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What was the largest concentration camp formed by the Nazis in World War 11 | Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It consisted of (the original concentration camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combined concentration/extermination camp), (a labor camp to staff an IG Farben factory), and 45 satellite camps. Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. The first extermination of prisoners took place in September 1941. Auschwitz II–Birkenau went on to become a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish Question during the | Jaworzno concentration camp Jaworzno concentration camp The Jaworzno concentration camp was a concentration camp in WW2 German-occupied Poland, first established by the Nazis in 1943 amidst the Second World War and then used briefly by the Soviets and by the post-war communist Polish government until 1956. Today the site is an apartment complex and also houses a memorial to the camp's victims. Originally, it was established as a Nazi concentration camp called SS-Lager Dachsgrube ("SS Camp Dachsgrube) also known as Arbeitslager Neu-Dachs ("Work Camp Neu-Dachs") established during World War II by the Third Reich on the territory of German-occupied Poland in Jaworzno, Upper |
Who was Hitler's Armaments Minister during World War 11 | Religious views of Adolf Hitler would have conquered the world." Notwithstanding Hitler's apparent admiration for Islam and Muhammad, and his willingness to work with Arab political leaders, he saw individual Muslims as racial and social inferiors. Nazi-era Minister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer acknowledged that in private, Hitler regarded Arabs as an inferior race and that the relationship he had with various Muslim figures was more political than personal. During a meeting with a delegation of distinguished Arab figures, Hitler learned of how Islam motivated the Umayyad Caliphate during the Islamic conquest of Gaul and was now convinced that "the world would be | Sweden during World War II four divisions since the 1890s, with the regiments of northern Norrland and Gotland standing as separate units. This was outdated, and in 1942, a new military organization was adopted. During World War II, Swedish industry had to supply an increased share of its own domestic goods owing to the British blockade of the North Sea, whilst satisfying the vastly increased demand for armaments. Before the war, the annual production of armaments was typically measured in tens of millions of Swedish kronor, but during the war, output exceeded SEK 1 billion (US$240 million). Sweden's long-standing policy of neutrality was tested on |
In World War 11 R.A.F. slang what were cookies | Oil campaign of World War II believed that Bomber Command's heavy bombs – 4,000 lb "cookies" – were more effective than an equivalent weight of smaller bombs. Both RAF and USAAF dropped a large number of bombs on oil targets that failed to explode: 19% and 12% respectively. Oil campaign of World War II The Allied oil campaign of World War II was directed by the RAF and USAAF against facilities supplying Nazi Germany with petroleum, oil, and lubrication (POL) products. Part of the immense Allied strategic bombing effort during the war, the targets in Germany and "Axis Europe" included refineries for natural oil, factories producing | Digger slang the Second World War. Some of the soldiers who had fought in the First World War perpetuated Digger slang into the second. These "retreads" were fit enough to return to action and continued the use of terms such as "bint", "backsheesh" for money, "shoofti" for a look around (borrowed via British slang from Arabic), and "guts" for news and information. Several slang words and phrases evolved. What in the First World War had been a "base bludger", someone who hangs around headquarters avoiding the fighting (from "bludger", a British slang name for a pimp, and generally adopted as the name |
Who was the first British monarch to attend an F.A. Cup Final | 1914 FA Cup Final semi-final which finished 0–0. Liverpool matches were generally close affairs, two of their five ties went to a replay. Apart from a 5–1 victory in their third round replay against West Ham United, their biggest margin of victory was by two goals. Watched by a crowd of 72,778, including King George V, who became the first reigning monarch to attend a FA Cup Final and to present the trophy to the winners, the first half was goalless. Burnley opened the scoring the 57th minute, when ex-Evertonian Bert Freeman scored. Liverpool could not find an equaliser in the remaining minutes and | British Knockout Cup British Knockout Cup The British Knockout Cup is an Elite Ice Hockey League competition originally created to fill the void left by the demise of the London Racers in the 2005-06 season. The first winners of the cup were the Sheffield Steelers who defeated the Coventry Blaze on penalty shots in the final. The format was a home/away affair in the first year of play. In the 2006-07 season, the format was altered with the final being a one off game. The 2006-07 cup was won by the Cardiff Devils, when they beat the Coventry Blaze 3-0 at the Coventry |
How many of William the Conqueror's sons became king of England | William II of England William II of England William II (Old Norman: "Williame"; – 2 August 1100), the third son of William the Conqueror, was King of England from 1087 until 1100, with powers over Normandy, and influence in Scotland. He was less successful in extending control into Wales. William is commonly known as William Rufus ("Rufus" being Latin for "the Red"), perhaps because of his ruddy appearance or, more likely, due to having red hair as a child that grew out in later life. William was a figure of complex temperament, capable of both bellicosity and flamboyance. He did not marry, nor did | Statue of William the Conqueror Statue of William the Conqueror The statue of William the Conqueror is located in his birthplace, Falaise, Calvados, about 30 kilometres (19 miles) southeast of Caen, France. It depicts William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy and later King of England, on a horse, and is surrounded by statues of his six predecessors. It is the work of the French sculptor Louis Rochet. The monument is a bronze statue on a granite pedestal. Surrounding the pedestal are six other statues representing the first six dukes of Normandy: Rollo, William I, Richard I, Richard II, Richard III, and Robert I. There |
What is the chemical symbol for sodium | Sodium sodium fires are prevented using different design measures called catch pan systems. They collect leaking sodium into a leak-recovery tank where it is isolated from oxygen. Sodium Sodium is a chemical element with symbol Na (from Latin "natrium") and atomic number 11. It is a soft, silvery-white, highly reactive metal. Sodium is an alkali metal, being in group 1 of the periodic table, because it has a single electron in its outer shell that it readily donates, creating a positively charged ion—the Na cation. Its only stable isotope is Na. The free metal does not occur in nature, but must | Sodium bisulfite Sodium bisulfite Sodium bisulfite (or sodium bisulphite, sodium hydrogen sulfite) is a chemical compound with the chemical formula NaHSO. Sodium bisulfite is a food additive with E number E222. This salt of bisulfite can be prepared by bubbling sulfur dioxide in a solution of sodium carbonate in water. Sodium bisulfite in contact with chlorine bleach (aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite) will generate heat and form sodium bisulfate and sodium chloride. Sodium bisulfite can be prepared by bubbling excess sulfur dioxide through a solution of suitable base, such as sodium hydroxide or sodium bicarbonate. Sodium bisulfite is a weakly acidic species |
What date is St. Swithin's Day | What Time Is Love? TVT label, including a live version taken from "The "What Time is Love?" Story". The KLF's "Pure Trance" series was originally envisaged as comprising five "Original" 12" singles and five "Remix" 12"s. The "Pure Trance Remix" single of "What Time Is Love?" was released on 24 July 1989. KLF 004T was re-released in the UK on 15 July 1991, during the peak of The KLF's chart success, along with both "Pure Trance" mixes of "3 a.m. Eternal". Key "What Time Is Love? (Live from Trancentral)" was released on 30 July 1990, and the single of remixes "(Remodelled & Remixed)" followed | Church of St Swithin, Ganarew Church of St Swithin, Ganarew The Church of St Swithin is a parish church in Ganarew, south Herefordshire, England. The parish church is dedicated to St Swithin, although the 1868 National Gazetteer notes a dedication to St Luke. The parish is within the Church of England Diocese of Hereford, and the church is a Grade II listed building. Giles Rawlines served as rector in 1624. Tamalanc, a son of Brychan, may be the same person as "Tiuinauc" (or "Tywinauc" or "Tywannog"), a patron saint connected with the Church of St Swithin's history. The church was rebuilt in about 1850 by |
Who had a No 1 in the 70's with Knowing Me Knowing You | Knowing Me, Knowing You chart. In the UK, "Knowing Me, Knowing You" was the biggest single of 1977. It also began a second run of three consecutive #1 singles for ABBA (followed by "The Name of the Game" and "Take a Chance on Me"), the group having already had three consecutive #1 hit singles in 1976. As of September 1979 in Germany "Knowing Me, Knowing You" has sold over 300,000 units. Knowing Me, Knowing You "Knowing Me, Knowing You" is a hit single recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA. The song was written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson, with Anni-Frid Lyngstad | Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge (TV series) streaming on Netflix. In the original transmission of episode 2, the dialogue in which the character Gary Barker referred to 'punching Jessica Tandy' had to be dubbed over with a reference to Angela Lansbury instead, due to the very recent death of the former. "The Austin Chronicle" called it "one of the most hilarious satirical comedies in recent memory". Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge (TV series) Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge (also known as Knowing Me Knowing You) is a BBC Television comedy series of six episodes (beginning 16 September 1994), and a Christmas special "Knowing |
Which one hit wonder took Oh Lori to number 8 in 1977 | Alessi Brothers was not released until 2008, after the band reformed. After the early years with Barnaby Bye, the brothers continued writing, recording and performing as the duo, Alessi. In 1977, their song "Oh Lori" (from the 1976 album "Alessi") reached no. 8 and spent 11 weeks in the UK Singles Chart and became a Top Ten hit in seventeen more countries. In May 1982, "Put Away Your Love" (from 1982 album "Long Time Friends") reached No. 71 and spent 4 weeks in the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100. They also charted in Brazil with "Sad Songs" (from the album "Alessi", 1977), "All | One-hit wonder One-hit wonder A one-hit wonder is any entity that achieves mainstream popularity, often for only one piece of work, and becomes known among the general public solely for that momentary success. The term is most commonly used in regard to music performers with only one top-40 hit single that overshadows their other work. Sometimes, artists dubbed "one-hit wonders" in a particular country have had great success in other countries. In "The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders," music journalist Wayne Jancik defines a one-hit wonder as "an act that has won a position on [the] national, pop, Top 40 record chart |
What was Britain's first Eurovision Song Contest entry | Eurovision Song Contest 2005 The spokespersons are shown alongside each country. Eurovision Song Contest: Kyiv 2005 was the official compilation album of the 2005 Contest, put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by EMI Records and CMC International on 2 May 2005. The album featured all 39 songs that entered in the 2005 contest, including the semi-finalists that failed to qualify into the grand final. The original cover designed for the album was changed after 's withdrawal from the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 after announcing they would show advertisements over the Israeli entry. Had they entered, they would have been on track | Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Croatia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden. The Croatian entry was selected through an internal selection, organised by Croatian broadcaster Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT). Klapa s Mora represented Croatia with the song "Mižerja", which failed to qualify from the first semi-final of the contest, placing 13th and scoring 38 points. On 26 November 2012, HRT revealed that their selection process to select an entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 would involve sending a traditional Croatian style Klapa. A song submission was opened for Croatian composers to submit songs in |
What was Glenn Miller's given first christian name | Glenn Miller (a former arranger for Tommy Dorsey), Billy May and to a much smaller extent, George Williams, who worked very briefly with the band as well as Andrews Sisters arranger Vic Schoen According to Norman Leyden, "[s]everal others [besides Leyden] arranged for Miller in the service, including Jerry Gray, Ralph Wilkinson, Mel Powell, and Steve Steck." In 1943, Glenn Miller wrote "Glenn Miller's Method for Orchestral Arranging", published by the Mutual Music Society in New York, a one hundred sixteen page book with illustrations and scores that explains how he wrote his musical arrangements. "Major Alton Glenn Miller (Army Serial No. | Christian (given name) Christian (given name) Christian originated as a Baptismal name used by persons of the Christian religion. It is now a given name born by males, and by females as Christiana and other feminized variants. An historically commonly used abbreviation, used for example on English 17th century church monuments and pedigrees, is "Xpian", using the Greek Chi Rho Christogram "Χρ", short for "Χριστός", Christ. The Greek form of the baptismal name is "Χριστιανός", a Christian. The name denotes a follower of Christ, thus a Christian. It has been used as a given name since the Middle Ages, at first as a |
Which Australian city has a cricket ground called The Oval | Berri Oval West Indies win by 91 runs. Senior cricket hasn't returned to the ground since. In August 2003, Greek football club Panathinaikos played the Australian Australs at the ground as part of the International Soccer Challenge. The oval has also seen three Australian Football League (AFL) preseason games played, all three of which featured Adelaide. The opponents were Geelong (1998), Port Adelaide (2004) and Hawthorn (2009). Numerous SANFL matches have also been played at the Berri Oval. The following table summarises the ODI centuries scored at Berri Oval. Berri Oval Berri Oval is a cricket ground in the town of Berri, | Box Hill City Oval Box Hill City Oval Box Hill City Oval is an Australian rules football and cricket stadium located in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia. It is the home ground of the Box Hill Hawks Football Club which plays in the Victorian Football League, and the Box Hill Cricket Club which plays in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association. Box Hill City Oval was officially opened in 1937. The capacity of the venue is approximately 10,000 people. The largest official attendance at the ground was on 14 August 1983 when 6,200 people attended a VFA game between Box Hill and Oakleigh. In more recent |
