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In the UK these books are called ‘Where’s Wally?’ What is his name in the USA?
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Where's Wally?: The Animated Series other languages (many times with Wally's name being changed to match that country's name from the original books). The animated show was released in Australia on the May 7, 2009 with "Where's Wally? Vol.1 – My Left Fang". As of February 3, 2013, HIT Entertainment has yet to announce any plans for a US DVD release of the show. However, episodes were previously released on videocassette in the 1990s by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Fox Kids Video and CBS Video. Where's Wally?: The Animated Series Where's Wally?: The Animated Series (called Where's Waldo? in North America) is a joint
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The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River". "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage
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What was the name of the dwarf who is a chief character in ‘Lord of the Rings’?
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The Lord of the Rings: War in the North that co-operation amongst traditionally antagonistic races is such a major theme in the novels, they wanted to replicate it in the game. Having experimented with two, three and four-player co-op, they ultimately decided to go with three-player, thus mirroring the classic triptych in the novels; Man (Aragorn), Elf (Legolas) and Dwarf (Gimli). Lead designer Andre Maguire explained that "how" players experienced co-op mode was equally as important as them simply playing it; However, according to Tomandl, the focus on co-op gameplay did not mean single-player mode was neglected; "War in the North" is the first "Lord of the Rings" game
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The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game However, due to the licensing agreements between New Line Cinema and Games Workshop, pieces of models for the "Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game" are not allowed to be combined with other model lines for official tournaments or conversion awards. The same is true for pieces from other manufacturers. , the rules for the "Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game" are in their fourth edition. The first three editions of the rulebooks were released with "The Lord of the Rings" films, but Games Workshop used the magazine "White Dwarf" and various supplements to "go beyond what is presented
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Which mountain range is often described as “the backbone of England”?
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Mountains and hills of England the Pennines (often called "the backbone of England") continues into the Yorkshire Dales, a limestone-dominated area of broad valleys and moorland. The Yorkshire Three Peaks are some of the highest summits in the area, which became a national park in 1954. The Yorkshire Dales end at Skipton, and a short distance to the south is a range of moors that rises up between the urban cores of Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire. The range has no continuous name - the western part as far as Blackburn is called the West Pennine Moors, the eastern part north of the A646 (including
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Backbone Mountain Backbone Mountain Backbone Mountain is a ridge of the Allegheny Mountains of the central Appalachian Mountain Range. It is situated in the U.S. states of West Virginia and Maryland and forms a portion of the Eastern Continental Divide. In the state of Maryland, Backbone Mountain reaches an elevation of , making it Maryland’s highest point. Backbone Mountain stretches approximately southwest to northeast, from the Black Fork near Hambleton in Tucker County, West Virginia to the Savage River Reservoir in Garrett County, Maryland. The mountain provides a boundary between two watersheds. The headwaters of Youghiogheny River, in the watershed of the
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Born 1899, died 1947 (cardiac arrest). Indicted for tax evasion in 1931. Who was he?
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Al Capone 11 years in federal prison. After conviction, he replaced his defense team with experts in tax law, and his grounds for appeal were strengthened by a Supreme Court ruling, but his appeal ultimately failed. Capone showed signs of syphilitic dementia early in his sentence and became increasingly debilitated before being released after eight years of incarceration. On January 25, 1947, Capone died of cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke. Al Capone was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on January 17, 1899. His parents were Italian immigrants Gabriele Capone (1865–1920) and Teresa Capone (née Raiola; 1867–1952). His
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Cardiac arrest studies varied from 0 to 28%. In those over the age of 70 who have a cardiac arrest while in hospital, survival to hospital discharge is less than 20%. How well these individuals are able to manage after leaving hospital is not clear. A study of survival rates from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest found that 14.6% of those who had received resuscitation by ambulance staff survived as far as admission to hospital. Of these, 59% died during admission, half of these within the first 24 hours, while 46% survived until discharge from hospital. This reflects an overall survival following cardiac arrest
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Which jockey won the Derby in 1979, 1980, 1989 and 1994?
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Ernie Johnson (jockey) 1979, 49 in 1980, 29 in 1981, 46 in 1982, to 27 in 1983. In the 1980 Epsom Oaks, Johnson rode The Dancer, on whom he had won a race at Newbury as a 2 year old, for Major Dick Hern. Hern's stable jockey, Willie Carson, also had the choice of Cheshire Oaks winner Shoot A Line and Musidora Stakes winner Bireme. He elected to ride Bireme, who won by 2 lengths from Vielle, with The Dancer in 3rd. Johnson made much of the running until two furlongs out and was possibly a shade unlucky - The Dancer was partially
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Larry Snyder (jockey) jockey in the United States that year. On April 1, 1969, Snyder won six races on a single card at Oaklawn Park, the first jockey to ever do so at that racetrack. On August 17, 1981 he rode five winners on a single program, tying the Louisiana Downs record. Among his notable wins were victories in the 1983 Rebel Stakes aboard that year's Kentucky Derby winner, Sunny's Halo, as well as the 1989 Arkansas Derby on Dansil whom he would ride to a fourth-place finish in both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. At Louisiana Downs on August 24, 1989,
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Who was the creator of the St. Trinian’s schoolgirls?
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St Trinian's School on their way to and from school; they originally inspired his cartoons and characters. The Perse School for Girls' Archive area holds several original St Trinian's books, given to the school by Ronald Searle. He also based the school partly on the former Cambridgeshire High School for Girls (now Long Road Sixth Form College). In the 1950s, a series of "St Trinian"s comedy films was made, featuring well-known British actors, including Alastair Sim (in drag as the headmistress, and also playing her brother); George Cole as spiv "Flash Harry", Joyce Grenfell as Sgt Ruby Gates, a beleaguered policewoman; and Richard
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Head of the Schoolgirls (Victoria) Single Scull (1 Division) Eight (4 Divisions); Coxed Quad Scull (5 Divisions); Coxed Four (6 Divisions); Double Scull (1 Division) Single Scull (2 Divisions) Those girls who have competed in the Head of the Schoolgirls Regatta for three or more years, and are in Year 12, are eligible to receive a Morongo Medal. These medals have been struck to commemorate Morongo Girls' College's contribution to the HOSG as a competitor before closing and to recognize its supporters' club, the Chirnside Club, as a valued contributor to the Schoolgirls. The medal's inscription - "Sint lucernae ardentes" is translated as "Keep the
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American E.F.Blackwood gave his name to a common tactic used in which game?
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Blackwood convention Blackwood convention In the partnership card game contract bridge, the Blackwood convention is a popular bidding convention that was developed by Easley Blackwood. It is used to explore the partnership's possession of aces, kings and in some variants, the queen of trumps, to judge more precisely whether slam is likely to be a good contract. Two versions of Blackwood are common: "standard" Blackwood, developed by Easley in 1933, and "Roman Key Card" Blackwood ("RKC" or "RKCB"), named for the Italian team which invented it. Standard Blackwood enables one partner to count partnership aces and kings in general. Key card variants
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Atlas E/F upper stage gave the vehicle a payload capacity of to a medium Earth transfer orbit. The SGS upper stage, which consisted of two series-burning solid rocket motors, was used on twelve Atlas E/F launches, with early GPS satellites. The first eight used the SGS-1, which could place of payload into a medium Earth transfer orbit, whereas the last four used the more powerful SGS-2. The eighth launch failed. The Star was used to propel most of the other upper stages used on the Atlas E/F, however it was also used in its own right on several launches. A Star-17A was
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What is the proper scientific name for table sugar?
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Sugar soap soap made from terpene. The ingredients listed in the safety data sheet include >30% sodium carbonate. Sugar soap Sugar soap, as typically found in Commonwealth countries, is a cleaning material of variable composition sold for use on surfaces affected by greasy or tarry deposits which are not easily removed with routine domestic cleaning materials. Its name arises from the fact that, when in dry powder form, it resembles table sugar. The solution is alkaline and its uses include cleaning paintwork in preparation for repainting. The precise ingredients and their proportions (and consequentially what hazards, if any, are associated) vary between
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Proper name (philosophy) Proper name (philosophy) In the philosophy of language a proper name, for example the names of persons or places, is a name which is ordinarily taken to uniquely identify its referent in the world. As such it presents particular challenges for theories of meaning and it has become a central problem in analytical philosophy. The common sense view was originally formulated by John Stuart Mill in "A System of Logic" where he defines it as "a word that answers the purpose of showing what thing it is that we are talking about but not of telling anything about it". This
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Which band was Up The Junction in 1979?
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Up the Junction soundtrack by Manfred Mann. The television version of the play was the inspiration for the 1979 Squeeze hit "Up the Junction". Up the Junction Up the Junction is a 1963 collection of short stories by Nell Dunn that depicts contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea and Clapham Junction. The book uses colloquial speech, and its portrayal of petty thieving, sexual encounters, births, deaths and back-street abortion provided a view of life that was previously unrecognised by many people. The book won the 1963 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. In 1965 it was adapted for television by the BBC
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Up the Junction (song) is with another man, his "machismo" is such that he cannot beg forgiveness, and "so it's my assumption, I'm really up the junction" – that is, both "up the junction" in the sense of living in the area of Clapham Junction, and in that of having comprehensively wrecked his own life. The video showed the band playing inside a flat – actually the kitchen of John Lennon's old house, where Lennon had made the promotional film for "Imagine"; one of the two girls in the background was Michelle Collins. The band made a tongue-in-cheek performance of "Up the Junction" on
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A Shavian is a big fan and aficionado of which famous playwright?
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Shavian alphabet the Shavian glyphs. Shavian alphabet The Shavian alphabet (also known as the Shaw alphabet) is an alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonetic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of conventional spelling. It was posthumously funded by and named after Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Shaw set three main criteria for the new alphabet: it should be (1) at least 40 letters; (2) as "phonetic" as possible (that is, letters should have a to phonemes); and (3) distinct from the Latin alphabet to avoid the impression that the new spellings were simply "misspellings". The Shavian
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Shavian alphabet the release of version 4.0. The Unicode block for Shavian is U+10450–U+1047F and is in Plane 1 (the Supplementary Multilingual Plane). While the Shavian alphabet was added to Unicode 4.0 in 2003, Unicode Shavian fonts are still quite rare. Before it was standardised, fonts were made that include Shavian letters in the places of Roman letters, and/or in an agreed upon location in the Unicode private use area, allocated from the ConScript Unicode Registry and now superseded by the official Unicode standard. These following fonts contain full Unicode support for Shavian. Windows/Mac/Linux systems need fonts such as these to display
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What sport is contested in the Vuelta a Espana?
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1984 Vuelta a España 1984 Vuelta a España The 39th "Vuelta a España" (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 grand tours, was held from 17 April to 6 May 1984. It consisted of 19 stages covering a total of 3,593 km, and was won by Éric Caritoux of the Skil-Sem cycling team. Caritoux, a second year professional, had shown his climbing talent earlier that year by winning the stage up the Mont-Ventoux of the 1984 Paris–Nice but he did not enter the 1984 Vuelta a Espana thinking of the overall classification. On the 12th stage to Lagos
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2017 Vuelta a España Giro d'Italia in May, as well as both Adam and Simon Yates (both ). The route of the 2017 Vuelta a Espana was revealed by Unipublic on 12 January 2017. Keeping with the tradition of the past few years, the race started off with a team time trial. However, the race started in France, just the third time in history that the Spanish Grand Tour began outside of its home country. The third stage saw the race leave France, with a mountain stage to Andorra la Vella. The first uphill finale was on stage 5, with a summit finish atop
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Which modern musical instrument used to be called the 'sackbut'?
