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In which country was the battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879 | BBC - History - British History in depth: Zulu: The True Story Print this page Introduction On 22 January 1879, at Rorke's Drift on the Natal border with Zululand, in South Africa, a tiny British garrison of 140 men - many of them sick and wounded - fought for 12 hours to repel repeated attacks by up to 3,000 Zulu warriors. This heroic defence was rewarded by Queen Victoria's government with no fewer than 11 Victoria Crosses, and was later immortalised by the film Zulu (1964), directed by Cy Endfield. Few ... remember that it was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat ... Few, however, remember that it was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat at nearby Isandlwana. Why? Because it suited those responsible for the disaster to exaggerate the importance of Rorke's Drift in the hope of reducing the impact of Isandlwana. The true story of 22 January 1879 - the Empire's longest day - is one of unprovoked slaughter, of heroes being ignored and of the guilty being protected. And the responsibility for this lay with Queen Victoria herself. Top An unnecessary war Benjamin Disraeli © Like so many imperial conflicts of the period, the Zulu War was not initiated from London. Instead, Benjamin Disraeli's government - preoccupied with the Russian threat to Constantinople and Afghanistan - made every effort to avoid a fight. 'We cannot now have a Zulu war, in addition to other greater and too possible troubles', wrote Sir Michael Hicks Beach, the colonial secretary, in November 1878. The man to whom this letter was addressed - Sir Bartle Frere - had others ideas, however. Frere had been sent out to to Cape Town with the specific task of grouping South Africa's hotch-potch of British colonies, Boer republics and independent black states into a Confederation of South Africa. But he quickly realised that the region could not be unified under British rule until the powerful Zulu kingdom - with its standing army of 40,000 disciplined warriors - had been suppressed. So he exaggerated the threat posed by the Zulus to the British, and, when the home government refused to sanction war, took matters into his own hands in December 1878 by presenting the Zulu king, Cetshwayo, with an unacceptable ultimatum. This required, among other things, the disbandment of the Zulu Army, and war was the inevitable result. Such unilateral action by an imperial pro-consul was not unusual during the Victorian period. Such unilateral action by an imperial pro-consul was not unusual during the Victorian period. So great were the distances involved, and so slow the methods of communication, that British governors often took it upon themselves to start wars and annex provinces. Lord Lytton, the Viceroy of India, was about to invade Afghanistan without reference to London. But the Zulu conflict was unique in that it was to be the last pre-emptive war launched by the British, prior to the recent campaign in Iraq. Top Isandlwana Lord Chelmsford, c.1870 © The war began on 11 January 1879, when the 5,000-strong main British column invaded Zululand at Rorke's Drift. It was commanded by the ambitious Lord Chelmsford, a favourite of the Queen, who had little respect for the fighting qualities of the Zulu. 'If I am called upon to conduct operations against them,' he wrote in July 1878, 'I shall strive to be in a position to show them how hopelessly inferior they are to us in fighting power, altho' numerically stronger.' This dangerous mixture of self-confidence and contempt for their foes infected the whole British force. But their misjudgement came to rebound on them badly. By 20 January - hampered by minor skirmishes and poor tracks - Chelmsford's column had only advanced 11 miles to the rocky lower slopes of a distinctive, sphinx-like hill called Isandlwana. There it set up camp. But at 4am on 22 January, Chelmsford made the first of a series of blunders by taking two-thirds of his force off to pursue what he believed was the main Zulu army. He was convinced tha |
Who was the British foreign secretary who resigned during the battle of the Falklands | Anglo-American relations: Where we are, and how we got there Anglo-American relations: Where we are, and how we got there Professor Kathleen Burk Professor Kathleen Burk Kathleen Burk is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at University College London, columnist and radio panellist. She is the author of several distinguished scholarly books on the US and its interventions in the rest of the world, and a definitive biography of A J P Taylor. Kathleen’s most recent book, a history of England and America from 1600 to the present, which covers political, social, and economic history, Old World, New World was published by Little Brown. Professor Burk's main interests lie in Anglo-American relations, something she focussed on during her time as Gresham Professor of Rhetoric . All of Professor Burk's past lectures can be accessed here . Read More Anglo-American relations: Where we are, and how we got there Professor Kathleen Burk Where we are, and how we got here Professor Kathleen Burk When I was first appointed to the Gresham chair, I thought that I knew where we were. Indeed, when it was suggested by the Provost that I begin at the end of my history of Anglo-American relations rather than at the beginning, I welcomed the idea. At the time, before the allegations that the Iraq War had been entered into under false pretences assumed such importance, it seemed an easy way to slide into this series of lectures. But now, judging from the plethora of newspaper stories about the relationship, I am not alone in struggling to make sense of the current state of affairs. But nothing in history is without roots. In this case, the taproot extends to 1497, but for tonight, I will confine myself to the past half-century, because World War II established the relationship as we now know it - most emphatically not one of equals, but one which is not entirely unequal. But the development of the relationship has not been uniform even since World War II. Very generally, one could summarise it as follows: the decade after World War II continued the wartime partnership; the 1960s and 1970s saw a distinct cooling in the relationship; and the 1980s and 1990s saw an upward trend, with its apotheosis in the Second Iraq War. So - there is an alliance, and it is an unusually strong and long-lasting one. But is there a 'special relationship'? If so, on what is it based? At the very least, it must be based on the continuity of need and common interests. Dean Rusk, Secretary of State during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, characterised it thus: 'what has sometimes been called a special relationship is not a theoretical relationship based upon a common language, a common background, and the fact that we were once colonies of Great Britain... It arose out of the fact that we were working together on important matters.' The bones of it are the nuclear and intelligence links, which continue even when there are public disagreements between the two countries. It must also be based on fundamental trust and dependability. But the 'special relationship', I would argue, requires more than reasons of state to sustain it: it requires a broader, almost instinctive, support amongst the political elite and beyond. Mrs Thatcher perhaps summed up this support when she insisted that 'the relationship is special. It just is.' And this support must exist on both sides. For the UK since the Second World War, the need for a close relationship with the US has been unambiguous. In January 1949, a high-level meeting between officials of the Foreign Office, Treasury, Dominions Office, and Board of Trade agreed the following: 'Since post-war planning began, our policy has been to secure close political, military and economic cooperation with the USA. This has been necessary to get economic aid. It will always be decisive for our security. We hope to secure a special relationship with [the] USA and Canada...for in the last resort we cannot rely upon the European countries.' It is important to recognise that it is unique in the history of the world for one countr |
Marble Arch was designed by John Nash to commemorate whose victories in battle | Exploring the Tourist Attractions around Trafalgar Square - London Hotels & Travel Guide Click here to bookmark this site: Exploring the Tourist Attractions around Trafalgar Square Trafalgar Square is high on the list of must-see places in the middle of London. It gets a lot of tourists every day because of its proximity to many tourist attractions around the area. In this article we visit some of these tourist attractions and get to know them. Trafalgar Square was created to commemorate the Battle of Trafalgar, a British naval victory in the Napoleonic Wars in 1805. Trafalgar Square was originally intended to be called the King William VI Square. However architect George Ledwell Taylor suggested the name Trafalgar Square. The architecture around Trafalgar Square dates to between 1820 and 1845, when the Prince Region engaged John Nash, the imminent landscape architect, to redevelop the area. The project became known as the Charing Cross Improvement Scheme. The architecture of the square was the work of Sir Charles Barry, and was completed in 1845. Trafalgar Square consists of a big public area bordered by roads. The roads that lead into Trafalgar Square or are within its vicinity include Whitehall, Northumberland Avenue, The Strand, Charing Cross Road, Haymarket, Pall Mall and The Mall. Also within the area are Trafalgar Square road and Cockspur Street. The point where the Strand meets Whitehall was the original location of the Charing Cross. This is where the City of London meets the City of Westminster, and is accepted as the very heart of London. From here all distances are measured. Exploring Trafalgar Square in clockwise fashion beginning from the north, we see the stairs that lead up to the National Gallery. The National Gallery began when the British government bought 36 paintings from banker John Julius Angerstain in 1824. From that minuscule collection, the National Gallery today houses over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. Two thirds of the collection comes from donation. The collect is small compared to national galleries of continental Europe, however, it has important works with a broad historical representation, covering Early Renaissance to Post-Impressionism. The present structure at Trafalgar Square was built in 1832-8. However only the facade is recognizable from the original, with much of the inside having been renovated and expanded. This is the third building to house the National Gallery, and despite the many expansions, is still inadequate. The site at Trafalgar Square made creating an impressive gallery a challenging task. It cannot be extended in further than one room, as there was a workhouse and a barracks immediately behind. The architect whose design was chosen, William Wilkins, also had to comply to several stipulations, among them, he has to used columns from the demolished Carlton House, and sculptures which were intended for John Nash's Marble Arch. As a result, the National Gallery opened to much public ridicule. To the east of Trafalgar Square is the St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, an Anglican church dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours. An archaeological excavation in 2006 discovered a burial here dating back to Roman times. It led to a reappraisal of the importance of Westminster during Roman times. The reason is, although the Romans usually bury their dead outside city limits, the site of St Martin was way outside the Roman city limits, so it surprised archaeologists to find a burial spot so far out of the city. The earliest documentation of St Martin-in-the-Fields Church was found in 1222, where a dispute between the Abbot of Westminster and the Bishop of London over who had control over St Martin was recorded. King Henry VIII rebuilt the church in 1542, so that plague victims do not have to pass by his residence at the Palace of Whitehall. At that time, the church was literally "in the fields", isolated and away from the cities of Westminster and London. Although the old St Martin-in-the-Fields building was not destroyed by the Great London Fire of 166 |
What is the state capital of South Carolina | South Carolina: Map, History, Population, Facts, Capitol, Flag, Tree, Geography, Symbols South Carolina Governor: Nikki Haley, R (to Jan. 2019) Lieut. Governor: Henry McMaster, R (to Jan. 2019) Senators: Lindsey Graham , R (to Jan. 2021); Tim Scott, R (to Jan. 2017) Secy. of State: Mark Hammond, R (to Jan. 2019) Treasurer: Curtis Loftis, R (to Jan. 2019) Atty. General: Alan Wilson, R (to Jan. 2019) Entered Union (rank): May 23, 1788 (8) Present constitution adopted: 1895 Mottoes: Animis opibusque parati (Prepared in mind and resources) and Dum spiro spero (While I breathe, I hope) Nickname: Palmetto State Origin of name: In honor of Charles I of England 10 largest cities (2010 est.): Columbia , 129,272; Charleston , 120,083; North Charleston, 97,471; Rock Hill , 66,154; ; Greenville , 58,409; Sumter , 40,524; Florence 37,056, Spartanburg , 37,013; Goose Creek, 35,938; Aiken, 29,524 Land area: 30,109 sq mi. (77,982 sq km) Geographic center: In Richland Co., 13 mi. SE of Columbia Number of counties: 46 Largest county by population and area: Greenville, 451,225 (2010); Horry, 1,134 sq mi. State forests: 4 2015 resident population est.: 4,896,146 2010 resident census population (rank): 4,625,364 (24). Male: 2,250,101 (48.6%); Female: 2,375,263 (51.4%). White: 3,060,000 (66.2%); Black: 1,290,684 (27.9%); American Indian: 19,524 (0.4%); Asian: 59,051 (1.3%); Other race: 113,464 (2.5%); Two or more races: 79,935 (1.7%); Hispanic/Latino: 235,682 (5.1%). 2010 percent population 18 and over: 36.7; 65 and over: 5.9; median age: 37.9. Map of South Carolina Following exploration of the coast in 1521 by Francisco de Gordillo, the Spanish tried unsuccessfully to establish a colony near present-day Georgetown in 1526, and the French also failed to colonize Parris Island near Fort Royal in 1562. The first English settlement was made in 1670 at Albemarle Point on the Ashley River, but poor conditions drove the settlers to the site of Charleston (originally called Charles Town). South Carolina, officially separated from North Carolina in 1729, was the scene of extensive military action during the Revolution and again during the Civil War . The Civil War began in 1861 as South Carolina troops fired on federal Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, and the state was the first to secede from the Union. Once primarily agricultural, South Carolina today has many large textile and other mills that produce several times the output of its farms in cash value. Charleston makes asbestos, wood, pulp, steel products, chemicals, machinery, and apparel. Farms have become fewer but larger in recent years. South Carolina ranks second in peach production after California. Other top agricultural commodities include broilers (31.5% of total state farm receipts), turkeys, greenhouse products, cattle and calves, and corn. One of only two commercial tea plantations in America is 20 mi south of Charleston on Wadmalaw Island. Points of interest include Fort Sumter National Monument, Fort Moultrie, Fort Johnson, and aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in Charleston Harbor; the Middleton, Magnolia, and Cypress Gardens in Charleston; Cowpens National Battlefield; the Hilton Head resorts; and the Riverbanks Zoo and Botanical Garden in Columbia. See more on South Carolina: |
In Australian slang what is a swagman | Australian slang dictionary Apples, she'll be : It'll be all right Arvo : afternoon Aussie salute : brushing away flies with the hand Avos : avocados B & S : Bachelors' and Spinsters' Ball - a very enjoyable party usually held in rural areas Back of Bourke : a very long way away Bail (somebody) up : to corner somebody physically Bail out : depart, usually angrily Banana bender : a person from Queensland Barbie : barbecue (noun) Barrack : to cheer on (football team etc.) Bastard : term of endearment Battler : someone working hard and only just making a living Beaut, beauty : great, fantastic Big Smoke : a big city, especially Sydney or Melbourne Big-note oneself : brag, boast Bikkie : biscuit (also "it cost big bikkies" - it was expensive) Billabong : an oxbow lake cut off by a change in the watercourse. Billabongs are usually formed when the course of a creek or river changes, leaving the former branch with a dead end. Billy : teapot. Container for boiling water. Bingle : motor vehicle accident Bitzer : mongrel dog (bits of this and bits of that) Bizzo : business ("mind your own bizzo") Black Stump, beyond the : a long way away, the back of nowhere Bloke : man, guy Bloody : very (bloody hard yakka) Bloody oath! : that's certainly true Blow in the bag : have a breathalyser test Blowie : blow fly Bludger : lazy person, layabout, somebody who always relies on other people to do things or lend him things Blue : fight ("he was having a blue with his wife") Blue, make a : make a mistake Bluey : pack, equipment, traffic ticket, redhead Bluey : blue cattle dog (named after its subtle markings) which is an excellent working dog. Everyone's favourite all-Aussie dog. Bluey : heavy wool or felt jacket worn by mining and construction workers. Bluey : bluebottle jellyfish Bog in : commence eating, to attack food with enthusiasm Bog standard : basic, unadorned, without accessories (a bog standard car, telephone etc.) Bogan : person who takes little pride in his appearance, spends his days slacking and drinking beer Bogged : Stuck in mud, deep sand (a vehicle). Boil-over : an unexpected (sporting) result Bondi cigar : see "brown-eyed mullet" Bonzer : great, ripper Boogie board : a hybrid, half-sized surf board Boomer : a large male kangaroo Booze bus : police vehicle used for catching drunk drivers Boozer : a pub Bored shitless : very bored Bottle shop : liquor shop Bottle-o : liquor shop (originally a man with hessian bags going around picking up beer bottles in the 50's and 60's) Bottler : something excellent Bottling, his blood's worth : he's an excellent, helpful bloke. Bounce : a bully Bourke Street, he doesn't know Christmas from : he's a bit slow in the head. (Bourke Street is a brightly lit Melbourne street) Bowl of rice, not my : not my cup of tea; I don't like it Brass razoo, he hasn't got a : he's very poor Brekkie : breakfast Brick shit house, built like a : big strong bloke Brickie : bricklayer Brisvegas : Brisbane, state capital of Queensland Brizzie : Brisbane, state capital of Queensland Brown-eyed mullet : a turd in the sea (where you're swimming!) Brumby : a wild horse Buck's night : stag party, male gathering the night before the wedding Buckley's, Buckley's chance : no chance ("New Zealand stands Buckley's of beating Australia at football") Budgie smugglers : men's bathing costume Bull bar : stout bar fixed to the front of a vehicle to protect it against hitting kangaroos (also roo bar) Bundy : short for Bundaberg, Queensland, and the brand of rum that's made there Bunyip : mythical outback creature Bush : the hinterland, the Outback, anywhere that isn't in town Bush bash : long competitive running or motorcar race through the bush Bush oyster : nasal mucus Bush telly : campfire Bushie : someone who lives in the Bush Bushman's hanky : Emitting nasal mucus by placing one index finger on the outside of the nose (thus blocking one nostril) and blowing. Bushranger : highwayman, outlaw Butcher : small glass of beer in South Australia - From the theory that a butcher could take a quick break from his job, have a drink and |
Which Australian state has the largest population | 3235.0 - Population by Age and Sex, Regions of Australia, 2012 3235.0 - Population by Age and Sex, Regions of Australia, 2012 Sex ratio TOTAL POPULATION Australia's estimated resident population (ERP) reached 22.7 million at 30 June 2012, increasing by 370,300 people or 1.7% since 30 June 2011. In 2012, just under one-third (32%) of Australia's population resided in New South Wales, while one-quarter (25%) lived in Victoria. All states and territories experienced population growth between 2011 and 2012, with the largest increases in Australia's three most populous states. Victoria had the greatest growth (up 91,300 people), followed by Queensland (88,800) and New South Wales (82,600). Western Australia was close behind, increasing by 79,300 people. Western Australia had the fastest growth, increasing by 3.4%, followed by Queensland (2.0%), the Australian Capital Territory (1.9%) and the Northern Territory (1.7%). The remaining states had growth below the Australian rate of 1.7%, with Victoria at 1.6%, New South Wales at 1.1%, South Australia at 1.0% and Tasmania at just 0.2%. In 2012, just over one-fifth of Australia's population lived within Greater Sydney, while just under one-fifth lived in Greater Melbourne. Greater Melbourne had the largest population growth of any capital city, gaining 79,000 people. Greater Perth grew by 3.6%, which was the fastest growth of all capital cities in Australia. Greater Hobart experienced both the smallest (710 people) and slowest (0.3%) growth. Back to top AGE AND SEX DISTRIBUTION The following graph (called a 'population pyramid') compares the age/sex structure of the population residing in greater capital cities with the population residing in the rest of Australia. Each dark bar illustrates the percentage contribution of a sex and five-year age group to the total population of capital cities, while each light bar illustrates the percentage contribution to the rest of Australia's population. For example, the graph shows that in June 2012, males aged 0 to 4 years made up 3.4% of the population of the combined capital cities compared to 3.3% of the rest of Australia. A distinctive feature in the age distribution of Australia at June 2012 was the high representation of people aged 20 to 44 years residing in capital cities. People in this age group represented 38% of the combined capital city population, compared to 31% of the population in the rest of Australia. This reflects the attraction of younger adults to education, employment and other opportunities in capital cities. In contrast, older adults aged 45 years and over made up a smaller proportion of the population in capital cities (37%) than in the rest of Australia (43%). The population pyramid also highlights differences between the sexes. For June 2012, the most notable feature was the higher proportions of females than males aged 80 years and over. This was evident in both capital cities and in the rest of Australia. The difference was most marked among the population aged 85 years and over, and is attributable to the longer life expectancies of female Australians. AGE AND SEX DISTRIBUTION (%), Greater capital cities and rest of Australia - 30 June 2012 In 2012, 15.0 million people (66% of the population) resided in greater capital cities and 7.7 million (34%) resided in the rest of Australia. There were more females (7.57 million) than males (7.45 million) living in capital cities, while slightly more males (3.86 million) than females (3.84 million) resided in the rest of the country. Almost three-quarters (73%) of people aged 25 to 29 years resided in Australia's capital cities, the highest proportion of any five-year age group. Conversely, the 70 to 74 year age group had the lowest proportion living in Australia's capital cities (60%). AGE AND SEX DISTRIBUTION ('000), Greater capital cities and rest of Australia - 30 June 2012 Back to top MEDIAN AGE At June 2012, the median age of the Australian population (the age at which half the population is older and half is younger) was 37.3 years. The median age of males was 36. |
Which famous Australian singer had a dessert named after her | Australian Inspiration | Quotes "It is not that I fear death; I fear it as little as to drink a cup of tea." NED KELLY 1854-1880, bushranger. Photo: The Trial by Sidney Nolan "We cannot own the land. We are but the custodians of the land." OODGEROO OF THE TRIBE NOONUCCAL (Kath Walker) 1920-1993. Photo: Ormiston Gorge NT (Bruce Taylor) "This is the land of dreamings, a land of wide horizons and secret places. The first people, our ancestors, created this country in the culture that binds us to it." HETTI PERKINS 1962-, art curator, writer. Photo: Aboriginal rock art "Take red. Much of the continent is red: red rocks, red soil, red dust, the Red Centre." DON WATSON, The Bush. Photo: Kata Tjuta NT "Every country has its own landscape which deposits itself in layers on the consciousness of its citizens… " MURRAY BAIL, writer, Eucalyptus. Photo: Flinders Ranges and outback SA (South Australian Tourism Commission) "Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent." RICHARD ALLEN, Australia's Remarkable Trees. Photo: Arthur River TAS (Tourism Tasmania/Southern Cross Television) "I have always had a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea. " PETER GARRETT 1953-, Australian musician, environmentalist, politician. Photo: Twelve Apostles VIC (Lachlan Manley Photography) "The outback is four-fifths of the continent. It's at the heart of our ethos... it is omnipresent." JACK THOMPSON, actor. Photo: Wilpena Pound Flinders Ranges SA (South Australian Tourism Commission) “Some see no beauty in our trees without shade, our flowers without perfume, our birds who cannot fly, and our beasts who have not yet learned to walk on all fours. But the dweller in the wilderness acknowledges the subtle charm of this fantastic land of monstrosities. He becomes familiar with the beauty of loneliness.” MARCUS CLARKE 1846–1881, Australian writer, poet. Photo: Boab trees on the Kimberley WA. "It is not in our cities or townships, it is not in our agricultural or mining areas, that the Australian attains full consciousness of his own nationality; it is in places like this, and as clearly here as at the centre of the continent. To me the monotonous variety of this interminable scrub has a charm of its own; so grave, subdued, self centred; so alien to the genial appeal of more winsome landscape, or the assertive grandeur of mountain and gorge." JOSEPH FURPHY 1843-1912, Tom Collins from Such is Life. Photo: The Ghan, NT (AAP) "I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains." DOROTHEA MACKELLAR 1885-1968, My Country Photo: Paroo River flood, near Wilcannia NSW (AAP) "There are times in life when we have to face the big questions, to look squarely into the face of death and then affirm the sheer gift of life." REVEREND TIM COSTELLO, Australian of the Year 2006 Photo: Red-necked wallaby baby joey (Benjamin Twist, Wikipedia) "With our splendid harbour, our beautifully situated city, our vast territories, all our varied and inexhaustible natural wealth, if we don't convert our colony into a great and prosperous nation, it will be a miracle of error for which we shall have to answer as for a gigantic sin." SIR HENRY PARKES 1815-1896, statesman, Father of Federation. Photo: Sydney Harbour Bridge (Brett Foster) "Getting ashore was not that hard. Hanging on, up on that ridge, for eight months - that was hard..." LES CARLYON, Gallipoli Photo: Wounded soldiers at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915 (Australian War Memorial) "Every country needs it heroes, and we must follow them." SIR EDWARD (WEARY) DUNLOP 1907-1993, Army surgeon, WW2 war hero, Australian of the Year 1976 Photo: Wall of Honour, Australian War Memorial ACT (Brett Foster) "We want our leaders to be fair dinkum, as much among us as above us." SIR PETER COSGROVE 1947-, Governor-General. Photo: Canberra ACT (Brett Foster) "Opera is like a day in parliament: love, lu |
What was the name of the theme song from Minder | Dennis Waterman - TV Celebrities - ShareTV Dennis Waterman Dennis Waterman's Main TV Roles Show BIOGRAPHY: Early life Waterman was born in Clapham, London, and his career began in childhood. In 1961, at the age of 13, he played the part of Winthrop Paroo in the Adelphi Theatre production of The Music Man. A year later, he starred as William Brown in the BBC TV series William based on the Just William books of Richmal Crompton. He trained at the Corona Theatre School in Kew. West London and training productions included playing Sandy in Noel Coward's Hay Fever. Career 1960s Waterman was a series regular in the 1962 CBS comedy Fair Exchange, playing teenage son Neville Finch. He had a major role in the 1968 film Up The Junction and appeared in the BBC television series Colditz as a young Gestapo officer. 1970s In the early 1970s, he played the brother of a victim of Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) in the Hammer film production Scars of Dracula (1970), and the boyfriend of Susan George in Fright (1971).He started to build a name for himself with regular appearances on the BBC's Play for Today series, most notably in the Dennis Potter dramas Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1972) and Joe's Ark (1974).Both were directed by Alan Bridges. He became well known and something of a pin-up as DS George Carter in The Sweeney, during the 1970s. As well as starring in Minder, he sang the theme song, "I Could Be So Good For You", which was a top three UK hit in 1980 and a top 10 hit in Australia,and was written by his then-wife Patricia Waterman with Gerard Kenny. Waterman also recorded a song with George Cole "What Are We Gonna Get For 'Er Indoors". In 1976, Waterman released his first album titled "Downwind of Angels", arranged and produced by Brian Bennett. 1980s In 1981, Waterman starred in a television film made by Tyne Tees Television entitled The World Cup: A Captain's Tale. It was the true story of West Auckland F.C., a part-time side who won the 'first' World Cup, known as the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy. Waterman played the part of Bob Jones , the Club Captain. It cost £1.5 million to make and shooting took place in the North East and in Turin in Italy. Scenes were shot in Durham pit villages and in Ashington where goal posts and a grandstand were erected in a public park with a colliery headframe in the background. Local players took part, donning long pants and high sided boots of the day, and even suffering "short back and sides" haircuts. The production has several comedy sequences, including a meeting of the club committee and a meeting of the Football Association Council when the suggestion of an English team participating in the new competition received a luke-warm and cynical response from the members. In 1982, Waterman starred in an often overlooked musical, Windy City. A relatively short lived production, it also featured such names as Anton Rodgers, Diane Langton, Victor Spinetti and Amanda Redman, with whom Waterman also had an 18 month affair during the lifetime of the musical and later went on to star with in the TV series New Tricks. 1990s onwards Waterman also sang the theme tunes to three more programmes in which he appeared: the comedy drama Stay Lucky with Jan Francis (Yorkshire Television/ITV 1989), sitcom On the Up (BBC 1990) and crime drama New Tricks (Wall to Wall television for BBC, 2003). Waterman recited excerpts from the journal of Walter H. Thompson for the UK history series Churchill's Bodyguard. He appeared on stage as Alfred P. Doolittle in the 2001 London revival of My Fair Lady and narrated the reality-format television programme, Bad Lads Army. Personal life He was married to Penny Dixon (1967–1976); actress Patricia Maynard (1977–1987), and finally to the actress Rula Lenska (1987–1998).He had two daughters by his second wife,one of whom, Hannah Waterman,is now an actor and played Laura Beale in the BBC1 soap opera EastEnders from 2000 until 2004. Hannah also has appeared in New Tricks. She appears as the character Emily, a young policewoman who believes Gerry Standing (played by Dennis Waterman) t |
Which Scottish civil engineer was responsible for building the Caledonian Canal | Famous Scots - Thomas Telford the Civil Engineer Famous Scots - Thomas Telford (1757-1834) Telford was born into a poor shepherd family on August 9, 1757, at Westerkirk, Dumfriesshire. His father died soon after his birth and, as a youngster, Telford had to herd cattle to earn money for the family. After a basic education (he later learned chemistry, drawing and poetry) he became an apprentice stone mason. He travelled the country in search of work and arrived in London in 1782. A patron from Dumfries later obtained for him the post of surveyor of public works in Shropshire and his success at that led to being appointed to be in charge of the construction of the Ellesmere Canal in 1793. His good work there meant that in 1801 he was sent to survey the rural roads in Scotland, which were basically the military roads constructed by General Wade after the 1745 Jacobite Uprising . In 1803 he was asked to implement his survey proposals and became the civil engineer for a huge government scheme to improve communications in the Highlands. In so doing, Telford built nearly a 1,000 miles of roads and 120 bridges over the next 20 years. He also constructed the Caledonian Canal - 20 miles of canals linking 60 miles of freshwater lochs and he improved the harbours at Wick, Aberdeen, Peterhead, Banff and Leith. Telford also worked in England (including the famous Menai Suspension Bridge to Angelsey) and in Europe, building roads and gaining a reputation as the finest civil engineer of his day. He was involved in the construction of the Dean Bridge in Edinburgh and the Gotha Canal in Sweden. His nickname was "the Colossus of Roads". In 1818 he helped to found the Institute of Civil Engineers and became its first president. Telford's aqueduct at Pont Cysylite , on the Ellesmere canal in Cheshire, was described by Sir Walter Scott as "the most impressive work of art I have ever seen." Telford was a likeable and convivial man who was always ready with a story or a joke. His use of suspension bridges was a novelty and he was always nervous about them - on the day when the chains were to take the strain he was often found kneeling in prayer! Telford died on 2 September, 1834 and is buried in Westminster Abbey. He continued to act as a consultant and engineer to the end of his life. Despite his prodigious output, he left very little in the way of wealth - he had often taken on projects for which he was not paid. Return to the Index of Famous Scots Where else would you like to go in Scotland? Links Pages |
The Kiel Canal connects the North Sea with which other sea | Baltic Sea Cruises, Baltic Sea Cruise, Cruises From the Baltic Sea, Cruise Baltic Sea, Cruise From the Baltic Sea, Baltic Sea Cruise Line, Baltic Sea Cruise Lines, Cruises to the Baltic Sea, Cruises Visiting the Baltic Sea Kiel Canal For discounted Baltic Sea cruises that visit Kiel Canal, click The Kiel Canal is a freshwater canal that connects the Baltic Sea to the North Sea through Germany. It was created not only to shorten travel time, but also to allow ships to avoid the storm-prone and often dangerous seas around the Jutland Peninsula. The canal was widened between 1907 and 1914 so that Dreadnought-sized battleships could pass through. Despite this action, most large cruise ships are still unable to fit under the clearance limits of many of the bridges today. Language: N/A Currency: N/A |
What name is given to the network of canals behind the colleges at Cambridge | Cambridge travel guide - Wikitravel Colleges[ edit ] Focus on Architecture Cambridge, especially the various colleges and university buildings, is fascinating for people with an interest in architecture. The colleges have been built sporadically over the centuries and the result is a mixture of styles both ancient and modern. Although the modern architecture is sometimes controversial, especially in how the newer buildings (fail to) harmonise with adjacent older buildings, it is in its way as interesting as the older. A tour of the backs (see above) gives the visitor a good feel for the various styles and a few small diversions add to the experience. One obvious landmark is the tower of the University Library. The library was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, who also built the Bankside Power Station in London that is now the Tate Modern. It does have a very industrial feel to it perhaps because of this. On the far side of the library the curious can see Robinson College, the newest college and built in about 1980 and one of the few pieces of modern architecture in Cambridge that has no notable old buildings nearby. If you prefer to see a blend of old and new, it is worth making the way out to Homerton College, which is about 25 minutes walking south from Market Square down St. Andrews Street/Regent Street/Hills Road and over the rail road bridge. Homerton College is particularly interesting as there are examples of various styles of architecture on-site such as the neo-Georgian buildings at the front of the college and the gothic Victorian hall on the inside of the college. This is an excellent place to take a stroll through the grounds which encompass an old orchard, water features and even a small honey farm, in order to appreciate the architecture from afar. St John's College and Magdalene College also have a number of architectural treats. As well as the Bridge of Sighs, St John's has buildings in almost every style of architecture starting with the 16th century hall in First Court and ending up with the extremely modern Cripps building. Near the Cripps building there is also the dramatic New Court built in the early 19th century and the School of Pythagoras, one of the oldest buildings in Cambridge which dates from the early 13th century. Next door Magdalene College - cognoscenti know that Magdalene is accessible from the back of the Cripps building - is quite a contrast. Unlike St John's, which consists mainly of buildings designed originally as college accommodation, Magdalene has converted a number of old half-timbered inns as some of its accommodation. Magdalene also possesses the Lutyens building designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and the Pepys building. The latter, which houses the Pepys library, has an imposing and almost symmetrical facade and looks completely different from the rear. The ugliest Magdalene building, the 1970s Buckingham Court, is fortunately well hidden, while across the river the Magdalene Quayside development (1990) is an excellent example of how the late century architects appear to have learned subtlety and harmony. Quayside is an excellent place to rent a punt. If you keep The Cambridge 2000 [17] website has a list of 100 buildings [18] that have notable architecture for one reason or another. Cambridge has a number of interesting modern buildings : The Maths Department Cambridge University consists of a number of semi-independent colleges, many central, some up to 3 miles from the town centre (traditionally measured from Great St. Mary's church). The following are a good selection for sightseeing. Most of the colleges within the central area are worth a look, if you have the time. Some, but not all, colleges charge for entrance. Colleges are typically closed to visitors during the University exam period, at the end of May and the first week of June, as well as Easter Term, late April until the end of May, as this is the time when students are also revising for exams. Please remember to be respectful when visiting the colleges. They are students' homes for much of the year, and the workl |
