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Which animal is traditionally used to hunt for truffles? | Truffle Hunting Has Gone to the Dogs - Modern Farmer Truffle Hunting Has Gone to the Dogs By Jake Swearingen on August 30, 2013 Share Ilsa, truffle-hunting dog extradonaire, with a recent find. Kris Jacobson Want to find a good truffle? Find yourself a good dog. It’s hard to find a crop more valuable than truffles — prices can go as high as $2,000 per pound for ultra-rare white Alba truffles . The problem is that they grow underground, attached to the roots of trees. To find them, truffle hunters traditionally used pigs, whose natural instinct for rooting behavior helped hunters locate the fancy fungi. But in reality, pigs have long been out of favor for hunting truffles. Replacing them? The truffle dog. And in Oregon, the truffle-hunting dog scene has absolutely exploded. Charles Lefevre, president and founder of New World Truffieres and organizer of the annual Oregon Truffle Festival , points out multiple reasons why dogs have surpassed pigs. One, they have more stamina than your average porker. Two, they’re easier to train. Three, dogs are much less likely to try to eat the truffle once they find it. You don’t want to wrestle with a 300-pound hog when it’s interested in chowing down on a truffle. “The lore,” says Lefevre, “is that truffle hunters that use pigs don’t tend to have all their fingers.” “The lore is that truffle hunters that use pigs don’t tend to have all their fingers.” Dogs Versus Tweakers In parts of the Pacific Northwest, there’s a brewing battle between two types of truffle hunters: those that use dogs, and those that use rakes. While truffle dog owners take pains to say that some rakers are responsible and respectful, there is a breed of truffle raker that dog owners view as destructive and — at times — down right dangerous. Outlaw rakers will criminally trespass on property, set up camp, and work under cover of night, raking up huge swaths of land, grabbing everything they can get. The end result: destroyed truffle grounds and a sinking reputation for domestic truffles, thanks to unripe truffles flooding the market. For dog lovers, the advantages are clear. Dog will only scent and alert handlers to truffles at peak ripeness, when odor is at it’s strongest, leaving developing, unripe truffles untouched. A hunter with a rake, meanwhile, will turn over the soil and grab whatever truffles they find — ripe or unripe. Worse, rare (and valuable) black Oregon truffles actually produce fruit multiple times throughout the year, unless they’re dug up early with a rake. It’s hard to not detect an element of classism in all this. Truffle hunting dogs can be expensive — it’s not unheard of to pay $4,000 for a prime Italian Lagotto Romagnolo (a dog renowned for its truffle-finding skills) and then pay $5,000 more to train them. Rakers, meanwhile, are usually more on the economic margins. “Tweakers are what we call them,” says one truffle dog trainer. “People on meth and getting money to support their habit. You have to be careful out there.” But the real competitive advantage for canines lies in truffle hunting’s furtive nature. Truffle harvesting grounds are carefully kept secrets, with hunters being wildly protective of their turf. “If you have a pig on a leash, everyone knows what you’re doing,” says Lefevre. But if you spot someone with a pooch on a leash, they could just be enjoying some fresh country air. There is, of course, one thing pigs do have over dogs: They don’t need any training to find truffles. Dogs need a little help. Which is where guys like Glenn Martyn step in. Martyn, who has trained dogs since 1966, has helped mold canines into everything from bomb and drug-sniffing dogs to canines employed by saw mills to detect smoldering woodchip fires before they break out into full-on infernos. It’s only been in recent years that he’s branched out into truffle dog work, but he finds the principles are much the same. “The truffle, per se, is not something a dog would naturally search for on its own,” says Martyn. “The truffle has to have some association with something. For most dogs, that positive asso |
Haloumi is a type of what? | Halloumi - Cheese.com Find over 1750 specialty cheeses from 74 countries in the world's greatest cheese resource Halloumi Halloumi is a Cypriot firm, brined, slightly springy white cheese, traditionally made from a mixture of goat and sheep milk, although these days cow’s milk is also used. Its texture is similar to that of mozzarella or thick feta, except that it has a strong, salty flavour imbibed from the brine preserve. Cooking the Halloumi removes all its saltiness and empowers it with a creamy texture. Since the cheese has a high melting point, it can be easily fried or grilled. Its unusualness lies in the preparation of the cheese where no acid or acid-producing bacterium is required. Halloumi is generally served during the warmer months with watermelon, due to its refreshing qualities. It is an essential part of a Cyprus Meze and many a times it is offered as an accompaniment with cold beer. The cheese also tastes lovely when grilled, pan-fried or thinly sliced on a salad. Made from pasteurized or unpasteurized cow 's, goat 's and sheep 's milk Country of origin: Cyprus |
Vast areas of grassland in South Africa are called what? | Grasslands Health and Science > Environment and Nature > Environment > Major Biomes of the World Grasslands Grasslands are places with hot, dry climates that are perfect for growing food. They are known throughout the world by different names. In the U.S. they are called prairies and extend from the Midwest to the Rocky Mountains. In South Africa, grasslands are called the veld. Hot, tropical grasslands called savannas are found in South America and Africa. In Eurasia, temperate zone grasslands are called steppes; in South America, pampas. Special features: This inland biome is made of vast areas of grassy field. It receives so little rain that very few trees can grow. The U.S. prairies are used to graze cattle and to raise cereal crops. There is little variety of animal life. Some original prairie animals like the wolf and bison have come close to being eliminated from the habitat by hunters. Today, some of the most common grassland animals include the prairie dog and the mule deer in North America, the giraffe and the zebra in Africa, and the lion in Africa and Asia. |
The Russian Revolution occurred in which year? | Russian Revolution - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com Google Russian Revolution: Background By 1917, most Russians had lost faith in the leadership ability of Czar Nicholas II. Government corruption was rampant, the Russian economy remained backward, and Nicholas repeatedly dissolved the Duma, the Russian parliament established after the 1905 revolution, when it opposed his will. However, the immediate cause of the February Revolution–the first phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917–was Russia’s disastrous involvement in World War I (1914-18). Militarily, imperial Russia was no match for industrialized Germany, and Russian casualties were greater than those sustained by any nation in any previous war. Meanwhile, the economy was hopelessly disrupted by the costly war effort, and moderates joined Russian radical elements in calling for the overthrow of the czar. Did You Know? After Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by Bolshevik forces in July 1918, the killers hid the victims’ mutilated bodies. The remains were discovered and exhumed in the late 1970s near Yekaterinburg, Russia, and eventually identified through DNA testing. February Revolution: 1917 The February Revolution (known as such because of Russia’s use of the Julian calendar until February 1918) began on March 8, 1917 (or February 23 on the Julian calendar), when demonstrators clamoring for bread took to the streets in the Russian capital of Petrograd (now called St. Petersburg). Supported by huge crowds of striking industrial workers, the protesters clashed with police but refused to leave the streets. On March 10, the strike spread among all of Petrograd’s workers, and irate mobs destroyed police stations. Several factories elected deputies to the Petrograd Soviet, or council, of workers’ committees, following the model devised during the 1905 revolution. On March 11, the troops of the Petrograd army garrison were called out to quell the uprising. In some encounters, regiments opened fire, killing demonstrators, but the protesters kept to the streets and the troops began to waver. That day, Nicholas again dissolved the Duma. On March 12, the revolution triumphed when regiment after regiment of the Petrograd garrison defected to the cause of the demonstrators. The soldiers subsequently formed committees that elected deputies to the Petrograd Soviet. The imperial government was forced to resign, and the Duma formed a provisional government that peacefully vied with the Petrograd Soviet for control of the revolution. On March 14, the Petrograd Soviet issued Order No. 1, which instructed Russian soldiers and sailors to obey only those orders that did not conflict with the directives of the Soviet. The next day, March 15, Czar Nicholas II abdicated the throne in favor of his brother Michael (1878-1918), whose refusal of the crown brought an end to the czarist autocracy. Bolshevik Revolution: 1917 In the aftermath of the February Revolution, power was shared between the weak provisional government and the Petrograd Soviet. Then, on November 6 and 7, 1917 (or October 24 and 25 on the Julian calendar, which is why this event is also referred to as the October Revolution), leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d’état against the provisional government. The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic locations in Petrograd, and soon formed a new government with Lenin as its head. Lenin became the virtual dictator of the first Marxist state in the world. His government made peace with Germany, nationalized industry and distributed land, but beginning in 1918 had to fight a devastating civil war against anti-Bolshevik White Army forces. In 1920, the anti-Bolsheviks were defeated, and in 1922 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was established. Tags |
An otter's home is a what? | Otter Habitat - Otter Facts and Information Otter Habitat Otter Habitat Otter Habitat and Distribution Otters are found on every single continent in the world except for Australia and Antarctica. They enjoy the freshwater but they are also known to live in the saltwater of the oceans as well. Other places you will find them lingering include around rivers, streams, and lakes. They tend to stick to the shallow waters so that they can easily reach land when they are ready to. You will find the Otter living in areas close to water. They make their home though on land that is called a holt. They live in regions where the water is extremely cold. Thanks to the design of the layers of hair on their bodies the skin is actually kept warm during this process. This is one of the reasons why Otters are believed to have been able to survive for millions of years. Sadly, it is also their fur that has led to humans destroying them. Otters prefer to live in bodies of water that are close to land offering them wetlands or the woods close by. They even love to live in swamp and marsh areas. They are able to stay well hidden in these types of environments which makes them less like to fall victim to a variety of predators on land. They also stay very close to the shore of the water so that they can avoid common water predators as well. They will make burrows in the land around the water. They are also found in dens that beavers may have left behind. Some of them like to make a nest from branches and twigs along the rocky edges. Others are found digging burrows in the sandy shores. Otters are very protective of their little habitat though that they have created on land. They don’t tend to be territorial though when they are in the water. To help mark their habitat on land they will purposely leave droppings behind. If you are in such an area and smell what appears to be fresh cut hay you will know what you are really smelling. However, it isn’t uncommon for them to travel great distances on land or through the water. Sea otter swimming in Resurrection Bay Alaska. They may go to them occasionally but always return to what is called their home range. This can be up to 10 square miles though depending on where they live and how many people are in their raft. It is also important to not confuse their home range with their territory. The actual territory that is distinctly their own and not belonging to their entire raft is very small. Some assume that Otters migrate due to these types of movements. However, that isn’t true due to the definition of migration that is used by experts. It is hard to get an exact number of Otters out there though due to them hiding on land and spending so much time in the water. Add in their frequently movements and that makes counting them more than once or at all a huge challenge. One way to learn if there may be Otters in the area is to survey the surroundings. In addition to the dens that are in the ground they may be stockpiling things. For example they may have gathered large mounds of dirt, gravel, sand, grass, and even mud. Not all of the habitats where Otters live though are a good environment for them. This is why there are concerns about their survival. For example many of them end up dying due to parasites found in the water. It is believed they come from a variety of fish that reside in those same waters. Categories |
The fruit of the granadillo is commonly known as what? | Batidas de Zapote, Granadillo & Níspero (Fruit Shakes) Batidas de Zapote, Granadillo & Níspero (Fruit Shakes) June 22, 2014 Along with some heat-busting Batidas de Zapote, Granadillo, & Níspero (Dominican Fruit Shakes), I am going to tell you about these unusual fruits that we Dominicans love so much. Better yet, I’ll also give you ideas to make your shakes without sugar or milk, and still love them. They are perfect to cool down in the hellish heat that is sometimes our summer. A heat wave is hitting us hard down here in PuntaCana, just like it does this time of the year. And I start whining about it just like I do every year. Like every year, I start sharing my famous (infamous?) summer dishes, drinks and paletas (popsicles), some of our preferred weapons against the heat. This is níspero (In English chicle, naseberry, mispel, sapodilla, and sapote). Its scientific name is Manilkara sapota, and it’s native native to southern Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. It is known in other Spanish countries as chico sapote, níspero, zapote and zapotillo. Nísperos are very sweet, even by tropical fruit standards. They are rich in carbohydrates and a fairly decent source of vitamin C. Níspero is cultivated locally in the Dominican Republic. Zapote (scientific name Pouteria sapota) is a tree native to Central America, and that has spread to other tropical regions of the world. It is known as mamey, zapote colorado, níspero and zapote rojo in different Latin American countries. Gently sweet, bright orange flesh, pudding-like texture and a subtle hint of nutty flavor, this is the second most popular milkshake ingredient in the Dominican Republic (following papaya ). The fruit is cultivated locally and available at markets and supermarkets. The fruit is an excellent source of vitamin B6 and vitamin C, and is a good source of riboflavin, niacin, vitamin E, manganese, potassium and dietary fiber. [ Source ] And here’s granadillo, and if to you it looks a bit like giant passionfruits, it’s no coincidence: This large fruit (grows up to 10 inches in length) is related to passionfruit. Its scientific name is Passiflora quadrangularis, and it’s commonly used for shakes in the Dominican Republic, where it grows. Granadillo (English name: giant granadilla, granadilla) has a slightly sour (much more gentle than passionfruit) flesh, with a pear-like texture, very aromatic and mildly sweet. Granadillo is rich in antioxidants, packs a fair amount of phosphorus and a small amount of calcium. So, now that you know a little bit more about some of the fruits that we Dominicans love in our shakes, it’s time to get going and making some thick, nutritious and very cold shakes. It’s what’s for summer. Aunt Clara |
Ash Wednesday follows which day? | Ash Wednesday in the United States Home Calendar Holidays the United States Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday in the United States Many Christian Americans mark Ash Wednesday as the first day of Lent. It follows Shrove Tuesday , which features Mardi Gras celebrations. Ash is an important symbol of Ash Wednesday in many Christian churches. Ash is an important symbol of Ash Wednesday in many Christian churches. ©iStockphoto.com/Ben Beltman What Do People Do? Some Christians in the United States attend special Ash Wednesday church services. This includes students who attend Catholic and other church schools. Priests usually place blessed ashes in form of the cross on individuals’ foreheads to remind them of mortality, sorrow for sins, change, and forgiveness. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lenten discipline for observant Christians. It is traditionally a time of fasting and prayer in preparation for receiving or reaffirming baptism at Easter. For some Christians, Lent is a time to think about one’s life choices and mortality, as well as reflect on life directions. It serves as a wakeup call for some Christians. There are also those who choose this time of the year to donate to charities or take part in charity events as a way to get close to God. Public Life |
Name the stretch of water separating Anglesey from the Welsh mainland? | Cream Of The Country: Anglesey | The Independent Cream Of The Country: Anglesey Beaumaris has elegant seaside houses as well as magical, unspoilt beaches, discovers Joey Canessa Tuesday 24 May 2005 23:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online The journey to the island of Anglesey, or Ynys Mon, culminates 272 miles from London at Thomas Telford's Menai Bridge, the first suspension bridge in the world, which crosses the Menai Strait, the stretch of water separating the island from the mainland of North Wales. Across the bridge, the road reaches a junction; turn left and you will find yourself in the town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysiliogogogoch; turn right, and you arrive in Beaumaris, which is an awful lot easier to fit on a postcard. The journey to the island of Anglesey, or Ynys Mon, culminates 272 miles from London at Thomas Telford's Menai Bridge, the first suspension bridge in the world, which crosses the Menai Strait, the stretch of water separating the island from the mainland of North Wales. Across the bridge, the road reaches a junction; turn left and you will find yourself in the town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysiliogogogoch; turn right, and you arrive in Beaumaris, which is an awful lot easier to fit on a postcard. Sheltered by the mainland and facing south, Beaumaris is an elegant seaside town, popular as a sailing centre and renowned for its unparalleled views; from the east, the landscape extends from Puffin Island, the Great Orme at Llandudno, along the length of Snowdonia all the way to the Lleyn peninsula in the west. A hundred years ago, it was a popular destination for holiday-makers from Liverpool who would arrive by boat in their hundreds, but most of the visitors these days come from nearby Cheshire villages to enjoy the salty air. Edward I put Beaumaris on the map, naming it "beautiful marsh" and building a castle, the last of the "iron ring" of fortifications that he built to defend his medieval kingdom. He drove out the locals, burnt their books, and sent them to live at nearby Newborough, filling Beaumaris with his own English people. The town remains curiously English to this day, unlike other typical Anglesey towns, and even now, Edward and his castle remain understandably unpopular with the Welsh people. Opposite the castle stands the courthouse, dating from 1614, and the town also still retains its Victorian jail, scene of many executions, and the pier. Mainly built between 1850 and 1900, most of the houses are made from Welsh stone. The elegant seafront buildings and rows of cottages provide rich pickings for holidaymakers seeking to reserve themselves a permanent base on this tranquil island, and the majority of purchases are second homes. But recent plans for a new 400-berth marina have already had a staggering impact on property prices; during 2004, prices rose by 35-40 per cent, and Beaumaris is now officially listed as a "hotspot". Its other classification, as an area of outstanding natural beauty, prevents any new building in the town - another factor contributing to rising property prices. Many of the smaller cottages in New Street, Rose Hill and Wexham Street were originally built for the servants of the Buckley estate at Red Hill, and their freeholds were sold off in vast numbers during the 1920s in order to pay off death duties. These little cottages can still be found on the market from £170,000, and a single-storey stone cottage with pretty little front garden in a more rural location at Llanfaes, one mile from Beaumaris, can be bought for £119,000. The houses on the seafront are more opulent, where buildings such as Victoria Terrace look out across the green towards the mountains. A five-bedroom house within the terrace would set you back around £400,000. Local estate agent Joan Hopkin finds that most of her mailing list is made up of older people from Cheshire, Manchester and Liverpool seeking a holiday home or somewhere quiet to retire to. Local celebrities have included William Pitt the Younger and astrologer Russell Grant, but |
P is the chemical symbol for which element? | Phosphorus»the essentials [WebElements Periodic Table] Element News Phosphorus: the essentials Phosphorus is commonly misspelled "phosphorous". It is an essential component of living systems and is found in nervous tissue, bones and cell protoplasm. Phosphorus exists in several allotropic forms including white (or yellow), red, and black (or violet). White phosphorus has two modifications. Ordinary phosphorus is a waxy white solid. When pure, it is colourless and transparent. It is insoluble in water, but soluble in carbon disulphide. It catches fire spontaneously in air, burning to P4O10, often misnamed as phosphorus pentoxide. When exposed to sunlight, or when heated in its own vapour to 250°C, it is converted to the red variety. This form does not ignite spontaneously and it is a little less dangerous than white phosphorus. The red modification is fairly stable and sublimes with a vapour pressure of 1 atmosphere at 417°C. This sample is from The Elements Collection , an attractive and safely packaged collection of the 92 naturally occurring elements that is available for sale. Phosphorus: historical information Phosphorus was discovered by Hennig Brand in 1669 at Germany. Origin of name : from the Greek word "phosphoros" meaning "bringer of light" (an ancient name for the planet Venus?). Phosphorus was discovered in 1669 by Hennig Brand, who prepared it from urine. Not less than 50-60 buckets per experiment in fact, each of which required more than a fortnight to complete. Sometime prior to the autumn of 1803, the Englishman John Dalton was able to explain the results of some of his studies by assuming that matter is composed of atoms and that all samples of any given compound consist of the same combination of these atoms. Dalton also noted that in series of compounds, the ratios of the masses of the second element that combine with a given weight of the first element can be reduced to small whole numbers (the law of multiple proportions). This was further evidence for atoms. Dalton's theory of atoms was published by Thomas Thomson in the 3rd edition of his System of Chemistry in 1807 and in a paper about strontium oxalates published in the Philosophical Transactions. Dalton published these ideas himself in the following year in the New System of Chemical Philosophy. The symbol used by Dalton for phosphorus is shown below. [See History of Chemistry, Sir Edward Thorpe, volume 1, Watts & Co, London, 1914.] Phosphorus around us Read more » Phosphorus is a key component of biological molecules such as DNA and RNA. Phosphorus is a component of bones, and teeth, and many other compounds required for life. Chronic poisoning of people working unprotected with white phosphorus leads to necrosis of the jaw ("phossy-jaw"). Phosphorus is never found as the free element but is widely distributed in many minerals. Phosphate rock, (apatite, impure calcium phosphate), is an important source of the element. Large deposits are found in Morocco, in Russia, and in the USA. Abundances for phosphorus in a number of different environments. More abundance data » Location |
St Helier is the largest town in which islands? | Saint Helier | Jersey, Channel Islands | Britannica.com Jersey, Channel Islands Glasgow Saint Helier, chief town, resort, parish, and the capital of Jersey , in the Channel Islands . The town lies along St. Aubin’s Bay opposite a tidal island known as L’Islet (accessible by causeway at low tide), on the south side of Jersey Island. The town is named for St. Helier, a Frankish missionary who was reputedly martyred there in 555. The saint’s memory is preserved in the Hermitage, a small 12th-century oratory on L’Islet, as well as in the Abbey (later Priory) of St. Helier, founded in the mid-12th century by Robert FitzHamon, of Gloucester. Saint Helier viewed across St. Aubin’s Bay. Man vyi Hermitage of Saint Helier on L’Islet, Jersey, Channel Islands. Man vyi The town originated as a fishing village that grew up beside the parish church, where from the 13th century the king’s courts usually met and where markets were held. St. Helier became the seat of island government after Elizabeth Castle was built (1551–90) on L’Islet. This castle was the refuge (1646–48) of Lord Clarendon, who there began his History of the Rebellion, and of the fugitive Charles II in 1646 and 1649. Harbour works were begun in 1700, and the modern harbour dates from 1841. The marketplace (now Royal Square) was the scene of the French defeat at the Battle of Jersey (1781). The marketplace is dominated by the Court House, La Salle des Etats (States House), and the Public Library (founded 1736) and is overlooked (south) by Fort Regent (1806). Victoria College dates from 1852. About one-third of Jersey’s population lives in St. Helier, which is the focus of island transport, commerce, government, and cultural activity. Pop. (2001) 28,310. Learn More in these related articles: Jersey (island, Channel Islands, English Channel) British crown dependency and island, the largest and southernmost of the Channel Islands, lying south of England ’s coast and 12 miles (19 km) west of the Cotentin peninsula of France. Its capital, St. Helier, is 100 miles (160 km) south of Weymouth, England. Jersey is about 10 miles (16 km)... Channel Islands (islands, English Channel) archipelago in the English Channel, west of the Cotentin peninsula of France, at the entrance to the Gulf of Saint-Malo, 80 miles (130 km) south of the English coast. The islands are dependencies of the British crown (and not strictly part of the United Kingdom), having been so attached since the... Corrections? Updates? Help us improve this article! Contact our editors with your feedback. MEDIA FOR: You have successfully emailed this. Error when sending the email. Try again later. Edit Mode Submit Tips For Editing We welcome suggested improvements to any of our articles. You can make it easier for us to review and, hopefully, publish your contribution by keeping a few points in mind. Encyclopædia Britannica articles are written in a neutral objective tone for a general audience. You may find it helpful to search within the site to see how similar or related subjects are covered. Any text you add should be original, not copied from other sources. At the bottom of the article, feel free to list any sources that support your changes, so that we can fully understand their context. (Internet URLs are the best.) Your contribution may be further edited by our staff, and its publication is subject to our final approval. Unfortunately, our editorial approach may not be able to accommodate all contributions. Submit Thank You for Your Contribution! Our editors will review what you've submitted, and if it meets our criteria, we'll add it to the article. Please note that our editors may make some formatting changes or correct spelling or grammatical errors, and may also contact you if any clarifications are needed. Uh Oh There was a problem with your submission. Please try again later. Close Date Published: January 21, 2009 URL: https://www.britannica.com/place/Saint-Helier Access Date: January 18, 2017 Share |
Anne Frank's famous diary was written in which city? | Anne Frank - World War II - HISTORY.com Google Anne Frank’s Childhood Anne Frank was born Anneliese Marie Frank in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 12, 1929, to Edith Hollander Frank (1900-45) and Otto Frank (1889-1980), a prosperous businessman. Less than four years later, in January 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany and he and his Nazi government instituted a series of measures aimed at persecuting Germany’s Jewish citizens. Did You Know? In 1960, the building at Prinsengracht 263, home to the Secret Annex, opened to the public as a museum devoted to the life of Anne Frank. Her original diary is on display there. By the fall of 1933, Otto Frank moved to Amsterdam, where he established a small but successful company that produced a gelling substance used to make jam. After staying behind in Germany with her grandmother in the city of Aachen, Anne joined her parents and sister Margot (1926-45) in the Dutch capital in February 1934. In 1935, Anne started school in Amsterdam and earned a reputation as an energetic, popular girl. In May 1940, the Germans, who had entered World War II in September of the previous year, invaded the Netherlands and quickly made life increasingly restrictive and dangerous for Jewish people there. Between the summer of 1942 and September 1944, the Nazis and their Dutch collaborators deported more than 100,000 Jews in Holland to extermination camps. Anne Frank’s Family Goes into Hiding In early July 1942, after Margot Frank received a letter ordering her to report to a work camp in Germany, Anne Frank’s family went into hiding in an attic apartment behind Otto Frank’s business, located at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam. In an effort to avoid detection, the family left a false trail suggesting they’d fled to Switzerland. A week after they had gone into hiding, the Franks were joined by Otto’s business associate Hermann van Pels (1898-1944), along with his wife Auguste (1900-45) and their son Peter (1926-45), who were also Jewish. A small group of Otto Frank’s employees, including his Austrian-born secretary, Miep Gies (1909-2010), risked their own lives to smuggle food, supplies and news of the outside world into the secret apartment, whose entrance was situated behind a movable bookcase. In November 1942, the Franks and Van Pels were joined by Fritz Pfeffer (1889-1944), Miep Gies’ Jewish dentist. Life for the eight people in the small apartment, which Anne Frank referred to as the Secret Annex, was tense. The group lived in constant fear of being discovered and could never go outside. They had to remain quiet during daytime in order to avoid detection by the people working in the warehouse below. Anne passed the time, in part, by chronicling her observations and feelings in a diary she had received for her 13th birthday, a month before her family went into hiding. Addressing her diary entries to an imaginary friend she called Kitty, Anne Frank wrote about life in hiding, including her impressions of the other inhabitants of the Secret Annex, her feelings of loneliness and her frustration over the lack of privacy. While she detailed typical teenage issues such as crushes on boys, arguments with her mother and resentments toward her sister, Frank also displayed keen insight and maturity when she wrote about the war, humanity and her own identity. She also penned short stories and essays during her time in hiding. The Franks are Captured by the Nazis On August 4, 1944, after 25 months in hiding, Anne Frank and the seven others in the Secret Annex were discovered by the Gestapo, the German secret state police, who had learned about the hiding place from an anonymous tipster (who has never been definitively identified). After their arrest, the Franks, Van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer were sent by the Gestapo to Westerbork, a holding camp in the northern Netherlands. From there, in September 1944, the group was transported by freight train to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and concentration camp complex in German-occupied Poland. Anne and Margot Frank were spared immediate death in the Auschwi |
The country 'Burkina Faso' was known as what prior to changing it's name in 1984? | Burkina Faso army pledges 'consensus' govt Burkina Faso army pledges 'consensus' govt Romaric Ollo Hien Share View photos Burkinese Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac Zida, (first row-C) named by Burkina Faso's army as interim leader following the ousting of president Blaise Compaore, leaves after a meeting with military leaders on November 3, 2014 in Ouagadougou (AFP Photo/Issouf Sanogo) More Ouagadougou (AFP) - Burkina Faso's military has promised to hand power to a "consensus" leader following the popular uprising that toppled Blaise Compaore, as African nations gave the regime two weeks to return to civilian rule. The army has stepped into a power vacuum left by Compaore, who was forced to resign last week in the wake of violent demonstrations over attempts to extend his 27-year-rule. The Burkina military has named Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida as interim head of state, sparking angry protests and prompting threats of sanctions from the international community. Zida has claimed that "power does not interest us" and pledged to install a unity government with a "broad consensus". But the African Union kept the pressure on, setting a 14-day deadline at a crisis meeting in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Monday for Burkina's military to give up power. "After that period we are going to apply sanctions," said Simeon Oyono Esono, head of the AU's Peace and Security Council. "The African Union is convinced that the change has been against democracy." Washington said it was still "gathering facts" on the situation but could yet withdraw its $14 million (11 million euro) annual aid package to Burkina Faso. Former colonial power France said late Monday it hoped for an announcement on the return of civilian rule "in the coming hours". For elections to be held, "it must be a civilian power that does it", said French President Francois Hollande on the sidelines of a visit to Quebec. Hollande also said France had been in direct contact with Compaore prior to his ouster last week. "I made a statement on Friday asking Blaise Compaore to make the right decision, that is to leave," said Hollande, adding that France had intervened to ensure he escaped "without drama" although its personnel did not directly participate. Compaore and his wife have taken refuge in neighbouring Ivory Coast where they are being put up in a luxury government mansion in the capital Yamoussoukro. - 'Shortest time possible' - Zida promised the new government would be "headed by a person appointed by the consensus of all actors in public life", as he addressed diplomats at the foreign office on Monday. He gave no timetable for the transition but said he wanted a new regime in place within the "shortest possible" period. Following protests against the army takeover on Sunday, life was back to normal on Monday in the capital Ouagadougou, with the largest market ending a six-day shutdown and banks open. The army also reopened the landlocked country's borders. Troops had cracked down on several thousand protesters gathered at a rally in the city's central square on Sunday. Some demonstrators had also headed to the national television station headquarters where two opposition leaders made separate attempts to go on air to declare themselves interim chief. Former defence minister Kouame Lougue -- whose name was chanted by thousands in the streets following Compaore's downfall -- told AFP: "The people have nominated me. I came to answer their call." But the TV technicians walked out, also foiling a bid by Saran Sereme, a former member of the ruling party, to make her claim as leader of the transition. Under the constitution, which has been suspended by the military, the job of interim head of state is supposed to go to the speaker of parliament. One opposition leader, Ablasse Ouedrago, claimed to have held talks with Zida in which the army leader declared himself ready to "lift the suspension of the constitution". But there was no confirmation from the army, and no indication of the whereabouts of the speaker of parliament. - Six dead - Around 30 people were killed in the week |
