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Murdered by a bomb in asmall fishing boat off County Sligo, in which year did Lord Louis Mountbattendie? | BBC ON THIS DAY | 27 | 1979: IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten About This Site | Text Only 1979: IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten The Queen's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, has been killed by a bomb blast on his boat in Ireland. One of the earl's twin grandsons, Nicholas, 14, and Paul Maxwell, 15, a local employed as a boat boy, also died in the explosion. The attack was followed only hours later by the massacre of 18 soldiers, killed in two booby-trap bomb explosions near Warrenpoint close to the border with the Irish Republic. The IRA has already admitted carrying out the attack on Lord Mountbatten. A statement from the organisation said: "This operation is one of the discriminate ways we can bring to the attention of the English people the continuing occupation of our country." Lord Mountbatten, aged 79, and his family had traditionally spent their summer holiday at their castle in County Sligo, north west of Ireland. They were aboard his boat, Shadow V, which had just set off from the fishing village of Mullaghmore, when the bomb detonated around 1130 BST. A witness said the blast blew the boat "to smithereens" and hurled all seven occupants into the water. Nearby fishermen raced to the rescue and pulled Lord Mountbatten out of the water. Security arrangements |
Who was the recipient of the 1981 Booker Prize for their novel 'Midnight's Children'? | Midnight's Children | novel by Rushdie | Britannica.com novel by Rushdie Ulysses Midnight’s Children, allegorical novel by Salman Rushdie , published in 1981. It is a historical chronicle of modern India centring on the inextricably linked fates of two children who were born within the first hour of independence from Great Britain. Exactly at midnight on Aug. 15, 1947, two boys are born in a Bombay (now Mumbai) hospital, where they are switched by a nurse. Saleem Sinai, who will be raised by a well-to-do Muslim couple, is actually the illegitimate son of a low-caste Hindu woman and a departing British colonist. Shiva, the son of the Muslim couple, is given to a poor Hindu street performer whose unfaithful wife has died. Saleem represents modern India. When he is 30, he writes his memoir, Midnight’s Children. Shiva is destined to be Saleem’s enemy as well as India’s most honoured war hero. This multilayered novel places Saleem at every significant event that occurred on the Indian subcontinent in the 30 years after independence. Midnight’s Children was awarded the Booker McConnell Prize for fiction in 1981. In 1993 it was chosen as the best Booker Prize novel in 25 years. Learn More in these related articles: Sir Salman Rushdie June 19, 1947 Bombay [now Mumbai], India Anglo-Indian writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues by means of surreal characters, brooding humour, and an effusive and melodramatic prose style. His treatment of sensitive religious and political subjects made him a... in English literature: Fiction ...imperial discomfiture. Then, in the 1980s, postcolonial voices made themselves audible. Salman Rushdie’s crowded comic saga about the generation born as Indian independence dawned, Midnight’s Children (1981), boisterously mingles material from Eastern fable, Hindu myth, Islamic lore, Bombay cinema, cartoon strips, advertising billboards, and Latin American magic realism.... More about Midnight’s Children 2 References found in Britannica Articles Assorted References place in English literature (in English literature: Fiction ) External Links 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 27, 2016 URL: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Midnights-Children Access Date: January 19, 2017 Share |
Tomas de Torquemada born 1420 died 1498, was a prominent leader of what? | Tomás de Torquemada (1420 - 1498) - Genealogy Tomás de Torquemada Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love Build your family tree online Share photos and videos Valladolid, Valladolid, Castille and Leon, Spain Death: Between Jan 10 1420 and Jan 9 1421 - Valladolid,Spain Death: father About Tomás de Torquemada Tomás de Torquemada, O.P. (1420 – September 16, 1498) was a 15th-century Spanish Dominican friar and the first Grand Inquisitor in Spain's movement to restore Christianity among its populace in the late 15th century. As well as being the Grand Inquisitor, Torquemada was also the confessor to Isabella I of Castile. He is notorious for his zealous campaign against the crypto-Jews and crypto-Muslims of Spain. He was one of the chief supporters of the Alhambra Decree, which expelled the Jews from Spain in 1492. About 2,000 people were burned at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition between 1480 and 1530. In modern times, his name has become synonymous with the Christian Inquisition’s horror, religious bigotry, and cruel fanaticism. Tomás de Torquemada was born in Valladolid, Castile-León, Spain.[citation needed] He was the nephew of a celebrated theologian and cardinal, Juan de Torquemada, who himself was a descendant of a converso (someone who had converted to Christianity from Islam or Judaism). Tomás de Torquemada entered the local Dominican monastery of San Pablo at a very young age. As a zealous advocate of church orthodoxy, Torquemada earned a solid reputation for the triple virtues of learning, piety, and austerity. As a result, he was chosen to be prior of the monastery of Santa Cruz at Segovia. During this time, Torquemada met the young Princess Isabella I and the two immediately established good relations. For a number of years, Torquemada served as her regular confessor and personal advisor. He was present at Isabella’s coronation in 1474, and remained her closest ally and supporter. Torquemada even advised her to marry King Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 in order to consolidate their kingdoms and form a power base that he could draw upon for his own purposes. In 1492, he was one of the chief supporters of the Alhambra Decree, which resulted in the mass expulsion of Jews from Spain. Establishment of the Holy Office of the Inquisition Torquemada's concern towards the Spanish Jews grew as he perceived them gaining increasing religious influence on and economic domination of Spain; he firmly believed that the Jews were undermining the Sovereigns’ power and, even more important, the Catholic religion. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella agreed, and so implored Pope Sixtus IV to grant their request for a Holy Office to administer an inquisition in Spain. The pope having granted their request, the Holy Office was established late in 1478. The pope appointed a number of inquisitors for the Spanish Kingdoms early in the year of 1482, and Torquemada was one of them. A year later, he was named Grand Inquisitor of Spain, which he remained to his death in 1498, leaving to posterity an extraordinary picture of absolute devotion and apostolic implacability. In the fifteen years of his direction, the Spanish Inquisition grew from the single tribunal at Seville to a network of two dozen 'Holy Offices'. As the Grand Inquisitor, Torquemada reorganized the Spanish Inquisition, which had been set up in Castile in 1478, establishing tribunals at Sevilla (Seville), Jaén, Córdoba, Ciudad Real, and, later, Zaragoza. Torquemada’s quest was to rid Spain of all heresy. Jewish conversos and Marranos (Jews who converted to Christianity, but continued practicing their religion in secret) all fell prey to his fanatical hunt for heretics. Torquemada and his followers accused the marranos of proselytizing to Christian communities. Consequently, Torquemada urged all Catholics to spy on the marranos. Torquemada was described by the Spanish chronicler Sebastián de Olmedo as "the hammer of heretics, the light of Spain, the saviour of his country, the honour of his order". In 1484, he promulgated 28 articles for the guidance |
What is the name given to seven performing musicians? | Types and Sizes of Ensembles in Music Music Education Expert By Espie Estrella An ensemble is defined as a group of people performing a musical number together and/or a group of musicians playing musical instruments together. There are various kinds of ensembles that are differentiated based on the type of music they play, the type of instruments they use in their performances and the number of musicians performing together. For this article we will learn about the different types of small ensembles. Small Ensembles Duet - Composed of two musicians performing together. May also be defined as a composition meant to be played by two musicians either on different or similar instruments, for example piano duet or piano four hands . Trio - Composed of three musicians performing together. May also be defined as a piece of music meant to be played by three musicians or a piece of music for three instruments . For example, a string trio is composed of a cello , violin and viola . Quartet - Composed of four musicians performing together. continue reading below our video 10 Best Universities in the United States May also be defined as a composition meant to be played by four musicians or a composition for four instruments. For example, a string quartet is composed of one cello, one viola and two violins . Quintet - Composed of five musicians performing together. May also be defined as a piece of music meant to be played by five musicians or a piece of music for five instruments. For example, Schubert's Piano Quintet in A major is composed of a piano , bass, cello, violin and viola. Sextet - Composed of six musicians performing together. May also be defined as a composition meant to be played by six musicians or a composition for six instruments. For example, a string sextet is composed of two cellos, two violins and two violas. Septet - Composed of seven musicians. May also be defined as a piece of music meant to be played by seven musicians or a piece of music for seven instruments. For example, Beethoven's Septet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20 is composed of a bassoon , cello, clarinet , double bass , horn, violin and viola. Octet - Composed of eight musicians. May also be defined as a composition meant to be played by eight musicians or a composition for eight instruments. Mendelssohn's Octet for Strings in E flat major, Op. 20 originally scored for two cellos , four violins and two violas is an example. |
What did Nelson lose at Tenerife? | Horatio Nelson | Uncyclopedia | Fandom powered by Wikia [ show ] edit The Young Sea Stud Horatio Nelson was born with a full compliment of arms, legs and eyes in Norfolk, England in 1758 to the Reverend Edmund Nelson and wife Catherine. His father - taking the Christian maxim about going forth and multiplying - kept his wife in almost constant labour as he wanted to breed a ' Cricket eleven'. Horatio came in to 'bat' as number six which usually means he was a bit of an 'all rounder' [2] . In British naval terms this also suggested sexual ambiguity but Nelson was definitely keener on frocks and kept a chest of contemporary fashions in his cabin when he became an officer. Young Horatio loses patience with a polar bear in an argument about the impact of Global Warming . The future war hero got the sea bug early and skipped off school to join a local fishing fleet in Lowestoft. There Nelson learnt all the available ropes like how to stay drunk standing up and partaking of rollicking sea adventures involving killing a sexy polar bear and not paying for beer in the French seaport of Calais. It is there apparently Nelson first learned to hate the French when one of their Ladies of Leisure laughed at the size of his 'mainmast [3] . Nelson later on mentioned in his diaries that this experience was 'worse that taking a musket ball in the arm' and later led him to try out the vacuum pump to increase the size and circumference of his personal block and tackle. It is believed that this is where the term 'The Nelson Method Touch' was first coined and would copied by all future British seamen [4] in the wars that followed [5] . With the outbreak of the American War of Insufferable Independence , Nelson volunteered his services to the Royal Navy. He fully signed up to the British motto Rum, Sodomy and The Lash which had made the Royal Navy so feared by other fleets. Nelson got his 'oar' well and truly stuck in and denounced the American Revolution , as 'contrary to His Majesty's wishes' and hoped to see ' George Washington , Benjamin Franklin , John Adams , Thomas Jefferson and Old Tom Cobley hung without their wigs on the yard arm of his ship HMS Incontinent. When the Americans were joined by their new allies the French, Spanish and Dutch , Nelson said this was all in the good and 'would enjoy' to watch all their ships burn on the oceans'. So when peace was finally signed in 1783 after the Americans had ratted on their allies, Nelson suffered a huge personal loss. Always a man of action, Nelson couldn't abide all the mooching around at sea, pretending to like people so he returned to Norfolk to bore the pants off the locals with his naval yarns. Whilst back on land and to stop rumours about his sexual preferences, Nelson went on a Caribbean cruise for Single Sailors where he met and married Frances 'Fanny' Nisbet. It wasn't a love match, Nisbet was heir to a lot of money but duller than a wet day in Glasgow . It was a very unhappy marriage and Nelson felt his future had passed him like ' a 'Ship in the night'. Then came the news in 1793 that France had declared war on Britain. Nelson was very, very happy and left home for Portsmouth to find a ship. edit War and Giving Bits Of My Body Up For The Victory Nelson loses his no claims bonus when he deliberately collides with a Spanish ship. 'He was on the wrong side of the shipping lane' Nelson is reported to have said in his defence. A safely anchored Nelson taunts the enemy to shoot off his other arm. The outbreak of war with France saw Nelson right in the thick of the action. He was still looked down upon by other naval captains as a bit uncouth and possibly , aggressively homosexual. They were also suspicious of his 'touch' and insisted shaking his hand with gloves on. By then Nelson didn't care , as he had lost the sight of his right eye in bar brawl in Corsica over the affections of a woman (so it was said) . That she was actually Napoleon 's scandal happy sister Pauline on a night out looking for some below decks fun just increased Nelson's hatred of anything (and anyone) French. In |
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Whose first volume of war memoirs was called 'Adolf Hitler, My Part In His Downfall'? | Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973) - 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 Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall ( 1973 ) 1h 42min London, 1940. Aspiring jazz musician and future comedy legend Terence "Spike" Milligan reluctantly obeys his call-up and joins the Royal Artillery regiment at Bexhill, where he begins ... See full summary » Director: Spike Milligan (based on the novel by), Johnny Byrne (screenplay) | 1 more credit » Stars: 29 July 2012 3:05 PM, -08:00 | The Guardian - TV News Around The Web a list of 372 titles created 10 Sep 2012 a list of 1620 titles created 25 Dec 2012 a list of 110 titles created 12 Dec 2015 a list of 104 titles created 4 months ago a list of 535 titles created 3 weeks ago Title: Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973) 5.9/10 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. Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. See more awards » Photos The British National Health System is skewered in this comedy set in a rundown London hospital. The hospital is filled with wacky staff members and patients, and the film strives to get all... See full summary » Director: Jack Gold Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of ... See full summary » Director: Tony Richardson 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.1/10 X The Queen of England gives birth to twins. In order to protect the blood line one is kept and the other hidden in a pig sty and is raised to think it's mother is the pig. Lurkalot is the ... See full summary » Director: Bob Kellett A trio of randy sailors go looking for girl-friends in 18th-century London. Director: Peter Coe Adolf Hitler, born in Braunau, one man who will change the history of the world forever. It follows his childhood to the death of his mother and his broken ambition to become an artist, ... See full summary » Director: Dennis Wise Edit Storyline London, 1940. Aspiring jazz musician and future comedy legend Terence "Spike" Milligan reluctantly obeys his call-up and joins the Royal Artillery regiment at Bexhill, where he begins training to take part in the War. But along the way Spike and his friends get involved in many amusing - and some not-so amusing - scrapes. Based on the first volume of Milligan's war memoirs. Written by Anonymous After Young Winston - Young Milligan! Genres: 27 April 1973 (Ireland) See more » Also Known As: Két Balláb az ezredben - avagy hogyan járultam hozzá Hitler bukásához See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Spike Milligan was 21 when called up to serve in WW2, however Jim Dale was 38 when he portrayed Milligan in the film. See more » Goofs The red and blue teams are driving Willys MB Jeeps in 1940. The Willys MB was not manufactured until 1941 and was not used by the British Army until 1942. See more » Quotes Spike Milligan : [Having spent all night on sentry duty, Spike hears footsteps] Halt! Who goes there? Unseen soldier: [In a broad Yorkshire accent] Adolf Bloody 'itler! (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews Young musician Spike Milligan is playing a gig when WW2 is announced. Spike is drafted into army and goes about training prior to joining action. On the way he and his squad experience plenty of amusing antics but also see the futility and losses of wartime. Based on the first volume of Spike's wartime memoirs. Spike Milligan was the last goon to go and his unique sense of humour will be greatly missed, although it does live on in many of today's comedians. This is a film version of his memoirs of his time in the second world war. The plot sticks close to the book, focusing on the training rather than later in the war. However the film can't completely bring out the absolute madness in |
In the Elvis song, what was the name of his 'latest flame'? | Elvis Presley-(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame. - YouTube Elvis Presley-(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame. Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Feb 26, 2011 Elvis recorded His Latest Flame on June 26,1961 in Nashville at RCA's Studio "B". The song was written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. Category Standard YouTube License Music |
What is the English termfor the dish the Italians call 'Zuppa Inglese'? | Zuppa inglese (Italian Trifle) | Memorie di Angelina Memorie di Angelina In dessert , Emilia-Romagna , Toscana by Frank 11 March 2012 35 Comments Zuppa inglese, literally “English soup”, is actually neither English nor a soup. It is a classic Italian dessert, but the name is apt nevertheless. Its texture is very reminiscent of the bread-thickened soups so typical of the cookery of central Italy , only sweet and cool rather than savory and hot—a kind of cousin to the more familiar tiramisù and an even closer cousin to the much less known Tuscan zuccotto. And while the origins of this dish are disputed, it bears a strong resemblance to the English trifle . It is actually quite simple to make, but makes a great impression, especially when served in a large glass trifle bowl. In its classic incarnation, it consists of layers of pan di Spagna ( sponge cake ) moistened with a red liqueur called Alchermes (also spelled Alkermes ) alternating with crema pasticcera, pastry cream. It can be served just as is or topped with fruit or sliced almonds or other decorative foods (see Notes). Let it chill for a few hours and serve. It is sure to be a big hit—I love it and I don’t even care that much for sweets—perfect for a dinner party for a crowd. Ingredients Makes enough for a crowd For the crema pasticcera: Sliced almonds Directions Step 1: Make the crema pasticcera: In a standing mixer bowl, whisk together the egg yolks and sugar until smooth and the mixture forms ‘ribbons’ as the whisk rotates. Then add the flour slowly, bit by bit, into the mixture until fully incorporated. Meanwhile, heat the milk over moderate heat until hot, almost but not quite at the boil—you will see little bubbles just beginning to form around the edge of the pot. Take the milk off the heat and drizzle it, little by little, into the mixer bowl. Now pour the whole thing from the bowl into the pot and put it over very gentle heat, mixing continuously with a whisk or wooden spoon. After a while, it should begin to thicken. Keep stirring until the mixture thickens to the point where it coats a spoon nicely. Remove from the heat, stir in the grated lemon zest, and let the mixture cool. Step 2: Melt the chocolate: Add the cocoa to a small pot with the sugar. Over the moderate flame, add milk, bit by bit, until the mixture turns to a thick but pourable paste. Step 3: Mise en place: It is now time to arrange all the elements of the dish so you can assemble your dessert. Pour the crema pasticcera into two bowls, with a bit more in one of the bowls. In the bowl containing the lesser half of the crema, whisk in the chocolate paste until fully incorporated. In a small bowl, pour a good bit of your liqueur(s). Now take your sponge cake or pound cake and slice it into 1 cm (1/2 inch) slices. Now you are ready to put things all together. Prepare whatever topping you have it mind. Step 4: Assemble the dish: Take trifle bowl or other serving container large enough to hold all the ingredients and cover the bottom with a thin layer of the plain crema. Make a layer of cake slices, breaking them up as needed to make a complete layer, like so: Now drizzle over a bit of the liqueur. No need to drown it. In fact, it helps to use a pastry brush so the slices don’t get too soaked. Then add a layer of the chocolate crema. Repeat making layers in this way until you have run out of ingredients or filled your bowl. End with a layer of the plain crema. Arrange your topping if you want one: sliced strawberries, as pictured above, or sliced almonds or sour cherries or other sorts of berries are all very nice. Step 5: Rest: Place the bowl in the fridge and let the zuppa inglese rest for a good few hours. Some recipes call for as little as an hour and as much as a whole day. To my mind, 2-3 hours is probably the minimum to allow the flavors to meld and the crema and cake layers to adhere properly. Like a tiramisù, the dish will change in texture the longer it rests, getting softer over time. It’s a matter of taste, really, at what point it is at its best. Step 6: Serving: It is best not to |
Which singer had two hits about boxer Muhammad Ali? | Bill Withers Pays Tribute to Muhammad Ali | Billboard COMMENTS Sony Classics From left: Ali, Withers and King in a still from the 2008 Soul Power documentary, about the Zaire 74 concert. Muhammad Ali and singer-songwriter Bill Withers (best known for his '70s hits "Lean on Me," "Ain't No Sunshine" and "Use Me") met in 1967, after the boxer had been stripped of his heavyweight title for refusing service in the U.S. Army. The two became friends, and seven years later Withers was among the artists invited to perform at the Zaire 74 music festival in Africa with James Brown , B.B. King and others, which preceded the "Rumble in the Jungle" bout between Ali and George Foreman. Below, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer remembers the "positive force of nature" that was Ali. Music Stars Remember Muhammad Ali on Social Media I became involved in Zaire 74 when Gary Stromberg, who had a PR firm, asked me if I wanted to go to Africa for the fight. It was a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. In the Kinshasa Hilton were people like [author] Norman Mailer, [journalist] George Plimpton, B.B. King and James Brown -- you don't get those kinds of people in the same space too often. It really showed the magic about Ali. The people in Zaire loved him; they followed him around, and he was running his mouth and going on. We were all out in this big soccer stadium. And rumor had it that in order to make things look good, the government had executed dozens of the best-known pickpockets. It was a big PR thing for Mobutu [Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire from 1965 to 1997], I guess. So we're all walking around, looking on the ground for blood. I hung out as much as I could with Ali and George [Foreman] both because they flew food in for them -- so if I hung around, I got to eat what they ate. I remember walking around with Ali and his brother [Rahman] in the middle of the night. And Ali's father [Cassius Clay Sr.] was this great character who would sing "My Way" at the drop of a hat. Remember, this happened because [promoter] Don King had gotten an option from Ali and George to get $5 million [each] for the fight; the only problem was he didn't have $10 million. But that was the genius of Don: He found this guy Mobutu in a country that most people had never heard of, who at the time was the sixth-richest man in the world or something. And when you got there, the disparity between opulent wealth and people living in cinderblock houses with no windows ... it was an odd odyssey. Muhammad Ali the Grammy-Nominated, Billboard-Charting Musician Ali would talk to anybody. I've never seen anyone with the energy to talk that much. He talked all the time. From the guy who parked the cars to Fidel Castro, everybody had some kind of moment with Muhammad Ali. I would see old-time bigots who obviously had issues with his political stance. But after five minutes with Ali, they were fans. You know how you call friends up on the phone? You couldn't harness Ali. He always was in perpetual motion. It would be like trying to catch a hummingbird in your hands. The last time I saw Ali was at a book signing, probably in the '90s. He had Parkinson's by then and was speaking very slowly. He wanted me to sit behind him onstage while he answered questions, and women came up to kiss him. When I said goodbye to him, lo and behold, Parkinson's and all, Ali went into his boxing pose. I said, "My man, still going." Ali squeezed about as much out of this life as you can. And I'll tell you one thing: He would be loving all this brouhaha about him. If I ran into him, he'd probably say, "Bill Withers, I told you I was the greatest. As told to Gail Mitchell |
"Which sibling asked""Am I my brothers keeper?""?" | Am I my brother’s keeper? Am I my brother’s keeper? Subscribe to our Question of the Week : Question: "Am I my brother’s keeper?" Answer: The phrase “my brother’s keeper” occurs in the context of the story of Cain and Abel in Genesis 4:1-9. After the Lord God had expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden for their disobedience, Cain killed his brother Abel out of jealousy that God had found Abel’s sacrifice acceptable, but He had rejected Cain’s. After the murder, the Lord, knowing full well what had happened, asked Cain where Abel was. Cain’s response was "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?" There is a grain of truth in this brazen lie, despite the surly response Cain offers to the God who created him. While no one is the absolute “keeper” of others in that we are not responsible for everyone’s safety when we are not present, every man is his brother’s keeper in that we are not to commit violent acts against them or allow others to do so if we can prevent it. This sort of “keeping” is something God rightfully demands of everyone, on the grounds of both justice and love. But Cain’s reply indicates a total lack of any kind of feeling for another human being—not to mention the absence of brotherly love—and the overriding presence of the kind of selfishness which kills affection and gives rise to hatred. So are Christians to be the keepers of other Christians? Yes, in two ways. First we are not to commit acts of violence against one another. This includes violence of the tongue in the form of gossip and “quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder” (1 Corinthians 12:20). Second, we are to exhibit brotherly love toward our brothers and sisters in Christ with a tender heart and a humble mind (1 Peter 3:8). In this way, we “keep” those for whom Christ gave His life. One of the golden chapters of the Bible is 1 Corinthians 13. In this magnificent portion of the Scriptures, we are reminded that love is even greater than faith and hope. Chapter 13 comes on the heels of Paul’s explanation of how the Body of Christ (the Church) is like the human body and is made up of many members, all of whom are important to the function and well-being of the Body. We are continually encouraged throughout the New Testament to love one another (Hebrews 13:1; Romans 12:10; 1 Thessalonians 4:9). Sometimes love must correct, admonish or reprove (2 Thessalonians 3:13-15; Matthew 18:15). However, correction is always to be done in the spirit of love with the goal of reconciliation. Paul the apostle wrote to the church at Thessalonica, “And we urge you, brethren, to recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves. Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all. See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all” (1 Thessalonians 5:12-15). So, as Christians, we are to be our brother’s keeper. As Paul wrote, “Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify (build up) another” (Romans 14:19). |
Which demonic name means'Lord Of The Flies'? | Beelzebub Beelzebub Beelzebub in the Gospels "Beelzebub and them that are with him shoot arrows." - Illustration from Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan Ba’al-zebub, also called Beelzebub or Beelzebul is known as the ‘prince of demons’. In the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke), it’s who the Pharisees accused Jesus of being because he could cast out demons. For instance: “The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said, ‘He is possessed by Beelzebul,’ and ‘By the prince of demons he drives out demons.’ – Mk 3:22 “This man drives out demons only by the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons.” – Mt 12:24 “Some of them said ‘By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons.” – Lk 11:15 Beelzebub and the Philistines The name Ba’al-zebub is associated with the Philistine city of Ekron. In 2 Kings, after Moab rebelled against Israel, Ahaziah had fallen and injured himself. To find out if he’d recover from the injury he sent out messengers, telling them: “Go and inquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.” – 2 Kings 1:2 The Lord, however sent Elijah to intercept the messengers on their way to Ekron, asking them if they seek Baalzebub’s advice because there is no God of Israel and instructing them to return home and inform their master that he shall not recover. Beelzebub as Lord of the Flies Ba’alzebub’s name derives from the Canaanite “Baal” meaning “lord,” and he is known as the “lord of the flies” Beelzebub in the Testament of Solomon In the Testament of Solomon (1st-3rd centuries CE), Solomon learns that Beelzeboul is one of the fallen angels who destroys by means of tyrants, causes demons to be worshiped, arouses desires in priests, brings about jealousies and murders, and instigates wars. The other demon he refers to as being imprisoned in the Red Sea is the one-winged demon, Abezethibou, Moses’ adversary in Egypt. “Then I summoned Beelzeboul to appear before me again. When he was seated, I thought it appropriate to ask him, ‘Why are you alone Prince of the Demons?’ He replied, ‘Because I am the only one left of the heavenly angels (who fell). I was the highest-ranking angel in heaven, the one called Beelzeboul. There is also accompanied me another ungodly (angel) whom God cut off and now, imprisoned here, he holds in his power the race of those bound by me in Tartarus. He is being nurtured in the Red Sea; when he is ready, he will come in triumph.” “I said to him, ‘What are your activities?’ He replied, ‘I bring destruction by means of tyrants; I cause the demons to be worshiped alongside men; and I arouse desire in holy men and select priests. I bring about jealousies and murders in a country, and I instigate wars.” – TSol 6:1-4 Beelzeboul then prophecizes that the wind demon, Ephippas will bind the demon imprisoned in the Red Sea and bring him out of the abyss. He then tells Solomon that he is thwarted by the Almighty God and the oath “the Elo-i”. “Then I said, ‘Tell me which angel thwarts you.’ ‘The Almighty God,’ he replied. ‘He is called by the Hebrews Patike, the one who descends from the heights’ he is (called) by the Greeks Emmanouel. I am always afraid of him, and trembling. If anyone adjures me with the oath (called) ‘the Elo-i’, a great name for his power, I disappear.” – TSol 6:8 Another manuscript (MS P) of the passage found includes the numeric sum of the name of God. The letters translate as follows. E = 5, m = 40, m = 40, a = 1, n = 50, o = 70, u = 400, e = 8, l = 30. “I, said to him, ‘Tell me by what angel you are thwarted.’ And he replied, ‘By the holy and precious name of the almighty God, the one called by the Hebrews by a row of numbers, or which the sum is 644, and among the Greeks, it is Emmanouel. And if one of the Romans adjure me by the great name of power, Eleeth, I disappear. ” – TSol 6:8 MS P Finally, Beelzeboul informs Solomon about heavenly things. “Listen, King, if you burn oil of myrrh, frankincense, and bulbs of the sea along with spikenard and saffron, and light seven lamps during an earthquake, you will st |
Which notorious couple lived at 25, Cromwell Street, Gloucester? | 25 Cromwell Street Fred and Rose West Posted in Weird People > Serial Killers and Murderers > Fred and Rose West A policeman stands guard outside 25 Cromwell Street. Before much longer, sensationalist media interest meant that the site needed much greater protection. In 1972, Fred and Rosemary West moved to this property in Gloucester. It was here that their murderous appetites were given full rein, as a succession of lodgers and prostitutes came, went and met grisly demises according to whims of the Wests. The top floor included a room from which Rose carried out her part time occupation as prostitute. Her door was marked by a hand-made metal sign reading simply: "cunt." Holes drilled in the walls meant that Fred could watch goings-on as she had sex with a unending stream of men attracted by her advertisements in the local press. The pair were fascinated by West Indian men in particular and following the couple's arrest, hours of film footage was found of Rose having sex with black men. The most notorious spot in the house was, of course, the cellar. Heavily soundproofed, it was here that Fred and Rose lived out the darkest parts of their perverted desires. Their victims were kept here for up to a week, often bound - sometimes with their heads taped up, with just plastic tubes in their nostrils to allow them to breathe. Thus restricted, they were suspended from the ceiling joists for the sadistic enjoyment of their captors. When they finally died or were killed, Fred would dutifully dismember their corpses and dig a fresh hole through the concrete floor to keep them. At this stage, he would remove 'mementoes' of his victims - normally finger or toe joints, and sometimes knee caps. At Rose's trial, much was made of the size of the house - and the prosecution argued that its narrow confines would make it impossible for Rose to be unaware of the murders, as her defence claimed. While the jury were presented with a scale model of the house, they demanded to be taken to visit the house to see its size for themselves. It is thought that experience of the house's relatively small dimensions played a significant role in their rejection of Rose's claims that she simply didn't know about the murders. Following the conclusion of the trial in 1996, the house was demolished and replaced with a simple pathway to deter sightseers. |
Who wrote the three novels featuring 'Gormenghast'? | Gormenghast (TV Mini-Series 2000) - IMDb (Atwater, CA) – See all my reviews This BBC mini-series is actually a combination of the books Titus Groan and Gormenghast. In 4 - 1 hour parts, being from the BBC they're really close to a whole hour as opposed to the usual 45 minute network episodes. Gormenghast is an ancient kingdom that must be located somewhere in Europe, since it is populated with Europeans. More specifically, it is populated with really odd Europeans, which sounds more like Great Britain. In fact it is a fictional location in which Mervyn Peake has created an extremely ossified culture, technologically stagnant, that indulges itself in numerous obscure rituals that cover almost all routine events, written down in huge books and applied as if their lives depended on it. The story centers around the Groans, who's male heirs rule as Earls. Titus is set to become the 77th Earl of Groan, and as he matures he sees it as his doom rather than his destiny, and comes to despise Gormenghast. At first, however, he's just a baby and the story centers on his father and the odd ducks that are his family and servants. Into this mix is added Steerpike, a kitchen boy of huge ambition that finds ways to ingratiate, titillate and extort his way to a much higher position, hardly killing anyone at all to get there. The Groans and Gormenghast in general are so dense and caught up in the minutiae of their lives it takes them years to realize that there's a raccoon in the chicken house, so there's plenty of story to take up a 4 hour mini-series. I read these two books once upon a time and hardly remember them. I believe the BBC series plays Steerpike a bit more sympathetic than the books did. The trilogy has been compared to LOTR and the Thomas Covenant trilogy, both of which I liked more than Gormenghast. Gormenghast is fiction not fantasy, there are no dragons, orcs or hobbits. The kingdom appears to be mostly medieval with some touches of modernity here and there. The closest thing to monsters are the huge Death Owls. What makes the mini-series work is a very talented cast that bring their characters to life. They make it a pleasure to watch, if only once. 8/10 The 2 DVD set has a Making Of, Cast interviews, a few unrelated trailers. It is all shot in a peculiar not-quite 4:3 or 16:9 format, at least the way my hardware decoded it to the screen. Video and audio are strictly TV quality, with video colorful if a bit smeared and audio all upfront mono as far as I could tell. The DVDs get a 6/10 for getting it on my screen but not much else. 20 of 23 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes |
What was the name of Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina in 622 AD? | Muhammad completes Hegira - Sep 24, 622 - HISTORY.com Muhammad completes Hegira Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 622, the prophet Muhammad completes his Hegira, or “flight,” from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution. In Medina, Muhammad set about building the followers of his religion–Islam–into an organized community and Arabian power. The Hegira would later mark the beginning (year 1) of the Muslim calendar. Muhammad, one of the most influential religious and political leaders in history, was born in Mecca around 570. His father died before he was born, and Muhammad was put under the care of his grandfather, head of the prestigious Hashim clan. His mother died when he was six, and his grandfather when he was eight, leaving him under the care of his uncle Abu Talib, the new head of the clan. When he was 25, Muhammad married a wealthy widow 15 years his senior. He lived the next 15 years as a merchant, and his wife gave birth to six children: two sons, who died in childhood, and four daughters. From time to time, Muhammad spent nights in a cave in Mount Hira north of Mecca, ruminating on the social ills of the city. Around 610, he had a vision in the cave in which he heard the voice of a majestic being, later identified as the angel Gabriel, say to him, “You are the Messenger of God.” Thus began a lifetime of religious revelations, which he and others collected as the Qur’an, or Koran. Muhammad regarded himself as the last prophet of the Judaic-Christian tradition, and he adopted aspects of these older religions’ theologies while introducing new doctrines. Muhammad’s monotheistic religion came to be called Islam, meaning “surrender [to God],” and its followers were Muslims, meaning “those who have surrendered.” His inspired teachings would bring unity to the Arabian peninsula, an event that had sweeping consequences for the rest of the world. By 615, Muhammad had gained about 100 converts in Mecca. He spoke out against rich merchants, who he criticized as immoral in their greed, and he denounced the worshipping of idols and multiple gods, saying, “There is no god but God.” City leaders became hostile to him, and in 619 his uncle Abu Talib died and was succeeded as head of the Hashim clan by another one of Muhammad’s uncles, Abu Lahib. Abu Lahib refused to protect Muhammad, and persecution of the prophet and his Muslims increased. In the summer of 621, an entourage of 12 men came to Mecca from Medina, an oasis community 200 miles to the north. They were ostensibly making a pilgrimage to Mecca’s pagan shrines, but they had actually come to meet with Muhammad and profess themselves as Muslims. In 622, a larger group of converts from Medina came to Mecca and took an oath to Muhammad to defend him as their own kin. Muhammad immediately encouraged his Meccan followers to make their way to Medina in small groups. When city authorities learned that the Muslims had begun an exodus, they plotted to have the prophet killed. Under this threat, Muhammad slipped away unnoticed with a chief disciple and made his way to Medina, using unfrequented paths. He completed the celebrated Hegira (Hijrah in uncorrupted Arabic) on September 24, 622. The history of Islam had begun. At Medina, Muhammad built a theocratic state and led raids on trading caravans from Mecca. Attempts by Meccan armies to defeat the Muslim forces failed, and several leading Meccans immigrated to Medina and became Muslims. Muhammad later become more conciliatory to Mecca, and in 629 he was allowed to lead a pilgrimage there in exchange for a peace treaty. Shortly after, he was attacked by allies of the Meccans, and Muhammad denounced the treaty. In January 630, he returned to his birthplace with 10,000 men, and the Meccans swore allegiance to its Muslim conquerors. He was now the strongest man in Arabia. During the next few years, most of the peninsula’s disparate Arab tribes came to him to ask for alliance and to convert to his religion. By his death, on June 8, 632, Muhammad was the effective ruler of most of Arabia, and his rapidly growing empire was poised for |
What is the name of the 'theme park' near Windsor? | Theme Parks in Windsor | Day Out With The Kids Day Out With The Kids If you know any other great theme parks in Windsor not listed on DAYoutWITHtheKIDS - please get in contact - so we can add them to the site and share the fun places to go with other children - thanks a lot Click on a colour box below - to re-list by Attraction Type Theme Parks near Windsor Windsor Legoland Children aged 3 to 12 can take to the road, soar through the skies and sail the seas in complete safety. With over 50 interactive rides, attractions, live shows, building workshops and driving schools, not to mention over 55 million LEGO bricks, all set in 150 acres of beautiful parkland. Heartlake City... Beaconsfield Bekonscot Model Village The Village depicts rural England in the 1930s and is a miniature wonderland which delights children of all ages. Buy a quiz (over 5s and under 5s) from our shop and enjoy answering the questions as you wander around. Chatham Maritime Dickens World is a 90 minute journey of discovery. Your personal guide will walk and talk you through the amazing life and story of Charles Dickens as well as the tales of Victorian England. It is a chance to meet all of the nice and nasty characters that Charles Dickens loved and wrote about in his novels and short... The New Forest Paultons Family Theme Park Now Open: Critter Creek: a new mini-land of weird and wonderful discoveries! Plus over 60 wonderful rides and attractions to suit all ages included in one price, such as the mighty Edge ride and the awesome Cobra rollercoaster! Reading Bucklebury Farm Park A great family day out in the countryside with farm animals to meet, Pat a Pet area and other activities to enjoy. Tractor and trailer ride included in entry fee. Free entry for kids under 2 years old. Windsor Museum of Eton Life Eton College was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI and is one of the oldest schools in the country. Discover the world of the Eton schoolboy, including games and colourful customs! Guided tours are available too. Windsor Eton College Natural History Museum Berkshire’s only museum dedicated to Natural History with over 70 interesting displays to enjoy, a selection of trails to follow plus a cool hands on exhibit to get to grips with! Free to visit, but REALLY limited availability! Bracknell The Look Out Discovery Centre Has over 90 hands-on science and nature activities, fun for everyone! Leave your shadow on the wall, make a mini animation, dam up "The Stream" and much more! Plus, a fantastic adventure play area, coffee and gift shops and 1000 hectares of Crown Estate woodland. Windsor Windsor Leisure Centre Aqua thrills for everyone; with Monsoon and Cyclone the two Giant Slides,Wild Water Creek, Water Cannons, interactive water diving bell and splash features plus the brand new AQUAPLATFORM with junior slide,squirtums and drench bucket.Toddlers enjoy splashing about on the Beach and sliding into the warm water... Wokingham Monkey Mates Indoor Play Centre We have an indoor area containing slides, ball pools and ball cannons and also an outdoor area complete with swings, frame, roundabout and sit and ride cars etc. we will soon be adding a traversing wall to the outside area. we have full catering facilities Serving tasty food and drinks. Newbury Eddie Catz One of the very best in indoor play, Eddie Catz is the place to bring your child to play, have a party, take a class or join a workshop or an event! Our fun, safe environment has something for every child to do. Reading Skiplex Endless Indoor Ski Slope Is an ideal way to teach skiing and boarding to beginners, or challenge pros. Our revolving slopes mean you can do turn after turn, forgetting the hassle of lift queues, crowds and bad weather. Suitable for 5 year olds upwards, all equipment and instruction included in the cost Old Windsor French Brothers Boats Runnymede French Brothers boat trips from Runnymede aboard our replica paddle steamer always spark children’s imagination! A short cruise on this charming vessel is available to board from the Runnymede Boathouse, excellent for parking and a |
What product do the company Farrow and Ball make? | Our Paint | Farrow & Ball The F&B Difference Farrow & Ball paints are born and bred in Dorset, England. We’ve resided here since John Farrow, and fellow paint pioneer, Richard Ball first founded the company in 1946. Their passion for making paint to original formulations, using only the finest ingredients and age-old methods, is matched by our craftsmen today. There is true alchemy to our paints. It’s the high levels of pigment, rich resin binders, and the high refractory nature of our key ingredients that produces our signature immersive depth of colour. And, to ensure our paint meets our obsessively high requirements, we scrupulously test every batch before it even reaches the tin. There’s a reason Stiffkey Blue is the precise colour of the extraordinary mud found at Stiffkey beach in Norfolk! With interior and exterior, modern and traditional finishes available in a carefully edited palette of 132 colours, our paints are created to shape homes around the world. Discover Our Range One of the more distinguishing attributes of Farrow & Ball is our paint names. Always distinct and rooted in the past, our names create a lot of conversation! Generally these names are inspired by nature and our Dorset surroundings, found in historic houses or named after friends of Farrow & Ball. Discover Nancy's Blushes St Giles Blue, for example, is named after a colour we found a few miles away from our Dorset home in the hallway at 17th century St Giles House, whereas colours such as, Charlotte’s Locks and Nancy’s Blushes are named after the fiery red hair and rosy cheeks of people we know and love. |
Which is the main vitamin found in Liver Worts, butter-fat, green leaves etc.? | Adelle Davis Revisited: Vitamin A nutritional supplements vitamins deficiencies optimum health freedom of choice in nutrition health food holistic natural solving nutrition problems topics concerns information solutions diet alternative herbal herbs Adelle Davis health food stores nutritional holistic natural remedies remedy solutions decisions diet dietician vitamins minerals nutrients herbs herbal organic biological supplements raw food vegetarian fast heal healing fasting juice nature practitioner health and wellness fitness physical exercise cleansing immune system building health folk medicine unrefined cure curing whole foods unprocessed aid research conditions help health decisions home remedies Main Menu There are chemicals made in the laboratory that are vastly different from natural vitamin A. But they are legally allowed to be sold as "Vitamin A." They can be extremely toxic even in small amounts.. It is this synthetic vitamin A that is causing all the hysteria. A teaspoon or more of cod-liver oil, quickly swallowed, is a very excellent source of A as well. But Beta carotene, which is a plant-source pre-cursor of vitamin A that isn't as effective as fish-oil A, is turned into vitamin A in the body only if many specific nutrients are obtained with it, which may not happen during infections. Adelle Davis wrote that during any infection, "the need for vitamin A skyrockets." Many decades ago, an acne cream was marketed containing a very bizarre chemical that was called "vitamin A" even though it was a laboratory-made product that bore little resemblance to the natural vitamin A. This acne cream's "vitamin A" was so toxic that even a tiny bit of the cream on the face of a pregnant woman would penetrate through the skin and cause birth defects in the baby. This most probably started the universal medical admonition in America that "vitamin A even in small amounts can be toxic." This idea persists today, tragically causing many Americans to be grossly vitamin-A deficient. In our opinion, only the unadulterated fish-oil chemical called "retinol" should be allowed to be marketed under the term "vitamin A." Vitamin A was the first vitamin to get a label ("A") because it was thought to be the greatest nutrient for preventing infections. On dosages of vitamin A that cause toxicity "The safe upper single dose of retinol in oil or liver seems to be approximately 4-6 mg/kg body wt." From the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , Am J Clin Nutr. 2003 Dec;78(6):1152-9. The authors canvassed the entire available medical literature, and retrieved (only) 259 thoroughly documented case histories of persons who experienced effects from excessive vitamin A intake. From this information, the limits of retinol that one can safely take were determined. Note: the term "retinol" should be used only to designate the unaltered compound as derived from animal sources. However, the authors do not distinguish between completely unaltered, naturally-derived retinol and laboratory-modified retinol. Therefore, even this study cannot be said to demonstrate ANY toxicity from natural retinol. Quote: "Chronic hypervitaminosis A is induced after daily doses of 2 milligrams of retinol per kilogram of body weight in oil-based preparations for many months or years. In contrast, doses as low as 0.2 mg retinol. kg(-1). d(-1) in water-miscible, emulsified, and solid preparations for only a few weeks caused chronic hypervitaminosis A. Thus, water-miscible, emulsified, and solid preparations of retinol are approximately 10 times as toxic as are oil-based retinol preparations. The safe upper single dose of retinol in oil or liver seems to be approximately 4-6 mg/kg body wt. These thresholds do not vary considerably with age." (Abstract from PubMed ) It should be noted that retinol, when sold as vitamin A in oil-based capsules such as fish liver oil, is measured in International Units, not milligrams. So are vitamins D and E, which are also oil-soluble. One milligram of oil-based vitamins equals 4,000 to 6,000 International Units ("IU" or now s |
Which 'French Impressionist' painter, famed for his portrait, 'The Bar At The Folies Bergere', was born in Paris in 1832, and died of a gangrenous leg in 1883? | Edouard Manet facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Edouard Manet COPYRIGHT 2004 The Gale Group Inc. Édouard Manet The art of the French painter Édouard Manet (1832-1883) broke with 19th-century academic precepts and marks the beginning of modern painting. Edouard Manet was born in Paris on Jan. 23, 1832, to Auguste Manet, an official at the Ministry of Justice, and Eugénie Désirée Manet. The father, who had expected Édouard to study law, vigorously opposed his wish to become a painter. The career of naval officer was decided upon as a compromise, and at the age of 16 Édouard sailed to Rio de Janeiro on a training vessel. Upon his return he failed to pass the entrance examination of the naval academy. His father relented, and in 1850 Manet entered the studio of Thomas Couture, where, in spite of many disagreements with his teacher, he remained until 1856. During this period Manet traveled abroad and made numerous copies after the Old Masters in both foreign and French public collections. Early Works Manet's entry for the Salon of 1859, the Absinthe Drinker, a thematically romantic but conceptually already daring work, was rejected. At the Salon of 1861, his Spanish Singer, one of a number of works of Spanish character painted in this period, not only was admitted to the Salon but won an honorable mention and the acclaim of the poet Théophile Gautier. This was to be Manet's last success for many years. In 1863 Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff, a Dutch pianist. That year he showed 14 paintings at the Martinet Gallery; one of them, Music in the Tuileries, remarkable for its freshness in the handling of a contemporary scene, was greeted with considerable hostility. Also in 1863 the Salon rejected Manet's large painting Luncheon on the Grass, and the artist elected to have it shown at the now famous Salon des Refusés, created by the Emperor under the pressure of the exceptionally large number of painters whose work had been turned away. Here, Manet's picture attracted the most attention and brought forth a kind of abusive criticism which was to set a pattern for years to come. Although this painting is a paraphrase of Giorgione's Concert champêtre, the combination of clothed men and a nude woman in a modern context was found offensive. In 1865 Manet's Olympia produced a still more violent reaction at the official Salon, and his reputation as a renegade became widespread. Upset by the criticism, Manet made a brief trip to Spain, where he admired many works by Diego Velázquez, to whom he referred as "the painter of painters." Support of Baudelaire and Zola Manet's close friend and supporter during the early years was Charles Baudelaire, who, in 1862, had written a quatrain to accompany one of Manet's Spanish subjects, Lola de Valence, and the public, largely as a result of the strange atmosphere of the Olympia, linked the two men readily. In 1866, after the Salon jury had rejected two of Manet's works, Émile Zola came to his defense with a series of articles filled with strongly expressed, uncompromising praise. In 1867 he published a book which contains the prediction, "Manet's place is destined to be in the Louvre." This book appears on Zola's desk in Manet's portrait of the writer (1868). In May of that year the Paris World's Fair opened its doors, and Manet, at his own expense, exhibited 50 of his works in a temporary structure, not far from Gustave Courbet's private exhibition. This was in keeping with Manet's view, expressed years later to his friend Antonin Proust, that his paintings must be seen together in order to be fully understood. Although Manet insisted that a painter be "resolutely of his own time" and that he paint what he sees, he nevertheless produced two important religious works, the Dead Christ with Angels and Christ Mocked by the Soldiers, which were shown at the Salons of 1864 and 1865, respectively, and ridiculed. Only Zola could defend the former work on the grounds of its vigorous realism while playing down its alleged lack of piety. It is also true that although Manet despise |
What is the name of the Highwayman featured in John Gay's musical play, 'The Beggar's Opera'? | The Beggar’s Opera The Beggar’s Opera, Introduction and Act I Summary and Analysis | GradeSaver Introduction The Introduction features characters named Beggar and Player , who address the audience directly. The Beggar identifies himself as belonging to a “company of beggars,” with whom he frequents the area of St. Giles’s, a London district that was known to be a slum in the 18th century. He explains that he earns a modest income there in exchange for his songs and ballads. The Player then assures the audience that the Beggar's work should be judged on its artistic merit, and not on the appearance of its author. He insists that the Muses, i.e. the “poetic spirits,” pay no attention to fine clothing. The Beggar next explains that he originally wrote this story to celebrate the marriage of two ballad-singers. He then insists to the audience that his opera follows the conventions of the celebrated, fashionable operas of the day. As examples, he notes that: his opera utilizes nature-similes; his opera includes a prison scene; and the female roles receive equal stage time. The only contemporary opera features he has omitted are the use of prologue and epilogue. The Player spies the actors preparing to begin. He cues the orchestra, and retreats with the Beggar. Act I Scene I The play begins in Peachum ’s house. Peachum, a criminal who manages a syndicate of highwaymen, sits alone at a table with a large account book before him. He sings an air (or ballad) whose lyric insists that all social roles and jobs are equally duplicitous and base: "Whore and rogue they call husband and wife...The priest calls the lawyer a cheat...The lawyer be-knaves the divine" (p. 5). He then follows that his own employment as a criminal is at least as honest as a lawyer’s, since both professions protect "cheats." Scene II Enter Filch , a member of Peachum's gang. Filch brings word of Black Moll, who is soon to face a criminal trial and hopes Peachum can secure her release through his connections with law enforcement. Peachum suggests that Black Moll could claim to be pregnant to avoid hanging, but then decides that he will soften the evidence against her since she has been useful to him. In this conversation, the audience first learns that Peachum controls a large band of thieves, and that he is connected to the government and courts because he is of a slightly higher social class than the thieves are. Because of these connections, Peachum can decide whether to allow a captured crook to be hung or to be released. If he chooses the former, he receives a reward. Peachum and Filch discuss the gang. There’s Tom Gagg, against whom Peachum will provide evidence in exchange for a reward of 40 pounds. He will save Betty Sly from being shipped off to the colonies, since her reprieve will yield greater profit than her punishment will. Filch reminisces how Betty taught him the art of thieving. Both men reflect on the utility of women: they are good thieves, and they procreate to make more. “...[T]here is nothing to be got by the death of women—except our wives" (p. 6). Filch sings an air which states that men first learn trickery from women. Woman’s kindness is but a device, used especially to ensnare a man’s love. After the song, Filch leaves for Newgate, London’s most notorious prison, to announce Peachum's decisions about whom he will save. Scene III Peachum, alone with his account book once more, flips through the pages to determine which crooks he should betray, and which he should save. He examines their winnings - items purloined in pickpocketing - and considers each crewmember’s shortcomings. Their names include: Crook-finger’d Jack, Tom Tipple, Wat Dreary , Matt of the Mint , Bob Booty. Scene IV Mrs. Peachum , Peachum’s wife, enters and inquires about Bob Booty, her favorite member of the gang. Peachum responds that Bob is currently on Peachum's blacklist, meaning he will allow Bob to be hung in exchange for the 40 pound reward. Mrs. Peachum rescinds her concern, acknowledging that women are terrible judges in gallows-matters. She then sings an air ab |
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"Which actor played the title role in the 1939 film ""Young Mr. Lincoln""?" | Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC Famous Directors: From Sundance to Prominence From Christopher Nolan to Quentin Tarantino and every Coen brother in between, many of today's most popular directors got their start at the Sundance Film Festival . Here's a list of some of the biggest names to go from Sundance to Hollywood prominence. a list of 46 titles created 28 Dec 2014 a list of 29 titles created 11 months ago a list of 26 titles created 10 months ago a list of 40 titles created 8 months ago a list of 29 titles created 5 months ago Title: Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) 7.6/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination. See more awards » Photos Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutinary War begins. Director: John Ford A Western retelling the tale of the Shoot-out at the OK Corral. Director: John Ford Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. The men smuggle drink and women aboard, fight with each other, spy on ... See full summary » Director: John Ford In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in. Director: John Ford The story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincoln's assassin in 1865. Director: John Ford Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey. Director: John Ford A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process. Director: John Ford At Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe. Director: John Ford A dramatized account of the role of the American PT Boats in the defense of the Philippines in World War II. Directors: John Ford, Robert Montgomery Stars: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled. Director: John Ford Hillbilly family life in 1941 rural Georgia. Director: John Ford Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest. Directors: John Ford, Emilio Fernández Stars: Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz Edit Storyline Ten years in the life of Abraham Lincoln, before he became known to his nation and the world. He moves from a Kentucky cabin to Springfield, Illinois, to begin his law practice. He defends two men accused of murder in a political brawl, suffers the death of his girlfriend Ann, courts his future wife Mary Todd, and agrees to go into politics. Written by Ed Stephan <[email protected]> The story of Abraham Lincoln that has NEVER been told! Genres: 9 June 1939 (USA) See more » Also Known As: El joven Lincoln See more » Filming Locations: Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording) Color: Did You Know? Trivia John Ford and producer Darryl F. Zanuck fought an extended battle over control of the film. Ford even had unused takes of the film destroyed so the studio could not insert them into the movie. One scene that Ford insisted on cutting was a scene where Lincol |
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Which word, derived from the Latin for 'wild', describes an untamed or uncultivated animal? | What is feral - Sesli Sözlük wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog A wild animal, often one that has escaped from a farming community, such as a pig or goat Sometimes this term also applies to plants Feral animals are wild animals that are not owned or controlled by anyone, especially ones that belong to species which are normally owned and kept by people. feral cats. domesticated. feral animals used to live with humans but have become wild (feralis, from fera ) {s} wild, untamed; brutal (fir' l) Formerly domesticated animals that are in a wild state in an area Oftentimes this involves pigs, cats, goats, and other species brought to an area by humans for agriculture or other uses that later were allowed to run free and cause damage to native species Pertaining to wild populations of animals derived from commensal ancestors; house mice that live apart from, and independent of, humans (see Chapter 2) A domestic animal that has taken up a wild existence A once farmed fish (or the progeny of a farmed fish) which is living (not necessarily breeding) in a wild state Feral fish can pose problems for fish farmers on a number of counts: They may harbour diseases which at any time could re-infect a farm , especially if they are migratory and move between the farm outlet and the farm inlet, they can cause environmental damage by interbreeding with specific wild strains of the same species and also by becoming dominant in an exotic ecosystem Such an example is the common carp in Australia and USA, where feral fish cause waters to be stirred up, limiting the primary production and food sources for other species Wild, used to describe animals that are usually not domesticated, like cats or pigs |
In which city are the headquarters of Mercedes? | About Mercedes-Benz USA | Mercedes-Benz CONTACT US In 2015, MBUSA achieved the highest annual sales volume in its history with 343,088 units sold for the Mercedes-Benz brand, representing a 3.8% increase over 2014 sales. Sprinter Vans achieved an annual sales total of 29,889 gaining 16.1%. Adding 7,484 units from smart, MBUSA's year-end-sales total hit an all-time record 380,461 vehicles, increasing 3.8% from the previous year. Although MBUSA was founded in 1965, importation of Mercedes-Benz vehicles actually began in 1952 under Max Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman was a driving force behind the car that cemented the identity of Mercedes-Benz in America: the iconic 300SL Gullwing. By 1957, Mercedes-Benz was in a position to expand its reach in the United States and entered into a distribution agreement with Studebaker-Packard Corporation. Eight years later, the company struck out on its own, forming Mercedes-Benz USA. Over the following years, MBUSA grew into a nationwide organization, now employing over 1,600 people. The company also has 368 associated dealerships that employ over 22,000 people themselves. Working at the Best Mercedes-Benz was founded by Karl Benz, Emil Jellinek (daughter Mercedes), Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach Daimler Corporate headquarters is located in Stuttgart, Germany 93 locations worldwide Production facilities in 17 countries on 5 continents Many pioneering technical innovations that are standard automotive features today were first seen in a Mercedes-Benz car, including the crumple zone (1959), ABS (1978), airbags (1980), belt pretensioners (1980), ESP (1995), PRE-SAFE® (2002) and many other milestones in passenger vehicle technology. /mercedes aboutmb [ ] [C63, C63P, C63C, CLA45C4, CLS63, CLS63P, CLS63C4S, E63, E63P, E63SP, E63W4S, E63S4S, GLA45W4, GLE450C4, GLE63C4S, GLE63W4, GLE63W4S, G63, GTS, S63V4, S65V, S63C4, S65C, SL63, SL65, C450W4, C63W, C63WS, G63W4, G65W4, GLS63W4, C63C, C63CS, SLC43R, S63A4, SL63R, SL65R, GT, GLE43C4, S65A, C43C4, GLC43W4, C43W4, C63A, C63AS, C43A4, E43W4, GLE43W4] true |
In a mechanical clock or watch, what mechanism ensures that the hands are driven at an even rate? | History of the Clock History of the Clock Introduction A clock is a mechanical or electrical device other than a watch for displaying time. A clock is a machine in which a device that performs regular movements in equal intervals of time is linked to a counting mechanism that records the number of movements. All clocks, of whatever form, are made on this principle. The origin of the all-mechanical escapement clock is unknown; the first such devices may have been invented and used in monasteries to toll a bell that called the monks to prayers. The first mechanical clocks to which clear references exist were large, weight-driven machines fitted into towers and known today as turret clocks. These early devices struck only the hours and did not have hands or a dial. The oldest surviving clock in England is that at Salisbury Cathedral, which dates from 1386. A clock erected at Rouen, France, in 1389 is still extant (see photograph), and one built for Wells Cathedral in England is preserved in the Science Museum in London. The Salisbury clock strikes the hours, and those of Rouen and Wells also have mechanisms for chiming at the quarter hour. These clocks are large, iron-framed structures driven by falling weights attached to a cord wrapped around a drum and regulated by a mechanism known as a verge (or crown wheel) escapement. Their errors probably were as large as a half hour per day. The first domestic clocks were smaller wall-mounted versions of these large public clocks. They appeared late in the 14th century, and few examples have survived; most of them, extremely austere in design, had no cases or means of protection from dust. About 1450, clockmakers working probably in southern Germany or northern Italy began to make small clocks driven by a spring. These were the first portable timepieces, representing an important landmark in horology. The time-telling dials of these clocks usually had an hour hand only (minute hands did not generally appear until the 1650s) and were exposed to the air; there was normally no form of cover such as a glass until the 17th century, though the mechanism was enclosed, and the cases were made of brass. About 1581 Galileo noticed the characteristic timekeeping property of the pendulum. The Dutch astronomer and physicist Christiaan Huygens was responsible for the practical application of the pendulum as a time controller in clocks from 1656 onward. Huygens's invention brought about a great increase in the importance and extent of clock making. Clocks, weight-driven and with short pendulums, were encased in wood and made to hang on the wall, but these new eight-day wall clocks had very heavy weights, and many fell off weak plaster walls and were destroyed. The next step was to extend the case to the floor, and the grandfather clock was born. In 1670 the long, or seconds, pendulum was introduced by English clock makers with the anchor escapement. Mechanical clocks The pendulum The pendulum is a reliable time measurer because, for small arcs, the time required for a complete swing (period) depends only on the length of the pendulum and is almost independent of the extent of the arc. The length of a pendulum with a period of one second is about 39 inches (990 mm), and an increase in length of 0.001 inch (0.025 mm) will make the clock lose about one second per day. Altering the length of a pendulum is therefore a sensitive means of regulation. The alteration is usually carried out by allowing the bob to rest upon a nut that can be screwed up or down the pendulum rod. Any expansion or contraction of the rod caused by changes of temperature will affect the timekeeping of a pendulum; e.g., a pendulum clock with a steel rod will lose one second a day for a rise in temperature of approximately 4 °F (2.2 °C). For accurate |
What was the capital of the ancient Assyrian civilisation? | Assyria - Ancient History Encyclopedia Assyria by Joshua J. Mark published on 12 June 2014 Assyria was the region in the Near East which, under the Neo-Assyrian Empire , reached from Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) through Asia Minor (modern Turkey ) and down through Egypt . The empire began modestly at the city of Ashur (known as Subartu to the Sumerians ), located in Mesopotamia north-east of Babylon , where merchants who traded in Anatolia became increasingly wealthy, and that affluence allowed for the growth and prosperity of the city. According to one interpretation of passages in the biblical Book of Genesis, Ashur was founded by a man named Ashur son of Shem, son of Noah, after the Great Flood, who then went on to found the other important Assyrian cities . A more likely account is that the city was named Ashur after the deity of that name sometime in the 3rd millennium BCE; the same god's name is the origin for `Assyria'. The biblical version of the origin of Ashur appears later in the historical record after the Assyrians had accepted Christianity , and so it is thought to be a re-interpretation of their early history which was more in keeping with their belief system. The Assyrians were a Semitic people who originally spoke and wrote Akkadian before the easier to use Aramaic language became more popular. Historians have divided the rise and fall of the Assyrian Empire into three periods: The Old Kingdom , The Middle Empire, and The Late Empire (also known as the Neo-Assyrian Empire), although it should be noted that Assyrian history continued on past that point, and there are still Assyrians living in the regions of Iran and Iraq, and elsewhere, in the present day. The Assyrian Empire is considered the greatest of the Mesopotamian empires due to its expanse and the development of the bureaucracy and military strategies which allowed it to grow and flourish. The Old Kingdom Although the city of Ashur existed from the 3rd millennium BCE, the extant ruins of that city date to 1900 BCE which is now considered the date the city was founded. According to early inscriptions, the first king was Tudiya, and those who followed him were known as “kings who lived in tents” suggesting a pastoral, rather than urban, community. Ashur was certainly an important centre of commerce even at this time, however, even though its precise form and structure is unclear. The king Remove Ads Advertisement The destruction of the great Assyrian cities was so complete that, within two generations of the empire’s fall, no one knew where the cities had been. Erishum I built the temple of Ashur on the site in c. 1900/1905 BCE, and this has come to be the accepted date for the founding of an actual city on the site although, obviously, some form of city must have existed there prior to that date. The historian Wolfram von Soden writes, Because of a dearth of sources, very little is known of Assyria in the third millennium…Assyria did belong to the Empire of Akkad at times, as well as to the Third Dynasty of Ur . Our main sources for this period are the many thousand Assyrian letters and documents from the trade colonies in Cappadocia, foremost of which was Kanesh (modern Kultepe) (49-50). The trade colony of Karum Kanesh (the Port of Kanesh) was among the most lucrative centres for trade in the ancient Near East and definitely the most important for the city of Ashur. Merchants from Ashur traveled to Kanesh, set up businesses, and then, after placing trusted employees (usually family members) in charge, returned to Ashur and supervised their business dealings from there. The historian Paul Kriwaczek notes: For several generations the trading houses of Karum Kanesh flourished, and some became extremely wealthy – ancient millionaires. However not all business was kept within the family. Ashur had a sophisticated banking system and some of the capital that financed the Anatolian trade came from long-term investments made by independent speculators in return for a contractually specified proportion of the profits. There is not much about today’s com |
In World War I, British soldiers were named 'Tommies', what name was given to French soldiers? | Slang terms at the Front - The British Library Slang terms at the Front Julian Walker explores the growth of slang used by soldiers in the trenches from describing food to alternate names for allies and enemies. Food The limited diet of the British soldier in the front line included Tickler’s Plum and Apple Jam, known as ‘pozzy’ (possibly from a South African word for ‘preserved food’), ‘biscuit’, a hard-baked bread that had seen service for many years in Britain’s armies and navies, and ‘bully beef’, whose name may have come from the French boeuf bouillé (boiled beef) or possibly from the picture of a bull’s head on many tin designs. ‘Gippo’, stew or thick gravy, probably derived from a term used in the 17th and 18th centuries to denote a kitchen servant. Rum was delivered to the front in jars labelled SRD, interpreted as ‘seldom reaches destination’. Available behind the lines in French bars were ‘Bombardier Fritz’ (pommes de terre frites – chips) with ‘oofs’ and ‘pang’, and ‘plonk’ (vin blanc – white wine). Experiences common to European armies at the time – poor food and the logistics of transport – provided similar terms for poor quality butter or margarine: ‘axlegrease’ and the German Wagenschmiere (wagongrease). Soldiers grew adept at getting hold of food by various means; terms included ‘mumping’, ‘winning’, ‘cadging’, ‘humming’, ‘making’, ‘boning’, ‘souveniring’ and ‘hot-stuffing’. Some of these terms were invented at the time while others dated back centuries. Cook book for the trenches Cookbook for soldiers in the trenches published in 1915 giving simple recipes that could be made with few ingredients. Free from known copyright restrictions Materiel Many of the terms for weapons and artillery were remarkably similar on both sides of no man’s land, indicating a similarity of attitude, that the soldier had two enemies, the opposing forces and the war itself. Germans and British used the same terms for the German stick-grenade – a potato-masher – both sides had a ‘Black Maria’, and both sides used a German name for an aeroplane – a ‘Taube’. Some of these terms became indelibly associated with the war: ‘whizz-bangs’ speaks explicitly of the soldier’s experience of knowing how to identify a particular kind of incoming shell, and what action might be worth taking. ‘Jack Johnson’, referencing the black heavyweight champion boxer, was for a shell which created a large amount of black smoke. ‘Moaning Minnie’ referred to the German trench mortar or Minenwerfer, the term carrying overtones of familiarity and humour. Names for troops: ‘Tommy’ and ‘Foot Slogger’ Documentation of ‘Tommy Atkins’, the archetypical name for the British soldier, dates back to 1815. ‘Tommy’ became immortalised in the first of Rudyard Kipling’s Barrack Room Ballads, published in 1892: O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' “Tommy, go away”; But it's “Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play, The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play, O it's “Thank you, Mr. Atkins," when the band begins to play. The name ‘Tommy’ was used universally throughout the First World War, by both sides. Some correspondence to The Times in 1914 indicates that not everyone felt well-disposed towards the name. ‘An Ensign of 1848’ wrote on 23 October: ‘May I ... suggest that the time has now come ... to put a period to the use of the nickname ‘Tommies’? ... To hear these British soldiers referred to in depreciatory patronage as ‘Tommies’ by those who stay at home ... is unseemly and exasperating.’ Three days later another reader wrote that if you were to ask ‘a company of Garrison Artillery what they think of the name and of the verses in which it was first enshrined the reply was startling and anything but complimentary to the author of the verses.’ It is possible that this was a matter of opinion which differed between individuals, regiments, platoons, and any groupings of soldiers. Certainly there are clear indications of its being used by soldiers: the trench paper The Salient for Christmas 1915 advertises The Buzzer, the paper of the 49th |