What was the name of the horse that Bob Champion rode to victory in the 1981 Grand National | 1981 Grand National 1981 Grand National The 1981 Grand National was the 135th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 4 April 1981. It is remembered for the winning horse Aldaniti, who had recovered from chronic leg problems, and his jockey Bob Champion, who had recovered from cancer. Aldaniti's injuries dated back to 1976, while Champion had been diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1979. However, Aldaniti was nursed back to optimum form ahead of the race, and Champion overcame lengthy hospitalisation and chemotherapy to win the National by a distance of four lengths. | Champion the Wonder Horse series; he was one of several horses that Autry rode in that production. After learning about the horse through stunt man and movie horse wrangler Tracey Layne, Autry paid $75 for the original Champion, whose sire was a Morgan trotting horse from Ardmore, Oklahoma. Trained to perform numerous tricks, Champion could untie knots, fall, roll over and play dead, come at Autry's whistle, bow, and shake his head yes and no. In one film he pushes Autry into the arms of his leading lady June Storey. By 1939 his reported worth was $25,000. The original Champion died in 1943, at |
In which sport did Simon Terry win Olympic bronze in Barcelona | Simon Terry team and got eliminated with 214–210. The Chinese went on to win the bronze medal. At the 2012 Summer Olympics Terry reached the last 32, losing to Dan Olaru. In the team event, Great Britain lost to Ukraine in the last 16. Simon Terry Simon Duncan Terry (born 27 March 1974) is a British archer from Grantham in Lincolnshire, England. Simon Duncan Terry was born on 27 March 1974 in Stirling, the son of Mike and Janice Terry. With the help of his father, Terry first began practising archery when he was eight years old. At the age of nine | Sport in Chile and bronze medals. In the Pan American Games, Chilean athlete Diego Yánez won a bronze medal in 1991, and Sergio Cárdenas also won bronze in 1995. Three Chilean representatives have qualified and participated in the Olympic Games: Diego Yánez and Humberto Norambuena in Barcelona 1992 (when taekwondo was a demonstration sport), and Felipe Soto in Sydney 2000 (as an official sport). Chilean athletes have won a great number of medals in Taekwondo, and in the World Cup, the South American Championships, the Pan American Games and the World Games. Cycling is one of the most practiced recreational sports in Chile, |
Which eastern capital is served by Queen Alia airport | Queen Alia International Airport also available around the clock. A Rent-a-Car service is also available at the airport. QAIA's parking facilities are divided into three key areas: A shuttle bus is available to transport passengers between the terminal and car park. Queen Alia International Airport Queen Alia International Airport (; transliterated: Matar Al-Malikah Alia Ad-Dowali) is Jordan's main and largest airport and is located in Zizya south of the capital city, Amman. It is named after Queen Alia, who died in a helicopter crash in 1977. The airport is home to the country's national flag carrier, Royal Jordanian Airlines and serves as a major | Queen Alia International Airport As part of its public-private partnership with the Government of Jordan, AIG closely collaborates with the Government on a day-to-day basis on all issues related to the airport. A dedicated project management unit within the Jordanian Ministry of Transport oversees the project for the Government. The Ministry of Transport receives full annual financial statements as well as quarterly financial and operational reports. Queen Alia Airport has various amounts of cargo traffic, both unscheduled and scheduled. Various airlines including Royal Jordanian Cargo, operate unscheduled freighter flights in and out of Queen Alia Airport to various parts of the world. As of |
Which American state capital is served by William B Hartsfield airport | William B. Hartsfield William B. Hartsfield William Berry Hartsfield, Sr. (March 1, 1890 – February 22, 1971), was an American politician who served as the 49th and 51st Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. His tenure extended from 1937 to 1941 and again from 1942 to 1962, making him the longest-serving mayor of his native Atlanta, Georgia. Hartsfield is credited with developing Atlanta's airport into a national aviation center and ensuring a good water supply with the completion of the Buford Dam. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is named in Hartsfield's honor as well as a later mayor, Maynard Jackson, who led the modernization of the | Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport it remained the busiest airport in the world with 104 million passengers. Hartsfield–Jackson is the primary hub of Delta, and is a focus city for low-cost carriers Frontier, Southwest, and Spirit. With just over 1,000 flights a day, the Delta hub is the world's largest hub. Delta Air Lines flew 75.4% of the airport's passengers in February 2016, Southwest flew 9.2%, and American Airlines flew 2.5%. In addition to hosting Delta corporate headquarters, Hartsfield–Jackson is also the home of Delta's Technical Operations Center, which is the airline's primary maintenance, repair and overhaul arm. The airport is mostly in unincorporated areas |
Kranebitten airport is in which European country | Innsbruck Airport Innsbruck Airport Innsbruck Airport , also known locally as "Kranebitten Airport", is the largest international airport in Tyrol in western Austria. It is located approximately 2.5 miles from the centre of Innsbruck. The airport, which was opened in 1925, handles regional flights around the Alps, as well as seasonal international traffic to further European destinations. During the winter, activity increases significantly, due to the high number of skiers travelling to the region. The terminal has no airbridges, mobile stairways or the aircraft's own airstairs are used for boarding. The airport can handle aircraft up to the size of a Boeing | Innsbruck Airport before using it. Innsbruck Airport served as the base of Tyrolean Airways and Welcome Air until their demise, although the newly established independent technical division "Tyrolean Airways Luftfahrzeuge Technik GmbH" remains here. Innsbruck also used to accommodate the head offices of Air Alps. The following airlines offer regular scheduled and charter flights at Innsbruck Airport: The airport is connected to the city and to Innsbruck main station by city bus "F". The bus runs every 15 minutes and takes 18 minutes to reach the city. Innsbruck Airport Innsbruck Airport , also known locally as "Kranebitten Airport", is the largest international |
In which country is Townsville Airport | Townsville Airport Townsville Airport Townsville Airport is a major Australian regional airport that services the city of Townsville, Queensland. The airport is also known as Townsville International Airport, and Garbutt Airport, a reference to its location in the Townsville suburb of Garbutt. Townsville Airport is serviced by major Australian domestic and regional airlines, and in 2011/12 handled 1.7 million passengers making it the 11th busiest airport in Australia. Townsville International Airport is a common-use civilian and defence facility, sharing access with RAAF Base Townsville. It is used as a staging point for Australian Defence Force (ADF) operations within Australia and internationally. The | Townsville Airport runway was extended to to take the heavier aircraft. The work was nearly finished in early December 1941 when the Pacific War began. During 1942, the defence establishment in the Townsville region increased enormously, and five other military airfields were built in the immediate vicinity of Townsville. To avoid confusion, RAAF Base Townsville was renamed RAAF Base Garbutt, the name of the nearby railway siding, where there were stockyards owned by Garbutt Brothers, wholesale butchers. The civil airport continued to operate during the war, and retained the name Townsville Airport. RAAF Base Garbutt was renamed RAAF Base Townsville in 1951. |
Which capital city is served by Hellinikon Airport | Hellinikon Stadium Hellinikon Stadium Hellinikon Stadium is a stadium located at the Hellinikon Olympic Complex in Hellinikon, Athens, located approximately 8 kilometres south of the center of Athens, near Glyfada on the Aegean Sea coast. Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. currently plays its home matches there. The complex was built on the site of the former Hellinikon International Airport for the staging of the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Paralympics and consisted of the following venues: Hellinikon Indoor Arena (Basketball and Team handball); Hellinikon Fencing Hall; Olympic Hockey Stadium (Field hockey); Helliniko Baseball Centre; Hellinikon Olympic Softball Stadium; and Hellinikon Slalom Centre (Whitewater | Capital City Airport (Pennsylvania) Capital City Airport (Pennsylvania) Capital City Airport is a public airport in Fairview Township, York County, Pennsylvania, three miles (5 km) southeast of Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania. Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but Capital City Airport is CXY to the FAA and HAR to the IATA (which assigned CXY to Cat Cays Airport, Bimini Islands, Bahamas.) The airport is the home airport for the Pennsylvania Bureau of Aviation and the Pennsylvania State Police. It averages more than 57,000 corporate, charter, and private aircraft operations a year. Owned and operated by |
Alfred, Farmingdale and Pixie are varieties of which fruit | Tree of 40 Fruit the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, which was closing due to funding cuts. He began to graft buds from some of the over 250 heritage varieties grown there, some unique, onto a stock tree. Over the course of about five years the tree accumulated branches from forty different "donor" trees, each with a different fruit, including almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum varieties. Each spring the tree's blossom is a mix of different shades of red, pink and white. , Van Aken had produced 16 Trees of 40 Fruit, installed in a variety of private and public locations, | Pixie mandarin Pixie mandarin Pixie mandarin, also called Pixie tangerine ("Citrus reticulata" Blanco), is a variety of mandarin that is late ripening and seedless. Pixie was developed by Howard Brett Frost at the University of California, Riverside Citrus Research Center in 1927, and was eventually released at 1965 by his colleagues James W. Cameron and Robert K. Soost. Frost was trying to cross two mandarin varieties, King and Dancy, to combine the late ripening of the King tangor with the richness in flavor of Dancy. The result was Kincy, which was large and seedy. Pixie is the second generation progeny of an |
With which means of transport has Cardington been associated in the past | Cardington, Bedfordshire Cardington, Bedfordshire Cardington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England. Part of the ancient hundred of Wixamtree, the settlement is best known in connection with the Cardington airship works founded by Short Brothers during World War I, which later became an RAF training station. However most of the former RAF station is actually in the parish of Eastcotts, as is the settlement of Shortstown, which was originally built by Short Brothers for its workers. The old village of Cardington is located to the north east of Shortstown and the RAF station, and houses | Listed buildings in Cardington, Shropshire from the 14th to the 18th century. The other listed buildings are a church retaining some Norman features, items in the churchyard, a country house and associated structures, a public house, a former school, a former watermill, and two pumps. Listed buildings in Cardington, Shropshire Cardington is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 48 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, three are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. |
Why would a motorist use ethylene glycol in his car | 1985 diethylene glycol wine scandal recipe must have been drawn up by a knowledgeable wine chemist consulting for a large-scale producer. Diethylene glycol (DEG) was otherwise used as an industrial chemical or as antifreeze, although ethylene glycol is more common for that application. Adulteration of products with diethylene glycol has led to thousands of deaths worldwide since the first recorded case: the Elixir sulfanilamide incident in 1937. Most of the recalled wines contained up to a few grams of DEG per litre (and many only a fraction of a gram), which meant that dozens of bottles would have to be consumed in a limited period | Ethylene glycol process was commercialized and offered for licenses. Ethylene glycol is primarily used in antifreeze formulations (50%) and as a raw material in the manufacture of polyesters such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) (40%). The major use of ethylene glycol is as a medium for convective heat transfer in, for example, automobiles and liquid-cooled computers. Ethylene glycol is also commonly used in chilled-water air-conditioning systems that place either the chiller or air handlers outside, or systems that must cool below the freezing temperature of water. In geothermal heating/cooling systems, ethylene glycol is the fluid that transports heat through the use of a |
Which British motor manufacturer used to make the Westminster | Austin Westminster Austin Westminster The Austin Westminster series are large saloon and estate cars that were sold by the British manufacturer Austin from 1954, replacing the A70 Hereford. The Westminster line was produced as the A90, A95, A99, A105, and A110 until 1968 when the new Austin 3-Litre took its place. Essentially badge-engineered versions of the Farina Westminsters were also produced using the premium Wolseley and Vanden Plas marques. 101,634 Westminsters were built. The Westminster name was previously used by the Austin Motor Company in the 1930s for a four light version of the 16/6 and the Heavy 12/4. The A90 Six | The Pick Motor Company The Pick Motor Company The Pick Motor Company Limited of Stamford, Lincolnshire was a British motor vehicle manufacturer that flourished between 1899 and 1925. It also traded briefly under the name New Pick Motor Company. Founder John (Jack) Henry Pick (1857–1954) was a blacksmith. He had experience of working with Blackstone & Co, a Stamford farm implement maker which had begun to make oil engines. Jack Pick became a bicycle dealer before he started to make cars in 1898. A factory was built in Blackfriars Street in the centre of Stamford in 1903 but disagreements with investors led to its |
The first railway line in Africa linked Cairo to which city | Cape to Cairo Railway Cape to Cairo Railway, but economics, including the Great Depression of the 1930s, prevented its completion before World War II. After World War II, the decolonisation of Africa and the establishment of independent countries removed the colonial rationale for the project and increased the project's difficulty, effectively ending the project. Egypt has a rail system that as early as 1854 connected Alexandria and Cairo, and that currently goes as far south as Aswan. In Egypt the railway is . After a ferry link up on the Nile, the railway continues in Sudan from Wadi Halfa to Khartoum at the narrow | Cape to Cairo Railway Cape to Cairo Railway The Cape to Cairo Railway is an uncompleted project to cross Africa from south to north by rail. This plan was initiated at the end of the 19th century, during the time of Western colonial rule, largely under the vision of Cecil Rhodes, in the attempt to connect adjacent African possessions of the British Empire through a continuous line from Cape Town, South Africa to Cairo, Egypt. While most sections of the Cape to Cairo railway are in operation, a major part is missing between northern Sudan and Uganda. The original proposal for a Cape to |
