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In which novel was Aunt Ada Doom shocked by something nasty in the woodshed?
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Shed Sheds", which argues that a "place of retreat" is a "male necessity" which provides men with solace, especially during their retirement. In contrast, in the novel "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons, Aunt Ada Doom saw "something nasty in the woodshed" and retreated to her bed for half a century. To woodshed, or 'shed, in jazz jargon, is "to shut oneself up, away from the world, and practice long and hard, as in 'going to the woodshed'." The word is recorded in English since 1481, as "shadde", possibly a variant of shade. The word shade comes from the Old English
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Something Nasty in the Vault to pay for the drinks, but the note he uses is a dud, so Walker pays it with money he nabbed from the bank. Something Nasty in the Vault "Something Nasty in the Vault" is the fifth episode of the third series of the British comedy series "Dad's Army" that was originally transmitted on Thursday 9 October 1969. Walker arrives to pay some money into the bank, and a rather posh looking gentleman is standing behind him. As Pike prepares to cash his money, he discovers one of Walker's £5 notes is a forgery. Mainwaring is shocked to learn that
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What is the name of France’s equivalent to our own Britannia?
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Britannia and the British Empire what Marianne is to France or perhaps what Columbia is to the United States. Britannia became a very potent and more common figure in times of war, and represented British liberties and democracy. During the 1990s the term "Cool Britannia" (drawn from a humorous version by the Bonzo Dog Band of the song "Rule Britannia", with words by James Thomson [1700–1748], which is often used as an unofficial national anthem), was used to describe the contemporary United Kingdom. The phrase referred to the fashionable scenes of the era, with a new generation of pop groups and
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What It Is to Burn "All Our Kings Are Dead" (2010), A Day to Remember's "What Separates Me from You" (2010), D.R.U.G.S.'s "D.R.U.G.S." (2011), and The Amity Affliction's "Chasing Ghosts" (2012). All songs written by Finch. Personnel per booklet. Finch Additional musicians Production Citations Sources What It Is to Burn What It Is to Burn is the debut album by American post-hardcore band Finch. Finch originally formed under the name Numb with Nate Barcalow on vocals, Alex Linares on guitar, Derek Doherty on bass and Alex Pappas on drums. Guitarist Randy Strohmeyer was invited to join Finch after they witnessed him play with his band
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The Folketing is the parliament of which country?
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Folketing Folketing The Folketing (, ; lit. "the people's thing"), also known as the Danish Parliament in English, is the unicameral national parliament (legislature) of Denmark. Established in 1849, until 1953 the Folketing was the lower house of a bicameral parliament, called the Rigsdag; the upper house was Landstinget. It meets in Christiansborg Palace, on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen. The Folketing passes all laws, approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government. It is also responsible for adopting the state's budgets and approving the state's accounts. As set out in the Danish Constitution, the Folketing shares
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Folketing was elected by common vote, although indirectly and with a higher age limit than for the Folketing. During the next decades, law-making mainly took place in the Folketing and the Landsting came to be regarded as a superfluous rubber stamp. In 1953, a revised constitution was adopted by popular vote. Among the changes was the elimination of the Landsting and the introduction of a unicameral parliament, known only as the Folketing. Christiansborg Palace (also known by its nickname "Borgen", Danish for "the castle") has been the domicile of parliament since 1849. The palace is located in the heart of Copenhagen.
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What is the common name for the Earth’s lithosphere?
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Lithosphere Lithosphere A lithosphere ( ["lithos"] for "rocky", and ["sphaira"] for "sphere") is the rigid, outermost shell of a terrestrial-type planet, or natural satellite, that is defined by its rigid mechanical properties. On Earth, it is composed of the crust and the portion of the upper mantle that behaves elastically on time scales of thousands of years or greater. The outermost shell of a rocky planet, the crust, is defined on the basis of its chemistry and mineralogy. The study of past and current formations of landscapes is called geomorphology. Earth's lithosphere includes the crust and the uppermost mantle, which constitute
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Lithosphere the hard and rigid outer layer of the Earth. The lithosphere is subdivided into tectonic plates. The uppermost part of the lithosphere that chemically reacts to the atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere through the soil forming process is called the pedosphere. The lithosphere is underlain by the asthenosphere which is the weaker, hotter, and deeper part of the upper mantle. The Lithosphere-Asthenosphere boundary is defined by a difference in response to stress: the lithosphere remains rigid for very long periods of geologic time in which it deforms elastically and through brittle failure, while the asthenosphere deforms viscously and accommodates strain through
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Ben’s first success as a writer was in co-writing which 1980s TV comedy?
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Alternative comedy and sketch comedy, consisted of Manchester University and Royal Central School graduates Ade Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Dawn French, and Jennifer Saunders, who began to aim their talents at television. As "The Comic Strip Presents", the group made over 40 television films for both Channel 4 and BBC. Ben Elton, who had by then become the Comedy Store's next MC, was invited by Rik Mayall to join him as co-writer of BBC2's TV hit sitcom "The Young Ones". However, it was as MC of Channel 4's new comedy show "Saturday Live" that Elton found fame in his own right.
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Doug MacLeod (TV writer) young people: Doug MacLeod (TV writer) Doug MacLeod (born 13 October 1959) is a writer of books, television and theatre from Melbourne, Australia. Doug was a working writer for ABC Radio's comedy department in the 1980s, before spending two years as head writer of Network Ten's "The Comedy Company". He was a writer on the sketch comedy programs "Fast Forward" and "Full Frontal". He has been the script editor of "Kath & Kim" since the series commenced on the ABC. As a break from sketch comedy he co-wrote five episodes of "SeaChange" with Andrew Knight. He currently co-writes the animated
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His novel Dead Famous is a parody of which TV programme?
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Dead Famous (novel) cult of celebrity brought on by simply being on television and says in the credits that "without [the Big Brother contestants] this novel would not have been written". Bantam Press's page on Dead Famous Dead Famous (novel) Dead Famous (2001) is a comedy/whodunit novel by Ben Elton in which ratings for a reality TV show, very similar to "Big Brother", rocket when a housemate is murdered. Unlike a typical whodunnit, Elton does not reveal the identity of the victim until around halfway into the book. The novel is about a murder that occurs on a reality television programme called "House
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Dead Famous (TV series) to remain. In each episode, the show visits three locations that have some link or connection to the dead celebrity, although some seem nebulous at best. All of the locations are researched for their historical connection and presented in a factual way. Between 11 and 13 November 2005, "Dead Famous" broadcast live over three nights from Los Angeles. The show was hosted by Christopher Parker. Gail Porter and Chris Fleming were present during the show. Medium Carla Barron joined the team in this live show. Dead Famous (TV series) Dead Famous: Ghostly Encounters is a British paranormal reality television series
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Which musical has characters Columbia, Magenta and Dr Everett Scott?
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The Rocky Horror Show Marcelo Médici (Frank-N-Furter), Bruna Guerin (Janet Weiss), Felipe de Carolis (Brad Majors), Gottsha (Magenta and Usherette), Thiago Machado (Riff Raff), Jana Amorim (Columbia), Nicola Lama (Eddie / Dr. Everett Scott), Felipe Mafra (Rocky), Marcel Octavio (Narrator), Vanessa Costa (Ghost) and Thiago Garça (Ghost). The musical was a great success, especially for the large number of cosplayers who, at the end of very show, were invited to dance "Time Warp" on stage with the cast. Shortly before the premiere of the musical, director and producer Cláudio Botelho became embroiled in a major controversy after posting transphobic and homophobic comments in his
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Everett Scott age 67. He was posthumously inducted into the Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2008. "The News-Sentinel" named Scott the fourth-best athlete from Northeastern Indiana of the 20th century. Everett Scott Lewis Everett Scott (November 19, 1892 – November 2, 1960), nicknamed "Deacon", was an American professional baseball player. A shortstop, Scott played in Major League Baseball for 12 seasons as a member of the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds, from 1914 through 1926. Scott batted and threw right-handed. Scott served
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In which musical did Michael Ball play Edna Turnblad in the West End?
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Michael Ball (singer) artist in a controversial 'Musical Theatre' Prom on 27 August 2007 for the BBC at London's Royal Albert Hall. Ball performed a wide range of musical theatre numbers, including several by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The show was broadcast live on BBC Four, as well as on BBC Radio 3. From October 2007 – July 2009, Ball made his West End return starring as Edna Turnblad in the hit musical "Hairspray" at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. In March 2008, he was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal. He also won the Whatsonstage.com
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Michael Ball (singer) Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Edna Turnblad. He recently starred in a new production of "" at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End, alongside Imelda Staunton as Mrs. Lovett. The show premiered at the Chichester Festival Theatre for six weeks starting 24 September 2011 before transferring to London in March 2012. Michael and Imelda were both awarded Olivier awards, best actor and best actress in a musical for their Sweeney Todd performances. Michael is currently starring as Mack in Mack and Mabel, which has just finished in Manchester and is moving
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What is the occupation of Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady?
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With a Little Bit of Luck With a Little Bit of Luck "With a Little Bit of Luck" is a popular song by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, written for the 1956 Broadway play "My Fair Lady". It was sung by Stanley Holloway as Alfred P. Doolittle in both the original stage and film versions. It is sung by Eliza's bin man father, Alfred P. Doolittle and is about a list of everyday situations which one finds themselves in, and a desire to take the easy way out as "With a Little Bit of Luck" one's fate might change, thus avoiding any responsibility. The song
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My Fair Lady (film) My Fair Lady (film) My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical film adapted from the Lerner and Loewe eponymous stage musical based on the 1913 stage play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears an arrogant phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak "proper" English, thereby making her presentable in the high society of Edwardian London. The film stars Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison as
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Which character said ‘Why is a raven like a writing desk’?
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Often, the idea of eating coincides to make gruesome images. After the riddle "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?", the Hatter claims that Alice might as well say, "I see what I eat…I eat what I see" and so the riddle’s solution, put forward by Boe Birns, could be that "A raven eats worms; a writing desk is worm-eaten"; this idea of food encapsulates idea of life feeding on life, for the worm is being eaten and then becomes the eater a horrific image of mortality. Nina Auerbach discusses how the novel revolves around eating and drinking which "motivates
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Writing desk writing desks are designed for laptop computers of the 21st century. They are typically too small for most desktop computers or a printer. Writing desk A writing desk or bureau acts as a kind of compact office. Traditionally, a writing desk is for writing letters by hand. It usually has a top that closes to hide current work, which makes the room containing it look tidy, maintains privacy, and protects the work. The closing top may contain several joints so that it can roll closed, or may simply fold closed. The writing surface (or place for lap-top) typically folds down
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Which solid has the biggest volume for a given surface area?
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Surface-area-to-volume ratio Surface-area-to-volume ratio The surface-area-to-volume ratio, also called the surface-to-volume ratio and variously denoted sa/vol or SA:V, is the amount of surface area per unit volume of an object or collection of objects. In chemical reactions involving a solid material, the surface area to volume ratio is an important factor for the reactivity, that is, the rate at which the chemical reaction will proceed. For a given volume, the object with the smallest surface area (and therefore with the smallest SA:V) is the sphere, a consequence of the isoperimetric inequality in 3 dimensions. By contrast, objects with tiny spikes will have
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Surface-area-to-volume ratio very large surface area for a given volume. The surface-area-to-volume ratio has physical dimension L (inverse length) and is therefore expressed in units of inverse distance. As an example, a cube with sides of length 1 cm will have a surface area of 6 cm and a volume of 1 cm. The surface to volume ratio for this cube is thus For a given shape, SA:V is inversely proportional to size. A cube 2 cm on a side has a ratio of 3 cm, half that of a cube 1 cm on a side. Conversely, preserving SA:V as size increases
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Which type of rock is formed by heat or pressure?
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Metamorphic rock Metamorphic rock Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock types, in a process called metamorphism, which means "change in form". The original rock (protolith) is subjected to heat (temperatures greater than 150 to 200 °C) and pressure ( or more), causing profound physical or chemical change. The protolith may be a sedimentary, igneous, or existing metamorphic rock. Metamorphic rocks make up a large part of the Earth's crust and form 12% of the Earth's land surface. They are classified by texture and by chemical and mineral assemblage (metamorphic facies). They may be formed simply by being deep beneath
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Heat rock Heat rock A heat rock is the common name for a type of heating source in enclosures for cold-blooded animals to supply heat, in the form of a false novelty rock plugged into an electrical socket. Keepers may notice that smaller reptiles prefer to rest on the heat rock most of the time, since it provides constant heat. Larger reptiles supplied with heat rocks often prefer to stay near their rock at all times, diminishing their novelty. Pet owners and keepers now usually recommended a non-direct contact UTH (under-the-tank-heater) or thermal tape which distributes heat through the enclosure’s substrate placed
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Who won the African Cup of Nations recently?