What was made by the now defunct companies 'Delarge', 'Delahaye' and 'Hotchkiss'? | Buses GUY Wolverhampton England UK | Myn Transport Blog Buses GUY Wolverhampton England UK Posted on 6 February 2014 by Jeroen GUY Guy Motors was a Wolverhampton -based vehicle manufacturer that produced cars, lorries, buses and trolleybuses . The company was founded by Sydney S. Guy (1885-1971) who was born in Kings Heath , Birmingham. Guy Motors operated out of its Fallings Park factory from 1914 to 1982, playing an important role in the development of the British motor industry. 1953 Guy GS bus built for London Transport History Foundation and the First World War Sydney S. Guy registered Guy Motors Limited on Saturday 30 May 1914, the same day he departed his position as Works Manager at the Wolverhampton company, Sunbeam . A factory was built on the site at Fallings Park, Wolverhampton . and by September 1914 production was underway on the newly designed 30 cwt lorry. This employed a much lighter form of pressed steel frame, unlike the more commonly used heavy rolled steel channel frames of the time. This made the vehicle able to cross difficult terrain and a 14 seat poster bus built based on the design was used for crossing the Scottish Highlands. 1914 Guy’s 14 seater bus designed for use in the highlands In 1915 Guy came under control of the Ministry of Munitions and production was focused on the war effort. The factory continued to produce 30cwt lorries which were supplied to Britain’s allies in the First World War . They also produced Wasp and Dragonfly radial aircraft engines, Tylor truck engines and Maudslay gearboxes as well as being the country’s largest maker of depth charge fuzes. For their efforts during the war Guy received a commendation from William Weir , Secretary of State for Air. Due to orders from the ministry Guy prospered during the war, expanding its factory and became an established name in British manufacturing. 1920s The post-war period was difficult for the motor industry as military contracts were cancelled and military vehicles no longer required for service were sold onto the market at low prices. Guy returned to the civilian market, deciding to make luxury cars with a design by RH Rose, also from Sunbeam. They produced the Guy 8-cylinder car, powered by the first British V8 engine and featuring horizontal side valves. Around 25 of these were made and it was joined by a smaller model in 1922 with the 2465 cc four-cylinder 16.9 hp. A cheaper model followed in 1924 with the 1954 cc 13/36 with an engine from Coventry Climax . About 110 of the 4-cylinder models are thought to have been made. Production also continued on vehicles based on the 30cwt chassis such as the Guy charabanc and their major success the 30 seater bus. In 1924 the company adopted the slogan ‘Feathers in our Cap’ which led to the addition of a Native American mascot to their vehicles. 1924 also saw Guy produce the first ever dropped frame chassis for passenger vehicles (the B-type). This design allowed passengers to enter buses in a single step and became extremely popular, Guy receiving an order for 170 from Rio de Janeiro. Guy Motors badge Growing populations in towns and cities meant larger capacity buses were a necessity, leading Guy to develop a 6-wheeled version of their dropped-frame chassis which allowed for the introduction of the first 6-wheeled double decker buses and 6 wheeled trolleybuses in 1926. Guy double decker buses and trolleybuses would prove popular with a fleet of double deckers sold to the London Public Omnibus Company and exports supplied all around the world. Exports served as a major source of income for Guy with sales to South Africa, Pakistan, India and the Netherlands, their armoured vehicles proving particularly popular for covering difficult terrain with 100 supplied to the Indian government in 1928. Guy’s first military vehicle produced in 1923 In 1928 Guy took control of fellow Wolverhampton manufacturer the Star Motor Company , who had seen declining sales throughout the decade, in an attempt to expand their luxury car manufacturing. Under Guy, Star Motors mo |
Which Prime Minister persuaded Queen Victoria to take the title 'Empress Of India'? | Queen Victoria Becomes Empress of India | Making Britain Queen Victoria Becomes Empress of India Date: 01 Jan 1877 About: In 1877, Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative Prime Minister, had Queen Victoria proclaimed as Empress of India. India was already under crown control after 1858, but this title was a gesture to link the monarchy with the empire further and bind India more closely to Britain. The Royal Titles Bill was brought before Parliament in 1876. It faced opposition from Liberals who feared that the title was synonymous with absolutism. Queen Victoria opened Parliament in person, the first time since the death of Prince Albert, to announce the change in royal title. Celebrations were held in Delhi, in what is known as the Delhi Durbar, on 1 January 1877, led by the Viceroy, Lord Lytton. People involved: Secondary works: Cannadine, David, Ornamentalism: How the British saw their Empire (London: Penguin, 2001) Cohn, Bernard S., 'Representing Authority in Victorian India', in Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (eds) The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992) Metcalf, Thomas R., Ideologies of the Raj (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) Strachey, Lytton, Queen Victoria (London: Chatto & Windus, 1921) Archive source: |
In Greek mythology, name the ship in which Jason sailed, in search of the 'Golden Fleece'? | Argonauts - definition of Argonauts by The Free Dictionary Argonauts - definition of Argonauts by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Argonauts Also found in: Thesaurus , Encyclopedia , Wikipedia . Ar·go·naut (är′gə-nôt′) n. 1. Greek Mythology One who sailed with Jason on the Argo in search of the Golden Fleece. 2. also argonaut A person who is engaged in a dangerous but rewarding quest; an adventurer. [From Latin Argonautae, Argonauts, from Greek Argonautēs, Argonaut : Argō, the ship Argo + nautēs, sailor (from naus, ship; see nāu- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).] ar·go·naut [New Latin Argonauta, genus name, from Latin Argonautae, Argonauts; see Argonaut.] Argonaut (ˈɑːɡəˌnɔːt) n 1. (Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in quest of the Golden Fleece 2. (Historical Terms) a person who took part in the Californian gold rush of 1849 3. (Animals) another name for the paper nautilus [C16: from Greek Argonautēs, from Argō the name of Jason's ship + nautēs sailor] ˌArgoˈnautic adj (ˈɑr gəˌnɔt, -ˌnɒt) n. 1. a member of the band of men who sailed to Colchis with Jason in the ship Argo in search of the Golden Fleece. 2. (sometimes l.c.) a person in quest of something dangerous but rewarding; adventurer. [< Latin Argonauta < Greek Argonaútēs crewman of the ship Argo ; see nautical ] ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: |
Queen Alia Airport serves which Middle East city? | Amman Queen Alia International Airport - QAIA Airport Amman Queen Alia International Airport Travel Guide Welcome to Amman Queen Alia International Airport - Amman Airport (AMM) Use this website to quickly find the most important information about Amman Queen Alia International Airport: Flights (Departures, Arrivals), Parking, Car Rentals, Hotels near the airport and other information about QAIA airport. Plan your travel to Amman Airport with the information provided in this site. Check Amman Travel Guide at Bautrip for more information about Amman. Amman Queen Alia International Airport (IATA: AMM, ICAO: OJAI) (Matar al-Malikah 'Alya' Ad-Dowaly) is located in Zizya area, 20 miles (30km) south of Amman, the capital city of Jordan. It is the home hub of Royal Jordanian Airlines, the national flag carrier, and Jordan Aviation, Royal Falcon and Royal Wings as well. In March of 2013 the old terminal closed and the new terminal opened. It was awarded by Airport Council international as the best airport in Middle East in 2014. Queen Alia International Airport (IATA: AMM) is the biggest airport in Jordan The airport is located 30 kilometres south of Amman Amman Airport served 7 Million passengers in 2015 There is only one terminal, which was opened in March 2013 Amman airport is the largest one in Jordan and is being used for approximately 40 airlines from around the world being Royal Jordanian airline the busiest one with over 45 destinations worldwide. In 2015, 7,095,685 passengers used the Airport. The number of passengers is growing each year, and the traffic has doubled in the last ten years. Terminal QAIA Airport or Amman Airport has one unique terminal, serving the 7 million passengers per year, and being able to handle up to 12 million passengers. The terminal was opened in March 2013 in order to give a better experience to passengers and giving a capacity of 9 million passengers. From 2014 to 2016 an expansion was made, increasing the capacity up to 12 million passengers. The terminal is divided in three levels. - Prayer Rooms Terminal Levels - Arrival Level 1: It holds the arrivals area and the baggage claim area and a duty free shop. There is also the public area with retail shops, services (such as Banks, Prayer Room) and restaurants. - Departure Level 2: Divides travelers between Jordanian passengers (E gates) and International passengers. There are not many facilities in this level. - Departure Level 3: It has the passport control, access to departures gates and a lot of different services. It has the duty free area, several restaurants and bars, some retail shops, a pharmacy, a kids play area, a prayer area or departure gates among others. QAIA Airport in numbers - One terminal expanded in 2016 with a total capacity of 12 million passengers. - Hub for 4 airlines: Royal Jordanian Airlines, Royal Wings, Jordan Aviation and Royal Falcon. - 2 runways - More than 40 airlines (passenger, charter and cargo) - 6,000 square metres of retail space. - Estimated investment of USD 750 million in the construction of the new terminal (2013). Currently expansion with estimated cost of USD 100 million. Transportation There are currently three options: - Taxi: With fixed and public rates. - Bus Express: Called Sariyah Airport Express Bus, it runs to Amman every 30-60' during 24 hours/day. - Local buses: to three main stations: Tabarbour, Abdali and JEET. - Car Hire / Car Rental: Check prices and options here There is a project in study to connect QAIA Airport with Amman by rail. |
Who was US Secretary of State during the 'war' against Afghanistan? | US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11 - World Socialist Web Site World Socialist Web Site Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11 By Patrick Martin 20 November 2001 Insider accounts published in the British, French and Indian media have revealed that US officials threatened war against Afghanistan during the summer of 2001. These reports include the prediction, made in July, that “if the military action went ahead, it would take place before the snows started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest.” The Bush administration began its bombing strikes on the hapless, poverty-stricken country October 7, and ground attacks by US Special Forces began October 19. It is not an accident that these revelations have appeared overseas, rather than in the US. The ruling classes in these countries have their own economic and political interests to look after, which do not coincide, and in some cases directly clash, with the drive by the American ruling elite to seize control of oil-rich territory in Central Asia. The American media has conducted a systematic cover-up of the real economic and strategic interests that underlie the war against Afghanistan, in order to sustain the pretense that the war emerged overnight, full-blown, in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11. The pundits for the American television networks and major daily newspapers celebrate the rapid military defeat of the Taliban regime as an unexpected stroke of good fortune. They distract public attention from the conclusion that any serious observer would be compelled to draw from the events of the past two weeks: that the speedy victory of the US-backed forces reveals careful planning and preparation by the American military, which must have begun well before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The official American myth is that “everything changed” on the day four airliners were hijacked and nearly 5,000 people murdered. The US military intervention in Afghanistan, by this account, was hastily improvised in less than a month. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, in a television interview November 18, actually claimed that only three weeks went into planning the military onslaught. This is only one of countless lies emanating from the Pentagon and White House about the war against Afghanistan. The truth is that the US intervention was planned in detail and carefully prepared long before the terrorist attacks provided the pretext for setting it in motion. If history had skipped over September 11, and the events of that day had never happened, it is very likely that the United States would have gone to war in Afghanistan anyway, and on much the same schedule. Afghanistan and the scramble for oil The United States ruling elite has been contemplating war in Central Asia for at least a decade. As long ago as 1991, following the defeat of Iraq in the Persian Gulf War, Newsweek magazine published an article headlined “Operation Steppe Shield?” It reported that the US military was preparing an operation in Kazakhstan modeled on the Operation Desert Shield deployment in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq. American oil companies have acquired rights to as much as 75 percent of the output of these new fields, and US government officials have hailed the Caspian and Central Asia as a potential alternative to dependence on oil from the unstable Persian Gulf region. American troops have followed in the wake of these contracts. US Special Forces began joint operations with Kazakhstan in 1997 and with Uzbekistan a year later, training for intervention especially in the mountainous southern region that includes Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and northern Afghanistan. The major problem in exploiting the energy riches of Central Asia is how to get the oil and gas from the landlocked region to the world market. US officials have opposed using either the Russian pipeline system or the easiest available land route, across Iran t |
What is the main vitamin found in fish liver oils, egg- yolks, etc.? | Overview of Vitamins - Nutritional Disorders - Merck Manuals Professional Edition Deficiency: Night blindness, perifollicular hyperkeratosis, xerophthalmia, keratomalacia, increased morbidity and mortality in young children Toxicity: Headache, peeling of skin, hepatosplenomegaly, bone thickening, intracranial hypertension, papilledema, hypercalcemia Vitamin B6 group (pyridoxine, pyridoxal, pyridoxamine) Organ meats (eg, liver), whole-grain cereals, fish, legumes Many aspects of nitrogen metabolism (eg, transaminations, porphyrin and heme synthesis, tryptophan conversion to niacin) Nucleic acid biosynthesis Fatty acid, lipid, and amino acid metabolism Deficiency: Seizures, anemia, neuropathies, seborrheic dermatitis Toxicity: Peripheral neuropathy Meats (especially beef, pork, and organ meats [eg, liver]), poultry, eggs, fortified cereals, milk and milk products, clams, oysters, mackerel, salmon Maturation of RBCs, neural function, DNA synthesis, myelin synthesis and repair Deficiency: Megaloblastic anemia, neurologic deficits (confusion, paresthesias, ataxia) Citrus fruits, tomatoes, potatoes, broccoli, strawberries, sweet peppers Collagen formation Bone and blood vessel health Carnitine, hormone, and amino acid formation Wound healing Vitamin D (cholecalciferol, ergocalciferol) Direct ultraviolet B irradiation of the skin (main source), fortified dairy products (main dietary source), fish liver oils, fatty fish, liver Calcium and phosphate absorption Mineralization and repair of bone Tubular reabsorption of calcium Insulin and thyroid function, improvement of immune function, reduced risk of autoimmune disease Deficiency: Rickets (sometimes with tetany), osteomalacia Toxicity: Hypercalcemia, anorexia, renal failure, metastatic calcifications Vitamin E group (alpha-tocopherol, other tocopherols) Vegetable oils, nuts Scavenger of free radicals in biologic membranes Deficiency: RBC hemolysis, neurologic deficits Toxicity: Tendency to bleed |
Which cartoon character lived on 'Sweetwater Island' and was the son of 'Poopdeck Pappy'? | Poopdeck Pappy | Popeye the Sailorpedia | Fandom powered by Wikia Jack Mercer (voice, 1938-1984) Poopdeck Pappy is a character created by E.C. Segar in 1936 for his comic strip Thimble Theatre . He is the surly and tough as nails father of Popeye who disappeared at sea shortly after Popeye's birth, a disappearance which would effect Popeye's life greatly. Popeye's reunion with his Pappy is the most-filmed event of Popeye's life, having been adapted for theatrical cartoons, comics, television cartoons, films and even parodies. Contents Character history Creation and development in Thimble Theatre Poopdeck Pappy was created by newspaper cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar in 1936 comic strip " The Search for Popeye's Poppa ". In said strip, Popeye would gather a crew to search for his long lost Pappy who would then go on to become a permanent character in the Popeye franchise. After his appearance in Thimble Theatre, Poopdeck Pappy would return as a major supporting character in the 1948 comic book series by E. C. Segar's assistant Bud Sagendorf , where he would eventually be joined by his own mother . His comic book appearances would continue for decades until the title's end in 1984. Fleischer Studios As Popeye's popularity greatly grew, he would be given his own animated adaptation by Fleischer Studios . Poopdeck Pappy made his first animated appearance in the short Goonland (1938). In this short film, it is revealed that Popeye has a long-lost father, not seen since infancy, who is being held captive in the bizarre realm of Goon Island . When he goes to rescue the "ol' goat" from the Goon prison, his father refuses to acknowledge Popeye as his son, but when Popeye himself is captured by the Goons, he eats Popeye's mislaid can of spinach to rescue his only child. In the mêlée that ensues, the filmstrip is broken and the animator staples it back together to finish the cartoon. In the animated shorts, Poopdeck Pappy and Popeye share the same voice actor: Jack Mercer . Famous Studios Famous Studios' re-design of Poopdeck. Following the takeover of the Popeye animated franchise by Paramount Studios in 1942, Famous Studios made drastic changes which abandoned almost all traces of Thimble Theatre and focused largely on plots involving Popeye, Olive, Bluto in something resembling a love triangle, without many other characters appearing and with very few shorts deviating from that setup. As such, Poopdeck Pappy was largely absent, but would end up being the only other Thimble Theatre character besides Wimpy and Swee'Pea to appear in these shorts, however his appearances were limited to only a handful of shorts out of the 122 that were produced, and most of his appearances were only in flashback scenes of Fleischer, with only three cartoons ever having him be drawn by the Famous Studios staff. His first appearance was in the 1952 cartoon Popeye's Pappy , a remake of Popeye finding his long-lost father as previously featured in Goonland. In it Popeye's mother reveals more about Poopdeck's disappearance, saying that he went to buy his son some spinach years ago, but never returned. Rather than being a prisoner on Goon Island , he was instead the chief of a tribe of cannibals (which may be seen as racial caricatures). Popeye's first TV series Poopdeck returned to regular appearances in animation in the 1960s Popeye television series , where he was once again a recurring character. His first appearance in this cartoon was a slightly more faithful adaptation of his Thimble Theatre introduction. The All-New Popeye Hour In 1978, Hanna-Barbera Productions , with King Features Syndicate , would produce a new Popeye television series, The All-New Popeye Hour . Unlike the previous show, this series had higher-quality animation and was more akin to Segar's work and Fleischer cartoons than other Popeye animations. Poopdeck Pappy remained largely unchanged and would make semi-regular appearances. Popeye's first movie In Robert Altman 's Popeye , Poopdeck Pappy is played by Ray Walston . He is revealed to be the mysterious 'Commodore' of Sweethaven |
In Greek mythology, who gave 'Theseus' the ball of thread with which he found his way out of the 'Labyrinth'? | Myth and Creativity: Ariadne’s Thread and a Path Through the Labyrinth | The Creativity Post Myth and Creativity: Ariadne’s Thread and a Path Through the Labyrinth Share Synopsis The Greek myth of the labyrinth and the Minotaur at its center has ancient insights for us on how to find our way through the maze of the creative process. Myth is rich in metaphor that can illustrate and inform the creative journey. The story of the labyrinth from Greek myth is an excellent example of this. Sometimes the creative process can feel like we're walking a maze, getting lost along the way. What can this story teach us about both finding the center of the labyrinth and finding our way out again? The story of the minotaur starts with Minos, who became king of Crete when Poseidon sent a great white bull out of the ocean as a sign Minos should rule. Minos had promised to sacrifice the bull to Poseidon, but broke his promise when he saw how beautiful the bull was, and sacrificed a lesser animal instead. Poseidon was angry when Minos broke his promise, so he punished him by making his queen, Pasiphae, fall in love with the bull. Out of this union the minotaur was born. Minos instructed the great architect and engineer Daedalus to build the labyrinth to house the Minotaur. It was famous for being unnavigable; once in, anyone who entered was doomed to be eaten by the Minotaur. Minos had recently conquered Athens, and he demanded as tribute that every year Athens would send seven maidens and seven youths to be sacrificed to the minotaur. Theseus was a son of King Aegeus of Athens. Theseus' story is a long and complex one, and he is one of the great heroes of Greek myth, so we'll only be looking at the portion of his story that involves the labyrinth. Theseus volunteered to join the band of youths who were to be sacrificed. He traveled to Crete, and as soon as he arrived Ariadne, King Minos' daughter, fell in love with him. She offered to help him conquer the labyrinth and kill the minotaur if he would marry her and take her away from Crete. He agreed. Ariadne gave him a ball of red thread, and Theseus unrolled it as he penetrated the labyrinth, which allowed him to find his way back out. He found the minotaur deep in the recesses of the labyrinth, killed it with his sword, and followed the thread back to the entrance. Theseus took Ariadne away from Crete, but then forsake his promise to marry her by abandoning her as she sleeps on the beach of the island of Naxos. She thinks she is about to die, that this is the end of her story, but she is discovered there by the god Dionysus, who falls in love with her and makes her his wife, and was the only husband among the Greek gods to remain faithful to his wife. This is a complex and rich myth, with many story threads we can pull, to find the creative metaphor in the myth. Let's focus on just a few. The story does not start or end with the Minotaur, but he is at the heart of it, as he is at the heart of the labyrinth. The first interpretation of this story is that a monster must be slayed as part of the initiatory journey of following the path through the maze, but I think there is more to his presence here than that. Monsters are often the guardians of treasure, who must be slain in order to bring the treasure out. In a creative journey, we must often find our way through a labyrinth. We take wrong turns, hit walls, get lost. Often, this is what must happen to find the creative treasure at the center of ourselves, that one thing that must be brought into the world through our creative efforts. That is the true magic of the creative life. The process of living creatively brings new things into the world and to humankind, but there is a monster guarding the gift, because when the maze "takes one to the center of one's self, to some hidden, inner shrine, occupied by the most mysterious portion of the human personality". This journey through the labyrinth must be hard. "The harder the journey, the more and the tougher obstacles in his path, the more the initiate will be transformed and acquire a new sel |
In which TV quiz show were contestants invited to 'Beat The Bong'? | The People Versus - UKGameshows The People Versus Broadcast Celador for ITV, 15 August 2000 to 18 June 2002 (115 episodes in 2 series + 2 unaired) Synopsis The Briggs/Whitehill/Knight threesome invented the format of the decade in the 90s with Millionaire . The BBC were very grateful for their follow-up, Winning Lines , for - despite a few illogical aspects - it quite nicely propped up their otherwise lukewarm Autumn schedule on Saturday nights. So it was interesting to see how The People Versus... affected their batting average. Bizarrely, and probably for the first time in British TV history, The People Versus actually turned out to be two very different shows made out of the same premise (a practice that's not uncommon in past US formats). We'll take each version in chronological order. The original set of The People Versus VERSION 1 Here's the key twist for the original show - ITV were paying for the public's incompetence (like the Licence Fee in reverse) because it was the People who set the questions. Yes, this was The People's Game Show comrade, and for every question our resident contestants got correct they won £5,000. That's eight-and-a-quarter questions on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. The programme marked an interesting shift in that the programme was piloted by the production company using their own dosh, so the whole thing was put together much more on their terms rather than those of the broadcaster (the side of the equation than normally provides the bulk of the equity for the pilot show). Host for incarnation number 1, Kirsty Young Viewer interactivity was at the fore, and Kirsty "don't laugh at my name when I'm a pensioner" Young made it very clear that it was The People who set the questions and yes, it really could be you sitting there trying not to make a fool of yourself. Surprisingly, it wasn't a £5 a minute phone number being used for players to give questions. In fact they could do it free over the internet if they wished. But what of the contestants? For the first show, 100 people were auditioned, and of those three people were picked to play against the world by nominating five specialist subjects which the population could pitch questions thereat. We're gonna git you, sucka And so, to the rules The rules were like this: In each round the players were shown five questions from one of their specialist subjects. In Round One, each contestant HAD to attempt and answer correctly one of those five questions - "one of five to stay alive". In Round Two, on a different subject they had to answer two correctly to stay in, Round Three three, Round Four four and finally in Round Five they had to answer (yes, Einstein, you've guessed it) all five. In each round, the player could, if they wanted, earn more cash by answering more questions than the quota required, again for £5,000 a piece. The one Q in the bottom-left means only one question needed to be answered correctly in this round To help, each player was shown all five questions at the start. Each player was also given three 'flips'. If a player wanted to use a flip, they could substitute any of the five given questions for another one. Also, if they had the cash, they could elect to 'buy' answers to questions at £10,000 a pop. Costly, but it kept them in the game. Sadly, they elected to call this feature "Cash for Questions", which even then was several years out of date to be topical, neither was it an original idea for a game show (see Noel's House Party , of all things). This graphic recaps on the round number, the cash banked to date, the number of flips and the number of answers that could be "bought" If they went for a question and they got it wrong, not only did they lose all the cash they earned in that round, but their game would be over and their seat would have to be re-assigned at the beginning of the next programme. But it didn't go to just anybody - oh no - the person who took the failed contestant's place was the person who set the question. Excellently, sometimes that player was hanging on the end of the telephone line, hopefully (fo |
Name the address at which the murderer Christie lived, and which was later the title of a film about his crimes?. | 10 Rillington Place (1971) - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 4:34 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 Based on the real-life case of the British serial killer John Christie, and what happened to his neighbours Tim and Beryl Evans. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 21 titles created 08 Sep 2011 a list of 35 titles created 03 Oct 2011 a list of 31 titles created 24 Jun 2013 a list of 47 titles created 29 Oct 2015 a list of 23 titles created 10 months ago Title: 10 Rillington Place (1971) 7.6/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. See more awards » Photos Rillington Place (TV Mini-Series 2016) Crime A three-part drama about serial killer John Christie and the murders at 10 Rillington Place in the 1940s and early 1950s. Stars: Jodie Comer, Tim Roth, Nico Mirallegro A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt. Director: Richard Fleischer A young blind woman is pursued by a maniac while staying with family in their country manor. Director: Richard Fleischer An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life. Director: Richard Fleischer Edit Storyline London, 1949. John Christie is an unassuming, middle-aged man who, along with his wife Ethel, lives in the ground-floor flat at 10 Rillington Place. His demeanor masks the fact of being a serial killer. His modus operandi is to act as a person with a medical background, lure unsuspecting women to his apartment on the pretense of curing them of some ailment, knock them unconscious with carbon monoxide gas, gain his sexual release through contact with the unconscious body, then strangle the victim dead before disposing of the body somewhere in the house or outside area. His next intended target is Beryl Evans, a young woman who has just moved into the top flat in the house. Beryl's husband, Tim Evans, is an illiterate man who likes to put on airs. Already with an infant daughter named Geraldine, the Evanses learn they are going to have another baby, which they cannot afford to have, nor can they afford to abort the pregnancy. This problem, on top of the constant issue of lack of money ... Written by Huggo The true story of John Christie - the serial killer. See more » Genres: 29 January 1971 (UK) See more » Also Known As: 10 Rillington place See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia The movie's closing epilogue states: "Christie confessed his crimes and was hanged at Pentonville Prison. Twelve years later Timothy John Evans was pardoned, his body exhumed and reburied in consecrated ground". See more » Goofs The caption '1949' appears on the screen as the Evans family come to view the top floor of 10 Rillington Place, but in fact they moved in in 1948. See more » Quotes Timothy John Evans : How do you actually do it? John Reginald Christie : That's something only doctors and myself know about, it has to be secret you understand. See more » Crazy Credits Prologue to opening credits: "This is a true story Whenever possible the dialogue has been based on official documents" See more » Connections Referenced in Nekromantik (1987) See more » Frequently Asked Questions (derby, kansas usa) – See all my reviews This British thriller is one of the best films I have ever seen. It tells the story of John Christie, the serial killer whose "career" lasted from the middle 1940's until the early 1950's. The name is taken from the scene of the murders; 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. Chillingly portrayed by the great actor Richard Attenborough , Christie was a little mouse of a man who first lured |
In which city are the headquarters of Fiat? | Guess Which City Fiat-Chrysler Has Chosen As Its New HQ Guess Which City Fiat-Chrysler Has Chosen As Its New HQ by Jay Traugott Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Nope, it isn't in America or even Italy. Fiat-Chrysler is in a good place these days. Only a week ago did it release its aggressive and exciting five-year plan that’ll see many new models, and even the demise of a few. But still, anything is better than outright bankruptcy. Now that Fiat has fully completed its buyout of Chrysler and changed its corporate name, it’s time to designate a new company headquarters. Fiat and Chrysler are based in Turin, Italy and Auburn Hills, Michigan, respectively. However, neither of those two locales will be the new HQ. Instead, CEO Sergio Marchionne has chosen London, England. Yes, that choice might piss off some die-hard Fiat loyalists who believe the HQ should be in Italy. So why London? It's clear that group executive functions, the board, my office, some of my functions, need to operate out of London, but that doesn't mean that I'm giving up my operational responsibilities of the U.S. We will be multi-faceted...we will do stuff everywhere," Marchionne stated. The Turin and Auburn Hills offices will still very much be kept open and active, but London will be where all the big decision making will happen. |
What is the name of the 'theme park' near Ripon in Yorkshire? | Lightwater Valley - Theme Parks - Family Days Out in Yorkshire UK 1.1 In these Terms & Conditions the following words shall have the following meanings: “The Park” means Lightwater Valley Theme Park, Lightwater Country Shopping village and its grounds. “Company” means Lightwater Valley Attractions Ltd. “Contract” means these Terms & Conditions “Management” means the Management of Lightwater Valley Attractions Ltd. “Park Staff” means the staff, employees and representatives of Lightwater Valley Attractions Ltd. “Guests(s)” means the company, firm or individuals present within The Park. “Ticket” means the entry ticket and respective cost of that ticket into The Park. 2. General 2.1 The Management will attempt to ensure that as many rides and attractions as possible are open for use by guests, however The Management reserves the right to alter or change the programmes of rides and attractions if at any time it is deemed necessary to do so. 2.2 All persons visiting The Park are admitted subject and agreeing to the Contract. 2.3 The Management reserves the right to not issue any refunds. 2.4 The Management and Park Staff reserve the right to refuse admission and / or to remove from The Park, in its absolute discretion and without giving any reasons, any person failing to comply with the Contract or whose presence is, in its absolute discretion, a source of danger or annoyance and shall have no obligation to give any reason therefore. 2.5 Height and other size restrictions apply on rides. Details are provided on our Website, at The Park entry gate and at each ride entrance. 2.6 The Management advise Guests under 16 years of age should be accompanied by an adult. 2.7 Parking or setting down within The Park is prohibited, other than at the official car parks. 2.8 Entry into, and the right to remain within, The Park is subject to the requirement to submit to search or searches, of guests, their baggage, or the vehicles in which they travel. 2.9 Management accepts no responsibility for vehicles or their contents, which are left entirely at owner’s risk. 2.10 No dogs are allowed anywhere on the Park, except for assistance dogs. Dogs should not be left in vehicles in the car park unattended. 2.11 Items left in lockers or at rides are left at owner’s risk. 2.12 Lost children and lost item enquiries should be made at our Visitor Services office. 2.13 Please observe the designated drinking areas. Alcoholic beverages must only be carried or consumed within these areas. No alcohol is permitted within the theme park perimeter. 2.14 Any behaviour such as drunkenness, violent or abusive conduct, singing or shouting which may constitute an annoyance to other Guests or Park Staff is prohibited. 2.15 Anyone displaying lewd, offensive or threatening behaviour (either to Guests or Park Staff) will be removed from site without a refund. 2.16 The Guest shall not (and shall ensure that all guests/delegates and third parties employed do not) use the name, logo or any details of The Park or the Company for any matter. 2.17 The Guest shall not (and shall ensure that all guests/delegates and third parties do not) permit any goods, services or any other matter capable of being sold (including, but not limited to, tickets) to be sold within The Park without the prior written approval of the Company and any public authority (where necessary). 2.18 Any person who is not party to the Contract shall have no rights under the Contracts (Right of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any terms of this Contract. The clause does not affect any right or remedy of any person which exists or is available otherwise than the pursuant to that Act. 2.19 No variation or alteration of any of the Contract shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by or on behalf of each party 2.20 This Contract shall be governed by English Law and the parties to this Contract submit to the jurisdiction of the English courts. 3. Tickets 3.1 All Guests entering must have a valid entrance ticket. 3.2 Tickets are not transferable and accordingly may not be sold or passed on to any th |
