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The Codex Vaticanus is said to be the oldest almost complete manuscript of which book? | Codex Vaticanus Codex Vaticanus (B) The Codex Vaticanus, so called because it is the most famous manuscript in the possession of the Vatican library, is generally believed to be from the fourth century, and is thought to be the oldest (nearly) complete copy of the Greek Bible in existence. Lacking from it are most of the book of Genesis, Hebrews 9:14 to the end, the Pastoral Epistles, and the book of Revelation; these parts were lost by damage to the front and back of the volume, which is common in ancient manuscripts. The writing is in capital letters (called uncial script) without spaces between words (scriptio continuo), and is arranged in three columns on the page. Like other early manuscripts, its text is somewhat shorter than the later manuscripts, less harmonistic in parallel passages of the Synoptic Gospels, and it often agrees with the texts presumed to underlie the ancient Coptic, Syriac, and Latin versions against the later Greek manuscripts. It is relatively free of obvious transcriptional errors, and is usually taken as the best representative of the ancient "Alexandrian" form of the New Testament text. For many years Codex Vaticanus was highly esteemed by scholars who knew next to nothing about it, besides its evident antiquity. Johann Bengel in his Gnomon (see Bengel 1742 ) makes the following remark concerning it: "The number of witnesses who support each reading of every passage ought to be carefully examined: and to that end, in so doing, we should separate those codices ... which are known to have been carefully collated, as, for instance, the Alexandrine, from those which are not known to have been carefully collated, or which are known to have been carelessly collated, as for instance the Vatican MS., which otherwise would be almost without an equal." (Fausset's translation, vol. 1, pp. 15-16). It was jealously guarded by the librarians of the Vatican, and practically inaccessible to competent scholars for most of the nineteenth century (see remarks under Mai 1857 ), during which its reputation was magnified by the mystique surrounding it. When at last its text was fully revealed, in many places seconded by the recently discovered Codex Sinaiticus , the stage was set for the influential text of Tischendorf 1869 and the even more important edition of Westcott and Hort 1881 . Tischendorf 1867 was the first reliable edition of the manuscript to be published. It was preceded by that of Cardinal Mai (see Mai 1857 , partly corrected in Vercellone 1859 ), and by Hansell 1864 . Mai's edition was soon discovered to be very faulty, and scholars generally did not accept it as being more reliable than the collations which were already available to them (see Birch 1788 , 1798 , and Ford 1799 ), and Hansell's edition was based upon Mai's. Later editions of the manuscript are Vercellone 1868 , Cozza 1889 , Vatican 1904 , and Martini 1968 . An excellent color facsimile of the entire codex has been published: Bibliorum Sacrorum Graecorum Codex Vaticanus B. (Roma: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1999). Full collations are in the apparatus of Tischendorf 1869 and Tregelles 1857 (for which see the Corrigenda). An English translation is presented in Parker 1863 . The most complete collation in English is in Tischendorf 1869 b . A Sample of the Text Codex Vaticanus, Matthew 11:8b-10a ...fiesmenon; idou oi ta malaka forounteV en toiV oikoiV twn basilewn. 9 alla ti exhlqate; profhthn idein; nai, legw umin, kai perissoteron profhtou. 10 outoV estin peri ou gegraptai, idou egw apostellw ton aggelon ... ... Behold, those who wear soft clothes are in kings' houses. 9 But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and much more than a prophet. 10 This is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger ... See also: |
Anna Gordy was the first wife of which late soul singer? | Anna Gordy Gaye Dead: Marvin Gaye's Ex-Wife Dies At 92 | The Huffington Post Anna Gordy Gaye Dead: Marvin Gaye's Ex-Wife Dies At 92 01/31/2014 01:57 pm ET | Updated Feb 05, 2014 810 Donaldson Collection via Getty Images Anna Gordy Gaye, the sister of Motown founder Berry Gordy and ex-wife of the late singer Marvin Gaye, has died. She was 92. According to TMZ , sources close to the family revealed that Gordy Gaye died at her Los Angeles home from natural causes and was discovered by family members at around 3 a.m. Friday. Following a 14-year union with the iconic crooner, Anna divorced Marvin Gaye in 1977 . The public split inspired the recording of Gaye’s double album "Here, My Dear" -- an album whose existence was mandated by the terms of the divorce settlement , which also required Marvin to pay royalties from the project toward Anna's alimony. During a 1979 interview with People magazine , the Grammy Award winner credited his marriage to Anna for saving his Motown career. "I do believe the fact that I was married to Berry Gordy's sister saved me from getting my contract ripped up several times,” Gaye said. “Let's face it, I'm a little strange by most standards. I truly feel I'm an artist and I don't give any quarter nor do I ask any ... I gotta take the responsibility to show up every night. I may as well make the people who promote me happy and assured that I am not the unstable flake they think I am." In recent years, Anna Gordy Gaye reportedly suffered from dementia, heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. In 2005, she moved away from Marvin's former Hollywood Hills home due to alleged drug use on the part of her adopted son, Marvin Gaye III. In 2007, trustees for Anna forced Gaye III out of the residence in an effort to sell the home , according to ABC News. Anna Gordy Gaye is survived by her brother Berry and her adopted son Marvin. Related on HuffPost: |
Who played Heinrich Himmler in the 1976 film ‘The Eagle Has Landed’? | The Eagle Has Landed (1976) - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 8:05 PM, UTC NEWS 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 Eagle Has Landed ( 1976 ) PG | A German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 25 titles created 18 Sep 2011 a list of 29 titles created 06 Feb 2012 a list of 24 titles created 12 Mar 2012 a list of 41 titles created 01 Jan 2014 a list of 26 titles created 2 weeks ago Title: The Eagle Has Landed (1976) 6.9/10 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. Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding an American General prisoner... but that's not all that's really going on. Director: Brian G. Hutton A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel. Director: J. Lee Thompson Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. However, mismanagement and poor planning result in its failure. Director: Richard Attenborough As the Allied armies close in, the Germans decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side. But will it happen? Director: John Guillermin In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the UK. Director: Guy Hamilton A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II. Director: Ken Annakin A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure. Director: Brian G. Hutton During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers. Director: Robert Aldrich Directors: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and 3 more credits » Stars: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II. Director: Jack Smight During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy. Director: Guy Hamilton Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift. Director: Cy Endfield Edit Storyline Oberst Steiner, a German parachute unit commander, is sent to England on a covert mission to kidnap Prime Minister Winston Churchill and bring him to Berlin. The seemingly impossible assignment becomes more and more feasible as the mission grows nearer with Steiner and his men arriving in England to a very real possibility of success. Written by Anthony Hughes <[email protected]> The best seller is now a major motion picture. See more » Genres: 25 December 1976 (Finland) See more » Also Known As: Der Adler ist gelandet See more » Filming Locations: (DVD) Sound Mix: Mono (35 mm prints)| 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)| 4-Track Stereo (some 35 mm prints) (London premiere print) Color: Did You Know? Trivia In a 1976 interview with Photoplay Film Magazine, Michael Caine (Kurt Steiner) claimed that his main reason for accepting this role was that he had turned down Where Eagles Dare (1968) and did not want to turn down another World War II film with "Eagle" in its title. See more » Goofs At the church, Steiner wears a black leather jacket. That particular jacket was only given to Luftwaffe Pilots, not Luftwaffe paratroopers, regardless of Officer status. In reality he would have worn the same jacket as Captain Von Neustadt does late in the movie.. See more » Quotes [first lines] Narrator : [WWII New |
Who played in the Men’s Singles Finals at Wimbledon in 1980? | One of the greatest? Borg v McEnroe Wimbledon Final 1980 - YouTube One of the greatest? Borg v McEnroe Wimbledon Final 1980 Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Nov 7, 2014 The first time that Ice met Fire in a Wimbledon final, Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe battled out over five tempestuous sets in 1980, before Borg eventually retained his title. Watch more exclusive content at http://www.wimbledon.com/en ... SUBSCRIBE to The Wimbledon YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/wimb ... LIKE Wimbledon on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Wi ... FOLLOW Wimbledon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Wimbledon |
‘Martes’ is Spanish for which day of the week? | Grammar Grammar Google Ads block to desktop version (300×600) Days of the Week The written lesson is below. Links to quizzes, tests, etc. are to the left. In Spanish-speaking countries, the week begins on Monday. lunes Notice that the days of the week are not capitalized. lunes The days of the week are all masculine. el lunes el sábado el domingo When used with the days of the week, the definite article has the special meaning “on.” No trabajo el lunes. I don’t work on Monday. No trabajo los martes. I don’t work on Tuesdays. Hay una fiesta el miércoles. There is a party on Wednesday. Hay muchas fiestas los viernes. There are many parties on Fridays. Days of the week ending in -s do not change form in the plural. Only the article changes. el lunes el domingo los domingos Use the verb ser to express the day. You will soon learn more about this verb. For now, simply realize that the word “es” is a conjugation of that verb, and is the correct verb in this use. ¿Qué día es hoy? Mañana es martes. Tomorrow is Tuesday. Notice that the following actions do not occur in the present, but rather in the near future. Salimos el lunes. Mañana es domingo. Tomorrow is Sunday. In Spanish, the present tense of the indicative is sometimes used to express the near future. English does this too. Salimos el lunes. |
Which Asian country was formerly known as Formosa? | The Island Formerly known as Formosa - Food and Travel TRAVEL BOOKS The Island Formerly known as Formosa It's so easy isn't it - to pigeonhole one place in relation to another? Yet it is the habit of travellers. We seem always to want to explain a country in the terms of somewhere else. So it is, in the middle of Taipei, capital of Taiwan (formerly Formosa) I find myself saying, 'Hmmm'..this is just like China - without the bicycles'. And it is. Except here, at the traffic lights, there's a brimming tide of motor scooters, bearing sometimes a whole family, and noisily gunning off the instant the lights change. In China, the intersection would be dense with hundreds of bikes, wobbling as they waited their turn. In fact the whole city, it seems spins a kaleidoscope of half-memories, quasi-comparisons in my mind. This corner - is it like Bangkok? Or maybe Kuala Lumpur? Those sleek office buildings - surely I saw the same in Singapore. And those interminable silent armies of apartment blocks, each capped with a tiny pagoda style roof. That was Penang, right? Of course as you start to acclimatise to Taipei, its personality emerges. Talk to the people and you see the differences to their Chinese neighbours across the Taiwan Strait. The people are still proudly Chinese by race, but Taiwan is carefully named the Republic of China, not the PROC (People's Republic), as China is termed. Yet it is the people that have made this country, building it in half a century from a country annexed by Japan to a self-sufficient one trading with the world. Located north-east of Hong Kong, and almost 400 kilometres long straddling the Tropic of Cancer, to most westerners Taiwan appears dangerously vulnerable now that Hong Kong is finally a Chinese Territory. We imagine China's eyes focussed with avarice on this small and economically valuable country. Yet the locals laugh when we cautiously raise the subject. Whether it is bravado or not, most simply say they believe China has too much to worry about - controlling its population, stretching its capitalistic muscles - to be too bothered about tiny Taiwan. You have to hope they are correct. So Taiwan gets on with growing and producing. Here there are families with several children, pollution is being addressed, technology increases and the economy looks as healthy as the mop-headed kiddies in brilliant nylon parkas that bring colour to even the greyest scenes. I was grateful for these especially when I visited hot springs in the hills north of Taipei. Here the cement-coloured mud, plopping sullenly, was matched only by the clouds that almost touched us. Steam seeped from crevices and a sulphurous stench stuck to us all. Enter a busload of eager schoolchildren, brilliant in their cool-weather gear, who swarmed over the telescopes and safety fences, measured the ground temperature and gaped in amazement at the moonscape around us, brightening my pictures as they did so. That small event seemed to make sense of this country to me. Sure there is pollution, but many countries are more affected. There are earthquakes - a major one devastated parts to the south of Taipei last September, and there were even two minor ones in the few days I was in the country - but buildings have been constructed using the latest technology to withstand tremors. Prices are high - or is that simply a reflection on the Aussie dollar which fares badly in so many places worldwide? Despite this, Taiwan still manages a brightness, a youthfulness, that exudes hope and optimism. This massive city and its suburbs accounts for around half the country's 20 million population, and has much to offer. The Lungshan Temple is more like a bustling community market. Fruit and foods are laid out on tables, and girls chattering on mobile phones and juggling designer shopping bags, dash in to grab a handful of joss sticks and offer a quick prayer towards the Goddess of Mercy, benignly surveying the crowds from her vantage point. Visitors to Taipei can view priceless Chinese antiques too, rescued from the mainland before the Cultural Revolutio |
Which London palace is the official residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury? | FAQ FAQ Q: How can I contact the Archbishop of Canterbury? A: Details of the correspondence address, email address, and telephone number for Lambeth Palace can be found on the ' Contact ' page of this site. Q: Does the Archbishop read and reply to all the correspondence he receives? A: The Archbishop values the letters and emails that people send to him and is grateful that so many take the trouble to write. He hopes correspondents will understand that because so many letters and emails are sent to him, he is unable to read or reply personally to many of them. In these circumstances he instructs his staff to reply on his behalf, in accordance with agreed policies, and is regularly informed about the nature and content of the incoming correspondence that he does not have the opportunity to see. Sometimes a particular campaign, public debate or issue will generate a substantial amount of communication from the public, making it impossible for a reply to be issued to each individual correspondent. It is very much hoped that the absence of a reply in such cases will not be interpreted as a discourtesy, or a lack of interest in what they have to say. Q: How can I visit / take a guided tour / hold an event at Lambeth Palace? A: Please see our visit Lambeth Palace page . Q: Can I invite the Archbishop to an event, or to my local church? A: If you wish to extend an invitation to the Archbishop, please do so in writing using the details on the ' Contact ' page. Do bear in mind that there are many demands on the Archbishop's time and as a result he is often unable to accept as many invitations as he would like. Q: Can you tell me where my nearest church is? A: If you are a UK resident the website 'A Church Near You' can give you details of where your nearest Anglican Church can be found. Q: Where is Lambeth Palace? A: Lambeth Palace is situated south of the Thames on Lambeth Palace Road, London. Click here to see a map showing the location of Lambeth Palace. Q: Does the Archbishop really live at Lambeth Palace? A: The Archbishop of Canterbury lives in a flat in part of the Palace. It is his official London residence. He is also able to use accommodation at ‘The Old Palace’ in the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral when he is in Canterbury Diocese. Q: How old is Lambeth Palace? A: The oldest parts of Lambeth Palace date back to 1197. Morton's Tower, the main entrance to the Palace was constructed in approximately 1490. The Great Hall, now part of Lambeth Palace Library was reconstructed by Archbishop Juxon after 1660. The main sections of the Palace that you will see today were designed by Architect William Blore in 1833. The newest section of the Palace, the Atrium, was opened by The Prince of Wales in the year 2000. See the ' Lambeth Palace ' section for more information. Q: Who does what at Lambeth Palace? A: The Archbishop is supported by a dedicated team of advisers, administrators and clerical, technical and maintenance staff at Lambeth Palace - see further details here . |
On a standard dartboard, which number lies between 9 and 11? | The Dartboard Sequence The Dartboard Sequence The arrangement of the numbers around the circumference of a standard dart board is as shown below 20 1 18 4 13 6 10 15 2 17 3 19 7 16 8 11 14 9 12 5 Oddly enough, no one seems to know for sure how this particular arrangement was selected. It evidently dates back at least 100 years. Some say the pattern was devised by a carpenter named Brian Gamlin in 1896, while others attribute it to someone named Thomas William Buckle in 1913, but both of these attributions are relatively recent, and neither can be traced back to a contemporary source. Also, although it's clear that the numbers are ordered to mix the large and small together, and possibly to separate numerically close values as far as possible (e.g., 20 is far from 19), no one seems to know of any simple criterion that uniquely singles out this particular arrangement as the best possible in any quantitative sense. It may be just an accident of history that this particular arrangement has been adopted as the standard dart board format. It's interesting to consider various possible criteria for choosing a circular arrangement of the first n positive integers. In order to get as "flat" a distribution as possible, we might try to minimize the sum of the squares of each k consecutive terms. For example, setting k = 3, the standard dard board sequence gives (20+1+18)^2 + (1+18+4)^2 + (18+4+13)^2 + ... + (5+20+1)^2 = 20478 Apparently the standard board layout described above is called the "London" dart board, and there is another, less common, version called the "Manchester" dart board, which has the sequence 20 1 16 6 17 8 12 9 14 5 19 2 15 3 18 7 11 10 13 4 for which the sum of squares of each set of three consecutive numbers is 20454, just slightly less than the London arrangement. In contrast, if we were to arrange the numbers by just inter-weaving the largest and smallest numbers like this 20 1 19 2 18 3 17 4 16 5 15 6 14 7 13 8 12 9 11 10 the resulting sum of squares of each 3 consecutive elements is 20510, so the standard dart boards are, in this sense, more flat distributions. Needless to say, all of these arrangements are much more flat than the natural monotonic sequence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 which has a sum of 24350. By the way, note that if the sum of the squares of every sum of three consecutive numbers for a given arrangement is S, then we can form another arrangement with the same sum simply by taking the "21-complement", i.e., subtracting each number from 21. For example, the complement of the standard London arrangement is 1 20 3 17 8 15 11 6 19 4 18 2 14 5 13 10 7 12 9 16 which has the same sum (20478) as the London arrangement. This works because if we begin with an arrangement a,b,c,d,... having the sum S = (a+b+c)^2 + (b+c+d)^2 + (c+d+e)^2 + ... and replace each of the numbers a,b,c,... with 21-a, 21-b, 21-c,... respectively, the sum S' of this complementary arrangement is S' = [(21-a)+(21-b)+(21-c)]^2 + [(21-b)+(21-c)+(21-d)]^2 + ... = [63-(a+b+c)]^2 + [63-(b+c+d)]^2 + ... = S + 20(63)^2 - 2(63)[(a+b+c)+(b+c+d)+...] Each of the numbers from 1 to 20 appears three times in the summation inside the square brackets in the last term, so that summation equals 630, and hence S' = S. (The same identity applies to the N+1 complement for sums of squares of every sum of k consecutive terms of a circular arrangement of the first N integers.) How would we go about finding the circular arrangement of the integers 1 to 20 that gives the smallest sum of squares of every sum of three consecutive numbers? One possible approach would be to begin with the monotonic arrangement and then check each possible transposition of two numbers to see which one gives the lowest result. Then make that change and repeat the process, at each stage always choosing the transposition that gives the steepest reduction in the sum. This "greedy algorithm" produces arrangements with the following sum |
Which is the fastest rotating planet in our solar system? | Which planet spins the fastest? | Cool Cosmos Which planet spins the fastest? Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our Solar System rotating on average once in just under 10 hours. That is very fast especially considering how large Jupiter is. This means that Jupiter has the shortest days of all the planets in the Solar System. Since Jupiter is a gas planet, it does not rotate as a solid sphere. Jupiter's equator rotates a bit faster than its polar regions at a speed of 28,273 miles/hour (about 43,000 kilometers/hour). Jupiter's day varies from 9 hours and 56 minutes around the poles to 9 hours and 50 minutes close to the equator. Continue the conversation on |
‘The Dong With the Luminous Nose’ is a poem by which poet? | The Dong with a Luminous Nose by Edward Lear | Poetry Foundation The Dong with a Luminous Nose by Edward Lear The Dong with a Luminous Nose Related Poem Content Details When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; — When the angry breakers roar As they beat on the rocky shore; — When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: — Then, through the vast and gloomy dark, There moves what seems a fiery spark, A lonely spark with silvery rays Piercing the coal-black night, — A Meteor strange and bright: — Hither and thither the vision strays, A single lurid light. Slowly it wander, — pauses, — creeps, — Anon it sparkles, — flashes and leaps; And ever as onward it gleaming goes A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws. And those who watch at that midnight hour From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower, Cry, as the wild light passes along, — "The Dong! — the Dong! "The wandering Dong through the forest goes! "The Dong! the Dong! "The Dong with a luminous Nose!" Long years ago The Dong was happy and gay, Till he fell in love with a Jumbly Girl Who came to those shores one day. For the Jumblies came in a sieve, they did, — Landing at eve near the Zemmery Fidd Where the Oblong Oysters grow, And the rocks are smooth and gray. And all the woods and the valleys rang With the Chorus they daily and nightly sang, — "Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and the hands are blue And they went to sea in a sieve. Happily, happily passed those days! While the cheerful Jumblies staid; They danced in circlets all night long, To the plaintive pipe of the lively Dong, In moonlight, shine, or shade. For day and night he was always there By the side of the Jumbly Girl so fair, With her sky-blue hands, and her sea-green hair. Till the morning came of that hateful day When the Jumblies sailed in their sieve away, And the Dong was left on the cruel shore Gazing — gazing for evermore, — Ever keeping his weary eyes on That pea-green sail on the far horizon, — Singing the Jumbly Chorus still As he sate all day on the grassy hill, — "Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and the hands are blue And they went to sea in a sieve. But when the sun was low in the West, The Dong arose and said; — "What little sense I once possessed Has quite gone out of my head!" — And since that day he wanders still By lake and dorest, marsh and hills, Singing — "O somewhere, in valley or plain "Might I find my Jumbly Girl again! "For ever I'll seek by lake and shore "Till I find my Jumbly Girl once more!" Playing a pipe with silvery squeaks, Since then his Jumbly Girl he seeks, And because by night he could not see, He gathered the bark of the Twangum Tree On the flowery plain that grows. And he wove him a wondrous Nose, — A Nose as strange as a Nose could be! Of vast proportions and painted red, And tied with cords to the back of his head. — In a hollow rounded space it ended With a luminous Lamp within suspended, All fenced about To prevent the wind from blowing it out; — And with holes all round to send the light, In gleaming rays on the dismal night. And now each night, and all night long, Over those plains still roams the Dong; And above the wail of the Chimp and Snipe You may hear the squeak of his plaintive pipe While ever he seeks, but seeks in vain To meet with his Jumbly Girl again; Lonely and wild — all night he goes, — The Dong with a luminous Nose! And all who watch at the midnight hour, From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower, Cry, as they trace the Meteor bright, Moving along through the dreary night, — "This is the hour when forth he goes, "The Dong with a luminous Nose! "Yonder — over the plain he goes; "He goes! |
Mr Kitty is the pet cat of which character in the US animated tv series ‘South Park’? | South Park Other Recurring Characters / Characters - TV Tropes Supporting Leader : During the "Imaginationland" trilogy. Took a Level in Badass : He was originally quite meek. Then, starting in "Red Sleigh Down", Jesus kicks all sorts of ass. Mayor MacDaniels "My geologist? Now? Tell him the infection is fine and I don't need another check-up." Voiced by: Mary Kay Bergman (1997-1999), Eliza Schneider (1999-2003), April Stewart (2004-present) Debut: "Weight Gain 4000" Corrupt and idiotic mayor of South Park. Bi the Way : She's implied to be in a relationship with Officer Barbrady and slept with Chef, but she's also slept with Mrs. Cartman and was shown looking at a porn magazine of busty women in one episode. Characterization Marches On : Originally she was a lot stupider than most of the other South Park adults, but as they got dumber she's generally become smarter; modern episodes tend to vary on whether she's just as dumb as them or the Only Sane Adult in town. Jerkass : She considers everyone in town a bunch of hillbillies and isn't above trying to convince Barbrady to shoot kids. Took a Level in Kindness : From "Red Hot Catholic Love" and on, he's a Good Shepherd instead of a Fundamentalist . Officer Barbrady "Okay, people, move along. Nothing to see here." Voiced by: Trey Parker Debut: "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" The town cop. Incredibly stupid and unhelpful, at least in the earlier seasons. His squad car says "To Patronise And Annoy". Coinciding with decreased prominence, it seems that he has gotten more competent over the years. A Day in the Limelight : "Naughty Ninjas" gave him more focus and development than he'd received in years. Anti-Hero : However his heart is in the right place. Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop : Incompetent; the mayor can make him believe the people he left to die in jail never came despite the bodies being in front of him. He apparently killed the chicken lover just to show Cartman how you hit someone with a nightstick. Man Child : When he returns to class so he can learn to read he reverts quickly to a child. The Only Believer : The only member of the South Park Police Department who actually cares about justice. Out of Focus : In later seasons when South Park gets an actual police force. Police Are Useless : Sometimes is unable to deal with the problems in the town. Token Good Teammate : He might be an incompetent moron, but Barbrady is often portrayed as the only member of South Park's police force who is neither corrupt nor racist. "Naughty Ninjas" seems to imply he's the only member of the force who joined to protect the town rather than to beat up minorities. Took a Level in Badass : Grew more competent in later seasons, helping to arrest a pharmacist for selling cough syrup to minors in "Quest for Ratings", warned people about the giant hamsters attacking in "Pandemic", attempted to stop the drunken party in "About Last Night" (here he fails because the partiers tip his car over), and in "Medicinal Fried Chicken", helps to take down the illegal KFC cartel, surviving the shootout between the cops and Colonel Sanders' enforcers. He also saves Jimmy's life from a psychotic GEICO representative in "Sponsored Content". Trauma Conga Line : The entirety of "Naughty Ninjas", with him losing his job, being unable to provide for his sick and elderly dog, and ending up on the street and homeless. Vetinari Job Security : He had this in the first few seasons, when he was the only police officer in South Park. Sergeant Harrison Yates " JESUS CHRIST MONKEY BALLS!!! We could have made an innocent man go to jail who wasn't black!" Voiced by: Trey Parker Debut: "Christian Rock Hard" An incompetent and corrupt police officer who hates rich black people. Works under the Park County Police Department. Anti-Hero : Beating minorities is part of the policework and why the whole precinct save Barbrady joined in. But he tries getting the police job done. Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop : Abuses minorities, arrests someone for calling for a different type of cock magic and takes hours to figure out an obvious |
Which songwriter and rapper’s real name is Timothy Z Mosley? | Who Is Timothy Z. Mosley - Timbaland Net Worth Who Is Timothy Z. Mosley Read more... Timbaland Timbaland Net Worth is $75 Million. Timbaland is a Grammy Award-Winning record producer, singer and rapper with has an estimated net worth of $100 million. Born Timothy Zachery Mosley in Virginia Beach, Virginia on March 10, 1971, Timbaland began his. Timothy Zachery Mosley (born... Timbaland Net Worth is $75 Million. Timbaland Net Worth is $75 Million. Timbaland is a Grammy Award-Winning record producer, singer and rapper with has an estimated net worth of $100 million. Born Timothy Zachery Mosley in Virginia Beach, Virginia on March 10, 1971, Timbaland began his Timothy Zachery Mosley better known by his stage name Timbaland, is an American record producer, songwriter and rapper. Timbaland's first full credit production work was in 1996 on Ginuwine...the Bachelor for R&B singer Ginuwine. After further work on Aaliyah's 1996 album One in a Million and Missy Elliott's 1997 album Supa Dupa Fly, Timbaland became a prominent producer for R&B and hip-hop artists. As a rapper he initially released several albums with fellow rapper Magoo, but later released his debut solo album Tim's Bio in 1998. In 2007, Timbaland released the first album in his Shock Value series, Timbaland Presents: Shock Value. Timothy Zachery Mosley was born on March 10, 1972 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he was raised. He graduated from Salem High School. During his time as a DJ, he was known as "DJ Tim" or "DJ Timmy Tim". His brother, Sebastian, is nine years younger. Timbaland began making hip hop backing tracks on a Casio keyboard. While... |
In medicine, what is the name for inflammation of the walls of a vein? | Phlebitis Treatment and Symptoms Phlebitis Pictures Phlebitis Definition Phlebitis (fle-BYE-tis) is a condition in which a vein becomes inflamed (phleb=vein + it is=inflammation). The inflammation may cause pain and swelling. When the inflammation is caused by a blood clot or thrombus, it is called thrombophlebitis. Thrombophlebitis usually occurs in leg veins, but it may also affect the veins in the arms. There are two sets of veins in the arms and legs, 1) the superficial veins that run just under the skin, and 2) the deep veins. Superficial phlebitis affects veins on the skin surface. The condition is rarely serious and usually resolves with local treatment of the inflammation with warm compresses and anti-inflammatory medications. Sometimes superficial phlebitis can be associated with deep vein thrombophlebitis and medical evaluation may be needed. Phlebitis in the deep veins is referred to as deep vein thrombophlebitis (or DVT , deep vein thrombosis ) affects the veins located deeper in the arms and legs. Blood clots (thrombi) that form may embolize or break off and travel to the lungs . This is a potentially life-threatening condition called pulmonary embolism . Medically Reviewed by a Doctor on 2/9/2016 Medical Author: |
Cobalt, Cyan and Cerulean are shades of which colour? | Blue, azure, cerulean, cobalt: English has colorful vocabulary Blue, azure, cerulean, cobalt: English has colorful vocabulary Richard Nilsen The Arizona Republic Aug. 5, 2007 12:00 AM In English, there are 11 essential color names: black, white, gray, red, green, blue, yellow, brown, orange, pink and purple. Other colors are described by analogy: peach, turquoise, salmon, fuchsia, chartreuse. Some of the essential words were originally descriptive, like orange - like the fruit - and pink - like the dianthus blossom. But by now, their use as names for colors are taken for granted. We don't ever think of the roadside flower when we call something pink. advertisement It's a cultural thing But other languages and other cultures have divided up the color wheel in different ways and have other ways of understanding colors. Some languages, mostly of tribal peoples, only distinguish between black and white, or dark and light, with blue being catalogued with the other dark colors and red and yellow with the light colors. Context alone makes the distinction. There are quite a few languages that make no distinction between blue and green. In Vietnamese, both grass and sky are xanh, and one says "xanh like the leaves" or "xanh like the sky" to express the difference. In Japanese, what we call a green traffic light, they call aoi, or "blue." They also describe the color of a green apple as blue. This shouldn't be so odd. In English we make a distinction between red and pink, even though pink is just a light red (or magenta), but we make no such distinction between blue and light blue. The Russians do and so do the Italians. In Russian, dark blue is siniy and light blue is goluboy and bear the same relation in that culture as red and pink do in English. In general, we make finer distinctions between colors on the red-yellow end of the spectrum than we do on the blue-green end. We have names for some of the blue-greens, but no stable idea of what they mean: turquoise is bluish or greenish. Azure is either light blue or light blue-green. It's impossible to pin these names down. Blues have a long history as linguistic troublemakers. Homer, of course, famously described the Mediterranean as the "wine-dark sea." It is said that "the Greeks had a word for it," but in this case, they didn't seem to have a word for "blue." Aristotle and other Greek writers seem to believe that all colors were derived from black and white. If you started with black and added white, you would get the blues and greens. If you started with white and darkened it, you would get yellows and reds. The Greek word kyanos, which gives us our modern English "cyan" seems to have meant something like "dark colored" and subsumed colors we would call blue. But its usage in Greek literature makes clear it isn't just blue - Hektor's hair, for instance is described as kyanos in the Iliad, and there is no implication he was a punk rocker with blue hair. What's blue to you? Even today in English, there is ambiguity: What painters call blue and what color theorists call blue are two different things: Painters use the word for a wide range of blues, mostly up near the royal-blue end of things, while scientists use the word to describe a dark, almost purple shade that's used in the additive system of color (used in televisions, for instance). Fights can break out when the two camps meet. Our understanding of color changes historically, too. The word "blue" comes from a root that means "shining" and used to describe the color we now call yellow. And before citrus fruits were introduced to Europe in the Middle Ages, orange had no separate identity from yellow. Once they had oranges to eat, they had the color orange to talk about, too. The trend in English is a great proliferation of color names. Marketing requires that colors be given attractive and tantalizing names. One of the first companies to do this was Binney & Smith, whose Crayola crayons have always had some very pretty colors to sell: bittersweet, cornflower, mahogany, maize, periwinkle, thistle. You wouldn't necess |
