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Delphinium is the botanical name for which common flower?
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Delphinium inopinum Delphinium inopinum Delphinium inopinum is a species of larkspur known by the common name unexpected larkspur. It is endemic to the Sierra Nevada of California, where it is known mostly from rocky areas in open temperate coniferous forest habitat. "Delphinium inopinum" is a perennial herb with one or more erect, waxy stems usually exceeding a meter in height. The leaves are located mainly toward the base of the stem, with the upper part occupied by a raceme of at least 25 flowers. Each flower is held on a pedicel up to 2.5 centimeters long. The flower has white to light
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Botanical name genus down to, and including the rank of species. Taxa below the rank of species get a three part (infraspecific name). A binary name consists of the name of a genus and an epithet. In the case of cultivated plants, there is an additional epithet which is an often non-Latin part, not written in italics. For cultivars, it is always given in single quotation marks. The cultivar, Group, or grex epithet may follow either the botanical name of the species, or the name of the genus only, or the unambiguous common name of the genus or species. The generic name,
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Who replaced Tom Jones on the TV show the voice?
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The Voice UK (series 5) The Voice UK (series 5) The Voice UK is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. The fifth series began airing on 9 January 2016 on BBC One. The series is hosted by Emma Willis and Marvin Humes, and are joined by coaches will.i.am and Ricky Wilson. Rita Ora did not appear in this series of the show after joining "The X Factor" and was replaced by Boy George. In addition, Sir Tom Jones did not return and was replaced by Paloma Faith. The fifth series was the last to be aired on BBC One as "The
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Tom Jones (TV series) It was contended that any rights that C/F International had to license the "Tom Jones" show did not include the right to make and license separate recordings of the performances on the show. In addition, it was contended that any rights that C/F International had in the "Tom Jones" show no longer existed, due to numerous breaches of contract. Tom Jones (TV series) Tom Jones was a syndicated television variety show hosted by Tom Jones, that aired during the 1980-1981 television season. Twenty four episodes of the show were produced. The show was produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The
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At what time of the day is the Ceremony of the Keys held in the Tower of London?
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Ceremony of the Keys (London) command to present arms. The Chief Warder steps forward, doffs his bonnet, and proclaims: On the answering “Amen” the clock of the Waterloo Barracks strikes 10pm and the Last Post is sounded, marking the end of the ceremony. The Guard is dismissed, and the Chief Warder takes the keys to the Queen's House for safekeeping overnight. The origins of the ceremony are unknown. It may have begun during the Middle Ages, and it is often stated that a ceremony in some form has been held since the 14th century. Written instructions that the keys should be placed in a safe
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Ceremony of the Keys (London) Ceremony of the Keys (London) The Ceremony of the Keys is an ancient ritual, held every evening at the Tower of London, when the main gates are locked for the night. It is said to be the oldest military ceremony in the world, and is the best-known ceremonial tradition of the Tower. At exactly 9.53 pm, the Chief Yeoman Warder, dressed in Tudor watchcoat and bonnet, and carrying a candle lantern, leaves the Byward Tower and falls in with the Escort to the Keys, a military escort made up of armed members of the Tower of London Guard. The Warder
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"""Just now the lilac is in bloom, all before my little room"", is the first line of which poem by Rupert Brook?"
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The Old Vicarage, Grantchester a kind of Greek Arcadia, home to nymphs and fauns, and refers to such famous literary figures as Lord Byron, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Tennyson. Homesick for England, a land “Where men with Splendid Hearts may go,” it is Grantchester, in particular, that he desires. Source:"The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke" (Sidwick & Jackson, Ltd, London, 1934), p.93. <poem> The Old Vicarage, Grantchester Just now the lilac is in bloom, All before my little room; And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink; And down the borders, well I know, The poppy and the pansy blow .
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic by collectors as "generations". The animated series "My Little Pony Tales" which premiered in 1992 was the toy line's most recent television series before "Friendship Is Magic", featuring the pony designs of the first toy line. It was followed by various direct-to-video releases, which featured later designs up to the third incarnation of the franchise. Just as Michael Bay's film had helped to boost the new "Transformers" toy line, Hasbro wanted to retool the My Little Pony franchise and update it to better suit the current demographic and taste of young girls. According to Margaret Loesch, CEO of Hub Network,
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In which country were Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid supposedly killed in a shootout with soldiers in 1908?
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film). Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The pair and Sundance's lover, Etta Place (Katharine Ross), flee to Bolivia
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Mort Drucker and written by Arnie Kogen in issue No. 136, July 1970. In 1979 "", a prequel, was released starring Tom Berenger as Butch Cassidy and William Katt as the Sundance Kid. It was directed by Richard Lester and written by Allan Burns. William Goldman, the Oscar-winning writer of the original film, was an executive producer. Jeff Corey was the only actor to appear in the original and the prequel. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who
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What colour is the 100 euro note?
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100 euro note has a green colour scheme. The hundred euro notes depict bridges and arches/doorways in the Baroque and Rococo style (between the 17th and 18th century). The hundred euro note contains several complex security features such as watermarks, invisible ink, holograms and microprinting that document its authenticity. The new banknotes of the Europa series 100 euro banknote will start circulating on 28 May 2019. The euro was founded on 1 January 1999, when it became the currency of over 300 million people in Europe. For the first three years of its existence it was an invisible currency, only used in accountancy.
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100 euro note 100 euro note The one hundred euro note (€100) is one of the higher value euro banknotes and has been used since the introduction of the euro (in its cash form) in 2002. The note is used daily by some 343 million Europeans and in the 23 countries which have it as their sole currency (with 22 legally adopting it). In August 2018, there were approximately 2,725,000,000 hundred euro banknotes in circulation in the eurozone. It is the third most widely circulated denomination, accounting for over 12% of the total banknotes. It is the third largest note measuring × and
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"How many musicians are left at the end of Haydon's ""Farewell Symphony"""
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Elizabeth Haydon Elizabeth Haydon Elizabeth Haydon (born 1965) is an American fantasy author. She has written two fantasy series set within the same universe, the fantasy/romance/whodunit fusion called The Symphony of Ages and the young adult series The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme. Her WebSite is located at ElizabethHaydon.net. An herbalist, harpist, and madrigal singer, Elizabeth Haydon also enjoys anthropology and folklore. She lives on the East Coast of the United States. The Symphony of Ages books series consists of the "Rhapsody Trilogy", the two "Middle Books", and, as of June 2015, "The War of the Known World Trilogy". The third book
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International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians Orchestra Players' Association (ROPA), and the Theatre Musicians Association (TMA). ICSOM's Canadian members left ICSOM when the Organization of Canadian Symphony Musicians (OCSM/OMOSC) was formed in 1975. Several books have chronicled the history of ICSOM, including "More Than Meets the Ear: How Symphony Musicians Made Labor History" by Julie Ayer (Syren Book Company) and "The First Fifty Years of the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians" by Tom Hall . ICSOM began tabulating conductor evaluations in 1967 and has nearly 600 different conductors in the database. An online Conductor Evaluation Program for ICSOM musicians to evaluate its conductors was
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Which historical character has been played in film by Norma Shearer (1938), Jane Seymour (1989) and Kirsten Dunst (2006)?
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Kirsten Dunst "Chicago Tribune" rating it one out of four stars and describing Dunst's portrayal of a flight attendant as "cloying." It was a box office disappointment. In 2006, Dunst collaborated with Sofia Coppola again and starred as the title character in Coppola's historical drama "Marie Antoinette", based on Antonia Fraser's book "". The movie was screened at a special presentation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, and was reviewed favourably. International revenues were $45 million out of $60 million overall. In 2007, Dunst reprised her role as Mary Jane Watson in "Spider-Man 3". In contrast to the previous two films' positive
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Kirsten Dunst Canyon, Los Angeles. She also lived in a lower Manhattan apartment which she listed for sale in 2017. Kirsten Dunst Kirsten Caroline Dunst (; born April 30, 1982) is an American actress. She made her debut in the 1989 anthology film "New York Stories", appearing in the segment "Oedipus Wrecks" directed by Woody Allen. At the age of twelve, Dunst gained widespread recognition as Claudia in "Interview with the Vampire" (1994), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. She appeared in "Little Women" the same year and in "Jumanji" the following year. After a
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In which Canadian City would you find the Skytrain overhead railway?
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SkyTrain (Vancouver) – World in Touch". Construction was funded by the provincial and federal governments. It was built through the Dunsmuir Tunnel under downtown, which had originally been built for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Until 1989, SkyTrain terminated at New Westminster station; in 1987 construction began on an extension including the SkyBridge, Columbia station, and Scott Road station, extending service to Surrey. The line was expanded again in 1994 with the opening of the Gateway, Surrey Central, and King George stations. SkyTrain is part of the 1996 Greater Vancouver Regional District's (GVRD) Livable Region Strategic Plan, which discusses strategies to deal with
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Liverpool Overhead Railway Liverpool Overhead Railway The Liverpool Overhead Railway (known locally as the Dockers' Umbrella) was an overhead railway in Liverpool which operated along the Liverpool Docks and opened in 1893 with lightweight electric multiple units. The railway had a number of world firsts; it was the first electric elevated railway, the first to use automatic signalling, electric colour light signals and electric multiple units, and was home to one of the first passenger escalators at a railway station. It was also the second oldest electric metro in the world being preceded by the 1890 City and South London Railway. In the
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Who hosts Radio 1 breakfast show?
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The Radio 1 Breakfast Show The Radio 1 Breakfast Show Radio 1 Breakfast is a radio show that is broadcast across the UK from 6:30am to 10am, Monday to Thursday. The show is the most listened to broadcast on BBC Radio 1. It is hosted by Greg James who took over from Nick Grimshaw on 20 August 2018 as the show's 16th presenter. The show ran six days a week until February 1968 (see BBC Genome Project), then five days a week until June 2018, when the Friday show was dropped and incorporated into the station's weekend schedule, hosted by "Weekend Breakfast" hosts Matt Edmondson
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The Radio 1 Breakfast Show there is also entertainment news from Sinead Garven at approximately 7:45 each morning. Greg James began his tenure as host of the breakfast show on 20 August 2018. Roisin Hastie reads the bulletins for Newsbeat every half-hour except at 09:00. Features include Yesterday’s Quiz and the Ten Minute Takeover, alongside Game of Phones and Unpopular Opinions. Holiday cover is usually provided by another prominent member of the Radio 1 presenting team – the job rarely goes to an outsider. Additionally, transitions between regular hosts have often been bridged by stand-ins. These have been: The Radio 1 Breakfast Show Radio 1
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What position does Amber Rudd hold in the Cabinet?
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Amber Rudd unplanned pregnancies, which called for statutory sex-and-relationships education in all secondary schools. She has also called for a higher proportion of women in Cabinet. In September 2012, she was made Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne. In October 2013, she became an assistant government whip. In July 2014, Rudd was appointed Minister for the Department for Energy and Climate Change. Following the 2015 general election, where she held her seat with an increased majority, she was promoted as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. In May 2015, she was appointed as a member
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Amber Rudd Amber Rudd Amber Augusta Rudd (born 1 August 1963) is a British politician serving as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since 16 November 2018. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Home Secretary from 2016 to 2018. Rudd was first elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Hastings and Rye in 2010. She identifies as a one-nation conservative, and has been associated with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies. Rudd was born in Marylebone and studied History at the University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics and Archaeology. She was first elected to the House of
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What position did Will Sommers hold at the Court of Henry VIII
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Will Sommers Will Sommers William "Will" Sommers (or Somers; died 15 June 1560) was the best-known court jester of Henry VIII of England. Born in Shropshire, Sommers came to the attention of Richard Fermor, a merchant of the Staple at Calais, who brought him to Greenwich in 1525 to present to the King. Impressed by his sense of humor, Henry promptly offered Sommers a place at court. He was soon in high favor with the King, whose generosity to him is attested by the accounts of the royal household. Sommers remained in service to the King for the rest of Henry's life.
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Will Sommers of Whitehall. It was completed around 1544–45 by an unknown artist. Sommers also appears with Henry VIII in the Psalter of Henry VIII that was made for the King and is now in the British Library (MS Royal 2. A. XVI). A previously unknown picture in which Sommers appears was discovered in 2008 at Boughton House, Northamptonshire. Today, entertainers sometimes perform as 'Will' in Renaissance-themed entertainments such as Renaissance faires. After Henry's death, Sommers remained at court, eventually retiring during the reign of Elizabeth I. Under Mary I, Will's role was mainly ceremonial, and as a sidekick to Mary's personal
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The island of New Guinea is split between Papua New Guinea to the east and which country to the west?
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Languages of Papua New Guinea far west as Malagasy in Madagascar, as far east as Rapa Nui on Easter Island, and as far as north as the Formosan languages of Taiwan. Austronesian has several primary branches, all but one of which are found exclusively on Taiwan. 64.2% of the population of Papua New Guinea over 15 years of age are literate. Languages of Papua New Guinea The languages of Papua New Guinea today number over 850. These languages are spoken by the inhabited tribal groups of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. In 2006, Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare stated that "Papua New Guinea has 832
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Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (PNG; , ; ; ), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua. At the national level, after being ruled by three external powers since 1884, Papua New Guinea established its sovereignty in 1975. This followed nearly 60
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What is the maximum number of clubs that a golfer can carry in their bag?