"""When You Walk In The Room"" was a hit for which group in 1964?" | The Searchers | British Invasion Bands The Searchers The Searchers, 1965 The Searchers were on the front lines of the British Invasion. John McNally and Mike Pender founded the band as a skiffle group in Liverpool in the late 50s, taking its name from the 1956 cowboy film starring John Wayne. They were joined by bass player/singer Tony Jackson and drummer Chris Curtis. The Searchers’ earlier history parallels that of the Beatles and many other of Liverpool’s homegrown bands. They Searchers played at the popular local venues, the Iron Door and The Cavern, performing as many as three shows each night. Like the Beatles, the Searchers traveled to Hamburg in 1962 and performed at the Star-Club in the St. Pauli district. Back in Liverpool, the Searchers signed on with Pye Records with Tony Hatch as producer. Hatch played piano on some recordings and wrote “Sugar and Spice” — the band’s second number one record — under the name Fred Nightingale; a secret he kept from the band at the time. Their first UK #1 record, “Sweets for my Sweet,” was released in 1963. “Sugar and Spice”, the Searchers’ second single, reached #2 on the charts. In 1964, the Searchers released a Leiber and Stoller song that was a hit five tears earlier for a group called the Clovers. “Love Potion Number Nine” became the Searchers’ top-selling record in the US. After scoring with “Needles and Pins” (a song co-written by Sonny Bono and Jack Nitzsche) bassist Tony Jackson left the band and was replaced by Frank Allen, who’s still with the Searchers today. The Searchers toured with the Rolling Stones in the Far East in 1966, but their string of hit songs began to fade. Musical tastes were beginning to change (the Beatles had recorded Rubber Soul and Revolver), but the Searchers stayed with their original sound and their popularity began to wane. They continued to record for Liberty Records and RCA and had a minor US hit in 1971 with “Desdemona”. The Searchers continued to tour through the 1970s and in 1979, they signed with Sire Records. Two albums were released: The Searchers and Play for Today (retitled Love’s Melodies outside the UK). While both recordings won critical acclaim, neither one was a hit. Sire dropped the Searchers, and in 1981, they signed to PRT Records (an offshoot of Pye, their original label) and began recording an album. Soon after the PRT release, Mike Pender left the group and now tours as Mike Pender’s Searchers. In 1988, the Searchers were signed by Coconut Records and released the “Hungry Hearts” album. It featured new versions of “Needles and Pins” and “Sweets For My Sweet” While the album was not a major hit, it did keep the group in the public eye. In the summer of 1989, saw the Searchers played to their biggest audiences ever – more than 75,000 people at Wembley Stadium. In 1998 they headlined a major nationwide UK tour with The Swinging Blue Jeans and Helen Shapiro; returned briefly to the US, to play at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut and gave their regular fans a private show at the fourth Searchers Appreciation Society Convention. The 21st century Searchers In 2003, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Searchers’ first number-one hit, they headlined another very successful “Solid Silver 60s Tour”, along with Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, Wayne Fontana, the Dakotas and Barry Ryan. The Searchers today include founding member John McNally (lead guitar, 12-string guitar, vocals), Frank Allen (bass, vocals ), Spencer James (lead vocals, synthesiser guitar) and Scott Ottaway (drums and percussion) Where are They Now? Almost 50 years after they began, the Searchers continue to tour, including electric performances with an acoustic set. To confuse matters, former lead singer Mike Pender also tours, with his own band, Mike Pender’s Searchers, performing old Searchers’ hits in addition to some new material. Pender, who lives in Manchester, England, took part in British Invasion tours of the US in 2014 and 2015. Later in 2015, he’ll be playing in Bangkok, the Netherlands, the Channel Islands, Scandinavia and Germany. “ |
"Lonnie Donegan had a Top 10 hit with ""Michael Row The Boat"" in Sept. 1961. Who else had Top 10 hit at the very same time, with the very same song?" | The 1961 British Hit Parade Part 2: Amazon.co.uk: Music 1. GEOFF LOVE Coronation Street 2. CLARENCE 'FROGMAN' HENRY But I Do 3. JERRY LEE LEWIS What'd I Say 4. DICK CHARLESWORTH AND HIS CITY GENTS Billy Boy 5. BERT WEEDON Mr. Guitar 6. BOB LUMAN The Great Snowman 7. THE BLACKWELLS Love Or Money 8. BILLY FURY Halfway To Paradise 9. THE SHADOWS Frightened City 10. SHIRLEY BASSEY You'll Never Know 11. LONNIE DONEGAN Have A Drink On me 12. KENNY BALL AND HIS JAZZMEN I Still Love You All 13. ERNIE K - DOE Mother 14. THE VENTURES Lullaby Of The Leaves 15. THE VELVETS That Lucky Old Sun 16. FRANKIE LAINE Gunslinger 17. LINDA SCOTT I've Told Every Little Star 18. NEIL SEDAKA Little Devil 19. MATT MONRO Why Not Now 20. MATT MONRO Can This Be Love 21. EMILE FORD & THE CHECKMATES Half Of My Heart 22. THE ALLISONS Words 23. THE TOTNAMITES Spurs Song 24. ELVIS PRESLEY Surrender 25. ROY ORBISON Running Scared 26. DANNY WILLIAMS We Will Never Be As Young As This Again 27. RUSS CONWAY Pablo 28. EDEN KANE Well I Ask You Disc: 2 1. RICKY NELSON Hello Mary Lou 2. RICKY NELSON Travellin' Man 3. GENE VINCENT She She Little Sheila 4. BENNY HILL Transistor Radio 5. ANDY STEWART The Battle's O'er 6. MAX BYGRAVES Bells Of Avignon 7. MARK WYNTER Exclusively Yours 8. ADAM WADE Take Good Care Of Her 9. JO ANN CAMPBELL Motorcycle Michael 10. THE OUTLAWS Ambush 12. JIMMY CRAWFORD Love Or Money 13. TONY BENNETT Climb Ev'ry Mountain 14. EVERLY BROTHERS Temptation 15. THE TEMPERANCE SEVEN Pasadena 16. ANTHONY NEWLEY Pop Goes The Weasel 17. ANTHONY NEWLEY Bee Bom 18. CONNIE FRANCIS Breakin' In A Brand New Broken Heart 19. EDDIE COCHRAN Weekend 20. KEN DODD Once In Every Lifetime 21. AL CAIOLA The Magnificent Seven 22. CLIFF RICHARD A Girl Like You 23. KARL DENVER Marcheta 24. DUANE EDDY Ring Of Fire 25. GARRY MILLS I'll Step Down 26. BEN E. KING Stand By Me 27. TOMMY COOPER Don't Jump Off The Roof Dad Disc: 3 1. HELEN SHAPIRO You Don't Know 2. CRAIG DOUGLAS Time 3. BUDDY HOLLY Baby I Don't Care 4. BUDDY HOLLY Valley Of Tears 5. PAT BOONE Moody River 6. BOBBY DARIN Nature Boy 7. JOHNNY & THE HURRICANES Old Smokie 8. JOHNNY & THE HURRICANES High Voltage 9. DANNY WILLIAMS The Miracle Of You 10. BOB WALLIS & HIS STORYVILLE JAZZ BAND I'm Shy Mary Ellen I'm Shy 11. PETULA CLARK Romeo 12. CLARENCE 'FROGMAN' HENRY You Always Hurt The One You Love 13. MR. ACKER BILK & HIS PARAMOUNT JAZZ BAND That's My Home 14. BROOK BENTON Boll Weevil Song 15. GARY 'U.S.' BONDS Quarter To Three 16. ADAM FAITH Don't You Know It 17. BRENDA LEE Dum Dum 18. FLOYD CRAMER San Antonio Rose 19. SHIRLEY BASSEY Reach For The Stars 20. SHIRLEY BASSEY Climb Ev'ry Mountain 21. SAM COOKE Cupid 22. THE FIREBALLS Quite A Party 23. MARTY WILDE Hide And Seek 24. NERO & THE GLADIATORS In The Hall Of The Mountain King 25. FATS DOMINO It Keeps Rainin' 26. JOE LOSS Wheels Cha Cha 27. JOHN LEYTON Johnny Remember Me Disc: 4 1. BOBBY VEE How Many Tears 2. ANTHONY NEWLEY What Kind Of Fool Am I? 3. BOBBY ANGELO AND THE TUXEDOS Baby Sittin' 4. JOHNNY BURNETTE Girls 6. TOMMY STEELE Writing On The Wall 7. CHUBBY CHECKER Let's Twist Again 8. CLINTON FORD Too Many Beautiful Girls 9. THE VELVETS Tonight (Could Be The Night) 10. BROOK BROTHERS Ain't Gonna Wash For A Week 11. DOROTHY SQUIRES & RUSS CONWAY Say It With Flowers 12. JAN & DEAN Heart And Soul 13. JOE BARRY I'm A Fool To Care 14. LONNIE DONEGAN Michael Row The Boat Ashore 15. LONNIE DONEGAN Lumbered 16. DON GIBSON Sea Of Heartbreak 17. KENNY BALL AND HIS JAZZMEN Someday (You'll Be Sorry) 18. THE SPRINGFIELDS Breakaway 19. GENE VINCENT I'm Going Home 20. CURTIS LEE Pretty Little Angel Eyes 21. LOS MACHUCAMBOS Pepito 22. TERRY LIGHTFOOT & HIS NEW ORLEANS JAZZMEN True Love 23. THE HIGHWAYMEN Michael Row The Boat Ashore 24. THE SHADOWS Kon - Tiki 25. AL SAXON There I've Said It Again Product Description Product Description Acrobat Musics series of Br |
"Which group had a hit with ""Rhythm of the Rain"" in 1963?" | Rhythm of the Rain - John Gummoe & The Cascades THE CASCADES The Cascades were born in 1960 aboard the U.S.S. Jason AR-8; a ship home-ported in San Diego and when overseas, in Sasebo, Japan. This group, then known to many of the servicemen and the local inhabitants as The Silver Strands were playing at local venues all around town. Their friend, John Gummoe, also aboard the Jason was their biggest fan and soon began acting as their manager. John had the band playing 5 nights a week before long and had also been working up some duets with Dave Wilson which the group eventually had David and John do on stage as part of their performance. This was the beginning of a group which would soon go on to be The Cascades and they would eventually have the third largest selling record in the world in 1963. The group soon changed it's name to The Thundernotes and Len Green wrote a song called "Thunder Rhythm" which turned out to be the groups first record release for Bob Keene's Del-Fi Records. This was an instrumental song and on the flip side was a song called "Pay Day" which was also penned by Len Green. This first venture was not successful, but whetted the groups' appetite to do more. At this point, the group was becoming more and more vocally oriented and singing was taking over the direction of the group. At this point, Art Eastlick left the group and Dave Stevens joined the group playing bass and another guitarist was added, Mr. Eddy Snyder. So we now had Len and Eddy on guitar, Dave Stevens on bass, John Gummoe on vocals and percussion and keyboards, Dave Wilson on drums and the dynamic David Szabo on vocals and keyboards. Just prior to signing with Valiant Records though, Len Green left the group to persue other avenues. Len loved country music and eventually went on to be a staff writer with Acuff-Rose Music in Nashville and was once nominated for a CMA award, but his web site speaks well for him so after visiting here, go and learn more about this talented man. In our pursuit of a recording career, we had the good fortune of meeting Mr. Don Blocker at Liberty Records. Don told us about a young man in San Diego who taught guitar, but he was looking for a talented group to manage and Don suggested we look him up as he lived in San Diego. His name was Andy Di Martino and shortly after performing for Andy and playing him an audition tape with many of our original tunes , Andy found us a home in Hollywood. This turned out to be Valiant Records, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. run by the very talented Barry De Vorzon and Billy Sherman. Barry De Vorzon had already had great success in the music business as a composer penning "Dreamin" for the late, great, Johnny Burnette and on Valiant had had a hit with the lovely Shelby Flint and her great composition, "Angel on My Shoulder". Valiant also had some great writing talent; among them Body Chandler and Perry Botkin, plus Barry and they were soon to write some great songs for The Cascades to go along with tunes that the group brought to the label. Next came our first single; a song written by John Gummoe called "There's a Reason". Released in the summer of 1962, it was only a regional hit on the west coast, but served to introduce the radio stations to the sound of The Cascades. This first record on Valiant paved the way for the release of "Rhythm of the Rain" in November 1962. Early in 1963, the record had a regional break-out in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and quickly began to pick up steam across the nation. It hit the Billboard charts at #80 with a bullet and jumped 20 points at a time until it rested comfortably in the top ten. It went to #2; kept out of the magic #1 spot by "Walk Like a Man" by Franki Valli and The Four Seasons. But before too long, "Rhythm of the Rain" was showing up on charts all across the world and in many of these other countries, we DID go to #1. The group was already working on an LP at Gold Star Studios in Hollywood with engineer Stan Ross, who was the technical know-how behind the famous Phil Spector "wall of sound" and engineer to many of the |
Kon Tiki was a number 1 hit for which British group in 1961? | 1961 Performers British Chartbusters of the 60s & 70s 1961 The British charts of 1961 remained the personal domains of the two heart-throbs Elvis and Cliff: Elvis Presley had the year's biggest number one with "Wooden Heart" during the Spring. He had three other massive hits "Are You Lonesome Tonight" (number two disc of the year), "Surrender" (the year's fourth biggest single) and "His Latest Flame" each hitting the number one spot for many weeks. By comparison, the title song of his film "Wild in the Country" was a failure - although still a top ten hit. Elvis Hits Cliff Richard and the Shadows take a creditable second place without ever hitting the top spot. Cliff had a series of top five placings with numbers like "Theme for a Dream", "Gee Whiz it's You", "A Girl Like You" and "When the Girl in Your Arms is the Girl in Your Heart". The Shadows were also regulars in the top ten with "FBI", "Frightened City" and "The Savage" while "Kon-Tiki" managed to be a number one in some charts. Cliff's Greatest Hits In third place overall was Helen Shapiro who was only 14 when her first record "Don't Treat Me Like a Child" was a top five hit. This was quickly followed by two big number one discs "You Don't Know" - the fifth biggest hit of the year - and then "Walkin' Back to Happiness." Everly Brothers Hits The number five slot for 1961 belonged to 18 year old American, Bobby Vee, who had five successive top ten hits in the UK in 1961 without ever making it quite as big as he did in the USA. His biggest success was "Take Good Care of My Baby" and his first UK hit "Rubber Ball" had to contend with a big-selling cover version from Marty Wilde. Bobby Vee Hits The other major acts of 1961 included an American quartet of male soloists including Del Shannon, whose first hit was the huge seller "Runaway" - the number three disc of 1961. He managed top ten success with follow ups "Hats Off to Larry" and "So Long Baby". The other American guys were Bobby Darin whose big chart successes were "Lazy River" and "Multiplication"; Neil Sedaka whose best seller was "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen"; and Brian Hyland who managed top five performances with "Ginny Come Lately" and "Sealed With a Kiss". Buy the Greatest Hits And there was a quartet of young male singers from Britain led by John Leyton who had a number one with "Johnny Remember Me" and almost made the top spot again with follow up "Wild Wind"; Billy Fury (real name Ronald Wycherly) who never quite made the number one spot but came close with "Halfway To Paradise" and "Jealousy"; Eden Kane with his chart topper "Well I Ask You" and still making the top ten regularly was Adam Faith whose big numbers in 1961 were "Who Am I" and "The Time Has Come". |
The Hollies were apologising to whom in their 1969 hit? | The Hollies on Manchesterbeat - the group and music scene of Manchester in the 60s Excellent history of the group The Hollies formed in Autumn 1962 with a line-up of Graham Nash on Lead vocals, rhythm & acoustic guitar (Gibson Jumbo), banjo (b. Graham William Nash, Monday, February 2, 1942, The Maternity Ward, The Kimberly Hotel, Blackpool, Lancashire, UK), Eric Haydock on bass (12-string bass, then Six-string Fender VI) (b. Tuesday, February, 3, 1942, Burnley, Lancashire, UK), Allan 'Clarkie' Clarke on lead vocals, harmonica (b. Harold Allan Clarke, Sunday, April 5, 1942, Salford, Lancashire, UK), Don Rathbone on drums (b. Donald Rathbone, October 1942, Wilmslow, Cheshire, UK) and 17 year-old Vic Steele on lead guitar (Fender Jazz-master) (b. Victor Winston Farrell, Monday, May 5, 1945, Manchester, Lancashire, UK). Graham Nash was the son of William (b. 6 Skinner Street, Salford, Lancashire d. 1961) and Mary Nash (b. Mary Gallagher d. 1981). He also had two younger sisters, Elaine (b. 1946) and Sharon (b. 1953). They all lived at 1 Skinner Street in Salford. Graham Nash had met Allan Clarke in 1947, when as five-year old boy's they had met at Ordsall Primary School in Salford. Nash was already at the school and half way through the first term, when a new boy named Allan Clarke arrived at the school and the teacher Mr Burke stood Clarke in front of the class and asked who would like to sit next to this boy. Nash was the only child to put his hand up. So Clarke sat next to him and they became friend's. As for Allan Clarke he was one of six children, who included one older brother Frank Clarke. Their first live performance was when Nash and Clarke sang ''The Lord Is My Shepherd'' in two part-harmony at a school assembly. Then they both joined the school chorus and then The Salford Boy's Club at the corner of St Ignatius Walk and Coronation Street in Ordsall, Salford. This club was established in 1903 and opened on January 30, 1904 by Robert Baden-Powell (1857 - 1941), later founder of the Scout movement. In 1953 Nash passed his eleven plus and went to Salford Grammar School in Chaseley Road, Salford. Allan did not pass, as he was not good at exams and so went to Ordsall Secondary Modern School in Trafford Road, Manchester from 1953 to 1958, where he got his O-Level's in 1958. In spit of having to attended different schools, the boys established a strong musical bond in their early teenage years. At 13 in 1955 Nash got his first cheap acoustic guitar from his father. At the same time Clarke got his father to buy him a guitar and so in their front rooms, they both learned the three chords to ''Rock Island Line'' by Lonnie Donegan (b. Anthony James Donegan, Wednesday, April 29, 1931, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK d. Sunday, November 3, 2002, Market Deeping, Lincolnshire, UK). One day in Spring 1955, while Nash and Clarke were rehearsing, thrashing about on their guitars and singing at Clarke's house, his older brother Frank Clarke came in and herd them play a few numbers. He liked the way they sounded and suggested that why did they not go around the corner to The Devonshire Sporting Club in Salford and audition. Frank Clarke was a member of this working-man's association club. So the boys went off the following day to this place and when Frank Clarke put a word in with the owner, a local wrestler called Bill Benny who was a well-known entrepreneur in the area, he asked them to come up. The boys asked for an audition on this particular Saturday night and Benny liked them, and so they turned up the next week to play one night. They played ''Rock Island Line,'' ''Worried Man Blues'' & ''Lucille.'' They went down like a storm, the crowd loved them for their innocence especially as they were both in short trousers and when they came off stage they got ten bob each from Benny. He also told them could they come back and play the following night (or the following Saturday) for a fiver, to which the boys said yes. The boys were used to getting sixpence from th |
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From the film 'Top Gun' in 1986, what was the No.1 hit song for Berlin? | ‘There Is No ‘Top Gun’ Without Maverick’ — ‘Top Gun’ Sequel To Include Tom Cruise? ‘There Is No ‘Top Gun’ Without Maverick’ — ‘Top Gun’ Sequel To Include Tom Cruise? Now that executives have confirmed that there will be a Top Gun sequel, the next question many are asking is, will it include everyone’s favorite fighter pilot, Maverick? Guess who’s playing Maverick in the “Top Gun” sequel? http://t.co/4WH5CKY0PM pic.twitter.com/w6dMiQ5FYU — Variety (@Variety) June 28, 2015 While confirming the creation of the Top Gun sequel, Skydance Productions CEO, David Ellison, talked about his latest venture, for which the screenplay is still being worked on. According to Variety, Ellison revealed part of the plot at a press junket for Terminator: Genisys in Berlin, saying, “ Justin Marks is writing the screenplay right now . He has a phenomenal take to really update that world for what fighter pilots in the Navy has turned into today.” So what exactly does the Navy’s fighter pilots have to face today? “It is very much a world we live in today where it’s drone technology , and fifth-generation fighters are really what the United States Navy is calling the last man-made fighter that we’re actually going to produce, so it’s really [about] exploring the ‘end of an era’ of dogfighting and fighter pilots and what that culture is today,” said Ellison, as seen in Rolling Stone. So the Top Gun sequel is going to focus on Navy fighter pilots fighting drones. But more importantly which pilots will be there? Ellison hinted that “There is no Top Gun without Maverick.” But does that mean that it will be the real Maverick? “It is going to be Maverick playing Maverick,” added Ellison. And according to New York Daily News, the Top Gun sequel won’t just feature a cameo for Maverick; “ Cruise is set to have a starring role .” Ellison stated, “There is an amazing role for Maverick in the movie.” Fans of the original Top Gun can now breathe a sigh of relief. Top Gun 2 is confirmed. Great balls of fire— is another fly-by too good to be true?!?! #GooseRIP http://t.co/Frztpwv090 — Corey Nascenzi (@cnascenzi) June 29, 2015 Top Gun was released in 1986 and was an automatic hit. Top Gun became the highest grossing film of 1986, bringing in $350 million. Also, the soundtrack’s hit love song, “Take My Breath Away,” by Berlin, won the 1986 Oscar for Best Original Song. So when can we expect the Top Gun sequel to be in theaters? Ellison can’t give us a date just yet, but explained, “We are very, very hopeful that we get to make the movie very soon. But like all things, it all comes down to the script, and Justin is writing as we speak.” While the original also starred Val Kilmer and Kelly McGillis, it appears at this point that only Tom Cruise will reprise his role for the Top Gun sequel. [Photo Courtesy of Variety ] |
"""Coz I Luv You"" was a No.1 hit in 1971 for which group?" | Slade:-'Coz I Luv You' - YouTube Slade:-'Coz I Luv You' Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Aug 12, 2014 From the compilation album:-'Sladest' [28 September 1973]. The group's first No.1 hit single at the end of October 1971. Category |
"Who had a Top 10 hit with ""Mustang Sally"" in 1966?" | 1966 Songs in Popular Music 1966's Biggest Artists, Albums and Songs ♫ Tom Jones (1965's Best New Artist Grammy Winner) Tom was the first guy ladies threw hotel keys and underwear to while he was singing on stage. ♫ Frank Sinatra (1965 Grammy for Album of the Year) Frank Sintra's September of My Years Album was reflective of Franks age (he was now 50) and included It Was A Very Good Year, How Old Am I?, Last Night When We Were Young and September Song. ♫ A Taste of Honey - Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass (Grammy for Record of the Year) Herb Alpert is the "A" of A&M Records. He is also the only person to hit #1 on the Billboard Charts as an instrumentalist (Rise, 1979) and a vocalist (This Guy's In Love With You, 1968) New Artists in the Pop Charts Included: Neil Diamond, The Monkees, Percy Sledge, Mamas and the Papas, Jimmy Ruffin, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, The Grass Roots, , Sergio Mendez, and Red Sovine 1966's Retro Top 10 Hits 1. ♫ Georgy Girl - The Seekers 2. ♫ Black is Black - Los Bravos 3. ♫ Monday, Monday - The Mamas and the Papas 4. ♫ Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke 5. ♫ Sunshine Superman - Donovan 6. ♫ See You In September - The Happenings 7. ♫ Guantanamera - The Sandpipers 8. ♫ Along Comes Mary - The Association 9. ♫ Tijuana Taxi - Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass 10. ♫ Winchester Catherdral - The New Vaudville Band 1966's 'One Hit Wonders' 1. ♫ Batman Theme - Neal Hefti 2. ♫ Somewhere My Love - Ray Conniff Singers 3. ♫ One Has My Name (One Has My Heart) - Barry Young 4. ♫ Almost Persuaded - David Houston 5. ♫ The Ballad Of The Green Berets - SSgt Barry Sadler 6. ♫ Red Rubber Ball - The Cyrkle 7. ♫ They're Coming To take Me Away - Napolean XIV 8. ♫ No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In) - The T-Bones 9. ♫ The Ballad of Irving - Frank Gallop 10. ♫ The Men In My Little Girl's Life - Mike Douglas 1966's Motown/R&B/Soul Top 10 Hit List 1. ♫ Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett 2. ♫ But It's Alright - J.J. Jackson 3. ♫ You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes 4. ♫ When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge 5. ♫ Ain't Too Proud To Be - Temptations 6. ♫ This Old Heart of Mine - The Isley Brothers 7. ♫ Crying Time - Ray Charles 8. ♫ Hold On! I'm A Comin! - Sam and Dave 9. ♫ Get Ready - Temptations 10. ♫ It's A Man's Man's Man's World - James Brown More R&B/Motown Song Hits: ♫ Reach Out I'll Be There - Four Tops ♫ Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Stevie Wonder ♫ A Place In The Sun - Stevie Wonder ♫ Function At The Junction - Shorty Long ♫ Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett 1966's Dance Top 10 Hit List 1. ♫ I'm A Believer - The Monkees 2. ♫ Good Lovin - The Young Rascals 3. ♫ Hanky Panky - Tommy James and the Shondells 4. ♫ Devil With A Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly - Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels 5. ♫ Time Won't Let Me - The Outsiders 6. ♫ Jenny Take A Ride! - Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels 7. ♫ Good Vibraions - The Beach Boys 8. ♫ Not Responsible - Tom Jones 9. ♫ Cool Jerk - The Capitols 10. ♫ Opus 17 - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons More Dance Song Hits: ♫ Last Train To Clarksville - The Monkees ♫ Oh How Happy - Shades of Blue ♫ Paperback Writer - The Beatles ♫ California Dreamin' - Mamas and the Papas ♫ Lightnin' Strikes - Lou Christie 1966's Pop Rock Top 10 Hit List 1. ♫ Rainy Day Woman # 12 & 35 - Bob Dylan 2. ♫ 19th Nervous Breakdown - The Rolling Stones 3. ♫ My Generation - The Who 4. ♫ Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones 5. ♫ Summer In The City - Lovin Spoonful 6. ♫ Kicks - Paul Revere & The Raiders 7. ♫ Mother's Little Helper - The Rolling Stones 8. ♫ It's My Life - The Animals 9. ♫ I Fought The Law - Bobby Fuller Four 10. ♫ Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers 1966's Garage & Classic Rock Top 10 Hit List 1. ♫ Wild Thing - The Troggs 2. ♫ 96 Tears - ? and the Mysterians 3. ♫ Gloria - The Shadows of |
"""Go Now"" was a No.1 hit for which group in 1965?" | Top 100 Hits of 1965/Top 100 Songs of 1965 Contact Us Top 100 Hits of 1965/Top 100 Songs of 1965 Billboard Year-End Hot 100 chart for 1965. For detailed information on how Billboard compiled the charts, see the Wikipedia article " Billboard Hot 100 ". 1. Wooly Bully , Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs 5. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' , The Righteous Brothers 6. Downtown , Petula Clark 21. Unchained Melody , The Righteous Brothers 22. Silhouettes , Herman's Hermits 50. Go Now , The Moody Blues 51. Goldfinger , Shirley Bassey 65. She's About a Mover , Sir Douglas Quintet 66. Shake , Sam Cooke 100. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) , Marvin Gaye NOTE: We do NOT sell compilations of any of these songs, nor are we aware of anyone who makes even a Top 25 compilation of each year. However, many of the songs are available from iTunes. A link is provided for those songs so you can order them through the iTunes Store if desired. Prices and availability products are subject to change without notice. Product descriptions and pictures are provided with intent accuracy; however, Music Outfitters is not liable for errors (including prices), incorrect manufacturer's specifications or changes, or grammatical inaccuracies in any product. Fill out the form on our Ask A Question page with any questions. |
"Who's album ""New Jersey"" was released in 1988?" | Doghouse | New Jersey New Jersey Duration: 57:04 Genre: Pop Metal Bon Jovi's fourth album, New Jersey was released on September 13, 1988. Approximate sales were in excess of seven million copies in the United States and 15 million worldwide. The album is the band's third highest selling album worldwide, and their second highest selling album in the United States. It is also known for being the only album by a western band released in the former Soviet Union on the state-owned Melodiya label. New Jersey was an immediate success, debuting at #1 in the United States and across the world. It shipped 2 million copies straight out of the gates in the U.S. alone. Additionally, it spawned two #1 singles, "Bad Medicine" and the ballad "I'll Be There for You", both of which ran in excess of five minutes, showing how powerful a force Bon Jovi became in the music industry. The album's three other singles ("Born to Be My Baby", "Lay Your Hands on Me", and "Living in Sin") reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. In addition to their success in the states, the band's singles all made a significant impact worldwide, more so than in the past, a trend which would continue for Bon Jovi well into the 21st century. New Jersey holds the record for the rock album to spawn the most Top 10 singles, with five singles charting on the Top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. No other hard rock album has since equaled or broken this feat. New Jersey was supported by the massive New Jersey Syndicate Tour, which ran from 1988 to 1990. "New Jersey" in charts: No.1 in CNN Worldbeat, Europe, USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, Brazil, Mexico. No.2 in Japan. RIAA: 7x platinum BPI: 2x platinum CRIA: 5x platinum Track |
"""Tell Me Why"" is featured in which Beatles film?" | Tell Me Why | The Beatles Bible One of the more uptempo rockers on the A Hard Day's Night album, Tell Me Why was written by John Lennon for the concert sequence in the film. They needed another upbeat song and I just knocked it off. It was like a black-New-York-girl-group song John Lennon All We Are Saying, David Sheff Although Lennon dismissed Tell Me Why as a throwaway, Paul McCartney later suggested the song, along with others written for A Hard Day's Night, was partly autobiographical. I think a lot of these songs like Tell Me Why may have been based in real experiences or affairs John was having or arguments with Cynthia or whatever, but it never occurred to us until later to put that slant on it all. Paul McCartney Many Years From Now, Barry Miles Tell Me Why was featured in the 'studio performance' sequence of the A Hard Day's Night film. The Beatles mimed to it in front of 350 screaming fans at the Scala Theatre, London, on 31 March 1964. There are four I really go for [in the film]: Can't Buy Me Love , If I Fell , I Should Have Known Better - a song with harmonica we feature during the opening train sequence - and Tell Me Why, a shuffle number that comes at the end of the film. John Lennon, 1964 Anthology For reasons unknown, John Lennon's vocals in the film are different from either the mono or stereo studio versions. In the studio The Beatles recorded Tell Me Why on 27 February 1964 in Abbey Road's Studio Two. It took the group eight takes to perfect. |
"Who had a 1962 hit with ""Wimoweh?" | Obituary: Karl Denver | The Independent Obituary: Karl Denver Wednesday 20 January 1999 00:02 BST Click to follow The Independent Culture TO MANY people, Karl Denver was a novelty performer, known for his octave-spanning acrobatics on the 1962 hit "Wimoweh". But he was also a versatile singer and acoustic guitarist and he chose good songs irrespective of their sources - turn-of-the-century ballads, music-hall favourites and contemporary pop songs as well as folk, country and rock'n'roll material. With the exception of Lonnie Donegan, no other artist in the early 1960s worked from such a broad base. And, like Donegan, Denver had such a distinctive voice that whatever he sang automatically became his own. For a start, how many other pop singers of the day could yodel? He was born Angus Murdo Mckenzie, in Glasgow, in 1932. He left school at 14 and embarked on a decade of wanderlust and adventure. First he joined the Scandinavian Mercantile Marine as a deckhand and was soon travelling the world. He practised the guitar and entertained his shipmates. Next he went into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and was wounded during the Korean War. Then he returned to the sea. He was such a tough, hard-living character that the Rhodesians gave him the nickname "Boaty Maseteno", meaning "brother of Satan". Still only 21, he jumped ship in America and played in clubs in Tennessee and Denver. He befriended the country singers Faron Young and Lefty Frizzell and became the first British performer to play on the Grand Ole Opry radio show. In 1956, he was offered a management and recording contract, but, as he said, "I was asked to sign up, but I had to do the bump as I shouldn't have been there in the first place." He returned to the UK and settled in Blackburn, Lancashire, where he renamed himself Karl Denver. He said, "I had a son called Karl who was killed and I thought I would keep his name. For a time I lived in Fort Collins in Colorado and I thought Denver was a good place, so I became Karl Denver." Soon he was established around the Lancashire clubs and pubs, notably the Yew Tree in Manchester, and the television producer Jack Good offered him work on a new ITV series, Wham! Good also produced Denver's records for Decca; with two excellent musicians, the guitarist Kevin Neill from the Joe Loss Orchestra and the bassist Jerry Cottrell, the Karl Denver Trio was formed. The highlight of Denver's act was a fiery version of a Zulu chant, "Wimoweh", which he claimed to have learnt in Africa. However, it had been recorded in 1952 by the Weavers featuring Pete Seeger and Denver's version is clearly based on this. Decca recorded "Wimoweh" at the end of Denver's first session but decided that it was too bizarre to release as his first single. Instead they selected "Marcheta", a revival of a 1912 ballad. Denver didn't mind. "The lyrics were beautiful, but it was my range that grabbed the people. It was a hell of a range that I did it in." The press release from June 1961 says, "A pint-sized Scot with a king-sized yodel and a siren voice that packs the power of a hurricane blows onto the disc world this week." Denver, conscious of his size, was one of the first performers to wear Cuban heels. "Marcheta" made No 8 on the charts, as did his second single, a revival of an old-time country song, "Mexicali Rose". Around this time, quite independently, an American doo-wop group called the Tokens had alighted on "Wimoweh" and added some lyrics, calling it "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". It made the US charts and started to gain popularity in Britain. Denver's fans in Manchester organised a petition for Decca to release "Wimoweh" as a single. Although "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was already in the charts, Denver's version was so electrifying that it stormed past the Tokens to reach No 4 in March 1962. Denver's first album, also called Wimoweh, reached the Top Ten. The songs on his LPs display the wide ranges of his voice and repertoire. There was the knockabout "My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes", a mysterious version of "She Moved Thro' the Fair", the |
"Which 1970's super group recorded ""Stairway to Heaven""?" | Led Zeppelin - Biography - IMDb Led Zeppelin Jump to: Overview (1) | Mini Bio (1) | Trade Mark (1) | Trivia (46) Overview (1) Led Zep Mini Bio (1) Led Zeppelin are a popular British band best known for their iconic "Stairway to Heaven" as well as for co-creating the music genre of heavy metal. Since their nine albums were recorded between 1968 and 1979, Led Zeppelin has been one of the most popular bands of all time, having sold more than 300 million records and millions of concert tickets worldwide. The quartet was conceived at the end of the Hippie love era, in a group marriage of blues, rock and roll, soul, rockabilly, folk ballad, jazz, classical and Eastern music, and something else scattered over some woozy sounds of their songs. It was their mutual artistic stimulation, their group interplay and imagination that incorporated mythology and mysticism, and concocted their inimitable style, and established the concept of album-oriented rock career. Jimmy Page was already an experienced lead guitarist who worked with multi-instrumentalist John Paul Jones in 1967, and they agreed to work on the next project. In August 1968 Page invited Robert Plant and John Bonham to join his band, the New Yardbirds, for a September tour in Scandinavia. In October 1968 they took the name Led Zeppelin, which stemmed from a humorous conversation among several musicians about their chances of going down like a lead balloon. However, British bands were highly anticipated in the USA, and the Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun signed the new band without even seeing them. Their debut album, 'Led Zeppelin', recorded and mixed in just about 36 hours in October 1968, at Olympic Studios in London, kicked open the door for all extremes and experiments. The phallic image of the blown up Hindenburg airship on the cover, designed by George Hardie, announced the hardening of rock and coming of the new super-group. While ascending to musical success as a powerhouse band, Led Zeppelin explored a variety of styles, from English folk ballads to blues and rock, and created their own inimitable style. Prior to the release of their first album, Led Zeppelin made live appearances at the University of Surrey and in London in October 1968, then went on their first American tour in December 1968. In their first year, Led Zeppelin made four concert tours in the USA, and another four tours in the UK. Their second album was recorded entirely on the road at several American recording studios, and was an even greater success than the first one. "Whole Lotta Love", "Heartbreaker", "Living, Loving Maid", and "Ramble On" became big international hits. Each member of the quartet contributed to their compositions, thus setting a fine example of group creativity. Their songs and albums rambled on with the highly versatile voice-guitar interplay. Plant's incredible vocal range and Page's enchanting guitar solos were as responsible for the band's singularity as its musical wanderlust. Plant's and Page's musicianship was supported by the tight playing by John Paul Jones on bass, and John Bonham on drums. The intense interaction of all four players on stage gave their live performances a visual counterpoint to well intertwined harmonic and rhythmic structures of their compositions. Their third album, Led Zeppelin III, influenced by folk and Celtic music, offered more inventiveness with acoustic/electric sound-work, and revealed more of the band's versatility with such compositions as the "Immigrant Song" and "Since I've Been Loving You". With the release of their fourth, and most popular album, Led Zeppelin achieved a reputation of the biggest band in the world. 'Stairway to Heaven' became the most played radio hit, several other songs became rock classics, and nobody knows how many more times their lines would help other musicians (like the opening riff from "How Many More Times" was later used by Pink Floyd in their hit "Money"). Capitalizing on the success of their first four albums, the band toured extensively in the 1970s. At that time they chartered a private jet |