What was US singer and actor Dean Martin’s only UK number one hit single? | Dean Martin - Biography - IMDb Dean Martin Biography Showing all 99 items Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (3) | Trade Mark (3) | Trivia (59) | Personal Quotes (24) | Salary (4) Overview (5) 5' 11" (1.8 m) Mini Bio (1) If there had to be an image for cool, the man to fit it would be Dean Martin. Martin was born Dino Paul Crocetti in Steubenville, Ohio, to Angela (Barra) and Gaetano Alfonso Crocetti, a barber. His father was an Italian immigrant, and his mother was of Italian descent. He spoke only Italian until age five. Martin came up the hard way, with such jobs as a boxer (named Kid Crochet), a steel mill worker, a gas station worker and a card shark. In 1946, he got his first ticket to stardom, as he teamed up with another hard worker who was also trying to hit it big in Hollywood: Jerry Lewis . Films such as At War with the Army (1950) sent the team toward superstardom. The duo were to become one of Hollywood's truly great teams. They lasted 11 years together, and starred in 16 movies. They were unstoppable, but personality conflicts broke up the team. Even without Lewis, Martin was a true superstar. Few thought that Martin would go on to achieve solo success, but he did, winning critical acclaim for his role in The Young Lions (1958) with Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift , and Some Came Running (1958), with Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra . Movies such as Rio Bravo (1959) brought him international fame. One of his best remembered films is in Ocean's 11 (1960), in which he played Sam Harmon alongside the other members of the legendary Rat Pack: Frank Sinatra , Sammy Davis Jr. , Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford . Martin proved potent at the box office throughout the 1960s, with films such as Bells Are Ringing (1960) and Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964), again with Rat Pack pals Sammy Davis Jr. and Sinatra. During much of the 1960s and 1970s, Martin's movie persona of a boozing playboy prompted a series of films as secret agent Matt Helm and his own television variety show. Airport (1970) followed, featuring Martin as a pilot. He also played a phony priest in The Cannonball Run (1981). In 1965, Martin explored a new method for entertaining his fans: Television. That year he hosted one of the most successful TV series in history: The Dean Martin Show (1965), which lasted until 1973. In 1965 it won a Golden Globe Award. In 1973 he renamed it "The Dean Martin Comedy Hour", and from 1974 to 1984 it was renamed again, this time "The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts". It became one of the most successful TV series in history, skewering such greats as Bob Hope , Frank Sinatra , Lucille Ball , James Stewart , George Burns ' Milton Berle , Don Rickles Phyllis Diller , and Joe Namath . His last public role was a return to the stage, for a cross-country concert tour with Davis and Sinatra. He spoke affectionately of his fellow Rat Packers. "The satisfaction that I get out of working with these two bums is that we have more laughs than the audience has", Martin said. After the 1980s, Martin took it easy--that is, until his son, Dean Paul Martin died in a plane crash in 1987. Devastated by the loss, from which he never recovered, he walked out on a reunion tour with Sinatra and Davis. Martin spent his final years in solitude. He died on Christmas Day, 1995. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous and deanmartin101 Spouse (3) Born at 11:55pm-CST Interred at Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California, USA. His parents were Gaetano and Angella Crocetti. Although born in Ohio, he spoke only Italian until age 5. He had a fear of elevators and a love of comic books, which he read his entire life. His career as a boxer was described by him as follows, "I won all but 11 fights." When asked how many he'd fought, he'd reply, "A dozen." In reality, he fought 36 bouts and won 25 of them under the name Dino Crocetti. He reportedly fought under the nickname Kid Crochet, although no records of fights have been found under that name. Died exactly 29 years to the day (25 December 1995) after his mother, Angela Crocetti (25 December |
Which English playwright wrote the 1925 play ‘Fallen Angels’? | Fallen Angels - Drama Online Fallen Angels Copyright © by NC Aventales AG, successors in title to the Estate of Noël Coward Enquire about performing rights for professional performances at: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd, Paddock Suite, The Courtyard, 55 Charterhouse Street, London EC1M 6HA [ http://www.alanbrodie.com ] Enquire about performing rights for amateur performances at: Samuel French Ltd, 52 Fitzroy Street, London W1P 6JR [ https://samuelfrench-london.co.uk ] All rights whatsoever in this play are strictly reserved and application for performance etc. should be made before rehearsals to the performance rights holder. No performance may be given unless a licence has been obtained. No rights in incidental music or songs contained in the Work are hereby granted and performance rights for any performance/presentation whatsoever must be obtained from the respective copyright owners. Acts: 3. Roles: Male (3) , Female (3) , Neutral (0) Read play » Fallen Angels is a biting, hilarious comedy about the rivalry between two bored married women as they await the arrival of their exotic former lover. Dramatising female sexual desire and frustration, the play’s first performances in 1925 outraged the critics, who proclaimed it to be shocking and obscene. As Jane and Julia’s lacklustre husbands set off for a golfing weekend, a postcard arrives announcing the imminent visit of the dashing Maurice. This sets in play an evening of drunkenness and fevered anticipation, as Jane and Julia wait for dinner with their guest, and former lover. Host to hilarious interchanges and brilliant slapstick, the scenes also radically question female friendship, rivalry and sexual behaviour. What will happen when Maurice arrives? Can Jane and Julia’s relationship actually be maintained, as they claim? Rather than insulting British womanhood (as its scandalised opponents asserted) Coward’s sharp, entertaining script incisively draws attention to male sexual hypocrisy, while probing the vacuous lives of the play's privileged protagonists. Related |
Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was the world’s first what? | Early Exploration - Reactors designed/built by Argonne National Laboratory Early Exploration Tweet BOOKSHELF “Plentiful Energy: The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor” by Charles E. Till and Yoon Chang gives the history of the IFR at Argonne. The book is available on Amazon.com… More about the IFR » Early Exploration Early exploration nuclear reactors designed by the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory, the direct predecessor to Argonne National Laboratory, began the development of nuclear technology. CP-3 CP-1 (Chicago Pile 1 Reactor) This drawing depicts the historic Dec. 2, 1942, event -- the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. It took place under the abandoned football stands at the University of Chicago. Click on photo to view a larger image. Chicago Pile 1 was the world's first nuclear reactor, built in 1942 by Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi. The reactor was built underneath the University of Chicago's Stagg Field football stadium. On Dec. 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and 48 of his colleagues succeed in achieving in this reactor the world’s first man-made controlled nuclear chain reaction, thereby establishing the ability of mankind to control the release of nuclear energy. He and other scientists from that group later founded Argonne National Laboratory. Scale model of CP-1 reactor. Courtesy Archival Photographic Files, [apf2-00504], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. Click on photo to view a larger image. Download image from Flickr The photograph at right shows a scale model depicting Fermi’s reactor setup on that day in 1942. The model shows a segment of the football stadium and gives a perspective on where the reactor was located under the stands. Fermi and his colleagues were assembled on the balcony to the right to observe the instruments recording the neutron intensity in the pile. After the reactor had sustained the chain reaction for 28 minutes the operators to the right of the reactor (in the left foreground of the photo) pushed in a cadmium control rod called zip, which absorbed neutrons and ended the chain reaction. The reactor fuel was lumps of uranium metal and uranium oxide; these were spaced on a cubic lattice within layers of graphite, with some graphite layers containing only uranium metal pseudospheres, some only uranium oxide pseudospheres, and some containing both. The pile was built by alternating graphite layers seeded with uranium metal and/or uranium oxide with layers of solid graphite blocks. The completed reactor contained 57 layers, which was about one layer beyond the critical stage needed to sustain the chain reaction. Early in 1943, CP-1 was dismantled and moved to a less-populated site in the "Argonne Forest" section of the Cook County Forest Preserve in Palos Park. That part of the forest has since been renamed, but its appellation survives today in the name of Argonne National Laboratory. For more information on CP-1 : Watch the video on YouTube (posted on May 15, 2014) CP-2 (Chicago Pile 2 Reactor) In early 1943, Chicago Pile 1 was dismantled at the University of Chicago, moved to the Argonne Forest section of the Palos Hills Forest Preserve, and renamed Chicago Pile 2. Click on photo to view a larger image. In early 1943 Manhattan Engineer District disassembled Chicago Pile 1 and rebuilt it at Palos Park, IL, as Chicago Pile 2. CP-2 had a thermal- power level of 10 kW. The fuel for CP-2 was natural uranium (uranium in which the natural abundance of the isotopes uranium-234, uranium-235, and uranium-238 has not been altered). A small laboratory atop the 14,000-ton reactor provided space for limited experiments using neutrons from the reactor's core. The reactor's face contained |
Who wrote ‘The Joy of Sex’, first published in 1972? | Stuart Jeffries on how The Joy of Sex has changed since 1972 | Books | The Guardian Share on Messenger Close The first edition of the Joy of Sex considered sex on moving motorbikes. "If you have access to a private road, the hazards are yours," counselled the book's ironically surnamed author Dr Alex Comfort. Thirty-six years and 8m copies in 22 languages later, that passage has been excised from the New Joy of Sex. Funless if sensible safety legislation has since made sex on moving motorbikes illegal. Doing it on horseback (as mentioned in the 1972 edition) is also outlawed. So stop that too. More importantly, The New Joy of Sex offers a woman's perspective for the first time. Psychologist Susan Quilliam has updated the original manual with 43 new sections. While acknowledging that Comfort was "fully committed to women's pleasure", Quilliam argues that we have since learned more about how to achieve it. So, for instance, there's much more on the clitoris (the old edition had only four sentences). Hurrah! But the book's still only targeted at straight couples. Boo! Quilliam's updated version aims to reflect four decades of socio-sexual change. Out goes the prostitution section ("We didn't think it had anything to do with loving relationships"). In come hormones, sex shops, striptease, sex during pregnancy, and a harrowing section on penis injuries caused by vacuum cleaners ("very hard to repair satisfactorily"). There's also lots about cybersex. "Text, email, webcams, teledildonics can all be used to wind each other up to fever pitch during the working day prior to extended evening action," she writes. Quilliam, though, might have mentioned that some bosses frown on virtual foreplay during office hours. Some things remain. The big toe, for instance. "The pad of the male big toe applied to the clitoris or the vulva generally is a magnificent erotic instrument," wrote Comfort, words that appear unchanged in the new edition. Quilliam reckons to have cut only 9% of the original. And there is also a section about horses, though not about lovemaking while astride moving ones. Equine roleplay has been practised since Aristotle was ridden horse-style by his lover. Those with bigger budgets than his might consider using a bit and saddle, or even pulling a small trap during S&M sessions, Quilliam suggests. "Either sex can be the steed," she adds, in a remark typifying The New Joy of Sex's egalitarian spirit. Happy days! |
Amnesty International was founded in which year? | Amnesty International - History Amnesty International The Nobel Peace Prize 1977 Amnesty International Share this: Amnesty International - History Amnesty International was founded in 1961 by Peter Benenson, a British lawyer. It was originally his intention to launch an appeal in Britain with the aim of obtaining an amnesty for prisoners of conscience all over the world. The committee working for this cause soon found that a detailed documentation of this category of prisoners would be needed. Gradually they realized that the work would have to be carried out on a more permanent basis; the number of prisoners of conscience was enormous and they were to be found in every part of the world. Amnesty International is a world-embracing movement working for the protection of human rights. It is independent of all governments and is neutral in its relation to political groups, ideologies and religious dividing lines. The movement works for the release of women and men who have been arrested for their convictions, the colour of their skin, their ethnic origin or their faith - provided that they have not themselves used force or exhorted others to resort to violence. It is this category of prisoners that Amnesty International calls "prisoners of conscience". The movement proclaimed 1977 "Prisoners of Conscience Year" and collected signatures for an appeal addressed to the General Assembly of the United Nations. To begin with, Amnesty International was a British organization, but in 1963 an international secretariat was established. Seán Mac Bride - later awarded the Nobel peace prize - became chairman of the organization in 1963, at a time when Amnesty International was rapidly expanding. Ten years after its foundation the organization comprised more than 1000 voluntary groups in 28 countries and the figures are steadily rising. In February this year (1977) there were 1874 groups in 33 countries. The present chairman of Amnesty International is the Swede Thomas Hammarberg. In addition to its work for the prisoners of conscience - "the forgotten prisoners" - Amnesty International has also carried on campaigns against torture and ill-treatment as well as - in recent years - against capital punishment. In the statutes adopted by the organization in 1974 these three tasks are named as the most important ones for Amnesty International. |
Singer Alvin Stardust played pub landlord Greg Andersen in which UK tv soap? | Alvin Stardust: Obituary - BBC News BBC News Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Alvin Stardust in 1981 With his bouffant quiff and extravagant sideburns, Alvin Stardust became a huge star with 1970s glam rock hits such as My Coo Ca Choo, You You You and Jealous Mind. The singer and actor, who has died aged 72, had a career spanning more than five decades that included stage musicals and a stint in soap opera Hollyoaks. Born Bernard Jewry in London's Muswell Hill in 1942, Stardust moved to Mansfield in Nottinghamshire with his family where his father had a new job as a salesman. According to his official biography, his early musical influences came from the children's Saturday matinees at his local cinema where his idols were the singing cowboys, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. On his 12th birthday, the young Jewry was given his first guitar by his mother. He took it with him on a bus to Doncaster to see Buddy Holly, where he talked his way backstage and "jammed" with the singer and his band the Crickets. Holly signed the guitar and over the years it had also been autographed by music stars such as Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Johnny Kidd, Billy Fury, Bill Haley, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Image copyright PA Image caption Alvin Stardust, then known as Shane Fenton, at Shirley Bassey's Record Shop on West End Lane, London, in 1962 In an interview with The Scotsman in 2010, Stardust said he'd considered the guitar lost until he rediscovered the instrument - which he had named Peggy Sue - at his mother's house after she died. The discovery helped him decide to return to live touring. He insured Peggy Sue for £2m. "I wouldn't sell it," the singer told the newspaper. "That's my teenage years and memories of my mum when she bought it for me." Stardust signed his first record deal in 1961 as the frontman of Shane Fenton and the Fentones. He had been asked to step in after the death of the group's previous singer, Johnny Theakstone. The band had a number of top 40 hits in the early 1960s and toured throughout Europe. But it wasn't until 1973, when he signed up with Magnet Records, the singer took the name that would make him most famous. Alvin Stardust's first hit My Coo Ca Choo, written by Peter Shelley, reached number two in the UK in December 1973. The follow-up single - Jealous Mind in 1974 - also by Shelley, was his only UK number one. Now a household name, Stardust appeared on TV in the mid-1970s as part of the Green Cross Code road safety campaign. Image copyright PA Image caption Alvin Stardust and Liza Goddard on their wedding day in 1981 Success continued into the 1980s with top 10 hits Pretend, I Feel Like Buddy Holly (written and produced by Mike Batt) and I Won't Run Away. In the 1990s, Stardust turned to acting and made stage appearances in shows such as Godspell and David Copperfield - The Musical. He spent six months in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as the Child Catcher at the London Palladium in 2005. He presented his own Sunday morning children's TV series, It's Stardust, on ITV in the late 1980s, while other TV appearances included Hollyoaks - where he played pub landlord Greg Andersen in 1995-96 - and Doctors. More recently he spoofed his Green Cross Code campaign on Harry Hill's TV Burp. Returning to touring in 2010, Stardust resurrected his leather-clad persona singing his hits and cover versions. Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Alvin Stardust, pictured here in 2010, was still touring until shortly before his death A Guardian review of a gig in Skegness said Stardust did "outrageously sensual things to Duffy's Mercy and Johnny Kidd's Shakin' All Over". It concluded: "As My Coo Ca Choo sees him spraying champagne over gyrating fans well past retirement age, Stardust's career seems as wonderfully ludicrous as ever." Stardust married three times. His first wife was Iris Caldwell, with whom he had two sons, Shaun and Adam. His second wife was the actress Liza Goddard, with whom he had a daughter, Sophie. His third wife was Julie Paton, an actress and choreographer, with whom he had a daughter, |
In the novel ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ what is Gulliver’s first name? | The 100 best novels, No 3 – Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) | Books | The Guardian The 100 best novels The 100 best novels, No 3 – Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels comes third in our list of the best novels written in English. Robert McCrum discusses a satirical masterpiece that’s never been out of print On the island of Lilliput: a colour print from an 1860s edition of Gulliver’s Travels. Photograph: Alamy Sunday 6 October 2013 08.00 EDT Last modified on Thursday 1 December 2016 10.59 EST Share on Messenger Close Seven years after the publication of Robinson Crusoe , the great Tory essayist and poet Jonathan Swift – inspired by the Scriblerus club, whose members included John Gay and Alexander Pope – composed a satire on travel narratives that became an immediate bestseller. According to Gay, Gulliver was soon being read “from the cabinet council to the nursery”. In its afterlife as a classic, Gulliver’s Travels works on many levels. First, it’s a masterpiece of sustained and savage indignation, “furious, raging, obscene”, according to Thackeray . Swift’s satirical fury is directed against almost every aspect of early 18th-century life: science, society, commerce and politics. Second, stripped of Swift’s dark vision, it becomes a wonderful travel fantasy for children, a perennial favourite that continues to inspire countless versions, in books and films. Finally, as a polemical tour de force, full of wild imagination, it became a source for Voltaire, as well as the inspiration for a Telemann violin suite, Philip K Dick’s science-fiction story The Prize Ship , and, perhaps most influential of all, George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver (to give its original title) comes in four parts, and opens with Gulliver’s shipwreck on the island of Lilliput, whose inhabitant are just six inches high. The most famous and familiar part of the book (“Lilliputian” soon became part of the language) is a satirical romp in which Swift takes some memorable shots at English political parties and their antics, especially the controversy on the matter of whether boiled eggs should be opened at the big or the little end. Next, Gulliver’s ship, the Adventure, gets blown off course and he is abandoned on Brobdingnag whose inhabitants are giants with a proportionately gigantic landscape. Here, having been dominant on Lilliput, Gulliver is exhibited as a curious midget, and has a number of local dramas such as fighting giant wasps. He also gets to discuss the condition of Europe with the King, who concludes with Swiftian venom that “the bulk of your natives [are] the most pernicious race of odious little vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.” In the third part of his travels, Gulliver visits the flying island of Laputa (a place-name also referenced in Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr Strangelove ), and Swift mounts a dark and complicated assault on the speculations of contemporary science (notably spoofing the attempted extraction of sunbeams from cucumbers). Finally, in the section that influenced Orwell (Gulliver’s Travels was one of his favourite books), Swift describes the country of the Houyhnhnms, horses with the qualities of rational men. These he contrasts with the loathsome Yahoos, brutes in human shape. Orwell would later echo Swift’s misanthropy, looking ahead to a time “when the human race had finally been overthrown.” At the end of it all, Gulliver returns home from his travels in a state of alienated wisdom, purged and matured by his experiences. “I write,” he concludes, “for the noblest end, to inform and instruct mankind… I write without any view to profit or praise. I never suffer a word to pass that may possibly give the least offence, even to those who are most ready to take it. So that I hope I may with justice pronounce myself an author perfectly blameless…” When he died in 1745, Swift, remembered as “the gloomy Dean”, was buried in Dublin with the famous epitaph “ubi saeva indignatio |
In February 1935, Wallace H. Carothers first produced which synthetic material? | Wallace Carothers and the Development of Nylon - Landmark - American Chemical Society Wallace Carothers and Polymer Science Wallace Carothers and the Development of Nylon National Historic Chemical Landmark Dedicated October 26, 1995, at the DuPont nylon plant in Seaford, Delaware (now operated by Invista), and November 17, 2000, at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware. Commemorative Booklet—The Establishment of Modern Polymer Science By Wallace H. Carothers (PDF) The establishment of modern polymer science by Wallace Carothers and the first nylon plant, built by DuPont, at Seaford, are two deeply interwoven National Historic Chemical Landmarks. The research of Carothers not only confirmed the existence of molecules of extremely high molecular weight, but led as well to the development of nylon, the first totally synthetic fiber used in consumer products. Contents “The Establishment of Modern Polymer Science By Wallace H. Carothers” commemorative booklet produced by the National Historic Chemical Landmarks program of the American Chemical Society in 2000 (PDF). Developments in Modern Polymer Science When Wallace H. Carothers joined the research staff of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) in early 1928, polymer science was still in its infancy — poorly understood and full of uncertainties. By the early 20th century, chemists had learned that many materials were polymeric — including such natural substances as proteins, cellulose, and rubber. Other polymers had been synthesized in the laboratory from smaller molecules like styrene, vinyl chloride, and acrylic acid. At least one synthetic polymer, Bakelite , a hard resin produced from phenol and formaldehyde by Leo H. Baekeland in 1907, was a big commercial success. Chemists knew, too, that polymers were molecules of high molecular weight (for example 40,000 or more) made up of huge numbers of smaller chemical units. But how these units were arranged and held together was not clear. Many eminent chemists believed that polymers were aggregates, perhaps colloids, consisting of relatively small molecules held together by some intermolecular force of uncertain nature. In the early 1920s, the German organic chemist (and 1953 Nobel laureate) Hermann Staudinger postulated that polymers consisted of units linked together by the same covalent bonds found in smaller organic molecules. Throughout the 1920s, Staudinger supported his view with new experimental evidence, and other chemists, among them Karl Freudenberg, Michael Polanyi, Kurt Meyer, and Herman Mark , came up with additional evidence backing Staudinger. The subject, nevertheless, remained controversial well into the 1930s. Carothers had no direct contact with these chemists, but his ideas were generally in line with those of Staudinger. His research approach, on the other hand, was quite different. Whereas Staudinger focused his study on the analysis of natural polymers, Carothers built up polymers by reacting small organic molecules by means of well-known reactions — for example, by combining dicarboxylic acids with diols or diamines — to form long, macromolecular chains. In addition to the many experimental studies, Carothers believed that mathematics could be applied to understand the formation and properties of polymers. To this end, Paul J. Flory was hired in 1934 and introduced to polymers by Carothers. The seminal ideas they advanced provided the foundation of many of the theoretical methods for studying polymers used to this day. Flory's accomplishments were recognized with the 1974 Nobel Prize in chemistry. The research accomplishments of Staudinger and Carothers, along with that of their colleagues, during the 1920s and 1930s laid the foundations of modern polymer science and today's plastics, synthetic fiber, and rubber industries. Foundations of Polymer Science: Hermann Staudinger and Macromolecules Wallace Carothers Begins Polymer Research at DuPont In late 1926, Charles M. A. Stine, director of DuPont’s chemical department in Wilmington, Delaware, convinced the company's executive |
A mustang is what type of creature? | National Mustang Association What is a Mustang? The term "Mustang" refers to the wild horses that roam the ranges of the western United States. The Mustang is not a breed but rather a mixture of many breeds that have co-mingled over many years. Swift, sure-footed, tough, and intelligent, Mustangs weigh from 600 to 1000 pounds and are well suited for the rugged conditions of life on the western ranges. These wild horses are descendants of animals that escaped from or were released by Spanish explorers, ranchers, miners, soldiers, and Native Americans. In the mid-seventeenth century they numbered between two and four million. Today, only about 50,000 survive. This drastic reduction in their numbers was due in part to the "mustangers" who rounded up wild horses and sent them to slaughter. After a nationwide grassroots effort to protect these magnificent creatures, Congress passed the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act in 1971 which states: "..wild free roaming horses..are living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West; they contribute to the diversity of life forms within the nation and enrich the lives of the American people". The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior that administers 264 million acres of public lands, was entrusted with the responsibility of preserving and managing the wild horse herds to maintain an ecological balance between wild horse hers to maintain an ecological balance between wild horses, native wildlife and domestic animals grazing on western public lands. Wild Horse Issues But with so many millions of acres of public lands under its jurisdiction, the BLM needs assistance from private citizens and organizations to monitor the well-being of the wild horse herds and the rangeland they inhabit. For example, over the last thirty years many environmental changes have occurred that have adversely affected wild horse habitat. In addition, the rangelands where Mustangs roam free have come under heavy attack by some who feel their personal survival is threatened as well as those who feel the wild horse is interfering with the grazing 'rights' of other types of animals on those same lands. Report after report tells gruesome stories of wild horses that have been found dead. Some of these animals were shot, others poisoned, and still others died from thirst or starvation. Many experienced slow, agonizing deaths. This wanton slaughter and destruction of a national resource cannot be allowed to continue. |
Englishman Bob Nudd has been world champion four times in which sport? | A-Z of British world champions | Sport | The Guardian A-Z of British world champions Pete Nichols Monday 24 December 2001 17.55 EST First published on Monday 24 December 2001 17.55 EST Lisa Adams Waterskiing - cable-ski slalom Adams, from Weybridge, took up waterskiing as a four-year-old in Corfu and won her first European trophy at 11. Since switching to cable-skiing (pulled by an overhead cable rather than boat) at the age of 15 she has won seven national titles and eight European titles, and in 2000, only two days after her 20th birthday, she won the world slalom title. Kate Allenby, Stephanie Cook, Georgina Harland and Sian Lewis Modern pentathlon - women's individual (Cook), team (Allenby, Cook, Lewis) and relay (Allenby, Cook, Harland) If the Olympic victory of Stephanie Cook, right, was the finest hour for Britain's pentathletes, the world championships at Millfield School in Somerset in July ran it close. In a rare show of dominance the host nation came away with all three women's titles. Cook, of course, was the star of the show, participating in relay and team victories before adding her first individual world title. Cook chose that moment to bow out. It was a blow, but she could hardly have left the sport in better heart. The 23-year-old Georgina Harland, who had beaten Cook in the British championships in April, powered through in the final stages of the run to take third place at Millfield; the Olympic bronze medallist Kate Allenby placed fifth; and Sian Lewis was 14th. Remarkably, had Cook's score not counted at all, Britain would still have won the team title. Kate Brown Clay pigeon shooting - English sporting The 22-year-old from Walton in Leicestershire took up the sport little more than four years ago but has twice been crowned world champion in the English sporting discipline. Her first title came at Findon, Sussex, last year. This spring she successfully defended her crown in San Antonio in Texas. Daniel Caines Athletics - indoor 400m Caines won his world title in Lisbon in March, squeezing home ahead of the American Milton Campbell. The 22-year-old Swansea graduate comes from an accomplished sporting family. His uncles Garry and Keith Thompson played for Aston Villa and Coventry respectively and his mother Blondelle was an international hurdler. Charlotte Cornwallis Real tennis Penny Lumley had dominated real tennis since she won her first title in 1989, losing only three games in 12 years. When the 28-year-old Cornwallis triumphed in Washington DC it was arguably the biggest shock ever in women's real tennis. James Cracknell, Matthew Pinsent and Neil Chugani Rowing - coxed pair and coxless pair When you have won three Olympic titles before your 30th birthday motivation can be a problem. So, for Matthew Pinsent the priority for this year was to find a goal that would challenge the rower generally recognised to be the strongest in world sweep rowing. The partnership with James Cracknell, right, also in the winning coxless four at Sydney, provided just that. Together, they mapped out a world championships schedule never previously successfully undertaken, that of winning both the final of the coxed pair and the coxless pair, the two events held within 90 minutes of each other at Lucerne. The first challenge had been Cracknell's, having to switch his oar to the bowside (left) of the boat meant a different pattern to the stroke. His adaptation was swift, as victory in the first World Cup win in Princeton confirmed. Two more World Cup victories secured the overall title and allowed them to opt out of the final. In the world championships at Lucerne, the coxed pair came first, Cracknell and Pinsent joined by the cox Neil Chugani. Their victory over the Italians was close but nothing like as close as what was to come. Less than two hours later, and coxless, they lined up for their second final. Pinsent, by his own admission, only ever does as much as he has to but he could surely never have planned a victory that saw them beat the Yugoslavians by four inches or two hundredths of a second. George Digweed Cla |
The heat of what is measured on the Scoville Scale? | How Hot is That Pepper? How Scientists Measure Spiciness | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian How Hot is That Pepper? How Scientists Measure Spiciness How does the Scoville Scale rate the relative spiciness of a chili pepper? By Twilight Greenaway The Gut-Wrenching Science Behind the World’s Hottest Peppers Photo by Katte Belletje. In 2007, the Naga Bhut Joloki or “Ghost chile” was named the hottest pepper on earth. Then in 2010 the Naga Viper stole the title. And in 2012 the Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Blend moved into the lead. And for good reason. The Scorpion ranks at round 2 million heat units on the Scoville scale . (For comparison, tabasco sauce has 2,500–5,000 Scoville heat units or SHU.) What exactly does that mean? When the scale was invented in 1912 by pharmacist Wilbur Scoville in search of a heat-producing ointment, it was based on human taste buds. The idea was to dilute an alcohol-based extract made with the given pepper until it no longer tasted hot to a group of taste testers. The degree of dilution translates to the SHU. In other words, according to the Scoville scale, you would need as many as 5,000 cups of water to dilute 1 cup of tobacco sauce enough to no longer taste the heat. And while the Scoville scale is still widely used, says Dr. Paul Bosland , professor of horticulture at New Mexico State University and author or several books on chile peppers, it no longer relies on the fallible human taste bud. “It’s easy to get what’s called taster’s fatigue,” says Bosland. “Pretty soon your receptors are worn out or overused, and you can’t taste anymore. So over the years, we’ve devised a system where we used what’s called high performance liquid chromatography.” Photo of Wilbur Scoville courtesy of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. That’s a fancy way of saying that scientists are now able to determine how many parts per million of heat-causing alkaloids are present in a given chile pepper. The same scientists have also figured out that if they multiply that number by 16, they’ll arrive at the pepper’s Scoville rating (or “close enough for the industry,” says Bosland). And, let’s face it, who would want to be the one to taste test a pepper named after a viper or a scorpion? Or maybe the better question is what sane person would? The BBC recently reported on the first man to finish an entire portion of a curry made with ghost chiles, called “The Widower,” and he suffered actual hallucinations due to the heat. Bosland told the AP in 2007 he thought the ghost chile had been given it’s name “because the chili is so hot, you give up the ghost when you eat it.” How’s that for inviting? Indeed, the capsaicin , the spicy chemical compound found in chiles demands the diner’s attention much like actual heat heat does. And it turns out there’s science behind that similarity. “The same receptor that says ‘hot coffee’ to your brain is telling you ‘hot chile peppers,’” says Bosland. And what about the rumor that very hot peppers have the potential to damage our taste buds? Not true. Bosland says we should think of chile heat like we do the taste of salt; easy to overdo in the moment, but not damaging to your mouth over the long term. Even the hottest habanero (100,000–350,000 on the Scoville scale), which can stay on your palate for hours — if not days – won’t wear out your tender buds. NMSU photo by Harrison Brooks Bosland and his colleagues have broken the heat profile of chile peppers into five distinctly different characteristics. 1) how hot it is, 2) how fast the heat comes on, 3) whether it linger or dissipates quickly, 4) where you sense the heat – on the tip of tongue, at the back of throat, etc., and 5) whether the heat registers as “flat” or “sharp.” This last characteristic is fascinating for what it says about cultural chile pepper preferences (say that five times fast). Apparently those raised in Asian cultures — where chile heat has been considered one of the six core tastes for thousands of years — prefer sharp heat that feels like pinpricks but dissipates quickly. Most America |
Which European city is said to have been the first to introduce house numbers, in 1512? | World Report 2016: European Union | Human Rights Watch Español In a year marked by horrific attacks by armed extremists in Paris in January and November, and a deepening refugee crisis, the European Union and its member states struggled to develop an effective and principled response to the hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and migrants who reached Europe. Narrow government interests too often displaced sound policy responses, delaying protection and shelter for vulnerable people and raising questions about the union’s purpose and limits. More than 800,000 asylum seekers and migrants have arrived in Europe by sea in 2015, with most traveling onward to northern and western EU countries. Migration and Asylum Poor management and disagreements among EU member states escalated a crisis, as large numbers of migrants and asylum seekers reached Europe, most by sea. At time of writing, more than 850,000 people had crossed the sea during the year to reach Europe. The vast majority—an estimated 82 percent—of people crossed the Aegean Sea, from Turkey to Greece, and only 17 percent crossed the central Mediterranean, from North Africa to Italy, historically the most common sea route. According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), 84 percent of those arriving by sea came from the refugee-producing countries of Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, and Somalia. Nigerians, Gambians, Sudanese, Pakistanis and Malians together made up seven percent of the new arrivals. The EU tripled the budget and resources of patrol operations in the Mediterranean following the deaths at sea of more than 1,000 people in a single week in April. Frontex, the EU’s external border agency, began patrolling in international waters near Libya and increased patrols in the Aegean Sea, carrying out search-and-rescue and border enforcement activities. While tens of thousands of people were rescued throughout the year, including by private humanitarian initiatives, more than 3,500 migrants died or went missing at sea. Many of those who reached Greece by sea continued their journey over land through the Western Balkans, encountering police abuse in EU candidates Serbia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and EU member Hungary, and appalling detention conditions at times in Macedonia and Hungary. In September, thousands of migrants and asylum seekers were stuck at various borders with inadequate shelter, unable to proceed with their journeys but with no genuine alternative, and at times dispersed by tear gas and water cannons. Hungary effectively closed its border with Serbia to asylum seekers and migrants in September, and with Croatia in October. Slovenia and Croatia at times blocked access for asylum seekers and migrants in September and October. In late November, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia imposed border restrictions for asylum seekers and migrants, allowing only certain nationalities, including Syrians, to enter. EU governments worked fitfully over the course of the year to implement a set of proposals on migration and asylum policy that the European Commission made in May. An EU-wide refugee resettlement scheme was established, with countries pledging over 22,000 places over the next two years. Following a fractious debate and over the objections of Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania, EU governments agreed to a program to relocate over the next two years a total of 160,000 asylum seekers who had landed in Italy, Greece, and potentially other countries experiencing significant arrivals. The United Kingdom opted out. At time of writing, only 159 asylum seekers had been relocated from Italy and Greece to other EU member states under the scheme. The majority of the commission’s proposals focused on measures to limit arrivals, strengthen border controls, and accelerate returns of people not granted the right to remain in the EU. The EU took some positive action, including pledges of increased aid to countries hosting large refugee populations and to humanitarian assistance organizations. Yet efforts to intensify immi |