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1978 African Cup of Nations 1978 African Cup of Nations The 1978 African Cup of Nations was the eleventh edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa (CAF). It was hosted by Accra and Kumasi, Ghana. The format of the competition changed from 1976: the field of eight teams was still split into two groups of four, but the final group stage was eliminated in favor of the knockout semifinals used in tournaments prior to 1976. Ghana won its third championship, beating Uganda in the final 2−0. The Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) and Mali were disqualified from this competition in 1978
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1994 African Cup of Nations the Quarter Finals. Goalkeeper Defenders Midfielders Forwards 1994 African Cup of Nations The 1994 African Cup of Nations was the 19th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the soccer championship of Africa (CAF). It was hosted by Tunisia, who replaced original hosts Zaire. Just as in 1992, the field of twelve teams was split into four groups of three. Nigeria won its second championship, beating Zambia in the final 2−1. The Zambian team was recently constituted, following an air disaster in which eighteen players and several staff members of the previous team had been killed. The 12 qualified teams
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Who won the Women’s Singles at the 2015 Australian Open Tennis Championships?
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2015 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Petra Kvitová was the defending champion, but was defeated by Jelena Janković in the third round. Serena Williams won her sixth Wimbledon and 21st major title, becoming the oldest woman to win a major singles title in the Open Era. By defeating first-time finalist Garbiñe Muguruza, Serena also achieved her second non-calendar year Grand Slam after winning the 2014 US Open, 2015 Australian Open and 2015 French Open and she also became the first player since Steffi Graf in 1988 to win Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon all in the same calendar year.
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2015 Australian Open 2015 Australian Open The 2015 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park from 19 January to 1 February 2015. It was the 103rd edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. Stan Wawrinka was the defending champion in men's singles but lost to four-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals. Reigning women's champion Li Na did not defend her title, as she retired from professional tennis in September, 2014. Novak Djokovic won an Open Era record fifth men's singles crown by defeating Andy Murray in the final,
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To which school of art did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rotho belong?
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Jackson Pollock Jackson Pollock Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety; he was a major artist of his generation. Regarded as reclusive, he had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy. Pollock died at the age of 44 in an
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Jackson Pollock her "The Art of This Century Gallery" in 1945. Jackson Pollock and art critic Clement Greenberg saw Sobel's work there in 1946 and later Greenberg noted that Sobel was "a direct influence on Jackson Pollock's drip painting technique." In his essay "American-Type Painting," Greenberg noted those works were the first of all-over painting he had seen, and said, "Pollock admitted that these pictures had made an impression on him". While painting this way, Pollock moved away from figurative representation, and challenged the Western tradition of using easel and brush. He used the force of his whole body to paint, which
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Which motorcycle manufacturer made the Trident and Bonneville models?
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Triumph Bonneville T120 Triumph Bonneville T120 The Triumph Bonneville T120 was a Triumph Engineering motorcycle made from 1959 through 1975. It was the first model of the Bonneville series, which was continued by Triumph Motorcycles Ltd. The T120 was discontinued in favour of the larger-engined T140. It was brought back in 2016 with a host of updates. There were a number of models between 1973 and 2016 including Harris, and the new Hinckley models The Bonneville T120 was Edward Turner's last production design at Triumph (in retirement Turner designed the Triumph Bandit/BSA Fury which did not pass the prototype stage before BSA went
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Tempo (motorcycle manufacturer) engines. Today, the Tempo mopeds and motorcycles are in the focus of enthusiasts, and collected and restored around the country. Some models fetch sky high prices in the same range or higher than equivalent new bikes when sold among these enthusiasts. Tempo (motorcycle manufacturer) Tempo was a Norwegian motorcycle and moped brand. Jonas Øglænd made the rolling chassis and most of the parts thereof, and Fichtel & Sachs AG made the engines for the majority of the models. After 1972 the company made mopeds only. In 1868 Jonas Øglænd started his business with mounting and selling bicycles. One of the
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What was the maiden name of tennis player Billy Jean King?
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Larry King (tennis) Larry King (tennis) Larry King (born January 30, 1945) is an American attorney, a real estate broker, a promoter, bridge player, one of the founders of World TeamTennis, and the former husband of tennis star Billie Jean King. King was born in Dayton, Ohio and raised in Eagle Rock, California. He met Billie Jean Moffitt at California State University, Los Angeles in 1963, when he played on one of the school’s best men's tennis teams, coached by Scotty Deeds. He married Billie Jean on September 17, 1965 in Long Beach, California. In 1971, Larry King conceived the idea of a
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USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center is an American stadium complex in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City. It has been the home of the US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament, played every year in August and September, since 1978 and is operated by the United States Tennis Association (USTA). The facility has 22 courts inside its and 11 in the adjoining park. The complex's three stadiums are among the largest tennis stadiums in the world, with Arthur Ashe Stadium topping the global list with a listed capacity of 23,200.
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To which school of art did Matisse and Vlaminck belong?
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Maurice de Vlaminck before Derain left to do his own military service. In 1902 and 1903 he wrote several mildly pornographic novels illustrated by Derain. He painted during the day and earned his livelihood by giving violin lessons and performing with musical bands at night. Vlaminck participated in the controversial 1905 Salon d'Automne exhibition. After viewing the boldly colored canvases of Vlaminck, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Albert Marquet, Kees van Dongen, Charles Camoin, and Jean Puy, the art critic Louis Vauxcelles disparaged the painters as ""fauves"" (wild beasts), thus giving their movement the name by which it became known, Fauvism. In 1911, Vlaminck
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University of Iowa School of Art and Art History the University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) opened with collections from the School of Art and Art History, including the Pollock "Mural" and the Beckmann triptych "Karneval"; and the Elliott Collection, which included works by Braque, DeChirico, Kandinsky, Léger, Marc, Matisse, Picasso and Vlaminck. In the 1980s, Maxwell and Elizabeth Stanley donated one of the most important collections of African art to the Museum. In 1936, The University of Iowa constructed a new home for the School of Art and Art History. Built with help from the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations, the building's design is based on Palladian villas.
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Which motorcycle manufacturer made the Dominator and Commando models?
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Norton Motorcycle Company When major shareholders started to leave Norton in 1953, the company declined and Associated Motor Cycles bought the shares. Although motorcycle sales went through a recession in the 1950s, and Norton Motors Ltd was only a small manufacturer, Norton sales flourished. A series of Norton Dominator Twins of 500 cc, then 600 cc, then 650 cc and then the 750 cc Norton Atlas kept sales buoyant, especially with sales to the United States. In 1968, the new 750 cc Norton Commando Model appeared, with the engine/gearbox/swingarm unit isolastically insulated from the frame with a series of rubber mountings. This kept
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Honda NX650 Dominator Honda NX650 Dominator The Honda NX650 Dominator is a dual-sport motorcycle of the Japanese manufacturer Honda. It was manufactured from 1988 to 2000. The main difference between model years are the graphics and details in the fairing. The original J spec (1988) Japanese model featured both electric and kick starting which was dropped to electric only on all later models. The Dominator is unique in that it carries the engine oil in the frame, similar to older British bikes. The Dominator has a cult following which can be accredited to its handling capability both on and off-road and also because
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What was the maiden name of tennis player Margaret Court?
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Margaret Court Court in the 2017 Hollywood film "Battle of the Sexes". † Some sources have Elizabeth Ryan winning over 200 singles titles in her career. Margaret Court Margaret Court (née Smith; born 16 July 1942), also known as Margaret Smith Court, is a retired Australian tennis player and former world No. 1. She is currently a Christian minister in Perth, Western Australia. In tennis, she amassed more major titles than any other player in history. In 1970, Court became the first woman during the Open era (and the second woman in history) to win the singles Grand Slam (all four major
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Margaret Court renaming of Margaret Court Arena. Court was strongly criticised in May 2017 after writing a letter to "The West Australian" decrying Qantas airlines for being a corporate supporter of same-sex marriage and claiming she would boycott the airline. The letter, and further followup interviews, again led to calls from some Australians and tennis players to rename the Margaret Court Arena. Some politicians, including Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, rejected calls for the change of name, saying the name celebrates Margaret Court as a tennis player. Jacqueline McKenzie portrayed Court in the 2001 TV movie "When Billie Beat Bobby". Jessica McNamee portrayed
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What was the name of the Girl From Uncle?
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The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy fiction TV series that aired on NBC for one season from September 16, 1966, to April 11, 1967. The series was a spin-off from "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and used the same theme music composed by Jerry Goldsmith, in a different arrangement by Dave Grusin. "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E." stars Stefanie Powers as American U.N.C.L.E. agent April Dancer and Noel Harrison (son of Rex Harrison) as her British partner, Mark Slate. Leo G. Carroll plays their superior, Alexander Waverly. The character name "April Dancer" was suggested by James
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Uncle Sammy, Take Care of My Girl the upper right-hand side, writing a letter. In the lower left corner, Uncle Sam offers the letter to a woman. A photo of the lyricist and composer are also featured on the cover. It was written for both voice and piano. The song is written from the first-person point of view of someone who recently read a soldier's letter. It was addressed to Uncle Sam. The chorus contains the pleas of the letter: The sheet music can be found at Pritzker Military Museum & Library. Uncle Sammy, Take Care of My Girl Uncle Sammy, Take Care of My Girl is
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The object in pontoon is 21 – what is it in baccarat?
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Pontoon (card game) are regular 52-card decks, minus the ten-spot cards. Cards Two to Nine count 2 to 9 respectively, courts 10 each, Aces 1 or 11, depending on what is better for the hand. Pontoon has similar rules to Spanish 21, with some notable differences, listed below. Despite the player disadvantage of rules 2–9, on average, the house edges for Pontoon are lower than for Spanish 21, because rule 1 is so profoundly player advantageous. The rule differences mean that there are several significant strategy differences between Spanish 21 and Pontoon. In summary, BB+1 is a loss of one bet per box,
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The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River". "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage
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James Joyce’s Ulysses ends with an extended monologue by which character?
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To Hell with the Goddamn Spring To Hell with the Goddamn Spring To Hell with the Goddamn Spring () is a Colombian play, based on the novel of the same name by Alonso Sánchez Baute (which won the Opera prima award in 2002). It was adapted for the theatre by Colombian director Jorge Ali Triana in 2004. The play is a monologue given by an average bureaucrat called Edwin Rodríguez Vuelvas, who gradually transforms himself into a drag queen while expressing inner angst and sorrow. The character is reminiscent of Molly Bloom in James Joyce´s "Ulysses"; the story also contains elements taken from Proust, kitsch glamour
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James Joyce grandson and executor of his literary estate. On 1 January 2012, those restrictions were lessened by the expiry of copyright protection of much of the published work of James Joyce. In April 2013 the Central Bank of Ireland issued a silver €10 commemorative coin in honour of Joyce that misquoted a famous line from "Ulysses". Finnegan Stephen Dedalus Posthumous non-fiction publications Joyce Papers, National Library of Ireland Electronic editions Resources James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is
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Maureen ’Mo’ Tucker was the drummer in which seminal 1960s rock band?
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Moe Tucker Moe Tucker Maureen Ann "Moe" Tucker (born August 26, 1944) is an American musician and singer best known for having been the drummer for the New York City-based rock band the Velvet Underground. Maureen Tucker was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, and grew up in Levittown, New York in a middle-class Catholic family. Her father, James, was a housepainter and her mother, Margaret, was a clerical worker. She had an older brother, Jim, who was friends with Sterling Morrison, and a sister Margo. As a teenager Tucker was an avid fan of Babatunde Olatunji, whom she first heard on the
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Seminal Rats Seminal Rats Seminal Rats were an Australian punk, indie rock band which existed from 1984 until the death of their lead guitarist, Michael Weber, in January 1999. The band's members were vocalist Michael Harley, guitarist Ruebin Pinkster, bassist Dave Balsamo (1984–93), then bassist Ian Wettenhall (1993–98), and drummer Todd McNeair. Seminal Rats were formed in Melbourne in 1984 as a punk, indie rock band by Dave Balsamo on bass guitar, Michael Harley on lead vocals, Todd McNeair on drums, Reubin Pinkster on guitar and Michael Weber on lead guitar. McNeair, Pinkster and Weber had formed a band, Skippy, while at
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Classical musician Alison Balsom is a virtuoso player of which instrument?
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Alison Balsom Alison Balsom Alison Louise Balsom , born in Hertfordshire, England on 7 October 1978, is an English trumpet soloist, arranger, producer, music educator, curator and spokesperson for the importance of music education. Balsom was awarded Artist of the Year at the 2013 Gramophone Awards and has won three Classic BRIT Awards and three German Echo Awards, and was soloist at the BBC Last Night of the Proms in 2009. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the University of Leicester and Anglia Ruskin University, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Balsom attended Tannery
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Alison Stephens Alison Stephens Alison Stephens (1 March 1970 – 10 October 2010) was an English classical mandolin player and film musician. Stephens was born in Bickley, Kent, and educated at James Allen's Girls' School and Haileybury and began playing the mandolin at the age of seven, inspired by her father, who had played the instrument during the Second World War. She was the first graduate in the instrument from Trinity College of Music in London. She gave her first public performance of a concerto at the Barbican Hall in 1987 and subsequently gave recitals all over the world. She played for
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Who is the lead female protagonist of Benjamin Britten’s opera Gloriana?