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Sackbut Sackbut A sackbut is a type of trombone from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, characterised by a telescopic slide that is used to vary the length of the tube to change pitch. Unlike the earlier slide trumpet from which it evolved, the sackbut possesses a U-shaped slide, with two parallel sliding tubes, which allows for playing scales in a lower range. Records of the term "trombone" predates the term "sackbut" by two decades, and evidence for the German term "Posaune" is even older. "Sackbut", originally a French term, was used in England until the instrument fell into disuse in the
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Electronic sackbut Electronic sackbut The electronic sackbut is an instrument designed by Hugh Le Caine in the 1940s. The electronic sackbut had a feature which resembles what has become the modulation wheels on moderen synthesizers: The player used the left hand to modify the sound while the right hand was used to play the keyboard. This compares with today's synthesizers which have one or several modulation wheels to the left of the keyboard (often controlling modulation and pitch). The controller modified volume, pitch, and timbre. Thus it was one of the first electronic instruments to use a three-dimensional continuous controller to modify
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Which political party did Picasso join in 1944?
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Pablo Picasso of postcards to raise funds for the Spanish Republican cause. In 1944, Picasso joined the French Communist Party, attended the World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace in Poland, and in 1950 received the Stalin Peace Prize from the Soviet government. Party criticism in 1953 of his portrait of Stalin as insufficiently realistic cooled Picasso's interest in Soviet politics, though he remained a loyal member of the Communist Party until his death. His dealer, D-H. Kahnweiler, a socialist, termed Picasso's communism "sentimental" rather than political, saying "He has never read a line of Karl Marx, nor of Engels of
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Ahva (political party) party to join Telem (another newly formed party) on 15 June. By the end of the Knesset session in June 1981, only Eliayhu remained in the party (though it had outlasted the Democratic Movement, which folded in March 1981). The party did not run in the 1981 elections and subsequently disappeared. Ahva (political party) Ahva (, "Brotherhood") was a short-lived political party in Israel, one of several spinoffs created by the collapse of Dash. Ahva was formed on 8 July 1980 when two MKs (Shafik Asaad and Shlomo Eliyahu) broke away from the Democratic Movement, itself a relatively new party,
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In which novel does William Dobbin finally win the hand of Amelia Sedley?
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Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial) Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial) Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name broadcast in 1998. The screenplay was written by Andrew Davies. The BBC previously adapted the novel as a serial twice before, in 1967 and also in 1987. For a full length summary of the book see: "Vanity Fair" plot summary. Natasha Little as Becky Sharp (character)<br> Frances Grey as Amelia Sedley<br> David Ross as Mr. Sedley <br> Philip Glenister as William Dobbin<br> Michele Dotrice as Mrs. Sedley<br> Janine Duvitski as Mrs. Bute Crawley<br> Anton Lesser as Mr.
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Vanity Fair (novel) a French dancer, is a strong-willed, cunning, moneyless, young woman determined to make her way in society. After leaving school, Becky stays with Amelia Sedley ("Emmy"), who is a good-natured, simple-minded, young girl, of a wealthy London family. There, Becky meets the dashing and self-obsessed Captain George Osborne (Amelia's betrothed) and Amelia's brother Joseph ("Jos") Sedley, a clumsy and vainglorious but rich civil servant home from the East India Company. Hoping to marry Sedley, the richest young man she has met, Becky entices him, but she fails. George Osborne's friend Captain William Dobbin loves Amelia, but only wishes her happiness,
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The word ‘haptic’ relates to which of the five senses?
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The Five Senses (film) The Five Senses (film) The Five Senses is a 1999 Canadian drama film directed, written and produced by Jeremy Podeswa. "The Five Senses" is about interconnected stories linked by a building which examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by Ruth Seraph, a massage therapist who is treating Anna Miller. Ruth's daughter Rachel accidentally loses Anna's pre-school daughter, Amy Lee, in the park, when Rachel is distracted by the sight of a couple making love in the woods. Rachel meets a voyeur named Rupert (vision), and they become friends as fellow outsiders while he teaches her the pleasure
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The House of the Five Senses The House of the Five Senses The House of the Five Senses is the main entrance of amusement park Efteling in the Netherlands. It was designed by Ton van de Ven and went operational in 1996, a year later than planned due to a general strike in the construction sector. The architecture is based on the Indonesian Rumah Gadang style of the Minangkabau ethnic group. The wooden construction has the largest reed roof (48437 square feet/ 4500 square metres) in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records. The five peaks of the roof symbolize the five senses, which
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What name is given to the negative electrode of an electrolytic cell?
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Electrolytic cell drive current in opposite directions. The cell with the larger voltage is discharged, making it a galvanic cell, so P is the cathode and N is the anode as described above. But, the cell with the smaller voltage charges, making it an electrolytic cell. In the electrolytic cell, negative ions are driven towards P and positive ions towards N. Thus, the P electrode of the electrolytic cell meets the definition of anode while the electrolytic cell is being charged. Similarly, the N electrode of the electrolytic cell is the cathode while the electrolytic cell is being charged. As already noted,
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Electrolytic cell cells. Electrolytic cell An electrolytic cell is an electrochemical cell that drives a non-spontaneous redox reaction through the application of electrical energy. They are often used to decompose chemical compounds, in a process called electrolysis—the Greek word lysis means "to break up". Important examples of electrolysis are the decomposition of water into hydrogen and oxygen, and bauxite into aluminium and other chemicals. Electroplating (e.g. of copper, silver, nickel or chromium) is done using an electrolytic cell. Electrolysis is a technique that uses a direct electric current (DC). An electrolytic cell has three component parts: an electrolyte and two electrodes (a
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Which member of the royal family is often referred to as ‘Princess Pushy’?
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Royal Family Orders of the United Kingdom Although Diana, Princess of Wales, was known to have received the Order (and, more recently, the Countess of Wessex, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duchess of Cambridge were pictured wearing it), neither Sarah, Duchess of York, Princess Michael of Kent, nor Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has been seen wearing it. A biological relationship to the monarch does not automatically bestow the Order either. None of the current monarch's granddaughters have been seen to hold the order. Royal Family Orders of the United Kingdom The sovereign of the United Kingdom may award a royal family order to female members of
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Greek royal family non gratae" in the 1980s, having the palaces of the family and other estates expropriated in 1994, and then their passports annulled, Constantine and his wife Anne-Marie were once again living in Greece. As male-line descendants of King Christian IX of Denmark, members of the dynasty bear the title of "Prince or Princess of Denmark" and thus are traditionally referred to as "Princes" or "Princesses of Greece and Denmark". The extended members of the Greek royal family are: <nowiki>*</nowiki> "Member of the extended royal family Greek royal family The Greek royal family (Greek: Ελληνική Βασιλική Οικογένεια) is a branch of
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Which baronet had an eight-year affair with Princess Margaret in the 1970s?
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Roddy Llewellyn Roddy Llewellyn Sir Roderic Victor "Roddy" Llewellyn, 5th Baronet (born 9 October 1947) is a British baronet with a lengthy career as a landscape gardener, gardening journalist, author, and television presenter. He is also known for his eight-year relationship with Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II. Llewellyn was born in Crickhowell, Brecknockshire, the younger son of Sir Harry Llewellyn, 3rd Bt. (d. 1999), an Olympic gold medallist in show jumping, and his wife, the Hon. Christine Saumarez (d. 1998). He succeeded his elder brother, Dai, to the Llewellyn baronetcy in January 2009. He was
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Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon unproven. According to biographer Charlotte Breese, entertainer Leslie Hutchinson had a "brief liaison" with Margaret in 1955. A 2009 biography of actor David Niven included assertions, based on information from Niven's widow and a good friend of Niven's, that he had had an affair with the princess, who was 20 years his junior. In 1975, the Princess was listed among women with whom actor Warren Beatty had had romantic relationships. John Bindon, a Cockney actor who had spent time in prison, sold his story to the "Daily Mirror", boasting of a close relationship with Margaret. By the early 1970s, the
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Which is the smallest ape?
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Ape years ago (Mya) the clades diverged into newer clades. The lesser apes are the gibbon family, Hylobatidae, of sixteen species; all are native to Asia. Their major differentiating characteristic is their long arms, which they use to brachiate through trees. Their wrists are ball and socket joints as an evolutionary adaptation to their arboreal lifestyle. Generally smaller than the African apes, the largest gibbon, the siamang, weighs up to ; in comparison, the smallest "great ape", the bonobo, is . Formerly, all the great apes except humans were classified as the family Pongidae, which conveniently provided for separating the human
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The Ape of God / The Ape of God chart on the Billboard 200. Personnel adapted from "The Ape of God" and "The Ape of God" liner notes. All personnel are credited as contributing to both albums, unless otherwise noted. The Ape of God / The Ape of God The Ape of God is the name of three different studio albums released by the American rock band Old Man Gloom — one of which was a "fake" album released promotionally to music critics and subsequently leaked online, and two of which were officially released to the public making up the band's sixth and seventh studio albums (and are sometimes
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What is the name for snow overhanging the edge of a mountain ridge?
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Snow cornice Snow cornice A snow cornice or simply cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is an overhanging edge of snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain and along the sides of gullies. They form by wind blowing snow over sharp terrain breaks (e.g. the crest of the mountain) where it attaches and builds out horizontally. This build-up is most common on the steeper and leeward sides of mountains. Cornices are extremely dangerous and travelling above or below them should be avoided. When a cornice "collapses", it breaks in from the cornice to the top of the peak;
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This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For is the first release by Bring Me the Horizon, released on 25 September 2004, through Thirty Days of Night Records in Australia and on 30 January 2005, through Visible Noise records in the UK. "This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For" was released on 25 September 2004 in the US through Earache Records. The original pressing, on Thirty Days of Night Records, was a strict run of only 1,000 copies. Its title comes from
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What was Miss Piggy’s surname on the Muppet Show?
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Miss Piggy Miss Piggy Miss Piggy is a Muppet character known for her breakout role in Jim Henson's "The Muppet Show". Since her debut in 1976, Miss Piggy has been notable for her volatile diva personality, tendency to use French phrases in her speech, and practice of karate. She was also known for her on-again/off-again relationship with Kermit the Frog, which began in 1978 and has been on a hiatus since 2015. Frank Oz performed the character from 1976 to 2000 and was succeeded by Eric Jacobson in 2001. Miss Piggy was inspired by jazz singer Peggy Lee. In 1996, TV Guide
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Miss Piggy as very tender towards her, although to the point of sickly saccharin parentese. On "The Muppet Show", Foo-Foo was portrayed as both a Muppet and a real dog in different shots. Foo-Foo mostly appears as a sidekick to Miss Piggy in most movies and specials. Miss Piggy has appeared in all the Muppet films and television series following "The Muppet Show". In "The Muppet Movie", she has just won a beauty contest when she first meets Kermit and joins the Muppets. In "The Great Muppet Caper", Miss Piggy plays an aspiring fashion model who gets caught up in a screwball-comedy
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What term is used for the vast plains of Northern Asia?