The song ‘Wandrin’ Star’ comes from which 1969 film? | Lee Marvin - Wand'rin Star (ReMastered Audio) (1969) (HD) - YouTube Lee Marvin - Wand'rin Star (ReMastered Audio) (1969) (HD) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Aug 27, 2013 Digital ReMastered Soundtrack... He may not have had the best singing voice in the world but no one can better Lee Marvin singing "Wand'rin Star" from the hit 1969 musical "Paint Your Wagon"... One of those songs that once heard never forgotten and no one else can sing it like Lee Marvin did... :-) Took the 2001 digital remastered audio CD release of the soundtrack and matched it into the movie... it's never sounded better... :-) Category |
In 1816, which famous English dandy fled to France to escape debtor’s prison? | L.A. Hilden - Blog Blog Beau Brummell Published on November 12, 2012 by lahilden | Views: 3914 Beau Brummell was an iconic man during the Regency period and the legend of his fashion sense still lives on today. Brummell established the style for men to rid themselves of their overly ornate fashions. Brummell insisted upon an image of more refined and elegant taste. He believed a dark, perfectly tailored coat, with full-length trousers, a crisp white linen shirt, and intricately tied cravat was the message of elegance men should portray. He didn’t care for the knee breeches and stockings that were so popular at the time. Although, knee breeches were mandatory if one were to frequent Almack’s, one of the social clubs during the period. Brummell is credited with introducing the modern men’s suit, worn with a tie. He was not only known for his style of dress, but also for his daily grooming, which included shaving, teeth brushing, and daily bathing, which was not ordinary at the time. He claimed it took him five hours to dress, which to my calculation, for a man, that is four and a half hours too long. He preferred his boots to be polished with champagne, whereas I would have preferred to drink it. Brummell’s preference of dress had people regarding him as the epitome of a fashion conscious dandy. A dandy is a man who placed great importance upon his appearance, refined language, and pursuits. Dandies often portrayed themselves with cool nonchalance. A dandy with a self-made, middle-class background often tried to imitate the aristocracy. Brummell himself was not from an aristocratic background. He was the early form of what we would call a celebrity. He was in essence, famous for being famous, although his friendship with the Prince Regent helped in that regard. Brummell was educated at Eton and then went onto Oxford University. While attending Eton, he modernized the cravat, which was the mark of the Eton boy, and he added a gold buckle to it. In 1794, Brummell became a low rank commissioned officer in the Tenth Royal Hussars, a personal regiment of the Prince Regent. Brummell was promoted to lieutenant in 1795. The prince was drawn to Brummell’s witty personality, which was biting, and often times, too honest. He was known as an excellent storyteller and conversationalist. Due to his friendship with the regent, Brummell in turn, was allowed to shirk his duties in his regiment and basically do as he pleased. He was made captain in 1796, which angered some of the older officers who felt Brummell was receiving special treatment. When his regiment was sent to Manchester, he resigned his commission, claiming the city of Manchester lacked atmosphere and culture. As a civilian, he still remained friends with the regent and this friendship gained him access into the regent’s royal society. Brummell took a house in Chesterfield and tried to avoid gambling and other extravagances, since he now was rubbing elbows with the wealthy elite. Nevertheless, he refused to spend less on his clothing. Men of superior rank continued to seek his advice on their dress. It is said that when Brummell was asked how much money a man should spend yearly on his attire, his response was, “Why, with tolerable economy, I think it might be done with eight hundred pounds.” Today, this amount is roughly equivalent to $63,780.00 a year in U.S. dollars. Unfortunately, Brummell’s wealthy friends would lead him to spend far too much money on gambling and the high-life, causing his capital to rapidly deplete. He found himself having difficulty keeping up with his own expensive form of dress. As his debts mounted, no one was willing to give him credit. Brummell was cut from some of the dandies when he went to a ball where the Prince Regent was present. After being rudely snubbed by many in attendance, he approached Lord Alvanley who was standing with the regent, and asked, “Alvanley, who’s your fat friend?” As you can imagine, the Prince Regent was not amused, this public incident was the final blow and Brummell no longer foun |
Which British boxer bought one of the original ‘Only Fools and Horses’ Reliant Robins in 2004? | Del Boy and Rodney - Who is talking about Del Boy and Rodney on FLICKR 1970 Reliant Regal Supervan 3 Royal Mail Livery In 1935 Reliant started by making three-wheeled vans but added a passenger car to its range in 1952, the first Regal. Initially using aluminium panels over a wooden body frame, from 1955 Regal bodies were made from glass fibre reinforced plastic. The most significant advance came in 1962 with the Regal 3/25. The 3/25 was a monocoque construction, made entirely from glass fibre and its new Reliant 600cc engine was the first all-aluminium engine in a UK series production car and later increased to 700cc. It was the van version of the Regal, which made the model infamous. A yellow Supervan II was immortalised as Del-Boy and Rodney Trotter's delivery van of choice in the long-running BBC TV comedy series, Only Fools and Horses. For the average car buyer, the Regal offered advantages in low running costs, good economy and lower vehicle tax, as well as being able to be driven by people with a motorcycle licence. When the Morris Minor Van was reaching the last days of its production, the Post Office investigated a number of models as a replacement for its fleet of delivery vans. In 1970, 50 Regal Supervan III's entered service with the Royal Mail on a trial basis, although the model was not selected as the Minor's eventual successor. Engine: 4cyl, 700cc Recent Updated: 4 months ago - Created by Karen Roe - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Karen Roe Restored: HVW26H Reliant Regal Supervan There seem to be a few of these copy Reliant Vans around remembering the BBC comedy series 'Only Fools and Horses'. This nice example, new in 1970, was the second one seen at the Scorton Steam Show on 19/06/2016, however this one has 'Del Boy' and 'Rodney' and is seen near the end of the day in the display ring together with trademark 'smoke' coming from the exhaust. © Peter Steel 2016. Recent Updated: 6 months ago - Created by Peter Steel - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Peter Steel Restored: HVW26H Reliant Regal Supervan There seem to be a few of these copy Reliant Vans around remembering the BBC comedy series 'Only Fools and Horses'. This nice example, new in 1970, was the second one seen at the Scorton Steam Show on 19/06/2016, however this one has 'Del Boy' and 'Rodney' and is seen near the end of the day in the display ring together with trademark 'smoke' coming from the exhaust. © Peter Steel 2016. Recent Updated: 6 months ago - Created by Peter Steel - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Peter Steel Restored: HVW26H Reliant Regal Supervan There seem to be a few of these copy Reliant Vans around remembering the BBC comedy series 'Only Fools and Horses'. This nice example, new in 1970, was the second one seen at the Scorton Steam Show on 19/06/2016, however this one has 'Del Boy' and 'Rodney' in attendance! © Peter Steel 2016. Recent Updated: 6 months ago - Created by Peter Steel - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Peter Steel Restored: HVW26H Reliant Regal Supervan There seem to be a few of these copy Reliant Vans around remembering the BBC comedy series 'Only Fools and Horses'. This nice example, new in 1970, was the second one seen at the Scorton Steam Show on 19/06/2016, however this one has 'Del Boy' and 'Rodney' in attendance! © Peter Steel 2016. Recent Updated: 6 months ago - Created by Peter Steel - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Peter Steel Restored: HVW26H Reliant Regal Supervan There seem to be a few of these copy Reliant Vans around remembering the BBC comedy series 'Only Fools and Horses'. This nice example, new in 1970, was the second one seen at the Scorton Steam Show on 19/06/2016, however this one has 'Del Boy' and 'Rodney' in attendance! © Peter Steel 2016. Recent Updated: 6 months ago - Created by Peter Steel - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Peter Steel Recent Updated: 1 year ago - C |
John Sentamu was given which English title in May 2005? | John Sentamu : definition of John Sentamu and synonyms of John Sentamu (English) John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu ( English pronunciation: /ˈsɛntɑːmuː/ ; born 10 June 1949) is the 97th Archbishop of York , Metropolitan of the province of York, Primate of England and a columnist for a tabloid newspaper.[ which? ] He is the second most senior cleric in the Church of England , after the Archbishop of Canterbury , Rowan Williams . Born near Kampala in present-day Uganda , Sentamu studied law at Makerere University before gaining employment as an advocate of the Supreme Court of Uganda . Speaking out against the regime of President Idi Amin , he was briefly imprisoned before fleeing to the United Kingdom in 1974. Here, he devoted himself to Anglicanism , beginning his study of theology at Selwyn College, Cambridge in 1976 and eventually gaining a doctorate in 1984. He studied for ordination at Ridley Hall, Cambridge , and was ordained in 1979. In 1996 he was consecrated as the Bishop of Stepney and in 2002 moved to the position of Bishop of Birmingham . In 2005 he was appointed to the position of Archbishop of York. Sentamu is a traditionalist within the Church of England, generally supporting socially conservative moral positions, publicly criticising multiculturalism and LGBT rights .[ citation needed ] He has also received publicity for his vocal criticism of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe .[ citation needed ] Contents 6 External links Life and career Sentamu was born in 1949 in a village near Kampala , Uganda, the sixth of 13 children. He studied law (LL.B.) at Makerere University , Kampala , and practised as an advocate of the High Court of Uganda until 1974. In 1973 he married Margaret. [2] Three weeks after his marriage he incurred the wrath of the dictator Idi Amin and was detained for 90 days. In a speech in 2007, he described how during that time he had been "kicked around like a football and beaten terribly", saying "the temptation to give up hope of release was always present". [3] He fled his home country to arrive as an immigrant in the United Kingdom in 1974. Sentamu studied theology at Selwyn College, Cambridge (BA 1976, MA 1979, PhD 1984). He was baptized at Eden Baptist Church, Cambridge. He trained for the priesthood at Ridley Hall, Cambridge , being ordained a priest in 1979. His doctoral thesis is entitled "Some aspects of soteriology , with particular reference to the thought of J.K. Mozley , from an African perspective". [4] He worked as assistant chaplain at Selwyn College, as chaplain at a remand centre and as curate and vicar in a series of parish appointments before his consecration , in 1996, as Bishop of Stepney (a suffragan see in the Diocese of London ). It was during this time that he served as advisor to the Stephen Lawrence Judicial Enquiry. In 2002 he chaired the Damilola Taylor review. That same year he was appointed Bishop of Birmingham where his ministry, according to the Archbishop of Canterbury , Rowan Williams , was praised by "Christians of all backgrounds".[ citation needed ] Sentamu became President of Youth for Christ in 2004 and President of the YMCA in April 2005. [5] On 17 June 2005 the prime minister's office announced Sentamu's translation to York as the 97th archbishop. [6] He was formally elected by the chapter of York Minster on 21 July, [7] legally confirmed as archbishop in London on 5 October, and enthroned at York Minster on 30 November 2005 (the feast of Saint Andrew ), at a ceremony with African singing and dancing and contemporary music, with Sentamu himself playing African drums during the service. [8] [9] As Archbishop of York, Sentamu sits in the House of Lords [10] and was admitted, as a matter of course, to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom . [11] On 7 March 2007, Sentamu was installed as the first Chancellor of York St John University . On 1 June 2007 he was appointed as the first Chancellor of the University of Cumbria . He took up the position when the university opened on 1 August 2007. [12] On 16 July 2007, Sentamu was presented with an honorary degre |
In religion, Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Uriel, Chamuel, Jophiel and Zadkiel are all what? | Archangels Archangels Archangels There are generally considered to be seven Archangels: Michael, Jophiel, Chamuel, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel and Zadkiel. Archangels are the supreme beings within the Angelic Realm. As with angels, Archangels can be called upon to help us in our hour of need. Archangels (and Angels for that matter) are not servants, they should be treated like a welcome friend or guest. The Archangel Michael: Michael is the Angel of Protection and is associated with the color blue. Michael can be asked for protection against any sort of physical or spiritual danger. These might include robbers, stalkers, accidents, astral attacks, psychic attacks, witchcraft and the evil eye etc. Spiritually the Archangel Michael can help restore your faith in God and free you from self-doubt and fear. The Archangel Jophiel: Jophiel is the Angel of Illumination and is associated with the color yellow. Jophiel can help free you (or loved ones) from addictions. He can help improve your memory, help you pass examinations etc. Spiritually the Archangel Jophiel can help you to connect to your higher self and show you the right way when difficult decisions need to be made. The Archangel Chamuel: Chamuel is the Angel of Love and corresponds to the color pink. Chamuel is the angel of compassion, forgiveness, mercy and understanding. This is the angel who can help you repair damaged relationships, or make new friends. Chamuel can help you to dispel feelings of self-condemnation, guilt and low self-esteem. The Archangel Gabriel: Gabriel is the Angel of Guidance and corresponds to the color white. Gabriel can help you to organize your life as well as provide you with advice and guidance - particularly with education or career. Spiritually Gabriel can help you to find your life's purpose and to replace feelings of discouragement with fulfillment. The Archangel Raphael: Raphael is the Angel of Healing and is associated with the color green. Raphael is responsible for the healing of body, mind, soul and spirit. He can help put your daily bread on the table. When you are in need of clothing, food or shelter, Raphael is the angel to call upon. Raphael can also help your doctor make the right decision and aspiring musicians make beautiful music. Spiritually Raphael mends broken spirits and helps you accept the truth. The Archangel Uriel: Uriel is the Angel of Peace and is associated with the colors purple and gold. Uriel resolves all problems in personal, social and professional relationships and helps to create harmony in life. Uriel is the angel of nurses, doctors, counselors and teachers. Spiritually he can help you to let go of bitterness and resentment, renewing hope in the hearts of those that have lost faith. He is also the angel who manifests divine justice. The Archangel Zadkiel: Zadkiel is the Angel of Joy and is associated with the color violet. Zadkiel is the angel to call upon if you need work as an actor, writer or performer. He is also the angel of architects and engineers. Freedom, happiness, justice and mercy are all championed by Zadkiel. |
The Scottish city of Perth lies on which river? | Perth | Scotland, United Kingdom | Britannica.com Scotland, United Kingdom Alternative Title: Saint John’s Town Related Topics Perth, city and royal burgh, Perth and Kinross council area, historic county of Perthshire , Scotland . Perth lies on the right bank of the River Tay . Its name is probably Celtic. Bridge over the River Tay at Perth, Scot. Dudesleeper Perth was well established by the 12th century, a burgh (town) in 1106 and a royal burgh in 1210. Until about 1452 it served as the capital of Scotland and was therefore both a frequent royal residence and a centre of government. During the Scottish Wars of Independence, Perth was taken by Edward I of England , who strengthened its fortifications in 1298. It was retaken by Robert I (the Bruce) in 1313 during the fourth of the town’s seven sieges. The English held it again from 1335 to 1339. Perth was a Jacobite city during the Scottish uprisings of 1715 and 1745, and the insurgent James Edward , the Old Pretender, was proclaimed king at its market cross. Few buildings remain from this eventful past, apart from the Church of St. John the Baptist, which was built about 1440 and replaced an earlier church on the site. There in 1559 John Knox preached an inflammatory sermon denouncing idolatry, as a result of which four monasteries in Perth were destroyed by mobs. The Salutation Hotel, built in 1699, is said to be the oldest hotel building in Scotland. The city’s notable modern public buildings include St. Ninian’s Episcopal Cathedral (1850–90) and Perth prison, erected in 1812 to house French prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars. Balhousie Castle, Perth, Scot. During the Middle Ages Perth was a significant river port at the head of the Tay estuary, but it gradually declined. Fertilizers are still imported in quantity, and seed potatoes are exported. Perth has long been a centre for whisky blending and distilling, food processing, and the manufacture of glass. Although the city has always maintained a wide range of industries, it is more important as the commercial centre for its agricultural hinterland. Its livestock sales are famous in Great Britain. During the late 20th century a variety of corporations established offices in Perth, and it became a centre for business and financial services. Perth houses Perth College, a member of the University of the Highlands and Islands Perth. Perth is the historic county town (seat) of Perthshire and the administrative centre of Perth and Kinross. Pop. (2004 est.) 43,590. Learn More in these related articles: |
Which band released an 1974 album entitled ‘Crime of the Century’? | Roger Hodgson Discusses Supertramp's Crime of the Century Album - YouTube Roger Hodgson Discusses Supertramp's Crime of the Century Album Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Oct 20, 2014 Crime of the Century, released in 1974, was Supertramp’s breakthrough album & Roger Hodgson's song, Dreamer, became the band’s first international hit. Enjoy this video of Roger discussing the creation of the Crime of the Century album & the recording of his timeless classic, Dreamer. Roger’s other songs off the album, School, Hide in Your Shell & If Everyone Was Listening, are fan favorites to this day. Roger also gave us the timeless classics such as Give a Little Bit, Breakfast in America, The Logical Song, Take the Long Way Home, It's Raining Again, Fool's Overture - Roger performs these & more on tour. Audiences love dancing & singing along - the crowd instantly gets on their feet & starts dancing in the aisles. To see Roger on stage performing, you know not only is the audience having a fantastic time, but he is as well. Roger co-founded Supertramp in 1969 and was the driving force behind what fans call the 14 golden years of the band. He wrote, sang & arranged the enduring rock standards that made Supertramp a worldwide phenomenon with album sales in excess of 60 million. From the Crime of the Century album forward, Roger & Supertramp’s other co-founder began writing separately. Although they continued to share writing credit, they wrote & composed separately with each singing their own songs. Roger began writing songs at the age of 12 & performed his first concert of original songs at the age of 13. He later recorded some of his songs with Supertramp with many becoming the soundtrack of our lives. http://www.RogerHodgson.com ~ https://www.Facebook.com/RogerHodgson Signed DVD, CDs and more directly from the artist ~ http://www.RogerHodgsonStore.com iTunes: Classics Live http://apple.co/1wUGfIk Open the Door http://apple.co/1GQcRsB March 15 - São Paulo, Brazil - http://bit.ly/2fiYiXr March 16 - Florianopolis, Brazil - http://bit.ly/2fj0lKU March 18 - Vitoria, Brazil - http://bit.ly/2fxubyh March 21 - Porto Alegre, Brazil - http://bit.ly/2fulfHP March 23 - Brasilia, Brazil - http://bit.ly/2fVULSz March 25 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil - http://bit.ly/2fbCmja March 26 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - http://bit.ly/2fzEzC5 April 30 - Dublin, Ireland - http://bit.ly/2crrwUp May 18 - Birmingham, England, UK - http://bit.ly/2cn8G0Z , Box Office +44 (0)121 780 3333, or http://bit.ly/2cCgtYo May 20 - London, England, UK - http://bit.ly/2cn8G0Z , Box Office +44 (0)20 7589 8212, or http://bit.ly/2chQ2nV May 21 - London, England, UK - http://bit.ly/2cn8G0Z , Box Office +44 (0)20 7589 8212, or http://bit.ly/2chQ2nV May 23 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - http://bit.ly/2bgHnoh May 24 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - http://bit.ly/2bgHnoh May 26 - Stowe, Buckingham, England, UK - http://bit.ly/2gIHZny May 27 - Paris, France - Tickets available through http://bit.ly/290HVjA , with VIP Meet and Greet packages at http://bit.ly/28TUI1o (VIP SOLD OUT). June 4 - Wuppertal, Germany - http://bit.ly/2eBfZ4H June 5 - Siegen, Germany - Details soon! June 8 - Crans-près-Céligny, Switzerland - http://bit.ly/2fH1qAp June 9 - Brussels, Belgium - http://bit.ly/2dp4Z9l or http://bit.ly/2drtveC June 10 - Emmen, Netherlands - http://bit.ly/2gFIQUR July 15 - Sion, Switzerland - http://bit.ly/2gxJrsQ July 20 - Rottweil, Germany - http://bit.ly/2gMZq8C July 21 - Bad Krozingen, Germany - http://bit.ly/2gVao9U or http://bit.ly/2gBteBP July 22 - Wanfried, Germany - http://bit.ly/2eBfZ4H or http://bit.ly/2gh7oXC August 4 - Neumünster, Germany - http://bit.ly/2h8rELT August 5 - Spalt, Germany - http://bit.ly/2guSbPY August 8 - Schaffhausen, Switzerland - http://bit.ly/2dyIAsv August 9 - Zofingen, Switzerland - http://bit.ly/2h9NL1u "No words to describe how wonderf |
What is the first name of comic-hero Superman’s natural mother? | Superman: The Movie | Superman Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia $300,218,018 Superman (marketed as Superman: The Movie), is the 1978 theatrical adaption of Superman . The movie was filmed and produced at the same time as its sequel, Superman II , although this arrangement was beset by production difficulties, and the sequel was not released until 1980. There were two further installments in the series: Superman III (1983) and Superman IV: The Quest For Peace (1987), as well as several canceled sequel attempts after 1987. Superman and Superman II are treated as a loose back story for the 2006 film Superman Returns . Contents [ show ] Plot The film consists of three major segments, each with its own style and tone. The first part deals with the last days of Krypton, the child Kal-El's journey from Krypton to Earth, and his discovery by the Kents. The second part concerns the teenage Clark Kent's life in Smallville and the beginnings of discovering who he is. The third part follows the adult Clark Kent and his emergence as Superman in Metropolis. The story begins when the planet Krypton is in danger of imminent destruction. Unable to convince Kryptonian elders, scientist Jor-El promises that neither he nor his wife, Lara, will leave the planet. However, he sends his infant son, Kal-El, to Earth to ensure his survival, just as Krypton begins its death throes. Kal-El's spaceship crash lands three years later in Smallville, Kansas, where the boy is found and adopted by a childless couple, Jonathan and Martha Kent, who name him Clark after Martha's maiden name. Clark is no ordinary boy; he is incredibly agile and strong. But at the urging of his parents, he keeps his abilities hidden, frustratingly accepting the ridicule and scorn of his peers as he assumes a mild mannered temperament, fading into the background rather than becoming the star of the football team. But as Jonathan Kent reminds him, Clark was put on Earth "for a reason... (and) it's not to score touchdowns." Clark asks him to race him to the barn, causing Jonathan to have a fatal heart attack and die, after which a grieving Clark conveys guilt about asking him to race and says "all [these] powers and I couldn't even save him". After a few months pass, Clark hears the call of a mysterious green crystal hidden in his parents' barn. He realizes that it is time to discover his purpose and bids an emotional farewell to his Earth mother. He soon departs on a journey to the Arctic and uses the crystal to build the Fortress of Solitude, a majestic crystal palace in the architectural style of his home planet, Krypton. Inside, Kal-El learns the reason he was transported to Earth and his future role on the planet from holographic recordings of his father. After 12 years of education and training within the Fortress of Solitude, he emerges garbed in a red cape and blue body suit with the El family symbol on the chest and flies off. Clark returns to civilization, arriving in the city of Metropolis. He's hired as a reporter for The Daily Planet newspaper by its editor-in-chief, Perry White. While there, he meets teenage photographer Jimmy Olsen and the paper's star journalist, Lois Lane. Clark becomes immediately infatuated with Lois, but is unable to properly gain her affection while in the bumbling guise of Clark Kent. It isn't long before Clark's true nature is unveiled when, in his blue suit and red cape, he publicly rescues Lois from a helicopter accident atop the Daily Planet building. Following a series of incidents in which Clark in his yet-unnamed guise comes to the rescue and saves the day, Perry White issues to all his reporters to find out as much information as possible about this mysterious hero. Lois receives an invitation to meet someone at her place, signed only "a friend." Following a perfunctory interview with the Man of Steel, Lois joins him on a flight over Metropolis, ostensibly to see how fast he can go. After their romantic flight, the costumed hero flies off and Lois says to herself, "What a super man", then pauses, and says "Superman!," thus giving the m |
Which player scored for both sides during the 1987 F.A. Cup Final? | How Coventry City shocked Tottenham Hotspur to win the 1987 FA Cup final | Football | The Guardian Guardian Sport Network How Coventry City shocked Tottenham Hotspur to win the 1987 FA Cup final Chas and Dave joined the Spurs squad to sing about 'Hot Shot Tottenham' but unfancied Coventry City pulled off one of the great giantkillings in FA Cup final history to win 3-2 in extra-time Coventry City's Keith Houchen heads past Spurs goalkeeper Ray Clemence during the 1987 FA Cup final at Wembley. Photograph: David Cannon/Getty Images Steven Pye for That 1980s Sports Blog, part of the Guardian Sport Network Friday 16 May 2014 06.13 EDT First published on Friday 16 May 2014 06.13 EDT Share on Messenger Close This piece follows on from previous blogs on the first , second , third , fourth , fifth , sixth rounds and semi-finals of the 1986-87 FA Cup. "Seven times we've won the Cup, and number eight is coming up". The bold statement penned by Chas and Dave, and sung by the Tottenham squad in their No18 hit Hot Shot Tottenham! may have seemed cocky, but the general consensus was that their proclamation would come true on Cup final day on May 16. Tottenham were heavy favourites to defeat Coventry City, a club appearing in their first major final in their 104-year history. But the underdogs were used to proving the doubters wrong during their 1987 Cup run. Their Go For It single was an appropriately titled anthem for all that had gone before and what was to follow. You could see why Tottenham were overwhelming favourites to lift the FA Cup for a record eighth time. Of their 13-man squad, only Mitchell Thomas had not been capped by his country; they possessed a striker in Clive Allen who was enjoying a stunning season containing 48 goals; and their squad contained a vast wealth of experience on the big stage. Spurs goalkeeper Ray Clemence was appearing in his 42nd match at Wembley, but only four of Coventry's team - David Phillips, Nick Pickering, Dave Bennett and Cyrille Regis – had ever played at the famous old stadium, and only Phillips was a current international player. The lead-up to the final was littered with constant references to the perceived differences between the two sides: "a pit pony v the Derby favourite"; "artisans v artists"; "rank outsiders v red-hot favourites"; "journeymen v pedigree". Fortunately, the Cup final would be played on the lush Wembley turf and not on paper, as, if the majority of the press were to be believed, Coventry were already a goal down before the match had begun. Tottenham should have seen the warning signs. There had been talk of Spurs winning the double after their semi-final win over Watford, when they were 10 points behind leaders Everton with two games in hand and a trip to Goodison Park to come. But these hopes were well and truly quashed – four defeats in the final seven matches left Tottenham with a third-placed finish. Conversely, Coventry were flying. They were unbeaten in the seven matches leading up to the final and were improving under the managerial pairing of John Sillett and George Curtis, who had taken over at the end of the previous season. For Sillett, the transformation was marked. In 1984 he had been sacked as youth team manager by Bobby Gould, but his time out of the game taught him a valuable lesson: the next time he was given a management role he would rather die on his feet rather than live on his knees. Sillett's team would play very much in the image of their manager: relaxed, confident, and passionate. Sillett was not the only manager gaining plaudits before the final. David Pleat's work at Luton and his fine first season at Tottenham – as well as their strong league position, the club also reached the Littlewoods Cup semi-final – had even seen his name mentioned by the Mirror's Harry Harris as a possible successor for Bobby Robson's England post after the 1990 World Cup. Pleat's work in the transfer market – bringing in players such as Richard Gough, Steve Hodge, Nico Claesen and Mitchell Thomas – and his successful switch to a 4-5-1 formation had earned gushing |
What type of animal is a Herdwick? | Breeds of Livestock - Herdwick Sheep — Breeds of Livestock, Department of Animal Science Breeds of Livestock, Department of Animal Science Breeds of Livestock - Herdwick Sheep Breeds of Livestock - Herdwick Sheep Herdwick The Herdwick is found in the Lake District of northwestern England, on the Fells of Westmorland and Cumberland. They are a carpet wool and meat breed. The lambs are born with black faces, legs and blue-roan fleeces which lighten in the adults. The males are horned and the females are polled or naturally hornless. Reference: |
The cat Gray-Malkin appears in which Shakespeare Play? | Macbeth Glossary - I come, graymalkin! Macbeth Glossary First Witch I come, graymalkin! (1.1.10) i.e., an affectionate name for a gray cat. During the Renaissance it was believed that Satan sent witches malicious spirits to help them carry out their evil deeds. These 'familiars' or 'imps' would appear in animal form. The familiar of the First Witch takes the form of a cat and the familiar of the Second Witch takes the form of a toad (Paddock). The familiar of the Third Witch is not mentioned in the first act but in 4.1 , it takes the form of a 'harpy', a nasty creature in Greek mythology with the head and body of a woman and the talons of a bird. Note the similarity to Shakespeare's minor source for Macbeth, Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft: [Witches] can raise and suppresse lightning and thunder, raine and haile, clouds and winds, tempests and earthquakes. Others doo write, that they can pull downe the moone and the starres. Some write that with wishing they can send needles into the livers of their enimies. Some that they can transferre corne in the blade from one place to another. Some, that they can cure diseases supernaturallie, flie in the aire, and danse with divels. Some write, that they can plaie the part of Succubus, and contract themselves to Incubus; and so yoong prophets are upon them begotten, &c. Some say they can transubstantiate themselves and others, and take the forms and shapes of asses, woolves, ferrets, cowes, apes, horsses, dogs, &c. Some say they can keepe divels and spirits in the likenesse of todes and cats. (Book I, Chapter IV) On stage we should hear one familiar mewing and one croaking, which the Witches are supposed to answer. |
In horse racing, during which month is the St. Leger run? | History HISTORY ST LEGER WINNERS Doncaster is one of the oldest established centres for horse racing in Britain, with records of regular race meetings going back to the 16th century. In 1600 the corporation tried to put an end to the races because of the number of ruffians they attracted, but by 1614 it acknowledged failure and instead marked out a racecourse. Ladbrokes St. Leger Festival The earliest important race was the Doncaster Gold Cup, first run over Cantley Common in 1766, ten years before a move to the racecourse's present location. In 1776 Colonel Anthony St. Leger founded a race in which five horses ran. This race has remained in existence and become the world's oldest classic race. During the first world war the racecourse was used for military purposes and substitute races were run at Newmarket from 1915 to 1918. Doncaster has the distinction of both starting and ending the flat season on turf. Every September, Doncaster hosts the prestigious four-day St. Leger Festival, which is acclaimed as the premier sporting occasion of the Autumn calender. Doncaster has also taken over events whose traditional homes have closed, such as the Lincoln in 1965. More history was made at Doncaster in 1992 when it staged the first ever Sunday meeting on a British racecourse, a crowd of 23,000 turned up despite there being no betting. Today, after more than four hundred years of racing, the St. Leger is undoubtedley still the highlight of Doncaster's year. Throughout the racing calendar there is a full programme of top class racing, with flat racing in the summer and jumping action all winter. early leger Early running of the St Leger B&W Historical Jockey John Singleton with the first ever St Leger winner in 1776 Allabaculia The Lincoln THE WILLIAM HILL LINCOLN FACTS AND FIGURES A race called the Lincolnshire Handicap was first run over two miles at Lincoln in August, 1849. In 1853, a new fixture was staged at Lincoln in February and featured a race called the Lincoln Spring Handicap,run over a mile and a half and won by Caurire. The distance of this contest was reduced to a mile in 1855 and moved to a date in March. In 1859, the two races merged to become the Lincolnshire Handicap, run over a mile in March. The Lincolnshire Handicap was run at Lincoln (AThe Carholme@) up to and including 1964. Following that course's closure, the race moved to Doncaster in 1965 and was renamed the Lincoln Handicap. Along with the Grand National, the William Hill Lincoln forms the ASpring Double.@ Jockey Dave Dick achieved the unique distinction of winning both races - he scored in the Lincoln of 1941 on Gloaming, carrying just 7st 4lb and went to triumph in the ADevon Loch@ Grand National of 1956 on ESB, who shouldered 11st 3lb to victory. During World War II, three runnings were held at Pontefract (1943-1945). The 1916 renewal was at Lingfield, while there was no race in 1917 or 1918 due to World War I. Due to a £34 million redevelopment at Doncaster, the 2006 renewal was held at Redcar, while in 2007 the race was hosted by Newcastle. It returned to a revamped Doncaster in 2008. The dozen winners of the William Hill Lincoln between 1926 and 1937 (King Of Clubs (1926), Priory Park (1927), Dark Warrior (1928), Elton (1929), Leonidas II (1930), Knight Error (1931), Jerome Fandor (1932), Dorigen (1933), Play On (1934), Flamenco (1935), Overcoat (1936) and Marmaduke Jinks (1937)) gave their names to the horses used in the popular board game Totopoly. There have been only two dual winners of the William Hill Lincoln - Ob (1906 & 1907) and Babur (1957 & 1958). No horse has managed to win more than once since the race was transferred to Town Moor. The biggest shocks came with the 100/1 shots King Of Clubs (1926), Elton (1929) and Jockey Treble (1947). Since it has been run at Doncaster, the biggest-price winner was the 50/1 shot Bronze Hill (1973) while there have been six 33/1 successes during the same period - Southwark Star (1975), Cuvee Charlie (1988), Evichstar (1990), Roving Minstrel (1995), Stone Ridge (1996) and Zucchero (2002). The short |