Which famous sportsman won the BBC's 2006 Strictly Come Dancing? | Who won Strictly Come Dancing 2015? A look back at past winners | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV | Daily Express TV & RADIO Who won Strictly Come Dancing 2015? A look back at past winners STRICTLY COME DANCING comes to an end this weekend, here is a look back at the previous winners. 17:01, Fri, Dec 16, 2016 | UPDATED: 18:04, Fri, Dec 16, 2016 GETTY / BBC Fifteen celebrities are hoping to follow in the fancy footsteps of these winners Before the next winner is crowned on Saturday, here is a look at the thirteen celebrities that have won the mirrorball trophy so far. Who won Strictly Come Dancing 2015? The Wanted’s Jay McGuinness and Aliona Vilani won the last series of Strictly. The victory made Aliona the first ever professional dancer to win twice – she also came top in the 2011 series with McFly star Harry Judd. Jay is the first celebrity since Louis Smith in 2012 to win the show without falling into the bottom two, and the first since Kara Tointon in 2010 to win without achieving a perfect 40. Related articles Abbey Clancey and Alijaz Skorjanec won in 2013 Who won Strictly Come Dancing 2012? Olympian Louis Smith and Flavia Cacace won the tenth series of Strictly – Darcey Bussell’s first as a judge. The gymnast pipped Denise van Outen and Kimberly Walsh to the trophy with a near-perfect charleston. BBC Louis Smith and Flavia Cacace won in 2012 Who won Strictly Come Dancing 2011? McFly star Harry Judd and Aliona Vilani won the ninth series of Strictly. The pair were awarded two perfect scores over the final weekend for their quickstep and argentine smooth, beating actress Chelsee Healy and Pasha Kovalev. The series was Alesha Dixon’s last as a judge. BBC Harry Judd and Aliona Vilani won in 2011 Strictly Come Dancing 2016: First look at the couples Tue, September 20, 2016 Kara Tointon and Artem Chigvintsev won in 2010 Who won Strictly Come Dancing 2009? Sports presenter Chris Hollins won the seventh series of Strictly with professional dancer Ola Jordan. Alesha Dixon joined the judging panel two years after she won the show, replacing Arlene Phillips. Darcey Bussell appeared as a judge from the quarter final onwards. BBC Chris Hollins and Ola Jordan won in 2009 Who won Strictly Come Dancing 2008? Actor Tom Chambers and Camilla Dallerup won the sixth series of Strictly, beating S Club 7 star Rachel Stevens and Vincent Simone. The series was Arelene Phillips’s last as a judge before she was controversially dropped from the panel. Who won Strictly Come Dancing 2007? Popstar Alesha Dixon and Matthew Cutler won the fifth series of Strictly, with EastEnders star Matt DiAngelo coming in second place with his partner Flavia Cacace. The duo were early favourites, and in the final were awarded high marks for their waltz and cha-cha-cha. BBC Tom Chambers and Camilla Dallerup won in 2007 Who won Strictly Come Dancing 2006? Ex-cricketer Mark Ramprakash and Karen Hardy won the fourth series of Strictly, beating rival sportsman Matt Dawson and his partner Lilia Kopylova. BBC Mark Ramprakash and Karen Hardy won in 2006 Who won Strictly Come Dancing 2005? Darren Gough was the first cricketer to win the mirrorball trophy. He won the third series of Strictly with his partner Lilia Kopylova, leaving Olympic hurdler Colin Jackson and Erin Boag in second place. BBC Darren Gough and Lilia Kopylova won in 2005 BBC Jill Halfpenny and Darren Bennett won in 2004 Who won Strictly Come Dancing 2004? Eastenders actress Jill Halfpenny won the first ever series of Strictly with her partner Darren Bennett. Olympic heptathlete Denise Lewis and Ian Waite came in second place. Related articles |
We know the famous cricketer as 'Freddie' Flintoff. What's his real first name? | Andrew Flintoff Biography from Biogs.com clear Andrew Flintoff was born on 6 December 1977 in Preston. Flintoff was first nicknamed Freddie by John Stanworth, the captain of Lancashire's second XI, when he was a teenager because his name was similar to Fred Flinstone. Andrew Flintoff hardly played cricket at his school, Ribbleton Hall High school, but played alongside his father and elder brother at Harris Park, and then joined St Anne's and batted number three in the year they won the league. At 16, Andrew Flintoff was snapped up by David Lloyd, then Lancashire's coach. His first class debut came against Hampshire in August 1995. It was not good. He scored 7 and a duck and he dropped 5 catches! The right-handed all-rounder made his test debut on 23 July 1998 against South Africa at Nottingham. But in spite of his natural talent Andrew Flintoff's cricketing career took a while to take off. He was overweight and unfit. Dropped from the England team in 2001 he determined to get into shape and dropped about two stone to around 16.5 stone. Flintoff used the services of former Great Britain rugby league international Steve Hampson to help him improve his fitness. It worked and by 2003 Flintoff was justifying his reputation as a big-hitter and a dangerous bowler. But it was in 2004 that Andrew Flintoff really motored. He was named Man of the Series in England's 4-0 whitewash of the West Indies in the summer (the home leg), and was voted Player of the Year by the Professional Cricketers' Association in September 2004. Flintoff was also on stunning form in the one day internationals and was made ICC's One-Day Player of the Year in 2004. He had notched up 551 runs at the amazing average of 78.71 in one-day internationals and also took 12 wickets at an average of 20.50. In April 2005, Andrew Flintoff playing his first Championship match in nearly two years due to injury and test duties. In the first innings for Lancashire against Worcestershire he scored a duck, but an 83 which included 4 sixes signalled that Flintoff was regaining form and fitness. In the second test of the 2005 Ashes series, Andrew Flintoff came up with an incredible performance in England's nail-biting victory over Australia. Man of the match, Flintoff scored an exciting 73 in England's meagre second innings total of 182 and then helped whittle out Australia with 4-79. England went on to win the 2005 Ashes and Flintoff was named as man of the series. Freddie was made BBC Sports Personality of the Year, 2005. Andrew Flintoff was also named as Wisden's world's number one player in 2005. Andrew Flintoff said: "I watched the Ashes as a kid and to be involved in it and play a major role in an England victory has been unbelievable". Flintoff and his wife Rachael have a daughter Holly and live in Knutsford, Cheshire. In March 2006 they had a son, Corey, whilst Flintoff was in India captaining England - a role he took on when Michael Vaughan and Marcus Trescothick were unavailable for selection. Flintoff guided England to a tied series 1-1. Freddie Flintoff came seventh in The Independent's list of Britain's happiest people. In September 2006, despite some worries over his fitness after his ankle injury, Andrew Flintoff was named as England's captain for the Ashes in Australia in the winter. The Australians won the Ashes back and worse was to follow for Flintoff when he was sacked as vice-captain in the World Cup in March 2007 after reports that he fell off a pedalo after drinking heavily in the early hours of the morning after England's first match defeat to New Zealand. Later in 2007, injury kept Andrew Flintoff out of the Tests against West Indies and, in October 2007, it was revealed that Andrew Flintoff is unlikely to play for England until summer 2008 after another ankle operation. In July 2008, Andrew Flintoff was named in the 12-man squad for England's second Test against South Africa. It was 18 months since his last Test appearance. Nevertheless, Flintoff started the 2009 Ashes series , near to full fitness. On 15 July 2009, Andrew Flintoff announced that he w |
What colour shirts did the winning team wear 1966 World cup? | England will wear all-white kit at the World Cup after caving in to new FIFA demands - Mirror Online Sport England will wear all-white kit at the World Cup after caving in to new FIFA demands FIFA want sides to wear singled-coloured kits in order to improve the quality of high-def television pictures from Brazil Share All-white on the night: England went one-colour in Euro 2012 (Photo: Getty) Share Get football updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email England will ditch their traditional kit for an all-white World Cup strip after bowing to demands from FIFA . The Zurich bureaucrats have urged nations to adopt predominantly single-coloured kits to improve the quality of HD pictures from Brazil. And it means Roy Hodgson’s men will run out in Manaus, Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte in their World Cup group clashes wearing a kit that some old-school fans will not appreciate. While the hosts are understood to be ignoring FIFA’s request and sticking with their canary yellow shirts and blue shorts, England are following other major countries and falling into line. Germany last month revealed their all-white design, ditching their traditional black shorts. Spain will be all-red, Portugal all Port-red and Italy all blue, although France are sticking with white shorts under their blue shirts. And the FA and strip manufacturers Nike have agreed a new all-white outfit which will be unveiled before the Wembley farewell friendly against Peru in May. |
Which Dart player was known as 'The Crafty Cockney'? | Eric _, darts player known as the Crafty Cockney - crossword puzzle clues & answers - Dan Word «Let me solve it for you» Eric _, darts player known as the Crafty Cockney Today's crossword puzzle clue is a general knowledge one: Eric _, darts player known as the Crafty Cockney. We will try to find the right answer to this particular crossword clue. Here are the possible solutions for "Eric _, darts player known as the Crafty Cockney" clue. It was last seen in British general knowledge crossword. We have 1 possible answer in our database. Possible answer: |
Which female sports presenter won the French Open (tennis) title in 1976? | Sue Barker | Women Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Add Image Susan (Sue) Barker, MBE (born 19 April 1956 in Paignton , Devon ) is an English television presenter and former professional tennis player. During her tennis career, she won a Grand Slam women's singles title at the 1976 French Open and reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3. She is now one of the main sports presenters at the BBC . Tennis career Edit Barker's tennis career began in 1973 and she won her first top-level singles title in 1974. She won three additional titles in 1975. Barker reached her first Grand Slam semi-final in 1975 at the Australian Open . She won the German Open in 1976, beating Renáta Tomanová of Czechoslovakia in the final 6–3, 6–1. Later in 1976, Barker had the biggest victory of her career by winning the French Open at the age of 20, again defeating Tomanová in the final. Barker's toughest game en route to the final in Paris was her quarter-final match against Regina Maršíková , when Barker came back from a set down and won a gruelling final set 8–6. After her French Open victory against Tomanová, Barker felt that it would be the first of a number of Grand Slam titles that she would win, but she would not reach another Grand Slam final in her career. In 1977, Barker won two singles titles in San Francisco and Dallas. She beat Martina Navratilova to reach the Virginia Slims Tour Championships final, where she lost in three sets to Chris Evert . Barker reached the Australian Open semi-final for the second time in 1977 and also reached the Wimbledon semi-final that year. She looked set to meet Virginia Wade in the Wimbledon final in 1977, but unexpectedly lost her semi-final against Betty Stöve of the Netherlands, which denied her the opportunity of playing against Wade in an all-British final. Years later, Barker said that losing to Stöve was the biggest disappointment of her career and admitted that she was so upset at losing in the 1977 Wimbledon semi-final that she could not bear to watch the final, which was won by Wade. After an injury-plagued 1978 during which her ranking dropped to World No. 24, she won three singles titles and reached three other finals in 1979. She was named the tour's "Comeback Player of the Year" by her fellow professionals. Barker reached one final in 1980 and won the last singles title of her career at the Brighton International in 1981, finishing the year ranked World No. 16. She won her last doubles title in 1982 at Cincinnati , and played her last professional match in 1984. In all, Barker won 11 singles titles and 12 doubles titles, posting wins over Evert, Navratilova, Billie Jean King , Evonne Goolagong Cawley , Tracy Austin , Virginia Wade , Maria Bueno , Rosemary Casals , Andrea Jaeger and Pam Shriver . Barker's forehand was her strongest weapon, with her coach Arthur Roberts describing it as "especially potent". Roberts was a notoriously severe character who very rarely praised Barker. "Everyone was terrified of him," she later said. When she left England to play in tournaments on the Continent, Roberts handed her a one-way ticket only, insisting that she had to earn the fare home. In 2004, recalling her French Open win of 1976, Barker said: "I'm still incredibly proud of what I achieved." Broadcasting career Edit Upon retiring from tennis Barker became a commentator and sports reporter for Australia's Channel 7 in 1985 before going on to anchor tennis coverage for British Sky Broadcasting in 1990. In 1993, Barker joined the Wimbledon coverage on the BBC and now anchors the two-week-long broadcast for the network. One of the annual features of the coverage sees Barker reminiscing with former rivals Martina Navratilova , Chris Evert , Pam Shriver , and Tracy Austin during Wimbledon's rain delays. Barker has branched out since joining the BBC, becoming one of their chief sports presenters and she is currently the presenter of the sports quiz show A Question Of Sport . Barker has hosted BBC Sport's coverage of the Australian Ope |
In which US state was golfer Tiger Woods born? | About Tiger | TigerWoods.com About Tiger Full Name: Eldrick "Tiger" Woods Residence: Hobe Sound, Florida Children: Sam Alexis (6/18/2007); Charlie Axel (2/8/2009) Parents: Earl (deceased 5/3/2006) and Kultida Woods Born: December 30, 1975 (Cypress, California) High School: Western H.S. (Anaheim, California) College: Stanford University (Palo Alto, California) Height: 6'1" Biography Eldrick (Tiger) Woods, now 40 years old, has had an unprecedented career since becoming a professional golfer in the late summer of 1996. He has won 105 tournaments, 79 of those on the PGA TOUR, including the 1997, 2001, 2002 and 2005 Masters Tournaments, 1999, 2000, 2006 and 2007 PGA Championships, 2000, 2002, and 2008 U.S. Open Championships, and 2000, 2005 and 2006 Open Championships. With his second Masters victory in 2001, Tiger became the first ever to hold all four professional major championships at the same time. In winning the 2000 British Open, Woods became the youngest to complete the career Grand Slam of professional major championships and only the fifth ever to do so, following Ben Hogan, Gene Sarazen, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus. Tiger also was the youngest Masters champion ever, at the age of 21 years, three months and 14 days, and was the first major championship winner of African or Asian heritage. Woods holds or shares the record for the low score in relation to par in three of the four major championships. His records are 270 (18-under par) in the 1997 Masters, which he shares with Jordan Spieth (2015), 269 (19-under par) in the 2000 British Open, and he shares the record of 270 (18-under par) with Bob May in the 2000 PGA Championship, which Tiger won by one stroke in a three-hole playoff. He held the U.S. Open records of 272 and 12-under par (set in the 2000) until 2011. The U.S. Open and Masters victories came by record margins, 15 strokes and 12 strokes, respectively, and the U.S. Open triumph swept aside the 13-stroke major championship standard which had stood for 138 years, established by Old Tom Morris in the 1862 British Open. The record margin for the U.S. Open had been 11 strokes by Willie Smith in 1899. In the Masters, Woods broke the record margin of nine strokes set by Nicklaus in 1965. Tiger won the Open Championship by eight strokes, the largest margin since J. H. Taylor in 1913. He is the career victories leader among active players on the PGA TOUR, and is the career money list leader. In 2012, he passed Jack Nicklaus for second in PGA TOUR career victories (74), trailing only Sam Snead (82). Tiger increased his record total on the PGA TOUR career money list to $109,504,139 through 2013, and had won $132,349,133 worldwide. In addition to his playing exploits, Woods is busy off the course, too. Established in 1996, the Tiger Woods Foundation believes every child deserves a shot at college. Designed to break through a culture of low expectations, the TWF college-access programs reach underserved youth in all stages of academic life. For scholars in grades 5-12, the TGR Learning Labs provide hands-on experiences in science, technology, engineering and math, coupled with college preparation workshops to create a unique environment focused on college and careers. Since opening its flagship Learning Center in Anaheim, Calif., the foundation has established campuses in Washington, Philadelphia and Florida. The Earl Woods Scholarship Program is an unparalleled network providing admissions counseling, college scholarships, dedicated mentors, specialized internships and vital workshops. Receiving individualized support, the bright young scholars are succeeding at prestigious universities such as Georgetown, USC, UC Berkeley, UCLA and Harvard. For more information on the programs, please visit tigerwoodsfoundation.org . Woods announced the creation of TGR Design, a golf-course design company, in 2006 to utilize Tiger's worldwide experience, his limitless pursuit of excellence and his love of golf to create a unique collection of amazing golf courses. His website is TigerWoods.com , Twitter is @TigerWoods , Facebook |
Apart from tennis, which other sport considers 'The All England Club', Wimbledon it's home? | A journey with tennis through time - The Championships, Wimbledon 2017 - Official Site by IBM A journey with tennis through time Wimbledon.com is marking National Sports Heritage Day with this blog to take a look back at not only how past events have affected tennis but also how the sport has impacted on history READ MORE By Bianca Harrisskitt The Championships at Wimbledon have long been a key part of the British sporting calendar. Talented tennis players, Henman Hill and strawberries and cream have all played their part in enshrining Wimbledon’s iconic place in Britain’s sporting heritage. However, the game of tennis has a long history dating back to the 14th century. From advancements in game play to tennis related deaths, tennis-inspired fashion and even a tennis-incited war, this blog post considers not only how past events have affected tennis but also how the sport has impacted on history. Have a look through and see how much tennis history you really know! 14TH CENTURY Did you know that tennis has been an important part of life in Britain since the 14th century? It is widely believed that the game we now know as tennis first emerged from early ball games which involved using hitting a ball back and forth using the palm of the hand, popular in the Southern regions of Europe. This game was given the name Jeu de Paume (game of the hand or hand ball). Despite the tensions between Britain and France during the 14th and 15th centuries, one thing they had in common was a love for Jeu de Paume, with the game spreading from France to Britain in the mid-14th century. 24 May 1337 Hundred Years' War between England and France begins. 7 July 1348 'Black Death' enters Britain On average, between 30% and 45% of the general populace died. 30 September 1399 Henry IV is proclaimed King of England. 15TH CENTURY Developments in game play/equipment In the first half of the 15th century a stiff double glove started to be widely used in Jeu de Paume in order to avoid nasty broken fingers! Did you know that tennis balls played a role is kicking off the Battle of Agincourt? Henry V was the first monarch who played tennis regularly. In 1414, he allegedly received some tennis balls from France’s Dauphin, an act which he chose to interpret as a grave insult following the breakdown of recent negotiations. Shakespeare even wrote about the event, stating that the balls were sent to signify the king’s wild youth. After this ‘provocation’ Henry V sailed to France to meet with them in battle. Recent historians have questioned whether any balls were actually sent; nevertheless, the story certainly legitimised Henry’s decision to embark on the Agincourt campaign. Did you know that King James I of Scotland met a grizzly end due to his love of tennis? In 1437 at the Blackfriars in Perth, the drain outlet through which the King hoped to escape when the building was invaded by dissident Scottish nobles had been blocked, to prevent the loss of tennis balls when the King was playing in the courtyard. James was trapped and killed. Developments in game play/equipment: By the second half of the 15th century wooden battoirs, covered with parchment, were starting to be used. This soon developed into the use of strung rackets, usually made with sheep gut or silk stringing. By the 16th century, the game had moved to an enclosed playing area, and the rules had stabilized and thus Real Tennis was born. The game was particularly popular amongst European royalty and was referred to solely as ‘tennis’. 20 March 1413 Henry IV dies and is succeeded by his son, Henry V. 25 October 1415 Henry V defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt. 21 May 1420 Charles VI cedes France to Henry V in the Treaty of Troyes. 1424 James I crowned King of Scotland in 1424 at Scone in Perthshire. 22 May 1455 - 22 August 1485 Wars of the Roses. 16TH CENTURY Did you know that Anne Boleyn was watching tennis when she was arrested on the 2nd May 1536? Real tennis received growing popularity under Henry the VIII and throughout his reign he doubled the number of courts he owned by building te |
Which Grand Slam event did tennis player Pete Sampras fail to win? | Champions Tour - ATP Champions Tour - Pete Sampras Player Biography Pete Sampras Pete is a former World Number One and 14-time Grand Slam Champion who is considered by many to be the greatest tennis player of all time. A true all-rounder who could rally from the back of the court, volley brilliantly and serve opponents off the court, he could overwhelm opponents with his power. His running forehand, slam-dunk smash and incomparable second serve became trademark, destructive shots. He turned professional in 1988, at the age of 16, and finished the year ranked World No. 97 after starting the year at World No. 893. It was in 1990 that his big breakthrough came, when he won his first Grand Slam title at the US Open in September, beating Andre Agassi in the final. His next great achievement came in April of 1993, when he attained the World Number One ranking for the first time. He was to stay there for a record 286 weeks. Later that year, Sampras won the first of seven Wimbledon titles, beating Jim Courier in the final. Over the subsequent seven years Sampras lost only one match at SW19, to Richard Krajicek in the quarterfinals in 1996. His final Wimbledon victory in 2000, in which he defeated Patrick Rafter in a classic final in almost total darkness on Centre Court, enabled him to break Roy Emerson's previous record of 12 Grand Slam titles. Over his career Sampras also won two Australian Open titles, the first in 1994 beating compatriot Todd Martin in the final, and the second in 1997 when he beat Spaniard Carlos Moya in the final. Only the French Open title eluded Sampras throughout his career, and prevented him from completing a career Grand Slam. The closest he came to lifting the trophy was in 1996, when he beat former champions Sergi Bruguera and Jim Courier before losing a close semifinal to eventual winner Yevgeny Kafelnikov. The American won the US Open five times in total. The last of those was a victory against the odds in 2002, when, ranked outside the World's Top 20 going into the tournament, Sampras battled to his 14th and final Grand Slam title, beating Agassi in the final. It would be his final professional match. He now lives in California with his wife, Bridgette Wilson, and their two sons, Christian and Ryan. |
If you score a maximum 147 at snooker, how many pots have you made? | 147 Is Not Snooker's Maximum Break - Pundit Arena Email Shares 257 Akin to Darts’ 9-dart finish, Cricket’s six sixes, or Bowling’s 300, Snooker’s maximum 147 break is renowned and revered worldwide. Those with only the slightest interest in the sport will tune in to see a replay of a player potting 15 reds paired with 15 blacks, before cleaning up the remaining colours. A player by the name of Murt O’Donoghue recorded the first ever maximum back in 1934. When Steve Davis achieved the first televised 147 in 1982, it was an unforgettable occasion. Several records have fallen since. In 1997, Ronnie O’Sullivan made his 36 perfect pots in just 5 minutes and 20 seconds. The history books have been rewritten multiple times over the last hundred odd years. But some snooker fans may be surprised to learn that this is not technically perfection, and a break greater than 147 is perfectly possible. After a foul, if the cue-ball is snookered, the referee shall state a free ball. The player may then treat a coloured ball as if it were a red. Therefore, this can artificially create a 16th red on the table. Although improbable, if a free ball is to be called before the first red is potted in a frame, then it is possible to achieve a break of up to 155. In a club match in 1976, Wally West is reported to have scored a 151 break in West London. 17 years later, a certain Stephen Hendry made a 148 in practice. However, Malta’s Tony Drago, in practice, scored a 149, comprising of a free ball plus brown, followed by 15 reds, 13 blacks, a pink, and a blue, plus the remaining colours. His feat was credited by the Guinness World Book of Records. ‘The Tornado’ went down officially as the highest break ever at the time, which was 1995. The coveted 155 was not achieved until the summer of 2005, when Jamie Cope accomplished the endeavour. 16 reds, 16 blacks, and the colours. This was made in a witnessed practice frame. Although never witnessed in competition, a break of 155 is true snooker perfection. It should not, and does not, take anything away from the 147 break, but we can always dare to dream of experiencing a free ball perfect frame on our screens. The word ‘maximum’ is defined as “the greatest amount, extent, or intensity possible, permitted, or recorded.” Therefore a 147, however majestic and skillful as it may be, is not actually the maximum break in snooker. Brian Barry, Pundit Arena |
What's the nationality of golfers Ernie Els and Gary Player? | Ernie Els - Official PGA TOUR Profile Ernie Els Ernie Els personal notes BACK Started playing golf at age 9. An accomplished junior tennis player, he won the Eastern Transvall Junior Championships at age 13. Turned full attention to golf at age 14 after also playing cricket, soccer and rugby. Heavily involved in junior golf of South Africa and Cancer Society of South Africa. Hosts Ernie Els Invitational in South Africa to raise money for charity. Ernie Els Foundation formed in early 1999, with the purpose of providing full support to disadvantaged children. Proceeds from the... |
Who captained Europe's winning Ryder Cup team in 2006? | Ryder Cup 2006 » Team Europe » News Team Europe » News Woosnam, Faldo named European Captains for 2006, 2008 Ian Woosnam and Nick Faldo have accepted invitations from the Tournament Committee of The European Tour, ratified by The Ryder Cup Policy Board, to captain the European Teams in The 36th and 37th Ryder Cup Matches respectively. 01 June 2005 Ian Woosnam and Nick Faldo have accepted invitations from the Tournament Committee of The European Tour, ratified by The Ryder Cup Policy Board, to captain the European Teams in The 36th and 37th Ryder Cup Matches respectively. Woosnam, who celebrates his 47th birthday today (Wednesday, March 2), will be the Captain for The 36th Ryder Cup Match at The K Club, Straffan, Co. Kildare, Ireland, from September 22-24, 2006. He becomes the 20th golfer to captain a Ryder Cup Team against the United States and the third Welshman, following in the footsteps of Dai Rees (1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1967) and Brian Huggett (1977). Faldo, aged 47, will be the Captain for The 37th Ryder Cup Match at Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, Kentucky, in September, 2008. He made 11 successive appearances as a player from 1977 and remains the all-time record points scorer with 23 wins and four halved matches from 46 matches. Woosnam succeeds Germany's Bernhard Langer, who led Europe to an 18%-9% victory over the United States at Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Township, Michigan, USA, last September. "What a fantastic way to celebrate my birthday," Woosnam said. "My wife, Glen, and I are absolutely delighted. The Ryder Cup has been a big part in our lives and it is a huge honour to be named Captain of The European Team. It makes me feel very proud especially as Wales has such a great tradition of producing Ryder Cup Captains. "I've enjoyed the thrill of playing under three superb Ryder Cup Captains in Tony Jacklin, Bernard Gallacher and Seve Ballesteros and, of course I was Assistant Captain to Sam Torrance in 2002. So, after being involved in no fewer than nine matches from 1983, I can't tell you how much I missed not being involved last year. Now it's all systems go for 2006 and Ireland. "I have a great affinity for Irish golf and especially the Irish golf fans. They are tremendous supporters of the game and very, very knowledgeable. Winning back to back Irish Opens in 1988 and 1989 remains one of the highlights of my career. "Nevertheless, there is nothing like winning the Ryder Cup. I was lucky enough to enjoy that feeling five times as a player and once as Assistant to Sam, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to lead us to a successful defence next year. In fact I would like to create a little history. Europe has held The Ryder Cup three successive times because we tied in 1989 after winning in 1985 and 1987, but we have never won three successive matches. So I need to follow on from Sam and Bernhard's fantastic achievements in 2002 and 2004. "I learned such a lot from working with and alongside Sam when we won at The Belfry in 2002 that I know it will stand me in good stead. I also know it is going to be a tremendously hard job to follow straight after Bernhard, our winning Captain from last year, but I will do my utmost to help the team at The K Club. "At the end of the day we want to win in Ireland and we want to keep both hands on Samuel Ryder's trophy. But let's not forget that from a European viewpoint Sam and Bernhard, in winning, also ensured that the true traditions of the game were upheld and that fair play and good sportsmanship were top of the agenda. My stance is that it should be no different at The K Club and I know Captain Tom Lehman and his American Team will, like ourselves, look forward to a close, exciting and sporting contest. "One other thing. Just in case anyone doubts my desire as a player - I can assure you I'm still out here to win. I've made the commitment, however, to captain the 2006 European Team, not to play in it, and I'll be focusing on getting everything right in the lead-up to Ireland." Woosnam was born in Oswestry and moved to Jersey in the Channel |
What term is given to a score of one over par in golf? | Meaning of Golf Words - Par, Bogey, Birdie, Eagle, Albatross - Scottish Golf History Bogey to Blow-Up There is quite a history behind the golfing terms bogey, par, birdie, eagle and albatross. Bogey and par were central to the development of handicapping, pioneered by the LGU . The modern meaning of three of the terms - bogey, birdie and eagle - comes from their use in USA. Bogey Par Birdie Eagle Albatross Bogey "Bogey" was the first stroke system, developed in England at the end of the 19th Century. The full history is given in Robert Browning's History of Golf 1955 . In 1890 Mr Hugh Rotherham Secretary of the Coventry Golf Club conceived the idea of standardising the number of shots at each hole that a good golfer should take, which he called the 'ground score.' Great Yarmouth where term Bogey was first coined Dr Browne, Secretary of the Great Yarmouth Club, adopted the idea, and, with the assent of the club's golfers, this style of competition was introduced there for use in match play. During one competition Mr CA Wellman (possibly Major Charles Wellman) exclaimed to Dr Browne that, "This player of yours is a regular Bogey man". This was probably a reference to the eponymous subject of an Edwardian music hall song "Hush! Hush! Hush! Here Comes the Bogey Man", which was popular at that time. So at Yarmouth and elsewhere the ground score became known as the bogey score. A 'bogle' was a Scottish goblin as far back as the 16th Century and a Bogey-man was a widely used term for a goblin or devil. Golfers of the time considered they were playing a Mister Bogey when measuring themselves against the bogey score. This allowed the introduction of bogey competitions, which we would call handicap competitions or stablefords. On 2nd January 1892, The Field reported that 'a novelty was introduced in the shape of a bogey tournament for a prize. ... Fourteen couples started but the bogey defeated them all.' In 1892, Colonel Seely-Vidal, the Hon Secretary of the United Servic es Club at Gosport, also worked out the 'bogey' for his course. The United Club was a services club and all the members had a military rank. They could not measure themselves against a 'Mister' Bogey or have him as a member, so 'he' was given the honorary rank of Colonel. Thus the term 'Colonel Bogey' was born. Later, in the middle of 20th century, bogey was used as the term of one above par. Par Par is derived from the stock exchange term that a stock may be above or below its normal or 'par' figure. In 1870, Mr AH Doleman, a golf writer, asked the golf professionals David Strath and James Anderson, what score would win 'The Belt', then the winning trophy for 'The Open', at Prestwick, where it was first held annually from 1861 to 1870. Strath and Anderson said that perfect play should produce a score of 49 for Prestwick's twelve holes. Mr Doleman called this 'par' for Prestwick and subsequently Young Tom Morris won with a score of two strokes 'over par' for the three rounds of 36 holes. Tom Morris Jnr Youngest Open Winner Although the first noted use of the word "par" in golf was in Britain and predates the bogey, today's rating system does not and the par standard was not further developed until later. It was the Ladies Golf Association, who, from 1893, began to develop a national handicapping system for women . It was largely in place by the end of the Century. The Men's association, founded in 1894, followed suit a few year's later. In 1911, the United States Golf Association (Men) of the day laid down the following very modern distances for determining par: Up to 225 yards Over 601 yards Par 6 As golf developed, scores were coming down, but many old British courses did not adjust their courses or their bogey scores, which meant good golfers and all the professionals were achieving lower than a bogey score. This meant the US had an up-to-date national standard of distances for holes, while the British bogey ratings were determined by each club and were no longer appropriate for professionals. The Americans began referring to one over par as a bogey, much |