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Golf maximum of 14 clubs is allowed in a player's bag at one time during a stipulated round. The choice of clubs is at the golfer's discretion, although every club must be constructed in accordance with parameters outlined in the rules. (Clubs that meet these parameters are usually called "conforming".) Violation of these rules can result in disqualification. The exact shot hit at any given time on a golf course, and which club is used to accomplish the shot, are always completely at the discretion of the golfer; in other words, there is no restriction whatsoever on which club a golfer
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Bag of holding down until it is the size of a small moving van' when folded back up it does not weigh more than a few pounds, even though tons of materials may be carried around in it. Though its appearance is never described, the Thing Your Aunt Gave You Which You Don't Know What It Is in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" computer game is a Bag of Holding that can hold any number of other items and never becomes too heavy to carry. Only one item the player encounters in the game will not fit inside it. Also, if dropped,
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What was the family name of Frank and his six children in the Channel 4 TV series Shameless?
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Frank Gallagher (Shameless) Frank Gallagher (Shameless) Vernon Francis "Frank" Gallagher (born 26 January 1960) is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 comedy drama, "Shameless", portrayed by David Threlfall in the UK version, and William H. Macy in the US version. The character appeared in 136 episodes in total. He is father to 9 children and stepfather to 2 children. Frank's hallmarks are drunken rants on a wide variety of literary, historical and philosophical subjects, usually returning to how decent, hard-working people, among whom he erroneously seems to count himself, are discriminated against. Frank frequently quotes Shakespeare, the Bible, references international current
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Shameless (UK TV series) Shameless (UK TV series) Shameless is a British comedy-drama series set in Manchester on the fictional Chatsworth council estate. Produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, the series aired from 13 January 2004 to 28 May 2013. The comedy drama, centred on British working class culture, was accorded critical acclaim by various sections of the British media, including "The Sun" newspaper and "Newsnight Review" on BBC Two. The programme was created and partially written by Paul Abbott, who is also the programme's executive producer. In 2005, the show won "Best Drama Series" at the BAFTA TV Awards and "Best TV
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Costa Coffee and Premier Inn are owned by which company?
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Costa Coffee Express. The company plans to expand to target hospitals, universities and transport interchanges. In Denmark, Costa Express machines are located in Shell stations. Costa Express machines were previously available in Shell locations in Canada, but have since been removed. Costa Coffee has been the sponsor of the Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Book Awards) since 2006. Costa Coffee Costa Coffee is a British multinational coffeehouse company headquartered in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Whitbread. The Coca-Cola Company announced its intention of acquiring Costa Limited from parent company Whitbread PLC for $5.1 billion. This deal, expected to
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Premier Inn have been demolished. Some hotels such as "Bristol Airport" in Sidcot are housed in older buildings. In the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, Premier Inn said three of their hotels in Maidenhead, Brentford and Tottenham were built with cladding. In 2007, Premier Inn entered Ireland, when it took over the Tulip Inn in Swords. Premier Inn offer bus transfers to and from Dublin Airport, which is nearby. In 2006, Premier Inn announced that it has entered into a joint venture agreement with Emirates Group to launch in the Gulf Cooperation Council region. This is the first move to expand
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Barbara Havers is the assistant to which Scotland Yard detective in the novels of Elizabeth George?
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Barbara Havers Barbara Havers Barbara Havers is a fictional detective in "The Inspector Lynley" series created by American mystery author Elizabeth George. The character of Detective Sergeant Havers serves as a sidekick and foil to the lead character, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard. Their relationship is a complicated, multi-layered one that not only encompasses the tensions brought about by their investigations of difficult or high-profile murder cases but also from subtle interpersonal elements as well. DS Havers often clashes with DI Lynley not only because he is her superior officer, but because of her quick temper, which has caused her
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Gentleman detective in the Royal Military Police. Morse's snobbery is intellectual rather than a question of breeding or social advantage. Detective Inspector Lynley is another truly aristocratic member of the Police, being an Earl. Much of the plot of the novels by Elizabeth George revolve around his working relationship with Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, who is of lower-class origins. Both show greater loyalty to each other than to official regulations and accepted attitudes to their relative stations, and both are capable of self-sacrificing actions of "noblesse oblige". Carmen Isabella Sandiego, the "World's Greatest Thief", was originally ACME Crimenet's most intelligent and distinguished
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With which musical instrument is Dame Myra Hess (1890-1965) associated?
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Myra Hess concert at the National Gallery in London by Hess, and is deeply moved. Arnold Bax's 1915 piano piece "In a Vodka Shop" is dedicated to Miss Myra Hess. She was portrayed on stage by Patricia Routledge in the play "Admission: One Shilling" in 2011. Myra Hess Dame Julia Myra Hess, (25 February 1890 – 25 November 1965) was a British pianist, best known for her performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Robert Schumann. Julia Myra Hess was born on 25 February 1890 to a Jewish family in Hampstead in North West
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Myra Hess were over. She continued to teach a handful of students, notably Stephen Kovacevich, during her last years. On 25 November 1965, Hess died at the age of 75 of a heart attack in her London home. A blue plaque commemorates her at 48 Wildwood Road in Hampstead Garden Suburb. In 1977, the Chicago Cultural Center began a series of free lunchtime concerts held at its Preston Bradley Hall every Wednesday from 12:15–1pm, named in Hess's honour as the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts. The series is produced by Chicago's International Music Foundation. Since 1977, the concerts have been broadcast live
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"Episode 13 in series 4 of which US TV series, based on a British character, was called ""A Study in Charlotte""?"
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A Study in Scarlet 2014 "The Deductionist", an episode of "Elementary", contains many elements of Hope's case, including the motivation of revenge. The story was more closely adapted in the season 4 episode, "A Study in Charlotte." "The First Adventure", the first episode of the 2014 NHK puppetry series "Sherlock Holmes", is loosely based on "A Study in Scarlet" and "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons". In it, Holmes, Watson and Lestrade are pupils at a fictional boarding school called Beeton School. They find out that a pupil called Jefferson Hope has taken revenge on Enoch Drebber and Joseph Stangerson for stealing his watch.
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A Place in the Sun (TV series) A Place in the Sun (TV series) A Place in the Sun is a British Channel 4 lifestyle television series about attempting to find a "perfect property" on the market in the United Kingdom, overseas, and "abroad". It most often focuses on places in southern Europe, but in recent years, it has also featured a number of places in other areas of the world such as Florida and the Caribbean. Generally, every episode on the programme shows a British couple wishing to buy a property in a sunny foreign country are shown three or four places found by the show's
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Who founded the eponymous fashion label DVF?
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The DVF Awards The DVF Awards The DVF Awards, supported by The Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation, are given annually to provide recipients with the exposure and resources necessary to extend their efforts on behalf of women all over the world. The DVF Awards were conceived by Diane von Furstenberg in 2010 with the goal of honoring women who have displayed leadership, strength, and courage in their commitment to their causes. Every year, each Honoree receives a $50,000 grant from the Foundation to further their work. The inaugural DVF Awards were presented on March 13, 2010 at a ceremony hosted by Diane von Fürstenberg
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Zimmermann (fashion label) Zimmermann has 27 stores located throughout Australia, the USA, and the UK. The collections are stocked in stores internationally, including Barney’s, Saks 5th Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Selfridges, Harrods, and Harvey Nichols. Zimmermann is also featured on Net-A- Porter. Zimmermann also maintains showrooms in Sydney, London, France, New York, and Los Angeles. Zimmermann (fashion label) Zimmermann is a luxury Australian brand of fashion. Zimmermann was founded in 1991 by sisters Nicky and Simone Zimmermann. Sisters Nicky and Simone Zimmermann founded the label in 1991, while the first store was opened in 1992. It all started in Sydney, when Nicky Zimmermann, who
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Moise Tshombe was President of which province when it declared independence from the Congo in 1960?
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Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) it was renamed the "Democratic Republic of the Congo", and in 1971 it was changed again to "Republic of Zaïre". Shortly after independence, the provinces of Katanga (with Moise Tshombe) and South Kasai engaged in secessionist struggles against the new leadership. Subsequent events led to a crisis between President Kasa-Vubu and Prime Minister Lumumba. On 5 September 1960, Kasavubu dismissed Lumumba from office. Lumumba declared Kasa-Vubu's action "unconstitutional" and a crisis between the two leaders developed. Lumumba had previously appointed Joseph Mobutu chief of staff of the new Congolese army, the Armee Nationale Congolaise (ANC). Taking advantage of the leadership
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Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Multi-party elections in the DR Congo were held in July 2006, the first multi-party elections in the country since 1960. The 1960 elections, held in the wake of independence, saw Patrice Lumumba become prime minister and Joseph Kasavubu president. In 1965 Mobutu Sese Seko seized power and declared himself president. He ruled until 1997 when Laurent Kabila seized power after the First Congo War. When Laurent Kabila was killed in 2001, his son Joseph Kabila took over the presidency while the country was going through the Second Congo War (1998–2003). The Second
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Swimmers Cameron van der Burgh and Chad le Clos won gold medals and athlete Caster Semenya won a silver medal for which country at the 2012 Olympics?
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South Africa at the 2012 Summer Olympics suffering a major setback in Beijing, South Africa recaptured its previous successes in London with a total of six Olympic medals (four gold, one silver, and one bronze). Among the nation's medalists were swimmers Cameron van der Burgh and Chad le Clos, who each won gold in their events, with Le Clos also winning a silver. Van der Burgh broke both an Olympic record and a world record in men's breaststroke swimming. Meanwhile, le Clos surpassed the defending champion Michael Phelps to claim the title in one of the men's butterfly events. For the first time in its history, South
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Cameron van der Burgh Olympic Games Cameron secured the silver medal in the 100m Breaststroke earning his second Olympic Medal. Later that year he went on the win another World Championship title at the World Short Cours championships in the 50m Breaststroke. In December 2018, van der Burgh announced his retirement from competitive swimming following the conclusion of the 2018 FINA Short Course World Swimming Championships, where he won two individual gold medals. Van der Burgh went to Glenstantia Primary as a young boy but matriculated at Crawford College in 2006. He now studies Financial Management through UNISA part-time and is interested in becoming
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How are Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison described in the title of a play by Neil Simon?
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The Odd Couple (play) The Odd Couple (play) The Odd Couple is a play by Neil Simon. Following its premiere on Broadway in 1965, the characters were revived in a successful 1968 film and 1970s television series, as well as several other derivative works and spin-offs. The plot concerns two mismatched roommates: the neat, uptight Felix Ungar and the slovenly, easygoing Oscar Madison. Simon adapted the play in 1985 to feature a pair of female roommates (Florence Ungar and Olive Madison) in The Female Odd Couple. An updated version of the 1965 show appeared in 2002 with the title Oscar and Felix: A New
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Simon Ungar Simon Ungar Dr. Simon Ungar (1864–1942) was a doctor of oriental medicine and rabbi of the Osijek Jewish Community who was killed during the Holocaust. Ungar was born in Sighetu Marmației, Romania to an Orthodox Jewish family. His family spoke Yiddish. After he was educated by his father, a teacher, Ungar continued studying Talmud. At the same time he also learned Hungarian language. Ungar continued his high school education in Budapest, Hungary. He also attended rabbinical seminar and studied at the Budapest Faculty of Philosophy. Ungar was fluent in Yiddish, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Serbian, German and Latin. Upon completing his
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"What is the two-word title by which the Simon and Garfunkel song ""The 59th Street Bridge Song"" is familiarly known?"
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The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" is a song by folk music duo Simon & Garfunkel, appearing on their 1966 album "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme". "59th Street Bridge" is the colloquial name of the Queensboro Bridge in New York City. The song's message is immediately delivered in its opening verse: "Slow down, you move too fast". The studio version features Dave Brubeck Quartet members Joe Morello (drums) and Eugene Wright (double bass). Footage of Simon and Garfunkel performing the song at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival is featured in the film
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Cecilia (Simon & Garfunkel song) UK, despite being released as the follow-up to Simon and Garfunkel's number one hit "Bridge over Troubled Water", and most copies of the UK single misspelled the title as ""Cecelia"" on the label. Cecilia (Simon & Garfunkel song) "Cecilia" is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel, released in April 1970 as the third single from the group's fifth studio album, "Bridge over Troubled Water" (1970). Written by Paul Simon, the song's origins lie in a late-night party, in which the duo and friends began banging on a piano bench. They recorded the sound with a tape recorder,
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"Who plays Joey LaMotta, Jake's brother and manager in the 1980 film ""Raging Bull""?"
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Raging Bull Raging Bull Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical black-and-white sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta's memoir "". It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, an Italian American middleweight boxer whose self-destructive and obsessive rage, sexual jealousy, and animalistic appetite destroyed his relationship with his wife and family. Also featured in the film are Joe Pesci as Joey, LaMotta's well-intentioned brother and manager who tries to help Jake battle his inner demons, and Cathy Moriarty as his wife. The film
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Jake LaMotta 1980 film "Raging Bull". He was managed by his brother Joey LaMotta. LaMotta was born on the Lower East Side of New York City on July 10, 1922, to Italian parents. Many sources had reported his year of birth as 1921, but his daughter Christi said in a Facebook post immediately following his death that it was in fact 1922. His mother was born in the United States to Italian immigrants, while his father was an immigrant from Messina, Sicily, who came with family including his brother Joseph. The family lived briefly in Philadelphia before returning to New York and
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Which river flows through Hobart in Tasmania - there are English rivers of the same name in Cumbria, Derbyshire and Yorkshire?