What is the capital of the Canadian province of Newfoundland? | Origin of the names of Canada’s provincial and territorial capitals | Natural Resources Canada Origin of the names of Canada’s provincial and territorial capitals Origin of the names of Canada’s provincial and territorial capitals Whitehorse, Yukon Ottawa, Canada The name Ottawa is derived from the Algonquin word “adawe”, which means “to trade”. The settlement was originally incorporated as Bytown in 1850. The name was changed to Ottawa in 1855. (Sources: Canadian Geographical Names Data Base, Geographical Names Board 18th Report) Find out more: Geographical name search results: Ottawa St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador There is some disagreement regarding the history behind how St. John’s acquired its name. The most widely accepted explanation comes from the Portuguese explorer Gaspar Corte-Real, who recorded the area as Rio de San Johem in 1519. The earliest recording of the modern day spelling came from an English merchant who travelled to Newfoundland in the 1570’s. Geographical name search results: Toronto Winnipeg, Manitoba The Cree named the lake to the north “Win” (muddy) and “nipee” (water). In 1873, Winnipeg was incorporated as a city. (Source: City of Winnipeg ) Find out more: Geographical name search results: Winnipeg Regina, Saskatchewan Cree hunters stacked buffalo bones in the area of Regina, and named it Oskana-Ka-asateki or "the place where bones are piled." Early explorers, fur traders and settlers called the area “Pile of Bones.” It was decided in 1882 when the town began to grow that it required a more regal name. Princess Louise suggested that the town be named Regina in honour of her mother and the reigning monarch, Queen Victoria. Geographical name search results: Iqaluit Yellowknife, Northwest Territories Yellowknife acquired its name from the aboriginal group known as the “T'atsaot'ine”, or “Yellowknives”. It became the capital of the Northwest Territories in 1967. Known for its valuable minerals, it has the traditional name of Smbak'è, which means money place. (Source: Canadian Geographical Names Data Base) Find out more: Geographical name search results: Yellowknife Whitehorse, Yukon Originally called White Horse, the name came from the foam in nearby rapids on the Yukon River which looked similar to the manes on white horses. Whitehorse was incorporated as a city in 1950, and replaced Dawson as the capital of the Yukon in 1953. (Sources: Canadian Geographical Names Data Base) Find out more: |
In which year was the 'Mini' motor car introduced, and the first photographs were taken of the far side of the moon? | Mini Austin Morris Cooper history : AROnline Tweet The cars : Mini development history, part 1 It changed the way we looked at small cars almost overnight, and sent the designers scurrying back to the drawing boards – the Mini was little short of a major revolution. We take a look at the development and subsequent life story of Britain’s favourite small car… Words: Keith Adams, Ian Nicholls Development and early production THE Mini is the car that, more than any other, has changed the face of motoring forever. One cannot imagine a cityscape without a Mini being present, but more significantly, it is impossible to look at a small car today without seeing very real evidence of the influence the Mini has had on it. Back in 1990, a panel of 100 industry experts and commentators voted it the most significant car of the century for Autocar magazine in the UK. This sentiment was reflected by the readership of the magazine who, when polled, also named it the most important car of the century, voting it ahead of such cars as the VW Beetle, Ford Model T and Citroën DS. But what was the reasoning for such a car to be produced, and by the terribly conservative BMC, of all companies? Response to a crisis In a word, the Mini was conceived in response to a crisis: it was created from the situation that erupted in the Middle East in less enlightened times, when the Arabs discovered that they could hold the world to ransom using their control of the majority the world’s oil supplies. The situation blew up in September 1956 when Colonel Nasser decided to nationalise the Suez Canal, which the British did not appreciate one bit. The British and French tried to stop him, the Americans pulled the rug from beneath them and the Arabs decided to close their oil pipeline across the Mediterranean. In the ensuing war, the Arabs blew up the Syrian pipeline that provided 20% of Britain’s petrol supply. The upshot of this was that all oil supplies from the Middle East would need to be transported in giant oil tankers around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, as the Suez Canal was well and truly closed. This resulted in oil shortages and the renewed popularity of small cars in Europe. Due to the Middle East crisis, petrol rationing returned to the UK in December 1956 and people began to clamour for more economical means of travel. The sales of 900-1000cc cars quadrupled in the period from 1956 to 1957, while car sales in the wider market slumped. German bubble cars began to appear on these shores, and although they may have been awful to drive, with questionable safety, they did achieve more than 40 miles per gallon, which was the most important statistic a car could boast in those petrol-starved times. One of the earliest sketches for the Mini design as penned by Alec Issigonis. Note how the car changed remarkably little between concept and production. The Suez crisis came at a turbulent time in BMC’s history, when the company was grappling with the very real problem of trying to reinvent itself. Alec Issigonis had been working on a front wheel drive Morris Minor replacement, with transverse engine and end-on gearbox, before he was seduced away from the newly-formed BMC in 1952 on the promise of developing a supercar for Alvis Motors. This did not work out for Issigonis, and a call from Leonard Lord at the end of 1955, inviting him back to BMC, could not have come at a better time. Newly back in the fold, Issigonis built a small team of engineers – most notably Jack Daniels , his old associate from the Minor days – and resumed his work for the company. In a parallel response to Herbert Austin’s disgust at the proliferation of motorcycle/sidecar combinations on UK roads thirty-five years previously, Leonard Lord viewed the popularity of bubble cars with the same distaste. As Lord informed Issigonis in March 1957, “God damn these bloody awful bubble cars. We must drive them off the streets by designing a proper small car”. At this point the emphasis of BMC’s new car development programme was changed from replacing the Minor to producing something n |
Apart from sugar and eggs, what is marzipan made from? | Easy Homemade Marzipan or Almond Paste - The Daring Gourmet The Daring Gourmet Grappling Each Dish By The Horns Sign up for our newsletter! Email* Easy Homemade Marzipan or Almond Paste Written on 23 June, 2014 Easy homemade marzipan/almond paste. So easy, so quick, so versatile, so addictively delicious! And now you can make it anytime, anywhere. Your life is forever changed. I grew up on marzipan. It’s everywhere in Germany. Just a few hours north of where I grew up in Stuttgart is the historic town of Lübeck, world famous for its marzipan. It’s also a beautiful, scenic port town. The Holstentor is Lübeck’s most famous feature, a Brick Gothic construction from Medieval times. It has been a UNESCO world heritage site since 1987. Images courtesy creative commons, Giam and SteFou Lübeck is also the home of Niederegger Marzipan , probably the most famous marzipan in the world. If I were to weigh how much of that marzipan I ate during my 23 years in Europe it would probably come close to 893 pounds. Niederegger has been around since 1806 producing the highest quality marzipan, including a class that is made from 100% almonds (no sugar), and it uses only the finest almonds from around the Mediterranean. A Brief History Lesson (very brief) Though marzipan has long been associated with Germany and Italy in particular, its roots are in the Orient. As far back as 850, a Persian doctor by the name of Rhazes praised the curative properties of almond and sugar paste. (See, now why can’t our doctors today be equally so inspired?) When the Crusaders returned to Europe from the Orient they brought this delicacy back with them. Initially only enjoyed by kings and the very wealthy, by the 19th century when sugar was being extracted from sugar beets, making it cheaper, marzipan became widely accessible. It has been a prized and popular treat ever since. (history lesson over. see, I told you it was brief) At the Niederegger Marzipan factory in Lübeck you can see a life-sized display of statues made from marzipan. It’s stunning! I can’t remember, but I would imagine its roped off to keep visitors, and their teeth, from getting too close. Images courtesy Niederegger Aside from being dipped in chocolate, wrapped and sold, marzipan is also often shaped into various figures, including fruits and vegetables that look real-life. If you’re crafty, marzipan is a fun medium to work with. Images courtesy wikipedia And of course marzipan is incorporated into deliciously decadent cakes and baked goods. Here are just a couple of baked goods on our site featuring marzipan and if you type “marzipan” into the search box at the top right of the screen you’ll find several more. Traditional German Bethmännchen (Marzipan Cookies) (click on the links for the recipes) So yes, marzipan is a wonderful, wonderful thing. But it’s also an expensive thing. When you buy almond paste it usually comes in very small quantities with a pretty hefty price tag for what you get. That’s why I’m sharing this recipe with you. So that you can make it at a tiny fraction of the cost and have it on hand whenever you need it. And it’s SO quick and easy to make! Marzipan vs. Almond Paste – What’s the Difference? In part it comes down to where you live. In Europe it’s widely referred to as marzipan whereas here in North American the term almond paste is more common. But there’s also a difference in the ratio of almonds to sugar as well as consistency. Almond paste is softer and is used in baked goods. Marzipan is firmer and is used in making candies/chocolates or as fondant for cakes. Marzipan also uses rose water. To adjust this recipe according to what you’re using it for, follow this recipe as instructed for almond paste (I still include the rose water because it tastes amazing), or add an extra 1/4 cup or more of ground almonds until you reach a firmer consistency (one that you can roll out with a rolling pin without it sticking). LIKE THIS RECIPE? Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to my blog to receive email updates of our latest recipes (no spam, ever). Le |
Who was the female star of the Rome-set film, 'La Dolce Vita'? | Anita Ekberg, star of La Dolce Vita, dies aged 83 | The Independent Anita Ekberg, star of La Dolce Vita, dies aged 83 A former Miss Sweden, she also appeared in films such as Blood Alley and War and Peace Sunday 11 January 2015 11:25 BST Click to follow Anita Ekberg, star of La Dolce Vita, dies aged 83 Keystone/Getty Images La Dolce Vita star Anita Ekberg has died aged 83. The Swedish-born actress received acclaim for her performance as Sylvia in Federico Fellini’s iconic film as the unattainable "dream woman" and was branded a "sex goddess". Italian media reported her death on 11 January, which was soon confirmed by her lawyer to agencies. Her lawyer Patrizia Ubaldi said Ekberg had been hospitalized most recently after Christmas following a series of illnesses. Anita Ekberg dancing to guitarist in a scene from the film 'La Dolce Vita', 1960/Anita Ekberg, star of La Dolce Vita, dies aged 83 A former Miss Sweden, she also appeared in films such as Blood Alley and War and Peace. La Dolce Vita revolved around a series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering paparazzo journalist living in Rome. Ekberg was immortalized after she was filmed bathing in the Trevi fountain in La Dolce Vita. Anita Ekberg in the iconic La Dolce Vita scene She had long lived in Italy, the country that gave her worldwide fame. She was married twice, first to Anthony Steel in 1956. They divorced three years later and she married Rik Van Nutter in 1963 until 1975. The Years of La Dolce Vita The Years of La Dolce Vita 1/3 Brigitte Bardot Marcello Geppetti (1933-1998), 'Brigitte Bardot in Spoleto', June 1961 MGMC & Solares Fondazione delle Arti 2/3 Jane Mansfield |
Pulex irritans is the Latin name for which creature? | Pulex irritans Pulex irritans Genus: Pulex irritans (human flea) There are over 1,600 species and subspecies of fleas that inhabit the earth�s diverse environment.� Many of these fleas are parasites in the insect order Siphonaptera.� Pulex irritans, also called the human flea, is not often seen in contemporary living quarters, but in the past this flea came in contact with all classes of people.� Human blood is the preferred food of Pulex irritans, but it will feed on other mammals. Today, this species is most often found on pigs.� Individuals that work with swine are some of the most likely people to become infested. In societies where personal hygiene is important, infestations by human fleas are not as common.� Human fleas were extremely common before the development of modern standards in both hygiene and laundering.� Most fleas, during that time, were found in a person�s bedding .� In an attempt to decrease infestation, the Chinese placed warmed flea traps made of ivory or bamboo between the sheets before going to bed at night.� During the Renaissance period, ladies frequently wore fur collars, called cravats , to catch the pestering fleas.� The cravat could then be removed and shaken out to decrease the chance of coming in contact with any fleas.� Pulex irritans is mainly a nuisance to humans.� The flea's saliva contains enzymes and histamine-like substances, which may cause an allergic reaction in some of their victims.� These allergic reactions may involve an intense itching sensation. The parasite can also be a vector of a variety of diseases. Even though Pulex irritans was not the primary species responsible for spreading the bubonic plague throughout Europe during the Middle Ages, it is capable of transmitting it.� Pulex irritans may also transmit murine typhus, tularemia, and tapeworm, but the chances of this are relatively rare.� One disease, in particular, that Pulex irritans is known to transmit is murine typhus.� Murine typhus is a mild form of typhus caused by the bacterium Rickettsia typhi.�� The fleas become infected with the bacterium by feeding on a human who has the disease.� The bacteria grow in the epithelial cells lining the flea's gut wall and are excreted in the insect's feces.� After approximately twelve to eighteen days, the infection will kill the flea.�� Scratching of a fleabite will infect a person.� Rubbing of the bitten area will spread the flea's infected feces into the wound. An infected person will experience headaches, marked prostration, malaise, chills, loss of appetite, nausea, and a rapid rise in temperature with fever after an incubation period of one to two weeks. Within four to six days after the initial symptoms appear a rash will form over most of the body. Humans, canids, felids, pigs, badgers, and rats may all become infested. �Pulex irritans is found worldwide. Morphology Adults �The adults are approximately 1.5 to 4 mm in length and are laterally flattened.�� They are dark brown in color, are wingless, and have mouthparts that aid in both the piercing of the skin and sucking of the host�s blood.� Neither genal nor pronotal combs are present.� �The adult flea may have either a curved or rounded head.� Only five percent of living fleas are in adult form at any given time.� Most fleas are distributed in the egg, larva, or pupa stages. Eggs � The flea eggs are about 0.5 mm in length.� They are oval shaped and pearly white in color.� Nonfertile females will produce eggs just as fertile females do, however, the eggs will be nonviable.� Eggs are often laid on the body of the host, but since they are not sticky or cemented down, they can fall off in many different places. Larvae � The larvae are approximately 6 mm in length. They are maggot-like, creamy/yellow in color, and have thirteen segments with bristles on each segment.� The larva resembles a small legless caterpillar.� The larvae will feed on a variety of debris, including dried excrement, dried blood, dead mites, dried bits o |
Which ballerina, born in Ireland, was the founder of the Sadler's Wells Ballet? | Sadler's Wells Theatre - History History Sustainability History New beginnings sometimes happen quietly and sometimes they are announced. On Monday, 7th March 2005 the new director of Sadler’s Wells, Alistair Spalding, decided the time had come to make a splash. “You’ve got the National Theatre for drama, English National Opera for opera and I want Sadler’s Wells to perform the same function for contemporary dance.” With those words, he inaugurated a new chapter in the history of London’s second oldest theatre: its transformation into a contemporary dance house. Sadler’s Wells was not born of an artistic impulse but the discovery of a mineral spring in 1683. Richard Sadler built a music house around the spring to rival the already fashionable Tunbridge and Epsom wells. By the beginning of the 18th century, visitors to Sadler’s Wells could see entertainments that included jugglers, tumblers, ropedancers, ballad singers, wrestlers, fighters, dancing dogs and even a singing duck. In 1765 Thomas Rosoman had the theatre rebuilt for the first time so that it could mount high-calibre opera productions. However, it wasn’t long before the beer brewed from the spring waters became the primary attraction. By 1801, although a young actor called Edmund Kean and the great clown, Grimaldi, had both appeared on its stage, Sadler’s Wells had become more famous for incidents, both devised (spectacular sea battles) and accidental (a terrible stampede in which 18 people died) than for work of merit. In the 1830s Dickens wrote: “The theatre was in the condition of being entirely delivered over to as ruffianly an audience as London could shake together…Fights took place anywhere, at every period of the performance.” Matters improved in 1843 with the passing of a parliamentary act which enabled the actor-manager, Samuel Phelps, to present a famous run of Shakespeare. But after he left in 1862, the theatre once more sank into the doldrums, suffering conversion into a skating rink and then a cinema. In 1914 the Daily Chronicle’s theatre critic, S.R. Littlewood, described it as “a poor, wounded old playhouse” and in 1915, it closed its doors. It took another decade for the most significant figure in the modern history of Sadler’s Wells to enter the picture. Since 1898, Lilian Baylis had been presenting drama and opera at the Old Vic at popular prices. Motivated by a profound belief that great art should belong to everybody, in 1925 she began fundraising to rebuild Sadler’s Wells so that the people of north London could enjoy the same opportunities as those in the south. Then Baylis met Ninette de Valois, a striking young Irish woman who deeply impressed her. After their interview, Baylis’s secretary, recorded her saying: “Miss de Valois is going to run her school with the Vic and when we have Sadler’s Wells she’ll run a wholetime ballet company for us.” The fact that it all came to pass says much about the abilities of both women. De Valois was formally hired in 1928 and the fifth Sadler’s Wells, designed by the prolific theatre architect Frank Matcham, opened on 6th January 1931 with John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson in Twelfth Night. For four years, drama productions, opera and ballet shuttled between the Old Vic and Sadler’s Wells until Baylis decided to dedicate Sadler’s Wells to opera and ballet for eight months of the year and give the Vic-Wells Ballet a permanent base. The new season opened on 27th September 1935 to great acclaim with one critic noting “the splendid dancing of the young newcomer Miss Margot Fonteyn, who has a compelling personality and exceptional gifts, though only just 16.” Whilst opera continued to be important (Peter Grimes premiered at the Wells in 1945), it was in this period that Sadler’s Wells became most strongly associated with dance. It was where De Valois founded British ballet here and built both a company of dancers and a repertory that included her own works and those of Frederick Ashton and Robert Helpmann. She also founded a school which remained throughout World War II, when the theatre was itself actin |
Which common sal\d ingredient is a member of the same family as 'Deadly Nightshade'? | Atropa belladonna Photo courtesy of Flickr user peganum All week on Wild Things, we’ll be presenting our favorite dangerous, horrifying, and monstrous plants, excerpted from The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World’s Most Fascinating Flora by Michael Largo. Out now from William Morrow. Atropa belladonna is a Eurasian perennial with reddish, bell-shaped flowers that bear glossy-coated, black berries. Other names for the plant include belladonna, deadly nightshade, devil’s berries, naughty man’s cherries, death cherries, beautiful death, and devil’s herb. The plant earns its sinister nicknames, as its foliage and berries are extremely toxic, containing potent dosages of tropane alkaloids. Its most common name, belladonna, derives from Italian, meaning “beautiful woman.” Historically, women have used the herb’s oil to dilate and enlarge the pupils for seductive effect. But it’s best known as the plant of choice for assassins through history. Advertisement A native to Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia, the herb grows wildly in many parts of the United States, mostly in dumps, quarries, near old ruins, under shade trees, or atop wooded hills. Belladonna is a branching plant that often grows to resemble a shrub of about 4 feet in height within a single growing season. Its leaves are long, extending 7 inches, and its bell-shaped flowers are purple with green tinges, about an inch long. The fruit and berries appear green when growing, but, as the toxins get stronger in the ripening stage, turn a shiny black color. Belladonna blooms in midsummer through early fall, and its roots are thick, fleshy, and white, growing to about 6 inches or more in length. Deadly nightshade is one of the most toxic plants in the Eastern Hemisphere. While the roots are the most deadly part, the poisonous alkaloids run through the entirety of the plant. Scopolamine and hyoscyamine are among these toxins, both of which cause delirium and hallucinations. Deadly nightshade berries pose the greatest danger to children, as they are attractive and are deceptively sweet at first bite. Yet just two berries can kill a child who eats them, and it takes only 10 or 20 to kill an adult. Likewise, consuming even a single leaf can prove fatal to humans. Cattle, horses, rabbits, goats, and sheep can eat deadly nightshade without ill effect, though many pets are vulnerable to its lethal effects. Symptoms of deadly nightshade poisoning present quickly, so if medical aid is far off, drink a large glass of warm vinegar or a mixture of mustard and water, which may dilute and neutralize its toxicity. Though today we understand the risks involved in using deadly nightshade outweigh any potential benefits, it has a long history in medicine and cosmetics, and as a weapon. Ancient Romans harnessed the effects of the plant to make poison-tipped arrows guaranteed to kill, and still others found it an effective anesthesia for surgery, as numbness and drowsiness are side effects of its toxic mix. If you wish to grow your own crop of the herb, soak the seeds in refrigerated water for two weeks, replacing the water daily. Plant the seeds immediately after two weeks—the young seeds will need sufficient moisture if they’re to germinate successfully, so choose a plot outdoors in May, when there is no fear of frost, and after a strong rain, when the soil is fairly moist. Place the seeds 18 inches apart from one another, and make sure to keep the soil free of weeds or other plants. First-year plants should be thinned out to about 2 1/2 to 3 feet to avoid overcrowding in the next year. Advertisement Because it’s so difficult to grow, belladonna rarely appears in gardens. Though it’s cultivated for medicinal purposes in England, France, and North America, the herb has no major value as food. Some home gardeners plant it for its large, colorful display of berries, but remember: This beauty blooms with no printed warning signs, and it’s a risky and deadly choice to grow it haphazardly. Top Comment The Nightshade family includes potatoes, tomatoes and eggplant. Is the genus described in the |
Astrakhan is a port in the delta of which major river? | Astrakhan' | Article about Astrakhan' by The Free Dictionary Astrakhan' | Article about Astrakhan' by The Free Dictionary http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Astrakhan%27 Also found in: Dictionary , Thesaurus , Medical , Wikipedia . Astrakhan (ăs`trəkăn, Rus. ä`strəkhənyə), city (1990 pop. 521,000), capital of Astrakhan region, SE European Russia. A Caspian Sea port on the Volga River's southern delta, it is a center for river transport thanks to a canal built for barge traffic. Astrakhan is also an important rail junction and a major transshipment center for oil, fish, grain, and wood. The capital of the khanate of Astrakhan (see Tatars Tatars or Tartars , Turkic-speaking peoples living primarily in Russia, Crimea, and Uzbekistan. They number about 10 million and are largely Sunni Muslims; there is also a large population of Crimean Tatar descent in Turkey. ..... Click the link for more information. ) from the 1460s, it was conquered by Ivan the Terrible in 1556. Astrakhan had a flourishing trade with Persia, Khiva, and Bukhara until 1917. It has a kremlin (1587–89) and a cathedral (1700–1710). astrakhan (ăs`trəkən) [from Astrakhan Astrakhan , city (1990 pop. 521,000), capital of Astrakhan region, SE European Russia. A Caspian Sea port on the Volga River's southern delta, it is a center for river transport thanks to a canal built for barge traffic. ..... Click the link for more information. ], pelt of the newborn Persian lamb, used like fur in garments, and also the woolen fabric woven to resemble real astrakhan. The cloth is woven on a cotton base entirely covered by a pile of closely curled mohair. Before being woven the mohair is wound on spindles and steamed to produce a tight, permanent curl. Astrakhan city, the center of Astrakhan Oblast, RSFSR. Situated on both banks of the Volga on the upper part of its delta. Astrakhan is a major industrial and cultural center and the most important river port and seaport of the Volga-Caspian Basin. It is a railroad junction (lines to Saratov, Kizliar, and Gur’ev). In 1970 the population was 411,000 (163,000 in 1913; 254,000 in 1939; 305,000 in 1959). Astrakhan is divided into three city raions. The first information about Astrakhan dates from the 13th century, when the village of Ashtarkhan (Adzhitarkhan), located on the right bank of the Volga 12 km from contemporary Astrakhan, was mentioned among Tatar settlements. Located at the crossroads of caravan and water routes, Astrakhan soon became a large trading city. From 1459 to 1556 it was the capital of the Astrakhan Khanate. The founding of modern Astrakhan began in 1558 with the construction of a new fortress on the high Zaiachii or Dolgii, a hill washed by the Volga and its branches. Around the mid-17th century Astrakhan was one of the Russian state’s border fortresses protecting the mouth of the Volga. Astrakhan was one of the centers of the antifeudal uprising led by S. T. Razin (during 1670–71 the city was ruled for 17 months by the cossack atamans V. Us and F. Sheludiak). There was a major uprising in the city in the early 18th century (the Astrakhan Revolt of 1705–06). A strong military fleet, an admiralty, shipyards, and a port were established in Astrakhan in the first quarter of the 18th century. From 1717 on, Astrakhan was a provincial capital. From the 16th to the 19th centuries Astrakhan was the chief center for trade with the Caucasus and Transcaucasia, Middle Asia, Iran, and India. In the 1870’s the port of Astrakhan became one of the largest in the country as a result of the development of the oil fields in Baku. Among those who served their terms of exile in Astrakhan were V. V. Bervi-Flerovskii, N. G. Chernyshevskii, and the Bolsheviks L. M. Knipovich, I. F. Dubrovinskii, O. A. Var-entsova, S. G. Shaumian, and N. N. Narimanov. In 1903 a committee of the RSDLP was formed in Astrakhan; in 1905 the committee led a general strike in the city. On Jan. 25 (Feb. 7), 1918, an armed uprising in Astrakhan brought about the establishment of Soviet power. During the Civil War intense battles were fought for Ast |
Who was the author of 'Moll Flanders'? | Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe - Google Books Moll Flanders 0 Reviews https://books.google.com/books/about/Moll_Flanders.html?id=hHXAoq3h9FQC Moll Flanders is, according to Virginia Woolf, one of the "few English novels which we can call indisputably great." Written by Defoe in 1722 under a pseudonym so his readers would think it an actual journal of the ribald fortunes and misfortunes of a woman in eighteenth-century London, the book remains a picaresque novel of astonishing vitality. From her birth in Newgate Prison to her ascent to a position of wealth and stature, Moll Flanders demonstrates both a mercantile spirit and an indomitable will. This vivid saga of an irresistible and notorious heroine--her high misdemeanors and delinquencies, her varied careers as a prostitute, a charming and faithful wife, a thief, and a convict--endures today as one of the liveliest, most candid records of a woman's progress through the hypocritical labyrinth of society ever recorded. "Defoe seems to have taken his characters so deeply into his mind that he lived them without exactly knowing how," wrote Virginia Woolf. "Like all unconscious artists, he leaves more gold in his work than his own generation was able to bring to the surface." What people are saying - Write a review We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Selected pages View all » Common terms and phrases afterwards answer asked assured Bank of England Barnet began believe better Betty boatswain Brickhill brother brought called captain carried child circumstances coach Colchester consent constable creature cried DANIEL DEFOE dear desired discourse door Dunstable England expected father fellow fortune fright gave gentleman gentlewoman give gold watch gone governess guineas hand handsome Harwich heard highwaymen honest husband Ireland justice justice of peace kind knew lady lived lodged London looked madam maid marriage married mercer midwife mistress Moll Flanders mother never Newgate night obliged occasion offered Old Bailey pawnbroker pickpocket plantation poor repentance resolved says Robin sent servants shilling ship short sincere sister soon story sure surprised taken talk tankard tell there’s things thither thought told took whore wife woman word York River About the author (2000) Daniel Defoe--arguably the most prolific writer in the English language and considered by many the father of the novel and the founder of modern journalism--was born at St. Giles, Cripplegate, in the heart of the City of London, probably in the fall of 1660. He was the third child and only son of James Foe, a prosperous tallow chandler of Flemish ancestry, and his wife, Alice. (The author assumed the more genteel name of Defoe when he reached the age of thirty-five.) Two years later, in 1662, the family left the Church of England to become Presbyterian Dissenters, who were barred from universities and from civil and military service. Consequently, young Defoe studied for the Presbyterian ministry at the Reverend Charles Morton's highly respected Academy for Dissenters at Newington Green north of London. In 1682, however, Defoe decided against a career in the Nonconformist church and soon established himself as a merchant in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange. In 1684, he married Mary Tuffley, who brought with her a sizable dowry. During their lifetime together she bore him eight children, six of whom lived to adulthood. After serving briefly in the Duke of Monmouth's ill-fated rebellion against the soon-to-be-deposed James II, Defoe bought a pardon from the government, became a successful tradesman in various commodities, traveled extensively in England and on the Continent, and published several political tracts. Yet by 1692, reckless investments forced him to declare bankruptcy for �17,000, then the equivalent of a small fortune. He eventually paid his creditors but was never entirely free from debt again. It was perhaps inevitable that Defoe--an outspoken "freeman" of the City of London as well as a Puritan with a mission to print the truth even if it often meant satirizing the hyp |
Who wrote the children's book 'National Velvet'? | Amazon.com: National Velvet (9780899663593): Enid Bagnold: Books National Velvet Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Next Special Offers and Product Promotions Editorial Reviews Review "A story which is at once breathlessly exciting and a delightful character study." ---"London Times"Put on your not-to-be-missed list." ---"The New Yorker"Some books are to be gobbled at a sitting. This is one." ---"Atlantic"The book is one that horse lovers of every age cannot fail to enjoy." ---"The New York Times --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. Read more About the Author Enid Bagnold, who died in 1981, is best know for National Velvet and for her play The Chalk Garden, both of which were made into movies. Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here , or download a FREE Kindle Reading App . New York Times best sellers Browse the New York Times best sellers in popular categories like Fiction, Nonfiction, Picture Books and more. See more Product Details Publisher: Buccaneer Books (June 1, 1981) Language: English Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces See all verified purchase reviews Top Customer Reviews By Pat Wagner on November 11, 2014 Format: Hardcover|Verified Purchase I don't believe the book I received was a first edition. It shows a renewed copyright date of 1963. First copyright was 1935. This book is interesting in that it is difficult at times to understand. Dialogue is colloquialistic of the time and place and almost a foreign language to today's reader. I vaguely remember the original movie, but didn't realize that it was so loosely based on the book. The main character in the book is described as homely, but they chose a beauty like young Elisabeth Taylor to play her part in the movie! The family runs a slaughter house in the book. Was that in the movie? I'm going to watch the movie again after reading the book just for fun to see how different it is. I would say for a kid to read this book today, they would understand very little that the people were saying or describing. By Karen W. Miller on June 4, 2015 I read this story way back in the 9th grade because they gave us a list of books to make a report from and this was the only one I hadn't read. I love, love, love to read, and I have to say, I hate, hate, hated this book. No one in the book is pleasant; the little brother is disgusting, the mother--ugh. I just couldn't stand it, and I could never figure out why they would want to make a movie out of it. My mother in law made me watch the movie a few years back because it was her favorite. Perhaps she liked it because she never read the book, because the only thing the book and the movie had in common was a girl named Velvet and a horse. I really need to read it again as an adult. I can honestly say this is the only book I ever truly hated in my whole life, so I suppose I should check back in on it and see if my world view has changed. In the mean time, read a good horse book like Black Beauty. Sad, but beautiful, and with a happy ending. |
Who, born in Gloucestershire, composed 'On Wedlock Edge' in 1909? | Born: October 12, 1872, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, Eng Died: August 26, 1958, London The son of a clergyman, Ralph Vaughan Williams attended the Royal College of Music and then took music degrees at Trinity College, Cambridge University. He also studied in Berlin with Max Bruch and in Paris with Maurice Ravel. On his return to England, Vaughan Williams served as organist and choirmaster in several churches and was a teacher of composition at the Royal College of Music. In 1904 Vaughan Williams joined the English Folk Song Society, and for several years he was active in collecting and arranging old English melodies. He also became familiar with the music of William Byrd and Henry Purcell, English composers of the 16th and 17th centuries. The modal melodies of the folk songs and the free rhythms and smooth counterpoint of the early composers became important elements of Vaughan Williams's compositions. The Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis for string quartet and double string orchestra (1908, revised 1913) is one of Vaughan Williams's most important early compositions. With this piece English music shook off 2 centuries of German domination and tapped a rich source of indigenous music. The cool modal harmonies and antiphonal string writing contrast strongly with the lush, feverish music that was being composed in France and Germany at this time. The London Symphony (1914) is another important piece in Vaughan Williams's development. Its sprightly rhythms and street tunes, the impressionist evocation of autumn mist on the Thames in the second movement, the chimes of Big Ben at the end - all this was new in 20th-century English music. Vaughan Williams continued to write symphonies throughout his life; the last, his Ninth, was written shortly before his death when he was 86. In these works one can follow the composer's steady development. The Fourth (1935) and Sixth (1948) symphonies are perhaps his strongest, and most dissonant, statements. Vocal music, both solo and choral, also played an important role in Vaughan William's output. Early in his career he edited and contributed to the English Hymnal (1906). His setting of A. E. Housman's poems, On Wenlock Edge, for tenor and string quartet (1909) is frequently performed, as is his Mass in G Minor for double a cappella chorus (1923). His operas include Hugh the Drover (1911-1914), which incorporates folk songs, and Sir John in Love (1929), based on Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor. In the latter work Vaughan Williams used the Elizabethan song "Greensleeves," which helped to make it one of the most familiar "folk" tunes of the 20th century. Although he did not follow the newer trends and musical fashions of his day, Vaughan Williams created a thoroughly original style based on English folk music, 16th-and 17th-century polyphony, and informal music of his own times, including jazz. He stated his credo as a composer in his book National Music (1934): "Music is above all things the art of the common man--the art of the humble--What the ordinary man will expect from the composer is not cleverness, or persiflage, or an assumed vulgarity--he will want something that will open to him the 'magic casements.'-- The art of music above all other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation-- any community of people who are spiritually bound together by language, environment, history and common ideals, and, above all, a continuity with the past." |