What was the name of the Channel 5 adventure game show presented by Melinda Messenger and Leslie Grantham | Fort Boyard - UKGameshows Fort Boyard Takes on the World: Tim Vine (2004) Ultimate Challenge: Leslie Grantham (Boyard, master of the Fort) Geoffrey Bayldon (the old professor) 2003: Tom Baker (Captain) Broadcast Grundy (Thames) and Adventure Line for Channel 5, 16 October 1998 to 29 December 2001 (53 episodes in 4 series) Ronin and Adventure Line for Challenge, 20 October to 3 December 2003 (20 episodes in 1 series) as Fort Boyard takes on the World Challenge, 18 to 29 October 2004 (10 episodes in 1 series) as Fort Boyard: Ultimate Challenge The Foundation and Adventure Line for CITV / Disney XD (USA), 1 January 2012 to 17 December 2014 (50 episodes in 5 series) Synopsis Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant superb show. Very few other shows matched it in terms of style, excitement and cleverness. Including, sadly, the British version of this original French smash hit. Fort Boyard Whereas most UK game shows would be happy to site themselves in a studio set or outdoor location, the French - being French - decide to install miles of wiring and cameras into a national monument so that we can laugh at women getting covered in mud and men being chased by tigers. Genius! The Professor (Geoffrey Bayldon), Melinda Messenger , and the evil Boyard, master of the fort (Leslie Grantham). The programme was based in a real Napoleonic fort off the west coast of France, which was an almost immediate white elephant when it was built because the Napoleonic wars ended before it was completed. It was turned into a TV studio for the original French programme. In this game, the contestant had to "run ahead" of the rotating panels to give herself enough time to unscrew the bolts on the box containing the key, before a wire fence forced her to make another journey. The Game This contestant must win the key by carrying the vibrating cabinet across the room without letting the ring at the top touch the wire. The game mechanics were that the team had 40 minutes to earn four keys to open the door by beating timed challenges and answering riddles (so far, so The Crystal Maze ) and then earning clues to a codeword by playing games that played on people's fears. Fight the fear A contestant in the tarantula room The games used in the "getting the keys" section of the programme were fairly straightforward, even if they took a lot of physical strength or dexterity to complete. However, it was the codeword games later in the programme that got a lot of the attention. These games were based on common psychological fears - such as the dark, heights, insects, snakes, spiders, water, bungee jumping and so on. A lot of the show's black humour was taken out in the original British incarnation of this format, The Crystal Maze , to be replaced by more cerebral games. Going for the gold The treasure room and its occupants At the end of the time, they went into the treasure room, spelled out the password on the floor and if they were correct, they had the rest of the two minutes to get as many "gold doubloons" as they can. We were never told how much a doubloon was worth, merely that they would "convert the gold into cash later". Hmm... Thankfully, they were a bit more honest about it in later series, and now the gold score was converted into a leaderboard-style effort which worked a lot better. It's not that the British version was bad, it wasn't, it was still a highly engrossing show. But having seen the French version for a number of years you can't help but watch it and think: "They do that bit so much better in France." Always up for a Challenge Surprising many, Challenge created their own version of the show during the Summer of 2003. Even more surprising considering the budgetary constraints they were probably under, they did a really good job. There was more emphasis on collecting keys (teams now have to collect five and are given nine chances to do this) and only two adventures during an episode (but having been off the screens for several years, there was a bank of new adventures to choose from). They had updated the graphics to match more recent French episode |
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What name is given to a triangle with two sides equal | Triangles - Equilateral, Isosceles and Scalene Triangles A triangle has three sides and three angles The three angles always add to 180° Equilateral, Isosceles and Scalene There are three special names given to triangles that tell how many sides (or angles) are equal. There can be 3, 2 or no equal sides/angles: Equilateral Triangle Three equal angles, always 60° Isosceles Triangle Triangles can also have names that tell you what type of angle is inside: Acute Triangle All angles are less than 90° Right Triangle Has a right angle (90°) Obtuse Triangle Has an angle more than 90° Combining the Names Sometimes a triangle will have two names, for example: Right Isosceles Triangle Has a right angle (90°), and also two equal angles Can you guess what the equal angles are? Play With It ... Try dragging the points around and make different triangles: You might also like to play with the Interactive Triangle . Perimeter The perimeter is the distance around the edge of the triangle: just add up the three sides: Area The area is half of the base times height. "b" is the distance along the base "h" is the height (measured at right angles to the base) Area = ½ × b × h The formula works for all triangles. Note: a simpler way of writing the formula is bh/2 Example: What is the area of this triangle? (Note: 12 is the height, not the length of the left-hand side) Base = b = 20 Area = ½ × b × h = ½ × 20 × 12 = 120 The base can be any side, Just be sure the "height" is measured at right angles to the "base": (Note: You can also calculate the area from the lengths of all three sides using Heron's Formula .) Why is the Area "Half of bh"? Imagine you "doubled" the triangle (flip it around one of the upper edges) to make a square-like shape (a parallelogram ) which can be changed to a simple rectangle : THEN the whole area is bh, which is for both triangles, so just one is ½ × bh. |
Simultaneous and quadratic are both types of what | Solve Simultaneous Equations With One Linear and One Quadratic One Linear and One Quadratic Solving Advanced Simultaneous Equations We can have simultaneous equations with one linear and one quadratic equations. The method for solving these types of equations, differs slightly from the one we use to solve simple simultaneous equations. You start off with two equations, one is quadratic and the other one linear. In this example, both equations are equal to y. Consequently, they must both be equal too. The first step is to write the equation as quadratic = linear. Then you just take all values to one side so that you remain with 0 on the other. Next solve the quadratic equation so that you end up with the possible values of x. Then substitute both values (one after the other) into one of the equations to find both possible values of y. Lastly, you can use the values to create co-ordinates. WHERE MATHS IS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS! Related Topics Example 1 We have solved the simultaneous equation by identifying that both equations are equal to each other. We have then moved all the values to one side of the brackets so that we get a quadratic equation. Next we solved the equation to find the possible values of x which we then substituted into one of the original equations to find the possible values of y. Lastly, we wrote the answers as co-ordinates. Example 2 We have solved that simultaneous equations by merging the two equations (due to the fact that they are both equal to y) and making the new equation a quadratic by moving all the values to one side. Then we solved the quadratic to get the possible values of x and then substituted these values into one of the original equations to find the possible values of y. The last step was to write the answers as co-ordinates. Explore more Topics We recommend that you give algebraic fractions a try now. Explore more topics that we have to offer by visiting our library . Please share this page if you like it or found it helpful! ULTIMATE MATHS Becoming an Accomplished Mathematician Ultimate Maths is a professional maths website that gives students the opportunity to learn, revise and apply different maths skills. We provide a wide range of lessons and resources... Contact Get in touch by writing us an e-mail to: [email protected] or by using the Contact Us button. Stay Updated Visit our Forum & Blog to stay updated about the latest Ultimate Maths News Quality Content A wide range of quality learning resources is at your disposal. Effective Teaching Explanations, examples and questions combined for an effective learning experience. Easy Navigation A simple user interface ensures that you find the topics you are looking for. Excellent Support Our fast and reliable support answer all your questions to your satisfaction. |
How many square chains are there in an acre | Convert acres to square chain [Gunter, survey] - Conversion of Measurement Units Convert acres to square chain [Gunter, survey] - Conversion of Measurement Units ›› Convert acre to square chain [Gunter, survey] acres ›› More information from the unit converter How many acres in 1 square chain [Gunter, survey]? The answer is 0.100000399757. We assume you are converting between acre and square chain [Gunter, survey]. You can view more details on each measurement unit: The SI derived unit for area is the square meter. 1 square meter is equal to 0.000247105381467 acres, or 0.0024710439365 square chain [Gunter, survey]. Note that rounding errors may occur, so always check the results. Use this page to learn how to convert between acres and square chains. Type in your own numbers in the form to convert the units! ›› Want other units? You can do the reverse unit conversion from square chain [Gunter, survey] to acres , or enter any two units below: Enter two units to convert From: I'm feeling lucky, show me some random units . ›› Definition: Acre An acre is a measure of land area in Imperial units or U.S. customary units. It is equal to 43 560 square feet, 4840 square yards, or 160 square rods. The precise meaning of this depends on the exact definition adopted for a foot: the international acre is 4 046.856 422 4 m� (for the UK, see). For measurements based specifically on the US survey foot the US survey acre is ca. 4 046.872 610 m�. ›› Metric conversions and more ConvertUnits.com provides an online conversion calculator for all types of measurement units. You can find metric conversion tables for SI units, as well as English units, currency, and other data. Type in unit symbols, abbreviations, or full names for units of length, area, mass, pressure, and other types. Examples include mm, inch, 100 kg, US fluid ounce, 6'3", 10 stone 4, cubic cm, metres squared, grams, moles, feet per second, and many more! |
What is an eleven sided figure called | What is an 11-sided shape called? | Reference.com What is an 11-sided shape called? A: Quick Answer An 11-sided shape is called a hendecagon. The name is derived from the Greek words "hendeka," which means 11, and "gon," which means corner. Full Answer An 11-sided shape may also be called an undecagon or unidecagon, which is partly derived from the Latin word undecima, which means 11. However, most people prefer to use the word hendecagon because it consists of purely Greek words as opposed to a mix of Latin and Greek. Common properties of a regular hendecagon include 33-degree exterior angles and 147-degree internal angles. A real life example of a hendecagon is the rim of the U.S. Susan B. Anthony dollar coin. |
What type of creature is a Dandy Dinmont | Dandie Dinmont Terrier Dog Breed Information and Pictures Your browser does not support the audio tag. Description The Dandie Dinmont Terrier is a low to the ground, longer than he is tall, little dog. The large head has a topknot that is in proportion to the body. The skull is broad between the ears, gradually tapering to the eyes. The muzzle is deep, with a well-defined stop. The large teeth meet in a scissors bite. The moderately large nose and the lips are dark in color. The large, round, wide-set eyes come in dark hazel with dark eye rims. The 3 to 4 inch (7-10 cm) ears are pendant, set low and wide, hanging close to the cheeks. The legs are short with the back legs being a little longer than the front legs. The "scimitar" tail looks like a curved sword and is about 8 to 10 inches (20-25 cm) long, thicker for about 4 inches then tapering to a point. Dewclaws may be removed when puppies are three or four days old. The coat is about 2 inches (5 cm) long, with a mix of soft and hard hairs. Hair on the underside is softer in texture and the head is covered with an even softer, silky topknot. Coat colors come in pepper (dark bluish black to a light silvery gray) or mustard (reddish brown to a pale fawn). Mustard puppies are born with a dark brown coat which lightens into varying shades of red when it reaches an adult. Pepper puppies are born black and tan that silvers later in life. Pepper coats have a silver topknot and mustard color coats have a cream-colored topknot. Temperament The Dandie Dinmont makes a great companion dog, affectionate and happy-go-lucky. It is lively, bold, brave, independent and intelligent. Because of this terrier's hunting instincts, it should not be trusted with non-canine pets , such as hamsters , rabbits , pet mice and guinea pigs . It will be okay with cats that it is raised with from puppyhood. They are not difficult to train , if you are firm and consistent. Makes a good watchdog, but needs to be told, after getting your attention with the first warning bark, it is time to be quiet and let you handle the rest. Because of this breed’s small size, a lot of Dandie Dinmont Terriers develop Small Dog Syndrome , human induced behaviors where the dog believes he is king of the home. Dogs with small dog syndrome are led to believe they own the humans and everything else around them, and do their best to keep and defend what they own. This causes many varying degrees of behavior issues , including, but not limited to, stubbornness, determination, willful, guarding , separation anxiety , difficulty with obedience training, reserved with strangers, snapping, biting, dog-aggressiveness, and obsessive barking, as the dog tries to keep his humans and everyone else around him in line. These are NOT Dandie Dinmont traits, but behaviors brought on by the lack of a firm, consistent pack leader who provides rules and limits to what it is and is not allowed to do, along with the lack of a daily pack walk . As soon as the humans take the control away from the dog, and the dog's instincts are met, the negative behaviors will begin to subside and the Dandie Dinmont will be a wonderful, trustworthy family companion. Height, Weight Height: 8 - 11 inches (20 - 28 cm) Weight: 18 - 24 pounds (8 - 11 kg) Health Problems Generally a healthy breed. Some are prone to glaucoma and epilepsy. Hypothyroidism can occur when the dog is older. Do not overfeed, as an overweight dog can have back problems. Living Conditions The Dandie Dinmont Terrier is good for apartment life. They are fairly active indoors and a small yard will do as long as you take them for daily walks. Likes to chase, be careful when taking them off the leash. Exercise Dandie Dinmonts need to be walked daily . They will also enjoy sessions of play in the park or other safe open areas. Life Expectancy About 3 to 6 puppies Grooming The Dandie Dinmont needs to be brushed regularly. They should have professional grooming. Dead hair should be plucked out once or twice a year. Show dogs require much more grooming. This breed sheds little to no hair. Origin The D |
According to rhyme who stole a pig and away he ran | Tom, Tom the Piper's Son (Stole the Pig) - English Children's Songs - England - Mama Lisa's World: Children's Songs and Rhymes from Around the World Tom, Tom the Piper's Son (Stole the Pig) Tom, Tom the Piper's Son (Stole the Pig) Nursery Rhyme Tom, Tom the piper's son, Stole a pig and away he run, The pig was eat, Tom, Tom the Piper's Son (Stole the Pig) Nursery Rhyme Tom, Tom the piper's son, Stole a pig and away he run, The pig was eat, Here's the version from The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright: Tom, Tom, the piper's son, Stole a pig, and away he run, The pig was eat, Download Thanks and Acknowledgements The 1st illustration comes from The National Nursery Book. The 2nd illustration is from The Little Mother Goose (1912), illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith and the 3rd one is from The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes (circa 1920) edited by Walter Jerrold (1865 – 1929) and illustrated by Charles Robinson. The sheet music and tune are from The Baby's Opera by Walter Crane. Thanks so much! |
Who was elected First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998 | Brief Summary, Northern Ireland Assembly Origins of the Northern Ireland Assembly (The Belfast Agreement, also known as the "Good Friday" Agreement) The Northern Ireland Assembly was established as a result of the Belfast Agreement of 10 April 1998. The Agreement was the outcome of a long process of talks between the Northern Ireland political parties and the British and Irish Governments. The Agreement was endorsed through a referendum held on 22 May 1998 and subsequently given legal force through the Northern Ireland Act 1998 . It led to the creation of a series of interrelated bodies, in particular the Northern Ireland Assembly, which has full legislative and executive authority for all matters that are the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Government Departments and are known as transferred matters . Excepted matters remain the responsibility of the Westminster Parliament. Reserved matters are also dealt with by Westminster unless it is decided by the Secretary of State that some of these should be devolved to the Assembly. Excepted and reserved matters are defined in the Schedules to the NI Act. The Belfast Agreement also led to the establishment of: A North/South Ministerial Council to bring together those with executive responsibilities in Northern Ireland and the Irish Governments to develop consultation, co-operation and action within the island of Ireland. All Council decisions must be agreed by the two sides. A British-Irish Council to exchange information, discuss, consult and use best endeavours to reach agreement on co-operation on matters of mutual interest within the competence of the relevant Administrations. Membership comprises representatives of the British and Irish Governments, devolved institutions in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales together with representatives of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. A British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference comprising senior representatives from both Governments to promote bilateral co-operation at all levels on matters of mutual interest. A consultative Civic Forum, comprising representatives of business, trades unions and other civic sectors in Northern Ireland to act as a consultative mechanism on social, economic and cultural issues. The First Minister and Deputy First Minister acting together nominate Ministers to attend the North/South Ministerial Council and the British-Irish Council and to report to the Assembly following each meeting of these bodies. They also ensure that the Executive is represented at meetings of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference. The First Minister and Deputy First Minister, acting together, also make arrangements for the operation of the Civic Forum. These arrangements require Assembly approval. The Northern Ireland Assembly The Assembly was elected on 25 June 1998 under the terms of the Northern Ireland (Elections) Act 1998 . It was called the New Northern Ireland Assembly to distinguish it from the Northern Ireland Assembly for which legislative provision remained at that time under the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973. The Northern Ireland Act 1998 stated that the Assembly would be known as the "New Northern Ireland Assembly" in the pre-devolution or "shadow" period and that at the date of devolution it would be called the "Northern Ireland Assembly". The New Northern Ireland Assembly met for the first time on 1 July 1998 in Castle Buildings on the Stormont Estate. The then Secretary of State the Rt Hon Dr Marjorie Mowlam MP appointed Lord Alderdice as Initial Presiding Officer for the first sitting of the Assembly with the intention that the Assembly would then elect a Presiding Officer. In the event, no election for a Presiding Officer was held and on the date of devolution, as provided for in the Northern Ireland Act 1998, Lord Alderdice, as the incumbent, was confirmed in office. The Standing Orders of the Assembly, which took effect from the date of devolution, provided for the Presiding Officer to be addressed as "Speaker". At the first meeting of the Assembly, the Rt Hon David Trimble MP |
Which metal is obtained from the ore bauxite | Bauxite | The Aluminum Association Bauxite Quick Read Bauxite ore is the world’s primary source of aluminum. The ore must first be chemically processed to produce alumina (aluminum oxide). Alumina is then smelted using an electrolysis process to produce pure aluminum metal. Bauxite is typically found in topsoil located in various tropical and subtropical regions. The ore is acquired through environmentally responsible strip-mining operations. Bauxite reserves are most plentiful in Africa, Oceania and South America. Reserves are projected to last for centuries. Take-Away Facts Aluminum must be refined from ore Although aluminum is the most common metal found on Earth (totaling 8 percent of the planet’s crust), the metal is too reactive with other elements to occur naturally. Bauxite ore, refined through two processes, is the primary source of aluminum. Land conservation is a key industry focus An average of 80 percent of the land mined for bauxite is returned to its native ecosystem. Topsoil from the mining site is stored so it can be replaced during the rehabilitation process. Reserves will last for centuries Although demand for aluminum is increasing rapidly, bauxite reserves, currently estimated at 40 to 75 billion metric tons, are projected to last for centuries. Guinea and Australia have the two largest proven reserves. A wealth of bauxite reserves Vietnam may hold a wealth of bauxite. In November 2010, the prime minister of Vietnam announced the country’s bauxite reserves may total up to 11 billion tons. Bauxite 101 Bauxite ore is the world’s main source of aluminum Bauxite is a rock formed from a reddish clay material called laterite soil and is most commonly found in tropical or subtropical regions. Bauxite is primarily comprised of aluminum oxide compounds (alumina), silica, iron oxides and titanium dioxide. Approximately 70 percent of the world’s bauxite production is refined through the Bayer chemical process into alumina. Alumina is then refined into pure aluminum metal through the Hall–Héroult electrolytic process. Mining bauxite Bauxite is usually found near the surface of terrain and can be strip-mined economically. The industry has taken a leadership role in environmental conservation efforts. When the land is cleared prior to mining, the topsoil is stored so it can be replaced during rehabilitation. During the strip-mining process, bauxite is broken up and taken out of the mine to an alumina refinery. Once mining is complete, the topsoil is replaced and the area undergoes a restoration process. When the ore is mined in forested areas, an average of 80 percent of the land is returned to its native ecosystem. Production and reserves More than 160 million metric tons of bauxite are mined each year. The leaders in bauxite production include Australia, China, Brazil, India and Guinea. Bauxite reserves are estimated to be 55 to 75 billion metric tons, primarily spread across Africa (32 percent), Oceania (23 percent), South America and the Caribbean (21 percent) and Asia (18 percent). The United States has small amounts of bauxite ore located in Arkansas, Alabama and Georgia. However, very little mining is done in the United States today. Looking forward: Continued improvement in environmental restoration efforts Environmental restoration goals continue to advance. A biodiversity-restoration project under way in Western Australia provides a leading example. The goal: to reestablish the equivalent level of plant species richness in rehabilitated areas equal to the un-mined Jarrah forest. (A Jarrah forest is tall open forest. Eucalyptus marginata is the dominant tree.) Les Baux, the Home of Bauxite Bauxite was named after the village of Les Baux by Pierre Berthe. This French geologist found the ore in nearby deposits. He was the first to discover that bauxite contained aluminum. Nearly 75 percent of all aluminum ever produced is still in use today. Infinitely recyclable and highly durable, nearly 75 percent of all aluminum ever produced is still in use today. Aluminum is 100 percent recyclable and retains its pro |
Who helped Theseus to escape from the Labyrinth by giving him a large ball of string | Ariadne Name Meaning & Origin | Baby Name Wizard Ariadne Name Meaning & Origin Facebook Twitter Google+ Email Origin of the name Ariadne: Derived from the elements ari (very, much) and adnos (holy). Ariadne (very holy one, devout), is a name borne in Greek mythology by King Minos' daughter, who gave a thread to Theseus, which enabled him to escape from the labyrinth. From A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman. Related Names: US Popularity of Ariadne Over Time Sister & Brother Names Know an Ariadne? What are her siblings named? Enter Sibling Name F Age Comments and insights on the name Ariadne: | Edit Usage: Greek Mythology Andreia and Ariadne are anagrams of each other; they contain the same letters. Pronounced: ah-ree-AHD-ne (Ancient Greek), ar-ee-AD-nee (English) Means "most holy", composed of the Cretan Greek elements αρι (ari) "most" and αδνος (adnos) "holy". In Greek mythology, Ariadne was the daughter of King Minos. She fell in love with Theseus and helped him to escape the Labyrinth and the Minotaur, but was later abandoned by him. Eventually she married the god Dionysus, and when she passed away as mortals do she became a constellation. Personal experiences with the name Ariadne: | Edit Ariadne is the name of a library and information science journal focusing on emerging technology My name is Ariadne and I used not like my name but I'm okay with it now. But many still can't pronounce it right. Nicknames for Ariadne: | Edit Aria, Ari, Ria, Rini, Danni Meanings and history of the name Ariadne : | Edit Greek mythological heroine; She helped Theseus escape the Labyrinth after he slew the Minotaur by giving him the ball of string so he could find his way out again. Famous real-life people named Ariadne: | Edit Ariadne: a Byzantine Empress from the late 5th century Ariadne in song, story & screen: | Edit Ariadne auf Naxos, an opera by Richard Strauss Ariadne Oliver, mystery novelist and amateur detective in a series of novels by Agatha Christie (based on herself) Ariadne, fictional character in the movie "Inception," portrayed by Ellen Page |
What colour is an emu's egg | Sculpting Emu Eggs: The Color is in the Shell Sculpting Emu Eggs: The Color is in the Shell 11/16/2009 3:20:14 PM Tags: poultry , home business , As the emu fad was passing in 1994, Chuck DeCourley and his wife, Sue, bought a pair of emus. He was looking for a marketable use for the eggs, perhaps something artistic, but simply painting the shells seemed too obvious. Then DeCourley learned of a unique feature of emu eggs — the shells are made of three distinct layers, each of a different color. There are three primary layers in the shell of an emu egg. The outside is dark green. The middle layer is teal, and the inside layer is nearly white. Occasionally there is a fourth layer, which is thin and rather gray, between the outside layer and the teal layer. Carving the eggshells seemed to use the colors of each layer to the best advantage. So in 1997, after doing some research, DeCourley purchased an engraving system. He taped a snowflake pattern onto an eggshell and started carving. That was a crude experiment, but it was the beginning of a hobby that has held DeCourley’s interest for more than a decade. In January 1998, DeCourley’s father, who was in a nursing home, suggested DeCourley try carving playing cards into an egg. That was supposed to be a practice project, too, but DeCourley was able to give the finished carving to his father for his 68th birthday. His father, being nearly blind at the time, was able to feel the precision carving of the egg and was pleased with the gift. Getting Ready to Sculpt To clean the eggs, DeCourley drills a three-eighths-inch hole into the large end of the egg with a diamond bit. Regular drill bits can cause hairline cracks that can’t be easily seen. These cracks would ruin the egg during the carving process. Eggs should be cleaned out when fresh or, at the very least, within three to four months of being laid. Some people use a sander to create a hole in the egg, but the holes generally get large. Egg contents can be shaken out, or you can use an “egg-sucking bucket:” a vacuum device to remove the contents of eggs. After this, use a 25-percent bleach solution to remove the lining of the egg. Be sure to use rubber gloves when working with bleach, and avoid the fumes by working in a properly ventilated area. The solution only needs to be left in the egg for a few minutes, but then needs to be rinsed out thoroughly. The outside (dark-green) layer won’t fade if exposed to the bleach solution for a short amount of time, but if left for several hours will cause discoloration. Shells are then coated with Krylon clear acrylic. This gives the eggs a non-yellowing, UV-resistant coating, but the carving will still turn a sort of sepia color if left in sunlight or under fluorescent lights. Carvings are best displayed under incandescent light. It is also important to protect the inside of the shells, as the white layer is only 0.005- to 0.006-inch thick. For this, you could use a mixture of 50 percent Elmer’s glue and 50 percent water. Coat the inside of the egg several times with this mixture prior to working on the egg. If you consider carving chicken or goose eggs, in which case you might have larger empty spaces or fine filigree work, this is an especially important part of the process. When choosing a design, be careful to choose a pattern that is not under copyright protection if you plan to sell the carving. Then simply use a copy machine to reduce the pattern to the size you need and attach it to the eggshell with glue stick. The glue softens the paper; and if the paper creases during application, simply dampen the paper and reglue it. After the glue dries, you’re nearly ready to start carving, but remember: Safety first. The calcium dust caused by the carving process is fine. DeCourley recommends using a dust collector box with a vacuum system. He also sculpts the egg under a Plexiglas shield and wears earplugs while working, as the drill used in carving produces a high-pitched (and loud) noise. Equipment for Carving Eggs DeCourley’s tool of choice is a “Turbocarver,” which is an air-powere |
Which is the largest member of the penguin family | emperor penguin | bird | Britannica.com Emperor penguin king penguin Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri), largest member of the penguin order (Sphenisciformes), which is known for its stately demeanor and black-and-white coloration. The species gathers together into approximately 40 colonies that settle on ice shelves and landfast ice along the coastline of Antarctica . Emperor penguins are capable of diving to depths of approximately 550 metres (1,800 feet) in search of food; they are the world’s deepest-diving birds . Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri). © Corbis Physical features Adults are coloured black and white with areas of orange and yellow on the head, neck, and breast. Some members of this species may grow to approximately 130 cm (about 50 inches) long and weigh 25 to 45 kg (55 to 100 pounds). Juveniles are smaller, and their plumage is similar to that of the adults, with pale white to light gray feathers in place of those coloured orange and yellow. The downy feathers on the bodies of chicks are silver-gray. Although the feathers that surround the eyes are coloured white, those that cover the rest of the head are black. The emperor penguin closely resembles the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus), a species of smaller stature that lives on several outlying Antarctic islands. Two adult emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) and their hatchling. Daisy Gilardini—The Image Bank/Getty Images Predators and prey Adept divers that can remain underwater for nearly 22 minutes, emperor penguins capture krill , fish , and squid that congregate under or near the edges of ice shelves. In addition, their endurance is such that some individuals have reached the South Shetland Islands , Tierra del Fuego , the Falkland Islands , the South Sandwich Islands , the Kerguelen Islands , Heard Island, and New Zealand . The species is prey for killer whales (Orcinus orca), leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx), and giant fulmars (Macronectes giganteus). Reproduction Emperor penguins breed in large colonies. Breeding occurs in late March and early April when males and females return from foraging in the sea. Some 15 percent of adults are capable of finding their mate from the previous year despite the absence of a nest and the tremendous size of the colony. Man photographing a large group of emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) on an Antarctic … © Photos.com/Jupiterimages king penguin Breeding is apparently timed to ensure that the long developmental period will produce fully fledged young in midsummer, when their chances of survival are greatest. Consequently, a single egg is laid in late May or early June just before the onset of the Antarctic winter. Incubation is done exclusively by the male, and it is begun immediately after egg laying. In the meantime, the female embarks on a journey of some 80 to 160 km (50 to 100 miles) from the colony to the sea, and she does not return until the incubation period concludes. Incubation lasts 60–68 days through gale-force winds and extremely cold temperatures that routinely dip below –50 °C (–58 °F). With no access to food, the male lives off his fat reserves. He holds the egg on the tops of his feet, draping a layer of skin over the egg to protect it from the harsh conditions. During violent winter storms, members of the colony gather for mutual protection in tightly packed crowds called huddles. The chicks hatch in August , and the females return to the colony to relieve the males. Each chick stands on the feet of one of its parents until it is strong enough to withstand the cold of the Antarctic ice on its own. The cold, however, is not the only threat to the newly hatched young. The number of “unemployed” adults in the colony increases with the addition of those who have lost eggs or chicks, and such birds have been known to interfere with parents that have young and cause increased chick mortality. Ultimate Animals Quiz During the crèche stage, in which many young emperor penguins form groups for protection against the cold and predators, the fuzzy down covering is replaced by a |
Which bird turns it's head upside down to eat | What Bird Eats with Its Head Upside Down? @ Super Beefy | Filed Under: Animals Leave a Comment The odd-looking flamingo, which appears to be all legs and all neck, has a boat-shaped beak which gives it the most unusual habit of eating with its head upside down. The flamingo lives near muddy lakes and lagoons, and gets its food from the waters there. When the flamingo feels hungry, it lowers its beak upside down into the water and sweeps it back and forth like a vacuum cleaner to catch shrimp and other small water creatures. A filter like growth in its mouth permits the flamingo to strain out its food and then spit out the water. Perhaps the flamingo was built like this so it would lower only its beak into the water, thus keeping its beautiful feathers clean. The flamingo’s feathers get their beautiful pink shades from the reddish coloring matter in the shrimp it eats! Read More |
Canaries belong to which family of birds | Family Fringillidae - Chaffinches, grosbeaks House Finch Desert Finch Fringillids usually frequent well wooded areas or scrub, but some species can be found in cultivated areas and steppes, tundra and even in rocky deserts. Some extreme examples mention the bare stony desert of the Trumpeter Finch (Bucanetes githagineus) in the Middle East, and the alpine snowfielfds beyond the treeline of the Black Rosy-Finch (Leucosticte atrata) in the Great Basin of North America. Trumpeter Finch They often feed on the ground where they move by hopping. They are mainly granivorous, but the members of the genus “Euphonia” consume large amounts of insects and berries. On the other hand, the Hawaiian honeycreepers use numerous food items including nectar, thanks to the wide range of bill shapes and sizes. Violaceus Euphonia Blue Chaffinch At the beginning of the breeding season, the males perform some displays, first to establish the territory, and then to attract a female. They sing and fight between males. The courtship displays expose the bright coloured patches of each species. The male moves in order to display these colours in front of the female. She begs food to the male with quavering wings. Courtship feeding is often performed in these species. Lesser Goldfinch The nest is typically cup-shaped and usually built by the female. It is made with grass, mosses and several plant materials, and placed in trees or sometimes in bushes, or between rocks. The three Fringillinae species are territorial, whereas the Carduelinae tend to nest in loose colonies. Clutch of 3-5 eggs are common. Incubation is mainly by the female and lasts about 12 to 14 days. Chicks are fed by both parents by regurgitation of insects in Fringillinae, and seeds and insects in Carduelinae. The nesting period may lasts between 11 and 17 days. They may produce several clutches per season. |
