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What is name of the fibrous tissue that connects bones to other bones? | Ligaments - National Library of Medicine - PubMed Health Parts of a joint and ligaments National Institutes of Health About Joints The point at which two or more bones are connected is called a joint . In all joints , the bones are kept from grinding against each other by a lining called cartilage . Bones are joined to bones by strong, elastic bands of tissue called ligaments. Muscles are connected to bones by tough cords of tissue called tendons . Muscles pull on tendons to move joints. Although muscles are not technically part of a joint, they're important because strong muscles help support and protect joints. NIH - National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Terms to know Tough, fibrous, cord-like tissue that connects muscle to bone or another structure, such as an eyeball. Tendons help the bone or structure to move. Share on Facebook |
What noted magician, who has offered $1 million to anyone who could prove they had psychic powers, made a similar offer this week to any manufacturer who could prove that their homeopathic drugs worked as advertised? | Chiropractic as useless as Scientology - Google Groups Chiropractic as useless as Scientology Showing 1-260 of 260 messages The Last Liberal / ShyDavid / Desertphile 1/17/05 5:06 PM Doctors, Others Deride Chiropractic School Associated Press, via Sun-Sentinelcom, Jan. 16, 2005 Brent Kallestad, Associated Press Writer TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- Some Florida State University professors have been circulating a parody map showing the campus of the future, with a new Bigfoot Institute, a School of Astrology and a Crop Circle Simulation Laboratory. It's a not-so-subtle jab in a growing debate over a proposal to build a chiropractic college on this campus -- the first such school at a public university in the United States. More than 500 professors, including the university's two Nobel laureates, have signed a petition opposing the school and a handful have even threatened to resign rather than teach alongside what they consider a "pseudoscience." The dispute -- the biggest academic furor in recent memory at Florida State -- is heading to a showdown decision later this month, pitting FSU faculty and doctors against chiropractors and powerful lawmakers who pushed the $9 million (euro7 million) proposal through the Legislature. T.K. Wetherell, the normally blunt president of Florida State, has been unusually reticent on the chiropractic flap, deferring to his provost. "There's a small number of faculty who would like it to happen, there is another group of faculty who would like it to die as painful a death as possible, and then there's another group that has a lot of concerns that they would like answered before anything else happens," provost Larry Abele said. Supporters of the school, which would add 100 faculty members, say the affiliation with a major university would quickly make it the nation's premier program and a magnet for federal grants in alternative medicine. But the parody map sums up the views of many faculty -- and physicians. They worry that chiropractic isn't based on real science and that such a program could hurt the university's academic reputation. Last week, the faculty committee that oversees curriculum voted 22-0 to stop the proposed chiropractic program until it at least had a say-so in the decision. "There's no demonstrated need. We have more chiropractors than any other state except California and New York," said Ray Bellamy, a local orthopedic surgeon and associate at the medical school. For now, the 38,000 students at Florida State have largely stayed on the sidelines in the debate, although a few exercise physiology majors have spoken out in support of the school. For chiropractors, the issue is bigger than just the fight at Florida State. It's part of an ongoing battle to win respect and credibility in the medical community for their profession. A chiropractic school at FSU would supply a long sought affiliation with an established university and a major boost. Chiropractic, which focuses on manipulating the spine to lessen back pain and improve overall health, has won wider acceptance over the years; it's now covered by most health insurance plans. But in the 110 years since the profession was created, the established medical community has largely boycotted it -- challenging its scientific validity in courts and legislative bodies. In 1990, the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals found the American Medical Association guilty of conspiracy to destroy the profession. "Chiropractic falls under the same umbrella as any number of therapies including homeopathy, naturopathy, meditation, prayer," said Dr. Bill Kinsinger, an Oklahoma anesthesiologist and longtime critic of chiropractors who is working with Florida doctors to block the new school. "There's no more evidence for chiropractic than there is for any of these other therapies." The Florida Chiropractic Association says it's unfair for opponents to try to deny them the opportunity to create the school. "On the one hand, they say there is no science behind what we do," said John Van Tassel, a Tallahassee chiropractor who tends to Florida State's footba |
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What is the name of the card dispensing box used in casino Blackjack? | Patent US4659082 - Monte verde playing card dispenser - Google Patents Monte verde playing card dispenser US 4659082 A Abstract A Monte Verde card dispenser of shoe is provided that simulates a card shoe containing a playing card deck or near infinite length. The card dispenser includes a rotary carousel containing a plurality of card carrying compartments around the periphery thereof. The cards area injected with the carousel from the input hopper and ejected from the carousel into an output hopper for use by the dealer. Images(5) Claims(13) What is claimed is: 1. A playing card dispenser comprising in combination: a rotatably mounted storage means having a plurality of compartments for holding said playing cards, first means for inserting discards into selected ones of said compartments, second means for extracting cards to be dealt from said selected compartments, and electronic logic means for randomly controlling one of said first and second means so that said playing cards are effectively being shuffled continuously by the random insertion or extraction from said storage means. 2. A dispenser in accordance with claim 1 wherein said storage means rotates in a substantially horizontal plane. 3. A dispenser in accordance with claim 2 that further includes a stepping motor that rotates said storage means a random number of steps each time a card is withdrawn and a random number of steps each time a card is inserted into said storage means. 4. A dispenser in accordance with claim 3 that further includes an input hopper for holding discards and an output hopper for holding an inventory of cards to be played. 5. A dispenser in accordance with claim 4 wherein said first means inserts a discard randomly from said input hopper into an empty compartment. 6. A dispenser in accordance with claim 4 wherein said second means ejects an unplayed card from a filled compartment randomly into said output hopper. 7. A dispenser in accordance with claim 5 wherein said first means includes a sensor for detecting the absence of a card in individual compartments and a first random number generator for selecting in a substantially random manner an empty compartment into which a card is inserted. 8. A dispenser in accordance with claim 7 wherein said first random number generator determines in a substantially random manner whether a card should be inserted into an empty compartment. 9. A dispenser in accordance with claim 6 wherein said second means include a sensor for detecting the removal of cards from said output hopper and a second random number generator for selecting in a substantially random manner a card filled compartment from which a card is ejected into said output hopper. 10. A dispenser in accordance with claim 9 wherein said second random number generator steps said stepping motor a random number of steps to select a compartment from which a card is ejected. 11. A playing card dispenser comprising in combination: a rotatably mounted storage means having a plurality of compartments for holding said cards, first means for randomly inserting discards into selected ones of said compartments, and second means for randomly extracting cards to be dealt from said selected compartments, whereby said playing cards are effectively being continuously shuffled. 12. A dispenser in accordance with claim 11 further including means for randomly controlling one of said first and second means. 13. A playing card shuffling apparatus comprising movably mounted storage means having a plurality of compartments for holding playing cards, and card supply means for inserting cards to be shuffled into selected said compartments and for extracting from selected said compartments cards to be dealt as said compartments are brought into registration therewith upon movement of said storage means. Description BACKGROUND OF INVENTION This invention relates to a playing card dispenser and more particularly to a playing card dispenser of the type that is herein designated to be a Monte Verde type. A Monte Verde card dispenser or shoe is one that provides a conti |
The Voyage of the Beagle was the 1839 book by what British naturalist, detailing his 5 year voyage aboard the HMS Beagle? | AboutDarwin.com - Beagle Voyage Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty Early H.M.S. Beagle history About the second Beagle Survey The search for a Naturalist Charles Darwin receives a letter Preparing for the adventure of a lifetime How did Charles Darwin end up setting out on a voyage of discovery around the world aboard H.M.S. Beagle? Most descriptions of this turn of events start out with Capt. Robert FitzRoy seeking a naturalist to accompany him on the voyage in the early summer of 1831, but the story actually begins much earlier than this - to a time before Charles Darwin was even born. The emergence of Britain as the uncontested ruler of the seas after the Napoleonic Wars is where our story begins. With this in mind, we turn back to the year 1805, four years before Charles Darwin was born. Ever since the French Revolution of 1789, the nations of Europe had been maneuvering to reestablish the balance of power throughout the continent. German and Austrian forces were invading France on and off since 1795 and Great Britain had maintained economic pressure on France by establishing a trade blockade. France made inroads into northern Italy and Egypt near the turn of the century, but their gains were soon lost. This series of events lead us to October of 1805. The naval fleets of France and Spain tried to gain control of the English Channel in order to facilitate Napoleon's invasion of Britain. The British Navy responded to this threat by sending a fleet of warships under the command of Admiral Horatio Nelson to confront the French and Spanish fleets off the coast of Spain. On 20 October the French fleet tried to maneuver to the south, but Nelson caught them off Cape Trafalgar the next day. One of the largest battles in naval history ensued, with Admiral Nelson's fleet of 27 ships going against a fleet of 33 ships (18 French and 15 Spanish). In the end, the French and Spanish fleets were crushed. About 1,500 British seamen were killed or wounded, but not a single British warship was lost. The defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar ended Napoleon's plans to invade England, and the Napoleonic Wars came to a close ten years later at the Battle of Waterloo where the French Army was routed by Anglo-German forces. France surrendered soon after, and Napoleon was exiled to the island of St. Helena where he died in 1821. At the close of the Napoleonic Wars Britain found itself as the only nation with a navy large enough to police the seas, and the focus of the British Navy turned from making war, to making trade safe for their growing empire. This was accomplished in three ways: suppressing piracy, discouraging the slave trade, and charting the oceans. The most important of these was the production of accurate charts and maps of the coastlines and harbors of countries around the world. Capt. Thomas Hurd (Hydrographer of the Navy, 1808-23) outlined those regions of the world that required the most attention, and South America was near the top of his list. The Spanish colonies in South America, having just won their independence from Spain and Portuga |
Featuring the Oscar winning song When You Wish Upon A Star, what 1940 Disney movie release was the second full length animated movie, following Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? | Film History Milestones - 1940 Event and Significance 1940 Disney released its animated feature film masterpiece Pinocchio (1940) - one of the best examples of the studio's animation talent. This was Disney's second feature-length animated film, following after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) . It. won two Oscars, one for Best Score and one for Best Song ("When You Wish Upon a Star"). 1940 Disney's groundbreaking Fantasia (1940) , an outgrowth of the "Silly Symphony" series, was comprised of classical music pieces and matching animation. It introduced a "Fantasound" 'stereo-like', multi-channel soundtrack (an optical 'surround-sound' soundtrack printed on a separate 35mm reel from the actual video portion of the film). It cost about four times more than an average live-action picture. The film received a special certificate at the 1941 Academy Awards for its revolutionary Fantasound (early stereo). 1940 The first of the seven Bob Hope-Bing Crosby/Dorothy Lamour "Road" films (spanning 1940-1962) was released: Paramount's Road to Singapore (1940). The original pairing was to be with Jack Oakey and Fred MacMurray, in a film called Road to Mandalay. 1940 "King of the Cowboys" Tom Mix, the first major western film star, died at the age of 60, in a freakish car accident in Arizona. Traveling at a high speed, he suddenly braked to avoid a construction zone and his car rolled over - he was instantly killed by a large aluminum suitcase (placed behind him) that struck him in the head. 1940 In the sixth (and final) film in the Mr. Wong series from Monogram Pictures, Phantom of Chinatown (1940), Chinese-American actor Keye Luke took the role of the title character. This marked the first time an American film featured an Asian character as a lead Asian detective. In the previous five films in the series, Boris Karloff played the title character. 1940 Vaudeville and radio stars Abbott and Costello made their big-screen film debut in One Night in the Tropics (1940). However, the two comics were not the major stars of the film, but just minor contract players (they reprised some of their famous stage acts, including a rudimentary "Who's on First"). Their overwhelming popularity as a result of the film led to their own feature film with top billing in the following year - Buck Privates (1941). 1940 The musical Down Argentine Way (1940) featured the first starring role for Betty Grable. It also featured Don Ameche and Carmen Miranda in her US film debut. 1940 The first agents began to assemble creative talent and stories in exchange for a percentage of the film's profits. 1940 Universal's 13-episode serial The Green Hornet (1940) starred Gordon Jones as the crusading, masked crime-fighting super-hero and billionaire vigilante (Britt Reid, aka Green Hornet, a modern-day 'Robin Hood') accompanied by his martial arts sidekick Kato. 1940 Alfred Hitchcock's first American film, Rebecca (1940) , won Best Picture at the awards ceremony in 1941. It competed against another Hitchcock film, his second American film - Foreign Correspondent . 1940 After the conclusion of the filming of Foreign Correspondent (1940) in late May 1940, and before the film's release, Hitchcock learned of the anticipated bombing of London (the Luftwaffe's blitzkrieg), so a new final scene was written (by Ben Hecht) and reshot. It was the propagandistic scene in a London radio station where Joel McCrea appealed to the US: "Hello, America! Hang on to your lights. They're the only lights left in the world." 1940 John Ford directed The Grapes of Wrath (1940) , his most famous black and white epic drama - the classic adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1940 Pulitzer Prize-winning, widely-read 1939 novel. This film was the most popular left-leaning, socialistic-themed film of pre-World War II Hollywood. 1940 Actor/director/producer/w |
What action figure, the first to be marketed to boys, was modified in 1974 with the addition of "kung fu grip"? | Adventure Team | Joepedia | Fandom powered by Wikia [ show ] History The Adventure Team was introduced in 1970 as an answer to the anti-war sentiment toward Hasbro's military G.I. Joe . In 1968 sales had dropped drastically and the 1969 year introduced the "Adventures of GI Joe" series. The "Adventures of..." series stopped the downward slide and Hasbro saw a way to bring the G.I. Joe line back to the forefront. To further the break from his military past, flocked hair and beards were introduced in 1970 and the Adventure Team was born. Gone were the military dogtags, to be replaced by a round plastic tag with the Adventure Team logo. The new logo bore a strong resemblance to a peace symbol, a fact not lost on Hasbro. By 1971 the Adventure Team was a smash hit and 1972 became the biggest sales year in the history of the line. Featuring box art of the five primary members of the team, the back of the box was a quick way to introduce kids to the new team. Failing to make the cut at the time was the astronaut, who along with all of the space sets would disappear before the second series of Adventure Team toys. Evolving from the military theme that had inspired the original '60s G.I. Joe action figure and the initial "Adventures of..." releases of 1969, these figures and sets were usually dressed for adventures in the jungles, deserts, mountains, and oceans. The adversaries were ecological disasters, rather than human beings. A shift in sensibilities among parents in the US, notably caused by the Vietnam War , caused this shift from action toys to more politically sensitive ones. The "lifelike hair" flocking techniques developed by Habsro's UK licensee, Palitoy, allowed for a significant shift in identity for the toyline. Nearly every set dealt with exploring exotic locations or accomplishing dangerous environmentally sensitive missions. The Adventure Team era of G.I. Joe also featured such landmarks of action figure history as the Kung Fu Grip ; the flocked hair and bearded figures; the figures with movable Eagle-Eyes; and the transparent "bionic" limbs ( Mike Power, Atomic Man ). The initial Adventure Team figures consisted of Talking Adventure Team Commander, Land Adventurer, Sea Adventurer, Air Adventurer, Adventurer (African-American), Man of Action, Talking Astronaut, Talking Man of Action, and Talking Adventure Team Commander (African-American). The second series of figures were re-releases of the first nine figures which now included the "Kung Fu Grip". Later figures included Mike Power, Atomic Man, and Bulletman, which were released in order to compete with the popular Six Million Dollar Man figures and Mego's line of superhero figures released at the time. Characters "Mission accomplished. Good work men!" Body Types Over the course of the adventurer production run, there were four main body variations best identified as: Hard Hand; Kung Fu grip; Muscle Body; and Muscle Body Eagle Eye. All are "Fuzz-heads". There were Talker variations of each type. Early bodies had the trademark on the right buttock (as with the Canadian version), and were assigned patent #3,277,602 . The later bodies were marked "© 1975 Hasbro Pat Pend Pawt. R.I." or "© 1975 Hasbro Ind Inc Pawtucket. R.I. 02861 Pat Pend Made In Hong Kong." This body style was redesigned by Alfred A. Crabtree, Brian S. Prodger and Hubert P. O'Connor, who applied for the patent in January of 1976; it was assigned patent #3,988,855 , "Posable figure having one piece connector for torso, trunk and legs" on Nov 2, 1976. Kung Fu grip hands were made of a rubber prone to deterioration (being even thinner than the early Action Man variety), and often the hands are discolored, and the fingers will have broken off. These hands were a variation on the design by (Bill) William A.G. Pugh, of Hasbro's U.K. licensee, Palitoy, which was assigned a U.S. patent # 3,955,312 "Gripping Hand For Dolls" on May 11, 1976. Muscle Bodies relied on a rubber for all body joints, instead of elastic, and it is rare at this point to find original bodies that have not fallen apart due to rubber de |
An extreme diplomatic measure, what is the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country, in order to isolate it, called? | ch 2 at O'Fallon Township High School - StudyBlue StudyBlue Formal contacts between national governments Advertisement ) accepting the right of another country to represent its people Recalling Diplomats an extreme measure to display disapproval of a country's actions Expelling Diplomats A country removes the ambassadors of another country from their Diplomatic immunity Diplomatic Immunity Diplomats and their families can not be arrested of tried for a crime in the host country Treaties Formalizing nagotions and solutions in writing Bilateral, multilateral Handling of international traffic, regulation of nuclear tests Summits Meetings between heads of state Establishing trade relations Can be used to show approval or disapproval of a nations sanctions Ex: 2004 - Bush lifted trade sanctions against lidya for ending its nuclear testing Restrictions from trade Use of trade restrictions to protect a domestic market from foreign... Tariffs set the limits on the amount of goods that can be imported Advertisement Used to gain access to another country's markets can reduce or eliminate trade barriers or stimulate trade in new goods and services GATT General agreement on tariffs and trade GATT Established by the last GATT agreement Manages international trade relations Ex: cash grants or loans, foo, agricultural equipment, technological assistance Humanitarian Aid Given to help countries survive civil war, famine, or devastating natural disasters Military Aid Grants for developing a stronger defence Alliance Multilateral agreements among nations to protect each other in case of an attack by adversary Multinational organizations Provide a form for addressing problems that affect all nation They act as players in the international arena themselves International organizations Comprised or any state that wishes to join The U.N. is the most prominent Allows all nations, regardless of size, to express there views Others: World health organization, International Monetary Fund, World Bank Regional organizations Operate like a IO, but members are located in one part of the world Ex: organization of oil producing states (OPEC), Organization Of American States OAS, European Union (EU) Boycotts Decision to abstain from buying certain goods to try to force a nation to change its policies Military Force Use when everything else fails Don't just jump straight to war Show of strength Nations maintain powerful armies to show that they're prepared to defend themselves The nation might deploy troops to "hot spots" to keep an eye on things Limited Military Response Short-term military actions designed to force another nation to back down in a dispute 1998 - Several American Embassies are bombed throughout Africa Operation Infinite Reach no one is out of the reach of our bombs The making of US foreign policy Domestic issues commander in chief of all US military forces Can send troops to battle before congress has made an official declaration Only the president can order a nuclear attack Make treaties and other national agreements executive agreements international accords that do not require senate aproval Presidential decision making help the potus sort through competing demands and advice The Cabinet Supervises the operations of the US military and advises the president Bureaucracy agencies to help government run smoothly Most important for IR is the foreign service diplomat - corps of professional diplomats Intelligence agencies provide information to POTUS, but not congress Evaluate the strength of other nations predict what other counties intend to do CIA (central Intelligence agency), DIA, NSA Powers of congress the house and senate arm forces committees the house ways an means committee and senate finance committee they both make policy regarding tarriffs Declare war congress hasnt exercised this right since 1941 War powers act (1973) congress now issues authorizations of force rather than declarations of war... these allow the president to wage war if he chooses to do so war powers act (1973) allows the president to commit troops without cong |
What television program began "There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission."? | The outer limits : the original series (DVD video, 2007) [WorldCat.org] 7 videodiscs (approximately 2515 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. Details: DVD ; Dolby Digital. Contents: v. 1, disc 1 side A: The Galaxy being ; The Hundred days of the dragon ; The Architects of fear ; The Man with the power ; v. 1, disc 1 side B: The Sixth finger ; The Man who was never born ; O.B.I.T ; The Human factor -- v. 1, disc 2 side A: Corpus earthling ; Nightmare ; It crawled out of the woodwork ; The Borderland; -- v. 1, disc 2 side B: Tourist attraction ; The Zanti misfits ; The Mice; Controlled experiment -- v. 2, disc 1 side A: Don't open till doomsday ; ZZZZZ ; The Invisibles ; The Bellero shield ; v. 2, disc 1 side B: The Children of Spider County ; Specimen: unknown ; Second chance ; Moonstone -- v. 2, disc 2 side A: The Mutant ; The Guests ; Fun and games ; The Special one ; -- v. 2, disc 2 side B: A Feasability study ; Production and decay of strange particles ; The Chameleon ; The Forms of things unknown -- v. 3, disc 1, Side A: Soldier ; Cold hands, warm heart ; Behold, Eck! ; Expanding human -- v. 3, disc 1, Side B, Episodes 37-38: Demon with a glass hand ; Cry of silence -- v. 3, disc 2, Side A, Episodes 39-42: The Invisible enemy ; Wolf 359 ; I, robot ; The Inheritors, part 1 -- v. 3, disc 2, Side B: The Inheritors, part 2 ; Keeper of the purple twilight -- v. 3, disc 3, Side A, Episodes 45-48: The Duplicate man ; Counterweight ; The Brain of Colonel Barham ; The Premonition -- v. 3, disc 3, Side B: The Probe. Other Titles: Outer limits (Television program : 1963-1965) Responsibility: |
Who's missing: Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp, John Holliday | Wyatt Earp - New World Encyclopedia Wyatt Earp Wyatt Earp at about age 21, photo about 1869 Born Children none Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American farmer, teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western frontier towns, gambler, saloon-keeper, and miner. He is best known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, along with Doc Holliday , and two of his brothers, Virgil Earp and Morgan Earp. Wyatt Earp is the major subject of various movies, TV shows, biographies and works of fiction . Contents 21 Credits Earp's iconic status as a law enforcer serves as a corrective over-and-against the way in which such outlaws as Jesse and Frank James and Billy the Kid emerged as heroes in the popular mind during the same period. For some—the rich and powerful and those who made and enforced the law—were a privileged elite who prevented the poor from earning a decent wage. Thus, in a society based on law and order that claimed to be class-free, even outlaws could emerge as heroes (even if they were merely criminals, not social activists). Yet everyone knew that the law had to be respected, or no one would be secure, so lawmen such as Earp gained iconic status to counter that of the outlaws against whom they pitted themselves. Yet their reputations depended on that of the outlaws. Early life On July 30, 1840, widower Nicholas Porter Earp, a stern and opinionated man, wed local girl Virginia Ann Cooksey in Hartford, Kentucky. This second marriage for Nicholas produced eight children. Wyatt Earp was born in Monmouth, Illinois, on March 19, 1848. Wyatt Earp had an older half-brother, as well as a half-sister, who died at the age of ten-months. Nicholas Earp named his fourth son after his commanding officer during the Mexican-American War , Captain Wyatt Berry Stapp of the Illinois Mounted Volunteers. In March 1850, the Earps left Monmouth for California but settled instead in Iowa . Their new farm consisted of 160 acres, seven miles northeast of Pella, Iowa. [1] On March 4, 1856, Nicholas sold his Iowa farm and returned to Monmouth, Illinois, but was unable to find work as a cooper or farmer, the work he knew best. Faced with the possibility of not being able to provide for his family, Nicholas chose to become a municipal constable, serving at this post for about three years. Reportedly, he had a second source of income from the selling of alcoholic beverages, which made him the target of the local Temperance movement. Subsequently, he was tried in 1859 for bootlegging, convicted for the crime and publicly humiliated. Nicholas was unable to pay his court-imposed fines, and, on November 11, 1859, the Earp family's property was sold at auction . Two days later, the Earps left again for Pella, Iowa. Following their move, Nicholas made frequent travels back to Monmouth throughout 1860 to confirm and conclude the sale of his properties and to face several lawsuits for debt and accusations of tax evasion. During the family's second stay in Pella, the Civil War broke out. Newton, James, and Virgil joined the Union Army on November 11, 1861. Only 13 years old at the outbreak of the war, Wyatt was too young to join but later tried on several occasions to run away and join the army, only to have his father find him and bring him home. While Nicholas, now a provost marshal, was busy recruiting and drilling local companies, Wyatt—with the help of his two younger brothers, Morgan and Warren—was left in charge of tending an eighty-acre crop of corn. James returned home in the summer of 1863 after being severely wounded in Fredericktown, Missouri. Newton and Virgil, however, fought several battles in the east and returned home at the end of the war. [2] On May 12, 1864, the Earp family joined a wagon train heading to California. The 1931 book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal by Stuart N. Lake, tells of the Earps' encounter with Indians near Fort Laramie and that Wyatt reportedly took the opportunity at their stop at Fort Bridger to hunt buffalo with Jim Bridger. Later researchers h |
What is gymnophobia the fear of? | Gymnophobia - Fear of Nudity Gymnophobia By Lisa Fritscher - Reviewed by a board-certified physician. Updated July 02, 2015 Gymnophobia, or the fear of nudity, is a highly personalized phobia. Some people with this fear are afraid only of being naked in public, as is the case in communal showers or changing rooms. However, some people also fear being naked while they're with their partner or even when they're on their own. Others fear being naked alone as well. Many people with gymnophobia are unable to participate in sexual activities, and may develop a more generalized fear of sex that stems from their gymnophobia. In extreme cases, this fear can even lead to a phobia of bathing or showering. Some people are comfortable with their own nakedness, but fear the nudity of others. What Causes Gymnophobia? Gymnophobia can have many different causes. Those who have been through a sexual trauma are certainly at increased risk for the phobia, partially because they feel especially vulnerable when naked or they experience nudity as a triggering event . A fear of nudity (or, more commonly, a fear of sex) can also be brought about by being raised in a conservative culture or religion that frowns on nudity and sexual expression. Children and young teens may also develop this fear if they are bullied or shamed for some reason related to their bodies, for example, if they are developing more or less rapidly than their peers. Gymnophobia is sometimes related to other anxieties as well, such as the fear of vulnerability or the fear of intimacy. It may also be linked to body dysmorphic disorder , social anxiety , and other conditions that cause people to be unusually critical of themselves. Lastly, having surgical scars or other disfigurements can cause increased shame of one's body that can easily develop into gymnophobia. Coping With Gymnophobia Many people with gymnophobia find that simple adjustments help them to keep their fears at bay. For example, they may refuse to shop in stores that have communal dressing rooms, they can skip the shower after a workout, and they may have sex with the lights off. For mild to moderate gymnophobia, this can be all that's required to keep the condition from disrupting their life. Over time, however, the fear can worsen, and gymnophobic persons can find themselves changing an increasingly long list of activities in order to prevent showing their bodies. It's when gymnophobia is having a profoundly disruptive effect on a person's life - for example, they cease to bathe - that it is necessary to take action. Gymnophobia, like all phobias, responds well to a variety of treatment methods. Depending on your therapist 's school of thought, you may be encouraged to probe your past to determine the root cause of your fear. Or you may simply learn techniques for overcoming your current fearful thoughts. Whichever path you take, overcoming gymnophobia takes time and effort, but the rewards are well worth the trouble. Source: American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5™ (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Continue Reading |
What name is given to the palace of bliss for the souls of slain heroes in Scandinavian mythology? | Death and the Afterlife - Norse Mythology for Smart People Norse Mythology for Smart People Death and the Afterlife “Ophelia” by John Everett Millais (c. 1852) Norse/Germanic mythology and religion contain no formal doctrines concerning what happens to a human, or, for that matter, a member of any other species, when he or she dies. What happens to the body and the other, less tangible parts of the self varies widely from case to case, and depends on a staggering array of factors that, unfortunately, are only dimly understood nowadays due to the fragmentary character of the sources we possess concerning Norse mythology and pre-Christian Germanic religion more broadly. Still, some general – although not necessarily universal – patterns can be discerned. The resting place of the dead is located beneath the ground – a literal “underworld” that comprises a spiritual counterpart to the physical grave. The dead can interact with the living and vice versa, and oftentimes a part of the dead person is reborn. Finally, unlike in, say, Christian or Muslim perspectives on the afterlife, there’s little to no moral dimension to the indigenous northern European perspective; there’s no eternal bliss or eternal torment, just a transition to another stage in the endless cycle of being. The Land of the Dead The pre-Christian spiritual traditions of the Germanic peoples, like those of animistic and pantheistic peoples the world over, view spirit and matter as being intimately intertwined rather than separable into an exclusively corporeal realm and an exclusively “incorporeal” realm. Thus it should come as no surprise that the heathen land of the dead is a literal underworld that closely corresponds to the grave, located within the ground and especially concentrated around burial sites. The Norse mythological texts record three primary places where the dead were perceived to go: Helheim ( Old Norse Helheimr, “the home of the goddess Hel “), Valhalla (Old Norse Valhöll, “the hall of the fallen”), and Folkvang (Old Norse Fólkvangr, “the field of the people” or “the field of warriors”). Countless theories have been proposed regarding exactly what the differences between these places are, but a closer look at the primary sources reveals that they’re practically indistinguishable from one another and are all slightly different conceptions of – one could even say that they’re merely different names for – the underworld. Helheim (or simply “Hel,” as it is also sometimes called) is the vaguest and most general term for the underworld. In Old Norse colloquial usage, it means “the grave” or something to that effect.[1] Valhalla is presided over by Odin , and to gain entrance to it, one must be chosen by him and his valkyries , the “choosers of the fallen.” Similarly, entrance to Folkvang is dependent upon being selected by Freya . The distinction between Valhalla and Folkvang isn’t altogether clear, because the principal Old Norse source that describes the two halls depicts Freya in terms that suggest she’s a valkyrie herself.[2] Valhalla is often depicted as a realm where distinguished warriors engage in a continuous battle, and just such a place is described, in important early sources, as being located beneath the ground – and, intriguingly, without the name “Valhalla” or a cognate anywhere in the account.[3] Furthermore, the very name Valhöll, “the hall of the fallen,” is a late development that seems to have arisen out of the name Valhallr, “the rock of the fallen,” a title given to certain rocks and hills where the dead were perceived to dwell in southern Sweden, one of the greatest historical centers of Odin-worship.[4][5] The only Old Norse text that makes a sure distinction between Valhalla and Helheim is the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson. Snorri, a thirteenth-century Christian scholar, claims that those who die in battle are taken to Valhalla, while those who die of sickness or old age are taken to Helheim. Yet he blatantly contradicts this statement in the one extensive account of Helheim he provides – namely the tale of the death of Bald |
What is the largest bone in the human arm? | Human Bones: Largest Bone in Body of Humans Information of the world Home » English » Pair of Words » Human Bones: Largest Bone in Body of Humans Bones are very important to give shape to the body, which raises the question which is being the largest bone in the human body. The size and the diameter of the bone depend on the health, height and sex of a person. The size of the biggest bone in human body of a tall man would be different from a man of an average size. Similarly the size and the thickness of different bones in men and women, whether of same height, would also be different. Keeping a single global size as standard, the details of the biggest and the longest bones are: Femur is the largest bone in body . It forms the upper part of human leg. Its average length in adult male is 50.50 centimeter. This bone is also found in mammals, reptiles and vertebrates i.e frog, lizards, amphibians etc. Femur is Latin word which means thigh hence it is also known as thigh bone. Tibia is the second largest bone in the human body and no doubt the strongest bone of human body because it bears the body weight of person. It forms the inner-lower part of human leg. The average length of tibia is 43.03 CM. Tibia is Latin word which means an ancient type of musical instrument. Shin bone and shank bone are other names of Tibia. Fibula (also known as Calf Bone) is located in the outer-lower part of human leg. Fibula is the third largest bone in the human body. Fibula along with Tibia forms the lower part of human leg as it is located on the lateral side of Tibia. It is relatively weak and thin as compared with Tibia. The average length of tibia is 40.50 CM. Humerus bone connects shoulder with elbow in human arm. It is a long bone which consists of three parts i.e. upper extremity of Humerus, body of Humerus and lower extremity of Humerus. Humerus forms the upper part of human arm and many important muscles are attached with it. The average length of tibia is 36.46 CM. Ulna forms the inner-lower part of human arm. This fore-arm bone along with radius completes the lower part of human arm. Its average length in 28.20 Cm. In simple words it connects elbow with hand. It is a long and narrow bone with many muscles attached with it. Radius is a long bone which forms the outer-lower part of human arm. It is on the lateral side of Ulna and its length is 26.42 cm. Radius is also found in some four-leg animals as lower part of forelimb. Like Ulna it connects hand with elbow. 7th rib is part of the 24 ribs found in a human body. The average length of 7th rib is 24.00 CM. Ribs are basically found in Vertebrates and they support the upper body of vertebrates. 8th rib: These long and curved bones are considered as the basic structural part of human body. 8th rib is the part of 12 pairs of ribs in human body. The average length of 8th rib is 23.00 CM. Innominate bone is also called hipbone or half pelvis. It is the 9th largest bone in human body. Its average length is 18.50 Cm. Innominate bone is either of the two bones that form the sides of the pelvis, consisting of three fused components, the ilium, ischium, and pubis Nontechnical name hipbone. Sternum is the tenth largest bone in human body and its average length is 17.00 Cm. It is also called breastbone and it is found in both males and females with the same length. Sternum is a long, flat bone located in the center of the chest, serving as a support for the collarbone and ribs. |