Name the Roman equivalent to the Greek goddess, Pallas Athena? | ATHENA (Athene) - Greek Goddess of Wisdom, War & Crafts (Roman Minerva) Athena, Athenian red-figure lekythos C5th B.C., Museum of Fine Arts Boston ATHENE (Athena) was the Olympian goddess of wisdom and good counsel, war, the defence of towns, heroic endeavour, weaving, pottery and various other crafts. She was depicted as a stately woman armed with a shield and spear, and wearing a long robe, crested helm, and the famed aigis--a snake-trimmed cape adorned with the monstrous visage of the Gorgon Medousa (Medusa). MYTHS The more famous myths featuring the goddess Athene include:-- Her birth from the head of Zeus, fully-grown and arrayed in arms. << More >> Her contest with Poseidon for dominion of Athens in which she produced the first olive tree and he the first horse. << More >> The War of the Giants in which she buried Enkelados (Enceladus) beneath Mount Etna and made her aigis from the skin of Pallas. << More >> The attempted violation of the goddess by Hephaistos (Hephaestus), who spilled his seed upon the earth and produced Erikhthonios (Erichthonius), who she then adopted as her own son. << More >> The assisting of Perseus in his quest to slay the Gorgon and the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece. << More >> The assisting of Herakles (Heracles) with his twelve labours. << More >> The weaving contest with Arakhne (Arachne) who was transformed by the goddess into a spider . << More >> The blinding of Teiresias (Tiresias) for seeing her naked while bathing. << More >> The Judgement of Paris in which she competed with Hera and Aphrodite for the prize of the golden apple. << More >> The Trojan War where she sided with the Greeks in battle, but attacked their ships with a storm when they failed to punish Oilean Aias (Ajax) for violating her Trojan shrine. << More >> Many other myths are detailed over the following pages. ATHENA PAGES ON THEOI.COM This site contains a total of 9 pages describing the goddess, including general descriptions, mythology, and cult. The content is outlined in the Index of Athena Pages (left column or below). FAMILY OF ATHENA [1.1] ZEUS & METIS (Hesiod Theogony 887, 924; Apollodorus 1.20) [1.2] Born from the head of ZEUS (Hesiod Theogony 887, 924; Apollodorus 1.20, others) OFFSPRING NONE (she was a virgin goddess) CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES I) THE HOMERIC HYMNS Homeric Hymn 11 to Athena (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th to 4th B.C.) : "Of Pallas Athena, guardian of the city, I begin to sing. Dread is she, and with Ares she loves the deeds of war, the sack of cities and the shouting and the battle. It is she who saves the people as they go to war and come back. Hail, goddess, and give us good fortune and happiness!" Homeric Hymn 39 to Athena : "I begin to sing of Pallas Athena, the glorious goddess, bright-eyed, inventive, unbending of heart, pure virgin, saviour of cities, courageous, Tritogeneia. From his awful head wise Zeus himself bare her arrayed in warlike arms of flashing gold, and awe seized all the gods as they gazed. But Athena sprang quickly from the immortal head and stood before Zeus who holds the aegis, shaking a sharp spear: great Olympos began to reel horribly at the might of the grey-eyed goddess, and earth round about cried fearfully, and the sea was moved and tossed with dark waves, while foam burst forth suddenly: the bright Son of Hyperion [Helios the Sun] stopped his swift-footed horses a long while, until the maiden Pallas Athena had stripped the heavenly armour from her immortal shoulders. And wise Zeus was glad. Hail to you, daughter of Zeus who holds the aigis!" II) THE ORPHIC HYMNS Orphic Hymn 32 to Athena (trans. Taylor) (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.) : "Only-begotten, noble race of Zeus, blessed and fierce, who joyest in caves to rove: O warlike Pallas, whose illustrious kind, ineffable, and effable we find : magnanimous and famed, the rocky height, and groves, and shady mountains thee delight: in arms rejoicing, who with furies dire and wild the souls of mortals dost inspire. Gymnastic virgin of terrific mind, dire Gorgon's bane, unmarrie |
In which Parliamentary constituency did Frank Field replace Edmund Dell as MP in 1979? | Frank Field Frank Field Follow @twitter.com/frankfieldmp Biography Frank Field was re-elected MP for Birkenhead on May 7th 2015 with 26468 votes, taking 67.6% of the vote. Born in London, he was educated at St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Boys Grammar School before studying economics at the University of Hull. In his youth, he was a member of the Conservative Party, but left due to his opposition to South Africa's apartheid system. He was elected as a councillor in the London Borough of Hounslow for four years from 1964 and in the same year became a further education teacher in Southwark and Hammersmith until he became the Director of the Child Poverty Action Group 1969-79, and of the Low Pay Unit 1974-1980. Field unsuccessfully contested Buckinghamshire South at the 1966 General Election where he was defeated soundly by the sitting Conservative veteran MP Ronald Bell. He was selected to contest the safe seat at Birkenhead at the 1979 General Election on the retirement of the sitting Labour MP Edmund Dell. Field held the seat safely with a majority of 5,909 and has remained the constituency MP since then. In Parliament Field was made a member of the Opposition frontbench by Michael Foot as a spokesman on education in 1980 but was dropped a year later. Following the appointment of Neil Kinnock as the Leader of the Opposition in 1983 he was appointed as a spokesman on health and social security for a year. He was appointed the chairman of the social services select committee in 1987, becoming the chairman of the new social security select committee in 1990, a position he held until the 1997 election. Following the 1997 election, with Labour in power, Field joined the government of Tony Blair as the Minister of Welfare Reform at the Department of Social Security with the rank of Minister of State. After Labour's defeat in the 2010 election, he was given the role of "poverty czar" in David Cameron's coalition government. On 18th June 2015 he became chairman of the Work and Pension Select Committeee. Constituency |
When Muhammad received the word of god at Hira, near Mecca. Where exactly was he? | The Quran About Watch and Favorite Watch Watching this resources will notify you when proposed changes or new versions are created so you can keep track of improvements that have been made. Favorite Favoriting this resource allows you to save it in the “My Resources” tab of your account. There, you can easily access this resource later when you’re ready to customize it or assign it to your students. The Quran Muhammad received revelations from 609-632 CE, and they became the basis for the Quran, the central religious text of Islam. Learning Objective Discuss the origins of the first Muslim converts Key Points Muhammad first received revelations in 609 CE in a cave on Mount Hira, near Mecca . Muslims regard the Quran as the most important miracle of Muhammad, the proof of his prophethood, and the culmination of a series of divine messages revealed by the angel Gabriel from 609–632 CE. The key themes of the early Quranic verses included the responsibility of man towards his creator; the resurrection of the dead, God's final judgment followed by vivid descriptions of the tortures in Hell and pleasures in Paradise; and the signs of God in all aspects of life. Religious duties included belief in God, asking for forgiveness of sins, offering frequent prayers, assisting others particularly those in need, rejecting cheating and the love of wealth, being chaste, and not killing newborn girls. Muhammad's immediate family were the first to believe he was a prophet, followed by three main groups of early converts to Islam: younger brothers and sons of great merchants, people who had fallen out of the first rank in their tribe or failed to attain it, and unprotected foreigners. Muslims believe the Quran to be both the unaltered and the final revelation of God. Religious concepts and practices include the five pillars of Islam, which are obligatory acts of worship, and following Islamic law, which touches on virtually every aspect of life and society, from banking and welfare to the status of women and the environment. Terms Full Text Muhammad's First Revelations When he was nearly 40, Muhammad began spending many hours alone in prayer and speculating over the aspects of creation. He was concerned with the "ignorance of divine guidance" (Jahiliyyah), social unrest, injustice, widespread discrimination (particularly against women), fighting among tribes, and abuse of tribal authorities prevalent in pre-Islamic Arabia. The moral degeneration of his fellow people, and his own quest for a true religion, further lent fuel to this, with the result that he began to withdraw periodically to a cave called Mount Hira, three miles north of Mecca, for contemplation and reflection. During this period Muhammad began to have dreams replete with spiritual significance that were fulfilled according to their true import; this was the commencement of his divine revelation. Islamic tradition holds that during one of his visits to Mount Hira in the year 609 CE, the angel Gabriel appeared to him and commanded Muhammad to recite verses that would later be included in the Quran. Upon receiving his first revelations, Muhammad was deeply distressed. When he returned home, he was consoled and reassured by Khadijah and her Christian cousin. Muhammad feared that others would dismiss his claims as evidence of him being possessed. On the other hand, Shi'a tradition maintains that Muhammad was neither surprised nor frightened at the appearance of Gabriel, but rather welcomed him as if he was expected. The initial revelation was followed by a pause of three years (a period known as fatra) during which Muhammad felt depressed and further gave himself to prayers and spiritual practices. When the revelations resumed, he was reassured and began preaching. The Quran Arabic calligraphy for "Quran" Muslims believe that the Quran was verbally revealed from God to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel gradually over a period of approximately 23 years, beginning on 22 December 609 CE, when Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632 CE, the year of his death. At the beginning of thes |
Which large marsh,once thought bottomless, lies between Liverpool and Manchester? | The Warehouse: The Quest for Crossrail's Missing Cores 00:36, 26 August 2015 John Bull — 53 Comments The squealing of machinery comes to a halt and the large red light on the operator’s panel turns green. A buzzer sounds and he steps forward, opening a salt-encrusted gate to reveal a small miner’s lift. On its floor more salt has formed into small drifts. It has walls on two sides, but apart from a safety bar the back is open, the rear wall of the shaft (and the gaps in it) clearly visible. “If you’re not good with that kind of thing then best face forward.” Says Graeme McDonald, Head of Operations for Deepstore. “Either that or we can just turn our helmet lamps off.” He says with a grin, gesturing up to the empty spot where, in a regular lift, the light fitting would be. The miners’ lift from a distance and then close up. The regular entrance to Deepstore’s facility is closed for maintenance. That this doesn’t stop us from entering is a rather effective demonstration of just what makes this facility so unique. For this is no run-of-the-mill secure storage facility, nor is it even in London. In fact we are at Winsford Rock Salt Mine in Cheshire, Britain’s oldest active rock salt mine. Deepstore inhabits some of its mined-out tunnels and thus with the main visitor lift out of action we are heading underground the same way the miners do. The fact that we are here at all might seem to be a spectacular case of scope creep on the part of the inhabitants here at LR Towers. Deepstore are underground, certainly, but they are not Underground. Nor, quite obviously, are they within the M25. 150 metres below us, however, lie literally kilometres of London in the form of thousands of broken-down core samples – all carefully collected, compared and catalogued by Crossrail over a fifteen year period. Intended primarily to ensure that no surprises awaited its Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) as they carved a path through the ground beneath the Capital, in the process they also expanded our geological understanding of what exactly lies beneath our feet. Down in the mine. Note the remains of an old narrow-gauge railway. The big question Before looking at the contents of Crossrail’s vault itself it is worth stepping back briefly and looking at the path which led to Cheshire. For the residents of LR Towers this journey began back in 2012 when we looked at the surveys Crossrail had to carry out to ensure the route was free of unexploded WW2 bombs . Whilst there was no need to retain the vast majority of the core samples taken as part of this particular process, it did prompt a question – core surveys to establish the geology of the route had been undertaken since the early nineties… …so where were they? We built this city on rock and loam In the world of geological engineering there is an old adage: “You pay for a quality ground investigation whether you procure one or not.” Karl von Terzaghi, father of soil mechanics The attribution in perhaps apocryphal, but the sentiment is certainly true. Any large scale construction project is at risk of failure if the ground on which it is built is not thoroughly surveyed. This is doubly true for tunnelling, where an unexpected change in the condition of the ground through which you are tunnelling can bring disaster. This was something Marc Brunel discovered to great cost during his efforts to build the Thames Tunnel , the world’s first tunnel beneath a tidal river. Although his efforts would eventually be successful, unexpected pockets of sand and silt contributed to the tunnel collapses and flooding that would bring the project to the edge of disaster and cost lives. More recently, a similar failure to understand an area’s geology would play a key part in the rampant delays and cost escalations that would plague Boston’s “Big Dig” . Travelling through the mine to the Deepstore facility. It is difficult to grasp the scale. More complex than you think The geology beneath London is frequently over-simplified. The general narrative is often reduced to one where north of the Thames, London is largely clay (w |
Who was the first husband of film actress Marilyn Monroe? | Marilyn Monroe - Biography - IMDb Marilyn Monroe Biography Showing all 282 items Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (2) | Spouse (3) | Trade Mark (4) | Trivia (133) | Personal Quotes (116) | Salary (19) Overview (5) 5' 5½" (1.66 m) Mini Bio (2) Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson at the Los Angeles County Hospital on June 1, 1926. Her mother Gladys Pearl Baker was a film-cutter at Consolidated Film Industries. Marilyn's father's identity was never known. Because Gladys was mentally and financially unable to care for young Marilyn, Gladys placed her in the care of a foster family, The Bolenders. Although the Bolender family wanted to adopt Marilyn, Gladys was eventually able to stabilize her lifestyle and took Marilyn back in her care when Marilyn was 7 years old. However, shortly after regaining custody of Marilyn, Gladys had a complete mental breakdown and was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and was committed to a state mental hospital. Gladys spent the rest of her life going in and out of hospitals and did not have contact with Marilyn ever again. Gladys outlived her daughter, dying in 1984. Marilyn was then taken in by Gladys' best friend Grace Goddard, who, after a series of foster homes, placed Marilyn into the Los Angeles Orphan's Home in 1935. Marilyn was traumatized by her experience there despite the Orphan's Home being an adequate living facility. Grace Goddard eventually took Marilyn back to live with her in 1937 although this stay did not last long as Grace's husband began molesting Marilyn. Marilyn went to live with Grace's Aunt Ana after this incident, although due to Aunt Ana's advanced age she could not care properly for Marilyn. Marilyn once again for the third time had to return to live with the Goddard's. The Goddard's planned to relocated and according to law, could not take Marilyn with them. She only had two choices: return to the orphanage or get married. Marilyn was only 16 years old. She decided to marry a neighborhood friend named James Dougherty; he went into the military, she modeled, they divorced in 1946. She owned 200 books (including Tolstoy, Whitman, Milton), listened to Beethoven records, studied acting at the Actors' lab in Hollywood, and took literature courses at UCLA downtown. 20th Century Fox gave her a contract but let it lapse a year later. In 1948, Columbia gave her a six-month contract, turned her over to coach Natasha Lytess and featured her in the B movie Ladies of the Chorus (1948) in which she sang three numbers : "Every Baby Needs a Da Da Daddy", "Anyone Can Tell I Love You" and "The Ladies of the Chorus" with Adele Jergens (dubbed by Virginia Rees) and others. Joseph L. Mankiewicz saw her in a small part in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and put her in All About Eve (1950), resulting in 20th Century re-signing her to a seven-year contract. Niagara (1953) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) launched her as a sex symbol superstar. When she went to a supper honoring her in the The Seven Year Itch (1955), she arrived in a red chiffon gown borrowed from the studio (she had never owned a gown). That same year, she married and divorced baseball great Joe DiMaggio (their wedding night was spent in Paso Robles, California). After The Seven Year Itch (1955), she wanted serious acting to replace the sexpot image and went to New York's Actors Studio. She worked with director Lee Strasberg and also underwent psychoanalysis to learn more about herself. Critics praised her transformation in Bus Stop (1956) and the press was stunned by her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller . True to form, she had no veil to match her beige wedding dress so she dyed one in coffee; he wore one of the two suits he owned. They went to England that fall where she made The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) with Laurence Olivier , fighting with him and falling further prey to alcohol and pills. Two miscarriages and gynecological surgery followed. So did an affair with Yves Montand . Work on her last picture The Misfits (1961), written for her by departing husband Miller was interrupted by exhaust |
On TV and radio, which 'couple' were the inhabitants of the village of 'Stackton Tressell'? | Patrick Fyffe aka Dame Hilda Bracket Patrick Fyffe was born on 23 January 1942 in Stafford, Staffordshire and died on 11 May 2002 at Wellington, Somerset from spinal cancer. He is survived by his sister, the soprano Jane Fyffe, who was a performer with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the late 1950s. Many of Fyffe's immediate family had been active in musical theatre, but he initially trained as a hairdresser, and ran his own salon in Stafford before making a career on the stage. He was a regular star of local amateur productions, but a desire to turn professional took him to London. His early professional appearances included a 1964 production of the musical Robert and Elizabeth, at the Lyric Theatre (in which his sister played the lead for a period, and he played one of Elizabeth's brothers), and a 1971 production of the same show at the Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow. With some experience of repertory and a couple of provincial tours behind him, Fyffe invented the character of glamorous soprano Perri St Claire. Played on stage as a sophisticated young lady with singing talent, the "Perri" character was sufficiently eye-catching to earn him some television slots, and Fyffe was asked to appear in character in a number of television series of the late sixties, notably Z Cars and the last programme of Doctor in the House Series 1 in 1969, when he appeared as a cabaret singer. Fyffe also appeared in the first Steptoe and Son film, as a drag artiste who becomes the mistaken object of Steptoe Senior's lust. Paul Dunford, Creator of This Site My Memory of the news on May 11th 2002 by Paul Dunford When I heard the sad news on the radio on May 11th 2002 that Patrick Fyffe had died, I was devastated. I remember exactly where I was at the time, as most of us do when we hear news of a famous person dying. I was driving along the M4 in my Tesco Lorry on the way to the Hammersmith Metro store and I was just coming up to Reading Services at the time. I finished my shift that morning and the first thing I did when I got home was switch on my computer and whilst the 'old girl' was starting up I made a cup of coffee. I looked around the internet to see if there was anything on Hinge & Bracket and was shocked to see hardly anything there apart from a few pictures. The only news I found was the clip on the BBC Website. That afternoon I woke up and started searching through websites again in the vain attempt to see what was out there. After a few days I decided to use my Free Webspace my ISP gave me and started up www.hingeandbracket.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk Over the next few weeks I had fans emailing me with Pictures and memories of Hinge & Bracket and decided to open up a Yahoo Group where fans could join in and chat. Over the coming months people started sending in CDs and Videos of shows, and another fan; Ged started making available DVDs of 'Dear Ladies' and I started to do the Radio Shows and Vinyl albums so people could again hear how great Hinge & Bracket were. It was with great excitement on a cold December morning in 2003 that my phone rang and I heard a familiar voice on the other end. Thanks to David Rumelle, George called to thank me for the website and we had a chat and I got invited to go to see him in Panto in Southend on sea, which I enjoyed on the 10th January 2004. That was the day he signed all of my albums and I asked if he would support the idea of an Official website. He agreed and www.hingeandbracket-official.co.uk was born a couple of months later. It went live on the 11th May 2004 in memory of Patrick Fyffe who had died 2 years earlier. Since then I petitioned the BBC to release ' Dear Ladies ' on DVD and finally they relented and released them in 2007. On the 26th July 2004. George Logan and myself were invited along t |
Which British river is spanned by the Pulteney Bridge? | Pulteney Bridge Pulteney Bridge Pulteney Bridge is one of the most admired buildings in a beautiful city. Pulteney Bridge is one of only four bridges lined with shops in the world, but Robert Adam's creation has more than novelty value. His graceful composition is one of the unqualified successes of English Palladianism and provides the perfect integrating link between two halves of a Palladian city. Across the River Avon from Bath lay the 600 acre estate of Bathwick. This was entirely rural when it was inherited by Frances Pulteney in October 1767, but its potential was obvious. No other English spa could rival Bath in this period and the city was in the midst of a building boom. Frances was married to an Edinburgh lawyer, William Johnstone Pulteney, and this energetic and frugal Scot immediately began to make plans to develop his wife's estate. His first problem was that the only direct route from Bath to Bathwick was by ferry. By February 1768, he was conferring with Bath City Council about a new bridge. At first Pulteney contemplated just a simple, functional bridge, designed by a local architect, but by the summer of 1770 the brothers Adam were involved and the plans had undergone a dramatic change. Pulteney had approached the Adams with his new town in Bathwick in mind. We may guess that Robert Adam then suggested putting shops on the bridge. He had visited both Florence and Venice, where he would have seen the ancient Ponte Vecchio and the striking Ponte di Rialto . But the most direct influence on Adam was clearly Andrea Palladio's rejected design for the Rialto. Stripped of its heavier ornamentation, this tribute to ancient Rome emerged from Adam's hands as the coolest of English understatements. England also had housed bridges of medieval origin, but by the 18th century these were being seen as impediments to traffic. Adam's designs therefore caused some consternation in Bath. The Corporation, who had not been consulted, wrote to Pulteney in protest. They evidently thought it perverse that after London and Bristol had cleared their bridges of houses, he was proposing to bring this outdated phenomenon to Bath. But Pulteney remained adamant. Perhaps the prospect of the bridge paying for itself through shop rents appealed to his love of economy. Adam planned a row of eleven small shops on each side, with staircases to attics above. Lofty Venetian windows formed the centrepiece of his design for the river fa�ades, while matching Venetian doors faced the street. These were echoed in a pattern of recessed, columned windows, creating an interesting play of light and shadow for passers-by. Malton's aquatint gives us our only view of these lovely street fa�ades, subsequently much altered. Pulteney Bridge was complete and ready for occupation in late 1773, but tenants were slow to come forward. The shock of the American War of Independence had fallen like an axe on Bath's development. The plans for Bathwick were shelved and for many years, Adam's elegant and urbane bridge led out onto meadows, rather than a Palladian townscape. When building eventually began in March 1788, it was Thomas Baldwin, a Bath architect, who provided the detailed plans. Pulteney Bridge was left as Adam's only work in Bath. Pulteney at least had the tact to see Adam to his grave before desecrating his handiwork. On 26 March 1792, less than a month after Adam's death, a lease of most of the bridge was granted, with Baldwin's plans for conversion to larger shops. The roof was raised and the windows transformed into bays. No doubt it all made sound commercial sense, but Adam's street elevations were utterly ruined. This was just the first of many distortions of Adam's original vision. Disaster struck in September 1799, when a pier gave way after high floods. The remaining pier collapsed when the river rose in a great storm in November 1800. The houses on the north side were so badly damaged that Pulteney seriously considered dismantling the whole structure and building a single-span iron bridge, designed by his prot�g� Thomas Telford. But in |
The airport in Orange County, California is named after which famous film star? | Cheap Flights to John Wayne/Orange County - Find John Wayne/Orange County Flights - Cheapflights.com.au Cheap flights to Santa Ana, John Wayne/Orange County, USA Cheap Flights to John Wayne/Orange County John Wayne/Orange County overview John Wayne Airport (SNA) is located in Orange County in California, 23km (14 miles) from Disneyland Resort. It was the first airport in the United States to be named after an entertainer – the film star John Wayne. The airport has one main terminal, the Thomas F Riley Terminal, which houses both Terminal A and Terminal B. With two airline lounges, a fair amount of shopping opportunities and a range of food and drink options to suit all wallets, John Wayne Airport is a comfortable airport to use when travelling to California. A number of airlines operate at John Wayne Airport. Some of the popular destinations served from the airport are Atlanta, Houston, Newark, Oakland and Honolulu. Terminal B’s concourse is currently under construction, but passengers using the airport will find that the airport offers convenience and a welcoming attitude. Airlines that fly to John Wayne/Orange County United Airlines |
Which London Underground line connects Euston and Waterloo? | London Euston to Waterloo station by train > London Euston to Waterloo tube route Train route from Euston to Waterloo station How to get from Euston to Waterloo station by tube, with a time estimate of how long it takes on the London Underground Do you have to change trains? No How many stops are there? 7 1) From Euston take the Northern 2) Leave the train at Waterloo Tube route: Euston → Warren Street → Goodge Street → Tottenham Court Road → Leicester Square → Charing Cross → Embankment → Waterloo How long does it take? The journey time between these two London underground stations is approximately 13 minutes Which fare zones? This tube journey is zone 1. You can pay for a ticket with an oyster card , visitor oyster card , zone 1 travelcard or contactless payment card . Look up the zone 1 fare for adults and zone 1 price for children How far is it? The distance from Euston station to Waterloo station is about two miles. Here’s the taxi fare for two miles . The walking distance between the two tube stations is roughly 38-42 minutes Are the trains running? Your tube line may be affected by train delays on the Underground . You should also check whether the tube train between Euston and Waterloo is affected by a London train strike Note: Closures, cancellations and delays on the Euston to Waterloo tube route may affect your journey, and you should allow for some extra travel time on top Got a question about Euston to Waterloo? > Talk about Euston to Waterloo in the forum Guest – “2 adults a toddler and 6 year old child travelling from euston to waterloo how much is the underground with a family and Friends pass?” Admin – “If you look on the faqs page for the family and Friends railcards it says “can I use my railcard for tickets for travel on the London underground? A: with your railcard you can get 1/3 off a London zones 1-6 off-peak day travelcard (subject to a minimum fare which is currently £8.00) and an anytime day travelcard when bought as part of your journey to London from outside London zones 1-9 (subject to a minimum fare which is currently £17.20).” .familyandfriends-railcard.co.uk/help/faqs/. So it's not possible to get money off a zone 1 ticket (which is what you want). But children that age go free on the underground anyway. The travelcard prices, and zone 1 prices, can be found on our fares page: londondrum.com/transport/train-fares-ti .. Prices.php” Guest – “I will be arriving at euston train station at 10.32 hours on a Friday and then I need to take the underground from euston to waterloo to catch another train. I have never used the London underground before so could you please tell me which line I need. I think its the Northern line but do I need northbound or southbound ? Sorry if its a silly question” Admin – “It's the Northern line, yes. And you need a southbound train. But be careful, because there are two southbound routes: the 'charing cross loop' and the 'bank loop'. You need the charing cross loop. If you look on a tube map then you'll see that only the charing cross loop (via charing cross station) goes to waterloo. The bank loop (via bank station) bypasses it.” Guest – “We are going from euston over-ground station to waterloo over-ground train station and have to use the tube. Are there many stairs at euston to get down to the tube platform and similarly at waterloo? I have seen the literature about no stairs but it doesn't say that where there are stairs, how many there are . Short flight , two flights etc. We are able but older travellers with a fair bit of heavy luggage. Thank you” Admin – “There are definitely stairs at both. From euston ticket hall to the Northern southbound platform you'll have one escalator, plus a flight of 28 stairs (down) at waterloo you'll have 20 stairs (up), then an escalator” Train fare from Euston station to Waterloo How much is the tube fare? The ticket price for Euston to Waterloo can be found under zone 1 (adult) and zone 1 (child) Buy an Underground ticketHow to buy a tube ticket from Euston to Waterloo station Buy an Oyster Card (learn more) |
In which northern city is the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television? | NMPFT - The National Museum of Photography Film and Television, Bradford, West Yorkshire Follow Bronte Country on Twitter The National Museum of Photography Film and Television In 2006 the National Museum of Photography Film and Television in Bradford was renamed the National Media Museum . |
John Wayne turned down the role of which Marshall, James Arness eventually playing the role for 20 years? | - Movie Reviews - The Mighty James Arness has Passed Away The Mighty James Arness has Passed Away Friday, June 3, 2011 at 9:41PM Tweet By Bennett Owen Credit: svchistory He was six foot six, seven inches…and that trademark gimp was not an actor’s quirk but the result of a war wound suffered at the WW2 invasion of Anzio…an injury that kept him hospitalized for over a year. Credit: svchistory James Arness initially turned down the role of Marshall Matt Dillon, but his good friend, John Wayne eventually convinced him…”Guys like Gregory Peck and me don't want a big lug like you towering over us,” the Duke advised. “Make your mark in television.” Credit: Amazon And so he did. For 20 years, from 1955 - ’75, Marshall Dillon kept the peace in Dodge City in one of the longest running and most popular series’ in the history of television. His character, perhaps more than any other, embodied the taciturn, heroic lawman of western mystique. Credit: Zap2it That also was no act, but the persona of a very private man…So private that his long-time co-star, Amanda Blake (Miss Kitty) once said of him, "He's big, impressive and virile…I've worked with him for 16 years, but I don't really know him." Credit: YouTube.com And that is perhaps the most endearing key to Gunsmoke’s longevity. Aside from the quick-draw brilliance and tough guy tactics, Marshall Dillon engaged in a tender, 20-year long, unrequited love affair with Miss Kitty…the longing was palpable…and yet they never once kissed. Arness later admitted there truly was method to this madness… After his death, Arness’ website released a posthumous message from the actor that read in part, "I had a wonderful life and was blessed with so many loving people and great friends." James Arness, dead at the age of 88. |
Who was Eisenhower's Democratic opponent in the 1952 and 1956 US Presidential campaigns? | United States presidential election of 1952 | United States government | Britannica.com United States presidential election of 1952 United States government United States presidential election of 1952, American presidential election held on November 4, 1952, in which Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower easily defeated Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson . Results of the American presidential election, 1952… Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. "I Like Ike" animated television commercial for Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. … Archival footage supplied by the Internet Moving Images Archive (at archive.org) in association with Prelinger Archives Primaries and conventions Without an incumbent candidate in the White House , there was intense interest in who would win the nomination of each of the two major parties. There was also speculation as to whether a serious third-party candidacy, like Strom Thumond ’s Dixiecrat bid in 1948 , would materialize, particularly for Douglas MacArthur , the general who led United Nations forces in Korea until he was relieved of his duties in 1951 for insubordination by Pres. Harry S. Truman . Party primaries for convention delegates were held between March 11 and June 3 in the following order: New Hampshire , Minnesota , Nebraska, Wisconsin, Illinois , New Jersey, Pennsylvania , New York , Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio , West Virginia , Oregon, Florida, California , and South Dakota . Primary elections were optional in three other states—Alabama, Arkansas , and Georgia—and were set by state committees. As the campaign of 1952 had neared, Eisenhower let it be known that he was a Republican, and the eastern wing of that party, headed by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the party’s unsuccessful nominee in 1948, made an intensive effort to persuade Eisenhower to seek the Republican presidential nomination. His name was entered in several state primaries against the more conservative Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Although the results were mixed, Eisenhower decided to run. In June 1952 the five-star general retired from the army after 37 years of service, returned to the United States , and began to campaign actively. Similar Topics United States presidential election of 1988 The Republican National Convention was held in Chicago , July 7–11. After a bitter fight with Taft supporters, Eisenhower won the nomination on the first ballot. Eisenhower selected as his running mate Sen. Richard M. Nixon of California, who had strong anticommunist credentials. Among the pledges of the Republicans was to end the Korean War and to support the Taft-Hartley Act , which restricted the activities of labour unions. Scenes from the 1952 Republican National Convention, in which Senator Robert A. Taft and General … Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The Democrats held their convention in Chicago two weeks later. The Democratic National Convention was marked by disarray, particularly between delegates who supported civil rights (largely from Northern states) and those opposed (primarily from Southern states). A requirement was adopted that the delegations pledge to support the eventual nominee and the party platform. A number of candidates vied for the nomination, including Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee and Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia . Adlai E. Stevenson, the governor of Illinois, had refused to seek the nomination, but he was drafted by the convention as a compromise choice and was nominated on the third ballot. He chose as his running mate a Southerner, Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama . In contrast to the Republicans, the Democrats pledged to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act and called for the continuation of policies pursued by Truman and his predecessor as president, Franklin D. Roosevelt . There was also support for continuing the Korean War. Adlai E. Stevenson waving to supporters before speaking at Madison Square Garden, New York City, … Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. General election campaign Attempts to organize would-be supporters of MacArthur failed to secure any recognition from him. Although workers on his behalf had |