In Treasure Island who actually found the treasure | Treasure Island (TV Movie 2012) - 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 Young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can sucessfully get a schooner to a legendary Island known for buried Treasure. But aboard the ship is a mysterious cook named John Silver, whose true ... See full summary » Director: a list of 36 titles created 01 Dec 2012 a list of 49 titles created 20 Nov 2013 a list of 43 titles created 08 Feb 2015 a list of 22 titles created 12 Mar 2015 a list of 35 titles created 16 May 2015 Search for " Treasure Island " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Title: Treasure Island (TV Movie 2012) 6.3/10 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 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 2 nominations. See more awards » Videos Edit Storyline Young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can sucessfully get a schooner to a legendary Island known for buried Treasure. But aboard the ship is a mysterious cook named John Silver, whose true motivation on the journey challenges Jim's trust in the entire crew. Written by Anonymous 5 May 2012 (USA) See more » Also Known As: A kincses sziget See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Elijah Wood spent two hours in makeup to achieve the look of Ben Gunn. That included makeup and a fake tan. See more » Goofs At the end of the film, Jim Hawkins' mother is looking out to the arriving ship. There is snow falling. The camera cuts to Jim Hawkins on the ship, looking towards the land. The sun is shining and he just has a simple shirt on. See more » Quotes Long John Silver : Jim, if you ever want help or advice... Jim Hawkins : ...I won't be coming to you. A Small Bag of Treasure 25 May 2013 | by doug_park2001 (United States) – See all my reviews "Treasure Island" is one of those stories where reading the original novel beforehand is crucial to really savoring any film version, and this is especially true of this divergent adaptation. Although it retains the basic skeleton of the original plot, much has been added, and many key characters have undergone fundamental changes. I was initially hostile to said changes but soon came to appreciate and enjoy the new sub-conflicts, many of which address universal themes (e.g., greed,loyalty) which are more relevant than ever today. I didn't particularly like the way "TI" (2012) hurries through pivotal scenes from the book, yet, with all that's been added, suppose that was necessary in order to limit its already 3-hour length. This version is also full of small anachronisms in clothing and hair design, as well as some bigger ones in the ethnically diverse ship's crew ("all Englishmen!" in the novel), some of whom sport Mr. T-style Mohawks (!?) While it seems the makers wanted to address the additional modern theme of diversity here, the un-pc truth of the matter is that your average European person of the 1700s would not have taken kindly to such a mix, and the way the crew, including its rich officers and financiers, blithely accept differences in nationality and complexions is, well, unconvincing. At the same time, there are also some added details (e.g., prostitutes, thieves, and hanged men along the filthy Bristol quayside) which, although avoided by Robert Louis Stevenson in a novel intended largely for a younger audience, add a great deal of realism in this version. In the end, "TI" (2012) is well-filmed and well-acted despite its various weak spots. While this revision is obviously to be avoided by those rigidly attached to the original story (or just wanting to see a film version of RLS's actual book), it should appeal to audiences in search of a less dualistic, more complicated tale, created in an age that tends to appreciate anti-heroes like Long John Silver. 3 of 3 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes |
About which county did Daphne Du Maurier usually write | Living with Rebecca | Books | The Guardian Fiction Living with Rebecca Sally Beauman has written a companion novel to Daphne du Maurier's 1938 classic Rebecca. She explains why she felt compelled to give du Maurier's silent heroine a voice, and describes the strange sensation of being haunted by a fictional character. Haunted by Rebecca: Sally Beauman Sally Beauman Wednesday 12 September 2001 07.29 EDT First published on Wednesday 12 September 2001 07.29 EDT Share on Messenger Close How do books begin? Where do they come from? This is a question novelists are always being asked - and I've always found it difficult to answer. In my own case, usually, I start to see scenes, or hear voices. I get glimpses of a character, or a situation, and I know they may lead the way to the next book. They usually come to me as I'm approaching the end of the previous novel, and they're always shadowy and elusive, like the snatches of a dream. But my new novel Rebecca's Tale had a very different gestation. When it's published this September, it will be nearly seven years since I first thought of it - and seven years is a very long time to be pregnant. It will be a relief, finally, to give birth. As the title indicates, my book is linked to Daphne du Maurier's 1938 classic novel, Rebecca. But it is not, and was never intended to be, a sequel. On the whole, I dislike and distrust sequels, and those that I've read have always been pale shadows of the original. It can be read by those who know Rebecca intimately, and by those who have never read du Maurier's book (and for them, there's a treat in store). In other words, my novel is deeply indebted to du Maurier's but also, I hope, free and independent of it. We certainly return to Manderley, but we look at that dark and resonant fictional domain from a very different angle, and there are some surprises in store. I'd always been deeply interested in du Maurier's work, and I've always felt it had been much misunderstood and misinterpreted. Du Maurier herself resented the tag 'romantic novelist', which attached itself to her during her lifetime, and still obstinately adheres now: she felt it was unjust - and I agree with her. Some of her novels may fall within the romance category, but Rebecca, I believe, does not. If anything, it is an anti-romance - a clever, cunning and subversive attack on the very genre to which it would be consigned. Yet at the time of publication, that aspect of the novel was ignored, and the novel's ambivalences remain relatively uninvestigated to this day. Why? It was when I first began to ask myself that question that the seeds of my own Rebecca's Tale were sown. It was late in 1993, and I was writing an article about du Maurier, and Rebecca, for New Yorker magazine. The more closely I looked at the book, the more fascinated I became. Du Maurier's publisher, Victor Gollancz, had received the manuscript with jubilation. He predicted it would be a huge bestseller (and of course he was correct; Rebecca has never been out of print since). In his view, it was "an exquisite love story" - and he duly promoted it as such. In the run-up to publication, du Maurier's was the sole dissenting voice. She feared the novel was too dark to win popular readership; she saw it, she told Gollancz, as "grim". I think she was right. I also think (and du Maurier was too modest to make such claims) Rebecca is a brilliant, astonishing and prescient novel. You could argue that, in Mrs de Winter, the famously 'anonymous' second wife who tells the story, she created the first unreliable narrator in popular fiction. De Winter is a narrator so convincing and so persuasive that most readers never look beyond the gaucheries of her prose, and never notice the devices du Maurier uses to undermine it. Certainly, reviewers leapt to the assumption that the narrator's views and the author's were one and the same. Examine Rebecca closely, and you begin to see how wrong they were. The novel may seem to celebrate the sweet 'feminine' virtues embodied in the second Mrs de Winter - obedience, modesty, sexual inex |
In which Dickens novel does Sidney Carton appear | SparkNotes: A Tale of Two Cities: Analysis of Major Characters Analysis of Major Characters A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Themes, Motifs & Symbols Sydney Carton Sydney Carton proves the most dynamic character in A Tale of Two Cities. He first appears as a lazy, alcoholic attorney who cannot muster even the smallest amount of interest in his own life. He describes his existence as a supreme waste of life and takes every opportunity to declare that he cares for nothing and no one. But the reader senses, even in the initial chapters of the novel, that Carton in fact feels something that he perhaps cannot articulate. In his conversation with the recently acquitted Charles Darnay, Carton’s comments about Lucie Manette, while bitter and sardonic, betray his interest in, and budding feelings for, the gentle girl. Eventually, Carton reaches a point where he can admit his feelings to Lucie herself. Before Lucie weds Darnay, Carton professes his love to her, though he still persists in seeing himself as essentially worthless. This scene marks a vital transition for Carton and lays the foundation for the supreme sacrifice that he makes at the novel’s end. Carton’s death has provided much material for scholars and critics of Dickens’s novel. Some readers consider it the inevitable conclusion to a work obsessed with the themes of redemption and resurrection. According to this interpretation, Carton becomes a Christ-like figure, a selfless martyr whose death enables the happiness of his beloved and ensures his own immortality. Other readers, however, question the ultimate significance of Carton’s final act. They argue that since Carton initially places little value on his existence, the sacrifice of his life proves relatively easy. However, Dickens’s frequent use in his text of other resurrection imagery—his motifs of wine and blood, for example—suggests that he did intend for Carton’s death to be redemptive, whether or not it ultimately appears so to the reader. As Carton goes to the guillotine, the narrator tells us that he envisions a beautiful, idyllic Paris “rising from the abyss” and sees “the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.” Just as the apocalyptic violence of the revolution precedes a new society’s birth, perhaps it is only in the sacrifice of his life that Carton can establish his life’s great worth. Madame Defarge Possessing a remorseless bloodlust, Madame Defarge embodies the chaos of the French Revolution. The initial chapters of the novel find her sitting quietly and knitting in the wine shop. However, her apparent passivity belies her relentless thirst for vengeance. With her stitches, she secretly knits a register of the names of the revolution’s intended victims. As the revolution breaks into full force, Madame Defarge reveals her true viciousness. She turns on Lucie in particular, and, as violence sweeps Paris, she invades Lucie’s physical and psychological space. She effects this invasion first by committing the faces of Lucie and her family to memory, in order to add them to her mental “register” of those slated to die in the revolution. Later, she bursts into the young woman’s apartment in an attempt to catch Lucie mourning Darnay’s imminent execution. Dickens notes that Madame Defarge’s hatefulness does not reflect any inherent flaw, but rather results from the oppression and personal tragedy that she has suffered at the hands of the aristocracy, specifically the Evrémondes, to whom Darnay is related by blood, and Lucie by marriage. However, the author refrains from justifying Madame Defarge’s policy of retributive justice. For just as the aristocracy’s oppression has made an oppressor of Madame Defarge herself, so will her oppression, in turn, make oppressors of her victims. Madame Defarge’s death by a bullet from her own gun—she dies in a scuffle with Miss Pross—symbolizes Dickens’s belief that the sort of vengeful attitude embodied by Madame Defarge ultimately proves a self-damning one. Doctor Manette Di |
What was the name of the principal horse in George Orwell's Animal Farm | SparkNotes: Animal Farm: Plot Overview Plot Overview Context Character List Old Major, a prize-winning boar, gathers the animals of the Manor Farm for a meeting in the big barn. He tells them of a dream he has had in which all animals live together with no human beings to oppress or control them. He tells the animals that they must work toward such a paradise and teaches them a song called “Beasts of England,” in which his dream vision is lyrically described. The animals greet Major’s vision with great enthusiasm. When he dies only three nights after the meeting, three younger pigs—Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer—formulate his main principles into a philosophy called Animalism. Late one night, the animals manage to defeat the farmer Mr. Jones in a battle, running him off the land. They rename the property Animal Farm and dedicate themselves to achieving Major’s dream. The cart-horse Boxer devotes himself to the cause with particular zeal, committing his great strength to the prosperity of the farm and adopting as a personal maxim the affirmation “I will work harder.” At first, Animal Farm prospers. Snowball works at teaching the animals to read, and Napoleon takes a group of young puppies to educate them in the principles of Animalism. When Mr. Jones reappears to take back his farm, the animals defeat him again, in what comes to be known as the Battle of the Cowshed, and take the farmer’s abandoned gun as a token of their victory. As time passes, however, Napoleon and Snowball increasingly quibble over the future of the farm, and they begin to struggle with each other for power and influence among the other animals. Snowball concocts a scheme to build an electricity-generating windmill, but Napoleon solidly opposes the plan. At the meeting to vote on whether to take up the project, Snowball gives a passionate speech. Although Napoleon gives only a brief retort, he then makes a strange noise, and nine attack dogs—the puppies that Napoleon had confiscated in order to “educate”—burst into the barn and chase Snowball from the farm. Napoleon assumes leadership of Animal Farm and declares that there will be no more meetings. From that point on, he asserts, the pigs alone will make all of the decisions—for the good of every animal. Napoleon now quickly changes his mind about the windmill, and the animals, especially Boxer, devote their efforts to completing it. One day, after a storm, the animals find the windmill toppled. The human farmers in the area declare smugly that the animals made the walls too thin, but Napoleon claims that Snowball returned to the farm to sabotage the windmill. He stages a great purge, during which various animals who have allegedly participated in Snowball’s great conspiracy—meaning any animal who opposes Napoleon’s uncontested leadership—meet instant death at the teeth of the attack dogs. With his leadership unquestioned (Boxer has taken up a second maxim, “Napoleon is always right”), Napoleon begins expanding his powers, rewriting history to make Snowball a villain. Napoleon also begins to act more and more like a human being—sleeping in a bed, drinking whisky, and engaging in trade with neighboring farmers. The original Animalist principles strictly forbade such activities, but Squealer, Napoleon’s propagandist, justifies every action to the other animals, convincing them that Napoleon is a great leader and is making things better for everyone—despite the fact that the common animals are cold, hungry, and overworked. Mr. Frederick, a neighboring farmer, cheats Napoleon in the purchase of some timber and then attacks the farm and dynamites the windmill, which had been rebuilt at great expense. After the demolition of the windmill, a pitched battle ensues, during which Boxer receives major wounds. The animals rout the farmers, but Boxer’s injuries weaken him. When he later falls while working on the windmill, he senses that his time has nearly come. One day, Boxer is nowhere to be found. According to Squealer, Boxer has died in peace after having been taken to the hospital, praising the Rebellion w |
Which cover of an Elvis song gave the Pet Shop Boys a number one in 1987 | Pet Shop Boys' Always On My Mind tops cover version vote - BBC News BBC News Pet Shop Boys' Always On My Mind tops cover version vote 27 October 2014 Read more about sharing. Close share panel Image caption The Pet Shop Boys went to number one in the UK chart in 1987 with their cover of Always On My Mind The Pet Shop Boys' Always On My Mind has been voted the top cover version of all time in a BBC Music vote. The song, written by John Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson, was first made famous by Brenda Lee and Elvis Presley in 1972. Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' Hurt came in second place, followed by The Stranglers' version of Dionne Warwick's Walk On By. Jimi Hendrix's take on Bob Dylan's All Along The Watchtower came fourth. Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's classic Hallelujah completed the top five. The public voted for their favourites from a top 50 compiled by BBC producers and DJs including Fearne Cotton Trevor Nelson, Simon Mayo and Steve Lamacq. BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music's head of music Jeff Smith said: "The Pet Shop Boys have an enviable catalogue of hits and there have been lots of great versions of this classic song. "Whittling down the long list for the vote was tough but it's great to see that this track still resonates with people today." The Pet Shop Boys reached number one in the UK and number four in the US with the track in 1987. Willie Nelson also won a Grammy for his version in 1982. The top 10 tracks in the vote are as follows: Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind Johnny Cash - Hurt The Stranglers - Walk On By Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U Muse - Feeling Good |
What is the second event in the decathlon | What Is the Olympic Decathlon? A Brief Overview By Mike Rosenbaum Updated October 12, 2016. Jim Thorpe was dubbed “the world’s greatest athlete” after winning the 1912 Olympic decathlon . Athletes compete for the Olympic decathlon title today by competing in 10 events in a grueling, two-day schedule. An Overview of Decathlon Events The men’s decathlon consists of ten events held over two consecutive days. The first day’s events include, in order, a 100-meter run, the long jump , shot put, high jump and a 400-meter run. The second day’s events, in order, include the 110-meter hurdles followed by the discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw and a 1500-meter run. Decathlon vs. Heptathlon Contrary to popular belief, there is a women's decathlon event sponsored by the IAAF, the International Association of Athletics Federations, the sponsoring organization for the Olympics and for all other elite level track and field events worldwide. However, while it has been urged to do so, it has not allowed a women's decathlon event at any recent Olympics. continue reading below our video How to Throw a Perfect Curve Ball in Baseball Instead, female Olympic athletes compete for the heptathlon, a seven-event contest that consists of the 100-meter hurdles, the 200-meter sprint, the 800-meter run, the shot put, javelin, long jump and high jump. The Decathlon Rules The rules for each event within the decathlon are generally the same as for the individual events themselves, although with a few exceptions. Most notably, runners in the decathlon sprint and hurdles events are disqualified after two false starts rather than after a single false start. This particular rule change in the Olympic non-decathlon events -- from one allowed false to none has been widely and passionately criticized. The Decathlon Association (DECA) resisted this change, but did rule that any false start by a single athlete is charged to the entire field. The significance of this is that although the next false start may be that athlete's first, he will nevertheless be disqualified. This rule change has also been criticized. The Decathlon Association has also ruled that competitors receive only three attempts in throwing and jumping events . Also, competitors cannot skip any event. Failing to attempt any event results in disqualification. This rule, too, has its detractors; it has been pointed out that any athlete who may want to skip an event that he has no chance of medalling in -- in order, for instance, to conserve energy for another event -- can simply make some token effort at the beginning of the event he wishes to skip, then drop out with an "injury" or for any other plausible reason. Equipment and Venue Each decathlon event takes place in the same venue, and uses the same equipment, as its individual Olympic Games counterpart. Check the links below for more details on each decathlon event. What is Olympic Distance Running? Gold, Silver and Bronze Athletes in the decathlon must first achieve an Olympic qualifying score to compete for their nation’s Olympic team . A maximum of three competitors per country may compete in the decathlon. Points are awarded to each athlete according to his time or distance, not his placement in the field, according to rather complicated pre-set formulas. If there is a tie in points after 10 events, the victory goes to the competitor who outscored his rival in a greater number of events. If that tiebreaker also results in a draw, the victory goes to the decathlete who scored the most points in any single event. |
In which country was the 1985 Heysel Stadium soccer tragedy | Heysel stadium disaster: ‘I saw the rows of bodies piled high’ | Football | The Guardian Soccer Heysel stadium disaster: ‘I saw the rows of bodies piled high’ The 1985 tragedy preceded Hillsborough by four years – but saw little of the same attention. Ed Vulliamy, who was there in the stands, reports on 30 years of hurt Supporters flee the scene of riots in Heysel football stadium in Brussels. Photograph: Dominique Faget/AFP Wednesday 27 May 2015 14.36 EDT Last modified on Monday 4 April 2016 09.01 EDT Share on Messenger Close We went, like tens of thousands of others, to watch what should have been the match of a lifetime: Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush’s Liverpool against Gaetano Scirea and Michel Platini’s Juventus, for the European Cup of 1985. My friend Patrick Wintour (now political editor of this newspaper, whom I had known since the age of eight) and I had made a habit of treating ourselves to European Cup finals – this would be our last. We walked across the Brussels Grand Place, laid with a carpet of broken beer bottles, and up to the stadium with the English, waddling and bellowing, drunk on lager and the xenophobia of the day. We took our seats in time to see the last, fatal charge by these same Liverpool fans into a pen of Italian supporters beneath us: the panic, the flight, the crush, the thud like explosives at a distant quarry as a wall collapsed. We saw the row of dead bodies and the whooping – I especially recall the Liverpool fans’ whooping. The irony is too cruel: four years later, Liverpool fans themselves suffered carnage similar to that wrought at the Heysel stadium in Belgium on the murderous night of 29 May 1985. After decades of tenacious campaigning for justice, we approach a reckoning over Hillsborough; finally, the bereaved relatives have what comfort they can find in a culpability admitted by South Yorkshire police. But as the 30th anniversary of Heysel falls on Friday and a commemorative mass is held in Turin for the dead, Heysel, un-reckoned, remains football’s forgotten crime – despite its 39 dead and more than 600 injured. The fact that Juventus play next weekend in the European Cup final deepens the painful poignancy of the moment. We had landed on a Wednesday from London, at Ostend-Bruges airport, for transfer to Brussels by bus. So too had Bruno Guarini and his son Alberto, from the town of Mesagne in Puglia, in Italy’s heel; they had flown from Brindisi and the trip was a congratulatory gift for Alberto who had recently passed his dentistry exams. “Of course Alberto knew Liverpool,” Guarini would later say to me. “They were famous, a wonderful team and we thought the fans would be like us, just crazy about football.” When father and son arrived at the stadium, recalls Guarini, “the English had their shirts off, lying on the grass with their beer, so we went straight inside. Alberto had his Juventus bag to carry his binoculars and his packed lunch. The hooligans were at the other entrance, drinking and shouting. I said to Alberto, ‘we’ll go away from them – they might throw things.’ So we went towards the wall at the side. It was the worst thing I ever did, because those near the English were the ones who survived.” Meanwhile, already inside, we watched Liverpool fans crash through the fence feebly separating them from the Juventus fans, across the terracing into fleeing Italians, with disbelief. But Guarini was right: the signs had been there all day, as the British fans got drunk and rowdy on their way to the ground. In fact, they had been there for years: Britain was on patriotic turbo-charge after the election of Margaret Thatcher and war in the Falklands, and no one expressed the mood with greater articulacy than “our boys” supporting football teams in Europe. There had already been serious trouble with Spurs and Manchester United; now it was Liverpool’s turn. “They came running at us through the fence,” recalls Guarini. “Alberto was caught against a barrier. His last words were ‘Papa, mi stanno schiaccando’ – Daddy, they’re crushing me”. Guarini lost consciousness, but when he cam |
Great Britain has won most of her Olympic golds in athletics which sport has been the next successful | London 2012: How Team GB's Olympic golds are more varied than USA's | Owen Gibson | Sport | The Guardian London 2012: How Team GB's Olympic golds are more varied than USA's Owen Gibson Britain's 22 gold medals have so far come in 10 different sports, while the 541-strong team have won 48 medals in 14 sports Team GB have won gold medals in sports such as equestrian, athletics, rowing and track cycling. Photograph: guardian.co.uk Contact author Wednesday 8 August 2012 15.16 EDT First published on Wednesday 8 August 2012 15.16 EDT Share on Messenger Close Great Britain has won more gold medals in different sports than any country bar China – and has even bettered the USA's total at London 2012. With the host nation standing third in the overall medal table, it suggests investment in expanding the breadth of sports capable of achieving medals is paying off. While the sports that powered Britain's surge up the medal table in Beijing have all delivered again in London, a host of new disciplines have joined them. Their success has meant Britain's Olympic gold medals have come across 10 sports, while the USA's greater total number of golds have been spread across nine different sporting disciplines. At the Greenwich Park equestrian arena, Team GB this week won their first ever dressage gold and their first team showjumping gold since 1952. And at the Lee Valley white-water rafting course, Etienne Stott and Tim Baillie secured Britain's first ever canoe slalom gold, in the C2 class. While the 22 gold medals have come in 10 different sports, the 541-strong team has won 48 medals in 14 sports in total. The tally has taken the team past the 19 golds and 47 overall won in Beijing, making it the most successful showing by a British team since 1908. They have also achieved the British Olympic Association's aim of winning "more medals in more sports than in over a century". Already, Britain has won gold in athletics, canoe slalom, road and track cycling, equestrian, rowing, sailing, shooting, tennis and the triathlon. Given that Britain can still claim a first gold medal of these Games in boxing, open-water swimming, diving, hockey, BMX and taekwondo there is a good chance that they will still be ahead of the USA on the measure by the closing ceremony. Taking medals of all hues into account, Great Britain and the USA are neck and neck – both have recorded medals in 14 sports. The spread of success will further strengthen the hand of British officials looking to ensure that the huge investment in British Olympic sport in the run up to London is continued through to the next Games in Rio. UK Sport, the body responsible for investing £312m of Lottery and exchequer funding into Olympic sports since 2008, has resolved to broaden the spread of sports able to win medals. It will target its investment according to its ruthless "no compromise" funding formula. That means sports unlikely to win medals over the next two Games will see their funding cut but those able to prove they are capable of making the podium could get an even bigger slice of the available money. Liz Nicholl, UK Sport's chief executive, told the Guardian that the fact that medals had been achieved across more sports than at any Games since 1908 proved its formula was working. She said it had enabled sports that have not traditionally won medals to learn from those such as sailing and rowing that have. "The mission 2012 approach has really helped because there is a lot more learning between sports than before. There has been some really good sharing across sports and a collective ambition to do well," Nicholl said. "We knew the ambition had to be to increase the number of sports in return for the increased funding they received." She picked out hockey and triathlon as two sports that had delivered in London as a result and said the silver medal in the men's team gymnastics underlined its impact on minority sports. UK Sport invested around £550m of Lottery and exchequer funding in British sport over the Beijing and London cycles and is keen to preserve the same level of support |
At which sport was Fred Perry World Champion in 1929 | Fred Perry, father of British tennis, dies | The Independent Sport Fred Perry, father of British tennis, dies `He was a superlative ambassador for sport throughout the world. He was a great character, big-hearted, and a true champion' Friday 3 February 1995 00:02 BST Click to follow The Independent Online The great Fred Perry has died, aged 85. Britain's last link with the Wimbledon men's singles title passed away last evening at a hospital in Melbourne, where he had been cared for since falling in a hotel bath and breaking four ribs. Perry, who always kept in close touch with the sport, had gone to Australia to watch the tennis championships, which ended last Sunday. His fourth wife, Barbara, known to all as "Bobby", was with him, and his daughter, Penny, was on her way to Melbourne when he died. In the 1930s, Perry became the first player in history to have his name inscribed on the world's four major singles trophies, those of Wimbledon, France, the United States and Australia, though he did not accomplish this in the same calendar year, a featwhich came to be known as the Grand Slam. It was at Wimbledon that Perry achieved his greatest glory. In 1936 he won a third consecutive singles title, the first Briton to win three in a row since Laurie Doherty in 1903. Afterwards, Perry went to America and turned professional, leaving British tennis with a void it has been unable to fill. He became a United States citizen in 1939. Millions in Wimbledon profits have been spent by the Lawn Tennis Association in an attempt to create a system to produce players capable at least of making a challenge on the professional circuits, let alone of emulating Perry and Virginia Wade, the lastBriton to win the women's singles title at the All England Club, in 1977. In 1984, the 50th anniverary of Perry's first Wimbledon triumph, a statue was erected in the Wimbledon grounds, and the gates at the Somerset Road entrance were dedicated in his honour. The belated tributes were in stark contrast to the manner in which he was treated by the tennis establishment during his amateur career. This was encapsulated after his initial Wimbledon victory against "Gentleman" Jack Crawford in 1934. Perry, soaking in the bath, overheard a member of the All England Club's committee tell his Australian opponent, "This was one day when the best man did not win." Crawford was presented with a bottle of champagne and Perry's honorary member's tie was left draped over the back of his chair. Born in Stockport, Cheshire, the son of a cotton spinner who became a Labour MP, the forthright Perry was a fiercely determined competitor who could not abide snobbishness. The qualities that made him a magnificent champion, both as an individual and also as a member of victorious Davis Cup teams, were not always appreciated by the LTA. He was regarded as a rebel, and worse after he turned professional. Perry and his fellow pros were virtual outlaws, discouraged from playing on any tennis court at any tennis club attached to any tennis federation. They had make do with improvised arenas, once playing at the Kop end of the Liverpool football ground at Anfield. Versatile as a sportsman - he won the world table tennis title before turning to tennis - Perry was popular with the Hollywood set after turning professional and later the flanelled hero made a name in the sportswear industry. John Curry, the All England Club's chairman, summarised the man well in paying tribute last night. "Fred Perry was a superlative ambassador for our sport throughout the world," Curry said. "He was a great character, big-hearted, and a true champion in every sense. He won the affection and admiration of all those involved in tennis: the players, the fans, the media, and officials. Fred was one of those rare individuals. He was at ease with all, from the youngest fans to royalty." Christine Janes, a former Wimbledon singles finalist and co-commentator with Perry on BBC Radio, said on Five Live: "Fred was one of those indestructible people who one hoped would go on forever. He was unique. He was always |
Who was World 500 cc Motor Cycling Champion 1953 to 1955 (he was British) | The Passing Parade | RACING MOTORCYCLISTS’ MEMORIAL TRIBUTE RACING MOTORCYCLISTS’ MEMORIAL TRIBUTE Gone but not forgotten – long remembered! Search riders who have passed away – off the track (Any photos to help complete this tribute to fallen riders gratefully received, also any information on riders I’ve missed…the focus is on GP riders but any riders of significant international achievement can be nominated for inclusion) Walter HANDLEY, 4 times TT winner – died in a World War II aircraft accident while serving as pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1941 Tazio Giorgio NUVOLARI: died 11 August 1953 – was an Italian motorcycle racer and racecar driver. Nuvolari started racing motorcycles in 1920 at the age of 27, winning the 1925 350cc European Championship. He won the Nations Grand Prix four times between 1925 and 1928, and the Lario Circuit race five times between 1925 and 1929, all in the 350 cc class on a Bianchi motorcycle. Tazio Nuvolari won the Circuito del Lario roadrace, often called the Italian TT in 1929. The race was extremely dangerous as it was run on public mountain roads around Lake Como which were closed to traffic during the race. The circuit was 22.7 miles (36.5 km) long with 300 curves, 50 of which were hairpins since the course cuts through the famous Ghisallo mountain pass. There is an elevation change of 1,805 feet (550 meters) during the course of the race and the road conditions were deplorable even by 1929 standards. But Tazio was legendary for his ability to handle stress and adversity. In 1925 at the Italian GP he crashed his Alfa Romeo P2 into a tree after the gearbox seized and was sent to hospital and ordered to rest for a month. But just one week later heavily bandaged he entered the Italian motorcycle GP and won the race. He had to be lifted on and off the motorcycle. As a motorcycle racer he’d won four consecutive 350cc Italian GPs (Gran Premio delle Nazioni) between 1925 and 1928, riding for Bianchi. On September 3rd 1939 Nuvolari won the GP of Belgrade, the last GP of the Golden Era for the Second World War which had started two days earlier. His life was not all victories, he lost both his sons Giorgio and Alberto before they reached the age of twenty. In 1953 (by now was partly paralyzed) he died from an illness and was buried in his “racing uniform” with helmet, yellow jersey and blue trousers. Laurie BOULTER – road accident in IOM 1954 – killed before official practice . Laurie Boulter had finished 11th in the ’53 Senior and had returned in ’54 along with Maurice Quincey and Jack Ahern to officially represent Australia. Before official practice started, Laurie was killed on his bike after running into a reversing car near Handley’s Corner. Born in Adelaide, Australia, he began motorcycle racing in 1935 in beach races and scrambling (later motorcross) and quickly gained success becoming one of Australia’s top riders. WW2 interupted his racing but after the war, he started a motorcycle business in Torrensville, and returned to racing becoming unbeatable in South Australia. In 1952 he bought a 500cc Manx Norton and came second in the Australian Grand Prix at Bathurst. The following year he took his bikes to the Isle of Man TT races finishing 26th in the Junior and a remarkable 11th in the Senior races. He returned to Australia with no plans to return to the Island however with further wins under his belt, he was chosen to be a member of the official Australian team of riders to return to the Isle of Man in 1954. Whilst practising on the circuit he saw his countryman Ken Kavanagh walking the circuit between the 11th Milestone and Handley’s Corner and turned to wave to him. That moment of inattention cost him his life as he crashed into a car reversing out onto the road on a blind bend ahead of him. He was thrown over the car and struck a stone wall. The driver, a Dr Letchworth, was the official doctor for the races but he could do nothing for the rider. To avoid the Doctor’s arrest, Kavagagh later admitted he’d lied under oath at the inquest. Boulter is buried in Braddan Ce |
Which American motor manufacturer made the Corvette | Chevrolet Corvette Is Most 'Made In America' Car, Study Says Chevrolet Corvette Is Most 'Made In America' Car, Study Says Email This Page To (separate emails with commas) Message (optional) Your email was sent successfully. Close Enlarge Photo Cars aren't just transportation, they're also symbols of national pride. That's particularly true in the post-2008 United States, where the auto industry bailout has turned the Big Three into political set pieces. Consequently, the annual "Made in America" Automotive Index produced by American University's Kogod School of Business can either be a feather in the cap or a black mark for automakers. MUST SEE: 2015 Dodge Challenger Comes In Eight Trim Levels, None Of Them Supercharged: Live Photos General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] has plenty to celebrate this year, though, because the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray was at the top of this list for cars with the most American-made content. Meanwhile, the Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, and GMC Acadia triplets tied for second place. However, there was also a tie for first. The F-150 pickup truck from Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] had an identical score to the Corvette. For once, reality lives up to expectations: it's hard to think of two more American vehicles than the Corvette and F-150. ALSO SEE: 2015 Dodge Charger Debuts At 2014 New York Auto Show The index is compiled by American University professor Frank DuBois using data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. DuBois ranks 318 new-car models based on location of a manufacturer's headquarters, design, research, and manufacturing facilities, and where the profits go once the cars are sold. For the record, under the American Automotive Labeling Act, if 75 percent of a vehicle's parts are manufactured in the U.S. or Canada, it is considered a domestic product. Perhaps not surprisingly, around 80 percent of Americans would prefer to buy a domestic car, according to a recent Consumer Reports National Research Center survey. _______________________________________ |