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For which paper was reporter Clark Kent/Superman employed? | Clark Kent makes a major life change in new 'Superman' FacebookEmail Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Pinterest Clark Kent makes a major life change in new 'Superman' The Daily Planet has a new job opening. In Superman issue 13, the Man of Steel's alter ego, mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, quits the Metropolis newspaper that's been his employer since 1940. Post to Facebook Clark Kent makes a major life change in new 'Superman' The Daily Planet has a new job opening. In Superman issue 13, the Man of Steel's alter ego, mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, quits the Metropolis newspaper that's been his employer since 1940. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/RPjtgP CancelSend A link has been sent to your friend's email address. Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. 71 To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs Clark Kent makes a major life change in new 'Superman' USATODAY Published 10:04 a.m. ET Oct. 22, 2012 | Updated 12:45 p.m. ET Oct. 23, 2012 Mild-mannered reporter leaves The Daily Planet The Man of Steel makes a major life change in his secret identity as Clark Kent in the new issue of "Superman." (Photo: DC Comics) New writer Scott Lobdell does a 'cannonball in the Super-verse' Kent has a 'Jerry Maguire' moment and speaks up for 'the American way' A man from Krypton inspires a new story line The Daily Planet has a new job opening. In Superman issue 13, the Man of Steel's alter ego, mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, quits the Metropolis newspaper that has been his employer since the DC Comics superhero's earliest days in 1940. But that's just one of many plot points of note in the new issue, available digitally and in comic shops Wednesday. Superman pushes the limits of his powers, Clark sees a disturbing text message regarding Lois Lane and her new boyfriend, and a new Kryptonian threat is also introduced that will begin a crossover story involving the stars of Superboy and Supergirl. "I wasn't going to test the waters. I was just going to do a cannonball in the Super-verse," says new Superman writer Scott Lobdell, who began his run on the book alongside his Red Hood and the Outlaws artist Kenneth Rocafort last month with a special zero issue. DC's "The New 52" relaunch a year ago changed a good bit of Superman's status quo, such as the fact that Clark and Lois weren't married anymore. He's moved on, of course — Superman and Wonder Woman recently shared a kiss in the pages of Justice League. However, his still-strong feelings for Lois, combined with Daily Planet editor in chief Perry White getting on his case for not enough scoops on the Superman beat and his boss' boss Morgan Edge also giving him a hard time, leads to a Jerry Maguire-type moment where he quits in front of the whole staff and rails on how journalism has given way to entertainment — in a not-so-mild-mannered fashion. (The Daily Planet has also been moving more toward the real world, too, with the newspaper becoming part of the multimedia corporation Galaxy Broadcasting.) "This is really what happens when a 27-year-old guy is behind a desk and he has to take instruction from a larger conglomerate with concerns that aren't really his own," Lobdell explains. "Superman is arguably the most powerful person on the planet, but how long can he sit at his desk with someone breathing down his neck and treating him like the least important person in the world?" Lobdell's favorite part? When Clark calls for his peers to stand up for truth, justice "and yeah — I'm not ashamed to say it — the American way," a nod to the Man of Steel's history. "While it has its problems, there are a lot of good things to say about America and the American way, and I'm glad Clark is standing up for her," says Lobdell, who also writes Superboy and Teen Titans for DC. "I'm happy to be involved in that and his declarations." Clark's situation is one most any working stiff can relate to, when they've had enough and don't want to take it anymore. And the superhero, who became a journalist in the first place becau |
Scotsman Alexander Selkirk was the inspiration for what Daniel Dafoe novel? | Alexander Selkirk biography | birthday, trivia | Scottish Castaway | Who2 Alexander Selkirk Biography Sailor A true-life castaway, Scotsman Alexander Selkirk was the inspiration for Daniel Defoe ‘s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. While sailing with English privateers in 1704, Selkirk quarrelled with his captain and asked to be put ashore on an uninhabited island off of South America. He took with him a musket, a hatchet, and a few utensils. There he survived alone for four years and four months before being rescued by another English ship. He sailed for two years before returning home, where his story made him a celebrity. Extra credit The island where Selkirk left his ship is now called Robinson Crusoe Island; it was formerly known as Más a Tierra or Aguas Buenas. |
"When you care enough to send the very best" is the advertising slogan of what product? | Hallmark Corporate Information | Hallmark Brand Legacy Brand Legacy Quality. Innovation. Caring. Simple but powerful words that come to mind when you mention Hallmark. Creating a brand as powerful as the Hallmark name started with the pursuit of quality more than 100 years ago. Mark of Quality In the early days, our greeting cards carried the company name “Hall Brothers” on the back. But the term “hallmark,” used by goldsmiths in the 14th century, fascinated founder J.C. Hall. As he explained, “It not only said quality in an authoritative way, but it also incorporated our family name.” In 1925, “Hallmark” appeared on products for the first time, and by 1928, it was used on the back of every greeting card. More than a Slogan “When You Care Enough to Send the Very Best” is more than a slogan for Hallmark, it is a business commitment. When C.E. (Ed) Goodman, a Hallmark sales and marketing executive, jotted down these words on a 3x5 card in 1944, he was trying to capture the essence of why Hallmark stood above the rest. Little did he know that his scribblings would become one of the most recognized and trusted slogans in advertising. As J.C. Hall expressed in his autobiography, When You Care Enough: “The slogan constantly put pressure on us to make Hallmark cards ‘the very best.’” The Hallmark Hall of Fame The Hallmark brand rose to an entirely new level when its name became forever connected with the most-honored program in the history of television – Hallmark Hall of Fame . Born more than 60 years ago in an era of fully-sponsored television programming, Hallmark Hall of Fame stands the test of time by continuing to explore positive, life-affirming themes that resonate with viewers. As chairman Donald J. Hall, son of founder J.C. Hall whose vision gave birth to the series, has stated: “The Hallmark Hall of Fame has had an amazing impact on consumers, our employees, retail partners, business leaders, and opinion molders. It continues to work its magic on our image to a degree I cannot fully explain. I am not aware of any such vehicle, in or out of television, available to any other company, with such a positive impact.” Other Hallmark Sites |
Which painter was married to Mexican artist Diego Rivera? | Diego Rivera Paintings - Diego Rivera Oil Painting Reproduction 6. His Wife Frida Kahlo Summary Toperfect Art supplies Rivera biography and painting knowledge, which is useful for painters and art fans of Mexican Mural Movement. Our art gallery not only supply high-quality art reproductions for sale of Diego Rivera art, but also tell you story about these famous paintings and who was Rivera Diego. The famous artists in our art company are good at on canvas Rivera painting and other beautiful paintings wholesale in museum quality such as El Vendedor De Alcatraces, The Flower Vendor, picture of Diego Rivera The Flower Carrier, Retrato de Ignacio Sanchez, Flower Seller, 1942. Diego Rivera Paintings Pastel Painting * Charcoal Drawing * Pencil Sketch * Wax Crayon Painting All of works by Diego Rivera can be ordered as reproductions of oil painting, acrylic painting, and watercolor painting for wall decor. You're welcome to send your own images of the famous artist to us to paint by hand as painting from photos, which is more artistic collection than those Diego Rivera prints and posters made by machinery. You're allowed to download the painter Rivera pictures from Toperfect's website as wallpapers. The copyright of scripts in this website is owned by Toperfect. Toperfect reserves the manual scripts of original version. Toperfect will take appropriate legal action in the piracy and infringements of copyright. Mexican Mural Movement Borned on December 8, 1886 - Died on November 24, 1957 Full name is Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez. Diego Rivera was husband of female Mexican artist Frida Kahlo . The large works by Diego Rivera in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement that is the main movement in Mexican art. Painter Diego was a notorious womanizer in private life. He met and married art student Frida Kahlo on 1929. The mutual infidelities of 2 Mexican artists and his violent temper led to divorce in 1939, but remarried in the next year. The artist was an atheist. In mural Diego Rivera titled Dreams of a Sunday he depicted Ignacio Ramírez holding a sign "God does not exist". This art by Diego Rivera caused a furor, but he refused to remove the inscription. The painting was not shown for 9 years until Diego painter agreed to remove the inscription. Diego had radical political beliefs and attacked on the church, clergy made him a controversial figure even in communist circles. The famous series of twenty-seven fresco panels entitled Detroit Industry was completed by Rivera painter on the walls of the Detroit Institute of Arts between 1932 and 1933. Man at the Crossroads is the title of another artwork of Diego Rivera mural, begun in 1933 for the Rockefeller Center in New York City, it contained a portrait of Vladimir Lenin so that a furor erupted and the work was removed in the press. Analysis of Diego Rivera Paintings When Diego Rivera arrived in Europe in 1907, cubism in paintings is begun by eminent painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, and this new school of art influenced artist Diego from 1913 to 1917. Around 1917, Rivera was inspired by Paul Cézanne works , so Diego paintings shifted toward Post-Impressionism style that features simple forms and vivid colors patches. Diego Rivera works began to attract attention, and the painter was able to display his art at several exhibitions. Rivera Diego painted mural Creation in the Bolívar Auditorium of the National Preparatory School in 1922, the work is in encaustic as experiment. The Diego Rivera mural was his first significant art and finished in Mexico City where the artist had to guard himself with a pistol against right-wing students. Paintings by Diego Rivera dealt with Mexican society and reflected the country's 1910 Revolution in the autumn of 1922. These art of Diego Rivera was subsequently painted in fresco only. The artist developed his own native style with an Aztec influence clearly present in murals in Mexico, begun in 1922. The Mexican art by him was based o |
For which delivery company does Philip Fry work in that awesome TV series Futurama? | Philip J. Fry I | Futurama Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Philip J. Fry I Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. Philip J. Fry I 200 quindecillion years old (after " The Late Philip J. Fry ") Physical: 25 (in the series referred to the age of 25 years old) Planet Profession Currently: Intergalactic delivery boy Formerly: Pizza delivery boy, emperor, pope, slave, cryogenics administrator, captain, first-mate, animal trainer, holophone player, holophone composer, police officer, soldier As Lars : Head tank feeder Relatives Wife: Turanga Leela (see the Relationships section for details on Leela as his wife) Status Iván Muelas (Spain) “ Wow! A superpowers drug you can just rub onto your skin? You'd think it would be something you'd have to freebase. ” –Philip J. Fry I in Less Than Hero Philip J. Fry I, or simply just Fry, (born August 14, 1974) was a native to the 20th century who was cryogenically frozen seconds into the year 2000 , having fallen in just as 1999 ended. He was revived in 2999 and subsequently became a delivery boy for the Planet Express Company. He is the main protagonist and character of Futurama . Contents [ show ] Personality Philip I is generally very lazy at work, spending most of his time in the office sitting on the couch: watching TV and drinking Slurm . This laziness has caused him to miss at least one delivery mission. He is often immature, which causes him to get into tight spots, usually forcing Turanga Leela to rescue him. Despite this, he is a good, sensitive and sentimental man who loves his friends and will usually go to any lengths to save them. Abilities Philip I is "special". He is immune to all psychic forms of attack, such as from Brain Slugs as well as the Brainspawn . Usually, this is passed off as a 'Fry is stupid' joke, but it is actually because he lacks the Delta Brainwave . This is because he is his own grandfather, meaning his very existence is a space-time anomaly. If this was a genetic defect, Yancy Fry, Sr. , Yancy Fry, Jr. , Philip J. Fry II , Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth , Cubert J. Farnsworth , and Igner (and many unnamed others) should have inherited this immunity, but it was caused because Philip I is his own grandfather and with the exception of Yancy Sr. are not directly their own ancestors: they are Philip I's double-ancestors. This means that while they are all anomalies, their existence is not additionally cyclical like Philip I's. Since The Late Philip J. Fry , Philip I is now even more of an anomaly than before: initially his existence in the universe was cyclical, but now he is also living in a universe he was not even born into. It is unknown how this may manifest in the future, but this means that as a time-travelling out-of-universe observer, he should theoretically no longer be subject to alterations in the current universe's Time Stream because of further time travel. Since they travelled with him in The Late Philip J. Fry, Bender Bending Rodríguez and Professor Farnsworth are also out-of-universe observers. Life in the 20th century "Here's to another lousy millennium." ―Philip J. Fry I in Space Pilot 3000 Philip J. Fry I was born on August 9, 1975 [1] in Brooklyn , New York to Yancy Fry, Sr. and his mother, née Gleisner . These surnames imply English and German ancestry. He was named Philip after the Philip's head screwdriver. When he was young, he dreamed of being an astronaut, but due to motion sickness and the fact nobody liked spending a week with him, his dream was never fulfilled. He would often play basketball with his older brother Yancy Fry, Jr. as well as participate in break-dancing competitions. [2] When he was in high school, he drank nearly a hundred cans of cola per week, resulting in three heart attacks. [3] He also loved playing video games as he played them every day except the day th |
What 7 film franchise of the 1980s and 90s included installments such as Back in Training, Citizens on Patrol, City Under Siege, and Mission to Moscow? | Writing Articles - Big Sky Words 4 Comments Come on In Few movie franchises are as bad as Police Academy. I mean, these movies suck. That said, I’ve seen them all on numerous occasions. I grew up watching the damn things, in fact, especially the cheesier and kid-friendlier later installments. Like Police Academy 5? Shit, I’ve seen that probably 10 times at least! So what do these films have to do with SEO? I mean, yeah, if you want to have a shitty site perhaps you should take your cues from these shitty movies. I think that’s the wrong way to look at it. Far from being worthless, pointless, and just full of low-brow humor and sexual innuendo, the Police Academy movies give us insight into all facets of SEO and content marketing. And what’s more, they really show us what it means to work as a team. Just like the ensemble cast of the Police Academy franchise worked well together to get laughs, your SEO team needs to work together to get traffic. Let’s take a look, shall we? Police Academy Franchise First of all, these movies really follow a series of bumbling and dopey underdog characters as they get into one hilarious jam after another. In other words, it’s 90 minutes of shits and giggles. The movies rely on physical comedy, an ensemble cast of character actors, and all manner of 80s-style humor, chauvinism, homophobia, and sexism. Really, great movies to watch while you and your buddies are starting on the second 12-pack of the day. Most will say Police Academy is the best in the series. This film came out in 1984 and made $81.2 million. The next 6 movies? They made $150 combined. Think about that the next time you read about the latest Hollywood bomb. Let’s go through each movie and look at the 7 SEO lessons we can obtain therein. Police Academy (1984) Lesson #1 – Your First Effort Sets the Tone The main lesson you can take from the first Police Academy is how to really make a great impression first thing. Your site’s first incarnation, your blog’s first post, or the first links you begin to build – all send a clear message to your earliest visitors and users what you’re about and what you’ll deliver. What’s more, it sets the tone for you. Let’s face it, blogging is hard. After you get 10 posts up you’ll probably run out of steam. What do you do when you hit 150, or 500? As we mentioned above, the movie made $81.2 million during its theatrical run in the US, which included 1,587 theatres. It did even better worldwide and on video, grossing $146 million overall, nearly as much as all the other films in the series combined. It was the 6th most popular film of 1984, behind Beverly Hills Cop, which was #1. The film beat out such other blockbusters as Footloose, Romancing the Stone, Amadeus, and Purple Rain. So why was this movie successful? Well, pretty much because it was off the wall, silly, and didn’t take itself too seriously. Listen, people like to laugh, it’s no secret, and this movie did a good job of making people laugh in an election year when the country wasn’t doing too good economically. Would the country have been better off if the film was shot in America and not Toronto, Canada? Perhaps. The point is, this film was great content targeted at a specific audience that needed it. These folks needed a good laugh in March of ’84 and producers knew that. They delivered, the public was responsive and accepting, and that formed a relationship. Forevermore Police Academy was a good thing, a friend, and someone we could trust and count on. Talk about setting the tone, right? Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985) Lesson #2 – Develop an Entertaining Formula This movie did quite good, making over $61 million in the Box Office and opening in 1,613 theatres at #1, just like the first movie. It was also the 10th most profitable movie in the country that year. VHS copies and rentals brought in another $27 million. Even the Swedes loved it, making up $2 million of that total. The film beat out such Hollywood heavyweights, and simply better movies, as Fletch, The Breakfast Club, and that year's James Bond film, A |
What would you expect a cooper to make? | Gary Cooper - Biography - IMDb Gary Cooper Biography Showing all 258 items Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (2) | Spouse (1) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (127) | Personal Quotes (46) | Salary (75) Overview (5) 6' 3" (1.91 m) Mini Bio (2) Born to Alice Cooper and Charles Cooper (not in film business). Gary attended school at Dunstable school England, Helena Montana and Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa. His first stage experience was during high school and college. Afterwards, he worked as an extra for one year before getting a part in a two reeler by Hans Tissler (an independent producer). Eileen Sedgwick was his first leading lady. He then appeared in The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) for United Artists before moving to Paramount. While there he appeared in a small part in Wings (1927), It (1927), and other films. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Dave Curbow "Dad was a true Westerner, and I take after him", Gary Cooper told people who wanted to know more about his life before Hollywood. Dad was Charles Henry Cooper, who left his native England at 19, became a lawyer and later a Montana State Supreme Court justice. In 1906, when Gary was 5, his dad bought the Seven-Bar-Nine, a 600-acre ranch that had originally been a land grant to the builders of the railroad through that part of Montana. In 1910, Gary's mother, who had been ill, was advised to take a long sea voyage by her doctor. She went to England and stayed there until the United States entered World War I. Gary and his older brother Arthur stayed with their mother and went to school in England for seven years. Too young to go to war, Gary spent the war years working on his father's ranch. "Getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning in the dead of winter to feed 450 head of cattle and shoveling manure at 40 below ain't romantic", said the man who would take the Western to the top of its genre in High Noon (1952). So well liked was Cooper that he aroused little envy when, in 1939, the U.S. Treasury Department said that he was the nation's top wage earner. That year he earned $482,819. This tall, silent hero was the American ideal for many people of his generation. Ernest Hemingway who lived his novels before he wrote them, was happy to have Gary Cooper play his protagonists in A Farewell to Arms (1932) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Dale O'Connor < [email protected]> Spouse (1) ( 15 December 1933 - 13 May 1961) (his death) (1 child) Trade Mark (2) Trivia (127) Hobbies: Fishing, hunting, riding, swimming, and taxidermy. In the early 1930s his doctor told him he had been working too hard. Cooper went to Europe and stayed a lot longer than planned. When he returned, he was told there was now a "new" Gary Cooper--an unknown actor needed a better name for films, so the studio had reversed Gary Cooper's initials and created a name that sounded similar: Cary Grant . Along with Mylène Demongeot , Cooper set in motion the first escalator to be installed in a cinema, at the Rex Theatre in Paris on June 7 1957. Worked as a Yellowstone Park guide for several seasons before becoming an actor. Father-in-law of pianist and composer Byron Janis . Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1966. Pictured on one of four 25¢ US commemorative postage stamps issued 23 March 1990 honoring classic films released in 1939. The stamp featured Cooper as the title character of Beau Geste (1939). The other films honored were Stagecoach (1939), The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Gone with the Wind (1939). Upon seeing him, a professor in the theater department at Grinnell College recorded "shows no promise." Father of Maria Cooper Janis . Despite his wholesome screen image, he was an infamous (and privately boastful) womanizer in reality, allegedly having had affairs with numerous and sometimes very famous leading ladies throughout his career. This was in spite of the fact that he had a faithful wife, Sandra, and that many of his lovers were also married. His Oscar-winning roles as Will Kane from High |
Following the Super Bowl, where did MVP Drew Brees announce he was going next? | Saints’ Drew Brees ‘Going to Disney World’ To Celebrate Victory, MVP Performance in Super Bowl XLIV (Disney and Florida Attractions News Blog) « Pollo Campero and Levy Campero Announce First Combined Restaurant Concept to Open at Downtown Disney® Marketplace | Main | Disney Animal Experts Say Farewell to Flippered and Furry Friends » Saints’ Drew Brees ‘Going to Disney World’ To Celebrate Victory, MVP Performance in Super Bowl XLIV LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - So how is New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees celebrating his heroic play in Super Bowl XLIV? In the frenzied moments just after his team claimed the National Football League championship Sunday night in South Florida, he stood in front of a TV camera and shouted five words that have become an almost iconic reaction to milestone achievements: "I'm going to Disney World!" Brees's pronouncement, part of the production for one of TV's most enduring and celebrated commercials, was captured after the Saints' 31-17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts - a game during which he earned the MVP honor, completing a Super Bowl record-tying 32 passes for 288 yards and two touchdowns. He was 16-for-17 in the second half, twice leading the Saints from behind. It added up to be a catalyst for the Saints' first Super Bowl celebration in team history On Monday (Feb. 8), Brees was to go to the place where millions of vacationers celebrate their personal milestone moments - Walt Disney World Resort. He was to be joined in the Magic Kingdom by NFL Youth Football players, who will participate with the Saints star in a Super Bowl celebration parade down Main Street, U.S.A. This latest commercial is the 42nd of a series that began in 1987 following Super Bowl XXI. The first "I'm going to Disney World" commercial, featuring New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms, was regarded as a groundbreaking concept - a produced national commercial involving a current event, airing on major networks within hours of its conclusion. Brees joins a lineup of people from sports and beyond who have celebrated milestone accomplishments in "I'm going to Disney World" commercials. A Look Back at "I'm Going To Disney World!" First Spot: Super Bowl XXI (Phil Simms, New York Giants) Number of Spots Since Inception: 42 Chronology of "I'm going to Disney World" Spots: 2010 Super Bowl XLIV (Drew Brees, New Orleans Saints) 2009 Super Bowl XLIII (Santonio Holmes and Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh Steelers) "American Idol" Season 8 (Kris Allen, singer) 2008 Super Bowl XLII (Eli Manning, New York Giants) "American Idol" Season 7 (David Cook, singer) 2007 Super Bowl XLI (Tony Dungy and Dominic Rhodes, Indianapolis Colts) 2006 Super Bowl XL (Hines Ward, with Jerome Bettis, Pittsburgh Steelers) 2004 Super Bowl XXXVIII (Tom Brady, New England Patriots) Major League Baseball World Series Champions (Curt Schilling, Pedro Martinez and David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox) 2003 Super Bowl XXXVII (Jon Gruden and Brad Johnson, Tampa Bay Buccaneers) 2002 Super Bowl XXXVI (Tom Brady, New England Patriots) 2001 Super Bowl XXXV (Trent Dilfer, Baltimore Ravens) Major League Baseball home run record (Barry Bonds, San Francisco Giants) 2000 Super Bowl XXXIV (Kurt Warner, St. Louis Rams) 1999 Super Bowl XXXIII (Terrell Davis and John Elway, Denver Broncos) Women's World Cup (United States Championship Team) 1998 Super Bowl XXXII (John Elway, Denver Broncos) Major League Baseball home run record (Mark McGwire, St. Louis Cardinals) 1997 Super Bowl XXXI (Desmond Howard, Green Bay Packers) Holiday Gift-Giving (Santa Claus) |
One half of the duo known as President's Day, which former president had his birthday on Feb 12th? | Lincoln's Birthday in the United States Home Calendar Holidays the United States Lincoln's Birthday Lincoln's Birthday in the United States Lincoln’s Birthday celebrates the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, one of the most popular presidents in United States history. It is a state holiday in some states on or around February 12. It's also known as Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday, Abraham Lincoln Day or Lincoln Day. Abraham Lincoln (image pictured above) is one of the United States' most popular presidents. Abraham Lincoln (image pictured above) is one of the United States' most popular presidents. ©iStockphoto.com/Chris Howells Celebrate Lincoln's Birthday Some states observe the day as part of Presidents’ Day , which is officially known as Washington’s Birthday. Various activities such as re-enactments, concerts and birthday parties are often organized for the day. Organizations such as the Indiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, Kentucky Lincoln Heritage Trail, and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum often plan large-scale events to honor and remember Lincoln on or around his birthday. A wreath-laying ceremony and reading of the Gettysburg Address at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC are traditional events on February 12. Republican Party members may also hold Lincoln Day fundraising dinners because he is known as the first president of the Republican Party. Public Life Lincoln’s Birthday is a public holiday in some states including: California. (Many schools, courts and businesses are closed. However, some offices and businesses remain open.) Connecticut. Missouri. (Many schools remain open.) New Jersey. New Mexico. New York (Lincoln's Birthday is a floating holiday for state government employees in certain bargaining units). West Virginia. Many government offices are closed within most these states. Some schools are open, so it is best to check with your local school district. Some businesses also remain open. Not all states observe the day on the same date. Lincoln’s Birthday is also absorbed into Presidents’ Day in other parts of the United States, such as Arizona, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia. It is a legal observance in Florida. About Lincoln's Birthday Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, on February 12 in 1809. He lived for a time in Indiana before moving to Illinois. He worked on a farm, split rails for fences, worked in a store, was a captain in the Black Hawk War, and worked as a lawyer. He married Mary Todd and together they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity. Lincoln began his political career at the age of 23 in 1832 when he ran an unsuccessful campaign for the Illinois General Assembly, as a Whig Party member. He joined the newly formed Republican Party in 1854 and was nationally recognized during the 1858 debates with Stephen Douglas despite Douglas’ win in the race for US Senator. Lincoln won the presidency in 1860 and, despite being a Republican, rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union case during the Civil War (1861-65). Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, the Rail Splitter and Honest Abe. He was the president throughout the American Civil War and is known for his struggle to preserve the Union and the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC on Good Friday, April 14, 1865. The assassination occurred less than two weeks after the Confederacy surrendered at Appomattox Court House in 1865. It has been recorded that Lincoln’s Birthday was first celebrated as a holiday in 1866, one year after his death. Many states have a joint holiday to honor both Lincoln and George Washington, sometimes calling it Presidents’ Day. Symbols Various museums and monuments are dedicated to Abraham Lincoln. Various artworks, such as paintings, drawings, statues and photographs, have been created in Lincoln’s image and preserved to honor him. Examples include: Lincoln’s likeness on Mount Rushmore Lincoln’s portrait on the American five dollar bill. The Linc |
Deadliest Catch boat captain Phil Harris died yesterday, after suffering a major stroke on January 29th. What Seattle based boat was he the captain of? | Discovery Planning Tribute to ‘Deadliest Catch’ Captain, Phil Harris, Who Died This Week | TVWeek Discovery Planning Tribute to ‘Deadliest Catch’ Captain, Phil Harris, Who Died This Week Feb 12, 2010 • Post A Comment The sixth season of Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch” starts in mid-April and Capt. Phil Harris will be a big part of it, the New York Post reports . Shooting on the season had already been completed before the captain of the Cornelia Marie crab fishing boat died of a stroke this week. A Discovery spokesperson, commenting about the tribute to the Post said, "It will probably air as part of the new season or at the start of the season." The network is still deciding about the details of its on-air tribute, the Post said. –Elizabeth Jensen |
By I(nternational) A(stronomical) U(nion) definition, what is the final classification of Pluto? Planet, Dwarf Planet, or Small Solar System Body? | Bulletin Daily Paper 08-07-14 by Western Communications, Inc. - issuu • Also approved:Controversial development planfor southeast Bend the next 20 years. Nonresiden- By Hillary Borrud impervious surface area, such The Bulletin BOrder CriSiS —Texas has deployed not just its National Guard but also state wildlife officials and others who can't make immigration arrests.A4 PAGE B1 The city of Bend has a new $25.2 million plan to decrease flooding due to storm runoff over the next 20 years, after city councilors voted unani- mously to approve the proposal Wednesday's council meeting. Wednesday night. Initial estimates ranged from The price tag is much lower $172 million to $214 million. than the city estimated when Bend's monthly residential it began work on the plan in 2006, Stormwater Program stormwater fee is currently $4; under the new plan, it will in- M anager Wendy Edde said at crease to as much as $6.80 over 25 years tial utility customers currently pay $4 per 3,800 square feet of to life as a parking lot. City Councilor Sally Russell said it made sense to invest in stormwater infra- By Scott Hammers structure for a relatively small The Bulletin A Bend man's claim he acted in self-defense when he shot and killed a guest in his home in February 2013 proved unpersuasive Wednesday, as Footdall column — Sean Mannion, the fifth-year senior DSU quarterback, has started stepping it up on the field.C1 air time or ro o Marijuana —Nowatering those plants during California's drought. (People still do).B5 ~we County Circuit Judge Stephen Forte issued a sentence t PIUS —D.C.joins the list of pot legalization on theballot. A2 of 25 years to life in prison for Luke Anton Wirkkala. Wirkkala, 33, was In national news —Hawaii convicted in June of braces for not onebut maybe two hurricane strikes — theisland state's first encounter with such strong tropical weather since1992.A2 shooting and killing David Ryder, 31, at Wirkkala's southeast Bend home in the early morning hours of Feb. 4, 2013. The two men and Wirk- kala's live-in girlfriend — whom he married later while being held at And a Wed exclusiveThese U.S. diplomats wield fiddles and dancemoves, not brief casesandcommuniques. bentlbulletin.cnm/extrns 4 the Deschutes County jail — had spent much of the day before drinking together at a local bar on Super Bowl Sunday. r 'of: ','C. Ethicalissue: Who gets Ebola drug? 6 marriage casesmay not go well for gays Three kids lie with their pigs: counterclockwise from left, Macey Buckett, 10, with Ralph; Josh By Erik Eckholm Knight, 9, with Wolverine; and Caleb Knight, 13, with Mongoose. The six of them (plus the other pigs, New York Times News Service CINCINNATI — The steady march of judicial approval for same-sex marriage overthepast year is running into some skepticism here as a threejudge federal appeals panel hears arguments in six same-sex marriage cases from four states. t,Q By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press Meg Roussos/The Bulletin WASHINGTONThe use of an experimental drug to treat two Americans diagnosed with Ebola is raising ethical questions about who gets first access to livestock and humans) were waiting for the Crook County Fair to open Wednesday morning. The fair — "Country Pride, County Wide" is the theme- runs through Saturday at the fairgrounds in unproven new therapies Prineville. Hours are 10 a.m.-l0 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday. Daily events include the carnival, forthe deadly disease. But some health pony and camel rides, and a beer garden. Admissionis free. experts fear debate over extremely limited doses will distract from Online:For a full schedule of events, go to www.crookcountyfairgrounds.com • Saturday's Bulletin: Photos from the fair tried-and-truemeasures to curb the growing outbreak — things like more rapidly identifying and isolating the sick. In three hours of back- and-forth questioning Wednesday, it appeared neither side could take victory for granted in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where the cases from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee were heard by two judges appointed by President |
The Greek goddess of forests and hills, childbirth, virginity, fertility, and the hunt, who is the twin sister of Apollo? | Artemis A Artemis Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities. In the classical period of Greek mythology , Artemis (Greek: (nominative) Ἄρτεμις, (genitive) Ἀρτέμιδος) was often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto , and the twin sister of Apollo . She was the Hellenic goddess of forests and hills, child birth, virginity, fertility, the hunt, and often was depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows. The deer and the cypress were sacred to her. In later Hellenistic times, she even assumed the ancient role of Eileithyia in aiding childbirth. Artemis later became identified with Selene , a Titaness who was a Greek moon goddess, sometimes depicted with a crescent moon above her head. She was also identified with the Roman goddess Diana, with the Etruscan goddess Artume, and with the Greek or Carian goddess Hecate . Etymology A hypothesis connects Artemis to the Proto-Indo-European root h₂ŕ̥tḱos meaning "bear" due to her cultic practices in Brauronia and the Neolithic remains at the Arkouditessa. Birth Various conflicting accounts are given in Classical Greek mythology of the birth of Artemis and her twin brother, Apollo. All accounts agree, however, that she was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and that she was the twin sister of Apollo. An account by Callimachus has it that Hera forbade Leto to give birth on either terra firma (the mainland) or on an island. Hera was angry with Zeus, her husband, because he had impregnated Leto. But the island of Delos (or Ortygia in the Homeric Hymn to Artemis) disobeyed Hera, and Leto gave birth there. A scholium of Servius on Aeneid iii. 72 accounts for the island's archaic name Ortygia by asserting that Zeus transformed Leto into a quail (ortux) in order to prevent Hera from finding out his infidelity, and Kenneth McLeish suggested further that in quail form Leto would have given birth with as few birth-pains as a mother quail suffers when it lays an egg. The myths also differ as to whether Artemis was born first, or Apollo. Most stories depict Artemis as born first, becoming her mother's mid-wife upon the birth of her brother Apollo. Childhood The childhood of Artemis is not embodied in any surviving myth: the Iliad reduced the figure of the dread goddess, making her a girl, who, having been thrashed by Hera , climbs weeping into the lap of Zeus. A poem of Callimachus – the goddess "who amuses herself on mountains with archery" – imagines some charming vignettes: at three years old, Artemis asked her father, Zeus, while sitting on his knee, to grant her six wishes. Her first wish was to remain chaste for eternity, and never to be confined by marriage. She then asked for lop-eared hounds, stags to lead her chariot, and nymphs to be her hunting companions, 60 from the river and 20 from the ocean. Also, she asked for a silver bow like her brother Apollo. He granted her the six wishes. All of her companions remained virgins and Artemis guarded her own chastity closely. Her symbol was the silver bow and arrow. Other myths about Artemis Artemis and Actaeon She was once bathing in a vale on Mount Cithaeron, when the Theban prince and hunter Actaeon stumbled across her. One version of this story says that Actaeon hid in the bushes and spied on her as she continued to bathe; she was enraged to discover the spy and turned him into a stag which was pursued and killed by his own hounds. Alternatively, another version states that Actaeon boasted that he was a better hunter than she and Artemis turned him into a stag and he was eaten by his hounds. Artemis and Adonis In some versions of the story of Adonis , who was a late addition to Greek mythology during the Hellenistic period, Artemis sent a wild boar to kill Adonis as punishment for his hubristic boast that he was a better hunter than she. In other versions, Artemis killed Adonis for revenge. In later myths, Adonis had been related as a favorite of Aphrodite , and Aphrodite was responsible for the death of Hippolytus, who had been a favorite of Artemis. Therefore, Artemis killed Adonis to avenge Hippo |