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Central Asia peoples of the vast region. Central Asia is sometimes referred to as Turkestan. There are several places that claim to be the geographic center of Asia, for example Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva in the Russian Federation, and a village north of Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region of China. Central Asia is an extremely large region of varied geography, including high passes and mountains (Tian Shan), vast deserts (Kyzyl Kum, Taklamakan), and especially treeless, grassy steppes. The vast steppe areas of Central Asia are considered together with the steppes of Eastern Europe as a homogeneous geographical zone known
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Great Plains was not generally used before the early 20th century. Nevin Fenneman's 1916 study "Physiographic Subdivision of the United States" brought the term Great Plains into more widespread usage. Before that the region was almost invariably called the High Plains, in contrast to the lower Prairie Plains of the Midwestern states. Today the term "High Plains" is used for a subregion of the Great Plains. The Great Plains are the westernmost portion of the vast North American Interior Plains, which extend east to the Appalachian Plateau. The United States Geological Survey divides the Great Plains in the United States into ten
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Which branch of medicine is concerned with providing artificial limbs for the human body?
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Artificial organ to become stronger and lighter, limiting the amount of extra energy necessary to operate the limb. Additional materials have allowed artificial limbs to look much more realistic. Prostheses can roughly be categorized as upper- and lower-extremity and can take many shapes and sizes. New advances in artificial limbs include additional levels of integration with the human body. Electrodes can be placed into nervous tissue, and the body can be trained to control the prosthesis. This technology has been used in both animals and humans. The prosthetic can be controlled by the brain using a direct implant or implant into various
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Limbs of the horse Limbs of the horse The limbs of the horse are structures made of dozens of bones, joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments that support the weight of the equine body. They include two apparatuses: the suspensory apparatus, which carries much of the weight, prevents overextension of the joint and absorbs shock, and the stay apparatus, which locks major joints in the limbs, allowing horses to remain standing while relaxed or asleep. The limbs play a major part in the movement of the horse, with the legs performing the functions of absorbing impact, bearing weight, and providing thrust. In general, the majority
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Which 60s chart-topping band were originally called The Alan Price Combo?
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Alan Price London with his wife and two daughters. Alan Price Alan Price (born 19 April 1942) is an English musician, best known as the original keyboardist for the British band the Animals and for his subsequent solo work. Price was born in Fatfield, Washington, County Durham, and was educated at Jarrow Grammar School, County Durham. He is a self-taught musician and was a founding member of the Tyneside group "The Alan Price Rhythm and Blues Combo", which was later renamed the Animals. His organ-playing on songs by the Animals, such as "The House of the Rising Sun", "Don't Let Me Be
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A Band Called O R&B and Gospel band from Norfolk, Virginia. "The Alan Bown Set – Before and Beyond" by Jeff Bannister, published by Banland Publishing Ltd A Band Called O A Band Called O were a band from Jersey, Channel Islands. Originally known as The Parlour Band, playing progressive rock, they renamed to A Band Called O for two albums on CBS/Epic and later to The O Band for further albums with UA. Despite issuing five albums, on three major labels, and being championed by John Peel, for whom they recorded four Peel Sessions, they had no chart success; but were a popular
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Who has the Jack Regan role in the new movie version of The Sweeney?
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The Sweeney displaying "1979". In "Sweeney 2" (1978), George and Jack eventually find themselves going to the island of Malta in order to track down a group of particularly violent armed robbers who have been committing bank and payroll robberies all over London and kill anybody that gets in their way, even members of their own gang, Jack & George were assigned the case by their recently convicted chief inspector as his last order, as he is about to be charged with corruption. In "The Sweeney" (2012) the setting moved to the present day, with Regan being played by Ray Winstone, Carter
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The Sweeney The Sweeney The Sweeney is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London. It was made by Thames Television for broadcast on the ITV network. The programme's title derives from 'Sweeney Todd', which is Cockney rhyming slang for "Flying Squad". It starred John Thaw as Detective Inspector Jack Regan and Dennis Waterman as his partner, Detective Sergeant George Carter. Such was its popularity in the UK that it spawned two feature film spin-offs, "Sweeney!" and "Sweeney 2". The
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Who won the first ever women’s boxing gold at any Olympics?
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Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics disputes regarding refereeing and officiating at the boxing events in the 2012 Summer Olympics: Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics The boxing tournaments at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held from 28 July to 12 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre. A total of 286 competitors took part in 13 events. For the first time at an Olympic Games, women competed in three boxing events. The first Olympic gold medal in women's boxing was awarded to Nicola Adams from Great Britain, who won the flyweight tournament on 9 August 2012. Men competed in the following ten events: Women's
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India at the 2008 Summer Olympics India, at the 1900 Paris Olympics and one silver medal won by the 2008 flagbearer Rajyavardhan Rathore at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Sushil Kumar won the second ever wrestling medal for India, the first being the bronze earned by Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Vijender Singh won a bronze medal in the middleweight boxing category, having lost in the semifinals. This was India's first-ever Olympic medal in boxing. The 2008 Beijing Olympics saw the best ever performance by an Indian contingent, in terms of the number of medals. They won three medals in all (one gold and
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Natalie Bennett was announced as the new leader of what?
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Natalie Bennett Natalie Bennett Natalie Louise Bennett (born 10 February 1966) is a British politician and journalist who was born and raised in Australia. She led the Green Party of England and Wales from September 2012 to September 2016. She began her career as a journalist with regional newspapers in New South Wales before leaving in 1995 for Thailand, where she worked for Australian Volunteers International and the "Bangkok Post" newspaper over the next four years. Since settling in Britain in 1999 she has contributed to the "Guardian", "Independent" and "Times" newspapers. Her election as leader of the Greens came six years
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Natalie Bennett forward for British people, for the world". In May 2014 she was selected again to contest the Parliamentary seat of Holborn and St Pancras. She was re-elected unopposed as leader of the party in September 2014. In February 2015, an interview with Bennett regarding the funding of house-building on the talk radio station LBC was described by her as "absolutely excruciating". In a halting interview on LBC in which she struggled to explain how her party would pay for 500,000 new council homes it is pledging to build. She told Nick Ferrari the policy would cost £2.7bn, prompting the presenter
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Which famous song was composed by Claude Roget de Lisle?
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Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (), sometimes spelled de l'Isle or de Lile (10 May 1760 – 26 June 1836), was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. He is known for writing the words and music of the "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" in 1792, which would later be known as "La Marseillaise" and become the French national anthem. Rouget de Lisle was born at Lons-le-Saunier, reputedly on a market day. His parents lived in the neighbouring village of Montaigu. A plaque was placed at the precise spot of his
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Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle July Revolution; Louis Philippe awarded him the Legion of Honour. Rouget de Lisle died in poverty in Choisy-le-Roi, Val de Marne. His ashes were transferred from Choisy-le-Roi cemetery to the Invalides on 14 July 1915, during World War I. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (), sometimes spelled de l'Isle or de Lile (10 May 1760 – 26 June 1836), was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. He is known for writing the words and music of the "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" in 1792, which would later be known as
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Which authority looks after Britain’s lighthouses?
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Casquets lighthouses per ton of ship when vessels passed the rocks and in turn he paid Trinity House 50 pounds per year for the right to run the lighthouses. The lighthouses reverted to Trinity House in 1785. They were converted to oil lamps with metal reflectors which were first used on 25 November 1790; and upgraded again with apparatus to rotate a beam of light in 1818. This had a clockwork mechanism which was wound up every hour and a half and gave one flash every 15 seconds. The lighthouses were badly damaged and the lanterns smashed in a severe storm on
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History of lighthouses level was rebuilt between 1780 and 1790 increasing the height from 49m to 60m and incorporating an Argand lamp and one of the first parabolic mirrors which was turned by clockwork developed by a clockmaker of Dieppe. The tower later became the first to use the revolutionary Fresnel lens, in the early 1820s.) In Britain, lighthouses were privately owned and the right to collect dues was by warrant either from a local authority or the crown. The abuse of these licenses led to foreign ships fearing to seek refuge on the south coast of England for fear of being boarded
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At what time does the first dog watch begin?
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Dog watch Dog watch Dog watch, in marine or naval terminology, is a watch, a period of work duty or a work shift, between 16:00 and 20:00 (4 pm and 8 pm). This period is split into two, with the 'first' dog watch from 16:00 to 18:00 (4 pm to 6 pm) and the 'last' dog watch from 18:00 to 20:00 (6 pm to 8 pm). Each of these watches is half the length of a standard watch. The last dog watch is also referred to as the second dog watch in some sources. For instance Jack London in "The Sea Wolf",
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Dog watch there are only two, to eat an evening meal at about the traditional time. The "Oxford English Dictionary" states that the word 'dogwatch' is a direct translation from either German or Dutch of a similar term. It originally referred to the night-watch on ships — that is, the time when (on land) all but the dog were asleep. The name is also said to be derived from Sirius, the "Dog Star", on the claim that Sirius was the first star that can be seen at night. An alternative folk etymology is that the name arose because someone tasked with one
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Which king was the target of the Popish Plot and the Rye House Plot?
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Rye House Plot Rye House Plot The Rye House Plot of 1683 was a plan to assassinate King Charles II of England and his brother (and heir to the throne) James, Duke of York. The royal party went from Westminster to Newmarket to see horse races and were expected to make the return journey on 1 April 1683, but because there was a major fire in Newmarket on 22 March (which destroyed half the town), the races were cancelled, and the King and the Duke returned to London early. As a result, the planned attack never took place. Historians vary in their assessment
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Rye House Plot than London, such as Bristol, and a Scottish uprising, were in the air. The subsequent historiography of the Plot was largely partisan, and scholars are still clarifying who was closely involved in the planning of violent and revolutionary measures. The assassination plot centred on a group that was convened in 1682–1683 by Robert West of the Middle Temple, a Green Ribbon Club member: it is now often called the Rye House cabal. West had participated in one of the cases that wound up the Popish Plot allegations, that of the false witness Stephen College. Through that association he made contact
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Who was the last Roman Catholic king of England?
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James II of England James II of England James II and VII (14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685 until he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland. The second surviving son of Charles I, he ascended the throne upon the death of his brother, Charles II. Members of Britain's Protestant political elite increasingly suspected him of being pro-French and pro-Catholic and of having designs on becoming an absolute monarch. When
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St Edward's Roman Catholic/Church of England School St Edward's Roman Catholic/Church of England School St Edward's Roman Catholic/Church of England School is a voluntary aided secondary school in Poole, Dorset. The school turned 50 years old in 2013, and is one of a small number of joint Roman Catholic and Church of England secondary schools in the country. Originally the school was only open to Roman Catholic students, but over time as the school has grown and as more students have been enrolled, the school has changed its status to also accept Protestant students. The school is affiliated with both the Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth and
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On which river does Preston stand?
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Preston, Lancashire Preston City Council. Preston is currently divided between two Westminster constituencies, namely Preston and Wyre and Preston North. The Lancashire County Council building is located on Fishergate and is the main office for Lancashire, Preston Council Buildings are found on Lancaster Road. The River Ribble provides a southern border for the city. The Forest of Bowland forms a backdrop to Preston to the northeast while the Fylde lies to the west. At , Preston is approximately north west of Manchester, north east of Liverpool, and east of the coastal town Blackpool. The current borders came into effect on 1 April
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Preston River Preston River The Preston River is a river in the South West region of Western Australia. The river has a total length of and rises near Goonac siding then flows in a north-westerly direction until discharging into the Leschenault Estuary. The headwaters are inland within the Darling Range and run across the Blackwood Plateau and the Swan Coastal Plain. The majority of the river catchment has been cleared for agriculture although some remnant forest vegetation exists at the headwaters. The towns of Donnybrook and Boyanup are on the shores of the Preston River. The major tributaries of the river include
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Which comedian co-stars with fellow comic Lee Mack in TV’s Not Going Out?