By what name is footballs 'Edson Arantes do Nascimento' better known? | Pelé: Art Life Football by Washington Green Fine Art - issuu issuu Três Corações ART LIFE FOOTBALL PELÉ, the PELÉ Signature and the Bicycle Kick Design are [the trademarks of PELÉ IP Ownership LLC] “Eu nasci em Três Corações, eu sou um homem de três corações” “I was born in Três Corações, I am a man of three hearts.” Pelé “My joy, throughout my life, has been football.” Pelé Edson Arantes do Nascimento—better known as Pelé—is the most celebrated football player in history and perhaps the most popular, exciting athlete the world has ever known. A native of Brazil, Pelé enjoyed a professional career during which he scored 1,283 goals in 1,366 matches. Pelé was born on Oct. 23, 1940 to Dondinho and Dona Celeste in Três Corações (in the state of Minas Gerais). Pelé’s father was a local professional football player who held the distinction of scoring five goals with his head in one game. As a kid, Pelé created his own reputation as a player in the city of Bauru. Former Brazilian World Cup player, Waldemar de Brito, noticed his skills and took him to Santos, a club team on the coast of Brazil. Pelé started his professional career at the age of 16 for Santos Futebol Clube scoring one goal in his first official game. It was not long after that, when he joined the Brazilian national team. In 1958, the 17-year-old was selected to play for the Seleção at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. Pelé missed the first two games of the tournament with a knee injury. He made up for lost time by scoring the game-winning goal in the quarterfinals and a hat trick in the semifinals. After Pelé’s two goals against Sweden in the final, his teammates lifted the child prodigy onto their shoulders and hoisted their country’s first Jules Rimet Trophy. The 1958 World Cup revealed to the public the greatness of Pelé, in which this triumph was only the beginning. He became the youngest ever winner of a World Cup tournament and the youngest scorer in a World Cup Final. He later led Brazil to two more World Cup titles, in 1962 (Chile) and 1970 (Mexico). As of today, Pelé is the only football player to have won three World Cup tournaments and he remains the top scorer in the history of the Brazil National team with 77 goals. In 1975, after 18 years with Santos FC where he won multiple international and national trophies, he joined the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League (NASL). During his three years in New York, Pelé led the Cosmos to the 1977 NASL title and brought great excitement to football and inspiration to young players in the United States. He capped off his career with an emotional farewell game on October 1, 1977, in a sold-out Giants Stadium, playing the first half with the Cosmos and the second half for Santos. Since his retirement from football, Pelé continues to make positive contributions to the game and travels the world to interact with his fans. Named one of the “Top 20 Most Important People of the 20th Century” (Time Magazine) and “Football Player of the Century” (FIFA), Pelé today maintains his commitment to the sport and to society by fulfilling various roles as spokesperson, ambassador and philanthropist. In 2014, he was awarded the first ever FIFA Ballon d’Or Prix d’Honneur in recognition of his dazzling career and achievements. ABOUT THIS ARTWORK Each giclĂŠe and silver gelatin print within this captivating collection has been hand signed by PelĂŠ, giving it the ultimate seal of approval. BiCYCLE KICK Signed Limited Edition Silver Gelatin of 195 Paper Size: 24” x 36“ | Retail Framed £1,450 Paper Size: 30” x 40“ | Retail Framed £2,450 Signed Limited Edition Silver Gelatin of 75 Paper Size: 60” x 40“ | Retail Framed £4,950 THE GREATEST SAVE GORDON “Only a few years ago, whilst giving an after dinner speech at a function, I turned around to see the footage of that save playing on a screen behind me. It was only then that I realised Pelé was much closer than I ever realised when he headed the ball, nearly at the six yard box. I’d thought he was further out towards the penalty spot…that explains the power behind the ball when |
Which is the only US state whose name is just one syllable? | The only state whose name is just one syllable The only state whose name is just one syllable by Sanju[ Edit ] 2010-02-11 14:05:15 Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. Tagged in: |
"What is the only English word that ends in the letters ""mt""?" | The Only Word in the English language that ends with the letters -mt The Only Word What is The Only Word in the English language that ends with the letters -mt? The answer is dreamt (past tense and past participle of the verb dream in British English). If you were being pedantic there's also adreamt and undreamt. Related Links: |
In two handed typing, what is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand (English)? | What is the longest word you can type with one hand? | Slowchop Studios Archived Tags 3dsmax betterprint blog c80 cars cool cython darkfighter debian django firefox geocmd google graphs gravit heatmap installers javascript json models multiplayer opengl opensource osx php plugins pricedrop pycallgraph pyglet pygooglechart pyrex python pyweek qr codes rts sqlalchemy timelapse trac tracrecaptchaplugin videos virtushare visualisation website wireless wirelessheatmap What is the longest word you can type with one hand? I was looking for random, useless facts on the Internet the other day and found one that said: “Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.” This turned out wrong. A friend convinced me to write an application to work it out, and I decided to make it do more… The application uses the UNIX words file to scan for words. Granted, not all the words actually are real, but it is a good indication. To cut to the chase, the longest words with one hand on the QWERTY keyboard layout are 12 letters long: aftereffects, desegregated, desegregates, reverberated, reverberates, stewardesses These are all left handed words. In fact, there are 57 longer words that can be typed than the longest right handed word. The longest right handed word is “polyphony” with 9 letters. I found this a bit unusual so I decided to graph it (below). With alternating key strokes, the longest words are: authenticity, enchantment, entitlement, proficiency, shantytowns These are 12 letters for authenticity and 11 for the rest. Here are the graphs for QWERTY with left vs right vs alternating sides: I recall that the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard was designed with alternating hand key strokes in mind. With alternating sides, the highest word count is 14–slightly more than QWERTY’s 12. These words are: overemphasized, overemphasizes, unpremeditated, verisimilitude Interestingly enough, the Dvorak layout has very few words that have multiple key presses on the same side of the keyboard. The left side is the most popular with the longest words, at 6 letters, being: kookie, opaque, papaya, upkeep, yippee, yuppie The right side has a lowly score of 3 letters, one isn’t even a word: brr, nth Here is the Dvorak graph: Well, come to your own conclusions from this data! I was just curious and slightly bored… The graphs are made with Google Charts API using the pygooglechart module. If there’s enough interest I’ll throw the code up on github. Posted on |
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to what? | Why must opposite faces of dice always add up to 7 (1/6,2/5,3/4)? Would it make any difference if they didn't? | Notes and Queries | guardian.co.uk Why must opposite faces of dice always add up to 7 (1/6,2/5,3/4)? Would it make any difference if they didn't? Bill Thomson, Watford, Herts The design as a whole is to provide a randomly determined integer from one to six, each of those values being equally likely to militate against concerns that the faces of dice cause a small bias. For a single roll of a fair s-sided die, the probability of rolling each value is exactly 1/s-an of a discrete uniform distribution. For n multiple rolls, with a s-sided die the possibility space is equal to sn. So, for n rolls of an s-sided die the probability of any result is 1/sn. As the number of dice increases, the distribution of the sum of all numbers tends to normal distribution by the central limit theorem. GOTETI MVSR KRISHNA, TADEPALLIGUDEM,ANDHRAPRADESH INDIA If you take the numbers 1,2....6 then add opp faces! You could have 1+2=3. 4+5=9. remember you could have other combination,,this is random, but for the example chosen.......It only leaves,the two numbers we have not used 6,3,,6+3=9 Zen Silvestri, melrose Scotland I want an answer to this Question! The laws of physics come from an empirical point of view or from a theoretical point of view but they must satisfy the empirical reality if they come from theoretical consideration. So it looks like to me that the empirical came first and from that we get the laws/rules that fit that empirical relationship.If that is the case we can never ""INVENT"" anything all we do is find out what is there and adapt it to fit our needs//NOO?? I look forward to an answer to this DILEMA Zen Zen Silvestri, Melrose Scotland |
Possibly the most famous anecdotes reports that Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. What was his reply? | Talk:Winston Churchill - Wikiquote Talk:Winston Churchill ... it costs nothing to be polite ...[ edit ] When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. This quote was already in the Winston Churchill article, in the Unsourced section. I have added a more specific, sourced, entry in the Post-war years section. I have not removed the older quote entry as yet. Archimedes 20:41, 11 May 2009 (UTC) http://www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/231-1930-1938-the-wilderness/105-our-duty-in-india A Fight Without Hope[ edit ] I have added this fairly well-known quote from The Gathering Storm in the Post-war years section. I have included the chapter name as part of my source information in the hope that this will serve as well as a specific page citation, since page may vary depending on the edition. This quote is mentioned in a previous Talk section (Another pre-WWII quote), which called for its addition to the Churchill article. Has anyone proposed grouping all quotes from The Second World War in a separate section? Archimedes 22:06, 11 May 2009 (UTC) Never believe war will be smooth and easy[ edit ] I have removed a duplicate of this quote from the beginning of the Sourced section; corrected the dead link to the article in The Forward, and moved this comment to follow the remaining instance of the quote ( which, fwiw, is from My Early Life ); and added page # info for the quote. Archimedes 16:47, 13 May 2009 (UTC) An Unresolved Issue[ edit ] In the course of making some other changes, I came across the following: From the (archived) Talk:Winston Churchill page, section Restoring a (mostly) chronological order : In the process of editing I could not find a definite source or date for the following quotation. It is an interesting statement, but without a citation to a particular work, or a date for a traceable speech, I felt that it does not yet belong in the sourced section, and I moved it to the attributed section, with comments: It is the habit of the boa constrictor to besmear the body of his victim with a foul slime before he devours it; and there are many people in England, and perhaps elsewhere, who seem to be unable to contemplate military operations for clear political objects, unless they can cajole themselves into the belief that their enemy are utterly and hopelessly vile… This may be very comforting to philanthropic persons at home; but when an army in the field becomes imbued with the idea that the enemy are vermin who cumber the earth, instances of barbarity may very easily be the outcome. This unmeasured condemnation is moreover as unjust as it is dangerous and unnecessary. This statement was originally posted with a claim that it had been made in a speech to the House of Commons on Horatio Kitchener 's destruction of the tomb of Muhammad Ahmad , but with no date provided, or as yet determinable. It has also been cited in at least one incident as having come from The River War vol. ii., p. 394, but such passages do not occur in the 1902 edition available from Project Gutenberg . In that edition the destruction of the tomb is mentioned as occurring in Battle of Omdurman without much comment. It seems to be a statement that might be made about attitudes in almost any war, but as yet no definite citation has been provided. That's it for now... ~ Achilles 16:14, 17 August 2005 (UTC) From the Wikipedia article for The River War : The River War was Churchill's second published book after The Story of the Malakand Field Force, and originally filled two volumes with over 1000 pages in 1899. The River War was subsequently abridged to one volume in 1902. The unabridged version contains many illustrations with drawings, photogravures, and colored maps. It also contains vivid narratives of personal adventures of the author, his views on British expansionism, passages of deep reflection about the requirements of a civilized government, criticism of military and political leaders and religion. The first edition was reviewed by The Times, which described it as containing material sufficient for two good books and |
Who was the only unmarried president of the US? | Bachelor President - Was James Buchanan Gay By Tom Murse Updated March 09, 2016. There has never been an openly gay president of the United States, but some historians have argued the first and only bachelor president , James Buchanan, may have had feelings for a member of the same sex. The nation's 15th president is the nation's only bachelor president. A lifelong bachelor, Buchanan had a very close relationship with William Rufus De Vane King, a diplomat who served as U.S. senator and the nation's 13th vice president. King was the only vice president to never have been married. Buchanan and King, in fact, lived together for more than two decades, although that was a relatively common practice in the 1800s. Buchanan the Bachelor President Historians who believe Buchanan and King were intimate often cite their contemporaries in Washington, who reportedly described King as being effeminate and called him "Miss Nancy" and Buchanan's "better half." They also cite letters written by Buchanan about the man described as his soulmate. After King left the United States to become the minister to France, Buchanan wrote to a friend: "I am now solitary and alone, having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection." Also, King showed his own affection for Buchanan at his departure by writing to him: "I am selfish enough to hope you will not be able to procure an associate who will cause you to feel no regret at our separation." Historians Claim Buchanan Was Gay James Loewen, a prominent American sociologist and historian, has been the most outspoken academic who claims Buchanan was the first gay president. "There can be no doubt that James Buchanan was gay, before, during, and after his four years in the White House," Loewen wrote in a 2012 essay. "Moreover, the nation knew it, too - he was not far into the closet. Today, I know no historian who has studied the matter and thinks Buchanan was heterosexual." Loewen has argued that Buchanan's homosexuality is not often discussed in modern times because Americans do not want to believe society was more tolerant of gay relationships in the 19th Century than they are now. Loewen does not explain, however, how or why a gay Buchanan had been engaged to a woman long before he became president. The woman, Ann Coleman, died and the two never wed. Bachelor Presidential Candidate in 2016 The closest the nation has come to having a bachelor president after Buchanan was in the 2016 election , when Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina sought the party's presidential nomination. Graham's candidacy was shortlived, however. Had he been elected, however, he said he'd have a "rotating first lady." "Well, I've got a sister, she could play that role if necessary," Graham also joked. Barack Obama as First Gay President President Barack Obama has been described as being the first gay president, a symbolic label first used in a May 2012 Newsweek magazine headline. The Democrat earned the label during his first term for his vocal support of gay marriage in May 2012 , making him the the first president in U.S. history to take such a position. Obama is married to Michelle Obama , and the couple has two daughters. Newsweek Cover Newsweek's editor, Tina Brown , explained the term and picture of Obama with a rainbow halo superimposed over his head this way: "If President Clinton was the ‘first black president’ then Obama earns every stripe in that ‘gaylo’ with last week’s gay marriage proclamation ," Brown told the online news site Politico. "Newsweek’s cover pays tribute to his newly ordained place in history." Andrew Sullivan, who wrote the Newsweek story, pointed out that the claim was not meant to be taken literally. "It's obviously a play on Clinton being the first b |
Who invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II? | Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II | 77Facts.com Home / War / Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II VN:F [1.9.22_1171] Rating: 0 (from 0 votes) 355 views Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Name * Website Comment You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> Get an Awesome Fact Daily Email Address Comments | November 20, 2013 Pineapples has proteins that degrade meat. Many people who work in pineapple plantations have obscured or removed fingerprints. | November 8, 2013 The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. | November 10, 2013 |
All 17 children of Queen Anne died before she did. How many live births were there? | Queen Anne - History Learning Site Queen Anne Citation: C N Trueman "Queen Anne" historylearningsite.co.uk. The History Learning Site, 17 Mar 2015. 16 Aug 2016. by Michael Dahl,painting,1705 Queen Anne reigned from March 1702 to August 1714. Anne’s death ended the Stuart dynasty as she had no surviving children. Born on February 6th 1665, her father was James II and her older sister, Mary, had reigned as Mary II along with William III after the 1688 Revolution. Despite her father’s Catholicism, Anne was brought up as a Protestant. On July 28th, 1683, Anne married Prince George of Denmark who was described as “dull but pleasant, fat but faithful” (E N Williams). She got pregnant on seventeen occasions but only gave birth to five living children all of whom died in childhood. The one child she had who many thought would succeed her, the Duke of Gloucester, died in July 1700 of hydrocephalus. A deeply religious woman, Anne believed that her failure to have a family and, therefore, an heir, was a punishment from God for her sins – abandoning her father in his hour of need in 1688 and tying to discredit her young brother as being illegitimate. Historians such as J P Kenyon believed that as Anne got older, the only comfort she had in her life was her religion. It is said that from the death onwards of her son, Gloucester, she was full of remorse for past indiscretions in the eyes of God. Though not intellectually gifted, Anne was far from stupid. Anne knew that William III had never been universally popular with his people, many of whom saw him as a foreigner. Anne played on this in the first speech she made after her coronation in March 1710: “As I know myself to be entirely English, I can very sincerely assure you there is not anything you can expect or desire from me, which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness and prosperity of England.” When she became Queen, Anne took an automatic dislike to any politician who had been closely associated with William. She also held her first Parliament in disdain after it had called William “our great deliverer from Popery and slavery” – this was in Parliament’s welcoming speech to the new Queen. Anne never enjoyed good health and this got worse as she got older. Anne placed a great deal on the advice given to her by her favourites. The two most prominent were Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough and Mrs Abigail Masham, a cousin of Robert Harley, one of the major political figures of the era. A number of politicians failed to achieve their full political potential as a result of Anne’s input – any politician brought to her attention for immoral behaviour paid the price for this. Anne led a pious life and would not accept that there was any space for licentious behaviour in her politicians. A discreet word from any of her favourites could end the career of a politician. Anne left government in the hands of politicians she trusted. The three most famous were Marlborough, Godolphin and Harley. Between them, the three held most of the important political position in the land and between 1702 and 1704 they worked with the Earl of Nottingham (Secretary of State) while the War of Spanish Succession was being fought. Marlborough, via his wife Sarah, advised Anne on successful government: the Queen must maintain her powers of appointment and that the Queen should administer patronage through a non-party manager. Anne had become queen at a time of real political intrigue. The Whigs and Tories were still comparatively new political parties – even the concept of a political party was relatively new. Both vied for political superiority and they used the War of Spanish Succession to advance their cause. The Whigs had been the party most associated with William III and his attempt to destroy the power of Louis XIV. His death in 1702 gave the Tories an opportunity to regain lost political ground. The most dominant issue that the first parliament of Anne had to deal with was the War of Spanish Succession. The key area that had to be addressed was how the war was to be financed. The Countr |
What boxing class is heaviest - flyweight, bantam weight or feather weight? | Weight divisions - BoxRec Weight divisions 5 History of the Weight Divisions Current Weight Divisions In January 2015, the World Boxing Council , World Boxing Association and the International Boxing Federation reached an agreement to standardize the names of the 17 weight categories. (The World Boxing Organization has yet to adopt these standard class names.) The currently-recognized weight divisions/classes for professional male boxers, listed in maximum allowable weight, as defined by these four major sanctioning bodies , are: Division/Class Pinweight: up to 101 pounds Light Flyweight: 106 Light Flyweight: up to 106 pounds Flyweight: 112 Super Heavyweight: over 201 Traditional Eight Divisions These are commonly known today as the "traditional divisions," which were basically the only weight classes throughout the early 20th Century, before the numerous "super," "junior" and "light" classes were added. Flyweight: 8 st (50,802 Kg / 112 lbs) Bantamweight: 8 st 6 lbs (53,525 kg / 118 lbs) Featherweight: 9 st (57,153 kg / 126 lbs) Lightweight: 9 st 9 lbs (61,235 kg / 135 lbs) Welterweight: 10½ st (66,678 kg / 147 lbs) Middleweight: 11 st 6 lbs (72,574 kg / 160 lbs) Light Heavyweight: 12½ st (79,378 kg / 175 lbs) Heavyweight: (unlimited) See also, 15 Feb 1909 Los Angeles Herald article re: necessity for revision to universal 8 divisions: [1] History of the Weight Divisions The 21 National Sporting Club ( NSC ) Rules- (1891-?) London-based private club amends 12 Queensberry Rules , modifying with new augment rules with nine specific criteria, such as designating role of officials; devised a system of scoring bouts; and enabled referee to determine who won. Major accomplishment transpired in 1909 ratification vote and 1910 implementation of 8 traditional weight classes: Heavyweight [176 lbs plus; at least 75.3 kg; over 12 stone, 7 lbs] Cruiserweight [175 lb maximum; 79.5 kg; or 12 stone, 7 pounds] later called "lighter heavyweight" by the English and "light heavyweight" by the Americans. Solidified under the New York State Athletic Commission and National Boxing Association as one division, with a uniform name. Middleweight [160 lbs maximum; 72.7 kg; or 11 stone, 4 pounds] Welterweight [147 lbs maximum; 66.8 kg; or 10 stone, 7 pounds] Lightweight [135lbs maximum; 61.4 kg; or 9 stone, 9 pounds] Featherweight [126lbs maximum; 57.3 kg; or 9 stone] Bantamweight [118lbs maximum; 53.6 kg; or 8 stone, 6 pounds] Flyweight [112lbs maximum; 50.9 kg; or 8 stone] NOTE: weight class key- one pound equals .45359237 kilograms one pound equals .0714285714 stone- sixteen ounces equals one pound, 14 stone and 6 kilograms. Olympic Boxing Classes & Weight Divisions: [American lbs, European kilograms, English stones] One pound (lb as unit of mass) is equal to 16 ounces (oz) One kilogram (also equal to 1,000 grams) is equal to 2.2 lbs One stone is equal to 14 pounds (with pounds rounding 5/8th) Super Heavyweight: [202lbs + above; 91.6 kg or 14 stone, 6 pounds] – (est. 1984-end 2004): legislation pending before International Olympic Congress , not subject to change by AIBA . Heavyweight: [179-201lbs*; 81.2 – 91.2 kg; 12 stone, 11 pounds – 14 stone, 5 pounds]– (est. 1904) Light Heavyweight: [166-178lbs; 75.3 – 80.7 kg; or 11 stone, 12 pounds – 12 stone, 10 pounds – (est. 1920) Middleweight: [157-165lbs; 71.2 – 74.8; or 11 stone, 3 pounds – 11 stone, 11 pounds] – (est. 1904) Light Middleweight: [148-156lbs; 67.1 – 70.8 kg; or 10 stone, 8 pounds – 11 stone, 2 pound] – (est. 1952) Welterweight: [140-147lbs; 63.5 – 66.7 kg; or 10 stone – 10 stone, 7 pounds] – (est. 1904) Light Welterweight: [133-139lbs; 60.3 – 63.0 kg; or 9 stone, 7 pounds – 9 stone, 13 pounds] – (est. 1952) Lightweight: [126-132lbs; 57.2 – 59.9 kg; or 9 stone – 9 stone, 6 pounds] – (est. 1904) Featherweight: [120-125lbs; 54.4 – 56.7 kg; or 8 stone, 8 pounds – 8 stone, 13 pounds] – (est. 1904) Bantamweight: [113-119lbs; 51.3 – 53.9 kg; or 8 stone, 1 pound – 8 stone, 7 pounds] – (est. 1904) Flyweight: [107-112lbs; 48.5 – 50.8 kg; or 7 stone, 9 pounds – 8 stone] – (est. 1904) Light Fly |
What nickname do boxing fans call 300 pound Eric Esch, King of the Four-Rounders? | Abcde home. What state are the Magic from? answer Q $100 B. - ppt download 2 What state are the Magic from? answer Q $100 B 3 What is Hastlebec’s #? answer Q $100 A 4 home 8 A $100 A 5 answer What was the only team to win two world series? Q $100 C 6 The Los Angeles Dodgers home A $100 C 7 Home Florida A $100 B 8 Q $100 D answer What nickname do boxing fans call 300-pound Eric Esch, King of the Four- Rounders? 9 A $100 D home Butterbean. 10 Q $100 E answer What decade saw names first appear on the backs of NFL jerseys? 11 A $100 E Home The 1960's. 12 Q $200 A answer What two players are tied for second behind Ty Cobb in total career runs? 13 A $200 A home Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth. 14 Q $200 B answer What is the distance between bases on a little league baseball field? 15 A $200 B home 60 feet 16 Q $200 C answer How many home runs did baseball great Ty Cobb hit in the three world series in which he played? 17 A $200 C home None. 18 Q $200 D answer By what name is the University of Texas Longhorn mascot known? 19 A $200 D home Bevo 20 Q $200 E answer How many home runs did Mickey Mantle hit in 1961, the year his New York Yankee teammate Roger Maris hit a then-record-setting 61? 21 A $200 E home 54. 22 Q $300 A answer How many points was a touchdown worth in 1911? 23 A $300 A home Five. 24 Q $300 B answer What were NFL players required to wear in games for the first time in 1943? 25 A $300 B home Helmets. 26 Q $300 C answer What was the first sport in which women were invited to compete at the Olympics? 27 A $300 C home Tennis 28 Q $300 D answer In cross-country bike racing, what do the initials BMX represent? 29 A $300 D home Bicycle moto x (cross). 30 Q $300 E answer What is the maximum weight permitted for calves in rodeo calf-roping competition? 31 A $300 E home 350 pounds. The minimum is 200 pounds. 32 Q $400 A answer What sport used the term "home run" ling before baseball? 33 A $400 A home Cricket. 34 Q $400 B answer Who scored a record 10 hat tricks in an NHL season? 35 A $400 B home Wayne Gretzky. 36 Q $400 C answer Which two cities have the oldest stadiums in major league baseball? 37 A $400 C home Boston and Detroit 38 Q $400 D answer What player did the Boston Celtics draft between won-lost seasons of and 61-21? 39 A $400 D home Larry Bird. 40 Q $400 E answer Who was the first hoopster to win eight NBA scoring titles? 41 A $400 E home Michael Jordan 42 Q $500 A answer In professional ice hockey, what is the maximum length permitted for the blade of a hockey stick? 43 A $500 A home For all players except the goaltender, the blade is limited to 12-1/2 inches in length; for a goaltender, it can be up to 15-1/2 inches long. 44 Q $500 B answer What NBA team is know in China as "the Red Oxen"? 45 A $500 B home The Chicago Bulls. 46 Q $500 C answer What did Goran Ivanisevic refrain from doing at Wimbledon in 1994, to win a $2,000 bet? 47 A $500 C home Throwing his racket. 48 Q $500 D What gonzo tennis brothers threw autographed potatoes into the crowd at an Idaho match? 49 A $500 D Luke and Murphy Jensen 50 Q $500 E answer What Grand Slam tennis tournament is held every January? 51 A $500 E home The Australian Open. |
"Who beat Michael Moorer in a 1994 heavyweight title fight hyped as "" One for the Ages""?" | George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ - Nov 05, 1994 - HISTORY.com This Day in History: 11/05/1994 - Foreman is Oldest Champ On this day in 1994, George Foreman, age 45, becomes boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he defeats 26-year-old Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas. More than 12,000 spectators at the MGM Grand Hotel watched Foreman dethrone Moorer, who went into the fight with a 35-0 record. Foreman dedicated his upset win to "all my buddies in the nursing home and all the guys in jail." Born in 1949 in Marshal, Texas, Foreman had a troubled childhood and dropped out of high school. Eventually, he joined President Lyndon Johnson's Jobs Corps work program and discovered a talent for boxing. "Big George," as he was nicknamed, took home a gold medal for the U.S. at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. In 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica, after winning his first 37 professional matches, 34 by knockout, Foreman KO'd "Smokin'" Joe Frazier after two rounds and was crowned heavyweight champ. At 1974's "Rumble in the Jungle" in Kinshasha, Zaire, the younger, stronger Foreman suffered a surprising loss to underdog Muhammad Ali and was forced to relinquish his championship title. Three years later, Big George morphed from pugilist into preacher, when he had a religious experience in his dressing room after losing a fight. He retired from boxing, became an ordained minister in Houston and founded a youth center. A decade later, the millions he'd made as a boxer gone, Foreman returned to the ring at age 38 and staged a successful comeback. When he won his second heavyweight title in his 1994 fight against Moorer, becoming the WBA and IBF champ, Foreman was wearing the same red trunks he'd had on the night he lost to Ali. Foreman didn't hang onto the heavyweight mantle for long. In March 1995, he was stripped of his WBA title after refusing to fight No. 1 contender Tony Tucker, and he gave up his IBF title in June 1995 rather than fight a rematch with Axel Schulz, whom he'd narrowly beat in a controversial judges' decision in April of that same year. Lead Story George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ Share this: George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ Author George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ URL Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 1994, George Foreman, age 45, becomes boxing’s oldest heavyweight champion when he defeats 26-year-old Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas. More than 12,000 spectators at the MGM Grand Hotel watched Foreman dethrone Moorer, who went into the fight with a 35-0 record. Foreman dedicated his upset win to “all my buddies in the nursing home and all the guys in jail.” Born in 1949 in Marshal, Texas, Foreman had a troubled childhood and dropped out of high school. Eventually, he joined President Lyndon Johnson’s Jobs Corps work program and discovered a talent for boxing. “Big George,” as he was nicknamed, took home a gold medal for the U.S. at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. In 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica, after winning his first 37 professional matches, 34 by knockout, Foreman KO’d “Smokin'” Joe Frazier after two rounds and was crowned heavyweight champ. At 1974’s “Rumble in the Jungle” in Kinshasha, Zaire, the younger, stronger Foreman suffered a surprising loss to underdog Muhammad Ali and was forced to relinquish his championship title. Three years later, Big George morphed from pugilist into preacher, when he had a religious experience in his dressing room after losing a fight. He retired from boxing, became an ordained minister in Houston and founded a youth center. A decade later, the millions he’d made as a boxer gone, Foreman returned to the ring at age 38 and staged a successful comeback. When he won his second heavyweight title in his 1994 fight against Moorer, becoming the WBA and IBF champ, Foreman was wearing the same red trunks he’d had on the night he lost to Ali. Foreman didn’t hang onto the heavyweight mantle for long. In March 1995, he was stripped of his WBA title after refusing to fight No. 1 |
What boxer made his first title defence in 21 years, in 1995? | Boxing in 1994 | Britannica.com Boxing in 1994 Originally published in the Britannica Book of the Year. Presented as archival content. Britannica Stories Ringling Bros. Folds Its Tent One of the biggest upsets in world boxing history was recorded at Las Vegas, Nev., in November 1994 when 45-year-old George Foreman (U.S.) knocked out the World Boxing Association (WBA) and International Boxing Federation (IBF) heavyweight champion Michael Moorer (U.S.) in the 10th round. In his defeat of the 27-year-old and previously undefeated Moorer, Foreman thus became the oldest heavyweight ever to win the world crown. It was an extraordinary performance by a fighter who had first won the title by defeating Joe Frazier (U.S.) in Jamaica 21 years earlier only to be destroyed by a 32-year-old Muhammad Ali (U.S.) the following year. So humiliated was the young Foreman that he quit boxing for 10 years and became a Baptist preacher. Adding to this almost unbelievable result was the fact that Foreman had not fought in a match for 17 months after he was soundly outpointed by Tommy Morrison (U.S.) in a bid for the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) heavyweight title. Yet another bizarre situation in world heavyweight competition was that another former champion, 45-year-old Larry Holmes (U.S.), was scheduled to challenge Oliver McCall (U.S.) for the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight championship early in 1995. If Holmes should win, a future bout with Foreman would match two grandfathers fighting for boxing’s most lucrative prize. Apart from the Moorer-Foreman upset, the heavyweight division went through another year of instability and unpredictable results. All the holders of WBC, WBA, IBF, and WBO versions lost titles in a series of upsets. Evander Holyfield (U.S.), who had regained the WBA/IBF crown, was surprisingly outpointed by Moorer, who had earlier relinquished the WBO version. More upsets followed when Michael Bentt (U.S.), who had shocked the experts by taking the WBO title with a first-round knockout of Morrison in late 1993, made his first defense against Herbie Hide (England) in London and was knocked out in the seventh round. After the fight, Bentt collapsed in his dressing room and spent a night in the hospital. It later emerged that he had had dizzy spells while in training and was reported to have blacked out on the plane back to New York. After a series of medical tests, the 29-year-old Bentt retired. He had taken part in only 13 professional contests, winning 11. The heavyweight scene had to endure a complete fiasco. Hide had signed to make the first defense of the WBO title against Morrison in Hong Kong in October. It was to be the biggest boxing tournament ever staged in Hong Kong, also including several other fights for world championships. The promised financial backing never was obtained, however, and an angry press conference replaced the weigh-in only 17 hours before the tournament was scheduled to begin. Never before had a heavyweight championship been called off at such a late hour. Yet another upset took place when Lennox Lewis (England), having successfully defended the WBC title by defeating Phil Jackson (U.S.) in Atlantic City, N.J., was stopped in two rounds in London by McCall, the former sparring partner of Mike Tyson. Lewis’ defeat by McCall brought back to prominence Don King, who had controlled the title for years when he managed Tyson and now handled McCall. The outstanding fighter of the year was again Julio Cesar Chávez (Mexico), despite the big surprise when he lost the WBC junior welterweight (also called super lightweight) crown to Frankie Randall (U.S.). It was Chávez’ first defeat in the 91 contests of his 14-year career. Randall, given his first shot at a championship after 11 years in boxing, was quoted as a 15-1 underdog but won the decision against an out-of-form Chávez at Las Vegas in January. In the return match in May, also at Las Vegas, Chávez regained the title with a controversial verdict following an accidental clash of heads in the eighth round that severely cut the Mexican. U |
"Who did Joe Frazier say he wanted ""like a hog wants slop""?" | Why I Hate Ali...By Joe Frazier. - Free Online Library Why I Hate Ali...By Joe Frazier. <a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Why+I+Hate+Ali...By+Joe+Frazier.-a061306082</a> Citations: MLA style: "Why I Hate Ali...By Joe Frazier.." The Free Library. 1996 MGN LTD 04 Jan. 2017 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Why+I+Hate+Ali...By+Joe+Frazier.-a061306082 Chicago style: The Free Library. S.v. Why I Hate Ali...By Joe Frazier.." Retrieved Jan 04 2017 from https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Why+I+Hate+Ali...By+Joe+Frazier.-a061306082 APA style: Why I Hate Ali...By Joe Frazier.. (n.d.) >The Free Library. (2014). Retrieved Jan 04 2017 from https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Why+I+Hate+Ali...By+Joe+Frazier.-a061306082 As any boxing impresario will tell you, the most damaging punches are the ones that you don't see coming. On that basis, Muhammad Ali would be well-advised to exclude arch-enemy Smokin' Joe Frazier's autobiography from his bedtime reading list. More than 21 years after their best-of-three decider, better known as the Thrilla in Manila, the hatred still courses through Frazier's veins. Even as Ali slides into his twilight years in the grip of Parkinson's Disease. The Greatest has known, since Frazier failed to come out for the 15th and final round of a momentous brawl in the Phillipine capital, of the contempt that Smokin' Joe harbours for the only man to beat him twice. But the pen is mightier than the left hook. Frazier can't forget - and he won't forgive. In Smokin' Joe: The Autobiography (Robson Books, pounds 15.95), Frazier wrote: "Truth is, I'd like to rumble with that sucker again - beat him up piece by piece and then mail him back to Jesus. "People ask me if I feel bad for him now - nope, I don't. "Fact is, I don't give a damn. They want me to love him, but I'll open up the graveyard and bury his ass when the Lord chooses to take him." And in conversation, Frazier is scarcely any more forgiving. "We locked up three times. He won two and and I won one. but look at him now - I think I won all three." Frazier even slams the choice of Ali to light the Olympic flame in Atlanta earlier this summer as a circus freak show. But it is not out of respect for the Louisville Lip's deteriorating condition, simply because he felt better-qualified to perform the task himself. "A champion is more than making noise. I could have run up there. I'm in shape." SADLY, this is not the pre-fight bravado of modern grudge matches like Eubank and Benn or Bruno and Lewis. This is the unforgiving, unpalatable face of boxing. It makes compulsive reading and, needless to say, the most compelling stretches of Smokin' Joe's life story are the trilogy of meetings with Ali. They were great fights. And especially the Thrilla in Manila. But as much as they detested each other, Ali and Frazier turned the hype of boxing into an art form. Here's a quick selection of the one-liners from two of heavyweight boxing's greatest wits. Frazier: I want you like a hog wants slop. Ali (clutching a gorilla doll): All night long, this is what you'll see. Come on, gorilla, we're in Manila. Come on, gorilla, this is a thrilla. Frazier: To hear him talk, I was slower than Buck and Jenny, the pair of mules that used to work our ten acres back on the ranch. Ali: Joe's gonna come out smokin', And I ain't gonna be jokin', I'll be peckin' and pokin', Pourin' water on his smokin', This might shock and amaze ya, But I'll retire Joe Fray-sha. Ah, the poetry. How we lapped it all up, then, even if its literary merits were decidedly closer to Pam Ayres than to William Wordsworth. But it grated on Frazier like cheese. He says: "It never ended with this chump. Non-stop bull****. "While the public found it amusing, I guess, and came to view him as a good guy, I knew different to that. "This was an egomaniac who couldn't stand the fact that in the biggest fight of his life (their first meeting) I'd put him on his ass. "And but for three blind mice who judged the second fight between Clay and me, it would have been two wins in a row for me over the scamboogah." Note how Frazier refers to |