In which Olympic sport is a stone delivered and then possible swept, the object being to get it over the hog line and into the house? | THE SPORTS SCIENCE OF CURLING: A PRACTICAL REVIEW, JSSM-2009, Vol.8, Issue 4, 495 - 500 INTRODUCTION TCurling is a game of skill and tradition and is one of the fastest growing winter sports (Royal Caledonian Curling Club, 2008 ). It is also a game that at the highest level has unique physical demands. A typical curling game lasting 2.5 hours. At Olympic and World level it can take up to 14 games to get to the podium, playing usually up to 2 games per day, sometimes with only a short break between. This can result in up to 35 hours of competitive play, making curling one of the longest of the Olympic sports. Curling has been a regular Olympic sport since 1998 and sports science is playing an increasing role in assisting in the preparation of elite curlers. The aim of this article is to outline how sports science can play a part in curling. It will look at the science behind the sport and how this can inform coaching and playing strategies. Curling is a sport in which two teams of four players (usually all male or all female although some competitions are for mixed teams) deliver two ~18.6kg granite stones each on an approximate 42m x 4.5m sheet of ice towards a target or house ( Figure 1 ). The stones are delivered from the hack and the aim is to get one or more of your teams' stones nearest the centre of house. Curling is the only sport where the trajectory of the projectile can be influenced after the stone has been released. Players sweep the ice in front of the stone to momentarily increase the temperature of the ice as the stone passes over it and reduce the friction between the stone and the ice (Buckingham et al., 2006 ). Depending on the direction the stone is rotating (the 'handle') and the side of the stone the player is standing to sweep, this will allow the stone to stay straighter in its path or to curl more. The dynamics of curling stones have been the subject of a number of studies (Denny, 1998 ; Jensen and Shegelski, 2004 ; Marmo and Blackford, 2004 ; Penner, 2001 ; Shegelski et al., 1996 ). It has been shown that the motion of a stone and the amount of curl is due to the thin liquid film between the stone and the ice. Sweeping the ice in front of the stone can change this stone-ice interface by two possible mechanisms in theory: 1) increasing the ice temperature momentarily; 2) smoothing the ice by removing frost or debris. However, in frost-free conditions, any reduction in surface roughness ('polishing') will have a negligible effect compared to the roughness of the stone (Marmo et al., 2006a ). Therefore, in these conditions raising the temperature of the ice by sweeping has the greatest effect on the reduction in friction between the stone and the ice. Distances are given from the Hack. A typical curling game lasts 2.43 hours (73min allowed per team) and consists of 10 ends. An end consists of each team playing their 8 stones. A team of four will consist of a lead player who will always play the first 2 stones from that team, a second, a third and a skip who will always play the last 2 stones from that team. The skip traditionally stands at the house and controls the team strategy for the game. The two players not playing a stone will be available to sweep the stone as directed by the skip. The lead and second players could be asked to sweep 6 stones per end, for 10 ends or 60 stones per game (the third player acts as vice skip, standing in for the skip when he/she is playing their stones). A player could theoretically sweep for up to 1.7km per game. Aggressive sweeping is high intensity. Hard sweeping for 20s can result in the generation |
On Feb 16, 1923, archeologist Howard Carter uncovered the tomb of whom? | Archaeologist opens tomb of King Tut - Feb 16, 1923 - HISTORY.com King Tut's mummy was unearthed by archeologist Howard Carter, Fidel Castro became dictator of Cuba, the first 911 system became available, and the Kurds seized embassies across Europe in This Day in History video. The date is February 16th. Lead Story Archaeologist opens tomb of King Tut Share this: Archaeologist opens tomb of King Tut Author Archaeologist opens tomb of King Tut URL Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 1923, in Thebes, Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen. Because the ancient Egyptians saw their pharaohs as gods, they carefully preserved their bodies after death, burying them in elaborate tombs containing rich treasures to accompany the rulers into the afterlife. In the 19th century, archeologists from all over the world flocked to Egypt, where they uncovered a number of these tombs. Many had long ago been broken into by robbers and stripped of their riches. When Carter arrived in Egypt in 1891, he became convinced there was at least one undiscovered tomb–that of the little known Tutankhamen, or King Tut, who lived around 1400 B.C. and died when he was still a teenager. Backed by a rich Brit, Lord Carnarvon, Carter searched for five years without success. In early 1922, Lord Carnarvon wanted to call off the search, but Carter convinced him to hold on one more year. In November 1922, the wait paid off, when Carter’s team found steps hidden in the debris near the entrance of another tomb. The steps led to an ancient sealed doorway bearing the name Tutankhamen. When Carter and Lord Carnarvon entered the tomb’s interior chambers on November 26, they were thrilled to find it virtually intact, with its treasures untouched after more than 3,000 years. The men began exploring the four rooms of the tomb, and on February 16, 1923, under the watchful eyes of a number of important officials, Carter opened the door to the last chamber. Inside lay a sarcophagus with three coffins nested inside one another. The last coffin, made of solid gold, contained the mummified body of King Tut. Among the riches found in the tomb–golden shrines, jewelry, statues, a chariot, weapons, clothing–the perfectly preserved mummy was the most valuable, as it was the first one ever to be discovered. Despite rumors that a curse would befall anyone who disturbed the tomb, its treasures were carefully catalogued, removed and included in a famous traveling exhibition called the “Treasures of Tutankhamen.” The exhibition’s permanent home is the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Related Videos |
A favorite of Jean Luc Picard, what black tea blend is flavored with an oil extracted from the rind of a bergamot orange? | Talk:Bergamot tea | Memory Alpha | Fandom powered by Wikia Should this be moved/cross-referred to "Earl Grey tea"? Oil of bergamot is a main ingredient in that beverage, favored by Jean-Luc Picard in TNG. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.101.144.27 ( talk ) at {{{2}}}. No. These are two entirely different beverages with no ingredients in common --- see my notes below. Second, as the "Oil of Bergamot" used in Earl Grey Tea is only a flavoring and perfume, and as such represents less than 1 percent of the finished product, this is hardly what one would call a main ingredient. However, because there is such a common confusion between the European Bergamot Orange (Citrus bergamia) and the American Bergamot Mint (Monarda didyma), one might profitably make a note to the effect that the "Oil of Bergamot" referred to is an essential oil derived from the Bergamot Orange, and not the Bergamot Mint, and cite their Latin names in both entries. The other confusion that is the result of the use of the term "tea" for both of these beverages, I regard as hopeless, being that 'Bergamot Tea' is one of the common names for (Monarda didyma) --- and nobody anymore seems to understand the difference between a 'tea' and a 'simple', being that both are infused in a 'teapot' --- BUT properly speaking, 'tea' is only 'tea' when it's from the 'tea plant' (Thea Chinensis or Camellia Chinensis) and one's teapot should be exclusively reserved for brewing tea, the subject of a rather large number of superstitions so as to avoid "off" flavors and/or breaking the pot whenever brewing tea. While I could have done this for you, I didn't care to "step on" your entry, besides which as I'm not at my regular computer, this Wiki doesn't seem to be allowing me to log on. My Notes: Earl Grey tea is a proprietary blend of 'black teas' with a distinctively sweet smokey taste and aroma derived from the blend of teas, which has been further flavored and perfumed with the addition of "Oil of Bergamot" extracted from the rind of the Bergamot Orange, a fragrant citrus fruit. It's named after the 2nd Earl Grey, who was Prime Minister at the time it first became availible to the public, there are ONLY two companies who produce it, and there are at least two stories as to it's origin. The first is a legend that usually involves a grateful Chinese mandarin whose son was rescued from drowning by one of Lord Grey's men. This mandarin then made a present of this tea blend to the Prime Minister, and it proved so popular in the Prime Minister's drawing room that his tea merchants, 'Twinings in the Strand', were given a sample and asked to come up with a close match. Twinings then sold the first batches of this special blend as "Earl Grey's Tea" in the British market. As Twining's Earl Grey blend has always included China tea, Indian Darjeeling tea, and Ceylon tea, with a hint of Lapsang souchong, a strong "smokey" black tea; and at the time the aristocratic Chinese preferred delicate 'green teas' to the strong 'black teas' --- tea historians have always tended to doubt this version of the story, although no one disputes it that it was Twinings who originated the name. Conversely, 'Jacksons of Piccadilly' claim that it was they who originated Earl Grey's Tea, Lord Grey having given the recipe to Robert Jackson & his partner George Charlton in 1830. According to Jacksons, the original recipe has been in constant production since 1830, never having left their hands, and that their blend has always been based on China teas --- implying that the Twining's blend was and still is nothing more than a cheap commercial copy of the original. Tea historians tend to believe that this version is the truth because back in the day, Oil of Bergamot was in common use by the English and French to flavor and sweeten smoking tobaccoes, as well as cakes, biscuits (read cookies) and other desserts, and they suggest that the earl might have dropped some in his good quality black tea to sweeten it in order to avoid using milk and sugar. Again, depending on who's telling the story, the |
Rhinoplasty is a surgical procedure on what part of the human body? | Rhinoplasty Procedure: Facts About Surgery and Recovery Time Share Your Story Rhinoplasty is a facial cosmetic procedure, usually performed to enhance the appearance or reconstruct the nose. During rhinoplasty, the nasal cartilages and bones are modified, or tissue is added, to improve the visual appeal of the nose. Rhinoplasty is also frequently performed to repair nasal fractures. When rhinoplasty is used to repair nasal fractures, the goal is to restore pre-injury appearance of the nose. Septorhinoplasty is a related procedure performed for patients who also have nasal obstruction. Septorhinoplasty not only improves the appearance of the nose, but it removes any internal obstructions and stabilizes structures that may be blocking nasal breathing . Initial evaluation for rhinoplasty Cosmetic concerns and expectations should be fully discussed prior to surgery. The surgeon's recommendations and any particular limitations set forth by the structure of your nose, face, and skin are important to understand and have explained. Photographs (without make-up) are usually obtained before surgery to help with preoperative planning and after surgery to document postoperative results. Medically Reviewed by a Doctor on 4/14/2015 |
Which English monarch, who ruled from April 1509 to January 1547, is remembered for having married Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr, Elizabeth Blount, and Mary Boleyn? | The Court of Henry VIII, King of England The Court of Henry VIII, King of England The Court of Elizabeth l, Queen of England Top Surnames history Scope of Project This project identifies the personalities of the Royal Court of King Henry VIII, King of England. Family, friends and foes, are included. Overview Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was also Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) and claimant to the Kingdom of France. Henry was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII. Besides his six marriages, Henry VIII is known for his role in the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church. Henry's struggles with Rome led to the separation of the Church of England from papal authority, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and establishing himself as the Supreme Head of the Church of England. He changed religious ceremonies and rituals and suppressed the monasteries, while remaining a believer in core Catholic theological teachings, even after his excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church. Henry also oversaw the legal union of England and Wales with the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542. Henry was an attractive and charismatic man in his prime, educated and accomplished. He ruled with absolute power. His desire to provide England with a male heir—which stemmed partly from personal vanity and partly because he believed a daughter would be unable to consolidate the Tudor Dynasty and the fragile peace that existed following the Wars of the Roses—led to the two things that Henry is remembered for today: his wives, and the English Reformation that made England a Protestant nation. In later life he became morbidly obese and his health suffered; his public image is frequently depicted as one of a lustful, egotistical, harsh and insecure king. Henry is famously remembered for having six wives—two of whom he had beheaded—which helped to make him a cultural icon, with many books, films, plays, and television series based around him and his wives. Parents |
According to the Chinese zodiac, what animal represents the current year? | The Chinese Zodiac Imaginative, generous, successful, popular, curious Feb 10, 1948 – Jan 28, 1949 Jan 28, 1960 – Feb 14, 1961 Feb 15, 1972 – Feb 2, 1973 Feb 2, 1984 – Feb 19, 1985 Feb 19, 1996 – Feb 6, 1997 Feb 7, 2008 – Jan 25, 2009 Jan 25, 2020 – Feb 11, 2021 Chou (ox) Confident, honest, patient, conservative, strong Jan 29, 1949 – Feb 16, 1950 Feb 15, 1961 – Feb 4, 1962 Feb 3, 1973 – Jan 22, 1974 Feb 20, 1985 – Feb 8, 1986 Feb 7, 1997 – Jan 27, 1998 Jan 26, 2009 – Feb 13, 2010 Feb 12, 2021 – Jan 31, 2022 Yin (tiger) Sensitive, tolerant, brave, active, resilient Feb 17, 1950 – Feb 5, 1951 Feb 5, 1962 – Jan 24, 1963 Jan 23, 1974 – Feb 10, 1975 Feb 9, 1986 – Jan 28, 1987 Jan 28, 1998 – Feb 15, 1999 Feb 14, 2010 – Feb 2, 2011 Feb 1, 2022 – Jan 21, 2023 Mao (rabbit) Affectionate, kind, gentle, compassionate, merciful Feb 6, 1951 – Jan 26, 1952 Jan 25, 1963 – Feb 12, 1964 Feb 11, 1975 – Jan 30, 1976 Jan 29, 1987 – Feb 16, 1988 Feb 16, 1999 – Feb 4, 2000 Feb 3, 2011 – Jan 22, 2012 Jan 22, 2023 – Feb 9, 2024 Chen (dragon) Enthusiastic, intelligent, lively, energetic, innovative Jan 27, 1952 – Feb 13, 1953 Feb 13, 1964 – Feb 1, 1965 Jan 31, 1976 – Feb 17, 1977 Feb 17, 1988 – Feb 5, 1989 Feb 5, 2000 – Jan 23, 2001 Jan 23, 2012 – Feb 9, 2013 Feb 10, 2024 – Jan 28, 2025 Si (snake) Charming, intuitive, romantic, highly perceptive, polite Feb 14, 1953 – Feb 2, 1954 Feb 2, 1965 – Jan 20, 1966 Feb 18, 1977 – Feb 6, 1978 Feb 6, 1989 – Jan 26, 1990 Jan 24, 2001 – Feb 11, 2002 Feb 10, 2013 – Jan 30, 2014 Jan 29, 2025 – Feb 16, 2026 Wu (horse) Diligent, friendly, sophisticated, talented, clever Feb 3, 1954 – Jan 23, 1955 Jan 21, 1966 – Feb 8, 1967 Feb 7, 1978 – Jan 27, 1979 Jan 27, 1990 – Feb 14, 1991 Feb 12, 2002 – Jan 31, 2003 Jan 31, 2014 – Feb 18, 2015 Feb 17, 2026 – Feb 5, 2027 Wei (sheep) Artistic, calm, reserved, happy, kind Jan 24, 1955 – Feb 11, 1956 Feb 9, 1967 – Jan 29, 1968 Jan 28, 1979 – Feb 15, 1980 Feb 15, 1991 – Feb 3, 1992 Feb 1, 2003 – Jan 21, 2004 Feb 19, 2015 – Feb 7, 2016 Feb 6, 2027 – Jan 25, 2028 Shen (monkey) Witty, lively, flexible, humorous, curious Feb 12, 1956 – Jan 30, 1957 Jan 30, 1968 – Feb 16, 1969 Feb 16, 1980 – Feb 4, 1981 Feb 4, 1992 – Jan 22, 1993 Jan 22, 2004 – Feb 8, 2005 Feb 8, 2016 – Jan 27, 2017 Jan 26, 2028 – Feb 12, 2029 You (rooster) Shrewd, honest, communicative, motivated, punctual Jan 31, 1957 – Feb 17, 1958 Feb 17, 1969 – Feb 5, 1970 Feb 5, 1981 – Jan 24, 1982 Jan 23, 1993 – Feb 9, 1994 Feb 9, 2005 – Jan 28, 2006 Jan 28, 2017 – Feb 15, 2018 Feb 13, 2029 – Feb 2, 2030 Xu (dog) Loyal, honest, responsible, courageous, warm-hearted Feb 18, 1958 – Feb 8, 1959 Feb 6, 1970 – Jan 26, 1971 Jan 25, 1982 - Feb 12, 1983 Feb 10 1994 – Jan 30, 1995 Jan 29, 2006 – Feb 17, 2007 Feb 16, 2018 – Feb 4, 2019 Feb 3, 2030 – Jan 22, 2031 Hai (boar/pig) |
Pablo Picasso is one of the co-founders of what artistic movement? | Pablo Picasso - Biography and Artwork - About.com Art History Expert By Shelley Esaak Pablo Picasso, also known as Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, was singular in the art world. Not only did he manage to become universally famous in his own lifetime, he was the first artist to successfully use mass media to further his name (and business empire). He also inspired or, in the notable case of Cubism, invented, nearly every art movement in the twentieth century. Movement, Style, School or Period: Several, but best known for (co-)inventing Cubism Date and Place of Birth: October 25, 1881, Málaga, Spain Early Life: Picasso's father, fortuitously, was an art teacher who quickly realized he had a boy genius on his hands and (almost as quickly) taught his son everything he knew. At the tender age of 14, Picasso passed the entrance exam to the Barcelona School of Fine Arts - in just one day. By the early 1900s, Picasso had moved to Paris, the "capital of the arts". There he found friends in Henri Matisse , Joan Miró and George Braque , and a burgeoning reputation as a painter of note. continue reading below our video Quick Tip: Guide to Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Body of Work: Before, and shortly after, moving to Paris, Picasso's painting was in its "Blue Period" (1900-1904), which eventually gave way to his "Rose Period" (1905-1906). It wasn't until 1907, though, that Picasso really raised a commotion in the art world. His painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon marked the beginning of Cubism . Having caused such a stir, Picasso spent the next fifteen years seeing what, exactly, could be done with Cubism (such as putting paper and bits of string in a painting, thus inventing the collage). The Three Musicians (1921), pretty much summed up Cubism for Picasso. For the rest of his days, no one style could maintain a hold on Picasso. In fact, he was known to use two or more different styles, side by side, within a single painting. One notable exception is his Surrealistic painting Guernica (1937), arguably one of the greatest pieces of social protest ever created. Picasso lived long and, indeed, prospered. He grew fabulously wealthy from his phenomenal output (including erotically themed ceramics), took up with younger and younger women, entertained the world with his outspoken remarks, and painted almost right up until he died at the age of 91. Date and Place of Death: April 8, 1973, Mougins, France Quote: |
Feb 15, 1954 saw the birth of what famed cartoonist, who got his start with the comic strip Life In Hell before moving on to a couple of mildly successful TV shows? | IMDb: Most Popular People With Biographies Matching "The Strip" Most Popular People With Biographies Matching "The Strip" 51-100 of 913 names. Amber Lynn Adult-film star Amber Lynn was born Laura Allen in Orange, CA, in 1964 (not 1963, as is often mistakenly listed) and raised there. In the early 1980s she was a bikini and figure model in Los Angeles and part of the notorious Sunset Strip club scene when she met Althea Flynt , wife of "Hustler" magazine publisher Larry Flynt . She did some photo spreads for Hustler, taken by famed photographer Clive McLean , then did shoots for "Chic", "Penthouse", "Playboy", "High Society" and "Club" men's magazines. She soon got into the adult-film business, debuting in Bobby Hollander 's Personal Touch III . She spent the next few years in the adult-film business, then crossed over to become a featured dancer on the "gentleman's club" circuit--the first adult-film star to do so. She was earning up to $25,000 a week performing in clubs all over the US and Canada, to packed houses. In addition to her adult work, she has also had parts in several non-adult Hollywood productions, such as 52 Pick-Up with Roy Scheider and directed by John Frankenheimer , and Evils of the Night with John Carradine and Julie Newmar , and has appeared on The Man Show with Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel . She is a member of the Adult Video News (AVN) Hall of Fame and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Free Speech Coalition (FSC). She has been a vocal opponent of the Los Angeles "Safer Sex in the Adult-Film Industry" initiative, which would mandate condom use in adult films shot in Los Angeles County. Since 1992 she has been involved in the Youth AIDS Foundation of Los Angeles, the first charity to accept contributions from the adult industry. Amber Lynn has been a major part of the adult-film industry for almost 30 years and is one of the most recognizable names--and faces--inside and outside the business. She has appeared in over 350 films and more than 200 mens magazines and hosts her own radio show, "Amber Lynn Rock-N-SeXXXy-Uncensored", on LATalkRadio.com. Theresa Randle Born in Los Angeles in 1964, Theresa Randle began her performing career by studying dance (traditional, modern, jazz) and comedy. She entered Beverly Hills High School, with a special program for the exceptionally gifted. At the end of college she earned her first role at the Los Angeles Inner City Cultural Center and was seen in commercials. Theresa was also involved in acting on the stage, with roles in such productions as "In Command of the Children", "Sonata", "6 Parts of Musical Broadway" and "Fight the Good Fight". In 1987 she got her first big-screen break with Maid to Order . For the next three years she appeared (in small roles) in such movies as Easy Wheels and Heart Condition , with Denzel Washington). She continued in small roles by great directors such as Abel Ferrara ( King of New York ) and Spike Lee ( Jungle Fever and Malcolm X ). In 1995 she starred in Beverly Hills Cop III and Bad Boys (with Will Smith ). In 1996 she earned her first starring role in Spike Lee's Girl 6 , playing a young, out-of-work actress who gets caught up in the seductive, yet dark, world of phone sex. She has also appeared in Space Jam , with Michael Jordan (and a bevy of classic Warner Bros. cartoon characters) and recently in the film adaptation of the comic strip Spawn , with Martin Sheen ). Wendell Corey Wendell Corey was a hard-working American character actor who appeared in numerous movies and television productions in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. Born on March 20, 1914 in Dracut, Massachusetts, in the northeastern part of the Commonwealth near the New Hampshire border, Corey was the son of a Congregationalist clergyman. After receiving his education, Corey began his acting career in summer stock. During the Depression he worked with the Federal Theater Project, part of the Works Progress Administration that had been created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to put the unemployed to work. It was while working with the Federal Theater P |
The 15th of Feb, 1989 saw the Russians withdraw their troops from what country, following a futile 9 year war? | Russia In World War 2 Russia In World War 2 The great war plan, preparations, collapse, and recovery - a revised view The history of Russia in World War 2 is still being revised. In the first decades after World War 2, the historiography of Russia's part in the war in between 1939 and the end of 1941, was largely based on a combination of the strictly censored Russian state propaganda's version and of what was known outside Russia, which was then closed behind the "Iron Curtain" of the Cold War. Eventually, two new factors provided new insights and new proofs which enable a revision that let us get much closer to the truth. The first factor was the great and laborious work of a few open-minded 2nd generation independent researchers like Viktor Suvorov and Mark Solonin, which applied analytic approaches to the vast scope of publicly available Russian wartime and post-war documentation and literature, detected thousands of small details of information that slipped over the years through the Soviet censorship, and processed these into coherent new insights which dramatically changed our perception of what happened, both before the German invasion (Suvorov's work), and after it started (Solonin's work). First and foremost of these researchers was Vladimir Rezun (known by his pen name Viktor Suvorov), a Russian military intelligence officer who applied his deep knowledge of intelligence gathering and analysis methods, and of Russian military doctrines, to Russia's World War 2 military literature, with dramatic results. The second factor was the partial removal of the deep cover of censorship from Russian military and state archives for a period of just five years, between the collapse of the Communist Soviet Union in 1991 and the gradual recovery of conservative nationalism in the Russian government, marked, for example, by the rise to power of Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer. This gap of five years of relative openness was used by historians to access previously closed archives and reach documents which provide previously unavailable proofs that further support the claims of Suvorov and the other researchers. Since the mid-1990s, 'mainstream' western historiography increasingly accepts both the main claims and the main supporting facts and evidence of the pioneering work of researchers like Suvorov, and the "history as we know it" of Russia in World War 2 is being re-written. The 'old' historiography of Russia in 1939-1941 can be summarized to this: In August 1939 Stalin's Communist Russia signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler's Nazi Germany in order to keep the aggressive Hitler away from Russia. The two dictatorships' mighty armies then attacked and occupied Poland from West and East and divided it between them. While Hitler occupied half of Europe from Norway to Greece, Russia occupied the Baltic states and parts of Finland and Romania. To keep Hitler appeased all this time, Stalin's Russia provided Germany, as agreed, with large quantities of war materials and even operational support services to assist the German war effort. On June 22, 1941, Germany, together with its allies (Finland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy), invaded Russia in a gigantic surprise attack. The mighty German military, the most efficient in the world then, applied its successful Blitzkrieg tactic, and the terrible unpreparedness and deployment in concentrations close to the border of the giant Russian army, helped the Germans to achieve tremendous and rapid victories that defeated the brave and fully equipped but surprised and unprepared Russians, forcing millions of encircled Russian soldiers to surrender. Hitler's German military, exhausted and not equipped for the harsh Russian winter, was finally stopped just before Moscow. Russia survived and recovered from its enormous losses, increased its strength while fighting fiercely, and eventually pushed the Germans all the way back to Berlin, emerging from the long and terrible war as a super-power, an equal only to the United States. Most of this story is correct, but there are two major |
First published in 1858, what anatomy textbook has become synonymous with the subject? | Wellcon | About the medical images About the Medical Imagery Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale is widely considered to be the founder of modern nursing education through her efforts to start The Nightingale School of Nurses that opened in 1860 and continues today at Kings College London. Florence Nightingale rose to prominence through her singular efforts in taking care of soldiers during the Crimean War. She became known as the "Lady with the Lamp" due to her habit of making solitary nocturnal rounds with a hand-held lamp to check on her soldier-patients at night. Her lamp continues to be a very important symbol in nursing education today. Upon return to Britain after the war, she focused on training nurses as well as working diligently to improve sanitary conditions in Britain and India. She was a pioneer of using statistics and graphics to investigate mortality and disease. The image used in this website is a statue of her located in Waterloo Place, London. H1N1 Virus This image is an electron microscope view of the H1N1 virus which shows its spherical structure and the spiked glycoproteins extend out from the lipid membrane that envelops this virus. These glycoproteins are known as neuraminidase (NA) and hemagglutinin (HA). These glycoproteins are very important for disease management in that these are the proteins against which vaccines are developed and against which the current medications of Tamiflu and Relenza act. The virus attaches to human cells via the hemagglutinin protein spike. Influenza viruses are named for the glycoproteins that are expressed on their surface. There are 16 HA subtypes and 9 NA subtypes. However, historically only H1, H2, and H3 and N1 and N2 have infected humans with any severity. Double Helix of DNA DNA contains the genetic instructions for most living organisms on earth. The code made up of a repeating sequence of base pairs that are held together in a long polymer of sugars and phosphate groups held together by ester bonds. This simple structure repeated over and over forms the iconic shape of the double helix that was discovered by James D. Watson and Francis Crick in 1953 by using X-ray diffraction to obtain graphical images of molecular structure. They based their structural hypothesis on a famous X-ray diffraction image famously known as Photo 51 whose image is widely available on the internet. The photo was actually taken by Rosalind Franklin and considerable controversy exists over who really discovered the structure of DNA. Nonetheless, Watson and Crick were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 for their discovery of DNA's molecular structure. Skeleton and the History of Anatomy The history of Gross Anatomy traces back to 1600 BC in Egypt with early papyrus recording of major anatomical structures. The most famous ancient anatomist was Galen who used animal vivisection to derive general principles of human anatomy and wrote a textbook that remained relevant for 1500 years. It wasn't until the 16th Century that Vesalius challenged many of the principles from Galen and advanced the science of anatomy. Throughout the 17th and 18th Centuries most major artists studied anatomy and even participated in public dissections to advance their abilities to draw the human form. However, human bodies remained in scarce supply until English Parliament passed the Anatomy Act of 1832, which greatly opened the availability of bodies for scientific study. The seminal work of the time was Gray's Anatomy that was first published in 1858 and produced a single massive volume of anatomy intended to assist contemporary doctors. For most of us currently practicing medicine, Frank Netter was the anatomist and medical artist who taught a generation of physicians with his beautiful and thoughtful images. Today, most students learn anatomy from the Visible Human Project that is a virtual 3-dimensional atlas of normal male and female anatomy created by the National Library of Medicine. Stethoscope The stethoscope is considered the symbol of the health |
Bartlett, Bosc, d'Anjou and Choke are all types of what? | Pear Varieties Info - Bartlett, Bosc, Asian, D'Anjou Pear Fruit Flemish Beauties, and Red Clapp There are more than 5,000 pear varieties grown worldwide. Bartlett pears are most versatile and most commonly found pear fruit in supermarkets. They are excellent canned, fresh, and in salads and pear desserts. The pear is actually a member of the rose family, and a cousin to the apple, and is one of the oldest fruits known to man. They are thought to have originated is China or Asia, and migrated to North America with colonists in the early 1700's, and are also one of the first fruits to be brought to North America from Europe. As one of the few fruits that do not mature well if allowed to ripen on the tree, pears are usually picked before they are ripe, and are a later harvest fruit in the Okanagan British Columbia. Those that do ripen on the tree will have a gritty texture and the flesh will turn brown and soft. Once harvested, pears are packed and stored in cold storage in the packinghouse. The shape of a pear varies from apple to teardrop shaped. It's skin color ranges from light yellow through to red and brown. The flesh of a pear is juicy and in some varieties, such as Asian pears, almost translucent. A rich, sweet and buttery flavor, pears are delicious on their own, in desserts and sweets, and are outstanding in main dishes. They are so tender they were once called the "butter fruit". They can be baked, pickled, canned, frozen, used in baby food, or processed into jams, jellies and pies. Although they were once exclusively a fall and winter fruit, pears today, thanks to modern storage and transportation methods, are available in the markets nearly year-round. Okanagan Pear Varieties Yellow Bartlett Yellow Bartlett pears are the most common pear variety world-wide. They have clear yellow skin when ripe. The flesh of a Bartlett is juicy and sweet with a smooth texture, making them ideal for eating fresh. Bartlett pears are nearly bell shaped, are also extremely aromatic pears, and have that distinct "pear flavor". Bartlett's are very commonly used for canning because they keep their flavor even after heating, and will hold their shape well when baked or poached. Try a sliced Bartlett in a garden green salad with your favorite dressing. Or, simply serve a freshly sliced Bartlett with cheese for an appetizing snack. When choosing a Bartlett pear look for one that is bright and fresh looking with no bruises or external damage. It will change color as it ripens. Yellow Bartletts turn from light green to golden yellow. In the Okanagan Bartlett pears mature beginning the end of August and are available through December. Red Bartlett Pears The Red Bartlett, known also as 'Max Red', was first discovered on a regular Bartlett tree near Zillah, Washington in 1938. Red Bartlett pears have all the wonderful flavor and sweet aroma of the regular Bartlett, plus a beautiful red skin color. They can vary in color from a light red vertical striping over a green background to a dark, solid maroon color. In almost all respects, Red Bartlett pears are nearly the same as Yellow Bartletts. As they ripen, Red Bartletts color brightens to a clear, strong red, as the green background pigments change to yellow, just as they do in the green Bartlett variety. They add a beautiful contrast of color in fruit bowls and baskets, while providing the delicious flavors and smooth textures of Yellow Bartletts. Red Bartlett pear varieties are excellent eaten fresh or in salads, canned, baked or poached, and even prepared as roasted pears. When ripe, Red Bartlett pears give off a sweet aroma. This pear also bruises easily when ripe. Because of their flavor and sweetness, Red Bartlett pear varieties are a good, all-around choice for pear preserves, syrups, pear sauce and chutneys, in pear dessert recipes, and for a favorite homemade pear jam recipe. D'Anjou Pear (On-ju)ett Pears D'Anjou pear varieties are the main winter pear grown in B.C., and are available in both red and green pears. D'Anjou pears grown commercial |
Feb 18, 1885 saw the first US publication of what Mark Twain classic, notable for a recently announced version that will make liberal use of the word indian and slave? | Mark Twain : definition of Mark Twain and synonyms of Mark Twain (English) Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist . He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel , Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), [2] the latter often called "the Great American Novel ." Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri , which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He apprenticed with a printer. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River , before heading west to join Orion. He was a failure at gold mining, so he next turned to journalism. While a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ", which became very popular and brought nationwide attention. His travelogues were also well received. Twain had found his calling. He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. His wit and satire earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents , artists, industrialists, and European royalty. He lacked financial acumen, and, though he made a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he squandered it on various ventures, in particular the Paige Compositor , and was forced to declare bankruptcy. With the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers he eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain worked hard to ensure that all of his creditors were paid in full, even though his bankruptcy had relieved him of the legal responsibility. Twain was born during a visit by Halley's Comet , and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as well. He died the day following the comet's subsequent return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," [3] and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature ." [4] Contents 18 External links Early life Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He was the son of Jane (née Lampton; 1803–1890), a native of Kentucky, and John Marshall Clemens (1798–1847), a Virginian by birth. His parents met when his father moved to Missouri and were married several years later, in 1823. [5] [6] He was the sixth of seven children but only three of his siblings survived childhood: his brother Orion (1825–1897), Henry, who died in a riverboat explosion (1838–1858), and Pamela (1827–1904). His sister Margaret (1833–1839) died when he was three, and his brother Benjamin (1832–1842) died three years later. Another brother, Pleasant (1828–1829), died at six months. [7] Twain was born two weeks after the closest approach to Earth of Halley's Comet . When he was four, Twain's family moved to Hannibal, Missouri , [8] a port town on the Mississippi River that inspired the fictional town of St. Petersburg in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. [9] Missouri was a slave state and young Twain became familiar with the institution of slavery , a theme he would later explore in his writing. Twain's father was an attorney and judge. [10] The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad was organized in his office in 1846. The railroad connected the second and third largest cities in the state and was the westernmost United States railroad until the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad . It delivered mail to and from the Pony Express . [11] Samuel Clemens, age 15 In 1847, when Twain was 11, his father died of pneumonia . [12] The next year, he became a printer's apprentice. In 1851, he began working as a typesetter and contributor of articles and humorous sketches for the Hannibal Journal, a newspaper owned by his brother Orion. When he was 18, he left Hannibal and worked as a printer in New York City, Philadelphia , St. Louis , and Cincinnati . He joined the newly formed International Typographical Union , the printers union , and educated himself in public librari |
Feb 13, 2000 saw the last original installment of what comic strip, following the death of its creator, Charles Shultz? | Farewell, Charles Schulz Heart attack a day before final comic runs Feb. 13, 2000 By TIM TESCONI Santa Rosa Press Democrat Staff Writer Charles M. Schulz, the barber's son from Minnesota who sketched his way to international fame as the creator of "Peanuts,'' the most popular comic strip in the history of newspapers, died of a heart attack Saturday. He was 77. Schulz had been battling colon cancer since last fall. His son, Craig, said Schulz died about 9:30 p.m. Craig Schulz said that earlier Saturday his father "was fine -- like he'd been for the last week or so.'' Although Schulz had been seriously ill for many weeks, attorney and friend Ed Anderson said his death was sudden and unexpected. And it was ironic, he said, that his death came the night before his final new strip was to appear. Anderson said Schulz had been anxious about today's strip and the fact that it signaled the end of his career. "I think it's been very difficult for him,'' Anderson said. Schulz' physical condition had been diminished, but despite all that he continued to go to his office and the nearby Redwood Empire Ice Arena that he built. And he had planned to go to Monday night's performance of the Santa Rosa Symphony. His speech was impacted, but he continued to talk with friends and well-wishers who phoned him at his home. A shy and introverted man, Schulz avoided the limelight while making Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy and Linus household words and "Peanuts'' a cultural phenomenon. Snoopy went to the moon aboard an Apollo spacecraft and Linus' security blanket is in the dictionary. "Peanuts'' appears in 2,600 newspapers, with an estimated 350 million people in 75 countries turning to the comic strip each day to glean a simple joke, a dash of philosophy, a dose of dark humor. Schulz was Sonoma County's most famous resident during the last half of the century, gracing the community with quiet celebrity and the generous gifts his success made possible. As the creator of the most popular comic strip in history, the unassuming artist enjoyed world acclaim and received many accolades. He won five Emmys, two Peabody awards, the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government and the Cartoonists Hall of Fame. He had his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and even a personal invitation to meet the Pope, who numbered among the millions of Peanuts' fans. The universal appeal of the Peanuts characters has been attributed to "their sophisticated melding of wry wisdom and sly one-upmanship.'' It was all part of Schulz' quiet genius and a reflection of a personality streaked with melancholy. "The only thing I really ever wanted to be was a cartoonist,'' Schulz repeatedly said in interviews. "That's my life. Drawing.'' Paola Muggia Stuff, the director of San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum, once said in an interview that Schulz's personality was reflected in the ageless characters he created -- characters whose desires proved perpetually elusive. Charlie Brown pines for the Little Red Haired Girl he can never approach. Lucy loves Schroeder, who only cares for Beethoven. "He (Schulz) would love to say he was Snoopy but he's not often a Snoopy personality,'' she said. "He's got the crabbiness of Lucy; he feels as lonely and out of place as Charlie Brown. He's all of those characters.'' The nickname Schulz's association with comic strips began in infancy when he was nicknamed "Sparky'' after Sparkplug, the horse in the Barney Google cartoon. The name stuck, and Schulz was called "Sparky'' by friends and family throughout his life. From the time he could pick up a pencil, Schulz was drawing, driven by an obsession to succeed at his chosen craft. He remembered that visiting his dying grandfather in the hospital he chanced upon a how-to book for wannabe cartoonists. "I bet I read that thing a thousand times,'' Schulz recalled. He took drawing lessons from a correspondence school and later taught there, picking up extra money by doing the lettering, turning his jittery pencil scrawl into a firm ink line. There were the usual rejections from editors and syndica |
