à-la-mode, "The Toilette Scene," 1745. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [reproduction number, LC-USZ62-112875]. As a growing number of thwarted young lovers voted with their feet, so criticism of arranged marriages increased during the first half of the 18th century. Hogarth's popular series of six scenes, which depict the tragic outcome of a marriage contracted by money-grasping parents and silver-tongued lawyers between a debauched young earl and the daughter of a rich merchant, reflected the mood. The writer Hester Chapone characterized such matches as "Smithfield bargains," in reference to the famed London meat market, and exclaimed, "so much ready money for so much land, and my daughter flung in into the bargain!" 5 At the same time, the emphasis on self-expression, free will, and personal feelings in early 18th-century novels such as Daniel Defoe's Roxana (1724) and Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) was blamed for undermining the concept of arranged marriages and fueling expectations of romantic love. 6 Whether the rising popularity of novels really influenced views on marriage or simply reflected changing opinion can probably never be determined. But certainly the former was the perception among disapproving older generations. François Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambray, in his Instructions for the Education of a Daughter, translated into English in 1713, warned of the dangers of girls reading "romances" and then being "astonished, not to find in the World real Persons, who may answer to these Romantick Heroes." 7 Pressure from disgruntled pa |
Which real-life couple starred in the 1994 remake of the film ‘The Getaway’? | The Getaway Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb 39 out of 49 people found the following review useful: Steamy, Entertaining Re-Make from United States 2 June 2006 This was a very entertaining, if morally way below par, action movie which consistently keeps your attention with intense scenes. Kim Bassinger probably looked as good as she ever looked which is saying a lot. She has one of the steamiest scenes I've ever seen on a mainline film (my tape was the "unrated" version) but at least it was with her real-life husband (at the time) Alec Baldwin. This re-make of the 1972 film also has Michael Madsen, James Woods, Mike Morse and Jennifer Tilley - all playing sleazy characters. They are so bad they make Baldwin & Bassinger look like monks. This movie is not exactly Mary Poppins. There's almost too much of a mean edge to it....almost. Perhaps I enjoy ogling Bassinger too much to can this movie for its baseness. Whatever, this entertains to the degree that it makes it a very quick two hours. There is no way you could get bored watching this film. Was the above review useful to you? 31 out of 37 people found the following review useful: Am I the only one who loves this movie? from Fremont, CA 4 February 2000 The action scenes are top notch. Maybe I'm just a sucker for colorful characters and the bank heist angle is well done. Best of all is Alec Baldwin's character, Doc. Baldwin and the rest of the cast really deliver their lines with panache. Bank jobs, car chase, cat-and-mouse in a four story hotel, steamy sex, crazy characters.... what else do you want? Was the above review useful to you? 25 out of 31 people found the following review useful: a interesting remake Author: sole reviewer 20 March 2002 I tend to like the original more yet the 1994 remake THE GETAWAY, was a very good film. The strength of this version is the modren pacing and action also the revamped dialouge and several additional characters. I bumped into david morse once...of note is his role in this film. THE GETAWAY works because the chemistry of sex and violence between the characters played by BALDWIN and BASINGER works. It's not cheesy or contrived. This film is a tale of moral love betrayal and the classic analogy of there being no honor among thieves. The remake follows pretty much the same plot as the STEVE MCQUEEN classic yet takes a few different turns. Fans of the original will like this version as well, one nice aspect is that it maintains a similar look to the original. During the early 1970's several films like this and GONE IN 60 SECONDS had the same visual flair. This film matches the tone of the original and succeeds as a modren film for contemporary audiences. Was the above review useful to you? 18 out of 21 people found the following review useful: Worthwhile remake 19 February 2005 *** This review may contain spoilers *** I recently had the opportunity to watch this movie and the 1972 version back to back (the modern version first). I was amazed at how exactly some of the minute details in the original movie were repeated in the remake. The garbage bin, the locker gimmick, the character of the innkeeper and paint truck owner. It was interesting at how many of the touches were not unnecessarily "modernized". (I like that). I was able to enjoy both versions. Some people made comments disdaining the remake, but I thought it was a worthy movie, if just because it was a more sexy polished version. --I admit I'm biased, because I thought Kim Basinger was one of the hottest women I've seen in movies (I can't believe she was over 40 when she made the film). Her action/shooting scenes near the end were also very well done. The chemistry between her and Alex Baldwin was also superb, I guess due in some part to the fact that they were (or were going to be) a husband-wife couple in real life too. I also liked the movie to enjoy the differences between the actors (and interpretation) within the almost exact same construct. Steve McQueen's more hardboiled tightly wound character to Alec Baldwin's character who seemed to have a more innate gentleness (sort |
In January 1986, George Younger took up which British cabinet post | Secretary of State for Defence : Wikis (The Full Wiki) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Secretary of State for Defence Incumbent: Politics portal view • talk • edit The Secretary of State for Defence, popularly known as the Defence Secretary, is the senior United Kingdom government minister in charge of the Ministry of Defence , chairing the Defence Council . It is a Cabinet position. The position was created in 1964 as successor to the posts of Minister for Coordination of Defence (1936–1940) and Minister of Defence (1940–1964). Contents Minister for Coordination of Defence (1936–1940) Lord Chatfield served as the second and final Minister for Coordination of Defence. The position of Minister for Coordination of Defence was a British Cabinet -level position established in 1936 to oversee and co-ordinate the rearmament of Britain's defences. The position was established by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in response to criticism that Britain's armed forces were understrength compared to those of Nazi Germany . This campaign had been led by Winston Churchill and many expected him to be appointed as the new minister, though nearly every other senior figure in the National Government was also speculated upon by politicians and commentators. Despite this, Baldwin's choice of the Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip provoked widespread astonishment. A famous remark was "This is the most cynical appointment since Caligula made his horse a consul". [1] The appointment is now regarded as a sign of caution by Baldwin who did not wish to appoint someone like Churchill who would have been interpreted by foreign powers as a sign of the United Kingdom preparing for war, as well as a desire to avoid taking onboard a controversial and radical minister. In 1939 Inskip was succeeded by First Sea Lord Lord Chatfield . When the Second World War broke out, the new Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain formed a small War Cabinet and it was expected that Chatfield would serve as a spokesperson for the three service ministers, the Secretary of State for War , the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for Air ; however political considerations resulted in all three posts being included in the Cabinet and Chatfield's role proved increasingly redundant. In April 1940 the position was formally wound up and the functions transferred to other Ministers. Name ( National Government ; War Government ) Ministers of Defence (1940–1964) The post of Minister of Defence was responsible for co-ordination of defence and security from its creation in 1940 until its abolition in 1964. The post was a Cabinet level post and generally ranked above the three service ministers, some of whom, however, continued to also serve in Cabinet. On his appointment as Prime Minister in May 1940, Winston Churchill created for himself the new post of Minister of Defence. The post was created in response to previous criticism that there had been no clear single minister in charge of the prosecution of World War II . In 1946, the post became the only cabinet level post representing the military, with the three service ministers - the Secretary of State for War , the First Lord of the Admiralty , and the Secretary of State for Air , now formally subordinated to the Minister of Defence. Name |
Alice Fitzwarren was the wife of which Lord Mayor of London? | Dick Whittington | Dickwhittington.org Winter opening times apply View full times here Call Dick Whittington on 01452 831000 for all enquiries Dick Whittington Dick Whittington was born in Pauntley near Newent sometime in the middle of the fourteenth century. Quite how he found his way to London in the first place is unknown but the earliest recorded mention of him in the City seems to be in 1379 when he contributed 5 marks to a municipal loan. Whittington was a mercer by trade and in fact he served as Lord Mayor of London on three separate occasions: first in 1397, then again in 1406-7, and for the third and final time in 1419-20. The famous nursery-rhyme account of his life has him arriving in the capital a poor orphan from the West of England, having heard that the streets of London were paved with gold. Unfortunately he found himself the victim of repeated beatings by the cook in the household of a rich merchant who had given him shelter and so (according to his entry in the D.N.B.) He stole away from Leaden hall Street early in the morning of All Hallows Day, and left the City behind him, but as he rested at Highgate he heard Bow bells ring out a merry peal, which seemed to say: Turn again, Whittington, Lord Mayor of London Whereupon he returned to his pots and spits and married Alice Fitzwarren (his master’s daughter), and rose thrice to be Lord Mayor of London. Whittington’s cat had been on a lengthy voyage on a ship belonging to Dick’s master while the young Whittington was having such a rough time of things back in Leaden hall Street. The vessel stopped to take on provisions at a previously unknown part of the Barbary Coast where the king of that country, whose palace was overrun with rats and mice, bought the cat for an enormous price. Dick never saw his beloved cat again but the sales proceeds were shipped back to England and on the return from that particular overseas investment he and his wife Alice lived happily ever after. |
What are author J.R.R. Tolkien’s first names? | Biography – The Tolkien Society J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biographical Sketch By David Doughan MBE Who was Tolkien? Photo by Pamela Chandler. © Diana Willson. Used with permission. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of our world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. In the 1960s he was taken up by many members of the nascent “counter-culture” largely because of his concern with environmental issues. In 1997 he came top of three British polls, organised respectively by Channel 4 / Waterstone’s, the Folio Society, and SFX, the UK’s leading science fiction media magazine, amongst discerning readers asked to vote for the greatest book of the 20th century. Please note also that his name is spelt Tolkien (there is no “Tolkein”). Childhood and Youth The name “Tolkien” (pron.: Tol-keen; equal stress on both syllables) is believed to be of German origin; Toll-kühn: foolishly brave, or stupidly clever – hence the pseudonym “Oxymore” which he occasionally used. His father’s side of the family appears to have migrated from Saxony in the 18th century, but over the century and a half before his birth had become thoroughly Anglicised. Certainly his father, Arthur Reuel Tolkien, considered himself nothing if not English. Arthur was a bank clerk, and went to South Africa in the 1890s for better prospects of promotion. There he was joined by his bride, Mabel Suffield, whose family were not only English through and through, but West Midlands since time immemorial. So John Ronald (“Ronald” to family and early friends) was born in Bloemfontein, S.A., on 3 January 1892. His memories of Africa were slight but vivid, including a scary encounter with a large hairy spider, and influenced his later writing to some extent; slight, because on 15 February 1896 his father died, and he, his mother and his younger brother Hilary returned to England – or more particularly, the West Midlands. The West Midlands in Tolkien’s childhood were a complex mixture of the grimly industrial Birmingham conurbation, and the quintessentially rural stereotype of England, Worcestershire and surrounding areas: Severn country, the land of the composers Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Gurney, and more distantly the poet A. E. Housman (it is also just across the border from Wales). Tolkien’s life was split between these two: the then very rural hamlet of Sarehole, with its mill, just south of Birmingham; and darkly urban Birmingham itself, where he was eventually sent to King Edward’s School. By then the family had moved to King’s Heath, where the house backed onto a railway line – young Ronald’s developing linguistic imagination was engaged by the sight of coal trucks going to and from South Wales bearing destinations like” Nantyglo”,” Penrhiwceiber” and “Senghenydd”. Then they moved to the somewhat more pleasant Birmingham suburb of Edgbaston. However, in the meantime, something of profound significance had occurred, which estranged Mabel and her children from both sides of the family: in 1900, together with her sister May, she was received into the Roman Catholic Church. From then on, both Ronald and Hilary were brought up in the faith of Pio Nono, and remained devout Catholics throughout their lives. The parish priest who visited the family regularly was the half-Spanish half-Welsh Father Francis Morgan. Tolkien family life was generally lived on the genteel side of poverty. However, the situation worsened in 1904, when Mabel Tolkien was diagnosed as having diabetes, usually fatal in tho |
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What type of animal is Sooty the Bear’s girlfriend Soo? | Soo | Sooty Database Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Sooty (2011) - Brenda Longman History Soo was first featured on The Sooty Show as the girlfriend of the main puppet character Sooty in 1964. Soo is a calm and collected female panda who acts as the foil for both Sooty and Sweep. Soo usually wears a red skirt and bows on her head. In the 1990s series Sooty & Co. , Soo was voiced by Brenda Longman who had previously voiced her in it's predecessor. In December 2007 Soo appeared on, and won, a puppet special of the Weakest Link hosted by Anne Robinson which was originally broadcast on Friday, 28th December 2007 at 18:00GMT on BBC1. She raised £11,500 for her chosen charity, the World Wide Fund for Nature, after defeating Roland Rat thanks to sudden death. On 30 September 2008, Brenda Longman, assisted by Soo, appeared on BBC One's Bargain Hunt, buying antiques at London's Portobello Road and then selling them at Bellmans Auction House in Sussex. On 31 March 2010, Soo appeared in a music video with The Sugarbabes called "Soogarbabes". Trivia Her name is often misspelled as Sue. In Boarding House , she calls herself Susie. However, it is unknown whether this is true or if she was just trying to be posh for the guests arriving at the bed and breakfast. On Tuesday April 9th, 2013, Soo along with Sooty and Sweep appeared as the judging panel in one episode of "The Matt Lucas Awards" Season 2. According to the Sooty & Co. episode Sooty's Magic Solutions , Soo suffers from Arachnophobia, the fear of spiders. In 2009, Soo along with Sooty and Sweep appeared in Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band music video on "Children in Need". Gallery |
Who plays the Alfred the butler in the 2005 film ‘Batman Begins’? | ‘Dark Knight Rises’: Michael Caine on Alfred’s final scene | Hero Complex – movies, comics, pop culture – Los Angeles Times ‘Dark Knight Rises’: Michael Caine on Alfred’s final scene Dec. 05, 2012 | 8:00 a.m. Michael Caine as Alfred in “The Dark Knight Rises.” (Warner Bros.) Michael Caine distinctly remembers the morning Christopher Nolan turned up at his English country home with a screenplay for the two-time Oscar-winning actor to read. “My instant thought was, I’m going to be in one of these wonderful little dramas, murder thrillers. I’d love that,” Caine recalled during an interview late last week. The screenplay, of course, wasn’t for a film like Nolan’s time-bending indie “Memento” or his crime drama “Insomnia.” It was for 2005’s “Batman Begins,” which ultimately would include some of the same hallmarks as those moody, evocative thrillers — precision, tension, mystery — the signature qualities that would carry forward into “The Dark Knight” and “The Dark Knight Rises,” the last of which comes to DVD and Blu-ray this week. “I thought to myself, I’m a bit old for Batman,” Caine said. “So, I said, ‘Who am I going to play?’ He said, ‘The butler.’ I immediately thought I’ll be spending the entire series saying, ‘Dinner is served’ and ‘Would you like a coffee?’ I thought, well, I’ll read it and turn it down. “I said, ‘OK, I’ll call you tomorrow and let you know whether I want to do it or not,'” he continued. “And this is where I first found out Chris is the most secretive director you’ve ever come across. It’s like working for MI6.” Nolan asked Caine to read the script right away, and the actor obliged while his wife shared a cup of tea with their unexpected guest. And Caine soon discovered that in Nolan’s universe, Alfred Pennyworth, the confidant of the DC Comics caped vigilante, was much more than hired help. “I thought it was wonderful,” Caine said of the role. “He was the foster father of young Bruce Wayne whose parents got killed and started to bring him up. I thought this is a great director. He’s never made a big-budget movie like this and [Warner Bros. has] given him a shot. I thought, I’m going to go with him and I’ll see how we get on.” The answer, it turned out, was quite well. These years later, Caine, who still more often refers to Alfred by his job rather than his first name, considers himself Nolan’s “biggest fan,” comparing the filmmaker to David Lean and praising his ability not just to direct but also to write screenplays and create complex, nuanced characters so often absent from big-budget studio fare. Christopher Nolan on the set of “The Dark Knight Rises.” (Ron Phillips / Warner Bros.) Caine, of course, is hardly alone in that opinion. When “The Dark Knight Rises” was released in July, critics hailed the final installment in the Gotham City triptych, which sees Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne compelled to don the cowl to battle a masked menace named Bane after years in seclusion. The mission puts him in conflict with Alfred, who fears that time has dulled Wayne’s skills and that returning to the battlefield opposite such an uncompromising foe could end in his destruction. “What happened with Alfred was in the three films — ‘Batman Begins,’ ‘The Dark Knight,’ ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ — that could have made one whole film as a relationship,” Caine said. “It had a beginning, a middle and an end. I watched [Bruce Wayne] go into being Batman, I watched him get into trouble being Batman and at the end I tried to get him out of being Batman and when he wouldn’t I walked away. It was a complete story for me.” Writing in The Times, critic Kenneth Turan called “The Dark Knight Rises” “potent, persuasive and hypnotic,” adding of Nolan, “To have a director this gifted turning his ability and attention to such an unapologetically commercial project is beyond heartening in an age in which the promise of film as a popular art is tarnished almost beyond recognition.” “The thing about Chris is he’s not a normal blockbuster director,” agreed Caine. “Normally when you get these blockbusters, they spend so much money on t |
Who was the first US President to appear on television while still in office? | First presidential speech on TV - Oct 05, 1947 - HISTORY.com This Day in History: 10/05/1947 - Truman Makes TV Address In this This Day in History video clip learn about different events that have occurred on October 5th. Some of the events include Chief Joseph surrenders and the Beatles releasing their first single, Love Me Do. Also, Barry Bonds hits the most home runs in a single season and President Truman makes the first television address. Lead Story First presidential speech on TV Share this: First presidential speech on TV Author First presidential speech on TV URL Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 1947, President Harry Truman (1884-1972) makes the first-ever televised presidential address from the White House, asking Americans to cut back on their use of grain in order to help starving Europeans. At the time of Truman’s food-conservation speech, Europe was still recovering from World War II and suffering from famine. Truman, the 33rd commander in chief, worried that if the U.S. didn’t provide food aid, his administration’s Marshall Plan for European economic recovery would fall apart. He asked farmers and distillers to reduce grain use and requested that the public voluntarily forgo meat on Tuesdays, eggs and poultry on Thursdays and save a slice of bread each day. The food program was short-lived, as ultimately the Marshall Plan succeeded in helping to spur economic revitalization and growth in Europe. In 1947,television was still in its infancy and the number of TV sets in U.S. homes only numbered in the thousands (by the early 1950s, millions of Americans owned TVs); most people listened to the radio for news and entertainment. However, although the majority of Americans missed Truman’s TV debut, his speech signaled the start of a powerful and complex relationship between the White House and a medium that would have an enormous impact on the American presidency, from how candidates campaigned for the office to how presidents communicated with their constituents. Each of Truman’s subsequent White House speeches, including his 1949 inauguration address, was televised. In 1948, Truman was the first presidential candidate to broadcast a paid political ad. Truman pioneered the White House telecast, but it was President Franklin Roosevelt who was the first president to appear on TV–from the World’s Fair in New York City on April 30, 1939. FDR’s speech had an extremely limited TV audience, though, airing only on receivers at the fairgrounds and at Radio City in Manhattan. Related Videos |
Castle Howard is in which English county? | CASTLE HOWARD - 1001059| Historic England CASTLE HOWARD List Entry Summary This garden or other land is registered under the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953 within the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens by English Heritage for its special historic interest. Name: CASTLE HOWARD The garden or other land may lie within the boundary of more than one authority. County: North Yorkshire National Park: Not applicable to this List entry. Grade: I Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry. Legacy System Information The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System: Parks and Gardens UID: 2061 Asset Groupings This list entry does not comprise part of an Asset Grouping. Asset Groupings are not part of the official record but are added later for information. List entry Description Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details. Reasons for Designation Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details. History Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details. Details Gardens, pleasure grounds and park with a mixture of geometric and less formal features developed c 1698-1738 by Charles Howard, third Earl of Carlisle and Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726 ) possibly with some advice from Stephen Switzer (1682-1745). The monumental scale and conception of the landscape with structures designed by Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor make Castle Howard an outstanding example of what Christopher Hussey has described as the Heroic Age of English landscape architecture, and the adoption of an informal design, possibly by Switzer, for Ray Wood has been seen as decisively important for the development of the `natural' style in England. NOTE This entry is a summary. Because of the complexity of this site, the standard Register entry format would convey neither an adequate description nor a satisfactory account of the development of the landscape. The user is advised to consult the references given below for more detailed accounts. Many Listed Buildings exist within the site, not all of which have been here referred to. Descriptions of these are to be found in the List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest produced by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT The estate was acquired by the Howard family in 1571 when it was the site of Henderskelfe Castle and village. Henderskelfe was described by John Leland in 1540 who estimated that the park was `4 miles yn cumpace, and hath much fair young wood yn it¿ (quoted in Antiqs J 1979). Charles Howard, third Earl of Carlisle rejected a scheme of c 1698 by George London (d 1714) with canals, avenues and circular lawns. Vanbrugh was consulted and visited the site in 1699, continuing to work on it until his death in 1726. Works to Vanbrugh's designs continued after his death, probably supervised by his assistant Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661-1736) who was responsible for the design of some of the park structures. Later C18 works included the creation of the Great Lake on the north side of the Castle. In 1850 the south parterre was remodelled by W A Nesfield (1793-1881) and the Atlas Fountain (Nesfield with figures by J Thomas, listed grade I) was installed. Nesfield also undertook works to the South Lake and designed a cascade (listed grade II) at its east end. Nesfield's parterre proved expensive to maintain and it was replaced by the ninth Countess in the early 1890s with the present (1998) grass terrace and yew hedges. At the same time the banks of the South Lake were remodelled to give less rigid outlines. Horace Walpole is one of the better known of the many commentators on Castle Howard and following a visit he described it in 1772 as presenting `the grandest scenes of rural magnificence' which allowed him to see `at one view... a palace, a town, a fortified city, temples on high places, woods worthy of being each a metropolis of the Druids, the noblest lawn on earth fenced by half the horizon, and a mausoleum that wou |
The headwear item ‘yamulke’ is better known by what name? | Kippah (Yarmulke) - Jewish Religious Garment By Ariela Pelaia Updated July 27, 2016. Kippah (pronounced kee-pah) is the Hebrew word for the skullcap traditionally worn by Jewish men. It is also called a yarmulke or koppel in Yiddish. Kippot (plural of kippah) are worn at the apex of a person's head. After the Star of David , they are probably one of the most recognizable symbols of Jewish identity. Who Wears Kippot and When? Traditionally only Jewish men wore kippot. However, in modern times some women also choose to wear kippot as an expression of their Jewish identity or as a form of religious expression. When a kippah is worn varies from person to person. In Orthodox circles Jewish men usually wear kippot all the time, whether they are attending a religious service or going about their daily lives outside of the synagogue. In Conservative communities men almost always wear kippot during religious services or during formal occasions, such as during a High Holiday dinner or when attending a Bar Mitzvah . In Reform circles, it is equally common for men to wear kippot as it is for them not to wear kippot. Ultimately the decision about whether or not to wear a kippah comes down to personal choice and the customs of the community an individual belongs to. Religiously speaking, wearing kippot is not obligatory and there are many Jewish men who do not wear them at all. What Does a Kippah Look Like? Originally all kippot looked the same. They were small, black skullcaps worn at the apex of a man's head. However, nowadays kippot come in all sorts of colors and sizes. Visit your local Judaica shop or a market in Jerusalem and you will see everything from knitted kippot in all the colors of the rainbow to kippot sporting baseball team logos. Some kippot will be small skullcaps, others will cover the entire head, and yet others will resemble caps. When women wear kippot sometimes they select ones made of lace or that are adorned with feminine decorations. Both men and women usually attach kippot to their hair with bobby pins. Among those who wear kippot, it is not uncommon to have a collection of different styles, colors and sizes. This variety allows the wearer to select whichever kippah suits their mood or their reason for wearing it. For instance, a black kippah might be worn to a funeral, while a colorful kippah might be worn to a holiday gathering. When a Jewish boy has a Bar Mitzvah or a Jewish girl has a Bat Mitzvah , oftentimes special kippot will be made for the occasion. Why Do Jews Wear Kippot? Wearing a kippah is not a religious commandment. Rather it is a Jewish custom that over time has come to be associated with Jewish identity and showing respect for God. In Orthodox and Conservative circles covering one’s head is seen as a sign of yirat Shamayim, which means "reverence for God" in Hebrew . This concept comes from the Talmud, where wearing a head covering is associated with showing respect for God and for men of higher social status. Some scholars also cite the Middle Age custom of covering one's head in the presence of royalty. Since God is the "King of Kings" it made sense to also cover one's head during prayer or religious services, when one hopes to approach the Divine through worship. According to author Alfred Koltach, the earliest reference to a Jewish head covering comes from Exodus 28:4, where it is called mitzneft and refers to a part of the High Priest's wardrobe. Another biblical reference is II Samuel 15:30, where covering the head and face is a sign of mourning. Sources: "The Jewish Book of Why" by Alfred J. Koltach. Jonathan David Publishers, Inc. New York, 1981. |