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River Derwent, Cumbria the Roman fort of Derventio (The Roman fort and settlement at Malton on the Yorkshire Derwent was also Derventio, as was a fort and settlement on the Derbyshire Derwent at Little Chester.) and onwards to Workington, where it flows into the Irish Sea. River Derwent, Cumbria The Derwent is a river in the county of Cumbria in the north of England; it rises in the Lake District and flows northwards through two of its principal lakes, before turning sharply westward to enter the Irish Sea at Workington The name "Derwent" is shared with three other English rivers and is thought
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River Eden, Cumbria of Cumbria and North Yorkshire. Two other great rivers arise in the same peat bogs here, within a kilometre of each other: the River Swale and River Ure. It starts life as Red Gill Beck, then becomes Hell Gill Beck, before turning north and joining with Ais Gill Beck to become the River Eden. (Hell Gill Force, just before it meets Ais Gill Beck, is the highest waterfall along its journey to the sea). The steep-sided dale of Mallerstang later opens out to become the Vale of Eden. The river flows through Kirkby Stephen and Appleby-in-Westmorland, and receives the water
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Which Socialist was elected President of France on this day in 1981?
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Political history of France channels, including Radio France. However, it was not until François Mitterrand's accession to the Élysée Palace in 1981 that media were liberalized. In 1981, François Mitterrand, a Socialist, was elected president, on a program of far-reaching reforms (110 Propositions for France). This was enabled by the 1972 Common Program between the PS, the PRG and the PCF – which had remained, just as in Italy, a strong party throughout the Cold War. After securing a majority in parliament through a snap election, his government ran a program of social and economic reforms: However, in 1983, high inflation and economic woes
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Salaries of elected offices in France Salaries of elected offices in France In France, all elected positions rerceive salaries based on the civil service index, which was established on 1 July 2010, at 45,617.63 Euros per annum. From 2007 to 2012, the salary of the President of France was established by the National Assembly to €21194,52 per month. It consisted of a basic allowance of €15101.09, a housing allowance of €635.84, and a duty allowance of €5457.59. On May 17, 2012, the new Prime Minister of France Jean-Marc Ayrault presented a decree reducing by 30% the salary of President of the Republic, which now stands at
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Special stamps were issued on April 5th to mark which anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare?
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Presentation pack produced by the GPO. On 23 April, the first ‘proper’ pack was issued for a set of stamps celebrating the Shakespeare Festival, to mark the 400th Anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. The Presentation Pack was decorative in design and contained information on the stamp designs, the designer and the stamp printer. Early packs were not produced in large numbers and are highly sought after by collectors. The pack for the "Opening of the Forth Road Bridge" stamps has a book price of £400 according to the 2010 Stanley Gibbons "Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue", though they sell on
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Postage stamps and postal history of Italy new series incorporated rates and colors mandated by the Universal Postal Union. The first stamps with a portrait of Victor Emanuel III appeared in July 1901. The first series of commemorative stamps was issued in April 1910 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Expedition of the Thousand. The world's first airmail stamps were issued in 1917 when Poste italiane overprinted their existing special delivery stamps. Until 1929, all definitive stamps were issued with the portrait of the king or the coat of arms. In April 1929, the so-called "Imperial Series" ("Serie Imperiale") was released, the first definitive series of
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Wearmouth Bridge and two black lions feature on the crest of which English football club?
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Wearmouth Bridge Wearmouth Bridge Wearmouth Bridge is a through arch bridge across the River Wear in Sunderland. It is the final bridge over the river before its mouth with the North Sea. The current bridge is the third Wearmouth Bridge in its position. The first opened in 1796 and then was reconstructed in the 19th century. The first Wearmouth Bridge opened in 1796, with the foundation stone having been laid in September 1793. It was sponsored and patented by Rowland Burdon, the MP, designed by Thomas Paine, and built under the direction of Thomas Wilson, who designed its architectural features. According to
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Terang Mortlake Football Club (Footscray) Ron Wearmouth (Collingwood) Ian Payne (Essendon) Charlie Payne (Essendon) Daryl Griffith (St Kilda) Dick Wearmouth (Footscray) Terang Mortlake Football Club The Terang Mortlake Football Club is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Hampden Football League. The club is the result of an amalgamation of two of the founding clubs of the league in 2001. The club plays its home games in both towns They are based in the Victorian towns of Terang and Mortlake and have played in the Hampden Football League since 2002. 2004, 2005, 2008 Luke Vogels - Sydney Swans Chris Heffernan (Essendon FC,
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Which river is formed at Launceston in Tasmania by the merging of the North Esk and South Esk rivers - a river of the same name forms much of the boundary between Devon and Cornwall?
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North Esk River North Esk River The North Esk River is a major perennial river located in the northern region of Tasmania, Australia. It is one of the tributaries of the Tamar River together with the South Esk River. It starts in the Northallerton Valley below Ben Nevis in the states North East, joining with the St Patricks River before flowing through Launceston. Launceston's Old Seaport tourist feature is located on the North Esk River. The river becomes tidal downstream of Hoblers Bridge to where it meets the Tamar. It is sometimes subject to flooding, especially in East Launceston suburbs. The largest tributary
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South Esk River South Esk River The South Esk River, the longest river in Tasmania, is a major perennial river located in the northern region of Tasmania, Australia. The South Esk springs from the eastern foothills of the Ben Lomond plateau near Mathinna and the river's course describes an arc around the entire southern promontory of the mountain - running through Fingal, Avoca and Evandale before wending its way northwest through Longford and Hadspen. The river merges with the tributary Meander River, then flows through the narrows of the Cataract Gorge to finally meet the North Esk River at Launceston. From this confluence
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On this day in which year was Nelson Mandela inaugurated as President of South Africa?
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Presidency of Nelson Mandela Presidency of Nelson Mandela The presidency of Nelson Mandela began on 10 May 1994, when Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist, lawyer, and former political prisoner, was inaugurated as President of South Africa, and ended on 14 June 1999. He was the first non-white head of state in South African history, as well as the first to take office following the dismantling of the apartheid system and the introduction of multiracial democracy. Mandela was also the oldest head of state in South Africa's history, taking office at the age of seventy-five. The 1994 general election, held on 27 April, was South
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Statue of Nelson Mandela, Union Buildings Sculpture Casting Services Foundary in Cape Town. The legs and arms were cast in Nottingham road, KwaZulu-Natal. The statue was inaugurated by then President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma who in his speech said: The statue is located in front of the buildings on a spot that used to belong to the statue of J.B.M. Hertzog who was the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1924-1939.The statue was taken down on 22 November 2013 and moved to a different location in the grounds. Statue of Nelson Mandela, Union Buildings The statue of Nelson Mandela in the Union Buildings grounds, Pretoria,
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"""Cinderella Rockefella"" was a Number One single in 1968 for Esther and Abi (who)?"
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Cinderella Rockefella Cinderella Rockefella "Cinderella Rockefella" is a novelty song written by Mason Williams and Nancy Ames, best known in the version by the Israeli duo Esther and Abi Ofarim, at the time a married couple, in 1968. They recorded their version in 1967 and made an appearance on "The Eamonn Andrews Show" to promote it. An April 1967 performance on the CBS television variety program The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, introduced a U.S. audience to the song. Co-Composer Williams was a writer for the series. The single peaked at No. 1 in the British charts in February 1968, where it remained
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Cinderella Rockefella for three weeks. It is the only act from Israel to become a UK number 1. The single features yodelling and a somewhat 1920s-style arrangement. The song is structured like a twelve-bar blues. According to Radio Caroline DJ Andy Archer, the song was the last to be played on Radio Caroline South on the night of 2–3 March 1968, before its radio ship (like that of its sister station Radio Caroline North) was towed into harbour over unpaid debts on the morning of 3 March. Williams recorded his own version of the song for his 1968 album "The Mason Williams
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By what name was Barbara Gordon known in DC Comics from 1967 to the mid-1980s?
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Barbara Gordon Barbara Gordon Barbara Gordon is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Batman. The character was created by William Dozier, Julius Schwartz, and Carmine Infantino. At the request of the producers of the 1960s "Batman" television series, DC editor Schwartz called for a new female counterpart to the superhero Batman that could be introduced into publication and the third season of the show simultaneously. The character subsequently made her first comic book appearance as Batgirl in "Detective Comics" #359, titled "The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl!" (January 1967), by
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Barbara Gordon infected with microscopic machines known as nanites by the super villain Brainiac, which attempted to repair her DNA. Marc Dipaolo, author of "War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film" (2011) commented that DC writers and editors would not allow her to recover completely, and that "[t]he decision was made because there were not enough handicapped superheroes in the DC Universe to justify 'curing' one, and because it would have been odd to see Barbara Gordon escape from her wheelchair in the world of fiction when Christopher Reeve never had that opportunity." In June 2011, DC announced
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"Brothers Simon and Stephen Cornwell were two of the executive producers on the BBC TV drama ""The Night Manager"". Who wrote the novel on which the drama was based?"
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The Night Manager (TV series) The Night Manager (TV series) The Night Manager is a British television serial directed by Susanne Bier and starring Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, David Harewood, Tom Hollander, and Elizabeth Debicki. It is based on the 1993 novel of the same name by John le Carré and adapted to the present day by David Farr. The six-part series began broadcasting on BBC One on 21 February 2016. In the United States, it began on 19 April 2016 on AMC. It has been sold internationally to over 180 countries, and a second series has been commissioned by the BBC and
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In the Heat of the Night (TV series) In the Heat of the Night (TV series) In the Heat of the Night is an American drama television series based on the 1967 film and the 1965 novel of the same title. It starred Carroll O'Connor as police chief William Gillespie and Howard Rollins as police detective Virgil Tibbs, and was broadcast on NBC from March 6, 1988 until May 19, 1992, then on CBS from October 28, 1992 until May 16, 1995. Its executive producers were Fred Silverman, Juanita Bartlett and O'Connor. In the premiere episode, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs has returned to his fictional home town of
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Reading down group 18 (noble gases) on the periodic table, the symbols for elements 10 and 18 form which word defined as 'at a time or place not far away'?
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Block (periodic table) the first two quantum numbers) is repeated as many times as required for each pair of electrons it may contain. The result is a compressed periodic table, with each entry representing two successive elements: .The elements which give the greatest number of oxidation states occur in or near the middle of the series from +2 to +7 There is an approximate correspondence between this nomenclature of blocks, based on electronic configuration, and groupings of elements based on chemical properties. The s-block and p-block together are usually considered as the main-group elements, the d-block corresponds to the transition metals, and the
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Periodic table Periodic table The periodic table, or periodic table of elements, is a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements, ordered by their atomic number, electron configuration, and recurring chemical properties, whose structure shows "periodic trends". Generally, within one row (period) the elements are metals to the left, and non-metals to the right, with the elements having similar chemical behaviours placed in the same column. Table rows are commonly called periods and columns are called groups. Six groups have accepted names as well as assigned numbers: for example, group 17 elements are the halogens; and group 18 are the noble gases. Also
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Which town in Northern Ireland lies on the stretch of river between Upper Lough Erne and Lower Lough Erne?
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Lough Erne Lough Erne Lough Erne ( , ) is the name of two connected lakes in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is the second-biggest lake system in Northern Ireland and Ulster, and the fourth biggest in Ireland. The lakes are widened sections of the River Erne, which flows north and then curves west into the Atlantic. The smaller southern lake is called the Upper Lough as it is higher up the river. The bigger northern lake is called the Lower Lough or Broad Lough. The town of Enniskillen lies on the short stretch of river between the lakes. The lake has
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Lough Erne Erne Resort hosted the 2017 Irish Open golf tournament. A canal, the Shannon–Erne Waterway, runs between the upper end of the River Shannon and the River Erne, allowing boat movements from the Shannon estuary in southwest Ireland, through the western midlands of the country, across to the northwest and out to the Atlantic again (although the final section to the Atlantic side of Belleek is not navigable). The section of the Ulster Canal connecting Lough Erne to Clones is being planned for navigation to be restored by Waterways Ireland. Lough Erne Lough Erne ( , ) is the name of
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Offa was King of which Anglo-Saxon Kingdom from 757 to 796?
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Offa of Mercia related to Offa's line. Offa of Mercia Offa was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 757 until his death in July 796. The son of Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa, Offa came to the throne after a period of civil war following the assassination of Æthelbald. Offa defeated the other claimant, Beornred. In the early years of Offa's reign, it is likely that he consolidated his control of Midland peoples such as the Hwicce and the Magonsæte. Taking advantage of instability in the kingdom of Kent to establish himself as overlord, Offa also controlled Sussex by
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Offa of Mercia debate on this point, however, as several of the charters in which Offa is named "Rex Anglorum" are of doubtful authenticity. They may represent later forgeries of the 10th century, when this title was standard for kings of England. The best evidence for Offa's use of this title comes from coins, not charters: there are some pennies with "Of ℞ A" inscribed, but it is not regarded as definite that this stood for "Offa Rex Anglorum." In "Anglo-Saxon England", Stenton argued that Offa was perhaps the greatest king of the English kingdoms, commenting that "no other Anglo-Saxon king ever regarded
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Odumegwu Ojukwu was President of which state that seceded from Nigeria in 1967?
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C. Odumegwu Ojukwu C. Odumegwu Ojukwu Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (4 November 1933 – 26 November 2011) was a Nigerian military officer and politician who served as the military governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria in 1966 and the leader of the breakaway Republic of Biafra from 1967 to 1970. He was active as a politician from 1983 to 2011, when he died aged 78. Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Odumegwu-Ojukwu was born on 4 November 1933 at Zungeru in northern Nigeria to Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, an Igbo businessman from Nnewi, Anambra State in south-eastern Nigeria. Sir Louis was in the transport business; he
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C. Odumegwu Ojukwu in Nigeria besides Chief Obafemi Awolowo, whereby his body was carried around the five Eastern states, Imo, Abia, Enugu, Ebonyi, Anambra, including the nation's capital, Abuja. Memorial services and public events were also held in his honour in several places across Nigeria, including Lagos and Niger State, his birthplace, and as far away as Dallas, Texas, United States. His funeral was attended by President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria and ex President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana among other personalities. C. Odumegwu Ojukwu Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (4 November 1933 – 26 November 2011) was a Nigerian military officer and politician who
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"Which word is missing from the first line of text on the inside cover of a UK passport – ""Her ??? Majesty's Secretary of State""?"