Currently the most fuel efficient car (as rated by the EPA), what is the name of the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle introduced by Chevrolet in December? | America’s Five Most Fuel Efficient Family Sedans America’s Five Most Fuel Efficient Family Sedans Hide Fuel economy for the hotly contested family sedan segment has improved quite a bit in the past several years. All the cars featured below are rated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for at least 40 mpg combined. Only one is a plug-in hybrid, which the EPA places ahead of other plug-in hybrid variants themselves trailing only marginally behind. A big asterisk is needed in qualifying “most fuel efficient.” This list defers to the EPA’s ranking sensibility, but there are other ways to look at things. Namely, if you can take advantage of plug-in electricity with PHEVs, that type of drivetrain stands to save further on energy costs with zero range anxiety still included. SEE ALSO: Which Used Hybrids Are The Best Bet? If, for example, you drove the Ford Fusion Energi or C-Max Energi with maximum electric usage – possibly augmented with intraday charging to extend EV range – your daily average energy usage could potentially be lower depending on driving distance. The same is true of the 53-mile EV range 2016 Chevy Volt . As a compact-class car, it is smaller than all the vehicles here, however. All the “family” cars on the following list are midsized or large, and comfortably fit five passengers. In any event, the EPA’s scoring accounts for averaged usage scenarios with 15,000 miles annually, and one thing about regular hybrids which it ranks highest is they are relatively consistent – they always use gas, true, but their energy budget is more steady. 47 mpg projected Malibu Hybrid . Another qualifier is this list, by EPA reckoning, is of “sedans.” One of the cars, by our reckoning is not sedan, but the EPA calls it one. Worth observing also, but not on this list, is the pending 2016 Chevy Malibu Hybrid. It uses a modified variant of the Volt’s transmission, and is projected to rank better than our present number-one mpg car, and could be very competitive. As an honorable mention also is for the 2015 Honda Accord Hybrid introduced for 2014, and already discontinued for 2016. Its 50 mpg city, 45 highway, 47 combined would have made it the mpg champ on our list. “Due to the move of Accord Hybrid production from Marysville to Japan, we decided to skip the 2016 model year for Accord Hybrid and bring the model back for the 2017 MY with an updated 2-motor hybrid system,” said Honda’s Northeast Regional Manager Chris Naughton. “Stay tuned for more details, including specific timing.” 5. 2016 Hyundai Sonata Plug-in Hybrid 38 mpg city, 41 highway, 40 combined The highest-mpg overall plug-in hybrid by EPA accounting, and the only one on this list is the Sonata PHEV . Powered by a 2.0-liter GDI engine mated to plug-in hybrid architecture, it packs a larger battery than other PHEVs, and its 27-mile “all-electric range” is is second only to the Volt . The front-wheel-drive mid-sized Sonata is roomy and with respectable power for 0-60 times perhaps in the 7-8 second range. 4. 2016 Ford C-Max Hybrid 42 mpg city, 37 highway, 40 combined The C-Max is the oddball here, as the EPA lists it with “sedans,” however it is not a sedan, but a max-sized hatchback. SEE ALSO: 2014 Ford C-Max Hybrid Overview Interior space for the car classed as “large” by the EPA is excellent, and power to the front wheels is supplied by a 2.0-liter four merged with electric power. This was Ford’s answer to the Prius a few years ago, and aggressive posturing early on positioned it as larger, faster, more fun to drive, and with nearly as good mpg as the generation-three Prius’ 50 mpg. Since then, the 2016 Prius has also grown slightly, and has improved mpg. The Prius v wagon , for that matter is worth looking at as well. And, Ford has had to downgrade its official mpg twice – and for Fusion variants once – since it pinned on an ambitious 47 mpg window sticker, but the C-Max does remain larger and quicker. Notable also, is the 2016 C-Max Energi Plug-in Hybrid variant of this car would have ranked seventh place. 3. 2016 Toyota Camry Hybrid LE 43 mpg city, 41 highw |
What American folk hero, steel drivin' man that he is, is best known for having raced against a steam powered hammer and won? | Who Was John Henry? Celebrating the Plasticity of America’s Steel-Driving Folk Hero | The Bluegrass Situation Who Was John Henry? Celebrating the Plasticity of America’s Steel-Driving Folk Hero September 22nd, 2014 / By Kenneth Partridge Even in ever-malleable America, some things are constant. Work stinks, yet work is everything. Paychecks equal pride. Progress marches on. A man is just a man, but given the will and the opportunity, he can be so much more. Also: It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. John Henry had that swing. Literally. He needed it for his job -- one of the worst a man could have in 1870s America. As stogie-chomping railroad tycoons raced to lay track, building a shipping and transportation network that would be obsolete within a century, these gods of industry needed mortal men to help them move mountains. Henry, perhaps the most enduring of all American folk heroes, was one of these men. In some versions of his story -- and there are hundreds, if not thousands -- the “steel-driving man” hammers spikes, leaving fresh track in his wake. If there was a real John Henry, though, he had the arguably less glamorous job of pounding away on drill bits, boring deep holes for the dynamite that made way for tunnels. It was a backbreaking two-man job in which another poor soul, known as a “shaker,” crouched down and turned the drill after each hammer strike. If the sheer physicality of the work didn’t kill them, silicosis -- a respiratory disease brought on by inhaling blast dust -- surely would. And yet, these lowly laborers wanted to keep their jobs -- so much so that when the railroad companies began introducing steam-powered drills, they didn’t exactly jump for joy. John Henry didn’t, anyway. As the story goes, he told his boss he could drive steel faster than any doggone machine, and to prove it, he proposed a contest: He’d go head-to-head with that newfangled steam drill, and in a set amount of time, he’d cover more ground. Henry won the race but paid the ultimate price. As every school kid and folk singer in the country knows, the effort he exerted beating that drill killed him on the spot. He keeled over with hammer in hand, dignity intact. It’s a simple story -- man triumphs over machine -- loaded with racial, political, and sexual subtext. And then there’s the historical debate. In his 2006 book Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend, Scott Reynolds Nelson examines the most common theory, that John Henry was a real person who worked on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in the decade following the Civil War. While many believe Henry’s famous contest took place between 1869 and 1871 at the Big Bend Tunnel near Talcott, West Virginia, Nelson did some digging and drew some alternate conclusions. He also shed some light on who this Henry character might have been. As Nelson writes, there’s no record of steam drills being used at Big Bend, so the race likely took place 40 miles away, at the Lewis Tunnel, between Talcott and Millboro, Virginia. Having combed through historical records, Nelson suggests Henry was an African American from New Jersey who’d fought for the Union before landing in jail for theft. In those days, prison wardens would lease out inmates to railroad companies, and that’s certainly one way a man like Jersey’s John Henry -- just 20 at the time of his supposed contest -- would have wound up whacking away for the C&O. Others insist the historical John Henry was born a slave in Virginia, and that he worked on the Columbus and Western Railway near Leeds, Alabama. There’s documentation to support this hypothesis, which holds that the contest took place on September 29, 1887, at the Coosa Mountain or Oak Mountain Tunnel. The ‘Bama Henry would have been 43 -- a “reasonable age for a champion steel driver,” according to folklorist John Garst . Though the people of Talcott and Leeds would likely disagree, it doesn’t really matter where Henry was from, or whether he even existed. Yes, the facts are fascinating, but it’s the story that continues to capture the |
What French mathematician and philosopher, devised roulette while trying to attain perpetual motion, and also invented the hydraulic press and the syringe? | Txt.03 - Std'11 - Physics - Part-II by Saurabh Suman - issuu CONTENTS FOREWORD PREFACE A NOTE FOR THE TEACHERS C H A P T E R iii vii x 9 MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 Introduction Elastic behaviour of solids Stress and strain Hooke’s law Stress-strain curve Elastic moduli Applications of elastic behaviour of materials C H A P T E R 231 232 232 234 234 235 240 10 MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 Introduction Pressure Streamline flow Bernoulli’s principle Viscosity Reynolds number Surface tension C H A P T E R 246 246 253 254 258 260 261 11 THERMAL PROPERTIES OF MATTER 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 11.9 11.10 Introduction Temperature and heat Measurement of temperature Ideal-gas equation and absolute temperature Thermal expansion Specific heat capacity Calorimetry Change of state Heat transfer Newton’s law of cooling C H A P T E R 274 274 275 275 276 280 281 282 286 290 12 CK xii 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 12.8 12.9 12.10 12.11 12.12 12.13 Zeroth law of thermodynamics Heat, internal energy and work First law of thermodynamics Specific heat capacity Thermodynamic state variables and equation of state Thermodynamic processes Heat engines Refrigerators and heat pumps Second law of thermodynamics Reversible and irreversible processes Carnot engine C H A P T E R 300 300 302 303 304 305 308 308 309 310 311 13 KINETIC THEORY 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 Introduction Molecular nature of matter Behaviour of gases Kinetic theory of an ideal gas Law of equipartition of energy Specific heat capacity Mean free path C H A P T E R 318 318 320 323 327 328 330 14 OSCILLATIONS 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 14.6 14.7 14.8 14.9 14.10 Introduction Periodic and oscilatory motions Simple harmonic motion Simple harmonic motion and uniform circular motion Velocity and acceleration in simple harmonic motion Force law for simple harmonic motion Energy in simple harmonic motion Some systems executing SHM Damped simple harmonic motion Forced oscillations and resonance C H A P T E R 336 337 339 341 343 345 346 347 351 353 15 WAVES 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 Introduction Transverse and longitudinal waves Displacement relation in a progressive wave The speed of a travelling wave The principle of superposition of waves Reflection of waves 363 365 367 369 373 374 CK 9.1 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 Introduction Elastic behaviour of solids Stress and strain Hooke’s law Stress-strain curve Elastic moduli Applications of elastic behaviour of materials Summary Points to ponder Exercises Additional exercises OF SOLIDS INTRODUCTION In Chapter 7, we studied the rotation of the bodies and then realised that the motion of a body depends on how mass is distributed within the body. We restricted ourselves to simpler situations of rigid bodies. A rigid body generally means a hard solid object having a definite shape and size. But in reality, bodies can be stretched, compressed and bent. Even the appreciably rigid steel bar can be deformed when a sufficiently large external force is applied on it. This means that solid bodies are not perfectly rigid. A solid has definite shape and size. In order to change (or deform) the shape or size of a body, a force is required. If you stretch a helical spring by gently pulling its ends, the length of the spring increases slightly. When you leave the ends of the spring, it regains its original size and shape. The property of a body, by virtue of which it tends to regain its original size and shape when the applied force is removed, is known as elasticity and the deformation caused is known as elastic deformation. However, if you apply force to a lump of putty or mud, they have no gross tendency to regain their previous shape, and they get permanently deformed. Such substances are called plastic and this property is called plasticity. Putty and mud are close to ideal plastics. The elastic behaviour of materials plays an important role in engineering design. For example, while designing a building, knowledge of elastic properties of materials l |
A part of the Bill of Rights, which constitutional amendment protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms? | Second Amendment - U.S. Constitution - FindLaw U.S. Constitution Amendment Text | Annotations A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. 2nd Amendment Annotations Prior to the Supreme Court's 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, 1 the courts had yet to definitively state what right the Second Amendment protected. The opposing theories, perhaps oversimplified, were (1) an "individual rights" approach, whereby the Amendment protected individuals' rights to firearm ownership, possession, and transportation; and (2) a "states' rights" approach, under which the Amendment only protected the right to keep and bear arms in connection with organized state militia units. 2 Moreover, it was generally believed that the Amendment was only a bar to federal action, not to state or municipal restraints. 3 However, the Supreme Court has now definitively held that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that weapon for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. Moreover, this right applies not just to the federal government, but to states and municipalities as well. In Heller, the Court held that (1) the District of Columbia's total ban on handgun possession in the home amounted to a prohibition on an entire class of "arms" that Americans overwhelmingly chose for the lawful purpose of self-defense, and thus violated the Second Amendment; and (2) the District's requirement that any lawful firearm in the home be disassembled or bound by a trigger lock also violated the Second Amendment, because the law made it impossible for citizens to use arms for the core lawful purpose of self-defense. The Court reasoned that the Amendment's prefatory clause, i.e., "[a] well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State," announced the Amendment's purpose, but did not limit or expand the scope of the operative clause, i.e., "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Moreover, the prefatory clause's history comported with the Court's interpretation, because the prefatory clause stemmed from the Anti-Federalists' concern that the federal government would disarm the people in order to disable the citizens' militia, enabling a politicized standing army or a select militia to rule. Further, the Court distinguished United States v.Miller, 4 in which the Court upheld a statute requiring registration under the National Firearms Act of sawed-off shotguns, on the ground that Miller limited the type of weapon to which the Second Amendment right applied to those in common use for lawful purposes. In McDonald v. Chicago, 5 the Court struck down laws enacted by Chicago and the village of Oak Park effectively banning handgun possession by almost all private citizens, holding that the Fourteenth Amendment incorporated the Second Amendment right, recognized in Heller, to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense. The Court reasoned that this right is fundamental to the nation's scheme of ordered liberty, given that self-defense was a basic right recognized by many legal systems from ancient times to the present, and Heller held that individual self-defense was "the central component" of the Second Amendment right. Moreover, a survey of the contemporaneous history also demonstrated clearly that the Fourteenth Amendment's Framers and ratifiers counted the right to keep and bear arms among those fundamental rights necessary to the Nation's system of ordered liberty. 554 U.S. ____ (2008). A sampling of the diverse literature in which the same historical, linguistic, and case law background is the basis for strikingly different conclusions includes: Staff of Subcomm. on the Constitution, Senate Comm. on the Judiciary, 97th Congress, 2d Sess., The Right to Keep and Bear Arms (Comm. Print 1982); Don B. Kates, Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment (1984); Gun Control |
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First held in 1877, what dog show, who recently announced a Scottish Deerhound named Hickory as Best in Show, is the longest running dog show, and second longest continuously held sporting event in the US, behind only the Kentucky Derby? | March 1, 2015 by The Sumter Item - issuu issuu Changes continue at Sumter Chamber Lakewood girls win 3A lower state title game D1 SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2015 | Serving South Carolina since October 15, 1894 B1 $1.50 2 locals win in different categories at national dog show BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY [email protected] Two dogs trained by Sumter County residents took The Westminster Kennel Club’s 139th Annual Dog Show by storm, winning the Best of Breed categories at the event held Feb. 16-17 in New York City. Pocotaligo’s Nama “Karoo” won in the Best of Breed category for Boykin Spaniels. The five-year-old Boykin is owned by Christina Gebhard and Kim Parkman of Sumter. “It was quite a thrill to win,” said Parkman. “We really felt like Karoo’s best chance to win was last year, but that didn’t happen. This year we decided to go again, and it worked out well.” Carolina’s Running With The Hare nicknamed “Blew” won in the Best of Breed category for American Water Spaniels. The threeyear-old spaniel is owned by David and Lois H. McCracken of Wedgefield. “The feeling is like having your child win Miss South Carolina,” said David McCracken. “It makes you very proud of your dog.” Both Parkman and the McCrackens have been involved in dog shows for a long time. SEE WINNERS, PAGE A7 SUMTER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE HOLDS TRAINING SESSION 16 officers, 13 agencies, 1 MRAP KEITH GEDAMKE / THE SUMTER ITEM Cpl. Jeff Hofer stands next to the MRAP he’s been driving for Sumter County Sheriff’s Office since last year. Sixteen officers from 13 state agencies participated in a training session with the vehicle on Thursday. “Whenever you have extreme situations, you want to be able to have an extreme response to that,” sheriff’s office spokesman Braden Bunch said. 16 learn to drive 27-ton armored tactical vehicle BY MATT BRUCE [email protected] The garage door slid open, and a 27ton armored truck emerged from its bay with the foreboding poise of a steam locomotive. The 54,000-pound transporter, a hulking military-styled tactical vehicle known as the MRAP Caiman, eased into a hazy junkyard behind the Sumter County Public Works armory amid a backdrop of battered, disabled and outdated squad cars and patrol vehicles. The tires of the massive truck dug into the sod as it turned to exit the armory, leaving deep tracks in the fresh mud. More than a dozen officers from across the state came onto the grounds of Sumter County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday to train on how to operate the weapons-resistant combat vehicle. Among them was Sumter County Deputy Jeff Hofer, who’s served as the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle driver since last year. “It’s an armored vehicle we can deploy to an active shooter situation,” Cpl. Hofer said. “It can get us right up front, close and personal with them. We can have the whole (SWAT Team) safe and in the vehicle to get us inside that building and get the scene safe and secure.” The federal government donated the vehicle to Sumter County Sheriff’s Office last year as an addition to its Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team. The bullet-proof vehicle is cased in reinforced steel and aluminum and built to veer into such perilous situations as hostage standoffs and dangerous terrain. There’s hope for a healthy heart Born with a heart defect that caused her to turn blue from lack of oxygenated blood, Rilee Hatfield shows off an award for raising money for the American Heart Association. She’s now 15, and so far, her family has given $50,000 to the nonprofit organization. Family shares experiences with daughter’s condition, treatment BY JADE REYNOLDS [email protected] Misty Hatfield is thankful her daughter was born when she was. “If she had been a baby five years before that, they didn’t have the correct technology,” VISIT US ONLINE AT the .com Hatfield said. “They didn’t have a heart-lung bypass for babies. So we are always very grateful.” Now 15, Rilee Hatfield was born with tetralogy of Fallot, a condition that causes low oxygen levels in the blood and leads to cyanosis, a bluishpurple tint to the skin, accord- ing to a Medli |
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What American inventor and industrialist, father of the modern assembly line, held 161 patents in his own name and started a moderately successful car company along the way? | Henry Ford - American founder of the Ford Motor Company - Famous Inventor Leo Baekeland - invented Velox photographic paper and Bakelite Henry Ford - American founder of the Ford Motor Company Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. He was a prolific inventor and was awarded 161 U.S. patents. As owner of the Ford Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism", that is, the mass production of large numbers of inexpensive automobiles using the assembly line, coupled with high wages for his workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. Ford did not believe in accountants; he amassed one of the world's largest fortunes without ever having his company audited under his administration. Henry Ford's intense commitment to lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put a dealership in every city in North America, and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation but arranged for his family to control the company permanently. Early years Henry Ford, 1888 Ford was born July 30, 1863, on a farm next to a rural town west of Detroit, Michigan (this area is now part of Dearborn, Michigan). His father, William Ford (1826–1905), was born in County Cork, Ireland. His mother, Mary Litogot Ford (1839–1876), was born in Michigan; she was the youngest child of Belgian immigrants; her parents died when Mary was a child and she was adopted by neighbours, the O'Herns. Henry Ford's siblings include Margaret Ford (1867–1868); Jane Ford (c. 1868–1945); William Ford (1871–1917) and Robert Ford (1873–1934). Henry took his passion for mechanics into his home. His father had given him a pocket watch in Henry's early teens. At 15, he had a reputation as a watch repairman, having dismantled and reassembled timepieces of friends and neighbors dozens of times. Ford's mother died in 1876, which came as a devastating blow to young Henry. His father expected him to eventually take over the family farm, but Henry despised farm work. With his mother dead, little remained to keep him on the farm. He later told his father, "I never had any particular love for the farm—it was the mother on the farm I loved." In 1879, he left home for the nearby city of Detroit to work as an apprentice machinist, first with James F. Flower & Bros., and later with the Detroit Dry Dock Co. In 1882, he returned to Dearborn to work on the family farm and became adept at operating the Westinghouse portable steam engine. He was later hired by Westinghouse company to service their steam engines. Ford married Clara Ala Bryant (c. 1865–1950) in 1888 and supported himself by farming and running a sawmill. They had a single child: Edsel Bryant Ford (1893-1943). In 1891, Ford became an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company, and after his promotion to Chief Engineer in 1893, he had enough time and money to devote attention to his personal experiments on gasoline engines. These experiments culminated in 1896 with the completion of his own self-propelled vehicle named the Ford Quadricycle, which he test-drove on June 4. After various test-drives, Ford brainstormed ways to improve the Quadricycle. Also in 1896, Ford attended a meeting of Edison executives, where he was introduced to Thomas Edison himself. Edison approved of Ford's automobile experimentation; encouraged by Edison's approval, Ford designed and built a second vehicle, which was completed in 1898. Backed by the capital of Detroit lumber baron William H. Murphy, Ford resigned from Edison and founded the Detroit Automobile Company on August 5, 1899. However, the automobiles produced were of a lower quality and higher price than Ford liked. Ultimately, the company was not successful and was dissolved in January 1901. Ford went to work b |
Feb 18, 2001 saw the death of what famed NASCAR driver, known as The Intimidator, a loss that is still mourned today by those who follow the sport? | Inside NASCAR: Earnhardt's everlasting legacy Inside NASCAR: Earnhardt's everlasting legacy February 10, 2011, David Caraviello, NASCAR.com Like Share Ten years later, icon's legacy continues to endure in the sport he left behind The statue stands in a tidy brick plaza just off Main Street, in a part of downtown Kannapolis, N.C., that was once in the shadow of a textile mill. Dale Earnhardt, all nine feet and 900 bronze-cast pounds of him, stares down with that little smirk, his arms folded, looking as sharp as ever in his Wrangler jeans and cowboy boots. It's a cold, rainy, weekday morning, so there are no visitors around, no pilgrims paying homage to the native of this hamlet who lost his life 10 years ago. Earnhardt, who made his living amid so much noise and chaos, stands watch this day over a small patch of quiet. The memorial was dedicated in October 2002, and by design, it's a place heavy on symbolism. The statue's pedestal is made of seven granite sections, one for each of Earnhardt's NASCAR championships, while the inside wall is comprised of 76 sections, one for each of his race victories. Flowers are planted in groups of three, in tribute to the late driver's iconic car number. At night the statue is lit by eight lights, commemorating the car number of Earnhardt's late father, Ralph. The surrounding walkway is in the shape of an oval, as if to signify a race track. But the items that evoke the most emotion are far more personal. Many of the benches surrounding the statue bear plaques identifying donors, with messages such as "My friend forever," or "He was the man." There are more messages on the bricks that comprise the plaza, often anonymous missives such as "I will never forget you" or "Happiness is the 1998 Daytona 500." There are tributes from locals, to be sure, but also from devotees from Massachusetts and Iowa and Ohio and New Jersey and Maryland, and a large black monument donated by fans in New York and Vermont. All of it is testimony to Earnhardt's broad appeal, to the man who through his life and death brought NASCAR to the pinnacle, to the one driver who so many could look at and see a little of themselves. "He put on no airs, made no excuses, didn't hide in his motor home, and really cared for his fans," recalled former Charlotte Motor Speedway promoter Humpy Wheeler, who now runs a consulting firm. "The mom and pops who worked for a living, the shrimp boat operators, the guy on the 'dozer, the carpenter and the welder were all his people who totally related to this man who came up from the bottom." Those people were moved en masse after the events of Feb. 18, 2001, when Earnhardt died from a skull fracture suffered in a crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500. There were memorials, candlelight vigils, the unveiling of statues in Daytona Beach and Kannapolis, No. 3s flanked by angel wings stuck to the back windows of pickup trucks from coast to coat. The outpouring of love and loss was unlike anything NASCAR had ever seen. Fans lost an iconic driver, of course, but also someone they viewed as one of their own -- a working man who had made it big. His famous, script numeral began to appear on toolboxes, fire helmets and hard hats. They mourned Earnhardt the way they would have a brother or an uncle, as the messages on those bricks around his statue would attest. "You would see him working on his farm, throwing hay with his cattle or working his chickens. He worked every day, and he enjoyed it," former car owner Richard Childress said. "And that's what the fans loved about him. ... I'd call him on his cell, if he'd answer it at that time. [He'd say,] 'I'm upstairs at the chicken house right now, I'll call you back,' or he'd be out mowing. He was a working man, and he related to our working-style race fans." But time, they say, heals all wounds. A decade has now passed since that dark day at Daytona, and commemorations of Earnhardt have morphed from grief into respectful remembrance. His fan base is 10 years older, has been rocked by an economic recession, a |
Going Rogue is a personal and political memoir, and NY Times #1 best seller, of what political figure? | Going Rogue: An American Life: Sarah Palin: 9780061939907: Amazon.com: Books From Booklist No good deed goes unpunished. Just ask Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s campaign manager and the guy who pushed Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate. Now, in Palin’s much-hyped book, he’s just a fat, smoking bullet-head who told her to “stick to the script.” The feeling running through Going Rogue is that Palin has been bursting to take a whack at those she believes didn’t do right by her during the campaign. (Katie Couric, we’re looking at you!) Before readers get to that, however, there’s personal biography. We’re introduced to Sarah the reader—loved to read—the basketball player, hunter, wife, mother. Then lots and lots of Alaska politics, which will probably be a little hard even for people from Alaska to plow through. (Scores are settled here, too.) Once Palin gets into the 2008 campaign, the tone is folksy, but the knives are out. Much has been made of her criticisms of Schmidt and another McCain staffer, Nicolle Wallace. But less has been said about Palin’s comments about Barack Obama. For instance, she notes that when she and husband Todd first heard Obama speak, they saw the wow factor but worried that his “smooth” talk would hide his radical ideas. She also implies that Obama wanted to shield only his own children from the press, though, in fact, in September 2008, he told CNN that Palin’s children must be off limits as well. Ronald Reagan’s name is mentioned by page 3 and invoked regularly throughout. There’s no doubt Palin sees herself as heir to his legacy. But many readers will see the Sarah Palin revealed in these pages as much closer to George Bush, someone you’d like to have a beer with. Or perhaps dinner: “I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals—right next to the mashed potatoes.” --Ilene Cooper --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. See all Editorial Reviews If you buy a new print edition of this book (or purchased one in the past), you can buy the Kindle edition for only $2.99 (Save 68%). Print edition purchase must be sold by Amazon. Learn more . For thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print-edition purchases now lets you buy the Kindle edition for $2.99 or less. (Textbooks available for $9.99 or less.) Thousands of books are eligible, including current and former best sellers. Look for the Kindle MatchBook icon on print and Kindle book detail pages of qualifying books. You can also see more Kindle MatchBook titles here or look up all of your Kindle MatchBook titles here . |
Feb 18, 1861 saw what man, immortalized on the face of Stone Mountain, Ga, was elected President of the Confederate States of America? | Stone Mountain, Georgia: The History, Monument, Controversy, and Commemorative Stamp | Portside Stone Mountain, Georgia: The History, Monument, Controversy, and Commemorative Stamp Printer-friendly version In 1970, the United States Post Office Department issued a 6 cent stamp to commemorate the Stone Mountain Memorial. Ken Lawrence summarizes the historical and political background of the memorial and suggests that the stamp was veiled gift to Southern advocates of white supremacy. Ken Lawrence United States Post Office stamp, issued in 1970 United States Postal Service // Linn's Stamp News Stone Mountain is the name of a dome-shaped mineral outcrop called a monadnock or a pluton, "the largest exposed mass of granite in the world," according to David B. Freeman, author of Carved in Stone: The History of Stone Mountain. It rises 780 feet from the surrounding area, is seven miles in circumference, covers 563 acres, and gives its name to a small town at the base of the rock, located about 16 miles east of Atlanta, Ga. Today Stone Mountain is best known as a tourist attraction that draws about four million visitors each year, lured by a carving on the bald battleship-gray vertical north face of the mountain that is the world's largest bas-relief sculpture, and from the poetic crescendo of Rev. Martin Luther King's Aug. 28, 1963, "I Have a Dream" speech: Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. Georgia has designated the sculpture and surrounding park as a monument to the Confederate States of America (CSA), which seceded from the United States and launched the 1861-1865 Civil War in a failed attempt to preserve the institution of forced, uncompensated labor based on the lifetime enslavement of Africans, their offspring, and their descendants. Equestrian images of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, and two Confederate generals, Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, are carved on the mountainside. History of Stone Mountain Indigenous Americans had inhabited the area for millennia, and had encircled the mountaintop with a rock wall long before the first European explorers arrived. In 1597, Spanish settlers along the Georgia coast heard stories about its striking appearance. By the end of the following century, English traders had been there. A sad consequence was an epidemic of alien diseases that decimated local tribes. In the 18th century, survivors formed the Creek Confederation to oppose further European incursion, with Stone Mountain as their ceremonial meeting ground, at the crossroads of trails to and from settlements throughout the region. The 1821 Treaty of Indian Springs opened the area to settlement by outsiders. Elected president in 1828, Andrew Jackson called for removal of eastern tribes to the West. Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830; federal troops expelled the Creeks and Cherokees from Georgia in the Trail of Tears forced march during 1838 and 1839. Meanwhile the government had established the Rock Mountain post office July 18, 1834, and renamed it Stone Mountain in January 1836. The village at the base of the mountain was incorporated as New Gibraltar on Dec. 21, 1839. In 1845, it moved half a mile west, and assumed its present name in 1847. Railroad connections with Atlanta and Augusta brought prosperity. By 1850, the scenic town had become a resort for city-dwellers on holidays as well as a hub for shipping farm produce and quarried granite to market. The 1860 census reported 164 white households and 290 slaves in the Stone Mountain area. Although a majority of DeKalb County voters opposed secession, local men enlisted in the Confederate Army shortly after war against the Union erupted April 12, 1861, at Fort Sumter, S.C. Confederate artillerymen used Stone Mountain as a target to test breech-loading cannon manufactured in Atlanta for accuracy. In the summer of 1864, federal t |
Active from 1973 to the present, what Bellevue based sisters front the rock band Heart? | Heart – Barracuda Utube Amazon Store Heart – Barracuda “Barracuda” is a song written and recorded by the rock band Heart. It was released as the first single from the band’s second album Little Queen (1977). The song is an aggressive hard rock number notable for a galloping guitar riff and its use of natural harmonics. Upon its release “Barracuda” became Heart’s second top-20 hit in the U.S., peaking at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has become the band’s signature song and is a staple on American classic rock radio playlists. In 2009, it was named the 34th best hard rock song of all time by VH1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Heart Craig Bartock Past members Heart is an American rock band who first found success in Canada. Throughout several lineup changes, the only two members remaining constant are sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. The group rose to fame in the 1970s with their music being influenced by hard rock as well as folk music. After diminishing in popularity for a couple of years in the early 80s, the band enjoyed a comeback in 1985, experiencing further successes with their power ballads and pop hits into the 1990s. Over their four-decade career, Heart has had chart successes with songs in genres ranging from hard rock and metal to folk rock. With Jupiter’s Darling (2004) and Red Velvet Car (2010), Heart made a return to their hard rock/acoustic roots of the late 70s. To date, Heart has sold over 35 million albums worldwide. Heart was ranked 57 on VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock”. In 1967 Steve Fossen formed The Army along with Roger Fisher on guitar, Don Wilhelm on guitar, keyboards and lead vocals, Ray Schaefer on drums. Fossen played the bass. They played for several years in and around the Bothell, Washington area (northeast of Seattle). They frequently played Bothell High School, Inglemoor High School and Shorecrest High School, as well as many taverns and club venues. They frequented the club “Parker’s” on Aurora Avenue in north Seattle during the 1970s when it was known as the “Aquarius Tavern”. In 1969 the band went through line-up changes (Gary Ziegelman on lead vocals, Roger on guitar, Steve on bass, James Cirrello on guitar, Ron Rudge on drums, Ken Hansen on percussion, and Debi Cuidon on vocals[ and a new name, White Heart (from Tales from the White Hart, a collection of short stories by Arthur C. Clarke). For a brief time in 1970 this line-up shortened its name to Heart; however, the band went through more personnel changes, and when Ann Wilson joined in late 1970, the band was named Hocus Pocus. Mike Fisher, Roger’s brother, was set to be drafted. Nancy Wilson has stated that when he did not report for duty, his home was raided, but he slipped out a rear window, escaped to Canada and became a Vietnam War draft dodger. One day in 1971, Mike crossed the border to visit family and, by chance, met Ann at a Hocus Pocus show. According to Nancy, that meeting was “when she and Michael fell in love” and Ann decided to follow Mike back to Canada. Steve Fossen finished his college education before he also decided to move to Canada in late 1972, and Roger followed in late 1972 / early 1973, and along with Mike and Ann, the band Heart was officially formed. Nancy joined in 1974, and soon after became involved with Roger. In 1974 the Heart lineup consisted of Ann, Nancy, Roger, Steve, John Hannah (keyboards), and Brian Johnstone (drums). Ann and Nancy Wilson The Wilson sisters grew up in Southern California and Taiwan before their Marine Corps father retired to the Seattle suburbs. After Ann graduated from Sammamish High School in Bellevue, Washington, she joined Roger Fisher in the band Hocus Pocus where she met Roger’s brother Mike in 1971, and followed him back to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Meanwhile, Nancy finished high school then went to college where she majored in art and German literature. She then played solo gigs until 1974 when she quit college and moved to Canada to join Heart. Success (1975–1981) Heart’s residency in Canada was long enough for the group to g |