Dydd Iau is Welsh for which day of the week? | BBC Wales - Learn Welsh the Big Welsh Challenge - Days Of The Week Helpful Notes Days Of The Week The days of the week are essential as they crop up all the time. Just remember to say 'Dydd' in front of each one. Also, it sometimes help to think of something in English to latch on to if you can't remember words. Sunday - Dydd Sul. Think of the sun or Solar. Monday - Dydd Llun. Think of the moon or lunar. Tuesday - Dydd Mawrth. Think of the planet Mars. Wednesday - Dydd Mercher. Think of the planet Mercury. Thursday - Dydd Iau. This is linked to Jove or Jupiter, but think of touching something hot and the exclamation 'Iai!' for Thursday. Friday - Dydd Gwener. Again this is linked to Venus. Think of a beautiful woman called Gwen. Saturday - Dydd Sadwrn. |
The quetzal is the basic monetary unit of which country? | Quezal - definition of Quezal by The Free Dictionary Quezal - definition of Quezal by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Quezal Also found in: Thesaurus , Encyclopedia , Wikipedia . quet·zal (kĕt-säl′) n. pl. quet·zals or quet·za·les (-sä′lās) 1. Any of several tropical American birds of the genera Pharomachrus and Euptilotis having brilliant bronze-green and red plumage and, in the male, long flowing tail feathers, especially P. mocinno of Central America. 2. See Table at currency . [American Spanish, from Nahuatl quetzalli, large brilliant tail feather.] quetzal quezal n, pl -zals or -zales (-ˈsɑːlɛs) 1. (Animals) Also called: resplendent trogon a crested bird, Pharomachrus mocinno, of Central and N South America, which has a brilliant green, red, and white plumage and, in the male, long tail feathers: family Trogonidae, order Trogoniformes (trogons) 2. (Currencies) the standard monetary unit of Guatemala, divided into 100 centavos [via American Spanish from Nahuatl quetzalli brightly coloured tail feather] quet•zal (kɛ-) n., pl. -zals, -za•les (-ˈsɑ leɪs) 1. any of several large New World trogons of the genus Pharomachrus, esp. P. mocinno, of S Mexico and Central America, with golden-green and scarlet plumage and, in the male, greatly elongated tail coverts. 2. the basic monetary unit of Guatemala. [1820–30; < American Spanish < Nahuatl quetzalli plumage of the quetzal] ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: 1. quetzal - the basic unit of money in Guatemala; equal to 100 centavos centavo - a fractional monetary unit of several countries: El Salvador and Sao Tome and Principe and Brazil and Argentina and Bolivia and Colombia and Cuba and the Dominican Republic and Ecuador and El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico and Nicaragua and Peru and the Philippines and Portugal Guatemalan monetary unit - monetary unit in Guatemala 2. |
The East Siberian Sea lies in which body of water? | Map of East Siberian Sea, East Siberian Sea Location Facts, Major Bodies of Water, Russia - World Atlas Map of East Siberian Sea, East Siberian Sea Location Facts, Major Bodies of Water, Russia East Siberian Sea The East Siberian Sea, an arm of the Arctic Ocean, is located off the coastline of Siberia in far northeastern Russia. It is bordered by the Laptev Sea and the New Siberian Islands in the west, and by the Chukchi Sea and Russia's Wrangel Island in the east. The northern border (shown) is a mapping opinion of Graphic Maps. This shallow sea is frozen-solid for most of the year, and only navigable during the ice-free months of August and September. |
What is the collective name for a group of rhinos? | Animal Groups A pride of lions, a murder of crows, a crash of rhinos, and every other collective noun for animals. This is a listing of every animal congregation I could find after scouring the web. If you see any missing, let me know. |
British athlete Tessa Sanderson competed in which field event? | Tessa Sanderson Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com Related Olympians: Wife of Densign White . Medals: 1 Gold (1 Total) Biography A few months after Tessa Sanderson was born, her father went to England in search of work. When her mother joined him a year later, Tessa stayed in Jamaica where she was raised by her grandmother. In the spring of 1965, however, the nine-year-old Tessa was reunited with her parents, although her joy was tempered by the unattractive contrast between her tropical island home and the bleak industrial Midlands where Tessa's parents had settled. After some promising performances in schools competition, Tessa Sanderson joined the Wolverhampton & Bilston AC where, in addition to her obvious potential as a javelin thrower, she showed great promise as a pentathlete. In 1975 she won the first of her eight British javelin titles and the following year she improved the UK record three times before finishing tenth at the Montréal Olympic Games. In 1977, Tessa improved her personal best in the javelin by exactly 10 metres and moved into second place on the all-time list; she then confirmed her position in 1978 by taking the Commonwealth title and finishing second at the European Championships. Her ambitions received a severe setback when she failed to qualify for the final at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, but four years later she took the gold medal in Los Angeles to become the first British woman to win a throwing event at the Olympics. Although injury had prevented her from competing in the European and Commonwealth meets in 1982, she did win the Commonwealth title in 1986. But at the 1988 Olympics she was again handicapped by injury and did not qualify for the final. This was not to be her final Olympic appearance as she returned in 1992, where she narrowly missed a medal, and again at the age of 40 in Atlanta. As of 2011, she is the only British woman to compete at six Olympic Games. After winning her third Commonwealth gold in 1990, she won her eighth WAAA javelin title and earned a place on the team for the European Championships. Surprisingly, this was the first time she had competed in the European Championships since winning a silver medal in 1978, but in Split in 1990 she finished back in 12th place. During her career, Tessa Sanderson set ten UK javelin records, of which five were also Commonwealth bests, and in 1981 she twice posted new UK and Commonwealth records for the heptathlon. After her retirement from competition she founded the Tessa Sanderson Foundation and Academy, a charity which attempts to educate youngsters through sport, and also served as a vice-chair of Sport England. She is also a member of the board of the Olympic Park Legacy Company. Personal Bests: JTold – 73.58 (241-4½) (1983); Hep – 6125 (1981). Results |
Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury between 1980 and 1991? | Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury Holding an event at Lambeth Palace Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury 'One of his three tanks was knocked out by an anti-tank gun and set on fire. Runcie discovered that one of his men was trapped in the tank and went across open ground under enemy fire in order to pull out this remaining man who was unconscious. He succeeded in getting him out.' Citation for Gallantry for the Military Cross: March 1945 The 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury was born in 1921 in Crosby, Liverpool, the son of Robert Dalziel Runcie, a Scottish electrical engineer, and his wife Ann. Educated at Coronation Road council school in Liverpool, he won a scholarship to Oxford University and attended Brasenose College for a year before WWII intervened. He served with the Scots Guards, fighting across northern France and into Germany, being amongst the first British soldiers into the concentration camp at Belsen. In March 1945 he was awarded the Military Cross for bravery, rescuing, under fire, a wounded comrade from a burning tank and also for bravery whilst engaging the enemy. After the war he continued his studies, gaining a first in Greats at Oxford and then training for the ministry at Westcott House in Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1950, priest a year later and served two years as a curate in Gosforth, Tyneside, before returning to Westcott as chaplain. He was subsequently appointed Vice-Principal and in 1956 became Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, eventually being appointed Principal of Cuddesdon Theological College in Oxford in 1960. He became Bishop of St Albans in 1970 and ten years later was transferred to the See of Canterbury, the first Archbishop of Canterbury to result from the new Crown Appointments process which had been announced by Prime Minister Jim Callaghan in 1976. this was the first outworking of a process in which the views of the church were substantively taken into account. Runcie was a reluctant Archbishop, reportedly taking six weeks to give his answer to the offer. Runcie became the first Archbishop of Canterbury to host a visiting Pope. He had met John Paul II in Accra, when both were visiting Africa and when, in 1982 the Pope visited England, the photograph of the two leaders kneeling in prayer at the tomb of St Thomas a Becket sent shockwaves around the Protestant world. Shockwaves also went through the British establishment when, at the service to mark the conclusion of the war in the Falklands, he remembered the Argentinian war dead, much to the reported fury of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The international profile of the Church was also brought to the fore when the Archbishops' Envoy, Terry Waite, was kidnapped in 1987 during the last of a series of visits to the Lebanon, where he had played a role in the negotiations over the release of hostages. Waite's release did not come until 1991, well after Runcie's retirement. During Runcie's time, the General Synod of the church, only ten years old as he took up his appointment, began to flex its ecclesial and political muscles; debates focussed in on controversial issues including biblical morality and the state of the nation. In 1985 the Church published Faith in the City, the highly controversial report of a commission appointed by Runcie to look into urban life. The stark conclusions, charting decline and deprivation in the inner cities, proved almost too much for the political establishment which reacted furiously. The report was leaked, together with a semi-official government rejection as 'a Marxist document', to a Sunday newspaper in advance of publication. This was a move which immediately backfired, rallying considerable support for the recommendations, not only amongst politicians but many more who had some experience of inner city life. The Report's challenge was not only to politicians; the church was tasked with raising millions of pounds to be spent |
In medicine, belonephobia is an irrational fear of what? | Enetophobia at The Medical Dictionary Medicines The condition was officially recognized in 1994 in the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 4th edition) as a specific phobia of blood/injection/injury type. Phobic level responses to injections cause sufferers to avoid inoculations, blood tests and in the more severe cases, all medical care. It is estimated that at least ten percent of American adults are trypanophobic, and it is likely that the actual number is larger, as the most severe cases are never documented due to the tendency of the sufferer to simply avoid all medical treatment. Types of Trypanophobia Although trypanophobia is defined simply as an extreme fear of medically related shots/injections, it appears in several varieties. Vaso-Vagal Trypanophobia Although most specific phobias stem from the individual themselves, the most common type of trypanophobia, affecting fifty percent of trypanophobes, is an inherited reflex. Approximately 80 % of trypanophobes report that a relative within the first degree exhibits the same disorder. People who suffer from vaso-vagal trypanophobia fear the sight, thought or feeling of needles or needle-like objects. The primary symptom of vaso-vagal trypanophobia is vaso-vagal syncope, or fainting due to loss of blood pressure. The physiological changes associated with this type of trypanophobia also include feeling faint, sweating, nausea, pallor, tinnitus, panic attacks and initially high blood pressure and heart rate followed by a plunge in both at the moment of injection. In this case, the patient is more likely to react passively as opposed to aggressively. Although most phobias are dangerous to some degree, trypanophobia is one of the few that actually kills. In cases of severe trypanophobia, the drop in blood pressure caused by the vaso-vagal shock reflex causes death. The best treatment strategy for this type of trypanophobia is desensitization or the progressive exposure of the patient to gradually more frightening stimuli, allowing them to become desensitized to the stimulus that triggers the phobic response. Associative Trypanophobia Associative Trypanophobia is the second most common type of trypanophobia, affecting thirty percent of needle phobes. This type of trypanophobia is the classic specific phobia in which a traumatic event such as an extremely painful medical procedure or witnessing a family member or friend undergo such, causes the patient to associate all procedures involving needles with the original negative experience. This form of trypanophobia causes symptoms that are primarily psychological in nature, such as extreme unexplained anxiety, insomnia, preoccupation with the coming procedure and panic attacks. Treatments that are effective for this form of trypanophobia include cognitive therapy, hypnosis, and/or the administration of anti-anxiety medications. |
What type of creature is a kagu (or cagou)? | The kagu or cagou (Rhynochetos jubatus) is a crested, long-legged, and… Shared publicly - 2016-06-15 The kagu or cagou (Rhynochetos jubatus) is a crested, long-legged, and bluish-grey bird endemic to the dense mountain forests of New Caledonia. It is the only surviving member of the genus Rhynochetos and the family Rhynochetidae, although a second species has been described from the fossil record. Measuring 55 cm (22 in) in length, it has pale grey plumage and bright red legs. Its 'nasal corns' are a unique feature not shared with any other bird. Almost flightless, it spends its time on or near the ground, where it hunts its invertebrate prey, and builds a nest of sticks on the forest floor. Both parents share incubation of a single egg, as well as rearing the chick. It has proven vulnerable to introduced predators, and is threatened with extinction. |
A ‘Lace’ anniversary celebrates many years of marriage? | 13th Wedding Anniversary - Lace and Lingerie 13th Wedding Anniversary Lace is the traditional AND modern material so definitely a gift with lace in it, or with a lace them, is right on target. Great ideas for lace would be clothing, accessories like scarves, or a floral arrangement with Queen Anne's lace. Filigree lace jewelry would be a perfect match for the 13th anniversary! Lingerie can be a really fun and spicy gift for your wife, but do keep in mind that some women have mixed feelings about lingerie. Many love it, and some are ambivalent. A few might even dislike it. It would be impossible for us to tell you which category your wife fits into so our advice is, if you are unsure, test the water by getting her some fabulous lingerie as a second gift rather than the primary gift. If she loves it and wears it often, then you will know for future reference! For the couple, gifts might be decorative tablecloths, curtains, or other lacey home decor. For jewelry, either go with a lace design in any material or choose a piece with the alternate 13th anniversary modern materials of citrine, moonstone, or hawk's eye. Another option is blue lace agate or crazy lace agate which aren't traditional to the 13th anniversary but are certainly on theme with the lace name. Ultimately it's up to you and what piece you think your wife will most enjoy wearing. Fur is another alternate modern material, but please, only choose faux fur! Don't support what is quite often an unregulated, illegal poaching industry in foreign countries. Please only buy products that celebrate the beauty of Earth's creatures...alive! For gifts to give your husband, skip the lace. But you probably already figured that one out! :-) Move right on over to the alternate material textiles and get him a useful top he will love wearing, or another fabric gift with the logo of his favorite sports team, a trendy or funny t-shirt if that's his style, or other sports clothing that relate to one of his hobbies. |
Who was the father of English monarch Edward VI? | BBC - History - Edward VI z Edward VI © Edward was king of England for only a few years, and died at 15, but his short reign saw the full-scale introduction of Protestantism. Edward was born on 12 October 1537 at Hampton Court Palace, the only legitimate son of Henry VIII. Henry's desperation for a son had led him to divorce two wives, but Edward's mother, Henry's third wife Jane Seymour, died a few days after his birth. Edward was given a rigorous education and was intellectually precocious, although his health was never strong. Edward became king at the age of nine, when his father died in January 1547. His father had arranged that a council of regency should rule on his behalf, but Edward's uncle, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, took power and established himself as protector. Somerset and the archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, were intent on making England a truly Protestant state, supported by the young king. An English Prayer Book was issued in 1549 with an Act of Uniformity to enforce it. In the summer of 1549, peasants in the West Country revolted in protest against the Prayer Book. Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk was focused on economic and social injustices. At the same time, the French declared war on England. The Norfolk rebellion was suppressed by John Dudley, Earl of Warwick. In the atmosphere of uncertainty, Dudley exploited his success by bringing about the downfall of Somerset, who was arrested and later executed. Although Dudley, later duke of Northumberland, never took the title of protector, this is the role he now assumed. Protestant reform was stepped up - the new Prayer Book of 1552 was avowedly Protestant. Altars were turned into tables, religious imagery destroyed and religious orthodoxy was enforced by a new and more stringent Act of Uniformity. It soon became clear that Edward was suffering from tuberculosis and would not live long. Northumberland was determined that his religious reforms should not be undone, so he persuaded Edward to approve a new order of succession. This declared Mary illegitimate and passed the throne to Northumberland's daughter-in-law, Lady Jane Grey, who was a more distant descendant of Henry VIII. Edward died on 6 July 1553. However, Jane was only queen for a few days until, with overwhelming popular support, Mary took the throne. |
In 1785, the first crossing of which body of water was made by Francois Blanchard and John Jeffries using a hot air balloon? | Time Line In Depth Tutorials and Information Time Line 1000 b.c.e.: The Chinese invent kites which carried men to scout troops. 1162: Ismail Cevheri, in Constantinople, Turkey, tries to fly using pleated fabric wings. He plummets from the top of a tower and dies. 1250′s: The first suggestion of flight by lighter-than-air devices is made by the English philosopher and theologian Roger Bacon. 1300′s: Marco Polo witnesses kites carrying humans in China. 1490′s-1510′s: Leonardo da Vinci, the famed Italian painter, sculptor, and thinker, sketches out several designs for flying machines, including ornithopters, helicopters, and parachutes. 1536: Frenchman Denis Bolor dies trying to fly using wings flapped by a spring mechanism. 1640′s: In what is believed by some to be the first successful attempt at gliding flight, the Turkish scientist Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi attempted a flight inspired by Ismail Cevheri and Leonardo da Vinci. Celebi constructed a wing out of rush-work and leaped from the Galata tower in Istanbul into a strong headwind. He was witnessed by the Ottoman Sultan Murat IV and a crowd of citizens below to fly 1 mile across the Bosporus strait, but was later exiled and died at an early age. The incident is not given much historical credence today, but remains as the first eyewitness account of a successful manned flight. 1678: A French locksmith named Besnier tries to fly with wings modeled after the webbed feet of a duck. 1709: Father Bartolomeu de Gusmao demonstrates a model hot air balloon to King John V of Portugal. 1783: On June 4, the Montgolfier brothers launch the first successful tethered flight, a balloon propelled by burning a pile of moist wool and old shoes. Three months later, on September 19, their second trial, before King Louis XVI, carries passengers: a rooster, a duck, and a sheep. On November 21, the Montgolfiers construct a hot-air balloon that rises 84 feet into the air, containing human fliers, Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis Francois-Laurent d’Arlandes. 1783: On December 1, Jacques-Alexandre-Cesar Charles makes the first solo flight in a hot-air balloon, flying from Paris to Nesle, France. 1784: The French design a model helicopter. 1785: On June 15, De Rozier and a companion become hot-air ballooning’s first fatalities, after falling to their deaths when their hybrid hot-air-and-hydrogen balloon ignites over the English Channel. 1785: The first successful crossing of the English Channel by air is made by the French balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries, using a hydrogen balloon. The flight lasts almost 3 hours. 1793: French armies use tethered balloons to see several miles beyond enemy lines during the French Revolution. 1795: Jean-Pierre Blanchard makes the first balloon flight in America, traveling from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Gloucester County, New Jersey. President George Washington is one of the dignitaries on hand watching the launch of the hydrogen-filled balloon. It was Blanchard’s forty-fifth flight, and he charged up to five dollars per person to allow people to observe his takeoff in what is today Independence Square. 1797: Andre Jacques Garnerin completes the first parachute jump, leaping from a balloon approximately 2,000 feet in the air. 1799: Sir George Cayley develops the concept of the fixed-wing aircraft configuration that is still used to this day. 1804: Cayley builds and flies the first fixed-wing glider model. 1809: Marie Madeleine Sophie Blanchard, wife of balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard, becomes the first female to die during flight when her hydrogen balloon catches fire amid a fireworks display. 1840: The first photograph is taken of the Moon. 1845: The first photograph is taken of the Sun. 1850: The first photograph is taken of a star. 1852: Henri Giffard successfully attaches a steam engine and propeller to a cigar-shaped balloon to create the first airship. 1861-1864: Balloons are used for reconnaissance during the American Civil War, one of the first effective uses of military air power. 1868: Matthew Boulton obtains a |
How many coloured rings make up the Olympic Games symbol? | What Do the Olympic Rings Mean? | Mental Floss What Do the Olympic Rings Mean? Getty Images Like us on Facebook In 1894, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin—a French aristocrat and intellectual who had previously attempted to incorporate more physical education in schools—convened a congress in Paris with the goal of reviving the ancient Olympic Games (an idea Coubertin first introduced at a USFSA meeting in 1889). The congress agreed on proposals for a modern Olympics, and the International Olympic Committee was soon formalized and given the task of planning the 1896 Athens Games. After the 1912 Stockholm Games—the first Games featuring athletes from all five inhabited parts of the world—a design of five interlocked rings, drawn and colored by hand, appeared at the top of a letter Coubertin sent to a colleague. Coubertin used his ring design as the emblem of the IOC's 20th anniversary celebration in 1914. A year later, it became the official Olympic symbol. The rings were to be used on flags and signage at the 1916 Games, but those games were canceled because of the ongoing World War. The rings made a belated debut at the 1920 Games in Antwerp, Belgium. Coubertin explained his design in 1931: "A white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red ... is symbolic; it represents the five inhabited continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colors are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time." Coubertin used a loose interpretation of "continent" that included Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. He never said nor wrote that any specific ring represents a specific continent. Because the rings were originally designed as a logo for the IOC's 20th anniversary and only later became a symbol of the Olympics, it's also probable, according to historian David Young, that Coubertin originally thought of the rings as symbols of the five Games already successfully staged. ANCIENT RINGS? Popular myth (and an academic article) has it that the rings were inspired by a similar, ancient design found on a stone at Delphi, Greece. This "ancient" design, however, is really just a modern prop. For the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin, Carl Diem, president of the organizing committee, wanted to relay the Olympic Flame from its lighting point in Olympia to the Olympic stadium in Berlin. Diem, it seems, had a flair for theatrics, and included in the relay a stop at Delphi's ancient stadium for a faux-ancient Greek torchbearers' ceremony complete with a faux-ancient, 3-foot-tall stone altar with the modern ring design chiseled into its sides. After the ceremony, the torch runners went on their way, but no one ever removed the stone from the stadium. Two decades later, British researchers visiting Delphi noticed the ring design on the stone. They concluded that the stone was an ancient altar, and thought the ring design had been used in ancient Greece and now formed "a link between ancient and modern Olympics." The real story behind the altar was later revealed, and "Carl Diem's Stone" was moved from the stadium and placed near the ticketed entrance to the historic site. The inspiration for Coubertin's design seems to be a little more modern. Four years before he convened his Olympic congress, he had become president of the French sports-governing body, the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA). The Union was formed from the merging of two smaller sporting bodies, and to symbolize this, a logo of two interlocking rings—one red and one blue, on a white background—was created and displayed on the uniforms of USFSA athletes. "It seems quite obvious," says historian Robert Barney in a 1992 Olympic Revue article, "that Coubertin's affiliation with the USFSA led him to think in terms of interlocked rings or circles when he applied his mind towards conceiving a logo ... indeed, a ring-logo that would symbolize his Olympic Movement's success up to that point in time.... Circles, after all, connote wholeness, the interlocking of |
‘Prince Caspian’, ‘The Magician’s Nephew’ and ‘The Silver Chair’ are all books from which series? | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew/The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe/The Horse and His Boy/Prince Caspian/Voyage of the Dawn Treader/The Silver Chair/The Last Battle: C. S. Lewis: 9780064405379: Amazon.com: Books By Tom Croft on November 6, 2013 Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase I wanted to have all seven Chronicles-of-Narnia books in a single ebook, and that's exactly what this product delivers. When I pre-ordered this item several months in advance, I was fortunate enough to find it on sale for $12--a real bargain. Upon its release, it was priced at $44.99, which I think is high for a digital box set like this. Fortunately, the price recently dropped to $24.99, which is a decent buy. By comparison, one can currently acquire the seven separate books at $5.98 each and spend just under $42 (not counting any sales tax that might apply). Of course, someone who really wants Boxen (not of interest to me) would still have to get that somewhere else. Based on the publisher's description of this box set, I was afraid there wouldn't be any illustrations at all. I was pleased to discover that the publisher included one illustration at the beginning of each chapter in each book. The other in-line illustrations found throughout the text of the individual ebooks were omitted in this edition, which is aimed at older readers, according to the publisher. I was glad that at least some of the illustrations were included in this edition. However, since I would have preferred that this edition include all of the same illustrations as the seven separate ebooks, I have taken away one star. If you are a Narnia fan and, like me, prefer to have collections of related books in a single ebook to reduce the clutter on your Kindle, I recommend this edition--so long as you don't mind that not all of the illustrations are included. If you're an older reader like me and just want a nice, convenient way to re-read the Chronicles of Narnia, this should meet that need quite nicely. Read more › |