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Which American state is nicknamed Tar Heel or Old North State | Welcome To North Carolina! - Home Welcome To North Carolina! Hi, my name is BobcatLover13 and this is a website about North Carolina. North Carolina is famous for the first flight of airplanes in Kitty Hawk. North Carolina is located in the south east of the United States Of America. North Carolina is nicknamed "The Old North State" and "The Tarheel State"Pitch and tar were the state's earliest and most valuable exports. North Carolina was originally part of Carolina, which included modern-day South Carolina and a big portion of land out west. Carolina is named after King Charles I. When Carolina was broken up into smaller states, it simply became North Carolina because it was in the northern part of Carolina. Have fun looking through this website! :) Rainbow Power!!! :) LOL Skittles Taste The Rainbow! :D Create a free website |
What was the name of the hurricane that hit America in September 2003 | Historic Hurricanes--Some Of The Most Powerful Storms On Record. Hurricane Gloria --Termed the Storm Of The Century at one point in its life. This Category Three Hurricane made landfall over the outer banks of North Carolina, and then moved up the East Coast of the United States on September 27, 1985. Estimated damage from this storm was $900 million dollars. Hurricane Kate--An unusually strong late season hurricane, Kate was a Category Two Hurricane that struck the Port St. Joe area of the Florida Panhandle in November, 1985. It was the latest hurricane ever recorded in a season to strike that far north in Florida. It ended up causing some $300 million dollars in damage. Hurricane Gilbert --The most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic with winds of 200 mph, and a central pressure of 26.28 inches of Hg, Gilbert came ashore in the Yucatan, and then proceeded into the Gulf of Mexico before hitting the Northern Mexican town of Matamoros with only 120 mph winds. Hurricane Hugo --This Category Four Hurricane at landfall, carved a path from the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean to Charleston, South Carolina in September, 1989. At one point in its lifetime, Hugo reached Category Five intensity with 160 mph winds, and a minimum central pressure of 27.11 inches of Hg. Rapidly intensifying over the Gulf Stream, it came ashore in South Carolina with 135 mph winds. This storm ranks currently second all time in terms of estimated damage at $7 billion dollars. Hurricane Bob --This Category Two Hurricane was one of the more memorable storms of 1991 besides the "perfect" Halloween Gale later that year. It moved up the East Coast before making landfall in New England. Believe it or not, as of 2000, this storm was ranked 10th all time in terms of estimated damage with $1.5 billion dollars. Hurricane Grace --Contrary to what was said in the movie, The Perfect Storm, Grace was only a Category Two Hurricane, but it would combine with a mid-latitude cyclone to form what would be known as the "Perfect Storm" in Meteorological terms during the final days of October, 1991. Hurricane Andrew --This is probably the most recent memorable hurricanes in modern history. After struggling to develop in the Atlantic, this Category Five Hurricane rapidly developed over the Gulf Stream, and devastated South Florida with 165 mph winds on August 24, 1992. It was the costliest natural disaster on record with some $30 billion dollars in damage. Tropical Storm Alberto--Was a strong tropical storm at landfall in early July, 1994, but it would end up being one of the most memorable tropical storms as it proceeded to meander over Northwest Florida and Southern Georgia, and dump a tonnage of rain there. When it was all said and done, it left 31 people dead, and caused some $500 million dollars in damage. Tropical Storm Beryl--Was practically a carbon copy of Alberto except for the fact that it occurred a month and a half later in August, 1994. Slightly weaker than Alberto was, Beryl had 60 mph winds, and a minimum central pressure of 29.50. Nevertheless, it dumped another 9 inches of rain on already waterlogged Tallahassee, and another 10.7 inches on Apalachicola. Hurricane Gordon--One of the most erratic moving hurricanes, and still one of the most deadly in the last 20 years. Starting out in the Western Caribbean off the coast of Honduras and Nicaragua, Gordon weaved his way through the Caribbean and Florida before making its first landfall along the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It then turned southwestward again, and moved over Florida, where it finally dissipated. The storm left some $400 million dollars in damage, and 1145 people dead in November, 1994. Hurricane Erin--Was one of a number of tropical |
In which film did Clint Eastwood actually say 'go ahead, make my day' | Sudden Impact (1983) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A rape victim is exacting revenge on her aggressors in a small town outside San Francisco. "Dirty" Harry Callahan, on suspension for angering his superiors (again), is assigned to the case. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 22 titles created 13 Sep 2011 a list of 25 titles created 03 Jul 2013 a list of 46 titles created 17 Dec 2014 a list of 35 titles created 15 Oct 2015 a list of 25 titles created 6 months ago Search for " Sudden Impact " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Dirty Harry must foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans. But this time, he's teamed with a rookie female partner that he's not too excited to be working with. Director: James Fargo Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables. Director: Ted Post Dirty Harry Callahan must stop a sick secret contest to murder local celebrities, which includes himself as a target. Director: Buddy Van Horn When a mad man calling himself 'the Scorpio Killer' menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath. Director: Don Siegel 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.4/10 X A hard but mediocre cop is assigned to escort a prostitute into custody from Las Vegas to Phoenix, so that she can testify in a mob trial. But a lot of people are literally betting that they won't make it into town alive. Director: Clint Eastwood A pilot is sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter that can be partially controlled by a neuralink Director: Clint Eastwood A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land. Director: Clint Eastwood Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women, that he rapes and murders. The killings are getting personal when the killer ... See full summary » Director: Richard Tuggle The San Fernando Valley adventures of trucker turned prize-fighter Philo Beddoe and his pet orangutan Clyde. Director: James Fargo Clint Eastwood plays a veteran detective who gets stuck with a rookie cop (Charlie Sheen) to chase down a German crook (Raul Julia.) Director: Clint Eastwood Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come ... See full summary » Director: Buddy Van Horn A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude. Director: Clint Eastwood Edit Storyline A vicious serial-killer is on the loose in San Francisco and the police trace a link to a small town further down the coast. When Harry Callahan upsets the press and the mayor in his usual style, he's shipped out of town to investigate while the heat is on. With the help of his new Magnum handgun Harry goes on the trail leaving behind the usual trail of dead criminals along the way. Written by Col Needham <[email protected]> Two killers are at large. One of them is Dirty Harry. [Video] See more » Genres: 9 December 1983 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia Of the five 'Dirty Harry' movies, it was this film that used the catchphrase "Go ahead, make my day" whereupon it became synonymous with the Harry Calahan character and became popularized into the vernacular of popular culture. Although Clint Eastwood made the phrase "Go ahead, make my day" famous, it was originally used a year earlier by actor Gary Swanson in the movie Vice Squ |
Which stretch of water separates the Orkneys from Scotland | Welcome to the Hellsmouth Diving and Shipwreck Company - Hellsmouth Diving and Shipwreck Company Home Page Welcome to the Hellsmouth Diving and Shipwreck Company Useful Links Hellsmouth© The narrow stretch of water that separates Caithness from the Orkney Islands in the Far North of Scotland is officially known as the Pentland Firth. However, due to the ferocious tides, currents and winds that are a feature of the area, the Pentland Firth has become known to generations of sailors as 'Hellsmouth' and is the graveyard of countless numbers of ships. The Hellsmouth Diving and Shipwreck Company aims to provide historical and diving information on some of these vessels and the many others wrecked off the rugged and exposed East coast of Caithness. Latest Updates: 6 December 2016: Addition of more underwater photos of the Thyra and the addition of a video of some of the Thyra's remains added to our You-Tube channel. 4 December 2016: After locating and diving the wreck of the Thyra , which wrecked near the Stacks o' Duncansby, we have now added some information on her sinking and some photos. 22 October 2016: Minor updates to the pages for the Kiruna and Wreckers Alley . 24 September 2016: Latest update includes information on the barque, Martha , which wrecked on Dunnet Sands in 1873. 2 August 2016: Latest update includes more underwater photos of the Sudero and the addition of a video of the remains of the Sudero added to our You-Tube channel. 28 July 2016: Latest update includes information regarding the Russian barque, Au Revoir , which wrecked at Keiss in 1876. 25 July 2016: Latest update includes information and photos of the Inverness trawler, Solan , which wrecked at Murkle in 1995. 9 July 2016: Latest update includes information on the wrecking of the sloop, Ruby , at Freswick in 1844. |
What nationality is Richard Clayderman | Richard Clayderman biography, birth date, birth place and pictures Email Print Richard Clayderman (born Philippe Pagès) is a French pianist who has released numerous albums including the compositions of Paul de Senneville and Olivier Toussaint, instrumental renditions of popular music, rearrangements of movie soundtracks, ethnic music, and easy-listening arrangements of most popular works of classical music. Richard Clayderman's billing as the world's most popular pianist was put to the test during an interview on the "Late Night with David Letterman" show. The Christian Science Monitor reported that Letterman, in order to judge Clayderman's reputation as a household name, placed a random telephone call to a home in Norway. The family not only knew him but owned several of his albums. Born in France with the name Phillipe Pages, he took the stage name Clayderman (from his great-grandmother) because his real name was pronounced differently in every country. His father was a piano teacher and began teaching him classical piano at a young age. Clayderman entered the Paris Conservatory at age 12 and won first prize for piano at 16. When he found it difficult to make a living as a classical pianist, he turned to popular music and toured with French rock musician Johnny Hallyday. The turning point for Clayderman came when two record producers asked him to record "Ballad pour Adeline." That record, which helped launch his career into popular music, has sold over 20 million copies in 38 countries. Clayderman's shift from classical to popular music not only allowed for his remarkably successful career but moved him into an area of music which he feels more closely reflects his personality. Although he still plays classical music on stage, for his United States concerts he focuses on romantic interpretations of popular American melodies. "I think there is a need for this kind of romantic music, " he told the Christian Science Monitor, "because we live in a world [where] terrible things are happening, and people need music to feel a bit cool and relaxed. I think a proportion of my audience also listens to other styles. For example, I'm sure the young people like rock 'n roll music. But through my playing they discover a new kind of music--classical, because sometimes I play that on stage." In a review of his 1985 New York debut at Carnegie Hall, Variety suggested that, besides his repertoire and lush playing style, "Clayderman's main appeal lies in his youth and boyish good looks.... Coupled with his gentlemanly charm and his thick French accent, they promise to rope in the romantically inclined middle-aged Yank ladies who cotton to this ilk of soothing entertainment." The Los Angeles Times, also reporting on a performance from his first American tour, objected to the canned quality and cuteness of his audience interaction, but praised the show as "otherwise well constructed, with a good balance of original and established songs, and of romantic ballads and high-stepping rhythm pieces." For his American concerts he performed with a 16-piece orchestra and offered romantic crowd pleasers like "Feelings," "The Way We Were," and "Chariots of Fire." The Christian Science Monitor remarked that, heard along with the orchestra, his performance had the "solidity and strength that spring from his training as a classical pianist." His concerts are marked by standing ovations and multiple encores. For People to accuse Clayderman of displaying "all the emotions of a turnip" and for Rolling Stone to describe him as a "schlock pianist" is perhaps unfair. He may not be Horowitz but his music does fill a need as evidenced by over two hundred gold and platinum records and international sales reported at over 40 million albums. "If the sales figures Columbia claims are true," Stereo Review noted in 1987, "he is probably the most successful pianist in the world today." |
Which group had a top ten hit in 1981 with It Must Be Love | Madness - It Must Be Love (Official Video) - YouTube Madness - It Must Be Love (Official Video) 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 Sep 1, 2011 British band Madness had a major UK hit with this song in 1981, and with good reason: heartfelt and nutty in equal measure it still brings the house down at every Madness show. The video - filmed above and below water - is one of their classics, with cameo appearances by big bird, a killer whale and Mr Labi Siffre, who wrote the song. Download Total Madness on iTunes : http://apple.co/29mXeB5 Buy Total Madness on Amazon : http://amzn.to/29qu0Sp Listen to Total Madness on Spotify : http://spoti.fi/29hd2Cj -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
By what name is the singer Orville Richard Burrell better known | Shaggy | American Dad Wikia | Fandom powered by Wikia Share Orville Richard Burrell (born October 22, 1968 Kingston, Jamaica), better known by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican-American reggae singer & rapper. He is perhaps best known for his 1995 single "Boombastic" and 2000 single "It Wasn't Me". He has been noted as having a baritone-range singing voice and is said to have taken his nickname from his "shaggy" hair. In " The Return of the Bling ", Reginald Koala takes Hayley to a Shaggy concert at the Langley County Fair. At the concert, Hayley wants to leave but is jostled by a drunk punk. Reginald demands an apology but is refused and he gets medieval on the punk impressing Hayley. |
How many players are there in a curling team | Curling For Dummies Cheat Sheet - dummies Curling For Dummies Cheat Sheet Curling For Dummies Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet By Bob Weeks Curling has a rich history with many traditions that continue to this day. Though the origins of curling are unclear, most people regard Scotland as curling’s birthplace. Today, curling is played around the world, largely thanks to its introduction into the Olympics in 1988. Because curling can seem complicated if you don’t know a lot about it, these articles help to explain the basics, from curling terminology and the roles of each position on a team, to how scoring and other elements of the game work, and why curling is such a great sport to play. Curling Match Terminology Curling, probably more than any other sport, has its own unique terminology (like hurry hard and burning a rock, among others). Here are the key curling words and phrases you need to know to blend in at your next bonspiel: Blank end: An end where no points are scored. Bonspiel: A tournament in which curlers compete. Burning a rock: A rules infraction that happens when a player touches a stone as it’s traveling down the sheet. Button: The very center of the target rings or house. Cashspiel: A tournament in which curlers compete for money. Delivery: The action of throwing a stone to the other end of the playing surface. Eight-ender: A perfect end where every one of the team’s stones scores a point. End: The way a curling game is divided. An end is like an inning in a baseball game. A curling game has either eight or ten ends. Gripper: The sole of one of your curling shoes. It helps you keep your footing on the ice. See slider. Hammer: The last rock of the end. Hack: The foothold in the ice you use to push off from when you deliver the stone. House: Also known as the rings, this is the name of the giant bull’s eye at either end of the sheet of ice. It consists of a set of concentric circles, called the 12-foot, 8-foot, 4-foot, and the Button. Hurry hard: A directive given to sweepers by the skip or third, to begin sweeping. Rink: A curling team; also the name of a curling facility Rock: Also known as a stone, the granite playing utensil that a curler delivers. Regular-sized rocks weigh approximately 44 pounds. Sheet: The frozen playing surface on which the game is played. Slider: The sole of one of your curling shoes. It helps you move or slide along the ice. Tee line: The line on the playing surface that runs through the middle of the house. Weight: The amount of force used to deliver a stone. The Members of a Curling Team In curling, the team you play on is called a rink. The rink is made up of four players: the lead, the second, the third (also called the vice, vice-skip, or mate), and the skip. Each player has specific duties: Lead: The lead throws the first two rocks of the end and then sweeps the next six. The lead must be very good at throwing guards and a strong sweeper. Second: The second throws the third and fourth stones of the end and should be strong at playing takeouts. The second sweeps the first two stones and then the final four of the end. The second and the lead need to be in sync when sweeping together. Third: The third (or mate or vice), who throws the fifth and sixth rocks of the end, must be good at all shots, but especially draws. It is the third’s job to set up the shots that will be thrown by the skip, and to help the skip discuss the strategy of the final two stones of the end. The third also posts the score at the conclusion of the end. Skip: The skip is the captain of the team and decides the strategy. It’s the skip’s job to tell the other players where to throw their shots and when to sweep. The skip also delivers the last two shots of the end. The skip must be good at all types of shots. Curling Game Basics What is this game of rocks and brooms all about? Curling is a sport in which two teams of four players each slide 40-pound granite rocks (also called stones) down a sheet of ice toward a target at the other end. Each team tries to get more of its stones closer to the center of the target tha |
In cycling what is the tem used to describe standing on the pedals out of the saddle and pedalling hard | BicycleSource.com BicycleSource.com The largest, most comprehensive cycling glossary on the Internet. 425 words of wisdom. aero adj. abbreviation for aerodynamically efficient. aero-bars n. handlebar extension which rests the hands close together over the front hub, which is a very aero tuck. air n. space between the tires and the ground. (Both tires must be off the ground or it isn't "air".) Said to be caught or gotten. See sky . anchor n. your child, or children (anchors) that keep(s) you from riding. "Wait till you anchors grow up, you'll have road rash for breakfast and prunes for dinner!" To be used as an endearing, not demeaning, phrase. ano adj. frequently-misspelled abbreviation for "anodized". See purple . ANSI n. a withdrawn and totally wimpy bicycle helmet standard set by the American National Standards Institute. ANSI-1984 is less strict than any current standard. Read about helmet standards . apex 1) n. the apex is the middle or sharpest point of a curve 2) v. to plan your line around a bend to touch the inside of the lane at the apex, starting and leaving the turn at the outside of the lane, to flatten out the required curve and increase allowable speeds. Read about such turning techniques . ashtabula crank n. one-piece crank -- the crank arm starts on one side of the bike, bends to go through the bottom bracket, and bends again on the other side to go down to the other pedal. Typically heavy, cheap, and robust. See "cottered crank" and "cotterless crank". ASTM n. a bicycle helmet standard set by the American Society for Testing and Materials. The most frequently used helmet standard, is a bit watered down compared to Snell B-95 and many international standards. Read about helmet standards . n. All-Terrain Bike or Biking. A synonym for MTB . attack n. scabs on a rider's knees, elbows, or other body parts. bagger n. a person that habitually bags out. Also known as a loser. bagging a peak v. making it to the summit of a mountain. bagging out v. canceling a ride for something other than a death in the family. bail 1) or bail out. v. to jump off in order to avoid an imminent crash. 2) v. to give up on a ride because of bad weather coming in. (from climbing) bars n. on mountain bikes, a technologically backward straight pipe that was otherwise discarded as obsolete in the 19th century. For road bikes, a refined component which promotes aerodynamics, body geometry, muscle teamwork, stability, and comfort. basecamp rides adj. setting up camp and using it as the start and finish of tours. bead n. the part of your tire that fits onto the rim, either wire (heavy and cheap) or Kevlar (light and expensive), or what you find in Missy Giovie's hair. beartrap 1) v. to slip off one pedal, causing the other pedal to slam one in the shin, when one gets kracked with a pedal. 2) n. the toothlike scars resulting from being beartrapped. beat 1) v. to ride with reckless disregard to one's equipment, well-being, and/or the ecology of the trail. 2) adj. a term used to describe something that is not good. e.g. "It's pretty beat that the yellow trail is closed." beater n. a bike of such little value as to be able to beat on, or a bike that reaction after prolonged beating. beta n. insider information about a ride. Running or auto beta is someone telling you how to do the moves as you go (as in "can you please shut up with that running beta, I want to find out myself"). biopace adj. a now-discredited Shimano techno-fad where the chainrings were made intentionally not circular -- instead, they were elliptical, in order to (allegedly) smooth the power delivery, by giving the rider an effectively lower gear for part of the spin cycle. Now used to describe any uneven pedaling motion. Also used as a synonym for pogo-ing. blast v. to begin a big climb or ride, after reaching the foot of the long or daunting hill. "We're gonna blast after a snack at the bottom of the wall ". blocking n. getting in the way of slow down in front of rival riders, to help a teammate get ahead on a breakaway. bog or bog out. v. to be riding in a circumst |
In which city would you watch football in the Nou Camp Stadium | FC Barcelona Football Game Tickets at Camp Nou Stadium - Tour Barcelona FC Barcelona Football Game Tickets at Camp Nou Stadium Latest booking 1 day ago No booking or credit card fees Instant confirmation Confirmation is instant if you book 4 days before your tour Downloading... What To Expect Watch the Football Club Barcelona play live match at the Camp Nou Stadium! See one of the most valuable sports team on the globe as they play against rival teams in one of the largest and most modern football stadiums in the world today. Highlights Enjoy one of the most valuable sports team on the globe play live Share your passion and enthusiasm for football with fellow team supporters See one of the finest stadiums in the world for an incredible entertainment experience Specifications 1 hour and 30 minutes Availability: ; ; Wednesday at TBC; ; ; ; Sunday at TBC; Product Code: Print voucher. You will not have access to the tour without this voucher. Featured On: Camp Nou Barcelona Sports tours Sports tours Description The FC Barcelona Stadium is a must-see for any football fan. Built in 1957 and enlarged during the 80's up to the 90's, it is one of the largest and most modern football stadiums in the world today! With a seating capacity of 98000, its awesome grandeur will impress any visitor. Enjoy an incredible entertainment experience that redefines standards and is tailored to meet your needs. Watch the team of FC Barcelona play live as we share with you our enthusiasm and passion for football! 2016-17 Schedule Tuesday - 13 September - Celtic Glasgow Wednesday - 21 September - Atletico Madrid Sunday - 16 October - Dep. La Coruña Wednesday - 19 October - Manchester City Sunday - 30 October - Granada Tuesday - 06 December - B. Mönchengladbach Sunday - 18 December - Rcd Espanyol Sunday - 15 January - Las Palmas Sunday - 05 February - At. Bilbao Sunday - 19 February - Leganes Sunday - 05 March - Celta Vigo Sunday - 19 March - Valencia Sunday - 16 April - Real Sociedad Wednesday - 26 April - Osasuna All sales are final and non-refundable. Each game is approximately 90 minutes, with a 15 minute halftime break. Smoking is not allowed in the stadium. We are unable to accommodate guests with disabilities. All games are scheduled on Sunday or Wednesday, but definitive date and time can be confirmed a week before the event. It is the customer's responsibility to check the exact date and time of the game. For week end games it can be moved from Sunday to Saturday (and sometimes on Monday). For mid-week games, it can be moved from Wednesday to Tuesday (and sometimes on Thursday). That is the reason why we recommend all our customers to book their flights and accommodations according to the possible changes, with at least 1 day before the scheduled date. If a match date changes from Saturday to Sunday or vice-versa there are no refunds for any cancellations. If a match date changes from Wednesday to Tuesday or vice-versa there are no refunds for any cancellations. If a match is postponed due to adverse weather conditions the match ticket will be valid for the new date and there will be no refund. Tickets can be delivered to hotels in the city center at an additional charge. Tickets in other categories are available upon request. Please inquire. Cancellation Policy |
In which country were the settlers called Voortrekkers | Voortrekkers Great Trek - The Great Trek Trekboers and migrations - as noted earlier, some white farmers had taken to pastoralism as their main economic activity about the beginning of the 18th C. They had developed the tradition that if they needed more or better land, moving farther was the way to acquire it. These treks or journeys were undertaken by small groups or families. - by the early 19th C, these treks had ceased because of confrontation with the Xhosa to the east; a law by British authorities in Cape Town forbidding migration north of the Orange River. - for reasons we shall discuss, a series of coordinated, large treks were undertaken beginning in 1837. The treks were a bit like wagon trains during the 19th C in the U.S. Some treks had several hundred white people, at least an equal number of servants, large numbers of ox wagons (bigger and much heavier than �prairie schooners� in the U.S.), and huge herds of cattle and livestock. Most treks were organised by and around a particular leader. These collectively came to be called �The Great Trek�. Traditionally, it was said to have ended in 1847 (the bulk of the migration happened in the first years up to 1840), although small scale migration continued afterwards (a short article on the Great Trek ). - various estimates are given for the number of participants. Thompson�s estimate is that 6,000 whites left the Cape Colony up to 1840. Different websites give 10,000 and even 12,000 during the entire period of the Great Trek, but these are almost certainly too high. Another estimate is that over 15,000 people in total left in that period; however, this includes non-whites who made up at least half of the total. Thus, a total 7-8,000 Afrikaners is probably about right. Although they are given little recognition in the Afrikaner nationalist hagiography, a great many servants and employees (mostly Coloureds) also were part of the �Great Trek�. One reason for the designation �great� is this size and scale of the migration. - later, near the end of the 19th C and early in the 20th C as Afrikaner identity and nationalism began to grow, this series of events (including the battles with various indigenous peoples), came to be regarded as an heroic and defining moment in the history of the Afrikaner �nation�. The white participants began to be regarded as fearless, God-fearing, larger-than-life heroes who had preserved the Afrikaner �nation� from Anglicization and assimilation. They came to be called �Voortrekkers� meaning those trekkers who went before�i.e., the pioneers, the first Afrikaner nationalists. They have tended to be venerated (like saints or like Americans regard their �founding fathers�). [It is interesting to note that in North America with our own pioneers, there is quite a gap between image and reality. The image is of hardy pioneers who braved attacks by Indians, cut down the forests or moved out onto the prairies to carve farms out of the wilderness and opened a continent to development and civilisation. They were certainly hardy, but cockroaches are hardy! The reality of what the North American born pioneers were like was recorded by Susannah Moodie and other immigrants. According to these accounts, they were uncouth and ignorant, poorly educated, not all that trustworthy, whining, etc. However, they knew how to survive and could help show the newcomers. They certainly opened the continent to development, but their contributions to �civilisation� are much more in doubt. The point is that succceeding generations have a tendency to see early pioneers with rose-coloured glasses. There is also a lack of perspective. The settlers in wagon trains moving west have been celebrated in song, novels, movies, TV programs and so on. The wealth and resources produced by industrialization in the East and Mid-West was probably more important in achieving the �Manifest Destiny� of the U. S., yet there are no movies celebrating the heroes of the blast furnace. The discovery and exploitation of mineral wealth (diamonds and gold) |
Where is Charles Darwin buried | Westminster Abbey » Charles Darwin Burial Date: 26 Apr, 1882 Field: Scientist; writer Location in the Abbey: Nave, north choir aisle Type of memorial: Grave; bust Type of material: Bronze Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist, is buried in the north aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey, not far from Sir Isaac Newton . He was born in Shrewsbury on 12 February 1809, son of Robert Waring Darwin (1766-1848) and Susannah, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood. He studied with his brother Erasmus at Edinburgh University but disliked the idea of following in his father's footsteps as a doctor. At Cambridge University he became very much interested in natural history and sailed on the ship HMS Beagle in 1831 to South America and the Galapagos islands. In 1839 he married his cousin Emma Wedgwood and they went to live at Downe, a small village in Kent. His famous work "The Origin of Species by natural selection" was published in 1859 and he continued working although his health was often poor. He died at Down House on 19 April 1882. Burial The Dean of Westminster, George Granville Bradley, was away in France when he received a telegram forwarded from the President of the Royal Society in London saying "…it would be acceptable to a very large number of our fellow-countrymen of all classes and opinions that our illustrious countryman, Mr Darwin, should be buried in Westminster Abbey". The Dean recalled " I did not hesitate as to my answer and telegraphed direct…that my assent would be cheerfully given". The body lay overnight in the Abbey, in the small chapel of St Faith, and on the morning of 26 April the coffin was escorted by the family and eminent mourners into the Abbey. The pall-bearers included Sir Joseph Hooker, Alfred Russel Wallace , James Russell Lowell (U.S. Ambassador), and William Spottiswoode (President of the Royal Society). The burial service was held in the Lantern, conducted by Canon Prothero, with anthems sung by the choir. The chief mourners then followed the coffin into the north aisle of the Nave where Darwin was buried next to the eminent scientist Sir John Herschel, and a few feet away from Sir Isaac Newton. The simple inscription on his gravestone, which is of pale Carrara marble, reads "CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN BORN 12 FEBRUARY 1809. DIED 19 APRIL 1882". Although an agnostic, Darwin was greatly respected by his contemporaries and the Bishop of Carlisle, Harvey Goodwin, in a memorial sermon preached in the Abbey on the Sunday following the funeral, said "I think that the interment of the remains of Mr Darwin in Westminster Abbey is in accordance with the judgment of the wisest of his countrymen…It would have been unfortunate if anything had occurred to give weight and currency to the foolish notion which some have diligently propagated, but for which Mr Darwin was not responsible, that there is a necessary conflict between a knowledge of Nature and a belief in God…". A later, widely believed, rumour of a "deathbed conversion" to Christianity was denied by his daughter, who was actually present at his death. Memorial bust A bronze memorial, with a life-sized relief bust, was erected by his family in the north choir aisle, near to the grave, in 1888. The sculptor was Sir J.E. Boehm. The inscription just says simply DARWIN. Photos of the grave and memorial can be purchased from Westminster Abbey Library Further reading: |
Which northern fishing town is associated with Dracula | Whitby: Town of Voyagers and Vampires Ancient Britain � Castles � Churches/Cathedrals � Houses/Manors � Museums � Towns � Countryside � London � History & Folklore � Travel Tips Test daily news Whitby: Town of Voyagers and Vampires by Jane Gilbert Visitors to Whitby can't escape its quintessential Britishness. From fish and chips to rainy picnics, this small fishing town on the north east coast embodies England's fast disappearing seaside tradition. While the Victorian grandeur of Plymouth and Torquay decays along rusting piers and dreary promenades, Whitby's vitality and freshness can be sensed throughout its cobblestone streets. First colonised in the fifth century A.D, Whitby witnessed a vital turning point in the history of the English church. The cliff top Abbey, founded in 657 A.D., was the site of an early Synod Council in 664, where the Celtic and Roman churches tussled over the date of Easter. King Oswiu decided in favour of Rome. After all, it is St Peter who holds the keys of heaven. His decision brought the English church into close contact with the rest of Europe. English poetry also sprung from Whitby. The ploughboy Caedmon, acclaimed as the first poet in the English language, died there in 680 A.D. The abbey was destroyed by Vikings, but rebuilt in 1077. You can see echoes of the medieval gothic style in today's ruins. In the 1700s the town became an important whaling port. The two jaw bones of the West Cliff Arch, a reminder of Whitby's whalers, tower above you. But the sixteen foot, three hundred and fifty pound bones you see today are not as old as you might think. In 2002, it was noticed that the whalebone arch was decaying. Help came from Whitby's sister city of Anchorage, Alaska, who presented the town with a new set of blue whale bones to commemorate the 25th anniversary of their relationship. One of Whitby's most famous sons is Captain James Cook, the 18th-century explorer who discovered Australia. He was apprenticed to a Whitby ship-owner at the age of eighteen. His first voyage was on the cargo ship The Freelove, carrying coal from the north down to London. The dangerous, ill-marked North Sea waters offered the splendid practical training that allowed Cook to confront dangers from the Antarctic to the Great Barrier Reef. He rose through the merchant ranks, taking advantage of the winter months of refitting to study mathematics by night. Seeking wider prospects in the Royal Navy, Cook's valuable seafaring experience and leadership qualities saw him posted to America, where he protected British colonial interests against the French during the Seven Years War. He proceeded to make his name as a cartographer, mathematician and astronomer. Nonetheless, when the Admiralty organised the first scientific expedition to the Pacific in 1768, Cook, now forty, was a surprise choice as commander. In a plain but dependable coal-bark from Whitby, renamed HMS Endeavour, Cook successfully dropped off Royal Society botanists, astronomers and artists in Tahiti, thus establishing the tradition of ship-board scientists that saw Charles Darwin sail on his landmark expedition on The Beagle. Next, Cook headed south-southwest in search of Terra Australis, at that time a mere cartographic conjecture. Not only did he find and chart New Zealand, he successfully navigated and surveyed the world's toughest navigational hazard -- the Great Barrier Reef -- and returned to England with remarkably few losses, notably none to scurvy. Cook demanded cleanliness and ventilation in the crew's quarters and a diet including greenstuffs and citrus. His sailors' health made him a naval hero. Cook went on to explore the South Seas in another Whitby ship, The Resolution, discovering many islands that remain British possessions to this day. After an unsuccessful search for the Northwest Passage, he was killed in Polynesia, but not before he met the king, was made a captain, and was elected with highest honours to the erudite Royal Society for defeating scurvy. Visitors can relive the past on a replica of the Endeavour which |