Sunday was also the Chinese New Years. What year in the Chinese zodiac are we now in? | Happy Chinese New Year! How will London will celebrate the Year of the Monkey on Sunday? - Telegraph This year, Chinese New Year - The Year of the Monkey - began on February 8th and lasts until January 27th, 2017. Happy Chinese New Year! The proper London celebrations, set to be the biggest outside Asia, begin on Valentine's Day , Sunday February 14th. Thousands of people are expected to mark the occasion in London's Chinatown , where a parade traditionally takes place. Gerrard Street, in the Chinatown district of London ahead of celebrations to mark Chinese New Year on February 14th This huge Chinese New Year celebration will fill most of the West End with music, acrobatics, activities and pyrotechnics. A grand parade featuring ten lion dance teams will set of from Trafagar Square at 10am, and end up in the heart of Chinatown. On Wardour Street and Gerrard Street there will be craft stalls, Chinese street food stands and more traditional dance, plus a stage on Shaftesbury Avenue. On Charing Cross Road there will be musical performances from Chinese Young Culture Ambassadors and a martial arts display as well as crafts and workshops for the whole family. Regent Street will be celebrating Chinese New Year with a traditional Chinese Wishing Tree which will be stationed on Glasshouse Street from 11am – 3pm. A traditional Chinese Wishing tree The ancient tradition of the Wishing Tree is synonymous with good luck and fortune, and the legend goes that hanging your hopes for the coming year on a Wishing Tree will encourage your dreams to come true. Members of the public are invited to visit the tree and receive a bespoke wish written by an authentic Chinese calligrapher to take home along with a golden chocolate coin, for added good fortune. Where to eat Chinese food in London The 100 or so restaurants, bars and cafés in the area will have special menus and their own events on offer but book now to avoid disappointment. Sophie Campbell, our London expert, makes her recommendation Y Ming (020 7734 2721; yming.co.uk ) 35-36 Greek Street, W1: This place is small, friendly, not in the least bit interested in being hip and serves northern Chinese food, rather than the Cantonese you normally find in London. The vegetarian options are great and they do a pre-theatre menu for £12. Try the soft shell crab (£8.50) or the beef with coriander in a wrap (£11). They also say on the menu that if you want Peking Duck done properly it requires four hours' notice, so that's on my wish list. And I do like dim sum at the Royal China on Queensway, Bayswater (020 7221 2535; rcguk.co.uk ), partly because of the workmanlike servicing of huge circular tables full of Chinese families, business people and locals, and partly because they do great dumplings. I'm a sucker for the Shaolin Monk Hotpot, which has lots of bean curd in it and I always hope will be thrown across the room by a martial artist, and they do the sublime Mango Pudding, loathed by everyone I know except me. I consider it right up there in the culinary pantheon with Jam Roly Poly. They've got a number of other sites in London. There's a good one on Baker Street. • Chinatown London: the best restaurants Magical Lantern Festival London has been selected as the first city outside the Far East to host the Magical Lantern Festival , a dazzling extravaganza of lights, music theatre, culture and art. The Terracotta Army Photo: Anthony Upton/The Telegraph Tickets are now on sale from www.magicallantern.uk and runs from Febuary 3 to March 6 at Chiswick House Gardens in west London. What are the best recipes for Chinese New Year? From Sichuan-style vension and sticky pork ribs to fragrant crispy chicken and the most delicious, umami-rich, miso mushrooms. Celebrate the New Year at home with these scrumptious recipes . Photo: Andrew Crowley Lunar New Year coins The Royal Mint's latest collection Photo: Royal Mint The Royal Mint have even released commemorative lunar coins as part of their Shēngxiào (or Chinese zodiac) collection. It is traditional to exchange tokens and gifts of money in red env |
Who was convicted of the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr? | Conspiracy Trial | The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change mlk_pepper-08.JPG After four weeks of testimony and over 70 witnesses in a civil trial in Memphis, Tennessee, twelve jurors reached a unanimous verdict on December 8, 1999 after about an hour of deliberations that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. In a press statement held the following day in Atlanta, Mrs. Coretta Scott King welcomed the verdict, saying , “There is abundant evidence of a major high level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. And the civil court's unanimous verdict has validated our belief. I wholeheartedly applaud the verdict of the jury and I feel that justice has been well served in their deliberations. This verdict is not only a great victory for my family, but also a great victory for America. It is a great victory for truth itself. It is important to know that this was a SWIFT verdict, delivered after about an hour of jury deliberation. The jury was clearly convinced by the extensive evidence that was presented during the trial that, in addition to Mr. Jowers, the conspiracy of the Mafia, local, state and federal government agencies, were deeply involved in the assassination of my husband. The jury also affirmed overwhelming evidence that identified someone else, not James Earl Ray, as the shooter, and that Mr. Ray was set up to take the blame. I want to make it clear that my family has no interest in retribution. Instead, our sole concern has been that the full truth of the assassination has been revealed and adjudicated in a court of law… My husband once said, "The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice." To-day, almost 32 years after my husband and the father of my four children was assassinated, I feel that the jury's verdict clearly affirms this principle. With this faith, we can begin the 21st century and the new millennium with a new spirit of hope and healing.” |
With a height of 3212 feet, what Venezuelan waterfall is the tallest in the world? | The Highest Waterfalls In The World - WorldAtlas.com The Highest Waterfalls In The World The Spectacular Angel Falls Located In Canaima National Park, Venezuela, Is The Tallest In The World. Venezuela's 3,212-foot Angel Falls dominates this area in Canaima National Park. Waterfalls are beautiful, natural occurrences that attract onlookers all over the world. Waterfalls form where river rapids run over hard rock surfaces (like granite) with soft rock bases (like sandstone). The rushing water cuts away at the softer rock and creates a sort of step, or plunge pool. The plunge pool continues to grow as water continues to erode and eventually creating an overhang of the hard rock. The overhang is unstable and breaks off under the weight of the running water, thus creating the waterfall. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater spills over the edge of an ice shelf. This process leads to waterfall formation, no matter the height. The taller the falls, however, the more impressive they seem. This article takes a look at the highest waterfalls in the world. The Tallest Falls Angel Falls The absolute highest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls , located in the Canaima National Park in Venezuela. This waterfall is 3,212 feet tall, over half a mile! The falls lead into the Carrao River and are located in the rainforest. Tugela Falls The second tallest waterfall is in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. The Tugela Falls form a cascade of 3,110 feet. This waterfall runs through the Royal Natal National Park, a rocky mountainous and brush covered area, and is formed by the Tugela River. Tres Hermanas Falls Number 3 on the list is Tres Hermanas Falls. This impressive 2,999-foot waterfall is located in the Otishi National Park of Junin, Peru. It originates as the Cutivireni River, is surrounded by montane forest and falls in 3 different sections. Olo’Upena Falls The Olo’Upena Falls are next on the list at number 4. Molokai, Hawaii in the US is home to this 2,953-foot waterfall. Molokai is a tropical, volcanic island. These falls are notable because they can only be seen from air or ocean, no access trails. Yumbilla Falls Continuing, the list returns to Peru, this time to the Amazonas region. Here is the Yumbilla Falls, the fifth highest in the world. Surrounded by the Amazon rainforest yet still in the Andes mountains, this waterfall is tiered in 4 or 5 different parts that make up its 2,940 feet. The Utubamba River makes up the Yumbilla Falls. The Vinnufossen and Balåifossen of Norway Europe makes the list next. Both the Vinnufossen (2,822 feet) and the Balåifossen (2,789 feet) are located in Norway. Vinnufossen is the tallest waterfall in Europe and is part of the Vinnu River. The Balåi River forms the Balåifossen and it empties into the Osafjorden. Both fall off a tall mountain. James Bruce Falls The eighth tallest mountain in the world is in Canada. The James Bruce Falls are 2,756 feet tall and located in British Columbia. This waterfall holds the distinction of being the tallest in North America and originates from a snowfield. It empties into the Princess Louisa Inlet and is surrounded by breathtaking mountains. Pu’uka’oku Falls The same height as the James Bruce Falls, the Pu’uka’oku Falls are located in Hawaii. They are surrounded by lush, green mountains. Browne Falls Finally, number 10 on the list of the highest waterfalls in the world is Browne Falls. This waterfall is located on South Island, New Zealand in Fiordland Park. Browne Falls is in the middle of a temperate rainforest. Its 2,743 feet originate from a glacial mountain lake and fall into the Doubtful Sound. Tourism Waterfalls across the globe are just as, if not more, appealing to tourists as the Leaning Tower of Pisa, as not only do they provide something marvelous to behold with the eye, but they allow people to feel closer to nature, even awed become by it, as well. When properly protected and maintained, waterfalls can be an important source of tourism revenue for countries. Tourists may come to see the falls, but they spend money on lodging, food, and souvenirs while vi |
Which U.S. President was first Secretary of State, then vice president before finally holding the office of president, the only man to hold all 3 offices? | Presidential Elections - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com Presidential Elections A+E Networks Introduction Departing from the monarchical tradition of Britain, the founding fathers of the United States created a system in which the American people had the power and responsibility to select their leader. Under this new order, George Washington, the first U.S. president, was elected in 1789. At the time, only white men who owned property could vote, but the 15th, 19th and 26th Amendments to the Constitution have since expanded the right of suffrage to all citizens over 18. Taking place every four years, presidential campaigns and elections have evolved into a series of fiercely fought, and sometimes controversial, contests, now played out in the 24-hour news cycle.The stories behind each election—some ending in landslide victories, others decided by the narrowest of margins—provide a roadmap to the events of U.S. history. Google 1789: George Washington – unopposed The first presidential election was held on the first Wednesday of January in 1789. No one contested the election of George Washington , but he remained reluctant to run until the last minute, in part because he believed seeking the office would be dishonorable. Only when Alexander Hamilton and others convinced him that it would be dishonorable to refuse did he agree to run. The Constitution allowed each state to decide how to choose its presidential electors. In 1789, only Pennsylvania and Maryland held elections for this purpose; elsewhere, the state legislatures chose the electors. This method caused some problems in New York , which was so divided between Federalists who supported the new Constitution and Antifederalists who opposed it that the legislature failed to choose either presidential electors or U.S. senators. Before the adoption of the Twelfth Amendment, each elector cast two votes for president. The candidate with a majority won the presidency, and the runner-up became vice president. Most Federalists agreed that John Adams should be vice president. But Hamilton feared that if Adams was the unanimous choice, he would end in a tie with Washington and might even become president, an outcome that would be highly embarrassing for both Washington and the new electoral system. Hamilton therefore arranged that a number of votes be deflected, so that Adams was elected by less than half the number of Washington’s expected unanimous vote. The final results were Washington, 69 electoral votes; Adams, 34; John Jay , 9; John Hancock , 4; and others, 22. 1792: George Washington – unopposed As in 1789, persuading George Washington to run was the major difficulty in selecting a president in 1792. Washington complained of old age, sickness, and the increasing hostility of the Republican press toward his administration. The press attacks were symptomatic of the increasing split within the government between Federalists, who were coalescing around Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, and Republicans, forming around Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson . James Madison , among others, convinced Washington to continue as president by arguing that only he could hold the government together. Speculation then shifted to the vice presidency. Hamilton and the Federalists supported the reelection of John Adams. Republicans favored New York governor George Clinton, but Federalists feared him partly because of a widespread belief that his recent election to the governorship was fraudulent. In addition, the Federalists feared that Clinton would belittle the importance of the federal government by retaining his governorship while serving as vice president. Adams won relatively easily with support from New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, except New York. Only electoral votes are recorded here, because most states still did not select presidential electors by popular vote. Nor was there a separate vote for president and vice president until the Twelfth Amendment took effect in 1804. The results were Washington, 132 electoral votes (unanimous); Adams, 77; Clinton, 50; Jefferson, |
On Feb 20, 1962, aboard Friendship 7, which astronaut became the first from the US to orbit the earth, a feat he repeated 36 years later? | Photos: John Glenn Godspeed, John Glenn Credit: NASA Editor's note: John Glenn, a legendary NASA astronaut and American hero, died on Dec. 8, 2016 at age 95. Read our full obituary here . See photos from John Glenn's legendary career in spaceflight and public service here. John Glenn Enters Friendship 7 Credit: NASA On Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn rode the Friendship 7 capsule into space, the first time an American orbited the Earth. In this image, Glenn enters the capsule with assistance from technicians. Glenn Suits-Up for Launch Credit: NASA Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. dons his silver Mercury pressure suit in preparation for launch. On February 20, 1962 Glenn lifted off into space aboard his Mercury Atlas (MA-6) rocket and became the first American to orbit the Earth. After orbiting the Earth 3 times, Friendship 7 landed in the Atlantic Ocean 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds later, just East of Grand Turk Island in the Bahamas. Glenn and his capsule were recovered by the Navy Destroyer Noa, 21 minutes after splashdown. Launch of Friendship 7 Credit: NASA This image shows the launch of Friendship 7, the first American manned orbital space flight. With astronaut John Glenn aboard, the Mercury-Atlas rocket is launched from Pad 14, February 20, 1962. 50 Years After Original 7: New Astronauts Don't Need The Right Stuff Credit: NASA. Project Mercury Astronauts, whose selection was announced on April 9, 1959. They are: front row, left to right, Walter H. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and Scott Carpenter; back row, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. Gus Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper. Have a Good Trip Credit: NASA Fellow Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom (in suit) wishes Shepard good luck as he gets set to climb into his Mercury capsule, dubbed Freedom 7, on the morning of May 5, 1961. Glenn looks on in the background. The Original Seven Credit: NASA Bearded, with makeshift clothing, the seven original Mercury astronauts participated in U.S. Air Force survival training at Stead Air Force Base in Nevada. Pictured in this 1960 photograph are (l to r): L. Gordon Cooper, M. Scott Carpenter, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Virgil I. Grissom, Walter Schirra and Donald K. Slayton. Looking Back on Friendship 7 John Glenn on Feb. 20, 2002 -- the 40th anniversary of his Project Mercury flight aboard Friendship 7. John Glenn Calls Bush Space Vision an Unfunded Mandate Credit: AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Former astronaut and retired Ohio Sen. John Glenn testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Science and Technology Committee hearing on NASA's past accomplishments, and future opportunities and challenges, marking 50th anniversary of NASA. John Glenn, Oldest Astronaut Credit: NASA The seven crew members in training for the STS-95 mission aboard Discovery pose for photographers prior to participating in a training session at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Pictured, from the left, are Pedro Duque, Curtis Brown, Chiaki Nauto-Mukai, then-U.S. Sen. John H. Glenn Jr. (D.-Ohio), Stephen Robinson, Steven Lindsey and Scott Parazynski. In the White Room with John Glenn Credit: NASA In the launch pad's White Room, STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., U.S. Senator from Ohio, has his flight suit checked by closeout crew members before climbing into space shuttle Discovery for his second flight into space, which came 36 years after his Mercury launch. Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth. The image was taken Oct. 29, 1998. Astronaut U.S. Senator John Glenn Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz, Mark Sowa STS-95 crewmember, astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn. Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth and returned to space in 1998 aboard a Space Shuttle flight. STS-95 Takeoff The STS-95 mission carrying Senator John Glenn launched on October 29, 1998 Glenn on Shuttle Middeck Credit: NASA STS-95 payload specialist John Glenn works with the Osteporosis Experiment in Orbit (OSTEO) experiment located in a locker in the Discovery's middeck. Glenn Photographs from the Flight Deck Credit: NASA STS-95 Payl |
Feb 14, 1859 saw what state, with an offical motto that translates as "She Flies With Her Own Wings", join the union as the 33rd? | The Masonic Temple God by Jeremy Nelson - issuu issuu Issuu on Google+ THE OCCULT MASONIC TEMPLE GOD Volume I The Occult Masonic Temple God Study Compiled By Dr. Christopher Newcomb, D.D. Copyright 2003 CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9 CHAPTER 10 CHAPTER 11 CHAPTER 12 THE SCOTTISH RITE TEMPLE IN D.C. and ISRAEL BLASPHEMOUS NAMES OF MASONIC BEAST’S MORALS & DOGMA BY ALBERT PIKE FREEMASONRY CONSPIRACY WITHIN, INITIATION AND THE BROTHERHOOD THE INTELLIGENT STUDENT’S GUID TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER THE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY ATLANTIS TO LATTER DAYS BY RANDALL STEVENS MASONRY SYMBOLISM THE SATANIC RITUALS HUBBARD AND THE OCCULT PYRAMID ON THE MASONIC ONE DOLLAR BILL THE CURSE OF BAPHOMET MORMONS AND THE MASONIC CONNECTION CONTINUED IN VOLUME II CHAPTER 13 THE KABBALLAH KEY OF SOLOMON CHAPTER 14 THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON CHAPTER 15 THE KABBALLAH BOOK OF FORMATION CHATPER 16 THE KABBLLAH DEFINED CHAPTER 17 THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE CHAPTER 18 THE KABBALLAH 72 SPIRITS ARTE GOETIA CHAPTER 19 THE MASONIC LODGES WORLDWIDE LIST CHAPTER 1 SCOTTISH RITE TEMPLE IN WASHINGTON D.C. http://www.srmason-sj.org/web/temple.htm THE SPHINXES OF POWER AND WISDOM Wisdom Power The sphinxes at either side of the front door are each carved from one massive block of stone. Each weighs over 17 tons. The sphinx on the right of the Temple door symbolizes Wisdom. The eyes on its serene face are half-closed. On the left is the sphinx symbolizing Power. Its eyes are wide open and alert. Go to the Main Entrance Learn More about the Sphinxes *** How The Sphinx Came To Washington by William L. Fox, Past Grand Historian and Grand Archivist As a historian and the son of a historian, much of my formative inspiration and training occurred naturally at home, long before graduate school. There, almost nightly at the dinner table, my father apprised us by example and conversation of what historians do. Sometimes, they electrified the past into life, so as to instill an educated passion for history among imaginative students or readers. Other times, when historians failed to kindle even a weak spark, they had to laugh off their student's foibles as a small detail of the larger human comedy of miscommunication. Most experienced classroom teachers of history, after awhile, keep a mental file of student bloopers and whoppers as a counterweight to the pleasanter triumph of enthusiasm over ignorance. It has been impossible, thus far in my career, for me to exceed my father's favorite short-answer reply once given by a 12 o'clock scholar on a final exam in modern European history. In this case, the class was asked to identify in a sentence or two the frequently referenced item from weekly lectures, "Rosetta Stone." At the critical moment to decide, the muses failed to show up for one forsaken and ill-prepared college examinee who, staring blankly at the page, desperately and creatively jotted down next to that monolithically puzzling pair of words in question, "Napoleon's girl friend"! Now housed in the British Museum in London, the Rosetta Stone was unearthed in 1799 by a group of Napoleon's troops stationed along the west bank of the western mouth of the Nile. Students of history not only need to know how to define a major event, idea or term, but why it is important, how it is significant, and what are its consequences. Simply, the Rosetta Stone, a basalt stele (from the Greek term for a commemorative pillar or inscribed cylinder) permitted the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics by Jean Fran端ois Champillion, the younger (1790-1832). He is regarded today as the founder of Egyptology. The Rosetta Stone sets down a decree composed by priests assembled at Memphis who had a signal measure of political influence, for they were endorsing publicly the potentially doomed Ptolemy V Epiphanes (204-181 BCE). The message is chiseled in hieroglyphic and vernacular Egyptian as well as Greek. Translating the Greek first, then working backwards, a small team of scholars discovered by the 1830s the solution to one of the oldest wr |
The counterpart of the Greek god Eros, what Roman god is frequently depicted toting a bow and arrow? | Cupid (Character) - Biography biography from Cupid's Pranks (1908) The content of this page was created by users. It has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. Warning! This character biography may contain plot spoilers. Visit our Character Biography Help to learn more. Character Biography History Discuss Cupid is the ancient Roman god of Love, the counterpart of the Greek god Eros and the equivalent of Amor in Latin poetry. 2.1. Parody Mythology According to myth, Cupid was the son of Roman god Mercury, the winged messenger of the gods, and Venus, the Roman goddess of love. He was usually represented as a winged infant carrying a bow and a quiver full of arrows, which he shot at humans and gods to inflict wounds that inspired love or passion. He was also sometimes depicted as a beautiful youth. Though generally considered beneficent, he could be mischievous in matchmaking, often at his mother's behest. Pop Culture In modern times Cupid has become a holiday character and an icon of romantic love mostly associated to Saint Valentine's Day. The most common representations of Cupid include a nude or diapered chubby baby boy with wings, sometimes blindfolded and aiming an arrow with a heart for its tip. Humorous interpretations of Cupid frequently feature a grown man in diaper keeping the characteristic wings, bow and arrow. Page last updated by stunt-double , 8 years ago |
In an act that became known as the St. Valentine's Day massacre, what Chicago crime boss had 6 rivals gunned down in the back of a garage? | St. Valentine’s Day Massacre - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com St. Valentine’s Day Massacre St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Author St. Valentine’s Day Massacre URL A+E Networks Introduction Gang warfare ruled the streets of Chicago during the late 1920s, as chief gangster Al Capone sought to consolidate control by eliminating his rivals in the illegal trades of bootlegging, gambling and prostitution. This rash of gang violence reached its bloody climax in a garage on the city’s North Side on February 14, 1929, when seven men associated with the Irish gangster George “Bugs” Moran, one of Capone’s longtime enemies, were shot to death by several men dressed as policemen. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, as it was known, was never officially linked to Capone, but he was generally considered to have been responsible for the murders. Google The Rise of Scarface From 1924 to 1930, the city of Chicago gained a widespread reputation for lawlessness and violence. Not coincidentally, this phenomenon coincided with the reign of chief crime lord Al “Scarface” Capone, who took over from his boss Johnny Torrio in 1925. (Torrio, who was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in 1924, had “retired” to Brooklyn.) Prohibition , ushered in by the passage of the 18th Amendment in 1920, had greatly increased the earnings of America’s gangsters through bootlegging (the illegal manufacture and sale of alcohol) and speakeasies (illicit drinking establishments), as well as gambling and prostitution. Capone’s income from these activities was estimated at some $60 million a year; his net worth in 1927 was around $100 million. Did You Know? George "Bugs" Moran was on his way to the garage in Chicago at the time of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre; he missed getting killed by minutes. A few days later, he told reporters "Only Capone kills like that." Reached at his Florida home for comment on the murders, Capone offered his own opinion: "The only man who kills like that is Bugs Moran." Over the years, Capone consolidated control over most of Chicago’s crime rackets by ruthlessly gunning down his rivals. In 1924, authorities counted some 16 gang-related murders; this brand of continued until 1929, reaching a high of 64 murders in one year during that time. Federal authorities, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had much less jurisdiction than they have today, and did not include Chicago’s gang-related activity. Massacre on St. Valentine’s Day Chicago’s gang war reached its bloody climax in the so-called St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929. One of Capone’s longtime enemies, the Irish gangster George “Bugs” Moran, ran his bootlegging operations out of a garage on the North Side of Chicago. On February 14, seven members of Moran’s operation were gunned down while standing lined up, facing the wall of the garage. Some 70 rounds of ammunition were fired. When police officers from Chicago’s 36th District arrived, they found one gang member, Frank Gusenberg, barely alive. In the few minutes before he died, they pressed him to reveal what had happened, but Gusenberg wouldn’t talk. Police could find only a few eyewitnesses, but eventually concluded that gunmen dressed as police officers had entered the garage and pretended to be arresting the men. Though Moran and others immediately blamed the massacre on Capone’s gang, the famous gangster himself claimed to have been at his home in Florida at the time. No one was ever brought to trial for the murders. The Downfall of Public Enemy No. 1 Though the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre marked the end of any significant gang opposition to Capone’s rule in Chicago, it can also be said to have marked the beginning of his downfall. With his highly effective organization, his impressive income and his willingness to ruthlessly eliminate his rivals, Capone had become the country’s most notorious gangster, and the newspapers dubbed him “Public Enemy No. 1.” Federal authorities began investigating Capone after he failed to appear before a federal grand jury after being subpoenaed in March 1929. When he finally a |
What deposed leader, who met his end on Dec 30, 2006 at the end of a rope, has sons Uday and Qusay, and 3 daughters? | SADDAM HUSSEIN: DEATH BY HANGING | Life on the Row Life on the Row Post by capt777737 on Nov 5, 2006 4:03:50 GMT -5 he's just now been sentenced Last Edit: Feb 13, 2007 22:37:37 GMT -5 by capt777737 buzzc Post by on Nov 5, 2006 5:05:11 GMT -5 This message was deleted by the original poster. Last Edit: Jul 18, 2007 20:15:23 GMT -5 by Guest buzzc Post by on Nov 5, 2006 5:41:38 GMT -5 buzzc said: he's just now been sentenced I'm watching the crowds going nuts now... ;D Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging-- POSTED: 5:35 a.m. EST, November 5, 2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced former President Saddam Hussein and two other defendants to death by hanging for a brutal crackdown in 1982 in the Shiite town of Dujail. Iraqis under a curfew in Baghdad spilled out into the streets in celebration of the verdict, news footage showed. But protests were held in Saddam Hussein's hometown. Along with Hussein, his half-brother and former intelligence chief Barzan Hassan, and former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court Awad Bandar also got death. Taha Yassin Ramadan, a former vice president of Iraq, was sentenced to life in prison. "The verdict was predetermined and has nothing to do with court proceedings," Ramadan said. Mohammed Azzawi Ali, a former Dujail Baath Party official, was acquitted because of insufficient evidence against him, the court said. The three others -- Abdullah Kadhem Ruwaid, Ali Dayem Ali, and Misher Abdullah Ruwaid -- were sentenced to 15 years each. There will be automatic appeals for the four who were sentenced to death and life in prison. The 50-minute session was dramatic. Hussein entered with a Quran in hand, as he had in the past. He began screaming Allahu Akhbar -- God is great -- as the verdict and sentencing was read. He also argued with the chief judge and shouted, "d%%% you and your court." As the judge ordered him taken away, Hussein said, "Don't push me, boy." Bandar also screamed Allahu Akhbar as he was taken out of court. Defense attorney Ramsey Clark, a former U.S. attorney general, was ousted by judges early in the session. The court asked him to leave, saying he had come here from the United States to mock the Iraqi people and the court. Another defense attorney, Ziad al-Najdawi, angrily told reporters as he left the courtroom, "That's the American justice." The Dujail case stemmed from a crackdown against townspeople after a 1982 assassination attempt against Hussein in the town. The crackdown involved the ordered executions of 148 males. Before Sunday's verdicts were announced, a curfew was imposed in Baghdad and two provinces -- Diyala and Salaheddin -- with large Sunni populations ahead of expected violence. Predominantly Shiite and Kurdish provinces were not under curfew. About 2,000 protesters in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Sunday defied the curfew and demonstrated in support of the former leader. A witness said the protesters carried posters of the former president and were shooting into the air. The numbers of demonstrators grew after the sentence was announced. A complete movement ban -- both people and vehicles -- was imposed on Sunday in the provinces of Baghdad, Diyala and Salaheddin -- where Tikrit is located. The Baghdad International Airport also shut down until further notice. This verdicts come nearly three years after U.S.-led forces plucked Hussein out of hiding and just a few days before U.S. midterm elections, with the Iraqi war at center stage. The U.S. ambassador in Iraq praised the verdicts and sentencing as "an important milestone for Iraq." "A former dictator feared by millions, who killed his own citizens without mercy or justice, who waged wars against neighboring countries, has been brought to trial in his own country -- held accountable in a court of law with ordinary citizens bearing witness," Zalmay Khalilzad said in a statement issued shortly after the verdicts were rendered. Outbursts and walkouts The Dujail trial, the first in what is a series of proceedings against former regime officials, began October 19, |
What blued hairEd, glasses wearing geek is the best friend of Bart Simpson? | Bart Simpson | Simpsons Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Neil Patrick Harris (film-within-film Bart the Murderer ) “Take it to the bank boys, this one's just like Bart.” ―Bart's catchphrase Bartholomew [3] JoJo Reference "Bart" Simpson (born April 1 [4] /February 23 [5] ), also known as " El Barto ," "The boy" ( Homer Simpson ), and " Bartman ," is the tritagonist of The Simpsons . He is the mischievous, rebellious, misunderstood and "potentially dangerous" eldest child of Homer and Marge Simpson , and the older brother of Lisa and Maggie . He also has been nicknamed Cosmo, after discovering a comet in " Bart's Comet ". Bart's also been on the cover on numerous comics, such as "Critical Hit", "Simpsons Treasure Trove #11" and "Winter Wingding". Bart also has a whole comic series known as the Simpson Comics Presents Bart Simpson. Bart is loosely based on Matt Groening and his older brother, Mark. Even at a young age Bart has accomplished many feats. He has won an award for his Angry Dad web series. He has discovered a new comet which was named after himself and he also has perfomed in a successful band with Milhouse Van Houten , Nelson Muntz and Ralph Wiggum . Contents Biography Young Bart Bart is a self-proclaimed underachiever who is constantly in detention. He is easily distracted. His penchant for shocking people began before he was born: Bart "mooned" Dr. Hibbert while he performed a sonogram on Marge, and moments after being born he set fire to Homer's tie (Marge saying that he could not have done it on purpose because he was only ten minutes old). Bart's first words were " Ay Caramba ". Bart's interests include Krusty the Clown (he is "Krusty Buddy" number 16302), reading comic books (especially Radioactive Man ), watching TV (especially The Krusty the Clown Show ), terrorizing Lisa , playing video games, helping Lisa solve various problems (e.g. reuniting Krusty with his estranged Father ), and pulling off various pranks, (such as mooning unsuspecting people, prank calling Moe at his tavern , and his patented spitting off an overpass). Bart also sprays graffiti under the alias 'El Barto', and regularly frequents the Kwik-E-Mart (for bubble gum and Squishees ) and The Android's Dungeon . Yuma Hickman moved to Springfield when Marge was pregnant with Bart. Bart hinted that his favorite movies are Jaws and the Star Wars trilogy. [6] His best friend is Milhouse Van Houten . He is the most misunderstood of the family (After Maggie, who currently can only speak two words), constantly frustrated by the narrow-minded people of Springfield , who judge him merely by his thoughts and actions. Behavior Family Homer strangling Bart Due to Bart's mischievousness and Homer's often uncaring and incompetent behavior, the two have a turbulent relationship. Bart will often address Homer by his given name instead of "Dad" (when he was a baby, this was because other adults would refer to him as this), while Homer in turn often refers to him as "the boy". Usually when Homer finds out that Bart has said or done something stupid or bad, he yells " Why you little! " (often followed by throttling him) or simply "BART!" Bart once returned the favor when he learned that Homer, in order to buy back incriminating photos of his dropping Bart down as a baby, spent all the money that had been earned by starring in commercials relating to alleviating bad smells from Babies, eventually resorting to using Homer's belt to strangle his larynx due to being unable to strangle Homer the usual way due to the size differences between the two, and directly led to a separation from his father. It is also implied once that, whenever he messes up, he almost expects people to strangle him and even goes as far as to strangle himself (presumably due to his experience with Homer), such as when he accidentally let go of Ned Flanders' best fishing rod when attempting to fish with Flanders, Bart instinctively starts clutching his own neck and imitating strangling before realizing and reacting with surprise that Ned Flanders isn't strangling him. Homer and Bart's relat |
Which American cartoonist is responsible for creating the comic strips Hi and Lois and Beetle Bailey, both of which are still in production by their creator? | News Clippings and Press Releases and Press Releases Charlie Brown and the elusive football balloon made their way down Broadway in the 76th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2002. More than two-and-a-half million spectators were expected to line the streets to watch the two-and-a-half-mile march through Manhattan. (AP photo/Suzanne Plunkett) These articles are arranged from the most recent down, so you'll always find the newest news about Charlie Brown and his friends toward the top; older articles will be located further down, or on previous pages. World's biggest Snoopy theme park to open in China January 15, 2003 Japantoday.com HONG KONG � The world's largest theme park featuring Snoopy, Charlie Brown and other Peanuts' characters will open in Shunde City, a leading production center for electrical appliances in China, in May, the developer said Tuesday. The 40,000-square-meter park, to be located in the new downtown of Shunde in booming southern Guangdong Province, will be the first of its kind in the mainland China. The Asia-Pacific licensing agent for the U.S. comic strip characters said it is planning to open two more theme parks in the mainland over the next five years. "We hope to have one park in the eastern part of China and another in the north, likely in Nanjing and Beijing, respectively," Raymond Mok, chairman of RM Enterprises (BVI) Ltd., said after a press conference in Hong Kong. Mok said his company also wants to open a Peanuts attraction in the planned Universal Studios in Shanghai, which could open in 2006, under a business cooperation model similar to that used in Osaka in Japan. The "Snoopy Fun Fun Garden" in Shunde will be built in five phases, with attractions including a Peanuts' school, a 15-meter-tall Snoopy dressed in a space suit, a camping site and canoe ride, and a mini-sized golf course for children. A Snoopy playground will also be erected in a business and commercial complex within the nearby private residential estate Jiaxin Citigarden. The whole project will involve an investment of 100 million yuan ($12.1 million) and its first phase is expected to open May 1, the developer, Shunde Jiaxin Realty Development Co, said. "To attract more tourists, we will initially open the park to the public for free," managing director Chen Jiye told reporters. Chen said he hopes more than three million tourists will visit Shunde each year, up from the present 1.5 million, after the opening of the Snoopy theme park. Shunde was chosen as the park's site because the city is located in the center of the Pearl River Delta region in Guangdong Province and is within easy reach of other Chinese cities, the developer said. Shunde is 50 minutes from Guangzhou by car, more than an hour from Hong Kong by jetfoil. Officials from the Shunde government said the authorities aim to turn the downtown, where the Snoopy theme park is located, into a new hub for city administration, business, culture, tourism and residence. With a population of 1.7 million, Shunde is China's largest production center for domestic appliances, including air conditioners, microwave ovens, electric fans and rice cookers. It is also the largest freshwater fish farming and eel farming center in the country. Surrounded by Snoopy Woman admits obsession December 31, 2002 Sometimes Susan Masters is Joe Cool. Sometimes she's silly. Sometimes she's philosophical. Sometimes she's the World War I Flying Ace? Metaphorically, perhaps. Masters, 37, is the county personnel/payroll clerk. She hunts Snoopy memorabilia the way the flying ace hunted the Red Baron. Here's a very short list of Snoopy merchandise she's gathered in more than two decades of collecting Several stuffed animals, cups, mugs, plates, baby spoons, flags, a light up Snoopy Santa, a ceiling fan, an alarm clock and a smoke detector. Last year, she put up a Christmas tree with Snoopy ornaments and Snoopy lights. Her prized possession is a Snoopy leather jacket. "I always say I'm the easiest person to shop for," Masters |