What is the only member of the hyena family to feed on termites | Hyena The aardwolf is primarily an insectivore, specialised for feeding on termites of the genus "Trinervitermes" and "Hodotermes", which it consumes by licking them up with its long, broad tongue. An aardwolf can eat 300,000 "Trinervitermes" on a single outing. Spotted hyenas vary in their folkloric and mythological depictions, depending on the ethnic group from which the tales originate. It is often difficult to know whether spotted hyenas are the specific hyena species featured in such stories, particularly in West Africa, as both spotted and striped hyenas are often given the same names. In western African tales, spotted hyenas are sometimes | Hyena and is the only survivor of the dog-like hyena lineage. Its success is partly attributed to its insectivorous diet, for which it faced no competition from canids crossing from North America. Its unrivaled ability to digest the terpene excretions from soldier termites is likely a modification of the strong digestive system its ancestors used to digest fetid carrion. The striped hyena ("Hyaena hyaena") may have evolved from "H. namaquensis" of Pliocene Africa. Striped hyena fossils are common in Africa, with records going back as far as the Middle Pleistocene and even to the Villafranchian. As fossil striped hyenas are absent |
In the Bible what was the name of King David's wife who had been married to Nabal | Women in the Bible but says only that they took her answer back to the king (verse 20) thereby demonstrating there was nothing unusual in a female prophet. Abigail was the wife of Nabal, who refused to assist the future king David after having accepted his help. Abigail, realizing David's anger will be dangerous to the entire household, acts immediately. She intercepts David bearing gifts and, with what Frymer-Kensky describes as Abigail's "brilliant rhetoric", convinces David not to kill anyone. When Nabal later dies, David weds her. Frymer-Kensky says "Once again an intelligent determined woman is influential far beyond the confines of patriarchy" showing | Nabal being the enemy. Nabal According to the 1st Book of Samuel Chapter 25, Nabal ( "Nāḇāl", "fool"), was a rich Calebite, described as harsh and surly. He is featured in a story in which he is threatened by David over an insult, and ultimately killed by Yahweh. According to the biblical narrative, David (who was not yet king) and his band of men, who had been fleeing from King Saul, went to the Wilderness of Paran. The account states that Nabal lived in the city of Maon, and owned much land in the town of Carmel, as well as many |
What is the fish used in the Jewish speciality gefiltefisch | Gefilte fish referred to as "karp po żydowsku" ("carp Jewish-style"), is a traditional dish in some Polish homes (more commonly in the northern regions near the Baltic Sea), served on Christmas Eve (for Twelve-dish supper) and on Holy Saturday. Traditionally, carp, pike, mullet, or whitefish were used to make gefilte fish, but more recently other fish with white flesh such as Nile perch have been used, and there is a pink variation using salmon. There are even vegetarian variations. Fish fillets are ground with eggs, onion, bread or matzo crumbs, and spices to produce a paste or dough which is then boiled | What the Fish What the Fish What the Fish (stylized as What the F!$#), produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, is a comedy film starring Dimple Kapadia and directed by Gurmeet Singh. It released on 13 December 2013. Sudha Mishra is an irate divorcee who begrudgingly entrusts Sumit, her niece’s fiancé, with the responsibility of taking care of her house while she is way visiting her son. And her most important instruction is to feed her fish- Mishti- and water her plants. His very acceptance into the family depends on his ability to do this. When she returns a month later to her |
Which canal joins Loch Ness to the Moray Firth | River Ness end of the Beauly Firth, which is a continuation of the Moray Firth, at Kessock. The northern section of the Caledonian Canal passes partly through the River Ness and partly alongside it. The river Ness is of glacial origin. Although of short length the River Ness has one of the highest average discharge rates in the UK of 11,000 cu ft/s (300m³/s). Although the River Ness starts at Dochgarroch weir at the downstream end of Loch Dochfour it is supplied by Loch Ness and so all the rivers flowing into Loch Ness are part of the River Ness catchment area: | Moray Firth the Moray Firth and Highland, Moray and Aberdeenshire to the south. The firth has more than 800 kilometres (about 500 miles) of coastline, much of which is cliff. A number of rivers flow into the Moray Firth, including the River Ness, the River Findhorn and the River Spey. Various smaller firths and bays are inlets of the firth, including the Cromarty Firth and the Dornoch Firth. The Pentland Firth has its eastern mouth at the Moray Firth's northern boundary. The Moray Firth is effectively two firths, the Inner Moray Firth , which was traditionally known as the Firth of Inverness, |
What is the county town of Mayo | Mayo, County Mayo is the local Gaelic football team. They compete at all underage levels as well as senior and junior football. Mayo, County Mayo Mayo or Mayo Abbey () is a village in County Mayo, Ireland. Although it bears the same name as the county, it is not the county seat, which is Castlebar. Mayo Abbey is a small historic village in south Mayo approximately 16 km to the south of Castlebar and 10 km north west of Claremorris. The village was an important centre in the Gaelic and Anglo-Saxon Christian world in the seventh and eighth centuries. St. Colmán, Bishop of | Westport, County Mayo Connaught Cup in 1942, 1945, 1949, 1961, 1974, 1987 and 2012 along with numerous Mayo titles. Westport Rugby Club are located in Carrowholly, a few kilometres outside the town. League and Cawley cup champions in 2016 and junior cup champions in 2015. The Mayo Sailing Club is located a few kilometres out of town in Rosmoney. Westport, County Mayo Westport (, historically anglicised as "Cahernamart") is a town in County Mayo in Ireland. It is at the south-east corner of Clew Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on the west coast of Ireland. Westport is a popular tourist destination |
Which one hit wonder took Tongue Tied to number 17 in 1993 | Red Dwarf The first two series used a relatively sombre instrumental version of the closing theme for the opening titles; from series III onwards this switched to a more upbeat version. Goodall also wrote music for the show's various songs, including "Tongue Tied", with lyrics written by Grant and Naylor. Danny John-Jules (credited as 'The Cat') re-orchestrated and released "Tongue Tied" in October 1993; it reached number 17 on the UK charts. Goodall himself sang "The Rimmer Song" heard during the series VII episode "Blue", to which Chris Barrie mimed. In 1998, on the tenth anniversary of the show's first airing (and | Tongue Tied (Faber Drive song) Tongue Tied (Faber Drive song) "Tongue Tied" is the second single from Faber Drive's debut album, "Seven Second Surgery". The song is about a man struggling to keep his relationship together with his girlfriend, and how he cannot find the right words to please her. It did very well on the charts, peaking at number 17 on the Canadian Hot 100, and outperformed the previous single, "Second Chance", which reached number 22. It was number 1 on Musique Plus in Quebec and number 1 on the MuchMusic Countdown. In the video, a girl is taking a bath while a boy |
On which of the pipes of a set of bagpipes is the tune fingered | Bagpipes each other). Double reeds are used with both conical- and parallel-bored chanters while single reeds are generally (although not exclusively) limited to parallel-bored chanters. In general, double-reed chanters are found in pipes of Western Europe while single-reed chanters appear in most other regions. Most bagpipes have at least one drone: a pipe which is generally not fingered but rather produces a constant harmonizing note throughout play (usually the tonic note of the chanter). Exceptions are generally those pipes which have a double-chanter instead. A drone is most commonly a cylindrically-bored tube with a single reed, although drones with double reeds | Bagpipes Bagpipes Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Scottish Great Highland bagpipes are the best known in the Anglophone world; however, bagpipes have been played for a millennium or more throughout large parts of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, including Turkey, the Caucasus, and around the Persian Gulf. The term "bagpipe" is equally correct in the singular or plural, though pipers usually refer to the bagpipes as "the pipes", "a set of pipes" or "a stand of pipes". A set of bagpipes minimally consists |
Which of the many songs in Mary Poppins won an Oscar | Mary Poppins (soundtrack) that more than 30 songs were written at various stages of the film's development. No cast recordings of any of these songs have been released to the public, only demos or later performances done by the songwriters — with the exception of the rooftop reprise of "Chim Chim Cher-ee" and the "smoke staircase yodel" mentioned below. The Compass Sequence, a precursor to "Jolly Holiday", was to be a multiple-song sequence. A number of possible musical components have been identified: Mary Poppins (soundtrack) Mary Poppins: Original Cast Soundtrack is the soundtrack album of the 1964 film "Mary Poppins", with music and | Mary Poppins (film) Mary Poppins (film) Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers. The screenplay is by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, based on P. L. Travers's book series "Mary Poppins". The film, which combines live-action and animation, stars Julie Andrews in her feature film debut as Mary Poppins, who visits a dysfunctional family in London and employs her unique brand of lifestyle to improve the family's dynamic. Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, and Glynis Johns are featured in supporting roles. The film |
Which group consists of the Duggans and the Brennans | The Duggans The Duggans The Duggans () were an Irish musical duo from Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland. The twin brothers Noel and Pádraig Duggan came to prominence in the 1970s with the folk group Clannad, and took a ten-year break after winning a Grammy Award for their 1998 album "Landmarks". They later toured extensively with their band Norland Wind. They were identified and introduced to television by Tony MacMahon, and in 2005 released their first studio album "Rubicon", which featured Moya Brennan, Finbar Furey and Órla Fallon among others. It was met with critical acclaim and sold well throughout Ireland. Pádraig Duggan | The Duggans died in 2016. Twins Pádraig and Noel Duggan were born Ó Dúgáin on 23 January 1949 in Gweedore, County Donegal. Pádraig died in Dublin on 9 August 2016. In 2005, the Duggans recorded their début studio album, made up of traditional songs and ballads in the Irish language along with self-penned songs in English. The album features long-time collaborators Thomas Loefke and Kerstin Blodig of Norland Wind fame, Moya Brennan, Brídín Brennan and Celtic Woman's Órla Fallon. The Duggans The Duggans () were an Irish musical duo from Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland. The twin brothers Noel and Pádraig Duggan came |
What was the name of the Wookey in Star Wars | Star Wars: Flight of the Falcon Star Wars: Flight of the Falcon Star Wars: Flight of the Falcon is a video game based on the events of the original "Star Wars" trilogy of films, developed by British company Pocket Studios. Published by THQ for the Game Boy Advance, the game lets the player pilot various space ships in the battles against the antagonistic Galactic Empire. The story follows the pilots of the space ship "Millennium Falcon", Han Solo and his Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca, as they help save the galaxy from the Empire's forces. "Flight of the Falcon" is a 3D shooter game and was developed by | The Star Wars Corporation The Star Wars Corporation The Star Wars Corporation, Inc. (SWC) was a company founded by George Lucas in 1973. It was a subsidiary of his Lucasfilm production company, set up to control various legal and financial aspects of his 1977 movie "Star Wars", including copyright, and sequel and merchandising rights. It also produced the 1978 "Star Wars Holiday Special" for CBS. By 1980, the company had been discontinued and its business was absorbed into the various divisions of its parent company Lucasfilm Ltd. The corporation's name may still be seen on certain "Star Wars" related items, such as the end |
Who was Fred Astaire's dancing partner in the musical film The Band Wagon | The Band Wagon The Band Wagon The Band Wagon is a 1953 American musical-comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. It tells the story of an aging musical star who hopes a Broadway show will restart his career. However, the play's director wants to make it a pretentious retelling of the "Faust" legend and brings in a prima ballerina who clashes with the star. Along with "Singin' in the Rain" (1952), it is regarded as one of the finest of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals, although it was only a modest box-office success on first release. The songs were written | The Band Wagon (musical) and scenic design by Albert R. Johnson. The cast included Fred Astaire, Adele Astaire, Helen Broderick, Tilly Losch, and Frank Morgan. According to Steven Suskin, "very few people are around who saw "The Band Wagon", but they all seem to insist that it was the finest Broadway revue ever." According to Furia and Lasser, "The Band Wagon" is "arguably the greatest of the 'little' revues of the 1930s". Ken Bloom states that "The Band Wagon" "is considered the greatest of all revues." The show introduced one of the best Schwartz-Dietz songs, "Dancing in the Dark", which was also the title |
In cricket what name is given to a left handed googly | Googly spin bowler, and can be one of the bowler's most effective most important wicket-taking balls. It is used infrequently, because its effectiveness comes mostly from its surprise value. Left-arm unorthodox spinners, commonly known as "chinaman" bowlers, can bowl with the googly action using the left arm. This delivery is usually known as a chinaman googly and turns away from a right-handed batsman, like a leg break or left-arm orthodox spinner. The googly is similar in principle to the doosra, the ball from an off-spinner which turns the opposite way from his stock ball. Chambers Dictionary describes the whole of etymology | Googly Googly In cricket, a googly is a type of deceptive delivery bowled by a right-arm leg spin bowler. In Australia, it is occasionally referred to as a Bosie (or Bosey), an eponym in honour of its inventor Bernard Bosanquet. A leg spin bowler bowls in a leg spin way but it goes in the off side direction. While a normal leg break spins from the leg to the off side, away from a right-handed batsman, a googly spins the other way, from off to leg, into a right-handed batsman (and is distinct from an off break delivery). The bowler achieves |
Where would you be able to look at the Graham Sutherland tapestry titled Christ in Glory | Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph is a large tapestry by Graham Sutherland, installed at the north end of the new Coventry Cathedral in Coventry, England, as a focal point to the nave. It was unveiled in March 1962, shortly before the cathedral was consecrated in May 1962. The work measures , and is reputed to be the largest tapestry made in one single piece. The 14th-century Gothic cathedral in Coventry was severely damaged in November 1940 by Luftwaffe bombs dropped during the Second World War. Rather than being repaired, the ruins were left | Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph was built up using Aubusson tapestry techniques, using blocks of 900 different colours to create the different shades. A team of 12 worked on the tapestry for 2 years, under the supervision of Marie Cuttoli, and Sutherland visited 9 times to check and correct the work. It is reputed to be the largest tapestry made in one single piece (the Guinness Book of Records lists a tapestry in China, , made in 2015, as the largest). It weighs over one tonne. It was restored in 2015. Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph is a |