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Gloriana Gloriana Gloriana, Op. 53, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten to an English libretto by William Plomer, based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 "Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History". The first performance was presented at the Royal Opera House, London, in 1953 during the celebrations of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. "Gloriana" was the name given by the 16th-century poet Edmund Spenser to his character representing Queen Elizabeth I in his poem "The Faerie Queene". It became the popular name given to Elizabeth I. It is recorded that the troops at Tilbury hailed her with cries of
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Benjamin Britten of the "War Requiem", "Peter Grimes" and other works in four continents. In the US the centennial events were described as "coast to coast," with a Britten festival at Carnegie Hall, and performances at the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera and Los Angeles Opera. Notes References Sources Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera "Peter
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The Trial and The Castle are works by which Czech author?
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The Trial clear-cut interpretation. Generally, there are five major perspectives: Concerning these categories, however, there is one important point that should not be overlooked. Although the diverse studies theorizing about the novel provide valuable insights, they are often impeded by the critics' eagerness to squeeze these insights into a frame which, ultimately, is beyond the novel's text. This, by the way, is not a phenomenon unique to "The Trial". Kafka’s novel "The Castle" shows similar tendencies as well. Only later interpretations, e.g. by the German writer Martin Walser, express an increasing demand for a strictly text-based view. Current works, e.g. by the
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Band of the Castle Guards and the Police of the Czech Republic name "Band of the Castle Guards and the Police". Band of the Castle Guards and the Police of the Czech Republic The Band of the Castle Guards and the Police of the Czech Republic (Czech: "Hudba Hradní stráže a Policie České republiky") is a unit of the Police of the Czech Republic responsible for providing musical support to the Prague Castle Guard of the Army of the Czech Republic, as well as during other official ceremonies at Prague Castle such as state visits. The band's origins date to 1945 and it was officially organized within the Ministry of the Interior
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Who composed the tone poem The Swan of Tuonela?
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The Swan of Tuonela The Swan of Tuonela The Swan of Tuonela () is an 1895 tone poem by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It is part of the " (Four Legends from the Kalevala)", Op. 22, based on the "" epic of Finnish mythology. The tone poem is scored for a small orchestra of cor anglais, oboe, bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, three trombones, timpani, bass drum, harp, and divided strings. The cor anglais is the voice of the swan, and its solo is one of the best known cor anglais solos in the orchestral literature. The music paints a gossamer, transcendental
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Tuonela Tuonela Tuonela is the realm of the dead or the Underworld in Finnish mythology. Tuonela, Tuoni, Manala and Mana are used synonymously. In Estonian mythology, it is called "Toonela" or "Manala". According to traditional Finnish religion, the fate of good and bad people is the same and the dead wander the afterlife as shadow-like ghosts. Tuoni and his wife Tuonetar are the rulers of Tuonela. At times living people visited Tuonela to gather information and spells. The trip there required weeks of trekking in a desert, and finally the crossing of the river with the help of a ferryman (similar
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Which scientific law can be expressed in the form V = IR*? (*QR: vee equals eye are.)
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Ohm's law expressed with the same "s" parameter as the input to the system, allowing the time-varying complex exponential term to be canceled out and the system described algebraically in terms of the complex scalars in the current and voltage waveforms. The complex generalization of resistance is impedance, usually denoted "Z"; it can be shown that for an inductor, and for a capacitor, We can now write, where V and I are the complex scalars in the voltage and current respectively and Z is the complex impedance. This form of Ohm's law, with "Z" taking the place of "R", generalizes the simpler
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QR decomposition which minimizes the norm formula_116, first find the QR factorization of A: formula_13. The solution can then be expressed as formula_118, where formula_119 is an formula_102 matrix containing the first formula_121 columns of the full orthonormal basis formula_17 and where formula_107 is as before. Equivalent to the underdetermined case, back substitution can be used to quickly and accurately find this formula_124 without explicitly inverting formula_107. (formula_119 and formula_107 are often provided by numerical libraries as an "economic" QR decomposition.) Iwasawa decomposition generalizes QR decomposition to semi-simple Lie groups. QR decomposition In linear algebra, a QR decomposition (also called a QR
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Four of the first five Presidents of the USA came from which state?
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1994 Presidents Cup 1994 Presidents Cup The 1st Presidents Cup was held between September 16 and 18, 1994. It was played at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia, USA. The United States team won the competition by a margin of 20–12. The honorary chairman was former President of the United States Gerald R. Ford. The United States team had 12 players including a captain who participated in the event. The International team had 12 players plus a non-playing captain. On the first and second day four-ball was played in the morning and foursomes were played in the afternoon. On the
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Living presidents of the United States of presidents alive at each moment in United States history: Living presidents as of ("from oldest to youngest"): There have been four time periods with six living presidents, the incumbent and five former presidents: There have been six time periods when the incumbent president was the only living president, having no living predecessors: Notably, Richard Nixon is the only person to have been both the only living U.S. president (from January 1973 to August 1974) and one of six living presidents (from January 1993 to April 1994). There have been several gatherings of all the living presidents. Below are photographs
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What comes next in this sequence: butane, propane, ethane, ... ?
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Hydrodesulfurization from the gas separator vessel is routed through a reboiled stripper distillation tower. The bottoms product from the stripper is the final desulfurized liquid product from hydrodesulfurization unit. The overhead sour gas from the stripper contains hydrogen, methane, ethane, hydrogen sulfide, propane, and, perhaps, some butane and heavier components. That sour gas is sent to the refinery's central gas processing plant for removal of the hydrogen sulfide in the refinery's main amine gas treating unit and through a series of distillation towers for recovery of propane, butane and pentane or heavier components. The residual hydrogen, methane, ethane, and some propane
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Propane States and Canada, it is primarily propane (at least 90%), with the rest mostly ethane, propylene, butane, and odorants including ethyl mercaptan. This is the HD-5 standard, (Heavy Duty-5% maximum allowable propylene content, and no more than 5% butanes and ethane) defined by the American Society for Testing and Materials by its Standard 1835 for internal combustion engines. Not all products labeled "LPG" conform to this standard however. In Mexico, for example, gas labeled "LPG" may consist of 60% propane and 40% butane. "The exact proportion of this combination varies by country, depending on international prices, on the availability of
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Snooker cues, baseball bats, and cricket stumps are traditionally made from which wood?
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Wood bats which are legal for use in Major League Baseball are frequently made of ash wood or hickory, and in recent years have been constructed from maple even though that wood is somewhat more fragile. NBA courts have been traditionally made out of parquetry. Many other types of sports and recreation equipment, such as skis, ice hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and archery bows, were commonly made of wood in the past, but have since been replaced with more modern materials such as aluminium, titanium or composite materials such as fiberglass and carbon fiber. One noteworthy example of this trend is
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Parris Cues repair, whilst maintaining the cues balance, and therefore playability, was to extend the butt by the same length lost from the tip, but this meant sawing the most famous cue in snooker in two. Parris Cues have been used by professional players including Ronnie O’Sullivan, Jimmy White, Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry, Stephen Maguire, John Higgins & Neil Robertson. Parris Cues Parris Cues are a snooker cue maker headquartered in London. Founded in 1984, the company was started by John Parris as an evolution of a keen interest in Snooker, and the need for maintenance and repair of his own cue.
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In which board game is the ‘huffing’ rule sometimes adopted?
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Tables (board game) four Muslim schools of jurisprudence declared the game to be Haraam (forbidden), however the game is still played today in many Arab countries. Mahbusa means "imprisoned". Each player begins with 15 checkers on his opponent's 24-point. If a checker is hit, it is not placed on the bar, but instead, the hitting piece is placed on top, and the point is then controlled by the hitting player. The checker which has been hit is imprisoned and cannot be moved until the opponent removes his piece. Sometimes, a rule is used that requires a player to bring his first checker around
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Which Witch? (board game) Which Witch? (board game) Which Witch? is a children's board game published in 1970 by the Milton Bradley Company, and was invented by Joseph M. Burck of Marvin Glass and Associates. The board represents a haunted house with four large rooms: the Broom Room, the Witchin' Kitchen, the Spell Cell and the Bat's Ballroom, assembled before play into a three-dimensional model house with vertical walls, and a large plastic chimney in the center. There are four tokens, colored red, yellow, blue and green. Each token is shaped like a child, either a boy or a girl, with four corresponding mouse
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In poker, which hand beats a flush but loses to four of a kind?
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Video poker on how rare they are, the game variation, and the decision of the game operator. A typical pay table starts with a minimum hand of a pair of jacks, which pays even money. All the other hand combinations in video poker are the same as in table poker, including such hands as two pair, three of a kind, straight (a sequence of 5 cards of consecutive value), flush (any 5 cards of the same suit), full house (a pair and a three of a kind), four of a kind (four cards of the same value), straight flush (5 consecutive cards
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Four Card Poker out to be better than the dealer's. After seeing their cards and the dealer's face up card, the player can opt to fold the ante bet, in which case the player loses it, or play by betting 1-3 times their ante. Unlike Three Card Poker and some other games, the dealer always qualifies (plays). If the player ties or beats the dealer, the player is paid the amount bet. A bonus is paid if the player has a three of a kind (2-1 for the original ante bet only), straight flush (20-1), or four of a kind (25-1). This bonus
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The Black Mountains are part of which UK national park?
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Black Mountains, Wales critic Raymond Williams was born here, and draws on the region to frame his analysis of pastoral poetics and development in The Country and the City. Books set in or around the Black Mountains include: Black Mountains, Wales The Black Mountains () are a group of hills spread across parts of Powys and Monmouthshire in southeast Wales, and extending across the England–Wales border into Herefordshire. They are the easternmost of the four ranges of hills that comprise the Brecon Beacons National Park, and are frequently confused with the westernmost, which is known as the Black Mountain. The Black Mountains may
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Udzungwa Mountains National Park Udzungwa Mountains National Park Udzungwa Mountains National Park is a national park in Tanzania with a size of 1,990 km (770 miles). The habitats contained within the national park include tropical rainforest, mountain forest, miombo woodland, grassland and steppe. There is a vertical height range of 250–2,576 metres (the peak of Lohomero), which incorporates the Udzungwa Mountains part of the Eastern Arc Mountains. There are more than 400 bird species, 2500 plant species (25% of which are endemics) and 6 primate species. It has the second largest biodiversity of a national park in Africa. Six primate species have been recorded,
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What is the signature feature of footwear designed by Christian Louboutin?
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Christian Louboutin YSL shoe design will be revoked and is seeking US$1 million in damages. However, in August 2011, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero denied the firm's request to stop the sale of women's shoes with red soles by Yves Saint Laurent. The judge questioned the validity of the trademark, writing, "Louboutin's claim would cast a red cloud over the whole industry, cramping what other designers do, while allowing Louboutin to paint with a full palette." Judge Marrero also wrote, "Louboutin is unlikely to be able to prove its red outsole brand is entitled to trademark protection, even if it has gained
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Christian Louboutin Christian Louboutin Christian Louboutin (; born 7 January 1964) is a French fashion designer whose high-end stiletto footwear incorporates shiny, red-lacquered soles that have become his signature. Initially a freelance designer for fashion houses, he started his own shoe salon in Paris, with his shoes finding favor with celebrity clientele. He has partnered with other organizations for creative projects including limited edition pieces, gallery exhibits, and even a custom bar. His company has since branched out into men's footwear, handbags, fragrances and makeup. Louboutin was born and raised in Paris's 12th arrondissement. He was the only son of Roger, a
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Which quiz-show host will provide the new voice of Danger Mouse later in 2015?
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Danger Mouse (1981 TV series) in June 2014 it was announced that a new series was being made for broadcast on CBBC in 2015. The new series is produced by Boulder Media for FremantleMedia Kids. It is directed by Robert Cullen with Brian Cosgrove, one of the original creators, acting as creative consultant. Alexander Armstrong and actor Kevin Eldon voice Danger Mouse and Penfold, respectively; Dave Lamb takes the role of the narrator, whilst Stephen Fry plays Colonel K and Ed Gaughan takes over as Baron Greenback. Armstrong's "Pointless" co-host Richard Osman appears in the series as Professor Strontium Jellyfishowitz. John Oliver voices the character
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Danger Mouse (2015 TV series) also announced that John Oliver would voice Dr Augustus P. Crumhorn IV and Lena Headey would voice new character Jeopardy Mouse. According to Eldon, the animation style is 'much the same as the original'. The series is animated in Toon Boom Harmony, as the animators thought that Flash was too limited. Series 1 premiered on 28 September 2015 and consisted of 50 episodes. Series 2 premiered on 14 June 2017 and is still airing now. In July 2017, it was announced that an official Danger Mouse mobile game was in development by 9th Impact and the game "Danger Mouse: The
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Star Beast was the working title for which 1979 blockbuster film?
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Star Wars (film) culture are obviously dated) and extended the concept for their films, such as Scott's science fiction films "Alien" (1979) and "Blade Runner" (1982), Cameron's acclaimed sequel "Aliens" (1986) and his earlier breakthrough film "The Terminator" (1984). Jackson used the concept for his production of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy to add a sense of realism and believability. Christopher Nolan cited "Star Wars" as an influence when making the 2010 blockbuster film, "Inception". Some critics have blamed "Star Wars", as well as "Jaws", for ruining Hollywood by shifting its focus from "sophisticated" films such as "The Godfather", "Taxi Driver", and
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Working title Working title A working title, sometimes called a production title or a tentative title, is the temporary title of a product or project used during its development, usually used in filmmaking, television production, novel, video game development, or music album. Working titles are used primarily for two reasons – the first being that an official title has not yet been decided upon, with the working title being used purely for identification purposes, and the second being a ruse to intentionally disguise the real nature of a project. Examples of the former include the film "Die Hard with a Vengeance", which
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‘Stop all the clocks’ are the opening words of which poem by W. H. Auden?