Whose picture is on the 2 dollar bill? | $2 Bill History - The $2 Dollar Bill - America's Rarest US Currency The $2 Dollar Bill - America's Rarest US Currency The $2 Dollar Bill is America's Rarest Current Denomination of US Currency Overview The $2 dollar bill is America's rarest small denomination in the US Currency. The unique history of the $2 bill has given the note an air of mystery and legend. If you have a $2 dollar bill in your wallet, it is always an instant conversation starter at parties and events where tipping is appropriate. This page outlines the history of the $2 dollar bill along with its many changes over the years. History On 25 June, 1776, the Continental Congress authorized the issue of two-dollar bills of credit for the defense of the America. Only 49,000 bills were issued at that time. The two-dollar bill was first commissioned in March, 1862. The two-dollar denomination was discontinued from 1966 until 1976 when use of the two-dollar bill was resumed as part of the United States bicentennial celebration. The two-dollar bill was last issued in 2003. How Rare is the $2 Dollar Bill? Low printing numbers starting in the 1950s resulted in the $2 dollar bill becoming the rarest current denomination of US Currency. This rarity caused people to hoard any $2 bills they come across and as a result this decreased the circulation of the $2 dollar bill even more. Today the $2 dollar bill constitute around 1% of all notes in US circulation. Growing Popularity of the $2 Dollar Bill Today the $2 dollar bill is growing in popularity. In 2005 alone, 61 million $2 bills were printed. This is more than twice the number of $2 bills that were printed annually between 1990 and 2001. One reason for the increased popularity is the $2 dollar bill is becoming more frequently used as change where tipping is encouraged. For example, $2 dollar bills are popular in some bars and night clubs, especially gentleman's clubs and poker rooms. The reason many gentleman's clubs give change using $2 bills is to encourage larger tips.The $2 dollar bill is also seen as a unique way to give a gift of money. Is the $2 Dollar Bill Still in Circulation? There is a common misconception that the $2 bill is no longer in circulation. However, that is not the case as the official Bureau of Engraving and Printing Web site lists the $2 Dollar Bill as one of the U.S. Currency Small Denominations. What is a $2 Dollar Bill worth? Typically the $2 bill is worth its face value. Special $2 bills have been made in recent years, however they are not worth anything more than face value on the collectors market and most current $2 bills are not worth much more than their face value. Legends, Myths and Factoids Several legends have arisen around the $2 dollar bill over time: The scene of the Declaration of Independence that appears on the bill's reverse is not a perfect duplicate of the John Trumbull painting. Five figures were removed to make the image fit the bill In 2004, President Jefferson's estate and home Monticello had an admission price of $13. As a results most people required $2 dollars in change. The staff at Monticello would hand out $2 dollar bills featuring President Jefferson's portrait as change for admission to his estate. A two-dollar bill is often used as a tracer by small stores to track robberies. A store clerk can keep a two-dollar bill at the bottom of their one-dollar bill slot in the cash drawer with its serial number recorded in case of robbery. In 2005 Stuart Woods wrote a novel called “ Two Dollar Bill .” One of the major characters made it a point to always tip with two-dollar bills. The two-dollar bill has a long association with horseracing and was popular at racetracks for placing a two-dollar bet. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computing, buys two dollars by the sheet from the Treasury Department. He then has them bound into a booklet and the bills act as “tear off” pages. Sources: 1862 $2 Legal Tender Note In March 1862, the first $2 bill was issued as a Legal Tender Note . This $2 bill features a profile portrait of Alexander Hamilton. 1869 $2 Unite |
What tea, with a very distinctive flavor and aroma, is flavored with the rind of a bergamot orange? | Earl Grey Black - The Georgia Tea Company Earl Grey Black Size: Quantity: Earl Grey tea is a tea blend with a distinctive flavor and aroma derived from the addition of oil extracted from the rind of the bergamot orange, a fragrant citrus fruit. History Traditionally the term "Earl Grey" was applied only to black tea; however, today the term is used for other teas that contain oil of bergamot, or a bergamot flavour. The Earl Grey blend is named after the 2nd Earl Grey, British Prime Minister in the 1830s and author of the Reform Bill of 1832, who reputedly received a gift, probably a diplomatic perquisite, of tea flavoured with bergamot oil , taken from bergamot, a citrus fruit typical of Southeast Asia and grown commercially in Italy. Caffeine Content: 35-40 mgs per 8 oz cup |
Nov 10, 1975 saw the sinking of what ship, for 13 years the largest to sail the Great Lakes, which was later to inspire Gordon Lightfoot to pen his second top 10 hit? | Wunder Blog The Search for the truth of the loss of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald By: ssedmundfitzgerald , 11:09 PM GMT on April 25, 2010 November 10, 2010 Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Service in River Rouge S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald 5th Service in River Rouge, Michigan Web site www.ssedmundfitzgerald.com 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Wednesday November 10, 2010 Six-Fathom Shoal Updates During a taped conversation with his office, which was made a part of the record, the ANDERSON’s master stated that the FITZGERALD "passed right over that 6-fathom spot." The Canadian Hydrographic Service survey shows the water depth at this charted "6- fathom spot". If the FITZGERALD, whose draft was more than 27 feet, had passed through this position on a course plan later that day of 141 T the vessel would have had to pass over the north tip of Caribou Island and through an area where the depth is less than 21 feet. During a taped conversation with his office, which was made a part of the record, the ANDERSON’s master stated that the FITZGERALD "passed right over that 6-fathom spot." "Revise Lake Survey Chart No. 9 showing the areas between Michipicoten Island and Caribou Island in Lake Superior to reflect the findings of the survey performed by the Canadian Hydrographic Service. (Class II, Priority Action) 01—78—33) .S. Edmund Fitzgerald Draft Marks = 1" = 135 Tons per inch of draft 6" Repainted draft mark = 810 tons of taconite ore Weight of one Taconite pellet = .009 lbs. 1 - US Cup full of Taconite pellets holds = 150 count. 1 - US Cup full of Taconite pellets weight = 1,35 lbs. 1 - US Cup full of Taconite pellets holds 1/3 cup of water in void spaces. Typ. Size of one Taconite pellets is = 1/2" Dia. 112 Count of Taconite pellets has a weight of 1 Lbs. |
What science fiction author, author of the Dune series, among others, was born in Tacoma and attended the University of Washington? | Frank Herbert Books - Biography and List of Works - Author of '21st Century Sub' Home > Authors > Frank Herbert books Frank Herbert Frank Patrick Herbert (October 8, 1920 � February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction author. As an author Herbert was both critically acclaimed and a worldwide commercial success. He is best known for the novel The Godmakers . Frank Herbert was born in 1920 in Tacoma, Washington. He knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer, and in 1939 he lied about his age in order to get his first newspaper job on the Glendale Star. There was a temporary hiatus to his writing career as he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He married Flora Parkinson in 1941, but later divorced her in 1945 after fathering a daughter. After the war he attended the University of Washington, where he met Beverly Ann Stuart at a creative writing class in 1946. At the time they were the only students in the class who had as yet sold any work for publication�Frank had sold two pulp adventure stories to magazines, and Beverly had sold a story to Modern Romance magazine. They married in Seattle on June 20, 1946. Their first son, Brian Herbert, was born in 1947. Frank Herbert did not graduate from college, according to Brian, because he only wanted to study what interested him and so didn't complete the required courses. After college he returned to journalism and worked at the Seattle Star and the Oregon Statesman; he was also a writer and editor for the San Francisco Examiner's California Living magazine for a decade. Herbert began reading science fiction in the forties, and in the fifties decided that this was the type of fiction he wanted to write. In the 1950s his short stories appeared among others in Startling Stories. During the next decade he was an infrequent contributor to science fiction magazines producing fewer than 20 short stories. Herbert relates in an interview with McNeilly that the novel Dune originated when he was supposed to do an article on sand dunes in Florence, Oregon, but he got too involved in it and ended up with reams more raw material than he would ever need for a magazine article. Indeed he never actually handed in this article, but it served as the seed for the ideas that created Dune. Herbert started his career as a novelist with the publishing of The Dragon In the Sea in 1955, where he used the environment of a 21st-century submarine as a way to explore sanity and madness. The book predicted worldwide conflicts over oil consumption and production. It was a critical success, but it was not a major commercial one. He began researching Dune in 1959 and was able to devote himself more wholeheartedly to his writing career because his wife returned to work full time as an advertising writer for department stores, becoming the main breadwinner during the sixties. After six years of research and writing, Dune was completed by 1965. But Dune was rejected by more than twenty publishers before one finally accepted it. One publisher prophetically wrote back "I might be making the mistake of the decade, but...," before rejecting the manuscript. But publisher number twenty made a wiser choice � and Herbert received a $7500 advance, and Dune was soon a critical success. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965 and shared the Hugo Award in 1966. Dune was the first ecological science fiction novel, containing a multitude of big, inter-relating themes and multiple character viewpoints, a method which ran through all Herbert's mature work. The book was not an instant best seller. By 1968 Herbert had made only $20,000 from it and was not yet able to take up full time writing. However, the publication of Dune did open doors for him. He was the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's education writer from 1969 to 1972 and lecturer in general and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Washington (1970�2). He worked in Vietnam and Pakistan as social and ecological consultant in 1972. Herbert was only able to take up full-time writing in 1972. In 1973 he was director-photographer of the tele |
Played by the late Earl Hindman, what was the name of Tim's wise neighbor on the TV show Home Improvement? | Home Improvement (TV Series 1991–1999) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error The daily trials and tribulations of Tim Taylor, a TV show host raising three mischeivous boys with help from his loyal co-host, loving wife, and eccentric neighbor. Creators: It's Halloween time and the pranks begin. A fan named Rose sends Tim cookies and starts calling him at home. Tim worries about an obsessive fan, but Jill dismisses it. Jill has her own plans for ... 8.3 The family finds out that Randy may have cancer. 8.3 Bud talks Tim into buying his Piston's season tickets, which cost $4000. When he gets home and talks with his sons about his purchase they're excited at first; until they find out he didn't discuss ... 8.3 a list of 39 titles created 26 Mar 2012 a list of 37 titles created 21 May 2012 a list of 35 images created 24 Dec 2014 a list of 23 titles created 11 months ago a list of 44 titles created 6 months ago Search for " Home Improvement " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Title: Home Improvement (1991–1999) 7.2/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 39 wins & 62 nominations. See more awards » Videos Long-running Perfect Strangers (1986) spin-off series centering on the Winslow family and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. Stars: Reginald VelJohnson, Jaleel White, Kellie Shanygne Williams The goings-on in the life of a successful African American family. Stars: Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Keshia Knight Pulliam Adolescent Cory Matthews grows up, and faces problems with friends, family, and school. Stars: Ben Savage, Rider Strong, William Daniels After the sudden death of his wife, a young father enlists the help of his brother-in-law and his childhood friend to help him raise his three young children. Stars: Bob Saget, John Stamos, Dave Coulier A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage. Stars: Mihaly 'Michu' Meszaros, Paul Fusco, Max Wright A sixteen-year-old high-school student finds out she's a witch. Stars: Melissa Joan Hart, Caroline Rhea, Beth Broderick The story of a working class family struggling with life's essential problems: Marriage, Children, Money and Parents in Law. Stars: Roseanne Barr, John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf Tony Micelli, a retired baseball player, becomes the housekeeper of Angela Bower, an advertising executive in New York. Together they raise their kids, Samantha Micelli and Jonathon Bower, with help from Mona Robinson, Angela's man-crazy mother. Stars: Tony Danza, Judith Light, Alyssa Milano Frank Lambert is a construction worker and a single father of 3 kids: J.T., Alicia "Al", and Brendan. Carol Foster, a beautician, also has 3 children: Dana, Karen, and Mark. After Frank and... See full summary » Stars: Patrick Duffy, Suzanne Somers, Brandon Call Chronicles liberal ex-hippies Steven and Elyse Keaton, their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew. Stars: Michael J. Fox, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter A TV show centered on six students and their years at Bayside High School in Palisades, California. Stars: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, Dustin Diamond The misadventures of a family with a home business father and a journalist mother. Stars: Alan Thicke, Joanna Kerns, Kirk Cameron Edit Storyline Light television comedy about family man Tim Taylor. The show's humor often revolves around cars, toys, tools, hardware shops, garages, fix-it-up projects, and similar themes. Written by Tad Dibbern <[email protected]> 17 September 1991 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia Stephen Tobolowsky was the original choice to play Al Borland; but due to a commitment to a film that Tobolowsky was acting in, Richard Kar |
Naval Support Facility Thurmont, in rural Maryland, is a presidential retreat known as what? | Naval Support Facility Thurmont By State Naval Support Facility Thurmont Located 70 miles from the White House in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, NSF Thurmont also known as Camp David was established in 1942 as a place for the President to relax and entertain. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wanted to escape the summer heat of Washington, D.C., and the higher altitude of the Camp provided cool breezes and good security. President Roosevelt called the Camp “Shangri-La” after the mountain kingdom in James Hilton’s book Lost Horizon. It was renamed Camp David in 1953 by President Eisenhower in honor of his grandson. View Larger Map The Camp is operated by Navy personnel, and troops from the Marine Barracks in Washington, D.C., provide permanent security. Marine One carries the President during the half-hour helicopter ride from our Nation’s capital. Guests at Camp David can enjoy a pool, putting green, driving range, tennis courts, gymnasium, and the many guest cabins — Dogwood, Maple, Holly, Birch, and Rosebud, to name a few. The presidential cabin is called Aspen Lodge. Camp David has been the site of many historic international meetings. It was there, during World War II, that President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill planned the Allies’ invasion of Europe. Many historical events have occurred at the Presidential Retreat; the planning of the Normandy invasion, Eisenhower-Khrushchev meetings, discussions of the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam War discussions, and many other meetings with foreign dignitaries and guests. President Jimmy Carter chose the site for the meeting of Middle East leaders that led to the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt. Camp David continues to serve as the Presidential Retreat. It is a private, secluded place for recreation, contemplation, rest, and relaxation. Maintaining the privacy and secluded atmosphere of the retreat is an important role for Catoctin Mountain Park. The Presidential Retreat still remains within park boundaries but is not open to the public. It is a place where presidents can relax, unwind, contemplate, entertain distinguished guests in an informal setting, and cope with the pressures of modern day society. The Presidential retreat is not open or accessible to the public, but the eastern hardwood forest of Catoctin Mountain Park has many other attractions for visitors: camping, picnicking, fishing, 25 miles of hiking trails, scenic mountain vistas, all await exploration. Catoctin Mountain Park was originally submarginal land purchased by the government in 1936, to be developed into a recreational facility. The facility was to demonstrate how rough terrain and eroded soil could be turned into productive land again. The New Deal’s Works Progress Administration, WPA, began the work in the newly created Catoctin Recreational Demonstration Area, joined by the Civilian Conservation Crops, CCC, in 1939. Camp Misty Mount was first used by the Maryland League for Crippled Children. After the first year, the League moved to a second camp in 1938, Camp Greentop, because Camp Misty Mount’s terrain was difficult to negotiate in a wheelchair. A third camp, Camp Hi-Catoctin, was completed in the winter of 1938-1939 and was used for three years as a family camp for federal employees. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was accustomed to seeking relief from hot Washington, D.C. summers and relaxing on weekends, aboard the presidential yacht “Potomac” or at Hyde Park, NY. In 1942 the U.S. Secret Service were very concerned about the President’s continued use of the “Potomac.” World War II had brought an attack on Pearl Harbor and German U boats close in Atlantic waters. Presidential safety was a concern and Presidential health was also a concern. The muggy climate of Washington, D.C., was considered detrimental to his health, affecting his sinuses. A new retreat, a place to relax, within a 100 mile radius of Washington, D.C. and in the cool mountain air was sought. Several sites were considered but Camp Hi-Catoctin in the Catoctin Recreational Demonstration Ar |
A popular cryptid in Latin American communities, the beast known as the Cupacabra makes its livelihood sucking the blood of what animals? | Monsters of the Southwest | Eric Lahti Monsters of the Southwest ~ ericlahti ~ Leave a comment Okay, it could be argued that this is really an extension of my post about the Greys since the rumors about Dulce center around rumors about the Greys but it makes for an interesting story in and of itself so bear with me on this one. We’re about to cross through the looking glass folks. UFOs use unleaded. I’m not supposed to tell you that, but there you go. Back in 1979 an Albuquerque man by the name of Paul Bennewitz was a part-time UFO investigator, full time business owner. He and another investigator by the name of Leo Sparkle were doing hypnotic regression on a woman named Myrna Hansen. Since those crafty aliens are so good at hiding their tracks hypnotic regression was, and laregely still is, the number one way to prove alien abduction. Under hypnosis Myrna revealed she had been witnessed cattle mutilations (those still happen around here from time to time) and was taken to a secret underground base. Bennewitz thought there might a link between Myrna’s story and the strange lights around the Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility (which, by the way, is nowhere near Dulce). Paul Bennewitz ultimately built a device to decode alien transmissions and those transmissions led him to discover a secret underground base shared by aliens and government agents. That base, he determined, was located near Dulce, NM in the Archuleta Mesa. This was an odd enough situation but got even stranger when a man name Phillip Schneider came forward claiming to have worked as a contractor at the base. During an expansion Schneider and his team accidentally opened a hole to cavern where the Greys had their own secret base. This sparked a conflict between the human and alien operators that nearly devolved into a full-blown war before it was contained. Schneider was later found strangled with a catheter hose. Underground tunnels, referenced in Arise To make things even more interesting, another man named Tomas Costello – who claimed to have been a security guard at the base – claims to have seen horrific experiments carried out by the Greys on unwilling human subjects. If the rumor mill is to be believed, the Greys were trying to create human/alien hybrids (see this was around long before the X-Files came along). The friction between the aliens and the humans over the treatment of human subjects again sparked a conflict before it was contained. Costello fell off the face of the Earth after telling his tale. So what’s going on in Dulce now? Who knows, but I doubt they’re up to much good. Now, onto how I wove all this into the gripping final sequences of Arise . Again, this takes a bit of time, so make sure you’ve got a full drink handy. At the end of World War II, with the Nazis in full-on retreat mode, the Allied powers recognized there was a huge amount of high-tech Nazi equipment lying around and set out to capture as much of it as possible. The United States, Great Brittain, and the Soviet Union all descended on formerly Nazi controlled areas and sucked up whatever the could find. Among other things, the Allies captured Nazi scientists and kidnapped them (they were Nazis, don’t feel too sorry for them). Under Operation Paperclip almost 1500 Nazi scientists were extracted to the US to not only expand American technology but deny that information to the Soviets and Great Brittain. The Soviets also captured a huge amount of Nazis to help with their own technological growth spurt. Among other things reported to have been captured was a strange machine known as Die Glocke (the bell), something that could apparently do all sorts of thing that weren’t good. The Bell was a wunderwaffe , something that was intended to single-handedly win the war for Hitler; a thing that might even be able to control a god (that’s my take on it, anyway). Yep, it’s a bell Ostensibly, all the captured scientists were engineers, technicians, and the like, but the Nazis were also experts at biological and chemical warfare and had their own long history of |
Which sporting goods company is the sole supplier of footballs to the NFL? | Making Footballs for the NFL | On Air Videos | Fox Business Live Making Footballs for the NFL Feb. 03, 2011 - 2:58 - Molly Wallace of Wilson Sporting Goods on being the official supplier of footballs for the NFL. powered by |
Feb 14, 1948 marked the birth of which half of the comedy magic duo known as Penn and Teller, who would tell you his name himself if he ever spoke? | List of nontheists (surnames T to Z) | Religion-wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia List of nontheists (surnames T to Z) 34,305pages on Atheists with surnames starting T, U, V, W, X, Y or Z, sortable by the field for which they are mainly known and nationality. Name Atheist activist American lawyer, atheist activist and debater. "It is long overdue for Atheistic arguments to be given a seat at the table of the marketplace of ideas in today's world. I have established this website in the hope of providing a platform for the dissemination of these arguments." [1] Journalist American journalist and political writer. "Matt Taibbi, interveiwed by 'Friendly Atheist' Hemant Mehta: "HM: What role should religion play in the political arena? MT: Well, I’m an atheist/agnostic, so I would say none. People should stick to solving the problems they have the tools to solve." [2] British gerontologist, philosopher, poet, novelist and cultural critic. "He is a passionate atheist who hates materialistic interpretations of our minds." [3] 1937– Italian philosopher Theorician and historian of atheism. Wrote whether works of theoretical proposal or of historical analysis. Main writings: a) Necessità e libertà (L'ateismo oltre il materialismo), b) * Ateismo filosofico nel mondo antico (Religione, naturalismo, materialismo, atomismo. La nascita della filosofia atea), c) La filosofia e la teologia filosofale (La conoscenza della realtà e la creazione di Dio), d) L'Illuminismo e la rinascita dell'ateismo filosofico (Teologia, filosofia e scienza nella cultura del Settecento), 2 voll., d) Dal nulla al divenire della realtà (Il pluralismo ontofisico tra energia, informazione, complessità, caso e necessità.) The vision of the work of Tamagnone is prospective: it defines a new hermeneutic that breaking, emancipated, materialism derives from the metaphysical, "dead", "vulgar", "religious", thanks to an enhancement of the existential and experiential components that you understand or not, are indispensable in every path of knowledge, since the point of initiation and development of any knowledge that can not move from a question of the subject question, that question is innervated in our lives and experience them.» (Fabio Bazzani (Department of Philosophy - University of Florence) Book review of March 2004 to "Necessity and liberty")</blockquote> 1952– Activist Australian born British human rights activist, who gained international notoriety for his attempted citizen's arrest of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in 1999 and 2001, on charges of torture and other human rights abuses. "They happily work with me, despite my atheism and gayness. This is the kind, gentle face of Islam that never seems to be newsworthy." [4] Polish / French chess Grandmaster . "Practically all chess-players are born optimists [...] Those who believe in God count on divine help; the agnostics know that somehow or other it will turn out all right; whilst the atheists, who are of course the most superstitious, believe in luck. If this last statement seems a trifle high pitched then let me submit as evidence the case of Dr. Tartakower. An atheist if ever there was one, he fervently believed in luck, touched wood at appropriate moments and never, never walked under ladders." [5] Journalist American born author and journalist resident in Russia since 1993. "But despite his own atheism and his distaste at his companion's relentless evangelising, he comes to understand the appeal of religion to desert dwellers. "Nowhere for me had words Qur'anic or biblical taken on as much life as they had here in the Sahara, where, apart from the Word, there was nothing but rock, sky and sun." [6] Social scientist British sociologist and radio presenter. "He was educated at St Mary's College, Liverpool until the Christian Brothers who ran it cast him out like Lucifer, for what he judges to be his "general atheism". He started work in a mail-order warehouse. "Then I realised I needed a proper career." [7] Choreographer American choreographer. "Two works created during the last year complete the bill. |
A dessert or pie served a la mode always includes what? | Dessert Dessert Traditional vanilla bean custard with a crunchy caramel crust. $7.95 A delightful combination of chocolate, snickers, cheesecake, and whipped cream on a graham cracker crust! $9.95 Layered white and dark chocolate mousse in a raspberry sauce. $7.95 Texas Pecan Pie a la mode Deep dish, thick and rich, loaded with pecans and served with cinnamon ice cream. $7.95 Made from fresh key lime juice. $7.95 Texas Tower Chocolate Layer Cake A four layer chocolate fudge cake with chocolate sauce, a great dessert for two. $11.95 Apple Dumplings Made from scratch, served with a warm caramel sauce, topped with pecans, served with cinnamon ice cream. $7.95 Ice Cream Sundae Blue Bell Cinnamon, Vanilla or Cookies and Cream ice cream served with whipped cream, caramel, chocolate sauce and sugared almonds. $7.95 Texas sized cheesecake, swirled with Raspberry, Strawberry or Caramel sauce. $7.95 |
What was the name of the computer that faced off against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter last week on Jeopardy!? | IBM's Watson Jeopardy supercomputer beats humans in practice - Jan. 13, 2011 Print Watson, IBM's natural-language processing supercomputer, is surprisingly cute and anthropomorphized. "He" appears as a black rectangle with a globe avatar sitting between his future rivals, Jeopardy champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, who also came to Yorktown Heights for the practice bout. The Jeopardy categories appear across the screen. The round includes "A man, a plan, a canal...Erie!" and "Chicks dig me." Jennings quips, "I've never said this on TV -- 'Chicks dig me' for $300.'" The audience laughs -- and then roars when Watson later intones, "Let's finish up 'Chicks dig me.'" 0:00 /1:52 Supercomputer 1, Jeopardy champs 0 Watson doesn't answer any questions incorrectly, but the machine stays silent throughout the "Children's Books" category, which Jennings sweeps. The whole setup is wonderfully cute and a ton of fun, but there's a lot of advanced tech going on here. IBM says Watson could have deep implications for practical situations. Inside Watson's heart, soul and hardware: Watson, which takes its name from the surname of IBM founder Thomas J., is a computing system that aims to "understand" language as humans naturally speak it. That's no easy feat for a computer. Human language is full of subtleties, irony and words with multiple meanings. IBM has been working on the project for several years . To do this, Watson's researchers loaded their machine with 200 million pages of text. Watson uses that data to analyze contextual clues and figure out how words relate to each other. Take the Jeopardy example. Watson processes the questions by considering many factors, ranging from straightforward keyword matching to more complex challenges like homonyms (the bark of a tree is not the same as a dog's bark) and statistical paraphrasing ("Big Blue" is the same thing as "IBM"). Play the Fortune 500 Jeopardy game Watson runs through its databases to come up with an answer, and it will only "buzz in" if it reaches a set threshold of certainty. That's a massive number of tasks occurring at the same time. But Watson is able to do this quickly thanks to software that runs on a 10 refrigerator-sized racks of IBM Power7 systems. The machine is a grandkid to Deep Blue, the chess-playing IBM supercomputer that trounced world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. Practical applications: IBM researchers say they avoided merely loading Watson up with countless databases because they want the technology to work for any person or company looking for quick answers. David Ferrucci, IBM's lead researcher on Watson, said in a question-and-answer session that the company sees huge potential in the health care area. Watson could help doctors more accurately diagnose patients, he suggested. Other business applications include online self-service help desks, tourist information centers, customer hotlines and more, IBM says. So who won the "Jeopardy!" practice run?! Watson won! Too bad, humans! In a 15-question round, Watson fielded about half of the questions -- and got none wrong. The computer netted $4,400, nearly quadrupling Rutter's score and beating Jennings by $1,000. Jennings and Rutter also sported a perfect track record on their answers. The final margin seemed to come down to who could buzz in the fastest. The real competition will be a series of matches that will air on television on February 14, 15 and 16. First place wins a cool million, second place takes home $300,000 and third place nets $200,000. IBM ( IBM , Fortune 500 ) will donate 100% of Watson's winnings to charity, while Rutter and Jennings each said they will donate 50% of their prizes. Google+ Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. All times are ET. Disclaimer . Morningstar: © 2016 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc. 2016. All rights reserved. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its lic |
What radio station do you find at 570 on your local AM dial? | KVI AM 570 Fire code surprise keeps Port Orchard, WA VFW post closed; seeking donations to open ...- KVI Staff The Port Orchard, WA VFW Post 2669 just moved into a new building but cannot open it to host military veterans due to fire code upgrades that are required. KOMO News just reported this story about the fire code status of the building. If you can help contr |
Sunday marks the 83rd Academy Awards, otherwise known as the Oscars. Which 2010 film had the most number of nominations, with 12? | 2010-2011 Awards Season - 24 Frames - latimes.com Movies: Past, present and future Category: 2010-2011 Awards Season 'The Hunger Games' footage: forest, fireballs and braids [video] August 29, 2011 | 1:39 pm In the future, there is Gore-Tex. And also trees. That’s what we learned from the scant 45 seconds of “The Hunger Games” footage Lionsgate revealed during MTV’s Video Music Awards Sunday. In the teaser, Jennifer Lawrence gallops through a dense forest as 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, one of 24 kids forced to fight to the death in an outdoor arena game. Lawrence, who has already demonstrated action heroine potential by gutting a squirrel in “Winter’s Bone” and pumping iron in “X-Men: First Class,” delivers on Katniss’ scrappy athleticism--she dodges fireballs, leaps over a fallen tree and releases an arrow with a fierce glint in her eye. Over the action, the voice of Katniss’ hometown pal, Gale (Liam Hemsworth), hints at one of the relationships that drives her character. “You’re stronger than they are,” Gale says. “You are. They just want a good show, that’s all they want. You know how to hunt. Show ’em how good you are.” “The Hunger Games,” directed by Gary Ross, is the first in a planned series based on a trilogy of dystopian young adult novels by Suzanne Collins. The teaser footage, which Lawrence introduced from the movie’s North Carolina set, reveals little of the visual ambition of the books' science-fiction setting. There is no sign of District 12—the bleak, coal mining region from which Katniss hails—nor the sleek Capitol District, where the stylish and powerful reside. Also absent are the series's fantastical fashions, such as Katniss’ “girl on fire” dress, and mutant creatures, like the arena’s deadly “tracker jacker wasps.” The movie’s hairdressers have delivered Katniss’ distinctive side braid—this may replace Princess Leia’s buns as a new generation’s Comic-Con coiffure of choice—but her wardrobe suggests the future looks a lot like a Lands’ End catalog. Though minimal, the footage contained a hint to find more visual detail about the movie. A Twitter hashtag in the teaser, #whatsmydistrict, points users towards a viral website , with a blurred, black image, some discordant electronic beeps and a note in the corner prompting "citizens” to identify themselves via Twitter. After a few hours of people tweeting the site's address, the image appeared to begin forming into the seal of the Capitol District. (Here Lionsgate is taking a page from the viral campaign for “Dark Knight Rises”—as more people Tweeted the phrase “The Fire Rises” in May, a blurry image clarified into a mosaic photo of Tom Hardy as the "Batman" villain Bane.) "The Hunger Games" also stars Josh Hutcherson as Katniss' arena partner, Peeta Mellark; Woody Harrelson as her booze-addled mentor, Haymitch Abernathy; Elizabeth Banks as her airhead escort to the Capitol, Effie Trinket; and Lenny Kravitz as her faithful stylist, Cinna. "The Hunger Games" opens March 2012. July 11, 2011 | 8:40 am We're closer to the next award season than to the last one. But James Franco still has the Oscars on his mind. He's not happy about some of the things producers put him through earlier this year. And he continues to be willing to share that unhappiness with seemingly any passing media outlet. In the new issue of Playboy, the actor-cum-host had a few things to say about his recent hosting gig and why he felt he was as much the victim as, well, many of us in the viewing audience. Pointing the finger at writers for why many of his bits fell flat, Franco said: "There were a lot of cooks who shouldn't have been cooking but were allowed to," adding, "there were some cooks my manager tried to bring in, like Judd Apatow, who wrote some very funny stuff that wasn't used." Franco said he was up-front with producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer about the issues as he saw them but found his comments falling on deaf ears. "In the last week, when we really started focusing on the script for the live show and did a run-through, I said to the producer, 'I don't know |
Although primary made from phenolic resin these days, billiard balls were primarily made from what material from the early 1600s until the early 20th century? | Iphone Virtual Travel Iphone Virtual Travel Author: admin Transforming your little kitchen shouldn’t be a difficult job kitchen remodel ideas . When you set your little kitchen reworking plan on paper, just keep in mind your finances. Keep reading to determine some strategies on redesigning our modest kitchen area. kitchen should be a location exactly where planning food items and cooking is relaxed. Your to start with compact kitchen reworking strategy need to be to include as a lot of cabinets while you can into your kitchen area area. An illustration might be furnishing cupboards underneath the sink and above. With all of these cabinets, it is simpler to help keep your pots, pans, eyeglasses, plates, wine bottles and canned goods. Storage sections will also be created integral elements of your walls to reduce obstruction. Built-in ovens and sliding shelves are just some illustrations. These could make the pathways with your kitchen area cleaner, and you may also be in a position to prepare your matters much better. The refrigerator will inevitably be element of your kitchen. Having said that, ensure that to put it inside the appropriate site. You don’t choose to put it near the cooking place as this will likely bring about malfunctions in appliances. You furthermore mght don’t desire to position it the place it’ll block your way even though you’re cooking. The best area to place your refrigerator in is in between the entry level to the kitchen and dining area for far better accessibility. The sink, stove and fridge are the 3 necessary factors of any kitchen area. Their dimensions need to be based upon what you genuinely need. By way of example, you could possibly not cook dinner quite a bit, so that you could possibly have to have merely a small stove. On the other hand, you might want a larger sink to manage far more plates. If you want additional proficiency during the kitchen area, pair the sink and stove. Your upcoming modest kitchen area remodeling notion must be to acquire some kind of serving bar that serves as a planning and breakfast desk. That is naturally for those who seriously desire to enlarge an incredibly tiny area. Remember drinking water, gas and electricity supplies. Make an effort to carry in ample sunlight and ventilation with unobstructed home windows through the sink whilst keeping the stove away from home windows. They are sensible things you should keep in mind to help make your kitchen area superior to operate in. Lighting remains an important aspect in widening the space of the tiny kitchen. A small kitchen remodeling idea should be to use indirect lights. It is a smart way to produce a great ambiance and extra depth to your kitchen area. Specific paint shades can also make your kitchen look more substantial. Awesome hues would be the very best types to employ since they produce the illusion that a thing is even more away than they actually are. Blue, eco-friendly and purple are viewed as great colors. For those who do wish to implement warm colors this sort of as yellow, crimson and orange, utilize them as accent colors. The issue with warm shades is the fact that they seem to come back in direction of you, which is why an area can experience smaller. Author: admin The phrases Corporate Protection may well conjure up images of a team of techies performing in the wire-filled basement home of Microsoft or HP, combating hackers and terrorists online applying words like algorithm and encryption. If you own your individual business enterprise, never enable your self to believe protection is just for giant corporations. Each individual business, massive or compact, technological or regular, has two important stability problems: defending data, and safeguarding components encrypted email providers . Company Safety: Facts Facts is the commodity that makes corporations exceptional. That information and facts may be a process your business does a lot better than some others; or it could be how you can make the special merchandise you sell; or it could be a group of knowledge which you have that othe |