Surrealist painter Rene Magritte was born in which country? | René Magritte - Painter - Biography.com René Magritte René Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist best known for his witty and thought-provoking images and his use of simple graphics and everyday imagery. IN THESE GROUPS Académie Royale Des Beaux-Arts Synopsis René Magritte was born in Belgium in 1898. After attending art school in Brussels, he worked in commercial advertising to support himself while he experimented with his painting. In the mid 1920s he began to paint in the surrealist style and became known for his witty and thought-provoking images and his use of simple graphics and everyday objects, giving new meanings to familiar things. With a popularity that increased over time, Magritte was able to pursue his art full-time and was celebrated in several international exhibitions. He experimented with numerous styles and forms during his life and was a primary influence on the pop art movement. He died in 1967. A Difficult Crossing René François Ghislain Magritte was born in Lessines, Belgium, on November 21, 1898, the oldest of three boys. His father’s manufacturing business at times allowed the family to live in relative comfort, but financial difficulties were a constant threat and forced them to move about the country with some regularity. Magritte’s young world was dealt a far more destructive blow in 1912, when his mother committed suicide by drowning herself in a river. Magritte found solace from the tragedy in films and novels and especially through painting. His earliest surviving works from this era were accomplished in the impressionist style. However, in 1916 he left home for Brussels, where for the next two years he studied at Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts. Although he was ultimately unimpressed with the institution, he was nonetheless exposed to emerging styles such as cubism and futurism, which significantly altered the direction of his work. Indeed, many of Magritte’s paintings from the early 1920s owe a clear debt to Pablo Picasso . The Treachery of Images In 1921 Magritte began his one year of compulsory military service before returning home and marrying Georgette Berger, whom he had known since he was a boy and with whom he would stay for the rest of his life. After a brief stint in a wallpaper factory, he found work as a freelance poster and advertisement designer while he continued to paint. Around this time Magritte saw the painting The Song of Love by Italian surrealist Giorgio de Chirico and was so struck by its imagery that it sent his own work off in the new direction for which he would become known. Placing familiar, mundane objects such as bowler hats, pipes and rocks in unusual contexts and juxtapositions, Magritte evoked themes of mystery and madness to challenge the assumptions of human perception. With early works such as The Lost Jockey and The Menaced Assassin Magritte quickly became one of the most important artists in Belgium and found himself at the center of its nascent surrealist movement. But when his first one-man show—in 1927 at the Galerie le Centaure—was poorly received, a disheartened Magritte left his homeland for France. On the Threshold of Liberty Settling in the Perreux-sur-Marne suburb of Paris, Magritte quickly fell in with some of surrealism’s brightest lights and founding fathers, including writer André Breton , poet Paul Éluard and artists Salvador Dalí , Max Ernst and Joan Miró . Over the next few years he produced important works such as The Lovers and The False Mirror and also began to experiment with the use of text, as seen in his 1929 painting The Treachery of Images. But despite the progress Magritte was making in his art, he had yet to find significant financial success, and in 1930 he and Georgette returned to Brussels, where he set up an ad agency with his younger brother Paul. Though the demands of their studio left Magritte little time for his own work over the next few years, interest in his paintings began to grow and soon he was selling enough to leave his commercial work behind. Surrealism in Full Sunlight In the late 1930s Magritte’s newfou |
Actor Roy Harold Scherer was better known by what name? | Rock Hudson - Filmbug Rock Hudson Rock Hudson Roy Harold Scherer Jr. (November 17, 1925 - October 2, 1985), better known as Rock Hudson, was an American actor. Born in Winnetka, Illinois, Hudson was the first major American celebrity to admit to being afflicted with AIDS. His announcement, and subsequent death from the disease, brought the disease and HIV into the mainstream of American consciousness. Hudson served in the United States Navy during World War II as an airplane mechanic. His good looks and strapping size got him a Hollywood audition, and some capped teeth and a name change got him a small part in the forgettable 1948 film Fighter Squadron. His one line took 38 takes, because he kept forgetting it. In 1956 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, and two years later, Look Magazine named him "Star of the Year". During the 1950s and 1960s, Hudson was known for several fluffy comedies, largely starring with Doris Day . The two made Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back and Send Me No Flowers together. Hudson married studio employee Phyllis Gates in 1955, and the news was made known by all the major gossip magazines. The couple divorced in 1958. The truth of the matter is, though, that the studio was using this sham marriage in order to cover Hudson's homosexuality, which would have made him box office poison at the time if it were made known. Hudson continued to have a hidden gay life for the rest of his life, until his homosexuality became known. Following Hudson's death, his live-in lover filed a palimony lawsuit against his estate. Hudson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Blvd. Note: This profile was written in or before 2003. Rock Hudson Facts |
Philip IV became King of which European country in 1621? | Philip IV Philip IV Location of death: Madrid, Spain Cause of death: unspecified Nationality: Spain Executive summary: King of Spain, 1621-65 Philip IV, King of Spain, eldest son of Philip III and his wife Margaret, sister of the emperor Ferdinand II, was born at Valladolid on the 8th of April 1605. His reign, after a few passing years of barren successes, was a long story of political and military decay and disaster. The king has been held responsible for the fall of Spain, which was, however, due in the main to internal causes beyond the control of the most despotic ruler, however capable he had been. Philip certainly possessed more energy, both mental and physical, than his father. There is still in existence a translation of Guicciardini which he wrote with his own hand in order to qualify himself for government by acquiring a knowledge of political history. He was a fine horseman and keen hunter. His artistic taste was shown by his patronage of Diego Vel�zquez , and his love of letters by his favor to Lope de Vega , Calder�n , and other dramatists. He is even credited, on fairly probable testimony, with a share at least in the composition of several comedies. His good intentions were of no avail to his government. Coming to the throne at the age of sixteen, he did the wisest thing he could by allowing himself to be guided by the most capable man he could find. His favorite, Olivares, was a far more honest man than the Duke of Lerma, and was more fit for the place of prime minister than any Spaniard of the time. But Philip IV had not the strength of mind to free himself from the influence of Olivares when he had grown to manhood. The amusements which the favorite had encouraged became the business of the king's life. When, in 1643, the disasters falling on the monarchy on all sides led to the dismissal of Olivares, Philip had lost the power to devote himself to hard work. After a brief struggle with the task of directing the administration of the most extensive and the worst organized monarchy in Europe, he sank back into his pleasures and was governed by other favorites. His political opinions were those he had inherited from his father and grandfather. He thought it his duty to support the German Habsburgs and the cause of the Roman Catholic Church against the Protestants, to assert his sovereignty over Holland, and to extend the dominions of his house. The utter exhaustion of his people in the course of a hopeless struggle with Holland, France and England was seen by him with sympathy, but he considered it an unavoidable misfortune and not the result of his own errors, since he could not be expected to renounce his rights or to desert the cause of God and the Church. In public he maintained a bearing of rigid solemnity, and was seen to laugh only three times in the course of his life. But in private he indulged in horseplay and very coarse immorality. His court was grossly vicious. The early death of his eldest son, Baltasar Carlos, was unquestionably due to debauchery encouraged by the gentlemen entrusted by the king with his education. The lesson shocked the king, but its effect soon wore off. Philip IV died broken-hearted on the 17th of September 1665, expressing the hope that his surviving son, Carlos, would be more fortunate than himself. Father: Philip III (King of Spain) Mother: Margaret Sister: Anne of Austria (Queen of France, b. 1601, d. 1666) Brother: Ferdinand (Governor of the Netherlands) Wife: Elizabeth Bourbon (b. 1603, m. 1615, d. 1644) Daughter: Maria Margarita (b. 1621) Daughter: Margarita Maria Catalina (b. 1623) Daughter: Maria Eugenia (b. 1625, d. 1627) Daughter: Isabel Maria Teresa (b. 1627) Son: Baltasar Carlos (b. 1629, d. 1646) Daughter: Maria Ana Antonia (b. 1636) Daughter: Maria Theresa of Spain (b. 1638, d. 1683) |
In which English county are the Medway Towns? | Kent Map - South East England - Mapcarta South East England Kent Loading… Kent is the most south-eastern county of South-East England. Popularly known as the "Garden of England". The county council area does not include the Medway towns which are administered separately as a Unitary Authority, but form many purposes they are still considered to be part of Kent, and that is how they are treated here. Ramsgate is a seaside town in Kent close to Dover and Canterbury. Loading… Canterbury is a cathedral and university city in Kent, in the South East of England . Loading… Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in West Kent on the border with East Sussex , in the South East of England . Loading… Broadstairs is a popular coastal town in East Kent. The town lies above a harbour, historically known for smuggling. Loading… Sevenoaks is a town in Kent, in the South East of England . Sevenoaks is a fairly traditional market town, although these days, given its proximity to London , it is known largely as a commuter town. Loading… Folkestone is a town on the Kent coast, in the South East of England . Loading… Dover is a port in East Kent, in the South East of England . Dover has been a permanent settlement since at least the time of the Romans, who were the first to record its presence, giving it the name Dubris. Loading… Maidstone is a town in Mid-Kent, in the South East of England . Loading… Gillingham is a town on the River Medway in the north of the English county of Kent. Loading… Rochester is a small cathedral city on the River Medway in the north of the English county of Kent. Loading… Margate is a town in Kent and sister town to Ramsgate . Margate is on the whole a rather depressing mixture of fading Georgian and Victorian seaside grandeur and squalid 'bedsit-land' although there are some pleasant residential suburbs. Loading… Tonbridge is a town in West Kent, in South-East England . Situated on the banks of the river Medway, Tonbridge has been a market town since the Earl of Gloucester was granted the right to hold a weekly market in 1259. Loading… Dartford is a town in Kent, England . Note that the Dartford tunnel and bridge are toll roads but do not have booths. Loading… Whitstable is a town in Kent, England . Whitstable is located on the North Kent Coast. Loading… Faversham is a town in the English county of Kent, UK . The history of the town can traced back 2000 years to Roman times. Loading… Chatham is a town on the River Medway in the north of the English county of Kent, UK . Loading… Sandwich is a village in Kent. The Earl of Sandwich is noted for the 'creation' of the sandwich snack. Loading… Hythe is in the District of Shepway, in Kent. The main roads leading towards Hythe are the M20, which runs from the M25 via Maidstone and on to Ashford, and the A20 to Hythe . Loading… Latitude of center: 51° 11' 24" (51.19°) north Longitude of center: 0° 43' 48" (0.73°) east Average elevation: 25 meters (82 feet) Old English (ca. 450-1100): Cent Persian: کنت |
Who performed the theme song to the 1987 James Bond film ‘Living Daylights’ | The Living Daylights (1987) - 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 James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov. Director: From $10.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 24 titles created 14 Nov 2012 a list of 24 titles created 24 Oct 2015 a list of 23 titles created 02 Nov 2015 a list of 24 titles created 6 months ago a list of 21 titles created 3 weeks ago Title: The Living Daylights (1987) 6.7/10 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. 3 wins & 4 nominations. See more awards » Videos James Bond goes rogue and sets off to unleash vengeance on a drug lord who tortured his best friend, a C.I.A. agent, and left him for dead and murdered his bride after he helped capture him. Director: John Glen A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces. Director: John Glen Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands. Director: John Glen An investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley. Director: John Glen James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads with the help of a KGB agent whose lover he killed. Director: Lewis Gilbert 007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader. Director: Guy Hamilton James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder. Director: Guy Hamilton James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide. Director: Lewis Gilbert James Bond woos a mob boss's daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps that involves beautiful women from around the world. Director: Peter R. Hunt A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon. Director: Guy Hamilton Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked. Director: Lewis Gilbert James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme. Director: Terence Young Edit Storyline James Bond 007's mission is to firstly, organise the defection of a top Soviet general. When the general is re-captured, Bond heads off to find why an ally of General Koskov was sent to murder him. Bond's mission continues to take him to Afghanistan, where he must confront an arms dealer known as Brad Whitaker. Everything eventually reveals its self to Bond. Written by simon James Bond 007 at his most dangerous in The Living Daylights See more » Genres: 31 July 1987 (USA) See more » Also Known As: James Bond 007: The Living Daylights See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Timothy Dalton was originally considered for the role of James Bond in the late 1960s, after Sean Connery left the role following You Only Live Twice (1967). Dalton was screen tested by Albert R. Broccoli for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) but he turned down the part as he thought he was too young. He was also considered for Diamonds Are Forever (1971) but turned it down again, still feeling he was too young. He w |
Helladic relates to the Bronze Age cultures of which European country? | Helladic Civilization - Helladic Period, Ancient History World Map / World Ancient History / Helladic Civilization Helladic Civilization The Bronze Age civilizations of Greece flourished from about 3000 BC to about 1100 BC. While the Cycladic Civilization took root in the Cyclades Islands, the Minoan Civilization in Crete and Thera on mainland Greece was home to the rich Helladic Civilization. The civilization was named after ancient Greece, Hellas. The Helladic Period, therefore, refers to the era when the civilization flourished in Greece. Helladic and Mycenaean Civilizations In the later years (1900 BC to 1100 BC), the Helladic Civilization came to be known as the Mycenaean Civilization. This was entirely due to the rise of Mycenae, one of the many city-states that dotted Greece. Mycenaean King Agamemnon, the valiant hero of Troy, ensured that his kingdom was the most powerful in all of Greece. The Helladic Period is further categorized into Early, Middle, and Late Helladic Periods. Each is differentiated by the distinct styles of pottery, evolving art, architecture, and culture. Early Helladic Period The Early Helladic Period started in about 3000 BC. A number of Indo-European nomadic tribes chose to settle down in central and southern Greece and took up agriculture and animal husbandry as their main occupations. Not much is known about the language and customs of these settlers. The native Greeks might have invaded them. At any rate, by 2000 BC there was much intermingling and the Greeks grew dominant. Middle Helladic Period The Middle Helladic Civilization lasted from 2000 BC to about 1550 BC. A number of city-states started to crystallize. The mighty warriors ruled and maritime trade decided the wealth of these city-states. The influence of the Minoan civilization led to development of social order in Greece. Later Helladic Period The Later Helladic Civilization, from 1550 BC, was dominated by the politics of Mycenae. The rich culture and traditions of this era formed the basis of Classical Greek legends. The dwindling maritime trade was the most likely reason for the decline of the Helladic Civilization. There seems to have been a lot of internal strife as well. Toward 1100 BC, the ancient Greek civilizations disappeared, marking the commencement of the Dark Ages. |
What type of bird is a conure? | Types of Conures: A Guide to 10 Popular Choices of Pet Conure Parrots Related posts: Care & Diet Requirements of Pet Conures Conure parrots, are delightful little birds that are colorful and full of character. Hand reared conures make excellent pets and are extremely popular with bird lovers all around the world. Some of the more popular, and readily available types of conures kept as pet birds, include the following: Sun Conure, Jenday Conure, Nanday Conure, Blue Crowned Conure, Maroon Bellied Conure, Green Cheeked Conure, Peach Fronted Conure, Dusky Headed Conure, Red Masked Conure, and the Patagonian Conure. Conure Care Conures are active birds, and consequently conure bird cages need to be fairly large relative to body size, fitted with lots of toys, especially things to chew, and noisy toys like bells and rattles, to provide stimulation and prevent boredom. As they are intelligent birds that love to interact and play, it is easy to train all types of conures to perform tricks. They will readily lie upside down in the palm of your hand and play dead. They also love water, and it is recommended that a bird bath be provided – alternatively a spray shower in hot weather will always be appreciated. Conure Diet A balanced diet of whole grains, fruit, vegetables, seeds and nuts is recommended for all types of conures to ensure that they remain in good health. Feed commercial seed and pellet mixes together with a variety of fresh fruit and vegetables. Conures love apple, corn on the cob, sprouted seeds, as well as a cooked mix of corn and peas, such as the mixes available for pigeons. Foods to avoid include chocolate, alcohol, onions and avocado pear, which is highly toxic to parrots. Different Types of Conures Sun Conure (Aratinga solstitialis) Description: The Sun Conure is a remarkably striking bird – with its splash of bold colors it is truly a beautiful bird indeed. The body of the Sun Conure is predominantly bright yellow to orange, with dark orange-red highlights around the cheeks and belly. The wings are yellow with green splashes all over and iridescent blue feathers on the wing tips. The tail is green and blue. Size: 12 inches Lifespan: 25-30 years Minimum Cage Size: 24 x 24 x 36 inches Characteristics: The Sun Conure is a highly sociable, and affectionate bird. It is lively, fun-loving, and acrobatic, making a very playful pet that will readily learn to perform tricks. It is extremely vocal, and is also very alert and an excellent watchdog; screeching loudly to herald the arrival of someone at the door, or to welcome its owner home after a hard days work. Sun conures are very demanding, requiring lots of attention and human interaction. They are ranked as one of the noisiest types of conures, and are therefore not recommended for apartment dwellers, or owners with a low tolerance level to noise. However, if you can put up with their screeching, they have beauty, brains, are big in character and make amazing pets. Jenday Conure (Aratinga janday) Description: The Jenday Conure is very similar to the Sun Conure in both looks and personality. While it is similar in color to the Sun Conure, the coloration is in distinct bands as opposed to splashes of color all over. The head is a solid yellow, the upper body and wings are bright green, while the belly is bright orange-red. The tail is green and blue. Size: 12 inches Minimum Cage Size: 24 x 24 x 36 inches. Characteristics: Similar to the sun conure (above). Nanday Conure (Nandayus nenday) Description: The Nanday Conure is a little dull when compared to the coloring of the Sun Conure and Jenday Conure, however he has a big personality to make up for this. The Nanday Conure has a black head, green body and wings with blue primary flight and tail feathers. It has a hint of bright red on the legs. Size: 13 inches Lifespan: 25-30 years Minimum Cage Size: 24 x 24 x 48 inches. Characteristics: Nanday Conures make excellent pets, but as they are also inclined to be very noisy and destructive; they are not suitable for apartment living. Blue Crowned Conure (Thectocercus acutic |
‘Nighthawks’ is the work of which American artist? | Nighthawks | The Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories Exhibition History Art Institute of Chicago, The Fifty-third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Oct. 29-Dec. 10, 1942, cat. 132. Indianapolis, 1943. Art Institute of Chicago, The Fifty-fourth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Oct. 28-Dec. 12, 1943, no. 15. New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition, Feb. 11-Mar. 26, 1950, cat. 61, plate 28; traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Apr. 13-May 14, 1950, Detroit Institute of Arts, June 4-July 2, 1950. New York City, Wildenstein, Loan Exhibition of Seventy Twentieth Century American Paintings, Feb. 21-Mar. 22, 1952, cat. 54. Venice, Esposiazione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, June 14-Oct. 19, 1952, cat. 26. Lake Forest College, Illinois. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Edward Hopper, Sept. 29-Nov. 29, 1964, cat. 43; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 18-Jan. 31, 1965. Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Fifty Years of Modern Art, June 14-July 31, 1966, cat. 81. New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist, Sept. 23, 1980-Jan. 18, 1981, cat. 386; traveled to London, Hayward Gallery, Feb. 11-Mar. 29, 1981 (separate Catalogue, no 96, p. 47), Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Apr. 22-June 17, 1981, Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, July 10-Sept. 6, 1981, Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 3-Nov. 29, 1981, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dec.16, 1981-Feb. 14, 1982. Essen, Germany, Museum Folkwang, Edward Hopper und die Fotografie: die Warheit des Sichtbaren (Edward Hopper and Photography: The Truth of the Real), June 28-Sept. 27, 1992, p. 63, ill. London, Tate Modern, Edward Hopper, May 27-Sept. 5, 2004; traveled to Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Oct. 9, 2004-Jan. 9, 2005. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, October 3-December 31, 2006. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Edward Hopper, May 6-August 19, 2007; traveled to Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, September 16, 2007-January 21, 2008; Art Institute of Chicago, February 16-May 11, 2008. Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Edward Hopper, June 12-September 16, 2012; traveled to Paris, Galeries nationales d'exposition du Grand Palais, October 5, 2012-January 28, 2013, Paris only. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Edward Hopper Drawings, May 23-October 6, 2013; travels to Dallas Museum of Art, November 17, 2013-February 16, 2014; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, March 15-June 22, 2014, New York only. Art Institute of Chicago, Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, November 10, 2013-January 27, 2014; traveled to Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, February 22-May 18, 2014, cat. 28. Publication History Gail Levin, “Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, Surrealism, and the War,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 22, 2 (1996), pp. 180-95, fig. 1. The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), p. 85, ill. Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 133. Nina Baym et al., eds., "The Norton Anthology of American Literature," (W. W. Norton & Company, 2012), 8th edition, (ill.). Arthur Shimamura, "Experiencing Art: In the Brain of the Beholder" (Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 237 (ill.). Derek Matravers, "Introducing Philosophy of Art: In Eight Case Studies," (Routledge, 2013), (ill.). Duane Preble Emeritus et al., Prebles' Artforms (Pearson, 2013), 11th ed., p. 428. (ill.). Robert Burleigh, "Edward Hopper Paints His World," (Henry Holt and Co., 2014), (ill.). Steven Mintz, "The Prime of Life: A History of Modern Adulthood," (Belknap Press, 2015), (ill.). Ramsay H. Slugg, "Handbook of Practical Planning for Art Collectors and Their Advisors," (ABA Book Publishing, 2015), (ill.). Judith A. Barter, ed. "America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s" exh. ca |
Which actor played the President in the 1997 film ‘Air Force One’? | Air Force One Movie Review & Film Summary (1997) | Roger Ebert Tweet Harrison Ford is one of the most likable and convincing of movie stars, and he almost pulls off the impossible in "Air Force One.'' I don't mean he saves the day; I mean he almost saves the movie. Here is a good example of how star power can breathe new life into old cliches--and "Air Force One'' is rich with cliches. Advertisement You are familiar with the movie's premise because of all the commercials and coming attractions trailers and magazine covers and talk show appearances. You know that Gary Oldman plays the leader of a gang of terrorists who gain control of Air Force One as it's flying back home from Moscow. You know it's up to Ford, as President James Marshall , Vietnam combat hero, to battle the terrorists. You know his wife and children are among the hostages--and that he has just vowed that America will never negotiate with terrorists. So. Since the movie has no macro surprises, does it have any micro ones? Has director Wolfgang Petersen (" Das Boot ," " In The Line Of Fire ") found lots of neat little touches to make the movie work on a minute-by-minute basis, while on the larger scale slogs to its preordained conclusion? Sorta, sometimes. There's some neat stuff about "Air Force One,'' although I don't know how much of it to believe. (Is it really bulletproof from the inside? Does it really have an escape pod onboard? Is there really a way to parachute out the back hatch? Can you really call Washington from Russia on a cell phone while airborne?) Many of the action scenes take place in the bowels of the jet, down in the galley and luggage areas. There also is a counterplot set in Washington, where the vice president ( Glenn Close ) learns from the attorney general ( Philip Baker Hall ) that the president may be technically "incapacitated,'' and that she should consider taking over. And there are some good action sequences, in which people enter and leave airplanes at an altitude at which the practice is not recommended. Advertisement But mostly the movie is stapled together out of ingredients from many, many other films about presidents, terrorists, hijackings, hostages, airplanes, politics and cat-and-mouse chases. It is inevitable, for example, that the terrorists will separate and go poking around on their own, so that they can be picked off one at a time. It is inevitable that there will be Washington press conferences, so that bones of information can be thrown to the seething press. It is inevitable that there will be personality flare-ups among the lesser politicians, and dire comments by their advisers ("The element of surprise is a formidable weapon''). The movie also resurrects that ancient and dependable standby, the Choosing of the Wires. In countless other movies, the bomb squad hesitates between "Red . . . or black? Red . . . or black''). This is a big-budget movie and presents us with five wires. It's an emergency, and the president needs to decide which two he should connect. See if you can guess the right two colors. The choices are green, yellow, red, white and blue. The movie is well-served by the quality of the performances. Close is convincing as the vice president, and Gary Oldman has a couple of effective scenes as the terrorist ("Murder? You took 100,000 lives to save a nickel on the price of a gallon of gas.''). And Harrison Ford is steady and commanding as the president, even while we're asking ourselves if a middle-age chief executive would really be better at hand-to-hand combat than his Secret Service agents. Advertisement Some of the special effects scenes are effective, but others are distracting. In a key scene set near an open doorway on the plane, none of the actors convinced me that they thought they were standing next to a 30,000-foot drop. (For one thing, they never looked down, which I think is more or less the first thing I would do.) A climactic explosion is less than authentic, visually. And scenes involving a Russian political prisoner are confusing. "Air Force One'' is a fairly competent recyclin |
How many lines are in an English sonnet? | About the Sonnet About the Sonnet Chris Baldick Sonnet : a lyric poem comprising 14 rhyming lines of equal length: iambic pentameters in English, alexandrines in French, hendecasyllables in Italian. The rhyme schemes of the sonnet follow two basic patterns. (1) The Italian sonnet (also called the Petrarchan sonnet after the most influential of the Italian sonneteers) comprises an 8-line 'octave' of two quatrains, rhymed abbaabba, followed by a 6-line 'sestet' usually rhymed cdecde or cdcdcd. The transition from octave to sestet usually coincides with a 'turn' (Italian, volta) in the argument or mood of the poem. In a variant form used by the English poet John Milton, however, the 'turn' is delayed to a later position around the tenth line. Some later poets--notably William Wordsworth--have employed this feature of the 'Miltonic sonnet' while relaxing the rhyme scheme of the octave to abbaacca. The Italian pattern has remained the most widely used in English and other languages. (2) The English sonnet (also called the Shakespearean sonnet after its foremost practitioner) comprises three quatrains and a final couplet, rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. An important variant of this is the Spenserian sonnet (introduced by the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser), which links the three quatrains by rhyme, in the sequence ababbabccdcdee. In either form, the 'turn' comes with the final couplet, which may sometimes achieve the neatness of an epigram. Originating in Italy, the sonnet was established by Petrarch in the 14th century as a major form of love poetry, and came to be adopted in Spain, France and England in the 16th century, and in Germany in the 17th. The standard subject-matter of early sonnets was the torments of sexual love (usually within a courtly love convention), but in the 17th century John Donne extended the sonnet's scope to religion, while Millton extended it to politics. Although largely neglected in the 18th century, the sonnet was revived in the 19th by Wordsworth, Keats, and Baudelaire, and is still widely used. Some poets have written connected series of sonnets, known as sonnet sequences or sonnet cycles: of these, the outstanding English examples are Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella (1591), Spenser's Amoretti (1595), and Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609); later examples include Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) and W. H. Auden's 'In Time of War' (1939). A group of sonnets formally linked by repeated lines is known as a crown of sonnets. Irregular variations on the sonnet form have included the 12-line sonnet sometimes used by Elizabethan poets, G. M. Hopkin's curtal sonnets of 10-1/2 lines, and the 16-line sonnets of George Meredith's sequence Modern Love (1862). Lyric [li-rik]: In the modern sense, any fairly short poem expressing the personal mood, feeling, or meditation of a single speaker (who may sometimes be an invented character, not the poet). In ancient Greece, a lyric was a song for accompaniment on the lyre, and could be a choral lyric sung by a group, such as a dirge or hymn; the modern sense, current since the Renaissance, often suggests a songlike quality in the poems to which it refers. Lyric poetry is the most extensive category of verse, especially after the decline since the 19th century in the West--of the other principal kinds: narrative and dramatic verse. Lyrics may be composed in almost any metre and on almost every subject, although the most usual emotions presented are those of love and grief. Among the common lyric forms are the sonnet, ode, elegy, haiku, and the more personal kinds of hymn. Lyricism is the emotional or song-like quality, the lyrical property, of lyric poetry. A writer of lyric poems may be called a lyric poet, a lyricist, or a lyrist. In another sense, the lyrics of a popular song or other musical composition are the words as opposed to the music; these may not always be lyrical in the poetic sense (e.g. in a narrative song like a ballad). Pentameter [pen-tamm-it-er]: A metrical verse line having five main stres |
Mount Elbert is in which US state? | Mount Elbert | mountain, Colorado, United States | Britannica.com mountain, Colorado, United States Mount Rainier Mount Elbert, mountain in Lake county, west-central Colorado , U.S. , whose peak is the highest point (14,440 feet [4,401 metres]) in Colorado and in the American Rocky Mountains . Mount Elbert lies 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Leadville , in the Sawatch Range and White River National Forest. Laced with well-maintained hiking trails, the heavily visited mountain is renowned for its many false summits and spectacular views of the surrounding countryside. Mount Elbert, west-central Colorado, U.S. Rick Kimpel Colorado constituent state of the United States of America. It is classified as one of the Mountain states, although only about half of its area lies in the Rocky Mountains. It borders Wyoming and Nebraska to the north, Nebraska and Kansas to the east, Oklahoma and New Mexico to the south, and Utah to the... Rocky Mountains mountain range forming the cordilleran backbone of the great upland system that dominates the western North American continent. Generally, the ranges included in the Rockies stretch from northern Alberta and British Columbia southward to New Mexico, a distance of some 3,000 miles (4,800 km). In... Leadville city, seat (1878) of Lake county, central Colorado, U.S., located 103 miles (166 km) west of Denver and 38 miles (61 km) south of Vail. It is situated in the upper Arkansas River valley in an area of national forests, at an elevation of some 10,200 feet (3,105 metres). It is the centre of one of... 3 References found in Britannica Articles Assorted References Sawatch Range (in Sawatch Range ) Article History Corrections? Updates? Help us improve this article! Contact our editors with your feedback. MEDIA FOR: You have successfully emailed this. Error when sending the email. Try again later. Edit Mode Submit Tips For Editing We welcome suggested improvements to any of our articles. You can make it easier for us to review and, hopefully, publish your contribution by keeping a few points in mind. Encyclopædia Britannica articles are written in a neutral objective tone for a general audience. You may find it helpful to search within the site to see how similar or related subjects are covered. Any text you add should be original, not copied from other sources. At the bottom of the article, feel free to list any sources that support your changes, so that we can fully understand their context. (Internet URLs are the best.) Your contribution may be further edited by our staff, and its publication is subject to our final approval. Unfortunately, our editorial approach may not be able to accommodate all contributions. Submit Thank You for Your Contribution! Our editors will review what you've submitted, and if it meets our criteria, we'll add it to the article. Please note that our editors may make some formatting changes or correct spelling or grammatical errors, and may also contact you if any clarifications are needed. Uh Oh There was a problem with your submission. Please try again later. Close Date Published: January 21, 2014 URL: https://www.britannica.com/place/Mount-Elbert Access Date: January 18, 2017 Share |
Dendrophobia is the irrational fear of which natural items? | Phobias and Irrational Fears: Symptoms, Treatment, and Self-Help for Overcoming Your Anxiety and Fear Phobias and Irrational Fears Symptoms, Treatment, and Self-Help for Overcoming Your Anxiety and Fear Almost everyone has an irrational fear or two—of mice, for example, or your annual dental checkup. For most people, these fears are minor. But when fears become so severe that they cause tremendous anxiety and interfere with your normal life, they’re called phobias. The good news is that phobias can be managed and cured. Self-help strategies and therapy can help you overcome your fears and start living the life you want. What you can do Work with one fear at a time Learn to calm down quickly using your senses Learn and practice a variety of relaxation techniques With the aid of meditation focus on the present rather than the past or future Challenge negative thinking Learn more by reading the related articles What is a phobia? A phobia is an intense fear of something that, in reality, poses little or no actual danger. Common phobias and fears include closed-in places, heights, highway driving, flying insects, snakes, and needles. However, we can develop phobias of virtually anything. Most phobias develop in childhood, but they can also develop in adults. If you have a phobia, you probably realize that your fear is irrational, yet you still can’t control your feelings. Just thinking about the feared object or situation may make you anxious. And when you’re actually exposed to the thing you fear, the terror is automatic and overwhelming. The experience is so nerve-wracking that you may go to great lengths to avoid it—inconveniencing yourself or even changing your lifestyle. If you have claustrophobia, for example, you might turn down a lucrative job offer if you have to ride the elevator to get to the office. If you have a fear of heights, you might drive an extra 20 miles in order to avoid a tall bridge. Understanding your phobia is the first step to overcoming it. It’s important to know that phobias are common. (Having a phobia doesn’t mean you’re crazy!) It also helps to know that phobias are highly treatable. You can overcome your anxiety and fear, no matter how out of control it feels. Barbara’s fear of flying Barbara is terrified of flying. Unfortunately, she has to travel a lot for work, and this traveling takes a terrible toll. For weeks before every trip, she has a knot in her stomach and a feeling of anxiety that won’t go away. On the day of the flight, she wakes up feeling like she’s going to throw up. Once she’s on the plane, her heart pounds, she feels lightheaded, and she starts to hyperventilate. It gets worse and worse with every flight. Barbara’s fear of flying has gotten so bad that she finally told her boss she can only travel to places within driving distance. Her boss was not happy about this, and Barbara’s not sure what will happen at work. She’s afraid she’ll be demoted or lose her job altogether. But better that, she tells herself, than getting on a plane again. “Normal” fears vs. phobias or “irrational” fears It is normal and even helpful to experience fear in dangerous situations. Fear is an adaptive human response. It serves a protective purpose, activating the automatic “fight-or-flight” response. With our bodies and minds alert and ready for action, we are able to respond quickly and protect ourselves. But with phobias the threat is greatly exaggerated or nonexistent. For example, it is only natural to be afraid of a snarling Doberman, but it is irrational to be terrified of a friendly poodle on a leash, as you might be if you have a dog phobia. The difference between normal fear and a phobia Normal fear Phobia Feeling anxious when flying through turbulence or taking off during a storm Not going to your best friend’s island wedding because you’d have to fly there Experiencing butterflies when peering down from the top of a skyscraper or climbing a tall ladder Turning down a great job because it’s on the 10th floor of the office building Getting nervous when you see a pit bull or a Rottweiler Ste |