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W. H. Auden below, works reprinted in the "Complete Works of W. H. Auden" are indicated by footnote references. Sources W. H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content. He is best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues", poems on political and social themes such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles", poems on cultural and psychological themes such as "The Age of Anxiety", and
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Epilogue For W. H. Auden Epilogue For W. H. Auden "Epilogue For W. H. Auden" is a 76-line poem by Louis MacNeice. It was written in late 1936 and was first published in book form in "Letters from Iceland", a travel book in prose and verse by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice (1937). MacNeice subsequently included it as the last poem in his poetry collection "The Earth Compels" (1938). "Epilogue For W. H. Auden" reviews the Iceland trip MacNeice and Auden had taken together in the summer of 1936; the poem mentions events that had occurred while MacNeice and Auden were in Iceland, such
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Which poem by Philip Larkin describes a train journey on a hot bank-holiday Saturday?
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The Whitsun Weddings (poem) The Whitsun Weddings (poem) "The Whitsun Weddings" is one of the best known poems by British poet Philip Larkin. It was written and rewritten and finally published in the 1964 collection of poems, also called The Whitsun Weddings. It is one of three poems that Larkin wrote about train journeys. The poem comprises eight stanzas of ten lines, making it one of his longest poems. The rhyming scheme is "a,b,a,b,c,d,e,c,d,e" - (a rhyme scheme similar to that used in various of Keats' odes). Larkin describes a stopping-train journey southwards from Paragon Station, Kingston upon Hull, where Larkin was a librarian
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The Whitsun Weddings (poem) at the university, on a hot Whitsun Saturday afternoon. It has always been supposed the poem was based on an actual train journey Larkin made in 1955 on Whitsun Saturday, a day which was popular for weddings at that time though since there was a rail strike on that weekend Larkin scholar John Osborne now thinks the journey an unlikely one to have taken place. Larkin's letters mention two journeys, one to Grantham (not at Whit, some weddings), and one to London (not at Whit, no weddings), that may have been conflated in the poem. The poem's narrator describes the
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Who played Watson in Guy Ritchie’s 2009 film Sherlock Holmes?
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Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 mystery period action film based on the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey, and Dan Lin. The screenplay, by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, and Simon Kinberg, was developed from a story by Wigram and Johnson. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law portray Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson respectively. Set in 1890, eccentric detective Holmes and his companion Watson are hired by a secret society to foil a mysticist's
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Sherlock Holmes (2010 film) Watson, before he himself is shot by Sherlock Holmes. Holmes proves Lestrade was not responsible for Thorpe's crippling. Lestrade takes credit for saving the Queen and Holmes and Watson vow never to speak of the events again. In present time, Watson expires peacefully and his nurse visits his grave. Nearby, Ivory is visiting the grave of Thorpe Holmes. "Sherlock Holmes" was released on DVD on January 26, 2010, a month after the similarly-titled Guy Ritchie film. The DVD features the full-length film and extras like a making-of feature called "Exile on Baker Street: A Behind-the-scenes look at Sherlock Holmes", the
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Which amendment to the Constitution mandated prohibition in the USA?
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Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol. The Twenty-first Amendment was proposed by Congress on February 20, 1933, and was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 5, 1933. It is unique among the 27 amendments of the U.S. Constitution for being the only one to repeal a prior amendment, as well as being the only amendment to have been ratified by state ratifying conventions. The Eighteenth Amendment was ratified on January
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Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) of the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments. This amendment was adopted on December 15, 1791, along with the rest of the United States Bill of Rights. The phrases in this amendment originated in the English Bill of Rights of 1689. The prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments has led courts to hold that the Constitution totally prohibits certain kinds of punishment, such as drawing and quartering. Under the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause, the Supreme
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What was Queen Victoria’s first name at birth, in May 1819?
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Queen Victoria Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III. Both the Duke and the King died in 1820, and Victoria was raised under close supervision by her mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She inherited the throne at the age of 18, after her father's three elder brothers
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Grandchildren of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1861), lived long enough to see only one of his children (the Princess Royal) married and two of his grandchildren born (Wilhelm II, 1859–1941, and his sister Princess Charlotte of Prussia, 1860–1919), while Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) lived long enough to see not only all her grandchildren, but many of her 87 great-grandchildren as well. (Two of Victoria's 56 great-grandsons were stillborn, two more died shortly after birth, and one of her 31 great-granddaughters was born out of wedlock.) Victoria, the Princess Royal and first child of Victoria and Albert (21 November 1840 – 5
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By what name are the Society of London Theatre’s annual awards known?
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Society of London Theatre tourist outlets across the UK. An Access London Theatre brochure, listing London's range of assisted performances, is also produced four times a year, and is available in print, braille, and on CD. The Olivier Awards (or simply the Olivier's) are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre. Originally known as the Society of West End Theatre Awards, they were renamed in honour of the British actor Laurence Olivier in 1984. Awards are presented annually across a range of categories covering plays, musicals, dance, opera and affiliate theatre.The Olivier Awards are recognised internationally as
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Society of London Theatre exceptionally talented students for financial support. About 40 students are entered each June and appear before a panel of theatre industry professionals – usually producers and casting directors – where they give a ten-minute audition (which can include a song) and an interview. SOLT gives several bursaries worth £7,500 each as well as smaller sums (of £1000 plus) at the discretion of the judges. Other organisations contribute their own bursaries in conjunction with the Society’s scheme. Society of London Theatre The Society of London Theatre (previously The Society of West End Theatre) is an umbrella organisation for West End theatre
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Which all-Pullman train ran between London and Brighton from 1931 to 1972?
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Brighton Belle Brighton Belle The Brighton Belle was a named train which was operated by the Southern Railway and subsequently by British Rail from Victoria Station in London to Brighton, on the Sussex coast. Commissioned as the flagship of the Southern Railway's mass electrification project, which commenced in January 1931, the world's only electric all-Pullman service ran daily between London Victoria and Brighton from 1 January 1933 until 30 April 1972. The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) began using Pullman cars in its express trains in 1875, and in December 1881 they introduced the first all-Pullman train in the UK.
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Pullman train (UK) 1928 the company placed an order for seven Pullman cars - four Kitchen Cars and three Parlour Cars, No's 252-258 - with construction subcontracted to Metropolitan Cammell in Birmingham. Initially deployed from May 1929 on the London Paddington-Plymouth Mill Bay service, amongst standard GWR stock within the "Ocean Liner Express" boat train. From 8 July 1929, the vehicles were deployed into a new train the "Torquay Pullman Limited", an all-Pullman service which ran two days a week between London Paddington and , stopping at and only. Not a commercial success, the train returned for the 1930 timetable as a 3
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The Palk strait separates which two countries?
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India–Sri Lanka maritime boundary agreements India–Sri Lanka maritime boundary agreements India–Sri Lanka maritime boundary agreements were signed in 1974 and 1976 between India and Sri Lanka to define the international maritime boundary between the two states. Treaties on maritime boundary were necessary to facilitate law enforcement and resource management, and to avoid conflict, in the waters since both countries located closely in the Indian ocean, particularly in Palk Strait. The first agreement was regarding the maritime boundary in waters between Adam's Bridge and the Palk Strait, and came into force on July 8, 1974. The second agreement, which was signed on March 23 and entered
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Palk Strait Palk Strait The Palk Strait (, Sinhala: පෝක් සමුද්ර සන්ධිය "Pok Samudra Sandhiya") is a strait between the Tamil Nadu state of India and the Mannar district of the Northern Province of the island nation of Sri Lanka. It connects the Bay of Bengal in the northeast with Palk Bay in the southwest. The strait is wide. Several rivers flow into it, including the Vaigai River of Tamil Nadu. The strait is named after Robert Palk, who was a governor of Madras (1755–1763) during the Company Raj period. Palk Bay is studded at its southern end with a chain of
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What is the most populous city on the Japanese island of Hokkaido?
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Levanga Hokkaido Levanga Hokkaido Levanga Hokkaido is a Japanese professional basketball team based in the city of Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido. The club was founded in 2006 as "Rera Kamuy Hokkaido", this name comes from the language of the Ainu, an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaido, and means "god of the winds". The franchise changed its name twice in 2011; the first when the club's parent company was kicked out of the league due to financial woes in the season. The team ended the season with a league-backed management group and a new moniker, calling itself "Basketball Club Hokkaido". And
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Sakhalin–Hokkaido Tunnel Sakhalin–Hokkaido Tunnel The Sakhalin–Hokkaido Tunnel (or potentially bridge) is a proposed connection to link the Russian island of Sakhalin with the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Cost estimates by Russia in the year 2000 put the project to span the strait at $50 billion. On 16 January 2009, the Russian Vice-Minister of Transport, Andrei Nedossekov, confirmed that proposals are now under consideration in regards to the Sakhalin–Hokkaido Tunnel. His decision to invite Japanese companies to bid to become consortium members of a wide array of Russian rail infrastructure work, particularly the Sakhalin Tunnel (or bridge) to the Russian mainland could be
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Port Louis is the capital city of which island nation?
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Port Louis is mostly dominated by its financial centre, port facilities, tourism and the manufacturing sector which include textiles, chemicals, plastics and pharmaceuticals. Port Louis is home to the biggest port facility in the Indian Ocean region and one of Africa’s major financial centers. Port Louis is home to the nation's main harbor, and is the only official port of entry and exit for sea vessels in Mauritius. Ships must cleared in the port before visiting any other anchorage in the island nation. The Mauritius Ports Authority (MPA), established by law in 1998, is the port authority responsible for Port Louis. The
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Municipal City Council of Port Louis Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor who are elected for a period of 2 years, while each of the councillors represent wards throughout the city. In the last elections held on 9 December 2012 the city was divided into 8 wards, the number of registered voters was 111 473. The following councillors were elected during the 2012 Municipal election for the Municipal City Council of Port Louis. Municipal City Council of Port Louis The Municipal City Council of Port Louis () also known as Municipality is the local authority responsible for the administration of the city of Port Louis, Port Louis
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When used as an artists’ pigment, the oxide of which metal is known as Chinese white?
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Zinc oxide Zinc oxide was linked to dioxin contamination in pork exports in the 2008 Chilean pork crisis. The contamination was found to be due to dioxin contaminated zinc oxide used in pig feed. Zinc white is used as a pigment in paints and is more opaque than lithopone, but less opaque than titanium dioxide. It is also used in coatings for paper. Chinese white is a special grade of zinc white used in artists' pigments. The use of zinc white (zinc oxide) as a pigment in oil painting started in the middle of 18th century. It has partly replaced the poisonous
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Chinese pigment poisonous or toxic. Outside of these traditional pigments, other colours are made from synthetic chemicals. All traditional yellow pigments are toxic. Because of this, modern synthetic substitutes are often used. In modern practice, painters tend to use white gouache paint as a substitute to traditional whites, typically for underpainting. Chinese pigment Chinese pigments () are the traditional medium to execute traditional Chinese brush paintings, besides ink. Chinese pigments is similar to Western gouache paint in that it contains more glue than watercolours, but more so than gouache. The high glue content makes the pigment bind better to Chinese paper and
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What word links a walrus and a telecommunications pioneer?
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Walrus Greenland (walruses were by now extinct in Iceland and Norway, while the word evolved on in Greenland). Several place names in Iceland, Greenland and Norway may originate from walrus sites: Hvalfjord, Hvallatrar and Hvalsnes to name some, all being typical walrus breeding grounds. The archaic English word for walrus—"morse"—is widely thought to have come from the Slavic languages, which in turn borrowed it from Finno-Ugric languages. Compare морж ("morž") in Russian, "mursu" in Finnish, "morša" in Northern Saami, and "morse" in French. Olaus Magnus, who depicted the walrus in the "Carta Marina" in 1539, first referred to the walrus as
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Head of a Walrus as in "represented here". The original is in the British Museum, London. The "AD" monograph and dating are later additions by another artist. Head of a Walrus Head of a Walrus (German: Kopf eines Walrosses) is a 1521 pen drawing and watercolour by the German artist Albrecht Dürer. At the time the walrus' main European population was around Scandinavia, and they were exotic to inland Europeans. As such the work reflects Dürer fascination with what he perceived as unusual animals, with similarly intentioned works including depictions of lions and rhinoceros. The drawing created as part of a larger series of
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Edmund II, son of Æthelred the Unready, was known by what appellation?