"What boxer answers to the nickname ""Sweet Pea""?" | Ex-Millionaire Boxer Says Evicting Mom Is 'Beautiful Moment' - ABC News Email Former welterweight boxing champ Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker's latest battle was a court fight to evict his mother from her house and he described his court victory as a "beautiful moment." Once a celebrated millionaire boxer and 1985 Olympic gold medalist, Whitaker is now struggling to pay his bills and needed to sell the house which he gave to his mother nearly 30 years ago, according to his lawyer. His fall from grace and solvency involved numerous incidences of drug abuse and a history of arrests and run-ins with police. But Whitaker's final falling out with his family came to an ugly end in a Virginia court on Wednesday. The court ruled that Whitaker's 73-year-old mother, Novella Whitaker, had to vacate the house by March 31. Whitaker had been going head to head against the matriarch of his seven-child family since last fall when he began eviction proceedings after unsuccessfully trying to convince his mother to move, his lawyer, Bruce Gould told ABC News. “It’s sad for him to have to take action against his mother, but none of the family would contribute to the real estate and he had no alternative but to use the court process,” Gould said. Whitaker, 50, bought the two-story brick home near the Botanical Garden in Norfolk, Va., for his mother in 1984 when he was still flush from his many wins in the ring. Since the glory days, Whitaker has been training young boxers, but work is slowly drying up, according to Gould. “He’s limited to what he can make training other boxers,” Gould said. “It’s significantly diminished over the years and he’s not able to maintain this $400,000 house for his mother and siblings to live in.” The house was always listed under Whitaker’s name and as there was no written lease or deed of gift, the son’s oral promise to his mother is not enforceable under Virginia law, Gould said. On Wednesday, a Norfolk General District Court judge ruled in Whitaker’s favor, ordering Novella Whitaker and two other children and their families also living in the home to leave the house by March 31. Whitaker now intends to sell the house to retain the $150,000 of equity in the home to recoup $18,000 in overdue taxes he paid on the building on behalf of his mother and two siblings living there, his lawyer said. "He’s not happy that it was necessary to go to court," Gould said. “But he now has two mortgages on the house and the alternative was if he didn’t sell, it was going to go to foreclosure.” But outside the courthouse on Wednesday, Whitaker appeared happy with court ruling to evict his mom. He said to ABC News affiliate WVEC-TV that it was “a beautiful moment.” Novella Whitaker said she was heartbroken by the decision. "I'm going to survive...I'm a survivor..I'm going with my daughter...she is taking me in," said Novella Whitaker told WVEC. “He’ll be a son forever until death do us part, but he is putting a rip through the family,” said Whitaker’s eldest sister, Zelda Brown. A grandson of Mrs. Whitaker, former NFL player Ronyell Whitaker, has also come forward to offer his assistance to his grandmother and make sure she is cared for. ABC News' calls to a number listed for Pernell Whitaker went unanswered today. 0 Shares |
"What heavyweight champion was nicknamed ""Real Deal""?" | Holyfield | Mike Tyson | Heavyweight Championship | Boxing | The Real Deal - Oneindia » Ex-heavyweight champ Holyfield plans to come back Ex-heavyweight champ Holyfield plans to come back Published: Saturday, August 14, 2010, 19:27 [IST] Subscribe to Oneindia News California, Aug 14: Former heavyweight world champion, Evander Holyfield, plans to make a come back to the ring. The 48 year old Holyfield is coming back to action against Sherman 'The Tank' Williamson, most likely in Detroit, on Nov 5, 2010. Holyfield holds 43 wins, 10 losses and two draws in his 26 year in boxing. Holyfield, nicknamed as 'The Real Deal', was the multiple world champion in both cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions. He holds notable wins over George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Riddick Bowe, Michael Moorer and twice got the better of a prime Mike Tyson. OneIndia News |
Who received a reported $25 million for a 1995 boxing match that lasted 89 seconds? | Was the fix in for Mike Tyson's 1995 comeback? | Sports on Earth (Meanwhile, King would refuse to ever put McCall in the ring with Tyson. Just two years later, McCall would have a nervous breakdown in the ring during a second fight against Lewis .) Tyson was down to 216 pounds when he fought McNeeley in 1995. (Getty Images) * * * Everything seemed to line up the way King wanted it, but how would he ensure that his moneymaker, Tyson, would get through the McNeeley fight unscathed, even if he wasn't as much of a wild card as McCall? Back to that meeting in the car between Farrell and Vecchione in August, a week before the Tyson bout in Las Vegas. Door closed. "Have they talked to you yet?" "No," Vecchione said, according to Farrell. "They haven't said anything to me. They just assume my fighter can't fight. They're not worried about him, so no one's told us what to do on this one." Vecchione knew what most of the boxing community was beginning to realize: McNeeley wasn't much of a fighter. Without Vecchione's wise match-making decisions, pitting McNeeley against marginal-at-best opponents, he likely wouldn't have been much better than .500. Now he was guaranteed $700,000 to meet Tyson in a pay-per-view event. King was certainly going to make a pretty penny with this fight. Tyson undoubtedly would, too. But what of Vecchione? As Farrell says -- and wrote in a yet-to-be-published essay entitled "Noble Savages, Ungrateful N-----s, Heroic Journalists, and the Case for Fixing Fights" -- the night before the fight, Vecchione had a third party quietly meet with a big-time bookie at the Imperial Palace and bet $1 million that McNeeley wouldn't last 90 seconds against Tyson. This wasn't a lump sum bet made through the sports book; Vecchione was too smart for that. This was a private wager which was then laid off through other bookies, limiting publicity as well as the original bet-taker's liability on a long odds over/under bet (perhaps as much as 20-1). Vecchione may have been in McNeeley's corner, but he was there for a different reason now. * * * On Aug. 19, the bell rang. Charged with a combination of excitement and fear, McNeeley attacked the legendary Tyson right at the beginning of the fight. About five seconds later, Tyson caught him with a quick right and McNeeley went down, but bounced immediately to his feet, jogging around the ring while ignoring referee Mills Lane's instructions to hold still for the required standing eight count. To his credit, McNeeley refused to back down. He pressed Tyson, trading punches relentlessly. After about a minute of action, Tyson grabbed hold of McNeeley's left arm while he continued to flail with the right. Lane stepped in, breaking the fighters apart with a warning to "knock that s--- off." There was 1:50 left in the round when Lane ordered the fight to resume. Vecchione, 20 seconds away from losing $1 million by Farrell's account, sat in McNeeley's corner. Then Tyson connected with a right. McNeeley briefly dropped to one knee, stood back up, and took a solid left uppercut to the jaw. He fell to the canvas with 1:41 remaining. The resilient McNeeley was up and back on his shaky feet in just two seconds. As Lane administered his second standing eight count, Vecchione slipped between the ropes -- right at the 89-second mark. It was an automatic disqualification. The fight was over. The ringside announcers were at first stunned, then angry. They recognized that McNeeley hadn't quit; his corner threw in the towel. As they fought for words to accurately describe the moment, they labeled the fight's stoppage "a crime" and equated it to Evel Knievel's attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon in a rocket -- "over before it started." McNeeley explained those final moments: "When Vinny stopped the fight, people were upset. I watched the films. I can't argue. People who have never had a boxing glove on, they say he stopped it too soon. Look at the video. You can see my eyes are completely dilated like I possibly had a concussion. The lights are on but nobody's home. I was knocked out but I was s |
How old was George Foreman when he became the oldest heavyweight champ in history? | George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ - Nov 05, 1994 - HISTORY.com This Day in History: 11/05/1994 - Foreman is Oldest Champ On this day in 1994, George Foreman, age 45, becomes boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he defeats 26-year-old Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas. More than 12,000 spectators at the MGM Grand Hotel watched Foreman dethrone Moorer, who went into the fight with a 35-0 record. Foreman dedicated his upset win to "all my buddies in the nursing home and all the guys in jail." Born in 1949 in Marshal, Texas, Foreman had a troubled childhood and dropped out of high school. Eventually, he joined President Lyndon Johnson's Jobs Corps work program and discovered a talent for boxing. "Big George," as he was nicknamed, took home a gold medal for the U.S. at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. In 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica, after winning his first 37 professional matches, 34 by knockout, Foreman KO'd "Smokin'" Joe Frazier after two rounds and was crowned heavyweight champ. At 1974's "Rumble in the Jungle" in Kinshasha, Zaire, the younger, stronger Foreman suffered a surprising loss to underdog Muhammad Ali and was forced to relinquish his championship title. Three years later, Big George morphed from pugilist into preacher, when he had a religious experience in his dressing room after losing a fight. He retired from boxing, became an ordained minister in Houston and founded a youth center. A decade later, the millions he'd made as a boxer gone, Foreman returned to the ring at age 38 and staged a successful comeback. When he won his second heavyweight title in his 1994 fight against Moorer, becoming the WBA and IBF champ, Foreman was wearing the same red trunks he'd had on the night he lost to Ali. Foreman didn't hang onto the heavyweight mantle for long. In March 1995, he was stripped of his WBA title after refusing to fight No. 1 contender Tony Tucker, and he gave up his IBF title in June 1995 rather than fight a rematch with Axel Schulz, whom he'd narrowly beat in a controversial judges' decision in April of that same year. Lead Story George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ Share this: George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ Author George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ URL Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 1994, George Foreman, age 45, becomes boxing’s oldest heavyweight champion when he defeats 26-year-old Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas. More than 12,000 spectators at the MGM Grand Hotel watched Foreman dethrone Moorer, who went into the fight with a 35-0 record. Foreman dedicated his upset win to “all my buddies in the nursing home and all the guys in jail.” Born in 1949 in Marshal, Texas, Foreman had a troubled childhood and dropped out of high school. Eventually, he joined President Lyndon Johnson’s Jobs Corps work program and discovered a talent for boxing. “Big George,” as he was nicknamed, took home a gold medal for the U.S. at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. In 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica, after winning his first 37 professional matches, 34 by knockout, Foreman KO’d “Smokin'” Joe Frazier after two rounds and was crowned heavyweight champ. At 1974’s “Rumble in the Jungle” in Kinshasha, Zaire, the younger, stronger Foreman suffered a surprising loss to underdog Muhammad Ali and was forced to relinquish his championship title. Three years later, Big George morphed from pugilist into preacher, when he had a religious experience in his dressing room after losing a fight. He retired from boxing, became an ordained minister in Houston and founded a youth center. A decade later, the millions he’d made as a boxer gone, Foreman returned to the ring at age 38 and staged a successful comeback. When he won his second heavyweight title in his 1994 fight against Moorer, becoming the WBA and IBF champ, Foreman was wearing the same red trunks he’d had on the night he lost to Ali. Foreman didn’t hang onto the heavyweight mantle for long. In March 1995, he was stripped of his WBA title after refusing to fight No. 1 |
What boxing weight class is limited to 190 pounds? | Boxing Weight Classes Boxing Weight Classes Boxing Weight Classes by Scotty L of Predictem.com We get a common email from our readers asking "What are the weight classes in boxing?" It's a great question, so we decided to throw together a chart for our readers so they're able to view the different divisions a boxer will fall under. For fun, we also listed the best boxer of all time for each classification. History: Boxing originally had eight weight categories (classes)�Heavyweight, Light Heavyweight, Middleweight, Welterweight, Lightweight, Featherweight, Bantamweight, and Flyweight. Over time, other divisions were created and there are now 17 weight divisions in boxing. The lack of clarity today is a common sticking point with fans. In the old days, there were eight divisions with one champion in each class. Nowadays, there are at least four recognized world champions in each division, with some organizations having multiple champions in the same division. There are upwards of 75 world champions today. Here is a brief explanation and history of the different weight classes in boxing. Heavyweight Maximum Weight: Unlimited Greatest Ever: A battle between Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali, with Ali perhaps edging it out. Boxing�s glamour division. Many feel the sport goes as the heavyweight division goes. After having been dominated by American fighters for a century, has fallen to an all-time low, with the balance of power having shifted to Eastern Europe. America�s best heavyweights may be playing NBA and NFL. Heavyweights are getting bigger. Not long ago, a 230-pound heavyweight was considered a behemoth and today would be seen as a little on the small side. BET ON FIGHTS USING YOUR CREDIT CARD AT THE WEB'S BEST ONLINE BOXING BOOKIE: BOOKMAKER Cruiserweight Maximum Weight: 200 lbs. Greatest Ever: Undoubtedly Evander Holyfield. The cruiserweight division was created at the very end of the 70�s to bridge the gap between light heavyweight and heavyweight. Has long been considered a somewhat barren division with fighters not good enough to hack it at light heavyweight and too small to hang with the big boys. Having fluctuated between 190-195, was finally bumped up to 200. Many legendary Heavyweight Champions throughout history would have been cruiserweights. Pole Tomasz Adamek, who appears to be moving up to heavyweight permanently, owns the top spot in the division (as of 2009). Light Heavyweight Maximum Weight: 175 lbs. Greatest Ever: Archie Moore, possibly Ezzard Charles though he never held a title at light heavyweight. Light heavyweight is a division that has enjoyed drastically varying degrees of popularity. Sometimes the division is red-hot and other times deader than a doornail. Nevertheless, some of the greatest ever have called this division home. It is also a division of very differently sized fighters, ranging from squat 5�7� brawlers like Dwight Qawi, to long 6�3� string beans like Bob Foster and Michael Spinks. 45 year-old Bernard Hopkins and 27 year-old Chad Dawson are the two top guys in the division, with Dawson�s recent body of work giving him a slightly better claim. Super Middleweight Maximum Weight: 168 lbs. Greatest Ever: Possibly undefeated and recently-retired Joe Calzaghe. Another new division, created in the 1980�s. Got a jump-start by Sugar Ray Leonard and Tommy Hearns fighting in this class in their 1989 rematch. Since then, has become a constant source of good fighters and good fights. Currently might be the hottest division in the game with all the best in the division fighting in a round-robin tournament that will determine the best in the weight class. Middleweight Maximum Weight: 160 lbs. Greatest Ever: Probably Sugar Ray Robinson, with Harry Greb, Carlos Monzon, and Marvin Hagler all able to make a claim. Likely the #2 weight class in boxing history behind heavyweight. This division has always been considered the perfect blend of power, speed, and skills. Has been home to some of the bigger marquee fights in history. The current boss )as of 2009) is Kelly Pavlik. Junior |
What Mexican boxing champ lost for the first time to little known Frankie Randall? | Julio C�sar Ch�vez - boxing Topics - ESPN Julio C�sar Ch�vez Julio C�sar Ch�vez Updated: July 8, 2011, 5:23 PM ET Fight Record Julio C�sar Ch�vez is a former professional boxer who was a six-time world champion during his 25-year career. Ch�vez won a record 89 fights before his first loss. Ch�vez retired with a record of 107-6-2 and is considered one of the greatest boxers of all time. He was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in 2011. Julio C�sar Ch�vez started his amateur boxing career at the age of 16. He wasted no time turning pro, fighting his first professional fight at the age of 17 against Andres Felix. Ch�vez knocked out Felix in the sixth round. It appeared Ch�vez had suffered his first loss on March 4, 1981 against Miguel Ruiz. Ch�vez landed Ruiz with a punch that knocked him out as the bell was sounded. Ch�vez was disqualified and Ruiz was declared the winner. The following day, the Mexican boxing commission reversed the decision and awarded the win to Ch�vez. Ch�vez fought very often, usually scheduling fights once a month for a span of three years. By the time Ch�vez got his first title shot for the vacant WBC super featherweight title, he was 44-0 in just four years as a professional. Ch�vez won his first championship belt by beating fellow Mexican Mario Martinez in the eighth round by technical knockout. Ch�vez defended the WBC super featherweight title nine times over a three-year span, with victories over Roger Mayweather, Dwight Pratchett, Rocky Lockridge and Danilo Cabrera. Ch�vez decided to move up in weight classes and fight at lightweight. He faced Edwin Rosario for the WBA lightweight title on Nov. 21, 1987. Before the fight, the Puerto Rican Rosario threatened to send Ch�vez back to Mexico in a coffin and he insulted the Mexican people. Ch�vez landed over 60 percent of his punches, nearly shutting Rosario's eye closed before the fight was stopped in the eleventh round by his corner. He defended his WBA lightweight title against Rodolfo Aguilar, winning by technical decision in the sixth round. Ch�vez defeated Jose Luis Ramirez on Oct. 29, 1988 for the WBC lightweight title by technical decision in the eleventh round. It was his second lightweight title in a span of 11 months. After finding success as a lightweight, Ch�vez moved up to super lightweight. He defeated Roger Mayweather for a second time, this time for the WBC light welterweight title. Their first fight only lasted two rounds but Mayweather proved to be more of a worthy opponent the second time around. Ch�vez eventually won in the tenth round by technical knockout. Ch�vez had one of the greatest fights in boxing history while unifying the light welterweight titles on March 17, 1990 against Meldrick Taylor. Taylor dominated a majority of the fight against Ch�vez early on but he was taking a physical beating, to the point where he was so confused that he went to the wrong corner in between rounds. With two of the judges having the fight in favor of Taylor heading into the 12th and final round, Ch�vez needed a knockout to maintain his undefeated record. After being forced into the corner, Ch�vez delivered a right blow that knocked out Taylor. Taylor managed to get to his feet before the mandatory 8-count but referee Richard Steele felt he was unable to continue and stopped the fight with two seconds to go. "The Ring" magazine called it the Fight of the Year for 1990 and Fight of the Decade for the 1990s. Ch�vez 's next challenge came against Hector "Macho" Camacho on Sept. 12, 1992. It was Ch�vez 's first main event on pay-per-view and he won easily by unanimous decision over the Puerto Rican boxer. After defeating Greg Haugen in front of 132,247 fans at Estadio Azteca stadium and scoring a victory over top ranked contender Terrence Alli, Ch�vez had his first blemish on his perfect record. Ch�vez moved up in weight class to welterweight and challenged the WBC welterweight champion Pernell Whitaker on Sept. 10, 1993. The crafty Whitaker controlled the fight but it was |
What had to occur for a round to end when John L. Sullivan beat Jake Killrain in 75 rounds, in 1889? | Jake Kilrain vs. John L. Sullivan - BoxRec Jake Kilrain vs. John L. Sullivan From BoxRec Jump to: navigation , search 1st round action John L. Sullivan swept into the full tide of his popularity after his decisive defeat of “Paddy” Ryan. For the next five years he toured the country, meeting ambitious youngsters ostensibly for "exhibitions" and demolishing them regularly with the terrible right-hander which ranks historically among such lethal instruments as the battleaxe of the Lion. Heart and the sleeping potion of the Borgias, partaking of the nature of both. His offer of $1,000 to any one who would knock him out was the standing joke of the time. Several fighters of promise and reputation were also matched against him, for if Sullivan met the contemporary sporting demand as a hero he was not without enemies who would have liked nothing quite so well as to see him beaten. "Anything and anybody to whip Sullivan!" was the word in certain circles of the world of sport. His failure to stop "Tug" Wilson in four rounds was a ray of light to this contingent. It expected great things of Herbert A. Slade, the Maori. Its hopes were pinned again to "Paddy" Ryan in 1886, but Sullivan simply crushed his old antagonist. Its persistent assertions that the champion's day had passed found some ground the following year, when Sullivan broke his left arm in the fight with "Patsy" Cardif. Finally, in 1888, it took heart from the draw with "Charley" Mitchell. Sullivan's prestige undoubtedly suffered a decided, if temporary, setback from this affair. Mitchell was a skilful and a wary boxer. He met the champion for $5,000 and the title at Chantilly, Prance, and dodged himself through thirty-nine rounds in safety, following "Tug" "Wilson's tactics. The event was hailed as Sullivan's Waterloo." It was declared that he had always been greatly overestimated and that he must fall before the next first class fighter to face him. Here at last was the great John L. brought low. It needed but one more trial to remove him from the honor. "Jake" Kilrain was chosen to do the removing. He had been importunate with his challenges since the Cardiff fight, and Sullivan at length accepted him. IT was a great day for such as love to count themselves wise beyond the run. It was this way, they figured, Sullivan never had the courage to fight a mouse more rounds than he could count upon his fingers and would be worthless if carried any distance, Kilrain was fast, clever and sure to prolong the interview, being best at the fag end of a1 lone battle. Ergo, Kilrain must win, greatly to the profit and satisfaction of the sapient. But other points of wisdom wore eagerly whispered about the crannies of New Orleans, where the fight loving had gathered on July 7, 1889. The champion had been living well, altogether too well, it appeared. In training he had seemed actually to be swathed in flabbiness. Moreover, that broken left arm had never properly been tried out since the accident two years before. Again, time and place gave promise of in tense heat, which could not fail to be irksome to the heavy Sullivan and sapping to his strength. Still again, Kilrain had been trained by "Charley" Mitchell, who had stalled off the big fellow so successfully. And last, Sullivan never did amount to much anyway. So there you were. Of the reasons so laboriously collected by the knowing ones, the most attractive had to do with the brevity of all of Sullivan's fights. It was an indisputable fact that up to the Mitchell sprinting race at Chantilly no one had ever stayed more than nine rounds -with the champion. And it was quite possible that if an opponent could manage to keep clear of that clubbed right until Sullivan was blown and weary the greatest hitting fighter the ring has ever seen might henceforth be powerless. It was possible because no one was In a position to prove the contrary. Meanwhile the great majority of boxing enthusiasts throughout the country, including most of those fortunate enough to be on hand at New Orleans, held fast by their faith in John L. Sullivan. They did |
Who was the first sports announcer to address Muhammad Ali by his Muslim name? | Boxer Muhammad Ali, 'The Greatest Of All Time,' Dies At 74 : NPR Boxer Muhammad Ali, 'The Greatest Of All Time,' Dies At 74 Embed Embed Boxer Muhammad Ali, 'The Greatest Of All Time,' Dies At 74 Boxer Muhammad Ali, 'The Greatest Of All Time,' Dies At 74 Embed Embed Tom Goldman Hide caption Boxer Muhammad Ali weighs in a week before his heavyweight bout with Jerry Quarry on Oct. 20, 1970 in Atlanta. Ali died at 74. Previous AP Hide caption An 85-pound Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. is shown posing at 12 years old, prior to his amateur ring debut in 1954. He won a gold medal in the light-heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome as a member of the U.S. Olympic boxing team. Previous Clay with trainer Angelo Dundee at City Parks Gym in New York in 1962. Previous Dan Grossi/AP Hide caption Clay with his first wife, Sonji Roi, on June 21, 1963. He married three more times. Previous Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Hide caption Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali stands over fallen challenger Sonny Liston on May 25, 1965, in Lewiston, Maine. The bout lasted only one minute into the first round. Ali is the only man ever to win the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship three times. Previous John Rooney/AP Hide caption Ali listens intently to Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, as Muhammad gives a marathon speech to black Muslims in Chicago on Feb. 28, 1966. The fighter had dropped the name Cassius Clay in 1964 and adopted the Muslim name Muhammad Ali. Previous Paul Cannon/AP Hide caption Ali says "no comment," confronted by members of the press as he leaves court for the noon recess, June 19, 1967. Ali was on trial for refusing to be inducted into the armed services. Previous Ed Kolenovsky/AP Hide caption Ali lies on his back with Joe Frazier, the heavyweight champion, standing over him after a 15th-round punch by Frazier dropped him in New York, March 8, 1971. Frazier retained his title with a unanimous decision over Ali. Previous AP Hide caption Ali toys with the finely combed hair of television sports commentator Howard Cosell before the start of the Olympic boxing trials, Aug. 7, 1972, in West Point, N.Y. Previous AP Hide caption Ali tours downtown Kinshasa on Sept. 17, 1974, ahead of his fight with Foreman. The bout was famously hyped as the "Rumble in the Jungle." Previous AP Hide caption Ali watches as defending world champion George Foreman goes down to the canvas in the eighth round of their WBA/WBC championship boxing match in Kinshasa, Zaire, on Oct. 30, 1974. Foreman was counted out by the referee and Ali regained the world heavyweight crown by knockout. Previous AP Hide caption Muhammad Ali lights the Olympic flame during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games opening ceremony in Atlanta on July 19, 1996. Previous Michael Probst/AP Hide caption Ali spars with a Cuban amateur boxer on Sept. 10, 1998, during his visit to the Cerro Pelado sport complex in Havana. Ali was on a three-day visit to Cuba to deliver a $1.2 million donation in humanitarian aid to local hospitals. Previous Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images Hide caption Ali is escorted onstage by his wife, Lonnie, and a personal assistant during The Muhammad Ali Celebrity Fight Night Awards XIX in Phoenix on March 23, 2013. The awards are given out to celebrities who embody the qualities of Ali and his fight to find a cure for Parkinson's disease. Previous View slideshow Update at 3:15 p.m. ET: Ali's Funeral Set For Friday Muhammad Ali, the man considered the greatest boxer of all time, died late Friday at a hospital in Phoenix at age 74. He was battling respiratory problems. He died of septic shock related to natural causes, with his family at his bedside, according to family spokesman Bob Gunnell. A Salute To 'The Greatest': Muhammad Ali Ali inspired millions by standing up for his principles during the volatile 1960s and by always entertaining — in the boxing ring and in front of a microphone. Cassius Clay (Ali's given name) won a gold medal at the Rome Olympics in 1960. He wanted more: a professional heavyweight championship. He a |
What year in the 1970s was Muhammad Ali's last as heavyweight champ? | Muhammad Ali is a three-time World Heavyweight champion. Sonny Liston Vs Muhammad Ali The title fight between Sonny Liston and Ali was scheduled On February 25, 1964 in Miami Florida. Ali was not widely expected to defeat Sonny Liston who was favorite to win (7–1 odds). The fight was nearly canceled when the promoters of the fight heard that Ali had become member of the Nation of Islam but Ali protested the suggested cancellation of the fight and as a compromise, Ali was asked the to delay his announcement about his conversion until after the fight. In the opening rounds, Ali’s speed kept him away from Liston’s powerful head and body shots, as he used his height advantage to beat Liston to the punch with his jabs. By the third round, Ali was ahead on points and had opened a cut under Liston’s eye, but Liston regained some ground in the fourth, as Ali was blinded by a substance in his eyes. It is unconfirmed whether this was something used to close Liston’s cuts, or deliberately applied to Liston’s gloves; Liston began the fourth round looking to put away Ali as the challenger struggled to recover his vision. Ali was able to keep out of range until his sweat and tears rinsed the substance from his eyes, responding with a flurry of combinations near the end of the fifth round. By the sixth, Ali was looking to finish Liston. and when Liston failed to answer the bell for the seventh round, stating he had a shoulder injury Ali became the youngest boxer ever to take the title from a reigning heavyweight champion, until Mike Tyson won the title from Trevor Berbick. Sonny Liston Vs Muhammad Ali video Sonny Liston Vs Muhammad Ali rematch The rematch was held in May 1965 in Lewiston, Maine, and Ali won by knockout in the first round as a result of what came to be called the “phantom punch.” Many believe that Liston , possibly as a result of threats from Nation of Islam extremists, or in an attempt to “throw” the fight to pay off debts, waited to be counted out. Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Liston rematch video Early title defenses On November 22, 1965, Ali fought Floyd Patterson in his second title defense winning by a technical knockout at the end of the 12th round. Ali then won a 15-round decision against opponent George Chuvalo and went to England where he defeated Henry Cooper by stoppage on cuts May 21. Muhammad Ali vs Ernie Terrel On February 6, 1967, Ali fought Terrell in what became one of the uglier fights in boxing. Terrell had angered Ali by calling him Clay, and Ali vowed to punish him. During the fight, Ali kept shouting at his opponent, “What’s my name, Uncle Tom. Terrell suffered 15 rounds of brutal punishment, losing 13 rounds on two judges’ scorecards, but Ali did not knock him out. Banned form boxing Ali’s refusal to be inducted into the U.S.military, based on his religious beliefs and opposition to the Vietnam War led to his arrest and in March 1967 was stripped of his title and had his professional boxing license suspended. His refusal to be inducted into the U.S. military, based on his religious beliefs and opposition to the Vietnam War led to his arrest. He was found guilty on draft evasion charges, stripped of his boxing title, and his boxing license was suspended. He was not imprisoned, but did not fight again for nearly four years while his appeal worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it was successful. Return to boxing and first fights Muhammad Ali vs Jerry Quarry On October 26, 1970,(while his case was still on appeal) Ali stopped Jerry Quarry on a cut after three rounds. Muhammad Ali vs Jerry Quarry video Muhammad Ali vs Oscar Bonavena Ali went to fight Oscar Bonavena at Madison Square Garden on December 7, 1970. After a tough 14 rounds, Ali stopped Bonavena in the 15th, paving the way for a title fight against Joe Frazier . Joe Frazier vs Muhammad Ali ‘The Fight of the Century’ The “Fight Of The Century” (On March 8, 1971), was the first meeting of two undefeated heavyweight champions , since Ali (31-0) had not lost his title in the ring (been stripped because of his refusal to be inducted in the |
What boxer successfully defended his title against George Foreman and Larry Holmes? | Larry Holmes - BoxRec Larry Holmes Ankle 10" Won the WBC heavyweight title from Ken Norton by a 15-round split decision on June 9, 1978. Held the WBC heavyweight title from 1978 to 1983 and the IBF heavyweight title from 1983 to 1985. His reign of seven years is the third longest ever in the heavyweight division. Only Joe Louis (1937-1949) and Wladimir Klitschko (2006-2015) have had longer title reigns. Successfully defended the WBC title 16 times and the IBF title three times. Holmes' 19 consecutive title defenses is second only to Joe Louis' 25. Won eight straight title defenses by knockout, breaking Joe Louis' record of seven. Won the lineal World Heavyweight Championship when he defeated Muhammad Ali by a 10th-round RTD on October 2, 1980. Holmes defended it 12 times. Had a record of 20-5 (14 KOs) in world title fights. Had a record of 11-5 (7 KOs) against former, current or future world titlists. Lost against Michael Spinks (twice), Mike Tyson , Evander Holyfield & Oliver McCall . Came close to matching Rocky Marciano 's record of 49-0. Holmes won his first 48 professional fights before losing a close 15-round unanimous decision to Michael Spinks in 1985. Attempted to regain the title four times, losing to Michael Spinks in 1986, Mike Tyson in 1988, Evander Holyfield in 1992 and Oliver McCall in 1995. Was scheduled to face George Foreman at the Houston Astrodome on January 23, 1999. Foreman was to make $10 million and Holmes $4 million. After they signed the contracts, each boxer received 10 percent of his purse as a nonrefundable deposit. Foreman withdrew from the fight on January 1 because the promoter, Roger Levitt, failed to meet the deadline to pay Foreman the remaining $9 million of his $10 million purse. The fight ran into trouble when one of its major backers pulled out. "They were supposed to have the money last week and they didn't have it," said Roy Foreman, George's brother. "George gave them an extra week and they still didn't have it." [1] Last professional fight was a 10-round unanimous decision win against Eric "Butterbean" Esch on July 27, 2002. Holmes was 52-years-old. Retired with a professional record of 69-6 with 44 knockouts. Amateur Career Holmes had an amateur record of 19-3. He was a sparring partner for Muhammad Ali from 1972 to 1975. According to Holmes, he had "about eleven amateur bouts" when he started working with Ali. Holmes' first trainer, Ernie Butler , took him to Ali's training camp in Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, which is about 50 miles northwest of Holmes' hometown of Easton, Pennsylvania. Holmes suffered his first defeat against Nick Wells in the finals of a tournament in Minnesota in 1972. Wells stopped him in three rounds. They fought again in the semifinals of the 1972 Olympic trials in Fort Worth, Texas, and Holmes was stopped in the first round. Holmes wrote of his bouts with Wells in his 1998 autobiography, Larry Holmes: Against the Odds : "It was the first time I'd fought a lefty. It threw my reactions off. I was hesitant and ended up being an easy target for Wells, who had good power. Good enough to give me the worst beating of my career and stop me in the third round. My first-ever defeat. The way things unfolded, I had another opportunity against Wells in a later tournament in Texas. This time I managed to find left-handed sparring partners to get ready for him. Guess what? It didn't matter. Not one bit. That guy Wells had my number, and he beat me again. Badly." [2] Holmes boxed Duane Bobick at the 1972 Olympic box-offs in West Point, New York. Bobick was unbeaten in his previous 55 bouts. Holmes was dropped by a Bobick right hand in the first round and was twice warned for holding in the second. After holding again in the third and final round, Holmes was disqualified. [3] Early in his professional career, Holmes' reputation suffered due to the loss to Bobick. Michael Katz of the New York Times wrote in 1985 that Holmes was considered "a frightened boxer — the word often used was "yellow" — whom people remembered as trying to crawl out of the ring against Duane Bobick i |