Which US President said ‘I don’t know who my grandfather was, I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be’? | Freedom Isn't An American Birthright - It's Earned What We Can Still Learn From Lincoln Terry L. Paulson, PhD, CSP, CPAE More than any other president, Abraham Lincoln showed that ordinary people from humble beginnings and with self-education, a strong character and focused will can aspire to and create greatness. George Washington may be credited as the President who created the union; Lincoln preserved that union. Lincoln was a great communicator and was, arguably, the most gifted writer we ever had as a President. Even 150 years after his death, we keep quoting him endlessly. He showed other Presidents how to lead in the midst of crisis with vision and resolve. He raised the bar for the presidency; he helped define the office for the ages. In short, Lincoln continues to be rated as America's favorite and most respected President. His ability to learn from and persevere in the face of failure, his resolve in the face of sustained conflict, and his breadth of insight about leadership and life are still relevant to America. Here are some of Lincoln's best quotes and some thoughts on how he can still speak to you today. "The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all." Abraham Lincoln "I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war on capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else." Abraham Lincoln Lincoln championed the principle that we today call free market capitalism. It provides the greatest opportunity possible for every person to make his way in the world, and even to prosper. Lincoln understood what many in Washington just don't get. There's no war between capital and labor. Capital and labor are the same people at different stages of their lives. Workers work to save, then to invest and ultimately to become owners of capital. "I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be." Abraham Lincoln Lincoln knew that what made America great was not its government, but its people empowered in a free country to live their own version of the American Dream. "The worst thing you can do for those you love is the thing they could and should do for themselves." Abraham Lincoln "Government should do for people that which they cannot possibly do for themselves--and leave otherwise alone!" Abraham Lincoln Lincoln believed in limiting the rolls that government should play. He cared enough to challenge people to take responsibility for their own future. There would have been no war on poverty in Lincoln's administration. There was encouragement and support, but there was no room for an entitlement mentality. "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." Abraham Lincoln "In regards to this great book, the Bible, I have but to say it is the best gift God has given. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it." Abraham Lincoln "I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer |
Lake Nasser is in which African country? | Lake Nasser | lake, Africa | Britannica.com Lake Nasser Alternative Titles: Buḥayrat Nāṣir, Lake Nubia Similar Topics Lake Nyasa Lake Nasser, also called Lake Nubia, reservoir on the Nile River , in Upper Egypt and northern Sudan . It was created by the impounding of the Nile’s waters by the Aswan High Dam , which was built in the 1960s and dedicated in 1971. Lake Nasser has a gross capacity of 136,927,000 acre-feet (168,900,000,000 cubic metres), and its waters, when discharged downstream, have brought 800,000 acres (324,000 hectares) of additional land under irrigation and have converted 700,000 acres (283,000 hectares) from flood to perennial irrigation. The lake has been stocked with food fish. Lake Nasser, Egypt. © hallam creations/Shutterstock.com The creation of the lake threatened to submerge a number of significant historical sites—notably the tombs and temples at Philae and Abu Simbel —under its waters. The Egyptian government appealed to UNESCO , with whose assistance many monuments were dismantled and reconstructed on safer ground. In the early 1980s land-reclamation projects began in the desert around the lake. The northern two-thirds of the lake, lying in Egypt , is named for Gamal Abdel Nasser , president (1956–70); the southern third, in The Sudan, is called Lake Nubia. Learn More in these related articles: Nile River river, the father of African rivers and the longest river in the world. It rises south of the Equator and flows northward through northeastern Africa to drain into the Mediterranean Sea. It has a length of about 4,132 miles (6,650 kilometres) and drains an area estimated at 1,293,000 square miles... Upper Egypt geographic and cultural division of Egypt, generally consisting of the Nile River valley south of the delta and the 30th parallel N. It thus consists of the entire Nile River valley from Cairo south to Lake Nasser (formed by the Aswan High Dam). This division also includes what some scholars term... Sudan country located in northeastern Africa. The name Sudan derives from the Arabic expression bilād al-sūdān (“land of the blacks”), by which medieval Arab geographers referred to the settled African countries that began at the southern edge of the Sahara. For more... 5 References found in Britannica Articles Assorted References physiography of Egypt (in Egypt: Relief ) External Links Lake Nasser - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11) Lake Nasser is an artificial lake in southern Egypt. It was created when the Aswan High Dam was built in the 1960s. The dam held back water from the Nile River and formed the lake. The lake is named after Gamal Abdel Nasser, the president of Egypt from 1956 to 1970. Lake Nasser - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up) A reservoir on the Nile River, Lake Nasser is located in Upper Egypt and northern Sudan. It was created by the impounding of the Nile’s waters by the Aswan High Dam, which was built in the 1960s and dedicated in 1971. Article History Corrections? Updates? Help us improve this article! Contact our editors with your feedback. MEDIA FOR: You have successfully emailed this. Error when sending the email. Try again later. Edit Mode Submit Tips For Editing We welcome suggested improvements to any of our articles. You can make it easier for us to review and, hopefully, publish your contribution by keeping a few points in mind. Encyclopædia Britannica articles are written in a neutral objective tone for a general audience. You may find it helpful to search within the site to see how similar or related subjects are covered. Any text you add should be original, not copied from other sources. At the bottom of the article, feel free to list any sources that support your changes, so that we can fully understand their context. (Internet URLs are the best.) Your contribution may be further edited by our staff, and its publication is subject to our final approval. Unfortunately, our editorial approach may not be able to accommodate all contributions. Submit Thank You for Your Contribution! Our editors will review what you've submitted, and if it meets our crit |
Which trio made their last feature film appearance in the 1949 film ‘Love Happy’? | Film History Milestones - 1949 Event and Significance 1949 Vittorio De Sica's landmark, post-war The Bicycle Thief (1948, It.), was another superb example of film-making from the Italian Neo-Realism movement. In 1949, it received a Best Original Screenplay nomination (its sole, unrewarded nomination) for Cesare Zavattini, and it was honored with a Special Academy Award as the "most outstanding foreign film released in the United States during 1949" - many years before an official category was created. [The film served as the impetus for the creation of an official Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1956.] And it was the 1950 Golden Globe Award winner for Best Foreign Film. De Sica's film was also noted as the first film widely-distributed without the Hays Office seal of approval (for its refusal to cut two scenes involving urination and a bordello). 1949 Paramount signed a consent decree, agreeing to separate its production and distribution activities. Loew's (owner of MGM), 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros. were ordered to divest themselves of their theaters. 1949 The UK's (and Michael Balcon's) anti-authoritarian Ealing Studios, a British film and production company (and claimed to be the oldest continuously working film studio in the world), released Passport to Pimlico (1949), starring Margaret Rutherford. It was the first of a series of acclaimed post-war classic "Ealing comedies" - the studio's hallmark - celebrated, intelligent comedies (many of which starred Alec Guinness) including Whiskey Galore! (1949), Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), The Man in the White Suit (1952), The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953), and The Ladykillers (1955). 1949 The film career of the Marx Brothers extended from 1929 to 1949. Marx Brothers Groucho, Chico and Harpo made their final film appearance as a team in Love Happy (1949), with a young 23 year-old Marilyn Monroe (in a walk-on bit role). 1949 The film debut of the comic duo of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis was in My Friend Irma (1949). It was followed the next year by the team's only sequel, My Friend Irma Goes West (1950). The pair would go on to make a total of sixteen feature films together for Paramount, until they broke up in 1956 after their last teaming in the comedy/musical Hollywood or Bust (1956). 1949 Hopalong Cassidy, network television's first Western series, aired on NBC in June of 1949, starring William Boyd. The actor had portrayed the western hero in 66 Hopalong Cassidy films from the mid-1930s to 1948 (the first was Hop-Along Cassidy (1935)). 1949 Hollywood made one of its earliest attacks on racism with director Elia Kazan's melodrama Pinky (1949), one of the many post-war 'problem pictures'. The film was noted for using a white actress (Jeanne Crain) to portray a light-skinned black woman who fell in love with a white man. 1949 Director Nicholas Ray's debut feature film, the classic film noir They Live By Night (1949), is widely considered to have the first action scene shot from a helicopter. It was the opening scene - a tracking shot of three hardened convicts escaping from prison in a stolen car. 1949 After a ten-year absence from the screen, the legendary pair of dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers was reunited for their tenth and final film in MGM's inferior reunion film - The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), their only Technicolored film, with the memorable number "You'd Be Hard to Replace", a reprise of "They Can't Take That Away From Me," and Astaire's dance solo "Shoes With Wings On." (Earlier, the duo had made nine films together for RKO stretching from 1933 to 1939.) 1949 Scandalizing herself, Ingrid Bergman became pregnant by her lover - Italian Neo-Realist film-maker Roberto Rossellini - while they were both married at the time. She had met director Rossellini on the s |
Vermelho is Portuguese for which colour? | vermelho - Wiktionary vermelho Etymology[ edit ] From Old Portuguese vermello (“red”), from Vulgar Latin *vermiclus , from Latin vermiculus (“little worm”), from vermis (“worm”), ultimately in reference to Kermes vermilio , a type of scale insect used to make a crimson dye. |
Which ‘crisis’ is also referred to as the ‘Tripartite Aggression’? | The Other Side of Suez - YouTube The Other Side of Suez Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Feb 9, 2014 The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez Canal Crisis, Suez War, or Second Arab-Israeli War[13][14] (Arabic: أزمة السويس / العدوان الثلاثي Azmat al-Suways / al-ʻUdwān al-Thulāthī , "Suez Crisis"/ "the Tripartite Aggression"; French: Crise du canal de Suez; Hebrew: מבצע קדש Mivtza' Kadesh "Operation Kadesh," or מלחמת סיני Milẖemet Sinai, "Sinai War"), was a diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations playing major roles in forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw.[15] The attack followed the President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser's decision of 26 July 1956 to nationalize the Suez Canal, after the withdrawal of an offer by Britain and the United States to fund the building of the Aswan Dam, which was in response to Egypt's new ties with the Soviet Union and recognizing the People's Republic of China during the height of tensions between China and Taiwan.[16] The aims of the attack were primarily to regain Western control of the canal and to remove Nasser from power,[17] and the crisis highlighted the danger that Arab nationalism posed to Western access to Middle East oil.[18] Less than a day after Israel invaded Egypt, Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to Egypt and Israel, and then began to bomb Cairo. Despite the denials of the Israeli, British, and French governments, allegations began to emerge that the invasion of Egypt had been planned beforehand by the three powers.[19] Anglo-French forces withdrew before the end of the year, but Israeli forces remained until March 1957, prolonging the crisis. In April, the canal was fully reopened to shipping, but other repercussions followed. The three allies, especially Israel, were mainly successful in attaining their immediate military objectives, but pressure from the United States and the USSR at the United Nations and elsewhere forced them to withdraw. As a result of the outside pressure Britain and France failed in their political and strategic aims of controlling the canal and removing Nasser from power. Israel fulfilled some of its objectives, such as attaining freedom of navigation through the Straits of Tiran. As a result of the conflict, the UNEF would police the Egyptian--Israeli border to prevent both sides from recommencing hostilities. Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (Arabic: جمال عبد الناصر حسين, IPA: [ɡæˈmæːl ʕæbdenˈnɑːsˤeɾ ħeˈseːn]; 15 January 1918 -- 28 September 1970) was the second President of Egypt, serving from 1956 until his death. He planned the 1952 overthrow of the monarchy, and was deputy prime minister in the new government. In 1953, Nasser introduced far-reaching land reforms. Following a 1954 Muslim Brotherhood-led attempt on his life, he ordered a crackdown on the organization, put President Muhammad Naguib under house arrest, and assumed executive office. A June 1956 public referendum approved both the new constitution and Nasser's nomination for presidency. Nasser's neutralist policies during the Cold War led to tense relations with Western powers, which withdrew funding for the planned Aswan Dam. Nasser's retaliatory move to nationalize the Suez Canal Company in 1956 was acclaimed within Egypt and the Arab world. Consequently, Britain, France, and Israel occupied the Sinai Peninsula, but withdrew amid international pressure, boosting Nasser's political standing significantly. From then on, Nasser's popularity in the region grew substantially and calls for pan-Arab unity under his leadership increased, culminating with the formation of the United Arab Republic with Syria (1958--1961). In 1962, Nasser began a series of major socialis |
In the human body, where is the atrium? | Right Atrium - Human Heart Home > Cardiovascular System > Heart and Cardiovascular System of the Upper Torso > Heart > Right Atrium Right Atrium The right atrium is one of the four hollow chambers of the interior of the heart. It is located in the upper right corner of the heart superior to the right ventricle. Deoxygenated blood entering the heart through veins from the tissues of the body first enters the heart through the right atrium before being pumped into the right ventricle. The right atrium is one of the two atria of the heart, which function as receiving chambers for blood entering the heart. It is located to the right of the left atrium and superior to the much larger and more muscular right ventricle. Between the right atrium and right ventricle is a one-way valve known as the tricuspid valve.... Move up/down/left/right: Click compass arrows Rotate image: Click and drag in any direction, anywhere in the frame Identify objects: Click on them in the image 2D Interactive 3D Rotate & Zoom Change Anatomical System Change View Angle Full Right Atrium Description [Continued from above] . . . The muscular walls of the right atrium are much thinner than those of the ventricles and feature a wrinkled flap shaped like a floppy dog ear, known as the auricle. The auricle is hollow and extends outward from the anterior surface to increase the internal volume of the right atrium. Deoxygenated blood enters the right atrium through three major veins: the superior and inferior vena cava and the coronary sinus. The superior vena cava returns all of the blood to the heart from tissues superior to the heart in the head, neck, arms and upper thorax. Likewise, the inferior vena cava returns blood to the heart from tissues inferior to the heart, including the legs, abdomen and lower thorax. Blood from the exterior of the heart itself is collected in the coronary sinus to be returned to the interior of the heart. On the medial edge of the right atrium is a muscular wall known as the interatrial septum. The interatrial septum separates the left and right atria and prevents blood from passing between them. As an infant, a small hole in the interatrial septum known as the foramen ovale allows blood flow from the right atrium to the left atrium to reduce the flow of blood to the inactive lungs. At birth, a small flap of tissue moves to cover the foramen ovale and prevent the flow of blood between the atria. As an adult, a small indentation in the interatrial septum known as the fossa ovalis remains where foramen ovale once existed. In some cases the foramen ovale fails to close in a condition known as patent foramen ovale. The right atrium also contains the sinoatrial (SA) node, the pacemaker of the heart. This vital piece of tissue acts as the pacemaker of the heart by controlling its rhythm and exciting the other cardiac muscle cells to contract. Autonomic nerves connect the brain to the SA node to increase or decrease the heart rate to maintain blood pressure, oxygen and carbon dioxide homeostasis. The right atrium not only receives blood passively from the veins, but also actively pumps blood into the right ventricle. During the relaxation phase of the cardiac cycle, cardiac muscle in all of the chambers of the heart relaxes, allowing the chambers to increase their volume. Blood returning from the veins flows into the right atrium and through the tricuspid valve to the right ventricle. About 70% of the ventricular filling occurs during this phase. The right atrium next goes into systole, or contraction, to pump blood actively into the right ventricle and completely fill it. The right ventricle next goes into systole to pump blood to the lungs. The closing of the tricuspid valve blocks blood attempting to flow back to the right atrium from the right ventricle, so that blood is efficiently pumped in one direction only. Prepared by Tim Taylor, Anatomy and Physiology Instructor |
Which member of the Beatles was also known as Nelson Wilbury? | George Harrison Home • George Harrison George Harrison George Harrison, MBE 25 February 1943 to 29 November 2001, was an award winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, author and sitarist best known as the lead guitarist of The Beatles. Following the bands breakup, Harrison had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys super group where he was known as both Nelson Wilbury and Spike Wilbury. He was also a film producer, with his production company Handmade Films, involving people as diverse as Madonna and the members of Monty Python. After Harrison embraced Hinduism in the 1960s, his spiritual convictions were often evident in his music and public activities. Although John Lennon and Paul McCartney were the Beatles main songwriters, Harrison generally wrote or sang lead on a few songs per album. His later compositions earned him growing admiration as a talent in his own right. Despite his artistic growth he remained overshadowed by the Lennon McCartney duo. After the band's breakup it was Harrison who achieved the first number 1 single My Sweet Lord by any ex Beatle. Besides his talents as a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and sitarist, he was also a record producer. While still a Beatle, Harrison became attracted to Indian music and Hinduism. Both would subsequently play a prominent role in Harrisons life and music. His use of the sitar introduced the instrument to millions of Western listeners. He adopted Hinduism as there is no conversion in Hinduism and his last rites were performed according to Hindu tradition. After The Beatles breakup, Harrison had a successful solo career, scoring hits with My Sweet Lord, What Is Life, Give Me Love, All Those Years Ago, and Got My Mind Set on You. Harrisons landmark triple album, All Things Must Pass, currently holds the distinction of being the best selling album by a solo Beatle. He, along with Pandit Ravi Shankar, also organised the first large scale benefit concert, The Concert for Bangladesh, which took place on 1 August 1971. Harrison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 2004. Harrison was also a film producer and founded Handmade Films in 1979. The company's films include Monty Pythons The Life of Brian in which he had a cameo, Time Bandits, Withnail and I, and Mona Lisa. Harrison also has a cameo role in the Rutles TV mockumentary All You Need Is Cash. Harrison died of cancer on 29 November 2001, at the age of 58. When youve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there. Navigation |
Which animal is depicted on the logo of Peugeot cars? | 7 Animals That Have Helped Sell Cars 1 of 8 « Back Next » Michael McMurrough, Alamy Pontiac Firebird Flying cars are still a thing of the future (we hope!), but for now, we'll settle for a Pontiac Firebird . By the late 1970s, this car was all the rage, and although production on the model stopped in 2002, they're still easy to spot, not only for their iconic design but also, on some, by the giant bird emblem painted on the hood. Gives new meaning to flying down the highway! © 2013 Chrysler Group LLC Dodge Ram The Dodge Ram logo has had multiple makeovers since its inception in the late 1920s by sculptor Avard T. Fairbanks. Unlike the striking sheep logo we know today, previous iterations featured the animal as a prominent hood ornament. © Automobili Lamborghini Holding S.p.A. Lamborghini Another horned animal, a strong bull, plays a front and center role for this luxury car company . Founder Ferrucio Lamborghini was born under the sign of Taurus (Latin for "bull"), which explains why he found this animal to be a fitting symbol for the speed and muscle of the Lamborghini vehicles. © 2013 Chrysler Group LLC Dodge Viper Known as the SRT Viper as of 2013, the Dodge Viper was first assembled in the early 1990s. These modern muscle cars are as sleek as their animal counterpart and fulfill a need for speed. © Ford Motor Company Ford Mustang The Ford Mustang has become a huge part of Americana, with more than a million manufactured since the 1960s. Featured in more than 500 films, the car, along with its equine emblem, is a part of history for its speed and design. Peugeot Peugeot The king of the jungle has a seat in the automotive world with Peugeot vehicles. Original Peugeot vehicles date back to France in the late 1800s. However, the company founder, Emile Peugeot, applied for the lion trademark decades before he made his first car, showing this brand's dedication to its ruling animal. Jaguar Jaguar Jaguar has long been known for sleek, sexy and sophisticated luxury vehicles. The company has seen success in the development of speed vehicles as well, which makes Jaguar's big cat mascot, which has stood proudly as a hood ornament on many of the company's creations, an apt portrayal of the brand. |
‘Fragaria’ is the Latin name for which fruit? | Fragaria. | Henriette's Herbal Homepage Henriette's Herbal Homepage Welcome to the bark side. Search form Fragaria virginiana Duchesne. Scarlet Strawberry. Virginia Strawberry. Fragaria. Rosaceae. Strawberry. The Latin word for the strawberry, Fraga, has given name to the botanical genus Fragaria, which includes our edible species. Ruellius, 1536, says the French word fresas was applied to the fruit on account of the excellent sweetness of its odor, odore suavissimum, and taste; in 1554, this was spelled frayses by Amatus Lusitanicus, but the modern word fraise appeared in the form fraises, in Fuchsius, 1542, and Estienne, 1545. The Italian fraghe and fragole, as used by Matthiolus, 1571, and fragola as used by Zvingerus, 1696, and the modern Italians, appear to have come directly from the Latin; while the Spanish fresa and fresera must have had the same immediate origin as the French. Some of the ancient commentators and botanists seem to have derived the Latin name from fragrans, sweet-smelling, for Turner in his Libellus, 1538, says "fragum non fragrum (ut quidam scioli scribunt)," and Amatus Lusitanicus, 1554, writes fragra. The latter quotes Servius, a grammarian of the fifteenth century, as calling the fruit terrestria mora,— earth mulberry,—(or, following Dorstenius who wrote in 1540, "fructus terrae et mora terrestria)," whence the Spanish and Portuguese murangaos, (the modern Portuguese moranguoiro). The manner of the fruit-bearing, near the ground, seems to have been the character of the plant more generally observed, however, than that of the fruit, for we have Virgil's verse, "humi nascentia fraga," child of the soil, and Pliny's epithet, "terrestribus fragis," ground strawberry, as distinguishing from the Arbutus unedo Linn. or strawberry tree, as also the modern vernacular appellations, such as the Belgian eertbesien, Danish jordbeer, German erdbeere, Netherland aerdbesie, while even the English strawberry, the Anglo-Saxon streowberie, spelled in modern fashion by Turner in 1538, is said to have been derived from the spreading nature of the runners of the plant, and to have come originally from the observed strewed, anciently strawed, condition of the stems, and reading as if written strawedberry plant. It was called straeberry by Lidgate in the fifteenth century. The classical history of the strawberry can be written very shortly. Virgil refers to the "humi nascentia fraga" in his third Eclogue; Ovid to the "arbuteos fructus mon-tanaque fraga" in his Metamorphoses, book I, v. 104, as furnishing a food of the golden age and again in the 13th book, "mollia fraga;" and Pliny mentions the plant by name in his lib. xxi, c. 50, and separates the ground strawberry from the arbutus tree in his lib. xv, c. 28. The fruit is not mentioned in the cook-book ascribed to Apicius Coelius, an author supposed to have lived about A. D. 230. The Greeks seem to have had no knowledge of the plant or fruit; at least there is no word in their writings which commentators have agreed in interpreting as applying to the strawberry. Nicolaus Myripsicus, an author of the tenth century, uses the word phragouli, and Forskal, in the eighteenth century, found the word phraouli in use for the strawberry by the Greeks about Belgrade. Fraas gives the latter word for the modern Greek, and Sibthorp the word kovkoumaria, which resembles the ancient Greek komaros or komaron, applied to the arbutus tree, whose fruit has a superficial resemblance to the strawberry. Neither the strawberry nor its cultivation is mentioned by Ibnal-awam, an author of the tenth century, unusually full and complete in his treatment of garden, orchard, and field products, nor by Albertus Magnus, who died A. D. 1280. It is not mentioned in The Forme of Cury, a roll of ancient English cookery compiled about A. D. 1390 by two master cooks of King Richard II; nor in Ancient Cookery, a recipe book of 1381; nor at the Inthronization Feast of George Neville, Archbishop of York, in 1504. The fruit was, however, known in London in the time of Henry VI, for in a poem by John Lidga |
A brontometer records the activity of what? | An evaluation of lightning and corona discharge on thunderstorm air and precipitation chemistry | SpringerLink , Volume 10, Issue 1 , pp 83–96 An evaluation of lightning and corona discharge on thunderstorm air and precipitation chemistry Authors 98 Downloads Abstract This study synthesizes literature to provide a best estimate for the integrated effect of cloud-to-ground lightning, intracloud lightning, and corona discharge on air and precipitation chemistry for an idealized thunderstorm. The cloud volume concentration of NO (the predominant chemical species produced by lightning), assuming all flashes occurred simultaneously in an undiluted, idealized storm volume of 1.5×103 km3, is approximately 0.8 ppbv at STP. Uncertainties are discussed, and assumptions used in this estimate are evaluated and compared to the literature for consistency. Also, NO production values (an average of field, theoretical, and laboratory observations) are used to scale theoretical estimates of other chemical species produced by lightning that can be scavenged by precipitation. The maximum concentrations of these pollutants in rain water are estimated by assuming complete removal of these select, acid rain related species and found to be insignificant. Key words Atmospheric lightning chemistrycorona discharge chemistryacid rainthunderstorm chemical budgetsglobal N budgetsnatural sources of air pollutants References AttmannspacherW., and HartmannsgruberR., 1973, On extremely high values of ozone near the ground,Pure Appl. Geophys. 106–108, 1091–1096. CrossRef Google Scholar Baum, C. E., Breen, E. L., O'Neil, J. P., Moore, C. B., and Hall, D. L., 1980, Measurement of electromagnetic properties of lightning with 10 nanosecond resolution in lightning technology, NASA Conf. Publ. 2128 FAA-RD-80-30, 39–82. BergerK., AndersonR. B., and KroningerH., 1975, Parameters of lightning flashes,Electra 80, 23–27. Google Scholar BergerK., 1977, The earth flash, in R. H.Golde (ed.),Lightning, Volume I,Physics of Lightning, Academic Press, New York, pp. 119–190. Google Scholar BhetanabhotlaM. N., CrowellB. A., CoucouvinosA., HillR. D., and RinkerR. G., 1985, Simulation of trace species production by lightning and corona discharge in moist air,Atmos. Environ. 19, 1391–1397. CrossRef Google Scholar BoruckiW. J. and ChameidesW. J., 1984, Lightning: Estimates of the rates of energy dissipation and nitrogen fixation,Rev. Geophys. Space Phys. 22, 363–372. Google Scholar BrookM., and OgawaT., 1977, The cloud discharge, inLightning, R. H.Golde (ed.), Volume I,Physics of Lightning, Academic Press, New York, pp. 191–230. Google Scholar BrooksC. E. P., 1925, The distribution of the thunderstorms over the globe,Geophys. Mem. 24, 147. Google Scholar CalvertJ. G., LazrusA., KokG. L., HeikesB. G., WalegaJ. G., LindJ., and CantrellC. A., 1985, Chemical mechanisms of acid generation in the troposphere,Nature 317, 27–35. CrossRef Google Scholar ChameidesW. L., StedmanD. H., DickersonR. R., RushD. W., and CiceroneR. J., 1977, NOx production in lightning,J. Atmos. Sci. 34, 143–149. CrossRef Google Scholar ChameidesW. L., 1979, The implications of CO production in electrical discharges,Geophys. Res. Lett. 6, 287–290. Google Scholar ChameidesW. L., DavisD. D., BradshawJ., RodgersM., SandholmS., and BaiD. B., 1987, An estimate of the NOx production rate in electrified clouds based on NO observations from the GTE/CITE 1 Fall 1983 field operations,J. Geophys. Res. 92, 2153–2156. Google Scholar ClarkeJ. F. and GriffingG. W., 1985, Aircraft observations of extreme ozone concentrations near thunderstorms,Atmos. Environ. 19, 1175–1179. CrossRef Google Scholar CrabbJ. A. and LathamJ., 1974, Corona from colliding drops as a possible mechanism for the triggering of lightning,Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. 100, 191–202. CrossRef Google Scholar DaumP. H., KellyT. J., SchwartzS. E., and NewmanL., 1984, Measurements of the chemical composition of stratiform clouds,Atmos. Environ. 12, 2671–2684. Google Scholar DawsonG. A., 1969, Pressure dependence of water drop corona onset and its atmospher |
Bert and Ernie are the names of the policeman and the taxi driver in which Frank Capra film? | Are Bert and Ernie named after characters from It's a Wonderful Life? | Muppet Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Are Bert and Ernie named after characters from It's a Wonderful Life? 31,243pages on Share Bert and Ernie catch a scene from It's a Wonderful Life in the Elmo Saves Christmas special. It has been stated in numerous articles, websites and television shows that Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street were named after two characters from the film It's a Wonderful Life , Bert the policeman and Ernie the cab driver. The statement often surfaces around Christmas , or in filler "trivia" columns in newspapers. There has never been any official confirmation of this statement. On the contrary, most sources from the Henson company have claimed it to be merely a coincidence. The old Ask Henson.com website features this response : “ While Bert and Ernie's names have often been linked to those of the cop and cab driver in It's A Wonderful Life, Jim Henson and others have always said that that is just a coincidence. Apparently, Bert's and Ernie's names were picked just because the creators/writers liked them, they fit the characters, and they sounded good together. ” A more in-depth response was given by Jerry Juhl , writing to The San Francisco Chronicle to correct the "Annual Xmas Quiz" from December 27, 1999: “ I was the head writer for the Muppets for 36 years and one of the original writers on Sesame Street. The rumor about It's a Wonderful Life has persisted over the years. I was not present at the naming, but I was always positive it was incorrect. Despite his many talents, Jim had no memory for details like this. He knew the movie, of course, but would not have remembered the cop and the cabdriver. I was not able to confirm this with Jim before he died, but shortly thereafter I spoke to Jon Stone , Sesame Street's first producer and head writer and a man largely responsible for the show's format. (Jon, sadly, is no longer with us either.) He assured me that Ernie and Bert were named one day when he and Jim were studying the prototype puppets. They decided that one of them looked like an Ernie, and the other one looked like a Bert. The movie character names are purely coincidental. [1] ” The show referenced the persistent rumor in the 1996 special Elmo Saves Christmas . In one scene, Ernie and Bert walk by a TV set, which is playing the movie. The pair are surprised by the following dialogue: "Bert! Ernie! What's the matter with you two guys? You were here on my wedding night!" The rumor has been reinforced by various sources, including Sesame Workshop , through their 35 anniversary trivia quiz on Sesamestreet.org , [2] on VEE Corporation 's Sesame Street Live Facebook fan page, [3] and even by Sesame Workshop CEO Gary Knell . [4] |
In British currency slang, how much is a ‘Pony’ worth? | Money Slang : Cockney Rhyming Slang Follow @CockneyRabbit Money Slang There is scads of Cockney slang for money. Much of it derives from the designs on the notes - five pounds, ten pounds, twenty pounds. The first things you gotta learn are that five pounds is a fiver, and ten pounds is a tenner. Then you gotta know the key money values: £20 is a Score, £25 is a Pony, £100 is a Ton, £500 is a Monkey, and £1000 is a Grand. Here's our list of terms from the dictionary that are money-related. If you've got any more, sling 'em over! |
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In which Shakespeare play does the character Mustardseed appear? | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Shakespeare: Plays & Sonnets | Educator.com Shakespeare: Plays & Sonnets Test names are the registered trademarks of their respective owners. Said owners are not affiliated with Educator.com. Enter your Sign on user name and password. Username Shakespeare: Plays & Sonnets A Midsummer Night's Dream II. Plays: Lecture 6 | 30:12 min Lecture Description In this lesson, our instructor Rebekah Hendershot teaches A Midsummer Nights Dream. Youll go over the complete background of the play, the setting, and the characters. Rebekah explains each character in detail, including Theseus, Hippolyta, Hermia, Lysander, Helena, Demetrius, Titania, Oberon, Puck and everyone in between. Youll learn each element of the plot from the lovers escape to the final group wedding. Themes, major passages, and essay topic jumping-off points are also discussed. With Rebekah youll discuss topics such as the development of dreams, love, rules, sex, and honesty. The lesson concludes with a few secrets to make understanding Shakespeare a lot easier. Start learning today , and be successful in your academic & professional career. Start Today! Loading video... This is a quick preview of the lesson. For full access, please Log In or Sign up . For more information, please see full course syllabus of Shakespeare: Plays & Sonnets Next Lecture Share this knowledge with your friends! Our free lessons will get you started ( Adobe Flash® required). Get immediate access to our entire library. Unlimited access to our entire library of courses. Search and jump to exactly what you want to learn. *Ask questions and get answers from the community and our teachers! Practice questions with step-by-step solutions. Download lesson files for programming and software training practice. Track your course viewing progress. Download lecture slides for taking notes. Learn at your own pace... anytime, anywhere! A Midsummer Night's Dream First Things First This lesson will teach you how to read and understand a play by William Shakespeare, one of the greatest playwrights in the history of the English language (and the man who invented quite a lot of it). These videos are not a substitute for reading Shakespeare, listening to Shakespeare, or watching Shakespeare performed. Seriously. Don’t be that guy. Background Written 1590 – 1596 (maybe 1594?) Possibly written for an aristocratic wedding or a holiday First published in 1600 Athens—Theseus and Hippolyta are about to be married The woods around Athens Fairyland—in the woods? Not in the woods? Who knows? Athens in Shakespeare does not mean actual Athens. Characters Hermia—a pretty girl, Lysander’s girlfriend Lysander—Hermia’s boyfriend Helena—Hermia’s less-pretty friend; loves Demetrius Demetrius—another young man; loves Hermia. Egeus—Hermia’s father Quince, Flute, Starveling, Snout, Snug—more actors Oberon—King of the Fairies Titania—Queen of the Fairies Puck—Oberon’s sidekick (a fairy trickster) Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed—fairy servants of Titania Plot A wedding or an execution The lovers run away Helena and Demetrius run after them Everybody gets lost in the woods Titania and Oberon are fighting Flower juice Oberon feels sorry for Helena Stupid actors in the forest Puck “helps” Lysander falls in love with Helena Everyone runs around in circles Demetrius falls in love with Helena Duels, tears, and more running in circles The actors rehearse Puck, Bottom, and the donkey head Titania in love “And it was all a dream!” Themes Love—including its dark side Shape-shifting and loss of identity Dreams “The course of true love never did run smooth.” -Act I, Scene 1, 132-134 “Therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” -Act I, Scene 1, 227-235 “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” -Act III, Scene 2, 115 “I have had a most rare dream …” -Act IV, Scene 1, 199-209 “If we shadows have offended …” -Act V, Epilogue, 1-8 Jumping-Off Points How does Shakespeare develop the idea of dreams in this play? Who dreams, and when? Which dreams are true, and how true are they? How does love affect the various char |