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Not Going Out Not Going Out Not Going Out is a British television sitcom that has aired on BBC One since 2006, currently starring Lee Mack, Sally Bretton, Finley Southby, Max Pattison and Francesca Newman. The series has previously starred Megan Dodds, Miranda Hart, Tim Vine and Katy Wix. The recurring cast currently includes Geoffrey Whitehead, Deborah Grant, Bobby Ball, Hugh Dennis and Abigail Cruttenden. Mack and Andrew Collins were the initial writers for the show, with Paul Kerensa, Simon Evans and Daniel Peak joining the writing staff in later series. Mack is the last remaining actor from the original cast, and the
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Lee Mack Lee Mack Lee Gordon McKillop (born 4 August 1968), known as Lee Mack, is an English comedian and actor best known for writing and starring in the sitcom "Not Going Out." He is also known for being a team captain on the BBC One comedy panel show "Would I Lie to You?", hosting the Sky One panel show "Duck Quacks Don't Echo" and for presenting the panel show "They Think It's All Over". He has been guest host on "Have I Got News for You" and "Never Mind the Buzzcocks", guest captain on "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown",
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Which creature has a variety known as the 'Bottlenosed'?
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Jersey oak ("Quercus robur"), sallow ("Salix cinerea"), elder ("Sambucus nigra"), elm ("Ulmus" spp.) and medlar ("Mespilus germanica"). Among notable introduced species, the cabbage palm ("Cordyline australis") has been planted in coastal areas and may be seen in many gardens. Notable marine species include the ormer, conger, bass, undulate ray, grey mullet, ballan wrasse and garfish. Marine mammals include the bottlenosed dolphin and grey seal. Historically the island has given its name to a variety of overly-large cabbage, the Jersey cabbage, also known as Jersey kale or cow cabbage. Japanese Knotweed "Fallopia japonica" is an invasive species that threatens Jersey's biodiversity. It
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Creature from the Black Lagoon Colgate Comedy Hour" aired prior to the film's release. The appearance is commonly known as "Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature from the Black Lagoon". Ben Chapman reprised his role as the Gill-Man for the program. "Creature from the Black Lagoon" generated two sequels: "Revenge of the Creature" (1955), which was also filmed and released in 3D in hopes of reviving the format, and "The Creature Walks Among Us" (1956), filmed in 2D. The creature, also known as the Gill-man, is usually counted among the classic Universal Monsters. A geology expedition in the Amazon uncovers fossilized evidence (a skeletal hand
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What is the correct name for the lie detector?
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Lie Detector (TV series) "Lie Detector" programs: the first series in the early-1960s, a syndicated series in the mid-1970s hosted by columnist Jack Anderson, and another syndicated series from Columbia Pictures Television in early 1983, hosted by lawyer F. Lee Bailey, produced by game show producer Ralph Andrews and also assisted by Dr. Gelb. In 1998, the Fox network presented a one-off primetime special. The premises of these series are all the same, in which a person uses a lie detector to prove their innocence. Lie Detector (TV series) Lie Detector is a television series broadcast in 2005 on Pax TV. Hosted by Rolonda
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Correct name orthographical variants. The zoological equivalent of "correct name" is "valid name". Different taxonomic placements may well lead to different correct names. For example, the earliest name for the fastest growing tree in the world is "Adenanthera falcataria" L. The "L." stands for "Linnaeus" who first validly published the name. "Adenanthera falcataria" is thus one of the correct names for this plant. There are other correct names, based on different taxonomic treatments. The four names "Adenanthera falcataria", "Albizia falcataria", "Paraserianthes falcataria" and "Falcataria moluccana" are each correct, given that the plant is placed in these four genera. Which is the 'right'
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Which seasonal song was written by Robbie Burns?
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Burns supper stand, join hands, and sing " Auld Lang Syne" to bring the evening to an end. Burns supper A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), the author of many Scots poems. The suppers are normally held on or near the poet's birthday, 25 January, occasionally known as Robert Burns Day (or Robbie Burns Day or Rabbie Burns Day) but more commonly known as Burns Night (). However, in principle, celebrations may be held at any other time of the year. The first supper was held "in
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Robbie Burns (footballer) Robbie Burns (footballer) Robbie Lee Burns (born 14 November 1990) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Hitchin Town. Burns, who was born in Milton Keynes, started his career at Leicester City where he was a product of their youth academy after joining the club at the age or 12. He signed his first professional contract with the club on 20 March 2009, signing a one-year deal. On the same day he joined Tranmere Rovers on loan for the rest of the 2008–09 season. He made his debut for Tranmere on 25 April, coming off the
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In World War Two Operation Avalanche was the Allied Invasion of which country?
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Allied invasion of Italy Allied invasion of Italy The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place on 3 September 1943 during the early stages of the Italian Campaign of World War II. The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group (comprising General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army and General Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army) and followed the successful invasion of Sicily. The main invasion force landed around Salerno on 9 September on the western coast in Operation Avalanche, while two supporting operations took place in Calabria (Operation Baytown) and Taranto (Operation Slapstick).
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Western Allied invasion of Germany Western Allied invasion of Germany The Western Allied invasion of Germany was coordinated by the Western Allies during the final months of hostilities in the European theatre of World War II. In preparation for the Allied invasion of Germany, a series of Offensive Operations were designed to seize and capture the east and west bank of the Rhine River. Operation Veritable and Operation Grenade in February 1945, and Operation Lumberjack and Operation Undertone in March 1945. Allied invasion of Germany started with the Western Allies crossing the Rhine River on 22 March 1945 before fanning out and overrunning all of
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Who famously left from Scampton?
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Scampton Scampton Scampton is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish including Brampton and Broadholme at the 2011 census was 1,358. It is situated north from Lincoln, south-east from Gainsborough, and west from the A15 road. In the civil parish, between the village and the A15, is RAF Scampton. The airfield first opened in 1916 as Home Defence Flight Station Brattleby, becoming Scampton the following year, and then closing in 1919; it re-opened in 1936 as RAF Scampton. The Dambusters Inn on High Street contains RAF and Second World
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RAF Scampton arrived at Scampton from RAF Waddington and equipped with the Vulcan B.2. Together with 27 Squadron and 617 Squadron, who by this time had also taken delivery of the Vulcan B.2., the "Scampton Wing" was formed, the aircraft equipped with the Blue Steel stand-off missile. In April 1964, centralised servicing was introduced at RAF Scampton, meaning aircraft were no longer assigned to individual units but instead were ‘pooled’ and assigned to squadrons on a day-by-day basis. This meant that various Vulcans were flown by all three squadrons of the Scampton Wing, which was now was fully operational with Blue Steel.
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Which football club’s ground was used as a prisoner of war camp until May 1945?
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History of Swindon Town F.C. War Department requisitioned the County Ground for use as a Prisoner-of-war camp, Swindon Town as a football club effectively ceased to be for the duration. The club's assets and players were sold or transferred until the season restarted. Three Swindon Town F.C players—Alan Fowler, Willie Imrie and Dennis Olney—were killed in action during the war and are commemorated with a memorial inside the ground above the players tunnel. The post-war era saw Swindon competing in the lower divisions of the English League, though in 1963 the club was promoted to the Second Division after finishing 2nd in Division 3 in
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Ōfuna prisoner-of-war camp However, despite the physical and verbal abuse, of the estimated one thousand prisoners who passed through during the war, only six prisoners died while incarcerated at the Ōfuna Camp. The remaining 126 American and nine British prisoners were liberated on 21 August 1945. The buildings of Ōfuna Camp were used as a kindergarten until they were pulled down in 1969. Ōfuna prisoner-of-war camp The was an Imperial Japanese Navy installation located in Kamakura, outside Yokohama, Japan during World War II, where high-value enlisted and officers, particularly pilots and submariner prisoners of war were interrogated and incarcerated by Japanese naval intelligence
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In which sitcom did Dorien Green appear?
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Lesley Joseph Seven Dwarfs" at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth. Joseph then portrayed Frau Blucher in the West End production of "Young Frankenstein". From 1989 to 1998, Joseph played Dorien Green in the sitcom "Birds of a Feather" which, at the time, aired on the BBC In December 2011, it was confirmed that Joseph would reunite with fellow "Birds of a Feather" cast members, Linda Robson and Pauline Quirke, for a theatre adaptation of the series. The trio toured the United Kingdom from May to July 2012. A new series of "Birds of a Feather" was filmed after the rights had been acquired
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Dorien Wilson Dorien Wilson Dorien Wilson (born July 5, 1963) is an American actor who is best known for his role as Professor Stanley Oglevee on the UPN sitcom "The Parkers", which first ran from 1999 to 2004, and for his recurring role as Terrence Winningham on the sitcom "Sister, Sister" from 1994 to 1996. He is currently playing as Jay Weaver on the Bounce TV sitcom "In the Cut". He was born on July 5, 1963, to his parents in Lompoc, California and has two siblings, sister Savita Carothers and late brother, Jamont David Wilson, who passed away in 2015. Wilson
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Who was Edina’s PA in Absolutely Fabulous?
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Absolutely Fabulous devotion to our show, so we're really thrilled to say that it's coming back for three new shows to celebrate our 20th anniversary. All of the originals who are back together again are still truly absolutely fabulous and the new adventures of Edina, Patsy, Saffy, Bubble and Mother, plus a few surprising guests, will be a real treat for viewers." Saunders announced in November 2011 that she had begun work on a film version of the series. Many celebrities, mainly British or American, appeared in the series, most of them as themselves. They include: "Absolutely Fabulous" first aired on 12
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Absolutely Fabulous (series 1) Absolutely Fabulous (series 1) The first series of "Absolutely Fabulous", a BBC sitcom, was created and written by Jennifer Saunders who starred in the title role of Edina Monsoon, a heavy-drinking, smoking, and drug-abusing PR agent who has dedicated most of her life to looking "fabulous" and desperately attempts to stay young. Edina is known as 'Eddy' to her best friend, Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley), a magazine editor who constantly takes advantage of Eddy by living the life of luxury in Eddy's extravagant home. Edina is a twice-divorced mother of two. Her eldest child, a son, Serge, left home many
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What opened in 1958 in Marylebone Rd next to Madame Tussauds?
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Madame Tussauds entity ceased to exist. On 17 July 2007, as part of the financing for the Tussauds deal, Merlin sold the freehold of Madame Tussauds to private investor Nick Leslau and his investment firm Prestbury under a sale and leaseback agreement. Although the attraction sites are owned by Prestbury, they are operated by Merlin based on a renewable 35-year lease. Madame Tussaud's wax museum became a major tourist attraction in London, incorporating (until 2010) the London Planetarium in its west wing and a large animated dark ride, "The Spirit of London", opened in 1993. Today's wax figures at Tussauds include historical
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Madame Tussauds New York be seen in the museum's history exhibit. The oldest figure on display is that of Madame du Barry, otherwise known as "sleeping beauty," and this figure is located at Madame Tussauds London. In 1842, Tussaud made a self-portrait which is now on display at several Madame Tussauds locations. On 15 April 1850, Madame Tussaud died in her sleep. In 1883, the restricted space and rising cost of the Baker Street site prompted Marie Tussaud's grandson, Joseph Randall, to commission the building at its current location on Marylebone Road. The new exhibition galleries were opened on 14 July 1884 and were
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What is computer assisted in the acronym CAD?