Who reigned as heavyweight boxing champ of Uganda from 1951-1960? | Idi Amin - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com A+E Networks Introduction In 1971, General Idi Amin overthrew the elected government of Milton Obote and declared himself president of Uganda, launching a ruthless eight-year regime in which an estimated 300,000 civilians were massacred. His expulsion of all Indian and Pakistani citizens in 1972—along with increasing military expenditures—brought about the country’s economic decline, the impact of which lasted decades. In 1979 his reign of terror came to an end as Ugandan exiles and Tanzanians took control of the capital of Kampala, forcing Amin to flee. Never brought to justice for his heinous crimes, Amin lived out the remainder of his life in Saudi Arabia. ‹ › Google Idi Amin: Early Life and Military Career Idi Amin Dada was born c. 1925 in Koboko, in northwestern Uganda, to a Kakwa father and Lugbara mother, who separated shortly afterwards. In 1946, after receiving only a rudimentary education, Amin joined the King’s African Rifles (KAR), a regiment of the British colonial army, and quickly rose through the ranks. He was deployed to Somalia in 1949 to fight the Shifta rebels and later fought with the British during the suppression of the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya (1952-56). In 1959 he attained the rank of effendi—the highest position for a black African soldier within the KAR—and, by 1966, he had been appointed commander of the armed forces. Did You Know? During his time in the army, Amin became the light heavyweight boxing champion of Uganda, a title he held for nine years between 1951 and 1960. Amin Commandeers Control of Uganda’s Government After more than 70 years under British rule, Uganda gained its independence on October 9, 1962, and Milton Obote became the nation’s first prime minister. By 1964, Obote had forged an alliance with Amin, who helped expand the size and power of the Ugandan Army. In February 1966, following accusations that the pair was responsible for smuggling gold and ivory from Congo that were subsequently traded for arms, Obote suspended the constitution and proclaimed himself executive president. Shortly thereafter, Obote sent Amin to dethrone King Mutesa II, also known as “King Freddie,” who ruled the powerful kingdom of Buganda in south-central Uganda. A few years and two failed—but unidentified—assassination attempts later, Obote began to question Amin’s loyalty and ordered his arrest while en route to Singapore for a Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference. During his absence, Amin took the offensive and staged a coup on January 25, 1971, seizing control of the government and forcing Obote into exile. Amin’s Regime of Terror Once in power, Amin began mass executions upon the Acholi and Lango, Christian tribes that had been loyal to Obote and therefore perceived as a threat. He also began terrorizing the general public through the various internal security forces he organized, such as the State Research Bureau (SRB) and Public Safety Unity (PSU), whose main purpose was to eliminate those who opposed his regime. In 1972, Amin expelled Uganda’s Asian population, which numbered between 50,000 and 70,000, resulting in a collapse of the economy as manufacturing, agriculture and commerce came to a screeching halt without the appropriate resources to support them. When the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked an Air France flight from Israel to Paris on June 27, 1976, Idi Amin welcomed the terrorists and supplied them with troops and weapons, but was humiliated when Israeli commandos subsequently rescued the hostages in a surprise raid on the Entebbe airport. In the aftermath, Amin ordered the execution of several airport personnel, hundreds of Kenyans whom were believed to have conspired with Israel and an elderly British hostage who had previously been escorted to a nearby hospital. Throughout his oppressive rule, Amin was estimated to have been responsible for the deaths of roughly 300,000 civilians. Amin Loses Control and Enters Exile Over time, the number of Amin’s intimate allies dwindled and formerly loyal troops beg |
What did boxer Nelson Azumah change his name to? | Is Azumah Nelson Africa's greatest boxer? - CNN.com Is Azumah Nelson Africa's greatest boxer? From Errol Barnett, CNN Updated 7:17 AM ET, Fri August 10, 2012 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. JUST WATCHED Boxing legend teaching next generation 02:54 Story highlights Azumah Nelson is a Ghanaian boxing legend, known as "The Professor" He was inducted in the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2004 Today he is working to create the next generation of Ghanaian boxers In his fighting days during the 1980s and 1990s, Ghanaian boxing legend Azumah Nelson's thudding jabs and powerful overhands earned him the moniker "The Professor," named for the lessons he'd teach opponents inside the ring. A former three-time world champion, Nelson is often described as the best boxer to come out of the African continent. His daring feats inside the four corners of the ring made him a national hero in the West African country, while in 2004 "The Professor" became the first African to be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Today, Nelson's nickname has taken on new meaning as the former champion now spends his time teaching the secrets of boxing to a new generation of athletes. "The Professor" has established the Azumah Nelson Foundation , a not-for-profit organization working to help Ghana's deprived youth realize their potential through education and sport. Photos: Boxing legend Azumah Nelson's career Photos: Boxing legend Azumah Nelson's career Boxing legend – Azumah Nelson (left) is a Ghanaian boxing legend, often described as the best fighter to come out of the African continent. Hide Caption 1 of 9 Photos: Boxing legend Azumah Nelson's career Boxing legend – He became known as "The Professor," for the lessons he'd teach his opponents in the ring. Hide Caption Photos: Boxing legend Azumah Nelson's career World champion – Nelson won three world championsip titles during his illustrious career. Hide Caption 3 of 9 Photos: Boxing legend Azumah Nelson's career Boxing legend – Nelson celebrates his win after a bout against Jeff Fenech on 28 June 1991. Hide Caption 4 of 9 Photos: Boxing legend Azumah Nelson's career Boxing legend – Nelson knocks Mexico's Gabriel Ruelas down in the second round of their WBC Super Featherweight title bout in Indio, California, on 01 December 1995. Hide Caption 5 of 9 Photos: Boxing legend Azumah Nelson's career Boxing legend – Nelson celebrates after retaining his Super Featherweight title by beating James Leija in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1996. Hide Caption 6 of 9 Photos: Boxing legend Azumah Nelson's career Helping the young – Today the boxing legend is working with young athletes, hoping to create a new generation of Ghanaian boxers. Hide Caption 7 of 9 Photos: Boxing legend Azumah Nelson's career New generation of boxers – One of Ghana's most popular sports, boxing is helping some young athletes to escape poverty. Hide Caption 8 of 9 Photos: Boxing legend Azumah Nelson's career King of the ring – Nelson remains a national hero in Ghana where he is known as the 'king of the ring.' Hide Caption |
"What boxing promoter's favourite expression is ""Only in America""?" | Free boxing Essays and Papers Color Rating Boxing is Not a Violent Sport - Boxing is a sport full of hard hitting, fast movements and lots of blood, but being a boxer is not too brutal for the society but it does have its good and bad. Boxing was found back in 697B.C in Germany. When it was first aired on TV people didn’t like it much and was commented as the worst TV show. But as the years went on more people started to get interested in the sport, and then kids wanted to become like their favorite boxer. And soon after boxing was the number one show that everyone watched.... [tags: Boxing ] :: 11 Works Cited [preview] The Decline of Boxing in America - Boxing in the early and mid-twentieth century had an appeal that captured the eyes and ears of millions of Americans. Championship fights and popular fighters were on national television and in newspaper headlines. At the time, boxing was relevant in the American sports world. However, over the past 30 years, boxing has regressed and lost its popularity. Spectacles like the graceful Muhammad Ali and the hard-hitting Mike Tyson are gone and have been replaced by lackluster fighters and greedy fight promoters who only care about their profit cut.... [tags: Boxing in America] :: 30 Works Cited [preview] Don King and Boxing - Famous boxing promoter Don King's entrepreneurial process was not as smooth as other boxing promoters. King really had to fight again and again to prove that he did have the right skills to be a good promoters. They doubted him because King had long history of being a street hustler. King used to run illegal operations and during two of those operation he was charged with murder. In the first case he was discharged. The judge said is was a justifiable homicide because King had shot Hillary Brown because Brown was trying to rob him.... [tags: boxing, entrepreneur, fight] 860 words [preview] Banning Boxing - Banning Boxing Boxing has and probably always will be thought of as a noble sport by its supporters. If boxing where to be banned it would defiantly anger its supporters and maybe provoke a series of 'underground' boxing matches, which could lead to maybe more violent matches as there would be less control. If it isn't banned there would be outrage among non-supporters and violence may be brought out through the non-supporters. It would be easier to decide whether it should be banned or not if we looked at some of the reasons for and against.... [tags: Sports, Boxing, Pros and Cons] 317 words [preview] Should Boxing Be Banned? - In 1997, the injury rate predicted in the sport of boxing was 7,257 injuries and 10.8% of those injuries were estimated to have affected people between the ages of five and fourteen. 1.3% of those injuries were predicted to be in the ages between zero and four, and 55.8% of those injuries were in the group of ages from fifteen to twenty-four.( National Electronic Injury Surveillance System et al., Estimates for Sports Injuries 1997) Boxing can be a safe and fun sport as long as it is practiced and played properly.... [tags: Sports] 2062 words [preview] Long Live Boxing - "It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. (Muhammad Ali)". Boxing should not be abolished because the fighters premeditate precautions to the sport, it does not promote violence, and there are other sports that are more dangerous. Boxing is a one-on-one combat sport that involves sparring. A way to determine the winner of the match is by points, depending on where the opponent is hit, and the fighters must survive all 3-12 rounds. Another way to win the match is by knock out.... [tags: Sports ] :: 9 Works Cited [preview] Should Society Throw in the Towel on Boxing - Originating from the Ancient Greeks over 13 centuries ago, boxing has been a highly anticipated, globally entertaining sport watched by millions. However, today's society has began to raise an eyebrow over the relevance of boxing in today's age. Many, without much knowledge on the sport, would argue that it |
How many engines would you find on a Boeing 737, two; three or five? | Boeing 737 | How It Flies How It Flies What Pilots Want to Know Find Aircraft YOU CAN ADD TO OR EDIT THIS PAGE To add aircraft comments, reviews, photos, videos, facts or opinions simply Register (free) and start contributing! Photos Boeing 737 Landing with One Gear Up Video The Boeing 737 is a short to medium range, single aisle, narrow body jet airliner. Originally developed as a shorter, lower-cost twin-engine airliner derived from Boeing's 707 and 727, the 737 has nine variants with the -600, -700, -800 and -900 currently in production. Originally envisioned in 1964, the 737 first flew in 1967, and entered airline service in February 1968. The 737 is Boeing's only single-aisle, narrow-body airliner currently in production, sometimes serving markets previously filled by 707, 727, 757, DC-9 and MD-80/90 airliners. The 737 has been continuously manufactured by Boeing since 1967 with 6,348 aircraft delivered and 2,061 orders yet to be fulfilled. The 737 series is the best selling jet airliner in history. There are on average 1,250 737s airborne at any given time, with one departing or landing somewhere every five seconds. The 737 primarily competes with the Airbus A320 family. Development Origins Boeing had been studying short-haul jet aircraft designs and wanted to produce another aircraft to supplement the 727 on short and thin routes. Preliminary design work began on 11 May 1964, and Boeing's intense market research yielded plans for a 50 to 60 passenger airliner for routes long. Lufthansa became the launch customer on 19 February 1965, with an order for 22 aircraft, worth $67 million (1965, $190.28 million in 2008), after the airline reportedly received assurances from Boeing that the 737 project would not be cancelled. Consultation with Lufthansa over the previous winter resulted in an increase in capacity to 100 seats. On April 5, 1965, Boeing announced an order by United Airlines for 40 737s. United wanted a slightly larger airplane than the original design; therefore, Boeing stretched the fuselage an extra 36 in. ahead of, and 40 in. behind the wing. The longer version was designated 737-200, with the original short body aircraft becoming the 737-100. Detailed design work continued on both variants at the same time. Boeing was far behind its competitors when the 737 was launched, as rival aircraft BAC 1-11, Douglas DC-9, and Fokker F28 were already into flight certification. To expedite development, Boeing utilized 60% of the structure and systems of the existing 727, most notably the fuselage cross section. This fuselage permitted six-abreast seating compared to the rival 1-11 and DC-9's five-abreast layout, but the widened cross-section and short fuselage complicated the aerodynamics of the aft-mounted engines common with airliners of the time. As a result, engineers decided to mount the nacelles directly to the underside of the wings. The placement of this weight below the center of the aircraft also reduced stresses on the airframe, which allowed for a lighter wing, and kept the engines low to the ground for easy ramp operations. The engine chosen was the Pratt & Whitney JT8D-1 low-bypass ratio turbofan engine. With the wing-mounted engines, Boeing decided to mount the horizontal stabilizer on the fuselage rather than the T-tail style of the Boeing 727. The initial assembly of the 737 was adjacent to Boeing Field (now officially called King County International Airport) because the factory in Renton was at capacity building the 707 and 727. After 271 aircraft, production was moved to Renton in late 1970. A significant portion of the fuselage assembly is in Wichita, Kansas previously by Boeing but now by Spirit AeroSystems, which purchased some of Boeing's assets in Wichita. The fuselage is joined with the wings and landing gear, then moves down the assembly line for the engines, avionics and interiors. After rolling out the aircraft, Boeing tests the systems and engines before its maiden flight to Boeing Field, where it is painted and fine tuned before delivery to the customer. The first of six -100 prototype |
What edible fungi is traditionally found using a pigs sense of smell? | Pigs Pigs Feedback on Pigs Pigs 1 Pigs need an image makeover! When we think of pigs, our minds often drift to mud-covered, filthy, always hungry farm animals. These unpleasant images really give pigs a bad name and challenge their intelligence. 2 Also called swine or hogs, pigs have stocky, barrel-shaped bodies, four short but slender legs, and large heads. Their trademark is their long, round, cartilaginous snout. Pigs have an unusual bone, called the prenasal bone, located just below their disk-shaped snouts. Prenasal bones help strengthen pigs' snouts, making them great digging tools. 3 Aside from snouts that function as bulldozers, pigs also have an extremely fine sense of smell. Pigs can sniff out things hidden underground. Their diet includes fungi, fruits or other vegetation, insects, worms, mice, and other small animals. Well-recognized for their keen sense of smell, French people have used wild boars for centuries to find a French delicacy -- truffles. Truffles are edible fungi that grow deep below the surface. They give out a strong smell that wild boars can detect and unearth at ease. Just like the French who have come to rely on pigs' sensitive noses, police often bring trained pigs to airports or seaports to uncover illegal drugs that are concealed in cargos. Paragraphs 4 to 9: For the complete story with questions: click here for printable Weekly Reading Books |
Which jockey won the 1981 Grand National after beating cancer? | Bob Champion: The National treasure who keeps on running | Sport | The Guardian The Observer Bob Champion: The National treasure who keeps on running Jockey who defied cancer to win world's greatest steeplechase and inspire a movie explains his love of Aintree and the battle to stay healthy 30 years on from his finest hour Bob Champion has had to contend with heart attacks as well as the cancer that struck him down before his Grand National win. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Observer Saturday 2 April 2011 19.17 EDT First published on Saturday 2 April 2011 19.17 EDT Share on Messenger Close Idea for a movie. A jockey who is told he will be dead in eight months unless he signs up to treatment with a 35-40% success rate wins the Grand National on a horse who was so badly injured in one of his races that the vet suggested a bullet was the only answer. Too late. Already been done. John Hurt played the rider in a 1983 film. But the tale kept rolling after Bob Champion passed the Aintree finishing post on Aldaniti, 30 years ago this week. It kept going into a new realm of illness, and defiance, and a fund-raising drive against cancer that provided Champion with a second act in life to surpass the first. We are in the kitchen of the yard in Findon, West Sussex, where Aldaniti was trained by Josh Gifford to defy outlandish odds. The 1981 National winner was a talented ex-crock who had restored his Aintree candidacy by trotting up at Ascot in a major trial. Champion had been ravaged by an early form of chemotherapy and was lucky still to be alive, never mind jumping Becher's Brook. He looks healthy now: nowhere near his 62 years. But to get to Liverpool on Saturday, for the Bob Champion Aintree Legends Charity Race, in which a dozen National-winning ex-jockeys will compete, Aldaniti's former partner had to survive a second heart attack three weeks ago: 10 years to the day, spookily, after his first. As soft rain falls on the Downs where Nick Gifford took over from his father, Josh, Champion updates his story: "I speak on cruise ships a bit, and I'd come back from Barbados to a really busy week. I went to Stafford that night for the cancer trust, then to a meeting in London, then down to Hove to a dinner, then up to Whitby, then Harrogate. I was knackered when I got home. "A couple of days later I was at home in bed at one o'clock in the morning and had these chest pains. I knew what it was. Thankfully. I had some spray from the first heart attack but I'd never used it. It was 10 years out of date. I sprayed it under my tongue and that saved a lot of damage. "I've got a couple of stents [artificial tubes] in there now and the surgeons ballooned the other vessels. It was the same day I had the heart attack 10 years ago – so I'm not going to go to bed in 10 years' time. I might go and park outside the hospital." Champion attributes his heart trouble to the effects of his treatment after being diagnosed with testicular cancer in July 1979: "The chemo was very barbaric in those days and it did affect my lungs. There's no way I can say it gave me the heart attack but some of the vessels were injured by the treatment in those days. I'm alive, that's the main thing. I wouldn't have been without the treatment." Hurt's character was living the life in a previous golden generation of National Hunt riders. People talk these days of a special crop – AP McCoy, Ruby Walsh and the rest – but Champion's contemporaries were also vivid figures on winter's landscape. "I rode with some really good jockeys. People like John Francome, Jonjo O'Neill, Ron Barry, Bob Davies: all great champions," he says. "Racing's changed. AP has more than a thousand rides a year. John Francome – fantastic jockey – was lucky if he got 400. They've got to be fitter now – or they should be. They're more professional. We enjoyed life. But they're at it seven days a week. They're breathalysed. They can't really let themselves go on a Saturday night. We'd have a Saturday night out." But all this crashed with the cancer diagnosis. Jump racing steeled itself to say goodbye. |
What was Humphrey Bogart's character in the 1949 film 'The Big Sleep'? | Filmography - Humphrey Bogart Filmography Home Filmography From the 1920s until the 1950s, Humphrey Bogart’s film career covered virtually every genre from crime dramas to musicals. His various roles have given the world some of the most memorable characters, including Sam Spade, Duke Mantee, Charlie Allnut, Rick Blaine. Philip Marlowe, and Fred C. Dobbs, among countless others. Bogie’s filmography is not only a testament to his ability as an actor, but a timeline illustrating his humble beginnings and eventual rise to superstardom. Please click here to browse the film poster gallery . The 1950s 1956 – The Harder They Fall (Eddie Willis) 1955 – We’re No Angels (Joseph) 1955 – The Desperate Hours (Glenn Griffin) 1955 – The Left Hand of God (Jim Carmody) 1954 – The Barefoot Contessa (Harry Dawes) 1954 – Sabrina (Linus Larrabee) 1954 – The Caine Mutiny (Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg) 1953 – Beat the Devil (Billy Dannreuther) 1953 – Battle Circus (Maj. Jed Webbe) 1952 – Deadline – U.S.A. (Ed Hutcheson, Managing Editor of The Day) 1951 – The African Queen (Charlie Allnut) 1951 – Sirocco (Harry Smith) 1951 – The Enforcer (Dist. Atty. Martin Ferguson) 1950 – Chain Lightning (Lt. Col. Matt Brennan) 1950 – In a Lonely Place (Dixon Steele) The 1940s 1949 – Tokyo Joe (Joe Barrett) 1949 – Knock on Any Door (Andrew Morton) 1948 – Key Largo (Frank McCloud) 1948 – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Fred C. Dobbs) 1947 – Dark Passage (Vincent Parry) 1947 – The Two Mrs. Carrolls (Geoffrey Carroll) 1947 – Dead Reckoning (Captain Warren ‘Rip’ Murdock) 1946 – The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe) 1945 – Conflict (Richard Mason) 1944 – To Have and Have Not (Harry Morgan/Steve) 1944 – Passage to Marseille (Jean Matrac) 1943 – Sahara (Sgt. Joe Gunn) 1943 – Action in the North Atlantic (Lt. Joe Rossi) 1942 – The Big Shot (Joseph ‘Duke’ Berne) 1942 – Casablanca (Rick Blaine) 1942 – Across the Pacific (Rick Leland) 1942 – In This Our Life (Uncredited cameo appearance as Roadhouse owner) 1942 – All Through the Night (Alfred ‘Gloves’ Donahue) 1941 – The Maltese Falcon (Sam Spade) 1941 – The Wagons Roll at Night (Nick Coster) 1941 – High Sierra (Roy ‘Mad Dog’ Earle) 1940 – They Drive by Night (Paul Fabrini) 1940 – Brother Orchid (Jack Buck) 1940 – It All Came True (Chips Maguire/Mr. Grasselli) 1940 – Virginia City (John Murrell) The 1930s 1939 – Invisible Stripes (Chuck Martin) 1939 – The Return of Doctor X (Marshall Quesne) 1939 – The Roaring Twenties (George Hally) 1939 – The Old Maid (Clem Spender, replaced by George Brent, uncredited) 1939 – You Can’t Get Away with Murder (Frank Wilson) 1939 – Dark Victory (Michael O’Leary) 1939 – The Oklahoma Kid (Whip McCord) 1939 – King of the Underworld (Joe Gurney) 1938 – Angels with Dirty Faces (James Frazier) 1938 – The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (‘Rocks’ Valentine) 1938 – Men Are Such Fools (Harry Galleon) 1938 – Racket Busters (John ‘Czar’ Martin) 1938 – Crime School (Deputy Comm Mark Braden) 1938 – Swing Your Lady (Ed Hatch) 1937 – Stand-In (Doug Quintain) 1937 – Dead End (Baby Face Martin) 1937 – San Quentin (Joe ‘Red’ Kennedy) 1937 – Kid Galahad (Turkey Morgan) 1937 – Marked Woman (David Graham) 1937 – The Great O’Malley (John Phillips) 1937 – Black Legion (Frank Taylor) 1936 – Isle of Fury (Valentine ‘Val’ Stevens) 1936 – China Clipper (Hap Stuart) 1936 – Two Against the World (Sherry Scott) 1936 – Bullets or Ballots (Nick ‘Bugs’ Fenner) 1936 – The Petrified Forest (Duke Mantee) 1934 – Midnight (Gar Boni) |
John Wayne won just one Oscar, for which film? | John Wayne wins Best Actor Oscar - Apr 07, 1970 - HISTORY.com John Wayne wins Best Actor Oscar Share this: John Wayne wins Best Actor Oscar Author John Wayne wins Best Actor Oscar URL Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 1970, the legendary actor John Wayne wins his first–and only–acting Academy Award, for his star turn in the director Henry Hathaway’s Western True Grit. Wayne appeared in some 150 movies over the course of his long and storied career. He established his tough, rugged, uniquely American screen persona most vividly in the many acclaimed films he made for the directors John Ford and Howard Hawks from the late 1940s into the early 1960s. He earned his first Oscar nomination, in the Best Actor category, for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949). The Alamo (1960), which Wayne produced, directed and starred in, earned a Best Picture nomination. Wayne’s Oscar for True Grit at the 42nd annual Academy Awards in 1970 was generally considered to be a largely sentimental win, and a long-overdue reward for one of Hollywood’s most enduring performers. The Academy had failed to even nominate Wayne for any of his most celebrated performances, in films such as Stagecoach (1939), Red River (1948), The Quiet Man (1952), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and especially Ford’s The Searchers (1956), considered by many to be the greatest Western ever made. In True Grit, Wayne played a drunken, foul-tempered but endearing U.S. marshal named Rooster Cogburn, who becomes an unlikely hero when he helps a young girl avenge the murder of her father. He would reprise the role in the film’s sequel, Rooster Cogburn (1975), opposite Katharine Hepburn. Nominated for seven Oscars at the 42nd annual awards ceremony that night, John Schlesinger’s gritty urban drama Midnight Cowboy won in the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay categories. The film’s stars, Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, were both nominated in the Best Actor category but lost out to Wayne. Richard Burton (as King Henry VIII in Anne of the Thousand Days) and Peter O’Toole (as the beloved schoolmaster Arthur Chipping in Goodbye, Mr. Chips) rounded out the category. It was the fourth of what would be eight career nominations (and no wins) for O’Toole. In 1964, Wayne battled lung cancer, undergoing surgery to remove his entire left lung. He went public with news of his illness in hopes of convincing people to remain vigilant about cancer. In his last movie, The Shootist (1976), Wayne portrayed an aging gunfighter dying of cancer. Three years later, the great actor himself succumbed to stomach cancer at the age of 72 on June 11, 1979. Related Videos |
Which city used to be called Constantinople? | 5 Big Cities That Changed Their Names | Mental Floss 5 Big Cities That Changed Their Names The Four Lads sang a song in 1953 about a city that changed its name . Take me back to Constantinople No, you can't go back to Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks' Constantinople isn't the only city to change its name. I grew up learning about Bombay, Canton, Leningrad, and Saigon (especially Saigon), but those names aren't used much anymore. Here are the stories of a few city names, new and old. 1. Bombay is now Mumbai The big city in the state of Maharashtra, India was called Kakamuchee and Galajunkja in ancient times. In the Middle Ages, it was referred to as Manbai. There is still disagreement about how the name Bombay came about. On the one hand, Bombay is seen as an English corruption of Mumbai, which is a name derived from the Hindu goddess Mumbadevi. On the other hand, the name may have come from bom baim, a Portuguese phrase meaning "good little bay", although there are doubts due to the issue of the word genders. The city was ruled by Portugal from 1535 to 1661. Variation of the name included Mombayn, Bombay, Bombain, Bombaym, Monbaym, Mombaim, Mombaym, Bambaye, Bombaiim, Bombeye, and Boon Bay, all of which are documented spellings. When the British took possession of the city in 1661, they put a stop to all this nonsense and decided the name would be Bombay. India achieved independence from the British Empire in 1947. The idea of a new, purely Indian name gained favor over the years and became a political campaign in the 1980s and 90s. When the Hindu nationalist party Shiv Sena won a majority of seats in the state assembly in 1995, the name Mumbai, which was commonly used in some local languages, was officially adopted . The name is a return to India's past and a homage to Mumbadevi, the goddess who is the patron saint of the city. Image by Flickr user d ha rm e sh . 2. Canton is now Guangzhou The city of Guangzhou, China was founded under the name Panyu in 214 BC. Four hundred years later, it was named the capital of Guang prefecture and people began to call the city Guangzhou, which literally means Guang prefecture. Portugal established a trading monopoly in Guangdong province in the 1500s, and the name Cantão began to be used, which became Canton. No one is quite sure how the name Cantão or Canton actually came about, but it is believed to be a European phonetic mispronunciation of Guangzhou or Guangdong. The name Guangzhou was officially adopted by the city in 1918. So the city was never officially named Canton at all! Nevertheless, westerners used Canton on maps and travel schedules, and in geography and travel books until the late 20th century. Image by Flickr user Gijs Budel . 3. Saigon is now Hồ Chà Minh City The original name of the Kmer village that eventually became Saigon was Prey Nokor. The earliest reference to the name Sà i Gòn was in 1698, as the village was taken from Cambodia by the Vietnamese. It is thought that the term Sà i Gòn was a Vietnamese translation of the Kmer words Prei Kor, which means Kapok Tree Forest or City of Kapok Trees . The area was actually a swamp, but its location made it a strategic seaport. The small fishing village grew into a modern city under the French, who took over in 1859 and called it Saigon. Saigon became the capital of Vietnam in 1949, and when the country split in 1954, Saigon remained the capital of South Vietnam. About that time, Saigon merged with Cholon on the other side of the Saigon River. No matter how it evolved, the name Saigon was a symbol of colonialism, so when the north defeated the south in 1975, the city lost its status as capital. The following year it was officially renamed for the deceased communist leader Hồ Chà Minh. Image by Flickr user Andrin Villa . 4. St. Petersburg is now St. Petersburg (again) The original name of the small Russian town that became St. Petersburg is long gone, but it was only a tiny village before the Tsar arrived. Tsar Pe |
In the TV series 'Buccaneers' who played Dan Tempest? | The Buccaneers (TV Series 1956–1957) - 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 Captain Dan Tempest was an ex-pirate who received a pardon from the King and turned privateer after his stronghold of New Providence was taken over by Crown soldiers. Tempest and Lt. ... See full summary » Stars: The island is running out of food. The situation becomes even more desperate when a Spanish naval ship arrives insisting that if Spanish prisoners are not released then an expected food ship will be ... 7.7 A pirate ship is seen in the waters around New Providence, with a Spanish blockade already in place, Tempest concocts an audacious plan to not only stop the pirate but destroy his ship. 7.2 Tempest is tasked with securing extra gun powder from the Admiralty after a succession pirate raids. The Admiralty refuses to give him the gunpowder and Tempest has to resort to some unconventional ... 7.2 2017 Golden Globe Locks, Nailbiters, and Surprises Dave Karger breaks down the nominations and shares expert picks on favorites for the top awards, the most highly contested categories, and some surprising omissions. Don't miss our live coverage of the Golden Globes beginning at 4 p.m. PST on Jan. 8 in our Golden Globes section. a list of 100 titles created 20 Dec 2010 a list of 19 titles created 23 Oct 2011 a list of 154 titles created 15 May 2012 a list of 34 titles created 05 Oct 2014 a list of 500 titles created 3 months ago Search for " The Buccaneers " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Title: The Buccaneers (1956–1957) 8/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The Buccaneers (TV Mini-Series 1995) Adventure | Drama | Romance Four American girls go to England to find husbands. Stars: Carla Gugino, Alison Elliott, Mira Sorvino A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant. Director: James Goldstone Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural. Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Eric Pohlmann Ex-con trucker tries to expose his boss's rackets. Director: Cy Endfield Soviet KGB General Marenkov defects to the Americans and together with his CIA handler Harry Wargrave they plan an operation meant to reveal the KGB agents in Europe. Directors: Mark Robson, Monte Hellman Stars: Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their land and lives back from the British ... See full summary » Director: Michael Audley In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods. Director: John Gilling Edit Storyline Captain Dan Tempest was an ex-pirate who received a pardon from the King and turned privateer after his stronghold of New Providence was taken over by Crown soldiers. Tempest and Lt. Beamish, the Crown-appointed deputy governor, were uneasy allies, fighting the Spanish privateers who were ravaging the Caribbean. Written by Marg Baskin <[email protected]> 22 September 1956 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia The ship used in the series was the same one used for Treasure Island (1950) and Moby Dick (1956). See more » Frequently Asked Questions (Australia) – See all my reviews Let's go a-roving, / a-roving across the ocean. / O, let's go a-roving, / And join the buccaneers! The theme-tune was jaunty. They all were, for these classic children's TV shows. (Did adults ever watch them? By contrast, children and adults happily watched the American series such as "Tales of Texas Rangers" a Western that alternated modern and old stories, "Whirlybird" about a charter helicopte |
Montreal is surrounded by which river? | Montreal: Introduction Montreal Introduction Montreal (mŏnˌtrēôlˈ) [ key ], Fr. Montréal môNrāälˈ, city (1991 pop. 1,017,666), S Que., Canada, on Montreal island, surrounded by St. Lawrence River and Rivière des Prairies. Montreal is the second largest metropolitan area in Canada, after Toronto, and is a cultural, commercial, financial, and industrial center. It is one of the largest French-speaking cities in the world, though most of its inhabitants also speak English. Sections in this article: |