John George Diefenbaker was Prime Minister of which country from 1957 to 1963? | Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker, 1957-1963 / Premier ministre John George Diefenbaker, 1957-1963 | Flickr Back to albums list Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker, 1957-1963 / Premier ministre John George Diefenbaker, 1957-1963 John George Diefenbaker was born in Neustadt, Ontario in 1895. He won a House of Commons seat in 1940 and the Conservative Party leadership in 1956. He became Prime Minister of Canada after the 1957 election. As Prime Minister, Diefenbaker introduced legislation that improved social and agricultural programs. He also stood up for and promoted the principle of human rights, both inside and outside the country. The Conservative Party lost the 1963 election, but Diefenbaker continued to represent his riding until his death in 1979. See also: |
Part of the boundary between which two US states runs down the middle of of the main street of the town of Texarkana? | RED RIVER | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) Site RED RIVER RED RIVER. The Red River is in the Mississippi drainage basin and is one of two Red Rivers in the nation. It is the second longest river associated with Texas. Its name comes from its color, which in turn comes from the fact that the river carries large quantities of red soil in flood periods. The river has a high salt content. The Spanish called the stream Río Rojo, among other names. It was also known in frontier times as the Red River of Natchitoches and the Red River of the Cadodacho (the Caddo Indians). Randolph B. Marcy and George B. McClellan identified the Prairie Dog Town Forkqv as the river's main stream in 1852. If one accepts their judgment the total length of the Red River is 1,360 miles, of which 640 miles is in Texas or along the Texas boundary. The drainage area of the river in Texas is 30,700 square miles. In 1944 Denison Dam was completed on the Red River to form Lake Texoma , which extends into Grayson and Cooke counties, Texas, and Marshall, Johnson, Bryan, and Love counties, Oklahoma, and was once the tenth-largest reservoir in the United States. Principal tributaries of the Red River, exclusive of its various forks, include the Pease and Wichita rivers in north central Texas, the Sulphur River in Northeast Texas, and, from Oklahoma, the Washita. The Ouachita is the main tributary in its lower course. The Red River of Texas heads in four main branches: the Prairie Dog Town Fork, Elm Creekqv or the Elm Fork, the North Forkqv, and the Salt Fork . Water from the river's source in Curry County, New Mexico, forms a channel, Palo Duro Creek , in Deaf Smith County, Texas, which joins Tierra Blanca Creek northwest of Canyon to form the Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River. This main channel flows east through Palo Duro Canyon , then across the rest of the Panhandle . The Prairie Dog Town Fork forms Palo Duro Club Lake and Lake Tanglewood in Randall County before it crosses southwestern Armstrong and northeastern Briscoe counties. Out of the canyon and into broken country, it flows eastward across central Hall and Childress counties for 160 miles. When the Prairie Dog Town Fork crosses the 100th meridian at the eastern line of Childress County, its south bank becomes the state boundary between Texas and Oklahoma and thus the northern county line of Hardeman and Wilbarger counties. Twelve miles northeast of Vernon the North Fork joins the Prairie Dog Town Fork to form the Red River proper (at 34°24' N, 99°32' W). Elm Creek, or the Elm Fork of the Red River, rises in northern Collingsworth County and drains into the North Fork of the Red River near the Greer-Kiowa county line in Oklahoma south of Altus Reservoir. The Salt Fork rises in north central Armstrong County, crosses part of Oklahoma, and joins the Prairie Dog Town Fork at the extreme northern point of Wilbarger County, Texas, sixteen miles northwest of Vernon. At this junction an ancient buffalo trail and the Western Trail once crossed the stream. Below the junction of the North Fork and the Prairie Dog Town Fork, the Red River proper continues to mark with its south bank the state line between Texas and Oklahoma and thus forms the northern county line of Wilbarger, Wichita, Clay, Montague, Cooke, Grayson, Fannin, Lamar, Red River, and Bowie counties. The river becomes the state line between Texas and Arkansas at the northeastern corner of Texas. Afterward, it leaves Texas and enters Arkansas, then continues eastward, forming the northern boundary of Miller County, before turning south-southeast to form the eastern boundary of the county. It then flows southeast across Louisiana. It forms the line between Caddo and Bossier parishes and then proceeds southeast across Red River and Natchitoches parishes, forms portions of the lines between Natchitoches and Grant and Grant and Rapides parishes, crosses northeastern Rapides and northwestern Avoyelles parishes, forms parts of the lines between Avoyelles and Catahoula |
Ben Gurion International Airport is in which country? | Ben Gurion: the world's most secure airport? - CNN.com Ben Gurion: the world's most secure airport? By Oren Liebermann , CNN Updated 8:30 AM ET, Sat May 28, 2016 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. JUST WATCHED Tel Aviv's airport safety to be studied 02:02 Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) As security concerns mount at international airports, more security officials are turning to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport to understand what it does differently. The airport, considered one of the safest in the world, has layers of security, only partially visible to the 16 million passengers who pass through every year. No flight leaving the airport has ever been hijacked, and there has not been a terrorist attack at the airport since 1972, when three members of the Japanese Red Army killed 26 people and wounded dozens more in a shooting rampage. The security begins in the Airport Security Operations Center, located near the airport. The small room, staffed 24/7, monitors every flight in Israeli airspace, including transit flights and nearby aircraft. Each flight, each passenger, and each member of the flight crew are checked long before arriving in Israeli airspace. There is never a moment without pressure. An off-course aircraft or a flight without proper security clearance is flagged immediately. Read More MORE: Airport security: Can attacks be prevented? Dvir Rubinshtein, manager of the operations center for Israel's Ministry of Transportation, estimates that 10 flights a day are flagged and checked. Since Ben Gurion is Israel's only major international airport, shutting down the airport would effectively cut off Israel from the air. "There is, every day, a situation where we have such concerns [about a flight]," said Rubinshtein, "and we check that and verify that everything is security cleared." JFK delays: Computer outage causes headaches Next month, Ben Gurion airport will host visitors from 40 different countries to discuss airport security, officials say. Interest in Israeli airport security has grown after the attacks in Brussels, the crash of MetroJet Flight 9268, and now EgyptAir Flight 804. Ben Gurion is a relatively small airport -- the airport handles about 20% of the passengers of London's Heathrow International Airport and 15% of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, which just signed a cooperation agreement with Ben Gurion. Some of the security measures employed at the airport are not scalable to larger hubs, but "some fundamental principles and some best practices can be deployed in other parts of the world," said aviation security expert Shalom Dolev. "It's not a copy and paste because it's not a situation where one size fits all." Critics have accused both Israel and the United States of racial profiling as part of their aviation security procedures. Dolev says it is risk-based security. Palestinians and Arabs passing through Ben Gurion say they are more likely to be stopped, searched, and questioned. Last year, Israel's High Court of Justice refused to ban racial profiling in a case brought by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. The court did leave the door open for the group to file a case in the future. Security expert Dolev says the Israeli tactics are risk-based security and don't amount to "profiling." In the United States, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has touted its evolution from a "one-size-fits-all security screening approach to a risk-based, intelligence-driven strategy." But that strategy, which includes a Behavior Detection and Analysis program that the agency says is scientifically substantiated, has long been criticized by passengers, security analysts and civil liberties advocates as flawed and discriminatory. MORE: World's busiest airports announced The American Civil Liberties Union sued for records related to the program in 2015 to gauge the program's effectiveness. "Most of the countries are actually coming here often to see how Israel is dealing with security aviation and the threats from terro |
Which basketball star is kidnapped by cartoon characters in the 1996 film ‘Space Jam’? | Space Jam - Movie (1996) | TWC Central Search Share Swackhammer (Danny DeVito), an evil alien theme park owner, needs a new attraction at Moron Mountain. When his gang, the Nerdlucks, heads to Earth to kidnap Bugs Bunny (Billy West) and the Looney Tunes, Bugs challenges them to a basketball game to determine their fate. The aliens agree, but they steal the powers of NBA basketball players, including Larry Bird (Larry Bird) and Charles Barkley (Charles Barkley) -- so Bugs gets some help from superstar Michael Jordan (Michael Jordan). Space Jam 1996, Kids Swackhammer (Danny DeVito), an evil alien theme park owner, needs a new attraction at Moron Mountain. When his gang, the Nerdlucks, heads to Earth to kidnap Bugs Bunny (Billy West) and the Looney Tunes, Bugs challenges them to a basketball game to determine their fate. The aliens agree, but they steal the powers of NBA basketball players, including Larry Bird (Larry Bird) and Charles Barkley (Charles Barkley) -- so Bugs gets some help from superstar Michael Jordan (Michael Jordan). Space Jam Live-action/animation mix is good fun for kids. Consumerism Violence & scariness • • • • • Parents need to know that Space Jam has some cartoon violence. The film is likely to impress younger viewers, even those without any sentimental attachment to the original Looney Tunes cartoons. The characters assemble a basketball team, including Michael Jordan as a member, to defeat a group of aliens who want to enslave them. By standing up against their potential slave masters, the Tunes' efforts are admirable, so the overall message is fairly positive. Jokes about merchandising and Jordan's ill-fated baseball career are thrown in for the older folks, but ultimately, this film will likely fail to hold the attention of many people over the age of 12. Close |
A caracal is what type of animal? | Caracal (Caracal Caracal) - Animals - A-Z Animals Five groups that classify all living things Animalia A group of animals within the animal kingdom Chordata A group of animals within a pylum Mammalia A group of animals within a class Carnivora A group of animals within an order Felidae A group of animals within a family Caracal Comprised of the genus followed by the species Caracal Caracal The animal group that the species belongs to Mammal What kind of foods the animal eats Carnivore How long (L) or tall (H) the animal is 65cm - 90cm (2ft - 3ft) The measurement of how heavy the animal is 11kg - 18kg (24lbs - 40lbs) The fastest recorded speed of the animal 80km/h (50mph) How long the animal lives for 12 - 15 years Whether the animal is solitary or sociable Solitary The likelihood of the animal becoming extinct Least Concern The colour of the animal's coat or markings Tan, Brown, Black The protective layer of the animal Fur The specific area where the animal lives Dry woodland and savannah The average number of babies born at once 3 Other animals that hunt and eat the animal Human, Hyena, Lions Characteristics unique to the animal Long, black ear tufts and short fur Caracal Location Map of Africa Caracal The caracal is also commonly known as the Persian Lynx or African Lynx despite the fact that the caracal is not a lynx at all. The caracal is thought to be most closely related to the African golden cat and the serval. The caracals name is believed to come from the Turkish word Karakulak, which means black ears. The caracal typically has 20 different muscles in the caracals ears which enables the caracal to detect prey. The caracal is a medium sized cat however, with the caracal , its size appears to make little difference on what the caracal hunts. Scientists have found dead ostriches with caracal tooth-marks in them, meaning that the caracal is fast enough to outrun and catch an ostrich , and strong enough to overpower it and kill it. The caracal has also been known to leap up into the air to successfully catch and kill flying birds . The caracals are excellent acrobats and can land safely. The caracal is normally dark red, grey, or golden sand in colour and as the caracals name suggests, the caracals ears are black, with tufts. Young caracals bear reddish spots on the underbelly that disappear when they grow up. The caracal mainly hunts rodents, birds (including ostriches), antelopes , gazelles, and rabbits . The caracal tends to avoid eating very stiff fur by neatly shearing it off with their claws, but they are tolerant of feathers. The caracal can live up to around 12 years in the wild, with some adult caracals living to 17 years old in captivity. The caracal is found in Africa and Southwest Asia , where the caracal prefers grasslands (savannas and tropical grasslands), and deserts . Share This Article |
The ‘Fringe Festival’, held in August each year, is hosted by which European city? | About us | Edinburgh Festival Fringe User login About the Edinburgh Festival Fringe The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world and takes place every August for three weeks in Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital city. Every year thousands of performers take to hundreds of stages all over Edinburgh to present shows for every taste. From big names in the world of entertainment to unknown artists looking to build their careers, the festival caters for everyone and includes theatre, comedy, dance, physical theatre, circus, cabaret, children's shows, musicals, opera, music, spoken word, exhibitions and events. In 2016 there were 50,266 performances of 3,269 shows in 294 venues, making it the largest ever arts festival in the world. The Fringe story dates back to 1947, when eight theatre groups turned up uninvited to perform at the (then newly formed) Edinburgh International Festival, an initiative created to celebrate and enrich European cultural life in the wake of the Second World War. Not being part of the official programme of the International Festival didn’t stop these performers – they just went ahead and staged their shows on the ‘Fringe of the Festival’ anyway – coining the phrase and our name ‘(Edinburgh) Festival Fringe’. Year on year more and more performers followed their example and in 1958 the Festival Fringe Society was created in response to the success of this growing trend. The Society formalised the existence of this collective of performances, provided information to artists, published the Fringe programme and created a central box office. Its constitution was written in line with the ethos that brought these theatre companies to Edinburgh back in 1947: that the Society was to take no part in vetting the festival’s programme. To this day that policy remains at the core of our festival and we’re proud to include in our programme anyone with a story to tell and a venue willing to host them. Today, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, a registered charity, has three core objectives: providing support, advice and encouragement to all the amazing artists, producers and venues who create the Fringe each year, from help with choosing a venue or writing a press release, to advice on touring, free access to rehearsal space, and professional development activities and events assisting the audiences who come to Edinburgh by helping you navigate what’s on offer with comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date information and ticketing promoting this wonderful and unique festival to the rest of the world Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society is committed to the principles of the Scottish Business Pledge , a voluntary commitment to uphold standards of business practise and to embrace principles of fairness, equality, opportunity and innovation. Our commitments include: paying all employees at least the Living Wage; promoting staff development and training; supporting local businesses and investment in research and innovation. The Society also works closely with Festivals Edinburgh and Creative Carbon Scotland to reduce our negative environmental impacts. We're currently one of the growing number of arts organisations working towards a more sustainable Scotland through participation in the Green Arts Initiative , a project designed to support festivals, venues, companies and audiences in reducing their carbon footprint while participating in the arts. You can find everything you need to know about supporting the Society’s work or coming to the Fringe whether you’re an artist or an audience member, here on edfringe.com. Questions? Please don’t hesitate to contact us . About us |
New Zealand born cartoonist David Low created which ‘Colonel’ in the 1930’s? | David Low | Lambiek Comiclopedia David Low (7 April 1891, New Zealand - 19 September 1963, UK) David Low was a New Zealand cartoonist, who is best-known for the political cartoons he made in the UK during the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Dunedin, he had his first work published at age 11 and began his career with The Canterbury Times in 1910. After working in Australia for The Bulletin for a while, he moved to England in 1919. He was employed by The London Star until 1927 and then joined The Evening Standard. It was for this paper that Low created his famous commentaries on the turbulent political situation of the 1930s and 1940s, from the rise of fascism and the Spanish Civil War to the conflict of World War II. From Low's Topical Budget of 12 February 1938 His cartoons often featured sharp depictions of the political leaders of the time, but also the character of 'Colonel Blimp', a caricature of the British establishment. His 'Topical Budget' cartoon series also featured a strips about 'Hit and Muss' (Hitler and Mussolini), that led to a ban of his work in Italy and Germany, and to his inclusion in the so-called "Black Book" of prominent Britons to be arrested upon a Nazi invasion of Britain. Low left The Evening Standard in 1950 and then continued his career working for the Daily Herald and The Manchester Guardian. He was knighted in 1962 and passed away during the following year. |
In medicine, myology is the study of the structure, arrangement and action of what? | Myology - Muscles | Naturatomica Myology Myology is a scientific study of the structure, arrangement, and action of muscles. Overview Myology is a study of the muscles, their structure, development, properties and functions. There is a very close interrelation between myology and such anatomic disciplines as surgery, cardiology, angiology, neuroanatomy, and topographical anatomy. The following sections of myology are distinguished: General Myology Special Myology History Initially, myology was not considered as a separate section of the anatomy. The first research in myology was performed by Hippocrates. Aristotle and Galen were the first who described the kinematic role of muscles. Galen pointed for the first time to existence of the muscles' antagonists causing movement in opposite directions. Medieval scientist Avicenna described for the first time oculomotor muscles. However, the founders of scientific anatomy as a whole and myology in particular were Leonardo da Vinci and Andreas Vesalius, who began with one of the first corpses for research and the description of a structure of a human body. Leonardo da Vinci made a set of detailed anatomic sketches of muscles and their descriptions at various conditions of a body, while Vesalius carried out a systematic statement of descriptive anatomy of muscles in the work "About a Structure of a Human Body". A century later the doctor and anatomist Thomas Villis described for the first time myofibrils and their role in muscular reduction. The surgeon and anatomist Nikolay Pirogov, among other authors with works on topographical anatomy, founded a basis for topography fascia as the auxiliary apparatus of muscular and vascular systems. Peter Lesgaft and his followers developed the direction of a functional myology, studying a role of the environment and physical exercises in organism development, the nature of changes in muscles and bones influenced by physical activities, etc. Physiologist Ivan Setchenov suggested a concept of muscular sensitivity (proprioception). Section Structure Form and function in skeletal muscle Muscles and fasciae of the head Anterolateral muscles and fasciae of the neck Muscles and fasciae of the trunk Muscles and fasciae of the upper limb Muscles and fasciae of the lower limb Posted in Myology - Muscles Ask a Question Or Join a Discussion Herb of the Day Ginger Ginger is an herbaceous tropical perennial and grows from aromatic, tuberous rhizome which is knotty and branched. This... more Health tip of the Day Homemade Healing Mixture for Dry and Cracked Feet Oils are rich in essential fatty acids, particularly linoleic acid. Linoleic and linolenic acids are needed for the grow... Latest Post 1 Berries Smoothie - Youth Elixir Strawberries are an excellent source of vitamins C and K, dietary fiber, and flavonoids......... 2 Homemade Healing Mixture for Dry and Cracked Feet Oils are rich in essential fatty acids, particularly linoleic acid. Linoleic and linolenic acids are needed for the grow... 3 Bone Fractures When bones receive more pressure than they can withstand, a fracture occurs. Some of the more common causes are falls, ... 4 Indigestion Most people will suffer from indigestion (also known as dyspepsia) at some point in their lifetime. This condition is ty... 5 Gastroenteritis Gastroenteritis is typically caused by an irritation or infection of the intestines or stomach. It can cause diarrhea, v... 6 Gastritis Gastritis is most commonly caused by an infection of Heliobacter pylori bacteria, which is also the primary cause of ulc... Naturatomica Newsletter |
Which character did actress Susie Blake play in the British tv soap ‘Coronation Street’? | Susie Blake | Coronation Street Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Share Susie Blake was born 19th April , 1950 in Highgate, London . She is an English actress who played Bev Unwin in Coronation Street . Before the Street she had many regular roles on TV including Pam Redstone in Born and Bred and Jackie in Singles, as well as numerous appearances as part of the comedy troupes of Victoria Wood and Russ Abbot in various TV shows. Her drama credits include The Darling Buds of May, Sunburn and Wild at Heart. Upon leaving Coronation Street, she returned to the theatre, enjoying notable success as Madame Morrible in the smash hit West End production of Wicked. She is currently Belinda in Cuckoo and also plays Hilary in Mrs Brown's Boys. Blake reprised the role of Bev in July 2015 as part of a storyline involving the death of Deirdre Barlow after the real life passing of friend Anne Kirkbride . |
In Greek mythology, one of the labours of Hercules was to procure the ‘what’ belonging to Zeus, which were guarded by the Hesperides? | The Twelve Labors of Hercules Arts and Entertainment > Mythology The Twelve Labors of Hercules Hercules performed twelve labors given to him by King Eurystheus of Tiryns. For twelve years, he traveled all over to complete these incredible tasks. NOTE: Because different ancient poets gave their own accounts of Hercules's labors, some details may vary. One: Kill the Nemean Lion This monster of a lion had a hide was so tough that no arrow could pierce it. Hercules stunned the beast with his olive-wood club and then strangled it with his bare hands. It is said that he skinned the lion, using the lion's sharp claws, and ever after wore its hide. Two: Kill the Lernean Hydra The evil, snakelike Hydra had nine heads. If one got hurt, two would grow in its place. But Hercules quickly sliced off the heads, while his charioteer, Iolaus, sealed the wounds with a torch. Hercules made his arrows poisonous by dipping them in the Hydra's blood. Three: Capture the Cerynian Hind The goddess Artemis loved and protected this stubborn little deer, which had gold horns. Hercules found it a challenge to capture the delicate hind without hurting it (and making Artemis angry). After following the hind for an entire year, he safely carried it away. Four: Capture the Erymanthian Boar The people of Mount Erymanthus lived in fear of this deadly animal. Hercules chased the wild boar up the mountain and into a snowdrift. He then took it in a net and brought it to King Eurystheus, who was so frightened of the beast that he hid in a huge bronze jar. Five: Clean the Augean Stables Thousands of cows lived in these stables belonging to King Augeas . They had not been cleaned in 30 years, but Hercules was told to clean them completely in a single day. To do so he made two rivers bend so that they flowed into the stables, sweeping out the filth. Six: Kill the Stymphalian Birds These murderous birds lived around Lake Stymphalos. Their claws and beaks were sharp as metal and their feathers flew like darts. Hercules scared them out of their nests with a rattle and then killed them with the poison arrows he had made from the Hydra 's blood. Seven: Capture the Cretan Bull This savage bull, kept by King Minos of Crete, was said to be insane and breathe fire. Hercules wrestled the mad beast to the ground and brought it back to King Eurystheus. Unfortunately, the king set it free, and it roamed Greece, causing terror wherever it went. Eight: Capture the Horses of Diomedes King Diomedes , leader of the Bistones, fed his bloodthirsty horses on human flesh. Hercules and his men fought and killed King Diomedes and fed the king to his horses. This made the horses tame, so that Hercules was able to lead them to King Eurystheus. Nine: Take the Girdle of the Amazon Queen Hippolyte Hercules went to the land of the Amazons , where the queen welcomed him and agreed to give him her girdle for Eurystheus's daughter. But Hera spread the rumor that Hercules came as an enemy. In the end he had to conquer the Amazons and steal the golden belt. Ten: Capture the Cattle of Geryon Geryon , a winged monster with three human bodies, had a herd of beautiful red cattle. He guarded his prized herd with the help of a giant and a vicious two-headed dog. Hercules killed Geryon, the giant, and the dog and brought the cattle to King Eurystheus. Eleven: Take the Golden Apples of the Hesperides The Hesperides were nymphs. In their garden grew golden apples protected by Ladon , a dragon with a hundred heads. Hercules struck a bargain with Atlas , who held up the earth. Hercules shouldered the earth while Atlas, the nymphs' father, fetched the apples. Twelve: Capture Cerberus Hercules was ordered to capture Cerberus , the three-headed guard dog of the underworld, without using weapons. Hercules wrestled down the dog's wild heads, and it agreed to go with him to King Eurystheus. Cerberus was soon returned unharmed to the underworld. |
Alice Springs is in which Australian state? | Guide to Alice Springs, Northern Territory - Tourism Australia Guide to Alice Springs Australia.com does not support the internet browser you are using. Please upgrade to a more recent browser so that you can explore the destinations and experiences that await you as you plan your Australian holiday. Welcome to the official Australian tourism website. This site uses cookies. Find out more . Alice Springs Today's Weather in Alice Springs In the heart of Australia lies Alice Springs, an oasis in the true sense of the word. By Stephanie Williams Surrounded by red dirt and hauntingly beautiful mountain ranges you'll find Alice Springs, a city of arts and events. Alice Springs – known to locals as simply "Alice" – is the beating heart of Australia's Red Centre. It's a great base for exploring the natural wonders of the Northern Territory's outback, including Uluru , Kata Tjuta , Kings Canyon , the West MacDonnell Ranges and their iconic Larapinta Trail , the red sands of the Simpson Desert and the haunting sight of the Devils Marbles . It's also a fascinating spot to explore Australia's Aboriginal culture. HOW TO GET THERE Qantas has direct flights to Alice Springs from most major cities in Australia. Virgin Australia offers direct flights from Adelaide and Darwin. Alice Springs sits between the capital cities of Darwin and Adelaide, with a major sealed highway connecting the three destinations. It's about 16 hours from Alice Springs to either city, and the road has regular gas stations, small towns and roadhouses. Another popular way to experience the area is via The Ghan , a comfortable and scenic train journey between Adelaide and Darwin via Alice Springs and Katherine . Discover Aboriginal art in the city's galleries Take a helicopter ride over the West MacDonnell Ranges See sunrise or sunset over the red rocks of Uluru and Kata Tjuta TOP THINGS TO DO IN ALICE SPRINGS Visit Aboriginal art galleries Australian Aboriginal art is the oldest ongoing art tradition in the world. Early Aboriginal stories and culture were expressed in rock carvings, body painting and ground designs, some dating back more than 30,000 years. In 1971 a schoolteacher, Geoffrey Bardon, saw the impermanent art being creating just north-west of Alice Spring at Papunya. He introduced paints and canvas to the community and many locals began adapting their styles to take advantage of these new, Western mediums. The Western Desert art movement was born. Artworks are displayed in galleries across Alice Springs, such as the Papunya Tula gallery, owned and directed by traditional Aboriginal people from the Western Desert. Lose yourself exploring the range of private and collectively owned galleries lining Todd Mall, a pedestrian-only shopping strip in the centre of town, or visit the collection at the Araluen Arts Centre . The Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a social enterprise that takes basket weaving to the next level. Get to know the city's outback culture Climb to the top of Anzac Hill for sweeping views over Alice Springs and the distant MacDonnell Ranges. Breakfast in one of the bustling cafés along Todd Mall, then join the hop-on/hop-off bus to the town’s main attractions such as the Telegraph Station Historical Reserve , part of the revolutionary telegraph system that connected England with Australia in 1872, or the School of the Air Visitor Centre , where you can sit in on a virtual lesson with Australian children who live in remote parts of Australia's centre. Wander through the Araluen Cultural Precinct , learning about Central Australian mythology, art and culture. The precinct's attractions include the Albert Namatjira Gallery and the Museum of Central Australia . Return to Anzac Hill to catch the mesmerising, lava-like sunset before enjoying a dinner at one of the buzzing restaurants in town. Explore the MacDonnell Ranges Stretching out hundreds of kilometres each side of Alice Springs are the caterpillar-like East and West MacDonnell Ranges. They’re full of incredible views, hiking, 4WD tracks, freshwater swimming holes |
Manuka, Tupelo and Firewood are all types of which foodstuff? | Honey: Buy Gourmet Honey Online Acacia Tupelo Raw Manuka. Benefits. igourmet.com Honey ABOUT HONEY Order Online at the #1 Source for Gourmet Food and Gift Baskets Buy Honey online from igourmet.com! Please visit our online store and go shopping at the number one imported food delivery service in the USA. Honey is a sweet natural substance made by honey bees from the nectar of flowers. Evidence suggests that humans gathered honey as many as 8,000 years ago as a Mesolithic rock painting from Spain depicts humans foraging for honey in beehives. Since ancient times humans have consumed honey in food and drink and have used honey for religious offerings, medicine, currency, cosmetics, embalming, building, and art. Honey's role in human history is prominent, as cultures throughout the centuries valued honey for its wide array of uses. As early as 2,000 BC, honey was mentioned in ancient Egyptian and Indian texts. Archaeologists have discovered honey combs buried with Egyptian pharaohs in their tombs. In Greek mythology, honey was often considered "ambrosia", a food or drink of the Greek Gods. Honey was also an important ingredient in cooking and baking in Greece. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, championed honey not only for its nutritional benefits but also for its medicinal values. The Romans even used honey as a topical medicine for healing their wounds during battles. Napoleon revered honey so much that he had bees embroidered onto his clothes and the flag of his army. By the 11th Century, German peasants paid feudal lords with honey. A natural alternative to sugar, Honey consists mostly of fructose and glucose with small amounts of enzymes, vitamins and minerals. It also retains the natural aromas from the flowers from which it was derived. Honey is produced by honey bees. Three types of bees constitute a beehive: a queen bee, male drone bees and worker bees. Worker bees collect nectar from flowers and convert the nectar to honey to be stored in wax honeycombs inside the beehive. The bees then fans their wings in order to help with the evaporation of the water content of the honey. Once a human extracts honey from the honeycomb and properly seals it, it should have a long shelf-life, as some honey has been found to be preserved for decades and sometimes even centuries. For practical purposes though, manufacturers often put a two year expiration date on their honey jars. Honey's flavor and color is determined by the source of the nectar, that of course being flower blossoms. In nature, bees will be attracted to just about any flower. However, beekeepers bring their bees to specific flower groves to create monofloral honeys like Acacia, Tupelo and Chestnut. In the US alone there are over 300 varieties of honey, most of them named for the flower from which they originate, such as Clover, Orange Blossom or Sage. Typically, lighter colored honey is milder, whereas darker colored honey is richer and more intense in flavor. Single Flower Honey Varieties: Acacia Honey: Our Acacia Honey is sourced from the blossoms of the Acacia "tree" (actually a legume) in Tuscany. This highly sought after honey does not crystallize, is very clear in appearance and has a delicate sweetness with hints of almond and vanilla. Acacia Honey is quite versatile. Enjoy it in tea or with cheese, where it adds a delicate sweetness to the salty tang of pecorino or gorgonzola. Apple Blossom Honey: A light colored honey made by bees that harvest the nectar from those big, bright white apple blossoms we all know and love. This particular honey goes great with tea. Buckwheat Honey: Buckwheat Honey is as stout and complex as honey gets. Extremely dark in appearance, it compares to other sweeteners like sorghum and molasses. Hints of mossy earth and its not-so-sweet character combine to yield a malty flavor and long but enjoyable finish. Buckwheat Honey is recommended as a drizzle over goat cheese or stirred into plain greek yogurt. Carrot Blossom Honey: Carrot blossoms are naturally an excellent source of nectar for honeybees. Carrots th |
Actress Phyllis Diller said ‘His favourite exercise is climbing tall people’, about which Hollywood actor? | IMDb: Most Popular People With Biographies Matching "MAME" Most Popular People With Biographies Matching "MAME" 1-50 of 90 names. Zac Efron Zachary David Alexander Efron was born October 18, 1987 in San Luis Obispo, California. He is the son of Starla Baskett, a former secretary, and David Efron, an electrical engineer. He has a younger brother, Dylan. His surname, "Efron", is a Biblical place name, and comes from Zac's Polish Jewish paternal grandfather. The rest of Zac's recent ancestry is English, German, and Scottish. Zac was raised in Arroyo Grande, CA. He took his first step toward acting at the age of eleven, after his parents noticed his singing ability. Singing and acting lessons soon led to an appearance in a production of "Gypsy" that ran 90 performances, and he was hooked. After appearing on-stage in "Peter Pan", "Auntie Mame", "Little Shop of Horrors" and "The Music Man", guest parts quickly followed on television series, including Firefly , ER , CSI: Miami , NCIS , and The Guardian . After guest-starring in several episodes of Summerland , Zac joined the regular cast as girl-crazy Cameron Bale. He also starred in several pilots, such as The Big Wide World of Carl Laemke and Triple Play , and played an autistic child in the television movie Miracle Run , alongside Mary-Louise Parker and Aidan Quinn . He graduated from Arroyo Grande High School in June 2006. Efron came to fame for starring in the Disney Channel original film High School Musical , for which he won the Teen Choice Award for Breakout Star. He returned to the role of Troy Bolton in High School Musical 2 , which broke cable TV records with 17.5 million viewers. He played title roles of the fantasy romance Charlie St. Cloud and the comedy 17 Again , both from director Burr Steers , and as the lovable Link Larkin in 2007's smash hit musical Hairspray , directed by Adam Shankman . As part of the all-star cast he shared a Critics Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble, the 2007 Hollywood Film Festival Award for Ensemble of the Year, and was honored with a Screen Actors Guild Award® nomination for Outstanding Motion Picture Cast. In addition, he won an MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Performance. Efron also starred in Richard Linklater 's Me and Orson Welles , an adaptation of the novel by Robert Kaplow , which premiered to rave reviews at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival. That same year, he starred in Kenny Ortega 's High School Musical 3: Senior Year , which set a box office record for the highest grossing opening weekend for a musical. In 2012, Efron took the lead in The Lucky One , a film adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel, playing a marine who returns to North Carolina after serving in Iraq in search for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war. He also lent his voice to the animated feature Dr. Seuss ' The Lorax , and co-starred in Lee Daniels ' thriller The Paperboy , alongside Nicole Kidman , John Cusack , Matthew McConaughey and Scott Glenn , as well as Josh Radnor 's Liberal Arts , which premiered to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. Another indie film he co-starred in, At Any Price , was released in 2013. Eric Stoltz Eric Cameron Stoltz is a theater-trained actor and producer who has starred in both independent and studio films. He was born on September 30, 1961 in Whittier, California, to Evelyn Vawter, a violinist and schoolteacher, and Jack Stoltz, an elementary school teacher. He has German, English, and Scottish ancestry. Eric was raised in both American Samoa and Santa Barbara, California, where by the age of fourteen, he was earning money by playing piano for the local musical theater productions, including "Mame" starring Anthony Edwards , whom he co-starred with as two of Jeff Spicoli's stoner friends in Fast Times at Ridgemont High . The two became friends, and then college roommates when both attended the University of Southern California. Dropping out in his junior year, Eric joined a repertory company that did 10 plays at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. Moving to New York in 1981, he |