The paint calcamine (or kalsomine) is better known by what name? | Calcimine | Define Calcimine at Dictionary.com calcimine [kal-suh-mahyn, -min] /ˈkæl səˌmaɪn, -mɪn/ Spell a white or tinted wash for walls, ceilings, etc. verb (used with object), calcimined, calcimining. 2. to wash or cover with calcimine. Origin of calcimine Examples from the Web for calcimine Expand Science in the Kitchen. Mrs. E. E. Kellogg If he was tight-fisted wanst, he was as close now as calcimine on a rough-finished wall. Educational Toys Louis C. Petersen British Dictionary definitions for calcimine Expand a white or pale tinted wash for walls verb (transitive) to cover with calcimine Word Origin C19: changed from Kalsomine, a trademark Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
In which sport would a referee say ‘Crouch, Bind, Set’? | 'Crouch, bind, set' - scrum laws change again | Stuff.co.nz 'Crouch, bind, set' - scrum laws change again AARON GOILE The IRB will trial a new scrum engagement process from 2015. Relevant offers Rugby Waratahs' Israel Folau wants to wear maroon in a rugby union Origin United States sevens captain Jillion Potter to battle rare form of cancer for second time Fiji men's sevens up for world breakthrough award despite coaching snub at home England rugby prop Joe Marler to miss Six Nations start with broken leg The frustration of reset scrums is set to diminish, and there will be harsher policing of crooked feeds, with the International Rugby Board announcing a new engagement process to be trialled globally. A new 'crouch, bind, set' sequence will be used by referees to set the scrum, designed to enhance player welfare by reducing impact on engagement by up to 25 per cent at elite level. While the changes were set to be in place in both hemispheres' following seasons, the New Zealand Rugby Union will implement the new laws in this year's ITM Cup in order for players to come to grips with the tweaks ahead of the All Blacks' end of year tour to Europe. It is also likely that they will feature in this year's Rugby Championship. In a revision of the current ''crouch, touch, set'' engagement sequence currently being trialled, props will be expected to bind onto, instead of simply touching, their opponent, after the referee has called ''bind''. The front rows will maintain the bind until the referee calls ''set'', when the packs engage. Implementation of this trial follows extensive evaluation of the sequence during the recent IRB Pacific Rugby Cup, which indicated the possible delivery of a more stable platform leading to fewer resets and more successful scrums. The process was overseen and recommended to the IRB Council by the specialist IRB Scrum Steering Group, which featured 12 scrum experts, including New Zealand guru Mike Cron, after a process of testing and analysis at all levels of the game by the University of Bath in conjunction with England's RFU. IRB Chairman Bernard Lapasset acknowledged that the scrum was a ''fundamental and dynamic'' part of the game and said the trial was about putting players first by delivering a reduction of the forces on engagement at elite level, which could have significant positive effects on long-term player welfare. ''The global implementation of this trial is a positive step, which will be subject to continual monitoring and evaluation,'' Lapasset said. As a follow-on from this, there will be a bigger emphasis on the ball being fed straight into the scrum - a bugbear of many traditionalists - because the modifications should lead to stronger scrummagers who are technically more efficient at contesting. South Africa introduced the new scrum sequence into their school and amateur rugby at the start of the year, foreseeing that it would be introduced to the professional game in due course. A game-wide educational process featuring coach and match official workshops will be rolled out ahead of the trial. Currently there are five prospective law changes being trialled, as well as the one extending the TMO's powers to rule on field of play incidents, and these will be considered by the IRB Council at its annual meeting next year. The new scrum engagement trial will be before the Council at its interim meeting next year. Any amendments that are approved will be in place a year ahead of Rugby World Cup 2015. - Below is a YouTube video of the proposed new scrums in action |
Author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is better known by what name? | Lewis Carroll (Author of Alice in Wonderland) Children's , Poetry , Fiction Influences edit data The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses. He also has works published under his re The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses. He also has works published under his real name. For more information, please see http://www.answers.com/topic/lewis-ca... ...more |
Vermicide is a substance used for killing which creatures? | Vermicide - definition of vermicide by The Free Dictionary Vermicide - definition of vermicide by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/vermicide A substance or agent used to kill worms, especially parasitic worms. ver′mi·cid′al (-sīd′l) adj. vermicide (Elements & Compounds) any substance used to kill worms ˌvermiˈcidal adj a substance used to kill worms. vermicide 1. vermicide - an agent that kills worms (especially those in the intestines) medicament , medication , medicinal drug , medicine - (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease agent - a substance that exerts some force or effect Translations n → Wurmmittel nt, → Vermizid nt (spec) ver·mi·cide n. vermicida, vermífugo, agente destructor de vermes (gusanos). 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: Nigella sativa treditional usages (Black seed) Some indications are concerned with the expected effects while using the medicine as in cases used as purging, soothing and vermicide. Medicinal plants used by Ponta Pora community, Mato Grosso do Sul State/Levantamento etnobotanico em Ponta Pora, Estado do Mato Grosso do Sul Plant name Part used Medical utilization Rubia cordifolia Root Anti-inflammatory activity (Manjistha) (Ext), skin diseases and ulcers Sphaeranthus Leaves Skin diseases, antihelminthic, indicus Branches aphrodisiac and stomachache (Gorkha Mundi) Aloe vera Leaves Burns (minor), mouth ulcers, (Aloe) diabetes, wound healing (topical), Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis Azadirachra Leaves Skin disease, boils, indica (Neem) Bark antibacterial activity Curcuma longa Root Root Antiseptic, stomachache, (Haldi or blood purifier, vermicide, Turmeric) carminative and tonic Hemidesmus Root Skin disease and blood indicus purifier (Sarsaparilla or Anant mul) Table 2 Inhibitory effect of the aqueous plant extracts on production of IL-8 and TNF-[alpha] by human PBMCs. |
Miss Gatsby and Miss Tibbs were two elderly residents in which UK tv sitcom? | BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Sitcom quiz Sitcom quiz Sitcom quiz Taking a shameless cue from that fine television institution, University Challenge, here is the Magazine's midweek quiz. Students on the BBC quiz were asked to identify characters from British sitcoms. Can you do any better? 1.) Sitcom quiz Where would you have found Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby? Renting a room in Rising Damp Staying at Fawlty Towers Cats in Bless This House 2.) Sitcom quiz In Sorry! Timothy Lumsden was still tied to his mother's apron strings despite being in his 40s. He eventually found love, but what was his girlfriend's name? Pippa Where did Terry and June live? Purley Hampton Wick 4.) Sitcom quiz What was the surname of Bob (on the left) in the 1960s hit, The Likely Lads? Scarborough Ferris 5.) Sitcom quiz James Bolam also played long-term NHS hospital bed occupant Roy Figgis in Only When I Laugh. Who was the doctor he dreaded seeing? Dr Michael Upton In One Foot in the Grave, what had been Victor Meldrew's job before retirement? Librarian Security guard 7.) Sitcom quiz And on a similar note, what did Tom do in the Good Life before turning his back on the rat race? Fridge fitter Where do George and Anthea appear together? Vicar of Dibley Who was bus driver Stan Butler's lecherous sidekick in On The Buses? Jack Harper Many sitcoms feature an annoying neighbour, but which had the particularly irritating Jeffrey Fourmile? Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps George and Mildred Keeping Up Appearances Answers It's staying at Fawlty Towers. The hard-of-hearing old ladies, played by Gilly Flower and Renee Robert, were permanent residents of the hotel and often the subject of Basil Fawlty's sarcasm. It was Pippa. Timothy Lumsden, played by Ronnie Corbett, left home in the last episode to be with her. Muriel was his sister and Annette a former love interest. They lived in Purley's Popular Avenue, on the outskirts of south London. Surbiton was where Tom and Barbara lived in The Good Life and Hampton Wick was George and Mildred's hometown. It's Ferris. His full name, which was not revealed until Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads in the 1970s, was Robert Andrew Scarborough Ferris. Collier was the surname of his co-star Terry, played by James Bolam. It's Dr Gordon Thorpe, who was played by Richard Wilson. Michael Upton was a junior doctor in the sitcom Doctor in the House and Geoffrey Loftus an ill-tempered surgeon. He was a security guard. In the first episode, he lost the job and was replaced by an automated machine. He was a draughtsman for a company that makes plastic toys for cereal packets, but he packed in his job on his 40th birthday for a self-sufficient life. It's in Men Behaving Badly. George and Anthea work for Gary and drive him mad with their old-fashioned approach to life. It was bus conductor Jack Harper. Arthur Rudge was his brother-in-law. It's George and Mildred. Jeffrey is an estate agent who turns his nose up at George. Your Score |
‘The Angel of the North’ is the work of which British sculptor? | The Angel of the North - definition of The Angel of the North by The Free Dictionary The Angel of the North - definition of The Angel of the North by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/The+Angel+of+the+North (redirected from The Angel of the North) Also found in: Wikipedia . Angel of the North n 1. (Named Buildings) a steel sculpture of an angel with outstretched wings, created in 1998 by British sculptor Antony Gormley, which stands on a hilltop outside Gateshead, NE England. It stands 20 m (85 ft) high and has a wingspan of 54 m (175 ft) 2. (Architecture) a steel sculpture of an angel with outstretched wings, created in 1998 by British sculptor Antony Gormley, which stands on a hilltop outside Gateshead, NE England. It stands 20 m (85 ft) high and has a wingspan of 54 m (175 ft) |
Who was US actor Mickey Rooney’s first wife? | Mickey Rooney: 9 Wives - Much-married celebs - Pictures - CBS News Next Mickey Rooney: 9 Wives Actor Mickey Rooney and his wife, Jan, arrive at the 81st Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, Calif. on Feb. 22, 2009. Although Jan is the actor's ninth wife, the former child star has been married to her since 1978, longer than all his other marriages combined. Rooney's first marriage was in 1942 to Hollywood actress Ava Gardner. It ended in divorce as did all his other marriages except the one to Barbara Ann Thompson, who was murdered in 1966. Credit: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images Zsa Zsa Gabor: 9 Husbands Ailing actress Zsa Zsa Gabor had eight husbands before she wed Prince Frederic von Anhalt in 1986, who has been at her bedside during her recent illnesses. The Hungarian-born star took her first husband when she was 20 in 1937. Her ex-husbands included the late Conrad Hilton, great-grandfather of Paris Hilton and founder of the Hilton hotel chain. She had her only child, a daughter, with Hilton. Her first seven marriages ended in divorce; her marriage to her eighth husband, Mexican attorney Felipe de Alba, was annulled, reportedly because her previous marriage was not properly ended. One of three famous sisters, Gabor apparently came from a marrying family. Her sister Eva took five trips down the aisle. Credit: AP Elizabeth Taylor: 7 Husbands Academy Award-winning actress Elizabeth Taylor, who died in 2011, was married eight times but had only seven husbands. She was married twice (in 1964 and 1975) to fellow actor Richard Burton whom she met on the set of "Cleopatra" while both were married to others. She took her first husband, Conrad Hilton Jr. (the hotel founder's son) when she was 18. She also was married to actor Michael Wilding, producer Mike Tiodd, singer Eddie Fisher, Sen. John Warner and construction worker Larry Fortensky. Todd was killed in a plane crash; the other marriages ended in divorce. Credit: AP Photo/Christie's Larry King: 7 Wives Talk show host Larry King answers reporters' question at a press conference for Seoul Digital Forum in Seoul, South Korea, May 25, 2011. He has been married eight times to seven different women, His current wife, singer Shawn Southwick, filed for divorce in 2010 but later withdrew the suit when the two reconciled. King was just 18 when he made his first trip down the aisle in 1951 with his high school sweetheart in a marriage that later was annulled. He was to repeat that journey seven more times with six other women. Former Playboy bunny Alene Akins was both his third and fifth wife. Credit: AP Photo/Lee Jin-man Lana Turner: 7 Husbands Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner dance in a scene from Vincente Minnelli's 1953 film "The Bad and the Beautiful." The actress, who died in 1995 at age 75, was married and divorced eight times between 1940, when she took her first husband, bandleader Artie Shaw, and 1972, when she divorced seventh husband Ronald Pellar. Her marriage to second husband Stephen Crane was annulled after just a few months and was followed a month later by a second wedding to him. He was the father of her only child. Credit: AP Photo Jerry Lee Lewis: 7 Wives Jerry Lee Lewis, a rock 'n' roll pioneer, has been married seven times, including once to a 13-year-old first cousin. The backlash from that marriage - his third - almost killed his career. Lewis has said in interviews he was 14 when he first married and his wife was 17. His fourth wife drowned in a swimming pool and his fifth wife died of a methadone overdose. He was divorced from the others, except for his current wife, Judith Brown, whom he married in March of 2012. Credit: Noel Vasquez/Getty Images Gregg Allman: 6 Wives Musician Gregg Allman, founding member of the Allman Brothers band, has had six wives, including singer/actress Cher, with whom he had a son, Elijah Blue. Allman, who writes about his marriages and ex-wives, in his new memoir "My Cross to Bear," has announced his engagement to Shannon Williams, a woman 40 years his junior. Credit: Toby Canham/Getty Images Rex Harrison: 6 Wi |
In which US state were the 1692 Witch Trials held? | Before Salem, the First American Witch Hunt - History in the Headlines Before Salem, the First American Witch Hunt October 31, 2012 By Christopher Klein Share Get the real story behind witches, their hats and why they are said to ride on brooms. Share this: Before Salem, the First American Witch Hunt Author Before Salem, the First American Witch Hunt URL Google Thirty years before the infamous Salem witch trials, America’s first witch hunt hysteria swept through another colonial New England town. Find out about the accusations and trials that rattled Hartford, Connecticut, in 1662. In late March 1662, John and Bethia Kelly grieved over the body of their 8-year-old daughter inside their Hartford, Connecticut, home. Little Elizabeth had been fine just days before when she returned home with a neighbor, Goodwife Ayres. The distraught parents, grasping at any explanation for their loss, saw the hand of the devil at work. The parents were convinced that Elizabeth had been fatally possessed by Goody Ayres. The Kellys testified that their daughter first took ill the night after she returned home with her neighbor, and that she exclaimed, “Father! Father! Help me, help me! Goodwife Ayres is upon me. She chokes me. She kneels on my belly. She will break my bowels. She pinches me. She will make me black and blue.” After Elizabeth’s death, accusations of bewitchment flew, and fingers were pointed at numerous townspeople. Hysteria gripped Hartford, a town that a generation before had witnessed the first execution of a suspected witch in the American colonies. Alse (Alice) Young of Windsor, Connecticut, was sent to the gallows erected in Hartford’s Meeting House Square, now the site of Connecticut’s Old State House, on May 26, 1647. Witchcraft was one of 12 capital crimes decreed by Connecticut’s colonial government in 1642. The legal precedent cited by the devoutly Puritan colonists was of a divinely higher order: biblical passages such as Exodus 22:18 (“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live”) and Leviticus 20:27 (“A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death”). After Young’s public hanging, at least five other Connecticut residents met a similar fate. However, it was in Hartford in 1662, 30 years before the infamous Salem witch trials, that a witch hunt hysteria took hold, resulting in seven trials and four executions. Shortly after Elizabeth Kelly’s death, the pious Ann Cole suddenly became “afflicted,” shaking violently and spouting blasphemy. According to one contemporary account, Cole was “taken with strange fits, wherein she (or rather the devil, as ‘tis judged, making use of her lips) held a discourse for a considerable time.” Cole blamed her bewitchment on neighbor Rebecca Greensmith, described by one townsperson as “a lewd, ignorant, considerably aged woman,” and others already suspected of witchcraft in the Kelly case. The accused began to accuse others, and even their spouses, of being the true witches. In what became a vicious circle, neighbors began testifying against neighbors. Goody Ayres’ husband, perhaps in an attempt to save his wife, joined in the chorus of Greensmith’s accusers. The most damning testimony supposedly came from Greensmith herself, who reportedly admitted to having “familiarity with the devil” and said that “at Christmas they would have a merry meeting” to form a covenant. Greensmith implicated her husband and said she had met in the woods with seven other witches, including Goody Ayres, Mary Sanford and Elizabeth Seager. Neighbors testified that they saw Seager dancing with other women in the woods and cooking mysterious concoctions in black kettles. Two of the suspects, likely the Greensmiths, were subjected to the swimming test in which their hands and feet were bound and they were cast into the water to test the theory that witches are unable to sink. After they were tried, the Greensmiths were indicted “for not having the fear of God before thine eyes; thou hast entertained familiarity with Satan the grand enemy of God and mankind and by his |
In the Harry Potter series of books, what is the name of Hermoine Granger’s cat? | Crookshanks | Harry Potter Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia "There's something funny about that animal! It heard me say that Scabbers was in my bag!" —Ron after one of Crookshanks' failed attempts to catch Scabbers [src] Hermione holding Crookshanks on the Hogwarts Express Crookshanks played an instrumental part in Sirius Black 's attempts to enter Hogwarts Castle for the purpose of procuring Peter Pettigrew , who was masquerading as Scabbers , Ron Weasley 's beloved pet rat. Crookshanks immediately took a disliking to Scabbers, (perhaps because he was half- kneazle and could detect frauds) trying to attack him through Ron's clothes the first time they met. Afterwards, Crookshanks independently sought Scabbers out, causing the rat to seek hiding places. When Scabbers took off to hide in Rubeus Hagrid 's hut, Ron was convinced that Crookshanks had eaten him. This caused a row with Hermione, until he was found at Hagrid's. Events of 6 June, 1994 Crookshanks met Sirius Black in his Animagus form of Padfoot on the Hogwarts grounds several times, and stole the passwords to Gryffindor Tower from Neville Longbottom to help him get into the castle. Crookshanks helped Sirius lure Harry, Ron, and Hermione into the Shrieking Shack . During the scuffle between Harry and Sirius, Crookshanks attempted both to steal Harry's wand and attack Harry, and when both failed, set himself over Sirius' heart. The hesitation that Harry felt gave enough time for Professor Remus Lupin to arrive. Ron allows Crookshanks to sniff his tiny owl Crookshanks led the way back through the tunnels. However, when Lupin transformed into a werewolf , Pettigrew stole Lupin's wand and stunned both Ron and Crookshanks, escaping. After all this, Ron accepted Crookshanks as a remarkable animal companion, asking for his 'judgement' of the small owl that Sirius had offered to him as compensation for the loss of Scabbers to confirm that the owl wasn't another Animagus . [3] Crookshanks did not react to the tiny owl, therefore it was decided that there was nothing wrong with it. 1994-1995 Crookshanks curled up on Hermione's lap in the Gryffindor Common Room Crookshanks soon became more friendly to others; for example, he once curled up in Harry Potter 's lap when Harry was waiting to hear from Sirius. However, he still remained unusually perceptive and disapproving of bad behaviour, judging by how he stared at Harry and Ron while they made up answers for their Divination homework. [4] Ginny Weasley (who Ron claimed was a great lover of cats [5] ) seemed fond of Crookshanks; she enjoyed playing with him, and was able to coax him out in the kitchen of Grimmauld Place during an Order of the Phoenix meeting, rolling butter beer corks for him to catch. [6] Second Wizarding War During the height of the Second Wizarding War , Hermione and Crookshanks came to stay at the Burrow , but Hermione left with Harry and Ron after Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour 's wedding reception was interrupted by Death Eaters . [7] It is unknown what happened to Crookshanks while Hermione was searching for Horcruxes ; most likely, he stayed in the Weasley's care, given Ginny's fondness of cats. Alternately, he may have left the Weasley household alone. Physical appearance |
In Greek mythology, who murdered Glauce, the bride of Jason, on their wedding day? | Glauce | Definition, meaning & more | Collins Dictionary Definitions noun Greek mythology 1. the second bride of Jason , murdered on her wedding day by Medea , whom Jason had deserted 2. a sea nymph , one of the Nereids Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers |
Which English Premier League football club has the motto ‘Nil Satis Nisi Optimum’ (Nothing but the best is good enough)? | Everton Football Club (Soccer) Cufflinks : Cuffed.com.au Everton Football Club (Soccer) Cufflinks / Everton Football Club (Soccer) Cufflinks Founded in 1878 Everton F.C. is an English Premier League football club. Their current crest contains their inspiring motto “Nil Satis Nisi Optimum” meaning “nothing but the best is good enough”. The cufflinks are the real deal and come presented in the club’s official merchandise box and packaging. |
Which UK comedy series featured the characters Eccles, Bloodnok and Bluebottle? | BBC - Comedy - The Goon Show The Goon Show The Goon Show This is the programme that set Spike Milligan on the path to comic iconhood, Peter Sellers on the road to stardom, Michael Bentine on the crazy paving to 'Potty Time' and Harry Secombe on the highway to... er... 'Highway'. It also provided uproarious silliness to millions and gave generations of writers and gave performers from Monty Python to Eddie Izzard licence to smash down (comic) conventions. Like many other great comics of the period, Milligan, Sellers, Secombe and Bentine developed their performing skills during service in World War II. After the war they met while scrabbling around for work in London, becoming regulars at "The Grafton Arms" whose landlord, Jimmy Grafton, put them in touch with the BBC. By 1951 they had convinced the Beeb to let them put on the show that would launch comedy on a new path and hundreds of silly voices on a nation. Driven by the (literally) manic energy of Milligan's scripts and a shared sense of humour, The Goon Show was unlike anything ever heard before. Initially it was a series of sketches, featuring a cast of regular characters and running under the title "Those Crazy People" (the BBC didn't understand the term "goon", which Milligan had taken from 1930s "Popeye" comics). By the time of Bentine's departure at the end of series two, however, the familiar format of ludicrous plots, surreal humour ("What time is it Eccles?", "Just a minute. I've got it written down on a piece of paper"), dreadful puns (many of them old army favourites, like the character of Hugh Jampton, permanently excused shorts), catchphrases ("Have a gorilla", "No, I only smoke baboons") and weird sound effects, all interspersed with musical intervals, was firmly in place. Plots were usually surreal romps through old standbys such as spy drama, murder mystery and wartime heroics, with titles like "The Toothpaste Expedition", "The International Christmas Pudding" and "The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea" giving a flavour of the liberties Milligan was willing to take with such material. It was the characters, though, that made the show, from innocent Neddie Seagoon (Secombe) to the idiotic Eccles ([Sings] "I talk to the trees... that's why they put me away") and ancient Minnie Bannister ("we'll all be murdered in our beds") (both Milligan) to suave villain Grytpype-Thynne, military-man-on-the-make Major Bloodnok ("Moneyyyyyyy!") and, of course, squeaky-voiced boyscout Bluebottle ("Enter Bluebottle wearing string and cardboard pyjamas. Waits for audience applause. Not a sausage") (all Sellers). The programme ran for 10 years, with most of its 200-plus episodes written by Milligan (often assisted by Eric Sykes and John Antrobus among others), who was driven to a nervous breakdown at one stage by the weekly pressure of producing a script. Since the programme ended in 1960 it has been in constant demand as a repeat and has been broadcast all over the globe. 60 years after it started it retains the power to reduce audiences to helpless laughter; no comedy could ask for more. Cast |
What is the cube root of 729? | Cube Root Calculator Cube Root Calculator Share this Calculator & Page Calculator Use Use this calculator to find the cube root of positive or negative numbers. Given a number x, the cube root of x is a number a such that a3 = x. If x positive a will be positive, if x is negative a will be negative. Cube roots is a specialized form of our common radicals calculator . Example Cube Roots: The 3rd root of 64, or 64 radical 3, or the cube root of 64 is written as \( \sqrt[3]{64} = 4 \). The 3rd root of -64, or -64 radical 3, or the cube root of -64 is written as \( \sqrt[3]{-64} = -4 \). The cube root of 8 is written as \( \sqrt[3]{8} = 2 \). The cube root of 10 is written as \( \sqrt[3]{10} = 2.154435 \). The cube root of x is the same as x raised to the 1/3 power. Written as \( \sqrt[3]{x} = x^{\frac{1}{3}} \). The common definition of the cube root of a negative number is that (-x)1/3 = -(x1/3).[1] For example: The cube root of -27 is written as \( \sqrt[3]{-27} = -3 \). The cube root of -8 is written as \( \sqrt[3]{-8} = -2 \). The cube root of -64 is written as \( \sqrt[3]{-64} = -4 \). Cube roots (for integer results 1 through 10) Cube root of 1 is 1 Cube root of 8 is 2 Cube root of 27 is 3 Cube root of 64 is 4 Cube root of 125 is 5 Cube root of 216 is 6 Cube root of 343 is 7 Cube root of 512 is 8 Cube root of 729 is 9 Cube root of 1000 is 10 To calculate fractional exponents use our calculator for Fractional Exponents . References [1] Weisstein, Eric W. "Square Root." From MathWorld -- A Wolfram Web Resource. Cube Root Additional reading on cube roots: |
A hexagon is a plane figure with how many sides and angles? | What is a six-sided figure called? | Reference.com What is a six-sided figure called? A: Quick Answer A 6-sided polygon is called a hexagon. A polygon is any closed figure with 3 or more sides and angles. Every polygon from 3 to 20 has a name. Polygons with 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100 sides have names, as well. Full Answer Polygons with 3 to 12 sides, excluding 9 and 11, have commonly used names. A 3-sided polygon is a triangle, and a 4-sided polygon is a quadrilateral. A 5-sided polygon is a pentagon, and a polygon with 7 sides is a heptagon. A polygon with 8 sides is known as an octagon, and a 10-sided polygon is a decagon, while a 12-sided polygon is a dodecagon. The names of polygons with more than 12 sides exist but are less commonly used. |