Zetland is the largest of which group of islands? | Shetland Islands | islands, Scotland, United Kingdom | Britannica.com Shetland Islands Scotland 1980s overview Shetland Islands, also called Zetland or Shetland, group of about 100 islands, fewer than 20 of them inhabited, in Scotland , 130 miles (210 km) north of the Scottish mainland , at the northern extremity of the United Kingdom . They constitute the Shetland Islands council area and the historic county of Shetland. Among the settlements on Mainland , the largest island , is Scalloway, a fishing port. Lerwick , also on Mainland, is the islands’ largest town and commercial and administrative centre. Clickimin Broch, Lerwick, on Mainland in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Chaikney Scotland’s Shetland Islands are home to a large otter population. Contunico © ZDF Enterprises GmbH, Mainz East of Mainland are the islands of Whalsay and Bressay. North of Mainland lie the islands of Yell, Fetlar, and Unst, the most northerly island. One mile off the coast of Unst is the most northerly point in the United Kingdom, Muckle Flugga—a lighthouse and group of rocks. Fair Isle, 24 miles (39 km) south of Mainland, belongs to the National Trust for Scotland and has an important ornithological observatory. The scenery of the Shetland Islands is wild and beautiful, with deeply indented coasts (the sea lochs, or fjords, are locally called voes) enclosed by steep hills. The winds are nearly continuous and strong, and trees are therefore sparse, but the climate is very mild for such a high latitude—only 400 miles (640 km) south of the Arctic Circle—because of the warming influence of the North Atlantic Current , an extension of the Gulf Stream system. Killer whales in the waters off Scotland’s Shetland Islands. Contunico © ZDF Enterprises GmbH, Mainz The main form of agriculture is crofting , each croft having a few acres of arable land and the right to graze sheep on the “scattald,” or common grazings. The Shetland breed of sheep produces fine wool that is spun and knitted by the island workers in the distinctive patterns known as Shetland and Fair Isle. Many of the crofts cannot adequately support a family, so islanders seek work in the North Sea oil industry, abroad, or in the Royal Navy. Fishing has always been important, and crofters fish to supplement their diet or their income. The herring fishery centred on Lerwick has declined since the mid-20th century, and fishing for other species is now more important. Only after the discovery of oil in the North Sea northeast of Shetland was the long-persisting depopulation slowed. The most-advanced technology entered into Shetland’s traditional way of life when a major oil terminal was built in the 1970s at Sullom Voe in the north of Mainland. Pipelines extend from the North Sea fields to that depot, which is approached by tankers using the sheltered deep water provided by Yell Sound. The oil developments increased the importance of Sumburgh Airport in the southern tip of Mainland, and the economy of the Shetlands has gained by supplying goods and services to the oil industry. Similar Topics |
Who preceded Joe Bugner as British heavyweight champion? | Joe Bugner (Heavyweight) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Show Less Born in SzÅreg, a southeastern suburb of Szeged in southern Hungary, Bugner and his family fled after the 1956 Soviet invasion and settled in Britain. … Read More Standing at with a prime weight of around, Bugner twice held the British and British Commonwealth heavyweight titles and was a three-time European heavyweight champion. He was ranked among the world's top ten heavyweights in the 1970s, fighting such opponents as Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ron Lyle, Jimmy Ellis, Manuel Ramos, Chuck Wepner, Earnie Shavers, Henry Cooper, Brian London, Mac Foster, Rudie Lubbers, Eduardo Corletti, Jurgen Blin and George Johnson. Read Less Joe and his family fled to the United Kingdom in the late 1950s because of the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary in 1956 after the Hungarian Uprising of that year. … Read More They settled in the Cambridgeshire town of St Ives near the Fens, and so, as local custom dictated, he was known as a Fen Tiger. Read Less TEENAGE 1964 14 Years Old At school Bugner excelled in sports and was the national junior discus champion in 1964. … Read More He lived and trained in Bedford during his early boxing years; he was a regular at Bedford Boys Club under the training of Paul King and attended Goldington Road School in Bedford. Read Less Show Less Bugner had a short amateur career, fighting sixteen times and winning thirteen bouts. He turned professional in 1967 (at the unusually young age of seventeen) on the advice of his then trainer and friend Andy Smith. … Read More Smith was unhappy with the choice of Bugner's opponents and believed that he could better control the quality of his opponents if Bugner turned professional. Read Less He had a losing debut against Paul Brown on 20 December 1967 at the London Hilton, where he suffered a TKO in the third round. 1968 18 Years Old Showing gritty determination, after his debut the teenage Bugner went on to win a remarkable 18 consecutive fights in under two years during 1968 and 1969 (including 13 stoppage victories) before narrowly losing to the older and vastly more experienced Dick Hall. … Read More He bounced back and rounded off the 1960s with three further stoppage victories. Read Less TWENTIES 1970 20 Years Old In 1970 Bugner emerged internationally as an outstanding young prospect, and by the end of the year he was world-rated. … Read More He won nine consecutive bouts that year, including victories over well-known boxers such as Chuck Wepner, Manuel Ramos, Johnny Prescott, Brian London, Ray Patterson, Eduardo Corletti, Miguel Angel Paez, Alberto Lovell, Charley Polite and George Johnson.<br /><br /> Bugner was now positioned to challenge world-rated Englishman Henry Cooper, who had nearly knocked out Muhammad Ali a few years previously, for Cooper's British, British Commonwealth and European titles. However, because Bugner was still too young to fight for the British Commonwealth title (the minimum age was twenty-one years old at the time), this much anticipated bout had to be postponed until the next year. Read Less Show Less He fought for the world heavyweight championship in 1975, losing on points in a second bout with Ali. … Read More Bugner retired from boxing in 1976, but over the next two decades he made sporadic comebacks with varying success. He moved to Australia in 1986, adopting the nickname "Aussie Joe", beating fighters such as Greg Page, David Bey, Anders Eklund and James Tillis before retiring again after a TKO loss to Frank Bruno in 1987. Read Less Bugner challenged Muhammad Ali for the world championship in June 1975, the bout being held in Kuala Lumpur, with Ali winning a relatively one-sided fifteen-round decision. … Read More Bugner performed fairly well, but maintained a strictly defensive posture throughout most of this fight, perhaps due to the blistering tropical heat, and as a result he was widely scorned by the media and public. In an interview during an April 2008 reunion with Henry Cooper, Bugner defended his tactics in the Ali fight as having been necessary du |
In Rugby, what did Warrington add to their name in the 1990's? | History See Timeline page for a chronological list of events from Warrington's past. Veratinum, Woeringtun, Walintune, Werynton, Weryngton, Wherington, Werinton, Warington Don't panic Mister Mainwaring, my computer hasn't flipped! These are simply old variant spellings of Warrington. Warrington is an industrial town in the north west of England with a population of 202,228 (2011 Census, 191,084 in the 2001 Census). It is situated on the River Mersey mid-way between Liverpool and Manchester. Its historical setting is in the county of Lancashire, but administrative changes by the government in 1974 meant that Warrington came under Cheshire County Council. Warrington became a Unitary Authority on 1 April, 1998. But the boundaries themselves haven't changed. The town is still in Lancashire. So although I was born in Lancashire in the 1960s, and haven't moved out of town, my mailing address is now Cheshire! The name Warrington comes from the word "werid" meaning ford, "ford town", the town on the ford.* The Romans called their settlement at Wilderspool Veratinum when they moved to the area in about AD 79, although there is no absolute evidence for this name. They left in about AD 410. The Anglo-Saxons moved in after the Romans. The town is called WALINTUNE in the Domesday Survey of 1086. Mark Olly in his book, Celtic Warrington and Other Mysteries (Book 2) (Churnet Valley Books) says that Walintune is made up of three Old English words: WALH, WEALD OR WAL(L) - "Welshman, Briton, foreigner, serf or slave" IEG or EG - "Island, peninsula, dry area in a fen, well-watered land" TUNE or TUN - "enclosure, enclosed dwelling, farmstead, hamlet, village, estate and manor". But there are also other theories on the Warrington name. "Waer" is the personal name of a local ruler or chieftain, combined with "tun" a homestead or settlement. This then gives "Waerstun" or Waer's settlement. Another theory is based on the Anglo-Saxon word "Waering" meaning a weir or dam. "Waering" combined with "tun" gives us "Waeringtun", the settlement of the weirs on the river. But according to information I was given in connection with my show on www.radiowarrington.co.uk in 2012, there is another theory - connected to the Vikings. You can read more at http://wire-lect.blogspot.co.uk . In particular we have "Vǫrr-ing-tun" "Place to moor the boats". *Please note that I am no expert in language or word origins and present these theories for reference (and there may be others). Many people still hold Warrington as belonging to Lancashire - and as some say, you can take Warrington out of Lancashire if you like but you'll never take the Warrington-born Lancashire folk out of Warrington. And there's nothing to stop you putting Warrington, Lancashire on your return address, as long as you use the post code. A good website for keeping the original Lancashire intact is The Friends of Real Lancashire (www.forl.co.uk). Another website you might find useful on the subject is The Association of British Counties www.abcounties.co.uk . For a short period of time, the word 'Lancashire' was added to the sign above, but later removed. Photo taken December 2011. Having said all that, this website concentrates on events that happen within those extended 1974 boundary changes. The local press often feature stories about Daresbury and Lewis Carroll, but Daresbury is administered by Halton Council, not Warrington - and that is why Lewis Carroll is not featured in Warrington People , even though he often visited Walton Hall estate and the Greenall family. The same goes for Moore village: it is outside the boundary of Warrington, but Moore Nature Reserve is within it, and therefore featured in Warrington Green . If the boundaries ever changed again I will reflect those changes on this website. Warrington townsfolk are known as "Warringtonians". The first crossing point of the River Mersey was at Latchford, by way of a ford. See On The Waterfront for more. For centuries it was the only point west of Stretford, now in Greater Manchester, where a bridge could b |
What is the tallest existing mammal? | Giraffe Facts | What's the Tallest Animal in the World? What's the Tallest Animal in the World? By Live Science Staff | May 11, 2012 04:44pm ET MORE A giraffe ready for a close up. Credit: Robert Hooft; WikiCommons Giraffes are the tallest animals in the world. Males can grow up to 18 feet (5.5 meters) tall, females can reach 14 feet (4.3 meters) tall and their babies, called calves, are born six feet (1.8 meters) tall. Calves can grow up to an inch a day. Click here to learn more about giraffes. Editor's Recommendations Author Bio Live Science Staff, For the science geek in everyone, Live Science offers a fascinating window into the natural and technological world, delivering comprehensive and compelling news and analysis on everything from dinosaur discoveries, archaeological finds and amazing animals to health, innovation and wearable technology. We aim to empower and inspire our readers with the tools needed to understand the world and appreciate its everyday awe. Live Science Staff, on |
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Who did Bill Clinton beat when he stood for president first time round (1992)? | The 42nd US President - Bill Clinton Bill Clinton George W. Bush � William Jefferson Clinton is the forty-second President of the United States 1993-2001. At 46 he was the second youngest person elected to that office. Bill Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, as William Jefferson Blythe III. His father died in an auto accident before he was born, and when his mother remarried, Bill took on the last name of his stepfather. After high school, Clinton studied at Georgetown University in Washington, DC (1964-68). Winning a Rhodes scholarship in his senior year, he went on to Oxford University in England for two years. In 1970, he returned to the United States and won a scholarship to Yale Law School, where he supported himself with odd jobs and met Hillary Rodham. In 1975, they married. Clinton served briefly as a law professor on the faculty of the University of Arkansas. As a young man, Clinton had gained experience working on several political campaigns, including that of George McGovern, and in 1974, he made his first bid for office, running for a Congressional seat in the US House of Representatives. Clinton lost, but the race was so close that it helped him get the necessary acclaim to win the 1976 Attorney General's race. In this position he fought rate increases by public utilities, stood against the construction of a coal-burning power plant and, in general, promoted tougher laws to protect the environment and the rights of consumers. In 1978 he ran a successful bid for Governor of Arkansas, and at thirty-two, was the youngest Governor in Arkansas history. During this first term, Clinton alienated several important factions of Arkansas society. In attempt to upgrade Arkansas' roads, which ranked among the worst in the country, Clinton levied taxes on car owners. His opposition to the clear-cutting of trees lost him the support of the lumber and paper industries. He alienated the banking industry by penalizing those institutions that did not lend money to smaller businesses that would create jobs in their communities. In 1980 he was defeated for Governor by a former Democrat who had switched parties just so he could run against Clinton. In the following election, Clinton ran again, and this time was victorious. He was elected three more times. During his tenure as Governor of Arkansas, one of Clinton's priorities was education. The dropout rate fell and the number of young people from Arkansas who entered college began to rise. In 1991, Clinton announced his candidacy for President. He campaigned for a national health care system, a tax cut for the middle class, a reduction of the deficit, and a new welfare system. Although during the campaign he was confronted by questions about his character, he proved adept at reconciling the conservative and liberal wings of the Democratic Party. He chose Al Gore of Tennessee as his running mate. Together they defeated incumbent George Bush and third party candidate, Ross Perot in the election of 1992. It is considered to be the presence of the third Party candidate, Perot that allowed Clinton to win with forty-six percent of the popular vote, the third smallest percentage that ever put a man in the White House. In his first term, Clinton appointed more women and minorities to the cabinet and as heads of major governmental departments than had any previous President. One of Clinton's major campaign issues had been health care, and First Lady, Hillary Clinton, chaired the administration's task force that examined and proposed changes in the United States health care system. That effort was unsuccessful, but Clinton's first major piece of legislation, a family leave bill that forced companies with more than fifty workers to allow twelve weeks of unpaid leave a year to cope with family issues, such as childbirth and illness, scored a big hit with the public. During his campaign, Clinton had spoken of promoting equal rights for homosexuals. When the issue of gays in the military arose, Clinton was seen to waffle on this promise, compromising on a position that b |
Which snooker player was also known as the Hurricane? | Alex Higgins, snooker player, dies at 61 | Sport | The Guardian The Guardian Alex Higgins, snooker player, dies at 61 Two-time winner of the World Snooker Championship dies at home after long battle with throat cancer Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins, who died today, aged 61. Photograph: Adrian Murrell/Getty Images Saturday 24 July 2010 15.24 EDT First published on Saturday 24 July 2010 15.24 EDT This article is 6 years old Snooker's original "People's Champion", Alex "Hurricane" Higgins, has been found dead at his Belfast home. The ace of the green baize finally succumbed to the throat cancer that he had been battling for several years. With his open-necked shirt, long hair, cigarette in one hand and a strong drink in the other, Higgins overturned snooker's public image as a game played by old men in dickie bows. It is understood that he may been dead for several days before locals found his body by breaking into his flat after he failed to answer his mobile phone. Six-time champion Steve Davis described his former rival as one of the few geniuses around the table. "To people in the game he was a constant source of argument, he was a rebel," Davis said. "But to the wider public he was a breath of fresh air that drew them into the game. He was an inspiration to my generation." As to his own encounters with Higgins across the table, Davis said: "It was a love-hate relationship with Alex Higgins . The thrill of playing him was fantastic, but the crowd that came along were not your usual crowd. They were much more noisy and you had to play the crowd as well." Former snooker champion and commentator Dennis Taylor told the BBC: "I don't think you'll ever, ever see another player in the game of snooker like the great Alex Higgins." He had enjoyed some "terrific battles" against the Ulsterman, he said, adding: "He was a very, very exciting player to watch. He just was totally unique." Higgins claimed the world champion's crown at his first attempt, aged 22, and took it back again 10 years later from Ray Reardon at the Crucible in Sheffield. He will be best remembered for winning his second world championship in 1982 when, in tears, he invited his wife Lynn and baby daughter Lauren to join him by the baize with the trophy. A long battle with alcohol followed but despite his numerous fights and rows with referees over the years, he continued to play the game regularly and appeared at the Irish Professional Championship in 2005 and 2006. A heavy smoker, Higgins sucked his way through as many as 80 Marlboros a day until attempting to quit in 1996. He had cancerous growths removed from his mouth in 1994 and 1996 and was told in 1998 that he had throat cancer. He also struggled with drug addictions, and recently admitted that he had considered suicide. In his last interview, Higgins confessed that he had wanted to take his own life. "But I just haven't got the courage to kill myself. I read the Bible my mother gave me when I was 15 and told myself: 'You can fight.' I have been a fighter all my life. That's what stopped me going through with it." In recent months Higgins's health had been deteriorating sharply, and because he had no teeth left, he had been forced to eat baby food to stay alive. The 61-year-old former champion was living in poverty and his only income came from accepting paid challenges from amateur players in the pubs and clubs of Belfast. Higgins was divorced by two wives, Cara and Lynn, and was stopped from seeing his two children, Lauren and Jordan. The squalid end to his life contrasted with the heady days of the 1970s and 1980s. At the height of his fame, Higgins had a £4m fortune which he frittered away on drink, cocaine and gambling. Recently, he had tried to raise £20,000 for teeth implants. One of Higgins's last public appearances was in May at an event in Manchester. Onlookers were shocked at the sight of the Hurricane now reduced to a gaunt, six-stone shrunken figure who could only speak in whispers. |
Which of the seven dwarfs has the longest name? | Movie Review - - SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS - NYTimes.com SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS By Frank S. Nugent Published: January 14, 1938 Sheer fantasy, delightful, gay, and altogether captivating, touched the screen yesterday when Walt Disney's long-awaited feature-length cartoon of the Grimm fairy tale, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, had its local premiere at the Radio City Music Hall. Let your fears be quieted at once: Mr. Disney and his amazing technical crew have outdone themselves. The picture more than matches expectations. It is a classic, as important cinematically as The Birth of a Nation or the birth of Mickey Mouse. Nothing quite like it has been done before; and already we have grown impolite enough to clamor for an encore. Another helping, please! You can visualize it best if you imagine a child, with a wondrous, Puckish imagination, nodding over his favorite fairy tale and dreaming a dream in which his story would come true. He would see Snow White, victim of the wicked Queen's jealousy, dressed in rags, singing at her work quite unmindful of the Magic Mirror's warning to the Queen that the Princess, not she, was now the "fairest in the land." Then he would see Snow White's banishment from the castle, her fearful flight from the hobgoblins of the forest, her adoption by all the friendly little creatures of the wood, and her refuge at the home of the seven dwarfs. And then, if this child had a truly marvelous imaginationthe kind of impish imagination that Mr. Disney and his men possesshe might have seen the seven dwarfs as the picture sees them. There are Doc, who sputters and twists his words, and Happy, who is a rollicking little elf, and Grumpy, who is terribly grumpyat firstand Sleepy, who drowses, and Sneezy, who acts like a volcano with hay fever, and Bashful, who blushes to the roots of his long white beard, and Dopey. Dopey really deserves a sentence all by himself. No, we'll make it a paragraph, because Dopey is here to stay. Dopey is the youngest of the seven dwarfs. He is beardless, with a buttony nose, a wide mouth, beagle ears, cross-purpose eyes, and the most disarming, winning, helpless, puppy-dog expression that creature ever had. If we had to dissect him, we'd say he was one part little Benny of the comic strips, one part Worry-Wart of the same, and one part Pluto, of the Mickey Mouse Plutos. There may, too, be just a dash of Harpo Marx. But he's all Dopey, forever out of step in the dwarfs' processions, doomed to carry the red taillight when they go to their jewel mines, and speechless. As Doc explains, "He never tried to talk." So there they are, all seven of them, to protect the little Princess from her evil stepmother, the Queen, to dance and frolic and cavortwith the woodland creaturesin comic Disneyesque patterns, and ultimately to keep vigil at Snow White's glass-and-gold coffin until Prince Charming imprints "love's first kiss" upon her lips and so releases her from the sleeping death that claimed her after she ate the witch's poisoned apple. For this, you know, is partly the story of Sleeping Beauty. But no child, of course, could dream a dream like this. For Mr. Disney's humor has the simplicity of extreme sophistication. The little bluebird who overreaches itself and hits a flat note to the horror of its parents; the way the animals help Snow White clean house, with the squirrels using their tails as dusters, the swallows scalloping pies with their feet, the fawns licking the plates clean, the chipmunks twirling cobwebs about their tails and pulling free; or the ticklish tortoise when the rabbits use his ribbed underside as a scrubbing boardall these are beyond a youngster's imagination, but not beyond his delight. And technically it is superb. In some of the early sequences there may be an uncertainty of line, a jerkiness in the movements of the Princess; but it is corrected later and hand and lip movements assume an uncanny reality. The dwarfs and animals are flawless from the start. Chromatically, it is far and away the best Technicolor to date, achieving e |
What was Beethoven's first name? | Biography: Beethoven's life - Ludwig van Beethoven's website Beethoven's music teachers In 1782, before the age of 12, Beethoven published his first work, 9 Variations in C Minor for piano on a march by Earnst Christoph Dressler (WoO 63). The following year, in 1783, Neefe wrote in the Magazine of Music, about his student. “If he continues like this, he will be, without a doubt, the new Mozart.” In June 1784, on Neefe’s recommendations Ludwig Van Beethoven was appointed organist of the court of Maximillian Franz, the Elector of Cologne. Beethoven was 14 years old. This post enabled him to frequent new social circles, other than those of his father and family. Here he met people who were to remain his friends for the rest of his life: The Ries family, the Von Breuning family, and the charming Elenore, Karl Amenda—the violinist, Franz Gerhard Wegeler—a doctor, and a dear friend who also went to Vienna. At home, little by little, Ludwig replaced his father. First of all financially, because Johann, who was often under the influence of alcohol, was less and less capable of keeping up his role at the court. The young Beethoven felt responsible for his two younger brothers, an idea he kept for the rest of his life, sometimes to the extent of being excessive. Ludwig van Beethoven Music Prince Maximillian Franz was also aware of Beethoven's music and so he sent Beethoven to Vienna, in 1787, to meet Mozart and further his musical education. Vienna was, after all, the capital city in terms of culture and music. There exist only texts of disputable authenticity on the subject of this meeting between Mozart and Beethoven. Mozart is thought to have said “don’t forget his name – you will hear it spoken often!” A letter called Beethoven back to Bonn—his mother was dying. The only person in his family with whom he had developed a strong and loving relationship with, passed away on July 17th 1787. Five years later, in 1792, Ludwig Van Beethoven went back to Vienna, benefiting from another grant, for two years, by the Prince Elector, again to pursue his musical education. He never went back to the town of his birth. His friend Waldstein, wrote to him, “you shall receive Mozart’s spirit from Haydn’s hands…” At Vienna, the young musician took lessons with Haydyn, then with Albrechtsberger and Salieri. He captured the attention of, and astonished Vienna with his virtuosity and his improvisations on piano. In 1794, Beethoven composed Opus 1, the Trios for Piano . The following year, Ludwig Van Beethoven made his first public performance at Vienna (an “Academy”) where each musician played his own work. Then followed a tour: Prague, Dresden, Leipzig, and Berlin, before leaving for a concert in Budapest. listen to on this site Beethoven's works Beethoven made numerous acquaintances at Vienna. Everybody in the musical and aristocratic world admired the young composer. These music-lovers were Beethoven’s greatest supporters. He became angry regularly with one or another of them, often making honorable amends soon afterwards. His talent excused his excessive, impulsive behavior. In 1800, Beethoven organized a new concert at Vienna including, notably, the presentation of his first symphony. Although today we find this work classical, and close to the works of Mozart and Haydn, at the time certain listeners found the symphony strange, overly extravagant, and even risqué’. This genius, Beethoven, who was still a young, new composer, was already pushing the established boundaries of music. In 1801 Beethoven confessed to his friends at Bonn that he was afraid he was slowly going deaf. At Heiligenstadt in 1802 he wrote a famous text expressing his disgust at the unfairness of life: that he, a musician, could become deaf was something he did not want to live through. However, music made him carry on and he wrote that he knew that he still had many other musical domains to explore, discover, and to pass on. Beethoven did not commit suicide. Knowing that his handicap was getting worse and worse, he threw himself into his greate |
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In Morse Code, which letter is represented by a single dot? | International Morse Code International Morse Code For learning Morse code it is recommended that you do not try to remember dots and dashes, but remember the Morse code sounds instead. Letter CL, Going off the air ("clear") -.-..-.. DO, Change to wabun code -..--- KN, Invite a specific station to transmit -.--. SK, End of transmission (also VA) ...-.- I am ready to copy QRV? Are you ready to copy? QRL The frequency is in use QRL? Is the frequency in use? QTH What is your location? Notes If the duration of a dot is taken to be one unit then that of a dash is three units. The space between the components of one character is one unit, between characters is three units and between words seven units. To indicate that a mistake has been made and for the receiver to delete the last word, send ........ (eight dots). The prosigns are combinations of two letters sent together with no space in between. The other abbreviations and Q codes are sent with the normal spacing. I am a father and foster carer a principal research engineer at the IT Innovation Centre a Woodcraft Folk district coordinator a salsa teacher and in my spare time I write and maintain this web site © Copyright Stephen C. Phillips, 2015 |
Which city is also known as 'The Big Apple'? | Why Is New York City Called "The Big Apple"? This is by far the most frequently asked question—and the most hotly debated—to reach our New York History Hotline. There are actually several answers (nothing about New York City is simple, after all). All are explained below, with the last word going, appropriately enough, to SNYCH’s own Joe Zito, one of this burg’s finest purveyors of high-quality urban history. A veteran both of New York City’s inimitable press corps and its police department, Joe—happily for us—is able to provide authoritative first-hand testimony on this topic. Read on! Various accounts have traced the “Big Apple” expression to Depression-Era sidewalk apple vendors, a Harlem night club, and a popular 1930s dance known as the “Big Apple.” One fanciful version even linked the name with a notorious 19th- century procuress! In fact, it was the jazz musicians of the 1930s and ‘40s who put the phrase into more or less general circulation. If a jazzman circa 1940 told you he had a gig in the “Big Apple,” you knew he had an engagement to play in the most coveted venue of all, Manhattan, where the audience was the biggest, hippest, and most appreciative in the country. The older generation of jazzmen specifically credit Fletcher Henderson, one of the greatest of the early Big Band leaders and arrangers, with popularizing it, but such things are probably impossible to document. Be that as it may, the ultimate source actually was not the jazz world, but the racetrack. As Damon Runyon (among many others) cheerfully pointed out, New York in those days offered a betting man a lot of places to go broke. There were no fewer than four major tracks nearby, and it required no fewer than three racing journals to cover such a lively scene—The Daily Racing Form (which still survives on newsstands today) and The Running Horse and The New York Morning Telegraph (which do not)—and the ultimate credit for marrying New York to its durable catchphrase goes to columnist John J. FitzGerald, who wrote for the Telegraph for over 20 years. Joe Zito, who joined the paper as a young man some 70-plus years ago, recently reminisced about Jack Fitzgerald and his times. In FitzGerald’s honor (and due largely to the strenuous efforts of attorney-etymologist Barry Popick, who, like the columnist, immigrated to NYC from upstate New York) a street sign reading “Big Apple Corner” was installed at Broadway and West 54th Street in 1997, near the hotel where FitzGerald died in poverty in 1963—although a location near the old Telegraph office might arguably have been a happier spot for it. Despite its turf-related origins, by the 1930s and ’40s, the phrase had become firmly linked to the city’s jazz scene. “Big Apple” was the name both of a popular night club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem and a jitterbug-style group dance that originated in the South, became a huge phenomenon at Harlem’s great Savoy Ballroom and rapidly spread across the country. (Neat cultural footnote: the great African-American cinema pioneer Oscar Micheaux liked to use the Big Apple as a venue for occasional screenings of his latest feature film or documentary.) A film short called The Big Apple came out in 1938, with an all- Black cast featuring Herbert “Whitey” White’s Lindy Hoppers, Harlem’s top ballroom dancers in the Swing Era. In a book published the same year, bandleader Cab Calloway used the phrase "Big Apple" to mean "the big town, the main stem, Harlem." Anyone who loved the city would have readily agreed with Jack FitzGerald: “There's only one Big Apple. That's New York." The term had grown stale and was in fact generally forgotten by the 1970s. Then Charles Gillett, head of the New York Convention & Visitors Bureau, got the idea of reviving it. The agency was desperately trying to attract tourists to the town Mayor John Lindsay had dubbed “Fun City,” but which had become better-known for its blackouts, strikes, street crime and occasional riots. What could be a more wholesome symbol of renewal than a plump red apple? The city's industrial-strength “ |
The Olympic motto: 'Citius, Altius, Fortius' means what? | The Olympic Motto The Olympic Motto The Olympic motto is "Citius, Altius, Fortius." These three Latin words mean "Swifter, Higher, Stronger." Baron de Coubertin borrowed the motto from Father Henri Martin Dideon, the headmaster of Arcueil College in Paris. Father Dideon used the motto to describe the great achievements of the athletes at his school. Coubertin felt it could be used to describe the goals of great athletes all over the World. |
The Scottish Parliament banned which sport in 1457? | A History of Golf since 1497 part 1 A History of Golf since 1497 The Birth Of Golf Golf as we know it today originated from a game played on the eastern coast of Scotland in the Kingdom of Fife during the 15th century. Players would hit a pebble around a natural course of sand dunes, rabbit runs and tracks using a stick or primitive club. Some historians believe that Kolven from Holland and Chole from Belgium influenced the game. The latter was introduced into Scotland in 1421. However while these games and countless others are stick and ball games, they are missing that vital ingredient that is unique to golf - the hole. Whatever the argument, there can be no dispute that Scotland gave birth to the game we know as golf today. During the mid-15th century, Scotland was preparing to defend itself against an English invasion. The population's enthusiastic pursuit of golf and soccer to the neglect of military training (archery primarily) caused the Scottish parliament of King James II to ban both sports in 1457. The ban was reaffirmed in 1470 and 1491 although people largely ignored it. Only in 1502 with the Treaty of Glasgow was the ban lifted. Golf's status and popularity quickly spread throughout the 16th century due to it's royal endorsement. King Charles I popularised the game in England and Mary Queen of Scots, who was French, introduced the game to France while she studied there. Indeed the term 'caddie stems from the name given to her helpers who were the French Military, known in french as cadets. The premier golf course of the time was Leith near Edinburgh. Indeed King Charles I was on the course when given the news of the Irish rebellion of 1641. Leith was also the scene of the first international golf match in 1682 when the Duke of York and George Patterson playing for Scotland beat two English noblemen. |
What sport do pugilists' take part in? | Vargas event: SSCB pugilists feel short-changed - The Hindu Vargas event: SSCB pugilists feel short-changed July 04, 2016 03:31 IST Updated: July 04, 2016 03:31 IST Share Article July 04, 2016 03:31 IST Updated: July 04, 2016 03:31 IST more-in Boxers belonging to the Services Sports Control Board (SSCB) must be feeling helpless as the International Boxing Association (AIBA) has made public the draws of its Olympic qualification event for professional boxers, starting in Vargas, Venezuela, on Monday. The AIBA, which allowed all professional boxers last month to take part in the Olympics, slotted the event to provide a route to the pros from its own events (such as AIBA Pro Boxing and World Series of Boxing) and those competing in non-AIBA competitions to qualify for the Olympics. The event — which will offer three quota places in each category except 91kg and +91kg, from which only the gold medallists will bag Olympic spots — has received lukewarm response with 79 boxers making it to the draws for 26 quota places in 10 weight divisions. Two weights feature only six boxers, while six of them have seven each. Only two weights, 81kg (13) and +91kg (10), have invited pugilists in double digits. In contrast, the AIBA received huge response in previous qualification events including the continental competitions. For example, the Asia-Oceania event had 226 boxers for 36 quota places. Likewise, Africa (181/33), America (180/30), Europe (263/36) and the World qualifying event (375/39) were also crowded tournaments. The men and women’s World championships, which also served as qualifying events, expectedly witnessed bigger participation. Since the Venezuela competition, named APB/WSB Olympic qualification event, has fewer entries, the chances of participating boxers qualifying for the Olympics go up significantly. Even as India, which has gathered three Olympic spots in 56kg, 64kg and 75kg so far, has entered only three boxers — Gaurav Bidhuri (52kg), Neeraj Goyat (69kg) and Dilbag Singh (81kg) — for the Venezuela tournament, the Services pugilists, who are not allowed to participate in any professional event, can do nothing about it. “While boxers are not allowed to compete on the professional circuit, other sportspersons from the Services may participate in different professional leagues such as kabaddi, hockey and football,” Brig. (retd) P.K.M. Raja, heading a professional body, the Indian Boxing Council (IBC), told The Hindu. “Services has got some outstanding boxers and at least four to five of them could have qualified for the Olympics through the Venezuela event and made the country proud at the Rio Olympics,” said a disappointed Raja, a former Indian Amateur Boxing Federation secretary. |