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CAD/CAM in the footwear industry CAD/CAM in the footwear industry CAD/CAM in the footwear industry is the use of computers and graphics software for designing and grading of shoe upper patterns and, for manufacturing of cutting dies, shoe lasts and sole moulds. CAD/CAM software is a PC-based system, which is made up of program modules. Today, there are 2D and 3D versions of CAD/CAM systems in the shoe industry. Computer aided design was introduced in the shoe industry in the 1970s. Initially it was used primarily for pattern grading. It enabled manufacturers to perform complex grading relatively easily and quickly. CAD systems today have been
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Computer-assisted interventions and imaging informatics for more than 25 years by focusing on research and development on novel algorithms and systems and their applications in radiology and surgery. Its growth and impact is due to CARS’s close collaboration with the ISCAS and EuroPACS societies, and CAR, CAD and CMI organizations. Computer-assisted interventions Computer-assisted interventions (CAI) is a field of research and practice, where medical interventions are supported by computer-based tools and methodologies. Examples include: The basic paradigm of patient-specific interventional medicine is a closed loop process, consisting of The experience gathered over many patients may be combined to improve treatment plans and
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What is a line that joins two points of a circle?
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Secant line point a "tangent line" and in no points an "exterior line". A "chord" of a circle is the line segment that joins two distinct points of the circle. A chord is therefore contained in a unique secant line and each secant line determines a unique chord. In rigorous modern treatments of plane geometry, results that seem obvious and were assumed (without statement) by Euclid in his treatment, are usually proved. For instance, "Theorem (Elementary Circular Continuity)": If formula_1 is a circle and formula_2 a line that contains a point that is inside formula_1 and a point that is outside of
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Five points determine a conic zero points place no constraints on the 5-dimensional linear system of all conics. As is well known, three non-collinear points determine a circle in Euclidean geometry and two distinct points determine a pencil of circles such as the Apollonian circles. These results seem to run counter the general result since circles are special cases of conics. However, in a pappian projective plane a conic is a circle only if it passes through two specific points on the line at infinity, so a circle is determined by five non-collinear points, three in the affine plane and these two special points. Similar
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Which son of King David was caught by his hair in a tree while fleeing on a mule?
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Absalom and Achitophel advice of the double agent Hushai over the good advice of Achitophel. Achitophel, realising that the rebellion is doomed to failure, goes home and hangs himself. Absalom is killed (against David's explicit commands) after getting caught by his hair in the thick branches of a great oak tree: "His head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on" (NRSV 2 Sam. 18:9). The death of his son, Absalom, causes David enormous personal grief. A second allegory in the poem, beginning on line 425, is the
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By a Thread (Gov't Mule album) By a Thread (Gov't Mule album) By a Thread is the ninth studio album by American southern rock jam band Gov't Mule. The album was released on October 27, 2009, by Evil Teen Records. It is the first album to feature bassist Jorgen Carlsson, who joined the band in 2008, replacing Andy Hess. On August 17, 2009, the first track of the album, "Broke Down on the Brazos", was made available for listening on Gov't Mule's official website, as well as on the band's Myspace and Facebook pages. The track features the playing of Billy Gibbons, best known as the
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Of which race was Delilah a member?
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Delilah Delilah is usually thought to have been a Philistine, although she is not identified as such in the Bible. The name "Delilah" is a Hebrew name, however, numerous foreigners in the Bible have Hebrew names, so Delilah's name cannot be seen as indisputable proof that she was Hebrew. J. Cheryl Exum of the Jewish Women's Archive argues that the author of the Book of Judges would probably not portray Delilah in a negative light if she were a fellow Israelite. Samson was attracted to Philistine women; he had previously been married to one. Exum writes that the arguments that Delilah
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Delilah: The Mysterious Case of Delilah Ambrose Delilah: The Mysterious Case of Delilah Ambrose Delilah: The Mysterious Case of Delilah Ambrose is a 2016 Nigerian TV drama series set in Nigeria, directed by Frank Rajah Arase. It stars Okawa Shaznay, Clarion Chukwurah, Michael Okon, Paul Obazele, and Tony Umez. "Delilah" premiered on Africa Magic on June 2, 2016 airing season one and two combined; it was also broadcast online via irokotv. Season three has been filmed and is set for airing in 2017. After the death of Charles Ambrose, his family is summoned to court over his second marriage to Delilah Ambrose. Chief Ambrose's first wife, Sylvia
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Lake Vanern is the largest lake in which country?
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Lake Peipus the town. Near Kallaste, there is one of the largest surfacings of Devonian sandstone with a length of and a maximum height of , as well as several caves and one of the largest colonies of swallows in Estonia. Lake Peipus Lake Peipus (; ; ) is the largest transboundary lake in Europe, lies on the border between Estonia and Russia. The lake is the fifth-largest in Europe after Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega (in Russia north of St. Petersburg), Lake Vänern (in Sweden), and Lake Saimaa (in Finland). Lake Peipus represents a remnant of a body of water which
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Lake Country Country is also home to George Elliot Secondary, which covers Grades 7 to 12. The two largest institutions providing post-secondary education in the area of Lake Country are UBC Okanagan, the campus which lies in north Kelowna, and Okanagan College, which has campuses in Kelowna and Coldstream. Lake Country is situated on the major north-south route through the Okanagan valley, Highway 97, approximately 15 km of which lies within the municipality, passing through Winfield and Oyama. To the south, the highway provides a route to Kelowna, whose downtown core is 20 km south of the municipal boundary. Glenmore Road provides
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What is the capital of Sardinia?
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Province of South Sardinia well as the institution's statute. Province of South Sardinia The Province of South Sardinia () is an Italian province of Sardinia instituted on 4 February 2016. It includes the suppressed provinces of Carbonia-Iglesias and Medio Campidano, great part of the old Province of Cagliari (without the 17 municipalities of the new Metropolitan City), and two other municipalities. South Sardinia was instituted as a result of the reform law provinces in Sardinia (Regional Law 2/2016). Once activated will include great part of the geographic region of Campidano, the Sarrabus-Gerrei, the Trexenta and the Sulcis-Iglesiente. The provincial capital will be determined by
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Kingdom of Sardinia Piedmont-Sardinia, or even the Kingdom of Piedmont to emphasise that the island of Sardinia was of secondary importance to the monarchy. The formal name of the entire Savoyard state was the "States of His Majesty the King of Sardinia". Its final capital was Turin, the capital of Savoy since the Middle Ages. The kingdom initially consisted of the islands of Corsica and Sardinia, sovereignty over both of which was claimed by the Papacy, which granted them as a fief, the "regnum Sardiniae et Corsicae" ("kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica"), to King James II of Aragon in 1297. Beginning in 1324,
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King Michael abdicated in 1947 from which throne?
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Line of succession to the former Romanian throne according to agnatic primogeniture and to the perpetual exclusion of females and their descendants. The last monarch to reign in Romania was King Michael I, who was born in 1921, abdicated his throne on 30 December 1947 under coercion, and went into exile in Switzerland. He died on 5 December 2017 in Aubonne, Switzerland. The last King, Michael I, had no sons, nor are there any undisputed legitimate male-line male descendants of the previous kings of Romania. There are male line descendants of King Carol II: Paul of Romania (b. 1948), his son Carol Ferdinand (b. 2010), and Alexandru Hohenzollern
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Thoros III, King of Armenia Thoros III, King of Armenia Thoros III or Toros III (; c. 1271 – 23 July 1298) was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from 1293 to 1298. He was the son of Leo II of Armenia and Kyranna de Lampron, and was part of the Hethumid dynasty. In 1293 his brother Hethum II abdicated in his favour; however, Thoros recalled Hethum to the throne in 1295. The two brought their sister Rita of Armenia to Constantinople to marry Michael IX Palaiologos in 1296, but were imprisoned upon their return in Bardzrberd by their brother Sempad, who had
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Whose forthcoming musical is entitled Viva Forever?
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Viva Forever! (musical) Viva Forever! (musical) Viva Forever! was a jukebox musical written by Jennifer Saunders, produced by Judy Craymer and was directed by Paul Garrington. Based on the songs of the Spice Girls, a British pop girl group formed in 1994, the show began previews at the Piccadilly Theatre, London, on 27 November 2012 and had its Press Night on 11 December 2012 and features some of the group's biggest hit songs including "Wannabe", "Spice Up Your Life" and the eponymous "Viva Forever". The show generated over £2,000,000 in pre-opening ticket sales. "Viva Forever!" was panned by critics, receiving some of the
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Viva Forever! (musical) an up-tempo number more similar to the original version of the song. The Entr'acte was shortened, "Time Goes By" was replaced with a reprise of "Mama", A few lines of "Never Give Up on the Good Times" were added and sung a cappella into the second act of the show, "I Turn to You" was removed from the show as well as the reprise of "Saturday Night Divas", and "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)" was shortened. The theatrical reviews following the opening Press Night (First Night) were universally negative: Viva Forever! (musical) Viva Forever! was a jukebox musical written by Jennifer
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Who plays the chief villain in the new James Bond film Skyfall?
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Skyfall Skyfall Skyfall is a 2012 British spy film, the twenty-third in the "James Bond" series produced by Eon Productions. The film is the third to star Daniel Craig as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond and features Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva, the villain. It was directed by Sam Mendes and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and John Logan, and features the theme song "Skyfall", written and performed by Adele. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Columbia Pictures. The story centres on Bond investigating an attack on MI6; the attack is part of a plot by former agent
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Skyfall: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Arnold's arrangement of the "James Bond Theme" (which appears on the "Casino Royale" soundtrack as "The Name's Bond…James Bond") plays over "Skyfall"'s end titles (which begin with the film's gun barrel sequence); however, the track does not appear on the soundtrack album. Newman's arrangement of the theme plays over the reveal of Bond's Aston Martin and his escape with M to Scotland; the track appears on the album as "Breadcrumbs." Skyfall: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Skyfall: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 23rd James Bond film of the same name. Released by Sony Classical on 29
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Which city state led the beaten Greek forces at the Battle of Thermopylae?
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Battle of Thermopylae Battle of Thermopylae The Battle of Thermopylae ( ; Greek: , "Máchē tōn Thermopylōn") was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place simultaneously with the naval battle at Artemisium, in August or September 480 BC, at the narrow coastal pass of Thermopylae ("The Hot Gates"). The Persian invasion was a delayed response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece, which had been ended by the Athenian victory at
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Battle of Thermopylae (1941) Greek regime that didn't took part in the battle. Battle of Thermopylae (1941) The Battle of Thermopylae, on 24–25 April 1941, was part of the German invasion of Greece during World War II. Following the retreat of Allied forces from the mountain passes at Olympus and Servia, British Commonwealth forces began to set up defensive positions at the coastal pass at Thermopylae, famous for the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. The New Zealand Army's 2nd Infantry Division under Lieutenant-General Bernard Freyberg was given the task of defending the pass, while elements of the Australian 6th Infantry Division, under Major
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In which city is the Topkapi Palace?