Chopin Airport is in which European city? | New railway link between Chopin Airport and the city centre is open - European Railway Review You are here: Home » Rail industry news » New railway link between Chopin Airport and the city centre is open New railway link between Chopin Airport and the city centre is open 18 June 2012 • Author: Warsaw Chopin Airport The beginning of June saw the opening of a railway line connecting Chopin Airport with central Warsaw. The convenient journey takes around 25 minutes. The train connection to the airport has been long awaited. Work began in 2006 with a major repair of an 8-kilometre track section between Warszawa Zachodnia and Warszawa Okęcie stations and the construction of two new stops, serving the newly built housing estates nearby. The next step was to build a two-track link between Warszawa Służewiec station to the underground railway station at Chopin Airport. The link is over two kilometres long with nearly 1200 metres running below ground. More than 50,000 cubic metres of concrete and 9,200 tonnes of steel were used in the process and 15 thousand trucks worth of soil was removed. “The construction of the underground tunnel presented a number of challenges. For example, we came across the remains of a 19th century Russian fort, which wasn’t shown on any map. Another problem was posed by finding soil contaminated with diesel fuel, which had to be safely utilized,” explains Maciej Dutkiewicz, the spokesman for Polish Railways Development Projects Centre. Along with the construction of the rail link, extensive safety improvements were made, most notably building a dedicated traction substation and switch tower. The work also involved modernisation of Warszawa Służewiec stop. The whole project was worth 366 million zlotys and was partly financed by the European Union. The new line, which was opened on 1 June, is able to serve up to six pairs of trains an hour, which gives a total capacity of more than 10,000 passengers. “It’s a big day for us. The railway link is the most convenient way of getting to and from the city for passengers using Chopin Airport. I’m glad it’s finally ready,” said Michał Marzec, the airport’s director. During the morning and afternoon rush hours, trains from the airport to the city centre run every 10-12 minutes and outside rush hours every 15 minutes. The journey from Chopin Airport to Warszawa Centralna station takes about 25 minutes. The service is operated by two companies: Szybka Kolej Miejska (Fast Urban Railway) and Koleje Mazowieckie (Masovian Railways). The operators accept both types of tickets, which means that all public transport tickets, including single-fare, short-term and unlimited ride tickets, are valid on Koleje Mazowieckie trains (on the Chopin Airport – Warszawa Wschodnia section), and Koleje Mazowieckie tickets are good on SKM trains – on the same section. Tickets for a ride from the airport to the city centre are sold at every newsstand and at ticket machines at the station or on trains. Tickets for other routes, priced as per the operators’ tariff, are available from ticket machines or at ticket windows at most railway stations. Related rail topics |
Who played Hannah in the 1986 film ‘Hannah and Her Sisters’? | Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) - 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 Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) PG-13 | Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly. Director: Visit IMDb Picks Related News a list of 25 titles created 26 Feb 2011 a list of 43 titles created 31 Jan 2013 a list of 22 titles created 30 Jul 2013 a list of 37 titles created 02 Jan 2015 a list of 47 titles created 05 Apr 2015 Title: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) 8/10 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 3 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 26 nominations. See more awards » Videos An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman. Director: Woody Allen The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress. Director: Woody Allen In New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world. Director: Woody Allen In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster. Director: Woody Allen "Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people. Director: Woody Allen In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon. Director: Woody Allen When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage. Director: Woody Allen A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium. Director: Woody Allen Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall. Director: Woody Allen A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead. Director: Woody Allen In New York in 1928, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced. Director: Woody Allen A wacky inventor and his wife invite two other couples for a weekend party at a romantic summer house in the 1900s countryside. Director: Woody Allen Edit Storyline During a Thanksgiving Day party we make acquaintance with a numerous and problematic family. The leading characters are three sisters: Lee, the woman of Frederick, an old misanthrope painter; Holly, who dreams of becoming a writer, or an actress, or who knows who...; Hannah, famous actress, beautiful, intelligent, good mother, good wife, good sister, in short perfect, the pivot of the family. The balance begins to break up when Hannah's husband, Elliot, falls in love with Lee, who leaves Frederick. Holly goes through a deep crisis and meets Mickey, the former husband of Hannah, a hypochondriac TV producer. The affairs evolve and at the last Thanksgiving ... Written by Maurizio Semolic <[email protected]> 14 March 1986 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Hannah y sus hermanas See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia This is the only film that Mia Farrow (Hannah) and her mother Maureen O'Sullivan (Norma) made together. See more » Goofs The stereo receiver in Frederick's apartment plays music, but there are no speaker wires hooked up to it. See more » Quotes [first lines] Elliot : God, she's beautiful. She's got the prettiest eyes. She looks so sexy in that sweater. I just want to be alone with her and hold her and kiss her and tell her how much I love her and take care of her. Stop it you idiot, she's your wife's sister. But I can't help it. I'm consumed by her. It's been months now. I dream ab |
‘The Divine Miss M’ was the debut album of which US singer? | Bette Midler - Biography - IMDb Bette Midler Biography Showing all 87 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trivia (33) | Personal Quotes (46) | Salary (2) Overview (4) 5' 1" (1.55 m) Mini Bio (1) Multi Grammy Award-winning singer/comedienne/author Bette Midler has also proven herself to be a very capable actress in a string of both dramatic and comedic roles. Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 1, 1945. She is the daughter of Ruth (Schindel), a seamstress, and Fred Midler, a painter. Her parents, originally from New Jersey, were both from Jewish immigrant families (from Russia, Poland, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire). Midler studied drama at the University of Hawaii and got her musical career started by performing in gay bathhouses with piano accompaniment from Barry Manilow . Her first album was "The Divine Miss M" released in November 1972, followed by the self-titled "Bette Midler" released in November 1973, both of which took off up the music charts, and Bette's popularity swiftly escalated from there. After minor roles in several film/TV productions, she surprised all with her knockout performance of a hard-living rock-and-roll singer (loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin ) in The Rose (1979), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 1986, director Paul Mazursky cast Midler opposite Nick Nolte and Richard Dreyfuss in the hilarious Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), and so began a string of very funny comedic film roles. She played an obnoxious wife who was the victim of a kidnap plot by her scoundrel husband, played by Danny DeVito , in Ruthless People (1986), was pursued by CIA and KGB spies in Outrageous Fortune (1987), played mismatched twins with Lily Tomlin in Big Business (1988) and shone in the tear-jerker Beaches (1988). Bette matched feisty James Caan in the WWII drama For the Boys (1991), made a dynamic trio with Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton in The First Wives Club (1996), was back on screen with DeVito for the tepid comedy Drowning Mona (2000) and turned up in the glossy remake of The Stepford Wives (2004). Apart from her four Grammy awards, Bette Midler has also won four Golden Globes, one Tony Award, and three Emmy Awards, plus she has sold in excess of 15 million albums worldwide. Most recently, she toured with her sassy "Kiss My Brass" show, and is promoting her album "Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook". - IMDb Mini Biography By: [email protected] Spouse (1) ( 16 December 1984 - present) (1 child) Trivia (33) Performed her cabaret act at the famed gay men's club, The Continental Baths, in the 1970s with Barry Manilow as her accompanist. Worked at a Dole pineapple processing plant in Hawaii in her early years. Her first big album "The Divine Miss M" was produced by Barry Manilow . Attended and graduated from Radford High School in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1963. Majored in drama at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, but dropped out after three semesters. Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1979" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 31. Was the final guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). Gave birth to her only child at age 40, a daughter Sophie Frederica Alohilani von Haselberg (aka Sophie von Haselberg ) on November 14, 1986. Child's father is her husband, Martin von Haselberg . She performed a cover version of the song "Beast of Burden". She also appeared in a music video of the song with Mick Jagger that was choreographed and cast by Lori Eastside . Ranked #51 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll Won four Grammy Awards including the 1973 Best New Artist and the prestigious Record of the Year in 1989 for the soaring rendition of her # 1 hit "Wind Beneath My Wings" from the movie Beaches (1988). In 1974, she received a special Tony Award "for adding lustre to the Broadway season". Is named after Bette Davis and her sisters Susan and Judy are named after Susan Hayward and Judy Garland . When the American Film Institute announced "The 100 Years of the Greatest So |
Which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was written for actress Gertrude Lawrence, who died a year later halfway through the show’s run? | Trivia: Everything you need to know about Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I | The Opera Blog Trivia: Everything you need to know about Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I By Jennifer Williams , October 21, 2013 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II are pictured auditioning hopefuls at the St James Theatre. Photograph by a staff photographer at New York World-Telegram & Sun – with permissions for Public Use. Impress your friends with a few choice tidbits about the musical sensation coming to stages across Australia next year. The Story The King and I is based on a true story: Anna Leonowens’ account of teaching English in the court of the Siamese King Mongkut (Rama IV). The interpretation is fairly loose – the musical is based on a fictional novel by Margaret Landon, who reimagined Anna Leonowen’s memoirs: The English Governess at the Siamese Court Interestingly, a biographer later uncovered that much of Leonowen’s memoirs was in fact embellished or fabricated: for example, Leonowens had in fact never been to England when she was employed by the Siamese King – born in India of Anglo-Indian descent, Leonowens explained away her darker complexion as a sign of Welsh heritage. From Page to Stage Rodgers & Hammerstein did not come up with the idea for the musical themselves. In fact, it was proposed by lawyer Fanny Holtzmann, who saw a musical adaptation of Landon’s novel as the perfect vehicle to revive her client Gertrude Lawrence’s declining career. She initially offered the opportunity to Cole Porter, who declined. Before Holtzmann sent Landon’s novel to the musical duo, both Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s wives had read Landon’s book and urged their husbands to write an adaptation. Neither saw the potential in the novel – it wasn’t until they saw a 1946 film adaptation of a stage play that they began to consider it. Both Rodgers and Hammerstein struggled with how to convey the cultural context of the story. Rodgers wanted to reference Asian music without alienating a Western audience. He stopped short of incorporating traditional Thai music and instead settled on some unusual chords to convey a foreign mood. Hammerstein wrote the King’s dialogue without using articles – a manner of speech common to many Asian languages. The romance between Lun Tha and Tuptim was scripted primarily so that Rodgers could write some of the romantic tunes he was famous for – as it would be inappropriate to stage a cross-cultural romance between the King and Anna. An attraction between the Thai King and British governess is merely suggested in the musical. On Broadway The musical opened on Broadway in 1951 starring British actress Gertrude Lawrence and Russian actor and director Yul Brynner as Anna and the King of Siam. Brynner was then relatively unknown, but shot to stardom for his performance in the hit. The show played for three years, but lost its leading lady when Lawrence died of liver cancer halfway through the run. The show had an initial budget of US$250,000 – which was at that time the most expensive Rodgers & Hammerstein musical ever made Lawrence had to wear costume gowns that weighed up to 34 kg, and her character danced a total of 6.4km in every performance, eight shows a week. Lawrence was buried in one of her costumes from the show. Through the initial run and several revivals, Yul Brynner performed the role of the King more than 4,600 times. In Hollywood a 1956 film took the musical from Broadway success to international smash hit. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won five. The film was (and still is) banned in Thailand as it was deemed disrespectful to the monarchy – an offence which breaks several of the country’s laws. In Thailand King Mongkut, along with his son Prince Chulalongkorn are remembered in Thailand for smart foreign policy which ensured the land of Siam (later Thailand) retained its independence, while every other South-East Asian country fell to colonial invasion. The Thai government and royal family therefore have continually objected to the depiction of King Mongkut as a arrogant, ignoran |
Curtly Ambrose played for which national cricket team? | Curtly legal definition of curtly Curtly legal definition of curtly http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/curtly 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: Hard lines for mum Johannesburg, Feb 27 ( ANI ): West Indies cricket legends Andy Roberts, Curtly Ambrose and Richie Richardson have reportedly been selected for knighthood and will be presented the honours during the lunch break of the first ODI between England and West Indies in Antigua. Three ex-Windies players to be knighted during first ODI with England BIRTHDAYS: Shirley Conran, writer, 81; Leonard Cohen, singer/poet, 79; Stephen King, novelist, pictured, 66; Charles Clarke, politician, 63; Bill Murray, actor, 63; Simon Mayo, broadcaster, 55; Rob Morrow, actor, 51; Curtly Ambrose, former cricketer, 50; Faith Hill, singer, 46; Luke Wilson, actor, 42; Liam Gallagher, rock musician, 41. |
Which was the 48th US state to be admitted to the Union, in February 1912? | Arizona is the 48th State Admitted to the Union | World History Project Arizona is the 48th State Admitted to the Union Arizona became a U.S. state on February 14, 1912. The major result being the end to the territorial colonization of Continental America. Arizona was the 48th state admitted into the U.S. and the last of the contiguous states to be admitted. The admission, originally scheduled to coincide with that of New Mexico, was delayed by Democrats in the territorial legislature to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Arizona becoming a Confederate territory in 1862. Source: Wikipedia Added by: Brian Hand New Mexico became a state on January 6, 1912, and Arizona became a state on February 14, 1912. Thus, two stars were added to our flag in 1912 on July 4th signifying that two new states were added to the 46-star flag then. That flag lasted exactly 47 years from July 4, 1912, through July 4, 1959. Source: State of Michigan, Journal of the Senate, 94th Legislature, Regular Session of 2007 Added by: Brian Hand George W. P. Hunt, Arizona businessman, territorial legislator, President of Arizona's Constitutional Convention of 1910 and the state's first governor, was born in Huntsville, Missouri, November 1, 1859. He arrived in Globe, Gila County, Arizona in 1881 where he eventually became President and part owner of the Old Dominion Commercial Company. On February 24, 1904 he married Helen Duett Ellison in Holbrook, Arizona. They had one daughter, Virginia. Hunt was elected to the Territorial House in 1893 and 1895 and to the Territorial Council in 1897, 1899, 1905, 1907 and 1909. He served as Council President during his 1905 and 1909 terms. A major player in efforts to obtain statehood, Hunt presided over Arizona's 1910 Constitutional Convention. While President of the Convention, he supported the inclusion of the initiative. Elected governor in December 1911, he took his oath of office February 14, 1912-- the first day of statehood. Arizonans re-elected him six more times. He served from February 1912 to January 1917 when Thomas Edward Campbell defeated him in a bitterly contested election. In the summer of 1917, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Hunt as a federal labor conciliator during increasing labor unrest in the mining industry. Hunt's comments regarding the Bisbee Deportation were seen by many Arizonans as sympathetic to the International Workers of the World (I.W.W.) Hunt eventually ousted Campbell from office following a year-long battle in the courts to determine which of the two had actually won the governorship. Hunt then served from December 1917 to January 1919. President Wilson appointed him the Minister of Siam during the years 1920-1922. Upon his return, Hunt again served as governor from January 1923 to January 1929 and a final term from January 1931 to January 1933. Previous to his defeat in the 1932 primary, Hunt had won the Democratic nomination in every primary he had entered. He lost the Democratic primary again in 1934. He died in Phoenix on December 24, 1934. During his long career, Hunt promoted many progressive agendas including the establishment of a merit system for state employees, prison and labor reform, woman's suffrage, the abolition of capital punishment, child labor laws, workers compensation and old age pensions, direct democracy by means of the initiative and referendum and citizen recall of judges. He fought hard for Arizona's portion of Colorado River water, refusing to sign the Colorado River Compact. |
Irish businessman Sean Quinn became the owner of which British golf course in 2005? | Belfry golf venue put up for sale by Irish owner - BBC News BBC News Belfry golf venue put up for sale by Irish owner 16 January 2012 Image caption The venue has hosted four Ryder Cups Golf and leisure venue The Belfry has been put up for sale. The 550-acre resort in Warwickshire is regarded as the spiritual home of the Ryder Cup, a spokesman for the company behind the sale said. The venue is currently owned by Irish-based businessman Sean Quinn Junior and is expected to attract significant interest from Asia. Four Ryder Cup tournaments have been held there and it is also the headquarters for the PGA. The resort includes a 324-bedroom hotel and three golf courses as well as extensive corporate conference facilities, property agent Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels said. Seve tribute Nigel Gray, managing director of The Belfry, said: "New owners are being sought for The Belfry and we are extremely confident this will prove to be successful." The golf club, named England's Leading Golf Resort at last year's World Travel Awards, was the scene of one of golfing legend Seve Ballesteros's most famous shots. In 1978, in the Hennessey Cup, Ballesteros became the first player to drive the 311 yards over water and trees to the The Brabazon Course's 10th tee. The Spaniard represented Europe at three Ryder Cup contests held at the venue in 1985, 1989 and 1993. The club's flags were lowered and a minute's silence observed by staff and golfers as his funeral was held in Spain in May last year. Mr Gray added that the venue was a "highly-profitable business" which had seen a rise last year on 2010 figures. The Quinn group bought it in 2005 for £186m. |
Donald Pleasance, Telly Savalas and Charles Gray have all played the role of which James Bond villain? | The Many Looks Of The Bond Villain, Feature | Movies - Empire The Many Looks Of The Bond Villain Owen Williams Last updated: 19 Oct 2015 02:45 Movies Skyfall So you’ve lined up your volcanic lair, your army of henchmen and your gorgeous moll; you’ve crafted your plan for world-domination and remembered to feed the sharks swimming under the glass floor of your office. Now what? Well, no real villain – and certainly no Bond villain – would be caught without a distinctive personal style. After Skyfall villain Silva (Javier Bardem) appeared in action for the first time in this week’s trailer, we assess his predecessors for their distinctive fashion choices… Film: Dr. No (1962) Style: As a mad scientist on an island protected by a dragon (actually a flamethrowing tractor) you might expect Dr No to be a ranter and raver. He’s actually eerily calm and buttoned down, despite the absence of any buttons at all on his Nehru-collared tunic: the first of many in the Bond villain pantheon. There’s a whiff of Orientalism about him, and he has black metal pincers instead of hands. No physical match for Bond, you suspect he could crush him intellectually… if not for the whole explaining-the-plan and letting-Bond-escape thing. The template for the next five decades is set right here. Plan: Disruption of US space shuttle launch with atomic radio beam. Best Line: "Unfortunately I misjudged you. You are just a stupid policeman whose luck has run out." Film: From Russia With Love (1963) Style: A blonde-haired super-assassin who can rock a towel, a black ninja outfit and a sharp grey pinstripe with equal ease, Grant cuts quite a dash. But for all his seeming urbanity, he’s not a gentleman: he doesn’t seem to realise that one cannot possibly combine red wine with fish. Plan: Theft of a LEKTOR decoding machine; assassination of Bond; humiliation of British government. Best Line: "Orders? That’s only half of it, old man." Film: Goldfinger (1964) Style: Attempting to wear his wealth with some élan, Goldfinger instead comes off as crass and buffoonish, which adds to his slight air of off-kilter madness. He looks like a cartoon golfer in brogues, tweed plus-fours, big socks and a cardigan in the famous match early in the film. Later on, his sizeable frame will sport a fetching gold tuxedo – which is certainly eye-catching, but proves he’s no match for Bond in the stylish evening wear stakes. Plan: Breaking into Fort Knox and irradiating America’s gold supply with a nuclear bomb. Best Line: "No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die!" Film: Thunderball (1965) Style: Largo is another big guy, but unlike Goldfinger he’s physically imposing rather than just portly. And as you’d expect of an Italian, he’s particularly natty dresser too: he favours the odd open neck shirt, dark Milanese suits and white sharkskin dinner jackets (maybe he’s going for a Bogart-in-Casablanca sort of a vibe). He uses a cigarette holder, taps around with a cane, and sports a piratically rakish eyepatch. Now that is a look worth becoming a super-villain for. Plan: Theft of NATO atomic bombs for a $100m ransom. Best Line: "You know much about guns, Mr Bond?" Film: You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), Diamonds Are Forever (1971) Style: In his anonymous, cat-stroking phase in From Russia With Love and Thunderball, Blofeld was played by Anthony Dawson. John Hollis was dropped down the industrial chimney in For Your Eyes Only, and in the unofficial Thunderball remake Never Say Never Again, Blofeld was played by Max Von Sydow as a sort of twinkle-eyed satyr. The big three Blofelds though, are Pleasance, Savalas and Gray. Pleasance played a monkish, bald, facially scarred recluse in a tightly-fitted Mao suit. Cue-ball Savalas played a kind of Brooklyn gangster Blofeld, ditching the scar but returning to the Nehru collar. And Gray played Charles Gray. Plan: Kidnapping spacecraft to provoke war between the global superpowers; biological warfare through the medium of brainwashed supermodels; building a diamond powered laser satellite. Best Line: "Give him his cigaret |
Pen y Fan is the highest peak in which British national park? | Pen-y-Fan (Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales): Top Tips Before You Go - TripAdvisor Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales Tretower, Brecon Beacons National Park Write a Review Add Photos & Videos Questions & Answers Here's what previous visitors have asked, with answers from representatives of Pen-y-Fan and other visitors 18 questions Show all answers (8) Answer tigerteeth1130 Questions? Get answers from Pen-y-Fan staff and past visitors. Hi, what would you like to know about this attraction? Posting guidelines Get notified about new answers to your questions. Ask Do I have to buy a ticket for my infant? How do I get there using public transportation? Is there a restaurant or café onsite? Near Pen-y-Fan © 2017 TripAdvisor LLC All rights reserved. TripAdvisor Terms of Use , Privacy Policy , and Cookie Policy . * TripAdvisor LLC is not a booking agent and does not charge any service fees to users of our site... (more) TripAdvisor LLC is not responsible for content on external web sites. Taxes, fees not included for deals content. TripAdvisor uses cookies to improve your site experience. Learn more or change your settings. By continuing, you consent to our cookies. |
What is the US state capital of North Dakota? | nd.gov: Official Portal for North Dakota State Government Official Portal for North Dakota State Government Garrison Dam Tailrace January 2014 Craig Bihrle Sheyenne River Valley ND Parks and Recreation Winter Bales Country Church Winter Sunrise Ronald F. Fischer Snowmobiling in ND State Symbols (capital, bird, tree, flag...) State Symbols (capital, bird, tree, flag...) Bird Western Meadowlark Capital Bismarck is the Capital of North Dakota Coat of Arms Displayed for the first time by the National Guard at Camp Grafton on June 16, 1957 Creed Written by Frank L. McVey Fish Northern Pike Flag North Dakota's dark blue field displays a bald eagle holding an olive branch and a bundle of arrows in its claws. Flower Wild Prairie Rose |
Which singer released a 1989 album entitled ‘Foreign Affair’? | Tina Turner - 80s Songs and Albums - simplyeighties.com 1988 Tina Live In Europe #86 (US) #8 (UK) 1999 Divas Live '99 #90 (US) 2009 Tina Live #169 (US) #43 (UK) We Don't Need Another Hero (1985) This No.2 hit single (in the UK) was the first track to be lifted from the soundtrack album Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome, and became the singer's seventh hit of the eighties. Tina starred in the film herself as Aunty Entity, alongside Mel Gibson. The soundtrack was composed by Jean Michel Jarre's father Maurice, and features the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Let's Stay Together (1983) Peaking at No.6 in the UK, this comeback single for Tina Turner was the first track to be lifted from the hugely successful Private Dancer album, which was later released in the spring of 1984. This cover of the Al Green song (which originally featured on the album of the same name in 1972) was Tina's first release of the eighties and also reached #26 in the U.S. and #3 in the Hot R&B charts and #1 in the U.S. Dance Chart. Al Green's version reached #7 in the UK. Break Every Rule (1986) Tina Turner's sixth solo studio album was released in September 1986 (on the Capitol Records label), reaching #4 in the US and #2 in the UK and achieving Platinum sales in both countries. The album topped both the Swiss and German Charts. Many guests featured on the album with David Bowie, Bryan Adams and Mark Knopfler helping to pen a track each. Phil Collins played drums on What You See Is What You Get, guitars were played by Eric Clapton on Two People and Steve Winwood played keyboards on Afterglow. Tina Live In Europe Released in 1988, Tonight (Live) was lifted from Tina's first live album, and it topped the Dutch Mega Charts. The duet was first recorded in 1984 and featured on the David Bowie album of the same name. Written by Bowie and Iggy Pop, the original track was included on Iggy Pop's Lust For Life album which was released in 1977. Tina Turner and Eric Clapton live at Wembley Arena on June 18th 1987. Creative Commons image by fattkatt I Don't Wanna Lose You (1989) The second single to be lifted from the Foreign Affair album was Tina Turner's final hit single of the eighties, reaching #8 in the UK. Surprisingly, this very memorable song was only a minor hit across Europe, and in the majority of countries failed to break into the Top 20. The B-side featured a new track entitled Stronger Than The Wind. |