Which accessory carried by a motorist could you also have round your midriff | How to tame your tum: Is yours a spare tyre or a stress bulge? | Daily Mail Online comments For many women, getting bikini ready means tackling one dreaded area in particular — our tummies. Most of us still think the best way to achieve a washboard stomach is by doing hundreds of sit-ups. Not so, says A-list trainer and body guru James Duigan. James, who sculpts supermodels Elle Macpherson and Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley among others, insists there is no ‘one size fits all’ method for getting a flat belly. Instead, he’s identified five key ‘tummy types’, all of which require a different approach to achieve successful toning. Get a flat stomach: First you need to identify your tunny type Once you’ve identified your type, you can transform it following James’ tailor-made plan and get that flat tummy fast. THE SPARE TYRE TUMMY The spare tyre: This is one of the easiest tummy troubles to eliminate because it's caused by eating the wrong foods and not exercising enough HOW TO IDENTIFY THIS TYPE These people are likely to lead sedentary lives, perhaps with jobs that keep them desk-bound. They may also have an emotional attachment to sugary foods. Luckily, this ‘spare tyre’ is one of the easiest tummy troubles to eliminate as, according to James, it’s caused by eating the wrong foods and not exercising enough. TYPICAL BAD HABITS ‘If you exercise very little, eat lots of sugar and refined carbohydrates in products like biscuits, cakes and white bread, or rely on starchy carbs like pasta and rice, you probably have an overweight tummy with accompanying fat on your legs and hips,’ says James. MIDRIFF MAKEOVER PLAN Cut down on alcohol. ‘Alcohol is a fat bomb for the tummy — pure sugar which goes straight to your waist and stops you burning all other fat until the booze has been processed,’ says James. ‘Just a few glasses three to four times a week will lead to a “wine waist” — a thick midriff and podgy tummy. ‘If you want to drink occasionally that’s fine, but the bottom line is that you have to cut back on booze to get a flat belly.’ Once you cut out alcohol for two weeks, it’s time to overhaul your diet. ‘In a nutshell, eat well and move more,’ says James. Avoid low-fat and so-called ‘diet’ snacks. ‘These pre-packaged products are often packed full of chemicals, refined sugar, salt and preservatives to give them flavour. ‘Ditch calorie counting in favour of a healthy diet full of unprocessed fresh foods such as fish, eggs, organic meat and vegetables. ‘Start the day with eggs and smoked salmon, or even grilled chicken and vegetables, and snack on sliced lean meats. ‘And don’t be afraid of eating good fats, such as avocados, nuts and oily fish. These encourage your body to burn midriff fat, giving you a flat tummy.’ ‘Exercise is the key to helping this tummy type,’ says James. Simply going for a long walk, doing lunges, squats or dips at home or a yoga class will be beneficial. You don’t need a gym. TOP TIP FOR THIS TUMMY If you regularly reward yourself for a hard day with a piece of cake or deal with bad news with a biscuit, it’s important to remember that being beautiful is as much about how you feel as how you look. The starting point for any tummy transformation is feeling happy. RELATED ARTICLES Stress tummy: These types are typically over-achievers with perfectionist personalities HOW TO IDENTIFY THIS TYPE Stressed-tummy types are typically over-achievers with perfectionist personalities. They are usually also susceptible to digestive conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which can cause bloating and make their tummies look far worse. ‘Stress tummies are easy to spot, as the weight is specific to the front of the midriff and the umbilical area,’ explains James. ‘When stressed, we produce cortisol, a hormone which encourages the body to cling on to fat around the stomach.’ Stressed tummies will also be fairly hard to the touch, rather than wobbly. TYPICAL BAD HABITS It’s likely you skip meals, abuse your adrenal system with too much caffeine and grab junk food for convenience. MIDRIFF MAKEOVER PLAN Get an early n |
At which battle was Custer's last stand | The Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876 The Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876 Printer Friendly Version >>> In late 1875, Sioux and Cheyenne Indians defiantly left their reservations, outraged over the continued intrusions of whites into their sacred lands in the Black Hills. They gathered in Montana with the great warrior Sitting Bull to fight for their lands. The following spring, two victories over the US Cavalry emboldened them to fight on in the summer of 1876. George Armstrong Custer To force the large Indian army back to the reservations, the Army dispatched three columns to attack in coordinated fashion, one of which contained Lt. Colonel George Custer and the Seventh Cavalry. Spotting the Sioux village about fifteen miles away along the Rosebud River on June 25, Custer also found a nearby group of about forty warriors. Ignoring orders to wait, he decided to attack before they could alert the main party. He did not realize that the number of warriors in the village numbered three times his strength. Dividing his forces in three, Custer sent troops under Captain Frederick Benteen to prevent their escape through the upper valley of the Little Bighorn River. Major Marcus Reno was to pursue the group, cross the river, and charge the Indian village in a coordinated effort with the remaining troops under his command. He hoped to strike the Indian encampment at the northern and southern ends simultaneously, but made this decision without knowing what kind of terrain he would have to cross before making his assault. He belatedly discovered that he would have to negotiate a maze of bluffs and ravines to attack. Reno's squadron of 175 soldiers attacked the southern end. Quickly finding themselves in a desperate battle with little hope of any relief, Reno halted his charging men before they could be trapped, fought for ten minutes in dismounted formation, and then withdrew into the timber and brush along the river. When that position proved indefensible, they retreated uphill to the bluffs east of the river, pursued hotly by a mix of Cheyenne and Sioux. Just as they finished driving the soldiers out, the Indians found roughly 210 of Custer's men coming towards the other end of the village, taking the pressure off of Reno's men. Cheyenne and Hunkpapa Sioux together crossed the river and slammed into the advancing soldiers, forcing them back to a long high ridge to the north. Meanwhile, another force, largely Oglala Sioux under Crazy Horse's command, swiftly moved downstream and then doubled back in a sweeping arc, enveloping Custer and his men in a pincer move. They began pouring in gunfire and arrows. ADVERTISMENT As the Indians closed in, Custer ordered his men to shoot their horses and stack the carcasses to form a wall, but they provided little protection against bullets. In less than an hour, Custer and his men were killed in the worst American military disaster ever. After another day's fighting, Reno and Benteen's now united forces escaped when the Indians broke off the fight. They had learned that the other two columns of soldiers were coming towards them, so they fled. After the battle, the Indians came through and stripped the bodies and mutilated all the uniformed soldiers, believing that the soul of a mutilated body would be forced to walk the earth for all eternity and could not ascend to heaven. Inexplicably, they stripped Custer's body and cleaned it, but did not scalp or mutilate it. He had been wearing buckskins instead of a blue uniform, and some believe that the Indians thought he was not a soldier and so, thinking he was an innocent, left him alone. Because his hair was cut short for battle, others think that he did not have enough hair to allow for a very good scalping. Immediately after the battle, the myth emerged that they left him alone out of respect for his fighting ability, but few participating Indians knew who he was to have been so respectful. To this day, no one knows the real reason. Sitting Bull 1878 Little Bighorn was the pinnacle of the Indians' power. They had |
Which present state was once known officially as Indian Territory | Indian Territory | historical territory, United States | Britannica.com historical territory, United States ancient Greek civilization Indian Territory, originally “all of that part of the United States west of the Mississippi , and not within the States of Missouri and Louisiana , or the Territory of Arkansas.” Never an organized territory, it was soon restricted to the present state of Oklahoma , excepting the panhandle and Greer county. The Choctaw , Creek , Seminole , Cherokee , and Chickasaw tribes were forcibly moved to this area between 1830 and 1843, and an act of June 30, 1834, set aside the land as Indian country (later known as Indian Territory). In 1866 the western half of Indian Territory was ceded to the United States, which opened part of it to white settlers in 1889. This portion became the Territory of Oklahoma in 1890 and eventually encompassed all the lands ceded in 1866. The two territories were united and admitted to the Union as the state of Oklahoma in 1907. Learn More in these related articles: Oklahoma constituent state of the United States of America. It borders Colorado and Kansas to the north, Missouri and Arkansas to the east, Texas to the south and west, and New Mexico to the west of its Panhandle region. In its land and its people, Oklahoma is a state of contrast and of the unexpected. The... Creek Muskogean-speaking North American Indian tribe that originally occupied a huge expanse of the flatlands of what are now Georgia and Alabama. There were two divisions of Creeks: the Muskogee (or Upper Creeks), settlers of the northern Creek territory; and the Hitchiti and Alabama, who had the same... Seminole (people) North American Indian tribe of Creek origin who speak a Muskogean language. In the last half of the 18th century, migrants from the Creek towns of southern Georgia moved into northern Florida, the former territory of the Apalachee and Timucua. By about 1775 those migrants had begun to be known... 6 References found in Britannica Articles Assorted References 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: July 20, 1998 URL: https://www.britannica.com/place/Indian-Territory Access Date: January 19, 2017 Share |
Which cartoonist named Harold MacMillan, 'Supermac' | Why was Harold Macmillan dubbed 'Supermac'? - Quora Quora History Why was Harold Macmillan dubbed 'Supermac'? Was it becasue of his overall success in strenghtening British aperception and the famous "never had it so good" speech? Written Jul 14, 2015 He was given the name as a way of mocking him, by the political cartoonist 'Vicky' (Victor Weisz, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who came to Britain in 1935).. Macmillan was an elderly aristocrat with a large moustache and flowing white hair, who wore tweed suits and spectacles, and gave off an air of 'mothballed grandeur'. Vicky thought he was overly vain and was becoming the centre of a cult of personality, so he drew a cartoon of him wearing a Superman costume and flying through the air. This was published in the Evening Standard in November 1958, and became famous. The name 'Supermac' caught on; not only among Macmillan's opponents, but among his supporters too, who used it unironically. |
In the Disney cartoon version of Robin Hood which type of creature played Little John | Crowe brings scruffy new look to 'Robin Hood' Russell Crowe takes the title role in "Robin Hood." (Universal Pictures) The Associated Press Published Monday, May 10, 2010 7:59AM EDT LOS ANGELES - The legend of Robin Hood, king of the rogues, is best summed up by Roger Miller, the guy who sang "King of the Road." "There's been a heap of legends and tall tales about Robin Hood. All different, too," Miller says as the voice of the minstrel rooster who narrates Disney's 1973 animated "Robin Hood." That version cast the thief of Sherwood Forest as a wily fox. The latest rendition, Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood," has Russell Crowe as a bit of a poser and huckster named Robin Longstride, a brooding, scruffy foot-soldier back from the Crusades and a siege in France. Though a skilled and loyal archer of King Richard the Lion-Heart, Crowe's Robin returns to England such a footsore, slovenly wreck that when he gets a nice dinner invitation, he's told to bathe first because he stinks. It's a wild contrast to Hollywood's standard-bearer as the merry bandit of Sherwood Forest, Errol Flynn, who starred in the 1938 Technicolor extravaganza "The Adventures of Robin Hood." Flynn's Robin dresses like a dandy in green tights and tunic, with frills and spangles, plus a feather in his hat. Crowe and Scott had no interest in perpetuating that cliched fashion sense, and they wanted to spin a more authentic period drama of the late 12th and early 13th centuries to explain how the legend arose of a Robin Hood who steals from the rich to look after the poor. "He's a guy who's been on the road, as opposed to a guy walking around with a feather in his hat and wearing a little green skirt. I never liked that Robin Hood. I couldn't buy it," Scott said. "The film starts to build the process of how Robin becomes Robin Hood. In a funny way, it's like a prequel to Robin Hood." "Robin Hood" is the opening-night premiere Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival, coinciding with its release in France. The film debuts theatrically in most other countries over the next two days, including the United States on Friday. The film co-stars Cate Blanchett as Lady Marian, more of a warrior princess than the Maid Marian damsels of past films, including Olivia de Havilland as Flynn's romantic interest. Dozens of movies and TV shows have taken up the "Robin Hood" story, the earliest dating back to silent film days a century ago. Douglas Fairbanks starred in the 1922 silent epic "Robin Hood," a blockbuster of its era whose acrobatic action was a blueprint for Flynn's swashbuckler 16 years later. A rush of B-movies followed the 1938 version over the next two decades, such as 1948's "The Prince of Thieves" and 1954's "The Men of Sherwood Forest," featuring Robin Hoods cast in the mold of Flynn. "He is to Robin Hood what Sean Connery is to James Bond," said Allen W. Wright, a Robin Hood enthusiast who oversees the Web site http://www.boldoutlaw.com, dedicated to the lore and literature of the hero. "If I close my eyes and someone says, `Robin Hood,' I see Errol Flynn." Richard Greene played the lead in the 1950s TV series "The Adventures of Robin Hood." Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack buddies updated the story to Prohibition-era Chicago with 1964's "Robin and the 7 Hoods." The Disney cartoon carried on Robin's traditional green-clad style, while Connery embodied a more frazzled, world-weary look in 1976's "Robin and Marian," co-starring Audrey Hepburn as Robin's great love. Kevin Costner scored a blockbuster with 1991's "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves," playing the character as a sensitive New Age dreamboat. Then Mel Brooks turned around and mocked the legend with 1993's "Robin Hood: Men in Tights." The versions all differ in the details, yet a few key threads run through most Robin Hood tales, from the 15th and 16th century ballads that first popularized the figure through the films and TV shows. "The one consistent thing is he's an outlaw," said Alan Lupack, director of the University of Rochester's Robbins Library, which houses the Robin Hood Project, a collection of texts, imag |
Who was head of the family in the cartoon series the Jetsons | The Jetsons - Show News, Reviews, Recaps and Photos - TV.com EDIT With the success of The Flintstones, the modern Stone Age family, Hanna-Barbera decided to make a similar family cartoon, but set in their vision of the Space Age in the 21st century. This new series that debuted September 23, 1962 became The Jetsons. Set mainly in sky-high Orbit City, the show featured the family of George Jetson, Jane, his wife, their daughter Judy, and son Elroy living the average life in the future with flying space cars, instant transport tubes, and various robots and gadgets than can get their work done for them in a matter of seconds. George brought in the family income by working at Spacely Space Sprockets, run by his stocky, ill-tempered boss Cosmo Spacely, who's usually quick to fire George for any reason he could find. But somehow, he always managed to get his job back and continue supporting his family. He works as an indexer and is teamed with his helpful computer R.U.D.I. Other than the threats of firing by Spacely, George would also have to worry about any schemes carried out by Mr. Spacely's top business rival W.C. Cogswell, owner and president of Cogswell Cogs. If there's a dispute between the two businessmen, it's almost certain George would wind up in the middle of it. Most times, though, things always worked out in the end. Jane is the housewife who tends to the home, but loves to shop for the latest fashions and various items that can be a help to the family, like new gadgets that can help them in new ways. She's assisted by the family's robot maid Rosey (which can also be spelled Rosie). She's one of the older-fashioned models compared to most of the advanced robot maids of the future, but the Jetsons love her and regard her as a member of the family. Judy is the Jetsons' teenage daughter who attends Orbit High School and goes for the latest teen fashions, trends, and music, and seems to have a different boyfriend in most episodes. If she's lucky, she can even wind up dating a celebrity, like her favorite rock star Jet Screamer, much to her father's chagrin. Elroy is the Jetsons' genius son who attends Little Dipper Elementary School and is a straight-A student. He's a part-time inventor and can make new creations in hope to make a better future, and if fortunate, a little money on the side. But most times, he likes to be an average boy by playing various sports, and with his faithful companion, the family's dog Astro, who at times is overly affectionate, and can annoy George at times. But like Rosey, he's regarded as a member of the family. The Jetsons reside at the Skypad Apartments, which are properly cared for by superintendant Henry Orbit, who like Elroy is a mechanical genius. At times, he can invent gadgets that can help him with his maintenance work. His greatest accomplishment is his robot assistant Mac, who can get his work at the Skypad Apartments done in half the time. But he does have feelings for Rosey as the two are occasionally seen as a couple, but are mainly friends. Other recurring characters in this series include Mr. Spacely's family, particularly his wife Stella (sometimes called Petunia, likely her nickname), one of few people who can actually put a scare in him if he rubs her the wrong way. And they have a young son close to Elroy's age named Arthur. Common characters at Spacely Sprockets are Uniblab, an underling robot who at times is a stool pigeon for Mr. Spacely to George's dismay, as well as Spacely's secretary Miss Galaxy. Cogswell also had a few subordinates of his own. Among them were his assistant Harlan and his scientist Moonstone. The Jetsons ran for only one season on ABC, but the series was more successful in syndication. This led to a revival in 1985 with new episodes with more advanced animation that was richer in color and made the series even more futuristic than the 1960's version of the 21st century. New characters were introduced as well, including a new alien gremlin pet for the Jetsons, named Orbitty, who has springlike legs and suction cup feet, enabling him to hang upsid |
What three words appear at the end of every Loony Tunes cartoon | Porky Pig | Looney Tunes Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Early films Porky as he first appeared in I Haven't Got a Hat. The character was designed by animator Bob Clampett and introduced in the short I Haven't Got a Hat (First released on March 2, 1935), directed by Friz Freleng . Studio head Leon Schlesinger suggested that Freleng do a cartoon version of the popular Our Gang films. Porky only has a minor role in the film, but the fat little stuttering pig easily stole the show. Porky's name came from two brothers who were childhood classmates of Freleng's, nicknamed "Porky" and "Piggy". [1] Since Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising had left the studio in 1933, taking the studio's star character Bosko with them, Looney Tunes had been kept afloat by cartoons featuring the bland Buddy. Porky's introduction ushered Buddy out the door and pointed to things to come. Tex Avery was hired to the studio in 1936, and his film Gold Diggers of '49 reused much of the cast from I Haven't Got a Hat, albeit in wildly different roles. Porky transitioned from a shy little boy to an immensely fat adult. Though he was still in a supporting role, Porky got most of the laughs. The directors realized they had a star on their hands. This early Porky shared his stutter with the voice actor who originally played him, Joe Dougherty. Because Dougherty could not control his stutter, however, production costs became too high. The versatile Mel Blanc won the audition for the character in 1937, beginning his long career with the studio. Blanc continued the stutter, however it was reduced. Clampett's Porky Porky starred in dozens of films in the late 1930s. The directors still didn't have a grasp on the character, however; his appearance, age, and personality all varied from picture to picture. Bob Clampett would finally pin Porky down, making him cuter, smarter, and less of a stutterer. Clampett's Porky was an innocent traveler, taking in the wonders of the world—and in Clampett's universe, the world is a very weird place indeed. This principle is perhaps best demonstrated in Porky in Wackyland (1938), a film that sends Bob Clampett's version of Porky Pig in the intro of a Looney Tunes cartoon. Porky on a quest to find the last of the Dodo Birds. This cartoon was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry in 2000. Porky cartoons directed by Clampett Kitty Kornered (1946) Porky as sidekick Porky's post at the pinnacle of the Warners' pantheon was short-lived however. In 1937, Avery pitted Porky against a plucky black duck who would soon be christened Daffy and would become the studio's biggest star (until replaced himself by Bugs Bunny ). In fact, Friz Freleng would satirize this very phenomenon when he directed You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940). The film features up-and-comer Daffy convincing Porky to quit his job at Warner Bros. to find better-paying work elsewhere. In turn, Porky convinces studio head Leon Schlesinger to release him from his contract. After a highly unsuccessful foray into the real world, Porky returns happily to the studio that created him. Porky always remained a sentimental favorite of the Warner directors. His mild-mannered nature and shy demeanor made him the perfect straight man for zanier characters such as Daffy Duck . He still starred in a few solo cartoons, as well, such as Frank Tashlin 's Swooner Crooner (1944). Other cartoons dumbed Porky down and cast him as a duck hunter after Daffy, largely paralleling the Elmer Fudd / Bugs Bunny pairings. Chuck Jones perfected the Porky-as-straightman scenarios, pairing the pig with Daffy Duck in a series of film parodies such as Drip-Along Daffy (1951), Deduce, You Say (1956), and Robin Hood Daffy (1958). Jones also paired Porky with Sylvester in a series of cartoons in the late 1940s and early 1950s, in which Porky plays the curmudgeonly owner of the cat and remains clueless that Sylvester is constantly saving him from homicidal mice, space aliens, and other threats. Porky, of course, also kept his trademark line, "Th'-th'-th'-th'-th'-th'-that's All, Folks!" that became the s |
Which cartoon show was turned into a film called Bigger, Longer and Uncut in 1999 | Watch South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Online | 1999 Movie | Yidio Watch South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut "UH-OH." South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is an animated movie created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone based on their television series of the same name. The film encompasses other popular animated movies in a parody that involves crude humor and adult jokes. Despite the film being a cartoon, the movie as well as the Television series is created for mature audiences. The film centers on the boys attempting to view the new Terrance and Phillip movie that has recently been released in their town. Despite possessing enough money for the movie, the boys are turned away due to the fact that movie is rated R, and ironically parallels the same type of crude humor that is portrayed in the actual South Park film itself. In turn, the boys hire a homeless man as their guardian so that they can view the film. After seeing the movie the boys are overcome by the use of foul language that the characters Terrance and Phillip use in the movie, and the boys incorporate their cursing into their own speech despite not quite understanding the meaning of most of the terms. The boys return to school the following day and use the language at the teacher and to other students in the class. Shocked by their kids’ foul language, their teacher and principal attempt to divert their foul mouths by holding an educational seminar to help clean up their newly acquired vocabulary. Their parents also subsequently ground the boys, and Kyle's mom sets up a group called "Mothers against Canada" after attributing the boys’ language to the Terrance and Phillip movie, and based on the fact the characters are from Canada. The characters Terrance and Phillip are arrested due to the ordeal caused by Kyle's mom and the boys find themselves caught up in a struggle to save the men who they idolize so much. In the end the group of boys have to decide between their mother's intentions for them, and following the characters for which they look up to. |
What is the largest structure in the world made by living creatures | Great Barrier Reef-world's biggest single structure made by living organisms - YouTube Great Barrier Reef-world's biggest single structure made by living organisms Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Nov 17, 2012 The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres (1,600 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981. CNN labeled it one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The Queensland National Trust named it a state icon of Queensland. A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as fishing and tourism. Other environmental pressures on the reef and its ecosystem include runoff, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, and cyclic population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. According to a study published on 1 October 2012 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985. The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality. The reef is a very popular destination for tourists, especially in the Whitsunday Islands and Cairns regions. Tourism is an important economic activity for the region, generating $1 billion per year. Category |
Which river runs down the middle of Paraguay | Rio de la Plata | estuary, South America | Britannica.com estuary, South America Alternative Titles: Freshwater Sea, River of Silver, River Plate Related Topics list of cities and towns in Argentina Río de la Plata, ( Spanish: “River of Silver”) , English River Plate, a tapering intrusion of the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of South America between Uruguay to the north and Argentina to the south. While some geographers regard it as a gulf or as a marginal sea of the Atlantic, and others consider it to be a river , it is usually held to be the estuary of the Paraná and Uruguay rivers (as well as of the Paraguay River , which drains into the Paraná). The Río de la Plata system and its drainage network and the Gran Chaco. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The Río de la Plata receives waters draining from the basin of these rivers, which covers much of south-central South America; the total area drained is about 1.2 million square miles (3.2 million square kilometres), or about one-fifth of the surface of the continent. Montevideo , the capital of Uruguay, is located on the northern shore of the estuary, and Buenos Aires , the capital of Argentina, is on the southwestern shore. The delta of the Paraná and the mouth of the Uruguay meet at the head of the Río de la Plata. The breadth of the estuary increases from the head seaward, a distance of about 180 miles (290 kilometres): it is 31 miles from the city of Punta Lara on the southern (Argentine) shore to the port of Colonia del Sacramento on the northern (Uruguayan) shore, and 136 miles from shore to shore at the Atlantic extremity of the estuary. To those who regard the Río de la Plata as a river, it is the widest in the world, with a total area of about 13,500 square miles. Physical features The Paraná River (Spanish: Río Paraná; Portuguese: Rio Paraná), together with its tributaries, forms the larger of the two river systems that drain into the Río de la Plata. The Paraná—meaning “Father of the Waters” in the Guaraní language—is 3,032 miles (4,880 kilometres) long and extends from the confluence of the Grande and Paranaíba rivers in southern Brazil , running generally southwestward for most of its course, before turning southeastward to drain into the Río de la Plata. The Paraná customarily is divided into two segments: the Alto (Upper) Paraná above the confluence with the Paraguay River and the Paraná proper (or lower Paraná) below the confluence. Physiography of the Alto Paraná basin Similar Topics River Tamar The Grande River rises in the Serra da Mantiqueira , part of the mountainous hinterland of Rio de Janeiro , and flows westward for approximately 680 miles; but its numerous waterfalls—such as the Marimbondo Falls, with a height of 72 feet (22 metres)—makes it of little use for navigation . The Paranaíba , which also has numerous waterfalls, is formed by many affluents , the northernmost headstream being the São Bartolomeu River, which rises just to the east of Brasília . From its origin in the Grande-Paranaíba confluence to its junction, some 750 miles downstream, with the Paraguay , the Alto Paraná receives many tributaries from both the right and the left. The three most important tributaries—the Tietê , Paranapanema , and Iguaçu rivers —all join the Alto Paraná on its left bank and have their sources within a few miles of the Atlantic coast of Brazil. The Alto Paraná first flows in a southwesterly direction down a deep cleavage in the southern slope of the ancient Brazilian Highlands , the configuration of which determines its course. Just before it begins to run along the frontier between Brazil to the east and Paraguay to the west, the river has to cut through the Serra de Maracaju (Mbaracuyú), which in the past had the effect of a dam, until the Itaipu hydroelectric dam project was completed there in 1982; the river once expanded its bed into a lake 2.5 miles wide and 4.5 miles long, with Guaíra, Brazil, standing on the southern shore. The river’s passage through the mountains was, until 1982, marked by the Guairá Falls ( Salto das Sete Quedas ), wh |
Which islands are known as The Friendly Isles | Friendly Islands (also known as: Tonga) 1902 Encyclopedia > Friendly Islands (Tonga) Friendly Islands (also known as: Tonga) FRIENDLY ISLANDS. The group thus named by Captain Cook, and otherwise called after the name of its chief island Tonga, was discovered by Tasman in 1643. It lies in the South Pacific, on the S.W. limits of the area occupied by the Polynesian race, about 350 miles S.S.W. from Samoa, and 250 E.S.E. from Fiji. The long chain of islands, numbering about 150, though with a collective area hardly exceeding 400 square miles, extends from 18° 5' to 22° 29' S. lat., and 173° 52' to 176° 10' W. long., and is broken into three groups, viz., the Tonga to the S., Habai (which again is divided into three clusters) in the centre, and Haafulahao or Vavau, to the N. Along the W. side of the N. half of this chain is a line of volcanic action, where the islands (of which three are active volcanoes) are high and wooded, one peak rising over 5000 feet. But the great majority of the islands are level, averaging 40 feet high, with hills rising to 600 feet ; their sides are generally steep; they are formed of coral limestone, in some places a compact white rock, and in Vavau occasionally crystalline, and containing stalactitic caves of great beauty. The surface is covered, which is unusual in coral islands, with a deep rich mould, mixed towards the sea with sand, and having a substratum of red or blue clay. The soil is thus very productive, although water is scarce and bad. Run-ning streams are very rare, but streams and basins of clear water occur in the limestone rock below the surface. Reefs.Barrier reefs are rare ; fringing reefs are numer-ous, except on the E. side, which is nearly free, and there are many small isolated reefs and volcanic banks among the islands. If the reefs impede navigation they form some good harbours. The best is on the S.W. side of Vavau; another is on the N. of Tonga at Bangaimotu. Islands.The most considerable island is Tonga, or Tonga-tabu (the Sacred Tonga), in the S. group, about 21 by 12 miles, and 128 square miles in area, which contains the capital, Nukualofa. The vegetation is rich and beauti-ful, but the scenery tame, the land seldom rising above 60 feet. Eoa, 9 miles to the S.E. and nearly 12 by 5 miles, is 600 feet high, and much more picturesque, diversified by rocks and woods. Vavau, in the N. group, is next to Tonga in size, 42 miles in circumference and 300 feet high. Next to these come Nomuka and Lefuka in the Habai group, about 19 miles in circumference; Tofita, 2846 feet, Late, 1820 feet, and Kao, 5080 feet high, which are volcanic, and smaller. Vavau and the neighbouring islands are higher and more varied in contour than those to the S. The islands of the central group are numerous and very fertile. Earthquakes are frequent; from 1845 to 1857 volcanic eruptions were very violent, and islands once fertile were devastated and nearly destroyed. A new island rose from the sea, and was at once named "Wesley," but disappeared again. Climate.The climate is enervating; it is darnp, with heavy dews and frequent alternations of temperature, which averages 75°-77° F., though considerably higher in Vavau. Cool S.E. trade winds blow, sometimes with great violence, from April to December. During the rest of the year the winds blow from W.N.W. and N., with rain and occasional destructive hurricanes. Flora.The vegetation is similar to that of Fiji, but more definitely Indo-Malayan in character; it embraces all the plants of the groups to the E., with many that are absent there. Ferns abound, some of them peculiar, and tree ferns on the higher islands. There are 4 palms, among them the Kentia of Fiji. For the rest, Gramineae, Rubi-aceae, Ficoideae, Myrtaceae, Euphorbiae, Malvaceae, and Leguminosoae predominate. All the usual fruit trees and cultivated plants of the Pacific are found. The most valuable timber trees are the tamanu (Calophyllum Bur-manni), milo (Thespesia populnea), futu (Barringtonia speciosa), mohemohe, tavaki, and Casuarina or iron-wood. Fauna.The only indigenous land n |
If you were on holiday at the coastal resort of Bodrum, which country would you be in | Turkey Holidays 2017/2018 | Holidays to Turkey | Thomas Cook Food & Drink Fresh local produce and a fusion of Arabic and Mediterranean cuisines mean that eating and drinking in Turkey is diverse and delicious. You’ll typically start a traditional meal sharing a tableful of mezze – perhaps smoky aubergine dip, garlicky spinach in yoghurt or hot cheese pastries. On the coast, make the most of freshly caught seafood, such as grilled sea bass, but throughout Turkey you’re likely to find char-grilled meats – lamb or chicken – on skewers. Look out for gözleme in seaside resorts – freshly made pancakes filled with potato or white cheese. Raki is the local aniseed liquor; powerful and pungent, it should only be tried with food. Turkey is best for... Celebrity spotters: Party with the international jet set at the waterfront Halikarnas in Bodrum – it’s the world’s largest outdoor club. History lovers: Step back to Roman times at the ruined city of Ephesus. Adventure seekers: Take the ride of your life in a tandem paraglide at Olu Deniz, drifting slowly onto the lush lagoon. Fast facts Language: The language spoken in Turkey is Turkish. Currency: The currency used in Turkey is the Turkish Lira (TL). Local time: Turkey is 2 hours ahead of GMT/UK time. Fly to: There are many international and domestic airports in Turkey. Antalya International Airport is where you’ll fly if you are staying in Antalya or Belek. Further west, use Dalaman International Airport for Marmaris and Fethiye, and Milas-Bordum Airport for resorts around Bodrum. Istanbul has two airports. Flight time from UK: 4-5 hours Tourist Information: Further Turkey tourist information can be found at www.goturkey.com Visa & Health: Before you travel, visit www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/turkey for recommendations and advice on visas and health for your holiday to Turkey. Apply for your Turkish visa online at https://www.evisa.gov.tr/en/ Weather and climate The climate in Turkey varies between the regions, but if you’re visiting during the summer, you can be sure of glorious, beach-friendly temperatures wherever you are. Highs of 34 (°C) are common in Bodrum and Antalya during July, while more comfortable temperatures in the mid-teens make spring a popular time to visit. Book your holiday for the autumn to take advantage of the mild weather and quieter resorts, or enjoy fresh, blue sky days on a winter holiday to Turkey. Getting around By taxi: All resorts have metered taxis; there are also some fixed-route charges, for example to and from Dalaman airport. By coach: Sleek, speedy coaches are the best way of getting around Turkey, with fast, frequent, services covering every town and city. There are many private operators, but buy your ticket in advance if you’re travelling in high season. By minibus: For shorter journeys, and within towns and cities, minibuses (dolmuş) are a common way of getting around, operating on a fixed route and will let you on and off along the route wherever you wish. Events Anzac Day: Aussies and Kiwis gather for Anzac Day, marking the anniversary of the World War I Gallipoli landings (25 April). For culture lovers: The glorious Roman amphitheatre near Antalya is the venue of the prestigious Aspendos International Opera And Ballet Festival where world-famous music troupes dazzle music-loving audiences. Turkish tradition: It’s a very different form of entertainment in Selçuk where the camel wrestling festival sees these heavyweight beasts battle it out in this traditional sporting event. For yachters: Nautical culture is celebrated at autumn’s Marmaris International Race Week – you’ll see sleek yachts racing from the busy harbour. Take to the skies: See colourful parachutes and paragliders in daredevil flights from Babadağ mountain for October’s Ölüdeniz Air Games. Why choose Thomas Cook With hotels available to suit every person and every budget look no further than Thomas Cook for your getaway this year! Thousands of hotels to choose from Dedicated online customer service |