What is the name of the Amtrak train that runs from Seattle's King Street Station to Union Station in Los Angeles? | Coast Starlight: Seattle to Los Angeles by train - Telegraph Journeys by Rail Coast Starlight: Seattle to Los Angeles by train On the Coast Starlight, Amtrak’s flagship route between Seattle and Los Angeles, Pamela Petro revels in the feeling of 'motion without responsibility’. Though haunted by a railway disaster of 20 years ago, she still loves trains . The Coast Starlight offers views of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay Image 1 of 2 'The scenery shifts like mad, from the grey north-west shoreline up into the deep, unlit Cascades, from the seabound hills of San Francisco Bay into California's great agricultural valleys, from the Diablo Mountains to the magnificent coast running from San Luis Obispo to LA' By Pamela Petro 12:51PM GMT 13 Jan 2011 Rain gave way to heavy, honeyed sun. Dusk came soon after and drained the gold tones, leaving a silver sky and shining, silver puddles in ploughed fields. Silver tarnished to grey, and then there was nothing. All afternoon we had been passing lumber and railway yards, small towns where cars sat at flashing level crossings, waiting for us to go by. We passed bungalows with front porches facing the tracks and hardscrabble farms along the coastal plain. Rural Oregon had electricity, for heaven's sake, so where were the lights? For two hours we travelled in unrelenting blackness. Not a single electric flicker, only my reflection in the train window and, in my mind's eye, the flat, bright farmscapes of the Netherlands. (I was reading Gerbrand Bakker's The Twin, set on a Dutch farm, which made a fugue of the afternoon by playing visual harmony to America's coastal north-west.) Just as the dining car attendant announced my dinner reservation, the locomotive pulled into a deep curve. For a few seconds, as the train snaked on itself, I could see in its headlights a forest of giant conifers, heavily weighted with snow. Flakes gusted, swirled and sparkled with frantic blizzard force in the beams. Darkness explained: we were in a massive forest. The trees seemed nearly prehistoric, they were so big, so feral, so far from all humans but us. Every now and then transport transports, in that other, better meaning of the word, the way a great novel does – as Amtrak's Coast Starlight transported me on a November night, high in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. Related Articles On the slow train El Expreso 21 Aug 2010 Here's the great thing about being a train passenger: motion without responsibility. When the sun rises, or the conversation ends, or when you wake up and look out the window, the world is new. Sometimes unrecognisably, dizzyingly so. To me this is the crux of earthbound magic, and in the US no train conjures it better than the Coast Starlight. The fact that part of the route runs alongside the San Andreas Fault, that tectonic boundary so closely associated with California's earthquakes, only adds to the glamour. The Starlight is one of Amtrak's flagship routes, following the Pacific coast from Seattle to Los Angeles, or vice versa. The scenery shifts like mad, from the grey north-west shoreline up into the deep, unlit Cascades, from the seabound hills of San Francisco Bay into California's great agricultural valleys, from the Diablo Mountains to the magnificent coast running from San Luis Obispo to LA. I caught the train in Seattle, arriving at King Street Station an hour early because web reports claimed it was a zoo. Instead, it appeared to be an archaeological excavation: a $50 million renovation of the 1906 station was half-finished. High moulded ceilings were stripped of Sixties acoustic tiles, but not of the same era's fluorescent tube lights. Simultaneously, the place felt grand and drab. As more people arrived, the station began to crackle with expectant, nervous energy. An older man in a beret and his wife, who carried a violin case, smiled at me. They seemed like pros; everyone else was busy getting in the right queue. (Amtrak's caste system was already in evidence: "Sleeping Car Passengers" through Door Two, "Coach Passengers"–the riff raff to wh |
Today marks the anniversary of one of the most the iconic moments in US history when US marines (and a Navy corpsman), raised a flag on top of Mt Suribachi, during the WWII battle for which island? | The Battle of Iwo Jima Battle of Iwo Jima The Battle of Iwo Jima The Marine Corps, more so than any other branch of America's military, values and embraces its history. Beginning in boot camp, every Marine is educated on the Corps' proud and storied past as they learn what it means to be part of such a prestigious organization. In the spirit of the value the Marine Corps places on its history, we wanted to give you, Marine families and supporters, an opportunity to embrace and learn about this part of Marine Corps legacy as well. In this piece, we take a further look at one of the defining chapters in Marine Corps history - The Battle of Iwo Jima. Iwo Jima February 23 marks the anniversary of one of the most iconic moments in Marine Corps history and in all of World War 2--the American flag being raised over Mt. Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Background By February of 1945, the United States Marine Corps had been fighting Imperial Japanese forces across the Pacific for three years. As the Marines slowly but surely worked their way across the Pacific in their island-hopping campaign and closed in on the Japanese homeland, the already fanatical Japanese resistance intensified, leading to some of the of the most brutally intense fighting in a campaign known for it ferocity. Battle Summary and Flag Raising The Battle of Iwo Jima began on February 19,1945, as more than 70,000 US military personnel, including approximately 60,000 Marines, attempted to capture the island of Iwo Jima from just over 22,000 Japanese troops. The operation was initially supposed to take 10 days, but a system of caves, tunnels, and bunkers on the island had shielded the Japanese defenders from the American artillery bombardment prior to American forces landing on the beaches. The Marines did not come under fire while landing on the beaches as they typically did, leading some to speculate that the artillery bombardment had been a success. It was only after the Marines had landed with their equipment and started patrolling into the interior of the island that the Japanese opened fire. It quickly became apparent that the bombardment had not been as successful as hoped and that operation was going to take longer than expected. After four days of brutal fighting, the Marines had effectively cut off Mt. Suribachi ("Sulfur Mountain" in Japanese and the island's highest point) from the rest of the island. Despite being isolated above ground, American forces knew that the mountain was connected to Japanese defenders through the island's tunnel system, and thus had some strategic value. Two four-man Marine patrols were sent out to scout potential routes up the mountain, which they successfully accomplished after coming under far less enemy fire than anticipated. After the scout patrols descended the mountain and reported on the lack of enemy contact, USMC Colonel Chandler Johnson called for a platoon of Marines to climb back up the mountain and capture the summit. With the platoon, Johnson sent a small American flag to fly if and when they took the summit. The Marines again reached the top of Mount Suribachi without incident and, using a length of pipe they found among the wreckage atop the mountain, raised the flag, making it the first foreign flag to fly over Japanese soil. Aftermath Seeing the flag go up on Mt. Suribachi was a great morale boost, not only for Marines on the island, but also for Americans back home who saw Joe Rosenthal's iconic image of the flag being raised in news publications across the country. However, despite raising the flag on Mt. Suribachi after four days of fighting, the island wouldn't officially be declared "secure" until March 26, more than a month later, as the Japanese desperately did everything in their power to avoid surrendering, with less than 2% of Japanese defenders peacefully surrendering to American forces. Legacy Along with places like Belleau Wood, the Chosin Reservoir, and Hue City, the Battle of Iwo Jima is one of the iconic, defining events in Marine Corps history, as the Marines once again showed that |
Lasting for 13 days before the final battle, Mexican revolutionaries began a siege of what Texas mission on Feb 23, 1836? | Chronology Chronology 300 Alamo Plaza • San Antonio, Texas • 78205 Regular Hours: 9:00am - 5:30pm Summer Hours: 9:00am - 7:00pm from Memorial Day through Labor Day Closed Christmas Eve & Christmas Day CONTACTS Chronology The Mission Period: 1700-1793 The story of the Alamo begins with the establishment of the Mission San Francisco de Solano near the Rio Grande River in 1700. There, Father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares worked to convert many of the Coahuiltecan bands to Catholicism, the official religion of Spain. After Olivares traveled to Texas with an expedition in 1709, he was struck by the potential of the San Antonio area and later recommended it to the Spanish viceroy, Marques de Valero, as a site for a mission waypoint on the road to Spanish settlements in East Texas. In 1718, after many Indians had left Mission Solano, Olivares moved the mission’s belongings to the new site near present-day San Antonio. He named the new mission in honor of Saint Anthony de Padua and the Spanish viceroy who had approved his plan: San Antonio de Valero. While the mission changed locations several times, the present location was chosen in 1724. The foundation of the stone mission church was laid in 1744. Until it was secularized nearly 70 years later, San Antonio de Valero was home to Spanish missionaries and their Indian converts. It was the first of five Spanish missions in the San Antonio area. A Spanish mission was much more than a religious institution. Its purpose was to take an indigenous population and convert it not only to Catholicism, but to the Spanish way of life. In establishing the missions in Texas, the Spanish hoped to create a self-sufficient population that would continue to exist and grow as loyal Spanish subjects, thereby staving off any involvement of foreign powers like France. Indian converts were taught farming, raising livestock, blacksmithing, carpentry, stonework, and weaving. Indians and missionaries at San Antonio de Valero also found protection at the mission. Encroachment by warlike Apaches from the west and Comanches from the north meant local Coahuiltecan tribes were under constant threat. Thus, mission life brought protection from other indigenous people as well as shelter and a more stable food supply. It also gave the Coahuiltecans access to two important technological developments of the period: firearms and horses. On June 30, 1745, an Apache attack on the nearby town of San Fernando was driven off with the aid of 100 mission converts from Valero. Mission San Antonio de Valero was originally overseen by the Franciscan College of Querétaro but was taken over by the Franciscan College of Zacatecas in 1773 after the expulsion of the Jesuits from New Spain (1767). The void left by the departure of the Jesuits from New Spain was filled by reassigning the missionaries from other orders who remained in the various Spanish colonies. By the late 1700s much had changed on the Texas frontier. Indian convert populations had dwindled at most of the Spanish missions, sometimes from increased mortality due to exposure to new diseases carried by the Europeans. The rich mission lands, cultivated over a century, were also coveted by local populations. As a result, by 1793, Mission San Antonio de Valero was secularized and control passed to local authorities. Much of the mission lands and goods were distributed amongst the Spanish locals and remaining Indian residents. The other San Antonio missions would meet a similar fate. The former mission, with its convento, adobe houses and an incomplete stone church, would soon play host to the first of many military garrisons. San Antonio Missions: MORE LESS Decline of Spanish Rule: 1794-1821 In response to increased French and American threats from nearby Louisiana, Spain mobilized its military into the Texas frontier after the turn of the century. Since San Antonio de Valero was now secularized, the Spanish military occupied the old mission compound and converted it into a frontier outpost and military garrison. The first soldiers to arrive were a troop of pre |
Also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, who was assassinated on Feb 21, 1965 in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom, during a meeting of the Organization of Afro-American Unity? | Malcolm X assassinated - Feb 21, 1965 - HISTORY.com Malcolm X assassinated Publisher A+E Networks In New York City, Malcolm X, an African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925, Malcolm was the son of James Earl Little, a Baptist preacher who advocated the black nationalist ideals of Marcus Garvey. Threats from the Ku Klux Klan forced the family to move to Lansing, Michigan, where his father continued to preach his controversial sermons despite continuing threats. In 1931, Malcolm’s father was brutally murdered by the white supremacist Black Legion, and Michigan authorities refused to prosecute those responsible. In 1937, Malcolm was taken from his family by welfare caseworkers. By the time he reached high school age, he had dropped out of school and moved to Boston, where he became increasingly involved in criminal activities. In 1946, at the age of 21, Malcolm was sent to prison on a burglary conviction. It was there he encountered the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam, whose members are popularly known as Black Muslims. The Nation of Islam advocated black nationalism and racial separatism and condemned Americans of European descent as immoral “devils.” Muhammad’s teachings had a strong effect on Malcolm, who entered into an intense program of self-education and took the last name “X” to symbolize his stolen African identity. After six years, Malcolm was released from prison and became a loyal and effective minister of the Nation of Islam in Harlem, New York. In contrast with civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X advocated self-defense and the liberation of African Americans “by any means necessary.” A fiery orator, Malcolm was admired by the African American community in New York and around the country. In the early 1960s, he began to develop a more outspoken philosophy than that of Elijah Muhammad, whom he felt did not sufficiently support the civil rights movement. In late 1963, Malcolm’s suggestion that President John F. Kennedy’s assassination was a matter of the “chickens coming home to roost” provided Elijah Muhammad, who believed that Malcolm had become too powerful, with a convenient opportunity to suspend him from the Nation of Islam. A few months later, Malcolm formally left the organization and made a Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, where he was profoundly affected by the lack of racial discord among orthodox Muslims. He returned to America as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz and in June 1964 founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity, which advocated black identity and held that racism, not the white race, was the greatest foe of the African American. Malcolm’s new movement steadily gained followers, and his more moderate philosophy became increasingly influential in the civil rights movement, especially among the leaders of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. On February 21, 1965, one week after his home was firebombed, Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization in New York City. Related Videos |
In an attempt to satisfy the angst of an entire generation, Toyota announced this week that what is the official plural of the word Prius? | Welcome to my HOME - mikesviewofthings mikesviewofthings last update: Saturday, April 23, 2016 IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS PLEASE CONTACT ME AT: [email protected] WHAT'S HAPPENING??? 4/23/16 I am having a hard time understanding the process of the national campaign involving the five remaining presidential candidates. It’s very common for these candidates to target the states with upcoming elections, and saturate those states with campaign material and personal appearances. It’s much easier for them to get around today than it was perhaps just 50 years ago, when it was traditional for the candidate to jump on a train and stop at every little burgh and spill their promises from a platform on the last car of the train. Or even more common were the auto caravans that would drive from city to city, and town to town with giant speakers atop their cars (Blues Bothers style) making promises, or announcing an upcoming personal appearance in a particular community. The candidates just don’t do that anymore. They are content to jump into their fast jet, slide into an airport and take a motorcade to a speaking rally. Never in a small city and certainly never to a city that does not have at least one regional television station. And they do this in the interest of reaching the people. Efforts like this are more of a high school pep rally than a means of finding out how people feel about the state of the nation. What they should do is go back to the practice of visiting the smaller towns, getting out and walking amongst the people; walking down the streets off the main street and see how people live their daily lives in poverty; stop at a rural Wisconsin farm and talk to the farmer who works to milk his cows, only to see a handful of “middlemen” take all his profit. Find out how his expenses drive many out of the business because it just doesn’t work out. If I were ever able to be so lucky as to ask Mrs. Clinton, or Mr. Trump or any of the others, “how much does a gallon of gas cost here in Marshfield?” I would not be surprised if they did not know! How can they (and their handlers) run the country when they don’t know what is taking place in the country? The majority of people in this country live like I do. We are the middle class. It’s all I’ve ever known and I will never know any different. Much the same with those less fortunate than me. Much the same for those better off than me. Oh, I believe in miracles and the theory that hard work pays off. I’m happy for those who break loose and move up in the food chain. Slap me! Tell me it’s reality! But it should NOT cost the money that it does to get a person elected to president! Or governor for that matter. And it’s all talk, talk, talk…..Why not listen? Look around, Mr. Candidate! The lives we live in Marshfield, Wisconsin are reality, too. We’ll tell you where the bear shit in the woods! We’ll tell you what the real problems are, the problems that affect the people you want voting for you. But if you don’t ask, we can’t tell you. I know this “eye-opener” would work. It has in the past. Kennedy all but conceded West Virginia to Humphry in 1960 and almost didn’t campaign there. But both John Kennedy and his brother Robert did travel throughout the state, observing first-hand the lives endured by the coal miners and their families. These families never knew anything different. And what the Kennedy brothers learned immediately affected their attitude about to poor and disadvantaged for the rest of their short lives. Not such a big thing, you say. But up to that point, the Kennedy campaign centered on money, especially since they grew up as the affluent east coast Kennedy family who never knew any different. And their concerns after that West Virginia experience affected their attitude towards blacks – which saw many favorable changes after that point and the years that followed. All because they got out of their plane, and their cars, and walked around. You can’t see that stuff from 30,000 feet or buzzing to the next pep rally going 70 MPH. 4/5/16 Election mornin |
Known as The Old Line State, or Little America, what was the 7th state to join the union on April 28, 1788? | April 28, 1788 – Maryland Becomes the Seventh State in the Union | Rhapsody in Books Weblog Rhapsody in Books Weblog Posted on 04/28/2009 by rhapsodyinbooks Maryland was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution and has two nicknames, the Old Line State and the Free State. It was named in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria (1609-1669), the wife of Britain’s King Charles I. Its history as a border state has led it to exhibit characteristics of both the Northern and Southern regions of the United States. In 1861, when the Civil War broke out, President Lincoln issued a call for troops from the northern states to come defend the U.S. Capital. To reach Washington, troops initially sought to come by train through Baltimore. But the secessionist element in Maryland would have none of it. On April 19, the men of the Sixth Massachusetts, on their way to defend the nation’s capitol, had to change from one train station to another in Baltimore. Angry crowds attacked them, and at the end of the conflict nine soldiers were dead as well as twelve civilians. These were the first casualties of the war, aside from an accidental death during the bombardment of Ft. Sumter a week earlier. Fast forward to my childhood, growing up in the suburbs of D.C. in Maryland. In our elementary school, we all learned our state song, “Maryland My Maryland.” The lyrics include: The despot’s heel is on thy shore, Maryland My Maryland! His torch is at thy temple door, Maryland My Maryland! Avenge the patriotic gore That flecked the streets of Baltimore And be the battle queen of yore, Maryland My Maryland! We had no idea the tune was a “secesh” (pronounced like “see-sesh”) song that referenced that first Civil War clash, written by a Marylander teaching in Louisiana. (The “despot” referenced was Abraham Lincoln!) In fact, I had a Rebel hat and other Rebel accoutrements, thinking they represented my “team.” I didn’t know it was any different than rooting for the Washington Redskins, nor did my parents (unbelievably!) opt to enlighten me. In 2009, a group of fourth graders protested to the Maryland State Legislature. (You can read about it here .) Subsequently, a state house delegate introduced a bill to change the lyrics of the state song to pay tribute to Maryland rather than express “Confederate sympathies.” Various wags have come up with alternate lyrics. My favorite proposal is by Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post in this article : We sing to thee, our fav’rite state Maryland, my Maryland There is one way that first you rate Income’s highest in your state So you’re the one the rest can hate, Maryland, my Maryland. You can find some other humorous proposals here . To this day, Maryland’s identity is a divided one. Generally, it is said that rural Western Maryland resembles West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania, the Southern and Eastern Shore regions of Maryland evince a “Southern” culture, and densely-populated Central Maryland—radiating outward from Baltimore and the Washington Beltway—exhibits characteristics of the Northeast. All this, in only a little over 12,400 square miles. The State Flag, toward which I still hold some irrational vestiges of affection, was officially adopted in 1904. It is the only US state flag based on British heraldry (the coats of arms of noble families). The flag’s design was based on the coat of arms adopted by George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore. The alternating yellow and black are from Lord Calvert’s family shield; the red and white design is either from Calvert’s maternal family, or his wife’s family. The United States Naval Academy (also known as USNA, Annapolis, or simply Navy) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland, the state capital. Established on October 10, 1845, under Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft, it is the second oldest of the United States’ five service academies, and educates officers for commissioning primarily into the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. The Blue Angels perform over the Naval Academy on May 2 |
Known for their thumbs up/thumbs down review summaries, who hosted Sneak Previews (on PBS) and later At the Movies, along with Rogert Ebert, until his death in 1999? | The 10 Best Siskel and Ebert Reviews Trailers Roger Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic and historian, journalist, screenwriter and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. As of 2010, his reviews were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad. Ebert also published more than 20 books and dozens of collections of reviews. Gene Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune. Along with colleague Roger Ebert, he hosted a series of popular review shows on television from 1975 to 1999. Ebert and Siskel helped popularize nationally-televised film reviewing when they co-hosted the PBS show Sneak Previews, followed by several variously-named At the Movies programs. The two verbally sparred and traded humorous barbs while discussing films. They created and trademarked the phrase "Two Thumbs Up," used when both hosts gave the same film a positive review. Sneak Previews was an American film review show, running for over two decades on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The show first aired in 1975 on a monthly basis under the name Opening Soon at a Theater Near You, and after two successful seasons, was renamed Sneak Previews The show originally featured Roger Ebert, a film critic from the Chicago Sun-Times and Gene Siskel, a film critic from the Chicago Tribune. The two newspapers were competitors, and so were Siskel and Ebert. Siskel & Ebert itself began in September 1986 as Siskel & Ebert & the Movies, when Siskel and Ebert signed with Buena Vista Entertainment, the television division of the Walt Disney Company. The title of the show was shortened to simply Siskel and Ebert in mid-1987. The program was originally recorded in the studios of WBBM-TV, Chicago's CBS owned and operated station. Some time after Disney's 1996 purchase of Capital Cities/ABC, the show's tapings were moved to ABC's Chicago station, WLS-TV, where it remained for its duration. During its run with Siskel and Ebert as hosts, the series was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards seven times and also for Outstanding Information Series, the last nomination occurring in 1997. It was widely known for the "thumbs up/thumbs down" review summaries given during Siskel's and Ebert's tenures (this was dropped after Ebert ended his association with the program, as the phrase "Two Thumbs Up" is a trademark held by the Siskel and Ebert families). Siskel and Ebert often had notably divergent tastes, and as a result, heated arguments and spats added to the series' popularity. Many viewers considered such "fights" to be the highlight of the program. In joint appearances on the talk show circuit, especially on David Letterman's shows, the two critics indicated a mutual respect and friendship off screen. Widely circulated outtakes from promo-recording sessions show the two both bickering and joking off-air. Only once during his long association with Roger Ebert did Gene Siskel ever change his vote on a movie. The 1996 film Broken Arrow had initially been given a "thumbs up", but after hearing Ebert's criticism, Siskel changed his mind to "thumbs down" to make it unanimous. In 1998, Gene Siskel was hospitalized for treatment of a brain tumor. For a few weeks, the show was filmed with Siskel on the telephone (from his hospital bed) and Ebert in the studio. Although Siskel would eventually return to the studio, he seemed noticeably more lethargic and mellow than usual. In February 1999, Siskel announced he was taking a leave of absence for further treatment of the tumor, hoping to return. Less than three weeks later, Siskel died from complications of the surgery. The weekend following Siskel's death, Ebert devoted the entire half-hour as a tribute to him. On the show were various clips from shows past as well their history together as journalists and then on television. Also, Ebert appeared on ABC's Good Morning America in a tribut |
In what 1982 #1 hit did Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney profess a desire to be part of a piano? | JAZZ and BLUES: Stevie Wonder lunes, 8 de agosto de 2011 Stevie Wonder Stevland Hardaway Morris (previously Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day. Among Wonder's best known works are singles such as "Superstition", "Sir Duke", "I Wish" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You". Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five. Stevie Wonder was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1950, being the third of six children to Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway. Owing to his being born six weeks premature, the blood vessels at the back of his eyes had not yet reached the front and their aborted growth caused the retinas to detach. The medical term for this condition is retinopathy of prematurity, or ROP, and while it may have been exacerbated by the oxygen pumped into his incubator, this was not the primary cause of his blindness. When Stevie Wonder was four, his mother left his father and moved herself and her children to Detroit. She changed her name back to Lula Hardaway and later changed her son's surname to Morris, partly because of relatives. Morris has remained Stevie Wonder's legal name ever since. He began playing instruments at an early age, including piano, harmonica, drums and bass. During childhood he was active in his church choir. Ronnie White of The Miracles gives credit to his brother Gerald White for persistently nagging him to come to his friend's house in 1961 to check out Stevie Wonder. Afterward, White brought Wonder and his mother to Motown Records. Impressed by the young musician, Motown CEO Berry Gordy signed Wonder to Motown's Tamla label with the name Little Stevie Wonder. Before signing, producer Clarence Paul gave Wonder his trademark name after stating "we can't keep calling him the eighth wonder of the world". He then recorded the regional Detroit single, "I Call It Pretty Music, But the Old People Call It the Blues", which was released on Tamla in late 1961. Wonder released his first two albums, The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie and Tribute to Uncle Ray, in 1962, to little success. By age 13, Wonder had a major hit, "Fingertips (Pt. 2)", a 1963 single taken from a live recording of a Motor Town Revue performance, issued on the album Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius. The song, featuring Wonder on vocals, bongos, and harmonica, and a young Marvin Gaye on drums, was a #1 hit on the U.S. pop and R&B charts and launched him into the public consciousness. In 1964, Stevie Wonder made his film debut in Muscle Beach Party as himself, credited as "Little Stevie Wonder". He returned in the sequel released five months later, Bikini Beach. He performed on-screen in both films, singing "Happy Street," and "Happy Feelin' (Dance and Shout)," respectively. Dropping the "Little" from his name, Wonder went on to have a number of other hits during the mid-1960s, including "Uptight (Everything's Alright)",[8] "With a Child's Heart", and "Blowin' in the Wind", a Bob Dylan cover, co-sung by his mentor, producer Clarence Paul. He also began to work in the Motown songwriting department, composing songs both for himself and his label mates, including "Tears of a Clown", a number one hit performed by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. In 1968 he recorded an album of instrumental soul/jazz tracks |
Who was the King of England during the American Revolution? | Who was the king of England during the American Revolution? | Reference.com Who was the king of England during the American Revolution? A: Quick Answer The king of England, during the American Revolution, was King George III. He was the son of Fredrick, Prince of Wales, and he suffered from porphyria throughout his life, which made him have bouts with insanity and other manifestations. Full Answer When the government of King George III fell in a major debt, he decided to increase taxes in American colonies. He also imposed taxes on papers, stamps and tea. This angered the colonies, and they wrote letters to him expressing their disapproval. The colonies started to boycott British goods and bought from other countries. When the colonies dumped all the British tea into Boston Harbor, the king became angered and imposed intolerable policies onto the American Colonists. As a result, this triggered the American Revolution. |
Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, (born on 22 Feb 1962) died after being impaled by what animal? | Steve Irwin is Born | World History Project Feb 22 1962 Steve Irwin is Born Stephen Robert Irwin (22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006), known simply as Steve Irwin and nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an iconic Australian television personality, wildlife expert, and conservationist. He achieved worldwide fame from the television program The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series co-hosted with his wife Terri Irwin. Together, they also co-owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by his parents in Beerwah, Queensland. He died in 2006 after being fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while filming in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. |
With the failure of his prime time show and his return to host the Tonight Show, whom is Jay Leno booting from behind the desk? | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - WOW.com The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tonight_Show_Starring_Johnny_Carson Updated: 2017-01-01T05:07Z For the entire Tonight Show franchise, see The Tonight Show . For the 1955–56 CBS variety show hosted by Carson, see The Johnny Carson Show . The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Also known as October 1, 1962 – May 22, 1992 Chronology Website The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from October 1, 1962 through May 22, 1992. [1] It originally aired during late-night . For its first decade, Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show was based at 30 Rockefeller Plaza , New York City, with some episodes recorded at NBC-TV's West Coast studios in Burbank, California ; on May 1, 1972, the show moved to Burbank as its main venue and remained there exclusively after May 1973 until Carson's retirement. [2] In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked No. 12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time [3] and in 2013, it was ranked No. 22 on their list of 60 Best Series. [4] Contents 8 External links Format Johnny Carson's Tonight Show established the modern format of the late-night talk show: [5] a monologue sprinkled with a rapid-fire series of 16 to 22 one-liners (Carson had a rule of no more than three on the same subject) was followed by sketch comedy , then moving on to guest interviews and musical performances. Particularly during the early years of Carson's tenure, his guests included politicians such as former U.S. Vice President (and future U.S. President) Richard M. Nixon , former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy , Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and (near the end of his run) presidential candidate Bill Clinton ; by 1970, Carson had primarily settled into interviewing as guests people that had a book, movie, television show, or stage performance to promote. Other regulars were selected for their entertainment or information value, in contrast to those who offered more cerebral conversation; [6] Carson refused to discuss politics on The Tonight Show out of fear it might alienate his audience, [7] and it was Carson's preference for access to Hollywood stars that caused the show's move to the West Coast on May 1, 1972. [8] When asked about intellectual conversation on Tonight, Carson and his staff invariably cited " Carl Sagan , Paul Ehrlich , Margaret Mead , Gore Vidal , Shana Alexander , Madalyn Murray O'Hair " as guests; [6] one television critic stated, however, "he always presented them as if they were spinach for your diet when he did [feature such names]". [9] Psychologist Joyce Brothers was also one of Carson's most frequent guests. Carson strongly disliked prop comedy and generally refused to have such comics on his show; such acts ( Gallagher being a prominent example) only appeared on nights when guests hosted the show. [10] Gallagher first appeared on "The Tonight Show" Dec. 5, 1975, [11] when he demonstrated his prop, The Tonight Show Home Game. Johnny Carson noted it was his first appearance. Gallagher again appeared on The Tonight Show on May 9, 1979 [12] , a show hosted by Carson. Carson almost never socialized with guests before or after the show; frequent interviewee Orson Welles recalled that Tonight employees were astonished when Carson visited Welles's dressing room to say hello before a show. Unlike his avuncular counterparts Merv Griffin , Mike Douglas , and Dick Cavett , Carson was a comparatively "cool" host who only laughed when genuinely amused and abruptly cut short monotonous or embarrassingly inept interviewees. Mort Sahl recalled, "The producer crouches just off camera and holds up a card that says, ‘Go to commercial.’ So Carson goes to a commercial and the whole team rushes up to his desk to discuss what had gone wrong, like a pit stop at Le Mans ." Actor Robert Blake once compared being interviewed by Carson to "facing the death squad" or "Broadway on opening night." The publicity value of appearing on Tonight |
What disorder is defined in DSM IV by: (1)Repeated theft of objects that are unnecessary for either personal use or monetary value. (2)Increasing tension immediately before the theft. (3)Pleasure or relief upon committing the theft. (4)The theft is not motivated by anger or vengeance, and is not caused by a delusion or hallucination. (5)The behavior is not better accounted for by a conduct disorder , manic episode , or antisocial personality disorder. | Kleptomania - causes, DSM, therapy, person, people, used, personality, theory, health Kleptomania Kleptomania is an impulse control disorder characterized by a recurrent failure to resist stealing. Description Kleptomania is a complex disorder characterized by repeated, failed attempts to stop stealing. It is often seen in patients who are chemically dependent or who have a coexisting mood, anxiety, or eating disorder. Other coexisting mental disorders may include major depression, panic attacks, social phobia , anorexia nervosa , bulimia nervosa , substance abuse, and obsessive-compulsive disorder . People with this disorder have an overwhelming urge to steal and get a thrill from doing so. The recurrent act of stealing may be restricted to specific objects and settings, but the affected person may or may not describe these special preferences. People with this disorder usually exhibit guilt after the theft. Detection of kleptomania, even by significant others, is difficult and the disorder often proceeds undetected. There may be preferred objects and environments where theft occurs. One theory proposes that the thrill of stealing helps to alleviate symptoms in persons who are clinically depressed. Causes and symptoms Causes The cause of kleptomania is unknown, although it may have a genetic component and may be transmitted among first-degree relatives. There also seems to be a strong propensity for kleptomania to coexist with obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia nervosa, and clinical depression. Symptoms The handbook used by mental health professionals to diagnose mental disorders is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders . Published by the American Psychiatric Association, the DSM contains diagnostic criteria and research findings for mental disorders. It is the primary reference for mental health professionals in the United States. The 2000 edition of this manual (fourth edition, text revision), known as the DSM-IV-TR, lists five diagnostic criteria for kleptomania: • Repeated theft of objects that are unnecessary for either personal use or monetary value. • Increasing tension immediately before the theft. • Pleasure or relief upon committing the theft. • The theft is not motivated by anger or vengeance, and is not caused by a delusion or hallucination. • The behavior is not better accounted for by a conduct disorder , manic episode , or antisocial personality disorder. Demographics Studies suggest that 0.6% of the general population may have this disorder and that it is more common in females. In patients who have histories of obsessive-compulsive disorder, some studies suggest a 7% correlation with kleptomania. Other studies have reported a particularly high (65%) correlation of kleptomania in patients with bulimia. Diagnosis Diagnosing kleptomania is usually difficult since patients do not seek medical help for this complaint, and initial psychological assessments may not detect it. The disorder is often diagnosed when patients seek help for another reason, such as depression, bulimia, or for feeling emotionally unstable (labile) or unhappy in general (dysphoric). Initial psychological evaluations may detect a history of poor parenting, relationship conflicts, or acute stressors—abrupt occurrences that cause stress, such as moving from one home to another. The recurrent act of stealing may be restricted to specific objects and settings, but the patient may or may not describe these special preferences. Treatments Once the disorder is suspected and verified by an extensive psychological interview, therapy is normally directed towards impulse control, as well as any accompanying mental disorder(s). Relapse prevention strategies, with a clear understanding of specific triggers, should be stressed. Treatment may include psychotherapies such as cognitive-behavioral |