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Edmund Ironside 1070 Edward the Exile's daughter, Margaret, became Queen consort to Malcolm III of Scotland. Through her and her descendants, Edmund is the direct ancestor of almost every subsequent Scottish monarch, every English monarch from Henry II onward, and every monarch of Great Britain and of the United Kingdom, down to the present day. Edmund Ironside Edmund Ironside (c.990 – 30 November 1016; , ; sometimes also known as Edmund II) was King of England from 23 April to 30 November 1016. He was the son of King Æthelred the Unready and his first wife, Ælfgifu of York. Edmund's reign was
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Æthelred the Unready Æthelred the Unready Æthelred II (Old English: "Æþelræd", ; 966 – 23 April 1016), known as the Unready, was King of the English from 978 to 1013 and again from 1014 until his death. His epithet does not derive from the modern word "unready", but rather from the Old English "unræd" (meaning "poorly advised"); it is a pun on his name, which means "well advised". Æthelred was the son of King Edgar and Queen Ælfthryth. He came to the throne at about the age of 12, following the assassination of his older half-brother, Edward the Martyr. His brother's murder was
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Lawyer Miriam González Durántez is married to which prominent UK politician?
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Miriam González Durántez "If Nick were Prime Minister and I had to give up my job to support the country, I would have no problem in doing so." Miriam González Durántez Miriam González Durántez, Lady Clegg (born 31 May 1968) is a Spanish lawyer and partner in the international legal practice of Dechert. She is the wife of Nick Clegg, the former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2010-15). Miriam González Durántez was born to two teachers in Olmedo, in the Spanish province of Valladolid. Her father, José Antonio González Caviedes, was also Mayor of Olmedo and served as a Senator for
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Dur dur d'être bébé! Dur dur d'être bébé! "Dur dur d'être bébé!", which was retitled "Dur dur d'être bébé! (It's Tough to Be a Baby)" for its American audience, is a 1992 song recorded by French singer Jordy Lemoine, credited as Jordy. The first single from his debut album "Pochette surprise", it was released in September 1992 and achieved success across the world, particularly in France. After having tried to involve Jordy in TV advertisements for nappies where the baby should repeat "hard, hard to be wet", Claude Lemoine, Jordy's father, had the idea of using dance music and simple lyrics to create a
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Which legendary American folk singer died in January 2014 at the age of 94?
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Toshi Seeger six months later, on January 27, 2014, at age 94. Toshi Seeger Toshi Seeger (born Toshi Aline Ohta; July 1, 1922 – July 9, 2013) was an American filmmaker, producer and environmental activist. A filmmaker who specialized in the subject of folk music, Toshi's credits include the 1966 film "Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison" and the Emmy Award-winning documentary "", released through PBS in 2007. In 1966, Seeger and her husband, folk-singer Pete Seeger, co-founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, which seeks to protect the Hudson River and surrounding wetlands. Additionally, they co-founded the Clearwater Festival (officially known
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The Folk Singer The Folk Singer "The Folk Singer" is a folk song, written by Charles E. Daniels and American musician Johnny Cash and first recorded by Cash in 1968. It is also known as "Folk Singer" or, less often, "The Singer". Allegedly about American pop singer Tommy Roe, "The Folk Singer" was first recorded in 1968 and released as a b-side on a 45 RPM live reissue of Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" single in April 1968. Later recorded by Burl Ives (on the album, "The Times They Are A-Changin'") the same year and Glen Campbell (on the album, "Try a Little Kindness")
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18 June will mark the 200th anniversary of which famous battle?
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Battle of Waterloo reenactment Battle of Waterloo reenactment The Battle of Waterloo reenactment is an annual modern recreation of the 19th century Battle of Waterloo on the original battlefield in Waterloo, Belgium. It is held every June on the weekend nearest to the historic date of the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815). In a regular year there will be 600–800 reenactors. The 5-year-anniversaries are greater events with 1,500–2,000 reenactors from France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Great Britain, Germany, Poland and Russia. A major event, one of the largest ever staged, was held on the site of the battle to mark the 200th anniversary of
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Battle of Seven Oaks after the battle. As part of Parks Canada reconciliation with the Métis, new interpretive plaques were installed and the Seven Oaks Park was re-landscaped. The site was officially reopened on 19 June 2016, to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle. Battle of Seven Oaks The Battle of Seven Oaks was a violent confrontation in what was known as the Pemmican War between the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and the North West Company (NWC), rivals in the fur trade, that took place on 19 June 1816. It was the climax of a long dispute in western Canada. The Métis people,
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Which vegetable is used to layer a traditional Greek moussaka?
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Moussaka It seems likely that the Greek moussaka has Arab origins and is related to the Levantine musakhkhan, with the word moussaka derived from this Arab word. The modern Greek version was created by the French-trained Greek chef Nikolaos Tselementes in the 1920s. A classic recipe has three layers that are separately cooked before being combined for the final baking: a bottom layer of sliced eggplant sautéed in olive oil; a middle layer of ground lamb lightly cooked with chopped or puréed tomatoes, onion, garlic, and spices (cinnamon, allspice and black pepper); and a top layer of Béchamel sauce or savoury
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Moussaka pot is full. Sometimes bread crumbs are used for toppings, sometimes slices of tomatoes and crushed cheese. The pot is then filled with tomato sauce. There is also a pasta variant, with pasta being used instead of vegetables. The "fasting" variant, which is vegan, replaces meat with mushrooms or a mix of sautéed onions and rice. In the rest of the Balkans, the top layer is often a custard: this is the version introduced in the UK by Elizabeth David's "Mediterranean Cookery" and where it remains the usual presentation. Grated cheese or bread crumbs are often sprinkled on top. Moussaka
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Who designed the modern glass pyramid that sits at the entrance to the Louvre in Paris?
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Louvre Pyramid Louvre Pyramid The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass and metal pyramid designed by Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) in Paris. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum. Completed in 1989, it has become a landmark of the city of Paris. Commissioned by the President of France, François Mitterrand, in 1984, it was designed by the architect I. M. Pei. The structure, which was constructed entirely with glass segments and metal poles, reaches a height
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Louvre Pyramid found those old articles and didn't do any deeper fact checking, and were extremely credulous, you might believe the 666 story." "La Pyramide Inversée" ("The Inverted Pyramid") is a skylight in the Carrousel du Louvre shopping mall in front of the Louvre Museum. It looks like an upside-down and smaller version of the "Louvre Pyramid". Designed for a museum that attracted 4.5 million visitors a year, the pyramid proved inadequate by the time the Louvre's attendance had doubled in 2014. Between 2014 and 2017, the layout of the foyer area in the Cour Napoleon beneath the glass pyramid is undergoing
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Whose greatest work was laying out the plan for the city of New Delhi, India?
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New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi () is an urban district of Delhi which serves as the capital of India and seat of all three branches of the Government of India. The foundation stone of the city was laid by Emperor George V during the Delhi Durbar of 1911. It was designed by British architects, Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker. The new capital was inaugurated on 13 February 1931, by Viceroy and Governor-General of India Lord Irwin. Although colloquially "Delhi" and "New Delhi" are used interchangeably to refer to the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), these are two distinct
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New Delhi is in the centre of northern India. The land for building the new city of Delhi was acquired under the Land Acquisition Act 1894. During the Delhi Durbar on 12 December 1911, George V, then Emperor of India, along with Queen Mary, his consort, made the announcement that the capital of the Raj was to be shifted from Calcutta to Delhi, while laying the foundation stone for the Viceroy's residence in the Coronation Park, Kingsway Camp. The foundation stone of New Delhi was laid by King George V and Queen Mary at the site of Delhi Durbar of 1911 at
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An architect and playwright, who designed Blenheim House in Oxfordshire, England?
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Claremont (country house) grounds which had not previously been accessible to the garden's visitors: the 281-year-old Belvedere Tower. Claremont (country house) Claremont, also known historically as 'Clermont', is an 18th-century Palladian mansion less than a mile south of the centre of Esher in Surrey, England. The buildings are now occupied by Claremont Fan Court School, and its landscaped gardens are owned and managed by the National Trust. Claremont House is a Grade I listed building. The first house on the Claremont estate was built in 1708 by Sir John Vanbrugh, the Restoration playwright and architect of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard, for his
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Blenheim Palace conceived to give a vast number of people access to innovative contemporary artists working in the context of this historic palace. The public have free access to about five miles (8 km) of public rights of way through the Great Park area of the grounds, which are accessible from Old Woodstock and from the Oxfordshire Way, and which are close to the Column of Victory. Blenheim Palace Blenheim Palace (pronounced ) is a monumental country house in Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England. It is the principal residence of the Dukes of Marlborough, and the only non-royal, non-episcopal country house in England to
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What was the name of the prison setting for the TV comedy ‘Porridge’?
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Porridge (TV series) Porridge (TV series) Porridge is a British sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and broadcast on BBC One from 1974 to 1977. The programme ran for three series, and included two Christmas specials and a feature film of the same name (in the United States, the film was released under the title "Doing Time"). The sitcom focuses on two prison inmates, Norman Fletcher (played by Barker) and Lennie Godber (played by Beckinsale), who are serving time at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. The show's title is a reference to both
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Porridge (2016 TV series) Porridge (2016 TV series) Porridge is a British television sitcom, starring Kevin Bishop, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and broadcast on BBC One. The show is a sequel to the original 1974 series of the same name, which both Clement and La Frenais wrote. The sitcom focuses on prison inmate, Nigel Norman Fletcher (played by Bishop), the grandson of Norman Stanley Fletcher, who is sent to Wakeley Prison to serve a five year sentence for cyber crimes. The programme's creation came about when the BBC decided to air a one-off special of "Porridge" as part of its
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What was the home state of character Tony Soprano in the TV series 'The Sopranos'?
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Tony Soprano Tony Soprano Anthony John Soprano (born 1959) is a fictional character and the protagonist in the HBO television drama series "The Sopranos" (1999–2007), portrayed by James Gandolfini. Usually referred to as Tony, the Italian-American character was conceived by "Sopranos" creator and showrunner David Chase, who was also largely responsible for the character's story arc throughout the show's six seasons. The character is loosely based on real-life New Jersey mobster Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo, a former "caporegime" ("capo") and "de facto" boss of the DeCavalcante crime family. Bobby Boriello and Mark Damiano II portrayed Soprano as a child in one episode
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Tony Soprano Sopranos was part of a wave of American TV dramas that finally persuaded cineastes and critics who had been snobbish and dismissive about television as a medium to accept the smaller screen as an artistic equivalent of the larger one. Although many of those who watched and wrote about TV had got this message much earlier, the remarkable and sustained range of Gandolfini's portrayal of Tony Soprano played a major part in ending any remaining inferiority complex about the medium.” Tony Soprano Anthony John Soprano (born 1959) is a fictional character and the protagonist in the HBO television drama series
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Which square on a UK Monopoly Board comes between Pall Mall and Whitehall?
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My Monopoly to type new property names over the original ones. All squares on the board can be edited with the exception of Go, the Jail square, Free Parking, Go to Jail, Electric Company, Water Works, Chance, Community Chest, Super Tax and Income Tax. Obscenities and trademarks may not be entered. After personalizing the property squares around the board, the customer can then order their board. The gameset includes the personalized gameboard, 1 pack of standard Monopoly money, 10 movers, 2 dice, 16 personalized Chance cards, 16 personalized Community Chest cards and 28 personalized Title Deeds. The game comes in a deluxe
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Pall Mall, London Pall Mall, walked simply miles. Saw parents on balcony at 12.30 am — ate, partied, bed 3am!' Pall Mall is part of a group of three squares on the British "Monopoly" board game, alongside Whitehall and Northumberland Avenue. All three streets converge at Trafalgar Square. Rising house prices across London mean a small flat on Pall Mall, which is in the lowest-priced third of properties on the board, now sells for over £1 million. Notes Citations Sources Pall Mall, London Pall Mall is a street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster, Central London. It connects St
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Who was the author of the 1992 novel ‘Jurassic Park’?
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Jurassic Park (novel) Jurassic Park (novel) Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton, divided into seven sections (iterations). A cautionary tale about genetic engineering, it presents the collapse of an amusement park showcasing genetically recreated dinosaurs to illustrate the mathematical concept of chaos theory and its real world implications. A sequel titled "The Lost World", also written by Crichton, was published in 1995. In 1997, both novels were re-published as a single book titled "Michael Crichton's Jurassic World", unrelated to the film of the same name. In 1993, Steven Spielberg adapted the book into the blockbuster film "Jurassic
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park contained dinosaur DNA lost during the events of the first film. Talk of a sequel film began after the 1993 release of "Jurassic Park", which was a financial success. Spielberg held discussions with David Koepp and Crichton, who wrote the previous film, to talk about possible ideas for a sequel. The production schedule for a second "Jurassic Park" film was dependent on whether Crichton would write a sequel to the first novel. In March 1994, Crichton said there would probably be a sequel novel and sequel film, saying he had a story idea for another novel, which would then be
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Who wrote the picaresque American novel 'A Confederacy of Dunces'?
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A Confederacy of Dunces A Confederacy of Dunces A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's suicide. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a foreword) and Toole's mother, the book became first a cult classic, then a mainstream success; it earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981, and is now considered a canonical work of modern literature of the Southern United States. The book's title refers to an epigram from Jonathan Swift's essay, "Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting": "When
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A Confederacy of Dunces a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Its central character, Ignatius J. Reilly, is an educated but slothful 30-year-old man living with his mother in the Uptown neighborhood of early-1960s New Orleans who, in his quest for employment, has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters. Toole wrote the novel in 1963 during his last few months in Puerto Rico. Ignatius Jacques Reilly is something of a modern Don Quixote—eccentric, idealistic, and creative, sometimes to the point of delusion. In his foreword to the
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Which town sits opposite Tynemouth at the mouth of the River Tyne?