The American gold reserves are held in Fort Knox, but where are the silver reserves kept | Who Owns Most of the World's Gold? Who Owns Most of the World's Gold? 4% of the World Controls 12.6% of the Gold Written by Luke Burgess Posted November 4, 2015 With gold prices getting ready to soar, we've decided to find out who owns the most bullion in the world. It's no surprise that governments, central banks, and investment funds are the world's largest holders of gold reserves. These organizations know gold is the ultimate store of value that protects against inflation and offers a safe haven during times of economic and geopolitical turmoil. To find out who owns the most gold in the world, we referred to data from the International Monetary Fund's International Financial Statistics Report. The 10 Biggest Gold Owners in the World #10 -- The Netherlands 612.5 55.2% The Netherland central bank, De Nederlandsche Bank, oversees the Dutch national finances, including the country's 612.5 tonnes of gold reserves. The Dutch's gold is currently account for 55.2% of the country's foreign reserves. Five years ago, gold accounted for 61.4% of the The Netherlands foreign reserves -- although there has been no change in the nominal amount of gold the Dutch hold. #9 -- Japan 765.2 2.4% Although Japan is the ninth largest gold owner in the world, its 765.2 tonnes of the yellow metal account for just 2.4% of the island nation's total foreign reserves. In the past five years, gold's share of Japan's foreign reserves has very slightly increased. #8 -- Switzerland 1040.0 7.7% Conducting Switzerland's monetary policy is the Swiss National Bank, which oversees the country's 1,040.0 tonnes of gold. The gold is believed to be stored in huge underground vaults near the federal Parliament building in Berne, but the Swiss National Bank treats the location of the gold reserves as a secret. Switzerland has sold just a tiny bit of its gold holdings since 2010. However, gold's share of the Swiss foreign reserves has dropped to 7.7% from 37.1% five years ago. #7 -- China 1054.1 1.0% Most people tend to assume that China is one of the top three gold-holding countries. And while China does own quite a bit of the yellow metal, the Chinese gold accounts for only 1.0% of the nation's total foreign reserves. And although the country has slightly added to its reserves, gold's share of China's total foreign reserves has actually fallen from 1.8% five years ago. #6 -- Russia 1,208.2 12.2% Russia owns just over 1,200 tonnes of gold, which account for 12.2% of the country's foreign reserves. Only recently did Russia begin publically reporting the country's gold holdings. #5 -- France 2,435.4 72.6% The Banque De France is responsible for France's gold holdings, which have been reported at about 2,435.4 tonnes by the International Monetary Fund. In five years, France has sold a small bit of it's gold holdings (about 15 tonnes). But like many other countries on the list so far, gold's share has fallen from 72.6% five years ago to 65.6% today. #4 -- Italy 2,451.8 66.6% The Italian National Bank, Banca D'Italia, manages the country's large gold holdings, which account for 66.6% of its foreign reserves. Italy, which controls 2,451.8 tonnes of gold, hasn't altered its reserves in several years. #3 -- IMF 2,814.0 n/a The International Monetary Fund oversees the global financial system by following the macroeconomic policies of its 185 member countries. It is an organization formed to stabilize international exchange rates and facilitate development and offers highly leveraged loans, mainly to poorer countries.2,814.0 The IMF's gold policies have changed in the last quarter century, but the reserves remain in place for use in stabilizing international markets and aiding national economies. The IMF's official policy on gold as it is stated on the organization's website is governed by the following principles: As an undervalued asset held by the IMF, gold provides fundamental strength to its balance sheet. Any mobilization of IMF gold should avoid weakening its overall financial position. The IMF should continue to hold a relatively large amount of go |
What was the name of the chemical plant responsible for the Bhopal disaster | Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster, 30 Years Later - The Atlantic The Atlantic 28 Photos In Focus Thirty years ago, on the night of December 2, 1984, an accident at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, released at least 30 tons of a highly toxic gas called methyl isocyanate, as well as a number of other poisonous gases. The pesticide plant was surrounded by shanty towns, leading to more than 600,000 people being exposed to the deadly gas cloud that night. The gases stayed low to the ground, causing victims throats and eyes to burn, inducing nausea, and many deaths. Estimates of the death toll vary from as few as 3,800 to as many as 16,000, but government figures now refer to an estimate of 15,000 killed over the years. Toxic material remains, and 30 years later, many of those who were exposed to the gas have given birth to physically and mentally disabled children. For decades, survivors have been fighting to have the site cleaned up, but they say the efforts were slowed when Michigan-based Dow Chemical took over Union Carbide in 2001. Human rights groups say that thousands of tons of hazardous waste remain buried underground, and the government has conceded the area is contaminated. There has, however, been no long-term epidemiological research which conclusively proves that birth defects are directly related to the drinking of the contaminated water. |
Which tanker caused the world's greatest ever oil spillage in 1989 in the Gulf of Alaska | Oil Spill Facts - Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council Questions and Answers about the Spill Where is the Exxon Valdez today? After several changes of name and ownership, the tanker was converted for hauling bulk ore in the South China Sea. Following a collision with a cargo ship in November 2012, the ore carrier was sold, again renamed, and then resold for scrap and routed to India. A court dispute to prevent the ship from being beached in India was resolved when the Supreme Court of India granted permission to the owners to beach the ship for dismantling. The former T/V Exxon Valdez was beached on August 2, 2012. For more details, see After the Big Spill, What Happened to the Ship Exxon Valdez? at the NOAA website . How did the accident happen? The National Transportation Safety Board investigated the accident and determined that the probable causes of the grounding were: The failure of the third mate to properly maneuver the vessel, possibly due to fatigue and excessive workload; the failure of the master to provide a proper navigation watch, possibly due to impairment from alcohol; the failure of Exxon Shipping Company to supervise the master and provide a rested and sufficient crew for the Exxon Valdez; the failure of the U.S. Coast Guard to provide an effective vessel traffic system; and the lack of effective pilot and escort services. Okay. But what actually happened? The Exxon Valdez departed from the Trans Alaska Pipeline terminal at 9:12 pm March 23, 1989. William Murphy, an expert ship's pilot hired to maneuver the 986-foot vessel through the Valdez Narrows, was in control of the wheelhouse. At his side was the captain of the vessel, Joe Hazelwood. Helmsman Harry Claar was steering. After passing through Valdez Narrows, pilot Murphy left the vessel and Captain Hazelwood took over the wheelhouse. The Exxon Valdez encountered icebergs in the shipping lanes and Captain Hazelwood ordered Claar to take the Exxon Valdez out of the shipping lanes to go around the icebergs. He then handed over control of the wheelhouse to Third Mate Gregory Cousins with precise instructions to turn back into the shipping lanes when the tanker reached a certain point. At that time, Claar was replaced by Helmsman Robert Kagan. For reasons that remain unclear, Cousins and Kagan failed to make the turn back into the shipping lanes and the ship ran aground on Bligh Reef at 12:04 am March 24, 1989. Captain Hazelwood was in his quarters at the time. LISTEN to Captain Hazelwood's radio call to the Valdez Vessel Traffic Center . Can I have more detail, please? Here's a detailed account of the accident as reported by the Alaska Oil Spill Commission in its 1990 Final Report . Was the captain drunk? The captain was seen in a local bar, admitted to having some alcoholic drinks, and a blood test showed alcohol in his blood even several hours after the accident. The captain has always insisted that he was not impaired by alcohol. The state charged him with operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol. A jury in Alaska, however, found him NOT GUILTY of that charge. The jury did find him guilty of negligent discharge of oil, a misdemeanor. Hazelwood was fined $50,000 and sentenced to 1,000 hours of community service in Alaska ( State of Alaska v. Hazelwood ). He completed the community service ahead of schedule in 2001. He picked up trash along the Seward Highway and worked at Bean's Cafe, a "soup kitchen" for the homeless in Anchorage, Alaska. What's being done to prevent another Exxon Valdez-type accident? See the Spill Prevention and Response page for a thorough answer. How much oil was spilled? Approximately 11 million gallons or 257,000 barrels or 35,000 metric tonnes (38,800 short tons). Picture the swimming pool at your school or in your community. The amount of spilled oil is roughly equivalent to 17 olympic-sized swimming pools. How much oil was the Exxon Valdez carrying? 53,094,510 gallons or 1,264,155 barrels How does the Exxon Valdez spill compare to other spills? The Exxon Valdez spill, though still one of the largest ever in |
Which country singer had hits with El Paso and Devil Woman | Marty Robbins | New Music And Songs | Marty Robbins About Marty Robbins No artist in the history of country music has had a more stylistically diverse career than Marty Robbins. Never content to remain just a country singer, Robbins performed successfully in a dazzling array of styles during more than 30 years in the business. To his credit, Robbins rarely followed trends but often took off in directions that stunned both his peers and fans. Plainly Robbins was not hemmed in by anyone's definition of country music. Although his earliest recordings were unremarkable weepers, by the mid-'50s Robbins was making forays into rock music, adding fiddles to the works of Chuck Berry and Little Richard. By the late '50s, Robbins had pop hits of his own with teen fare like "A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation)." Almost simultaneously, he completed work on his Song of the Islands album. In 1959, Robbins stretched even further with the hit single "El Paso," thus heralding a pattern of "gunfighter ballads" that lasted the balance of his career. Robbins also enjoyed bluesy hits like "Don't Worry," which introduced a pop audience to fuzz-tone guitar in 1961. Barely a year later, Robbins scored a calypso hit with "Devil Woman." Robbins also left a legacy of gospel music and a string of sentimental ballads, showing that he would croon with nary a touch of hillbilly twang. Born and raised in Glendale, AZ, Robbins (born Martin David Robertson, September 26, 1925; died December 8, 1982) was exposed to music at an early age. His mother's father was "Texas" Bob Heckle, a former medicine show man who told his grandson cowboy stories and tales of the traveling show. Robbins became enraptured by the cowboy tales and, once he became a teenager, worked on his older brother's ranch outside of Phoenix, concentrating more on his cowboy duties than his studies. Indeed, he never graduated from high school, and by his late teens, he started turning petty crimes while living as a hobo. In 1943, he joined the U.S. Navy to fight in World War II, and while he was in the service, he learned how to play guitar and developed a taste for Hawaiian music. Robbins left the Navy in 1947, returning to Glendale, where he began to sing in local clubs and radio stations. Often, he performed under the name "Jack Robinson" in an attempt to disguise his endeavors from his disapproving mother. Within three years, he had developed a strong reputation throughout Arizona and was appearing regularly on a Mesa radio station and had his own television show, Western Caravan, in Phoenix. By that time, he had settled on the stage name of Marty Robbins. Robbins landed a recording contract with Columbia in 1951 with the assistance of Little Jimmy Dickens, who had been a fan ever since appearing on Western Caravan. Early in 1952, Robbins released his first single, "Love Me or Leave Me Alone." It wasn't a success and neither was its follow-up, "Crying 'Cause I Love You," but "I'll Go On Alone" soared to number one in January 1953. Following its blockbuster success, Robbins signed a publishing deal with Acuff-Rose and joined the Grand Ole Opry. "I Couldn't Keep From Crying" kept him in the Top Ten in spring 1953, but his two 1954 singles -- "Pretty Words" and "Call Me Up (And I'll Come Calling on You)" -- stalled on the charts. A couple of rock & roll covers, "That's All Right" and "Maybellene," returned him to the country Top Ten in 1955, but it wasn't until "Singing the Blues" shot to number one in fall 1956 that Robbins' career was truly launched. Staying at number one for a remarkable 13 weeks, "Singing the Blues" established Robbins as a star, but its progress on the pop charts was impeded by Guy Mitchell's cover, which was released shortly after Robbins' original and quickly leapfrogged to number one. The process repeated itself on "Knee Deep in the Blues," which went to number three on the country charts but didn't even appear on the pop charts due to Mitchell's hastily released cover. To head off such competition, Robbins decided to record with easy listening conductor Ray C |
Who had a number one in 2000 with Groove Jet (If This Ain't Love) | Love Songs: Number One Songs With Love In Their Title Love Songs: Number One Songs With Love In Their Title Tweet It should come as no surprise that love is one of the most frequent subjects of songs. Whether you think it's a crazy little thing, wonder how deep it is, or just want to know what it is, there is a song about it. If you need to come up with some songs for an anniversary, wedding reception, or Valentine's Day, the list below is a great place to start. If you'd like to see an even more inclusive list of songs, check out all the 'love' songs that were on the US year end charts . US Number One 'Love' Songs 128 songs listed. Benny Goodman - Taking A Chance On Love (1943) Guy Lombardo - It's Love-Love-Love (1944) Bing Crosby - I Love You (1944) Mills Brothers - You Always Hurt The One You Love (1944) Perry Como - Prisoner Of Love (1946) Nat King Cole - (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons (1947) Mario Lanza - Be My Love (1951) Doris Day - Secret Love (1954) Jo Stafford - Make Love To Me! (1954) Joan Weber - Let Me Go Lover (1955) Four Aces - Love Is A Many Splendered Thing (1955) Elvis Presley - I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (1956) Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender (1956) Tab Hunter - Young Love (1957) Pat Boone - Love Letters in the Sand (1957) Pat Boone - April Love (1957-1958) Teddy Bears - To Know Him, Is To Love Him (1958) Elvis Presley - A Big Hunk O' Love (1959) Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow (1961) Connie Francis - Don't Break The Heart That Loves You (1962) Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You (1962) Bobby Vinton - Roses Are Red (My Love) (1962) Tymes - So Much In Love (1963) Beatles - She Loves You (1964) Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love (1964) Beatles - Love Me Do (1964) Dixie Cups - Chapel of Love (1964) Peter and Gordon - A World Without Love (1964) Dean Martin - Everybody Loves Somebody (1964) Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go (1964) Supremes - Baby Love (1964) Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (1965) Supremes - Stop! In The Name of Love (1965) Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders - Game of Love (1965) Petula Clark - My Love (1966) Young Rascals - Good Lovin' (1966) Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman (1966) Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love (1966) Supremes - Love Is Here and Now You're Gone (1967) Beatles - All You Need Is Love (1967) Lulu - To Sir with Love (1967) Paul Mauriat - Love Is Blue (1968) Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You (1968) Doors - Hello, I Love You (1968) Supremes - Love Child (1968) Henry Mancini - Love Theme From 'Romeo And Juliet' (1969) Jackson Five - The Love You Save (1970) Partridge Family - I Think I Love You (1970) O'Jays - Love Train (1973) Paul McCartney and Wings - My Love (1973) George Harrison - Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (1973) Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme (1974) Roberta Flack - Feel Like Makin Love (1974) Barry White - Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe (1974) Olivia Newton-John - I Honestly Love You (1974) Eagles - Best Of My Love (1975) Minnie Riperton - Lovin' You (1975) Tony Orlando and Dawn - He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) (1975) Captain and Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together (1975) Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds - Fallin' In Love (1975) Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster (1976) Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (1976) Miracles - Love Machine Part 1 (1976) Bellamy Brothers - Let Your Love Flow (1976) Paul McCartney and Wings - Silly Love Songs (1976) Diana Ross - Love Hangover (1976) Mary MacGregor - Torn Between Two Lovers (1977) Barbra Streisand - Love Theme From 'A Star Is Born' (Evergreen) (1977) Emotions - Best Of My Love (1977) Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love (1977-1978) Andy Gibb - (Love Is) Thicker Than Water (1978) Bee Gees - Love You Inside Out (1979) Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love (1980) Barbra Streisand - Woman in Love (1980) Eddie Rabbitt - I Love a Rainy Night (1981) REO Speedwagon - Keep on Loving You (1981) Air Supply - The One That You Love (1981) Diana Ross and Lionel Richie - Endless Love (1981) Joan Jett and The Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'n Roll (1982) Tina Turn |
Which group had a top ten hit in 1972 with Nights In White Satin | Nights in White Satin - London Festival Orchestra,The Moody Blues | Song Info | AllMusic Nights in White Satin google+ Song Review by Richie Unterberger "Nights in White Satin" is the Moody Blues' most famous song, and their biggest hit, though it wasn't until five years after its initial release that it made number two as a single. At first it was a song on their 1967 album Days of Future Passed, the first to feature new members Justin Hayward, who wrote the song, and John Lodge. The melody of this ballad, as has been noted elsewhere, is close to the one used by Ben E. King on his 1963 melodramatic soul hit "I (Who Have Nothing)." That melody itself had been based on an Italian song King had heard in Italy, with English lyrics by his producers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Still, the instrumentation on the Moody Blues track is substantially different, particularly in the use of an eerie mellotron, an instrument of course that would be a staple of the group's most popular recordings. "Nights in White Satin" does effectively fulfill what was probably the purpose Hayward and his bandmates had in mind for it: a ghostly, haunting nocturnal ballad, with a lilting and memorable melody. The melodrama gets pushed to the fore (as does the resemblance to the chorus of "I (Who Have Nothing)") on the chorus, as the tempo becomes more emphatic and the group's background vocals become especially eerie, like voices in a windblown night. The instrumental break is also well done and in keeping with the hushed mood of the production, an echoed drumbeat leading into a lonely flute solo, the orchestration becoming more dense as the break progresses, building to a near-crescendo before leading into the final verse. It wasn't until 1972, though, that the song became a huge American hit, when it was pulled out for a single. It was, in fact, a Top 20 hit no less than three times in Britain: first just after the release of Days of Future Passed, then again in late 1972, and then again in late 1979. If you're looking for a peculiar big-name cover version of "Nights in White Satin," check out the one War did in the early '70s, when Eric Burdon was still their leader and lead singer. Appears On |
Which female singer now deceased sang the theme from the Six Million Dollar Man | Dusty Springfield - IMDb IMDb Soundtrack | Actress Dusty Springfield has been acknowledged around the world as the best female soul singer that Britain ever produced. With her oddly erotic, throaty voice, she racked up a string of hits from the 1960s onwards. Born in London to Irish parents, Dusty grew up in and around London. Her early work included an all-girl trio, "The Lana Sisters" and, then, ... See full bio » Born: a list of 67 people created 08 Jun 2011 a list of 25 people created 14 Apr 2013 a list of 40 people created 24 Jun 2013 a list of 44 people created 29 Dec 2013 a list of 129 people created 4 months ago Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Dusty Springfield's work have you seen? User Polls 2016 The Grand Tour (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Morroccan Roll (2016) ... (performer: "The Windmills Of Your Mind" - uncredited) 2016 Crazyhead (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - A Very Trippy Horse (2016) ... (performer: "Spooky") 2012-2016 Timeshift (TV Series documentary) (performer - 2 episodes) - Bridging the Gap: How the Severn Bridge Was Built (2016) ... (performer: "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" - uncredited) - The British Army of the Rhine (2012) ... (performer: "I Only Want to Be With You", "Auf dich nur wart' ich immerzu" (German version of "I Only Want to Be With You"), "Warten und Hoffen" (German version of 'Wishin' and Jopin' ') - uncredited) 2016 Mafia III (Video Game) (performer: "Son Of A Preacher Man" - uncredited) 2016 Mr. Robot (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - eps2.1_k3rnel-pan1c.ksd (2016) ... (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" - uncredited) 2016 Vinyl (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes) - Rock and Roll Queen (2016) ... (performer: "The Windmills Of Your Mind") - Pilot (2016) ... (performer: "I Only Want To Be With You") 2016 The Brontes at the BBC (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "You Don't Own Me" - uncredited) 2015-2016 Coronation Street (TV Series) (performer - 3 episodes) - Episode #1.8855 (2016) ... (performer: "I Only Want to Be with You" - uncredited) - Episode #1.8854 (2016) ... (performer: "I Only Want to Be with You" - uncredited) - Episode #1.8689 (2015) ... (performer: "I Only Want to Be with You" - uncredited) 2015 Overspel (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Net als vroeger (2015) ... (performer: "I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten") 2015/VI First Timers (Short) (performer: "Wishin' and Hopin", "Spooky") 2015 Masters of Sex (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Surrogates (2015) ... (performer: "The Look of Love" - uncredited) 2015 45 Years (performer: "I Only Want to Be with You") 2014 Love & Mercy (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me") 2014 Godzilla (performer: "Breakfast in Bed") 2014 One Hit Wonderland (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode) - Float On (2014) ... (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me") 2013 Misfits (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Episode #5.6 (2013) ... (performer: "Give Me Time" - uncredited) 2013 InRealLife (Documentary) (performer: "Wishin' And Hopin'") 2012 Mad Men (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - A Little Kiss, Part 2 (2012) ... (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" - uncredited) 2012 Beatrix, Oranje onder Vuur (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode) - De Prijs (2012) ... (performer: "Son of a Preacher Man" - uncredited) 2011 Luther (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Episode #2.1 (2011) ... (performer: "I Only Want to Be with You" - uncredited) 2008-2011 Doctor Who (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes) - The Rebel Flesh (2011) ... (performer: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me") - Partners in Crime (2008) ... (performer: "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa" - uncredited) 2011 Hall Pass (performer: "Hits from the Bong") 2010 Toast (TV Movie) (performer: "He's Got Something", "The Look Of Love", "Ne Me Quittes Pas (If You Go Away)", "Little By Little", "I'll Try Anything To Get You", "Yesterday When I Was Young") 2010 Dancing on Ice (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes) - Episode #5.24 (2010) ... (performer: "You Don't Have |
What aid to musicians did John Shore invent in 1711 | tuning fork facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about tuning fork The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright The Columbia University Press tuning fork, steel instrument in the shape of a U with a short handle. When struck it produces an almost pure tone, retaining its pitch over a long period of time; thus it is a valuable aid in tuning musical instruments. It was invented in 1711 by John Shore, who jokingly called it a pitchfork. Cite this article Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. MLA |
What type of fruit is a Duncan | Grapefruit Tree Types | Garden Guides Grapefruit Tree Types Submit Grapefruit trees are relatively young types of citrus trees that are a cross between an orange and a pummelo, which is the largest citrus fruit in the western world. These trees are relatively easy to grow as they have few problems that threaten their lives. Different varieties come in various sizes. While some varieties, such as Ruby Red grapefruit trees, come in dwarf sizes, others types are too tall to grow under power lines. Duncan Duncan grapefruit trees are large productive fruit trees. This type of grapefruit tree is believed to be the most cold-hardy variety, according to the Purdue University Center website. The tree is named for A.L. Duncan who first cultivated this type of grapefruit tee in 1892 in Dunedin, Florida. These trees produce grapefruit that are pale to light yellow in color. Grapefruit from a Duncan tree have a smooth surface and a chamois flesh color. Duncan grapefruit is exceptionally juicy and has continued to be the standard for excellence in Florida grapefruits. For many years Duncan was the top cultivator in both Florida and Texas, but today it has been replaced by trees that produce grapefruits with fewer seeds. Foster Foster grapefruit trees originated in Ellenton, Florida and were first cultivated by R.B. Foster in 1907, according to the Citrus Page website. The fruit from Foster trees produce grapefruit with 13 or 14 segments that have pink walls with about 50 seeds or more. This large strong tree produces medium to large fruit that are oblate to spherical in shape. Grapefruit are medium to light yellow in color, but can also have pink rinds. Marsh Marsh grapefruit trees produce medium size fruit with only a few or no seeds. It is the most planted type of grapefruit tree in Florida, as well as the leading variety worldwide. They're large spreading trees that yield much fruit. Marshes are only grown in extremely hot climates such as Florida, Texas, California, Arizona, Australia, South America, South Africa, India and Israel. Grapefruit from marsh trees are oblate to spherical in shape and have a rind that's moderately thin, although tough. Marsh trees mature later than any other type of commercial variety. The surface of the fruit is smooth with the flesh buff-colored, tender and juicy, although the flavor isn't as distinct as other varieties. Star Ruby Star ruby grapefruit trees need humidity and steady heat to grow, although they can't tolerate extreme drought or high heat. These trees produce grapefruit with a yellow peel that has a red pulp. This variety is susceptible to pests, infections and cold weather and isn't as vigorous as other types. Star rubies grow slower than most other types of grapefruit trees. Fruit from this tree is low-seeded or even seedless, although it has a good flavor. Who Can Help |
What colour is Bradenham ham | Cooking Dry Cured Hams Cooking Dry Cured Hams If you are looking for how to cook a supermarket ham, you're probably on the wrong page. For those, see Cooking Wet Cure Hams Dry Cure Hams, often called "Country Hams" or "Virginia Hams", are salt cured and smoked by slow but reliable methods already established during the Roman Empire. The only real change, about 100 years ago, was addition of potassium nitrate to the salt cure for better color and flavor. Photo by smokymountaineer contributed to the public domain . For information on the many other types of hams, see our Hams , and for more general information on pork products see our Pork Products page. Links Dry cured hams are traditionally made in the American Southeast, particularly Virginia and Kentucky, though there is some production in other prts of the country. This cure is also widely used all over Europe and in China for traditional products. Since Chinese hams are not imported into the United States, Asian markets here in California sell cut slabs of Virginia hams (usually front leg) as an acceptable substitute. Notably, American dry cure hams (with the exception of "serrano style") are expected to be cooked, while most of the European products are expected to be sliced very thin and eaten raw. I admit to having eaten a fair amount of the American product sliced thin and raw without ill effect. Dry cure hams are not normally served whole as a big main course item as wet cure hams are. They're salty and the flavor is too intense. They're used as a feature ingredient in many recipes, used in sandwiches and served cut thin to be placed on crackers or such, or just eaten plain as a snack. Do not attempt to use a wet cure recipe with a dry cure ham. These hams are salty and hard as a rock because they've lost 18% to 20% of their original weight in water during curing. They are commonly uncooked but may be cooked. Either may be smoked or unsmoked (a cool smoking is used). Buying Dry Cure Hams You are unlikely to find an American dry cure ham in your local market, unless you live right where they're made. They are, however, quite easy to purchase on the Internet or by phone. American producers provide not only whole hams but smaller products for uses where a whole one is just too much or two expensive. A whole Virginia ham is usually well under US $100. In contrast a Spanish Serrano ham (to be eaten raw) will set you back aroud $850 and a Spanish acorn fed Iberico ham about $1650.00. American "serrano style" hams can be had between $100 and $170 - again, to be eaten raw, not cooked. For reference, here's a list of well known dry cured ham products you may encounter: Ardennes Ham (Belgium) - an uncooked dry cured, air dried ham that is eaten raw. Similar to Italian prosciutto. Bayonne Ham (France) - see Jambon de Bayonne. Black Forest Ham (German) - an uncooked dry cured, air dried ham smoked over pine and/or fir. It has an intense flavor and is used mainly as an ingredient in other dishes or for sandwiches and appetizers. Note that "Black Forest Ham - brine cured" is a wet cured imitation, not much like the real thing. Bradenham Ham - an English dry cured smoked ham finished with molasses, brown sugar and spices. Deep red color. Cottage Ham - same as a picnic ham but just the butt end of the front leg. Irish Ham - a brine cured ham that is then smoked over peat and/or juniper. It is prepared same as a Virginia ham. Jambon de Bayonne (France) - the famous unsmoked dry cured ham of the far southwest corner of France, Pays Basque and Gascony. Similar hams are made by Basque communites in northern California and other places in North America. Jamon Iberico (Spain) - a top of the line ham made from acorn fed black pigs, to be eaten raw. They're now imported legally, into the United States, but with shipping, duties, etc. a whole ham will set you back about US $1650. I hear they're a lot cheaper in Europe. Jamon Serrano (Spain) - a dry cured ham made from white pigs, |
On which Grand Prix race track would you find Gasometer Kurve | Grand Prix 3 Tracks (PC, SteamOS) : SimRacingWorld Watkins Glen "short course" used for the U.S. Grand Prix from 1961 to 1970. Works in GP3 using GPxPatch, and should also work in GP3-2000. 02-Feb-2003 / jattfield / 1,621 DLs / 520.0 KB A fastasy track including skyscrapers and sidewalks, inspired by Midtown Madness. Optimized for the original GP3 game, but will also run in GP3-2000. 29-Aug-2002 / Knud Bruun Poulsen / 1,527 DLs / 1.2 MB This track is a 4.5 miles fantasy oval, with an alternative approach to track layout. The Drome features kerbs turned into banks - giving the driver the opportunity to take the corners at a very high speed. 05-Jun-2002 / Knud Bruun Poulsen / 1,521 DLs / 1001.0 KB This circuit is presently part of the ALMS series, and it is a highly detailed track including a bumpy surface, mobile homes at the track side as well as team trucks. 21-May-2002 / Knud Bruun Poulsen / 1,719 DLs / 1.4 MB A fantasy oval track located on an island in Ostfriesland, Northern Germany. Each year the Iglo 150 race is being held there - on sand. This track includes and installation wizard. 27-Apr-2002 / Flo / 1,706 DLs / 678.0 KB 6. Airfield Diepholz Diepholz Airfield was host of a famous german race-event from 1968 to 1998 which featured touring cars (DTM), Sportscars (Group-C) and Formula 3 races. Many F1-world champions and race-winners were on the grid at that circuit. You can now download a preview video of this track here (WMV Format). Track also works in GP3-2000. 28-Jan-2002 / Dieter C. Serowy & Nik Gill / 2,074 DLs / - Montlhery is a Grand Prix-Circuit from the 1920s and the last remaining european track with banking still in use today.You can now download a preview video of this track here (WMV Format). Track also works in GP3-2000. 21-Jan-2002 / Dieter C. Serowy & Nik Gill / 1,999 DLs / - Monterry at Night track in Mexico. Also includes two magic files for both GP3 & GP3-2000. 15-Jan-2002 / Thomas Stuhrmann / 1,303 DLs / 896.0 KB The Eurospeedway Lausitzring at Night track. Also includes two magic files for both GP3 & GP3-2000. 13-Jan-2002 / Thomas Stuhrmann / 1,236 DLs / 716.0 KB Le-mans Bugatti track at Night. 13-Jan-2002 / Thomas Stuhrmann / 1,236 DLs / 933.0 KB Surfer's Paradise at Night track. Also includes two magic files for both GP3 & GP3-2000. 12-Jan-2002 / Thomas Stuhrmann / 1,253 DLs / 665.0 KB Toronto at Night track. Also features two magic files for both GP3 & GP3-2000. 12-Jan-2002 / Thomas Stuhrmann / 1,158 DLs / 518.0 KB Patagonia/Argentina fictional track at Night. Includes two magic data files for both GP3 & GP3-2000. 08-Jan-2002 / Thomas Stuhrmann / 965 DLs / 1.2 MB Vancouver City at Night track. 07-Jan-2002 / Tom Stuhrmann / 958 DLs / 758.0 KB Detroit City at Night track. Also includes two magic-data files for GP3 & GP3-2000. 03-Jan-2002 / Thomas Stuhrmann / 910 DLs / 1.6 MB Daytona at Night fantasy track. 29-Dec-2001 / Thomas Stuhrmann / 1,093 DLs / 818.0 KB Las Vegas at Night fantasy track. 29-Dec-2001 / Thomas Stuhrmann / 1,132 DLs / 1.5 MB Phoenix City at Night Track. 27-Dec-2001 / Thomas Stuhrmann / 873 DLs / 845.0 KB Park Lane City at Night Track. Also includes two example setups as two magic files for GP3 and GP3-2000. 27-Dec-2001 / Thomas Stuhrmann / 784 DLs / 1.7 MB A fantasy track which is raced in the dark, Houston at Night (Software Version). 27-Dec-2001 / Ricardo Lampert / 762 DLs / 1.8 MB A fantasy track which is raced in the dark, Houston at Night. 27-Dec-2001 / Thomas Stuhrmann / 824 DLs / 1.0 MB This is the software version of the Paris-by-Night track by Thomas Sturhmann. 12-Dec-2001 / Thomas Stuhrmann / 787 DLs / 2.6 MB Paris By Night track. V.1.1 - Many bugs fixed and new versions of the Michell Vaillant carskins and helmets included. V.1.3 - More bugs fixed and general improvements. 12-Dec-2001 / Thomas Stuhrmann / 1,526 DLs / - This is an "at night" version of the Long Beach CART track. Included are magic data files and example car set-ups. 01-Dec-2001 / Thomas Stuhrmann / 1,023 DLs / 651.0 KB An Indy 2000 / 2001 track. According to posts on the forums this is ultra-real |
How many minutes are you allowed before being timed out in first class cricket (not the 20 20 competition) | Twenty20 Rules Twenty20 Rules The ICC Standard Playing Conditions for Twenty20 matches provide the playing framework for all Twenty20 cricket. They are updated every year to reflect developments in the game. Below is a brief descriptionof the rule changes in Twenty20 cricket, click here for a full copy of the Twenty20 Rules. Duration One innings per side, each innings limited to a maximum of 20 overs Interval The interval will normally be of 15 minutes duration. In reduced overs matches, the interval will be cut to 10 minutes. Re-arrangement of Overs Teams have one hour 15 minutes to bowl 20 overs. In the first innings, the calculation of the number of overs to be bowled shall be based on one over for every full 3.75 minutes in the total time available for play up to the scheduled close of play. In the second innings of the match, overs shall be reduced at a rate of one over for every full 3.75 minutes lost, unless the first innings finished early / second innings started early in which case no overs are lost until the time that has been gained is subsequently lost. Timed Out The incoming batsman must be in position to take guard or for his partner to be ready to receive the next ball (or for his partner to receive the next ball) within one minute 30 seconds of the fall of the previous wicket. The Result Each side must have faced (or had the opportunity to face) five overs in order to constitute a match. The Duckworth Lewis Method shall be used in interrupted matches. Restrictions on the Placement of Fieldsmen Fielding restrictions apply for the first six overs of each innings. Number of Overs per Bowler Each bowler may bowl a maximum of four overs. In a delayed or interrupted match, no bowler may bowl more than one fifth of the total overs allowed unless such a number has been exceeded before the interruption. Free Hit after a Foot Fault No Ball This will apply. As in other one-day competitions, one short-pitched ball is allowed per over. Over-Rate Penalties The six-run penalty for each over not bowled will apply - all sides are expected to be in position to bowl the first ball of the last of their 20 overs within one hour 15 minutes playing time. In reduced over matches, the fielding side has one over's leeway in addition to any time that the Umpires may allow for stoppages. Umpires are instructed to apply a strict interpretation of time-wasting by the batsman (five-run penalties). Specifically, batsmen are expected to be ready for the start of a new over as soon as the bowler is ready. Net Run Rate A team's net run rate is calculated by deducting from the average runs per over scored by that team, the average runs per over scored against that team. In the event of a team being all out in less than its full quota of overs, the calculation of its net run rate shall be based on the full quota of overs to which it would have been entitled and not on the number of overs in which the team was dismissed. Only those matches where results are achieved will count for the purpose of net run rate calculations. Where a match is abandoned, but a result is achieved under Duckworth/Lewis, for net run rate purposes Team 1 will be accredited with Team 2's Par Score on abandonment off the same number of overs faced by Team 2. Where a match is concluded but with Duckworth/Lewis having been applied at an earlier point in the match, Team 1 will be accredited with 1 run less than the final Target Score for Team 2 off the total number of overs allocated to Team 2 to reach the target. Home | Advertising | Contacts | Site Map | Champions League | IPL | EPL | ICL | Links | Terms | Privacy | Text Only | PDA Twenty20 and Twenty20 Cup are registered trade marks of the England and Wales Cricket Board Limited (the “ECB”). Products and services on this website are not offered in connection with, or with the endorsement of the ECB |