Who invented the electric battery in 1800? | This Month in Physics History: March 20, 1800: Volta describes the electric battery March 20, 1800: Volta describes the Electric Battery Alessandro Volta In the late 18th century, scientists were fascinated with electricity. Ben Franklin had conducted his famous kite experiment, drawing electricity from lightning in 1752. Leyden jars, invented in 1746, could store charge and produce a spark of electricity. Doctors were treating patients with electric shocks for all sorts of ills. But further research on electromagnetism and any practical use of electricity would require a source of continuous current, which was not available until 1800, when Alessandro Volta invented the first electric pile, the forerunner of the modern battery. Alessandro Volta was born in Como, Italy in 1745, to a wealthy noble family. He attended the Como Jesuit school and a local seminary. His teachers tried to persuade him to enter the priesthood, while his family wanted him to study law. But Volta, even at age 14, knew his real interest was physics. Like many scientists of the time, he was especially fascinated by electricity. Volta dropped his formal studies, and did not attend university. Nonetheless, by age 18 he was corresponding directly with accomplished scientists, and conducting experiments in the laboratory of a family friend. In 1769 he wrote a treatise “On the forces of attraction of electric fire,” in which he put forward a theory of electric phenomena. In 1774 Volta accepted a post as an instructor at the Como grammar school, and continued his experiments on electricity. In 1775 he devised a “perpetual electrophorus” that could transfer charge to other objects, and in the next few years he noticed the bubbling of methane in swamps and was able to isolate the gas. Volta was made a professor of physics at the University of Pavia in 1778. Volta’s early work had already made him a well-known scientist, but his greatest contribution to science was the voltaic pile, which he invented as part of a scientific dispute with Luigi Galvani. In 1780, Galvani, an Italian physician and anatomist, was experimenting with dissected frogs’ legs and their attached spinal cords, mounted on iron or brass hooks. In most of his experiments, the frog leg could be made to twitch when touched with a probe made of another metal. The frog legs would also jump when hanging on a metal fence in a lightning storm. These observations convinced Galvani that he had found a new form of electricity, which was being generated by the frogs’ muscles. He called the phenomenon “animal electricity.” Volta, though initially galvanized by this work, argued that the frogs’ muscles were simply reacting to the electricity, not producing it. He set out to prove Galvani wrong, and sparked a controversy that divided the Italian scientific community. Volta realized that the crucial feature of Galvani’s experiments was the two dissimilar metals–the iron or brass hook and the probe of some other metal. The metals were generating the current, not the frog parts. Instruments available at the time could not detect weak currents, so Volta, always a dedicated experimentalist, often tested various combinations of metals by placing them on his tongue. The saliva in his mouth, like the frogs’ tissue, conducted electricity, resulting in an unpleasant bitter sensation. To show conclusively that the generation of an electric current did not require any animal parts, Volta put together a rather messy stack of alternating zinc and silver discs, separated by brine-soaked cloth. He built the pile, which consisted of as many as thirty disks, in imitation of the electric organ of the torpedo fish. A Voltaic Pile When a wire was connected to both ends of the pile, a steady current flowed. Volta found that different types of metal could change the amount of current produced, and that he could increase the current by adding disks to the stack. In a letter dated March 20, 1800, addressed to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London, Volta first reported the electric pile. Volta soon traveled to Pa |
In which mountain range is the Scottish mountain Ben Nevis? | Ben-Nevis.com BEN NEVIS - 'The Ben' Fàilte! Ben Nevis (Scottish Gaelic: Beinn Nibheis) is the highest mountain in the British Isles. It is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of Scotland, close to the town of Fort William and is affectionately known as 'The Ben.' Ben Nevis attracts an estimated 125,000 complete and a further 100,000 partial ascents per year, most of which are made by walkers using the well-constructed Mountain Track ( Pony Track ) from Glen Nevis on the south side of the mountain. For climbers and mountaineers the main attraction lies in the 600-metre (2,000 ft) high cliffs of the north face. Among the highest cliffs in the United Kingdom, they harbour some of the best scrambles and rock climbs at all levels of difficulty, and are one of the principal locations in the UK for ice climbing. The summit, at 1,344.527m (4,411ft 2in) (or 1,345m on the new Ordnance Survey maps) above sea level, unusually for a mountain in Scotland, features the ruins of a building, an observatory , which was permanently staffed from 1883 until its closure in 1904. The Origins of the Name The name, 'Ben Nevis,' is from the Gaelic, 'Beinn Nibheis.' While 'beinn' is a common Gaelic word for 'mountain' the word 'nibheis' is understood to have several meanings and is commonly translated as 'malicious' or 'venomous' therefore giving the meaning of 'Venomous (or malicious) mountain.' Another interpretation of the name Ben Nevis, is that it derives from beinn nèamh-bhathais, from the word nèamh meaning 'heavens (or clouds)' and bathais meaning 'top of a man's head.' This would therefore translate literally as, 'the mountain with its head in the clouds' although this is sometimes also given as the more poetic, 'mountain of heaven.' Popular |
Formula One racing driver Jody Scheckter was born in the city of East London in which country? | Jody Scheckter JODY SCHECKTER Country: South Africa Born: January 29, 1950 in East London South Africa When Jody Scheckter won the Formula One World Championship in 1979, he became the first South African to win a world title. Scheckter joined the Formula One circuit in 1974, winning the British and Swedish Grand Prix. That year, he placed third in world championship rankings and was named Driver of the Year by the British Guild of Motoring Writers. In 1976, he again ranked third in the world championships. The following year, Scheckter was runner-up in his quest for the world title, with triumphs in Argentina, Monaco, and Canada. In 1979, following Grand Prix wins in Belgium, Monaco, and Italy, he captured the World Formula One Racing Car Championship. Prior to entering the Grand Prix circuit, Scheckter was a prominent stockcar racer in his native South Africa, graduating to Formula Ford and Formula Two racing in the early 1970s. In 1972, he won the American Formula 5000 Championship and was awarded South Africa’s Springbok honors, his nation’s highest sports commendation. Scheckter retired in 1980 at age 30. |
In 1936, Joseph Bowers was the first inmate to attempt an escape from which prison? | The Desperate Escape of Joseph Bowers The Desperate Escape of Joe Bowers Joseph Bowers, 210-AZ Joe Bowers, an inmate considered criminally insane by many of his fellow inmates on the Rock, would make national headlines with a desperate act that for over a half century has been called an escape by some and suicide by others. Joseph Bowers was by all accounts a desperado and loner, unable to come to terms with the conditions of Alcatraz. Imprisoned during the toughest and most strict era on Alcatraz, Bowers, serving a 25-year sentence for Postal Mail Robbery that netted a mere sixteen dollars and thirty eight cents. He held an expansive criminal record and as one report highlighted: “If at large, he probably would engage again in criminal activities and constitute a serious menace to the public safety and society.” He had claimed, and it was also supported in belief by fellow inmates that his crimes had resulted from a lacking ability to support himself. He claimed that he was completely desperate and out of funds, hungry and mostly unable to afford food or proper lodging. In a 1933 summary report, his background was noted: “On this man it has been impossible to get any dependable information. He states that it is represented to him that he was born of parents who were members of a travelling circus on February 18, 1897, at El Paso, Texas, was immediately deserted by his parents, and was raised by circus people who were travelling about and with whom he has lost all contact, so that he has been unable to establish his birth as an American Citizen. Claims to have worked in Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Russia, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Cuba, and other places principally as an interpreter, as he claims to speak six languages. He came to the office complaining that he thought his sentence too severe, that he was in his present trouble due only to the fact that he had been unable to get work, and wanted to know if there was any manner in which he could establish his citizenship so that he could get pass-ports to foreign countries, as he said he never had any trouble finding steady employment, but did have some trouble because he did not have proper passports when in foreign countries.” Bowers arrived at Alcatraz on September 4, 1934, in one of the first groups, and it quickly became obvious that he didn’t fit the archetypical model of the standard Rock inmate. While imprisoned at McNeil Island, a federal penitentiary located in the Puget Sound of Washington State, he was a considered “unpredictable and at high risk resulting from being emotional unstable.” Warden Johnston later wrote: “I did not class him with the shrewd gangsters with whom he associated in prison. He was a weak-minded man with a strong back who would get peace of mind by exercising his body.” The Rule-of-Silence was in its most strict form, and within only six months of his imprisonment, Bowers was already showing signs of significant mental strain. He attempted suicide, but the resident physician didn’t feel Bowers was making a serious attempt on his life. A memo to the director described the attempt: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE /s/ George Hess, A.A. Surgeon Chief Medical Officer. Bowers was assigned to the incinerator detail only a month prior to his escape by flight. The incinerator detail was considered a difficult and unpopular work assignment by the general inmate population. It was hard and laborious work, sorting metals and burning the prison waste. Working alone and having to endure the cold weather elements of the San Francisco Bay, Bowers would soon break. The inmates assigned to the incinerator detail passed time slowly. Under constant watch by the Road Tower officer, Bowers could only dream of his freedom, as tour boats passed the island in close enough distance where faint laughs could be heard over a seagull screech. On April 26, 1936, Bowers could serve no one time on Alcatraz. Some inmates called it suicide, while others were convinced he was simply trying to climb up to grab garbage wedged in the chain link fence. Another account claimed he |
In which year did Queen Elizabeth II first visit Australia as a reigning monarch? | Queen Elizabeth II: The platinum monarch? - CNN.com Queen Elizabeth II: The platinum monarch? By Victoria Arbiter Updated 3:54 PM ET, Wed September 9, 2015 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II Queen Elizabeth is the longest-reigning monarch in British history. Look back at moments from her life so far. Hide Caption 1 of 48 Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II Elizabeth was born April 21, 1926, in London. She is held here by her mother, Elizabeth. Her father would later become King George VI. Hide Caption Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II Princess Elizabeth in 1928. 3 of 48 Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II Princess Elizabeth is seen with her uncle Edward, Prince of Wales, during a visit to Balmoral, Scotland, in September 1933. He would go on to become King Edward VIII in 1936. But when he abdicated later that year, Elizabeth's father became King and she became heir presumptive. Hide Caption 4 of 48 Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II Princess Elizabeth is seen in the Duchess' box during a pantomime act at London's Lyceum Theater in February 1935. Hide Caption 5 of 48 Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II From left, Princess Elizabeth, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret wave to the crowd from the Royal Balcony of Buckingham Palace on June 22, 1939. Hide Caption 6 of 48 Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II A 14-year-old Princess Elizabeth, right, sits next to her sister for a radio broadcast on October 13, 1940. On the broadcast, her first, she said that England's children were full of cheerfulness and courage. Hide Caption 7 of 48 Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II Princess Elizabeth shakes hands with an officer of the Grenadier Guards on May 29, 1942. King George VI made Elizabeth an honorary colonel in the Royal Army regiment. Hide Caption Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II Princess Elizabeth, right, and Princess Margaret wear summer dresses circa 1942. Hide Caption 9 of 48 Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II With the Drakensberg Mountains behind her, Princess Elizabeth sits in South Africa's Natal National Park on April 21, 1947, her 21st birthday. Hide Caption 10 of 48 Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II This portrait of the British royal family was taken in July 1947, after Princess Elizabeth, far left, got engaged to Prince Philip of Greece, a lieutenant in the British Navy. He is second from left. To his left are Queen Elizabeth, King George VI and Princess Margaret. Hide Caption 11 of 48 Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II The Royal Wedding Party waves from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on November 20, 1947. After becoming a British citizen and renouncing his Greek title, Philip became His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His wife became the Duchess of Edinburgh. Hide Caption 12 of 48 Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II Princess Elizabeth smiles in March 1950 as she arrives to a state banquet at the French Embassy in London's Kensington Palace Gardens. Hide Caption 13 of 48 Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II Elizabeth ascended to the throne in February 1952, when her father died of lung cancer. Here, the new Queen leaves the Royal Archers Hall in Edinburgh after a ball in June 1952. It was the first function she attended as Queen following her father's death. Hide Caption Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II Queen Elizabeth II walks to the altar during her coronation ceremony on June 2, 1953. Hide Caption 15 of 48 Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II Queen Elizabeth II on the balcony of Melbourne's Government House, during her tour of Australia in March 1954. Hide Caption 16 of 48 Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II From left, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother visit Epsom Downs Racecourse in June 1958. Hide Caption 17 of 48 Photos: The life of Queen Elizabeth II The Queen holds her son Prince Andrew while his sister, Princess Anne, watches during a family holiday at Scotland's Balmoral Castle in September 1960. H |
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In which religion is there one god called Ahura Mazda? | Ahuramazda - Livius Ahuramazda Ahuramazda: the "wise lord", the supreme god of the ancient Iranians, whose cult was propagated by the legendary prophet Zarathustra , the founder of Zoroastrianism. Zarathustra's teachings: the Gâthâs Zoroastrian fire altar from Samarkand The Avesta is the holy book of the adherents of Zarathustra, the Zoroastrians or - as they call themselves today - Parsis. The Avesta was codified c.600 CE, but this library of sacred texts contains older material, such as the Gâthâs . These hymns were perhaps written in the fourteenth or thirteenth century BCE, almost two millennia before the codification of the Avesta, and most scholars think that they were composed by the prophet Zarathustra himself. In a vision ( more... ), Zarathustra was ordered by a spirit named Good Thought to start preaching against the bloody sacrifices of the traditional Iranian cults and to give aid to the poor. Gradually, the prophet began to understand that Good Thought had been sent by the supreme god Ahuramazda, a name that can be translated as Wise Lord. Zarathustra sometimes addresses his god as Ahura, lord, and as Mazda, wisdom. From the Gâthâs, we learn that Zarathustra started to preach that Ahuramazda had created "the world, mankind and all good things in it" through his holy spirit, Spenta Mainyu. The rest of the universe was created by six other spirits, the Amesha Spentas ("holy immortals"). However, the order of this sevenfold creation was threatened by The Lie; good spirits and evil demons (daeva) were fighting and mankind had to support the good spirits in order to speed up the inevitable victory of Ahuramazda. The believer could side with Ahuramazda by avoiding lies, supporting the poor, several kinds of sacrifices, the cult of fire, et cetera. A snake amulet from Sokh in Uzbekistan, believed to be one of the first representations of a dualist world view Zarathustra also warned the people that there would be a Last Judgment. At the end of times, angels were to lead all men and women across a narrow bridge, where they would be judged by Spenta Manyu (which is described as a beautiful maiden); the friends of The Lie would fall into a large chasm of fire called Worst Existence, but the followers of Zarathustra were to reach Paradise, which goes under the name of House of Best Purpose. It is impossible to establish how much of this is original. Zarathustra says in the Gâthâs that the innovative aspect was the demand for social reform, which brought the prophet into conflict with representants of the established cult, the priests of the god Mithra and the goddess Anahita. What strikes us is the radical dualism; Zarathustra demands that the pious choose for the good and against evil, and promises that they will be rewarded at the Last Judgment ( text... ). Angra Mainyu, demons, and gods The defeated Parthian king Artabanus (left) and the personification of evil, Ahriman (center), on the investiture relief of Ardashir I in Naqš-e Rustam The Gâthâs are only a small part of the Avesta , and it is possible to distinguish (on linguistic grounds) between old and young texts. The most important innovation by Zarathustra's disciples is the personalization of evil. According to Zarathustra, the enemy of the divine order had been The Lie, an abstract concept. There are several texts, written in the same language as the Gâthâs, which give evil its name: Angra Mainyu, "the hostile spirit". He is described as the leader of the demons. It may be doubted whether Angra Mainyu has ever figured in Zarathustra's own thoughts. The fact that he does not mention this demon in the Gâthâs is significant; there are seventeen Gâthâs and they are of a considerable length, so it may be argued that Zarathustra had sufficient opportunity to mention Ahuramazda's opponent. Instead, he speaks consistently of The Lie. On the other hand, the name Angra Mainyu is very old. It is, therefore, either a very early innovation, or it was a very common name which Zarathustra sought to replace by the more abstract concept of The Lie, which implied a greater |
The port of Watchet is in which English county? | Watchet - Wikipedia, Photos and Videos Watchet NEXT GO TO RESULTS [51 .. 100] WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE Coordinates : 51°10′46″N 3°19′27″W / 51.1795°N 3.3242°W / 51.1795; -3.3242 Watchet is a harbour town, civil parish and electoral ward in the English county of Somerset , with a population of 3,785. [1] It is situated 15 miles (24 km) west of Bridgwater , 15 miles (24 km) north-west of Taunton , and 9 miles (14 km) east of Minehead . The parish includes the hamlet of Beggearn Huish. The town lies at the mouth of the Washford River on Bridgwater Bay , part of the Bristol Channel , and on the edge of Exmoor National Park . The original settlement may have been at the Iron Age fort Daw's Castle . It then moved to the mouth of the river and a small harbour developed, named by the celts as "Gwo Coed" meaning Under the Wood. [2] After the Saxon conquest of the area the town developed and was known as Weced or Waeced [3] and was attacked by Vikings in the 10th century. Trade using the harbour gradually grew, despite damage during several severe storms, with import and exports of goods including those from Wansbrough Paper Mill until the 19th century when it increased with the export of iron ore , brought from the Brendon Hills via the West Somerset Mineral Railway , mainly to Newport for onward transportation to the Ebbw Vale Steelworks . The West Somerset Railway also served the town and port bringing goods and people from the Bristol and Exeter Railway . The iron ore trade reduced and ceased in the early-20th century. The port continued a smaller commercial trade until 2000 when it was converted into a marina . The church is dedicated to Saint Decuman who is thought to have died here around 706. An early church was built near Daw's Castle and a new church was erected in the 15th century. It has several tombs and monuments to Sir John Wyndham and his family who were the lords of the manor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which was written in the area is commemorated by a statue on the harbourside. Contents History[ edit ] Daw's Castle (Dart's Castle or Dane's Castle) is an Iron Age sea cliff hill fort about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to the west of the town. It was built and fortified, on the site of an earlier settlement, as a burh by Alfred the Great , as part of his defense against Viking raids from the Bristol Channel around 878 AD . [4] [5] It is situated on an east-west cliff about 80 metres (260 ft) above the sea, on a tapering spur of land bounded by the Washford River to the south. Its ramparts would have formed a semicircle backing on to the sheer cliffs, but only about 300 metres (980 ft) are visible today. [6] A Saxon mint was established here in 1035, probably within the fort. [7] It is a scheduled monument . [8] There is no sign of Roman occupation, but the Anglo-Saxons took Watchet from the native Britons around AD 680. Under Alfred the Great (AD 871−901) Watchet became an important port, and coins minted here have been found as far away as Copenhagen and Stockholm . The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the early port being plundered by Danes led by Earl Ottir and a 'Hroald' (possibly Ottir's king Ragnall ) in 987 and 997. [9] Wansbrough Paper Mill Watchet is believed to be the place where Saint Decuman was killed around 706 and its parish church is dedicated to him. At the time of the Domesday Book Watchet was part of the estate held by William de Moyon . [10] The parish of Watchet was in the Williton and Freemanners Hundred in the Middle Ages . [11] T With access to wood from the Quantock Hills , records show that paper making was established by 1652. [12] In the 15th century, a flour mill was established by the Fulford and Hadley families near the mouth of the Washford River . By 1587 the Wyndham estate had established a fulling and grist mill to the south west. [6] By 1652, the mill had started to produce paper. [12] [13] In 1846 business partners James Date, William Peach and John Wansbrough bought the business and introduced mechanised-production using a water wheel -powered pulley system |
Which US President was given the nickname ‘The Trust Buster’? | Roosevelt: The Trust Buster! | AP United States History AP United States History Roosevelt: The Trust Buster! Posted on March 9, 2008 by Laoteacher President Roosevelt did not just focus on conservationism during his presidency. He attacked the trusts guilty of monopolies and set up the necessary reforms that resulted in businesses into accepting government regulation. According to our textbook The American Pageant, Roosevelt, as a trustbuster, made headlines in 1902 when he attack the Northern Securities Company, a railroad holding company organized by financial titan J.P. Morgan and empire builder James J. Hill. Roosevelt challenged these great big giants and their attempts to monopolized the railroad industry. In response they appealed to the Supreme Court, which in 1904 upheld Roosevelt’s antitrust suit and ordered the Northern Securities Company to be dissolved. The Northern Securities decision jolted Wall Street and angered big business but greatly ehanced Roosevelt’s reputation as a trust smasher. His big stick crashed down on other ginat monopolies, as he initiated over forty legal proceedings against them. The Supreme Court in 1905 declared the beef trust illegal, and the heavy fist of justice fell upon monopolies controlling sugar, fertilizer, harvesters, and other key products(666-667). According to Wikipedia, Trust-busting refers to government activities designed to break up trusts or monopolies . Theodore Roosevelt is the U.S. president most associated with dissolving trusts, but his chosen successor, William Howard Taft , actually began the most of the anti-trust proceedings. Trusts were large business entities that largely succeeded in controlling a market , essentially becoming a monopoly . The term became common in the late 19th century , when a system of trusts controlled much of the economy of the United States . In 1898 , President William McKinley launched the “trust-busting” era when he appointed the U.S. Industrial Commission on Trusts , which interrogated Andrew Carnegie , John D. Rockefeller , Charles M. Schwab , and other industrial titans. The report of the Industrial Commission was seized upon by Theodore Roosevelt, who became known as a “Trust Buster,” dissolving 44 trusts during his two terms as president. However, the “Trust Buster” name is probably more suited for Roosevelt’s successor, William Howard Taft, who brought an end to 90 trusts in one term. Although Taft may have done more to control the trusts while in office, Roosevelt retains the nickname because he was the pioneer of trust-busting. Do you think Roosevelt’s trust busting practices contradicts the ideals of capitalism? Like this: |
The Eora and Cammeraygal peoples are indigenous to which country? | That Weird American Who's Obsessed with Australia: Learning About The Cammeraygal That Weird American Who's Obsessed with Australia Yesterday, my education was about the Indigenous group that lived in North Sydney. The Cammeraygal. Some websites mention them being part of the Eora and some don't. I'm very confused about this!! If anyone knows more about it and would like to explain, PLEASE do so. I do know that Bennelong was part of the Eora. I'll talk about him on another day. He has an interesting history. Anyway, back to the Cammeraygal (who may or may not have had connections to the Eora). The Cammeraygal ate seafood, but I'm guessing it was usually not in the exploitive way we eat seafood today. I'm pretty sure they didn't have any all-you-can-eat shrimp & lobster buffets. It seems most of the Cammeraygal disappeared after the arrival of the big ships in 1788. The suburb Cammeray is named after them. The places the Cammeraygal hung out way back when is now called Balls Head, Berry Island, Kirribilli, Cammeray and Cremorne. Gayden Track on Berry island has a Bushwalk where you can learn about stuff. I guess it has signs that you can read. The Cammeraygal name for Balls Head is Yerroulbine. There are lots of nice archeological sites-- rock carvings and all that. In fact, a new one was found this July . Well, the drawing isn't new. It's quite old actually. But it's new in terms of it just being found recently. How cool is that? The name Kirribili comes from Aboriginal word Kiarabilli. That means good fishing spot. Okay. I have no idea how to pronounce half this stuff I'm writing. The Prime Minister lives in Kirribili. Why not in Canberra? You know, that's a pretty long commute. Milson's point is near Kirribili. How close? Walking distance to Luna Park? I wonder if Kevin Rudd hangs out there when he's not busy doing the Prime Minister thing? Anyway, if fate has us return to Luna Park, while I'm riding the rides and fearing for my life, I will think about and remember the Cammeraygal people. I will remember that when they were around there was no scary clown face to walk through. Posted by |