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Topkapi manuscript lacking, this manuscript is the closest to the complete text of the Quran. Mehmed Ali Pasha, Governor of Egypt, sent this manuscript to the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II as a gift in the 19th century (CE). Topkapi manuscript The Topkapi manuscript is an early manuscript of the Quran dated to the late 1st century / early 2nd century AH (i.e. early to mid 8th century AD) This manuscript is kept in the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, Turkey. It is attributed to Uthman Ibn Affan (d. 656) Similar illuminations can be found in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, the
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Palace of the Empire for nearly four hundred years from Mehmed the Conqueror until Sultan Abdulmecid who was the thirty-first Sultan. Although Topkapi Palace was abandoned by the Ottoman Dynasty by moving to the Dolmabahçe Palace in the middle of the 19th century, Topkapı Palace retained its importance. After the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, Topkapı Palace was transformed into a museum on April 3, 1924. It was also the first museum of the Republic of Turkey. Topkapı Palace Museum covers approximately 400,000 square meters at the present day. Topkapı Palace is separated from the city on the land-side by
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Which regiment is nicknamed The Red Devils?
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Red Devils (Parachute Regiment) booked between May and October 1964 of which around thirty were completed. All fees went towards paying the aircraft purchase loans but by the end of 1964 the free fall team were well and truly established. The distinctive maroon beret of the Parachute Regiment was first worn by the men of the Regiment when it went into action in North Africa in November 1942. Red Devils (Parachute Regiment) The Red Devils are the Parachute Regiment's parachute display team. The team wears the distinctive maroon beret. The Red Devils are regular serving paratroopers from the four battalions of the Parachute Regiment
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Montpellier Red Devils Montpellier Red Devils Montpellier XIII Red Devils ( fr:Montpellier Diables Rouges Rugby a XIII ) are a semi-professional rugby league club based in Montpellier, in the region of Herault, France. They currently play in the Elite Two Championship. Their home ground is the Stade Sabathé. Founded in 1953 as Montpellier Diables Rouges in English meaning Red Devils, named after the first club side to tour France back in the 1930s namely Salford RLFC who were nicknamed the Diables Rouges in reference to their red playing shirts. Montpellier reached the top tier in 1957 and until the 1990s very little else
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Tachophobia is an inordinate fear of what?
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Wizards & Warriors X: The Fortress of Fear games in the series, gameplay is more linear. Reviews were mainly negative and focused on the slow gameplay, lack of continues, and the blurring caused by scrolling on the Game Boy. Moreover, in response to the game's title ("Chapter X"), some gaming magazines asked what happened to the intermediate chapters in the "Wizards & Warriors" series. "Wizards & Warriors X: The Fortress of Fear" is an action platform game in which players assume the role of Kuros as he battles through the Fortress of Fear to defeat the evil wizard Malkil. Gameplay is more of a hack and slash type
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The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here melodic elements that were introduced on the album "The Funeral of God", it takes a somewhat raw, black metal-influenced sound. The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here is the eighth full-length album by metalcore band Zao. It was released on June 13, 2006 on Ferret Records in the US and on June 12, 2006 in Europe. The album showcases the addition of drummer Jeff Gretz and bassist Martin Lunn. In interviews Gretz jokingly claimed it would be titled "The George Lucas Neckfat". The album was released in two versions. The limited edition deluxe
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The name of which musical instrument is German for “bell play”?
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Musical instrument electronic means (synthesizer), or in some other way. Sometimes, instruments that do not usually have a keyboard, such as the "glockenspiel", are fitted with one. Though they have no moving parts and are struck by mallets held in the player's hands, they have the same physical arrangement of keys and produce soundwaves in a similar manner. The theremin, an electrophone, is played without physical contact by the player. Musical instrument A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that
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Musical instrument been used to play four notes of a diatonic scale. Researchers estimate the flute's age at between 43,400 and 67,000 years, making it the oldest known musical instrument and the only musical instrument associated with the Neanderthal culture. However, some archaeologists and ethnomusicologists dispute the flute's status as a musical instrument. German archaeologists have found mammoth bone and swan bone flutes dating back to 30,000 to 37,000 years old in the Swabian Alps. The flutes were made in the Upper Paleolithic age, and are more commonly accepted as being the oldest known musical instruments. Archaeological evidence of musical instruments was
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Which fictional detective married author Harriet Vane?
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Harriet Vane Harriet Vane Harriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957). Vane, a mystery writer, initially meets Lord Peter Wimsey while she is on trial for poisoning her lover ("Strong Poison"). The detective falls in love with her and proposes marriage but she refuses to begin a relationship with him, traumatised as she is by her dead lover's treatment of her and her recent ordeal. In "Have His Carcase", she collaborates with Wimsey to solve a murder but still finds him to be overbearing and superficial. She eventually
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Harriet Vane fans (and even friends) sometimes thought. Some view Vane as a stand-in for the author, although Vane has many more faults than most such characters. Sayers was among the first generation of women to receive an Oxford education, graduating BA with first-class honours in 1915 and as an MA in 1920. She gave Harriet Vane, too, an Oxford education. Vane's relationship with Boyes has many similarities with Sayers' love affair (1921–1922) with the author John Cournos (1881–1966), a Russian-born American Jew. Biographers note that Sayers' later relationship with Bill White and her marriage to the fellow writer Oswald Atherton "Mac"
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The parish church of Ambridge is dedicated to which saint?
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Saint Stephen's Parish Church (Manila) Saint Stephen's Parish Church (Manila) Saint Stephen's Parish Church is the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Philippines' Pro-Cathedral serving Chinese communities located in Santa Cruz, Manila in the Philippines. It was established in 1903. Saint Stephen's was originally an Anglo-American congregation in 1902 before it became a parish in 1904. Fr. Clapp and his assistant Fr. Talbot served the Chinese communities in Manila. A Reformed Church Missionary, Mr. Hobart Studley, and his wife, Edith came to the Philippines and held the first Amoy service to Amoy-speaking Chinese regardless of religious affiliation in 1903 in a rented room in San Fernando
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Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew Cathedral of Salvador. The doors were removed from the church at Maragogipe and transported to the façade of the Ministry of National Education of Bahia. They bear the date of 1674. A festival dedicated to St. Bartholomew occurs in August. The Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew was listed as a historic structure by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage in 1941. Both the structure and its contents were included in the IPHAN directive under inscription number 227. The Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew is open to the public and may be visited. Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew The
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What does an ethologist study?
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John Crook (ethologist) Age Books, Delhi 2009). He died on 15 July 2011, shortly after a gathering of many former students and colleagues in Somerset to celebrate his life. Dr Innes Cuthill, Professor of Behavioural Ecology at Bristol University, described him as "a pivotal figure in the rise of British primatology and socio-ecology". John Crook (ethologist) John Hurrell Crook (27 November 1930 – 15 July 2011) was a British ethologist who filled a pivotal role in British primatology. As Reader in Ethology (animal behaviour) in the Psychology Department of University of Bristol, he led a research group studying social and reproductive behaviour in
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What Kate Does week." VanDerWerff of the "LA Times", Ryan of the "Chicago Tribune", Sepinwall of "The Star-Ledger", Jensen of "Entertainment Weekly" and Mark Medley of the "National Post" also found the episode to contain humorous lines. This episode was watched by 11 million American viewers and 1.57 million Canadian viewers. What Kate Does "What Kate Does" is the 106th television episode of the American Broadcasting Company's "Lost" and third episode of the sixth season. It was written by executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz and directed in September 2009 by Paul Edwards. "What Kate Does" was first aired February 9, 2010,
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Which scientific endeavour is frequently abbreviated as SETI*?
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SETI (band) who describes the S.E.T.I. project. The liner notes of the SETI's albums often feature reprints of material from the various SETI projects around the world or short essays by prominent SETI personnel. SETI (band) Seti is an ambient electronic band, which is a collaboration of Savvas Ysatis and Taylor Deupree (also credited as Taylor808). The duo formed in 1993 in New York City. The term S.E.T.I. stands for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. This topic is the inspiration for and the central theme of the band's music. Seti’s music is ambient, with few songs containing readily apparent rhythms (those with
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SETI Institute SETI Institute The SETI Institute is a not-for-profit research organization whose mission is to explore, understand, and explain the origin and nature of life in the universe, and to apply the knowledge gained to inspire and guide present and future generations. It aims for discovery and for sharing knowledge as scientific ambassadors to the public, the press, and the government. SETI stands for the "search for extraterrestrial intelligence". The Institute consists of three primary centers: The Carl Sagan Center, devoted to the study of life in the universe, the Center for Education, focused on astronomy, astrobiology and space science for
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The Rutshire Chronicles is a series of romantic novels by which author?
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Rutshire Chronicles "Pandora", although it is not part of the series. The Campbell-Blacks, Lloyd-Foxes, France-Lynches and other families from the Rutshire Chronicles also appear in "Wicked!" The tales are set in chronological order; however, they are readable as stand-alone novels. In more recent years, her Rutshire Chronicles have come under fire for dated and problematic portrayals of race, homosexuality, gender roles and sexual consent. Rutshire Chronicles The Rutshire Chronicles is the name given to a series of romantic novels by Jilly Cooper. The stories tell tales of mainly British upper-class families, as well as the show-jumping and polo crowd, in numerous different
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The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant for the "most unlikeable supposedly sympathetic protagonist". The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant is a series of ten high fantasy novels written by American author Stephen R. Donaldson. The series began as a trilogy, entitled "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever". This was followed by another trilogy, "The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant", and finally a tetralogy, "The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant". Thomas Covenant, an embittered and cynical writer, afflicted with leprosy and shunned by society, is fated to become the heroic savior of The Land, an alternate world. In ten novels, published between
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What venue links the first FA Cup final and the first cricket test in England?
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1886 FA Cup Final 1886 FA Cup Final The 1886 FA Cup Final was contested by Blackburn Rovers and West Bromwich Albion at the Kennington Oval. The match finished goalless, Albion wanted to play extra time but Blackburn Rovers declined, meaning a replay was necessary. The replay was particularly noteworthy in that it took place at Derbyshire County Cricket Club's Racecourse Ground, the first time an FA Cup Final was played outside London. The replay was won 2–0 by Blackburn Rovers, their third successive FA Cup Final victory. The goals came from James Brown and Joe Sowerbutts. Both games were refereed by Major Francis
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2001 FA Cup Final 2001 FA Cup Final The 2001 FA Cup Final was a football match between Arsenal and Liverpool on 12 May 2001 at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. It was the final match of the 2000–01 FA Cup, the 119th season of the world's oldest football knockout competition, the FA Cup, and the first in the competition's history to be staged outside England, due to the ongoing reconstruction of its usual venue, Wembley Stadium. Arsenal appeared in their fourteenth final to Liverpool's twelfth. Given both teams were in the highest tier of English football, the Premier League, they entered the competition in
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Created in 1872, what was the name of the world’s First National Park?
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Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone was the first national park in the U.S. and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world. The park is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful geyser, one of its most popular features. It has many types of ecosystems, but the subalpine forest is the most abundant. It is part of
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Memorial park complex of the heroes of the First World War Chapel of the Transfiguration was built there in 1998. In 2004 the park got the name "Memorial park complex of the heroes of the First World War" and some monuments were erected there. The remains of the Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich and his wife Anastasia of Montenegro were re-buried in the Chapel of the Transfiguration in 2015. Memorial park complex of the heroes of the First World War Memorial park complex of the heroes of the First World War () is a park in Moscow, Russia. It is located in the Sokol District of the Northern Administrative Okrug. The area
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LS What is the name of the famous Opera House in Milan, opened in 1778?