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Mouth of the Tyne Festival Mouth of the Tyne Festival Starting in 2004 The Mouth of the Tyne Festival (also known as the "MOTFest") takes place every July for a weekend with live music in the towns of Tynemouth and South Shields. It consists of live world music, cultural performances, processions and pyrotechnics, as well as art displays. The two-day festival is free, except for an open-air concert which is normally held on the Saturday evening at Tynemouth Priory and Castle. The Mouth of the Tyne Festival is organised by North Tyneside Council and supported by Port of Tyne, Kier and TyneMet College, Metro Radio
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Tynemouth England, devoted to staging an open-air dramatic pageant every three years in the grounds of Tynemouth Castle and Priory, by kind permission of English Heritage who run the historic monastic and defensive site at the mouth of the River Tyne. Tynemouth Tynemouth () is a town and a historic borough in Tyne and Wear, England at the mouth of the River Tyne, being 8.1 miles (13.0 km) east-northeast of Newcastle upon Tyne. Historically part of Northumberland, the modern town of Tynemouth includes North Shields and Cullercoats and had a 2011 population of 67,519. It is administered as part of the
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What is the name of the village on the Wirral originally built by William Lever for his workers?
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The Oval (Wirral) The Oval (Wirral) The Oval (sometimes referred to as the "Bebington Oval" and "Port Sunlight") is a Municipal athletics stadium in Bebington, Merseyside. The venue has played host to Tranmere Rovers F.C. reserve and ladies teams. The track is regularly used by Wirral AC and many competitions such as the Merseyside Championships take place here. The ground has an eight-lane running track which was originally paid for by Lever Brothers in the 1920s but has since undergone an upgrade. It is the home to the athletics club Wirral AC. It was featured in the film Chariots of Fire and represented
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Wirral Christian Centre Wirral Christian Centre Gateway Church Wirral is a church on Woodchurch Road, Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is an active Elim Pentecostal Church. The church building, originally Oxton Road Congregational Church, is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. The building originated as a Congregational church, it was built between 1857 and 1858, and designed by William Cole. The church cost over £5,000, and a further £2,500 was spent during the 1880s on improvements. It was badly damaged by fire in 1992, and was restored, but later became redundant, and fell into
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In terms of population, which is the second largest city in Austria?
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Austria standard form is the country's official language. Other local official languages are Hungarian, Burgenland Croatian, and Slovene. Austria is a federal republic with a parliamentary representative democracy comprising nine federated states. The capital and largest city, with a population exceeding 1.8 million, is Vienna. Other major urban areas of Austria include Graz, Linz, Salzburg and Innsbruck. Austria is consistently ranked as one of the richest countries in the world by per capita GDP terms. The country has developed a high standard of living and in 2018 was ranked 20th in the world for its Human Development Index. The republic declared
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Lower Austria Lower Austria Lower Austria ( ; ; ) is the northeasternmost state of the nine states in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria since 1986 is Sankt Pölten, the most recently designated capital town in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria had formerly been Vienna, even though Vienna has not officially been part of Lower Austria since 1921. With a land area of and a population of 1.612 million people, it is the largest state in Austria, and in terms of population second only to the federal state of Vienna. Situated east of Upper Austria, Lower Austria derives its name
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In terms of population, which is the second largest city in Finland?
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Finland Finland Finland ( ; ), officially the Republic of Finland (, ) is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east. Finland is a Nordic country and is situated in the geographical region of Fennoscandia. The capital and largest city is Helsinki. Other major cities are Espoo, Vantaa, Tampere, Oulu and Turku. Finland's population is 5.52 million (2018), and the majority of the population is concentrated in the southern region. 88.7% of the population is Finnish and speaks
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Swedish-speaking population of Finland the term has remained common to the present, despite later immigrants tending to use different terms such as "Finland-Swede". The expressions "Swedish-speaking Finns", "Swedes of Finland", "Finland Swedes", "Finnish Swedes", and "Swedish Finns" are all used in academic literature. The age of the Swedish-speaking population in the territory that today constitutes Finland was a subject of fierce debate in the early 20th century as a part of the Finland's language strife. Some Finland-Swede scholars, such as Ralf Saxén, Knut Hugo Pipping and Tor Karsten, used place names in trying to prove that the Swedish settlement in Finland dates back to
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Served with a steak, which sauce is made with butter, egg yolks, white wine vinegar, and tarragon?
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Béarnaise sauce be produced by adding capers and tarragon to a Hollandaise. Béarnaise sauce Béarnaise sauce (; ) is a sauce made of clarified butter emulsified in egg yolks and white wine vinegar and flavored with herbs. It is considered to be a "child" of the mother Hollandaise sauce, one of the five mother sauces in the French haute cuisine repertoire. The difference is only in the flavoring: Béarnaise uses shallot, chervil, peppercorns, and tarragon in a reduction of vinegar and wine, while Hollandaise is more stripped down, using a reduction of lemon juice or white wine. (One means of preparing Béarnaise,
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Wine sauce Burgundy wines, and port wines, among others. Ingredients in addition to wine may include stock, mushrooms, butter or shrimp butter, tarragon vinegar, shallot, chervil, tarragon, spices, onion, garlic and others. Some wine sauces are prepared using a reduction, which may intensify their flavor or make the flavor sharper. Reduced wine may be used to prepare thicker wine sauces, while those lacking a reduction are generally thin. Some wine sauces are creamy, prepared with the addition of cream or milk. Fish velouté is a French velouté sauce base from which several types of sauces can be prepared, including wine sauce. White
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Above which castle did Charles I raise his Standard in 1642, effecting declaring war on parliament?
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Charles I of England Parliamentary governor, Sir John Hotham, who refused him entry in April, and Charles was forced to withdraw. In mid-1642, both sides began to arm. Charles raised an army using the medieval method of commission of array, and Parliament called for volunteers for its militia. Following futile negotiations, Charles raised the royal standard in Nottingham on 22 August 1642. At the start of the First English Civil War, Charles's forces controlled roughly the Midlands, Wales, the West Country and northern England. He set up his court at Oxford. Parliament controlled London, the south-east and East Anglia, as well as the English
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York Castle Tower and the surrounding land to John Babington and Edmund Duffield, a pair of property speculators. In turn, Babington and Duffield sold Clifford's Tower to a York merchant family. In 1642, however, the English Civil War broke out between the rival factions of the Royalists and Parliament. Forces loyal to Charles I, under the command of Henry Clifford, garrisoned York Castle and the surrounding city in 1643. York effectively became the "northern capital" for the Royalist cause. Clifford repaired the castle and strengthened the walls to permit them to support cannon, placing his arms alongside those of the king above
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Which bloody 1651 encounter was the final battle of the English Civil Wars?
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First English Civil War after the conflict. Convention uses the name "The English Civil War" (1642–1651) to refer collectively to the civil wars in England and the Scottish Civil War, which began with the raising of King Charles I's standard at Nottingham on 22 August 1642, and ended on 3 September 1651 at the Battle of Worcester. There was some continued organised Royalist resistance in Scotland, which lasted until the surrender of Dunnottar Castle to Parliament's troops in May 1652, but this resistance is not usually included as part of the English Civil War. The English Civil War can be divided into three: the
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English overseas possessions in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms govern the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena. English overseas possessions in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms Between 1639 and 1651 English overseas possessions were involved in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a series of civil wars and wars that were fought in and between England, Scotland and in Ireland. At the beginning of the war, fifty thousand Englishmen inhabited some twenty colonies in the Americas. Most of the colonies were founded in the decade prior to the start of the English Civil War (1642–1651) with the oldest existing being the Colony of Virginia (1607). The vast majority
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What name is given to the speculation mania that ruined a great many investors in 1720?
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Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme run up by England during the war. Speculation in the company's stock led to a great economic bubble in 1720, with company's shares rising rapidly in price from around £100 to over £1,000. Many investors were ruined when the bubble burst and the value of stock in the South Sea Company crashed. Political scandal ensued when fraud among the company's directors and corruption of cabinet ministers became clear. The event triggered several satirical engravings by foreign artists that were widely published in English newspapers, including in particular a version of "A Monument Dedicated to Posterity" by Bernard Picart adapted by
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Domain name speculation level playing field for those interested in developing websites. The .mobi premium generic words and phrases list is a good example of the domain names that are at the heart of most early-market domain name speculation. Domain name speculators, sometimes known as domainers or domain investors, also register domain names based on seemingly generic phrases such as "propertyforsale" in the hope that these domain names could be sold later to businesses. Some (but not all) domain name investors will try to stay away from domain names containing trademarks as this could be considered cybersquatting. Some country code TLDs or sponsored
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"Who revolutionized the high jump, inventing a unique ""back-first"" technique, named after him?"
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Dick Fosbury Dick Fosbury Richard Douglas Fosbury (born March 6, 1947) is an American retired high jumper, who is considered one of the most influential and inspirational athletes in the history of track and field. Besides winning a gold medal at the 1968 Olympics, he revolutionized the high jump event, with a unique "back-first" technique, now known as the Fosbury Flop, adopted by almost all high jumpers today. His method was to sprint diagonally towards the bar, then curve and leap backwards over the bar, which gave him a much lower center of mass in flight (it was actually below his body
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High jump the bar head and shoulders first, sliding over on his back and landing in a fashion which would likely have broken his neck in the old, sawdust landing pits. After he used this Fosbury flop to win the 1968 Olympic gold medal, the technique began to spread around the world, and soon "floppers" were dominating international high jump competitions. The last straddler to set a world record was Vladimir Yashchenko, who cleared in 1977 and then indoors in 1978. Among renowned high jumpers following Fosbury's lead were Americans Dwight Stones and his rival, tall Franklin Jacobs of Paterson, NJ, who
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By custom, the medals for which men’s event are presented during a Games’ Closing Ceremony?
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2006 Winter Olympics closing ceremony free event, one of the last events held at the Games. In a new practice for Winter Olympics closing ceremonies, the medals for this long race were awarded during the ceremony similar to the way the medals for the men's marathon are awarded during the closing ceremonies of Summer Olympic Games. Giorgio Di Centa of Italy, the host nation, won the race and was presented with the gold medal. Eugeni Dementiev of Russia was awarded silver, with Austria's Mikhail Botvinov claiming the bronze. The medal presenter was former Olympian and current IOC member Manuela Di Centa, sister of the gold
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2006 Winter Olympics closing ceremony 2006 Winter Olympics closing ceremony The Closing Ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics took place on 26 February 2006 beginning at 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC) at the Stadio Olimpico in Turin, Italy. The games were formally closed by International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge calling them "magnificent" This again departed from former IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch's tradition of declaring each games "best ever" and continued Rogge's tradition of assigning each games their own identity in his comments. During the closing ceremony, in the Olympic Stadium, medals were presented for Cross country skiing at the cross-country skiing men's 50 km
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In which musical does the song “I Got Plenty of Nuthin’”appear?
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I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' (Monica Zetterlund, 1959), "I Got Plenty of Nothin' " (Diahann Carroll, 1959), and the fully standard English "I've Got Plenty of Nothing" (Julia Migenes, 1989). I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin " is a song composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 "folk-opera" "Porgy and Bess" (1934). The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel "Porgy" on which the opera was based, and Ira Gershwin. It is one of the most famous songs from the opera (along with "Summertime", "It Ain't Necessarily So", and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now") and
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You Ain't Got Nuthin You Ain't Got Nuthin "You Ain't Got Nuthin" is a song by American rapper Lil Wayne, released as the first promotional single from his sixth studio album, "Tha Carter III" (2008). The song, produced by The Alchemist, with additional production from Deezle, features guest appearances from fellow American rappers Juelz Santana and Fabolous. Although the song was not released as an official single, it was released as a promotional recording to radio stations and peaked at number 81 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100. The song was originally intended for The Alchemist's 2009 album, Chemical Warfare. In late 2007, an
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Which was Roger Moore’s final Bond film?
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Roger Moore but Moore was eventually enticed back for "Octopussy" (1983). He made a cameo as Chief Inspector Clouseau, posing as a famous movie star, in "Curse of the Pink Panther" (1983) (for which he was credited as "Turk Thrust II"). Then he tried a thriller "The Naked Face" (1984), written and directed by Bryan Forbes. Moore starred in his final Bond, "A View to a Kill" (1985). Moore was the oldest actor to have played Bond – he was 45 in "Live and Let Die", and 58 when he announced his retirement on 3 December 1985. Moore is also tied with
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Roger Moore in the UK, on 2 October 2008 (). On 16 October 2012, "Bond on Bond" was published to tie in with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond films. The book, with many pictures, is based on Moore's own memories, thoughts, and anecdotes about all things 007, with some of the profits of the book going to UNICEF. Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor. He is best known for having played Ian Fleming's fictional British secret agent James Bond in seven feature films from 1973 to 1985. Moore took
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Which film opens with Bond performing a bungee jump from a dam?