What is the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet? | Greek alphabet - definition of Greek alphabet by The Free Dictionary Greek alphabet - definition of Greek alphabet by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Greek+alphabet Also found in: Thesaurus , Medical , Wikipedia . ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Greek alphabet - the alphabet used by ancient Greeks alphabet - a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language alpha - the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet beta - the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet gamma - the 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet delta - the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet epsilon - the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet zeta - the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet eta - the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet theta - the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet iota - the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet kappa - the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet lambda - the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet mu - the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet nu - the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet xi - the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet omicron - the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet pi - the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet rho - the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet sigma - the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet tau - the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet upsilon - the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet phi - the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet khi , chi - the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet psi - the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet omega - the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet Translations |
An opah is what type of creature? | Rarely Seen Moonfish, Size of Manhole Cover, Caught on Camera Rarely Seen Moonfish, Size of Manhole Cover, Caught on Camera The opah, or moonfish, is a camera-shy animal that researchers know little about. View Images An opah, or moonfish, photographed near San Clemente Island off the southern California coast, seems to pose. Photograph by Ralph Pace Its squat body and flimsy-looking pectoral fins may not scream speed-demon. Related Content Where Obama's Deep Love for the Ocean Comes From But the opah , or moonfish, is actually quite fast, and can run with the big boys like tuna and swordfish . That's just one of many surprising revelations coming to light as more of these mysterious fish appear unexpectedly in scientific surveys along the southern California coast. (See pictures of other deep-sea animals .) This unexplained surge is enabling researchers to study and photograph the camera-shy creatures. While documenting a fishing survey, photographer Ralph Pace caught the roughly 130-pound (59-kilogram) fish on camera off the southern California coast in November 2014. Researchers had accidentally caught the odd animal, and after it was released, Pace dove into the water to take some snapshots before it swam away. He had only a couple of minutes with the opah, but they were memorable. It was big, Pace recalls—"probably bigger than a manhole cover." And he was lucky. "Photos of them in the water free-swimming are pretty rare," says John Hyde, a fish-genetics researcher with NOAA Southwest Fisheries in La Jolla, California. "And Ralph Pace's images are better than the rest I've seen." A Pricey Catch Opah can be valuable commodities on the seafood market, says Owyn Snodgrass , a fisheries biologist with NOAA Southwest Fisheries, but there is no targeted fishery for them. That's partly because the deep-sea dwellers don't congregate in large groups like other commercially valuable fish such as tuna. So focusing solely on opah won't make fishermen much money, Snodgrass explains. (Read about the plight of the Atlantic bluefin tuna in National Geographic magazine.) Instead, moonfish are caught as bycatch in commercial tuna and swordfish fisheries. And despite the relatively small size of the catch, they bring in a good chunk of change. The 2012 Hawaiian opah market was valued at around $3 million . "They're very tasty fish," Snodgrass says. Opah are unusual in that different parts of their body look and taste different, the biologist explains. The upper part of the fish looks like tuna and tastes like a cross between tuna and salmon, he says. But their pectoral muscles—the ones that power the fins on the side of the body—look and taste a bit like beef. "[Opah] can be eaten raw, but they're also great on the barbecue or smoked," says Snodgrass. Casson Trenor , who co-owns four San Francisco sushi restaurants, actually prefers a little sear on his opah. He doesn't offer the fish in his restaurants, though, since little is known about the sustainability of the fishery. The pectoral muscles aren't just good eating—they also give researchers clues about the animal's speed and way of life. Those muscles are about 17 percent of an opah's body weight, Snodgrass says, which is a relatively large percentage. "[So] despite what they look like, they can swim really fast when they want to, and they can swim long distances." An Elusive Subject Unpublished data Snodgrass obtained from a satellite-tagged moonfish showed that the animal swam from central California to Hawaii within an eight-month period. Snodgrass and colleagues are still analyzing their data—obtained from ten opah tagged between 2011 and 2013—so it's unclear just how fast the opah traveled. It's also unclear if this kind of movement is normal for the fish, or if this particular opah was unusual. Other opah tagged off of central and southern California as part of the same study made their way down to Baja, California (map) , Snodgrass says. That's not the only thing researchers are in the dark about regarding moonfish. Population sizes, longevity, or even how many species there |
Which band released a 1997 album entitled ‘White on Blonde’? | Learn and talk about White on Blonde, 1997 albums, Albums produced by David A. Stewart, Albums produced by Mike Hedges, Mercury Records albums 7 References Background and release[ edit ] The album included five UK Top Ten singles, " Say What You Want " (UK #3), " Halo " (UK #10), " Black Eyed Boy " (UK #5), " Put Your Arms Around Me " (UK #10) and " Insane " (UK #4) which was released as a double A-sided single with "Say What You Want (All Day, Every Day)" - a new version of the 1997 hit featuring additional rap vocals by the Wu-Tang Clan . White on Blonde has been certified 6x Platinum in the UK, which indicates sales of over 1.8 million copies in that territory. [2] The album was also a major success in various European countries, such as France where it peaked at #2 on the French Album Charts. Worldwide, sales of White on Blonde are estimated at around 4-5 million copies.[ citation needed ] The album was produced by the band themselves, along with Mike Hedges and former Eurythmics star Dave Stewart . [3] Honours[ edit ] White on Blonde has received many honours since its release in 1997. It was voted the 86th greatest album of all time by Q magazine readers in 1998. [4] The album is also ranked #34 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime," [3] included in Q magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s," and included in Q magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997." [3] White on Blonde became the first Texas album to top the UK Album Charts and is one of only two Texas albums (along with The Greatest Hits ) to be certified 6x Platinum in the United Kingdom. In 2010, White on Blonde was nominated in the BRIT Awards Best Album in the past 25 years. |
British singer and actor Terence Nelhams-Wright was better known by what name? | Adam Faith Biography Adam Faith Biography Adam Faith (June 23, 1940 - March 8, 2003) was a British singer and actor. He was born Terence (Terry) Nelhams-Wright in Acton in West London. He was unaware that his real surname was Nelhams-Wright until he applied for a passport and obtained his birth certificate. He was known as Terry Nelhams in his early life. Adam Faith was one of Britain's early pop stars. His first hit, "What Do You Want", came in 1959, and with subsequent songs like "Poor Me" "Don't that Beat All" and "Someone Else's Baby" he established himself as a serious rival to Cliff Richard in British pop music. His style and looks were in complete contrast to Cliff's, offering a real alternative for the teenage market. Like most contemporary pop singers, he did not write his own material, and much of his early success was attributable to his partnership with John Barry. Faith's brand of sometimes rather twee pop ("Lonely Pup (In a Christmas Shop)") became less popular through the 1960s in the face of competition from groups like the Beatles, and he began an alternative career as an actor. While still a musician he had appeared in films such as Beat Girl (1961), but now he concentrated on acting in the theatre. In the 1970s he went into music management, managing Leo Sayer among others. He appeared in the 1970s television series Budgie, about an ex-convict, but after a car accident as a result of which he almost lost a leg, his career suffered something of a decline. It restarted in 1975 when he landed a major role as the manipulative manager of rock star David Essex in the film Stardust. In the early 1990s, Faith had another hit TV series in Love Hurts with Zoe Wanamaker. In the 1980s Adam Faith's interests moved from show business to finance and he became a financial investments advisor. In 1986 he was hired as a financial journalist, by the Daily Mail and its sister paper the Mail on Sunday. He also had an involvement with the television Money Channel. But the channel proved to be an unsuccessful venture and closed down in 2001. Adam Faith was declared bankrupt owing a reported �32m. He had had heart problems since 1986 when he underwent open heart surgery. He became ill after his stage performance in Stoke on Trent on the Friday evening and died in hospital of a heart attack early on Saturday morning, March 8, 2003. Michael Caine, (born Maurice Micklewhite) said that his mother worked with Adam's mother in their early days, but because each, of course, referred to her son by his real name, they never made the connection to each other's already well-known offspring. |
In the 18th Century, the British Royal Navy ordered limes and lemons to be carried on board ships as a remedy for which disease? | BBC - History - British History in depth: Captain Cook and the Scourge of Scurvy Captain Cook and the Scourge of Scurvy By Jonathan Lamb Last updated 2011-02-17 Scurvy was the scourge of the Royal Navy for decades, and Captain Cook is widely credited with conquering it. But how much of his reputation is deserved, and how much is due to luck? Jonathan Lamb investigates. On this page Print this page The emergence of scurvy Scurvy did not emerge as a problem for maritime explorers until vessels started penetrating the Indian and the Pacific Oceans. Vasco da Gama lost two thirds of his crew to the disease while making his way to India in 1499. In 1520 Magellan lost more than 80 per cent while crossing the Pacific. Two voyages made by Pedro de Quiros early in the 17th century resulted in huge mortality from a sickness Sir Richard Hawkins called, after his venture into the South Seas, 'the plague of the Sea, and the Spoyle of Mariners'. ... Magellan lost more than 80 per cent of his crew while crossing the Pacific. Scurvy came to public notice in Britain after Commodore George Anson led a squadron into the Pacific in the 1740s to raid Spanish shipping. He lost all but one of his six ships, and two thirds of the crews he shipped (700 survived out of an original complement of 2000), most of them to scurvy. Their symptoms were vividly described by Richard Walter, the chaplain who wrote up the official account of the voyage. Here were descriptions of its ghastly traces: skin black as ink, ulcers, difficult respiration, rictus of the limbs, teeth falling out and, perhaps most revolting of all, a strange plethora of gum tissue sprouting out of the mouth, which immediately rotted and lent the victim's breath an abominable odour. There were strange sensory and psychological effects too. Scurvy seems to have disarmed the sensory inhibitors that keep taste, smell and hearing under control and stop us from feeling too much. When sufferers got hold of the fruit they had been craving they swallowed it (said Walter) 'with emotions of the most voluptuous luxury'. The sound of a gunshot was enough to kill a man in the last stages of scurvy, while the smell of blossoms from the shore could cause him to cry out in agony. This susceptibility of the senses was accompanied by a disposition to cry at the slightest disappointment, and to yearn hopelessly and passionately for home. Now we know that scurvy was a cocktail of vitamin deficiencies, mainly of C and B, sometimes compounded by an overdose of A from eating seals' livers. Altogether these produced a breakdown in the cellular structure of the body, evident in the putrescence of the flesh and bones of sufferers, together with night blindness and personality disorders associated with pellagra. In the 18th century no one knew what caused scurvy, whose symptoms were so various it was sometimes mistaken for asthma, leprosy, syphilis, dysentery and madness. Top Prevention Physicians speculated that it was owing to a salt diet, to a lack of oxygen in the body, to fat skimmed from the ships' boiling pans, to bad air, to thickening of the blood, to sugar, to melancholy; but no one knew for certain. People were aware that once victims were on shore they could be recovered by eating scurvy grass, wild celery, wood sorrel, nasturtiums, brooklime, Kerguelen cabbage (Pringlea antiscorbutica), cabbage trees and other esculent plants growing on the shores of distant islands. Fruit and palm wine were also esteemed to be fine remedies, and since 1753, when James Lind published A Treatise of the Scurvy, there was experimental proof that citrus had a rapid beneficial effect. Captain Cook's voyage around New Zealand and the east coast of Australia © Once on shore it was a superstition among sailors that the smell and the touch of the earth gave the surest cure. One of Anson's crew had his shipmates cut out a turf and put his mouth into the hole. Vitus Bering, the Danish navigator, died of scurvy half buried in the ground. No one had a remedy for scurvy at sea - however; the best on offer was a battery of |
Halliwell’s Guide is a reference book relating to what? | Halliwell's Film and Video Guide: Amazon.co.uk: Leslie Halliwell: 9780684189284: Books Halliwell's Film and Video Guide Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Apple To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. or Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here , or download a FREE Kindle Reading App . Product details Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; 6th, Sixth Edition, Binding Taped edition (April 1988) Language: English Product Dimensions: 30.5 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Average Customer Review: Product Description Amazon Review This monster is quite simply the king of movie guides. Halliwell's Film and Video Guide 2001 contains more than 23,000 entries, creating a competition for space that allows most films only a quick-and-dirty single sentence review. Which is not to say that the book is in any way less than thorough--the terse sentences manage to be enormously telling: (How I Got into College is quietly damned with the description, "Mildly amusing teenage comedy"; Rabbit Test is scorched with "Dreary and tasteless film, the nadir of comedy"; and Strictly Ballroom is lauded with "Exuberant, charming, witty romance acted and directed with style and verve".) As its tendency toward clipped writing may suggest, Halliwell's is no Santa Claus film guide--movies must earn each star awarded. Four stars go only to groundbreaking masterpieces like Rashomon, and one can flip through page after page without seeing a three-star movie. Most of the two-star films are pretty good, just not quite up to this guide's refreshingly exacting standards. For those who want only the best, Halliwell's handily provides lists of three- and four-star films, sorted by both title and year, in the back. One could get an excellent film education simply by working through both lists: the four-star category includes movies as diverse as Pelle the Conqueror, Alien and Duck Soup. Halliwell's pulls no punches with either criticism or praise. It is a must-have for movie lovers. --Ali Davis --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review |
Founded by Robert Baden Powell, what is the motto of the Boy Scouts? | Quotes from Scouting Founder Robert Baden-Powell | Scoutmastercg.com Home » More » Quotes from Scouting Founder Robert Baden-Powell Quotes from Scouting Founder Robert Baden-Powell October 22, 2009 Over a century volumes of guidance has been offered to Scoutmasters yet none is so effective as that of the founder of the worldwide Scouting movement Robert Baden-Powell A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. Do use the Patrol Method? |
The Asteroid Belt lies between the orbits of which two planets in our solar system? | StarChild: The Asteroid Belt Listen to an audio version of this page. Sorry, your browser does not support the audio element, please consider updating. The Asteroid Belt The dwarf planet called Ceres orbits the Sun in the asteroid belt. An asteroid is a bit of rock. It can be thought of as what was "left over" after the Sun and all the planets were formed. Most of the asteroids in our solar system can be found orbiting the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. This area is sometimes called the "asteroid belt". Think about it this way: the asteroid belt is a big highway in a circle around the Sun. Think about the asteroids as cars on the highway. Sometimes, the asteroid cars run into one another. When this happens, the asteroids may break up into smaller asteroids. Scientists think that most asteroids are the result of collisions between larger rocky space bodies. Asteroids can be a few feet to several hundred miles wide. The belt probably contains at least 40,000 asteroids that are more than 0.5 miles across. If an asteroid is captured by the gravitational pull of a planet, the asteroid can be pulled out of the belt and go into orbit as a moon around the planet that pulled on it. A Question |
How many red stripes are there on the national flag of Puerto Rico? | The Flag of Puerto Rico | District of Puerto Rico The Flag of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Flag The Flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is rectangular in shape and consists of five alternating horizontal stripes, three red and two white, with an isosceles triangle with a five-pointed white star in the center based on the hoist side. The three red stripes represent the blood that nourishes the three branches of government, the two white stripes represent individual liberty and the rights of man which maintain the balance among the three branches of government. The white star represents the Commonwealth, the blue triangle represents the sky and the ocean, and the three sides of the triangle represent the three branches of the Commonwealth’s republican form of government. The flag’s design is based on the Cuban flag with the red and blue colors inverted. The shade of blue used for the triangle depends on who is asked. One may see flags with the dark blue, such as the flag displayed, a sky blue (“azul celeste”) or royal blue triangle. There is no “official” shade of blue. There are three versions of the origin of the Flag of Puerto Rico. It appears to be undisputed that the flag was presented on December 22, 1895 at Chimney Hall in New York by Juan de Mata Terreforte, a veteran of the “Grito de Lares,” to a group of 59 Puerto Rican exiles who comprised the Puerto Rican section of the Cuban Revolutionary Party. Nevertheless, the identity of the person who proposed that the new Flag of Puerto Rico be similar to the Cuban flag with inverted colors is open to question. It is said, however, that the true shade of blue of the flag’s triangle is dark (Navy) blue. Red, white and dark blue are characteristic of the republican national colors (flags) in Europe during the 19th century, influenced by the tri-color of the First French Republic. The tri-color was in turn influenced by the colors of the newly established Republic of the United States. The Cuban flag was designed in New York by General Narciso López for his failed invasion of Cuba in 1851, the purpose of which was to annex Cuba to the United States. The blue on that flag was a dark shade. This first Cuban flag with the dark blue stripes was adopted by the Constitutional Assembly which proclaimed the Armed Republic of Cuba in Camagüey in 1869. José Martí used the same flag as the flag of the Cuban Revolutionary Party in 1892. Eventually, that flag was designated as the official flag of Cuba in 1903. The blue in all those Cuban flags was Navy blue, so it stands to reason that when the flag of Puerto Rico was adopted in 1895 (with the colors of the Cuban flag inverted) the triangle’s shade of blue was dark (Navy). Some suggest, based on correspondence between Terreforte and Domingo Collazo, a member of the Club Borínquen, affiliated with the Cuban Revolutionary Party, that the idea of inverting the colors of the Cuban flag for the Flag of Puerto Rico came from Francisco Gonzalo (“Pachín”) Marín. Others claim that the idea came to Antonio Vélez-Alvarado, who wrote that “the colors appeared inverted before my eyes . . . on June 11, 1890 or 1891,” and that it “immediately it occurred to me that with those colors of the Cuban flag, inverted as I had seen them, the Flag of Puerto Rico could be fashioned.” Still another version is that Manuel Besosa, one of the directors of the Puerto Rican section of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, was the person who proposed that the Flag of Puerto Rico be modeled after the Cuban flag, with colors inverted, when Terreforte’s proposal that the Flag of Betances (Grito de Lares Flag) be adopted as the Flag of Puerto Rico was defeated by vote of the members of the Directorate of the Puerto Rican section. The members of the Directorate then requested that Besosa create an inverted colors flag to be presented to the members of the Puerto Rican section. He in turn asked his daughter, María Manuela (“Mima”) Besosa, to sew the flag. It was this small (8-inch by 5-inch) flag that Terreforte presented at Chimney Hall on December 22, 1895 and there adopted unan |
Who became President of France in May 1995? | Jacques Chirac President of France from 1995 - 2007 Early political career Inspired by General Charles de Gaulle to enter public life, Chirac continued pursuing civil service in the 1950s. He attended Harvard University's summer School before entering the École Nationale d'Administration (the elite, competitive-entrance college that trains France's top civil servants) in 1957. He earned a graduate degree from the École Nationale d'Administration and in 1959. He then became a civil servant and rose rapidly through the ranks. In April 1962, only three years after having graduated from the École Nationale d'Administration, Chirac was appointed head of the personal staff of Georges Pompidou, then prime minister under de Gaulle. This appointment launched Chirac's political career. Pompidou considered Chirac his protégé and referred to him as "my bulldozer" for his skill at getting things done. The nickname "Le Bulldozer" caught on in French political circles. Chirac still maintains this reputation. "Chirac cuts through the crap and comes straight to the point. ... It's refreshing, although you have to put your seat belt on when you work with him," said an anonymous British diplomat in 1995. [1] (http://www.abcnews.go.com/reference/bios/chirac.html) At Pompidou's suggestion, Chirac ran as a Gaullist for a seat in the National Assembly in 1967. Chirac won the election and was given a post in the ministry of social affairs. (Gaullists have historically supported a strong central government and independence in foreign policy.) Although more of a "Pompidolian" than a "Gaullist," Chirac was well situated in de Gaulle's entourage, being related by marriage to the general's sole companion at the time of the June 1940 Appel. Chirac already rose to become economy minister in the late 1960s, serving as department head and a secretary of state. As state secretary at the Ministry of Economy and Finance (1968-71), he had worked closely with Giscard d'Estaing, who had then headed the ministry. In 1968, when student and worker strikes rocked France, Chirac played a central role in negotiating a truce. Chirac's first high-level post came in 1972 when he became minister of agriculture and rural development under his mentor Georges Pompidou, who was elected president in 1969. He quickly earned a reputation as a champion of French farmers' interests. As minister of agriculture, Chirac first attracted international attention when he assailed U.S., West German, and European Commission agricultural policies that conflicted with French interests. In 1974 Chirac was appointed minister of the interior. As minister of the interior from March 1974 he was entrusted by President Pompidou with preparations for the presidential election then scheduled for 1976. However, these elections were brought forward by Pompidou's sudden death on April 2. In 1974 former minister of economy and finance Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, a non-Gaullist centrist, was elected Pompidou's successor amid France's most competitive election campaign in years. Prime minister, 1974-76 On May 29, 1974 Chirac (left) replaced Pierre Messmer (right) as prime minister on the steps of the Hôtel Matignon.When Giscard became president, Chirac was nominated as prime minister by Giscard on May 27, 1974. At the age of just 41, Chirac stood out as the very model of the jeunes loups ("young wolves") of French political life. However, the government could not afford to ignore the narrow margin by which Giscard d'Estaing had defeated the United Left candidate, François Mitterrand in 1974. Giscard, not himself a member of the Gaullist Union des Démocrates pour la République (UDR), saw in the essentially pragmatic Chirac the qualities needed to reconcile the "Giscardian" and "non-Giscardian" factions of the parliamentary majority. As premier, Chirac quickly set about persuading the Gaullists that, despite the social reforms proposed by President Giscard, the basic tenets of Gaullism, such as national and European independence, would be retained. Citing Giscard's unwillingness to give him aut |
The medical term ‘Prominentia Laryngea’ is commonly known as which part of the body? | Prominence | definition of prominence by Medical dictionary Prominence | definition of prominence by Medical dictionary http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/prominence [prom´ĭ-nens] a protrusion or projection. frontonasal prominence an expansive facial process in the embryo that develops into the forehead and bridge of the nose; called also frontonasal process . laryngeal prominence a subcutaneous prominence at the front of the throat produced by the thyroid cartilage of the larynx; popularly known as Adam's apple . mandibular prominence the ventral prominence formed by bifurcation of the first branchial arch (mandibular arch) in the embryo, which unites ventrally with its fellow to form the lower jaw; called also mandibular process . maxillary prominence the dorsal process formed by bifurcation of the first branchial arch (mandibular arch) in the embryo, which joins with the ipsilateral median nasal process in the formation of the upper jaw. Called also maxillary process . prom·i·nence prominence /prom·i·nence/ (prom´ĭ-nins) a protrusion or projection. frontonasal prominence frontonasal process ; an expansive facial process in the embryo that develops into the forehead and bridge of the nose. laryngeal prominence Adam's apple ; a subcutaneous prominence on the front of the neck produced by the thyroid cartilage of the larynx. mandibular prominence mandibular process ; the ventral prominence formed by bifurcation of the mandibular (first pharyngeal) arch in the embryo, which unites ventrally with its fellow to form the lower jaw. maxillary prominence maxillary process ; the dorsal prominence formed by bifurcation of the mandibular (first pharyngeal) arch in the embryo, which joins with the ipsilateral medial nasal prominence in the formation of the upper jaw. nasal prominence, lateral the more lateral of the two limbs of a horseshoe-shaped elevation in the future nasal region of the embryo; it participates in formation of the side and wing of the nose. nasal prominence, medial the more central of the two limbs of a horseshoe-shaped elevation in the future nasal region of the embryo; it joins with the ipsilateral maxillary prominence in the formation of half of the upper jaw. prominence |