Which character in Are You Being Served was often worried about her pussy | Are You Being Served? (TV Series 1972–1985) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error The misadventures of the staff of a retail floor of a major department store. Creators: The recent travel strikes have left the staff stranded at the store. At first thought, the idea of camping out on the floor seems a horrible idea, but soon the staff start sharing many war memories ... 8.5 Mr. Lucas is keen on Miss.Brahms and decides to write her a note to ask her out. But when Mrs. Slocomb gets the note instead, the situation gets very complicated. To top it off, she thinks Captain ... 8.4 Ordered to cooperate in the store's German themed week, the Grace Brothers' staff try to find a way to get into the Teutonic spirit. 8.4 a list of 36 titles created 29 Dec 2011 a list of 25 titles created 08 Feb 2013 a list of 48 titles created 15 Mar 2014 a list of 31 titles created 26 Mar 2014 a list of 27 titles created 16 Dec 2014 Title: Are You Being Served? (1972–1985) 8.1/10 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. The staff of the defunct Grace Brothers department store reunite to run a rural hotel. Stars: Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton The staff of Grace Bros. take a trip to Costa Plonka while the department is being remodeled. Director: Bob Kellett A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband. Stars: Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Hughes A reboot of the classic sitcom _"Are You Being Served?" (1972). Director: Dewi Humphreys When Tom Ballard moves to Bayview Retirement Vilage, he meets Diana Trent, a feisty old woman who complains about everything and wants nothing more than just to die. Much to the dislike of ... See full summary » Stars: Graham Crowden, Stephanie Cole, Daniel Hill The Korean War and a long lost letter separate the lives of young lovers Jean and Lionel, whose paths cross again by happenstance. Stars: Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer, Moira Brooker Three old men from Yorkshire who have never grown up face the trials of their fellow town citizens and everyday life and stay young by reminiscing about the days of their youth and attempting feats not common to the elderly. Stars: Peter Sallis, Jane Freeman, Kathy Staff The perils of "escaping the rat race" and dropping out of society - to start a farm in Surbiton (and to drive Margo nuts). Stars: Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith A boisterous female minister comes to serve in an eccentricly conservative small town's church. Stars: Dawn French, James Fleet, Trevor Peacock Audrey fforbes-Hamilton is sad when her husband dies but is shocked when she realises that she has to leave Grantleigh Manor where her family has lived forever. The new owner is Richard De ... See full summary » Stars: Penelope Keith, Peter Bowles, Angela Thorne When Mr. Humphries takes over as head of the mens-wear department at Bone Brothers in Australia, his character and experiences remain exactly the same as it was behind the counter in Grace ... See full summary » Stars: John Inman, June Bronhill, Reg Gillam The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II. Stars: Windsor Davies, Melvyn Hayes, Donald Hewlett Edit Storyline This quintessentially British sitcom is about Grace Brothers, a department store in London which is owned and kept traditional, almost pre-war (e.g. precise dress code for ladies frills and gentlemen's hats according to rank), by two brothers who look old enough to have fought in the Boer war but rarely appear, as most scenes play on one floor where Mr. Cuthbert Rumbold is the executive (meaning he enjoys an endless |
Who designed the World War 2 fighter the Hurricane | Hawker 'Hurricane' Download this Kindle eBook and read it now Hawker 'Hurricane' The Hawker Hurricane was a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd for the Royal Air Force before and during World War 2. The Hawker Hurricane was the first operational R.A.F. aircraft capable of a top speed in excess of 300 m.p.h. The design of the Hurricane, directed by Sydney Camm, was the outcome of discussions with the Directorate of Technical Development towards the end of 1933, aimed at breaking the deadlocked biplane formula. Development The Hurricane was developed by Hawker in response to the Air Ministry specification F.36/34 (modified by F.5/34) for a fighter aircraft built around the new Rolls-Royce engine, then only known as the PV-12, later to become famous as the Merlin. At that time, RAF Fighter Command comprised just 13 squadrons, each equipped with either the Hawker Fury, Hawker Hart variant, or Bristol Bulldog � all biplanes with fixed-pitch wooden propellers and non-retractable undercarriages. The design, started in early 1934, was the work of Sydney Camm. Sydney Camm's original plans submitted in response to the Air Ministry's specification were at first rejected. Camm tore up the proposal and set about designing a fighter as a Hawker private venture. With economy in mind, the Hurricane was designed using as many existing tools and jigs as possible (the aircraft was effectively a monoplane version of the successful Hawker Fury), and it was these factors that were major contributors to the aircraft's success. The Mk I was fitted with the 990 hp (take off) Rolls-Royce Merlin II, 12 cyl., liquid-cooled engine. It had a maximum speed of 330 mph (530 km/h) at 17,500 ft (5,333 m), with a ceiling of 36,000 ft (10,920 m) and a range of 460 mi. (740 km). It packed 8 Browning 0.303 machine guns in the wings, giving it a fair bit of destructive power. In 1939 it was fitted with metal wings, a three blade propellor and armour. The Hurricane Mk.II used the 1280 hp (take off) Rolls-Royce Merlin XX 12 cyl., supercharged engine, giving it a speed of 334-342 mph depending on the version (550km/h), a ceiling of 36,475 ft (11,125m), and a range of 480 mi (772 km). The Mk IIB packed a mighty punch with twelve 0.303 machine guns and could carry two 250 or 500 lb (227kg) bombs, or alternatively 45 or 90 gallon drop tanks. The Mk IIC carried four 20 mm British-made Hispano cannons, two in each wing. The real bruiser in this series was the Mk IID carrying two 40 mm Vickers cannons and two 0.303 in. machine guns and extra armour for low level attacks on armoured vehicles. All of the extra weight reduced the speed and range of the aircraft. The Mk.IV model (initially called the Mk.IIE) used a 'universal wing' making the arrangement of armament very flexible. Also, the Mk.IV was given the most powerful Merlin engine available, the 1298 hp models 21 or 22, 12 cyl. supercharged and liquid-cooled. The maximum speed of the aircraft dropped to 314 mph (502 km/h) due to the carrying of heavier armament and 350 lbs of extra armour. It had a range of 495 miles (790 km). The MkIV wings were capable of handling 1) two 0.303 in. machine guns and two 40 mm antitank cannons 2) eight Rocket Projectiles (25 lb armour piercing or 60 lb HE) and two 0.303 machine guns, 3) two 250 lb or two 500 lb bombs and two 0.303 machine guns. Other options were two long range disposable tanks. These aircraft were intended for ground attacks against armour, and were particularly effective in North Africa, Italy and Burma. Hurricanes II's continued on in the Far East in the later stages of the war against Japan. They fought primarily on in the Burma front fighting on to the end of the war. Back to Top In Action A total of 1,715 Hurricanes flew with Fighter Command during the period of the Battle, far in excess of all other British fighters combined. It is estimated that its pilots were credited with four-fifths of all enemy aircraft destroyed in the period July-October 1940. Following the Battle of Britain, th |
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The Greeks, they say, have a word for it, but what do they call their own country | Michael Scott asks: what did the ancient Greeks do for us? | History Extra Directory What did the ancient Greeks do for us? To say that we owe a lot to the ancient Greeks is nothing new. Everywhere we look, we see echoes of that world in our own: democracy, philosophy, art, architecture, science, sport, to name but a few. But to properly understand the legacy and impact of the ancient Greeks, we need to grasp four crucial ideas. Dr Michael Scott writes... Tuesday 25th June 2013 BBC History Magazine - 5 issues for £5 The first is that it is not only thanks to the Greeks that our culture is so infused with theirs. Just because they invented and built things does not mean, by right, that those inventions, ideas and creations will always continue to be admired. It’s in the way that the legacies of ancient Greece have been taken up, admired, re-formulated and manipulated by every culture between theirs and ours, that we must also look for our answer to the question of why we are so indebted to the Greeks in particular. For example, the Roman emperor Hadrian loved all things Greek: he completed the temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens, despite the fact that no Greek had been able to complete this massive temple in about 650 years of trying. The emperor had created a legacy that, in truth, augmented the reality of what the Greek world actually achieved. The second idea is that, in that continual process of reformulation and manipulation, we have on occasion completely misinterpreted the ancient Greek world. Take paint for instance. Our very sense of the ‘Classical’ from the Renaissance onwards, has been based on the ‘fact’ that ancient Greek temples and buildings were made out of marble and stood shining off-white in the sunlight. But ever since the first modern travellers visited Greece in the 17th century, we have discovered evidence that this is, in fact, completely wrong. Greek temples were painted bright blue, red, green: our very definition of the opposite of Classical! And so strongly implanted in our cultural psyche is this – incorrect – understanding of the Classical world, that even today we find it difficult to accept what the reality actually was. Thirdly, we need to realise that the ancient Greek world has not always been such a source of inspiration and, equally, that it has not always been a source of inspiration for things we would choose to admire now. By the seventh century AD, for example, the term 'democracy' had a ‘mob-rule’ feel about it, which made ancient Athens a very unpopular model for any society, right through until the until the late 18th century. In the English Civil War, for instance, Cromwell was encouraged to follow the example of the ancient Spartans, not the Athenians. In the formulation of the constitution of the US in the 18th century, the Roman model of a Senate and Capitol was followed, rather than the Athenian boule (a council of citizens appointed to run the daily affairs of the city) and ekklesia (the principal assembly of the democracy of ancient Athens). More worryingly, the same Spartan model that was urged on Cromwell was the model taken by the Nazis as the way to create an Aryan race; Nazi youth camps were directly modelled on the training system for young Spartans. Finally, although we may like to think that we have taken the inventions and ideas of the ancient Greeks and improved upon them, this is not always the case. Take ancient Athenian democracy, again, as an example. In ancient Greece, this was based on slavery, and excluded women. Today, we rightly pride ourselves on the fact that neither of these is true. We have improved on the original Greek legacy to the degree that some argue we should not call their system a democracy at all. But equally, we must remember that the ancient Greeks probably would not call our system much of a real democracy either! We have a representative democracy with a very apathetic voter turn-out at elections; they had a system where every citizen voted directly on every major issue, and in which approximately two-thirds of the citizen populat |
With which political party was the landlord of The Golden Lion Hotel in Ashburton connected | The Official Monster Raving Loony Party | Vote For Insanity | Page 30 The Official Monster Raving Loony Party Election Success in Wythenshawe 14th February 14 Congratulations to Capt Chaplington-Smythe who with tireless campaigning gained a 100% increase in our vote at Wythenshawe, with 288 Votes. Once again the OMRLP has forced all the other parties to the front and Capt Chaplington-Smythe has kept to our tradition of coming last. We took a lot of votes from the Lib Dem ‘s causing them to lose their deposit. They would have had 5.19% with our vote but lost their deposit with 4.17%, proving to one and all that a vote for the Loony Party is not wasted. Many thanks to the 288 people who gave us their support and showed that the only co-ALE-ition they want in Wythnshawe is the Loony Beer of the same name. More updates about the events in Wythenshawe from Howling Laud when he returns home. These were policies we proposed many years ago: Environment It is proposed that all anglers be given free licenses from Sept – March. However the deal is that they don’t throw the fish back. Water displacement will then lower the levels of the rivers……….ergo: No floods. 2001 manifesto – Under a Loony government any prospective home purchaser be issued with a full description of such dictionary terms as ‘floodplain’, ‘coastal erosion’ and ‘exposed headland’. This will save time explaining why they have no house anymore after nature takes charge of the environment. In addition to this policy, building on floodplains in future will be restricted to large houseboats with recoiling tethers like dog leads. These houses will be able to float up with the floodwater and land safely again in the same place when the water subsides. 2005 manifesto – All houses built on flood planes will have foundations made of sponge, in order to soak up surplus water. Okay, tongue in cheek, but there’s a serious point. We have been going on for years about the effects of building on floodplains etc, and being the loony party no one took our underlying point seriously. Well its come home to roost and the people of Somerset and many other areas are reaping the neglect of the various Governments. It not rocket science.. If you don’t dredge rivers they silt up and water has to go somewhere… The Conservatives blame Labour, Labour blame Conservative, UKIP blame the E.U, and no doubt the Liberals idea of flood defences are less sandals and bigger wellies?, meanwhile…people are being flooded out of their homes and livelihoods with no expectation of when it will end, or realistically the prospect of not being fully compensated by Government or Insurance companies (When was the last time you got an insurance payout, quickly or in full?) Our sympathies and condolences go out to any person who is flooded and has lost belongings, and in some cases their business. Captain on the hustings in Wythenshawe 2nd February 14 We at the Loony are ordinary working people in the real world. With bills to pay and children to feed. We stand before you in the hope that you will give us your vote so we can go to parliament and make a difference. Make this place a better place. We are the prominent alternative party of Great Britain. We come from all walks of life. Ask us anything about our policies and we will give you a straight answer. Please, please don’t waste your vote because you think it’s not worth it labour will get in anyway! Your vote was fought for, people lost their lives to secure you that right. All we ask is you consider whether you want more of the same or you want to make British political history by voting into parliament the first ever Loony MP. We aren’t professional politicians that went to Eton or Oxford we are hard working men and women that want the chance to get up and make a difference for our society. May the force be with you. The Captain at BBC Radio Manchester 30th January 14 The Wythenshawe Loony’s were at the BBC in Salford on The Alan Beswick Breakfast Show on Wednesday morning. Our hero Captain Chaplington-Smythe was on fine form considering the early start. I |
Which car manufacturing company has the oldest emblem | An Encyclopedia of Automotive Emblems Volvo’s Autonomous Driving XC90 Is Already Being Tested by Real Families A Quick Primer on the Hood Ornament Not every brand has a fancy, protruding hood ornament, nor can every brand pull one off. Companies like Bentley and Rolls-Royce lead the pack when it comes to sculpted hood candy, while brands like Jaguar and Cadillac no longer slap sleek leaping cats or wreathed crests (respectively) on their cars. The hood ornament started when radiator caps were located on the outside of the car, rather than in the engine compartment. Companies started making the cap the visual focal point, giving rise to iconic hood ornaments like Bentley’s Flying B, Packard’s Winged Woman or Pontiac’s Indian Chief. Hood ornaments can take the form of a three-dimensional representation of the brand’s emblem, like Mercedes-Benz’s three-pointed star on the 2012 E-Class, or they can be completely separate from the brand emblem, as is the case with the 1978 Ford Thunderbird’s model-specific ornament. Hood ornaments today are viewed as overwrought and detrimental to aerodynamics, to the ornamentalists’ chagrin. Alfa Romeo One of the more intricate and dramatic automotive emblems, Alfa Romeo ‘s is rife with Italian tradition . The original was created by Romano Catteneo, an Italian draughtsman, and the emblem employs Milanese elements, including the Biscione (shown on the right side of the emblem), which signifies the house of Visconti, Milanese rulers in the 14th century. The left side shows a Milanese red cross on a white background. In 1918, the badge was changed to include a dark blue surround ring with the words “Alfa-Romeo Milano”, along with two Savoy dynasty knots for the kingdom of Italy. In 1925, it underwent further change to include laurels that signify the Alfa P2’s win at the Automobile World Championship, and in 1945 when Italy’s monarchy ended, the Savoy knots were removed. Though at first glance it appears that the crowned serpent is shooting red flames out of its mouth, it’s actually a man being swallowed. This part of the symbol has been very controversial, seemingly symbolizing the Crusades, wherein the Christians defeated the Moors. Suffice it to say the folks at Alfa Romeo don’t much talk about that part. Aston Martin Carmakers love wings, and Aston Martin is no exception. The British carmaker was founded in 1913 by two gents, Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. While they were selling Singer cars out of their Bamford & Martin shop, they came up with the idea to produce their own vehicles. Some years later, the name transitioned from Bamford & Martin to Aston Martin Motors, born from Martin’s name and the Aston Clinton Hillclimb in Buckinghamshire, where Martin would drive from time to time, no doubt spiritedly. The logo itself denotes speed (hence the wings), but it has evolved over the decades from simple superimposed A and M letters within a circle to, in 1927, a V-shaped winged logo and then, in 1987, to what is essentially the modern version. The emblem today employs straight wings and the Aston Martin name front and center, and it’s one of the more elegant brand emblems in existence today. Audi Don’t make the mistake of thinking that Audi has anything to do with the Olympic Games . The four silver rings symbolize the merger, in 1932, of the four oldest car manufacturers in Germany: Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer. These four companies formed what is known as the Auto Union, and initially only Auto Union-specific cars bore the four-ringed badge, while the individual carmakers used their own logos. In 1985, the Auto Union name disappeared forever and the Audi name (a Latin derivative of founder August Horch’s last name, meaning “to hear”) carried forth the same German auto-making spirit. It also carried forward the iconic emblem that lives on today, largely unchanged. Rumors have floated around claiming that the emblem symbolized four driven wheels from the Quattro all-wheel-drive system, but that claim has no historical merit. Still, Audi occasionally has made reference to the connection, |
What was the name of Reparata's backing group | Reparata - Meaning And Origin Of The Name Reparata | NAMEANING.NET Reparata Reparata Expression , Reparata Soul Urge , Reparata Inner Dream Songs about Reparata: Captain Of Your Ship (Karaoke-Version) As Made Famous By: Reparata & The Delrons by Studio Group from the Album Karaoke Pop: Ready To Go Captain Of Your Ship (Karaoke-Version) As Made Famous By: Reparata & The Delrons by Studio Group from the Album Karaoke Pop: Ready To Go Captain Of Your Ship - Sound-A-Like As Made Famous By: Reparata & The Delrons by Studio Group from the Album Almost Pop: Captain Of Your Ship Captain Of Your Ship - Sound-A-Like As Made Famous By: Reparata & The Delrons by Studio Group from the Album Almost Pop: Captain Of Your Ship Captain Of Your Ship In the Style of Reparata & The Delrons by Sunfly Karaoke from the Album Most Wanted 890 Captain of Your Ship Originally Performed By Reparata & the Delrons (Tribute Version) by New Tribute Kings from the Album All Time Hits, Vol. 34 Books about Reparata: 30 elegie per Santa Reparata (Italian Edition) by Niccolò Alberici (Apr 25, 2012) Santa Reparata by Guido Morozzi (1975) Historica Narratio De Sacris Saecularibus, Quae ... Ob Capita Purioris Doctrinae Augustae Vindelicorum Anno 1530... by Erhard Reusch (Nov 5, 2011) Looking back to Santa Reparata: A cathedral within the cathedral by Piero Bargellini (1971) Santa Reparata: L'Antica Cattedrale Fiorentina by Guido Morozzi (1974) Sister Mary Reparata Rose of the Sacred Heart, O.P.: Features of Sanctification (1972) Life of Sister Mary Reparata O.P. by Father Maximilian Walz (1972) Wiki information Reparata: |
Lara's Theme came from which film | DOCTOR ZHIVAGO ~ LARA'S THEME - YouTube DOCTOR ZHIVAGO ~ LARA'S THEME 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 Dec 11, 2012 "Somewhere My Love (Lara's Theme)" from the movie Doctor Zhivago ~ Omar Sharif, Julie Christie ( Classic Movie) 1965 Greatest movie ever made in my opinion. This movie has it all! Drama, Action, Romance, Beautiful scenery and of course a one of a kind soundtrack! Please click on the link below: |
What title is given to the finale of Elgar's Coronation Ode | Elgar - His Music : Coronation Ode ELGAR - HIS MUSIC A work for soprano, contralto, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra, with words by A C Benson, in six parts : 1 - Introduction : Crown the King 2 - (a) The Queen; (b) Daughter of Ancient Kings 3 - Britain, Ask of Thyself 4 - (a) Hark Upon the Hallowed Air; (b) Only Let the Heart be Pure 5 - Peace, Gentle Peace 6 - Finale : Land of Hope and Glory Approximate Length : Dedicated to : HM King Edward VII Elgar's star was in the rapid ascendent when, in January 1901, Queen Victoria died. Despite the early failure in Britain of The Dream of Gerontius , he had had marked successes in quick succession with the Enigma Variations and the first two Pomp and Circumstance Marches . The latter in particular captured the mood of a nation both elated and relieved at the recent successful conclusion of the Boer War, and the new king, Edward VII, had taken a personal interest in Elgar's music. When, in the Autumn of 1901, the Covent Garden Grand Opera Syndicate decided to commission a work to be premiered at a Royal gala on the eve of King Edward's coronation, Elgar was the obvious choice as composer. Elgar readily accepted the commission and work progressed smoothly. This was in part due to the choice of Arthur (A C) Benson as librettist. Benson came from an established literary family and was himself a keen amateur musician. Although the words now seem insensitive and overly nationalistic, they suited the times and Elgar's music well. The partnership was notably close and successful. After a performance of the first Pomp and Circumstance March , King Edward had suggested to Elgar that words should be provided to the Trio section so that it could be sung. Despite strong advice to the contrary, notably from Jaeger , Elgar took up the King's suggestion and asked Benson to provide words so that the tune could form the climax of the Ode. Thus was born Land of Hope and Glory, known throughout the world as a rousing climax to The Last Night of the Proms, the series of promenade concerts held in London from July to September each year. Having settled on the finale, Elgar and Benson proceeded to work on the remaining sections. At a late stage, it was realised that the Ode contained no reference to Edward's wife, Queen Alexandra. So, almost as an afterthought, Daughter of Ancient Kings was added between what had been intended as the first two movements of the work. The Ode was completed by the beginning of April 1902, in good time for Edward's coronation, scheduled for 1 July. But in late June, the King was suddenly taken ill with appendicitis, forcing the postponement of the coronation. The Ode thus received a provincial premiere at the Sheffield Festival in October of that year, where it was sung by the Sheffield Choir, probably the leading British amateur choir of the time who were to have sung the work at its intended London premiere. The work was an immense success, bringing Elgar a status unprecedented for a British composer at that time and leading to honours from several British and American universities and, in 1904, a knighthood. The work was revived for the coronation of King George V in 1911. Since Daughter of Ancient Kings related specifically to Queen Alexandra, Elgar produced a second piece, The Queen, again with Benson's words, for George's wife, Queen Mary. Although this was intended as an alternative to Daughter of Ancient Kings, both pieces are now normally included in performances of the Ode. But, perhaps of greater significance, so attached was Elgar to the finale that he asked Benson to provide alternative words for a new arrangement of the tune as a self-standing song for solo voice. It is the chorus to this arrangement, first sung by Clara Butt in London in June 1902, that is sung at the Last Night of the Proms. Few who now join in these celebrations realise that the somewhat jingoistic words they sing are two steps removed from the full orchestral version of the Pomp and Circumstance March to which they sing them. The two sets of words are as |
What part of the body would a cardiologist specialise in | Doctor, Specialist - Biology Encyclopedia - body, examples, human, system, different, organs, life, hormone, used, specific Doctor, Specialist - Biology Encyclopedia Doctor, Specialist Photo by: CandyBox Images A medical specialist focuses on diagnosis and treatment of a particular organ or body system, a specific patient population, or a particular procedure. Medical care of humans is a complicated task due to the many different organ systems that comprise the human body. Each stage of life presents a variety of health issues that need to be addressed as well. Moreover, males and females also have very different medical needs through puberty and adulthood. This complexity of life necessitates a high degree of specialization in the physicians that care for people's medical needs. There are many types of medical specialties. General Educational Requirements for Medical Specialists All physicians, regardless of their ultimate specialization, must obtain a bachelor's degree from an undergraduate college and graduate from medical school (four years). During the last two years of medical school, students perform clinical rotations in which they are exposed to a wide variety of medical specialties. This provides broad training for all medical professionals, as well as gives the students an opportunity to choose a specialty. After medical school, all physicians are required to do a residency. The purpose of the residency is to provide specific, detailed training in the chosen specialty. The length of the residency is determined by the specialty. The tables on page 231 include the average residency length for each of the specialties listed. Oftentimes, physicians will have a particular expertise within their specialized area. For example, most surgeons are subspecialized in the organ system on which they operate (neurosurgeons, cardiac surgeons, and orthopedic surgeons are examples). These subspecialties are obtained during a fellowship period that lasts one to two years after the residency is completed. It is not uncommon for a highly specialized doctor (such as a pediatric neurosurgeon) to invest ten years or more in his or her medical education after graduating from college. Job Duties and Educational Requirements for Sample Specialties Cardiologist. A cardiologist is a physician who cares for people with heart disease. Cardiologists treat conditions such as myocardial infarction (heart attack) and angina (chest pain). They use diagnostic tools such as an electrocardiogram (EKG) and ultrasound to visualize the electrical and structural functioning of the heart. Cardiologists are employed by hospitals but also work in private practice. Since cardiology is considered a subspecialty of internal medicine, cardiologists must first complete a residency in internal medicine that lasts about three years after medical school. Cardiologists then complete a subspecialty residency in cardiology (another three years). Neurologist. A neurologist is a physician who treats patients with neurological disorders (involving the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system). Conditions that would necessitate treatment by a neurologist include, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, Alzheimer's A surgeon reviewing CAT scans. disease, traumatic brain or spinal cord injury, epilepsy, or stroke. Diagnostic techniques used by neurologists to detect these disorders include (but are not limited to) sensory and motor skills assessments, memory tests, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, and positron emission tomography (PET). To treat these types of disorders, neurologists may prescribe medication, physical therapy, occupational therapy, or surgery. There are several new and very effective surgical treatments for diseases such as Parkinson's disease. Neurologis |
What name is given to the stiffening of the body after death | The Body After Death - How Dying Works | HowStuffWorks The Body After Death Steven Puetzer/Photographer's Choice RF/ Getty Images After the heart stops beating, the body immediately starts turning cold. This phase is known as algor mortis, or the death chill. Each hour, the body temperature falls about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.83 degrees Celsius) until it reaches room temperature. At the same time, without circulation to keep it moving through the body, blood starts to pool and settle. Rigor mortis, or a stiffening of the body, sets in about two to six hours after death [source: Marchant, Middleton ]. While the body as a whole may be dead, little things within the body are still alive. Skin cells, for example, can be viably harvested for up to 24 hours after death [source: Mims ]. But some things that are still alive lead to the putrefaction, or decomposition, of the body -- we're talking about little organisms that live in the intestines. Up Next 10 Worst Ways to Die A few days after death, these bacteria and enzymes start the process of breaking down their host. The pancreas is full of so many bacteria that it essentially digests itself [source: Macnair ]. As these organisms work their way to other organs, the body becomes discolored, first turning green, then purple, then black. If you can't see the change, you'll smell it soon enough, because the bacteria create an awful-smelling gas. In addition to smelling up the room, that gas will cause the body to bloat, the eyes to bulge out of their sockets and the tongue to swell and protrude. (In rare instances, this gas has created enough pressure after a few weeks to cause decomposing pregnant women to expel the fetus in a process known as coffin birth.) A week after death, the skin has blistered and the slightest touch could cause it to fall off. A month after death, the hair, nails and teeth will fall out. The hair and nails, by the way, while long rumored to keep growing after death, don't have any magical growth properties. They merely look bigger as the skin dries out. Internal organs and tissues have liquefied, which will swell the body until it bursts open. At that point, a skeleton remains. Now, most of us don't see that process because the law requires that we do something with the body. There are endless possibilities: We can choose a coffin for our body or an urn for our ashes. We can be embalmed, mummified or frozen. Some cultures were rumored to engage in cannibalistic rituals of consuming the dead, while others left their dead exposed to the elements for animals to cart away. You could donate your body to science or ask for burial at sea. But unless mummified or preserved, bodies eventually disintegrate in the process described above. However, burial in a coffin slows the process tremendously; even the type of soil in which you're buried can make a difference. Disposal of a dead body is largely regulated by cultural and religious beliefs. Early cultures buried the dead with their favorite possessions (and sometimes their favorite people) for the afterlife. Sometimes, warriors or servants were buried standing up, eternally ready for action. Orthodox Jews shroud their dead and bury them on the same day as death, while Buddhists believe that consciousness stays in the body for three days [source: Mims ]. Hindus are cremated, because it's believed that burning releases the soul from the body, while Roman Catholics frown on cremation out of respect for the body as a symbol of human life [sources: Mims ; Cassell et al ]. Religion and culture will always be intertwined with death, and one large area of influence relates to the ethical questions surrounding the dying process. On the next page, we'll consider some of the issues. |
What is the largest single organ of the body | What Is The Largest Organ In The Human Body? | Curiosity Aroused Home > Health > What Is The Largest Organ In The Human Body? What Is The Largest Organ In The Human Body? Tweet What is the largest organ in the human body? That’s easy to answer—the skin, also known as the epidermis — your body’s hairy, breathing, secreting, self-generating, shedding, swelling, permeable and adaptive outer envelope. Just a single square inch of skin contains 3 primary layers, 11 miles of blood vessels, 650 sweat glands, 60,000 melanin-maker cells, and over 1,000 nerve endings. Photo credit: Kerela Tourism The skin is the major organ in the integumentary system, one of eleven major human organ systems comprising 78 distinct organs. Our flesh represents some seriously sophisticated, all-natural biotechnology for advanced animals. It has to be able to keep the good stuff coming in and the bad stuff out, which is no easy task. Pound of FleshThe soft outer envelope of the skin evolved to cover vertebrates; it’s what we have instead of a stony exoskeleton. As the biggest organ for mammals in general, our skin is the heaviest organ and has the largest surface area. Epidermal layers (Photo credit: Mikael Häggström) In general, adults have a total surface area of 1.5 to 2 square-meters of skin, or about 22 square-feet. Most skin is an average of 2 to 3mm thick, about as thick as a piece of craft felt fabric. That’s just an average, though — across the body, skin thickness varies quite a bit depending on location. On areas like the upper back, coverage can be as thick as 5mm, while the thinnest eyelid flesh is around 0.05mm. An adult’s dermal layers collectively weigh from six to eight pounds—about twice as hefty as either the brain or the liver. The liver weighs in at between three and four pounds, making it the second largest and heaviest organ in the human body. Keep in mind that your skin is an external organ, giving the liver the number one spot as far as internal organs are concerned. More Than One Way To Skin a CatOne of the skin’s most crucial jobs is protection of all that goes on underneath it. It must preserve moisture, regulate internal temperature, defend against harmful chemicals and bacteria, and act as the primary sensory interface between you and the environment. You excite your lover with it, and offend still others with its pungent smell. You bemoan its wrinkles, pimples and stretch marks, and delight in damaging the surface with a nice suntan. The skin makes us moist when we are dry, cool when we are hot, and gives us cancer when we are negligent. Skin makes the rest of our body work right, yet we hardly notice its importance. Bonus Facts To Arouse Your CuriosityThe Skinny on Skin CancerSkin is not meant to tan. A suntan is a symptom of damaged skin. Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the U.S. Over 2 million Americans have to deal with this epidemic disease every year, and the rates are still growing, despite the fact that skin cancer is overwhelmingly preventable. The two best ways to ward off skin cancer are by not smoking and by vigilantly wearing sunscreen that contains the ingredient zinc. Zinc is the magic bullet that protects against every kind of solar radiation, including UV rays. Stretch Marks Fact and FictionPeople who lose weight or go through pregnancy, with few exceptions, cannot simply diet away the extra skin that stretched to accommodate the former load. Many weight loss promoters try to convince consumers stretch marks can be reversed or avoided if a certain product or weight loss regime is followed, but this is misleading and usually false advertising. Why, you might ask? It has to do with elasticity, the only variable you can really impact is how slowly you lose or gain weight. A slower pace of is generally better. Past a certain point of expansion, however, elastic fibers inside the skin break under pressure, and the damage is usually permanent. It’s better to save your money and learn to love those stretch marks. Winning the LottoStrangely, the largest organ in the body is also one of t |