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Bungee jumping after bungee jumping has also been described. All of these injuries have occurred in fit and healthy people in their twenties and thirties. Bungee jumping has also been shown to increase stress and decrease immune function. In the film "GoldenEye", James Bond makes a jump over the edge of a dam in Russia (in reality the dam is in Switzerland: Verzasca Dam, and the jump was genuine, not an animated special effect). The jump in the dam later makes an appearance as a Roadblock task in the 14th season of the reality competition series "The Amazing Race". A fictional proto-bungee
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Bungee jumping the Macau Tower, making it the world's highest jump at . The SkyJump did not qualify as the world's highest "bungee" as it is not strictly speaking a bungee jump, but instead what is referred to as a 'Decelerator-Descent' jump, using a steel cable and decelerator system, rather than an elastic rope. On 17 December 2006, the Macau Tower started operating a proper bungee jump, which became the "Highest Commercial Bungee Jump in the World" according to the Guinness Book of Records. The Macau Tower Bungy has a "Guide cable" system that limits swing (the jump is very close to
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Who sang the theme for the film ‘You Only Live Twice’?
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You Only Live Twice (soundtrack) Barry's lush instrumental backing was not suitable for a "chart" single. On the Reprise version Sinatra's voice is double tracked giving not only an unusual sound but a pun on the title. The record was released with a cover of Johnny Cash and June Carter's "Jackson" performed by Nancy Sinatra and Hazlewood. You Only Live Twice (soundtrack) You Only Live Twice is the soundtrack for the fifth James Bond film of the same name. It was composed by Bond veteran John Barry. At the time, this was his fourth credited Bond film. The theme song, "You Only Live Twice", was
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You Only Live Twice (film) a hiatus, he returned in 1971's "Diamonds Are Forever" and later 1983's non-Eon Bond film "Never Say Never Again". "You Only Live Twice" is the first Bond film to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, who later directed the 1977 film "The Spy Who Loved Me" and the 1979 film "Moonraker", both starring Roger Moore. "You Only Live Twice" was a great success, receiving positive reviews and grossing over $111 million in worldwide box office. An American NASA spacecraft is hijacked from orbit by an unidentified spaceship. The United States suspect it to be the work of the Soviets, but the
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Which film company did George Harrison create to finance ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’?
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Monty Python's Life of Brian to begin, long-time Monty Python fan and former member of the Beatles, George Harrison, arranged financing for "Life of Brian" through the formation of his company HandMade Films. The film contains themes of religious satire that were controversial at the time of its release, drawing accusations of blasphemy, and protests from some religious groups. Thirty-nine local authorities in the United Kingdom either imposed an outright ban, or imposed an X (18 years) certificate, effectively preventing the film from being shown, since the distributors said it could not be shown unless it was unedited and carried the original AA (14) certificate.
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Monty Python's The Life of Brian / Monty Python Scrapbook Eric Idle, with assistance from Michael Palin. The book is dedicated to Keith Moon, who was to appear in the film but died just before filming began. Monty Python's The Life of Brian / Monty Python Scrapbook Monty Python's The Life of Brian/MONTYPYTHONSCRAPBOOK is a large format book by Monty Python, released in 1979 to tie in with their film "Monty Python's Life of Brian". As the title suggests, it consists of two separate books joined together. The first contains the film's screenplay, illustrated by black and white stills. On the reverse side is the scrapbook, which contains a variety
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"For which play did Shakespeare write the line: ""All that glisters is not gold""?"
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All that glitters is not gold wrote "Do not hold everything gold that shines like gold" in 1175. Chaucer gave two early versions in English: ""But al thyng which that shyneth as the gold / Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told"" in "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale", and ""Hyt is not al golde that glareth"" in "The House of Fame". The popular form of the expression is a derivative of a line in William Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice", which employs the word "glisters," a 17th-century synonym for "glitters." The line comes from a secondary plot of the play, the puzzle of
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All that glitters is not gold All that glitters is not gold "All that glitters is not gold" is a well-known saying, meaning that not everything that looks precious or true turns out to be so. This can be applied to just about any experience in life. While early expressions of the idea are known from at least the 12th century, the current saying is derived from a 16th-century line by William Shakespeare. The expression, in various forms, originated in or before the 12th century and may date back to Æsop. The Latin is "Non omne quod nitet aurum est." The French monk Alain de Lille
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What colour gloves does Sonic the hedgehog wear?
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Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA) action and said it was "good for the Sonic fans". He called the English dub poor, and said the story "strayed from the video games a little too much" and it was "very basic". Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA) Unlike other "Sonic" animations prior to "Sonic X", the OVA did not star Jaleel White as the voice of Sonic, nor was it produced by DiC Entertainment. Unlike other "Sonic the Hedgehog" media, the setting of the series is the world of Planet Freedom, which is split into two distinct realms: The Land of the Sky, and the Land of Darkness. The
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Sonic the Hedgehog of Sonic the Hedgehog" is known for its bright colors and whimsical humor, "Sonic the Hedgehog" featured darker, more dramatic stories which still constitute a departure from the tone of most of the "Sonic" games. This adaptation follows Sonic and his fellow 'Freedom Fighters' who attempt to liberate Mobius from the grip of Robotnik, who plans to robotocise everything. The "Sonic the Hedgehog" comic book series by Archie Comics uses several characters from this series. A two-episode OVA adaptation was released in Japan in 1996. It was released in North America in 1999 under the name "Sonic the Hedgehog: The
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What kind of marsupial is the titular video game character ‘Crash’?
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Crash Bandicoot (video game) Crash Bandicoot (video game) Crash Bandicoot is a platform video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. The game was first released in North America in September 1996, and in Europe in November 1996. "Crash Bandicoot" is the first installment in the "Crash Bandicoot" series, chronicling the creation of the title character at the hands of series antagonist Doctor Neo Cortex and henchman Doctor Nitrus Brio. The story follows Crash as he aims to prevent Brio and Cortex's plans for world domination, and rescue his girlfriend Tawna, a female bandicoot also evolved by
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Video game crash of 1983 to what is retrospectively considered the second generation of console video gaming in North America. The crash shook the then-booming industry, and led to the bankruptcy of several companies producing home computers and video game consoles in the region. It lasted about two years. Analysts of the time expressed doubts about the long-term viability of video game consoles and software. The North American video game console industry recovered a few years later, mostly due to the widespread success of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in ; Nintendo designed the NES as the Western branding for its Famicom console originally released
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In the classic video game, what colour hair do the titular Lemmings have?
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Lemmings (video game) their own lemmings (green or blue), and had their own base. The goal is to get more lemmings (regardless of colour) into one's own base than the other player. Gameplay cycles through the 20 levels until neither player gets any lemmings home. Mike Dailly, the first employee of DMA Design and one of the programmers for "Lemmings", provided a detailed history of the development of the game entitled "The Lemmings Story" in 2006. David Jones, founder of DMA Design, has also commented on the development and success of "Lemmings". The inspiration for gameplay came as a result of a simple
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Lemmings (video game) specific lemmings that allow the selected lemming to alter the landscape, to affect the behaviour of other lemmings, or to clear obstacles to create a safe passage for the rest of the lemmings. "Lemmings" was one of the best-received video games of the early 1990s. It was the second-highest rated game in the history of "Amstrad Action", and was considered the eighth-greatest game of all time by "Next Generation" in 1996. "Lemmings" is also one of the most widely ported and best-selling video games, and is estimated to have sold around 20 million copies between its various ports. The popularity
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In the painting ‘Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy’ by David Hockney, who or what is Percy?
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Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy is a painting by the British artist David Hockney. Painted between 1970 and 1971, it depicts the fashion designer Ossie Clark and the textile designer Celia Birtwell in their flat, shortly after their wedding, with one of the couple's cats on Clark's knee. The white cat depicted in the painting was Blanche; Percy was another of their cats, but Hockney thought "Percy" made a better title. The work is part of a series of double portraits made by Hockney from 1968, often portraying his friends. Hockney and Clark
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Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy symbol of fidelity) in the "Arnolfini Portrait". In this case, Clark continued to have affairs with men and women, which contributed to the breakdown of the marriage in 1974: Hockney's depiction of the couple together but separated foreshadows their divorce. The informal interior scene littered with symbolic objects echoes Victorian paintings, such as Ford Madox Brown's "The Awakening Conscience". Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy is a painting by the British artist David Hockney. Painted between 1970 and 1971, it depicts the fashion designer Ossie Clark and the textile designer Celia Birtwell in their
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At which celebrated German art school did the painters Kandinsky, Klee and Albers all lecture?
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Josef Albers Bauhaus among artists who included Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee. The so-called form master, Klee taught the formal aspects in the glass workshops where Albers was the crafts master; they cooperated for several years. With the closure of the Bauhaus under Nazi pressure in 1933 the artists dispersed, most leaving the country. Albers emigrated to the United States. The architect Philip Johnson, then a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, arranged for Albers to be offered a job as head of a new art school, Black Mountain College, in North Carolina. In November 1933,
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Paul Klee Paul Klee Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures "Writings on Form and Design Theory" ("Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre"), published in English as the "Paul Klee Notebooks", are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's "A Treatise on Painting" for the Renaissance. He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky,
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Which fruit is the title of an Estonian-Georgian nominee in the Best Foreign Language category?
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Zaza Urushadze the idea to write a script of Tangerines was born. Tangerines, the first Estonian-Georgian co-production, was finished in 2013. It became one of the most successful and worldwide acclaimed films in Georgian Film history. The story takes place during the war in Georgia, in the Apkhazeti region in 1990, an Estonian man, Ivo, has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. When a wounded man is left at his door, Ivo has no choice but to take him in. During three years, the film won awards in several international festivals, including Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film and
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Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film required for most other categories: the awards year defined for the Foreign Language Film category usually begins and ends before the ordinary awards year, which corresponds to an exact calendar year. For the 80th Academy Awards, for instance, the release deadline for the Foreign Language Film category was set on September 30, 2007, whereas the qualifying run for most other categories extended until December 31, 2007. Although the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is commonly referred to simply as the Foreign Film Oscar in newspaper articles and on the Internet, such a designation is misleading, since a film's
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Which freckled, red-headed actress has now had five nominations, this time around for 'Still Alice'?
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Still Alice "a four-star performance in a two-star movie", drawing attention to the "intrusive" score and the "maddeningly overwrought and heavy-handed" storytelling. For her performance as Alice Howland, Julianne Moore won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Critics' Choice Movie Award. "Still Alice" marked her first Academy Award win after four previous nominations. Although she was widely considered the Best Actress frontrunner in anticipation of the Academy Awards ceremony, some critics felt that "Still Alice" was not one of Moore's strongest performances and did not deserve to win. Moore dedicated her Academy Award win to
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Alice Fischer (actress) founded the Twelfth Night Club in New York and was the President of the organisation for over 20 years. Alice Fischer (actress) Alice Fischer (January 16, 1869 – June 23, 1947) was an American stage actress born in Indiana. Her one film appearance was the now lost 1917 "National Red Cross Pageant". She was a great beauty as a young woman at the turn of the 20th Century. She made her stage debut in 1887 in a play called "Nordeck". Broadway debut Dec. 3 1888 at The Broadway Theatre played Minna in "Little Lord Fauntleroy". In 1892 played an interesting
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"Spoken by J.K. Simmons, ""not quite my tempo"" is a noted line from which jazz-themed movie?"
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J. K. Simmons J. K. Simmons Jonathan Kimble Simmons (born January 9, 1955) is an American actor and voice actor. In television, he is perhaps best known for playing Dr. Emil Skoda on the NBC series "Law & Order", Vernon Schillinger on the HBO series "Oz" and Assistant Police Chief Will Pope on TNT's "The Closer". Since 2017, he has starred as Howard Silk in the Starz series "Counterpart". His film roles include J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" trilogy and music instructor Terence Fletcher in 2014's "Whiplash". He is known for voicing Cave Johnson in the video game "Portal 2" (2011),
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J. K. Simmons Simmons is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the men's music fraternity, and was initiated in 1975 at University of Montana. During Mardi Gras 2018, J.K. Simmons was awarded King of Bacchus by the Krewe of Bacchus. J. K. Simmons Jonathan Kimble Simmons (born January 9, 1955) is an American actor and voice actor. In television, he is perhaps best known for playing Dr. Emil Skoda on the NBC series "Law & Order", Vernon Schillinger on the HBO series "Oz" and Assistant Police Chief Will Pope on TNT's "The Closer". Since 2017, he has starred as Howard Silk in
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Almost unrecognisable with a prosthetic nose, who plays John E. du Pont in 'Foxcatcher'?
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John du Pont at age 72 on December 9, 2010. He was the only member of the Forbes 400 richest Americans ever to be convicted of murder. Du Pont is the subject of the Academy Award nominated film "Foxcatcher," in which he is portrayed by Steve Carell, who earned an Oscar nomination for his performance. John du Pont was born on November 22, 1938, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of four children of William du Pont, Jr. and Jean Liseter Austin (1897–1988). He grew up at Liseter Hall, a mansion built in 1922 in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, by his maternal grandfather on more
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John du Pont estimated US$200 million in 1986, about $ in current dollars. His will bequeathed 80 percent of his estate to Bulgarian wrestler Valentin Yordanov, an Olympic champion who had trained at Foxcatcher, and Yordanov's relatives. In June 2011, du Pont's niece Beverly A. du Pont Gauggel and nephew William H. du Pont filed a petition to challenge the will in Media, Pennsylvania, asserting that du Pont was not "of sound mind" when he made his will. The petition claims that during that period, John du Pont asserted alternately that he was Jesus Christ, the Dalai Lama, and a Russian tsar. That
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A former ‘Bond Girl’, which UK actress is nominated for her leading role in 'Gone Girl'?