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British passport the top of other British passports (i.e. passports issued to British Nationals (Overseas), British Overseas Citizens, British Protected Persons, non-Gibraltarian British Overseas Territories Citizens and British Subjects without the right of abode in the UK) Generic British passports contain on their inside cover the following words in English only: In older passports, more specific reference was made to "Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs", originally including the name of the incumbent. British passports issued by HM Passport Office include the following data on the information page: The items are identified by text in English and French
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Passports of the European Union December 2017 to return to the dark blue cover passport after Brexit, which in 1988 the UK Government voluntarily changed the colour of the passport to burgundy red, in line with all EU passports. Information on the cover, in this order, in the language(s) of the issuing state: Information on the first page, in one or more of the languages of the European Union: Information on the (possibly laminated) identification page, in the languages of the issuing state plus English and French, accompanied by numbers that refer to an index that lists the meaning of these fields in all official
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"The Neil Simon plays ""The Prisoner of Second Avenue"" and ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" are set in which city?"
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Brighton Beach Memoirs of Ben. The two plays were produced and promoted as "The Neil Simon Plays". Despite generally positive reviews from New York critics, "Brighton Beach Memoirs" closed on November 1, 2009 after 9 performances and 25 previews due to weak ticket sales. Subsequently, the planned production of "Broadway Bound" was cancelled. "The New York Times", in analyzing the revival's failure, wrote that "What went wrong with 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' is a case study in success and failure on Broadway today. There were no big stars like Jude Law in the current commercial hit 'Hamlet,' there was no marketing campaign that framed
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Brighton Beach Memoirs (film) of life in it... The movie was directed by Gene Saks, who directs many of Simon's plays on both the stage and the screen, and whose gift is for the theater. His plays have the breath of life; his movies feel like the official authorized version. Everything is by the numbers." Brighton Beach Memoirs (film) Brighton Beach Memoirs is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Gene Saks, written by Neil Simon, and starring Jonathan Silverman and Blythe Danner. Simon adapted his semi-autobiographical 1983 play of the same title, the first chapter of what is known as the "Eugene trilogy",
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"Who made the cake on the cover of the album ""Let It Bleed"" by The Rolling Stones?"
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Let It Bleed on television. Plus, the spill out onto campuses". The album cover displays a surreal sculpture designed by Robert Brownjohn. The image consists of the "Let It Bleed" record being played by the tone-arm of an antique phonograph, and a record-changer spindle supporting several items stacked on a plate in place of a stack of records: a film canister labelled "Stones – Let It Bleed", a clock dial, a pizza, a tyre and a cake with elaborate icing topped by figurines representing the band. The cake parts of the construction were prepared by then-unknown cookery writer Delia Smith. The reverse of
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Let It Bleed list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". "Let It Bleed" has sold over 7 million copies worldwide since 1969. The track listing on the back of the album jacket did not follow the one on the album itself. According to Brownjohn, he altered it purely for visual reasons; the correct order was shown on the record's label. Additionally, "Gimme Shelter" is rendered as "Gimmie Shelter" on the jacket. Some releases have "Gimmie Shelter" on the cover, the inner sleeve and the LP label. The Rolling Stones Additional personnel Let It Bleed Let It Bleed is the eighth British
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A replica of whose statue of David stands outside the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence - the original is in the Galleria del Accademia?
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Palazzo Vecchio from around 1321, a "Bust of Saint Antonino" in painted plaster from the 15th century, and an embroidery designed by Raffaellino del Garbo. Palazzo Vecchio The Palazzo Vecchio ( "Old Palace") is the town hall of Florence, Italy. It overlooks the Piazza della Signoria with its copy of Michelangelo's "David" statue as well as the gallery of statues in the adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi. Originally called the "Palazzo della Signoria", after the Signoria of Florence, the ruling body of the Republic of Florence, it was also given several other names: "Palazzo del Popolo", "Palazzo dei Priori", and "Palazzo Ducale", in
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David (Michelangelo) its first major cleaning since 1843. Some experts opposed the use of water to clean the statue, fearing further deterioration. Under the direction of Franca Falleti, senior restorers Monica Eichmann and Cinzia Parnigoni undertook the job of restoring the statue. In 2008, plans were proposed to insulate the statue from the vibration of tourists' footsteps at Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia, to prevent damage to the marble. "David" has stood on display at Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia since 1873. In addition to the full-sized replica occupying the spot of the original in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, a bronze version overlooks Florence from
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Chinook, chum and sockeye are species of what type of fish?
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Elwha Dam the reservoirs and dams so that flow was relatively constant throughout the year. Natural flow patterns are known to promote the health of native species and to help eliminate non native species after dam removal. At its peak, the Elwha supported spawning runs of Chinook, Coho, Chum, Pink, and Sockeye Salmon as well as Steelhead, Cutthroat, and Bull Trout. The Chinook were known to reach sizes of 45 kg. Sockeye, Chinook, Chum, and Pink Salmon were all endangered in the Elwha. Leaving one or both of the dams in place, even with modern fish passage systems, would not result in
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Sockeye salmon National Marine Fisheries Service. Other sockeye populations in the upper Columbia River and in Puget Sound are not listed under the Act. Sockeye is an exception to 2010's forecast resurgence of Oregonian fish stocks. Spring Chinook, summer steelhead, and Coho are forecast to increase by up to 100% over 2008 populations. The sockeye population peaked at over 200,000 in 2008 and were forecast to decline to just over 100,000 in 2010. As an early indication of the unexpectedly high sockeye run in 2010, on July 2, 2010, the United States Army Corps of Engineers reported over 300,000 sockeye had passed
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In which city was Ludwig van Beethoven born?
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1712–1773) Ludwig van Beethoven (1712–1773) Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder, also Ludovicus van Beethoven, born Lodewijk van Beethoven (; January 5, 1712 – December 24, 1773) was a professional singer and music director, best known as the grandfather of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Mechelen as the second son of master baker Michael van Beethoven (baptized February 15, 1684 in Mechelen, died June 28, 1749 in Bonn) and his wife Maria Louise Stuyckers (April 24, 1685, Mechelen – December 8, 1749, Bonn). Michael van Beethoven, besides the bakery trade, participated also in the local real
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1712–1773) Rheingasse 386 and finally in a coaching inn in Bonngasse 386, opposite the Beethoven-Haus, (Bonngasse 515). Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder's long-cherished hopes of one day becoming Kapellmeister went unfulfilled in 1760 when a much younger colleague, Joseph Touchemoulin, got the assignment instead. Unlike the singer Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder, Touchemoulin was an experienced violinist and an accomplished composer. Following the death of Archbishop Clemens August of Bavaria on February 6, 1761, his successor Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels immediately implemented strict austerity measures. Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder was made new Kapellmeister with the duties of singer and conductor
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Which animal of the Chinese Zodiac represents the year that began this February?
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Chinese zodiac of the "Ox", and the fourth animal is the "Cat" instead of the "Rabbit". The Cham zodiac uses the same animals and order as the Chinese zodiac, but replaces the Monkey with the turtle (known locally as "kra"). Similarly the Malay zodiac is identical to the Chinese but replaces two of the animals with the turtle ("kura-kura") and mousedeer ("kancil"). One of the replaced animals is always the Rabbit, the other being either the Pig or Monkey. The Thai zodiac includes a "nāga" in place of the "Dragon" and begins, not at Chinese New Year, but either on the first
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Chinese zodiac Chinese zodiac The Chinese zodiac is a classification scheme that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating 12-year cycle. The 12-year cycle is an approximation to the 11.85-year orbital period of Jupiter, the largest planet of the Solar System. It and its variations remain popular in many Asian countries including China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Bhutan, and Thailand. The Chinese zodiac is called "Shēngxiào" () in Mandarin. Identifying this scheme using the generic term ""zodiac"" reflects several superficial similarities to the Western zodiac: both have time cycles divided into 12
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The date October 21st 2015 played a significant part in which 1989 film?
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Back to the Future Part II actors in a role. "Back to the Future Part II" was also a ground-breaking project for effects studio Industrial Light & Magic (ILM): In addition to digital compositing, ILM used the VistaGlide motion control camera system, which allowed an actor to portray multiple characters simultaneously on-screen without sacrificing camera movement. "Back to the Future Part II" was released by Universal Pictures on November 22, 1989. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed over $331 million worldwide, making it the third-highest-grossing film of 1989. On October 26, 1985, Dr. Emmett Brown arrives in the DeLorean time machine and persuades
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Blind Date (2015 film) Blind Date (2015 film) Blind Date (French title: Un peu, beaucoup, aveuglément) is a 2015 French romantic comedy film directed by and starring Clovis Cornillac. The film also stars Mélanie Bernier, Lilou Fogli and Philippe Duquesne. It won the audience award at the 19th annual COLCOA French Film Festival in Los Angeles and the Best First Film award at the 2015 Cabourg Film Festival. A shy woman (Mélanie Bernier) moves into her new apartment in Paris, helped by her sister Charlotte (Lilou Fogli). She longs to be a professional pianist and has just moved out of the house of her
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Which baseball player began his career in 1914 as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox?
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History of the Boston Red Sox that has become best known for "Snodgrass's Muff." From 1913 to 1916, the Red Sox were owned by Joseph Lannin, who signed Babe Ruth, soon to become one of the best-known and most-revered baseball players ever. In Ruth's debut as a pitcher he got a win vs. the Indians, then in 1915 his first major league home run was against the Yankees, who he would ironically play for later in his career. Another 101 wins in 1915 propelled the Red Sox to the 1915 World Series, where they beat the Philadelphia Phillies four games to one. In the 1915 World
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1914 Boston Red Sox season = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts" "Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts" "Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts" 1914 Boston Red Sox season The 1914 Boston Red Sox season was the fourteenth season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished second in the American League (AL) with a record of 91 wins
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Which European country has the Leu as its currency?
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Moldovan leu Moldovan leu The leu (sign: L; ISO 4217 code: MDL) is the currency of Moldova. Like the Romanian leu, the Moldovan leu (plural: lei) is subdivided into 100 bani (singular: ban). The name of the currency originates from a Romanian word which means "lion". Between 1918 and 1940 and again between 1941 and 1944, when Moldova was part of Romania, the Romanian leu was used in what was then the eastern part of the broader Romanian region of Moldavia ("Moldova" in Romanian). The Moldovan leu was established on 29 November 1993, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the
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Romanian leu was 1 ruble to 100 lei. After the war, the value of the currency fell dramatically and the National Bank issued a new leu, which was worth 20,000 old lei. A revaluation ("Great stabilization", "") took place on August 15, 1947, replacing the old leu at a rate of 20,000 old lei = 1 new leu. No advance warning was given and there were limits for the sums to be converted in the new currency: 5 million old lei for farmers and 3 million old lei for workers and pensioners. Out of the 48.5 billion old lei in circulation, only
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Nicknamed “King of the Kippax”, Colin Bell made 394 appearances and scored 117 goals for which English football club between 1966 and 1979?
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Colin Bell Colin Bell Colin Bell MBE (born 26 February 1946) is an English former football player who was born in Hesleden, County Durham, England. Nicknamed "The King of the Kippax" (after Manchester City's Kippax Street terraced stand renowned for its singing) and Nijinsky (after the famous racehorse, due to his renowned stamina), Bell played as a midfielder, and is widely regarded as Manchester City's best ever player. The Colin Bell Stand at the City of Manchester Stadium is named in his honour. He began his career at Bury captaining the team at a young age. In 1966 he moved to Manchester
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Christopher Kippax for Yorkshire's Second XI for four seasons. Christopher Kippax Christopher Kippax (born 3 May 1969) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Cumberland. He was born in Leeds. Kippax made a single one-day appearance for the team, in the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy in September 2002. Kippax scored 5 runs in the only List A innings in which he batted. Kippax made two appearances for Harrogate in the National Club Championship in 2003, and appeared in the Cockspur Cup for Methley between 2004 and 2007. Kippax's brother, Simon and father Peter played one-day and first-class
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On July 1st 1867 Sir John A. Macdonald became the first Prime Minister of which country?
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Electoral history of John A. Macdonald elected once as alderman for the Town of Kingston. Electoral history of John A. Macdonald This article is the Electoral history of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada (1867 to 1873; 1878 to 1891). A Conservative, he was Canada's second longest-serving Prime Minister, with two separate terms as Prime Minister (1867–1873, 1878–1891). He won six general elections and lost one. He died in office in 1891, three months after his sixth general election victory, and was succeeded by Sir John Abbott. Prior to Confederation in 1867, Macdonald was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the
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Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, MP for Ottawa West-Nepean announced the change on August 15, 2012. The renaming followed a grass roots campaign led by author and historian Bob Plamondon and Ottawa media personality Mark Sutcliffe. In 2015, the NCC and the City of Ottawa reached an agreement to run the light rail under a reconstructed and realigned Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway, from what will be Dominion to Clearly stations (East to West, roughly between present-day Churchill avenue and Cleary Avenue). Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway The Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway,
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Which cartoon character has a pet snail called Gary who meows?