In 1935, which country was renamed Iran? | Renaming Persia Renaming Persia Persians Are Not Arabs Persians Are Not Arabs we explain the difference Persian New Year Persian New Year Read More Renaming Persia Persia, What’s in a name? The name Persia is actually a Latin derivation used mainly by Westerners to describe the region roughly equivalent to that of present day Iran . In truth during the rise and fall of the Persian Empire the land was known to its people as 'Aryanam', which is equated to the current “ Iran ” in the proto - Iranian language . During the reign of the Sassanids it became Eran – meaning "land of the Aryans". Aryan: Aryan by definition meant anyone speaking any of the Indo-European languages, including that of the Iranians . Unfortunately, with the rise of Hitler in the 1930’s, "Aryan" came to be associated with the Nazi definition: being of Non-Jewish Caucasian descent, especially the blue eyed, blond haired Nordic races that Hitler himself favored and hoped to make a master race. Iran VS Persia: In fact, in 1935, Dr Hjalmar Schacht, the Nazi Economics minister noted the Aryan origin of the Persians and encouraged the Persian Reza Shah Pahlavi to ask foreign delegates to use the term Iran, "land of Aryans" instead of Persia. As the New York Times explained at the time, "At the suggestion of the Persian Legation in Berlin, the Tehran government, on the Persian New Year , March 21, 1935, substituted Iran for Persia as the official name of the country. Defenders of the name change, point to its use by the Greek historians citing that "Aryan" means "noble". Many also felt that calling something or someone Persian was dated and somewhat restrictive. There was a need to unify the people of this land under one nation, Iran , thus encompassing the other ethnicities, such as the Kurds or Turks, residing in former Persia . In its decision it was influenced by the Nazi revival of interest in the various Aryan races, cradled in ancient Persia . As the Ministry of Foreign Affairs set forth in its memorandum on the subject, 'Perse,' the French designation of Persia, connoted the weakness and tottering independence of the country in the nineteenth century, when it was the chessboard of European imperialistic rivalry. conjured up memories of the vigor and splendor of its historic past." Name Change This change however, evoked much opposition and confusion as Persians felt that the term damaged their cultural heritage and aligned them with pro Nazi sentiment. Additionally, all too often Iran was confused with their neighboring Arab state of Iraq, so much that during World War II, Winston Churchill called to enforce continuation of the term of Persia when dealing with political documentation. Even today, in an effort to separate themselves, those opposed to the current government in Iran continue to refer to themselves as Persian . In 1959, the work of Professor Ehsan Yarshater, editor of Encyclopedia Iranica, propagated a move to use Persia and Iran interchangeably which was approved by Mohammad Reza Shah. Share : |
Which was the first British football club to win the European Cup-Winners Cup? | My Football Facts & Stats | UEFA Club Competitions Chart detailing every club who has reached the Semi-Finals in every major UEFA club competition from 1955-56 to 2015-16. The tournament was inaugurated in 1955, at the suggestion of the French sports journalist and editor of L'Équipe Gabriel Hanot as a continental competition for winners of the European national football leagues, as the European Champion Clubs' Cup, abbreviated to European Cup. The competition began as the 1955-56 using a two-leg knockout format where the teams would play two matches, one at home and one away, and the team with the highest overall score qualifying for the next round of the competition. Entry was restricted to the teams that won their national league championships, plus the current European Cup holder. This qualification system continued until 1992. In the 1992–93 season, the tournament was renamed UEFA Champions League. In 1997-98, eligibility was expanded to include not just domestic champions but also the best performing runners up according to UEFA's coefficient ranking list. Between 1960 and 2004 the winner of the tournament qualified for the now defunct Intercontinental Cup against the winner of the Copa Libertadores of South America . Since then, with FIFA taking over, the winner automatically qualifies for the FIFA Club World Cup with other winners of continental club championships. The 2009-10 Champions League Final was won by Inter Milan who beat Bayern Munich 2-0 in the Madrid. Inter Milan fielded a starting XI without a single Italian player. Spanish clubs have now won Europe's top club prize 15 times, Italian clubs 12 times and English clubs 12 times.The 2011 Champions League Final was the 6th to be played at Wembley and the 2012 Final was held at the Allianz Stadium in Munich. Wembley again hosted the Champions League Final in 2013 and the 2014 Final took place at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon. The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (also known as the European Cup Winners' Cup) was a football club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions. The first competition was held in the 1960-61 season, and the last in 1998-99. Tottenham Hotspur became the first British club to win a major European trophy when they beat Atletico Madrid in the 1963 Final. The competition was then abolished to make way for a further expansion to the UEFA Champions League, with domestic cup winners gaining entry into the UEFA Cup (later, the Europa League). The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was a European football competition played between 1955 and 1971. As the name suggests, the competition was set up to promote international trade fairs. The competition was initially only open to teams from cities that hosted trade fairs and where these teams finished in their national league had no relevance. Early competitions also featured a one city, one team rule. UEFA do not consider the tournament to be an official UEFA contest. The UEFA Cup was a football competition for European club teams, organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). It is the second most important international competition for European football clubs, after the UEFA Champions League. Clubs qualify for the UEFA Cup based on their performance in national leagues and cup competitions. The last ever winners of the UEFA Cup were the Ukrainian club Shahkter Donetsk who beat Germans Werder Bremen. UEFA decided to re-name the UEFA Cup the 'UEFA Europa League' from the 2009-2010 season onwards.The first winners of the UEFA Europa League were Atletico Madrid in 2010, followed by FC Porto who won an all-Portuguese Final against FC Braga in 2011 played in Dublin. The 2012 UEFA Europa League Final was played in Bucharest, Romania. UEFA European Club Competition Stats 1955-56 to 2016-17 Table detailing the winning clubs and nationalities of Europe's first international competition together with a detailed history of the tournament. The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale was one of the first really international m |
The SNCF is the national railway corporation of which European country? | About Us - Voyages-sncf.com Voyages-sncf.com: About us About Voyages-sncf Voyages-sncf.com is the official European distribution channel of the French railways (SNCF) for online sales of high-speed and conventional rail travel throughout France and Europe: plan your journeys, book your train tickets and get inspired by our travel guides! Voyages-sncf, the digital distributor of SNCF products and services in Europe Voyages-sncf has 8 websites in 12 languages, all with mobile versions. Seven countries have their own dedicated site: Germany, Belgium (in French, Dutch and English), Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Switzerland (in French, German and English). The 8th website is in English and is aimed at all other European customers, using the Euro as its sole currency. European rail experts to serve our customers Local expertise: each country has its own dedicated team as well as a. multilingual aftersales service. A complete range of products and services for travelling in Europe Our full range of rail products and services, including trains operating in France (TGV, iDTGV, Intercités, etc) and international rail operators (Thalys, Eurostar, Elipsos, TGV Lyria, TGV France Italy, TGV France Spain, CityNightLine, Italo), brings you high-speed travel options throughout Europe. Our first priority is to keep internet users up-to-date about the latest offers and rail news, but we also have a range of associated services (secure payment, payment by PayPal, e-ticket, mobile app) to simplify train travel in Europe. Don't forget to use our best fare finder to find the lowest prices for more than 200 journeys three months in advance. The Voyages-sncf.com group Voyages-sncf.com Group in Europe is a major tourism expert in the distribution of European train journeys and the destination France. One third of it's 650 employees is dedicated to the development of the European and websites. With a sales revenue of 3,6 billion euros, its business volume grew significantly in 2012 with 7%. The Voyages-sncf.com group aims to be Europe's nº 1 rail operator and a major international group. This new dimension responds to the liberalisation of European markets, developments in consumer practices and the influence of the key digital players who are transforming the e-tourism market. In response to today's rail distribution challenges and new purchasing habits, Voyages-sncf.com now has a powerful, flexible network of 13 websites, multilingual mobile apps, 4 shops and an integrated call centre to meet the needs of its European customers. It covers more than 30 countries via websites dedicated to the travel industry - and a network of more than 15,000 accredited travel agents and tour operator partners to distribute its rail products in Europe - as well as websites for individuals, multi-linguistic applications, 4 dedicated shops (Cologne, Geneva, Milan and Aachen) and an integrated call center service. Voyages-sncf.com also has a series of dedicated websites for travel professionals, thus providing over 15,000 approved travel agencies and tour operators with the means to distribute its rail products in Europe, Supported by ticket offices and boutiques in Brussels, Cologne, Geneva, London, Milan and Madrid. As of today, Voyages-sncf.com works hard to simplify rail travel in Europe, with a dual focus on innovation and customer service. SNCF: Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français [The French National Railway Operator] The SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français) Group has a turnover of €32.6 million, a presence in 120 countries and 245,000 employees. It is a world leader in people transport, freight transport and logistics. The SNCF group offers a complete range of mobility solutions through its five business lines (SNCF INFRA: network operation and management, works, maintenance and engineering; SNCF PROXIMITÉ: regional transport, rail transport in the greater Paris region (Ile-de-France), Intercités and Keolis; SNCF VOYAGES, high-speed passenger transport, i.e. TGV, iDTGV, Eurostar, Thalys, Lyria, Alleo, Elipsos, Ga |
On 30th July 1938, the first issue of which children’s comic was published in Britain? | The History of British Comics Published: 07 April 2016 Hits: 4344 It is generally agreed that Funny Folks (1874 - 1894) became the first publication to meet the accepted definition of a comic. Funny Folks began as a supplement to the Weekly Budget. Its popularity led to it being published as a separate weekly paper. The success of Funny Folks encouraged the publication of other weekly comics. One such comic was the famous Victorian comic, Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday (1884 - 1916). Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday was the inspiration of the engraver and publisher, Gilbert Dalziel. Ally Sloper had a characteristic red nose, battered top hat and he was usually drunk. Ally Sloper is notably the first ever comic strip hero and undoubtedly laid the foundations for the likes of Chubblock Homes -(Comic Cuts), Weary Willie and Tired Tim - (Illustrated Chips), Roy of the Rovers - (Tiger), Desperate Dan - (The Dandy), Dan Dare - (The Eagle) and more recently Judge Dredd - (2000AD). These are but a few names from the canon of British Comic heroes The late 1890’s saw an explosion in comic publishing. Alfred Harmsworth ’s Comic Cuts (1890 - 1953) cost just half a penny, which was half the cost of its contemporaries. Comic Cuts soon had competition from rival publishers with titles such as Funny Cuts (1890 - 1920). Harmsworths response was to bring out further titles of his own including Illustrated Chips. Although these publications were classed as comics, they were primarily aimed at and published for an adult audience. Comics for young children (Nursery Comics) didn’t start being published until the early years of the twentieth century. Rainbow (1914 - 1956) is generally accepted as the first children’s comic although Puck (1904 - 1940) did have a junior section after issue eleven and gradually became a children’s comic. The 1930’s are known as the Golden age of comics. The Golden age saw the appearance of comics like Tiny Tots (1927 - 1959), Crackers (1929 - 1941), The Dandy (1937 - Present) and The Beano (1938 - Present). Both the Beano and the Dandy appeared just prior to the outbreak of the 2nd World War and their timing can be considered fortunate because paper shortages led to laws prohibiting the launching of new comics during the war years. The Beano and Dandy became a vanguard of a new era with the introduction of a new size and style of comic artistry, which included the introduction of speech bubbles in some of the stories.Puck was the first comic to print a s substantial number of its pages in colour but it wasn’t until Mickey Mouse Weekly (1936 - 1955) that a comic was published completely in full colour photogravure. Photogravure is a picture produced from a photographic negative and transferred to a metal plate where it is etched on. The 1950’s is known as the Silver Age and it saw the appearance of a more sophisticated type of comic epitomised by the Eagle (1950 - 1969) with its hero Dan Dare. The silver age comics were post war publications and gone were the paper shortages of the war years, these comics were printed on a better quality paper with full photogravure.The success of the two DC Thomson titles (Beano and Dandy) led Thomson’s rivals, The Amalgamated Press, to launch two of their own rival comics namely Radio Fun (1938 - 1961) and Knockout (1939 -1963). Although The Beano and Dandy are still continuing to be published, Radio Fun and Knockout ended their days in the early 1960’s. In July 1939 DC Thomson had launched a comic called The Magic Comic (1939 - 1941) but it was short lived due to the over saturation of the comics market at that time. The Dandy continues to be the oldest British comic still in publication. No history of British comics would be complete without paying homage to the great Denis Gifford who was born on Boxing day 1927. Gifford's contribution to British comics both as a contributor in the 1940s and 1950s, including Flip & Flop', and historian is immeasurable. Gifford, who died in 2000 aged 72, wrote over fifty books on British comics which included ‘The Best of the Eagle (1989). Such was his |
Which country was defeated by the French during the Battle of Friedland in the Napoleonic Wars? | Battle of Friedland in the Napoleonic Wars •General Levin August, Count von Bennigsen 76,000 men Battle of Friedland: Background: With the beginning of the War of the Fourth Coalition in 1806, Napoleon advanced against Prussia and won stunning victories at Jena and Auerstadt. Having brought Prussia to heel, the French pushed into Poland with the goal inflicting a similar defeat on the Russians. Following a series of minor actions, Napoleon elected to enter winter quarters to give his men a chance to recover from the campaigning season. Opposing the French were Russian forces led by General Count von Bennigsen. Seeing an opportunity to strike at the French, he began moving against the isolated corps of Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte . Sensing a chance to cripple the Russians, Napoleon ordered Bernadotte to fall back while he moved with the main army to cut off the Russians. Slowly drawing Bennigsen into his trap, Napoleon was foiled when a copy of his plan was captured by the Russians. Pursuing Bennigsen, the French army became spread over the countryside. On February 7, the Russians turned to make a stand near Eylau. In the resulting Battle of Eylau , the French were checked by Bennigsen on February 7-8, 1807. Departing the field, the Russians retreated north and both sides moved into winter quarters. Moving to Friedland: Renewing the campaign that spring, Napoleon moved against the Russian position at Heilsberg. Having taken a strong defensive stance, Bennigsen repelled several French assaults on June 10, inflicting over 10,000 casualties. Though his lines had held, Bennigsen elected to fall back again, this time towards Friedland. On June 13, Russian cavalry, under General Dmitry Golitsyn, cleared the area around Friedland of French outposts. This done, Bennigsen crossed the Alle River and occupied the town. Situated on the west bank of the Alle, Friedland occupied a finger of land between the river and a mill stream ( Map ). The Battle of Friedland Begins: Pursuing the Russians, Napoleon's army advanced over several routes in multiple columns. The first to arrive in the vicinity of Friedland was that Marshal Jean Lannes. Encountering Russian troops west of Friedland a few hours after midnight on June 14, the French deployed and fighting began in the Sortlack Wood and in front of the village of Posthenen. As the engagement grew in scope, both sides began racing to extend their lines north to Heinrichsdorf. This contest was won by the French when cavalry led by the Marquis de Grouchy occupied the village. Pushing men over the river, Bennigsen's forces had swollen to around 50,000 by 6:00 AM. While his troops were exerting pressure on Lannes, he deployed his men from the Heinrichsdorf-Friedland Road south to the upper bends of the Alle. Additional troops pushed north as far as Schwonau, while reserve cavalry moved into position to support the growing battle in the Sortlack Wood. As the morning progressed, Lannes struggled to hold his position. He was soon aided by the arrival of Marshal Edouard Mortier's VIII Corps which approached Heinrichsdorf and swept the Russians out of Schwonau ( Map ). By midday, Napoleon had arrived on the field with reinforcements. Ordering Marshal Michel Ney 's VI Corps to assume a position south of Lannes, these troops formed between Posthenen and Sortlack Wood. While Mortier and Grouchy formed the French left, Marshal Claude Victor-Perrin's I Corps and the Imperial Guard moved into a reserve position west of Posthenen. Covering his movements with artillery, Napoleon finished forming his troops around 5:00 PM. Assessing the confined terrain around Friedland due to the river and Posthenen mill stream, he decided to strike at the Russian left. The Main Attack: Moving behind a massive artillery barrage, Ney's men advanced on the Sortlack Wood. Quickly overcoming the Russian opposition, they forced the enemy back. On the far left, General Jean Gabriel Marchand succeeded in driving the Russians into the Alle near Sortlack. In an attempt to retrieve the situation, Russian cavalry mounted a determi |
Australian born Laura Robson is associated with which sport? | Australian Open 2014: Laura Robson & Heather Watson beaten - BBC Sport BBC Sport Australian Open 2014: Laura Robson & Heather Watson beaten By Piers Newbery BBC Sport at Melbourne Park 13 Jan 2014 13-26 January Coverage: Daily live radio and text coverage on BBC Radio 5 live, BBC Sport website, mobiles and BBC Sport app; Watch the finals live on BBC TV Laura Robson and Heather Watson were beaten as British interest in the women's singles ended swiftly at the Australian Open. Both players took on higher-ranked opposition in the first round, but the manner of their defeats differed sharply. Robson spent just 50 minutes on court in a 6-3 6-0 thrashing by 18th seed Kirsten Flipkens - the Briton's first full match of the season following a wrist injury. Analysis This was a hugely dispiriting defeat for Laura Robson, who says her left wrist will need further treatment before her next tournament in Paris in two weeks' time. The British number one was horribly rusty and made 32 unforced errors in just 50 minutes: a legacy of playing her first full match since early October. Heather Watson will be very frustrated to have lost a tight first-round match after battling through three rounds of qualifying, but she looks like her pre-glandular fever self, and in time should be confident of returning to the world's top 50. Watson, in contrast, kept 31st seed Daniela Hantuchova occupied for two hours and 34 minutes before going down 7-5 3-6 6-3 to the Slovakian. With both Robson and Watson scheduled among the opening matches, it took less than three hours for Andy Murray to be left as the lone Briton in singles competition. Robson, who turns 20 next week, arrived in Melbourne with a wrist injury but said before the match that it was no longer causing her any pain. A lack of match sharpness was certainly clear from the outset on Court Three, as she opened with four straight errors to drop serve and lost the first nine points in a row. There was a big cheer for the Australian-born Robson when she finally got on the board but Flipkens, a Wimbledon semi-finalist last year, was much the stronger. Robson simply could not find her range and racked up 32 errors to her opponent's four as she lost eight straight games and became the first player to go out of the tournament. "It was up and down the whole time, and I don't think I ever really got into a rhythm at all," said Robson. "I wasn't really able to deal with her slice that well. It just didn't go well. I definitely expected to play better, but it happens. "And I didn't really have any expectations going in because I didn't know what it was going to be like out there." While Robson trooped unhappily back to the locker room, Watson was only just getting going on the nearby Court Two against Hantuchova. The 21-year-old from Guernsey, who came through three rounds of qualifying, recovered an early break in the first set but double-faulted facing a fourth break point at 5-5, and smacked her racquet in frustration. Hantuchova's heavier, flatter hitting had just given her the edge in the first set but Watson began to step in and attack the returns in the second, breaking twice to force a decider. Fighting spirit is rarely in short supply where Watson is concerned and she battled back from 0-40 in her first service game, before recovering from 4-1 down to trail 4-3. She had spent most of the match trying to keep pace with Hantuchova, however, and the pressure ultimately told when the Briton was broken for a fifth and decisive time. "I felt I was close throughout the match," said Watson. Media playback is not supported on this device Australian Open 2014: Heather Watson positive despite first round defeat "I started slow in the third set - I should have got up while she went to the bathroom [before the final set] and kept moving - but I had plenty of chances and didn't take them." Watson is ranked 121st after suffering with glandular fever in 2013, and she will slip further after failing to match last year's run to the third round in Melbourne. "I feel like it's an opportunity lost for me," she added |
Which is the only species of deer of which both male and female have antlers? | What Species of Deer Has Antlers on Both Male & Female? | eHow What Species of Deer Has Antlers on Both Male & Female? Email Save Although there are several species of deer, only the reindeer and caribou are species where both males and females have antlers. Caribou males and reindeer males start growing their antlers in February, whereas the females start regrowing theirs in May. Unlike horns, which are permanent, antlers shed once a year. Many species of animals look like deer and look like they have antlers. However, species such as the gazelle have horns instead of antlers. Caribou Although reindeer and caribou are the same species, caribou are wild and larger than reindeer. Male caribou antlers reach 51 inches tall, whereas female antlers reach a length of about 20 inches, but can be smaller. Although both male and female caribou finish growing their antlers at the same time of year, they shed them at different times of the year. Males shed their antlers in November; however, females shed their antlers after winter at the start of the birthing season in May. Caribou are native to Europe, Asia, North America and Greenland. Reindeer Reindeer antlers are smaller than the antlers of caribou but are still large. Male reindeer antlers are at least 20 inches but are rarely larger than 50 inches. Female reindeer antlers can be as small as half the size of males and are rarely larger than 20 inches. Just like the caribou, reindeer males shed their antlers before winter and females shed theirs in the spring. Reindeer live in northern hemispheres such as Scandinavia, arctic North America and Greenland where they are herded domestically for food and resources as well as to pull sleds. More About Caribou and Reindeer Caribou and reindeer grow to 4 to 7 feet at the shoulder and can weigh up to 700 pounds. Like all deer, caribou and reindeer are herbivores, so when grass is hidden by snow, they eat lichens and moss over the winter as a food source. What Antlers Are Used For In other species of antler-bearing animals such as the white-tailed deer, only the male produces antlers to use for mating rights, like the caribou and reindeer do. However, female deer species do not fight for mating rights because they depend on speed and agility to outrun predators and dart into brush. In contrast, female caribou and reindeer use their antlers for protection from predators such as grizzly bears, wolves and eagles that feed on caribou young. |
In 1961, the painting titled ‘Le Bateau’ by which artist hung upside down in the Museum of Modern Art in New York for 47 days without anyone noticing? | October 11-20 October 11 1917: Virginia Woolf records her impressions of Katherine Mansfield: "I'm a little shocked by her commonness at first sight; lines so hard and cheap. However, when this diminishes, she is so intelligent and inscrutable that she repays friendship." 1921: Aaron Copland to his parents: 207 Bd. Raspail Paris Dear Ma & Pa, -- I really ought to be sending you a cablegram with this wonderful news, but I was afraid it would scare you. Just think, I have just sold my first composition. Let me catch my breath and tell you the whole story. I wrote you that M. Durand, the biggest publisher in Paris, had promised to publish a piece of mine called "The Cat and the Mouse" after he had heard me play it at Fontainebleau. Well, I have just been to see him at his office here and have sold him the piece outright for 500 francs. I signed a contract with him and he has promise to have the piece ready in about 2 or 3 weeks, at which time I will send you a copy. Try to remember that in pre-war times, 500 francs was equal to $100. which is an extraordinary price to pay a young, unknown composer for a little piece of 5 pages. Then Durand is a very well-known publisher all over the world, so it gives one a reputation merely to be published by him. A great deal of the credit is due to Fontainebleau and the school as I could never have accomplished so much in so short a time without all that influence helping me. What will Goldmark and Adler have to say when I send them copies? Its too bad I am not able to play the piece for you, but you'll have to wait until I get home, unless some one plays it in N.Y. by some wild chance. Of course, this is only a beginning. One doesn't get exactly famous simply because he has written one piece which is printed. But it is a start. And the 500 francs tickles me silly, even if it isn't a fortune. 1939: President Franklin D. Roosevelt is presented with a letter signed by Albert Einstein urging the United States to rapidly develop an atomic bomb program. 1976: The Gang of Four--Mao's widow, Jiang Qing, and three others--are arrested in China and charged with plotting a coup. top 1492: Christopher Columbus sights Guanahani ( Plana Cays? ) Island in the Bahamas. ( The theory popularized by Samuel E. Morison and others that Guanahani Island is current Watling island no longer receives the support it once did.) This is bad news for the Bahamans, all of whom will be exterminated (despite the paternalistic entry in Columbus's log, in which he indicates that the Spanish will be "gentle": "As I saw that they were friendly to us, and perceived that they could be much more easily converted to our holy faith by gentle means than by force, I presented them with some red caps, and strings of beads to wear upon the neck, and many other trifles of small value, wherewith they were much delighted and became wonderfully attached to us"). The day is celebrated in the US (on the second Monday of the month) as Columbus Day, so proclaimed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 (the year of the My Lai massacre, the riots at the Democratic National Convention, and the assassination of Martin Kuther King), but some celebrate it as Indigenous People Day. For more, see (if you can find it) my The Discovery of America (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992, with Carol Christensen). 1859: Emperor Norton abolishes Congress. 54: Emperor Claudius the First dies after being poisoned by his wife, Agrippina. 1881: Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends initiate the revival of the Hebrew language. 1909: Art Tatum is born. Partially blind, he would learn to read sheet music by Braille. He would acknowledge strid |