What name is given to the style of art invented by Picasso and Braque in which the subject is reduced to basic geometric solids | Georges Braque village scenes, for example, Braque frequently reduced an architectural structure to a geometric form approximating a cube, yet rendered its shading so that it looked both flat and three-dimensional by fragmenting the image. He showed this in the painting "Houses at l'Estaque". Beginning in 1909, Braque began to work closely with Pablo Picasso who had been developing a similar proto-Cubist style of painting. At the time, Pablo Picasso was influenced by Gauguin, Cézanne, African masks and Iberian sculpture while Braque was interested mainly in developing Cézanne's ideas of multiple perspectives. “A comparison of the works of Picasso and Braque during | What Is Art? inclusive: "jokes", "home decoration", and "church services" may all be considered art as long as they convey feeling. It is also amoral: "[f]eelings … very bad and very good, if only they infect the reader … constitute the subject of art". Tolstoy also notes that the "sincerity" of the artist—that is, the extent to which the artist "experiences the feeling he conveys"—influences the infection. While Tolstoy's basic conception of art is broad and amoral, his idea of "good" art is strict and moralistic, based on what he sees as the function of art in the development of humanity: just as |
What was the name of the TV series that starred Glenn Ford | Glenn Ford were Westerns. He suggested doing a Western series, instead, which resulted in the "modern-day Western" series, "Cade's County". Ford played southwestern Sheriff Cade for one season (1971–1972) in a mix of police mystery and western drama. In "The Family Holvak" (1975–1976), Ford portrayed a Depression-era preacher in a family drama, reprising the same character he had played in the TV film, "The Greatest Gift". In 1978 Ford was host, presenter and narrator of the disaster documentary series 'When Havoc Struck'. In 1981, Ford co-starred with Melissa Sue Anderson in the slasher film "Happy Birthday to Me". In 1991, Ford agreed | The Rounders (TV series) The Rounders (TV series) The Rounders was an American western-style sitcom about two cowboys on the fictitious J.L. Ranch in Texas. It starred Ron Hayes as Ben Jones and Patrick Wayne, a son of John Wayne, as Howdy Lewis. The M-G-M television series aired on ABC from September 6, 1966, to January 3, 1967. The program was loosely based on a 1965 film of the same name, "The Rounders", starring Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda, set near Sedona, Arizona, rather than Texas. Chill Wills, a native Texan and formerly of CBS's "Frontier Circus", appeared as the shady ranch owner, Jim |
In Greek mythology there were nine muses which one was the muse of epic poetry | Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse paintings of Melpoméne, she is represented with a tragic mask and also often holds in her other hand a knife or club. In Greek mythology, she is the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who had eight other daughters, Melpoméne's sisters and the eight other muses are: Calliope, muse of epic poetry; Clio, muse of history; Euterpe, muse of flute playing; Terpsichore, muse of dancing; Erato, muse of erotic poetry; Thalia muse of comedy; Polyhymnia, muse of hymns; and Urania, muse of astronomy. Reynolds was inspired not only by Sarah Siddons' extreme talent to embody the tragic heroine in Macbeth, but | Muses Muses In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Muses (Ancient Greek: Μοῦσαι, "Moũsai") are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts. They are considered the source of the knowledge embodied in the poetry, lyric songs, and myths that were related orally for centuries in these ancient cultures. In current English usage, "muse" can refer in general to a person who inspires an artist, musician, or writer. The word "Muses" (, "Moũsai") perhaps came from the o-grade of the Proto-Indo-European root *"men-" ("to think") or from root *"men-" ("to tower, mountain") since all the most important cult-centres of the |
What was the name of Ronnie Barker's character in Open All Hours | Open All Hours Open All Hours Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke for the BBC. It ran for 26 episodes in four series, which premiered in 1976, 1981, 1982 and 1985. The programme developed from a television pilot broadcast in Ronnie Barker's comedy anthology series, "Seven of One" (1973). "Open All Hours" ranked eighth in the 2004 Britain's Best Sitcom poll. A sequel, entitled "Still Open All Hours", was created in 2013. The setting is a small grocer's shop in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The owner, Arkwright (Ronnie Barker), is a | Ronnie Barker television break with the satirical sketch series "The Frost Report" in 1966, where he met future collaborator, Ronnie Corbett. He joined David Frost's production company and starred in ITV shows including a short film. After rejoining the BBC, Barker found fame with the sketch show "The Two Ronnies" (1971–1987), with Ronnie Corbett. He starred in the sitcoms "Porridge", its sequel "Going Straight" and "Open All Hours". He wrote comedy under his own name, though for much of his written material after 1968 he adopted pseudonyms (including "Gerald Wiley") to avoid pre-judgments of his writing talent. He won a BAFTA for |
In which city is the American series about a bar called Cheers set | Home Is the Sailor (Cheers) promises nothing of the sort will occur again and is provisionally re-hired on the understanding that this is his last chance as Rebecca uses a seductive baseball metaphor-pun about having two outs, two strikes and "no balls". The producers intended "Cheers" to be a comedy about a comedy itself set in the Boston bar, but, as Burrows claimed, the "Sam and Diane" story arc predominated the show for five years and, as he hypothesized, would have made the bar more of a minor role and more irrelevant if Shelley Long had not left the show as Diane Chambers in 1987. | The Boys in the Bar losing regular, anti-homosexual bar customers if Cheers were to become a gay bar is depicted as sympathetic towards regulars and "a practical argument" instead of a "strong moral argument". Stephen Tropiano called this episode "the definite highlight of Season One" in "PopMatters" and, in the 2002 book "The Prime Time Closet", Tropiano called it a moral lesson about judging a person based on appearances. Nevertheless, Tropiano said that the fictional baseball player Tom Kenderson is typical of gay characters who are related to a series regular, appear just once, are exploited for delivering a message about homosexuality to the audience, |
Who plays Boycie in Fools and Horses | Only Fools and Horses Tony Dow, was first aired in the UK in September 2005. Sullivan had considered writing a sitcom around the popular characters of Boycie and Marlene (John Challis and Sue Holderness) since the mid-1980s, but it was not until the series finally ended that the idea came to fruition. "The Green Green Grass" sees Boycie and Marlene forced to leave Peckham by one-time "Only Fools and Horses" villains, the Driscoll Brothers, and has included guest appearances by Denzil (Paul Barber) and Sid (Roy Heather). A second series of "The Green Green Grass" was broadcast in the UK in October 2006, a | Sleeping Dogs Lie (Only Fools and Horses) Sleeping Dogs Lie (Only Fools and Horses) "Sleeping Dogs Lie" is an episode of the BBC sitcom, "Only Fools and Horses". It was the fifth episode of series 4 and first broadcast on 21 March 1985. In the episode, Del Boy and Rodney babysit Boycie and Marlene's cherished Great Dane, Duke. As Albert watches an old horror movie and Rodney bemoans the lack of jobs in London, Del Boy has found another opportunity to be a millionaire by babysitting Boycie and Marlene's dog, Duke. The Trotter brothers arrive at Boycie's house and meet Duke, a large Great Dane who eats |
What was Mariah Carey's first top ten entry (1990) | Mariah Carey Mariah Carey Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969 or 1970) is an American singer and songwriter. Referred to as the "Songbird Supreme" by the "Guinness World Records", she is noted for her five-octave vocal range, power, melismatic style, and signature use of the whistle register. She rose to fame in 1990 after signing to Columbia Records and releasing her eponymous debut album, which topped the US "Billboard" 200 for 11 consecutive weeks. Carey became the first and only artist to have their first five singles reach number one on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart, from "Vision of Love" to | Mariah Carey singles discography Nielsen SoundScan. Throughout her career, the singer has spent a record 79 weeks at the number one position on the Hot 100, becoming the artist with the most weeks at number one in US history. Overall, she has 24 top-ten singles in the UK and 28 top-ten songs on the US chart, placing her in fifth place for the most top tens since its inception. Mariah Carey singles discography American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey has released sixty-three official singles, six promotional singles, and has made eight guest appearances. Carey's self-titled debut album in 1990 yielded four number-one singles on |
Who did David Essex duet with on True Love Ways in 1994 | Catherine Zeta-Jones "Spartacus", entitled "Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus". Three years later, she released her first single, "In the Arms of Love", on Wayne's Wow! Records. She later sang "True Love Ways", a duet with David Essex in 1994. Zeta-Jones has featured as an advertising spokeswoman for several brands and products. She was named the global ambassador for the cosmetics company Elizabeth Arden, Inc. in 2002. Also that year, she was signed on by the phone company T-Mobile for an estimated US$10 million per year, making her the highest-paid celebrity endorser at the time. In 2017, Zeta-Jones launched her own line | True Love Ways Hayes (piano); Doris Johnson (harp); Abraham Richman (saxophone); Clifford Leeman (drums); Sylvan Shulman, Leo Kruczek, Leonard Posner, Irving Spice, Ray Free, Herbert Bourne, Julius Held and Paul Winter (violins); David Schwartz and Howard Kay (violas); and Maurice Brown and Maurice Bialkin (cellos). Holly wrote "True Love Ways" for his wife, Maria Elena Holly, as a wedding gift. On April 29, 2011, she unveiled the never-before-seen "True Love Ways" photo of their wedding kiss, now displayed at P.J. Clarke's above Table 53, the table where they became engaged while on their first date, on June 20, 1958. Mickey Gilley, country singer, |
How many times did Miguel Induran win the Tour de France in the 1990's | 1997 Tour de France years. However, Ullrich would never win the Tour again, although he did reach the podium four more times finishing second to Pantani in 1998 and standing 2nd on the podium to Lance Armstrong three times. He also reached the podium in the 2005 Tour de France, but that result was later voided. Ullrich would win another Grand Tour however, the 1999 Vuelta a Espana. 1997 Tour de France The 1997 Tour de France was the 84th edition of the Tour de France and took place from 5 to 27 July. Jan Ullrich's victory margin, of 9' 09" was the largest | 1990 Tour de France seven minutes until LeMond was with them. The worked together and were able to get LeMond back to Chiappucci, but LeMond was angry at Chiappucci's tactics. The stage was won by Dimitri Konyshev, the first Soviet rider to win a Tour de France stage. In the last time trial in stage twenty, Breukink won, and as expected LeMond gained enough time on Chiappucci to win the Tour. There were several classifications in the 1990 Tour de France. The most important was the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated |
In which county is Eton school | Eton Wick relief. It was completed in 2002 and runs to the north of Eton Wick, cutting through the Roundmoor, Chalvey and Common Ditches, which are all carried in siphons beneath it to continue on their original courses. The village is part of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead and administered by an elected Unitary Authority. The current MP (2017) for the Windsor constituency (of which Eton Wick is a part) is Adam Afriyie (Conservative). The village was administered by Buckinghamshire County Council until 1974, when administration was transferred to Berkshire County Council under the Local Government Act 1972. Eton Wick | Eton Fives Norwich) School) is possibly unique in being a state run comprehensive school which houses two fives courts. Matches have been undertaken on the courts between Eaton & Eton, but in the 1990s the courts were used as car parks for teaching staff, however since 2013 one of the courts is being used for fives, whilst the other is now a boiler room. Dale Vargas, a retired teacher at Harrow School where he was master in charge of Fives, has written and published a history of Eton Fives. The book is titled "Eton Fives: A History." The co-author is Peter Knowles. |
What name is given to a first year student at an American university | Arabella (given name) long in disfavor in the United States. A rare high-profile American bearer of the name was Arabella Mansfield (née Babb) (1846-1911) the first female to pass a United States bar examination: Mansfield's birth name was Belle Aurelia Babb and she began utilizing Arabella as her first name in her first year of law school in 1862. Just ranking in the Top 1000 most given names for American newborn girls in the 1880s - the median ranking for the name Arabella from that decade's respective yearly tallies being #969 - the name Arabella became progressively rarer in the United States until | Grover (given name) Grover (given name) Grover is a masculine given name. Grover first became popular as a given name in the United States during the presidencies of Grover Cleveland, in part of a long-standing American trend of naming babies after presidents. Cleveland's official first name was Stephen; he was named after Stephen Grover, a former minister at the church his parents attended. However, from childhood, Cleveland's friends addressed him by his middle name instead, and so what was originally the surname Grover became a given name. According to Social Security Administration data, the name Grover increased in frequency by 850 per 100,000 |
Under the four categories used by the British Board of Film Censors what does P.G signify | Central Board of Film Censors violence, no sexual scenes and no abusive language. Any film with "A certification" is restricted to adults or needs parental guidance for viewing. These films contain significant violence, sexual scenes and abusive language and can include controversial adult themes considered unsuitable for young viewers. Central Board of Film Censors The Central Board of Film Censors (, "Pakistan Markazi Filmi Sensor", abbreviated as CBFC) is a film censorship board and rating system body under the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting for the Government of Pakistan. It is tasked with regulating the public screening of films under the provisions of the "Motion | Central Board of Film Censors Central Board of Film Censors The Central Board of Film Censors (, "Pakistan Markazi Filmi Sensor", abbreviated as CBFC) is a film censorship board and rating system body under the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting for the Government of Pakistan. It is tasked with regulating the public screening of films under the provisions of the "Motion Picture Ordinance, 1979". The head offices are located in Islamabad, while two regional offices are located in Karachi and Lahore. The "Motion Pictures Ordinance, 1979" focuses upon a broad policy framework and administrative procedures for the certification of films for public screening. The film |