Who was Allied commander in Palestine at the end of World War I? | Palestine During World War I | Jewish Virtual Library Tweet On the eve of World War I, the anticipated break-up of the enfeebled Ottoman Empire raised hopes among both Zionists and Arab nationalists. The Zionists hoped to attain support from one of the Great Powers for increased Jewish immigration and eventual sovereignty in Palestine, whereas the Arab nationalists wanted an independent Arab state covering all the Ottoman Arab domains. From a purely demographic standpoint, the Zionist argument was not very strong — in 1914 they comprised only 12 percent of the total population of Palestine . The nationalist ideal, however, was weak among the Arabs, and even among articulate Arabs competing visions of Arab nationalism — Islamic , pan-Arab, and statism — inhibited coordinated efforts to achieve independence. A major asset to Zionism was that its chief spokesman, Chaim Weizmann , was an astute statesman and a scientist widely respected in Britain and he was well versed in European diplomacy. Weizmann understood better than the Arab leaders at the time that the future map of the Middle East would be determined less by the desires of its inhabitants than by Great Power rivalries, European strategic thinking, and domestic British politics. Britain, in possession of the Suez Canal and playing a dominant role in India and Egypt , attached great strategic importance to the region. British Middle East policy, however, espoused conflicting objectives, and as a result London became involved in three distinct and contradictory negotiations concerning the fate of the region. The earliest British discussions of the Middle East question revolved around Sharif Husayn ibn Ali, scion of the Hashimite (also seen as Hashemite) family that claimed descent from the Prophet and acted as the traditional guardians of Islam's most holy sites of Mecca and Medina in the Arabian province of Hijaz. In February 1914, Amir Abdullah, son of Sharif Husayn, went to Cairo to visit Lord Kitchener, British agent and consul general in Egypt, where he inquired about the possibility of British support should his father stage a revolt against Turkey . Turkey and Germany were not yet formally allied, and Germany and Britain were not yet at war; Kitchener's reply was, therefore, noncommittal. Shortly after the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Kitchener was recalled to London as secretary of state for war. By 1915, as British military fortunes in the Middle East deteriorated, Kitchener saw the usefulness of transferring the Islamic caliphate |
In which country is Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute' set? | Synopsis of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) Setting of The Magic Flute: Mozart's The Magic Flute takes place in ancient Egypt. The Magic Flute, ACT 1 Prince Tamino is being chased by an evil serpent. Tamino faints from exhaustion, and just when the serpent is about to deliver its deadly attack, it is killed by three ladies in the service of the Queen of the Night. The three ladies find Tamino extremely handsome and return to the Queen to tell her what happened. When Tamino recovers, he is greeted by Papageno, a bird catcher. Papageno tells Tamino that it was he who killed the evil serpent. When the three ladies return to Tamino, they catch Papageno in his lie. They place a padlock over his mouth as punishment, and show Tamino a portrait of the queen's daughter, Pamina, telling him that she has been imprisoned by Sarastro. continue reading below our video Top 5 Longest Running TV Shows He instantly falls in love with her. Suddenly, the Queen of the Night appears and tells Tamino that he may marry her daughter, but only if he saves her from her enemy. Tamino, without hesitation, agrees. When the queen departs, the three ladies give Tamino a magic flute that will change the hearts of men. They remove the padlock from Papageno's mouth and give him three silver bells that will protect him. The two men begin their rescue mission with the aid of three spirits sent by the ladies. Within Sarastro's palace, Pamina is brought into a room by Monostatos, Sarastro's slave. Moments later, Papageno, who was sent ahead of Tamino, arrives. The two men, frightened by each other's appearance, flee from the room in opposite directions. When Papageno returns, he tells Pamina that he and Tamino have been sent by her mother to rescue her. Pamina rejoices and cannot wait to meet the man who loves her. She tells Papageno that he will find love one day too. The three spirits lead Tamino to Sarastro's temple. Within the temple gates, Tamino is convinced by a high priest that Sarastro is not the evil one - it is actually the Queen of the Night who is evil. When the priest leaves, Tamino plays his magic flute in hopes to summon Papageno and Pamina. Tamino then hear's Papageno play his pipes and he leaves while following their sound. Meanwhile, Papageno and Pamina are working their way towards the sound of Tamino's flute. Suddenly, they are captured by Monostatos and his men. Papageno rings his magic bells and the two escape capture. Moment's later, Sarastro himself enters the room. Sarastro tells Pamina that she will eventually find her freedom. When Monostatos returns, he brings with him Tamino. Tamino and Pamina see each other for the first time and they embrace. Sarastro then leads Tamino and Papageno into the Temple of Ordeals where they will face several challenges. The Magic Flute, ACT 2 When Tamino and Papageno enter the temple, they are told that Tamino will be giving Pamina for marriage as well as succession to Sarastro's throne if he successfully completes the trials. Tamino agrees, though Papageno remains timid. Finally, Papageno is told that upon his completion of the trials, he will be rewarded with a woman of his own, to which he agrees. Their first trial is to remain silent when confronted by women. Three ladies appear before them, but Tamino remains quiet. Papageno opens his mouth without hesitation, but Tamino orders him keep quiet. The three ladies then leave. In Pamina's room, Monostatos kneels down to steel a kiss from the sleeping Pamina. In a flash, the Queen of the Night appears and commands Monostatos to leave. The Queen hands Pamina a dagger and sings her famous aria, " Der Holle Rache ," instructing her to kill Sarastro. When the queen leaves, Monostatos reenters and threatens to reveal their murder plot if she does not give into his advances. Sarastro comes in and dismisses Monostatos. He forgives and consoles Pamina. Back in the temple, Tamino and Papageno face their second trial. Again, they must remain silent. They are approached by an old woman who offers them water. Tamino remains silent, but Papageno accept |
Singer Jiles Perry (JP) Richardson was better known as who? | The Big Bopper (Singer) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News The Big Bopper Singer Male Jiles Perry "J. P. " Richardson, Jr. also commonly known as The Big Bopper, was an American disc jockey, singer, and songwriter whose big voice and exuberant personality made him an early rock and roll star. He is best known for his recording of "Chantilly Lace". On February 3, 1959, a day that has become known as The Day the Music Died, Richardson was killed in a plane crash in Iowa, along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.… Read More related links Phillies Pitching Even Better Than The Four Aces Philadelphia Inquirer Google News - Aug 31, 2011 'The Bopper responded with Krashing Kitemen, all of whom somehow lived to flight another day. And who can forget the World's Highest-Jumping Easter Bunny? When the national knee-jerk chorus slimes Philly fans for "even booing the Easter Bunny"' Decision On Surgery For Davis Looming Mlb.Com Google News - Aug 29, 2011 'Alderson said Davis would run again Monday and Tuesday, after which the bopper will be evaluated and his doctors will decide whether to proceed with surgery. "This came after complete rest for a couple of weeks, so from that standpoint, not having any' Tracy Ejected After Arguing Balks Mlb.Com Google News - Aug 27, 2011 'The bopper is batting .362 (17-for-47) with four doubles, seven home runs, 14 runs and 23 RBIs during his current 12-game hitting streak. ⢠The Rockies have scored 210 runs in their 40 games since the All-Star break, which are the most in the National' Mets Beat Padres, 5 4, In Comeback Victory The Star Ledger Nj.Com Google News - Aug 10, 2011 'âWhen he's the bopper here, he won't do that,â Collins said. âRight now, he's just trying to help the team win.â âI think it's a good play,â Bay said. âObviously, he's a guy that doesn't bunt too much. If he doesn't get it down, there's going to be a' Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of The Big Bopper. CHILDHOOD 1930 Birth Born on October 12, 1930. TEENAGE 1947 16 Years Old Richardson graduated from Beaumont High School in 1947 and played on the "Royal Purple" football team as a defensive lineman, wearing number 85. … Read More Richardson later studied prelaw at Lamar College, and was a member of the band and chorus. Read Less 1949 18 Years Old Richardson worked part-time at Beaumont, Texas radio station KTRM (now KZZB). He was hired by the station full-time in 1949 and quit college. TWENTIES 1952 21 Years Old Richardson married Adrianne Joy Fryou on April 18, 1952, and their daughter Debra Joy was born in December 1953, soon after Richardson was promoted to supervisor of announcers at KTRM. 1955 24 Years Old In March 1955, he was drafted into the United States Army and did his basic training at Fort Ord, California. … Read More He spent the rest of his two-year service as a radar instructor at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. Read Less Show Less Richardson returned to KTRM radio following his discharge as a corporal in March 1957, where he held down the "Dishwashers' Serenade" shift from 11 am to 12:30 pm, Monday through Friday. … Read More One of the station's sponsors wanted Richardson for a new time slot, and suggested an idea for a show. Richardson had seen college students doing a dance called The Bop, and he decided to call himself "The Big Bopper". His new radio show ran from 3:00 to 6:00 pm, and he soon became the station's program director. Read Less In May 1957, he broke the record for continuous on-air broadcasting by 8 minutes. … Read More He performed for a total of five days, two hours, and eight minutes from a remote setup in the lobby of the Jefferson Theatre in downtown Beaumont, playing 1,821 records and taking showers during 5-minute newscasts. Read Less 1958 27 Years Old Richardson is credited for creating the first music video in 1958, and recorded an early example himself. Show Less Richardson, who played guitar, began his musical career as a songwriter. George Jones later recorded Richardson's "White Lightning", |
Who was Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces at the end of World War I? | First World War.com - Primary Documents - John Pershing on Foch's Appointment as Allied Supreme Commander, 1 September 1919 What's New Primary Documents - John Pershing on Foch's Appointment as Allied Supreme Commander, 1 September 1919 Reproduced below is the official reaction - from his despatch of September 1919 - of U.S. Commander-in-Chief General John Pershing , to news of the decision to transfer supreme military command of Allied forces on the Western Front to Ferdinand Foch . Sponsored Links The decision to transfer overall command to Foch was taken by Allied government representatives at Doullens on 26 March in the wake of the onset of the powerful German Spring Offensive which was launched five days earlier and which inflicted serious reverses upon the British Army. It was thus in a period of crisis that Foch was handed his (ultimately highly successful) leading role. Pershing's reaction to the news was, in spite of the potential for subsequent disagreements (which actually transpired), positive. He recognised the need for a unified Allied strategy in the face of the current concerted German offensive. Click here to read the text of his address to Foch on the matter on 28 March. Click here to read British Prime Minister David Lloyd George's official statement on the subject. Click here to read a follow-up statement by Lloyd George on the same subject dated 9 April 1918. John Pershing on Foch's Appointment as Allied Supreme Commander In the latter part of January, 1918, joint note No. 12, presented by the military representatives with the supreme war council, was approved by the council. This note concluded that France would be safe during 1918 only under certain conditions, namely: (a) That the strength of the British and French troops in France are continuously kept up to their present total strength and that they receive the expected reinforcements of not less than two American divisions per month. The first German offensive of 1918, beginning March 21st, overran all resistance during the initial period of the attack. Within eight days the enemy had completely crossed the old Somme battlefield and had swept everything before him to a depth of some fifty-six kilometres. For a few days the loss of the railroad centre of Amiens appeared imminent. The offensive made such inroads upon French and British reserves that defeat stared them in the face unless the new American troops should prove more immediately available than even the most optimistic had dared to hope. On March 27th the military representatives with the supreme war council prepared their joint note No. 18. This note repeated the previously quoted statement from joint note No. 12, and continued: The battle which is developing at the present moment in France, and which can extend to the other theatres of operations, may very quickly place the Allied armies in a serious situation from the point of view of effectives, and the military representatives are from this moment of opinion that the above-detailed condition can no longer be maintained, and they consider as a general proposition that the new situation requires new decisions. The military representatives are of opinion that it is highly desirable that the American Government should assist the allied armies as soon as possible by permitting in principle the temporary service of American units in allied army corps and divisions. Such reinforcements must, however, be obtained from other units than those American divisions which are now operating with the French, and the units so temporarily employed must eventually be returned to the American army. The military representatives are of the opinion that from the present time, in execution of the foregoing, and until otherwise directed by the supreme war council, only American infantry and machine-gun units, organized as that gov |
'Stag' and 'Carib' beers are made in which country? | Carib Brewery Trinidad & Tobago Before we sold our first bottle of beer back in 1950, we skillfully mastered the production process, delivering the highest quality and a perfect lager. Grenada Established in 1960, Grenada Breweries Ltd was one of two breweries set up in the Windward and Leeward Islands. St. Kitts & Nevis Established in 1960, Carib Brewery (St. Kitts & Nevis) Ltd is the country’s leading alcoholic beverages maker, employing over a 110 people. The Carib Story Carib Brewery’s astounding sense of innovation continues to be the driving force behind its excellence. In 1950, the local and regional beverage industry was changed forever with the introduction of Carib Beer. Today, the brewery boasts a varied portfolio, constant innovation and a multi-talented management and employee body. |
Which Cricket county's 'Twenty/20' team are known as 'The Crusaders'? | Middlesex County Cricket Club,Recent Performance of Middlesex County Cricket Club,History of Middlesex County Cricket Club,More about Middlesex County Cricket Club Home » Types of Cricket » County Cricket » Middlesex County Cricket Club Middlesex County Cricket Club Apart from being known for producing a bunch of talented cricketers, Middlesex is known for the historic Lords Cricket Ground. Middlesex County Cricket Club call themselves the Middlesex Crusaders in limited over matches. Some of the famous Middlesex players of the past are- Jack Hearne, Denis Compton, Jack Robertson, Mike Brearley. As far as the present team is concerned, Middlesex's only contribution to England side is Andrew Strauss. The others Jamie Dalrymple, Owais Shah and Ed Joyce are in contention for a place in the national side. Middlesex County Cricket Club has won the County Championship twelve times since 1890. Custom Search |
Who was the author of 'Fanny Hill'? | How ‘Fanny Hill’ stopped the literary censors - The Boston Globe Already a subscriber? Members Sign In How ‘Fanny Hill’ stopped the literary censors 50 years ago, a lusty 18th-century heroine made the United States safe for dirty books. By Ruth Graham Globe Correspondent July 07, 2013 istockphoto In 1963, according to a report in the Harvard Crimson at the time, a teenage Massachusetts boy spent 95 cents to buy a novel written in the 18th century. That may sound like a benign purchase, even an admirable one. But the book was “Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure,” widely considered the first pornographic novel in English, and the boy’s displeased mother reportedly alerted the state’s Obscene Literature Control Commission. The commission, whose six members included a priest and a high school minister, recommended that the state ban the book outright. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the book’s first commercial printing in America. The kind of censorship it triggered is out of fashion now, but some sympathy for the boy’s mother is warranted: The 1749 novel her son purchased, more commonly referred to by the name of its heroine, Fanny Hill, depicts a broader range of sexual experiences than any available book written before it in English, and, for that matter, than almost any major novel written since. The plot follows a newly orphaned 15-year-old as she makes her way to London, falls in with a madam and some prostitutes, enthusiastically embraces her new career in “profit by pleasing,” and finally marries the man who deflowered her. But the plot is merely a rickety scaffolding for what is essentially a series of explicit sexual encounters that the heroine either gleefully performs—“what floods of bliss! what melting transports!”—or witnesses through a variety of far-fetched spy tactics. A 1910 book jacket of "Fanny Hill." Advertisement He made good use of them, too: A partial list of the book’s adventures includes an orgy, sex between women, masturbation, masochism, cross-dressing, and a detailed sodomy scene that is one of only two known explicit depictions of male same-sex ardor in the language before the end of the 19th century. (The sodomitical passage, which Cleland’s 2012 biographer Hal Gladfelder calls “one of the most remarkable scenes in all of 18th-century literature,” disappeared from the published text until the 1980s.) By 1748, Cleland was in debtors prison back in England, so when a publisher named Ralph Griffiths solicited an expanded version of his boyish experiment, he agreed. Samuel Richardson’s “Pamela,” often claimed as the first novel in English, had been published in 1740, and Cleland’s new novel aped its tropes. But where virtuous Pamela resists her aggressor, Fanny succumbs to experience with gleeful abandon. The book’s publication caused Cleland to serve a brief jail sentence for obscenity, and after his release, he quickly issued a shorter, bowdlerized version. It flopped. The original continued to circulate underground, and it earned a grudging critical respect for the vigor of its writing: Fanny often matches her metaphors for sex to the occupations of her lovers, for example. Anticipating the debates of the 20th century, a 1762 guide to living British authors called it the “best executed and the most picturesque of any Work of the Kind,” though it also allowed that the book had been “justly censured by Men of rigid Morals.” For the next 200 years, “Fanny Hill” circulated quite freely in both England and America, although always in pirate editions. It was translated into French early on, and was often accompanied by crude illustrations. As early as 1786, a master printer in Worcester sought to purchase a copy from an English seller, and there are early 19th-century records of copies for sale in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, and Boston. By the mid-19th century, according to the introduction to one modern edition, there were 20 different editions in English. In America, prosecutions dropped off after the Civil War. The book became the kind of thing passed between boys in schoolyards and hous |
Of which group of Greek islands is Naxos the largest? | Naxos: Lush Greek island delivers the good life - CNN.com Naxos: Lush Greek island delivers the good life By Marissa Tejada, for CNN Updated 1:25 PM ET, Thu November 17, 2016 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: Aegean refuge – Clearly, there's no shortage of pleasant aquatic pursuits on Naxos. It's the largest of the Cyclades, a group of about 30 islands in the Aegean Sea. Hide Caption 1 of 8 Photos: Ancient treasures – The island is dotted with ancient sites such as this marble quarry near Apollonas strewn with colossal unfinished statues. Hide Caption 2 of 8 Photos: Visual seduction – The village of Kaloxylos fits right into the brilliant sun-drenched aesthetic the Greek islands are so famous for. Hide Caption 3 of 8 Photos: Lush and lovely – Villages like Koronos stand out on terrain that's greener than the rest of the Cyclades. Hide Caption 4 of 8 Photos: Tasty, too – With bountiful harvests, the island has a reputation for being able to feed itself, and it eats well. Hide Caption 5 of 8 Photos: No-rush ethos – The slower pace on the Greek islands attracts visitors from Athens, and around the world, in droves. Hide Caption Simple discovery – Narrow streets in villages like Chalki hold their own clues to island life. Hide Caption 7 of 8 Photos: Castle culture – The Zevgoli Tower is a Venetian-era structure in Apiranthos. Medieval Venetian architecture and ancient sites comingle on Naxos. Hide Caption Some places are better than others at fulfilling the powerful human desire to live well. The Greek island of Naxos delivers. The largest and lushest of the otherwise rocky Cyclades, Naxos is sometimes referred to as the "green leaf" of the Aegean Sea. Its diverse natural setting satisfies the active traveler's appetite for outdoor adventure, and the fertile land feeds those who seek homegrown culinary experiences. There's rich mythology and medieval architecture. From land to sea, the island is long on allure. Read More Getting the lay of the land On foot: Naxos Hiking tours traverse marble walkways, fertile plains, vineyards and olive groves and wind along paths connecting village to village. "My grandparents were walking these beautiful paths, it was a way of life," says leader Stella Korre, who likes to intertwine the rich history and mythology of Naxos with routes that touch all five senses. On horseback: Naxos Horse Riding expeditions lead riders through the Naxian farmlands, onto long stretches of beach and to hidden spots where the views are a textured blend of mountain and sea. JUST WATCHED MUST WATCH Living the good life in Greece 01:10 Families working in the fields, inland villages and ancient sites give riders a sense of the island's past and present. On wheels: Mount Zas, the highest peak in the Cyclades region, rises in the core of the island with an elevation of 1,003 meters. According to Greek mythology, the king of the Greek gods, Zeus, was raised in a cave on Mount Zas, the highest peak in the Cyclades. It's also the background for some of the most scenic bike routes in the Cyclades. While excursions with Naxos Bikes don't climb the mountain, it's never far away as riders glide past villages and archaeological sites. Catching the wind By kite: The Cyclades are known for their summer winds called meltemi, guaranteeing ideal conditions for kitesurfing and windsurfing. Kitesurfers head to Mikri Vigla beach, an expansive stretch of sand where kites are launched with ease. Flisvos Kitecentre Naxos operates there year round. Owner Michele Gasbarro says the beach is one of the windiest places in Europe thanks to the Venturi effect between Naxos and Paros. On a board: Laguna beach is off-limits to kitesurfers due to its proximity to the airport, but it offers great conditions for windsurfers. Protected by a reef, the calm water is ideal for beginners who don't want to venture too far away from the coast. More advanced riders can head farther out to sea. Gear and instruction is available through Laguna Beach Park windsurfing center. Running the Greek i |
Which 1960's American group originally comprised Neil Young, Steven Stills, Richie Furay, Dewey Martin and Bruce Palmer? | Richie Furay · 2017 Tour Dates and Concert Tickets | Thrillcall Track Artist for New Show Alerts Paul Richard "Richie" Furay (born May 9, 1944, Yellow Springs, Ohio) is an American singer, songwriter, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member who is best known for forming the bands Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, an... Paul Richard "Richie" Furay (born May 9, 1944, Yellow Springs, Ohio) is an American singer, songwriter, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member who is best known for forming the bands Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, and Dewey Martin, and Poco with Jim Messina, Rusty Young, George Grantham and Randy Meisner. His best known song (originally written during his tenure in Buffalo Springfield, but eventually performed by Poco, as well) was "Kind Woman", which he wrote for his wife, Nancy. Career Before Buffalo Springfield, Furay performed with Stills in the nine-member group, the Au Go Go Singers (Roy Michaels, Rick Geiger, Jean Gurney, Michael Scott, Kathy King, Nels Gustafson, Bob Harmelink, and Furay & Stills), the house band for the famous Cafe Au Go Go in New York. In the late 1960s he formed the country-rock band Poco with Jim Messina (who produced albums and occasionally played bass for Buffalo Springfield) and Rusty Young. This band, while influential to many future country-rock acts, experienced uneven commercial success. Furay's best known songs, "Pickin' Up The Pieces" and "Good Feelin' To Know", however, have reached classic status and appear on many country rock compilations. Furay left Poco in 1974 to form the Souther Hillman Furay Band. It was during this time that Al Perkins, the band's pedal steel guitar player, introduced Furay to Christianity. His newfound faith helped him rebuild his troubled marriage. Although Souther, Hillman, Furay's self-titled first album was certified Gold and yielded the top thirty hit with "Fallin' in Love" in 1974, the group could not follow up on that success, and poor record sales eventually led to its demise. After moving from Los Angeles to Sugarloaf Mountain near Boulder, Colorado, Furay formed The Richie Furay Band with Jay Truax, John Mehler, and Tom Stipe, releasing the album I've Got a Reason in 1976, which reflected Furay's newfound beliefs. To support the release of this album Furay formed an alliance with David Geffen and Asylum Records. Furay assured Geffen that his album would be Christian influenced but would not be an attempt to preach his newfound beliefs. "I've Got a Reason" did, however, establish Furay as a pioneer in Christian Rock. The title track of his third album, the secular "I Still Have Dreams", became a mild radio hit in 1979. Overall, his albums charted unsatisfactorily, and, compounded with the strain of touring wearing on him and his family, he hung up his rock and roll shoes in favor of a call to the ministry. In 1983 Furay became senior pastor of the Calvary Chapel in Broomfield, Colorado, a non-sectarian Christian church in the Denver area. He continues to perform as a solo artist, and very occasionally with Poco. He toured as an opening act for America and Linda Ronstadt during the Summer of 2006. The 2006 release of his CD The Heartbeat of Love returned Furay to his early country-rock roots with a contemporary flair. In 2007 he toured with a new formation of the Richie Furay Band. At the Boulder and Bluebird Theatres in Colorado they recorded a double live CD ALIVE. The ALIVE set covers 29 songs of Furay's career. The Richie Furay band continued to tour through 2008 and 2009. Furay appeared with Poco for several shows in early 2009. At the Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California in the Spring of 2009, Furay and the current Poco lineup were joined onstage by original members Jimmy Messina and George Grantham and former bass player Timothy B. Schmit reuniting the Poco lineup that achieved the most critical acclaim. On October 23, 2010, he reunited with surviving Buffalo Springfield bandmates Stephen Stills and Neil Young for a set at the 24th annual Bridge School Benefit a |
Which Russian naval officer composed 'Capriccio Espagnole' in 1887? | Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov | Russian composer | Britannica.com Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov Alternative Title: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov Sergey Rachmaninoff Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, in full Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (born March 6 [March 18, New Style], 1844, Tikhvin, near Novgorod , Russia —died June 8 [June 21], 1908, Lyubensk), Russian composer, teacher, and editor who was at his best in descriptive orchestrations suggesting a mood or a place. Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, detail of a portrait by V.A. Serov; in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. H. Roger-Viollet Early life and naval career Rimsky-Korsakov was the product of many influences. His father was a government official of liberal views, and his mother was well educated and could play the piano. His uncle was an admiral in the Russian navy, and his elder brother was a marine officer. From them Rimsky-Korsakov acquired his interest in music and his abiding love for the sea. When he was 12 years old the family moved to St. Petersburg , where he entered the naval academy. At age 15 he began taking piano lessons and learned the rudiments of composition . In 1861 he met the composer Mily Balakirev , a man of great musical culture , and under the older man’s guidance he began to compose a symphony . In 1862 he graduated from the naval academy. Soon afterward he sailed on the clipper ship Almaz on a long voyage, the vessel anchoring in New York City; Baltimore, Maryland; and Washington, D.C., at the height of the American Civil War . Since Russia was politically sympathetic toward the North, the sailors were cordially welcomed there. Subsequent ports of call were Brazil (where he was promoted to the rank of midshipman), Spain, Italy, France, England, and Norway. The ship returned to its home port of Kronstadt (Kronshtadt) in May 1865. For young Rimsky-Korsakov the voyage confirmed a fascination with the sea. Aquatic scenes abound in his operas and symphonic works: the ocean in Scheherazade (1888), Sadko (1898), and The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1900), and the lake in The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia (1907). On his return to St. Petersburg, Rimsky-Korsakov completed the symphony begun before his voyage, and it was performed with gratifying success in St. Petersburg on December 31, 1865, when the composer was only 21 years old. His next important work was Fantasy on Serbian Themes for orchestra , first performed at a concert of Slavonic music conducted by Balakirev in St. Petersburg, on May 24, 1867. The occasion was of historic significance, for, in reviewing the concert, the critic Vladimir Stasov proudly proclaimed that henceforth Russia, too, had its own “mighty little heap” (moguchaya kuchka) of native composers. The name caught on quickly and found its way into music history books, with specific reference to Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Aleksandr Borodin, César Cui , and Modest Mussorgsky. The composers became known collectively as The Five , and their purpose was seen to be to assert the musical independence of Russia from the West. Of the five, Rimsky-Korsakov was the most learned and the most productive; he composed works in all genres , but he most excelled in the field of opera . Teacher, conductor, and editor EU Considers Rules For Robots So high was Rimsky-Korsakov’s reputation that in 1871, when he was still a very young man, he was engaged to teach composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In his autobiographical Chronicle of My Musical Life (1972, originally published in Russian, 1909) he frankly admitted his lack of qualifications for this important position; he himself had never taken a systematic academic course in musical theory, even though he had profited from Balakirev’s desultory instruction and by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ’s professional advice. Eager to complete his own musical education, he undertook in 1873 an ambitious program of study, concentrating mainly on counterpoint and the fugue . He ended his studies in 1875 by sending 10 fugues to Tchaikovsky, who declared them impeccable |
Which large marsh, once a haunt for smugglers, lies between Hythe and Rye on the south coast? | Parsons, Scarecrows and Fear: Kent's Smuggling Heritage Parsons, Scarecrows and Fear: Kent's Smuggling Heritage by Richard Crowhurst Baccy for the Clerk Chorus to A Smuggler's Song by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling's famous poem encapsulates the romantic vision of the great age of British smuggling in the 18th century, conjuring up images of roguish chancers transporting small quantities of contraband under cover of darkness. Other authors such as Russell Thorndyke and Richard Barham contributed to the popular and romantic image of the 'jolly smuggler.' However, in England's southeastern corner, smuggling was a very different affair! The close proximity to continental Europe, good roads to London, and a poor domestic economy at the end of 17th century created ideal conditions for organised smuggling to flourish. At its height, the illegal trade was controlled by ruthless gangs who did not hesitate to commit murder, violence, blackmail and bribery. So secure was their position that they transported goods in broad daylight in convoys of hundreds of heavily armed men. At a time when most people went no more than a few miles from home, they thought nothing of travelling from one side of Britain to another. This was organised crime on a massive scale. Government figures from 1782 estimated that a quarter of all the vessels engaged in smuggling nationwide were based in Kent and Sussex. Half the gin smuggled into England was landed here. Kentish smuggling first grew from the illegal exportation of wool. The government imposed restrictions on the trade, and by 1700 up to 150,000 'packs' of wool a year were being shipped from the area days after shearing. From these beginnings the Huguenot families who controlled the trade grew into the first smuggling gangs. As import taxes on luxury items were imposed, gangs, large and small, adapted and by 1720 the emphasis was on bringing in tea, spirits, tobacco and other goods. The black economy pervaded all social levels and it has been claimed that Sir Robert Whalpole (Whig Prime Minister) amassed much of his fortune from the trade. Smugglers soon became involved in other enterprises, including the Jacobite rebellion, international espionage, military campaigns (Nelson employed smugglers from the town of Deal as pilots due to their experience) and highway robbery. Conflicts with the French throughout the late 1700s made smuggling harder, but despite the efforts of William Pitt and the Napoleon, 'classic' smuggling continued in the southeast until the 1830s. Sea smugglers brought goods ashore (a process known as landing), before inland gangs took over to hide, distribute and sell the contraband. Hence many of the gangs operated in towns and villages miles from the sea. Kent's coastline encompasses muddy tidal creeks in the north, sandy coves and chalk cliffs to the east, and long shingle beaches and brooding marshes to the south. These differences in terrain led to the development of different techniques for landing and hiding good. Even so, the gangs could not have operated without significant financial backing; some shipments required an initial outlay of more than £10,000. This article describes the main locations involved in the smuggling trade, split into two parts -- roughly representing the north and east, and the southern areas of the county. To make the most of the information, visitors should arm themselves with a map and plan their route in advance. The most suitable are the Ordnance Survey Landranger series, but any good road atlas will do. The order by which places are listed is entirely arbitrary and doesn't reflect any historical or geographical significance and events are not necessary listed in historical order. I'd advise anyone planning to explore the area to obtain a good book on the subject. The North Kent Smuggling Trail This section starts in the town of Gravesend and follows the Thames estuary eastwards to the Isle of Thanet, before turning south along The Channel coast to Folkestone. It then returns west along the bottom of the North Downs, through Maidstone, to the vill |