What is the only Arab country without a desert | Middle-East Refugees Middle-East Refugees Reprinted from "The Peace Encyclopedia" http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/refugees.html Frequently Asked Questions ^ Contents What happened during the war of 1948 that caused the Palestinian refugee problem? Did the Jews expel the Arabs? The British had wrestled Palestine away from the Ottoman Turks in 1917, and they occupied Palestine until 1947, and shortly thereafter, the United Nations voted to divide western Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab areas. The Jews accepted this plan, and the Arabs rejected it. Not only did they reject the UN partition plan, but 7 Arab nations decided to attack the fledgling Jewish microstate with public proclamations of Jewish extermination. It was surrounding these events that the Palestinian Arab refugee problem was born: "According to official records of the League of Nations and Arab census figure 539,000 Arabs left Israel at the urging of 7 converging Arab armies so that they would not be in the way of their attack. They promised the fleeing Arabs they would return and move into the Jews' houses after the anticipated successful annihilation of the Jews. "We know that 850,000 Jews were ejected from the Arab countries where they had lived for hundreds of years. This included successful people whose property and assets, including community assets were immediately confiscated. 750,000 penniless Jews from Arab countries fled to Israel. "This was a virtual exchange of population. The Jewish refugees were immediately accepted by the new State of Israel. They were provided with shelter (albeit temporary tents) food and clothing. "The Arab refugees who had migrated to various Arab nations were not similarly well received. They were regarded not as Arab brothers but as unwelcome migrants who were not to be trusted. Squalid refugee camps were set up as showpieces to induce the West's sympathy and kept that way. The UN through UNRWA (UN Relief Agency) provided assistance to the camps when the host country could not or would not. These camps became a training ground for terrorist youth to be targeted at Israel. The host country, like Syria, would provide training, weapons and explosives, but refused to absorb the Arab refugees as equal citizens. Keeping them in misery made them valuable and irreplaceable as angry front line terrorists attacking Israel as proxies for the Arab armies who lost to the Jews on the field of battle in declared wars. The Twin Pillars supporting Arab Muslim society are "Pride and Shame". Losing to the Jews on the battlefield time and again in 6 wars shattered the self perception of the Macho Man. - Emanuel A. Winston, Middle East analyst and commentator THE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE: "Even amidst the violent attacks launched against us for months past, we call upon the sons of the Arab people dwelling in Israel to keep the peace and to play their part in building the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its institutions, provisional and permanent. "We extend the hand of peace and good-neighborliness to all the States around us and to their people, and we call upon them to cooperate in mutual helpfulness with the independent Jewish nation in its Land. The State of Israel is prepared to make its contribution in a concerted effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East." - David Ben-Gurion, in Israel's Proclamation of Independence, read on May 14, 1948, moments before the 6 surrounding Arab armies, trained and armed by the British, invaded the day-old Jewish microstate, with the stated goal of extermination. "The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but, instead, THEY ABANDONED THEM, FORCED THEM TO EMIGRATE AND TO LEAVE THEIR HOMELAND, imposed upon them a political and ideological blockade and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live in Eastern Europe, as if we were condemned to change places with them; they moved out of their ghettos and we occupied similar ones. The Arab States succeeded in scattering the Pa |
In which ocean is the island of Papua New Guinea | Papua New Guinea, in the western Pacific Ocean | Ecoregions | WWF x Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests Papua New Guinea, in the western Pacific Ocean Past volcanic eruptions have been tremendous in the lowlands of New Britain and New Ireland. The New Britain city of Rabaul is surrounded by six volcanoes, and in September 1994 one of these forced the abandonment of the city. The numbers of animal endemics of the New Britain-New Ireland Lowland Rain Forests [AA0111] are as remarkable as the volcanoes that mark the landscape. Commercial logging and conversion of forests to agriculture have altered much of the ecoregion. Scientific Code Description Location and General Description The narrow Vitiaz Strait separates the Huon Peninsula of northeastern New Guinea from the island chain known as the Bismarck Archipelago, which is dominated by two islands: New Britain and New Ireland (both exceed 400 km in length). St. Matthias Islands, New Hanover, and many satellite islands are also part of the archipelago. The lowland rain forests ecoregion includes all of the Bismarck Archipelago below 1,000 m. New Britain and New Ireland are both long and narrow and contain several mountain ranges that trap rainfall. The climate of the ecoregion is tropical wet but varies dramatically in amount of average annual rainfall from about 1,500 to more than 6,000 mm depending on the location. Despite the proximity of the Bismarck Archipelago to New Guinea and the existence of small islands that appear to be the remnants of a land bridge, the island arc was never connected to the mainland. The islands breached the ocean surface in the late Miocene (8-10 million years ago) as the result of volcanic uplift, and many active volcanoes still exist (particularly on New Britain). Most of the islands are made up of volcanic (acidic) soils and limestone. Limestone makes up 30 percent of New Britain and nearly 40 percent of New Ireland, or the entire northern half. Soils with limestone substrates are different from volcanic soils because the former lack nutrients and drain quickly. The vegetation of the Bismarcks therefore is unusual in that there appears to be no noticeable difference between the two main substrates in species composition (Mueller-Dombois and Fosberg 1998). Overall diversity of tree species is not impressive when compared with that of mainland New Guinea. Major lowland rain forest tree genera include Pometia (Sapindaceae), Octomeles (Datiscaceae), Alstonia (Apocynaceae), Campnosperma (Anacardiaceae), Canarium (Burseraceae), Dracontomelon (Anacardiaceae), Pterocymbium (Sterculiaceae), Crytocarya (Lauraceae), Intsia (Leguminosae), Ficus (Moraceae), and Terminalia (Combretaceae) (Mueller-Dombois and Fosberg 1998). The vegetation of the Bismarck Archipelago is interesting for species that are not dominant. Araucaria hunsteinii and A. cunninghamii are two conifers that tower well above the lowland broadleaf forests in New Guinea but are not present in this ecoregion. Also, the dipterocarps that dominate much of Indonesia have only three species in New Guinea, and although one of these is reported from the Bismarcks, it has never been sufficiently documented. Other forest types in the lowlands include freshwater swamp and mangrove forests. The species composition of mangrove forests is specialized and occurs in zones beginning with Avicennia and Sonneratia spp. and moving inland to Rhizophora and Bruguiera spp., adding taller legumes and other species. Freshwater swamp forests are less specialized but include some notable species: Campnosperma brevipetiolata, Terminalia brassii, sago palm (Metroxylon sagu), and species of the genus Pandus (Mueller-Dombois and Fosberg 1998). Limestone forests near the coast of southern New Ireland and along the coast and interior of New Britain are dominated by Vitex cofassus (Verbenaceae) (Foster 2001). Biodiversity Features No comprehensive, modern botanical datasets exist for the Bismarcks, and much of the area is unknown in terms of biodiversity for any taxa (Keast 1996; Sekhram and Miller 1994). |
Over which city does the statue of Christ the Redeemer look | About Christ the Redeemer in Rio Brazil - Facts, History, Tickets Price Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil PDF A larger-than-life statue of Jesus Christ perched on the Corcovado Mountain in Rio de Janeiro is inspiring, to say the least. The largest Art Deco statue of Jesus with his arms outstretched gives viewers an impression that the savior of men is keeping a watchful eye over the people of Rio. This 38-m high symbol of peace offers spectacular views of downtown Rio, the bay, Sugarloaf Mountain, Copacabana beach , and Ipanema beach . History Christ the Redeemer The idea of placing a Christian monument on Mount Corcovado (which means Hunchback) first surfaced in the middle of the 1850s to honor Princess Isabel, the daughter of Emperor Pedro II. The very idea of building the statue was shunned in 1889 when Brazil became a republic and the church and state were separated. But the Catholic Circle of Rio de Janeiro recommended building the monument in 1920. Donations from general public were collected to fund the construction of the site. It took nine years to build Christ the Redeemer (1922 to 1931) tourist attraction, which was thrown open to public on October 12, 1931. Things to do In and Around the Christ the Redeemer Statue Besides hiking, one can enjoy Hang Gliding over the wonderful city of Rio. The Tijuca National Forest is the place where you can get bookings done for Hang Gliding. Enjoy the cog train ride through the Tijuca Rainforest to reach the vantage point in the Corcovado Mountain and enjoy breathtaking views of the statue. Nearby Attractions Corcovado Mountain – It’s a granite mountain peak in central Rio with the statue of Christ the Redeemer on top. The mountain is situated within the national park called the Tijuca Forest. A 20-minute ride by Corcovado Rack Railway will get you to the top of the mountain. Guanabara Bay – This oceanic bay in the Southeastern part of Brazil offers a spectacular sight when viewed from a high altitude as it has around 130 small islands that look like dots in the bay. Copacabana Beach – It’s an outstanding confluence of land and sea. Indulge in activities on this long curving beach and watch the football skills being displayed by favela (slum) kids. The beach is sufficiently illuminated at night. Ipanema Beach – The beach, with a long stretch of sand, displays diverse subcultures. It’s a favorite hangout for artists and intellectuals alike. Where is Christ the Redeemer Statue? The Christ the Redeemer statue stands atop Mount Corcovado in Tijuca Forest in central Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. How to Reach Christ the Redeemer? By Air – The Santos Dumont Airport is just 12 km away from the statue and a half-an-hour drive is all what it takes to get there. The Galeao-Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport in Rio de Janeiro is just over 26 km away from the Corcovado Mountain. A drive will take close to an hour. The Jacarepagua-Roberto Marinho Airport is another option. It’s less than 30 km from here. A little longer than an hour’s drive gets you there. By Train – Specially customized train routes are in place to help travelers reach the destination. The Corcovado train station in Cosme Velho and the Riotur kiosque near the Copacabana beach are the hubs from where the trains leave for this heritage destination. By Road – Mount Carcovado is well connected to every part of the city by road. There are specific bus routes operational to take the tourists to this historic site. Accommodations The Mercure Rio De Janeiro Botafogo Hotel and Apa Hotel are preferred budget accommodations. The mid-range hotels located in the vicinity include Hotel Atlantico Copacabana, Hotel Astoria Copacabana, and Mirador Rio Copacabana Hotel. The Rio 180° Boutique Hotel and Mar Palace Copacabana Hotel are meant for high-end travelers. Restaurants Mr. Lam, Rio Scenarium, Confeitaria Colombo, Garota de Ipanema, Sushi Leblon, Bibi Sucos, and Parcao Ipanema, are some of the most famous and popular food joints in Rio de Janeiro. Best Time to Visit in Christ the Redeemer Though the weather in Rio de Jan |
In which city could you climb the Spanish Steps | Climbing the Spanish Steps in ROME, Italy - YouTube Climbing the Spanish Steps in ROME, Italy 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. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Nov 28, 2014 Spanish Steps, Rome, Italy: Let's walk around Plazza Di Spagna and let's climb all the 135 Spanish Steps all the way up the hill. Uninterrupted video from the bottom all the way to the top so that you can experience what it feels like and wonderful views fro different levels. Vic Stefanu, [email protected]. Rome is a city and special comune (named Roma Capitale) in Italy. Rome is the capital of Italy and of the Lazio region. Rome's history spans more than two and a half thousand years. While Roman mythology dates the founding of Rome at only around 753 BC, the site has been inhabited for much longer, making it one of the oldest continuously occupied sites in Europe Category |
What is the name given to fishing equipment | All Types of Fishing Equipment Add Listing Fishing Equipment Fishing is a fun sport that requires skill and patience. There are casual fishermen, professional fishermen, and those who use fishing as a way to provide a living for themselves and their families. No matter what kind of fishermen you are, you will need different types of fishing equipment to get the job done. The most common types are the fishing rod and reel. These two items are the single most important item in anyone's arsenal. The rod is the long extended part of the fishing equipment, and the reel is what holds the fishing line and allows you to cast out to catch the fish. The rod and reel can vary in size, length, material, and cost. Various types of bait can be used along with hooks and lures. The lures are designed to attract the fish to your bait. They can be handmade or pre-made to suit your tastes. Other types of fishing equipment include different accessories such as a tackle box that helps organize hooks, lures, and other items. For the more distinguished or experienced fisherman, there are more advanced forms of fishing equipment available. People who own a boat often use something called a fishing tracker to help them locate areas where fish are plentiful. This electronic device can be helpful when trying to find areas of a lake or the ocean where the fish dwell. When attached to a boat, the locator will sound an alarm or indicate on a small screen when fish have been found. A bucket and a cooler are also necessities when fishing. The bucket should be large enough to hold plenty of water to keep your catch fresh, and to house several fish at one time. Once you're heading home, the fish can be placed in a cooler on ice so they won't spoil. A good, sharp knife is also important for cutting the line once a fish has been caught, or if your line gets tangled. Rubber shoes and pants such as hip waders can be good for people who plan to get a bit wet. Specially designed fishing hats are also good for holding lures and protecting the face from sunburn. Most fishing equipment can be found at sporting goods stores, or at local bait and tackle shops. Some hunting supply stores also have fishing equipment. You can dig up your own live bait, or buy it at stores where it is often sold live. Some examples of bait include worms, minnows, squid, and even raw chicken. Fishing Equipment |
What were the Commonwealth Games previously called | Commonwealth Games: five facts Commonwealth Games: five facts The 2014 Commonwealth Games took place in Edinburgh. More Five Commonwealth Games facts ahead of the expected announcement in Auckland Wednesday that South African city Durban will host the 2022 event: -- The Games were previously called the British Empire Games, the British Empire and Commonwealth Games and the British Commonwealth Games -- The multi-sport event has been staged every four years since 1930 , apart from the cancellation of the 1942 and 1946 editions because of World War II -- While many Olympic sports are included, there are also competitions for sports popular in Commonwealth countries like lawn bowls and netball -- Only six countries -- Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales -- have competed at all 20 Games -- Australia topped the medals table at 12 Commonwealth Games, England achieved the feat seven times and Canada once. Reblog |
Who did Lennox Lewis beat to become undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World in 1999 | stumbleupon More StatsView More About Mike Tyson Retired American boxer, Michael Gerard “Mike” Tyson, has an estimated net worth of $1 million. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles, he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Mike Tyson is one of the most notorious boxers in prizefighting history thanks to his actions both inside the ring and out. His speed, power and angry aggression earned him the World Boxing Council heavyweight title in 1986, making him the youngest champion ever. The next year he won the World Boxing Association title and “Iron Mike” became the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. In 1988, in one of his most famous fights, Tyson knocked out previously undefeated Michael Spinks in 91 seconds and earned $20 million. For a brief time he seemed invincible, until he was knocked out by the lightly-regarded James “Buster” Douglas in 1990. Then Tyson began making headlines for different reasons: his brief marriage to actress Robin Givens was followed by a bitter divorce battle; he was convicted of rape in 1992 and spent three years in prison; a comeback was stymied in 1997 when he bit off a chunk of Evander Holyfield’s ear in the middle of a match; he was jailed briefly again in 1999 for assault; and at a 2002 press conference to announce an upcoming bout, he attacked opponent Lennox Lewis and bit his leg. (The fight took place anyway on 8 June 2002, and Lennox knocked out Tyson in the eighth round). Tyson’s fans considered him a troubled youth who battled long odds to become one the sport’s greatest names; his detractors said his behavior gave the sport a black eye. Tyson’s fight career never quite recovered after his stint in jail, and he said he “most likely” wouldn’t fight again after being defeated in a 7th-round technical knockout by journeyman heavyweight Kevin McBride on 11 June 2005. In an interview with Barbara Walters and the ladies of ‘The View,’ Tyson, 44, revealed without any shame that he is “totally destitute.” When asked how he got to such a low point, Mike Tyson responded, “I had a lot of fun. It just happened.” The retired champion admitted it was his excessive and frivolous spending that led to his bank account’s demise. However, in a new state of mind he insists the lack of money has not ruined his life. “I have an awesome life, I have an awesome wife who cares about me…I don’t deserve to have the wife that I have; I don’t deserve the kids that I have, but I do, and I’m very grateful.” Tyson declared bankruptcy in 2003, despite receiving over US$30 million for several of his fights and $300 million during his career.Same year rapper, 50 Cent bought Mike Tyson‘s Farmington, Conn., mansion for $4.1 million. He is ranked #16 on Ring Magazine’s list of 100 greatest punchers of all time. Mike Tyson and his wife Lakiha Spencer on the red carpet at the star-studded MTV movie awards at Universal Studios in Hollywood. Earnings & Financial Data The below financial data is gathered and compiled by TheRichest analysts team to give you a better understanding of Mike Tyson's net worth by breaking down the most relevant financial events such as yearly salaries, contracts, earn outs, endorsements, stock ownership and much more. ? |
Who were the last team in the 20th century to win the FA Cup wearing stripes | Brief History of Football Kit Design - Historical Football Kits Historical Football Kits A Brief History of Football Kit Design in England and Scotland © Dave Moor (May 2009) The Victorian Period (1857-1899) The game of football is generally considered to date back to the mob football games played in the Middle Ages between rival villages without rules and with unlimited players on each side. The Royal Shrovetide football match is a supposed survival of this early form of the game. Modern scholarship has, however, revealed that small-side games, played by young men according to locally agreed rules, were commonplace and as such, went largely unrecorded. The first recognised rules of football were laid down by English public schools to govern inter-house competition and fell broadly into two groups; the handling game developed at Rugby School and the dribbling game that emerged from Eton, although other schools such as Harrow, Winchester, Uppingham, Shrewsbury, Marlborough and Charterhouse all had their own versions. In keeping with the philosophies of the public schools of the time, these games were extraordinarily violent. When the young men from these schools went up to university they formed football clubs but games descended into chaos as there was no consensus on the rules. The first attempt to draw up a uniform set of rules took place at Cambridge University in 1848. Although the originals are lost, a set of Cambridge Rules from 1856 survives in the library of Shrewsbury School. The first football clubs also emerged around this time, most notably Sheffield FC (1857 - the world's oldest club), Hallam (1860) and Notts County (1862). This led to the development of local rules (specifically "Sheffield Rules" and "Nottingham Rules"), which were widely adopted by the newly emerging clubs in the north and midlands. Scotland's oldest club, Queen's Park also developed their own unique code. The majority of games took place within a club, school or university and it took some time for the notion of inter-club matches to catch on. When they did teams might consist of 9 to 18 players and it was common for different codes to be used in the first and second halves. There were no uniform kits: players would turn out in whatever they had to hand and teams would be distinguished by wearing distinctively coloured caps, scarves or sashes over cricket whites (many clubs were formed by cricketers seeking a team game for the winter) or whatever else players had to hand. The first reference to "colours" comes from the rules of Sheffield FC in 1857, which stated: "Each player must provide himself with a red and dark blue flannel cap, one colour to be worn by each side." In 1863 leading players formed the Football Association and drew up the first set of national laws of the game, drawing upon the Cambridge Rules and those of the Sheffield Club . Spectators were generally regarded as a nuisance and the game was a robust pursuit for gentlemen from public schools. The leading clubs of the day were formed by old boys of the major public schools ( Old Etonians, Old Carthusians etc), by officers serving in the Army ( Royal Engineers ) and at Oxford and Cambridge Universities . The introduction of the English FA Cup in 1871-72 marked a turning point as it required all participating teams to play by the FA Rules. Furthermore, the difficulty of telling two teams apart prompted one newspaper correspondent reporting on Birmingham Association's appearance in the FA Cup to write in 1879: "In football it is a most essential point that the members of one team should be clearly distinguished from those of the other. The only way this can be effected is for each club to have a distinct uniform as the diversity of dress displayed yesterday not only confused the members of the team but the spectators were quite unable to say whether a man belonged to one team or the other." The first uniform kits began to appear around 1870. In England colours were often those of the public schools and sports clubs with which |
Which insect gives off the froth known as cuckoo spit | Beetle Boy's BioBlog: Incredible Invertebrates #01: the steampunk insect with gears in its legs The thoughts and experiences of a young Naturalist! Tuesday, 2 August 2016 Incredible Invertebrates #01: the steampunk insect with gears in its legs This is the first of my series of blog posts which will be focused on, yes, you guessed it, incredible invertebrates. While rare, magnificent, or cute animals get a lot of attention, the tiny miracles that are happening everyday amongst the little creatures, are just as remarkable. A case in my point: I challenge you to find a species of elephant or rhinoceros with gears in its legs! An impossible, crazy thing for a real animal, right? Well, not exactly . . . Issus coleoptratus is a species of true bug in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha, more commonly known as planthoppers. These insects can be found across the world, and over 12,500 species have been discovered. In the UK, most planthoppers are rather small, and are most well-known to the public by their nymphs, which produce a frothy substance around them commonly known as 'cuckoo spit'. This foam is common on vegetation during the summer, and often I have been using my sweep net in a meadow, when I find a blob of cuckoo spit on my hand. The froghopper nymph produces this substance to deter predators, as they hide amongst the foam until they are an adults. An example of a particularly colourful British froghopper, Cercopis vulnerata. Another rather colourful species, Evacanthus interruptus I am sure that most people who are interested in natural history, will have heard of these insects, or the cuckoo spit that they produce. What they may not know, however, is that these creatures have gears in their legs! Which leads us back to I. coleoptratus. This species is fairly common and does not stand out as particularly special. It grows up to 7 millimetres long, and is usually a dull shade of brown or olive. It feeds on a substance found in trees called phloem, and it cannot fly. The nymphs of this species were being studied by Gregory Sutton of the University of Cambridge, and in particular he was interested in how they jumped. He noticed that when they pushed themselves off, their hind legs moved within 30 microseconds of each other, every single time. Pretty impressive coordination, but essential for an animal that relies on jumping to escape predators. After all, if the legs were out of time when they pushed off, it could send the insect spiralling off on a slant. Of course, the real question is not why it needs such fine precision, but how it manages it - there wouldn't be time for the nervous system to control such things. This baffling discovery was followed by some experiments on the insects, which came to an incredible conclusion. On the base of an insect's leg is a segment called the trochanter. In the froghopper, the trochanters of both hind legs have fine ridges (each tooth is around the fraction of the width of a hair!), and as the bases of the hindlegs touch, the ridges interlock - just like gears. As the legs pushed off, the ridges rolled against each other, keeping both limbs in time with the other. These gears in I. coleoptratus are only present in the nymphs. Once they become adults, they shed their skin, and the ridges on their trochanters with it. So are the adults doomed to go spinning off in an uncontrolled jump every time they try and leap away from danger? Well, actually they're even better at jumping than the nymphs are! Instead, the adults probably use friction to help synchronize their legs, though this is not yet fully understood and definitely not for certain. But why don't the adults keep the neat gear system that works so well for the nymphs? Well, the thing about adult froghoppers is that they never moult, so if part of their cogs broke, they wouldn't be able to grow it back when they shed their skin, as the nymphs would do. If they lost a single tooth on the cog, then the damage would remain there, and it would always spin off to the side when it tried to escape from a predator, making it much more vu |
What type of insect is a katydid | Grasshoppers & Katydids of Kentucky - University of Kentucky Entomology WHAT IS A GRASSHOPPER? Like all insects, grasshoppers have 6 legs, 2 antennae, and 3 body parts. Grasshoppers are distinctive because of their large back legs. In fact, jumping legs like these are only found on crickets, grasshoppers, and their relatives. These insects also have leathery front wings (called "tegmina") which help protect the delicate back wings. Females have a long "ovipositor" at the tip of their abdomens which is used to lay eggs. WHAT IS A KATYDID? Katydids are types of large grasshoppers in the family Tettigoniidae, which includes all of the long-horned grasshoppers. Grasshoppers are very closely related to crickets, and it can be difficult to tell them apart. Although grasshoppers are often bright green, and most crickets are brown, there are plenty of exceptions. In fact, grasshoppers and crickets are so closely related that some of the insects that we call "grasshoppers" are actually more closely related to crickets than they are to other grasshoppers. The best way to identify grasshoppers is to become familiar with the different families. There are three main families: Acrididae (short-horned grasshoppers), Tettigoniidae (long-horned grasshoppers and katydids), and Tetrigidae (pygmy grasshoppers). See the common types section below for more information about each of these groups. SIZE: Body length of Kentucky grasshoppers from ½" - 2" long LIFE CYCLE Simple metamorphosis: young grasshoppers hatch from eggs and resemble small, wingless adults. Grasshoppers shed their skins as they grow, usually molting several times before emerging as winged adults. Most short-horned grasshoppers lay eggs in the soil, but some species place eggs inside plant stems. Male grasshoppers "chirp" to attract females. The familiar chirping sound is produced with a "stridulating organ" located at the base of the wings. Pictured below are typical nymphs of long-horned and short-horned grasshoppers. SHORT-HORNED GRASSHOPPERS FAMILY: Acrididae Short-horned grasshoppers are probably the most commonly encountered grasshoppers in Kentucky. Short-horned grasshoppers are so-called because their antennae are short compared to the antennae of long-horned grasshoppers: the antennae of long-horned grasshoppers are usually longer than the body, but the antennae of short-horned grasshoppers are rarely more than half the length of the body. Shown below are typical examples of short-horned grasshoppers. Short-Horned Grasshopper (R. Bessin, 2002) Short-Horned Grasshopper (R. Bessin, 2002) LONG-HORNED GRASSHOPPERS & KATYDIDS FAMILY: Tettigoniidae Long-Horned Grasshoppers look very similar to short-horned grasshoppers, except that they have longer antennae (usually longer than thier bodies). They are not encountered as often as short-horned grasshoppers, but they are still very common. Long-Horned Grasshopper (R. Bessin, 2002) Katydids: Although they are large and distinctive, Katydids are really just a type of long-horned grasshopper. Katydids tend to be very large compared to other grasshoppers, and are known for their song: katy-did-katy-didn't, which is sung by both males and females in some katydid species. PYGMY GRASSHOPPERS FAMILY:Tetrigidae Pygmy grasshoppers look like miniature short-horned grasshoppers. They are usually less than 1/2" long, and are characterized by a long shield |
What nationality was Madame Tussaud | Marie Tussaud facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Marie Tussaud COPYRIGHT 2004 The Gale Group Inc. Marie Tussaud German wax modeler Marie Tussaud (1761-1850) founded the famous London museum that bears her name early in the 1830s, and it remains one of the city's most popular tourist attractions nearly two centuries later. Tussaud learned the art of creating lifelike figures out of wax during the French Revolution, claiming to have made her first ones directly from the heads of the recently guillotined. “Tussaud experienced sweeping social changes,” noted Marianne Brace, a writer for London's Independent on Sunday. “She saw the sacramental nature of kingship in the fated Louis XVI give way to the domestic primness of Queen Victoria; the mob transformed into the mass market. Moreover, her blend of entertainment and information was a precursor of a cultural phenomenon existing today,” that of the celebrity icon. The woman known throughout Britain as Madame Tussaud was born Anna Marie Gresholtz (or Grosholtz) on December 7, 1761, in Strasbourg, a city located in the Alsace region between Germany and France. Little is known of her family background, save for information culled from her 1838 volume of memoirs, which later biographers deemed to be riddled with deliberate falsehoods. She claimed, for example, that her father Joseph was a soldier during the Seven Years' War and died in that conflict before she was born; more reliable sources determined that he was descended from a long line of public executioners in the city. Her mother Anne raised her and took her to Bern, Switzerland, when she became housekeeper to a prominent physician in the city, Dr. Philippe Curtius (1741–1794). Sources note that Tussaud was close to Curtius, called him “uncle,” and may have actually been his biological daughter. Moved to Paris Tussaud became a Swiss citizen, and learned the art of wax sculpting from Curtius, who had become quite skilled in the art from making anatomical models used in medical-school classes but also had a secret sideline creating erotic tableaux, or staged scenes, for private clients. Wax modeling of human figures dates back to 3000 BC, and became widespread in medieval Europe; wax effigies of kings were used for funeral processions, and those of saints were made for churches when costlier materials were unavailable. Tussaud and her mother apparently followed Curtius to Paris around 1767, where he opened a wax cabinet, or exhibition space, in 1770. His business grew to be quite successful, and over the years divided into two venues: the Palais Royal, which featured tableaux of the French royal family, and the Caverne des Grands Voleurs, or Cavern of the Grand Thieves, which opened on the Boulevard du Temple in 1782. The latter exhibit showcased famous villains throughout history, and was equally as successful as the royal family exhibit. The first wax figure that Tussaud did on her own was in 1778 to commemorate the passing of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778). She also completed a likeness of Rousseau's fellow luminary of the age of Enlightenment, the philosopher Voltaire (1697–1778), who also died that year. She claimed to have come to know several prominent figures in pre-Revolutionary France, and asserted she had even given art lessons to the Princess Elizabeth, the sister of Louis XVI, at the Palace of Versailles, but no records survive that support this claim. The French Revolution began in 1789, and at some point Tussaud was apparently targeted as a royalist sympathizer and sentenced to die by guillotine. Before the execution took place, however, it was learned that she was a skilled wax modeler, and she was spared the blade and instead recruited to make death masks of the most famous guillotine victims, among them the king, Louis XVI (1754–1793) and his wife, Marie Antoinette (1755–1793). This was her version of events; later biographers cast doubt on the story. The “gruesome replicas soon drew appreciative crowds to Curtius's waxworks,” asserted Sunday Times writer John |
The London store Harrods describes itself as Harrods of where | Harrods, London Harrods - harrods.com Harrods is London's most famous department store. The luxurious store is on many tourists' itineraries, who come to admire the magnificent interior and enormous selection. They often leave the store with a signature green bag; foreign visitors account for a significant part of the store's sales. History Harrods The history of this famous luxury store goes back to 1849 when Charles Henry Harrod opened a grocery at Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, at the time a small village just outside London. Just two years later, the Great Exhibition of 1851, which took place at Crystal Palace in nearby Hyde Park , brought many visitors to the area. Knightsbridge and Harrod's new store boomed. Charles Harrod's son (also named Charles) took over and quickly expanded the store, at the time known as 'Harrods Stores'. The department store became well known for its high quality products and excellent personalized service. In 1894 Harrods was taken over by Richard Burbridge who had the store completely rebuilt. He also installed London's first escalator, in 1898. The current building was also commissioned by Burbridge. The impressive domed structure was built between 1901 and 1905 after a design by local architects C. W. Stephens and E. J. Munt. The Department Store Omna, Omnibus, Ubique Harrods is one of the world's most famous stores and one of London's tourist attractions thanks to the wide assortment of luxury goods that are on display in a magnificently decorated building. The enormous array of products is particularly impressive. The company's motto - engraved on the building's pediment - is Omnia, Omnibus, Ubique (Everything, for everyone, everywhere). Harrods used to be known as the store where anything you could think of was for sale. While this may not be the case any more, the assortment is still enormous. You can purchase anything from historic eighteenth-century dinner plates or exquisite caviar to giant teddy bears. Egyptian Decorations It is best to take your time for a visit to the large store, which covers an area of about 80,000 sq m spread out over seven floors. Floor plans are available near the entrances. One of the most beautiful departments of the store is the magnificent Food Hall on the lower floor, decorated with tiles created by artist Williams James Neatby. Other impressive departments include the Egyptian Halls and the Crystal Rooms. Also of note is the central escalator, decorated with Egyptian motives. And don't forget to visit the toy department - the city's best - where you'll find enormous stuffed animals. Knightsbridge The success of Harrods attracted a number of other entrepreneurs to Knightsbridge, resulting in an upscale shopping district. Nearby are luxury stores such as Harvey Nichols and Burberry. Sloane street, one of the most famous shopping streets in London, is just around the corner. |
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