What is the christian name of Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame | Colonel Sanders Colonel Sanders Colonel Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890December 16, 1980) was an American businessman, best known for founding fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (now known as KFC) and later acting as the company's brand ambassador and symbol. His name and image are still symbols of the company. The title 'colonel' was honorary – a Kentucky Colonel – not the military rank. Sanders held a number of jobs in his early life, such as steam engine stoker, insurance salesman and filling station operator. He began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in North Corbin, Kentucky, during | Colonel Sanders a settlement with Heublein, he sold the Colonel's Lady restaurant, and it has continued to operate, currently as the Claudia Sanders Dinner House. It serves his "original recipe" fried chicken as part of its non-fast-food dinner menu, and it is the only non-KFC restaurant that serves an authorized version of the fried chicken recipe. Sanders remained critical of Kentucky Fried Chicken's food. In the late 1970s he told the "Louisville Courier-Journal": Sanders died on December 16, 1980. After being recommissioned as a Kentucky colonel in 1950 by Governor Lawrence Wetherby, Sanders began to dress the part, growing a goatee and |
What is the most expensive property on a Monopoly board | Monopoly (game) as well as decreasing the effects of strategy and prudent investment. Video game and computer game versions of "Monopoly" have options where popular house rules can be used. In 2014, Hasbro determined five popular house rules by public Facebook vote, and released a "House Rules Edition" of the board game. Rules selected include a "Free Parking" house rule without additional money and forcing players to traverse the board once before buying properties. According to Jim Slater in "The Mayfair Set", the Orange property group is the best to own because players land on them more often, as a result of | Monopoly (1985 video game) conversion" of the board game, while Sinclair User wrote that the game was "very boring". One issue of Amiga Power deemed it a "sound conversion" albeit more expensive than its source material, while another from the same publication said it was competent but "arguably quite pointless". Monopoly (1985 video game) Monopoly is a 1985 multi-platform video game based on the board game "Monopoly", released on the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX, Tatung Einstein, Thomson MO, Thomson TO, and ZX Spectrum. Published by Leisure Genius, this title was one of many inspired by the property. The game |
What is the currency of Somalia | Somalia helped the Somali shilling increase considerably in value. By March 2014, the currency had appreciated by almost 60% against the U.S. dollar over the previous 12 months. The Somali shilling was the strongest among the 175 global currencies traded by Bloomberg, rising close to 50 percentage points higher than the next most robust global currency over the same period. The Somalia Stock Exchange (SSE) is the national bourse of Somalia. It was founded in 2012 by the Somali diplomat Idd Mohamed, Ambassador extraordinary and deputy permanent representative to the United Nations. The SSE was established to attract investment from both | Central Bank of Somalia Central Bank of Somalia The Central Bank of Somalia (CBS) (, ) is the monetary authority of Somalia. Among other duties, it is in charge of ensuring financial stability, maintaining the internal and external value of the local currency, and promoting credit and exchange conditions that facilitate the balanced growth of the national economy. Within the scope of its powers, it also contributes to the financial and economic policies of the State. On 15 November 1920, the Banca d'Italia opened a branch in Mogadishu. This was the first banking institution in Italian Somaliland. Then in 1938 Banco di Napoli established |
What was Glen Campbell's first top ten entry (1969) | Glen Campbell videos Glen Campbell videos American country music singer Glen Campbell released fifteen video albums and was featured in twenty-one music videos in his lifetime. His first two music videos, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and "Wichita Lineman", were directed by Gene Weed in 1967 and 1968 respectively. Campbell released his final music video, "I'm Not Gonna Miss You", in 2014 to coincide with the release of the documentary "". Below are listed the original videos and DVDs that have been released by Glen Campbell. Below are listed videos and DVDs by other/various artists on which Glen Campbell is (one | Glen Campbell the CMA's top award as 1968 Entertainer of the Year. Campbell played a supporting role in the film "True Grit" (1969), which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Newcomer. He also sang the title song, which was nominated for an Academy Award. Glen Travis Campbell was born on April 22, 1936, in Billstown, a tiny community near Delight in Pike County, Arkansas, to John Wesley (a sharecropper) and Carrie Dell (Stone) Campbell. Campbell was of Scottish descent and was the seventh son of 12 children. The family lived on a farm where they barely got by growing |
In which Bond film does Lotte Lenya play Rosa Klebbe | Lotte Lenya Lotte Lenya Lotte Lenya (18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language cinema, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a jaded aristocrat in "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" (1961). She also played the murderous and sadistic Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie "From Russia with Love" (1963). In 1922 Lenya was seen by her future husband, German | Lotte Lenya at Mount Repose Cemetery in Haverstraw, New York. In 1956, Louis Armstrong recorded the song "Mack the Knife", both as a solo number and as a duet with Lenya. Armstrong added Lenya's name into the lyrics, in place of one of the characters in the play. Donovan's 1968 song "Laléna" was inspired by Lenya. The Michael Kunze play, "Lenya", is about Brecht’s favorite singer, Lotte Lenya. In 2007, the musical "LoveMusik", based on Lenya's relationship with Weill, opened on Broadway. Lenya was portrayed by Donna Murphy. She is mentioned in the Fascinating Aïda song "Lieder", which originally described her as |
Which comedy actress featured in The Pet Shop Boy's first film | Pet Shop Boys the London Underground section of the station in November of that year (part of the lyrics read: "Dead and wounded on either side/You know it's only a matter of time"). "The Sun" newspaper in the UK subsequently tried to get the track released as a charity single, but Pet Shop Boys would not allow this. Towards the end of 1987, Pet Shop Boys started work on an hour-long film that would incorporate the songs from "Actually". Working with director Jack Bond, the short film grew into a full-scale movie, "It Couldn't Happen Here", starring Barbara Windsor, Joss Ackland and Gareth | Pet Shop Boys as a separate single, led to Tennant re-recording his vocals for the song entirely. Pet Shop Boys set up the Spaghetti Records label in 1991. Their most successful release was the soundtrack to the 1992 film "The Crying Game", which featured Boy George performing the title song "The Crying Game". The song was produced by Pet Shop Boys and featured Tennant on backing vocals. Other artists on the label included Scottish singer Cicero, The Ignorants, and Masterboy. In 1992, Pet Shop Boys were the subjects of a "South Bank Show" documentary on ITV. This included interviews with Neil and Chris, |
What was the first U.K. top ten entry for Odyssey | Late Show Top Ten List Numbers Between One and Ten", drawing humor from the silliness of ranking such mundane items. Letterman's top ten skit was thought of when Steve O'Donnell was head writer of the "Late Night With David Letterman" show. According to O'Donnell, the Top Ten List was an "almost simultaneous inspiration arriving from staffers Jim Downey, Randy Cohen and Robert “Morty” Morton — largely prompted by the ridiculous 'eligible bachelor' lists in a local New York paper that included the 84-year-old Bill Paley. 'Why, we can put such nonsense together ourselves!' we exclaimed. And we did." On September 18, 1985, the very first | Do What U Want It has reached a peak of number seven on Pop Songs, with 9,237 spins. The song also peaked at number eight on the Rhythmic chart with 2,662 spins. "Do What U Want" became the second single by Gaga—the first being her debut single "Just Dance"—not to reach the top of the Hot Dance Club Songs chart, where it stalled inside the top-ten at number seven. In Australia, "Do What U Want" entered the Australian Singles Chart at number 21; also debuting on the New Zealand Singles Chart at number twelve. The song entered the Irish Singles Chart at number nine |
Who is the Man From Auntie | Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie is a British television comedy series written and performed by Ben Elton. The title of the series was a play on words of the American spy series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", and "Auntie", an informal name for the BBC. The first series aired on BBC1 in 1990. A second series with a slightly different format was aired four years later in 1994. The series was primarily based on Elton's stand-up comedy routines, with his monologues interspersed with occasional filmed sketches and parodies, as well as soundbites from chinface | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. CRUSH as the name of the evil spy organization, spoofing THRUSH in two episodes. In the season two episode "006 3/4", Tim finds a distress note from Agent 006 of Top Secret, who is being tracked by CRUSH. Top Secret asks Tim to assist Agent 004, to save 006. In the season three episode "Butterball" Uncle Martin must rescue Tim who is kidnapped by Butterball. A 1966 episode of "The Avengers" was titled "The Girl from AUNTIE". In a 1966 episode of the sitcom "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" titled "Say UNCLE", the young twins are fans of "The Man |
Who played the lodger Dermot in the first series of Men Behaving Badly | Men Behaving Badly Men Behaving Badly Men Behaving Badly is a British sitcom that was created and written by Simon Nye. It follows the lives of Gary Strang (Martin Clunes) and his flatmates Dermot Povey (Harry Enfield; series 1 only) and Tony Smart (Neil Morrissey; series 2 onwards). It was first broadcast on ITV in 1992. A total of six series were made, along with a Christmas special and a trilogy of episodes that make up the feature length "last orders". The series was filmed in and around Ealing in west London. The setting, however, is implied to be south London and many | Men Behaving Badly television, broadcast on NBC 1996–1997, and starred Rob Schneider, Ken Marino, Ron Eldard and Justine Bateman. The humour was not appreciated by US audiences and the remake was cancelled after two seasons. The original series was eventually screened in the US on BBC America as "British Men Behaving Badly". In Australia, where the British version was screened under its original title on the ABC, the US series was broadcast as "It's a Man's World" on the Seven Network. Men Behaving Badly Men Behaving Badly is a British sitcom that was created and written by Simon Nye. It follows the lives |
What type of bells are campanula | Campanula medium zones; not suitable for the tropics or hot, dry regions. Seeds take 14–21 days to germinate. The plant thrives in lightly shaded to sunny locations in well-drained soil. Canterbury bells grows nicely in flower beds, borders, and containers. Keep well watered. This flower works well cut in floral arrangements. Beekeepers sometimes use the Canterbury Bell for making potently sweet honey. Campanula medium Campanula medium, common name Canterbury bells, also known as the bell flower, is an annual or biennial flowering plant of the genus "Campanula", belonging to the family Campanulaceae. In floriography, it represents gratitude, or faith and constancy. The | Campanula rotundifolia Campanula rotundifolia Campanula rotundifolia, the harebell, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the bellflower family Campanulaceae. It has a circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, from about latitude 40° N to about 78° N, extending in Europe from the north Mediterranean to the arctic. In Scotland, it is often known as the bluebell. Elsewhere in Britain, bluebell refers to "Hyacinthoides non-scripta", and in North America, bluebell refers to Virginia bluebell. "Campanula rotundifolia" was historically also known by several other names including blawort, hair-bell, lady's thimble, witch's bells, and witch's thimbles. "Campanula rotundifolia" is a perennial species of flowering plant, |
What word links merry, new, and squad | Merry England plays, came under severe pressure in Elizabeth's reign. Religious austerity, opposed to catholic and pagan hangovers, and economic arguments against idleness, found common ground in attacking communal celebrations. However a reaction quickly set in, John Caius in 1552 deploring the loss of what he called "the old world, when this country was called merry England". James I in 1618 issued his Book of Sports, specifically defending the practice of sports, dancing, maypoles and the like after Sunday Service; and his son Charles took a similar line. The question of "Merry England" thus became a focal point dividing Puritan and Anglican, | Sound Squad New Years Revolutions of healthy, tasty options set in a shaded area overlooking the Berg river. The Playpen featured various games, as well as water sports and entertainment. Tree nets and chairs were placed in and around the Playpen for relaxing. The official line-up included: The fourth Revolutions festival was held on Nelson's Creek Wine Estate, a venue with a swimming pool and two stages. The main stage hosted live acts as well as DJs. Event Video Other Active links Sound Squad New Years Revolutions The Sound Squad is an events company based in Cape Town, South Africa, which focuses on outdoor events, |
Which group's first top ten entry was called Ghosts (1982) | Exorcising Ghosts Exorcising Ghosts Exorcising Ghosts is a compilation album by the British band Japan, released in October 1984 by record label Virgin. "Exorcising Ghosts" was compiled and produced in consultation with lead singer David Sylvian two years after Japan dissolved. It features three recordings from the band's early career on the Hansa Records label (such as 1979's "Quiet Life") but mainly focuses on material from their two studio albums on Virgin Records; "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" (1980) and "Tin Drum" (1981). Besides top 40 hit singles like "Quiet Life", "Visions of China", "Ghosts", and "Nightporter", the double-album set includes album tracks like | 1982 NHL Entry Draft 1982 Draft. 1982 NHL Entry Draft The 1982 NHL Entry Draft was held at the Montreal Forum in Montreal, Quebec. The National Hockey League (NHL) teams selected 252 players eligible for entry into professional ranks, in the reverse order of the 1981–82 NHL season and playoff standings. This is the list of those players selected. Below are listed the selections in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft. Club teams are located in North America unless otherwise noted. Victor Nechaev, the first Russian trained player to play professionally in the NHL was selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the seventh round |
In what make of car was John F. Kennedy assassinated | Assassination of John F. Kennedy in popular culture that he helped Lincoln was due to evidence that he uncovered that Sal, the boss of the Marcano Crime family, has been one of the conspirators of the assassination of Kennedy, and further evidence states that one of the senators presiding over the hearing as another conspirator, Donovan then later pulls his silenced pistol and kills the senator, stating that he will hunt down those responsible for the death of Kennedy. Assassination of John F. Kennedy in popular culture The John F. Kennedy assassination and the subsequent conspiracy theories surrounding it have been discussed, referenced, or recreated in popular culture | Inauguration of John F. Kennedy Inauguration of John F. Kennedy The inauguration of John F. Kennedy as the 35th President of the United States was held on Friday, January 20, 1961 at the eastern portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.. The inauguration marked the commencement of John F. Kennedy's only term as President and of Lyndon B. Johnson's only term as Vice President. Kennedy was assassinated into this term, and Johnson succeeded to the presidency. Kennedy took office following the November 1960 presidential election, in which he narrowly defeated Richard Nixon, the then–incumbent Vice President. He was the first Catholic to become |