On TV, who are the inhabitants of the village of 'Royston Vasey'? | BBC - Comedy - The League Of Gentlemen The League Of Gentlemen The League Of Gentlemen We all need to be jealous of something. The League of Gentlemen must be near the top of the tree of ideas other comedians wish they'd had first. But Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Jeremy Dyson thought of it -so to them, the glory. The story of a simple Northern village where everyone keeps themselves to themselves and people like to keep things 'local', The League of Gentlemen is one of the most powerful comic formats ever created. Along with The Fast Show, it made the sketch format 'cool' after the genre spending years in the wilderness. Without The League, there would have been - almost without a doubt - no Little Britain. At times genuinely moving, at others so profoundly disturbing and shocking that it transcends traditional comedy, most of the time TLOG is just extremely funny, biting and brilliantly, dramatically written - the classiest sketch-based format written in recent broadcasting history. Starting as a revue format at Edinburgh and then vaulting onto radio, The League of Gentlemen is a sketch show, although it is also a sitcom - particularly in its television guise. In the village of Royston Vasey, various characters mostly played by Gatiss, Pemberton and Shearsmith inhabit a dark world of secrets and offhand depravity. The local butcher, Hilary Briss, serves a particular kind of 'special stuff' the nature of which is never discovered. German scoutleader Herr Lipp has questionable relations with his charges. Theatre troupe Legz Akimbo are led by the thoroughly inadequate Olly, whilst sadistic restart officer Pauline rules her charges with a mixture of cruelty and contempt. The Dentons worship toads and condemn self-abuse. Cab driver Barbara is never seen but is always saving up for her/his/its 'operation'. Most appalling and most famous, however, are characters such as Papa Lazarou, the owner of a traveling circus whose catchphrase 'Hello Dave?' looks innocent on paper but which sounds utterly disgusting, and Tubbs and Edward, who run the 'Local Shop for Local People', fiercely hate outsiders, and at least in the TV version of the show, both show pronounced inbred, piglike noses. Most formats that travel from radio to television, especially dark, imaginative formats such as The League, suffer because the mind tends to be able to 'do' things with the characters which reality can't match. But the imaginations of the League, as well as Producer Gemma Rogers and Director Steve Bendelack, gave visual life to the League's monsters in far more horrifying, though comic, form than virtually anyone could have pictured on radio. On radio, too, the series was more obviously 'sketches' - mainly owing to being performed live. Most of the TV series was made, however, on location and then screened for the audience. The result is that although there's a laughter track, it's hardly noticeable, and doesn't interfere with the scenes - allowing The League to become its own world much more effectively. Three series of The League were produced, with the BBC not closing the door on a fourth. The first series saw the inhabitants reacting badly to a road being built through the town; the second saw plenty of deaths owing to a rash of nosebleeds. The first two series were both massively popular and cultish at the same time, winning a BAFTA, a Royal Television Society Award and a Golden Rose at Montreux. The third series, however, took a different turn, with the characters all involved in a skein of stories which all interlinked into a larger narrative. The creators were getting frustrated with their characters and situations, and imprisoned within them - and this was made even plainer in the film version of the series, The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, in which Royston Vasey is destroyed after a series of adventures between our world and that of the series. Debates about the slightly less popular third series and the film remain rife - with diehard fans of the 'proper' League wishing that the creators had simply stuck to thei |
In the nursery rhyme, what description is given to 'Wednesday's Child'? | Monday’s Child Poem: Your Child's Personality by Day of the Week - Famlii Pin Will your child be fair, graceful, or woeful? Is your baby a Monday’s child? Tradition holds that you can predict your child’s temperament based on the day of the week they were born. Enter the Monday’s Child Poem. Fortune telling rhymes based on the weekday of birth originated in England around the 1500s. Many superstitions existed regarding the days of the week. The fortunes, personalities, and temperaments of children were considered regulated by their weekday of birth. What Day of the Week was your Child Born? Find your child’s weekday of birth with our handy online calculator. Monday’s Child Nursery Rhyme Monday’s Child poem is an old English nursery rhyme poem first recorded in 1838 Traditions of Devonshire . Numerous versions of the poem exist, with both positive and negative connotations associated with each day. Rather than a literal interpretation, the Monday’s Child poem is best used as a song to help young children learn the days of the week. Various Interpretations and Meanings of Monday’s Child The Woodcutter Family in the 2002 book Enchanted by Alethea Kontis centers around sisters named for each day of the week based on the poem. Monday’s Child is Fair of Face. Monday children are associated with pleasing beauty, although modern interpretations sometimes depict Monday’s children as shallow, vain, and flighty. It’s a popular name for children’s clothing boutiques. Tuesday’s Child is Full of Grace. Tuesday children are associated with manners, elegance, and refinement. Modern interpretations associate Tuesday’s children with faith and purity, as in Contemporary Christian Musician Stephen Curtis Chapman’s Song, Tuesday’s Child, which is also based on the poem. Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe. Wednesday children are associated with emotional empathy. They feel the weight of the world, with a caring and compassionate outlook, often to the point of sadness for others. Grim and gloomy Wednesday Addams from the Addams Family Television Series optimizes a Wednesday’s child. Modern uses associate with the term with children in foster care and from broken homes. Thursday’s Child has Far to Go. Thursday children have a long, successful life ahead of them. Sometimes, “far to go” is interpreted as meaning a difficult path, such as children with special needs. However, traditional versions focus on the concept of positive abilities and talents that will take them far in life, rather than attributes to overcome. Friday’s Child is Loving and Giving. Friday children are big-hearted and generous. However, in many traditional versions, anything on a Friday was held as bad luck. In the 1887 version of Monday’s Child published in Harper’s Weekly, it is Friday, not Wednesday, associated with the child “full of woe.” This most likely reflects the Christian association with Friday as the day of the Crucifixion. In the original Star Trek series, the episode “Friday’s Child” involves Captain Kirk on a mission to save the life of an unborn child. Saturday’s Child works Hard for a Living. Saturday children are hardworking, responsible, and dedicated. Sometimes “hard” is interpreted as difficult or struggling. However, traditional versions view hard work as a positive trait, as opposed to “lazy”, indicating Saturday’s children are passionate about their work and make lasting contributions to the world. And the child that is born on the Sabbath day is Bonny and Blithe, and Good and Gay. Numerous versions exist for the Sabbath, or Sunday child. Often Sunday’s children are referred to as ‘happy and wise’, rather than ‘bonny and blithe.’ The original version of the nursery rhyme actually refers to Christmas Day, rather than Sunday. Christmas (December 25th) was traditionally the luckiest day of birth. READ MORE… |
Singer-songwriter Carole Klein was better known by what name? | Carole Klein Date Of Birth - Carole King Net Worth Carole Klein Date Of Birth Read more... Carole King Carole King Net Worth is $15 Million. Carole King is a well known singer/songwriter of pop, folk and jazz, and has a net worth of $15 million. Carole King accomplished her net worth through her singing career, her success as a songwriter and her tale. Carole King (born February 9... Carole King Net Worth is $15 Million. Carole King Net Worth is $15 Million. Carole King is a well known singer/songwriter of pop, folk and jazz, and has a net worth of $15 million. Carole King accomplished her net worth through her singing career, her success as a songwriter and her tale Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, her Tapestry album topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971, and remained on the charts for more than six years. She was most successful as a performer in the first half of the 1970s, although she was a successful songwriter long before and long after. She had her first number 1 hit as a songwriter in 1961 at age 18, with "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", which she wrote with Goffin. In 1997, she co-wrote "The Reason" for Aerosmith, but instead it was sung by Celine Dion. In 2000, Joel Whitburn, a Billboard Magazine pop music researcher, named her the most successful female songwriter of 1955-99, because she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry... |
Which is the third largest Greek island? | Greece Travel Guide: Greek Islands Greece Travel Guide Paris The Greek Islands This page is a general overview of a few of the Greek Islands, how to get there and how to book hotels and transportation. For more information on all the islands see my Greek Island Guide which gives a short description of each island and has links to more detailed information, plus hotels, travel agencies, stories and lots of photos. It also tells you which islands have daily connections from Pireaus (Athens' port city) and to each other. You can read hotel reviews at Hotels of Greece . Remember to come back to the top of the page to use these links below to other pages on this site. If you have somehow stumbled on this page on your own you should click on the link to Introduction below which will take you back to the beginning of my Greek Travel webpage. If you like using my site please share it with your friends on Facebook and Google+ by using the buttons here and on the bottom of this and other pages. Part 1. Visiting the Greek Islands Booking Hotels on the Islands I strongly suggest using the Greek travel agencies on my site to book hotels, particularly if you plan on going to more than one island and will need to make a ferry connection. Many hotels on the internet are offering special rates to book directly with them, but they won't help you with the ferries and if you can't get to the island because there is no ferry you still have to pay for the room. If you book with the agency, getting you to the island becomes their responsibility. It makes traveling a whole lot easier and a lot less stressful when you don't have to spend hours searching for accurate ferry or flight information. People who use the automated booking sites often have problems connecting the islands they have booked hotels on to the existing ferries. Work with a knowledgeable human at a reliable Greek travel agency and don't be afraid to ask questions. There is no reason you can't stay in a hotel that is perfect for you at a price that is right and there is no reason for you to be standing on a dock waiting for the ferry that never arrives. For those who are just booking a simple itinerary and are on a budget or like to put their itinerary together themselves without the help of an agency there are thousands of hotels and descriptions at www.hotelsofgreece.com and you can also use my hotel search site done in cooperation with booking.com . By the way I know you are wondering so the photo is the Volcano View Villas in Santorini. More questions about Greece? You can e-mail me Ferryboats to the Greek Islands The best way to the Greek islands is by ferry boat. They are cheap and relaxing with restaurants, snack bars and beautiful scenery. The boats to the far Greek islands like Crete , Rhodes , Lesvos & Kos leave in the evening. With a cabin it's like going to sleep in a hotel and waking up in a new place. The new ferries are like airplanes on the sea. You sit in comfortable chairs, they show movies on the TV, there are snack bars with decent food and some have pretty nice restaurants. Frequency of boats vary from island to island. To get to the port of Pireaus from Athens take the metro from the stop closest to you (probably Monastiraki or Omonia) to the last stop: Pireaus. The boats are across the street. There is a map on the dock that tells you where to find the ferries for each island. If you don't have a ticket you can buy them at the boat too though if you want a cabin you should get it in advance. Also if you are traveling to the islands on the days preceding Easter and the 15th of August or any Friday in July and August you should buy your tickets in advance. The same goes with returning after those dates and on Sundays. If you are traveling the last day of July or the first day of August you may not find a ticket if you don't book in advance. There's a shuttle bus in the harbor that can take |
Marble Arch and Lancaster Gate are stations on which London Undeground line? | Lancaster Gate Underground Station has reported access issues LANCASTER GATE STATION: Lancaster Gate Tube station will be closed from Wednesday 4 January until July 2017 while we replace both lifts, as part of our plan to modernise the Tube. Please walk or use local buses to nearby Marble Arch or Queensway stations for the Central line. LANCASTER TERRACE, / WESTBOURNE TERRACE, W2: From 0800 Tuesday 10 January until 1800 Monday 30 January, route 46 is cut short to Bishops Bridge Road, Paddington. Please board at Bishops Bridge Road / Westbourne Terrace stop M. |
The island of Trinidad lies opposite the delta of which major river? | Trinidad and Tobago | history - geography | Britannica.com Trinidad and Tobago Alternative Title: Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago National anthem of Trinidad and Tobago Official name Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Form of government multiparty republic with two legislative houses (Senate [311]; House of Representatives [42]) Head of state Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TT$) Population Literacy: percentage of population age 15 and over literate Male: (2010) 99.4% Country Data Overview (PDF) Trinidad and Tobago, island country of the southeastern West Indies . It consists of two main islands—Trinidad and Tobago—and several smaller islands. Forming the two southernmost links in the Caribbean chain, Trinidad and Tobago lie close to the continent of South America , northeast of Venezuela and northwest of Guyana . Trinidad, by far the larger of the two main islands, has an area of about 1,850 square miles (4,800 square km). It is 7 miles (11 km) from the Venezuelan coast at its nearest point and is separated from it by the Gulf of Paria and two narrow channels, where there are several small islands and rocks. Tobago, much smaller, with an area of about 115 square miles (300 square km), lies 20 miles (30 km) to the northeast of Trinidad. Extending diagonally from southwest to northeast, Tobago is about 30 miles (50 km) long and more than 10 miles (16 km) across at its widest point. Little Tobago lies about a mile off Tobago’s northeastern coast. Also called Bird of Paradise Island, Little Tobago was once noted as the only wild habitat of the greater bird of paradise outside of New Guinea; however, the bird is no longer found there. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Beach on the island of Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago. © Corbis Trinidad and Tobago achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962 and obtained membership in the Commonwealth and the United Nations that same year. It became a republic in 1976. The capital of Trinidad and Tobago is Port of Spain , located on the northwestern coast of Trinidad. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Pinterest The forests on both Trinidad and Tobago are hunting grounds for small game, the most-sought-after being the paca, or lappe. Other animals include the agouti (a short-haired, short-eared, rabbitlike rodent), quenck (collared peccary; a wild hog), tattoo (an armadillo), prehensile-tailed porcupine, and iguana. Four main groups of reptiles are present on the islands: snakes, lizards, turtles, and crocodiles (one kind, the caiman, related to the alligators). Trinidad’s other indigenous animals include howler monkeys and ocelots, but the latter have disappeared from the wild and the former are rare. In general, the island’s fauna has come under severe stress from rapid urbanization and industrial development. People Ethnic groups The original inhabitants of Trinidad migrated from the Orinoco River delta region of northeastern South America and probably spoke an Arawakan language . It seems likely that by the time the Spanish established a presence there in the 16th century, there was also a population of Cariban speakers, mostly on the north coast. Today a group called the Santa Rosa Caribs of Arima claims partial descent from the original inhabitants and seeks to keep their heritage alive. Tobago was settled by Cariban-speaking Indians when Europeans first arrived there. Children at carnival celebration, Trinidad and Tobago. age fotostock/SuperStock The ethnic makeup of Trinidad is dominated by two groups, roughly equal in size: blacks, descended from slaves brought in to work on cotton and sugar plantations beginning in the late 18th century, and Indo-Trinidadians, or East Indians, whose ancestors were primarily labourers who immigrated from the Indian subcontinent as plantation workers after the abolition of slavery in the mid-19th century. People of mixed ethnicity constitute a slightly smaller third group. Migrants from Spain and other European countries, Africa, East and Southeast Asia , and the Middle East have all contributed to the e |
What happened to 'Solomon Grundy' on a Saturday? | Solomon Grundy (Character) - Comic Vine Solomon Grundy The Solomon Grundy wiki last edited by chrisburgess99 on 08/28/16 12:46PM View full history Current Events Appearing as a new enemy upon Earth 2 , Solomon Grundy is the avatar of the Grey who seeks to kill the avatar of the Green . He spreads rot about the world and attacks the capitol of the United States to gather the avatar's attention, but he was first confronted by Hawkgirl and the Flash . Alec enters into the fight, but then the Atom appears, squashing Grundy. From Tragic Beginnings to a Horrific End...Or So We Think.. As a child, Cyrus Gold lived a life of misery and hopelessness. His father, Gold Sr., had moved to Gotham City before Cyrus was born to gain fame and fortune, changing his last name to "Gold" as a sign of things to come. However, this dream of a powerful future very soon diminished, leaving the Gold family in ruin. The elder Gold was reduced to working on the docks on the city, being forced to work in horrible, unregulated working conditions. To add insult to injury, he was regularly mugged by his boss, who forced him to hand over all the gold he had, leaving the Gold family with nothing but crumbs. Hatred filled his heart, and the elder Gold began to use his family as a way to vent off the hate he felt towards his superiors. He regularly beat his wife, Cyrus' mother, and would abuse his son. The cruelest form of torture he implemented on the young boy was to bury him alive on his birthday; every year the boy would be buried alive in a grave, a way of teaching him that he was less than the dirt that covered him. For years the young Cyrus Gold was maltreated, coming to a head when his mother packed her belongings, kissed him goodbye and abandoned him, caring more about herself than what the monster she married might do to her son. Not long after that, Cyrus sneaked down to the docks to watch his father work. A crate hovered above his father, its weight breaking the chains and rope holding it in place. With a sickening crunch, the crate fell on top of Cyrus Gold's father, killing him instantly. The man who ran the pier merely scoffed at the incident, kicking the broken body of the older Gold into the waters below the pier. Now Cyrus Gold, young and helpless, was all alone. Forced to survive on nothing. It was then that he swore to himself to make his own riches and power. He wouldn't die a pauper like his father did. Growing up, Cyrus was beaten up by many people and treated with as much hate as his father had given him in his youth. One day, bleeding in a slump after an encounter with a gang of savage bullies and thieves in an area known as Dugan's Alley, a girl named Pearl, whom Cyrus was close to, found him and prayed for his safety. But the curmudgeon Gold brushed her aside; he had no time or place for a God, let alone believe in the existence of one. Bleeding, in pain, and near the end of his ropes, a mysterious stranger went up to him and offered Cyrus the deal of a lifetime; he could become rich and powerful....if only he serve him until the day he died. Cyrus Gold shook the stranger's hand, sealing his fate forever just for the mere chance of gaining the riches his father slaved for for so long. Cyrus Gold soon became wealthy and powerful, by ways not very honest. He killed the men who abused him and his family when he was young, stealing their riches and becoming a veritable mobster. In an act of rage and wrath, he tracked down his long-departed mother and stabbed her to death. He then dumped her body in the waters of Slaughter Swamp, where many victims would end up as time went on, culminating with the death of Cyrus Gold himself. During this period, Cyrus wed the girl Pearl (although there are clues that suggested that Gold killed her previous husband to be with her) and the two had a little boy and little girl. Initially a happy family, Cyrus became as brash as his father, staying out late, drinking and being verbally abusive, oftentimes in front of the children. After a while of anger and abuse in the marriage, in a fit of rage, Cyrus |
After which famous man (known as 'Oklahoma's favourite son') is Oklahoma City's airport named? | Will Rogers Blog Will Rogers Will Rogers was a legendary cowboy philosopher. He was a roping performer, actor, and a humanitarian loved by many people. For his contributions to radio and motion pictures, Rogers earned two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Childhood and youth Rogers was born William Penn Adair Rogers to Clement Vann Rogers and Mary America Schrimsher. He was born in Indian Territory that would later become Oologah, Oklahoma. Both of his parents had Cherokee blood. Rogers used to say, "My ancestors didn`t come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat." On a cattle ranch, Rogers was taught how to use the lasso by a freed slave. As a teenager and young adult, Rogers loved the way of the cowboy, but had not decided on a career. In 1902, he traveled to Argentina, where he worked with the gauchos (cowboys) of the Argentine pampas for five months. Later that year, Rogers sailed for South Africa, where he landed a job breaking horses for the British Army. Career beginnings While in South Africa, he began his show business career as a trick roper in "Texas Jack`s Wild West Circus." He was known as "The Cherokee Kid." Rogers returned to the U.S. and continued as a Wild West show performer and trick roper with the Wirth Brothers Circus. He began to use his roping skills on the vaudeville circuit. A important event in Rogers` stage career was his one-week engagement in New York for Ziegfeld�s �Midnight Frolic" in 1915. That show drew numerous influential and regular patrons. He used his fondness for current events by adding comic commentary to his performances. That one-week spot ran into 1916, and Rogers` popularity resulted in an offer to be one of the comic acts in the more famous "Ziegfeld Follies." Rogers managed to not only hold his own, but eventually appeared in most of the follies from 1916 to 1925. Rogers became a popular convention speaker, and gave benefits for victims of floods, droughts, and earthquakes. Rogers gave radio talks after the Great Depression hit the United States. He continued a series of newspaper columns between 1922 and 1935, as well as personal appearances and radio broadcasts, winning the American people`s affectionate admiration. He was loved for his cool mind and warm heart, and was considered to be the successor to such greats as Mark Twain and Artemus Ward. The silver screen Rogers moved to the West Coast in 1919. He made 26 silent movies, but did not return to the silver screen until 1929, when the �talkies" had come into their own. From 1929 to 1935, Rogers became the star of the Fox Film lot (now 20th Century Fox), appearing in 21 feature films. At the same time, he began to write a popular syndicate dubbed "Will Rogers Says." Will Rogers married Betty Blake in 1908, and they had four children: a daughter and three sons, one of whom died as a infant. An untimely end Rogers was an aviation buff. He and his friend Wiley Post departed on a round-the-world flight in the summer of 1935. The plane was an experimental craft assembled from various other airplane parts. It crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska, on August 15, 1935, killing both men. In 1944, Rogers` body was moved from a holding vault in California to the grounds of the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma. The memorial was built on a site overlooking Claremore, which Rogers owned; he had intended to retire there. Later that year, his wife`s remains were interred beside his. Remembering Rogers On November 4, 1948, the U.S. Post Office commemorated Rogers with a three-cent stamp. He also was honored on the centennial of his birth, in 1979, with the issuance of a U.S. Postal Service 15-cent stamp. At the time of his death, Will Rogers was the country`s most widely read newspaper columnist, between his daily "Will Rogers Says" and his weekly column. His Sunday night half-hour radio show was the nation`s most-listened-to weekly broadcast. He was the nation`s number-two movie box-office draw in 1933, behind Marie Dressler; and number one in 1934; he was second in 1935, behind Shirley Temple . Many a pla |
In which country is Puccini's opera 'Turandot' set? | Puccini’s final opera “Turandot” Live in HD from the Met Jan. 30 in a spectacular production | BERKSHIRE ON STAGE and SCREEN BERKSHIRE ON STAGE and SCREEN From the Berkshires to Broadway and Beyond Menu Larry Murray / January 21, 2016 Marco Berti as Calaf, Alexander Tsymbalyuk as Timur, and Anita Hartig as Liù in Puccini’s Turandot. Photo by Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera. Marco Berti as Calaf with Ping, Pang and Pong in Puccini’s “Turandot.” Photographed by Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera. Nina Stemme in the title role of Puccini’s Turandot. Photo by Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera. A scene from Puccini’s Turandot. Photo by Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera. A scene from Act I of Puccinis Turandot. Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera. Turandot, the grandest of grand operas by Larry Murray For those who love Puccini as I do, his high water mark was Turandot, an opera which demands both spectacular resources for staging and almost impossible vocal dexterity and passion from its singers. Many a great tenor made their reputation singing Calàf in that opera, eminences such as Franco Corelli , Placido Domingo and more recently Joseph Calleja . Their singing electrified audiences even before the popular “Nessun Dorma” in the third act. The goosebumps often began from the moment the Met’s chandeliers rose into the ceiling. If that is a high water mark for contemporary tenors to live up to, then imagine the constant comparisons people make with the Luciano Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli versions that has made an indelible imprint on listeners who don’t know Aida from Lucia. One of the great tenors of our time, Marco Berti, takes on the role in this Live in HD telecast, and comparisons are inevitable. The New York critics think he does a solid job. It is arguable that from both a music and spectacle viewpoint, there is no grander opera in the whole repertoire, not even Verdi’s Aida with its grand march can measure up to the sustained tension of the story of a princess who did not want to get married off to some stranger. In any case, you will be able to listen and decide for yourself in the comfort of a local theatre on Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 12:55 p.m. EST ( check your times and local theatres here ) when The Met:Live in HD transmits Turandot by Giacomo Puccini to our local screens. In the Berkshires of Massachusetts, the opera can be viewed at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington and the Beacon Cinemas in Pittsfield. The host for this opera is Renée Fleming. The running time will be approximately 3 hours, 30 minutes. Puccini’s final opera is one of the most spectacular productions in the Met repertory, and returns to the Live in HD series on Saturday, January 30 at 12:55pm ET. Swedish dramatic soprano Nina Stemme sings her first Met performances of the demanding title role of Puccini’s Chinese ice princess, with Anita Hartig in her company role debut as the angelic slave girl Liù. Marco Berti sings Calàf, the suitor who risks his head for Turandot’s hand, and Alexander Tsymbalyuk sings Timur. Paolo Carignani conducts Franco Zeffirelli’s visually stunning 1987 production. The Critical Reception “[Nina Stemme] managed to render the grisly ice maiden surprisingly vulnerable… Her powerful, luxuriant voice retained its warmth throughout the evening, with blazing high notes that were never forced or shrill, even when projected over the massed ensembles of orchestra and chorus… The soprano Anita Hartig sang beautifully as the self-sacrificing Liu, her alluring voice plaintive and expressive; the rich-voiced bass-baritone Alexander Tsymbalyuk rendered Timur with dignity. Paolo Carignani conducted a lithe and detailed reading of Puccini’s sumptuous score.” —The New York Times “[Nina Stemme] commands the power, sensitivity, verbal acuity and authority to make the essentially unsympathetic princess of legendary Peking magnetic…[Marco Berti] exudes dignity, rises nicely to mighty climaxes and even manages to sing softly once in a while.” —Financial Times “The Emperor’s palace is one of the most blindingly opulent scenes the Met has to offer… Fro |
Who was the firstwife of US President Ronald Reagan? | Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan's first wife, dies at 93 - - POLITICO.com Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan's first wife, dies at 93 Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan's first wife, dies at 93 “Jane Wyman, an Academy Award winner for her performance as the deaf rape victim in ‘Johnny Belinda,’ star of the long-running TV series ‘Falcon Crest’ and Ronald Reagan's first wife, died Monday morning at 93,” the Associated Press reported from Los Angeles today. According to the AP account : “Wyman died at her Palm Springs home, said Richard Adney of Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Mortuary in Cathedral City. No other details were immediately available ... . Her marriage in 1940 to fellow Warner Bros. contract player Reagan was celebrated in the fan magazines as one of Hollywood's ideal unions. While he was in uniform during World War II, her career ascended, signaled by her 1946 Oscar nomination for ‘The Yearling.’ The couple divorced in 1948, the year she won the Oscar for ‘Johnny Belinda." Reagan reportedly cracked to a friend: ‘Maybe I should name Johnny Belinda as co-respondent.’ After Reagan became governor of California and then president of the United States, Wyman kept a decorous silence about her ex-husband, who had married actress Nancy Davis. In a 1968 newspaper interview, Wyman explained the reason: ‘It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics.’ A few days after Reagan died on June 5, 2004, Wyman broke her silence, saying: ‘America has lost a great president and a great, kind and gentle man.’” (Photo courtesy AP. Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman, attend a traditional Hollywood world premiere, December 23, 1945.) |
Which Cricket county's 'Twenty/20' team are known asthe 'Gladiators'? | Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, County Cricket Club of Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, County, Cricket, Players in Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Achievements of the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Statistics, cricketscorelive.com Gloucestershire County Cricket Club History The Gloucestershire County Cricket Club was established in 1871. The team's home ground is the County Cricket Ground, Bristol. The Gloucestershire one day squad is known as the Gloucestershire Gladiators. Performance Though Gloucestershire have never won the County Championships, they have finished runners up in 1930, 1931, 1947, 1959, 1969, and 1986. They have, however been more successful in the shorter version of the game, winning the Benson & Hedges Cup in 1977, 1999 and 2000. They were also victorious in the 2000 National League. Players While looking at the greats who represented the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club over the years, one has to sit back and take notice of the sheer line up of masters that played for this county. The man who leads it is WG Grace, the grand legend of cricket. Grace is one of the most successful cricketers of all times and it is in Gloucestershire that he first played cricket. Apart from WG Grace, Gloucestershire also had some other internationally renowned cricketers play for the county. Some of them are: Gilbert Jessop |
Which wedding anniversary is symbolised by tin? | Wedding Anniversary Meanings - The Lore and Wisdom Behind the Symbols Wedding Anniversary Meanings [Below you will find the wedding anniversary meanings for the gifts traditionally associated with each year of marriage.] No one knows precisely when wedding anniversaries were first celebrated. But the tradition is believed to go back at least to the Middle Ages. At that time in the Germanic regions of Europe, a husband crowned his wife with a silver wreath on the 25th anniversary of their wedding day. If the couple was fortunate to live long enough, the husband presented his wife a gold wreath on their 50th wedding anniversary. By the beginning of the 20th century, an additional 6 anniversaries were celebrated - the 1st, 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, and 75th year for a total of 8. In 1922 Emily Post published Etiquette in which she identified symbolic gifts associated with each of these 8 milestone anniversaries: paper, wood, tin, crystal, china, silver, gold, and diamond. 15 years later, the Jewelers of America expanded her list to include materials for every one of the first 20 years of marriage and every 5 years thereafter. Thus was born the traditional list of gifts and wedding anniversary meanings we have today. But why were the various materials chosen as gifts to symbolize specific anniversaries? To a certain extent, the reasons are clouded in mystery. However, it is generally believed that increasingly durable gifts were chosen for successive years to represent the progressive strengthening of the marriage relationship. As the years go by, the gifts increase in strength and worth from paper to diamond. Would you like to know the wedding anniversary meanings behind the gifts for each anniversary year? Look no further. The meaning, symbolism, and lore for each are described below. Paper The first year of marriage is like a clean sheet of paper, a new beginning upon which to write your passage through the years together. Also like paper, it is fragile and can easily rip, not having yet been tried by the fires of adversity and the storms of life. Cotton Like the interwoven fibers of cotton, the second year of marriage brings a couple closer together as their lives become increasingly intertwined. And as cotton is at the same time both strong and soft, the couple is learning how to be flexible and adapt to each other's needs. Leather Leather has traditionally symbolized protection and covering; our ancestors covered and protected themselves from the elements with the leather hides of animals. The bonds of marriage offer security and shelter as each partner takes care of the other. Now in its third year, the growing relationship is becoming a source of stability for the married couple. Fruit & Flowers During the fourth year of marriage, the budding relationship is beginning to blossom like a flower and ripen like fruit. Just as fruit nourishes the body and flowers the soul, so the deepening commitment and nurturing love of the couple brings refreshment and renewal to the marriage. Wood In ancient times, trees symbolized strength and wisdom. By the fifth year of marriage, the married couple is developing strong, deep roots like a venerable oak tree and is gaining insight and understanding from the mistakes and stumblings of the first five years. The pair has learned the most important lesson of all and the secret to a successful marriage: forgiveness. Candy As candy is to the taste, so romance is to marriage: sugary sweet. Celebrating the sixth year of marriage offers a time to rekindle the flames of love and passion that brought the two of you together. In older times, iron also symbolized the sixth anniversary. A strong and sturdy metal that brings good luck, may good fortune shine on your marriage all the days of your life. Copper & Wool Both copper and wool are known for producing heat. Therefore they represent warmth, comfort, safety, and security - necessary ingredients for a healthy and stable marriage. Reflect on these traits as you celebrate seven years together. Bronze The gifts for wedd |
Which Dublin born writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925? | George Bernard Shaw - Biographical George Bernard Shaw The Nobel Prize in Literature 1925 George Bernard Shaw Share this: George Bernard Shaw - Biographical George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. After working in an estate agent's office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876), where he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic in the eighties and nineties and became a prominent member of the Fabian Society, for which he composed many pamphlets. He began his literary career as a novelist; as a fervent advocate of the new theatre of Ibsen (The Quintessence of Ibsenism, 1891) he decided to write plays in order to illustrate his criticism of the English stage. His earliest dramas were called appropriately Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898). Among these, Widower's Houses and Mrs. Warren's Profession savagely attack social hypocrisy, while in plays such as Arms and the Man and The Man of Destiny the criticism is less fierce. Shaw's radical rationalism, his utter disregard of conventions, his keen dialectic interest and verbal wit often turn the stage into a forum of ideas, and nowhere more openly than in the famous discourses on the Life Force, «Don Juan in Hell», the third act of the dramatization of woman's love chase of man, Man and Superman (1903). In the plays of his later period discussion sometimes drowns the drama, in Back to Methuselah (1921), although in the same period he worked on his masterpiece Saint Joan (1923), in which he rewrites the well-known story of the French maiden and extends it from the Middle Ages to the present. Other important plays by Shaw are Caesar and Cleopatra (1901), a historical play filled with allusions to modern times, and Androcles and the Lion (1912), in which he exercised a kind of retrospective history and from modern movements drew deductions for the Christian era. In Major Barbara (1905), one of Shaw's most successful «discussion» plays, the audience's attention is held by the power of the witty argumentation that man can achieve aesthetic salvation only through political activity, not as an individual. The Doctor's Dilemma (1906), facetiously classified as a tragedy by Shaw, is really a comedy the humour of which is directed at the medical profession. Candida (1898), with social attitudes toward sex relations as objects of his satire, and Pygmalion (1912), a witty study of phonetics as well as a clever treatment of middle-class morality and class distinction, proved some of Shaw's greatest successes on the stage. It is a combination of the dramatic, the comic, and the social corrective that gives Shaw's comedies their special flavour. Shaw's complete works appeared in thirty-six volumes between 1930 and 1950, the year of his death. From Nobel Lectures , Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969 This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel . It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures . To cite this document, always state the source as shown above. George Bernard Shaw died on November 2, 1950. |