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Milan were built in the city during this period by the architects, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Galeazzo Alessi and Ricchino himself. Empress Maria Theresa of Austria was responsible for the significant renovations carried out in Milan during the 18th century. This profound urban and artistic renewal included the establishment of Teatro alla Scala, inaugurated in 1778 and today one of the world's most famous opera houses, and the renovation of the Royal Palace. The late 1700s Palazzo Belgioioso by Giuseppe Piermarini and Royal Villa of Milan by Leopoldo Pollack, later the official residence of Austrian viceroys, are often regarded among the best examples
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The Opera House (Toronto) The Opera House (Toronto) The Opera House is a music venue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the city's most historic performing venues, opening in 1909. It has also been a cinema and a live theatre venue. It is located at 735 Queen Street East, east of downtown in the Riverdale neighbourhood. It opened in 1909 as the La Plaza Theatre, an Edwardian vaudeville stage. Seating almost 700, it was the main entertainment venue in the primarily working-class neighbourhood. As films eclipsed vaudeville the theatre was turned into a cinema, continuing to use the name La Plaza Theatre
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SE Which London Institution is based at 10 Paternoster Sq.?
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Paternoster Square Paternoster Square Paternoster Square is an urban development, owned by the Mitsubishi Estate Co., next to St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. The area, which takes its name from Paternoster Row, once centre of the London publishing trade, was devastated by aerial bombardment in The Blitz during the Second World War. It is now the location of the London Stock Exchange which relocated there from Threadneedle Street in 2004. It is also the location of investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Nomura Securities Co., and of fund manager Fidelity Investments. The square itself, i.e. the
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Paternoster Press Christian books, music and gifts. Paternoster Press Paternoster Press is a British Christian publishing house which was founded by B. Howard Mudditt (1906-1992) in 1936. Mudditt was a Bank of England clerk who decided to move into publishing after seeing the many publishers based on London's Paternoster Row during his lunch hours; the firm was named after the street, and also alluded to the Lord's Prayer. The Irish Times described Paternoster as "a synonym for scholarly, evangelical Christian publications." Mudditt led a Plymouth Brethren assembly in Walthamstow, a north-east suburb of London. Through this an other connections, Mudditt formed relationships
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AM Which fashion designer committed suicide in 2010?
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Alexander McQueen cut short." Alexander McQueen Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001, and founded his own Alexander McQueen label in 1992. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003. McQueen committed suicide by hanging in 2010, at the age of 40, at his home in Mayfair, London. Born on 17 March 1969 in Lewisham, London, to
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Manuel Mota (fashion designer) by Spanish authorities. Manuel Mota (fashion designer) Manuel Mota Cerrillo (July 9, 1966 ‒ January 8, 2013) was a Spanish dress designer and creative director of Spanish fashion company, Pronovias, for 23 years. Mota was born in Reus, Tarragona, Spain. He created dresses for some of the world's top models including Miranda Kerr from Australia, Bar Refaeli from Israel, and Doutzen Kroes from the Netherlands. On January 8, 2013, Mota was found dead at his home in Sitges, Barcelona, Spain. He was 46. Various press reports have listed the cause of death as suicide, though the official cause has yet
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Where in the body is the Malleus bone?
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Malleus Malleus The malleus or hammer is a hammer-shaped small bone or ossicle of the middle ear which connects with the incus and is attached to the inner surface of the eardrum. The word is Latin for "hammer" or "mallet". It transmits the sound vibrations from the eardrum to the "incus". The malleus is a bone situated in the middle ear. It is the first of the three ossicles, and attached to the tympanic membrane. The "head of the malleus" is the large protruding section, which attaches to the incus. The head connects to the "neck of malleus", and the bone
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Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone 2 Additional Musicians: Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone is Lucinda Williams' eleventh studio album. The double album was released on September 30, 2014. It is the first album on Williams' own Highway 20 Records label. The song "Compassion," from which the album title is derived, is based on a poem by her father, Miller Williams. It won the Americana Music Award for Album of the Year. In 2017, the song "When I Look at the World" was covered by Kaitlin Doubleday as her character Jessie Caine on season five of the
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In which country is the ‘Van’ a large Salt Lake?
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Lake Van airport. Lake Van occasionally hosts several water sports, sailing and inshore powerboat racing events, such as the UIM World Offshore 225 Championship's IOC Van Grand Prix, and the Van Lake Festival. Lake Van Lake Van (, , "Vana lič̣", ), the largest lake in Turkey, lies in the far east of that country in the provinces of Van and Bitlis. It is a saline soda lake, receiving water from numerous small streams that descend from the surrounding mountains. Lake Van is one of the world's largest endorheic lakes (having no outlet) – a volcanic eruption blocked the original outlet from
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Salt Lake City Lake is also home to two roller derby leagues: the Salt City Derby Girls and Wasatch Roller Derby, both of which field travel teams. Salt Lake City lies at the convergence of two cross-country freeways; I-15, which runs north-to-south just west of downtown, and I-80, which connects downtown with Salt Lake City International Airport just to the west and exits to the east through Parley's Canyon. I-215 forms a 270-degree loop around the city. SR-201 extends to the western Salt Lake City suburbs. The Legacy Parkway (SR-67), a controversial and oft-delayed freeway, opened September 2008, heading north from I-215 into
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Who was the first President of the Royal Academy in 1768?
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Royal Academy of Arts to that drawn up by Cheere in 1755. It was Sir William Chambers, a prominent architect and head of the British government's architects' department, the Office of Works, who used his connections with George III to gain royal patronage and financial support for the Academy in 1768. The painter Joshua Reynolds was made its first president, and Francis Milner Newton was elected the first secretary, a post he held for two decades until his resignation in 1788. The instrument of foundation, signed by George III on 10 December 1768, named 34 founder members and allowed for a total membership of
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Royal Academy of Arts Rifles were elected president of the Royal Academy. Membership of the Royal Academy is composed of up to 80 practising artists, each elected by ballot of the General Assembly of the Royal Academy, and known individually as Royal Academicians (RA, or more traditionally as R.A.). The Royal Academy is governed by these Royal Academicians. The 1768 Instrument of Foundation allowed total membership of the Royal Academy to be 40 artists. The category of Associate Member of the Royal Academy (ARA, traditionally as A.R.A.) was introduced in 1769 to provide a means of preselecting suitable candidates to fill future vacancies among
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Which character fell asleep in The Catskills for 20 years?
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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
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Asleep in the Back Asleep in the Back Asleep in the Back is the debut studio album by English rock band Elbow, first released in May 2001. The title track, "Asleep in the Back", was only included as a bonus track on later editions of the album after it had been released as a single and became the band's first Top 20 hit. The album release came in four different versions: the 12-track version, two 11-track versions only featuring either "Asleep in the Back" (later editions) or "Can't Stop" (UK version) and a 10-track version including neither of them. The record was shortlisted for
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Which European peak has the nickname ’meanest mountain on earth’?
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Ultra-prominent peak Ultra-prominent peak An ultra-prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more (also called P1500s). There are approximately 1,524 such peaks on Earth. Some peaks, such as the Matterhorn and Eiger, are not Ultras because they are connected to higher mountains by high cols and therefore do not achieve enough topographic prominence. The term "Ultra" originated with earth scientist Stephen Fry, from his studies of the prominence of peaks in Washington in the 1980s. His original term was "ultra major mountain", referring to peaks with at least of prominence. Currently, 1,515 Ultras
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Peak Mountain Prison is America's first copper mine and the first state prison in the United States. The ecosystem and ridgeline of Peak Mountain are most threatened by development and quarrying. In 2000, Peak Mountain was included in a study by the National Park Service for the designation of a new National Scenic Trail now tentatively called the New England National Scenic Trail, which would include the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail in Massachusetts and the Mattabesett Trail and Metacomet Trail trails in Connecticut. The East Granby Land Trust has played an active part in the conservation of Peak Mountain and its viewshed. Peak Mountain
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Which 1993 film saw Sly Stallone battle against John Lythgoe?
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Sylvester Stallone the latter alongside Kurt Russell, did solid business domestically and blockbuster business overseas, grossing over million in foreign markets and over million worldwide. Stallone began the 1990s starring in the fifth installment of the "Rocky" franchise, "Rocky V". This film brought back the original film's director John G. Avildsen. It was considered a box office disappointment. He attempted the comedy genre, starring in two comedies during the early 1990s, the critical and commercial disasters "Oscar" (1991) and "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot" (1992). In 1993, he made a comeback with the hit "Cliffhanger", which was a success in the
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Mark Lythgoe best of public engagement". Mark Lythgoe Mark Lythgoe is a British neurophysiologist, and the founder and director of the Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging (CABI) at University College London (UCL), where he is professor of biomedical imaging. Lythgoe earned a master's degree in Behavioural Sciences from the University of Surrey in 1993, followed by a PhD in biophysics from University College London. Lythgoe has authored more than 200 papers, in journals including Nature and The Lancet. In 2015, Lythgoe was director of the Cheltenham Science Festival, and was awarded the Neuroscience Prize for Public Understanding from the British Neuroscience Association,
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From which mountain did Moses descend with the Ten Commandments?
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Ten Commandments animated film that depicted the early life of Moses (voiced by Val Kilmer), the ending depicts him with the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai, accompanied by a reprise of Deliver Us. The story of Moses and the Ten Commandments is discussed in the Danish stageplay "Biblen" (2008). Ten Commandments The Ten Commandments (, "Aseret ha'Dibrot"), also known as the Decalogue, are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship, which play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity. The commandments include instructions to worship only God, to honour one's parents, and to keep the sabbath, as well as
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Ten Commandments Krzysztof Kieślowski, and "The Ten", a 2007 American film, use the ten commandments as a structure for 10 smaller stories. The receipt of the Ten Commandments by Moses was satirized in Mel Brooks's movie "History of the World Part I" (1981), which shows Moses (played by Brooks, in a similar costume to Charlton Heston's Moses in the 1956 film), receiving three tablets containing fifteen commandments, but before he can present them to his people, he stumbles and drops one of the tablets, shattering it. He then presents the remaining tablets, proclaiming Ten Commandments. In "The Prince of Egypt", a 1998
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Near which city did Julie Andrews sing ‘The Hills are alive to the sound of music’?
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The Sound of Music (film) bonus features, including a new documentary, "The Sound of a City: Julie Andrews Returns to Salzburg". A March 2015 episode of ABC's 20/20 entitled "The Untold Story of the Sound of Music" featured a preview of the documentary and interviews by Diane Sawyer. The Sound of Music (film) The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar
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The Sound of Music (song) the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest Songs in Movie History. The opening line, "the hills are alive with the sound of music" appears in the 1968 Beatles movie "Yellow Submarine" and the TV show "Friends in Season 1 Episode 22" (1995). The song is referenced many times in the film "Moulin Rouge!" (2001). The Julie Andrews recording from the film features in the 1993 film "Addams Family Values". Renée Zellweger performs the song in the 2004 film "". A "Simpsons" comic book has a section in which Sideshow Bob and his brother Cecil sing parodies of musicals.
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In the musical “The King and I”, who is or was “I”?