Who had a hit in 1968 with Yummy Yummy Yummy | Yummy Yummy Yummy Yummy Yummy Yummy "Yummy Yummy Yummy" is a song by Arthur Resnick and Joey Levine, first recorded by Ohio Express in 1968. Their version reached No. 4 on the U.S. Pop Singles chart in June and No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart. It has since been covered by many artists. Ohio Express was a studio concoction and none of the "official" members appear on the record. Joey Levine sang lead vocals. Joey Levine sang "Yummy Yummy Yummy" live for the first time ever in Henderson, Tennessee at the Caravan Of Stars XV, on May 17, 2008. "Time" Magazine included | Yummy Yummy (album) presented in the order of the closing credits "Yummy Yummy" was released on video along with "Wiggle Time" in the United States in October 1999. In 2002, The Wiggles released "Yummy Yummy and Wiggle Time" as a combined DVD of the 1998 versions of "Yummy Yummy" and "Wiggle Time". Yummy Yummy (album) Yummy Yummy is the fourth album from The Wiggles; it was released in 1994 by ABC Music distributed by EMI. A companion video was also made in 1994, and it was re-recorded in 1998. source "Yummy Yummy" album booklet, 1994: The Wiggles Additional musicians The CD was released |
Who gave birth to her seventh child in 1853 under chloroform ensuring the acceptance of it as an anaesthetic | John Snow be safer if another person that was not the surgeon applied it. The use of chloroform as an anaesthetic for childbirth was seen as unethical by many physicians and even the Church of England. However, on 7 April 1853, Queen Victoria asked John Snow to administer chloroform during the delivery of her eighth child. He then repeated the procedure for the delivery of her daughter, three years later. Medical and religious acceptance of obstetrical anaesthesia came after in the 19th century. Snow was a skeptic of the then-dominant miasma theory that stated that diseases such as cholera and bubonic plague | Chloroform as a source of the dichlorocarbene CCl group. It reacts with aqueous sodium hydroxide usually in the presence of a phase transfer catalyst to produce dichlorocarbene, CCl. This reagent effects ortho-formylation of activated aromatic rings such as phenols, producing aryl aldehydes in a reaction known as the Reimer–Tiemann reaction. Alternatively, the carbene can be trapped by an alkene to form a cyclopropane derivative. In the Kharasch addition, chloroform forms the CHCl free radical in addition to alkenes. The anaesthetic qualities of chloroform were first described in 1842 in a thesis by Robert Mortimer Glover, which won the Gold Medal of |
What was the title of Wings first hit which the B.B.C. would neither play or name on air | B (musical note) the Republic of Ireland, and the Netherlands, as described above, B usually refers to the note a semitone below C, while B-flat refers to the note a whole tone below C. However, in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia, the label B is used for what, above, is called B-flat, and the note a semitone below C is called H. This makes possible certain spellings which are otherwise impossible, such as the BACH motif. B (musical note) B, also known as Si, Ti, or, in some European countries, H, is the seventh note of the fixed-Do solfège. Its enharmonic | Play: The B Sides if not for the overwhelming success of "Play". AllMusic's John Bush wrote that the B-sides are "distinctly inferior to what was heard on "Play" — which proves nothing much more than the fact that Moby is a good editor as well as a great producer." Neva Chonin from "Rolling Stone" said it was "more of a meditative tone poem" than the "millennial time signature" that was "Play". Credits for "Play: The B Sides" adapted from album liner notes. Play: The B Sides Play: The B Sides is a compilation album by American electronica musician Moby. The album's songs are outtakes |
Which British author wrote the novel Of Human Bondage | Of Human Bondage one, Whistler, is American. Eleven were alive at the time in which the plot of the novel is unfolding and five – Carolus-Duran, Degas, Monet, Rafelli, and Renoir – were alive when "Of Human Bondage" was published in 1915. Of Human Bondage Of Human Bondage is a 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention." Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel "Beauty from Ashes", | Of Human Bondage (1964 film) the role, and fails to give his character much life, while Novak, although making a valiant attempt, never conveys enough passion to make her role believable. Further denying any dramatic potential is Forbes' uninspired adaptation of Maugham's novel. Rather than probe the psychological make-up of the characters, the script consistently focuses on superficial motivations with all the emotional intensity of a high-school drama-society production." The film was condemned by the National Legion of Decency for its sexual content and masochism. Notes Of Human Bondage (1964 film) Of Human Bondage is a 1964 British drama film directed by Ken Hughes. The |
Which battle in 1066 took place eight miles outside of York | Norse activity in the British Isles 1042 when Cnut's son Harthacnut ascended the English throne. The Battle of Fulford took place at Fulford near York, on 20 September 1066, when an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada of Norway and Tostig Godwinson, his English ally, fought and defeated the Northern Earls Edwin and Morcar. When King Harold II of England heard of this defeat he marched his English army from the south coast of England to meet the Norwegians at Stamford Bridge. The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place near the village of Stamford, East Riding of Yorkshire in England on 25 September 1066. | Battle of Hastings the Battle of Hastings have drawn thousands of participants and spectators to the site of the original battle. Battle of Hastings The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England. It took place approximately northwest of Hastings, close to the present-day town of Battle, East Sussex, and was a decisive Norman victory. The background to the battle was the death of the childless King Edward the Confessor in January 1066, which set up |
Which BBC gardener died suddenly of a heart attack in 1996 | Geoff Hamilton awarded an honorary Master of Science Degree by Anglia Polytechnic University in 1994. Hamilton suffered a heart attack in 1995, and took three months off work to recuperate. He died after suffering a heart attack on a charity bike ride near Merthyr Tydfil, Wales in August 1996. His garden at Barnsdale, consisting of 38 themed gardens over , remains open to the public and is run by his son Nick Hamilton (also an organic gardener and writer). A charity, "Geoff Hamilton's New Gardeners' Foundation" was set up to provide a bursary of £4,000 for students of any age and level | Ralph Hancock (landscape gardener) had drawn-up plans to do so. Ralph died before work started and it was left to Bramley to complete the restoration. The gardens at Twyn-yr-Hydd are the last designed by Hancock before his death of a heart attack on 30 August 1950. Ralph Hancock (landscape gardener) Ralph Hancock (2 July 1893 – 30 August 1950) was a Welsh landscape gardener, architect and author. Hancock built gardens in the UK in the 1920s, 30s and 40s and in the United States in the 1930s. A few are well known – the roof gardens at Derry and Toms in London and the |
Who was Desmond Lynam's co-presenter in the first series of How do They do That | How Do They Do That? How Do They Do That? How Do They Do That? is a British television show, produced by Telepictures and Reg Grundy Productions in and broadcast on BBC1 from 25 January 1994 to 23 April 1997. Originally presented by Jenny Hull and Des Lynam, the show explored feats of engineering, organization, and special effects. Each season opened with a stunt apparently performed by one of the presenters, such as a skydiver crash-landing into the studio, a car chase, or the entire studio being washed away. After two series, Eamonn Holmes took over as male presenter, and from Series 5, was joined | Des Lynam Des Lynam Desmond Michael Lynam, (born 17 September 1942) is an Irish-born British television and radio presenter. In a broadcasting career spanning more than forty years, he has hosted television coverage of many of the world's major sporting events, presenting "Grandstand", "Match of the Day", Wimbledon, the Grand National, "Sportsnight", the World Cup and Olympic Games, as well as presenting non-sporting programmes such as "Holiday", "How Do They Do That?" and "Countdown". Desmond Michael Lynam was born in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, and moved with his family to Brighton, England, at the age of six. He recalled having a strong |
Who created the character Rip Van Winkle | Rip Van Winkle Rip Van Winkle "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution. Irving wrote it while living in Birmingham, England, as part of the collection "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." The story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, but Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." "Rip Van Winkle" is set | Rip Van Winkle (horse) Stakes, beat him in the last stride, ridden by Frankie Dettori, who won four out of his five races on the day at Ascot. Rip Van Winkle retired to Coolmore Stud in 2010. His progeny have included Dick Whittington, Bizzwinkle (New Zealand Cup), The Happy Prince (Renaissance Stakes), Higher Power (Northumberland Plate) and Creggs Pipes (Lanwades Stud Stakes). Rip Van Winkle (horse) Rip Van Winkle (foaled 2006 in Ireland) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse sired by the dual Derby winner Galileo. Like his sire, Rip Van Winkle was also trained by Aidan O'Brien. Winning his maiden at the first time |
What is the name given to the bands of white cloth on the neck of some clerical and academic robes | Bands (neckwear) Bands (neckwear) Bands are a form of formal neckwear, worn by some clergy and lawyers, and with some forms of academic dress. They take the form of two oblong pieces of cloth, usually though not invariably white, which are tied to the neck. The word "bands" is usually plural because they require two similar parts and did not come as one piece of cloth. Those worn by clergy are often called preaching bands, preaching tabs, or Geneva bands; those worn by lawyers are called barrister's bands or, more usually in Canada, tabs. Ruffs were popular in the sixteenth century, and | Debate on the causes of clerical child abuse means that married men may become deacons in the Western rite but not become priests. Italian academic Lucetta Scaraffia wrote in "L'Osservatore Romano" that a greater presence of women in the Vatican could have prevented clerical sexual abuse from taking place. Debate on the causes of clerical child abuse The debate on the causes of clerical child abuse is a major aspect of the academic literature surrounding Catholic sex abuse cases. Clergy themselves have suggested their seminary training offered little to prepare them for a lifetime of celibate sexuality. A report submitted to the General Assembly of the Synod of |
What is the name of Scunthorpe United's former ground | Scunthorpe United F.C. administrative area of Glanford meaning that the new ground was outside the boundaries of Scunthorpe (although this changed with the re-organisation of local government in 1996 as both Scunthorpe Borough Council and Glanford Borough Council merged to become "North Lincolnshire Council"). At this time there were no grants available and the development had to funded with the cash from the sale of the Old Show Ground, sponsorship, directors' loans and bank loans. This lack of outsider cash means that Glanford Park was built in a rather simplistic, box-like style, with a significantly smaller capacity than the Old Show Ground. The | Scunthorpe United F.C. Fourth Division (1974–75) Record victory Record defeat Highest fees paid Highest fees received The women's football club, Scunthorpe United L.F.C., who play in the Northern Combination Women's Football League, is affiliated with Scunthorpe United F.C. Scunthorpe United F.C. Scunthorpe United Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. The team play in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. The team is nicknamed "The Iron", and has played in a home strip of claret and blue for most of its history. It plays its home games at Glanford |
What was the first Elton John album to top the British charts | Daniel (Elton John song) Daniel (Elton John song) "Daniel" is a song and ballad by Elton John. It appeared on the 1973 album "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player". It was written by John and his lyricist Bernie Taupin. In the United Kingdom, the song reached no. 4 in the official chart. In the US the song reached No. 2 on the pop charts (only held from number one by "My Love" by Paul McCartney & Wings) and No. 1 on the adult contemporary charts for two weeks in the spring of 1973. In the United States, it was certified Gold in | Love Songs (Elton John album) Love Songs (Elton John album) Love Songs is a compilation album by British singer-songwriter Elton John. The album was first released on 6 November 1995 by John's own label The Rocket Record Company, in conjunction with Mercury Records. The album was released in North America by MCA Records almost a year after the European release, on 24 September 1996. In the US, it was certified gold in December 1996, platinum in March 1997, 2× platinum in December 1998 and 3× platinum in August 2000 by the RIAA. The album was a major success upon its release, topping the albums charts |
Who had a No 1 in the 90's with Beetlebum | Beetlebum Beetlebum "Beetlebum" is a 1997 song by English alternative rock band Blur. It was released as the lead single for the band's eponymous fifth album, "Blur". The single debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Blur's second track to reach the top of the charts (after "Country House"). Damon Albarn has said that the song is about heroin and the drug experiences he had with his then-girlfriend, Justine Frischmann of Elastica. In the 2010 Blur documentary, "No Distance Left to Run", Albarn confirmed this notion on film. Albarn has stated in an interview with MTV that the | The Man Who Had No Idea The Man Who Had No Idea "The Man Who Had No Idea" is a 1978 science fiction story by Thomas M. Disch. It was first published in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction". In a world where licenses are required in order to participate in conversation, Barry Riordan risks failing his exam because he cannot think of anything original. "The Man Who Had No Idea" was a finalist for the 1979 Hugo Award for Best Novelette John Sladek considered it to depict "delightful problems". "Kirkus Reviews" noted that it "say(s) a great deal about our expectations of ourselves and |
What is or was the name of Tom Petty's backing group | Southern Accents (Tom Petty song) Southern Accents (Tom Petty song) "Southern Accents" is the fourth track from the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album of the same name. While this song was recorded there was tension between the bandmates, each having a different vision for what the final versions of the song and the album would sound like. It was during the recording sessions for this album that Petty broke his hand after punching a wall out of frustration. The song, along with the rest of the album was recorded at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, California. The song was met with generally positive | Tom Petty the content was donated by Petty during a visit to his home by some of the Hall's curatorial staff. Peter Bogdanovich's documentary film on Petty's career titled "Runnin' Down a Dream" premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2007. Petty was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year in February 2017 for his contributions to music and for his philanthropy. In October 2018, on what would have been the singer's 68th birthday, the city of Gainesville renamed the former Northeast Park, a park where a young Petty had often visited, as Tom Petty Park. Tom Petty Thomas Earl |