Feb 23, 1945 saw one of the iconic moments in US history when US marines (and a Navy corpsman), were photographed raising the flag atop was Iwo Jima mountain? | Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima, 1945 Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima, 1945 The 2nd flag-raising atop Mt. Suribachi Feb. 23, 1945 The photograph at the right of Marines raising the American flag at the summit of Mt. Suribachi during the battle for Iwo Jima has become an enduring image of bravery and heroism. However, this was actually the second flag raised on the mountain's summit that day. The first flag-raising occurred a couple of hours earlier - shortly after Marines had gained the top of the mountain after hard fighting. This flag was deemed too small to be easily seen from the base of the mountain so a second, larger flag was raised. The First Flag-Raising Scott Tank sent us this eyewitness account of Cpl. Charles W. Lindberg, a friend and the last surviving member of the team that raised the first flag on the crest of Mt. Suribachi. Scott asked that we share Mr. Lindberg's story with you - we are honored to do so. Thank you Scott for sending us this account, and thank you Mr. Lindberg for the sacrifices you made during that bloody nightmare called Iwo Jima: It was the job of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, to capture Mount Suribachi. They reached the base of the mountain on the afternoon of February 21, and by nightfall the next day the Marines had almost completely surrounded it. As part of that Marine group, 24-year-old Corporal Charles Lindberg, a combat veteran of the Guadalcanal and the Bougainville campaign, watched the intense bombardment of Iwo Jima and realized that the landing at Red Beach One would be anything but easy. "The Japs had the whole beach zeroed in. Most of the fire was coming from Suribachi," he recalled. Surrounding Mount Suribachi were cliffs, tunnels, mines, booby traps, and ravines. The hostile terrain proved to be as tough an enemy as the Japanese who were firmly entrenched on the mountain. At 8 a.m. on February 23, a patrol of 40 men from 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, led by 1LT Lieutenant Harold G. Schrier, assembled at the base of Mount Suribachi. The platoon's mission was to take the crater of Suribachi's peak and raise the U.S. flag. As a member of the first combat patrol to scale Mount Suribachi, Cpl Lindberg took his 72-pound flamethrower and started the tortuous climb up the rough terrain to the top. Raising the 1st flag under enemy fire As they reached the top, the patrol members took positions around the crater watching for pockets of enemy resistance as other members of the patrol looked for something on which to raise the flag. Present at the crest were six Marines of a 40-man patrol. They were 1LT Lieutenant Schrier, Sergeant Thomas, Sergeant Hansen, Private First Class Charlo, Private First Class Michels, and Corporal Charles W. Lindberg. At approximately 10:20 a.m., the flag was hoisted on a steel pipe above the island. The sight of the small American flag flying from atop Mount Suribachi thrilled men all over the island. And for the first time during WWII, an American flag was flying above what was considered traditional Japanese territory. This symbol of victory sent a wave of strength to the battle-weary fighting men below, and struck a further mental blow against the island's defenders. Marine Corps photographer Sergeant Lou Lowery captured this first flag raising on film just as the enemy hurled a grenade in his direction. Dodging the grenade, Lowery hurled his body over the edge of the crater and tumbled 50 feet. His camera lens was shattered, but he and his film were safe. As Cpl Lindberg would later remark, "Suribachi was easy to take; it was getting there that was so hard!" Of the 40-man patrol, thirty-six were killed or wounded in later fighting on Iwo Jima including Lindberg himself who would be shot through the stomach and arm a week later on 1 March, 1945. For his heroism Lindberg would receive the Purple Heart and Silver Star Medal with the citation reading in part: "Repeatedly exposing himself to hostile grenades and machine-gun fire in order that he might reach and neutralize enemy pill-boxes at the base of Mount Suribach |
21 years ago today, supreme Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini offered a $3 million bounty for the death of what British author of The Satanic Verses? | Iran's state media imposes new $600,000 fatwa on Salman Rushdie | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis Iran's state media imposes new $600,000 fatwa on Salman Rushdie (Getty Images) Thu, 25 Feb 2016-09:02pm , London , PTI The original fatwa against the 68-year-old British-Indian Booker Prize winner had caused international outcry. Hardline Iranian news media outlets have raised US$ 600,000 to add to a bounty for the killing of Salman Rushdie, it emerged today, 27 years after a death fatwa was issued by Iran's former supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini over one of the India-born author's controversial novels. About 40 organisations, including state-run media outlets, raised the sum to reinforce the religious edict calling for Rushdie's assassination issued by Khomeini in 1989 on charges of blasphemy after the publication of The Satanic Verses. "The fatwa against Salman Rushdie is a religious fatwa. Nobody in the world can nullify a religious fatwa. It has been, it is, and it will be," a senior member of the editorial team at state-run Fars New Agency in Tehran told The Times. The original fatwa against the 68-year-old British-Indian Booker Prize winner had caused international outcry, with the UK severing diplomatic ties with Iran for nearly a decade. ALSO READ Chidambaram says banning 'Satanic Verses' wrong, Rushdie asks how many years to correct 'mistake' It was suspended in 1998 when Mohammad Khatami, then the president of Iran, announced that as a pre-condition to the restoration of ties with Britain the Iranian state would "neither support nor hinder assassination operations". The new bounty came to light in an account by an unnamed journalist at Fars of a digital media fair in Tehran. The story included a declaration by a man known as "Mr Amini", setting a bounty equivalent to US$ 600,000, and listed 40 organisations, including NGOs and private donors, which had pledged the money, The Times reported. ALSO READ |
Tuesday marked the birth of Majel Barrett, who made her career voicing the computers in what franchise? | Star Trek: The Next Generation : Wikis (The Full Wiki) Official website Star Trek: The Next Generation (often abbreviated to TNG) is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Created about 21 years after the original Star Trek, and set in the 24th century from the year 2364 through 2370; about 80 years after the original series, the program features a new crew and a new starship Enterprise . It premiered the week of September 28, 1987 to 27 million viewers [1] with the two-hour pilot " Encounter at Farpoint ". With 178 episodes spread over seven seasons, it ran longer than any other Star Trek series, ending with the finale " All Good Things... " the week of May 23, 1994. The series was broadcast in first-run syndication , with dates and times varying among individual television stations. The show gained a considerable following during its run and, like its predecessor, remains popular in syndicated reruns . It was the first of several series (the others being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise) that kept new Star Trek episodes airing until 2005. Star Trek: The Next Generation won 18 Emmy Awards and, in its seventh season, became the first syndicated television show to be nominated for the Emmy for Best Dramatic Series. It was nominated for three Hugo Awards and won two. The first-season episode " The Big Goodbye " also won the Peabody Award for excellence in television programming. The series formed the basis of the seventh through the tenth Star Trek films . Contents 9 External links Production After the box-office success of the Harve Bennett -produced Star Trek-based movies, Paramount decided to create a new Star Trek series in 1986. Roddenberry initially declined to be involved but came on board as creator after being unhappy with early conceptual work. The creation of Star Trek: The Next Generation was announced on October 10, 1986. [2] The show was, unusually, broadcast in first-run syndication rather than running on a major network, with Paramount and the local stations splitting advertising time between them. [3] Roddenberry hired a number of Star Trek veterans, including Bob Justman , D. C. Fontana , Eddie Milkis, and David Gerrold . Paramount executive Rick Berman was assigned to the show at Roddenberry's request. [4] The Next Generation was shot on 35 mm film [5] , and was one of the first television shows with sound recorded in Dolby Surround . The filming negatives were scanned in a straight-to-video device. Season one The first season was marked by a "revolving door" of writers, with Gerrold and Fontana quitting after disputes with Roddenberry. [6] Mark Bourne of The DVD Journal wrote of season one: "A typical episode relied on trite plot points, clumsy allegories, dry and stilted dialogue, or characterization that was taking too long to feel relaxed and natural." [7] Other targets of criticism include poor special effects and plots being resolved by the deus ex machina of Wesley Crusher saving the ship. [8] [9] However, Patrick Stewart 's acting skills won praise and critics have noted that characters were given greater potential for development than those of the original series. [7] [8] While the events of most episodes of season one were self-contained, many developments important to the show as a whole occurred during the season. The recurring nemesis Q was introduced in the pilot, " Encounter at Farpoint ", the alien Ferengi first appeared in "The Last Outpost", the capabilities of the holodeck were explored, and the history between Will Riker and Deanna Troi was investigated. Later season-one episodes set the stage for serial plots. The episode " Datalore " introduced Data's evil twin brother Lore, who made several more appearances in later episodes. "Coming of Age" dealt with Wesley Crusher's efforts to get in to Starfleet Academy while also hinting at the threat to Starfleet later faced in "Conspiracy". " Heart of Glory " explored Worf's character, Klingon culture, and the uneasy truce between |
What is the most popular board game in the United States? | 10 Most Important Board Games In History - Listverse 10 Most Important Board Games In History Alan Boyle January 20, 2013 For thousands of years, board games have been a source of entertainment for people across the world. Evidence of board games pre-dates the development of writing—and in many cultures they have even come to have a religious significance. What is particularly striking about a number of these games is how their original ethics and morals have been stripped by big business realising they could make a quick buck off them. Here are ten of the most important board games from ancient and modern history: 10 Tafl Tafl was a very popular game among the Vikings. One player aims to get his king from the centre of the board to the edges, while the other does everything he can to capture him. Tafl spread across Europe (just like Viking genes) and became the chess of its day; noblemen would boast of their skill on the board. Tafl was the inspiration for the game Thud , based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. There is still the occasional World Championship—but the fact that these take place on an island with a population of eighty-six makes me doubt how much of a “world” championship it really is. A bit more pillaging may be in order. 9 The Landlord’s Game The Landlord’s Game was invented in 1903 by Maryland actress Lizzie Magie. The game board consisted of a square track, with a row of properties around the outside that players could buy. The game board had four railroads, two utilities, a jail, and a corner named “Labor Upon Mother Earth Produces Wages,” which earned players $100 each time they passed it. This should all sound quite familiar: the fact is, The Landlord’s Game was patented three decades before Charles Darrow “invented” Monopoly and sold it to Parker Brothers. The Landlord’s Game —later known as Prosperity —was intended to illustrate the social injustice created by land ownership and “rent poverty.” It also offered a solution to this injustice: players could opt to have rent from properties they owned paid into a communal pot, which would then be shared out, making things better for everyone. The great irony of the story is that when the idea was stolen by Darrow, the prosperity-for-all ideal was removed completely—and the game that went on to be played by more than one billion people ended up encouraging them to make their opponents bankrupt. 8 The sixteenth century Indian game of Vaikuntapaali —also known as Leela —was a tool for teaching morality and spirituality . It was the game that went on to be launched as Chutes and Ladders in America (and Snakes and Ladders elsewhere). In the original version, the climbing of a ladder was supposed to show players the value of good deeds in the search for enlightenment; the chutes—or snakes—were meant to show that vices such as theft and murder would bring spiritual harm to the sinner. The Victorians altered the moral teachings when they brought the game to England in the late nineteenth century. Although in the original one could achieve a state of eternal Nirvana, the British fondness for understatement meant that in the Western version, one simply achieved “success.” By the time Milton Bradley brought it to America in 1943, all anyone really wanted was a bit of distraction (something must have been weighing on people’s minds in the early 1940s), and so the game became what it remains today: a basic race to the finish. 7 A precursor to Tick-Tack-Toe, Nine Men’s Morris is a game in which counters are placed on a grid with the aim of creating lines of three. Once all the pieces are down, they can be moved one space per move. Whenever a player forms a row of three, he can remove one of his opponent’s pieces from the board. The first player down to two pieces loses. The simplicity of the game board meant that people across the world could create their own without much hassle. Boards dating as far back as 1440 B.C. have been found carved into steps and rocks in Sri Lanka, Bronze Age Ireland, ancient Troy and the Southwestern United States—note to M |
According to the National Park Service, which National Park was the most visited in the United States, with over 9.5 million visitors last year? | National Parks That record number last year put strains on some units of the park system, with superintendents at Yellowstone National Park , Zion National Park , and Great Smoky Mountains National Park all voicing concerns over the record numbers that came out in 2015, and Arches and Acadia encountering crushing visitors at times. Director Jarvis said park managers are adjusting to make sure they have sufficient staff to provide interpretive programs, answer visitor questions, respond to emergencies and to keep restrooms, campgrounds and other facilities clean. At the same time, Park Service officails recommended that visitors plan their trips to avoid peak crowds "by visiting the most popular parks in spring and fall and by visiting early in the morning or later in the day." “Even with record-breaking visitation, visitors can still find quiet places in the parks for those willing to seek them out,” the director said. “I can take you to Yosemite Valley on the Fourth of July and within five minutes get you to a place where you are all alone.” According to the unofficial numbers , Grand Canyon National Park's 2015 visitation rose 760,305 to 5.5 million; Great Smoky Mountains National Park continues to lead all "national parks" in visitation with 10.7 million, an increase of 613,398 over 2014; the Blue Ridge Parkway leads all 409 units, with 15 million visitors, an increase of 1.1 million over 2014; and Rocky Mountain National Park was up 721,165 over 2014, to 4.1 million. The Park Service attributed much of the increase in national park visitation to the National Park Foundation’s “Find Your Park” media campaign. The campaign has sparked interest from travelers and also from communities near national parks, state tourism agencies and Congress. In late December 2015, Congress approved a 9 percent funding increase for the National Park Service, which will help the agency manage the rising visitation, the agency said. “The increase in Congressional appropriations comes at a critical time for the National Park Service and will help us to serve the growing number of visitors,” said Director Jarvis. “We look forward to continuing to work with Congress as it considers additional legislation in support of the National Park Service Centennial, which would further improve the national parks by encouraging philanthropy and volunteerism, while also allowing us to improve visitor services and connect with a new generation of national park visitors.” About 365 of 409 parks in the National Park System record visitation numbers. The NPS has recorded more than 13 billion visits to parks since park managers began counting visitors in 1904, some 12 years before the NPS was created. Official statistics including the most-visited parks of the national park system and the most-visited national parks will be released in late February. |
What NPR show is hosted by Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers? | Car Talk Car Talk 4 This week on The Best of Car Talk, Peterson is afraid to put air in his tires. Is he doomed to depending on the kindness of strangers with pumps, or can Tom and Ray help cure him—or at least outfit him properly in case there is an explosion? Your blind spot, that is. Find out the one simple change that can prevent accidents. Produced in association with our pals at BestRide. The discussion area for Car Talk's Driver Distraction Center. Find discussions about your car Make Support for Car Talk is provided by: Donate Your Car, See what others say about your car Make * Model * Year Listen | Our Show | Car Info | Mechanics Files | Blogs | Community | Fun Stuff | Store | Contact | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service Cartalk.com is a production of Tappet Brothers LLC d/b/a Dewey, Cheetham and Howe. Contents © 2017 Tappet Brothers LLC. CAR TALK, DEWEY, CHEETHAM & HOWE, SHAMELESS COMMERCE, WARPED DISCS, and CLICK AND CLACK are registered trademarks of Tappet Brothers LLC. Promotional Partners |
On Feb 23, 1836, the Mexican army, under the command of Santa Anna, set siege to what mission? | The Alamo Siege Chronology Day Two Wednesday February 24, 1836 The second day of the siege began early with the Texians facing a newly established battery erected by the Mexicans during the night. The battery consisted of two eight-pounders and a howitzer and was located approximately 400 yards to the west of the fort. It was known as the River Battery. The defenders were busy that night as well. They had captured at least one Mexican soldier and six pack mules during a nighttime patrol. According to Enrique Esparza, the defenders used the captured soldier to decipher bugle calls for the Texians throughout the siege. Sometime around eleven that morning, Santa Anna began his survey of the Alamo fortifications and surrounding area to familiarize himself with the area. The Mexican army pillaged the Texian's stores in Béxar and began the bombardment of the Alamo in earnest. The Texian artillery returned fire with no obvious results. James Bowie, in command of the garrison, fell ill. The garrion's surgeon described his illness as a "A peculiar disease of a peculiar nature." Jim Bowie relinquished his command of the garrison to Travis. The Alamo's well proved inadequate in supplying the garrison's water needs. This forced the defenders to obtain water from the acequia and reservoir to east of the compound setting the stage for several skirmishes. Travis penned his "To the people of Texas and all Americans in the world" letter. Defender Albert Martin carried the letter from the Alamo and added his own comments to the back of the document. Historians consider this letter to be one of the most stirring documents in American history because it helped to establish the Texian national identity. Day Three Thursday February 25, 1836 The morning of February 25, 1836 dawned with summer-like temperatures opening one of the most eventful days of the siege. The Mexicans launched an attack with approximately 400 - 450 soldiers personally led by General Castrillon. The Matamoros Battalion and three companies of cazadores made up the attacking force. They came from the area of the river battery through Pueblo de Valero's jacales and buildings advancing to within 50-100 yards from the Alamo's walls. After two hours of fighting, The Texians finally forced a Mexican withdrawal using the ditches and outworks. They inflicted only light casualties on their attackers. Sometime during the fighting, Texian sorties burned the jacales closest to the Alamo. At the same time, the Mexicans established new fortifications near the McMullen house. As the Mexicans advanced through the pueblo, they discovered a young woman and her mother in one of the houses. Although already married, Santa Anna took advantage of the situation, arranged a false marriage, and quickly consummated the relationship. That night, the temperatures dropped into the 30's. Under the cover of darkness, William B. Travis sent Colonel Juan Seguin to find General Houston and ask for help. The defenders ventured out again burning even more jacales. There is some evidence that at least nine men deserted the garrison and gave information to Santa Anna where the Texians had hidden at least 50 rifles. The day's fighting was not a victory for the Texians. The Mexicans had established artillery and infantry entrenchments in La Villita and the Alameda, but the Texians proved that as unorganized as they were, they could fight. Day Five Saturday February 27, 1836 The fifth day of the siege was again cold with temperatures ranging in the 30s. Having exhausted their own supplies, the Mexicans pillaged B�jar of foodstuffs and perishables. When they in turn depleted these, they sent troops to nearby ranchos to forage livestock and corn. In a decisive move, the Mexicans cut off the eastern acequia's water supply at its source: the S |
Area 51 is a supposed hotbed of alien activity. In what US state is it located? | Rebunking Conspiracy Theories: Area 51 - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency Rebunking Conspiracy Theories KEATON PATTI Of all of the numbered areas, Area 51 is the most shrouded in conspiracy. Located in the southern portion of Nevada, the facility has long been accused of being connected to extraterrestrials, housing top secret government experiments, and harshing nearby Las Vegas’ buzz. Is Area 51 a hotbed of alien interaction? Does the government use Area 51 to perform shadowy tests of horrible future technology? What is happening behind those barbed wire fences and in those windowless rooms? Does Area 51 have anything do with Pier 1, and if so, how much for a nice indoor sectional? By examining the claims of conspiracy theorists, debunkers, and then rebunking with my own, I’ll attempt to answer these questions with further questions. The truth is out there. The hard part is getting it in here. - - - Conspiracy Claim: The fact that Area 51 does not appear on U.S. geological survey maps, the area above it is restricted airspace, and the public is not allowed anywhere near it proves something devious and sinister is happening there. Debunking Claim: “Area 51” is officially classified as Homey Airport, a United States Air Force property and any secrecy or restricted access is merely in line with that of a military facility. Rebunking Claim: With the insane lengths taken to remain hidden and keep most people from entering, Area 51’s true purpose is obvious: it’s where the government throws surprise birthday parties. The government balances out all of the bad things it does by surprising random citizens with an out of the blue birthday bonanza. One day you wake up on your birthday in a pitch black, unmarked airplane hangar. “What? This isn’t the airplane hangar I went to sleep in last night,” you say, then the lights flick on and there’s streamers, cake, and hundreds of government agents wishing you the happiest of birthdays. You spend the entire day playing games, opening presents, and being assured you didn’t die and go to heaven. Then, as the greatest day of your life dies down, you’re tucked back into bed by all of the Men In Black type agents, your memory of the day is erased by a Men In Black-type device, and you’re given a copy of a Men In Black-type movie as a final parting gift. It explains why everyone has a birthday we can’t remember and why we all have a DVD of that generic Men In Black movie. - - Conspiracy Claim: With many UFOs seen around the area, it’s obvious that Area 51 has direct ties to extraterrestrial activity, and accounts from former employees have stated that actual aliens have been in the compound. Debunking Claim: Declassified files have stated that experimental aircraft were tested at and around the facility, explaining any UFO sightings. Claims of extraterrestrial activity, let alone actual aliens being present at the facility, are completely unfounded and were never made by individuals who could prove they worked at Area 51. Rebunking Claim: Experimental aircraft testing was and continues to be a means of luring aliens to land at Area 51 and then forcing them to work as employees of the state. Strong government workers’ unions have made hiring humans extremely costly. However, labor laws conveniently don’t apply to aliens in the United States (in all other countries they do). This means instead of paying a human $50,000 a year with benefits, they can pay an alien a handful of raisins a year with benefits, namely the benefit to continue living as long as it keeps its damn alien mouth shut and works hard at Nevada’s Department of Building and Safety. E.T. phone home? No, E.T. phone homeowner to tell them they’re approved to build a pool. - - Conspiracy Claim: All major advancements in human technology from the past 50 years were “created” by reverse engineering alien spacecraft and artifacts at Area 51. Debunking Claim: The rise in technology has followed a logical progression without any “other-worldly” leaps. Plus, since Area 51 is supposedly a strictly American endeavor, the technological achie |
What was the name of the couple executed in 1953 for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, the first execution of civilians for espionage in US history? | This Week in History: The Rosenbergs' execution - Features - Jerusalem Post This Week in History: The Rosenbergs' execution By Tamara Zieve 17 June 2012 14:21 Convicted of passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, Jewish American husband and wife Julius and Ethel face the electric chair in an unprecedented sentence for a crime of that nature. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg leave courthouse 390. (photo credit:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Divisio) On June 19, 1953, Jewish Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in New York, for conspiring to pass nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II. Their unprecedented sentence incensed protesters world-wide, who advocated either that the Rosenbergs had not been given a fair trial, or that the punishment did not fit the crime. Demonstrators called on the US government to revoke the pair's death sentence, while defense attorney Emmanuel Bloch fought for the Rosenbergs’ to the very last minute of the two year battle following their sentence. But to no avail. Be the first to know - Join our Facebook page. That Friday, Julius and Ethel became the only Americans in history to be sentenced to death in peace time for espionage, meeting their fate on the electric chair. Julius Rosenberg was the son of a Jewish immigrant from Poland, who upon seeing his son excelling in Hebrew Studies, wanted him to become a rabbi. Instead, Julius pursued his passion for politics, laying out a very different path for himself. He joined the Communist Party at the age of 16, where he met his future wife, Ethel nee Greenglass. Ethel's brother David Greenglass worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory on the Manhattan Project – which led the US to develop the first atomic bomb - and his sister and her husband pushed him to pass top-secret information to the Soviets. Greenglass later became the government’s star witness in the trial of his sister and brother-in-law. While there is little doubt today that the Rosebergs were involved in spying for the Soviets, Ethel's part was minimal and indirect. Indeed, in 2008, Morton Sobell, a friend of the Rosenbergs who was also convicted of espionage, admitted that he and Julius had been Soviet spies. Of Ethel, however, he said: “She knew what he was doing, but what was she guilty of? Of being Julius’s wife.” The prosecution, it later transpired, had a good idea of this, yet put Ethel on trial along with her husband in an unsuccessful attempt to pressure Julius to name other American members of the spying ring. Nonetheless, Ethel also became the first woman to be executed in the US since Mary Surratt, who was sentenced to death due to her role in assassinated US president Abraham Lincoln's death. The Rosenbergs were executed at Sing Sing Prison before Shabbat. Prison officials had advanced the time of execution in order to "spare religious feeling," The Guardian reported. The couple maintained their innocence to the bitter end; in a letter to the two sons they left behind, Ethel wrote, "Always remember that we were innocent and could not wrong our conscience." Their son Robert Meeropol went on to found The Rosenberg Fund for Children, whose mission is to help children of targeted activists in the US. US President Dwight D. Eisenhower rejected a final appeal for clemency, and Julius was killed, followed by his wife. According to witnesses Ethel beckoned to the prison matron who had accompanied her, pulled her toward her and gently kissed her on the cheek. Ethel's heart was still beating after the first 50-second jolt of electricity, and she was only pronounced dead after two more jolts. On the day of the execution, thousands rallied in Paris and London to protest the Rosenbergs' fate, and hundreds picketed in front of the White House. Attorney Bloch fought to the end for the Rosenbergs, pleading at the gates of the White House for a final hearing with Eisenhower in his clients' last hours of life. In a statement released that day, Eisenhower said: "I am not unmindful of the fact that this case has aroused grave concern both |
Who traded places with Eddie Murphy in the film 1983 masterpiece Trading Places? | That was amazing. Eddie Murphy killed it. Didn't like Winthorpe though. Letitia Lew Super Reviewer Billy Ray Valentine: Hey that's the motherf- I mean... that's the gentleman that had me busted. "They're not just getting rich... They're getting even." Trading Places is one of the best comedies of the 80's and maybe ever. It's my personal favorite Eddie Murphy film and probably tied for my favorite Dan Aykroyd and John Landis film(the other of course being The Blues Brothers). What we have here was an instant comedy classic, that is as much fun as it is funny. There's not a moment of wasted screen time. It's smart, it injects a variety of different forms of humor, and it's fast paced and widely entertaining. There's not much more you can ask for from a comedy. This is the cream of the crop. So, two greedy, manipulative, and corrupt investors make a bet. The bet involves two totally different men. One, Louis Winthorpe runs the Duke brothers investment firm and has made them a lot of money in the process. He comes from a good environment. The other is Billy Ray Valentine, a hustler who makes his money acting like a wounded Vietnam vet. He came from a bad environment. One of the Duke brothers believes that if they throw Louis into the bad environment, he will become a no good thief. He also believes that if they put Valentine into the good environment, he will be able to run the firm just as well as Louis. The other doesn't. It's all part of a fun wager until, Louis and Valentine get wise to it. There's a lot to love about the movie from the great performances from Murphy and Aykroyd to an Oscar nominated score. The versatility showed by Murphy and Aykroyd is what makes their performances so memorable. They both give two different performances within the same movie. Both must act like poor, beaten bums and like wealthy, high class investors. Neither of them waver at any moment and it's pure comedic gold. Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Paul Gleeson, and Jamie Lee Curtis are all very good as well. Trading Places is a must see comedy for all film lovers out there. It's one of those select few comedies that really stands out above the rest for me. It's up there, for me, with movies like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. This is a comedic masterpiece and there's just no other way to describe it. If you haven't seen this before, watch it as soon as possible. Melvin White One of the best movies. Ever. Jason Robinson |
Friday marks the birthday of old West legend and showman William Cody. By what nickname name was he better known? | Buffalo Series | Silver Coins and Bullion Silver Coins and Bullion End Date: Wednesday Feb-15-2017 6:18:58 PST Buy It Now for only: $34.00 End Date: Wednesday Feb-8-2017 13:02:05 PST Buy It Now for only: $39.95 End Date: Tuesday Jan-31-2017 11:10:22 PST Buy It Now for only: $59.99 End Date: Friday Feb-17-2017 8:23:43 PST Buy It Now for only: $49.95 End Date: Friday Feb-17-2017 10:01:56 PST Buy It Now for only: $49.00 End Date: Sunday Jan-22-2017 12:21:06 PST Buy It Now for only: $38.49 End Date: Saturday Feb-11-2017 2:49:38 PST Buy It Now for only: $125.00 End Date: Wednesday Feb-1-2017 23:27:10 PST Buy It Now for only: $149.99 End Date: Wednesday Feb-15-2017 11:45:26 PST Buy It Now for only: $44.95 End Date: Friday Feb-17-2017 14:04:06 PST Buy It Now for only: $29.95 End Date: Tuesday Feb-7-2017 18:33:47 PST Buy It Now for only: $69.95 End Date: Thursday Feb-2-2017 18:54:00 PST Buy It Now for only: $15.57 End Date: Sunday Feb-12-2017 18:57:59 PST Buy It Now for only: $9.99 End Date: Tuesday Jan-24-2017 11:19:49 PST Buy It Now for only: $89.00 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill) Children Four children, two of whom died young: Kit died of scarlet fever in April, 1876, and his daughter Orra died in 1880 William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory (now the American state of Iowa), near Le Claire. He was one of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, and mostly famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872. Contents 1 Nickname and work life 2 Early years 4 Buffalo Bill's Wild West 4.1 Irrigation 5 Life in Cody, Wyoming 6 Life in Staten Island, New York 7 Death 9 In film and television 10 The false Italian pedigree 11 Buffalo Bill's / defunct // Nickname and work life William Frederick Cody ("Buffalo Bill") got his nickname after he undertook a contract to supply Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo meat. The nickname originally referred to Bill Comstock. Cody earned the nickname by killing 4,860 American Bison (commonly known as buffalo) in eight months (186768). He and Comstock eventually competed in a shooting match over the exclusive right to use the name, which Cody won. In addition to his documented service as a soldier during the Civil War and as Chief of Scouts for the Third Cavalry during the Plains Wars, Cody claimed to have worked many jobs, including as a trapper, bullwhacker, "Fifty-Niner" in Colorado, a Pony Express rider in 1860, wagonmaster, stagecoach driver, and even a hotel manager, but it's unclear which claims were factual and which were fabricated for purposes of publicity. He became world famous for his Wild West Shows. Early years William Cody at age 19 While giving an anti-slavery speech at the local trading post, his father so inflamed the supporters of slavery in the audience that they formed a mob and one of them stabbed him. Cody helped to drag his father to safety, although he never fully recovered from his injuries. The family was constantly persecuted by the supporters of slavery, forcing Isaac Cody to spend much of his time away from home. His enemies learned of a planned visit to his family and plotted to kill him on the way. Cody, despite his youth and the fact that he was ill, rode 30 miles (48 km) to warn his father. Cody's father died in 1857 from complications from his stabbing. After his father's death, the Cody family suffered financial difficulties, and Cody, aged 11, took a job with a freight carrier as a "boy extra," riding up and down the length of a wagon train, delivering messages. From here, he joined Johnston's Army as an unofficial member of the scouts assigned to guide the Army to Utah to put down a falsely-reported rebellion by the Mormon population of Salt Lake City. According to Cody's account in Buffalo Bill's Own Story, the Utah War was where he first began his career as an "Indian fighter". Presently the moon rose, dead ahead of me; and painted boldly across its face was the figur |
Established by Executive Order on March 1, 1961, the Peace Corps was originally headed up by what government department, before becoming independent in 1981? | John Fitzgerald Kennedy facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about John Fitzgerald Kennedy COPYRIGHT 2002 The Gale Group, Inc. John F. Kennedy Carl M. Brauer TWENTY years after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, a public opinion poll indicated that he was rated best overall of the nine presidents since Herbert Hoover . Among five positive attributes surveyed, Kennedy "most inspired confidence in the White House," according to 40 percent of those asked, followed by Franklin D. Roosevelt at 23 percent. Sixty percent considered Kennedy as having had the "most appealing personality," followed again by Roosevelt at 11 percent. Kennedy edged Roosevelt on "best in domestic affairs" and on having "cared most about the elderly, the poor and those most in economic trouble." Political scientists, historians, and national journalists have on the whole tended to view Kennedy less favorably than has the general public. Some "experts" hold Kennedy in high regard, but others are extremely critical of him. A significant number probably agree that his promise outstripped his performance and that he left an ambiguous legacy. Neither popular nor expert opinion would actually be wrong about Kennedy. Indeed, they are in a sense opposite sides of the same coin, for Kennedy's inflation to mythic proportions by the public and his demythologizing by experts both derive significantly from the manner of his death. No one knows how his reputation might have been affected had he served out his first term and the second term to which he likely would have been elected. Alone among modern presidents, Kennedy's place in history revolves around unanswerable questions of what might have been had he lived. Yet this very fact suggests that in his relatively brief presidency—less than three years—Kennedy exerted a profound influence upon both popular and expert hopes and expectations, which endured long after his death. Had Kennedy not had this influence while he lived, the public would not have mythologized him, nor the experts demythologized him, after he was killed. Had he not had this influence, his successors in the White House would have been far less likely to have compared themselves to him, to have sought to emulate him, or to have tried to escape his myth. Family Background John F. Kennedy was born on 29 May 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second son of Joseph P. Kennedy, a self-made multimillionaire who headed the Securities and Exchange Commission under Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. In 1937, Roosevelt made the elder Kennedy ambassador to Great Britain , which marked a significant social breakthrough for an Irish Catholic. (In their native Boston, the Kennedys had sometimes been snubbed by Brahmin society, and Kennedy had moved the family to New York partly as a result of it.) To Roosevelt's dismay, his ambassador sympathized with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policies toward Nazi Germany. Neither Roosevelt nor Kennedy had ever really liked one another, but until this point they had successfully used one another for their own purposes. But after Kennedy took Chamberlain's side, the two men fell out permanently, and Roosevelt refused even to make use of Kennedy's very considerable business and managerial skills during the war. John Kennedy, or Jack, as he was known, grew up in a home where political issues were frequently discussed and sometimes debated. His father's strong views evidently influenced his older brother, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., more than they did him. All the Kennedy children, but particularly the four boys—Joseph, John, Robert, and Edward—were brought up with a strong sense of noblesse oblige and with little or no interest in enhancing their own very considerable financial fortunes. (Their father set up trust funds for each of them, which made them financially independent when they reached maturity.) Public service, not private gain, was the ideal instilled in all the Kennedy children. When their private fortunes or family connections could enhance their ability |
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