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SpongeBob SquarePants one centered on speculation over SpongeBob's intended sexual orientation. In 2011, a newly described species of fungus, "Spongiforma squarepantsii", was named after the cartoon's title character. A Broadway musical based on the series opened in 2017 to critical acclaim. The series revolves around its title character and his various friends. SpongeBob SquarePants is an energetic and optimistic sea sponge who physically resembles a rectangular kitchen sponge. He lives in a submerged pineapple with his pet snail Gary (who meows like a cat) and has a childlike enthusiasm for life - which carries over to his job as a fry cook
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Have You Seen This Snail? comedian and "Saturday Night Live" actress Amy Poehler guest starred in the episode as the voice of Grandma, a sweet old woman who adopted Gary after running away. "Have You Seen This Snail?" featured an original piece of music written for the episode by the American musician Stew, entitled "Gary, Come Home". Nickelodeon supported the episode with a month-long off-air marketing campaign including print, outdoor and consumer product partner support. Nickelodeon also launched an on-air sweepstakes called "Where's Gary". Every night for five days leading to the episode's premiere, Patchy the Pirate (a character portrayed as the president of the
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Oneirology is the study of what?
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Oneirology a result influence the patterns of sleep and dreaming in the subjects. Oneirology Oneirology (; from Greek "ὄνειρον", "oneiron", "dream"; and -"λογία", -"logia", "the study of") is the scientific study of dreams. Current research seeks correlations between dreaming and current knowledge about the functions of the brain, as well as understanding of how the brain works during dreaming as pertains to memory formation and mental disorders. The study of oneirology can be distinguished from dream interpretation in that the aim is to quantitatively study the process of dreams instead of analyzing the meaning behind them. In the 19th century two
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Oneirology (album) liner notes. Oneirology (album) Oneirology is the fifth studio album by American hip hop group CunninLynguists, released in 2011. It peaked at number 34 on the "Billboard" Heatseekers Albums chart, as well as number 69 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All that was known about "Oneirology" throughout most of 2010 was the name, but details were finally announced in January 2011 by "HipHopDX", followed by the album cover and track listing, respectively. In the official website of QN5 Music, the production was announced, and was just by the member Kno. The album cover was designed by the Dutch artist
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How is the title character Prince Myshkin known in the title of a Dostoevsky novel?
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Prince Myshkin Prince Myshkin Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ) is the protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "The Idiot". Dostoevsky wanted to create a character that was "entirely positive... with an absolutely beautiful nature", someone who is truly 'Christian'. According to Joseph Frank, the character of Prince Myshkin approaches "the extremest incarnation of the Christian ideal of love that humanity can reach in its present form, but he is torn apart by the conflict between the contradictory imperatives of his apocalyptic aspirations and his earthly limitations." Prince Myshkin has been in Switzerland for the last four years, at a
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Prince Myshkin dramatic convergence of multiple independent voices and perspectives rather than simply being a monological recounting of the event by a narrator. Dostoevsky makes Prince Myshkin a character whose voice is capable of "actively and confidently interfering in the interior dialogue of the other person." He is thus significant not merely to the plot, but to the very consciousness of the individual characters. His insight, compassion, sincerity, candour, disinclination to judge and lack of normal social egoism awaken a responsive consciousness in most of the people with whom he engages, and serve to disrupt the habitual flow of their self-centred thoughts
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Bassanio, Portia, and Shylock are characters in which Shakespeare play?
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Shylock (film) Shylock (film) Shylock is a 1940 Indian Tamil-language film directed by Kinema Ramu and Serukalathur Sama (under the name Sama-Ramu) and produced by Bharat Pictures. It is based on William Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice". The film stars Sama as the title character, T. V. Janakam as Portia, S. G. Kasi Iyer as Antonio, P. S. Sivaramalingam as the Duke and T. S. Santhanam as Bassanio. The film was a commercial failure, and no print of it has survived, making it a lost film. Kinema Ramu, a lawyer based in Kumbakonam and scholar on William Shakespeare, wrote the dialogue
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Shylock to comprehend mercy. Similarly, it is possible that Shakespeare meant Shylock's forced conversion to Christianity to be a "happy ending" for the character, as it 'redeems' Shylock both from his unbelief and his specific sin of wanting to kill Antonio. This reading of the play would certainly fit with the anti-semitic trends present in Elizabethan England. Many modern readers and audiences have read the play as a plea for tolerance, with Shylock as a sympathetic character. Shylock's 'trial' at the end of the play is a mockery of justice, with Portia acting as a judge when she has no real
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On a standard UK typewriter keyboard, over which number is a circumflex positioned?
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Typewriter one to superimpose multiple keystrikes on a single location. The ¢ symbol (meaning cents) was located above the number 6 on electric typewriters, while ASCII computer keyboards have ^ instead. A number of typographical conventions originate from the widespread use of the typewriter, based on the characteristics and limitations of the typewriter itself. For example, the QWERTY keyboard typewriter did not include keys for the en dash and the em dash. To overcome this limitation, users typically typed more than one adjacent hyphen to approximate these symbols. This typewriter convention is still sometimes used today, even though modern computer word
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IBM Selectric typewriter influential Model M (1985). In computer keyboard standards, this was formalized in the American Standards Association X4.14-1971 standard as "typewriter pairing" (colloquially a typewriter-paired keyboard), along with bit-paired keyboards, but became the only standard in the successor X4.23-1982 standard. The Selectric keyboard layout was so influential that two decades later "PC Magazine" wrote that non-IBM personal computer companies' keyboards "slavishly" imitated it. The new layout was not universal, however – internationally, many layouts kept the earlier standard, which is most visible in yielding ", as on the standard UK layout. Also, the bit-paired keyboard layout mostly died out, but is
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Channel 4 have recently announced that they are to screen a one off special of which show to coincide with the EU referendum, presented by Antoine de Caunes and Jean-Paul Gaultier which has been off air since 2007?
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Eurotrash (TV series) by the production company, Rapido Television. A one-off special aired on 17 June 2016 to coincide with the UK's referendum on European Union membership. The show was conceived in Paris for London-based Rapido Television by producer and director Peter Stuart. Rapido Television makes over 100 programme titles, mostly for Channel 4, and was originally launched with backing by Richard Branson. The first "Eurotrash" series were presented by Antoine de Caunes and Jean-Paul Gaultier, with narrative voiceovers by British comic actress Maria McErlane. Gaultier left at the end of series 7 and de Caunes then co-presented with a range of guest
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Antoine de Caunes detective, Sam Murchinson: Several collections of his speeches "Nulle part ailleurs" were published; texts written with Albert Algoud: He also wrote a dictionary: Antoine de Caunes Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953) is a French television presenter, actor, writer and film director. He is the son of two prominent French personalities, television journalist-reporter Georges de Caunes and television announcer Jacqueline Joubert. He is the father of the actress Emma de Caunes. He began his career writing theme songs for cartoons for Antenne 2 under the pseudonym of Paul Persavon, including "Cobra" and "Space Sheriff Gavan" (known in France as
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In what year was the first Formula One motor racing world championship held?
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Formula racing of World War II, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile's Commission Sportive Internationale was responsible for defining the standardised regulations of Formula One (F1) in 1946. The first race to be run to the early Formula One regulations was a non-championship Grand Prix in Turin in September 1946. The first officially recognised Formula One season was held in 1947 and the "World Championship for Drivers" was inaugurated in 1950. This was the first example of formula racing. Formula E is the highest class of competition for single-seat, electrically powered racing cars, which held its inaugural season in 2014–15. Conceived in 2012,
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2012 Formula One World Championship 2012 Formula One World Championship The 2012 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 66th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 63rd FIA Formula One World Championship, a motor racing series for Formula One cars, recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) – the governing body of motorsport – as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. The championship was contested over twenty rounds, which started in Australia on 18 March and ended in Brazil on 25 November. The 2012 season saw the return of the United States Grand Prix, which was held
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Power lifter Micky Yule became Britain’s first gold medal winner at which games last week?
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Micky Yule Men's +72 kg division. He finished fourth. In the build-up to the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio, Yule started to find competition success. At the 2015 European Championships in Eger, he took the gold medal in the men's 80kg category. He followed this with another gold, this time at the 2016 Invictus Games, lifting a personal best of 190 kg to dominate the competition. His results saw him named as part of the Great Britain team that would compete in Rio that Summer. Micky Yule Michael "Micky" Yule (born 24 December 1978) is a British Paralympic powerlifter competing in the
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Micky Yule Micky Yule Michael "Micky" Yule (born 24 December 1978) is a British Paralympic powerlifter competing in the -80 kg class. Yule was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1978. He grew up in wallyford, Midlothian. Yule joined the British Army at the age of 17 and in 2007 he was working as a diving instructor at the Defence Diving School on Horsea Island, Port Solent, for three years before being posted to Afghanistan. In Afghanistan he was a staff sergeant in the Royal Engineers and was posted to Helmand province. In March 2010, whilst on patrol, Yule stood on an IED.
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Which organ of the human body produces insulin?
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Insulin resistance in the level of blood sugar can result in the classic hyperglycemic triad of polyphagia (increased appetite), polydipsia (increased thirst), and polyuria (increased urination). Avoiding carbohydrates and sugars, a no-carbohydrate diet or fasting can reverse insulin resistance. When the body produces insulin under conditions of insulin resistance, the cells are resistant to the insulin and are unable to use it as effectively, leading to high blood sugar. Beta cells in the pancreas subsequently increase their production of insulin, further contributing to a high blood insulin level. This often remains undetected and can contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes,
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Insulin resistance to diplomat” the insensitivity of skeletal muscle to insulin could divert the glucose to the brain, which doesn’t require insulin receptors. This has shown increased in cognitive development across various studies. Insulin resistance Insulin resistance (IR) is considered as a pathological condition in which cells fail to respond normally to the hormone insulin. To prevent hyperglycemia and noticeable organ damage over time, the body produces insulin when glucose starts to be released into the bloodstream, primarily from the digestion of carbohydrates in the diet. Under normal conditions of insulin reactivity, this insulin response triggers glucose being taken into body cells,
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Dave Brock has been leader of which psychedelic rock group for over 40 years?
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Dave Brock Dave Brock David Anthony Brock (born 20 August 1941) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He plays electric guitar, keyboards, bass and oscillators. He is best known as being one of the founders and musical focus of the English space rock group Hawkwind. Brock is the only member of the group to have been a constant throughout the band's history. Brock was honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the annual Progressive Music Awards in 2013. Born in Isleworth, Middlesex, England, Brock's childhood was spent in Feltham, Middlesex attending the Longford Secondary Modern School (now called Rivers Academy). His father's
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Dave Brock Westone Paduak-1 from 1982 until 2008 (custom painted by Guy Thomas with the Warrior on the Edge of Time album cover). Brock now uses a 2007 Gibson Antique Artist or a 1997 Gibson Nighthawk Standard. Noticeably, Brock has also used the same amplifier for many years: a 1978 Roland JC120 with two Hiwatt 4x12 cabs painted by Barney Bubbles. For effects, Brock uses a Line 6 Pod V2, which produces the distinctive sounds associated with him. Dave Brock David Anthony Brock (born 20 August 1941) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He plays electric guitar, keyboards, bass and oscillators. He
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In Astronomy what name is given to the supermassive Black-Hole at the centre of our Galaxy?
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Supermassive black hole appear very faint compared with advancing matter, which means that systems with intrinsically symmetric discs and rings will acquire a highly asymmetric visual appearance. This effect has been allowed for in modern computer generated images such as the example presented here, based on a plausible model for the supermassive black hole in Sgr A* at the centre of our own galaxy. However the resolution provided by presently available telescope technology is still insufficient to confirm such predictions directly. What already has been observed directly in many systems are the lower non-relativistic velocities of matter orbiting further out from what are
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Supermassive black hole being less than five-thousandths the mass of the Milky Way. Some galaxies, however, lack any supermassive black holes in their centers. Although most galaxies with no supermassive black holes are very small, dwarf galaxies, one discovery remains mysterious: The supergiant elliptical cD galaxy A2261-BCG has not been found to contain an active supermassive black hole, despite the galaxy being one of the largest galaxies known; ten times the size and one thousand times the mass of the Milky Way. Since a supermassive black hole will only be visible while it is accreting, a supermassive black hole can be nearly invisible,
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To date only 3 teams have won the Women’s Rugby World Cup, England, New Zealand and which other nation’s?
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Rugby union in New Zealand won the 2015 competition in England. The Women's Rugby World Cup is considered the top rugby competition for women. The New Zealand Black Ferns first won the world cup in 1998, beating the United States in the final. Since then the Black Ferns have won in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2017. New Zealand lost to Ireland in Pool B in 2014. and didn't qualify in 1994. Intense lobbying by the New Zealand Government helped New Zealand secure hosting rights to the 2021 Women's Rugby World Cup by beating out neighbor Australia. It will be the first time ever played in
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Rugby League World Cup competition (Australia eleven times, Great Britain three times and New Zealand once). Australia, France and New Zealand are the only teams to have played in all tournaments (Great Britain has been split into England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland since 1995, while England and Wales had previously competed as separate teams in the 1975 World Cup). Since 2000, the RLIF has also organised World Cups for women, students and other categories. The 2017 Rugby League World Cup was held in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea which was won by Australia. The Rugby League World Cup was an initiative of
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Which cricketer holds the record for the highest individual score in a test innings?