Which English football player has a daughter called Harper Seven? | David and Victoria Beckham name baby girl Harper Seven - Telegraph David and Victoria Beckham name baby girl Harper Seven David Beckham's wife Victoria has given birth to her fourth child, a baby girl called Harper Seven. Image 1 of 2 Last week David Beckham took a photograph of his heavily pregnant wife in a bikini, when she wasn't looking, and posted it on Facebook. Photo: ENTERPRISE Image 1 of 2 Mrs Beckham, the former Spice Girl, has previously spoken of her desire to have a daughter. Photo: EPA By Nick Allen , Los Angeles 8:29AM BST 11 Jul 2011 Follow The birth took place by Caesarean at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. In a statement on his Facebook page, former England football captain Beckham said: "I am so proud and excited to announce the birth of our daughter Harper Seven Beckham. "She weighed a healthy 7lbs 10oz and arrived at 7.55 this morning, here in LA. Victoria is doing really well and her brothers are delighted to have a baby sister xx Friends of the couple were quick to send their congratulations. A delighted Mel B, who is expecting her third child later this year, expressed her excitement on Twitter, writing: "congrats!!! Yipeee another spice baby is born, damn it wish it was me this AM cos I feel like I'm about to POP!" Related Articles Is the fourth child a status symbol? 11 Jan 2011 Another former Spice Girl Emma Bunton also tweeted: "Big kiss to @victoriabeckham can't wait to meet your gorgeous little girl!" The Beckhams, who married in 1999, already have three boys - Brooklyn, 11, Romeo, eight, and Cruz, five. Mrs Beckham, the former Spice Girl, has previously spoken of her desire to have a daughter. After the birth a spokesman said: "Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz are excited to welcome their new baby sister to the family." The couple were aware that the baby was to be a girl. In March, Beckham told People magazine: "Obviously, having three boys, you kind of expect another one, so finding out a little girl is in there is surprising, but, obviously, we are over the moon." Last week the player took a photograph of his heavily pregnant wife in a bikini, when she wasn't looking, and posted it on Facebook. She had previously told Women's Wear Daily that she did not like being photographed when pregnant, saying last month: "I don't think anyone needs to see that, other than my husband. Absolutely not." David Beckham met the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge when they arrived in Los Angeles on Friday night. On Saturday he scored the winning goal in a game for his team, LA Galaxy. |
Who directed and starred in the 1968 film ‘The Green Berets’? | The Green Berets (1968) directed by John Wayne • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd I should have just watched this for 2 hours. Its reputation for being awful stretches before it like a motorway of poo, and justifiably so. I'd heard how this was a shameless propaganda piece many times but I never normally let that sort of thing bother me, so I was just hoping that I would get some decent action scenes out of it. But no. The thing about The Green Berets is that it's ridiculously boring bearing in mind what kind of film it is. Considering its anti-Viet Cong stance, I was expecting to be treated to John Wayne and the boys gunning down hundreds of VC and maybe coming out… 1 It's been over 4 years since my one and only viewing of John Wayne's commie -bashing propaganda film from 1968. A film so anti-communist that he even got support from the US Military when he asked for their assistance, this was Wayne airing his own views on the conflict in his typical abrasive manner. The Green Berets doesn't look quite like your average Vietnam War film.The jungle doesn't look like jungle, and that's because it isn't. This wasn't filmed in South East Asia but in Georgia. Fort Benning to be exact. That's the most obvious problem with the film, alongside a rather slanted view of how things were really progressing for the Yanks over there. There's plenty of action, and… 1 We all know about those wonderful anti-war films made about America’s participation in the Vietnam War. Classics such as: Apocalypse Now, Deer Hunter and Platoon. But during the most brutal period of the Vietnam war itself, Hollywood icon John Wayne made ”The Green Berets” a Pro-Vietnam war film that were suppose to boost the moral of the American soldiers and ease the harsh public opinion opposing the war. Although it did great at the box-office, it was heavily panned by critics who thought it was a disgrace and presented a false black-and-white reality about the war, far away from the real grotesque images from television. Col. Mike Kirby (John Wayne) ensembles an A-Team of Green Berets, specially handpicked. Together with… I should have just watched this for 2 hours. Its reputation for being awful stretches before it like a motorway of poo, and justifiably so. I'd heard how this was a shameless propaganda piece many times but I never normally let that sort of thing bother me, so I was just hoping that I would get some decent action scenes out of it. But no. The thing about The Green Berets is that it's ridiculously boring bearing in mind what kind of film it is. Considering its anti-Viet Cong stance, I was expecting to be treated to John Wayne and the boys gunning down hundreds of VC and maybe coming out… Review by Richard Doyle ★★ This is often knocked for being a propaganda film. It certainly is. It's decidedly on the side of American intervention in Vietnam and makes no bones about it. I don't think that's automatically a bad thing. Many films made on the other side of this issue are propaganda films in exactly the same sense and they aren't criticized for being so. I don't agree with this film's politics, but I don't have to agree with a film's agenda to be entertained by it (see just about every film Chuck Norris ever made). This is also a ridiculously old fashioned film. It feels like a film made during WWII, and by 1968, that made it a relic. Even films that were… 1 "A little trick we learned from Charlie, but we don't dip 'em in the same stuff he does." The pinnacle of absurd war propaganda, nationalistic racism and unironic hyper-masculinity. In related thoughts: This is quite possibly the worst film ever made, not just because it is thematically, ideologically and morally disgusting, not just because the acting, writing and presentation is so unpleasant, but also because it's just so fucking boring. I can barely even focus on this film, my attention keeps wandering because there is nothing going on that is worth watching in the slightest. But hey, there is literally no plot apart from "Durr hurr commies are bad and John Wayne is a tuff heroic patriot 'murrkan |
Which ‘stone’ was removed from London’s Westminster Abbey on Christmas day 1950? | Woman who took Stone of Destiny back to Scotland dies - BBC News BBC News Woman who took Stone of Destiny back to Scotland dies 8 July 2013 Close share panel Image caption Kay Matheson and the Stone of Destiny A leading figure in a plot to return the Stone of Destiny to Scotland more than 60 years ago has died. Kay Matheson was one of a group of four students who took the relic from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1950. The stone was taken back to Scotland from where it had been removed by Edward I in 1296 as a spoil of war. Ms Matheson, who drove a car carrying the stone through police road blocks, died in Wester Ross at the age of 84. She had been studying domestic science at the University of Glasgow when she joined the plot to take the stone from London. The others involved were Ian Hamilton, Gavin Vernon and Alan Stuart. During their raid on Westminster Abbey the stone broke into two pieces. Police launched a huge manhunt, but driving alone Ms Matheson was able to negotiate road blocks and cross the border into Scotland. In the weeks that followed, police arrived at her family's croft in Wester Ross and searched the property. Symbolic gesture Five months later the students placed the stone, also known as the Stone of Scone, in Arbroath Abbey. The authorities had it taken back to Westminster Abbey, but in 1996 it was returned to Scotland as a symbolic gesture and is now kept at Edinburgh Castle. Ms Matheson, who later became a teacher and Gaelic scholar, and the others were not prosecuted. Image caption Kay Matheson was portrayed by Kate Mara in the 2008 film Stone of Destiny Mr Hamilton told The Observer newspaper in 2008 , when a film based on his book about the 1950s incident was released, that the government had feared Scots would take to the streets if the students had ended up in the courts. American actress Kate Mara portrayed Ms Matheson in the movie, Stone of Destiny. Charlie Cox, Billy Boyd and Robert Carlyle also starred. Another film, An Ceasnachadh, focused on Ms Matheson's interrogation by the authorities. Gaelic singer Kathleen MacInnes played the role of Ms Matheson. It also told of her dedication to Gaelic and how she drew inspiration from the works of Victorian Gaelic poet Mairi Mhor nan Oran - Big Mary of the Songs. Ms Matheson was living in a care home at Aultbea, near Loch Ewe, when she died. Rob Gibson, SNP MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, paid tribute to her. He said: "Her exploits in retrieving the stone made her one of the immortals in Scottish nationalist history." Mr Gibson said she had worked hard to revive the use of Gaelic in Wester Ross and was a popular and respected teacher and figure in the local community. Lib Dem MP Charles Kennedy described Ms Matheson as an "inspirational force". He said: "The redoubtable Kay was a truly remarkable character, one of whom I was truly fond and someone who was tremendously kind towards me. "I was apprehensive in the extreme when I first stood locally in 1983 to find Kay - of Stone of Destiny fame - as my SNP opponent. "In fact we hit it off so well that a firm friendship was formed." |
In medicine, metritis is the inflammation of which part of the body? | Bacterial Infection (Metritis) of the Uterus in Dogs | petMD Bacterial Infection (Metritis) of the Uterus in Dogs Metritis in Dogs Metritis is inflammation of the endometrium (lining) of the uterus due to a bacterial infection, usually occurring within a week after a dog has given birth. It can also develop after a natural or medical abortion, miscarriage, or after a non-sterile artificial insemination. The bacteria that are most often responsible for infection of the uterus are gram-negative bacteria like Escherichia coli, which often spreads into the blood, causing a blood infection. The infection may lead to sterility, and if left untreated, septic shock, a lethal condition, may follow. Symptoms and Types Discharge from the vulva that smells bad; discharge with pus, or pus mixed with blood; discharge that is dark green Swollen, dough-like abdomen Dehydration (the skin stays tented for a few seconds when pinched) Dark red gums Increased heart rate if the bacterial infection has become systemic Prolonged delivery, perhaps with a large litter Obstetric manipulation Natural or medical abortion, miscarriage Natural or artificial insemination (rare) Diagnosis Your veterinarian will perform a thorough physical exam, including a chemical blood profile, a complete blood count, an electrolyte panel, and a urinalysis. These tests will help your veterinarian to determine whether the bacterial infection has spread to the bloodstream, where the infection might have originated, and how dehydrated your dog is. You will need to give a thorough history of your dog's health, onset of symptoms, and possible incidents that might have precipitated this condition. Diagnostic tools, like radiograph and ultrasound imaging, will allow your veterinarian to visually examine the interior of the uterus for any retained fetuses, excess fluid accumulation, and/or abnormal amounts of abdominal fluid production due to uterine rupture. A sample of the vaginal discharge will also be taken for cytologic (microscopic) examination. A culture of both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria (bacteria that lives with oxygen, or without oxygen, respectively) will be used for identifying the bacterial populations present in the blood, and a sensitivity of the isolated bacteria will be performed so that the most appropriate antibiotic treatments can be prescribed. Treatment Your dog will need to be hospitalized for fluid therapy, and to correct and stabilize any electrolyte imbalances. If the infection has reached sepsis, your dog will also be treated for shock. Your dog will also need to be placed on broad-spectrum antibiotics until the bacterial culture and sensitivity results return from the lab; then, depending on the results of the tests, your veterinarian will switch your dog to the antibiotic best suited for eliminating the bacteria that are causing the infection. If the metritis is not in an advanced stage, your dog will most likely respond to medical treatment. However, medical treatment does not always prevent the infection from progressing to a generalized abdominal infection and ruptured uterus. If future breeding is not planned, having your dog spayed is the treatment of choice. This solution is especially appropriate when retained fetuses or placentas are present within the uterus, when the uterus has ruptured, or when the uterus is severely infected. Patients suffering from a long-term infection that is not responding to medical treatment may improve after a surgical cleansing of the uterus. |
Which 18th Century scientist and politician published the literary work ‘Poor Richard’s Almanack’? | Poor Richard's Almanack Note: All prices in US Dollars No records found Poor Richard’s Almanack by Benjamin Franklin Book Page Summary From the Book Flap For over twenty five years, Benjamin Franklin shared his wisdom and humor with a ravenous readership with his yearly editions of Poor Richard’s Almanack. He offered predictions on the weather, astronomy, poetry, and much more. Today his work as Poor Richard is best remembered for his timeless, thought-provoking aphorisms and proverbs that are as valuable today, in business and in life, as they were over two centuries ago. With more than 900 pithy sayings, Franklin lays out rules by which everyone should live and offers advice on subjects such as money, friendship, marriage, ethics, and human nature. They range from the famous “A penny saved is a penny earned” to the lesser known but equally practical “When the wine enters, out goes the truth.” Modern economist Paul Volcker’s new introduction offers a fascinating perspective on Franklin’s beloved work. Reviews Click here for a " critical notice " of the first reprint of Poor Richard's Almanac from the January 1850 issue of The American Whig Review. "If you want the brutal truth, I did not expect to get much useful information out of Poor Richard's Almanack. I wondered, what could Benjamin Franklin—a guy who has been, no offense, dead for more than two hundred years—possibly have to say that would be relevant to a resident of today's dot-com world? Plenty, as it turns out." —from the Introduction by Dave Barry--This text refers to the Paperback edition Courteous Reader: 'It is hardly necessary to state, that Franklin did not originate all the sayings of Poor Richard. He himself tells us, that they were the 'Wisdom of many ages and nations'. Any one, familiar with Bacon, Rochefoucauld, and Rabelais, as well as Others, will recognize old friends in some of these sayings, while a study of the Collection of Proverbs, made in the early part of the eighteenth century, by Ray and Palmer, will reveal the probable source from which Poor Richard pilfer'd. Yet, with but few exceptions, these maxims and aphorisms had been filter'd through Franklin's brain, and were ting'd with that mother wit, which so strongly and individually marks so much that he said and wrote. --from the introduction by Paul Leicester Ford 5 out of 5 stars Entertaining, Enlightening, and Educational, August 22, 2001 By A Customer A wonderful book of sayings that espouse Ben Franklin's views on life. In general, he was an advocate of honesty, hard work, moderation in all indulgences, and being a good person. While these may sound like simple principles, the wittiness and cleverness with which they are presented make them memorable and therefore useful. Buy two copies of this book -- one for yourself and one for your child when they reach their teenage years. You'll both be better off. My copy is marked up so I can easily find my favorite sayings, and I find myself flipping through it often. 5 out of 5 stars Choice Morsels Of Wisdom, January 28, 2006 By Jon Linden (Warren, N.J. United States) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME) Franklin's timeless compilation of whit and wisdom is truly a classic. The book contains some of the most interesting and impressive collection of comments that Franklin was able to put in this compendium. While many are ascribed to Franklin, he specifically does not take credit for the adages himself. Rather, he indicates that they are commonly utilized comments and expressions of the vernacular. The individual enticements cover all areas of thought and society. He was able to capture these moments of brilliance and publish them so that they are available for all time. Such common phrases and expressions are recognizable to most readers. When Franklin says, "You can bear your own Faults, and why not a Fault in your Wife?" the reader sees these as aphorisms that are applicable as well in 2006 as they were when he published them back in the 18th Century. While Franklin may not have penned all these witticisms personally, he surely |
Which English singer-songwriter’s pet spaniel was a special guest at his civil partnership ceremony? | Scarborough Review Issue 24 by Your Local Link Ltd - issuu issuu August 2015 Issue 24 Telephone: 01723 355 797 Covering Filey and Hunmanby cars Cosmetic Auto Repair Services Scarborough boy back on track after suffering from rare genetic disorder Oliver Parnaby gets set to start the train at North Bay Railway Words & picture by Pete Spence [email protected] A SCARBOROUGH youngster who suffers from a rare genetic disorder is on track for a bright future thanks to friends and family and North Bay Railway. Oliver Parnaby, five years old, from the Seamer Road area of town was diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis type 1 when he was just 18 months old. But after mum Danni Parnaby contacted Scarborough Review Editor Pete Spence to highlight his condition, Pete helped Oliver and family have a smile on their faces with a special train trip thanks to North Bay Railway. Danni said: “Oliver and the family have been through a lot so it was a lovely thing to do and we are very thankful. The railway gave us a special pass for the season so we can go whenever we want. Oliver absolutely loves trains.” Oliver was born in June 2010 with a straightforward water birth but when he was around six months old parents Danni and Chris noticed spots which were increasing in number so he was taken to the doctors. Danni said: “We were referred to a genetic consultant in Leeds and that was when we discovered what was wrong after tests were carried out. It is a condition where most people who have it can live with few problems, but Oliver developed autistic tendencies too and has had problems with his spine which need operating on. “On June 21 this year we set off to Leeds General Infirmary ready for his operation and nothing could have prepared us for that day. “Thankfully everything went to plan. Oliver spent four days on the HDU, and then two days on the children’s ward following his surgery, before being sent home in a back brace. He has a followup appointment with his surgeon on July 31 but everything seems to be going well and Oliver is coping and recovering fantastically.” For more on Oliver’s special train trip and his condition see page 6. INSIDE THIS MONTH… SCARBOROUGH florist at huge celebrity wedding! SEE pAgE 25 For more. Out & About Great things to do and great places to eat in and around Scarborough. SEE pAgE 39 WANTED MO TOR CYC LES Any condition Anything considered | New or Old Will view & collect 7 days a week Call Les at 2015 ACTS ANNOUNCED SEE PAGE 41 STEVE HENSHAW INTERNATIONAL GOLD CUP SAT 12 th - SUN 13 th SEPTEMBER 2015 RACING See main advert inside for more details TEL: 01723 373000 9.30 - 4.30 MONDAY - FRIDAY OR VISIT www.oliversmountracing.com or www.auto66.com FOR MORE INFORMATION 2 - Scarborough Review, August - Issue 24 EDITOR PETE SPENCE Get in touch... Scarborough Review can be contacted by: Pete Spence (mobile) 07815 290457, email: [email protected] General office number: 01723 355797. Advertising: 01904 767881. Postal address: 9 Wykeham Street, Scarborough, YO12 7SA RePORTeR & PhOTOGRAPheR DAVe BARRY Contact: 01723 353597 [email protected] ADVeRTISING CASSIe JeFFeRSON Contact: 07990 554837 [email protected] Frazer never expected surprise birthday guest! Copy deadlines - September: Editorial: 17th August Advertising: 19th August APPReNTICe JOURNALIST KRYSTAL STARKeY Contact: 01904 767881 [email protected] Like us on Facebook. The Scarborough Review is FREE to pick up from: Scarborough: Tesco, Aldi, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Boyes, Nisa Locals, 4News, Eyres, Marcus Anthony Furnishings, Co-Op and Post Office at Newlands, Spar in Falsgrave, First Light charity shop, North Cliff Golf Club, the YMCA, Dean’s Garden Centre, WH Smith, Morrisons Local, Clock Handyman, Gladstone Road Stores, the Bowls Centre, Sandybed Stores, Scarborough Hospital, Costcutters on Ramshill and the Grand, Royal and Clifton hotels. Filey: Tesco and Wrays Plus: Co-Op at Hunmanby, Osgodby Stores and Proudfoot stores in Newby, Eastfield and Seamer. Next publication date Friday 28 August Sally |
What is the name of the dragon which guards the treasure in the novel ‘The Hobbit’? | SparkNotes: The Hobbit: Themes, Motifs & Symbols Themes, Motifs & Symbols Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. Bilbo’s Heroism The Hobbit’s main theme is Bilbo’s development into a hero, which more broadly represents the development of a common person into a hero. At the beginning of the story, Bilbo is timid, comfortable, and complacent in his secure little hole at Bag End. When Gandalf talks him into embarking on the quest with Thorin’s dwarves, Bilbo becomes so frightened that he faints. But as the novel progresses, Bilbo prevails in the face of danger and adversity, justifying Gandalf’s early claim that there is more to the little hobbit than meets the eye. Bilbo possesses hidden reserves of inner strength that even Bilbo himself cannot perceive when he firsts sets out on the quest. Confronting the trolls, escaping with Gollum’s ring, slaying the spider, rescuing the dwarves in Mirkwood, and speaking face-to-face with the great dragon Smaug all provide Bilbo with opportunities to test his resolve. As he builds confidence and resourcefulness, Bilbo emerges as a true hero. Because Tolkien acknowledged that the idea of hobbits was rooted in his experiences with rural Englishmen of his own time, Bilbo’s development might allegorically represent the heroism of England in World War I or the inner, latent heroism common to everyone. But given Tolkien’s stated distaste for allegory—his main motivation for writing was storytelling, not the exploration of a literary theme—it is questionable whether Bilbo’s story should be taken to refer to anyone except Bilbo himself. Race, Lineage, and Character The differences among Tolkien’s imaginary races are a major focus of the novel, particularly in its second half. Elves, dwarves, trolls, and goblins differ from one another physically, psychologically, and morally. These inherent racial differences drastically limit the possibility of individual choice but make moral distinctions easy to maintain. All goblins are evil, for example, and all elves are good. The notion of races having different moral qualities is reflected in the novel’s idea of nature. The good races are portrayed as being in harmony with nature, while the evil races are depicted as being at odds with it—hence the eagles’ decision to help the elves against the goblins. Some critics have suggested that the different races in The Hobbit were meant to represent different European nationalities, but Tolkien’s distaste for allegory makes this seem highly unlikely. Family lineage is another important factor that shapes identity in The Hobbit. Throughout Middle-Earth, one’s prospects, character, and social position are linked closely to family heritage. Bilbo’s conflicting feelings of fear and courage, for instance, are portrayed as a struggle between his Baggins side and his Took side, referring respectively to his father’s and his mother’s families. Thorin is prompted to seek the treasure under the mountain because it is his birthright, passed down from his grandfather, Thror. Bard’s heroism is in part attributed to his having descended from the lords of Dale. Whereas race is primarily a determinant of one’s moral standing, family has more to do with one’s specific personality: Bilbo is good because he is a hobbit, but he is adventurous because he is a Took. Motifs Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes. Contrasting Worldviews Tolkien was a scholar of ancient languages at Oxford. A major source of inspiration for The Hobbit’s plot was the body of ancient epic literature that Tolkien studied, particularly Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon epics like Beowulf. Elements of the story originate from literature, including the form of the heroic quest, the dragon’s treasure hoard, the importance of named swords, the elves’ mysterious magic, and the grim focus on birthright and family lineage. The Hobbit revisits many of these ancient conventions with a playful, comic tone that is thoroughly modern. Bilbo him |
In which year was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in the USA? | BBC - History - World Wars: Pearl Harbor: A Rude Awakening Print this page Introduction It all happened so quickly. At 7.55am on Sunday 7 December 1941, the first of two waves of Japanese aircraft began their deadly attack on the US Pacific Fleet, moored at Pearl Harbor on the Pacific island of Oahu. Within two hours, five battleships had been sunk, another 16 damaged, and 188 aircraft destroyed. Only chance saved three US aircraft carriers, usually stationed at Pearl Harbor but assigned elsewhere on the day. The attacks killed under 100 Japanese but over 2,400 Americans, with another 1,178 injured. ... the attacks had been slowly brewing for years. Although swift in execution, the attacks had been slowly brewing for years. The US had once looked upon Japanese ambitions with a level of sympathy, even indulgence. Hit hard by the Great Depression of the early 1930s, however, Japanese disillusion with party government grew and moderates gave way to militants. In 1931 Japan occupied Manchuria in northern China. Over the decade conflict intensified and in July 1937 war was declared. As Japanese aggression increased, its relations with the US deteriorated. Occupied Manchuria was rapidly exploited with the establishment of heavy and light industries. This was a practical necessity for Japan. Lacking in natural resources itself, the search for alternative supplies underpinned foreign and military policy throughout the decade and led to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War. On top of practical economic considerations, early military success and an inherent sense of racial superiority led Japan to believe that it deserved to dominate Asian politics. As with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, this combination bred an aggressive and neo-colonial foreign policy, the 'Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere'. Higher birth-rates and economic considerations required more land; the gene-pool justified it. Top Relations with the US A briefing of Japanese pilots before the attack © The policy increased in urgency as relations with the US sank further. Historically, Japan had relied on America to supply many natural and industrial resources. Increasingly alarmed by Japanese aggression, however, America allowed a commercial treaty dating from 1911 to lapse in January 1940. In July it followed up by embargoing scrap iron and aviation fuel. Things got worse in September when Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy. It was now a formal member of the Axis alliance fighting the European War. ... Japan knew that a full-scale invasion of South-east Asia would prompt war with America. This posed real problems. Although officially neutral, there was no doubt where American sympathies lay. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had already strained the sinews of neutrality by supplying Britain with money and arms under the 'lend-lease' agreement. The Tripartite Pact meant that supplies to Japan would indirectly be helping Italy and Germany; further embargoes followed. For Japan, embroiled in a long war with China, these were disastrous. Considering its very survival under threat, Japan intensified the search for a permanent alternative. The most obvious target was South-east Asia, rich in minerals and oil. German success in Europe in 1940 had orphaned French and Dutch colonies in the region and they became the focus of Japanese attention. While occupying French Indochina in July 1941, Japan knew that a full-scale invasion of South-east Asia would prompt war with America. It needed a mechanism to buy itself sufficient time and space to conquer successfully crucial targets like the Philippines, Burma and Malaya. The attack on Pearl Harbor was that mechanism; merely a means to an end. By destroying its Pacific Fleet, Japan expected to remove America from the Pacific equation for long enough to allow it to secure the resources it needed so desperately and hoped to crush American morale sufficiently to prompt Roosevelt to sue for peace. Top An ill-prepared America President Roosevelt declares war on Japan following the attack at Pea |
In British government, Sir George Cornewall Lewis was replaced by George Grey in 1861 in which cabinet post? | Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston - New World Encyclopedia Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston June 12 1859 – October 18 1865 Preceded by February 6, 1855 – February 19, 1858 Preceded by 18 October 1865 (aged 80) Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire Alma mater St John's College, Cambridge Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC (October 20, 1784 – October 18, 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-nineteenth century. He was in government office almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 1865, beginning his parliamentary career as a Tory and concluding it as a Liberal. He was Secretary for War 1809 to 1828. He is best remembered for his direction of British foreign policy through a period when the United Kingdom was at the height of its power, serving terms as both Foreign Secretary (1830-1834, 1835-1841, and 1846-1851) and Prime Minister (1855-1858, 1859-1865). Palmerston helped to re-shape the European map; he convened the conferences that recognized Greek and also Belgian independence, the latter treaty taking Britain into World War I in defense of Belgium's neutrality. Palmerston's legacy, then, also impacted a major twentieth century event. Contents 14 Credits Some of his aggressive actions, now termed liberal interventionist, were greatly controversial at the time, and remain so today. On the other hand, he advocated that moral responsibility to do what is right and to defend justice had a vital role in international relations. He argued that Britain's governance of her colonies was for the benefit of the governed, not of British industry. Commercial interests and national self-interest, in practice, continued to play dominant roles yet the idea that nations might act in the interest of others' even if this does not advance their own interests suggests that humanity might one day build a fairer, better world order. Ultimately, the world cannot become a place of peace and prosperity, health and wholeness for all if nations only ever act in self-interest. Only a world where nations cooperate to ensure that all people are fed, housed, educated and enjoy their right, that the planet itself is protected from exploitation and ecological . Early life and career Henry John Temple was born in his family's London house to the Irish branch of the Temple family on October 20, 1784. Educated at Harrow School, Edinburgh University, and St John's College, Cambridge, he succeeded his father to the title of Viscount Palmerston on April 17, 1802, before he had turned 18. Over the next 6 years he was defeated in two elections for the University of Cambridge constituency, but entered parliament as Tory MP for the pocket borough of Newport on the Isle of Wight in June 1807. Thanks to the patronage of Lord Chichester and Lord Malmesbury, he was given the post of Junior Lord of the Admiralty in the ministry of the Duke of Portland. A few months later, he delivered his first speech in the House of Commons in defense of the expedition to Copenhagen , which he justified by reference to the ambitions of Napoleon to take control of the Danish court. Secretary at War Lord Palmerston's speech was so successful that Perceval, who formed his government in 1809, asked him to become Chancellor of the Exchequer, then a less important office than it was to become from the mid nineteenth century. Lord Palmerston preferred the office of Secretary at War, charged exclusively with the financial business of the army. Without a seat in the cabinet, he remained in the latter post for 20 years. In the later years of Lord Liverpool's Tory administration, after the suicide of Lord Londonderry in 1822, the cabinet began to split along political lines. The more liberal wing of the Tory government made some ground, with George Canning becoming Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons, William Huskisson advocating and applying the doctrines of free trade, and Catholic emancipation emerging as an open question. Although Lord Palmerston was not in the cabinet, he cordially supported the mea |
In which year was the Jif Plastic Lemon launched by Reckitt and Colman? | Packaged (past tense): the HAX plastic lemon pack | BEACH July 23, 2015 Packaged (past tense): the HAX plastic lemon pack 2-color ad for HAX “just squeeze” plastic lemon juice packs, from The Chemist and Druggist, June 25, 1955 There are at least three different people credited for having invented and/or designed the plastic lemon pack — a lemon-shaped squeeze bottle for lemon juice. The one that I’d like to focus on today is Edward Hack. Edward Hack’s nearly forgotten brand name, “HAX” was a homonym for his own name. HAX was Hack’s company. The idea of placing real lemon juice inside yellow lemon-shaped plastic containers was developed in the 1950s by Edward Hack. The actual lemon was designed and produced by Cascelloid Ltd, who maintained that Hack presented them with their perfect model after much searching. They claimed he examined the entire stock of Harrods, Fortnum and Mason’s and Selfridges, as well as three cases of some three hundred lemons each at Covent Garden! It is alleged that the perfect lemon was eventually found at Covent Garden. from Unilever’s Facebook Page The task of actually creating the blow-molded plastic version of Hack’s supposedly “perfect lemon” seems to have fallen to Bill Pugh, Chief Plastics Designer at Cascelloid. The squeeze lemon, marketed now as Jif, began life as a wooden core carved by Pugh, then covered painstakingly with fresh lemon peel. He cast it into a plaster mould, experimenting until he had it just right. He was patient and a perfectionist. Once perfected, the lemon-shaped HAX pack began getting some attention in the press… THE ANSWER’S A LEMON The neat “Hax” lemon juice pack has won approbation all round. Two fluid ounces of lemon juice are contained in a polythene squeeze type container which is an exactly replica in texture, shape and colouring of an actual lemon. A plastics closure holds two labels, shaped and coloured like lemon leaves, in position and to dispense the juice, the housewife gently squeezes the “lemon,” when the liquid flows drop by drop into the tumbler or cup. Bottling: A Quarterly Supplement to the Brewing Trade Review, 1954 The Princess Royal receives a Hax “lemon” —from The Chemist and Druggist, June 25, 1955 More about the HAX lemon, and its competitors, after the fold… Shortly after the end of the Second World War such juice began to be sold in Italy in convenient plastic squeeze packs coloured and shaped like lemons and in 1955 a company called Edward Hack Ltd. began to market juice in similar packs in the United Kingdom. Shortly thereafter another company, Coldcrops Ltd., entered the market with lemon juice sold in similar containers. Litigation ensued, Edward Hack Ltd. claiming that Coldcrops Ltd. were passing off lemon juice as and for their produce. That action never came to trial because both businesses were acquired by the respondents who thereafter marketed juice in plastic lemon containers of the Hack design under the brand name “Jif.” –Lord Oliver of Aylmerton, from UK House of Lords 1990 decision on: Reckitt and Colman Products Ltd v Borden Inc & Others I wasn’t able to find any images of the earlier Italian lemon-shaped packs mentioned above, but the importance in the UK of Edward Hack’s “HAX” lemon is clear enough. Judging from its 1954 mention in Bottling Magazine, however, it must have been launched one year earlier than indicated above. The court’s decision states unequivocally that the surviving “Jif” lemon juice brand used Edward Hack’s lemon design, although Wikipedia and others give Stanley Wagner credit for the invention of the plastic lemon container… The plastic lemon container and the idea of selling lemon juice in this way was conceived by Stanley Wagner, an ex-RAF fighter pilot and an early stalwart of the Frozen Food industry. His plastic lemon was made by a company in the telephone business, Shipton. Over the course of a ten-month period from mid-1955 to early 1956 more than six million of these lemons were sold, initially under the brand name “Realemon” and then after an objection by the then Board of Trade the name was |