What is the name given to the fluid surrounding a foetus in the womb? | Polyhydramnios - NHS Choices Print this page Introduction Polyhydramnios is a common complication of pregnancy, where there's an excessive amount of amniotic fluid surrounding the unborn baby (foetus). An abnormal amount of fluid (whether increased or reduced) might be suspected by your healthcare professional after 30 weeks of pregnancy, during one of your antenatal appointments , and should be monitored and investigated. The cause of polyhydramnios is often unknown, but sometimes indicates a problem with the baby's development (see What are the causes? , below). However, most women with polyhydramnios give birth to healthy babies. If you're pregnant and notice your belly is getting large very quickly (acute polyhydramnios), contact your doctor or midwife. It's rare for it to happen suddenly, but it can indicate an abnormality with the foetus and increases your risk of giving birth prematurely . This page covers: How is it investigated and managed? How is polyhydramnios diagnosed? In most women with polyhydramnios, the excess fluid builds up slowly. After 30 weeks of pregnancy, this excess fluid should be noticeable and picked up by your GP, midwife or obstetrician during one of your antenatal appointments . In rare cases, when polyhydramnios develops very quickly, the excess fluid may be apparent earlier in pregnancy, or might be noted at the time of the detailed scan at 18-22 weeks. If increased amniotic fluid is suspected, you may be referred for an ultrasound scan , so that the depth of the amniotic fluid surrounding the foetus can be measured. What are the causes? Often, no cause can be found for polyhydramnios. However, it can be associated with any of the following: The mother carrying twins (read about giving birth to twins ). The mother having diabetes, including gestational diabetes (pregnancy-related diabetes). Sometimes, if diabetes is the cause, the baby will be larger than expected for its stage of development. A blockage in part of the baby's gut (a condition called gut atresia), which prevents them absorbing the usual amount of amniotic fluid. A gut atresia would often require an operation after the baby's birth (read more about gut atresia in babies ). The mother having rhesus disease , where antibodies in the mother's blood cross the placenta, sometimes causing anaemia in the foetus. A growth of blood vessels on the placenta, called a chorioangioma. A build-up of fluid in specific areas of the baby's body, such as the abdomen and chest cavity, called hydrops fetalis. A genetic problem with the foetus. What associated risks should I be aware of? Having polyhydramnios means there's a slightly higher risk of your unborn baby having a birth defect, especially if the fluid build-up is severe. You should discuss with your healthcare professionals any other problems that the extra fluid could be linked to. However, don't panic – the vast majority of women with polyhydramnios give birth to healthy babies. Your labour may be affected in the following ways: You may go into premature labour because of the additional pressure stretching the womb. Your baby may be in the wrong position and you may need a caesarean section . If your baby is in the wrong position, the umbilical cord may slip down into the birth canal when the membranes rupture (read more about a prolapsed umbilical cord ). You may have an increased risk of bleeding after delivery. How is it investigated and managed? Most women with polyhydramnios need an ultrasound investigation and a glucose tolerance test, to try to identify a cause and check for gestational diabetes . If your condition isn't severe, this can be done in the GP's surgery and you may not need to be admitted to hospital. Read more about ultrasound scans in pregnancy . If the ultrasound scan appears to show a problem with the foetus, doctors might discuss whether you want to have amniocentesis (where a sample of fluid is drawn out using a needle), to test for chromosomal or genetic problems in the foetus. Your doctor may also recommend a period of bed rest to help reduce yo |
In James Bond novels and films, what is the codename for the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service? | Q (Literary) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Trigger Mortis Major Boothroyd is the British Secret Service armourer introduced in Ian Fleming 's sixth James Bond novel, Dr. No . The character is the origin of the James Bond film character Q (standing for Quartermaster); the head of Q Branch , the fictional research and development division of the Service. Novel biography At the beginning of Dr. No , M calls Major Boothroyd the best armourer in the world. Q is called into M's office to present him and James Bond with alternatives to Bond's Beretta 418 pistol, whose stalled drawing time led to Bond's poisoning by Rosa Klebb at the end of From Russia with Love . He calls the Beretta a "ladies gun" and suggests other weapons such as the Tokarev TT-33 before finally settling on the Walther PPK , which is approved by M. Behind the scenes The origin of the Q character is rather complicated. In the Fleming novels there are frequent references to 'Q branch', a division of the British Secret Service which provides equipment to field operatives. There is a reference to Q in Chapter 3 of Casino Royale , the first Bond book, when M says to Bond: "Go over a few days before the big game starts and get your hand in. Have a talk to Q. about rooms and trains, and any equipment you want." There is a similar reference in the following novel, Live and Let Die . However, this appears to be an abbreviation for Q Branch rather than the codename for a particular individual. In the sixth novel, Dr. No , the service armourer Q appears for the first time. Fleming named the character after Geoffrey Boothroyd, a firearms expert who lived in Glasgow, Scotland. He had written to the novelist suggesting that Bond was not using the best firearms available; criticizing in particular Bond's use of the Beretta 418 pistol. Grateful for the advice, Fleming phased out the Beretta and wrote the character of Boothroyd into the subsequent novel. Boothroyd is also referenced occasionally in the Bond novels of John Gardner , but the author preferred instead to focus on a new character, Q'ute . |
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In 1993, which animated animal was first used to advertise Coca Cola? | Coca-Cola Polar Bears | Cartoon characters Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Share Coca-Cola Polar Bears in "Northern Lights" The Coca-Cola Polar Bears are the mascots of the soft drink, Coca-Cola. Polar Bears first started to appear on Coca-Cola products in 1922 in France. Since then the polar bears have appeared in many Coca-Cola advertisements. Back then however the Coca-Cola polar bear was simply a picture of a polar bear on Coke advertisements. It wasn't until the commercial "Northern Lights" was made in 1993 that the animated polar bears we all know and love were first seen. "Northern Lights" features several animated polar bears watching the Aurora Borealis and drinking some Coca-Cola. Since 1993 the bears have appeared in a variety of commercial and Coca-Cola advertisements. Later polar bear cubs were introduced as well in a holiday ad in which a family of polar bear picks out a tree for Christmas. |
The Seto Inland Sea separates the three main islands of which country? | Seto Sea, the Inland Sea of Japan History & Facts - View Larger Map Known as the Seto Sea, the Inland Sea of Japan is the body of water which separates the three main islands of the country, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. Not only does it serve as an international waterway that connects the Sea of Japan to the Pacific Ocean, it is a valuable sea transport to industrial parts in the Kansai region because of its connection to Osaka Bay. The waterway runs from east to west in about 450 km and has a width of 15 to 55 km from south to north. An approximate of 3,000 islands can be found here separated by the eastern, central, and western parts. The Inland sea is a rich well of biodiversity with more than 500 marine species inhabiting its waters. Just some of the popular faunas are the ayu, the finless porpoise, horseshoe crabs, and even great white sharks. When it comes to industry, the Inland sea is considered as a very productive section in modern Japan. The primary industries surrounding its waters are from the cities of Kurashiki, Fukuyama, Ube, and Kobe. Tourism helps the area because of the mixture of the sea’s refreshing mix with Japan’s climate and picturesque landscape. The coastal area of the sea, in particular, is one very popular choice for tourists whenever they visit Japan because of the unique beauty of its waters. The length of the coastal area named Setonaikai National Park, considered as one of the oldest parks in the country. The Itsukushima Shrine also found in the area of Inland sea is a member of UNESCO’s list of Heritage Sites around the world. More famous tourist centers are Kyoto and Tokyo with their appealing metropolitan structures and Shodoshima, also known as the “island of olives”. Leave a Reply |
What is the national flower of Cyprus? | Cyprus national flower | My Flower's Blog The national flower is lilium bosinacune. LILIUM It has bulbs 6-7 cm in diameter. The flowers form racemes that contains six flowers or more with no fragrance. Flowering in July. BULGARIA National flower is the rose . CROATIA National flower is the iris. IRIS It takes its name from a Greek word that means rainbow. Are perennial herbs, growing from rhizomes, on drier climate, from bulbs. They have long erect flowering stems. The three sepals expand from their narrow base. CYPRUS The national flower is the cyclamen. CYCLAMEN This flower can grow and bloom on a rock because of its strength and its capability to survive. Are perennial herbaceous plants with underground tuber which produce leaves in late winter and flowering in autumn. CZECH REPUBLIC National flower is the rose . DENMARK The national flower is the red clover. RED CLOVER The red clover grows up to 16 inches, with a hairy upright stem. The leaves are made up of three oval leaflets with a white V mark in the center,call chevron. ESTONIA The national flower is the cornflower . CORNFLOWER The cornflower has grown in Estonia soil for more than 10.000 years. The plant grows in dry fields ,creating a strong connection in the minds of Estonians. FINLAND The national flower is the Lilly of the valley. LILLY OF THE VALLEY This flower is known for its sweet and strong smell. Is considered as a symbol of love and purity. FRANCE The national flower is the fleur de lys. FLEUR DE LYS The water iris is the march plant for excellence , whose bright yellow large flowers blooms from June to September. The flag of the kings of France has three of this iris. GEORGIA We couldn´t find an official flower . GERMANY |
Which element does ‘K’ represent in the Periodic Table? | Potassium - EniG. Periodic Table of the Elements POTASSIUM Relative atomic mass: 39.0983(1) Potassium was discovered by Sir Humphry Davy (GB) in 1807. The origin of the name comes from the Arabic word qali meaning alkali (the origin of the symbol K comes from the Latin word kalium). It is a soft, waxy, silver-white metal. Fresh surfaces have a silvery sheen. Potassium quickly forms dull oxide coating on exposure to air. It reacts strongly with water and gives off a flammable gas. It also reacts violently with oxidants. Potasium occurs only in compounds. Potassium is found in minerals like carnallite [(KMgCl3).6H2O] and sylvite (KCl). Pure metal is produced by the reaction of hot potassium chloride and sodium vapours in a special retort. Pottasium is used as potash in making glass and soap and as saltpetre, potassium nitrate (KNO3) to make explosives and to colour fireworks in mauve. Potassium ions are vital to function of nerve and muscle tissues. The price of 90.2 % pure potassium metal is 90.20 for 5 g. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES |
Which American playwright wrote the play ‘All God’s Chillun Got Wings’? | American Experience | Eugene O'Neill | A Controversial Play | PBS A Controversial Play Flash MX plugin required. Download the free Flash plugin from Macromedia's Web site. Non-Flash version Please tell us what you think about A Controversial Play. By 1924 Eugene O'Neill had penned over two dozen plays, garnering two Pulitzer Prizes and recognition as a major playwright . For a new play about an interracial marriage, O'Neill looked to a black spiritual for his title: "All God's Chillun Got Wings." Even before it premiered in a small New York theater in May 1924, the play caused controversy, because it depicted a relationship between a white woman and a black man. O'Neill turned to a dynamic young African American actor, Paul Robeson, for the male lead. A college valedictorian and football star, Robeson had trained as a lawyer, but a love of public speaking drew him into acting. His dynamic presence and powerful singing voice would make him a star on stage and screen in the years to come. In his later work, O'Neill would draw on his own family experience, but with "All God's Chillun Got Wings" he explored contemporary society. Learn more about this rarely performed play and why a depiction of physical affection between a white woman and an African American man caused such uproar in 1920s America. page created on 1.24.06 |
If a person is ambidextrous they can use which part of the body equally well? | 11 Facts About the Ambidextrous | Mental Floss 11 Facts About the Ambidextrous iStock Like us on Facebook 1. If you can write equally well with either hand, then you are the one percent . Even among the small population of ‘multi-handed’ individuals, very few experience equal ease and skill with both hands. In comparison, around 10% of people are lefties. 2. Right-, left- and mixed-handedness aren’t sufficient to define the preferences of most people, according to experts. Most people experience some level of cross-dominance — favoring one hand for certain tasks, even if it’s the non-dominant one — and among the group of people who use both hands, there are even finer distinctions. Ambidextral refers to those who can use both hands as well as a right-hander’s right hand (so, really well), and ambisinistral can be used to describe people who use both hands as well as a right-hander’s left hand (that is, somewhat clumsily). 3. Unlike righties, who show strong left brain dominance, the hemispheres of ambidextrous and left-handed people’s brains are almost symmetric... 4. ... as is the typical brain of a person with synesthesia, or “mixed senses,” who experiences cross-sensory perception. Among synesthetes, the instance of ambidexterity (and left-handedness) is much higher than in the general population. 5. The ambidextrous are more likely to possess the LRRTM1 gene (on chromosome 2), which is linked to schizophrenia. Studies reveal that people with schizophrenia are significantly more likely to be ambidextrous or left-handed than people who are not schizophrenic. 6. Another study, conducted through the BBC Science website, shows that of the one percent of 255,000 respondents who indicated equal ease writing with both hands, 9.2% of men and 15.6% of women reported being bisexual . In the same study, 4% of right-handed and 4.5% of left-handed men, and 6.2% of right-handed and 6.3% of left-handed women said they’re attracted to both sexes. 7. People who identify as ‘either-handed’ score slightly lower overall in general intelligence testing, and most often those scores are lower in arithmetic, memory and reasoning... 8. ... except when they aren’t. A study of 8000 children ages 7 and 8 shows that the 87 mixed-handed students had more pronounced difficulties in language skills, and at ages 15 and 16, the same students showed a higher risk of ADHD symptoms and performed academically under both right- and left-handed students from the same sample. 9. Ambis can be quick to anger, according to a study from Merrimack College, which suggests a higher interlinking of brain hemispheres found in ambidextrous and lefties. A follow-up study found that the increased hemisphere connections correlate to increased awkwardness, clumsiness and moodiness. 10. But inconsistent-handers can also be easier to sway emotionally . Montclair State University tested a group of right- left and either-handers for emotional stability. Their findings report that of the group, righties were hardest to coerce, and ambis were most likely to report a change in mood based on their surroundings, directed thought, and music. 11. It’s not all bad news for the handedness-ambivalent, though. Being able to use both hands with (almost) equal ease can really pay off, especially in sports, arts and music. Some reportedly cross-dominant celebrities and historic figures include Leonardo da Vinci, Pete Rose, Richard Feynmen, pitcher Greg A. Harris, Michelle Kwan, Shigeru Miyamoto, Paul McCartney, Benjamin Franklin and Harry Truman. |
Which English Monarch was created ‘Defender of the Faith’ by Pope Leo X? | Is British Monarch 'Defender Of The Faith' Or 'Faiths'? | The Huffington Post Is British Monarch 'Defender Of The Faith' Or 'Faiths'? 10/11/2012 08:57 am ET | Updated Oct 15, 2012 Trevor Grundy Religion News Service LONDON (RNS) As Britain awaits the appointment of the next archbishop of Canterbury to lead both the Church of England and the far-flung Anglican Communion, there's renewed attention on the woman who officially gets the final say: Queen Elizabeth II, the "Defender of the Faith." The current archbishop, Rowan Williams, ends his 10-year tenure in December. A Church of England committee is sifting through candidates -- two of whom will be submitted to Prime Minister David Cameron, whose top choice will be submitted to the queen for final approval. When he announced his retirement last March, Williams, 62, famously said his successor will need "the constitution of an ox and the skin of a rhinoceros." Politicians and religious leaders say the next archbishop will need those qualities and more to handle deep divisions in the British church over female bishops and North/South divisions among his 77 million-member global flock over sexuality. But he'll also need something else: the ability to envision life when Elizabeth -- who turns 87 next year -- is no longer on the throne, and when Britain is no longer a Christian-majority country. At her coronation in 1953, Elizabeth swore to "uphold the laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel, maintain the Protestant reformed religion established by law and reserve the settlement of the Church of England." Her son and heir apparent, Prince Charles, has said he's planning a symbolic change if and when he becomes king by taking the title "Defender of Faith" or "Defender of the Faiths" to reflect Britain's multicultural and multifaith society. That change would mean Charles would be the first monarch to not be the standard-bearer for Protestantism for the first time since Henry VIII famously broke from Rome to start his own church. Britons may be on Charles' side: A recent BBC poll found that 73 percent favor Elizabeth remaining "Supreme Governor," but about 50 percent would favor Charles' idea for a title change to Defender of Faith. The royal title "Fidei defensor," usually translated "Defender of the Faith," was bestowed by Pope Leo X on Henry VIII in 1521 in recognition of the king's defense of Roman Catholic teaching against the Protestant ideas of Martin Luther. But after Henry VIII broke with Rome and attacked the pope, the title was later revoked. Henry was excommunicated, but the title was bestowed again on Henry's only son, Edward IV, by Parliament in 1544. Charles caused considerable controversy in 1994 when he first floated the idea in his attempt to embrace the other religions that have become more visible since his mother came to the throne in 1952. "The Queen came to the throne at a time when the Church of England was really the only Christian faith in the country," former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey said in a 2006 television interview. "And there were no Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus around to be in any way evident in the life of the country," he said. "Now it's a completely different world. Prince Charles put his finger on it and there's no way in which the sovereign can be the defender of one faith." A recent study conducted by the British Parliament showed the number of Christians in Britain has dropped 8 percent, to 69 percent, since 2004. The number of nonbelievers, meanwhile, jumped 49 percent over the same period. At the same time, England's Hindu population rose by 43 percent, and Buddhists by 74 percent. "If these populations continue to shrink and grow by the same number of people each year," the study said, "the number of people with no religion will overtake the number of Christians in Great Britain in 20 years." Vernon Bogdanor, a leading constitutionalist who teaches at Oxford University, said society has changed, and perhaps titles should, too. "In 1952," he said recently, "when the queen came to the throne, it was very much an Anglican |
In the US tv series ‘Dallas’, what was the first name of Bobby and Pam Ewing’s adopted son? | Dallas (TV Series 1978–1991) - IMDb IMDb Community LATEST HEADLINES 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 soapy, backstabbing machinations of Dallas oil magnate J.R. Ewing and his family. Creator: J.R.'s friends, family, and business associates have had enough of his dirty dealings, and many of them vow revenge. Bobby is especially angry as he and Pam leave Southfork. 9.0 J.R. becomes the focus of accumulated hatreds in Southfork. A desperate search ensues for both Miss Ellie and Jessica while the fate of Peter is left in Sue Ellen's hands. 8.7 The happiness on Pam and Mark's wedding day soon fades as J.R.'s attempt to outwit Angelica may have come too late to save Jack's life and jeopardizes Sue Ellen's life as well. 8.5 a list of 30 titles created 25 Dec 2010 a list of 33 titles created 03 Apr 2011 a list of 26 titles created 19 Aug 2012 a list of 43 titles created 19 Aug 2012 a list of 26 titles created 09 Feb 2015 Search for " Dallas " 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. Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 46 wins & 80 nominations. See more awards » Videos The trials and tribulations of two feuding families, the Carringtons and the Colbys, both oil rich families in Denver, Colorado. Stars: John Forsythe, Linda Evans, Joan Collins Set in the vineyards of California, this prime-time soap opera featured the conflict within the powerful Gioberti family, owners of the vast Falcon Crest Winery. Stars: Jane Wyman, Lorenzo Lamas, Chao Li Chi The next generation of the Ewing family - cousins John Ross Ewing and Christopher Ewing - clash over the family's oil business and vast fortune. Stars: Josh Henderson, Jesse Metcalfe, Jordana Brewster Gary and Valene Ewing, relatives of the Ewing clan of Dallas, arrive in Knots Landing to make a new home for themselves. However, scheming Abby Fairgate-Cunningham later breaks up their marriage when she seduces Gary. Stars: Michele Lee, Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark The lives and loves of a group of young adults living in "Melrose Place" in California. Each with their own dreams and drives, the inevitable conflicts, conquests, and consummations ensue. Stars: Heather Locklear, Andrew Shue, Courtney Thorne-Smith It has been two years since Bobby and Sue Ellen Ewing took over control of Ewing Oil. Although J.R. is successfully managing a large oil conglomerate, he wants to once again own his ... See full summary » Director: Michael Preece Dallas: J.R. Returns (TV Movie 1996) Drama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.6/10 X Years after J.R. Ewing lost Ewing Oil and apparently committed suicide, we learn that he is alive and well. He returns to Dallas, and plots to bring his family back together, and regain control of Ewing Oil from arch-enemy Cliff Barnes. Director: Leonard Katzman The romantic and comic tales of the passengers and crew of the cruise ship, Pacific Princess. Stars: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange The adventures of three sexy female private eyes. Stars: Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith Follows a group of friends living in Beverly Hills, California, from their school days and into adulthood. Stars: Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty, Luke Perry Edit Storyline Popular evening 'soap-opera' style television drama. The show was set in Dallas and chronicled the exploits of wealthy Texas oil millionaires. Many of the plots revolved around shady business dealings and dysfunctional family dynamics. Written by Tad Dibbern <[email protected]> 2 April 1978 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Mono | Stereo (CBS StereoSound) (seasons 12-14)| Mono (seasons 1-11) Color: Did You Know? Trivia When Jim Davis died in 1981, it was decided to write him off by first having his character, Jock Ewing, disappear in the Amazon and eventually having him |
Which 19th Century poet wrote ‘Clancy of the Overflow’? | Bush poetry - Poems by theme and occasion - Australian Poetry Library Books Bush poetry Bush poetry has always played a dominant part in Australian writing since the unique landscape was one of the things that most distinguished the new country from the migrants' homes. Many earlier Australian poets wrote bush poetry, with bush ballads being especially popular in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Much old bush poetry circulated orally and its authors are now unknown, though bush songs such as 'Nine Miles from Gundagai' and 'Springtime it Brings on the Shearing' remain popular. Among the best-known and widely published Australian bush poets are Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, though many others wrote in this vein. Two of the most famous examples of bush poetry are Paterson's 'The Man from Snowy River' and 'Clancy of the Overflow'. It is often forgotten that Paterson also wrote the words of Australia's unofficial national anthem, 'Waltzing Matilda'. As well Paterson was responsible for many funny bush poems such as 'A Bush Christening'. Australian poets continued to write bush poetry in the twentieth century. One of the most famous Australian poems is 'My Country' by Dorothea Mackellar, which begins by contrasting the English landscape praised by English poets with that of Australian bush. Its second stanza opens with the well-known line: ' I love a sunburnt country'. Among modern Australian poets, Judith Wright is especially known for her bush poetry, especially poems about the New England countryside where she grew up, such as 'South of My Days'. Others with a bush background who frequently write bush poetry are David Campbell, who writes about the Monaro area, and Les Murray, who writes about northern New South Wales. While leading contemporary poets rarely use the traditional ballad forms for their bush poetry, others continue to write in this mode, and competition are still being held for the best examples. |
Italian mountaineers Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni became the first people to successfully reach the summit of which Himalayan peak, via the Abruzzi Ridge? | K2 | mountain, Asia | Britannica.com mountain, Asia Alternative Titles: Chogori, Dapsang, Mount Godwin Austen, Qogir Feng Related Topics Walter Bonatti K2, Chinese Qogir Feng, also called Mount Godwin Austen, called locally Dapsang or Chogori, the world’s second highest peak (28,251 feet [8,611 metres]), second only to Mount Everest . K2 is located in the Karakoram Range and lies partly in a Chinese-administered enclave of the Kashmir region within the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang of China and partly in the Gilgit-Baltistan portion of Kashmir under the administration of Pakistan . K2 (Mount Godwin Austen), in the Karakoram Range, viewed from the Gilgit-Baltistan district of the … The glacier- and snow-covered mountain rises from its base at about 15,000 feet (4,570 metres) on the Godwin Austen Glacier, a tributary of the Baltoro Glacier. The mountain was discovered and measured in 1856 by Col. T.G. Montgomerie of the Survey of India, and it was given the symbol K2 because it was the second peak measured in the Karakoram Range. The name Mount Godwin Austen is for the peak’s first surveyor, Col. H.H. Godwin Austen, a 19th-century English geographer. The first attempt to reach the summit was made by an Anglo-Swiss expedition in 1902 that ascended to 18,600 feet (5,670 metres) on the peak’s northeastern crest. Other unsuccessful attempts included an Italian expedition in 1909, led by Luigi Amedeo, duke d’Abruzzi , via the southeastern ridge (later called the Abruzzi Ridge) that reached approximately 20,000 feet (6,100 metres). In 1938 an American expedition led by Charles Houston via the Abruzzi Ridge reached about 26,000 feet (7,925 metres); in 1939 another American-led expedition following the same route reached about 27,500 feet (8,380 metres); and in 1953 another expedition led by Houston reached 25,900 feet (7,900 metres) on the Abruzzi Ridge. Finally, in 1954, an Italian expedition consisting of five scientists (including the geologist Ardito Desio as leader), a doctor, a photographer, and 12 others, including a Pakistani, managed to conquer the Abruzzi Ridge despite the severe weather conditions. The summit was reached at 6 pm on July 31, 1954, by Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli . In the course of the ascent, Mario Puchoz, one of the guides, died of pneumonia. Similar Topics K2 - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up) The second highest mountain in the world has perhaps the shortest name: K2 (also called Mount Godwin Austen). It rises to 28,251 feet (8,611 meters) above sea level in the Karakoram Range of the western Himalayas, on the border between Baltistan (in the part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan) and China. Colonel T.G. Montgomerie, who found and measured the mountain in 1856 as part of the Survey of India, named it "K2" because it was the second mountain he surveyed in the Karakorams. Soon it received an alternate name, Mount Godwin Austen, for a famous English mountaineer and leading participant in the survey. Article History |
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