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Gone Girl (novel) entirety. American actress Reese Witherspoon's film production company and 20th Century Fox bought the screen rights to "Gone Girl", for which they paid US$1.5 million. The novel's author Gillian Flynn was engaged to write the screenplay. Witherspoon produced the film version along with Leslie Dixon, Bruna Papandrea, and Ceán Chaffin. Witherspoon was drawn to the script because of its strong female character and its use of multiple perspectives and non-linear structure. In May 2013, it was announced that David Fincher was brought on as director, with Ben Affleck cast as Nick and Rosamund Pike in the role of Amy. New
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Bond girl Bond girl A Bond girl is a character (or the actress portraying a character) who is an attractive love interest or female sidekick of James Bond in a novel, film, or video game. Bond girls occasionally have names that are double entendres or puns, such as Pussy Galore, Plenty O'Toole, Xenia Onatopp, or Holly Goodhead, and are considered "ubiquitous symbol[s] of glamour and sophistication." There is no set rule on what kind of person a Bond girl will be or what role she will play. She may be an ally or an enemy of Bond, pivotal to the mission or
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Which Best Picture nominated movie tells the story of US soldier, 'Chris' Kyle?
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Chris Kyle his widow. Fundraising for production of the statue was provided by members of the Tea Party movement. Clint Eastwood's film "American Sniper" (2014) is based on Kyle's autobiography. Kyle is portrayed by Bradley Cooper, and his wife Taya Kyle is portrayed by Sienna Miller. For his portrayal of Kyle, Cooper received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, and the film was nominated in five other categories, including Best Picture. The film won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing. On February 2, 2015, exactly two years after Kyle's murder, Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared the day "Chris Kyle Day".
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Every Picture Tells a Story Every Picture Tells a Story Every Picture Tells a Story, released May 1971, is the third album by Rod Stewart. It incorporates hard rock, folk, and blues styles. It went to number one on both the UK and US charts and finished third in the Jazz & Pop critics' poll for best album of 1971. It has been an enduring critical success, including a number 172 ranking on "Rolling Stone"s 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album is a mixture of rock, country, blues, soul, and folk, and includes Stewart's breakthrough hit, "Maggie May", as
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What was nominated for its song, 'Everything Is Awesome', but not in the best animation category?
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Everything Is Awesome of which was incorporated into the "Everything Is Awesome" performance). According to "LEGO Movie" co-director Christopher Miller, for this on-stage appearance, Arnett wore the Batman costume originally worn by Val Kilmer in the 1995 film "Batman Forever". Arnett also lip-synced to the song on the Reality TV Show "Lip Sync Battle", while dressed as Emmet, the character voiced by Chris Pratt in "The Lego Movie". Everything Is Awesome "Everything Is Awesome" is the theme song to the 2014 Warner Bros. Pictures film "The Lego Movie". It was written by Shawn Patterson, Jo Li, and The Lonely Island. The single and
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Everything Is Awesome faux-dubstep breakdown. There's a lot more happening under the surface, however." As one of the songs nominated for Best Original Song at the 2015 Oscars, "Everything is Awesome" was performed as a large-scale musical number featuring not only Tegan and Sara and The Lonely Island, but also on-stage appearances by Mothersbaugh (paying homage to his 1970s group Devo by wearing a LEGO version of the distinctive Devo energy dome), DJ Questlove, and comic actor Will Arnett dressed as Batman (in the film, Arnett provides the voice of Batman and sings the mocking heavy metal composition "Untitled Self Portrait", an excerpt
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Who became the first socialist President of France in 1981, being re-elected in 1988?
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Socialist Party (France) The PS lost its majority in the French National Assembly in 1986, forcing Mitterrand to "cohabit" with the conservative government of Jacques Chirac. Nevertheless, Mitterrand was re-elected President in 1988 with a moderate programme entitled "United France". He proposed neither nationalisations nor privatisations. He chose as Prime Minister the most popular and moderate of the Socialist politicians, Michel Rocard. His cabinet included four centre-right ministers but it was supported by only a plurality in the National Assembly elected in June 1988. During his second term, Mitterrand focused on foreign policy and European integration. He convened a referendum for the ratification
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Socialist Party (France) Hollande won the primary and ran as the official Socialist Party candidate for President of France. He narrowly defeated incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, becoming president-elect of France on Sunday 6 May 2012. The idea for holding an open primary to choose the Socialist Party presidential candidate had first been suggested in 2008, by the independent left-leaning think tank Terra Nova. The Socialist Party decided to hold a presidential primary in 2017, against the backdrop of the unprecedented unpopularity of incumbent François Hollande, with a 4 percent approval rating, who announced on 1 December 2016 that he would not seek re-election, making
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Who was the President of Argentina when it invaded the Falklands in 1982?
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Papal mediation in the Beagle conflict countries. On 28 April 1981 General Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, (then Argentine army chief, later, during the Falklands war, President of Argentina), closed the border to Chile without any consultation with his own president. In March 1982, five weeks before the beginning of the Falklands war, a ship of the Argentine navy, "ARA Francisco de Gurruchaga", anchored at the Deceit island, de facto under Chilean sovereignty since 1881, and refused to abandon the bay despite Chilean demands On 2 April 1982 Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. The Argentine plan included indeed the military occupation of the disputed islands at the Beagle
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Falklands War Falklands War The Falklands War (), also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis, Malvinas War, South Atlantic Conflict, and the Guerra del Atlántico Sur (Spanish for "South Atlantic War"), was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands, and its territorial dependency, the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It began on Friday, 2 April 1982, when Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands (and, the following day, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) in an attempt to establish the sovereignty it had claimed
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What is the name of the strait linking the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman?
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Gulf of Oman Gulf of Oman The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman ( "khalīj ʿumān"; "daryâ-ye omân") is a strait (and not an actual gulf) that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of Hormuz, which then runs to the Persian Gulf. It borders Iran and Pakistan on the north, Oman on the south, and the United Arab Emirates on the west. The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Gulf of Oman as follows: In 2018, scientists confirmed the Gulf of Oman contains one of the world's largest marine dead zones, where the ocean contains little or no oxygen
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Arab states of the Persian Gulf Arab states of the Persian Gulf The Arab states of the Persian Gulf are the seven Arab states which border the Persian Gulf, namely Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This excludes the non-Arab state of Iran. All of these nations except Iraq are part of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and prefer to use the term "Arabian Gulf" rather than "Persian Gulf". Some states are constitutional monarchies with elected parliaments. Bahrain ("Majlis al Watani") and Kuwait ("Majlis al Ummah") have legislatures with members elected by the population. The Sultanate of Oman also
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Joab slew him as he was fleeing a battle, who was the rebellious third son of King David?
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Joab Israel in rebellion against David, who was forced to flee with only his most trusted men. However, David could not bring himself to harm his son, and ordered that none of his men should kill Absalom during the ensuing battle. However, when a man reported that Absalom had been found, alive, caught in a tree, Joab and his men killed him (2 Samuel 18:1-33). Hearing of David's grief over the reported death of Absalom, Joab confronted and admonished David. The king followed Joab's advice to make a public appearance to encourage his troops (2 Samuel 19:1-8). David later replaced him
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Joab the numbering of Israel .. [b]ut as a man he was imperious, revengeful, and unscrupulous". Joab Joab (Hebrew "Yo'av" Yôʼāḇ) the son of Zeruiah, was the nephew of King David and the commander of his army, according to the Hebrew Bible. The name Joab is derived from Yahweh (), the name of the God of Israel, and the Hebrew word 'av' (), meaning 'father'. It therefore means 'Yahweh [is] father'. Joab was the son of Zeruiah, a sister of king David, who made him captain of his army (2 Samuel 8:16; 20:23; 1 Chronicles 11:6; 18:15; 27:34). He had two
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Who many lines are there on a single, standard musical staff or stave?
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Staff (music) Forlì; staves with four, five, and six lines were used as late as 1600. Staff (music) In Western musical notation, the staff (US) or stave (UK) (plural for either: staves) is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or, in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments. Appropriate music symbols, depending on the intended effect, are placed on the staff according to their corresponding pitch or function. Musical notes are placed by pitch, percussion notes are placed by instrument, and rests and other symbols are placed by convention. The
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Staff (music) measures. "Staff" is more common in American English, "stave" in British English. The plural is "staves" in either case; "stave" is, in fact, a back-formation from "staves". The vertical position of the notehead on the staff indicates which note to play: higher-pitched notes are marked higher on the staff. The notehead can be placed with its center intersecting a line ("on a line") or in between the lines touching the lines above and below ("in a space"). Notes outside the range of the staff are placed on or between ledger lines—lines the width of the note they need to hold—added
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Which company made The Comet, the world’s first passenger jet airliner?
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Jet airliner after piloting a jet powered aircraft for the first time, Wing Commander Maurice A. Smith, editor of "Flight" magazine, said, "Piloting a jet aircraft has confirmed one opinion I had formed after flying as a passenger in the Lancastrian jet test beds, that few, if any, having flown in a jet-propelled transport, will wish to revert to the noise, vibration and attendant fatigue of an airscrew-propelled piston-engined aircraft" The first purpose-built jet airliner was the British de Havilland Comet which first flew in 1949 and entered service in 1952. Also developed in 1949 was the Avro Canada C102 Jetliner, which
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Jet airliner Jet airliner A jet airliner (or jetliner, in its portmanteau form) is an airliner powered by jet engines (passenger jet aircraft). Airliners usually have two or four jet engines; three-engined designs were popular in the 1970s but are less common today. Airliners are commonly classified as either the generally long-haul wide-body aircraft or narrow-body aircraft. Most airliners today are powered by jet engines, because they are capable of safely operating at high speeds and generate sufficient thrust to power large-capacity aircraft. The first jetliners, introduced in the 1950s, used the simpler turbojet engine; these were quickly supplanted by designs using
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The famous ‘Route 66’ in America connected Los Angeles to which other city?
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U.S. Route 66 U.S. Route 66 U.S. Route 66 (US 66 or Route 66), also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways in the U.S. Highway System. US 66 was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in the United States, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before ending in Santa Monica, California, near Los Angeles, covering a total of . It was recognized in popular
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U.S. Route 66 in California U.S. Route 66 in California U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66) is a part of a former United States Numbered Highway in the state of California that ran from the west in Santa Monica on the Pacific Ocean through Los Angeles and San Bernardino to Needles at the Arizona state line. It was truncated during the 1964 renumbering and its signage removed in 1974. The highway is now mostly replaced with several streets in Los Angeles, State Route 2 (SR 2), State Route 66 (SR 66), San Bernardino County Route 66 (CR 66), Interstate 15 (I-15), and I-40. US
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Which Irish band provided the music for Harry’s Game and Robin of Sherwood?
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Legend (Robin of Sherwood soundtrack) Legend (Robin of Sherwood soundtrack) Legend is a 1984 soundtrack album for the ITV television series "Robin of Sherwood", by the Irish folk group Clannad. It is their eighth album. In 1985, this album won the BAFTA award for Best Original Television Music, making Clannad the first Irish band to win the award. "Robin (The Hooded Man)", the title theme from the series, was also released on a 7-inch single in 1984, featuring actor Michael Praed as Robin of Sherwood on the sleeve. The single was then re-released in 1986 with a newly recorded version and featuring actor Jason Connery
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Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood based on 24 reviews. Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood received awards for Best Game Design and Best Animation at the 2003 Animago Awards. Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood is a 2002 stealth-based real-time tactics video game developed by Spellbound Studios. It is similar to games such as "" and the "Commandos" series. In the game, the player controls up to five characters in a setting based on the stories of the protagonist, Robin Hood. The player can also control Robin Hood's Merry Men, including Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, Will Stutely,
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Which pioneering British photographer famously recorded the Crimean War?
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War photography government at the start of the Crimean War. In March 1854 Gilbert Elliott was commissioned to photograph views of the Russian fortifications along the coast of the Baltic Sea. Roger Fenton was the first official war photographer and the first to attempt a systematic coverage of war for the benefit of the public. Hired by Thomas Agnew, he landed at Balaclava in 1854. His photographs were probably intended to offset the general aversion of the British people to the war's unpopularity, and to counteract the occasionally critical reporting of correspondent William Howard Russell of "The Times." The photos were converted
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Crimean War of official equality, and the Orthodox Church regained control of the Christian churches in dispute. The Crimean War was one of the first conflicts to use modern technologies such as explosive naval shells, railways, and telegraphs. The war was one of the first to be documented extensively in written reports and photographs. As the legend of the "Charge of the Light Brigade" demonstrates, the war quickly became an iconic symbol of logistical, medical and tactical failures and mismanagement. The reaction in the UK was a demand for professionalisation, most famously achieved by Florence Nightingale, who gained worldwide attention for pioneering
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