What was the first name of 18th Century English poet Lord Byron? | Lord Byron Biography - life, family, death, wife, school, mother, son, book Lord Byron Biography Missolonghi, Greece English poet The English poet Lord Byron was one of the most important figures of the Romantic Movement (1785–1830; a period when English literature was full of virtuous heroes and themes of love and triumph). Because of his works, active life, and physical beauty he came to be considered the perfect image of the romantic poet-hero. His beginnings George Gordon Noel Byron, sixth Baron Byron, was born on January 22, 1788, into a family of fast-decaying nobility. Captain "Mad Jack" Byron was a "gold digger," marrying Catherine Gordon chiefly for her annual income. After spending most of her money and fathering George, he died in 1791. George was left with an unbalanced mother, the contempt of his aristocratic relatives for the poor widow and her son, and a birth defect necessitating that he walk on the balls and toes of his feet for the rest of his life. All this worked together to hurt the boy's pride and sensitivity. This created in him a need for self-assertion, which he soon sought to gratify in three main directions: love, poetry, and action. Despite the awkward way he walked and the numerous "remedies" that Byron suffered through, his boyhood was full of play and mischief. His favorite activities were riding and swimming, both sports where he was physically able. But he willingly played cricket, appointing a schoolmate to run for him. At eight years old he fell hopelessly in love with a cousin. At sixteen when he heard of her engagement he reportedly was physically ill. Though said by most of his peers and teachers to have been a genius, Byron was halfhearted in his schoolwork. But he read constantly. He had a strong appetite for information and a remarkable memory. Nevertheless his biography reports Byron as having been the ringleader of numerous school revolts. He spoke of his school friends as "passions." On the death of his granduncle in 1798, Byron inherited the title and estate. After four years at Harrow (1801–1805), he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became conscious for the first time of the difference between the high goals of idealism (romanticism) and the less important realities of experience. His quest for some genuine passion Lord Byron. among the frail women of his world accounts for the crowded catalog of his love affairs. Early works In 1807 Byron published his first book of poetry, Hours of Idleness. In the preface he apologized, "for obtruding [forcing] myself on the world, when, without doubt, I might be at my age, more usefully employed." The book was harshly criticized by the Edinburgh Review. Byron counterattacked in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), the first manifestation (sign) of a gift for satire (making fun of human weaknesses) and a sarcastic wit (making fun of someone or something in a harsh way by saying the opposite of what is meant), which singled him out among the major English romantics, and which he may have owed to his aristocratic outlook and his classical education. In 1809 a two-year trip to the Mediterranean countries provided material for the first two cantos (the main divisions of long poems) of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Their publication in 1812 earned Byron instant glory. They combined the more popular features of the late-eighteenth-century romanticism: colorful descriptions of exotic nature, disillusioned meditations on the vanity of earthly things, a lyrical exaltation of freedom, and above all, the new hero, handsome and lonely, yet strongly impassioned even for all of his weariness with life. Social life While his fame was spreading, Byron was busy shocking London high society. After his affairs wi |
What is the main ingredient of the dish lutefisk? | Norwegian Lutefisk Recipe - Food.com salt water , mixed 1/4 cup salt per quart of water Directions Place the lutefisk in a kettle, and add enough cold salt water to completely cover them(some people like to place the lutefisk in cheesecloth and tie the ends itno a bag, before placing in the kettle.). Bring gradually to a boil. (Caution: It will be done when brought to a full boil, and if boiled too long the fish will fall into pieces.). Remove from the burner, skim off any foam that appears and the let the lutefisk stand for 5-10 minutes. Drain well, and serve steaming hot on warmed plates. Would you like to attach a photo to your submission? Browse The image has been attached to your submission. Close Your reply has been submitted for moderation. Close Are you sure you want to report this post for review? Yes, report it. You must be logged in to interact with the activity feed. Log in now |
The Sopot International Song Festival is held annually in which European country? | Learn and talk about Sopot International Song Festival, 1961 establishments in Poland, Annual events in Poland, Music competitions in Poland, Music festivals in Poland Official website The Sopot International Song Festival (later called Sopot Music Festival Grand Prix, Sopot Top of the Top Festival from 2012–13 and Polsat Sopot Festival in 2014) is an annual international song contest held in Sopot , Poland . [1] It was the biggest Polish music festival altogether with the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole , and one of the biggest song contests in Europe. The contest was organised and transmitted live by the Polish state television broadcaster, Telewizja Polska (TVP) between 1994 and 2004. The following year, the concert was broadcast by the private media station TVN for the first time and remained on TVN until 2009. From 2012 to 2014, the concert was broadcast and organised by Polsat . It was later cancelled by the broadcaster. [2] Contents Forest Opera in Sopot Stage for the Sopot Top Of The Top Festival 2013 The first Sopot festival was initiated and organised in 1961 by Władysław Szpilman , assisted by Szymon Zakrzewski from Polish Artists Management (PAGART). [3] The first three editions were held in the Gdansk Shipyard hall (1961–1963), after which the festival moved to the Forest Opera . The main prize has been Amber Nightingale through most of its history. Between 1977 and 1980 it was replaced by the Intervision Song Contest , which was still held in Sopot. Unlike the Eurovision Song Contest , the Sopot International Music Festival often changed its formulas to pick a winner and offered many different contests for its participants. For example, at the 4th Intervision Song Festival (held in Sopot August 20–23, 1980) two competitions were effective: one for artists representing television companies, the other for those representing record companies. In the first the jury considered the artistic merits of the songs entered; while in the second, it judged the performers' interpretation." [4] The festival has always been open to non-European acts, and countries like Cuba , Dominican Republic , Mongolia , New Zealand , Nigeria , Peru , South Africa and many others have been represented in this event. The contest lost popularity in Poland and abroad in the 1980s, declining further during the 1990s, and the rather unconvincing organisations by TVP made the authorities of Sopot give the organization of the 2005 Sopot International Song Festival to a private TV channel, TVN . Since 1999, there was no contest. TVP chose to invite well-known artists instead, featuring the likes of Whitney Houston , Tina Turner , The Corrs , Lionel Richie , UB40 , Ricky Martin and Simply Red to perform. In 2005, TVN brought the international competition back, taking over from TVP, and in 2006 invited Elton John and Katie Melua . The Sopot International Song Festival is usually considered bigger than the Benidorm International Song Festival because of its ability to attract star performers. In 2010 and 2011, the festival did not take place due to renovation of the Forest Opera . Since 2012, it is called Sopot Top Of The Top Festival and is broadcast annually by Polsat . In 2014, the name was changed to Polsat Sopot Festival. The festival also provided opportunity to listen to international stars. In the past, it featured Charles Aznavour , Boney M , Johnny Cash , and more recently: Chuck Berry , Vanessa Mae , Annie Lennox , Belinda Carlisle , Vaya Con Dios , Chris Rea , Tanita Tikaram , La Toya Jackson , Kajagoogoo and Goran Bregovic . Winners by year[ edit ] This list includes only winners of the most prestigious contests within the Sopot Music Festival. Sometimes one contest has overshadowed another with time. Grand Prix de disque was the most prestigious award between 1974 and 1976 and the Intervision Song Contest during 1977–80. The festival has also given prizes for Best Interpretation in the 1960s, the Amber Nightingdale in the 1980s and 1990s and Winner Of The Polish Day on and off from the 1960s to the 1980s. [5] Year Original |
What is the title of the only ‘Carry On’ film in which US actor Phil Silvers appeared? | Carry On... Follow That Camel Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb 10 out of 11 people found the following review useful: Still worth a chuckle from England 1 April 2006 I think this was one of the funniest carry on films,it would have to be some where in the top 10.The story is based on Beau Geste,with quite a few changes.Phil Silvers seems relaxed in his role,almost as if he has starred in other carry on films,he was probably the replacement for Sid James.Although Phil Silvers fits the role perfectly,in his usual SGT Bilko style.Anita Harris only starred in two carry on films,and you wonder why she wasn't asked to do more,as she was popular with the male audiences.All the characters are very good,and the best use has been made of their talents.Kenneth Williams playing the German called Burger,Charles Hawtrey playing the Frenchman Le piece.Bernard Bresslaw gives his best carry on performance as the Arab leader.I think one of the funniest parts of this film is when the Legionaires are having a sandcastle competition,and it breaks into a fight,and the Arabs are looking on thinking their all stupid.In all still a funny film,with a good cast who sadly most are not with us anymore. Was the above review useful to you? 8 out of 8 people found the following review useful: Lacks really sharp material but the domineering force that is Phil Silvers makes it worth seeing from United Kingdom 23 August 2004 Falsely accused of foul play during a cricket match, Bo West decides the only way to find his honour again is to join the foreign legion and, with his butler, sets off to join up. On their way they meet Sgt Nocker sleeping in a bordello just a few hours before he pretends to have been on a dangerous mission. Using this information, West and Simpson get an easy ride however everything changes when all three of them are captured by Sheikh Abdul Abulbul. Things become more urgent when Bo discovers that his lover, Jane Ponsonby has traveled to the region to find him and has herself been captured by Abulbul. Quite rightly, this film is on this database without its 'carry on' rider, as this was not an official Carry On film but rather one that bore enough similarity to the series to allow it to be shanghaied into the group. While it doesn't stand out as being the best of the series it is still pretty enjoyable. The plot spoofs Beau Guest very loosely and it delivers the usual smutty puns and Carry On style laughs even if the material is not as sharp as it should have been. The main reason I liked the film as much as I did was down to one main factor Phil Silvers. Silvers dominates the film and he gets the majority of the laughs with what is essentially a foreign legion version of his own Bilko. If anything his presence unbalances the film as the rest of the cast, talented as they are, are all in his shadow. Dale is amusing in his usual stuttering role as the slightly daffy English ponce and he is ably supported by Butterworth in a small role. Williams plays his role very well, while Hawtrey does his usual effeminate performance to good effect. Douglas is OK but Sims has far to little to do. Bresslaw, as always, has the 'ethnic' role and he has quite a few good lines along the way but the film does lack the all round cast that quite a few of the Carry On films have. The support features a tent full of gorgeous women who, rather frighteningly, include the presence of one Anita Harris so much for wholesome! Overall this is not one of the better Carry On films but it is still amusing and quite enjoyable, mainly due to the Bilko-esque delivery from Phil Silvers who pretty much dominates the film, certainly stealing every scene he is in. The material is not the sharpest and I missed the presence of some of the other Carry On regulars but generally this had enough in the way of laughs to justify watching if you're a Carry On fan. Was the above review useful to you? 9 out of 12 people found the following review useful: Uneasy entry in the long-running series Aspect ratio: 1.66:1 Sound format: Mono When his reputation is compromised during a r |
Which English Lord led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava in 1854? | The Battle of Balaclava - Crimean War - Charge of the Light Brigade The Battle of Balaclava The Charge of the Light Brigade, the Charge of the Heavy Brigade and the Thin Red Line War: Crimean War Place: On the southern Crimean coast in the Ukraine. Combatants: British, French and Turkish troops against the Imperial Russian Army. Generals: Lieutenant General the Earl of Raglan commanded the British Army, General Saint-Arnaud commanded the French Army. Prince Menshikov commanded the Russian Army. The Russian commander of the Balaclava assault was General Liprandi, Menshikov’s second in command. Click here or on image to buy a Print Uniforms, arms and equipment: See the main Crimean War site on britishbattles.com. Winner: Balaclava is a battle honour for all the British regiments that took part. It is usually a pre-condition for a battle honour that the battle is a victory for British arms. Balaclava was a strategic defeat. The Russians captured seven guns and at the end of the battle held the ground they had attacked. Against this the three episodes in the battle; the Charge of the Heavy Brigade, the Thin Red Line and the Charge of the Light Brigade, are such icons of courage and achievement for the British Army, that it is not surprising the military authorities awarded Balaclava as a battle honour to the regiments involved. 1st Royal Dragoons 4th Dragoon Guards: now the Royal Dragoon Guards. 5th Dragoon Guards: now the Royal Dragoon Guards. 1st Royal Dragoons: now the Blues and Royals. Royal Scots Greys: now the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. 6th Inniskilling Dragoons: now the Royal Dragoon Guards. 4th Light Dragoons: now the Queen’s Royal Hussars. 8th Hussars: now the Queen’s Royal Hussars. 11th Hussars: now the King’s Royal Husars. 13th Light Dragoons: now the Light Dragoons. 17th Lancers: now the Queen’s Royal Lancers. 93rd Highlanders: now the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. All these regiments have Balaclava as a battle honour. Account: In mid-September 1854 the British and French armies with a small Turkish contingent landed on the Western Crimean coast 30 miles north of Sevastopol with the aim of capturing this important Russian Black Sea naval base. An officer of the 93rd Highlanders The allied armies marched south along the coast and fought the battle of the Alma on that river, defeating the Russian army and driving it back towards the city. Lord Raglan and Marshal St Arnaud, the two commanders in chief, resolved to march around the inland side of Sevastopol and begin siege operations against the city from the South. Once the march had been completed the French established their base at Kamiesh on the south western tip of the Crimea, south of Sevastopol, while the British took Balaclava as their base, 15 miles along the coast to the East. The Battle of Balaclava (this map appears in the best selling book, The Dangerous Book for Boys by Gonn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden, in the section Famous Battles-Part Two) The Russian commander, Prince Menshikov, marched his army out of Sevastopol to the North East, leaving a garrison to conduct the defence of the city. The allies were thereby left with two tasks; the siege of the city and holding off Menshikov’s army. During October 1854 reinforcements came in to Menshikov’s army from elsewhere in the Crimea and further afield in Russia until his army was larger than that of the allies. The 93rd Highlanders repel the Russian Cavalry On 25th October 1854 Menshikov launched an assault across the Tchernaya River to the North East of Balaclava with the aim of capturing the British base. The assault was commanded by his deputy, General Liprandi. Liprandi crossed the Tractir Bridge across the river and advanced on the positions held by Turkish troops along the Causeway Heights. He commanded twenty-five battalions of infantry, twenty-three squadrons of cavalry, thirteen squadrons of Cossack light horse and sixty-six guns |
In which continent is the Beardmore Glacier? | Beardmore Glacier | glacier, Antarctica | Britannica.com Beardmore Glacier Langjökull Beardmore Glacier, glacier in central Antarctica , descending about 7,200 ft (2,200 m) from the South Polar Plateau to Ross Ice Shelf , dividing the Transantarctic Mountains of Queen Maud and Queen Alexandra. One of the world’s largest known valley glaciers, it is 125 mi (200 km) long and is 25 mi in width. The British explorers Ernest Henry Shackleton (1908) and Robert Scott (1911) discovered the glacier on their route to the South Pole . Later scientific research found the glacier and the mountains to either side to contain petrified wood and fossils of dinosaurs, mammal-like reptiles, ferns, and coral—evidence of a time when Antarctica possessed a temperate climate. Beardmore Glacier, central Antarctica. Commander Jim Waldron USNR—Antarctic Photo Library/National Science Foundation Learn More in these related articles: Corrections? Updates? Help us improve this article! Contact our editors with your feedback. MEDIA FOR: You have successfully emailed this. Error when sending the email. Try again later. Edit Mode Submit Tips For Editing We welcome suggested improvements to any of our articles. You can make it easier for us to review and, hopefully, publish your contribution by keeping a few points in mind. Encyclopædia Britannica articles are written in a neutral objective tone for a general audience. You may find it helpful to search within the site to see how similar or related subjects are covered. Any text you add should be original, not copied from other sources. At the bottom of the article, feel free to list any sources that support your changes, so that we can fully understand their context. (Internet URLs are the best.) Your contribution may be further edited by our staff, and its publication is subject to our final approval. Unfortunately, our editorial approach may not be able to accommodate all contributions. Submit Thank You for Your Contribution! Our editors will review what you've submitted, and if it meets our criteria, we'll add it to the article. Please note that our editors may make some formatting changes or correct spelling or grammatical errors, and may also contact you if any clarifications are needed. Uh Oh There was a problem with your submission. Please try again later. Close Date Published: May 26, 2010 URL: https://www.britannica.com/place/Beardmore-Glacier Access Date: January 18, 2017 Share |
The Republic of the Union of Myanmar is otherwise known by what name? | Myanmar - Union of Myanmar - Country Profile - Burma - Asia ___ Myanmar - Burma Destination Myanmar. Myanmar is a country in Southeast Asia, also known as Burma, its also called the Golden Land. With an area of 676,578 km² the country is almost twice the size of Germany or slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Texas . Myanmar is bordered in north and northeast by China , in east by Laos and Thailand , in south by the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal and in west by Bangladesh and India . With 5,881 m (19,295 ft) Mount Hkakabo Razi in Kachin state on the border tri-point with China and India is the highest elevation in Myanmar and Southeast Asia's highest mountain. Main rivers are the Chindwin and the Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) river. Myanmar has a population of 51.4 million people (2014 census). Largest city, former capital, and the economic center of Myanmar is Yangon , capital is since 2005 the planned city of Naypyidaw . Spoken languages are Burmese. On this pages you will find comprehensive information about Myanmar, or Burma in its diversity, its geography, economy, people, culture, environment, government and history. You will have access to newspapers from Myanmar and you will find travel and tourism information. Landscape near Mrauk U a town in in northern Rakhine State. Image © nationsonline.org Capital City since 6 November 2005: Naypyidaw (Nay Pyi Taw) Other Cities: Yangôn (Rangoon, pop. 5 million), Mandalay (pop. 700 000) Government: Type: nominally civilian government (since 29th March 2011, when Burma's military handed over power). The new political system came into effect after an election in November 2010. Constitution: 3 January 1974 (suspended since 18 September 1988 when latest junta took power). Burma has been under military authority since 1962. Geography: Location: Southeast Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal. Area : 676,578 km² (261,228 square miles). Terrain: A land of hills and valleys rimmed in the north, east and west by mountain ranges forming a giant horseshoe. Enclosed within the mountaion barriers are the flat lands of Ayeyarwaddy, Chindwin and Sittaung River valleys where most of the country's agricultural land and population are concentrated. Climate: Tropical monsoon; cloudy, rainy, hot, humid summers (southwest monsoon, June to September); less cloudy, scant rainfall, mild temperatures, lower humidity during winter (northeast monsoon, December to April). People: Nationality: Burmese. Population : 51.4 million (2014 census) Ethnic groups: according to Myanmar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs there are 8 Major National Ethnic Races in Myanmar, which all comprises different ethnic groups: the Kachin, the Kayah, the Kayin, the Chin , the Mon, the Bamar, the Rakhine, and the Shan. according to the CIA World Factbook the ethnic groups are: Burman 68%, Shan 9%, Karen 7%, Arakanese 4%, Chinese 3%, Mon 2%, Indian 2%, other 5%. Religions: Buddhism (89.2%), Christianity (5.0%), Islam (3.8%), Hinduism (0.5%), Spiritualism (1.2%) and others (0.2%). Languages : Burmese; Myanmar is a union of 135 ethnic groups with their own languages and dialects. Literacy: 90% (2003 official Government of Burma statistics); estimates of functional literacy are closer to 30% Natural resources: Timber, tin, antimony, zinc, copper, tungsten, lead, coal, limestone, precious stones like jade, ruby and sapphires, natural gas, hydropower, and some petroleum. Agriculture Products: Rice, pulses, beans, sesame, groundnuts, sugarcane, hardwood, fish and fish products. Industries: Agricultural processing; knit and woven apparel; wood and wood products; copper, tin, tungsten, iron; construction materials; pharmaceuticals; fertilizer; cement. Former Flag of Myanmar (1974 - 2010) Background: Previously an independent kingdom, Burma was annexed by the British Empire into the colony of India in 1886. The occupation brought social, economic, cultural and administrative changes to the once-feudal society. The Japan ese Empi |
Which French driver won the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix, his first Formula One victory? | Automobile Racing in 1996 | Britannica.com Automobile Racing in 1996 Originally published in the Britannica Book of the Year. Presented as archival content. Grand Prix Racing Ringling Bros. Folds Its Tent Formula One automobile racing gained added interest in 1996 because 1995 world champion Michael Schumacher of Germany transferred from the Benetton-Renault team to Ferrari, whose cars became effective only when the season of 16 races was nearly over. Damon Hill, a British driver who was following the great career of his father, Graham, was the most obvious challenger to Schumacher. Jacques Villeneuve, a French-Canadian on the Williams team, proved another factor in the final outcome, however, almost winning the first round at Melbourne, Australia, before giving way to Hill because of engine problems. It became clear from the outset that the World Drivers’ Championship was likely to be a bitter battle between Hill and Schumacher, and indeed it was not settled until the final race in Japan. Hill drove a marvelous race to win the second round, the Brazilian Grand Prix at São Paulo, in almost impossible conditions of torrential rain and near-impossible visibility; Villeneuve slid off the track under the difficult racing conditions. The scene then moved to Argentina, where at Buenos Aires Hill won an exciting race from Villeneuve by 12 seconds, proving again the superiority of the Renault-engined Williams cars, which were as far ahead of the opposition as they had been in 1995. The next race was the Grand Prix of Europe at Nürburgring, Ger., where the promise of the newcomer Villeneuve was demonstrated over a difficult course. He gained his first Formula One victory and proved well able to hold off Schumacher’s Ferrari. At the San Marino Grand Prix, Hill won his fourth race. The Monaco Grand Prix, the only true road race, with all its traditional hazards, was a disaster for Hill, whose Williams-Renault was in the lead when the engine blew up. Villeneuve also failed to finish, and the winner was Olivier Panis of France in a Ligier-Mugen-Honda, the first Grand Prix victory for that car since 1981. By this time the Ferraris were beginning to improve, and Schumacher gave a perfect exhibition of car control at great speeds in the rain in the Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona, for his first victory of the season. Connect with Britannica Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Pinterest The racing went next to Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix. Villeneuve’s supporters were out in force to see the local boy win, but he was unable to match the experience of Hill, who triumphed once again. In the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours, the Williams-Renaults again proved to be superior as Hill led from start to finish, followed by Villeneuve. At Silverstone, where a vast crowd of hopeful Britishers willed Hill to win, he made one of his hopeless starts and later retired with brake problems. Villeneuve took Hill’s place and thereby ensured victory at least for a British-based car in this British Grand Prix. In the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim, it was looking as if Ferrari might finally triumph, but then the engine of Austrian driver Gerhard Berger failed near the end of the race, and Hill was able to score another win. In the Hungarian Grand Prix at Budapest, Hill made up for a muffed start and almost overtook his teammate, but Villeneuve was the winner by a small margin. Next was the tricky Spa circuit in Belgium, where both the Williams-Renaults had unexpected problems, which allowed Schumacher to win for Ferrari. In the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Schumacher delighted the furiously supportive Ferrari crowd with a victory. Hill eliminated himself by colliding with tire markers erected at the turns to indicate the high curbs, which the drivers themselves had approved of in practice. Schumacher also hit this obstacle, but less hard, and his Ferrari continued on to victory. Classic Children’s Books At the Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril, it was Villeneuve’s day. He outpaced Hill, in spite of the latter’s fine start, and made the overtaking ma |
What is the name of the German origin biscuit baked in a looped knot and often glazed with salt. | Pretzel Pretzel Pretzel (Bäckerei), so v.w. Bretzel . Pierer's Lexicon. 1857–1865. Pretzsch Schlagen Sie auch in anderen Wörterbüchern nach: Pretzel — ist der Name folgender Personen: Ernst Pretzel (1887–1943), deutscher Politiker (NSDAP) Raimund Pretzel, bürgerlicher Name des deutschen Publizisten Sebastian Haffner (1907−1999) Ulrich Pretzel (1898–1981), deutscher Germanist eine amerikanische… … Deutsch Wikipedia Pretzel — Pret zel, n. [G. pretzel, bretzel. Cf. {Bretzel}.] A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English pretzel — (n.) 1856, from Ger. Prezel, also Brezel, from O.H.G. brezitella, from M.L. *brachitellum, presumably a kind of biscuit baked in the shape of folded arms (Cf. It. bracciatella, O.Prov. brassadel), dim. of L. bracchiatus with branches, with arms,… … Etymology dictionary pretzel — ► NOUN chiefly N. Amer. ▪ a crisp biscuit baked in the shape of a knot or stick and flavoured with salt. ORIGIN German … English terms dictionary pretzel — ☆ pretzel [pret′səl ] n. [Ger brezel < OHG brezitella < ML * brachiatellum, dim. of * brachiatum, biscuit baked in form of crossed arms < L brachium, an arm: see BRACE1] a usually hard, brittle biscuit made from a slender roll of dough… … English World dictionary Pretzel — A pretzel is a bread pastry of German origin, that has the shape of a three looped knot or twisted braid. Pretzels are either soft or hard. Hard pretzels have evolved into a variety of shapes from knotted loops to straight pretzel sticks (called… … Wikipedia pretzel — pret·zel (prĕt’səl) n. ▸ A soft or brittle glazed biscuit that is usually salted on the outside and baked in the form of a loose knot or stick. ╂ [German Brezel, from Middle High German brēzel, prēzel, from Old High German brēzila, brezzitella,… … Word Histories Pretzel — Un pretzel duro. Un pretzel suave. Un pretzel … Wikipedia Español pretzel — /pret seuhl/, n. 1. a crisp, dry biscuit, usually in the form of a knot or stick, salted on the outside. 2. a larger version of this, made of soft, chewy bread dough. [1815 25, Amer.; < G Pretzel, var. of Bretzel; OHG brizzila < ML bracellus… … Universalium pretzel — UK [ˈprets(ə)l] / US [ˈpretsəl] noun [countable] Word forms pretzel : singular pretzel plural pretzels a type of cracker that people often eat between meals or with beer. It is baked in the shape of a stick or a knot and covered with salt … English dictionary 16+ |
Which British comedian’s catchphrase was ‘Just like that’? | Greatest Comedy Catchphrases - British Comedy Greatest Comedy Catchphrases - British Comedy [Jan. 5th, 2008|12:03 am] British Comedy Crystal Kay - Can't be stopped ] 'Greatest Comedy Catchphrases' was on Channel 4 from 9-12pm, and since it's mostly British Comedy Catchphrases I thought I'd post it up here... 50: The Royle Family - "My Arse!" 49: Austan Powers - "Yeah baby!" 48: Little Britain - "Yeah I know/ I want that one." 47: The two Ronnies - "It's goodnight from me, and it's goodnight from him." 46: Monty Python - "A wafer thin mint." 45: Harry Enfeild - "Loadsamoney!" 44: Are you being served? - "I'm free!" 43: Shooting Stars - "We really want to see those fingers" 42: History today - "That's you that is" 41: The Fall and Rise - "I didn't get where I am today..." 40: Catherine Tate - " How very dare you." 39: The Dick Emery Show - "You are awful... but I like you" 38: Dad's Army - "You stupid boy." 37: Happy Days - "Ayyyy!" 36: League of Gentlemen - "You're my wife now!" 35: Hi-De-Hi! - "Hi-de-hi!" 34: Father Ted - "Ah go on!" 33: Laurel and Hardy - "That's another nice mess you've gotten me into." 32: The Fast Show - "Does my bum look big in this?" 31: The Generation Game - "Shut that door!" 30: The Simpsons - "Doh!" 29: Kenny Everett - "It's all done in the best possible taste!" 28: Vic and Reeves big night in - "You wouldn't let it die!" 27: Steptoe and Son - "You dirty old man." 26: Different Strokes - "Watchoo talkin' about Willis?" 25: Bullseye - "Super Smashing Great" 24: Porridge - "Naff off!" 23: Pheonix Nights - "Garlic Bead!" 22: Knowing me knowing you - "Aha!" 21: Scousers - "Calm down" 20: Tommy Cooper - "Just like that" 19: South Park - "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" 18: Some Mothers do have 'em - "(ooh) Betty!" 17: Blackadder - "I have a cunning plan" 16: Fawlty Towers - "Don't mention the war." 15: Little Britain - "I'm the only gay in the village" 14: Only fools and horses - "Lovely Jubbly!" 13: Carry on... - "Oh Matron!" 12: 'Allo 'Allo - "I shall say this only once..." 11: Monty Python - "Nudge Nudge!" 10: The League of Gentlemen - "This is a local shop" 9: Bo' Selecta - "Cha'mone Motherfucker!" 8: Little Britain - "Yeah-but-no!" 7: 11 o'clock show - "Is it cos I'm black?" 6: Father Ted - "Drink, Feck, Arse!" 5: Monty Python - "And now for something completely different." 4: The Fast Show - "Suit you sir!" 3: One Foot in the Grave - "I don't believe it!" 2: Catherine Tate - "Am I bovverd?" 1: The Generation Game - "Nice to see you, to see you ... nice!" |
Ainsley Harriot was once head chef at which UK cricket ground? | Ainsley Harriott - Awards Hosts & Presenter - Speakers Corner Ainsley Harriott Biography Celebrity chef and Ready Steady Cook presenter Ainsley Harriott is quick-witted, charismatic and a consummate professional. Although singing and performing was his first love (he co-founded the Calypso Twins in the early 90’s) Ainsley’s cooking career began when he was offered an apprenticeship at an East End restaurant at the age of 16. After years of hard work in the kitchen, Ainsley rose to Head Chef position at Lord's Cricket Ground's Long Room. He worked as a chef in many restaurants in London including the Dorchester, Brown's, The Hilton, The Westbury, Café Pelican and Quaglino's. Simultaneously his foray into TV and radio began. While at Lords he was asked to present More Nosh, Less Dosh on BBC Radio 5, and he then secured a small role in sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf in 1993, and eventually became resident chef on Good Morning with Anne and Nick. Once Ainsley... Celebrity chef and Ready Steady Cook presenter Ainsley Harriott is quick-witted, charismatic and a consummate professional. Although singing and performing was his first love (he co-founded the Calypso Twins in the early 90’s) Ainsley’s cooking career began when he was offered an apprenticeship at an East End restaurant at the age of 16. After years of hard work in the kitchen, Ainsley rose to Head Chef position at Lord's Cricket Ground's Long Room. He worked as a chef in many restaurants in London including the Dorchester, Brown's, The Hilton, The Westbury, Café Pelican and Quaglino's. Simultaneously his foray into TV and radio began. While at Lords he was asked to present More Nosh, Less Dosh on BBC Radio 5, and he then secured a small role in sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf in 1993, and eventually became resident chef on Good Morning with Anne and Nick. Once Ainsley became the main presenter of Can't Cook, Won't Cook and later Ready, Steady, Cook, he was a household name. Ainsley's Barbecue Bible; Ainsley's Meals in Minutes; Ainsley's Big Cook Out and Ainsley's Gourmet Express all followed, and he became one of the most famous TV cooking faces in the country. In 2000, Ainsley made his US TV debut with The Ainsley Harriott Show and then Ready.. Set... Cook!, the US version of Ready Steady Cook. For further information or to book Ainsley Harriott, call us at Speakers Corner on +44 (0)20 7607 7070 or email [email protected] |
In politics, psephology is the study of what? | psephology - definition of psephology in English | Oxford Dictionaries Definition of psephology in English: psephology [mass noun] The statistical study of elections and trends in voting. Example sentences ‘As you know, psephology is the formal study of elections, apparently trivial but dripping with deep, dark paradoxes.’ ‘Chapter 3, ‘On New Labour's Ups - and Downs ’, is concerned with the impact of psephology (and particularly the 1950s consensus-era electoral analysis of Anthony Downs) on Labour's ‘catch-up’ strategies.’ ‘Richard Dawkins has a touching faith in psephology if he believes that ‘no plausible swing could even bring us close to a Tory majority’.’ ‘There was another bit of the plan I never quiet understood which involved singing Marie Lloyd songs instead of calling the election while it was still winnable, but I don't pretend to have a firm grasp of psephology.’ ‘Tactical voting is a dangerous game, especially when based on dubious psephology.’ Origin 1950s: from Greek psēphos pebble, vote (from the ancient Greeks' practice of using pebbles to cast votes) + -logy. Pronunciation: Which of the following is correct? I had fewer friends than you I had less friends than you Which of the following is correct? I've had fewer ideas lately I've had less ideas lately Which of the following is correct? Fewer than 6000 tourists visit per year Less than 6000 tourists visit per year Which of the following is correct? He served fewer than six years in prison He served less than six years in prison Which of the following is correct? A town with fewer than 10 buildings A town with less than 10 buildings Which of the following is correct? Students could face fewer exams Students could face less exams Which of the following is correct? Budgets of fewer than $100,000 Budgets of less than $100,000 Which of the following is correct? Women are having fewer children Women are having less children Which of the following is correct? Less trade means fewer jobs Less trade means less jobs Which of the following is correct? The street now has fewer trees The street now has less trees You scored /10 practise again? Retry |
Ligustrum Ovalifolium is the Latin name for which shrub? | Ligustrum ovalifolium Privet, California privet PFAF Plant Database Physical Characteristics Ligustrum ovalifolium is an evergreen Shrub growing to 4 m (13ft) by 3 m (9ft) at a medium rate. It is hardy to zone (UK) 5 and is not frost tender. It is in leaf 12-Jan It is in flower in July, and the seeds ripen in October. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Insects.Suitable for: light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils and can grow in heavy clay and nutritionally poor soils. Suitable pH: acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils. It can grow in full shade (deep woodland) semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. It prefers dry or moist soil and can tolerate drought. The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. It can tolerate atmospheric pollution. Synonyms Woodland Garden Sunny Edge; Dappled Shade; Shady Edge; not Deep Shade; Hedge; Edible Uses None known Medicinal Uses Plants For A Future can not take any responsibility for any adverse effects from the use of plants. Always seek advice from a professional before using a plant medicinally. None known Hedge ; Hedge . A very good hedge plant, succeeding in maritime exposure and in many difficult situations. Very amenable to heavy trimming but fairly slow growing, especially when in an exposed position[11, 29]. It can take 9 - 10 years to make a 3 metres tall hedge in exposed positions[75]. The cultivars 'Aureum' and 'Argenteum' are especially recommended[200]. Cultivation details A very tolerant and easily grown plant, it succeeds in any soil that is not impoverished[11]. Dislikes very alkaline soils[202]. Grows well in heavy clay soils. Succeeds in dark corners or places starved by tree roots[11, 182]. Shade tolerant, established plants also tolerate drought[200]. Plants are hardy to about -15°c[202]. They can be cut back to the ground in very severe winters but usually resprout from the base[200]. Plants are often deciduous in cold winters, when grown in poor soils, near the coast or in an exposed position. A moderately fast-growing plant[202], though it is also very greedy, robbing the surrounding soil of more nutrients and moisture than most hedging plants[200]. Some named forms have been developed for their ornamental value[182, 200]. This species is notably susceptible to honey fungus[200]. Propagation The seed does not require any pre-treatment and can be sown in the spring in a cold frame[113]. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in the greenhouse for at least their first winter. Plant them out into their permanent positions in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts. Cuttings of half-ripe wood, 5 - 10cm with a heel, July/August in a frame. Very easy[78]. Cuttings of mature wood, 20 - 30cm in a sheltered outdoor bed in November/December. High percentage[78]. Other Names Found In Weed Potential Right plant wrong place. We are currently updating this section. Please note that a plant may be invasive in one area but may not in your area so it’s worth checking. Conservation Status IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants Status : Related Plants |
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