In which film was the song Bright Eyes featured | Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel song) Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel song) "Bright Eyes" is a song written by Mike Batt and performed by Art Garfunkel. It was used in the soundtrack of the 1978 British animated adventure drama film "Watership Down" and the later television series of the same name explicitly as its theme song. The track appears on British and European versions of Garfunkel's 1979 "Fate for Breakfast" and on the US versions of his 1981 album "Scissors Cut". It was the biggest-selling single of 1979 in the UK, remaining at number one for six weeks and selling over a million copies there. The song | Bright Eyes (1934 film) Bright Eyes (1934 film) Bright Eyes is a 1934 American comedy drama film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by William Conselman is based on a story by David Butler and Edwin Burke, and focuses on the relationship between bachelor aviator James "Loop" Merritt (James Dunn) and his orphaned godchild, Shirley Blake (Shirley Temple). Merritt becomes involved in a custody battle for her with a rich, elderly gentleman. The film featured one musical number, "On the Good Ship Lollipop". "Bright Eyes" was the first film to be written and developed specifically for Temple, and the first in which her name |
If a car's international licence plate has CH on which country has it come from | Driving licence in Sweden it. It is mandatory to have either a Swedish or EU/EEA driving licence to drive in Sweden if one has been a resident in the country for more than one year. A person holding a driving licence from certain countries may exchange it for a Swedish licence without the need for a test. These countries are the EU/EEA nations, Switzerland and Japan. People holding a driving licence from other countries must do the full test in order to obtain a Swedish driving licence. Holders of an EU driving licence in Sweden must pay an additional "inspection fee", on top of | A New Day Has Come Musical Performer, Echo Award for International Female Artist of the Year and MuchMoreMusic Award for "A New Day Has Come" music video. Adapted from AllMusic. A New Day Has Come A New Day Has Come is the seventh English-language studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released by Sony Music Entertainment on 22 March 2002. It was her first new studio album since 1997's "Let's Talk About Love". Dion returned to the music scene after a two-year hiatus when she gave birth to her first child in 2001. She collaborated on "A New Day Has Come" with various producers, including |
What is Madrid's underground railway called | Madrid Atocha railway station in adjacent land to serve both the new AVE trains and local commuter lines. The main lines end in the new terminal; commuter train platforms are located underground, at the ingress to a rail tunnel extending northward under the Paseo de la Castellana. The station is served by two Madrid Metro stations, "Atocha" and "Atocha Renfe". The latter was added when the new terminal building was constructed and is directly linked to the railway station. On 11 March 2004, packed arriving commuter trains were bombed in a series of coordinated bombings, killing 191 people and wounding 1,800. The official investigation | London Underground S Stock (ex-Metropolitan Railway) London Underground S Stock (ex-Metropolitan Railway) S stock is the designation given to one train of eight cars by London Underground in the 1930s. It was composed of converted trailers and experimental driving motor cars inherited from the Metropolitan Railway in 1933. In 1919, the Metropolitan Railway converted six 1904 saloon stock cars into the "Hustler train". These were the only cars of this type: two were driving motors, two were control trailers, which the Metropolitan called driving trailers, and the remaining two were trailers. In 1936, the two driving motors were converted into trailers, and all six cars were |
Which car manufacture make the Jimny | Suzuki Jimny Suzuki Jimny The Suzuki Jimny is a line of four-wheel drive off-road mini SUVs, made by Japanese automaker Suzuki since 1970. Originated as a car in the Japanese Kei car tax and legal class – a Kei car version is still made for the Japanese market today, as well as versions that exceed that class's legal limits, in Japan called the Jimny Sierra. The latter are also successfully sold in worldwide markets. Suzuki has sold 2.85 million of them in 194 countries from launch in April 1970 through September 2018. Although the Jimny, which just entered its fourth generation in | Suzuki Jimny as the Jimny 55 and reflected the changing kei car rules and stricter emissions standards. The three-cylinder engine remained a two-stroke; while power was reduced to , more low-end torque was on offer. The vehicle could now hit 60 mph (97 km/h), and the spare tire was relocated outside the rear door, allowing for a fourth seat. The SJ10 Jimny originally used the "LJ50" name in most export markets; this was changed to LJ55 with the introduction of the LJ80 to align the names. In Australia, the LJ50S and LJ50V (van) were available as a softtop with soft doors and |
What name is given to the wild horse of the American prairie | Wild Horse Adult Resort & Spa at 1000 Wild Horse Canyon Drive, Sparks, NV 89434. Primary access to the area is via exit 28 off Interstate 80. The nearby settlement of Patrick, from which the Business Park takes its name (and occupants their mailing addresses), is actually found across the Truckee River and thus is located in Washoe County. Wild Horse Adult Resort & Spa The Wild Horse Adult Resort and Spa is an adult entertainment complex about east of Reno, Nevada, that has been home to two separate legal, licensed brothels: the Wild Horse Ranch and the Mustang Ranch. It opened in 2002 with the | Given to the Wild recording of the LP, which is the follow-up to 2009's "Wall of Arms". Speaking about the title of the album, singer Orlando Weeks told the NME: "'Given to the wild' is the first line on the album and was a title idea we had pretty early on. But it wasn't until we'd finished recording that we could come back to it and know that it suited, it just felt right." On 12 January 2012 "Given to the Wild" entered the Irish Albums Chart at number 31. Given to the Wild Given to the Wild is the third studio album by |
What is the capital of Malaysia | Monarchies of Malaysia the form Cik Puan, Raja Perempuan, Sultanah, Tengku Ampuan, Raja Permaisuri, Tengku Permaisuri, or Permaisuri. The royal capitals are the cities and towns where the official residences of the rulers are situated. In some states, the royal capital is different from the administrative capital. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong resides in Kuala Lumpur. Monarchies of Malaysia The monarchies of Malaysia refer to the constitutional monarchy system as practised in Malaysia. The political system of Malaysia is based on the Westminster parliamentary system with the features of a federation. Nine of the states of Malaysia are constitutionally headed by traditional Malay rulers. | Capital punishment in Malaysia to abolish it at a later date. Capital punishment in Malaysia Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Malaysia. It is a mandatory punishment for murder, drug trafficking, treason, and waging war against Yang di-Pertuan Agong (the King). Recently, the law was extended to include acts of terrorism. Any terrorists, and anyone who aids terrorists, financially or otherwise, is liable to face the death penalty. Since January 2003, the death penalty in Malaysia has been a mandatory punishment for rapists that cause death and child rapists. A 1961 law states that kidnapping carried a life sentence or a death sentence, |
In which London street was Ronny Scott's Jazz Club | Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is a prominent jazz club which has operated in London since 1959. The club opened on 30 October 1959 in a basement at 39 Gerrard Street in London's Soho district. It was set up and managed by musicians Ronnie Scott and Pete King. In 1965 it moved to a larger venue nearby at 47 Frith Street. The original venue continued in operation as the "Old Place" until the lease ran out in 1967, and was used for performances by the up-and-coming generation of musicians. Zoot Sims was the club's first transatlantic visitor | Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club since 2006 include: In 1978, the club established its own record label, Ronnie Scott's Jazz House. The first release was an album by Scott's quintet. Over the next 20 years, the label gained in prominence, issuing both historic live club performances and new recordings. Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is a prominent jazz club which has operated in London since 1959. The club opened on 30 October 1959 in a basement at 39 Gerrard Street in London's Soho district. It was set up and managed by musicians Ronnie Scott and Pete King. In 1965 it moved to |
In which Irish county is Dingle Bay | Dingle Bay in the "Spirit of St. Louis" monoplane from New York to Paris. It is enacted in the 1957 film "The Spirit of St. Louis", in which Lindbergh was portrayed by Jimmy Stewart who waves to the villagers of Dingle Bay as he flies over it in jubilation. Dingle Bay Dingle Bay ("Bá an Daingin" in Irish) is a bay located in County Kerry, western Ireland. The outer parts of the Dingle Peninsula and Dingle Bay mark one of the westernmost points of mainland Ireland. The harbour town of Dingle lies on the north side of the bay. The bay runs | Dingle Bay head. The harbour town of Dingle lies on the north side of the bay. Other settlements overlooking the bay include Ventry, Ballymeentrant, Beenbane, and Kinard, and Annascaul and Glenbeigh lie near the bay. There are no notable islands within the bay, but towards the head, several peninsulas, in particular Inch Strand, extend a significant distance across its width. Part of the bay is a protected lowland estuary with tidal flats. The bay is home to Funghi, a wild dolphin. Dingle Bay was the first feature of Europe that aviator Charles Lindbergh encountered in 1927 during his pioneering 33-hour transatlantic flight |
Who created the female detective Jane Tennison | Prime Suspect Prime Suspect Prime Suspect is a British police procedural television drama series devised by Lynda La Plante. It stars Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison, one of the first female Detective Chief Inspectors in Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service, who rises to the rank of Detective Superintendent while confronting the institutionalised sexism that exists within the police force. "Prime Suspect" focuses on a no-nonsense female Detective Chief Inspector (DCI), Jane Tennison (played by Helen Mirren), who is an officer in the Metropolitan Police, initially at the fictional Southampton Row police station. The series follows her constant battles to prove herself in | London Detective Mysteria female character, Emily, who can choose from a variety of male characters as her love interest. Most of the characters of English Detective Mysteria are inspired by famous figures of the detective mystery genre. Besides Sherlock Holmes' and Watson' respective offsprings, the game features Sara Marple, niece of Agatha Christie's Jane Marple and Jean Lupin, son of the French thief Arsène Lupin created by Maurice Leblanc. Characters Kenichirou Akechi and Seiji Kobayashi are an homage to Edogawa Ranpo's mystery series protagonists Kogoro Akechi and stepson Yoshio Kobayashi. London Detective Mysteria London Detective Mysteria is a 2013 "otome" visual novel video |
Who recorded the album Listen Without Prejudice | Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 is the second solo studio album by the English singer-songwriter George Michael, released on 3 September 1990. The album was Michael's final album of all-new material on Columbia Records until 2004's "Patience". Disappointing album sales in the US led to Michael's legal battles against Sony Music, in which he accused the corporation of not fully supporting him as an artist. After the massive success of Michael's 1987 "Faith" album, the expectations for his follow-up album were also high. In September 1990, "Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1" was released, receiving mixed-to-positive | Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 a gauche if not repulsive gesture of sentimentality." "Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1" was reissued in October 2017 as "Listen Without Prejudice / MTV Unplugged". The 2CD version includes the original remastered album on the first disc, and the "MTV Unplugged" concert recorded at Three Mills Studios, London on 11 October 1996 on the second disc. "MTV Unplugged" noticeably contains performances of "I Can't Make You Love Me" and "The Strangest Thing" that are identical to those previously released as b-sides to the single "Older". The "MTV Unplugged" CD also features the 2017 version of "Fantasy", reworked by Nile Rodgers |
What was the name of Bob Marley's backing group | Bob Marley and the Wailers and Beverley Kelso are the only surviving members of the group's original line-up. The I Three, commonly called I Threes, were formed in 1974 to support Bob Marley and the Wailers after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer — the original Wailer backing vocalists — left the band. The three members were Marley's wife Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt and Marcia Griffiths. Their name is intended as a spin on the Rastafarian "I and I" concept of the Godhead within each person. Bob Marley and the Wailers Bob Marley and the Wailers were a Jamaican reggae band led by Bob Marley. It | Bob Marley claimed to have been a captain in the Royal Marines; at the time of his marriage to Cedella Booker, an Afro-Jamaican then 18 years old, he was employed as a plantation overseer. Bob Marley's full name is Robert Nesta Marley, though some sources give his birth name as Nesta Robert Marley, with a story that when Marley was still a boy a Jamaican passport official reversed his first and middle names because Nesta sounded like a girl's name. Norval provided financial support for his wife and child but seldom saw them as he was often away. Bob Marley attended Stepney |
Who was the female singer in Jefferson Airplane | Jefferson Airplane Takes Off Jefferson Airplane Takes Off Jefferson Airplane Takes Off is the debut album of American rock band Jefferson Airplane, released in August 1966 as RCA Victor LSP-3584 (stereo) and LPM-3584 (mono). The personnel differs from the later "classic" lineup: Signe Toly Anderson was the female vocalist and Skip Spence played drums. Both left the group shortly after the album's release and were replaced by Grace Slick and Spencer Dryden, respectively. RCA executives found some of the lyrics too sexually suggestive. They had the band change the lyrics in "Let Me In" from "I gotta get in, you know where" to "You | Jefferson Airplane 2004, the film "Fly Jefferson Airplane" (directed by Bob Sarles) was released on DVD. It covers the years 1965–1972 and includes then-recent interviews with band members and thirteen complete songs. Spencer Dryden died of colon cancer on January 11, 2005. Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady performed a set at the 2015 Lockn' Festival to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jefferson Airplane. They were joined by G.E. Smith, Rachael Price, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams. In 2016, Jefferson Airplane was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Both Signe Anderson and Paul Kantner died on January 28, 2016. Marty Balin died on |