What form did Zeus take when he seduced Gannymede? | ZEUS MYTHS 4 LOVES - Greek Mythology Roman Name Jupiter Europa and Zeus as bull, Paestan red-figure calyx krater C4th B.C., The J. Paul Getty Museum ZEUS was the king of the gods, and god of the sky, weather, fate and law. This page describes three of Zeus' mortal liaisons--Danae who was impregnated by the god in the form of a golden shower, Antiope who was seduced by the god in the guise of a satyr, and Kallisto who was deceived by Zeus disguised as the maiden Artemis. (1) MORTAL LOVES (WOMEN) ALKMENE (Alcmena) A lady of Thebes in Boiotia (central Greece) who was seduced by Zeus in the form of her own husband. She bore twins: Herakles by Zeus and Likymnios by her husband Amphitryon. ANTIOPE A lady of Thebes in Boiotia (central Greece) who was seduced by Zeus in the shape of Satyros. She bore him twin sons Amphion and Zethos which were exposed at birth. DANAE A princess of Argos (central Greece) who was imprisoned by her father in a bronze tower. Zeus seduced her in the form of a golden shower, and she gave birth to a son, the hero Perseus. DIA A queen of the Lapith tribe of Thessalia (northern Greece), wife of King Ixion. According to some, she was seduced by Zeus, and bore him a son Peirithoos (but others say, the father was her husband Ixion). [see Family ] ELARE (Elara) A princess of Orkhomenos (central Greece) who was loved by Zeus. In fear of the wrath of Hera, he hid her beneath the earth, where she gave birth to a son the Gigante Tityos. EUROPA A princess of Phoinikia (Phoenicia) (West Asia) who was abducted to Krete )in the Greek Aegean) by Zeus in the form of a bull. She bore him three sons: Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthys. EURYMEDOUSA (Eurymedusa) A princess of Phthiotis (northern Greece) who was seduced by Zeus in the form of an ant. Their son was named Myrmidon (Ant-Man). KALLISTO (Callisto) A princess of Arkadia (southern Greece) who was seduced by Zeus in the guise of the goddess Artemis. She was transformed into a bear by a wrathful goddess into a bear and in this form bare a son named Arkas. KALYKE (Calyce) A queen of Elis (southern Greece), the wife of King Aithlios. She was the mother by Zeus (or by her husband Aithlios) of Endymion. [see Family ] KASSIOPEIA (Cassiopeia) A lady of the island Krete (Greek Aegean) who bore Zeus a son named Atymnios. [see Family ] LAMIA A queen of Libya (North Africa) who was loved by Zeus. When the jealous Hera stole her children by the god--Herophile and Akhilleus--she was driven mad with grief. LAODAMEIA A princess of Lykia (Asia Minor) who was loved by Zeus and bore him a son, Sarpedon. [see Family ] LEDA A queen of Lakedaimonia (southern Greece) who was seduced by Zeus in the form of swan. She laid an egg from which were hatched the Dioskouroi twins--one Polydeukes was the son of Zeus, the other Kastor the son of her husband Tyndareus. According to some, she was also the mother of egg-hatched Helene (though others say this egg was given her by the goddess Nemesis). LYSITHOE A woman who bore Zeus a son named Herakles (a man with the same name as the famous hero). [see Family ] NIOBE A princess of Argolis (southern Greece). She was the very first mortal woman loved by Zeus, and bore him two sons: Argos and Pelasgos (though according to others Pelasgos was a son of Poseidon or Earth-Born). OLYMPIAS An historical queen of Makedonia, the mother of Alexander the Great. According to legend, her son was fathered by the god Zeus. PANDORA A princess of the Hellenes, one of the daughters of King Deukalion, surviver of the Great Deluge. She was loved by Zeus and bore him sons Latinos and Graikos. [see Family ] PROTOGENEIA A princess of the Hellenes, one of the daughters of King Deukalion, surviver of the Great Deluge. She was loved by Zeus and bore him a son Aithlios. [see Family ] PYRRHA The wife of King Deukalion of the Hellenes, who with her husband survived the Great Deluge. According to some, her first born son, Hellen, was fathered by Zeus rather than Deukalion. [see Family ] PHTHIA A girl from Aegion in Akhaia (southern Greece). Zeus seduced her in the guise of a pigeon |
What is the common name for the fruit Fragaria vesca? | Fragaria vesca - Plant Finder Plant Finder Tried and Trouble-free Recommended by 1 Professionals Species Native to Missouri Native Range: Temperate northern Hemisphere Zone: 5 to 9 Height: 0.25 to 0.75 feet Spread: 0.75 to 1.00 feet Bloom Time: May to August Bloom Description: White with yellow center Sun: Full sun to part shade Water: Medium Suggested Use: Ground Cover, Naturalize Flower: Showy Garden locations Culture Best grown in humusy, fertile, medium moisture, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Prefers full sun. Plant will spread by runners and may self-seed if fruit is not harvested. Noteworthy Characteristics Fragaria vesca, commonly called woodland strawberry, is a small-fruited, everbearing wild strawberry that is native to Europe and Asia. Varieties of the species are found in North America both naturally and as introduced. This is a compact, stemless, 4-8” tall plant that spreads indefinitely by runners that root as they go. Numerous, small, 5-petaled white flowers with yellow centers appear throughout summer. Tri-foliate, coarsely-toothed, green leaves. Flowers are followed by edible, bright red strawberries (1/2” long) that may be harvested throughout summer. Flowers and fruit are usually simultaneously present on plants in summer. Although Steyermark finds F. vesca var. americana to be present in Missouri, the common wild strawberry of Missouri is a similar species, F. virginiana var. illinoensis. Genus name comes from the Latin word fraga meaning strawberry presumably from fragrans meaning fragrant in reference to the perfume of the fruit. Specific epithet means edible. Problems Strawberries are susceptible to a number of fungal diseases including anthracnose, leaf spots, rots, wilts, powdery mildew and blights. Insect visitors include spider mites and aphids. Leaf scorch may occur in hot summer climates. This species has good resistance to the aforementioned diseases and insects. Garden Uses Woodland strawberry is generally grown for its ornamental features because the fruits are so small. Native plant gardens. Edger or groundcover. Rock gardens. Open woodland areas. Also may be grown in containers or pots. |
Which astronomer is credited with discovering that the Universe is expanding? | Who did discover the expanding universe? - Health & Science - Jerusalem Post Who did discover the expanding universe? BySPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE (STSCI) 20 November 2011 14:40 For nearly a century, Edwin P. Hubble has held the fame for this landmark discovery, which would recast all of 20th century astronomy. The Hubble space telescope 311. (photo credit:NASA) The greatest astronomical discovery of the 20th century may have been credited to the wrong person. But it turns out to have been nobody's fault except for that of the actual original discoverer himself. Writing in the November 10th issue of the journal Nature, astrophysicist Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute has put to bed a growing conspiracy theory about who was fairly credited for discovering the expanding universe. Be the first to know - Join our Facebook page. For nearly a century, American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble has held the fame for this landmark discovery, which would recast all of 20th century astronomy. Hubble reported that the universe is uniformly expanding in all directions. It solved Einstein's dilemma of explaining why the universe didn't already collapse under its own gravity. Ironically, Hubble never got a Nobel Prize for this discovery, though astronomers from two teams who independently uncovered evidence for an accelerating universe won the 2011 Noble Prize in Physics. But Hubble did get the most celebrated telescope of modern history named after him. Hubble published his landmark paper in which he determined the rate of expansion of the universe in 1929. This was based on the apparent recessional velocities (deduced from redshifts) of galaxies, as previously measured by astronomer Vesto Slipher, coupled to distances to the same galaxies, as determined by Hubble. Hubble's analysis showed that the farther the galaxy was, the faster it appeared to be receding. The rate of cosmic expansion is now known as the Hubble Constant. But two years earlier, a Belgian priest and cosmologist, Georges Lemaître, published very similar conclusions, and he calculated a rate of expansion similar to what Hubble would publish two years later. Lemaître based his analysis on Slipher's same redshift data, which he combined with estimates of galaxy distances inferred from Hubble's 1926 published observations. But Lemaître's discovery went unnoticed because it was published in French, in a rather obscure Belgian science journal called the Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles (Annals of the Brussels Scientific Society). The story would have ended there, except that Lemaître's work was later translated and published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. When published in 1931, some of Lemaître's own calculations from 1927, of what would be later called the Hubble Constant, were omitted! The fact that paragraphs were missing from the translated paper has been known (although not widely) since 1984. There has been persistent speculation among astronomers over "who dunnit?" Did the Monthly Notices editors cut the paragraphs out? Did Edwin Hubble himself have an influencing hand and censor the paper to eliminate any doubt that he was the original discoverer of the expanding universe? After going through hundreds of pieces of correspondence of the Royal Astronomical Society, as well as minutes of the RAS meetings, and material from the Lemaître Archive, Livio has discovered that Lemaître omitted the passages himself when he translated the paper into English! In one of two "smoking-gun letters" uncovered by Livio, Lemaître wrote to the editors: "I did not find advisable to reprint the provisional discussion of radial velocities which is clearly of no actual interest, and also the geometrical note, which could be replaced by a small bibliography of ancient and new papers on the subject." The remaining question is why Lemaître essentially erased evidence for credit due to him, for first discovering (at least tentatively) the expanding universe. Livio concludes, "Lemaîtr |
Which London Underground line has a terminus at West Ruislip? | 1906 - Elephant & Castle station opens 1915 - The line is extended from Baker Street to Queen's Park 1939 - The Bakerloo line takes over the Stanmore branch of the Metropolitan line 1979 - The Jubilee line opens and, after 40 years, the Stanmore branch of the Bakerloo line closes 1982 - The four peak period trains between Queen's Park and Watford Junction are withdrawn 1989 - Services between Queen's Park and Harrow & Wealdstone restart Central Line The Central Line, originally called the Central London Railway, opened on 30 July 1900 as a cross-London route from Bank to Shepherd's Bush. Popular from the start, part of its success stemmed from the cost: a flat fare of two old pence to travel. This inspired the press to call it the 'Tuppenny Tube.' In 1908, London hosted the Franco-British exhibition, the largest fair of its kind, which attracted 8 million visitors. At the time, the exhibition site was little more than a cluster of white buildings with no official name but when the Central line extended to the site, it officially became known as White City. In the 1990s, the Central line was upgraded to automatic operation, making it the second Underground line, after the Victoria line in the 1960s, to use this technology. Key Central line dates 1900 - Central London Railway opens 1908 - The line extends west to Wood Lane to support the White City Exhibition 1912 - The line extends east from Bank to Liverpool Street 1920 - The line extends west to Ealing Broadway 1945 - After the war, new tracks next to to the main line railway start to be used. They run from North Acton to West Ruislip and include new tunnels from Liverpool Street to Leyton 1994 - The Epping to Ongar shuttle service closes, due to low passenger numbers Circle line Although the first circular service started in 1884, the Circle line as we know it didn't really begin until the 1930s. The 'Circle line' name first appeared on a poster in 1936 but took another 13 years for it to get its own, separate line on the Tube map. The tracks used by the Circle line were run by the Metropolitan Railway and District Railway, two companies who couldn't agree on how to run the line. Their differences initially meant that District Railway ran the clockwise trains and Metropolitan Railway, the anti-clockwise trains. In December 2009, the Circle line was broken and replaced by an end-to-end service between Hammersmith and Edgware Road, via Aldgate. Key Circle line dates 1884 - The first circular service begins 1868 - The Paddington to Farringdon (Metropolitan Railway) line extends to South Kensington. The District Railway opens its new line from South Kensington to Westminster at the same time 1884 - The District Railway line finally extends to Mark Lane (now Tower Hill). It meets the Metropolitan Railway line to create a full circle 1905 - The line is electrified 1933 - Metropolitan Railway and District Railway become part of the London Passenger Transport Board 1936 - The 'Circle line' name appears on a poster for the first time 1949 - The Circle line gets its own line on the Tube map 2009 - The Circle line is broken and replaced by and end-to-end service District line The District line first opened on Christmas Eve 1868, between South Kensington and Westminster. In the years following, it extended both east and west, even going as far as Windsor. In 1883, the line was extended from Ealing Broadway to Windsor and has run services as far as Southend, during its time. Uxbridge and Hounslow were part of the District line until they were transferred to the Piccadilly line in 1933 and 1964. Key District line dates 1868 - The first section of what is now the District line begins. It runs between South Kensington and Westminster 1869 - New tracks open between Gloucester Road and West Brompton 1874 - The line extends to Hammersmith, Richmond in 1877 and Ealing Broadway in 1879 1885 - The two-year old Ealing to Windsor service ends 1884 - The line extends to Mark Lane (now Tower Hill) 1910 - The line extends to Uxbridge, following an earlier extension to Hounslow (in 1884) Hammersm |
Which economic doctrine, popular in the 1980's, was propounded by Milton Friedman? | Who Was Milton Friedman? | by Paul Krugman | The New York Review of Books Who Was Milton Friedman? February 15, 2007 Issue 1. The history of economic thought in the twentieth century is a bit like the history of Christianity in the sixteenth century. Until John Maynard Keynes published The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money in 1936, economics—at least in the English-speaking world—was completely dominated by free-market orthodoxy. Heresies would occasionally pop up, but they were always suppressed. Classical economics, wrote Keynes in 1936, “conquered England as completely as the Holy Inquisition conquered Spain.” And classical economics said that the answer to almost all problems was to let the forces of supply and demand do their job. But classical economics offered neither explanations nor solutions for the Great Depression. By the middle of the 1930s, the challenges to orthodoxy could no longer be contained. Keynes played the role of Martin Luther, providing the intellectual rigor needed to make heresy respectable. Although Keynes was by no means a leftist—he came to save capitalism, not to bury it—his theory said that free markets could not be counted on to provide full employment, creating a new rationale for large-scale government intervention in the economy. Keynesianism was a great reformation of economic thought. It was followed, inevitably, by a counter-reformation. A number of economists played important roles in the great revival of classical economics between 1950 and 2000, but none was as influential as Milton Friedman. If Keynes was Luther, Friedman was Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. And like the Jesuits, Friedman’s followers have acted as a sort of disciplined army of the faithful, spearheading a broad, but incomplete, rollback of Keynesian heresy. By the century’s end, classical economics had regained much though by no means all of its former dominion, and Friedman deserves much of the credit. I don’t want to push the religious analogy too far. Economic theory at least aspires to be science, not theology; it is concerned with earth, not heaven. Keynesian theory initially prevailed because it did a far better job than classical orthodoxy of making sense of the world around us, and Friedman’s critique of Keynes became so influential largely because he correctly identified Keynesianism’s weak points. And just to be clear: although this essay argues that Friedman was wrong on some issues, and sometimes seemed less than honest with his readers, I regard him as a great economist and a great man. 2. Milton Friedman played three roles in the intellectual life of the twentieth century. There was Friedman the economist’s economist, who wrote technical, more or less apolitical analyses of consumer behavior and inflation. There was Friedman the policy entrepreneur, who spent decades campaigning on behalf of the policy known as monetarism—finally seeing the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England adopt his doctrine at the end of the 1970s, only to abandon it as unworkable a few years later. Finally, there was Friedman the ideologue, the great popularizer of free-market doctrine. Did the same man play all these roles? Yes and no. All three roles were informed by Friedman’s faith in the classical verities of free-market economics. Moreover, Friedman’s effectiveness as a popularizer and propagandist rested in part on his well-deserved reputation as a profound economic theorist. But there’s an important difference between the rigor of his work as a professional economist and the looser, sometimes questionable logic of his pronouncements as a public intellectual. While Friedman’s theoretical work is universally admired by professional economists, there’s much more ambivalence about his policy pronouncements and especially his popularizing. And it must be said that there were some serious questions about his intellectual honesty when he was speaking to the mass public. But let’s hold off on the questionable material for a moment, and talk about Friedman the economic theorist. For most of the pa |
Which pop star called one of her children 'Chudney'? | Diana Ross wows in white dress at daughter Chudney's wedding in Hawaii | Daily Mail Online comments She certainly made for a very sexy mother of the bride. On Sunday, Diana Ross, 71, looked flawless as she attended the wedding of her youngest daughter Chudney in Hawaii. Chudney - Diana's second daughter from her first married to music exec Robert Silberstein - tied the knot with her longterm partner Joshua Faulkner at the family ceremony in Maui, and looked stunning in a traditional white gown. Scroll down for video Love Supreme! Diana Ross, 71, shows off cleavage in white gown at her youngest daughter Chudney's wedding to Josua Faulkner in Hawaii on Sunday However, all eyes were on Diana, who also wore white, in a stunning low-cut dress that showed off her cleavage. Chudney and Joshua welcomed their first child, daughter Callaway Lane together back in September 2012, who is now two-years-old and acted as their flower girl on the big day. The pair got engaged in January earlier this year. Mother of the bride: Diana looked extremely proud as she stood beside her newly married daughter Stunning bride: Chudney is Diana's second daughter from her first married to music exec Robert Silberstein A beautiful bride: Chudney looked gorgeous in her detailed dress as she prepared to walk down the aisle with her flower girl - daughter Callaway Lane A family affair: The diva held hands with son Evan (who is married to Ashlee Simpson) as they made their way to the reception We're all here: Tracee Ellis Ross chatted with mother Diana as they awaited the bride and groom's arrival Sources told NY Daily News that the wedding event was a four-day affair with activies during the day and night. They revealed: 'It's one of those weddings where there's activities day and night and meals planned for every single meal. Very luxurious.' 'It'll be a full-on food, drink and music celebration. Everything's going to be taken care of for the guests.' Maid of honour?: While Traccee wore an elegant bronze gown, several bridesmaids were seen in pale pink The perfect day: The sun was shining down on the happy couple as they exchanged vows Fairytale gown: Chudney went for a classic look in a strapless gown with lots of tulle, and wedges underneath Getting set up: The bride and her mother spoke to the photographer about getting set up for the pictures Congratulations: Diana shared a hug with a friend after the ceremony According to the report, there was also a rehearsal dinner and a party on a yacht hosted by Diana. Chudney Ross is said to own a bookstore in Santa Monica called Books and Cookies. Siblings Tracee Ellis Ross, Rhonda Ross and Ross Naess were also in attendance. However, it was unclear if Evan Ross' new wife Ashlee Simpson attended the big day, but Evan was pictured in a family photo. Hostess with the mostest: Diana happily mingled with guests during the celebration You may now kiss the bride: Chudney and new husband Joshua puckered up for the photographer Where's Ashlee?: While Evan's heavily pregnant wife appeared to be missing, he shared a hug with sister Rhonda Party time: It looked like the guests were having a wonderful time celebrating the couple's union Heading down the aisle: Chudney had a veil on top of her half up, half down hair and carried a bouquet of pink flowers Getting the wedding album started: The family were on-hand for photos after the couple posed together |
Which film was nominated for 13 'Oscars' in 2009, but won only three? | 2009 Academy Awards® Winners and History The Princess and the Frog (2009) The Secret of Kells (2009) Actor: JEFF BRIDGES in "Crazy Heart," George Clooney in "Up in the Air," Colin Firth in "A Single Man," Morgan Freeman in "Invictus," Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker" Actress: SANDRA BULLOCK in "The Blind Side," Helen Mirren in "The Last Station," Carey Mulligan in "An Education," Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious," Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia" Supporting Actor: CHRISTOPH WALTZ in "Inglourious Basterds," Matt Damon in "Invictus," Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger," Christopher Plummer in "The Last Station," Stanley Tucci in "The Lovely Bones" Supporting Actress: MO'NIQUE in "Precious," Penelope Cruz in "Nine," Vera Farmiga in "Up in the Air," Maggie Gyllenhaal in "Crazy Heart," Anna Kendrick in "Up in the Air" Director: KATHRYN BIGELOW for "The Hurt Locker," James Cameron for "Avatar," Lee Daniels for "Precious," Jason Reitman for "Up in the Air," Quentin Tarantino for "Inglourious Basterds" In 2009, the Academy decided to return to featuring an expanded field of nominees for Best Picture. From now on, there would be ten films nominated for Best Picture instead of five - the last time this happened was 1943 (66 years ago). [From 1931 to 1943, the Oscars had between eight and 12 Best Picture nominees.] This change was expected to result in: a box-office (or DVD sales) boost for more pictures, with some smaller movies getting more exposure a possible increase in TV ratings for the awards ceremony (held two weeks later than last year), and enhanced interest in a broader and varied range of types of films that were more populist or mainstream in nature (e.g., the sports weepie The Blind Side, Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, the animated Up and the gritty sci-fi alien drama District 9), mixed in with independent fare and specialty films Unexpectedly, there were no foreign-language, traditional comedies, musicals or documentary choices in the expanded Best Picture category. This year featured one of the most even distributions of top nominees, with five films receiving at least six nominations, and no film receiving more than nine. Six of the top 10 contenders were released in the fourth quarter of the year -- only Up, The Hurt Locker, District 9, and Inglourious Basterds were released earlier. In addition to Avatar, four Best Picture-nominated films had grossed over $100 million domestically. [Last year, only one of the five Best Picture nominees had done so, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008).] The Best Picture winner The Hurt Locker, a low-budget film from Summit Entertainment with a production budget of $15 million, turned out to be the lowest-grossing winner of all-time, at $14.7 million at the time of its win. It was also the fifth consecutive R-rated Best Picture winner, and the second of only two Best Picture winners to be a film festival acquisition (the first was in 2005). Two films shared the most Oscar nominations (nine) and competed in a dead heat in the period between the nominations and awards: the science-fiction/fantasy visual effects masterpiece Avatar and the tense, nail-biting Iraq war-related drama The Hurt Locker from female director Kathryn Bigelow. Bige |
Which London Underground line has a terminus at Bermondsey Station? | Jubilee to 307 Stratford Approaching Bermondsey Due Jubilee to 137 Stratford Between Southwark and London Bridge 3 mins Jubilee to 301 North Greenwich Left Westminster 6 mins Jubilee to 357 Stratford Between Green Park and Westminster 8 mins Jubilee to 323 Stratford Between Bond Street and Green Park 9 mins Jubilee to 367 West Ham At Bond Street Platform 4 11 mins Jubilee to 313 Stratford Approaching St. John's Wood 18 mins Jubilee to 321 Stratford At Swiss Cottage Platform 2 19 mins Jubilee to 134 North Greenwich Approaching Finchley Road 21 mins Jubilee to 131 Stratford Approaching West Hampstead 23 mins Jubilee to 340 Stratford At Kilburn Platform 2 24 mins Jubilee to 345 Stratford At Willesden Green Platform 3 27 mins |
How many American states were there at the beginning of the nineteenth century? | U.S. Immigration Before 1965 - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com U.S. Immigration Before 1965 A+E Networks Introduction The United States experienced major waves of immigration during the colonial era, the first part of the 19th century and from the 1880s to 1920. Many immigrants came to America seeking greater economic opportunity, while some, such as the Pilgrims in the early 1600s, arrived in search of religious freedom. From the 17th to 19th centuries, hundreds of thousands of African slaves came to America against their will. The first significant federal legislation restricting immigration was the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. Individual states regulated immigration prior to the 1892 opening of Ellis Island, the country’s first federal immigration station. New laws in 1965 ended the quota system that favored European immigrants, and today, the majority of the country’s immigrants hail from Asia and Latin America. Google Immigration in the Colonial Era From its earliest days, America has been a nation of immigrants, starting with its original inhabitants, who crossed the land bridge connecting Asia and North America tens of thousands of years ago. By the 1500s, the first Europeans, led by the Spanish and French, had begun establishing settlements in what would become the United States. In 1607, the English founded their first permanent settlement in present-day America at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony. Did You Know? On January 1, 1892, Annie Moore, a teenager from County Cork, Ireland, was the first immigrant processed at Ellis Island. She had made the nearly two-week journey across the Atlantic Ocean in steerage with her two younger brothers. Annie later raised a family on New York City’s Lower East Side. Some of America’s first settlers came in search of freedom to practice their faith. In 1620, a group of roughly 100 people later known as the Pilgrims fled religious persecution in Europe and arrived at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts , where they established a colony. They were soon followed by a larger group seeking religious freedom, the Puritans, who established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. By some estimates, 20,000 Puritans migrated to the region between 1630 and 1640. A larger share of immigrants came to America seeking economic opportunities. However, because the price of passage was steep, an estimated one-half or more of the white Europeans who made the voyage did so by becoming indentured servants. Although some people voluntarily indentured themselves, others were kidnapped in European cities and forced into servitude in America. Additionally, thousands of English convicts were shipped across the Atlantic as indentured servants. Another group of immigrants who arrived against their will during the colonial period were black slaves from West Africa. The earliest records of slavery in America include a group of approximately 20 Africans who were forced into indentured servitude in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. By 1680, there were some 7,000 African slaves in the American colonies, a number that ballooned to 700,000 by 1790, according to some estimates. Congress outlawed the importation of slaves to the United States as of 1808, but the practice continued. The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) resulted in the emancipation of approximately 4 million slaves. Although the exact numbers will never be known, it is believed that 500,000 to 650,000 Africans were brought to America and sold into slavery between the 17th and 19th centuries. Immigration in the Mid-19th Century Another major wave of immigration occurred from around 1815 to 1865. The majority of these newcomers hailed from Northern and Western Europe. Approximately one-third came from Ireland, which experienced a massive famine in the mid-19th century. In the 1840s, almost half of America’s immigrants were from Ireland alone. Typically impoverished, these Irish immigrants settled near their point of arrival in cities along the East Coast. Between 1820 and 1930, some 4.5 million Irish migrated to the United States. Also in the 19th century, the United State |
Which is the largest species of the turtle family? | Types of Turtles: Lots of Pictures and Clear Info Loggerhead Sea turtle Land Tortoise Many people seem to be confused with the apt usages of the terms “turtle” and” tortoise “. To put it in a simple manner, the term “turtle” applies to the members of the reptilian family that reside in Oceans and fresh water, while they call those thriving on land as “tortoises.” However, the main reason for the confusion is due to language interpretations. In British English, the term 'turtle' refers to those reptiles residing mainly in the sea, and 'tortoise' refers to the ones inhabiting in the land, while in American English, 'turtle' is a general term coined for all the species belonging to this family; and the species thriving in the sea are more specifically mentioned as 'sea turtles'. Classification of Turtles Two suborders Turtles are the reptiles coming from the Testudines order, which you can further divide into fourteen families, altogether about 97 genera of the species reptiles. The fourteen families can be further subdivided into two suborders: Testudines order Podocnemididae Cryptodira (consisting 11 families) Those turtles belonging to the Cryptodira sub-order have the characteristic ability to retract their head into the shell. Here is a description of each of the 11 families with a brief representative description of one sample turtle from each family. 1. Carettochelyidae Carettochelys insculpta or pig-nosed turtle, Fly River turtle or pitted-shelled turtle is the only living species of the family Carettochelyidae, subfamily Carettochelyinae. You find these turtles in south of New Guinea and Northern Australia. Description of Pig-Nosed Turtle (Carettochelys insculpta) Carettochelys insculpta or the pig-nosed turtle live mainly in the Southern part of New Guinea and Northern Australia. These turtles are not aquatic and there is not much information on them. 2. Cheloniidae Belonging to the Chelonioidea super family, the Cheloniidae are a family of sea turtles including: Caretta Caretta or Loggerhead sea turtle Lepidochelys olivacea or the Olive Ridley Lepidochelys-kempii or Ridleys sea turtles (Kemp’s) Chelonia mydas or Green sea faring turtle Description of Lepidochelys Olivacea or the Olive Ridley Sea-Turtle Amongst the smallest sea turtles existing, the Olive Ridley got its name from the Olive color of its shell. These adult turtles reach a length of between 2 to 2 and 2� feet and can way between 80 to 110 pounds. The very high number of vertebral costal scutes (6 to 9 pairs) identifies this species. Some people call this turtle as a Pacific version of the Sea Turtle. You can find these turtles in the typically warm tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans Description of the Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) The Green Sea Turtles are distinct because they have only a single pair of prefrontal scales unlike other sea turtles that have two pairs in front of their eyes. These Turtles also go by name Black Sea Turtle and have a serrated jaw in a small blunt head. Its body is flat and oval. The plastron varies from between white and yellow and has pale yellow, deep yellow to green and brown colors that accentuate the stripes on the body. 3. Chelydridae This includes a family of sea turtles with only two living genera that are widespread in the Western Hemisphere and include: Chelydra, the snapping turtle Found in Southern China and Southeast Asia, this includes big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) Description of TheBig-Headed Turtle (Platysternon Megacephalum) Peculiarly, this big-headed turtle uses its tail to enhance the reach of its claws to climb over obstacles in fast streams and rivers. Its beak assists in climbing bushes and trees. They occasionally use the tail like a scorpion’s arch. Because it cannot pull its head into the shell, it defends itself by using its powerful jaws. For food it eats fish and snails. 10. Testudinidae This is a family of land reptiles and includes the Aldabrachelys gigantean or the Aldabra giant tortoise Description of Aldabrachelys gigantean |
Where in the body would you find the 'Canal of Schlemm'? | What is the Canal of Schlemm? (with pictures) What is the Canal of Schlemm? Last Modified Date: 19 December 2016 Copyright Protected: Top 10 unbelievable historical concurrencies The Canal of Schlemm is a canal located in the eye, also known as the scleral venous sinus or Schlemm's canal. Circular in shape, the canal's function is to collect fluid called aqueous humor from the anterior chamber of the eye and move it to the blood and vascular system. The aqueous humor is moved via the anterior ciliary veins. Much like a lymphatic vessel, with endothelium lining, the canal also is covered by a mesh-like substance referred to as trabecular meshwork. This sinus received its name from noted German anatomist Friedrich Schlemm. The aqueous humor plays a major role in the function of the canal of Schlemm as well as in the function of the human eye itself. This substance is produced by secretory epithelium or skin tissue, that lines the ciliary processes and is then released into the posterior chamber of the eye where it helps regulate intraocular pressure between the anterior and posterior portions. The aqueous humor is also present in the anterior portion of the eye, and its job is to mesh with a huge number of collagen fibrils and drain through the duct or canal of Schlemm. The excess aqueous humor fluid is then released into the lymphatic system and allowed to be carried out into the general lymph circulation of the body. Both Schlemm's canal and the aqueous humor are vital to the health and function of the eye. It is critical for the posterior and anterior portions of the eye to maintain a careful balance of aqueous humor production and drainage to ensure proper pressure of two chambers. The balance of production and drainage also serves to promote the correct spatial distances between the various organelles of the eye. If this important balance is not maintained, it is common for eye disorders relating to distortion of the size and shape of the eyeball to present, and there is an increased potential for seriously impaired vision to occur. There are two ways in which the canal of Schlemm can be adversely affected, causing dysfunction and possible damage. In addition to eye disease, physical injury to the area can also create an imbalance of the aqueous humor and damage the scleral venous sinus. If too much aqueous humor is produced, the intraocular pressure is likely to rise, causing the potential for serious eye diseases , such as glaucoma . This disease is characterized by optic nerve atrophy, impaired, blurry vision , and eye retina detachment. Left untreated, glaucoma can also result in permanent vision loss. Ad |
Which 1954 Gene Kelly musical film featured the song 'Almost Like Being In Love'? | Almost Like Being in Love - from "Brigadoon" (1954) - Gene Kelly - YouTube Almost Like Being in Love - from "Brigadoon" (1954) - Gene Kelly Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jul 9, 2011 Category When autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. Up next Play now Mix - Almost Like Being in Love - from "Brigadoon" (1954) - Gene KellyYouTube Christopher Walken on Gene Kelly - Duration: 6:45. midnighttiptoes 220,148 views 6:45 Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr perform "Shall We Dance" - Duration: 4:45. Rodgers and Hammerstein 988,629 views 4:45 Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra - If you knew Susie - Duration: 3:16. TheGonzo97 124,722 views 3:16 Singing In The Rain - You Were Meant For Me (Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds) [HD Widescreen] - Duration: 4:28. lbarnard86 726,596 views 4:28 |
What does the musical term 'Largo' mean? | What does largo mean? definition, meaning and pronunciation (Free English Language Dictionary) The noun LARGO has 1 sense: 1. (music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner Familiarity information: LARGO used as a noun is very rare. The adjective LARGO has 1 sense: 1. very slow in tempo and broad in manner Familiarity information: LARGO used as an adjective is very rare. The adverb LARGO has 1 sense: 1. slowly and broadly Familiarity information: LARGO used as an adverb is very rare. Dictionary entry details |
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