Which is the lightest recognised boxing weight? | Weight divisions - BoxRec Weight divisions 5 History of the Weight Divisions Current Weight Divisions In January 2015, the World Boxing Council , World Boxing Association and the International Boxing Federation reached an agreement to standardize the names of the 17 weight categories. (The World Boxing Organization has yet to adopt these standard class names.) The currently-recognized weight divisions/classes for professional male boxers, listed in maximum allowable weight, as defined by these four major sanctioning bodies , are: Division/Class Pinweight: up to 101 pounds Light Flyweight: 106 Light Flyweight: up to 106 pounds Flyweight: 112 Super Heavyweight: over 201 Traditional Eight Divisions These are commonly known today as the "traditional divisions," which were basically the only weight classes throughout the early 20th Century, before the numerous "super," "junior" and "light" classes were added. Flyweight: 8 st (50,802 Kg / 112 lbs) Bantamweight: 8 st 6 lbs (53,525 kg / 118 lbs) Featherweight: 9 st (57,153 kg / 126 lbs) Lightweight: 9 st 9 lbs (61,235 kg / 135 lbs) Welterweight: 10½ st (66,678 kg / 147 lbs) Middleweight: 11 st 6 lbs (72,574 kg / 160 lbs) Light Heavyweight: 12½ st (79,378 kg / 175 lbs) Heavyweight: (unlimited) See also, 15 Feb 1909 Los Angeles Herald article re: necessity for revision to universal 8 divisions: [1] History of the Weight Divisions The 21 National Sporting Club ( NSC ) Rules- (1891-?) London-based private club amends 12 Queensberry Rules , modifying with new augment rules with nine specific criteria, such as designating role of officials; devised a system of scoring bouts; and enabled referee to determine who won. Major accomplishment transpired in 1909 ratification vote and 1910 implementation of 8 traditional weight classes: Heavyweight [176 lbs plus; at least 75.3 kg; over 12 stone, 7 lbs] Cruiserweight [175 lb maximum; 79.5 kg; or 12 stone, 7 pounds] later called "lighter heavyweight" by the English and "light heavyweight" by the Americans. Solidified under the New York State Athletic Commission and National Boxing Association as one division, with a uniform name. Middleweight [160 lbs maximum; 72.7 kg; or 11 stone, 4 pounds] Welterweight [147 lbs maximum; 66.8 kg; or 10 stone, 7 pounds] Lightweight [135lbs maximum; 61.4 kg; or 9 stone, 9 pounds] Featherweight [126lbs maximum; 57.3 kg; or 9 stone] Bantamweight [118lbs maximum; 53.6 kg; or 8 stone, 6 pounds] Flyweight [112lbs maximum; 50.9 kg; or 8 stone] NOTE: weight class key- one pound equals .45359237 kilograms one pound equals .0714285714 stone- sixteen ounces equals one pound, 14 stone and 6 kilograms. Olympic Boxing Classes & Weight Divisions: [American lbs, European kilograms, English stones] One pound (lb as unit of mass) is equal to 16 ounces (oz) One kilogram (also equal to 1,000 grams) is equal to 2.2 lbs One stone is equal to 14 pounds (with pounds rounding 5/8th) Super Heavyweight: [202lbs + above; 91.6 kg or 14 stone, 6 pounds] – (est. 1984-end 2004): legislation pending before International Olympic Congress , not subject to change by AIBA . Heavyweight: [179-201lbs*; 81.2 – 91.2 kg; 12 stone, 11 pounds – 14 stone, 5 pounds]– (est. 1904) Light Heavyweight: [166-178lbs; 75.3 – 80.7 kg; or 11 stone, 12 pounds – 12 stone, 10 pounds – (est. 1920) Middleweight: [157-165lbs; 71.2 – 74.8; or 11 stone, 3 pounds – 11 stone, 11 pounds] – (est. 1904) Light Middleweight: [148-156lbs; 67.1 – 70.8 kg; or 10 stone, 8 pounds – 11 stone, 2 pound] – (est. 1952) Welterweight: [140-147lbs; 63.5 – 66.7 kg; or 10 stone – 10 stone, 7 pounds] – (est. 1904) Light Welterweight: [133-139lbs; 60.3 – 63.0 kg; or 9 stone, 7 pounds – 9 stone, 13 pounds] – (est. 1952) Lightweight: [126-132lbs; 57.2 – 59.9 kg; or 9 stone – 9 stone, 6 pounds] – (est. 1904) Featherweight: [120-125lbs; 54.4 – 56.7 kg; or 8 stone, 8 pounds – 8 stone, 13 pounds] – (est. 1904) Bantamweight: [113-119lbs; 51.3 – 53.9 kg; or 8 stone, 1 pound – 8 stone, 7 pounds] – (est. 1904) Flyweight: [107-112lbs; 48.5 – 50.8 kg; or 7 stone, 9 pounds – 8 stone] – (est. 1904) Light Fly |
What animal is used to participate in 'The Sport of Kings'? | Animals in Entertainment | Learning to Give Search Resource Library Animals in Entertainment Animals have been and will continue to be used in entertainment, often to the detriment of the animals. While laws are helpful in banning and regulating certain practices, it is the demand for entertainment that will always keep the business flourishing. Jennifer Dragotta, MS Ed. Definition "Animals in Entertainment" refers to any animal(s) used to act, perform, fight and/or kill for the enjoyment of humans. The term encompasses many different forms of entertainment – from circuses to movies to bullfighting. Except for a few situations, most animals are taken out of their natural environment to perform acts not typically in their behavioral repertoire. Domestic animals who appear in films are an exception as many are able to stay in their natural habitat. Exotic animals used for entertainment, such as elephants, tigers, and dolphins, are taken from their respective habitats and may be starved, beaten or otherwise maltreated to become submissive to a trainer. Many of these animals are continually maltreated throughout their performance years in an effort to make them behave accordingly. Most of the training occurs privately, making it easy for many to deny that cruelty to animals exists in the entertainment field. However, if one looks closely during the circus, for example, it is apparent how these animals are treated - performers threaten tigers with a whip and often hit elephants with metal rung on their legs. Historic Roots It appears as though animals were used for entertainment purposes since ancient times. Archeological findings in Macedonia that date back to 2,000 B.C.E. (Library Index) reveal that lions were kept in cages for the benefit of humans. The Circus Maximus in Rome began in 2 B.C.E. and is one of the most well-known entertainment venues in history. Chariot races, which involved horses, were the most popular and often resulted in death to both human and horses. Another popular event involved lions and human gladiators fighting to the death. The stadium always reached its capacity of 270,000 spectators. Circuses today are just as popular. While they no longer include fights to the death, the inherent act of animals performing against their will and living in atypical conditions suggests cruelty. Dog fighting is assumed to have existed since the domestication of the species. (Wikipedia). Some dogs were bred and continue to be bred for this purpose. Dog fighting is often associated with the English, who reveled in this blood sport for hundreds of years. However, most cultures have practiced dog fighting throughout history. During the 12th century, dog fighting was very popular in Japan. This was a peaceful time in Japan’s history and dog fighting was encouraged to retain some aggression (Wikipedia). Today, dog fighting occurs in most countries, even with laws against the practice. Cockfighting, while not as popular as dog fighting, is still prevalent around the world. In the United States, cockfighting is illegal in all 50 states (not illegal in MS til 8/2008) . Cockfighting is considered to have cultural significance in many parts of the world and in Mexico, a famous concert hall is host to many fights. The history of cockfighting is recorded in ancient literature of the Tamil Nadu region of India, dating back 2,000 years (Wikipedia). Bull fighting is a legal blood sport in Spain, Portugal and Latin America and is enormously popular. Like dog fighting and cockfighting, bull fighting has strong historical significance. Killing a bull was considered part of a sacred ritual in Roman times. (Wikipedia)There is some opposition to bull fighting but the sport continues to be a popular attraction. The rodeo originated in Spain and Mexico in the sixteenth century yet it is often thought to be of American origin. Texas and Wyoming consider the rodeo their state sport yet it is widely practiced in many US states. While the rodeo is not a blood sport, there are numerous practices that inflict pain to the animals, including |
In the English 'Grand National' what is the maximum number of horses allowed to run? | Grand National Grand National Updated on January 11, 2017 The Grand National is held annually at the Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, arguably it is the biggest test of horse and jockey in the world. The grueling four and a half mile course has thirty fences, many measuring more than seven foot. with a field of forty runners the race is one of England's biggest sporting spectacle. Of the forty horses that start the race an average of just 30% will have the stamina to complete the course. On more than one occasion horses have been killed as they tackled the notorious fences. These deaths have led to animal rights campaigners calling for the race to be banned. The Grand National race is watched by over 500 million people worldwide on television, making it more popular than the NFL Super Bowl and Formula 1 car racing. The race is particulaly popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and the Far East. 2017 Grand National The schedule is set for the Grand National Horse Race, also known as the National, with the official race date of Saturday 8th April, 2017. The race is an annual event held near Liverpool, England at Aintree Racecourse. This year's field promises to be as strong and entertaining as ever. The three-day event begins on Thursday, 6th April, 2017, with Opening Day. The first day of the Aintree Festival features the The Aintree Hurdle and the Fox Hunters’ Steeple Chase. Several entertainment events are planned for the kickoff celebration Too. The festivities continue on Friday 7th April with Ladies Day, which is a traditional event that features fashion and style from the female attendants. Various goody bags and prize giveaways for the ladies are part of the plan during this year's festivities. The focus on the ladies is not the only order of the day, of course. Every day of the championship extravaganza is a race day, as the Melling Steeple Chase is the featured race of the day. This has been a highly challenged event in the past few years and should be the same this year. The Grand National Horse Race is finally run on Saturday 8th April and is the culmination of the week's schedule. The championship has a storied past among racehorse professionals and within the British culture. It is a specialized race industry that is native to the United Kingdom and enjoyed by everyone up to the Royal Family, who are not only big fans, but are horse owners themselves. The Grand National Horse Race is an historic event dating back officially to 1839, though there were predecessors to the first official race, and it has been an iconic representation of United Kingdom sports very similar to its professional golf tournaments. The Aintree Racecourse is one of the most difficult courses in the world and provides an excellent course to test the best of the steeple chase racehorse class. The energy infused by the local city of Liverpool, with a population of over 400,000 and a surrounding urban area of over 800,000, will make this year's championship a major success and well worth attending. Jockeys Jockey Falls During Steeple Chase Jockey A.P. McCoy falls during race Grand National History The Grand National is one of the oldest horse races in the world, it has been run each year since 1836 (Excluding the years during WW1 and WW2) the first winner of the race was a horse called 'The Duke'. The international appeal of the race has seen a number of foreign breed horses triumph, most notable Irish horses have been the most successful in recent years, in 1938 the American horse 'Battleship' won the race, it should be no surprise to find out Battleship's father was the awesome racehorse 'Man O'War'. It should be noted that French breed horses have the worst record in the race, just one winner in the last one hundred years. The race has also featured in a number of movies, the best known being the 1944 movie 'National Velvet' a fictional account of a young girl disguising herself as a male jockey to get a ride in the race, at that time women jockeys were not allowed to enter the National - the part was played by Liz Taylor, wh |
What is the name of the trophy given to the winner of the ladies singles at Wimbledon? | Trophies - The Championships, Wimbledon 2017 - Official Site by IBM Information about the five Championship trophies. READ MORE Gentlemen's Singles Championship Gentlemen's Singles Trophy first presented by the All England Club in 1887. It replaced the Field Cup (1877-1883) and the Challenge Cup (1884-1886) which were both won by William Renshaw after twice winning the gentlemen's title three times in succession. The AELTC spent 100 guineas to purchase a trophy as the Club was not prepared to risk losing a third Cup to a future three-times Champion so the decision was taken that the new trophy would never become the property of the winner. The Cup, which is made of silver gilt, stands 18 inches high and has a diameter of 7.5 inches. The inscription on the Cup reads: "The All England Lawn Tennis Club Single Handed Championship of the World". Around the bowl are engraved the dates and names of the Champions. In 2009, there being no space left to engrave the names of the Champions, a black plinth with an ornamented silver band was designed to accompany the Cup. The Champions receive a three-quarter size replica of the Cup bearing the names of all past Champions (height 13.5 inches). Ladies' Singles Championship The Ladies' Singles Trophy is a silver salver, sometimes referred to as the Rosewater Dish or Venus Rosewater Dish, which was first presented to the Champion when the challenge round was introduced in 1886. The salver, which is made of sterling silver, partly gilded, is 18.75 inches in diameter. The theme of the decoration is mythological. The central boss has a figure of Temperance, seated on a chest with a lamp in her right hand and a jug in her left, with various attributes such as a sickle, fork and caduceus around her. The four reserves on the boss of the dish each contain a classical god, together with elements. The reserves around the rim show Minerva presiding over the seven liberal arts: astrology, geometry, arithmetic, music, rhetoric, dialectic and grammar, each with relevant attribute. The rim of the salver has an ovolo moulding. The Champions receive a three-quarter size replica of the Cup bearing the names of all past Champions (height 14 inches). Doubles and Mixed Championships The Gentlemen's Doubles Trophy is a silver challenge cup for the Gentlemen's Pairs' competition. When the doubles moved to Wimbledon in 1884 the Oxford University Lawn Tennis Club presented the trophy to the All England Club. The Ladies' Doubles Trophy is an elegant silver cup and cover, known as The Duchess of Kent Challenge Cup, presented to the Club in 1949 by HRH The Princess Marina, President of the All England Club. The Mixed Doubles Trophy is a silver challenge cup and cover presented to the All England Club by the family of the late S.H. Smith. S.H. Smith won the doubles title in 1902 and 1906, in partnership with the late F.L. Riseley. The Championship trophies are displayed for several months of the year in the Museum. |
Where were the 2008 Olympic Games held? | Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics - results & video highlights Official Reports arrow Records tumble Beijing was the Games of records and superlatives. The Opening Ceremony was unforgettable; the athletes’ achievements were astonishing, the organisation was excellent; the venues breathtaking and the anti-doping tests were stricter. Several hundred million watched worldwide on TV as more than 40 world records and over 130 Olympic records were broken. Modern and ancient The National Stadium, nick-named the “Bird’s Nest”, and the National Swimming Centre, known as the “Water Cube”, were both stunning symbols of the new Beijing. In cycling, the road race followed the Great Wall and passed in front of the “Forbidden City” - two symbols of the thousand-year-old history of the city. First medals A record 204 National Olympic Committees took part in the Games. Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Mauritius and Togo all experienced podium finishes for the first time. However Mongolia and Panama managed to go one better with their athletes bringing home their country’s first Olympic gold. Memorable champions There were many memorable champions but it was Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt who stole the headlines. Phenomenal US swimmer Michael Phelps bettered Mark Spitz’s achievement at the 1972 Munich Games by claiming eight swimming golds and the incredible Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt broke both the 100m and 200m world records and claimed a third gold and record with the Jamaican 4 x 100m relay team. NOCs: 204 Athletes: 10,942 (4,637 women, 6,305 men) Events: 302 Volunteers: 100,000 (70,000 Olympic Games, 30,000 Paralympic Games) Media: 24,562 accredited media representing 159 countries New events at the Games: the 10km swimming marathon and BMX Dutchman Maarten Van Der Weijden won the men’s 10km marathon, while in the women’s race, the title went to Russia’s Larisa Ilchenko. In BMX – short for Bicycle Moto Cross – it was France’s Anne-Caroline Chausson who became the first Olympic champion. For the men, this honour went to Latvia’s Maris Strombergs. First Olympic medals and titles Two hundred and four National Olympic Committees (NOCs) took part in the Beijing Olympic Games - a record! Some 87 of them celebrated their medal-winning athletes. For some NOCs, it was the first time that one of their representatives had won a medal or was crowned Olympic champion: Tajikistan won its first medals thanks to Rasul Boqiev in the judo and Yusup Abdusalomov in the wrestling; Afghanistan stepped up on to the podium thanks to Rohullah Nikpai in taekwondo; Badar-Uugan Enkhbat in boxing and Tuvshinbayar Naidan in judo were the first athletes from Mongolia to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games; just like Bahrain with Rachid Ramzy in athletics. For the African continent, Bruno Julie in boxing and Benjamin Boukpeti in canoe/kayak offered Mauritius and Togo respectively their first Olympic medals, while Panama took its first gold medal in athletics. The oldest world record smashed in swimming The women’s 800m record had been held by Janet Evans (USA) for almost 20 years. But in Beijing, Great Britain’s Rebecca Adlington smashed this record, which had been set in 1989 when she was only six months old. In 2008, in the 800m final, Rebecca Adlington improved on the previous time by more than two seconds, with a new time of 8:14.10. She took the gold medal in the 800m and in the 400m, and became the first British gold medallist in women’s swimming since 1960. The oldest and the youngest participant in the Games In Beijing, almost 50 years separated the oldest from the youngest athlete: Japanese horse rider Hiroshi Hoketsu took part in his third Olympic Games at the age of 67, whilst Cameroon swimmer, Antoinette Joyce Guedia Mouafo participated in the Games for the first time at the tender age of 12. Age is not necessarily a disadvantage With his ninth participation in the Games and at the age of 61, Canada’s Ian Millar won his first medal in the team jumping event. At 33, and with her fifth participation in the Games, Germany’s Oxsana Chusovitina won the silver medal in |
How many singles titles did Billie Jean King win at Wimbledon? | ESPN.com: Billie Jean won for all women Billie Jean won for all women By Larry Schwartz Special to ESPN.com Billie Jean King won six Wimbledon singles championships and four U.S. Open titles. She was ranked No. 1 in the world five years. She defeated such magnificent players as Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert and Margaret Court. It isn't a reach to say that Billie Jean King has done the most for women in their fight for equality in sports. Yet of all her matches, the one that is remembered most is her victory against a 55-year-old man. History has recorded all King accomplished in furthering the cause of women's struggle for equality in the 1970s. She was instrumental in making it acceptable for American women to exert themselves in pursuits other than childbirth. She was the lightning rod in starting a professional women's tour. She started a women's sports magazine and a women's sports foundation. But what is remembered most about her is that she humbled Bobby Riggs. Let's get that match out of the way. Riggs, a 1939 Wimbledon champion turned hustler, had already massacred Court on Mother's Day 1973. So King, who previously had rejected Riggs' advances for a match, accepted his latest challenge. "I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn't win that match," she said. "It would ruin the women's tour and affect all women's self esteem." The "Battle of the Sexes" captured the imagination of the country, not just tennis enthusiasts. On Sept. 20, 1973 in Houston, she was carried out on the Astrodome court like Cleopatra, in a gold litter held aloft by four muscular men dressed as ancient slaves. Riggs was wheeled in on a rickshaw pulled by sexy models in tight outfits, "Bobby's Bosom Buddies." King, then 29, ran the con man ragged, winning 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a match the London Sunday Times called "the drop shot and volley heard around the world." "Most important perhaps for women everywhere, she convinced skeptics that a female athlete can survive pressure-filled situations and that men are as susceptible to nerves as women," Neil Amdur wrote in The New York Times. But King was much more than the woman who undressed the self-proclaimed "male chauvinist pig" before a worldwide television audience estimated at almost 50 million. Above all, even more significant than her winning 39 Grand Slam singles, doubles and mixed-doubles titles, she was a pioneer. "She has prominently affected the way 50 percent of society thinks and feels about itself in the vast area of physical exercise," Frank Deford wrote in Sports Illustrated. "Moreover, like (Arnold) Palmer, she has made a whole sports boom because of the singular force of her presence." Navratilova said, "She was a crusader fighting a battle for all of us. She was carrying the flag; it was all right to be a jock." ZONE POLL Previous poll results It was for King's crusading that Life magazine in 1990 named her one of the "100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century." Not sports figures, but Americans. She was the only female athlete on the list, and one of only four athletes (Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali were the others). She was born Billie Jean Moffitt on Nov. 22, 1943 in Long Beach, Calif., the daughter of a firefighter father and homemaker mother. Her younger brother Randy would become a major-league pitcher. She developed into a star softball shortstop before her parents decided that she should pursue a more "ladylike" sport and give up playing baseball and football. Her father suggested tennis, because it involved running and hitting a ball. "I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life," she said. Developing her game on the Long Beach public courts, the pudgy adolescent first gained international recognition as a 17-year-old in 1961 by winning with Karen Hantze the doubles championship at Wimbledon. It was the first of her 20 titles (10 doubles and four mixed to go with the six singles) on the hallowed English grass. In 1966, King (by now she had married law-student Larry King) won her first singles Wimbledon title and was ra |
At the 1968 Olympics, how many gold medals were won by Mark Spitz? | Mark SPITZ - Olympic Swimming | United States of America Mark SPITZ Olympic Games 1968 , 1972 Mark Spitz is one of the greatest swimmers of all time. He won seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Games. Prediction backfires American Mark Spitz had brashly predicted that he would win six gold medals at the 1968 Mexico City Games. Although he did take home two gold medals from the relays, he performed well below expectations in his individual races. He was third in the 100m freestyle, second in the 100m butterfly and last in the final of the 200m butterfly. Seven golds At the 1972 Munich Games, Spitz was determined to make up for his below-par performances four years earlier. He did not disappoint. Over a period of eight days, Mark Spitz entered seven events, won all seven and set a world record in every one. Long-lasting record Mark Spitz held the record for most gold medals won at a single Olympic Games for 36 years. It was finally broken by American phenomenon Michael Phelps who won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games. |
Who beat Goran Ivanisevic to win the 1992 Wimbledon men's Final? | Andre Agassi: how I beat Goran Ivanisevic to win Wimbledon 1992 - YouTube Andre Agassi: how I beat Goran Ivanisevic to win Wimbledon 1992 Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jul 6, 2012 Twenty years on from his epic victory over Goran Ivanisevic, Andre Agassi recalls the five sets that made him Wimbledon champion. Category |
In what year was Badminton played for the fist time in the Olympics? | Badminton - AOC Badminton Doubles Australia and Olympic Badminton In Australia, badminton was first played in 1900, and from then it became a popular pastime for church groups which played the game in church halls. The Australian Badminton Association was formed in 1935, one year after the formation of the International Badminton Federation. Anna Lao and Rhonda Cator were Australia’s first badminton representatives, in Barcelona 1992. Lao made it through to the quarter-finals in the women’s singles and, with Cator, finished in the same position in the women’s doubles. Australia has been represented at each Games since Barcelona. In London, Australia’s women’s doubles pairing of Renuga Veeran and Leanne Choo matched Lao and Cator’s result in the event as they bowed out in a close quarter final with Canada. |
How long did Brian Clough reign as manager at Leeds United? | The inside story of Brian Clough at Leeds | The Independent Football The inside story of Brian Clough at Leeds The Damned United, the movie dramatisation of Brian Clough's notorious 44-day tenure as manager of Leeds, is released this month. It's great entertainment – but the real story is even more thrilling, argues James Lawton Wednesday 11 March 2009 00:00 BST Click to follow The inside story of Brian Clough at Leeds 1/4 4/4 Getty To a younger generation, the mid-Seventies must seem like a bizarre age. There was the hugely popular television warbler Val Doonican parading each week in a new and gruesome piece of knitwear, and Edward Heath glowering at an upstart named Margaret Thatcher. There were power cuts and three-day working weeks. And in football, we had rioters pouring like lemmings through cities both at home and abroad, while the superstar players lived in what seem now to be inconceivably modest suburban semis, with equally inconceivably big hair and kipper ties. It was a bizarre enough time for those who can remember that decade in all its glory, let alone those coming to this era afresh, as many now will. But judging by the level of anticipation sparked by the film of The Damned United, which is released at the end of this month, it's an era easily as compelling as it is curious. The movie of David Peace's controversial novel which, published in 2006, tells a partly factual, partly fictionalised account of Brian Clough's catastrophic 44 days in charge of Leeds United in 1974, allows that age to live once again. Those who go to watch the film will see the cars, the hair, the wallpaper and the clothes in a way that no novel can possibly deliver. They will see, too, another masterful performance by Michael Sheen who, after taking on the role of Tony Blair in The Queen and David Frost in Frost/Nixon, turns in an uncanny performance as Clough. And they will get to relive the tale of Clough's brief reign at Leeds, without doubt one of the most dramatic of sporting tales. Yet the most fascinating facet of this film is that it provokes a whole series of intriguing questions. They spring from the line trodden between fact and fiction, a line that has prompted Nigel Clough, Brian's son, to publicly state that he won't be among the many thousands who will flock to see this sure-fire blockbuster. The bare bones of the story are surely familiar to anyone who will go along to see the film: Clough succeeds the legendary Don Revie as manager of Leeds, the most powerful club in British football; he tells the team to discard the many medals they have won, accusing them of gamesmanship and winning ugly; the team gets off to a disastrous string of results, leading ultimately to Clough leaving, just 44 days after he joined. For all the uncanny parallels of their journeys from the poor streets of Middlesbrough, including the pride that came when they played for England, Brian Clough and Don Revie did indeed become locked in a rivalry marked by contempt and, in the end, something that could not be distinguished from outright hatred. Thanks to the film and book, the animus burns on. These great football managers, who had nothing so much in common as the ferocity of their ambition, now have been exhumed. The Damned United will no doubt achieve a flood of rave reviews and box-office reward, but it will also delve into a drama which, in its current telling, is critically short of persuasive answers for those survivors who were most intimately involved. Could John Giles (by far Leeds' most influential player despite the fact that Revie had given the captaincy to his fiery but much less secure Scottish team-mate Billy Bremner) have been so ambitious for the managerial succession that he was a conspirator-in-chief hell-bent on destroying the new manager? Were the Leeds team, who had brilliantly annexed the first division title a few months earlier really no more than a gang of surly, nicotine-addicted, cheating recidivists who had been controlled not by a man of relentless achievement who had created the most powerful team in the l |
Who was England's football manager from 1994 to 1996? | England's Managers - Index England's Managers P 4 W 2 D 2 L 0 F 7: A 2 The Coaches/Managers BME Players Not until 1946 did the England national team have a manager or coach. From 1870, when England played their first match, a friendly not recognised as official, until the Second World War, the team was selected by International Select Committee functionaries, at first the F.A. Secretary and later the F.A.'s International Committee. Although most of the national teams of Continental Europe and South America had coaches from their beginnings, England's footballing establishment viewed coaching with suspicion in general and as unnecessary at this level in particular. The selected players simply showed up, took the pitch and played their own game. Match preparation, if there was time for it, was limited to training runs, conditioning exercises and perhaps a kickabout or two. The International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS), a scholarly enterprise based in Wiesbaden, Germany, claims in its book on England's matches before the Second World War that Herbert Chapman was the team "trainer"--a term it uses in the Continental European sense of manager or coach--for the 1-1 draw with Italy in Rome on 13 May 1933 and that Thomas Whittaker was the "trainer" for six matches, the 5-2 win against Scotland at Wembley Stadium on 5 April 1930, the 2-1 loss to Austria in Vienna on 6 May 1936, the 3-2 loss to Belgium in Brussels on 9 May 1936, and the last three pre-war matches in 1939, the 2-2 draw with Italy in Milan on 13 May, the 2-1 loss to Yugoslavia in Belgrade on 18 May, and the 2-0 victory over Romania in Bucharest on 24 May. IFFHS, England (1872 - 1940), Eire (1924 - 1940), England/Amateurs (1906 - 1940): Full Internationals, pp. 116, 126, 134-35, 147-49 (IFFHS, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2000). Chapman, the famed Huddersfield Town and Arsenal manager of the 1920's and 1930's, did indeed play an advisory role in England's two-match Continental European tour of 1933, which also included the 4-0 win against Switzerland in Berne on 20 May as well as the draw with Italy a week earlier, but he never received an official appointment with the England team and acted in an entirely informal capacity. Another historian has the proper perspective: "in 1933, despite objections from selectors, he acted as unofficial manager to the England team in Italy and Switzerland with considerable success. His tactical pre-match team talks helped effect a 4-0 victory over a strong Swiss team, and a 1-1 draw against Italy, in Rome." Tony Say, "Herbert Chapman: Football Revolutionary?", The Sports Historian, vol 16, pp. 81-98 (May, 1996). Whittaker, too, accompanied the England team on occasion. But at the time he was the physical trainer for Arsenal, under Chapman at first and, following Chapman's death in early 1934, George Allison. It was almost certainly that role he filled with England; he certainly never received an appointment making him coach or manager of the England team. Whittaker did not become a manager himself until 1947, when he succeeded Allison at Arsenal. The IFFHS itself seems uncertain about Whittaker's role. While its book names him as trainer in the summaries of six matches taking place in 1930, 1936 and 1939, it inconsistently has him as trainer for only the three 1939 matches in the tabular record that follows the match summaries. The role Chapman or Whittaker filled with the England team was purely on an ad hoc basis. The F.A. did not give either of them official appointments putting them in charge of the team, and neither ever had anything resembling the authority of a manager or coach over the England team. For these reasons, it would be inaccurate to include them in the list of England managers/coaches. When international play resumed in 1946 following World War II's seven-year disruption, Walter Winterbottom was named England's first coach and manager. For the first few months of his tenure, he had responsibility for the national team as national director of coaching, but in May, 1947, imme |
Which motor manufacturer made the model called Dyane? | Car History 4U - History of French Motor Car / Automobile Manufacturers History of French Motor Car / Automobile Manufacturers 8.5 France 8.5.1. Bugatti Ettore Bugatti (Italian) designed a number of vehicles, starting with the Type 1 in 1898, before starting the Bugatti company in Molsheim (then in Germany, now in France) on 1 January 1910. From 1902 to 1904 he designed the Types 3,4, 6 and 7 models under the dual name of Dietrich-Bugatti, producing about 100 of the Types 3 & 4. In 1910 he introduced the Type 13 racing car, producing three other racing models prior to the start of World War 1 in 1914. The 5,027 cc Type 18 “Garros” that was produced from 1912 to 1914 was Buggatti's first passenger car. Only about 6 were made. Between 1922 and 1940 the company produced about 14 different racing car models and approx. the same number of passenger car models. The highly successful Type 35/35B racing cars were produced from about 1926 to 1928 and 45 of these cars, that were capable of 125 mph (200 kph), were made. Note: A 35B Bugatti racing car won the first Monaco Grand Prix in 1929. The 1940 Type 57SC was the last car manufactured by Bugatti before he died in 1947. During World War 2 he designed the Type 73 passenger car and Type 73C racing car, but these did not go into production. The company went into decline in the late 1930s and after unsuccessful attempts to revive the company in the 1950s and 1960s it was sold. In 1987 a new company called Bugatti Automobili SpA was formed in Italy, producing the 3,499 cc Bugatti EB110 in 1991. This company ceased trading in 1995. In 1998 Volkswagen bought the rights to produce cars under the Bugatti name, founding Bugatti Automobiles SAS in 2002. In early 2006 the company started delivery of the 7,993 cc Bugatti Veyron 16.4, producing about 300 that year. The car has a top speed of 252 mph (407.5 kph). Between 1910 and 2006 just under 8,000 Bugatti cars were made. 8.5.2. Citroën Citroën was founded in 1919 by Andre Citroën and by June that year it had started to produce its first car; the 1,327 cc Type A. In 1919 the company produced 2,810 vehicles. A decade later annual production had increased to 102,891. Citroën became bankrupt in 1934 and was taken over by the Michelin Tire Company. In 1934 Citroën introduced the 1,303 cc Traction Avant, the world’s first mass produced front wheel drive car. When production of the Traction Avant ceased in 1957 approx. 760,000 had been built. During the 1930s Citroën decided to develop a small car, which became known as the TPV (Très Petite Voiture). By 1939 it was ready to start production. With the start of World War 2 in 1939 production of the TPV was put on hold and many of the prototypes were either hidden or distroyed. During World War 2 Citroën’s annual vehicle production dropped from 69,575 in 1939 to only 2,318 in 1944. Production of the TPV, also called the 2CV, started in 1948. When production finally ceased in 1990 over 3.8 million had been made, making the car the company’s top selling model. The DS model was introducted in 1955, the first production car equipped with disk brakes and self-levelling suspension. Nearly 1.5 million were produced between 1955 and 1974. In 1963 Citroën took over the French car maker Panhard and in 1968 the Italian car maker Maserati. Between 1970 and 1975, when Maserati was sold to DeTomaso, nearly 13,000 Citroën Masserati SM models had been produced. In 1974 Citroën went bankrupt. This led to the merger with Peugeot, forming “PSA Peugeot Citroën” in 1975. Other Citroën models produced between 1960 and 1990 include the Ami 6 and 8, the Dyane, ID, GS and CX. In 1999 Citroën's annual vehicle production exceeded 1 million for the first time. Models produced in 2007 include the C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6 and C8 range, the Berlingo and Xsara Picasso. 8.5.3. Peugeot Peugeot built its first steam powered car in 1889, producing a petrol powered car the following year. See Part 1, The Early History, Sections 3.3 , 6.3 and 7.3 . From 1904 to 1910 Peugeot produced at least 53 car types, ranging from the Type 57 to |
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