Who wrote the Flight of the Bumble Bee | B. Bumble and the Stingers he approached pianist Jack Fina, whose 1946 swing arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumble Bee" for Freddy Martin and his Orchestra, called "Bumble Boogie" (RCA Victor 20-1829), had reached # 7 on the charts and been used in the 1948 Walt Disney animated film "Melody Time". Using Fina's arrangement, Fowley recorded pianist Ernie Freeman on two tracks, one using a grand piano for the rhythm part, while the other featured a "tack piano", a modified upright piano with tacks attached to the hammers to create a tinny "honky tonk" sound. The other musicians on the session, at Gold Star | ADI Bumble Bee tricycle configuration, uses plastic-spoked wheels to reduce weight and does not include suspension. A horizontal tailplane maintains the aircraft pitch angle in flight and a large fin and rudder is provided. The main rotor system is of low-inertia and requires pilot skill to manage energy on landing. The aircraft plans cost US$160 in 2001. Construction time is estimated as 400 hours, much of which is consumed fabricating the composite rotor blades. Reference: Hollmann ADI Bumble Bee The ADI Bumble Bee (sometimes Hollmann Bumble Bee) is an ultralight gyrocopter marketed by Aircraft Designs Inc (ADI). It was the first of its |
In which country was the 1994 Pacific Grand Prix held | Pacific Grand Prix Pacific Grand Prix The Pacific Grand Prix () was a round of the Formula One World Championship twice in the mid-1990s. Both races were held at the Tanaka International Aida circuit (now Okayama International Circuit), a slow, twisty track deep in the countryside in Aida (near Kobe), Japan. Following the 1995 Kobe earthquake, the Pacific Grand Prix was moved from early in the calendar to the end. The Pacific Grand Prix has also been held at Laguna Seca from 1960 through 1963, but these events were non-Championship. The inaugural Championship race in 1994 saw Michael Schumacher take an easy victory | 1994 Pacific Grand Prix 1994 Pacific Grand Prix The 1994 Pacific Grand Prix (formally the I Pacific Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 17 April 1994 at the TI Circuit, Aida. It was the second race of the 1994 Formula One season. The 83-lap race was won by Benetton driver Michael Schumacher after he started from second position. Gerhard Berger finished second for the Ferrari team and Jordan driver Rubens Barrichello came in third. Ayrton Senna took pole during Friday's qualifying session, with slower track conditions on Saturday leaving most drivers unable to improve their times. During Saturday qualifying both |
What sport is played by the Florida Marlins | 2003 Florida Marlins season Series played in what would have been its second year (1904), and the cancellation of all post-season play as a result of the strike in 1994, it was only the 99th World Series played. Josh Beckett was named the World Series MVP. 2003 Florida Marlins season The 2003 Florida Marlins season was a season in American baseball. The Marlins were the National League Wild Card Winners, the National League Champions, and the World Series Champions. The Marlins became just the second team in baseball history to win a World Series championship despite being 10 or more games below .500 (as | 2001 Florida Marlins season 2001 Florida Marlins season The 2001 Florida Marlins season started off with the team trying to improve on their season from 2000. Their managers were John Boles and Tony Pérez. They played home games at Pro Player Stadium. They finished with a record of 76-86, 4th in the National League East. April 9, 2001: John Mabry was sent to the Florida Marlins by the St. Louis Cardinals as part of a conditional deal. The annual interleague games between the Florida Marlins and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays were played in June and July. They are known as the Citrus Series. |
Which country won most medals at the 1998 Commonwealth Games | 1998 Commonwealth Games country whose majority of the population did not have English as the first language. For the first time ever, the games included team sports. The other bid from the 1998 games came from Adelaide in Australia. Malaysia was the eighth nation to host the Commonwealth Games after Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, Wales, Jamaica and Scotland. Around 3638 athletes from 69 Commonwealth member nations participated at the games which featured 214 events in 15 sports with 34 of them collected medals. Kuala Lumpur was selected to stage the games at the General Assembly of the Commonwealth Games Federation in Barcelona, | Wales at the Commonwealth Games participation. Wales has hosted one Commonwealth Games to date, the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff. After the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Wales was tenth in the All-time tally of medals, with an overall total of 270 medals (57 gold, 86 silver and 127 bronze). The most gold medals that Wales have won in a Commonwealth Games is 10, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland. The largest medal haul was at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, at which Wales won 36 medals including five gold. Both records were equalled at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Team Wales uses |
What was the name of Matt Dillon's limping deputy in Gunsmoke | Gunsmoke "The Cisco Kid." "Gunsmoke" was set in Dodge City, Kansas, during the thriving cattle days of the 1870s. Dunning notes, "The show drew critical acclaim for unprecedented realism." The radio series first aired on CBS on April 26, 1952 with the episode "Billy the Kid", written by Walter Newman, and ended on June 18, 1961. The show stars William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell, and Parley Baer as Dillon's assistant, Chester Wesley Proudfoot. Matt Dillon was played on radio by William Conrad and on TV by James Arness. Two | Matt Dillon (Gunsmoke) room to restore "Gunsmoke", which had just been canceled, to the schedule at the insistence of William S. Paley's wife. In an early episode of "Have Gun Will Travel", Paladin is vying for a job against another bounty hunter, who claims to have been Matt Dillon's deputy when Dillon was the marshal in Austin, Texas. Paladin calls the man a fraud, saying Dillon never served in Austin. In Maverick a character called Matt Pickle was Marshall of towns that the Maverick brothers would invariably run through. One 2nd season episode was a full parody of a gunsmoke episode. Later episodes |
In the 50's western series Maverick who played Bart Maverick | The New Maverick The New Maverick The New Maverick is a 1978 American made-for-television western film based on the 1957–1962 television series "Maverick" starring James Garner as Bret Maverick, Charles Frank as newcomer cousin Ben Maverick (son of Beau Maverick), Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick, and Susan Sullivan as Poker Alice Ivers. James Garner and Jack Kelly had been 29 and 30 years old, respectively, at the beginning of the original series and were 50 and 51 while filming "The New Maverick". The TV-movie was a pilot for the series "Young Maverick", which featured Frank and only lasted a few episodes. Directed by | Young Maverick Young Maverick Young Maverick is a 1979 television series and a sequel to the 1957–1962 series "Maverick", which had starred James Garner as roving gambler Bret Maverick. Charles Frank played Ben Maverick, the son of Bret's first cousin Beau Maverick, making him Bret's first cousin once removed (second cousin). Frank's real-life wife Susan Blanchard played his girlfriend Nell, while John Dehner (who appeared in "Maverick"'s "Shady Deal At Sunny Acres") appeared as a frontier marshal who had arrested Ben's father Beau decades before. The series was cancelled by CBS after six hour-long episodes had been shown, leaving two which were |
Who played the part of Cheyenne Bodie in the TV series Cheyenne | Cheyenne (TV series) Cheyenne (TV series) Cheyenne was an American Western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long Western, and was the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Bros. original series produced by William T. Orr. The show starred Clint Walker, a native of Illinois, as Cheyenne Bodie, | Cheyenne (TV series) At the conclusion of the sixth season, a special episode was aired, "A Man Named Ragan", the pilot for a program called "The Dakotas", starring Larry Ward, Chad Everett, Jack Elam, and Michael Greene, that was to have replaced "Cheyenne" in the middle of the next season. However, because Cheyenne Bodie never appeared in "Ragan", the two programs are only tenuously linked. Walker reprised the Cheyenne Bodie character in 1991 for the TV movie "" and also played Cheyenne in an episode of "" called "Gunslingers" in 1995. Cheyenne (TV series) Cheyenne was an American Western television series of 108 |
What is the busiest airport in America | O'Hare International Airport O'Hare International Airport O'Hare International Airport , typically referred to as O'Hare Airport, Chicago O'Hare, or simply O'Hare, is an international airport located on the far Northwest Side of Chicago, Illinois, northwest of the Loop business district, operated by the Chicago Department of Aviation and covering . O'Hare has non-stop flights to 217 destinations in North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Oceania and Europe. Established to be the successor to Chicago’s "busiest square mile in the world" Midway Airport, O'Hare began as an airfield serving a Douglas manufacturing plant for C-54 military transports during World War II. It was named | Busiest airports in the United Kingdom by total passenger traffic 75 million international passengers annually, is the largest airport in the UK. London serves as the largest aviation hub in the world by passenger traffic, with six international airports, handling over 163 million passengers in 2016, more than any other city. London's second-busiest airport, London-Gatwick, was until 2016 the world's busiest single-runway airport. Manchester Airport is the United Kingdom's third-busiest airport. London-Stansted and London-Luton are the fourth- and fifth-busiest airports, respectively. The largest airport operator in the United Kingdom is Heathrow Airport Holdings (owner of Heathrow), followed by Manchester Airports Group (owner of Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands). Together with |
In the Bible who was the son of Abraham and Hagar | Hagar after Isaac was weaned, Sarah found the teenage Ishmael mocking her son. She was so upset by it that she demanded that Abraham send Hagar and her son away. She declared that Ishmael would not share in Isaac's inheritance. Abraham was greatly distressed but God told Abraham to do as his wife commanded because God's promise would be carried out through both Isaac and Ishmael. Early the next morning, Abraham brought Hagar and Ishmael out together. Abraham gave Hagar bread and water then sent them into the wilderness of Beersheba. She and her son wandered aimlessly until their water was | Women in the Bible unfaithful to Yahweh, especially in the Book of Hosea and the Book of Ezekiel; the descriptions of sexual acts and punishments of the metaphorical "zonah" in those books are brutal and pornographic. Abraham is an important figure in the Bible, yet "his story pivots on two women." Sarah was Abraham's wife and Hagar was Sarah's personal slave who became Abraham's concubine. Sarah had borne no children though God had promised them a child. Later in the story when Sarah hears the promise of God she does not believe it. "Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past |
Whose is the first death mentioned in the Bible | The Bible: In the Beginning... The Bible: In the Beginning... The Bible: In the Beginning... is a 1966 American-Italian religious epic film produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Huston. It recounts the first 22 chapters of the biblical Book of Genesis, covering the stories from Adam and Eve to the binding of Isaac. Released by 20th Century Fox, the film was photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno in Dimension 150 (color by DeLuxe Color), a variant of the 70mm Todd-AO format. It stars Michael Parks as Adam, Ulla Bergryd as Eve, Richard Harris as Cain, John Huston as Noah, Stephen Boyd as Nimrod, George | Death penalty in the Bible human life is never, under any circumstances, to be taken by another human being or by the appointed authorities in Israel." Some Christian groups, such as the Southern Baptist Convention, cite , , and Some atheists believe the death penalty in the Bible is extremist and proof that God is evil. Some atheists believe Christians are hypocritical for not killing people that commit capital sins, such as gay people. Religion and capital punishment Death penalty in the Bible The Bible records various proscriptions and instances of the death penalty. In the Genesis creation narrative (Book of Genesis 2:17), God tells |
What make of car was Princess Diana killed in | Death of Diana, Princess of Wales Death of Diana, Princess of Wales On 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales died as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, France. Her companion, Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the Mercedes S280, Henri Paul, were pronounced dead at the scene. A fourth passenger in the car, bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, was seriously injured but survived. Although the media blamed the behaviour of the paparazzi who followed the car, a French judicial investigation in 1999 found that the crash was caused by Henri Paul, who lost control of | Diana: Last Days of a Princess Sawalha as Mohamed Al-Fayed, and Carlo Ferrante as Henri Paul, the driver of the car in which he, Diana, and Dodi were killed during a high-speed escape from paparazzi through the streets of Paris. The Halton House in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, UK, served as the backdrop for scenes taking place at the Hôtel Ritz Paris. Other film locations included Hertfordshire, Paris (including the Pont de l'Alma Tunnel in which the car crashed) and Cannes. Diana: Last Days of a Princess Diana: Last Days of a Princess is a television movie broadcast in the United States by TLC on 12 August 2007 |
Who built the first iron hulled steamship, the Great Britain | SS Great Britain SS Great Britain SS "Great Britain" is a museum ship and former passenger steamship, which was advanced for her time. She was the longest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York. While other ships had been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller, the "Great Britain" was the first to combine these features in a large ocean-going ship. She was the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic, which she did in 1845, in the | TEV Rangatira (1971) her under three different flags of convenience: as Queen M in 1986, Carlo R in 1990 and Alexander the Great in 2001. After a failed attempt to convert the vessel into a cruise ship she was scrapped in 2005. "Rangatira" is Māori for "chief (male or female), wellborn, noble". The 1971 ship is at least the sixth to carry the name. The first "Rangatira" was in service between Great Britain and New Zealand by 1857. The second was an iron-hulled steamship built in 1863 and wrecked in 1880. The third was a Shaw Savill Line steamship built in 1890 and |
What space first is held by Anna Fisher | Anna Lee Fisher Anna Lee Fisher Anna Lee Fisher (née Tingle) (born August 24, 1949) is an American chemist, emergency physician, and a former NASA astronaut. Formerly married to fellow astronaut Bill Fisher, and the mother of two children, in 1984 she became the first mother in space. Fisher was formerly the oldest active American astronaut. During her career at NASA, she has been involved with three major programs: the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station and the Orion project. Fisher was born in New York City, and grew up in San Pedro, California. She is a 1967 graduate of San Pedro High | Anna S. Fisher Club and the National Association of Women Artists. Fisher died in Cold Brook in 1942. The same year Pratt Institute held a memorial exhibition of her work. Her work is in the collections of Pratt Institute Art School, the Brooklyn Museum, National Academy Museum and School, and the National Arts Club. Anna S. Fisher Anna S. Fisher (1873–1942) was an American artist and teacher. She was proficient in both watercolors and oil paints. The National Academy of Design included her works in 40 annual exhibitions between 1904 and 1942. Fisher was born in Cold Brook, New York. She studied at |
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