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Brian Lara Brian Lara Brian Charles Lara, (born 2 May 1969) is a Trinidadian former international cricketer, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history. Lara also holds the record for the highest individual score in a Test innings after scoring 400 not out against England at Antigua in 2004. He is
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Disability in Pakistan Cricket World Cup in 1998. The Pakistan blind cricket team also emerged as runners-up to India in both Blind T20 World Cup tournaments. <nowiki>*</nowiki>Muhammad Akram,blind cricketer-Holds the record for registering the highest individual score in a Blind T20I innings <nowiki>*</nowiki>Masood Jan,blind cricketer-Holds the record for registering the highest individual innings in a Blind One-Day International <nowiki>*</nowiki>Haider Ali,Paralympic athlete-Only paralympic medallist for Pakistan in Paralympics history [{Ihsan ullah daudzai'}, activist for the physically and cross person with disabilities www.spdapsh.org Disability in Pakistan There were an estimated 3.28 million people with disabilities in Pakistan according to the 1998 census, the most recent
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George Cowling, was BBC Television’s first what? He made his debut on 11 January 1954?
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George Cowling from the Met Office, and worked for five years for a marine engineering firm, as a meteorology consultant before retiring. His hobbies included golf – he was a member of Burnham Beeches Golf Club, as were his former fellow BBC weathermen, Jack Scott and Bert Foord. He died on Christmas Eve 2009 after a short stay in hospital. George Cowling George Cowling (2 March 1920 – 24 December 2009) was the BBC's first television weatherman. Cowling joined the Met Office in 1939 and worked as a forecaster for the RAF before joining the BBC in 1954. On 11 January 1954,
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George Cowling stationed as a meteorological assistant with No. 4 Bomber Group RAF in Yorkshire, and worked as a forecaster for the RAF, working in Britain, Normandy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany until 1953. In 1954 he was transferred to the London Weather Centre. On 11 January 1954, at the age of 33, George Cowling gave the first televised weather forecast, from the BBC's Lime Grove Studios, at 7.55pm. The forecast was live and 'in vision', with Cowling standing in front of the weather map, using a pencil and rubber to show the weather for the next day. He informed the viewing
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In which UK city is the Bullring Shopping centre?
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Shopping mall refer to a narrow pedestrian-only street, often covered or between closely spaced buildings (see town centre). The majority of British shopping centres are located in city centres, usually found in old and historic shopping districts and surrounded by subsidiary open air shopping streets. Large examples include West Quay in Southampton; Manchester Arndale; Bullring Birmingham; Liverpool One; Trinity Leeds; Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow; and Eldon Square in Newcastle upon Tyne. In addition to the inner city shopping centres, large UK conurbations will also have large out-of-town "regional malls" such as the Metrocentre in Gateshead; Meadowhall Centre, Sheffield serving South Yorkshire; the
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Lutwyche City Shopping Centre was added and general mall reconfiguration occurred as well as part of this refurbishment. More recently, as part of the current redevelopment, new travelators were installed in the centre and a new cafe court was opened. The redevelopment will be completed in 2019 by current owners, Abacus Property Group, who purchased Lutwyche City in 2015. Lutwyche City Shopping Centre Lutwyche City Shopping Centre is a neighbourhood shopping centre located in Lutwyche, which is a suburb 5 km from the city of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. It is anchored by a Coles and Aldi and is home to more than 40
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What is the name of the giraffe which features in the logo and branding of Toys R Us?
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Toys "R" Us the brand, Geoffrey's design went through several phases over the next 50+ years before the current star-spotted iteration was finalized in November 2007. In 2017, the company sponsored the live camera broadcast for April the Giraffe, which helped support giraffe conservation and awareness. The sponsored camera of pregnant April the giraffe went viral with millions of views on YouTube and across social media platforms. Toys "R" Us Toys "R" Us, Inc. is an international toy, clothing, video game, and baby product retailer founded in April 1948, with its headquarters located in Wayne, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area.
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Toys "R" Us 2461 18th St. NW, where the nightclub Madam's Organ Blues Bar is. He began receiving requests from customers for baby toys. After adding baby toys, he got requests for toys for older children. It was acquired in 1966 by Interstate Department Stores, Inc., owner of the White Front, Topps Chains and Children's Bargain Town USA. The focus of the store changed in June 1957, and the first Toys "R" Us, dedicated exclusively to toys rather than furniture, was opened by Lazarus in Rockville, Maryland. Lazarus also designed and stylized the Toys "R" Us logo, which featured a backwards "R" to
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Hola Mahalla is an annual festival celebrated in which religion?
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Hola Mohalla Sikhs to demonstrate their martial skills in simulated battles. This was probably done to forestall a grimmer struggle against the imperial power and channeling people's energy into a more useful activity. Hola Mahalla became an annual event held in an open ground near Holgarh, a fort across the rivulet Charan Ganga, northwest of Anandpur sahib. The popularity of this festival may be judged from the fact that out of five Sikh public holidays requested by the Khalsa Diwan, of Lahore in 1889, the Government approved only two - Hola Mahalla and the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak. Hola Mahalla is
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Hola Mohalla drums and standard-bearers, and proceeding to a given location or moving in state from one place to another. Holi, when people playfully sprinkle colored powders, dry or mixed in water, on each other on the first day of Chet was given a new dimension by establishing Hola to be celebrated a day after. However, Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708) held the first march at Anandpur on Chet vadi 1, 1757 Bk (22 February 1701) and therefore festivities start before the second of Chet. In Anandpur Sahib, the festival lasts for three days. The Guru made Hola Mahalla an occasion for the
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How are the members of The Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers now more commonly known, this name arose from a court case heard in 1797?
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Tolpuddle Martyrs Tolpuddle Martyrs The Tolpuddle Martyrs were a group of six 19th-century Dorset agricultural labourers who were arrested for and convicted of swearing a secret oath as members of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers. The rules of the society show it was clearly structured as a friendly society and operated as a trade-specific benefit society. At the time, friendly societies had elements of what is now considered the predominant role of trade unions. On 18 March 1834, the Tolpuddle Martyrs were sentenced to penal transportation to Australia. Before 1824 the Combination Acts had outlawed "combining" or organising to gain better
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Odiham Agricultural Society Europe except England, a strange exception considering how grossly ignorant our farriers are". The May 1788 meeting of the Odiham Agricultural Society, having heard of this, decided to send 2 or more boys to study at the school in France and advertised for contributions. In the same year, James Clark, a Scottish farrier wrote a treatise entitled 'Prevention of Disease' in which he put the case for farriery schools "to qualify the farrier for his profession" and praised the work of the French schools, calling for similar in Britain. At this point another new name is added to the Odiham
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Who was executed in the Bolivian village of La Higuera on October 9th 1967?
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La Higuera La Higuera La Higuera ("Spanish: "The Fig Tree"") is a small village in Bolivia located in the Province of Vallegrande, in the Department of Santa Cruz. It is situated in the La Higuera Canton (civil parish) belonging to the Pucará Municipality. The village is situated some 150 km (bee-line) southwest of Santa Cruz de la Sierra and 15 southwest of Pucará. La Higuera lies at an elevation of 1950 m. Its population (according to the 2001 census) is 119, mainly indigenous Guaraní people. On October 8, 1967, the Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara was captured by the CIA-assisted Bolivian Army
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La Higuera, Chile are Caleta Los Hornos, Chungungo, La Higuera (communal capital), El Trapiche, Punta Colorada, Los Choros and Punta de Choros. As a commune, La Higuera is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2008-2012 alcalde is Sylvia Clavería Mondaca. Within the electoral divisions of Chile, La Higuera is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Mr. Mario Bertolino (RN) and Marcelo Díaz (PS) as part of the 7th electoral district, (together with La Serena Vicuña, Paiguano and Andacollo). The commune is represented in the Senate
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Which comic hero was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in 1939?
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Bill Finger Bill sort of organized them". A DC Comics press release in 2007 said, "Kane, along with writer Bill Finger, had just created Batman for DC predecessor National Comics." Likewise, DC editor Paul Levitz wrote, "The Darknight [sic] Detective debuted in ["Detective"] #27, the creation of Bob Kane and Bill Finger." Writer John Broome and penciler Gil Kane created the comic-book villain William Hand, a.k.a. Black Hand, as a tribute to Finger, on whom the character’s name and likeness were based. In September 2015, DC Entertainment announced Finger would receive credit on the 2016 superhero film "" and the second season
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Bob Kane the script of that, so he really was co-creator, and Bob and I did the visuals, so Bob was also." According to comics historian Les Daniels, "nearly everyone seems to agree that Two-Face was Kane's brainchild exclusively". Catwoman, originally introduced by Kane with no costume as "the Cat", was partially inspired by his cousin, Ruth Steel. Kane, a frequent movie goer, mentioned that Jean Harlow was a model for the design and added that "I always felt that women were feline". Kane created the Scarecrow and drew his first appearance, which was scripted by Finger. Kane also created the original
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Dr. Christian Barnard was the first person to successfully perform which type of human to human transplant?
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Christiaan Barnard Fund for research into heart disease and heart transplants in Cape Town. His second autobiography, "The Second Life", was published in 1993, eight years before his death (). Apart from his autobiographies, Dr Barnard also wrote several other books including: Christiaan Barnard Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant on 3 December 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Growing up in Beaufort West, Cape Province, he studied medicine and practised for several years in his native country. As a
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Human leukocyte antigen the HLA complex. Diversity of HLAs in the human population is one aspect of disease defense, and, as a result, the chance of two unrelated individuals with identical HLA molecules on all loci is extremely low. HLA genes have historically been identified as a result of the ability to successfully transplant organs between HLA-similar individuals. The proteins encoded by HLAs are those on the outer part of body cells that are (in effect) unique to that person. The immune system uses the HLAs to differentiate self cells and non-self cells. Any cell displaying that person's HLA type belongs to that
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Which novelist wrote The Monarch of the Glen and Whisky Galore?
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Whisky Galore! (1949 film) Whisky Galore! (1949 film) Whisky Galore! is a 1949 British comedy film produced by Ealing Studios starring Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson. It was the directorial debut of Alexander Mackendrick; the screenplay was by Compton MacKenzie, based on his 1947 novel "Whisky Galore". The storybased on a true eventconcerns a shipwreck off a fictional Scottish island, the inhabitants of which have run out of whisky; the islanders find out the ship is carrying 50,000 cases of whisky, which they salvage, against the opposition of the local Customs and Excise men. Like others of the Ealing comedies,
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Whisky Galore! (1949 film) first to achieve box office success. For Crowther, "the charm and distinction of this film reside in the wonderfully dry way it spins a deliciously wet tale". "Whisky Galore!" was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best British Film, alongside "Passport to Pimlico" and "Kind Hearts and Coronets", although they lost to "The Third Man" (1949). In 1958, "Rockets Galore", Mackenzie's sequel to "Whiskey Galore", was adapted and filmed as "Rockets Galore!", directed by Michael Relph. Danischewsky provided the screenplay, and several of the personnel who filmed "Whisky Galore!" also worked on "Rockets Galore!" "Whisky Galore!" had an
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Clun Forest, Romney and Bluefaced Leicester are all breeds of which animal?
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Watch list of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust Aberdeen Angus, Ayrshire, Beef Shorthorn, Belted Galloway, Devon, Galloway, Guernsey, Hereford, Highland, Jersey, Lincoln Red, Longhorn, Luing, Red Poll, Shorthorn, South Devon, Sussex and Welsh Black. The Irish Kerry breed was also considered part of the agricultural heritage of the United Kingdom. Sheep breeds listed in 2007 were: The other native breeds listed were the Badger Face Welsh Mountain, Beulah Speckled Face, Black Welsh Mountain, Scottish Blackface, Bluefaced Leicester, Brecknock Hill Cheviot, Clun Forest, Dalesbred, Exmoor Horn, Hampshire Down, Hebridean, Herdwick, Jacob, Kerry Hill, Llandovery Whiteface Hill, Lleyn, Lonk, North Country Cheviot, Romney, Rough Fell, Ryeland, Shetland, Shropshire, Southdown, South
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Clun Forest Clun Forest Clun Forest is a remote, rural area of open pastures, moorland and mixed deciduous/coniferous woodland in the southwest part of the English county of Shropshire and also just over the border into Powys, Wales. It was once a large forest covering an area that stretched from Ludlow up the Clun Valley. It now is only forested in some wooded areas, such as Radnor Wood, though a fairly large area of forest exists on the Wales–England border north of Anchor (the planted Ceri Forest). The ancient Offa's Dyke runs north-south through the area (and can be walked by the
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The secretary-general of the Tanzania China-Africa Business Council, Yang Fenglan, has gone on trial in Dar es Salaam recently, she is accused of being the kingpin of a ring involved in the illegal trade of what?
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China–Tanzania relations Resident Magistrates’ Court in Dar es Salaam, accused of illegally collecting 81 elephant tusks. Yu petitioned for leniency, citing his several dependants and lack of criminal history, as he entered a guilty plea. Senior Resident Magistrate Devota Kisoka imposed a fine of 9,781,204,900 Tanzanian shillings, in default of which Yu is detained in Tanzania pending appeal of a 20-year sentence. Chinese officials have taken steps to curb the influx of illegal ivory—of the 900 ivory seizures performed annually in China, 90% involve items uncovered in hand inspections of travellers' luggage—and they are not known to have offered legal-, financial-, or
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Dar es Salaam city. It was established in 1988 and became the first private newspaper in Tanzania. "Business Times" owns "Majira", another Kiswahili newspaper. Dar es Salaam is home to ITV, Channel Ten Television Station formerly known as Dar es Salaam Television (DTV) and Azam TV, a subscription-based service from the Azam group of companies. Ayo TV, a television station, is also based in Ubungo, Dar es Salaam, as is the Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation. Installation of a trans-Indian Ocean backbone cable in 2009 has, in theory, made Internet access much more readily available in Dar in particular and in East Africa in general.
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Which eponymous Dickens character has a pet raven named Grip?
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John Wilson Bengough News" (1869–83) lasted much longer. Bengough was to found the first major humour magazine in English Canada. A raven character in the Charles Dickens novel "Barnaby Rudge" inspired the name of the magazine "Grip". Its pages carried political and social commentary along with satirical cartoons, and its debut issue of 24 May 1873 declared: ""Grip" will be entirely independent and impartial, always, and on all subjects." Bengough set the editorial policy and was the lead cartoonist. "Grip"s initial financing came from Toronto publisher Andrew Scott Irving. Later in the year Bengough set up an office on 2 Toronto Street and
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Dickens in America Miriam comments on how Dickens had to have a rectal fistula operated on without anesthetics. In the Rare Book Department of the Philadelphia Free Library, librarian William Lang shows Miriam Dickens’s pet raven, Grip, stuffed and mounted, and a small gravestone that memorialized Dick, the best of birds, that was once at Gad’s Hill. The Rare Book Department has a huge collection of Dickensiana. Miriam attends a meeting of the Philadelphia Pickwick Club, a dining and drinking men’s society and is inducted in as the only woman member. She receives a pipe and a tie and entertains the men with
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Which Gloucestershire country estate is the ancestral home of the Duke of Beaufort is famous for annual trials held there?
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Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort KG, GCVO, GCC, PC (4 April 1900 – 5 February 1984), styled Marquess of Worcester until 1924, was an English peer, Gloucestershire landowner, leading figure in the equestrian world, and society figure. A relative and very close friend of the Royal Family, he held the office of Master of the Horse for 42 years (1936-1978), longer than anybody else. He also founded the Badminton Horse Trials. "The greatest fox-hunter of the twentieth century", his long tenure as Master of the Beaufort Hunt led to his
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Ancestral home Ancestral home An ancestral home is the place of origin of one's extended family, or the home owned and preserved by the same family for several generations. The term can refer to an individual house, an estate, a town, a region, or an entire country. "The family living in an ancestral home is surrounded by visible, physical symbols of family continuity and solidarity". The concept of a diaspora requires the concept of an ancestral home from which the diaspora emanates. The place of origin of one's extended family in Chinese culture and society. Ancestral homes in the Philippines kept by
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Which internet based company has its headquarters at 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California?
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Menlo Park, California Menlo Park. There are two libraries within the city, the Main branch and the Belle Haven branch. These libraries are part of the Peninsula Library System and share many resources with other nearby libraries. Much of Menlo Park's economy revolves around the companies on Sand Hill Road, consisting of venture capital, private equity, financial services, law firms, and other professional service companies and investment vehicles focusing on technology. Geron, Robert Half International, Exponent, "Sunset" and SRI International are among the companies based in Menlo Park. Facebook moved its headquarters to the former campus of Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park in
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Menlo Park, California city, survived until 1922, when the original arch was destroyed in an automobile accident. The origin of the name of "Menlo Park, California" ("ca" 1850) pre-dates any work done by Thomas Edison ("ca" 1876) in Menlo Park, New Jersey; Menlo Park, New Jersey was named after Menlo Park, California. In 1917/1918 a large portion of Menlo Park was the site of Camp Fremont, a training camp for, at its height, 27,000 men being sent to fight in World War I. It didn't last long (the camp was dismantled after the war), but army engineers paved the first streets in Menlo
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What is given to a food additive approved for use in the European Union?
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Food additive countries. Additive 103, alkannin, is not approved for use in Europe so does not have an E number, although it is approved for use in Australia and New Zealand. Since 1987, Australia has had an approved system of labelling for additives in packaged foods. Each food additive has to be named or numbered. The numbers are the same as in Europe, but without the prefix "E". The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lists these items as "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS); they are listed under both their Chemical Abstracts Service number and FDA regulation under the United States
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Food additive New Zealand published an official shoppers' guidance with which the concerns of food additives and their labeling are mediated. In the EU it can take 10 years or more to obtain approval for a new food additive. This includes five years of safety testing, followed by two years for evaluation by the European Food Safety Authority and another three years before the additive receives an EU-wide approval for use in every country in the European Union. Apart from testing and analyzing food products during the whole production process to ensure safety and compliance with regulatory standards, Trading Standards officers (in
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Which fictional Frenchman was prisoner 24601?
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Sideshow Bob which is played whenever Bob gets out of prison or is about to commit a sinister action, and was first used in "Cape Feare". It is based on the score of the film "Cape Fear", composed by Bernard Herrmann. The musical score for "Cape Feare" earned Clausen an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Dramatic Underscore – Series in 1994. Bob's prisoner number is often 24601, which is Jean Valjean's prisoner number in "Les Misérables". Another trademark for Bob is a visual gag of stepping on a rake and being struck in the face with its handle; this joke first appeared
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How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman Frenchman was a prisoner of the Portuguese they have killed, and the Chief thinks he is Portuguese because "No Frenchman would shoot at the Tupinambá." The tribe's shaman predicted they would find a strong Portuguese man to cannibalize as revenge for the chief's brother being killed by a Portuguese musket ball. Now they have one. However, the Frenchman is allowed free run of the village area, is eventually provided with a "wife," and adopts traditional Tupinambá attire in place of his Western clothes. Another Frenchman comes to the village and tells the Tupinambás that their prisoner is indeed Portuguese—he then
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Pierre Omidyar founded which company in 1995?
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Pierre Omidyar Pierre Omidyar Pierre Morad Omidyar (, born June 21, 1967) is an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder of eBay where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015. He became a billionaire at the age of 31 with eBay's 1998 initial public offering (IPO). Omidyar and his wife Pamela are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand their efforts beyond non-profits to include for-profits and public policy. Since 2010, Omidyar has been involved in online journalism as the head of investigative reporting and public affairs news service "Honolulu Civil Beat". In
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Pierre Omidyar markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. It was established in 2004 by Omidyar and his wife, Pam. The organization invests in and helps scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic, social, and political change. To date, Omidyar Network has committed more than $992 million to for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations that foster economic advancement and encourage individual participation across multiple investment areas, including Property Rights, Governance & Citizen Engagement, Education, Financial Inclusion and Consumer & Internet Mobile. In 2010, he and his wife established, along with Richard Branson and the Nduna Foundation (founded by Amy Robbins), Enterprise
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Who played the Penguin in the 1992 film Batman Returns?
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Batman Returns Batman Returns Batman Returns is a 1992 American superhero film directed by Tim Burton, based on the DC Comics character Batman. It is the second installment of Warner Bros. initial "Batman" film series, with Michael Keaton reprising the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman. The film, produced by Denise Di Novi and Burton, also stars Danny DeVito as the Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, and Christopher Walken as corrupt businessman Max Shreck. In "Batman Returns", Batman must prevent the Penguin from killing all of Gotham City's firstborn sons. Burton originally did not want to direct another Batman film. Warner Bros. developed a
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (film) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (film) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is a two-part direct-to-video animated superhero film, an adaptation of the 1986 comic book "The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller. It was directed by Jay Oliva, who worked as a storyboard artist on "Man of Steel", "", "" and "". Several other "Batman" veterans were also involved in the film. Part 1 was released September 25, 2012, and Part 2 was released January 29, 2013. A deluxe edition combining both films was released on October 8, 2013. It is the 15th film in the DC Universe Animated Original
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The World Heritage site Cichén Itzá is in which country?
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World Heritage Site previously thought and require immediate conservation action. There are 1092 World Heritage Sites located in 167 states. Of these, 845 are cultural, 209 are natural and 38 are mixed properties. The World Heritage Committee has divided the world into five geographic zones which it calls regions: Africa, Arab states, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Russia and the Caucasus states are classified as European, while Mexico and the Caribbean are classified as belonging to the Latin America & Caribbean zone, despite their location in North America. The UNESCO geographic zones also give
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World Heritage Site nominated property on the World Heritage List and sometimes defers or refers the decision to request more information from the country which nominated the site. There are ten selection criteria – a site must meet at least one of them to be included on the list. Up to 2004, there were six criteria for cultural heritage and four criteria for natural heritage. In 2005, this was modified so that there is now only one set of ten criteria. Nominated sites must be of "outstanding universal value" and meet at least one of the ten criteria. These criteria have been modified
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What was the name of Elvis Presley’s entourage?
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Personal relationships of Elvis Presley "too polite to say." However, Alden finally revealed in her 2014 memoir that they did "make love," indicating sexual intimacy. Apart from his relationships with women, Presley had many male friends. He reportedly spent day and night with friends and employees whom the news media affectionately dubbed the Memphis Mafia. Among them were Sonny West, Red West, Billy Smith, Marty Lacker and Lamar Fike. Gerald Marzorati says that Elvis "couldn't go anywhere else without a phalanx of boyhood friends." Even the girls he dated deplored, "Whenever you were with Elvis for the most part you were with his entourage. Those
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Elvis Presley Enterprises a product picturing an overweight Elvis." Since 1979 "EPE has filed more than a hundred lawsuits to assert the estate's exclusive right to Elvis's name and likeness." Later, EPE was wholly owned by the "Elvis Presley Trust" and Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie Presley until February 2005, when Robert F.X. Sillerman and his new media and entertainment company "CKX, Inc." acquired an 85% interest in Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc., including its physical and intellectual properties. "Core Media Group", the new name of "CKX, Inc.", sold its 85% interest in EPE to Authentic Brands Group on 19 November 2013. Lisa Marie Presley
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On the TV quiz Pointless, how much is added to the jackpot for each pointless answer?
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Pointless returning and new contestants a chance of winning a bigger cash prize. To date, the highest recorded jackpot won on the show as a result of it rolling over from previous games, was £24,750 on 8 March 2013. Once the jackpot is won, the amount is reset to £1,000. For the celebrity version, the jackpot is set at £2,500, and increases by £250 for each pointless answer found, while special editions have the jackpot set at £5,000, and increased by £500 for each pointless answer found; in neither version does the jackpot roll over to another show. During an elimination
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Pointless who had distinguished themselves in various ways were invited to compete again. The jackpot for this episode began at £2,500 (the usual starting value for "Pointless Celebrities"), and every pointless answer during the main game added £1,000 to it. On 23 February 2016, it was announced that the show had been recommissioned by the BBC to make 165 more regular daytime editions along with 45 prime-time celebrity specials, which will see "Pointless" continue to air on BBC One until at least the end of 2017. On 4 September 2017, it was announced that the BBC had commissioned a further 204
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How is Jorge Mario Bergoglio better known today?
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Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio: His Life in His Own Words Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio: His Life in His Own Words Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio: His Life in His Own Words is a biography of Jorge Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis in 2013. Written by Sergio Rubin, it is the only biography of him that appeared before his election as Pope. It was initially published in Spanish with the name El Jesuita (). Sergio Rubin developed the idea in a conversation with Francesca Ambrogetti following the Papal conclave of 2005 that elected Pope Benedict XVI. At that time, media reports based on an anonymous diary of a
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How Is Your Fish Today? How Is Your Fish Today? How Is Your Fish Today?, also known as Jin Tian De Yu Zen Me Yang?, is a 2007 Chinese film written by Xiaolu Guo and Hui Rao. It was directed by Xiaolu Guo. The film is a drama set in modern China, focusing on the intertwined stories of two main characters; a frustrated writer (Hui Rao) and the subject of his latest work, Lin Hao (Zijiang Yang). "How Is Your Fish Today" won 4 international awards and was well received by critics, but was not commercially successful. "How Is Your Fish Today?" was consistently given
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Which musical features the lawyer Billy Flynn?
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Billy Flynn (Chicago) like the victim instead of the criminal. He shows himself onstage by singing "All I Care About is Love", "They Both Reached For The Gun/ We Both Reached For The Gun/ The Press Conference Rag", and "Razzle Dazzle”. Billy Flynn (Chicago) William "Billy" Flynn is a fictional character from the musical "Chicago". In the musical, Billy Flynn is Chicago's most successful lawyer, and he's never lost case in his whole career. He usually represents women. In the play, he defends Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart, winning both cases. Flynn's clients usually do commit the crime they are accused of, and
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Billy Flynn (actor) "Hawaii Five-0", in an episode entitled, "Hoku Welowelo"; Flynn played the role of Nick Spitz, opposite actress Melanie Griffith. Flynn also co-produced his short movie called "Solely". In August 2014, DAYS co-executive producer, Greg Meng confirmed to Soap Opera Digest that Flynn had joined the cast of NBC soap opera "Days of Our Lives", as a recast of Chad DiMera, previously played by actor Casey Deidrick. Flynn debuted on September 12, 2014. In October 2016 "Deadline" confirmed that Flynn has booked a role in the thriller movie called "D.O.A. Blood River" Billy Flynn (actor) William "Billy" Flynn (born May 29,
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Which pre-Raphaelite painted The Light of the World which shows Jesus preparing to knock on an overgrown and long-unopened door?
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The Light of the World (painting) The Light of the World (painting) The Light of the World (1851–53) is an allegorical painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) representing the figure of Jesus preparing to knock on an overgrown and long-unopened door, illustrating Revelation 3:20: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me". According to Hunt: "I painted the picture with what I thought, unworthy though I was, to be by Divine command, and not simply as a
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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood the same mythological scenes portrayed by the Pre-Raphaelites. In the 20th century artistic ideals changed, and art moved away from representing reality. Since the Pre-Raphaelites were fixed on portraying things with near-photographic precision, though with a distinctive attention to detailed surface-patterns, their work was devalued by many painters and critics. After the First World War, British Modernists associated Pre-Raphaelite art with the repressive and backward times in which they grew up. In the 1960s there was a major revival of Pre-Raphaelitism. Exhibitions and catalogues of works, culminating in a 1984 exhibition in London's Tate Gallery, re-established a canon of Pre-Raphaelite
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Who was Poet Laureate between Henry James Pye and William Wordsworth?
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Henry James Pye Of all he wrote his prose "Summary of the Duties of a Justice of the Peace out of Sessions" (1808) is most worthy of record. He was made poet laureate in 1790, perhaps as a reward for his faithful support of William Pitt the Younger in the House of Commons. The appointment was looked on as ridiculous, and his birthday odes were a continual source of contempt. The 20th century British historian Lord Blake called Pye "the worst Poet Laureate in English history with the possible exception of Alfred Austin." Indeed, Pye's successor, Robert Southey, wrote in 1814: "I have
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Henry James Pye Pinner, Middlesex on 11 August 1813. He is buried in Pinner's parish church of St John the Baptist. Pye married twice. He had two daughters by his first wife. He married secondly in 1801 Martha Corbett, by whom he had a son Henry John Pye, who in 1833 inherited the Clifton Hall, Staffordshire estate of a distant cousin and who was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1840. Henry James Pye Henry James Pye (; 10 February 1744 – 11 August 1813) was an English poet, and Poet Laureate from 1790 until his death. He was the first poet laureate to
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Which boy band released their first studio album Up All Night in 2011?
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Up All Night (One Direction album) album of 2011. "Up All Night" debuted to number one on the United States "Billboard" 200, selling 176,000 copies in its first week. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), "Up All Night" was the third global best-selling album of 2012 with sales of 4.5 million copies. One Direction finished 2012 with two of that year's top five best-selling albums in the United States; "Up All Night" at number three and their second studio album, "Take Me Home", at number five, making the boy band the first act to place two albums in the year-end top five
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Up All Night (Razorlight album) Up All Night (Razorlight album) Up All Night is the debut album by English indie rock band Razorlight, released on 28 June 2004. The album was mainly recorded at Sawmills Studio and mixed at Sphere Studios by John Cornfield. The album garnered favourable reviews but critics questioned the band's influence-filled musicianship throughout the tracks. "Up All Night" peaked at number 3 on the UK Albums Chart and spawned six singles: "Rock 'N' Roll Lies", "Rip It Up", "Stumble and Fall", "Golden Touch", "Vice" and "Somewhere Else". On 4 June 2014, the band, with only lead singer Johnny Borrell remaining from
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Who invented the spinning mule that built on the work of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright?
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James Hargreaves James Hargreaves James Hargreaves (c. 1720 – 22 April 1778) was a weaver, carpenter and inventor in Lancashire, England. He was one of three inventors responsible for mechanising spinning. Hargreaves is credited with inventing the spinning jenny in 1764, Richard Arkwright patented the water frame in 1769, and Samuel Crompton combined the two creating the spinning mule in 1779. James Hargreaves was born at Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire. He was described as "stout, broadest man of about five-foot ten, or rather more". He was illiterate and worked as a hand loom weaver during most of his life. He married and
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Spinning jenny Spinning jenny The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. It was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England. The device reduced the amount of work needed to produce cloth, with a worker able to work eight or more spools at once. This grew to 120 as technology advanced. The yarn produced by the jenny was not very strong until Richard Arkwright invented the water-powered 'water frame', which produced yarn harder and stronger than that of the initial
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Which War was ended by the 1648 Peace of Westphalia?
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International relations, 1648–1814 and cultural achievement. Historian Frederick Nussbaum says it was: The worst came during the Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648, which had an extremely negative impact on the civilian population of Germany and surrounding areas, with massive loss of life and disruption of the economy and society. Scholars taking a "realist" perspective on wars and diplomacy have emphasized the Peace of Westphalia (1648) as a dividing line. It ended the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), where religion and ideology had been powerful motivating forces for warfare. Westphalia, in the realist view, ushered in a new international system of sovereign states of roughly equal
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Peace of Westphalia Peace of Westphalia The Peace of Westphalia () was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster, largely ending the European wars of religion. The treaties of Westphalia brought to a close a calamitous period of European history which caused the deaths of approximately eight million people. Scholars have identified Westphalia as the beginning of the modern international system, based on the concept of Westphalian sovereignty. The negotiation process was lengthy and complex. Talks took place in two different cities, as each side wanted to meet on territory under
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The work of graffiti artist Banksy was first seen in which English city?
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Banksy Banksy Banksy is an anonymous England-based street artist, vandal, political activist, and film director. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world. Banksy's work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist who later became a founding member of the English musical group Massive Attack. Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces
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Seen (artist) Seen (artist) Richard "Richie" Mirando, known as Seen UA (born 1961) is an American graffiti artist. He is one of the best known graffiti artists in the world and has been referred to as the Godfather of Graffiti, although he did not pioneer the movement. Seen first started to paint on the New York City Subway system in 1973. His crew, United Artists (or simply UA), which included Duster, Sin, and his brother Mad, painted whole cars. He was born in the Bronx, New York City. For the next 16 years he painted pieces across the city and on all
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Which new town was named after a Durham-born miners’ leader?
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Peterlee Peterlee Peterlee is a small town in County Durham, England. It was founded in 1948, and built under the auspices of the New Towns Act 1946. It has economic and community ties with Sunderland, Hartlepool and Durham. The case for Peterlee was put forth in "Farewell Squalor" by Easington Rural District Council Surveyor C.W. Clarke, who also proposed that the town was named after the celebrated Durham miners' leader Peter Lee. Peterlee is unique among the new towns which came into being after the Second World War in that it was the only one requested by the people through their
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Durham Miners' Gala secured the endorsement of the Durham Miners' Association, was asked to give a speech to the Gala. In 2016, 2017 and 2018, Corbyn, now Labour leader, addressed the event. Durham Miners' Gala The Durham Miners' Gala is a large annual gathering held on the second Saturday in July in the city of Durham, England. It is associated with the coal mining heritage (and particularly that of miners' trade unionism) of the Durham Coalfield, which stretched throughout the traditional County of Durham. It is also locally called "The Big Meeting" or "Durham Big Meeting". In the context of the Durham Miners'
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Which word completes the title of the 1926 D H Lawrence novel - The ______ Serpent?
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The Plumed Serpent to men and surrender of the drive toward orgasm" and that its "overblown prose" makes it easy to reject. Anne Fernihough called "The Plumed Serpent" "stridently ideological". The Plumed Serpent The Plumed Serpent is a 1926 novel by D. H. Lawrence. Set in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution, it was begun when the author was living at what is now the D. H. Lawrence Ranch near Taos in the U.S. state of New Mexico in 1924, accompanied by his wife Frieda and artist Dorothy Brett. Commentators have seen the book as having fascist overtones, and as expressing Lawrence's fears about
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The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D. H. Lawrence The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D. H. Lawrence The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D. H. Lawrence is an ongoing project by Cambridge University Press to produce definitive editions of the writings of D. H. Lawrence. It is a major scholarly undertaking that strives to provide new versions of the texts as close as can be determined to what the author intended. This ongoing project, started in 1979, will eventually encompass over 40 separate volumes, each complete with a high quality critical apparatus. As such, it represents the authoritative base text for academic
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In which 1988 film did Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito play Julius and Vincent Benedict?
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Twins (1988 film) The film was released in the United Kingdom on March 17, 1989, and topped the country's box office that weekend. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale. In March 2012, Universal announced the development of a sequel titled "Triplets". Schwarzenegger and DeVito will return, with Eddie Murphy as their long lost brother. Reitman will co produce. Twins (1988 film) Twins is a 1988 American buddy comedy film produced and directed by Ivan Reitman about unlikely twins (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito) who were separated at birth. The
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Political career of Arnold Schwarzenegger no runoff election was required. Schwarzenegger was sworn into office on November 17, 2003. Schwarzenegger's inauguration was opened by Vanessa L. Williams, his co-star from "Eraser", singing the National Anthem. Hollywood attendees included Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Dennis Miller, Tom Arnold, his wife Shelby, and Rob Lowe (only Miller was a Republican). The Schwarzenegger children joined others in reciting the [Pledge of Allegiance (United States)|Pledge of Allegiance]], then Maria Shriver spoke and held the Bible while Schwarzenegger was sworn into the office of governor. He spoke briefly: "Today is a new day in California. I did not seek this office
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Which rugby league club played at Thrum Hall between 1886 and 1998?
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Thrum Hall matches played at Thrum Hall is: Thrum Hall also saw the Halifax R.L.F.C. play host to international touring teams from Australia (sometimes playing as Australasia) and New Zealand from 1907–1994. Thrum Hall Thrum Hall was a rugby league stadium on Hanson Lane in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It was the home of Halifax for 112 years. The site on which the ground stood is now occupied by a supermarket. In 1878, Halifax, who had just won the inaugural Yorkshire Cup, bought a patch of land for £3,000 from a local farmer, Major Dyson, to develop as a new multi-purpose sports
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Glenn Hall (rugby league) Glenn Hall (rugby league) Glenn Hall (born 21 March 1981) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. He played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, South Sydney Rabbitohs, Sydney Roosters, Manly Warringah Sea Eagles, with which he won the 2008 NRL premiership and 2009 World Club Challenge with and North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League, while also had a stint in the European Super League with the Bradford Bulls. He primarily played as a and . Born and raised in Sydney, New South Wales, Hall played his junior football in the Bankstown area for St Christopher's, Panania. Hall joined
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What was the first name of the hymn-writing younger brother of John Wesley?
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Samuel Wesley (the Younger) Samuel Wesley (the Younger) Samuel Wesley the Younger (10 February 1690 or 1691 – 6 November 1739) was a poet and a Church of England cleric. Wesley was the eldest son of the cleric and poet Samuel Wesley and of Susanna Annesley Wesley. He was the brother of John Wesley and Charles Wesley. He was born in Spitalfields, London in either 1690 or 1691. He said he was 18 years old in 1711 and he wrote a letter in which he said he was born in 1690. His tombstone said he died in his 49th year, which would put his
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Samuel Wesley (the Younger) They were survived by two children: a daughter and a son Their son was Samuel II, not Thomas. Thomas was the son of Samuel II. A high church Tory, Wesley was a friend of Bishop Francis Atterbury. He was never a Methodist and yet five hymns of several composed by him are in the Wesleyan Hymn Book of the present day. Samuel Wesley (the Younger) Samuel Wesley the Younger (10 February 1690 or 1691 – 6 November 1739) was a poet and a Church of England cleric. Wesley was the eldest son of the cleric and poet Samuel Wesley and
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Which Asian country has the fourth largest population after China, India and Indonesia?
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Islam by country are of South Asian origin, therefore South Asia contains the largest population of Muslims in the world. Within this region, however, Muslims are second in numbers to Hindus, as Muslims are a majority in Pakistan and Bangladesh, but not India. The various Hamito-Semitic (including Arab, Berber), Turkic, and Iranic countries of the greater Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region, where Islam is the dominant religion in all countries other than Israel, hosts 23% of world Muslims. The country with the single largest population of Muslims is Indonesia in Southeast Asia, which on its own hosts 13% of the world's Muslims. Together,
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China–Indonesia relations China as Indonesia booked a trade deficit of USD 14 billion in 2016. From China’s perspective, since 2010 ASEAN as a whole has become its fourth-largest trading partner after the European Union, Japan and the United States. Among ASEAN member countries, Indonesia was China’s fourth-largest trading partner, which, according to data as of May 2010 from the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, amounted to USD 12.4 billion, after Malaysia (USD 22.2 billion), Singapore (USD 17.9 billion) and Thailand (USD 15.7 billion). Being the second-largest donor of foreign aid to Indonesia after Singapore, China has also financed
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Which word can be a flightless bird, a Greek goddess or the second largest moon of Saturn?
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Flightless bird also included here. Flightless bird Flightless birds are birds that through evolution lost the ability to fly. There are over 60 extant species including the well known ratites (ostrich, emu, cassowary, rhea and kiwi) and penguins. The smallest flightless bird is the Inaccessible Island rail (length 12.5 cm, weight 34.7 g). The largest (both heaviest and tallest) flightless bird, which is also the largest living bird, is the ostrich (2.7 m, 156 kg). Ostriches are farmed for their decorative feathers, meat and their skins, which are used to make leather. Many domesticated birds, such as the domestic chicken and domestic
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Saturn the time, the moon will pass above or below Saturn in the sky, and no occultation will occur. It is only when Saturn lies near the point that the moon’s orbit crosses the "plane of the ecliptic" that occultations can happen – and then they occur every time the moon swings by, until Saturn moves away from the crossing point. Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth. It has only one-eighth the average density
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Which cartoonist and illustrator who made complicated drawings of simple machines was born on this day in 1872?
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W. Heath Robinson W. Heath Robinson William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist and illustrator best known for drawings of whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives. In the UK, the term "Heath Robinson" entered the popular language during the 1914–1918 First World War as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance, much as "Rube Goldberg machines" came to be used in the United States from the 1920s onwards as a term for similar efforts. "Heath Robinson contraption" is perhaps more often used in relation to temporary fixes using ingenuity and whatever is to
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Simple Machines Simple Machines found themselves under increasing financial pressures to keep putting out records and keeping them in print. Toomey and Thomson had also become disenchanted with the business aspect of their label, realizing that it overruled the musical side of it. In 1997 the decision was made to wind the label down. The label released two final records by artists Ida and Tsunami, respectively. Toomey and Thomson organised a Simple Machines Finale Party at the Black Cat in Washington D.C. with 24 bands on the bill which took two days to conclude. On March 29, 1998, Simple Machines closed. Simple
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