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The King and I (1956 film) The King and I (1956 film) The King and I is a 1956 American musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical "The King and I", based in turn on the novel "Anna and the King of Siam" by Margaret Landon. That novel in turn was based on memoirs written by Anna Leonowens, who became school teacher to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s. Leonowens' stories were
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I Was the King, I Really Was the King I Was the King, I Really Was the King I Was the King, I Really Was the King is the second album by British alternative rock band Animals That Swim, released in June 1996 via Elemental Records. Its title is taken from a line in the book "This is Orson Welles". "I Was the King, I Really Was the King" received mixed to positive reviews upon release. Allmusic's Ned Raggett saw the LP as a natural progression from the band's debut album, "Workshy", but more energetic and "pop-friendly". He drew musical comparisons with Marc Almond's solo material and the songs
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Which major domestic trophy eluded Brian Clough as both player and manager?
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Brian Clough Trophy becoming the Brian Clough Trophy. Derby County have held the Trophy for, as of 11th March 2018, a combined period of 7 years and 10 months, compared to 2 years and 10 months by Nottingham Forest. As of 23 2019. Friendly 2008–09 Football League Championship 2008–09 FA Cup, Fourth Round 2008–09 FA Cup, Fourth Round Replay 2008–09 Football League Championship 2009–10 Football League Championship 2009–10 Football League Championship 2010–11 Football League Championship 2010–11 Football League Championship 2011–12 Football League Championship 2011–12 Football League Championship 2011–12 Football League Championship 2012–13 Football League Championship 2012–13 Football League Championship 2013–14 Football League Championship
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Brian Clough Trophy Brian Clough Trophy The Brian Clough Trophy is a football trophy competed for whenever East Midlands rivals Derby County and Nottingham Forest play each other (known as the East Midlands derby). The trophy is named after Brian Clough, who managed both clubs to great success. The trophy is currently held by Derby County FC. Derby County and Nottingham Forest, football clubs located less than 20 miles apart, have long been arch rivals. Unusually, the same man managed both clubs during their greatest periods of success: Brian Clough. He managed Derby County from 1967–1973, a time in which they won their
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What is the world’s largest natural harbour?
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Cork Harbour Cork Harbour Cork Harbour () is a natural harbour and river estuary at the mouth of the River Lee in County Cork, Ireland. It is one of several which lay claim to the title of "second largest natural harbour in the world by navigational area" (after Port Jackson, Sydney). Other contenders include Halifax Harbour in Canada, Trincomalee Harbour in Sri Lanka and Poole Harbour in England. The harbour has been a working port and a strategic defensive hub for centuries, and it has been one of Ireland's major employment hubs since the early 1900s. Traditional heavy industries have waned since
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The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River". "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage
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In Richmal Crompton’s William there was a rival gang to William, who was it’s leader?
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Just William His strength of personality means that his leadership is never questioned. William rarely exercises his power over the Outlaws without conscience. William has a few arch-enemies – Hubert Lane being the most sought after. Others include Hubert's lieutenant Bertie Franks and other confederates. ---- Just William Just William is the first book of children's short stories about the young school boy William Brown, written by Richmal Crompton, and published in 1922. The book was the first in the series of William Brown books which was the basis for numerous television series, films and radio adaptations. "Just William" is also sometimes
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Richmal Crompton Richmal Crompton Richmal Crompton Lamburn (15 November 1890 – 11 January 1969) was initially trained as a schoolmistress but later became a popular English writer, best known for her "Just William" series of books, humorous short stories, and to a lesser extent adult fiction books. Richmal Crompton Lamburn was born in Bury, Lancashire, the second child of the Rev. Edward John Sewell Lamburn, a Classics master at Bury Grammar School and his wife Clara (née Crompton). Her brother, John Battersby Crompton Lamburn, also became a writer, remembered under the name John Lambourne for his fantasy novel "The Kingdom That Was"
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In which castle did Edward II receive his final and fatal treatment?
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Edward II of England castle. As a result of these threats, Edward was moved around to other locations in secret for a period, before returning to permanent custody at the castle in the late summer of 1327. The political situation remained unstable, and new plots appear to have been formed to free him. On 23 September Edward III was informed that his father had died at Berkeley Castle during the night of 21 September. Most historians agree that Edward II did die at Berkeley on that date, although there is a minority view, described below, that he died much later. Edward's death was, as
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Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly 2006, and third in X-Play's "Top Ten Scariest Games of All Time". "Game Informer" also ranked it number one on a similar list. Ars Technica published an article about the game in its 2011 Halloween Masterpieces series, while PSU.com in 2003 opined "Fatal Frame II" was the scariest video game ever made. "Fatal Frame II" was a nominee for GameSpot's 2004 "Best Adventure Game" award, which ultimately went to "". Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann described the game as "the scariest kind of experience in any medium; I haven’t seen a movie that comes close." Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Fatal
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Hephaestion was the very close, personal friend & companion of which King?
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Hephaestion Hephaestion Hephaestion ( "Hephaistíon"; c. 356 BC – 324 BC), son of Amyntor, was an ancient Macedonian nobleman and a general in the army of Alexander the Great. He was "by far the dearest of all the king's friends; he had been brought up with Alexander and shared all his secrets." This relationship lasted throughout their lives, and was compared, by others as well as themselves, to that of Achilles and Patroclus. His military career was distinguished. A member of Alexander the Great's personal bodyguard, he went on to command the Companion cavalry and was entrusted with many other tasks
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Hephaestion was also his second in the political sphere. Alexander had made that official by naming him Chiliarch. Photius mentions Perdiccas being appointed "to command the chiliarchy which Hephaestion had originally held". Little is known of Hephaestion's personal relationships beyond his close friendship with Alexander. Alexander was an outgoing, charismatic man who had many friends but his dearest and closest friend and confidant was Hephaestion. Theirs was a friendship which had been forged in boyhood. It endured through adolescence, through Alexander's becoming king, and through the hardships of campaigning and the flatteries of court life and their marriages. Apart from Diogenes
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Which is the only state of the USA that is named after an American President?
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The President Is Missing (novel) Unites States would view such an act as a declaration of war by the state sponsor of that action. The president then speaks with his inner circle to discuss threats, at which point it is revealed that a water treatment plant was contaminated, and the consensus view of the attendants is that this is the target of Dark Ages; this is overruled by the president, who predicts this is a ploy to move their expertise away from Washington. It is soon revealed that there are basically two different issues the president and his team have to handle: In the end
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The President Is Missing (novel) from Turkey. It has also been discovered that the president ordered an attack against some Ukrainian operatives in Algeria, which attack foils attempts by the operatives to capture Suliman. An American soldier is killed in the attack. The President must answer for this. The President's daughter, while in Paris, receives a message with the code "Dark Ages" from a young woman from Eastern Europe named Nina. She tells her father about the strange person and the message, and she is requested to come back home immediately. The code "Dark Ages" is known only to eight people in the United States.
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The Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office?
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Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with foreign countries, matters pertaining to the Commonwealth of Nations and the Overseas Territories in addition to the promotion of British interests abroad. The Foreign Secretary also has ministerial oversight for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). The Foreign Secretary works out of the Foreign Office in Whitehall, and the post's official residences are 1 Carlton Gardens in London and Chevening in Kent. Margaret Beckett, appointed in 2006 by Tony Blair, is the only woman to have held the post. The current Foreign Secretary is Jeremy Hunt, following Boris Johnson's resignation on 9 July 2018.
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office Foreign and Commonwealth Office The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), commonly called the Foreign Office, is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for protecting and promoting British interests worldwide. It was created in 1968 by merging the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Office. The head of the FCO is the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, commonly abbreviated to "Foreign Secretary". This is regarded as one of the four most prestigious positions in the Cabinet – the Great Offices of State – alongside those of Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer and
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Known as “la Superba”, which seaport is the capital of Liguria?
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MS La Superba Superba", while moored in Genoa harbour, suffered a fire in the engine room. The fire was quickly put out by the crew, and the 1,570 passengers aboard were transferred to another ferry for the trip to Palermo. In February 2008, the Vietnamese Vinashin shipping company contracted with GNV to purchase both ships at the end of the summer, but the high cost for the sale ended the negotiations. "La Superba" and "La Suprema" remain in service for GNV, sailing on the routes between Sicily and Tunisia; "La Superba" is currently operated on the Genoa-Tunis route. MS La Superba MS "La
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La Superba La Superba La Superba (Y CVn, Y Canum Venaticorum) is strikingly red giant star in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is a carbon star and semiregular variable. La Superba is a semiregular variable star, varying by about a magnitude over a roughly 160-day cycle, but with slower variation over a larger range. Periods of 194 and 186 days have been suggested, with a resonance between the periods. Y CVn is one of the reddest stars known, and it is among the brightest of the giant red carbon stars. It is the brightest of known J-stars, which are a very rare
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What is the largest lake in Italy?
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Lake Como Lake Como Lake Como ("Lago di Como" , in Italian, also known as Lario , after the Latin name of the lake; , "Cómm" or "Cùmm" ; ) is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy. It has an area of 146 square kilometres (56 sq mi), making it the third-largest lake in Italy, after Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore. At over 400 metres (1,300 feet) deep, it is one of the deepest lakes in Europe, and the bottom of the lake is more than 200 metres (660 ft) below sea level. Lake Como has been a popular retreat
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Lake Iseo Lake Iseo Lake Iseo ( ; ) or Sebino is the fourth largest lake in Lombardy, Italy, fed by the Oglio river. It is in the north of the country in the Val Camonica area, near the cities of Brescia and Bergamo. The lake is almost equally divided between the Provinces of Bergamo and Brescia. Northern Italy is renowned for its heavily industrialised towns and in between there are several stunning lakes. Lake Iseo remains one of outstanding natural beauty, with its lush green mountains surrounding the crystal clear lake. There are several medieval towns around the lake, the largest
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Which strait separates Sicily from mainland Italy?
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Derby dello Stretto Derby dello Stretto The Derby dello Stretto is an association football derby in Southern Italy contested by Messina and Reggina. The phrase translates into English as "Derby of the Strait", since the two clubs are based in the towns of Messina and Reggio Calabria on the opposite sides of the Strait of Messina which separates mainland Italy from Sicily. The derby has mostly been played in lower level and cup competitions. Only six derbies have been played in Serie A, during the three seasons from 2004 to 2007 when both clubs played in the Italian top level. At the end
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Strait of Sicily Strait of Sicily The Strait of Sicily (also known as Sicilian Strait, Sicilian Channel, Channel of Sicily, Sicilian Narrows and Pantelleria Channel; ; ) is the strait between Sicily and Tunisia. The strait is about wide and divides the Tyrrhenian Sea and the western Mediterranean Sea, from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The maximum depth is . Deep currents in the strait flow from east to west, and the current nearer the surface travels from west to east. This unusual water flow is of interest to oceanographers. There are regular ferries between Sicily and Tunis across the Strait of Sicily. The
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Corundum, widely used as an abrasive, is a crystalline form of an oxide of which metal?
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Aluminium oxide produce aluminium metal, as an abrasive owing to its hardness, and as a refractory material owing to its high melting point. Corundum is the most common naturally occurring crystalline form of aluminium oxide. Rubies and sapphires are gem-quality forms of corundum, which owe their characteristic colors to trace impurities. Rubies are given their characteristic deep red color and their laser qualities by traces of chromium. Sapphires come in different colors given by various other impurities, such as iron and titanium. AlO is an electrical insulator but has a relatively high thermal conductivity () for a ceramic material. Aluminium oxide is
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Indium(III) oxide Indium(III) oxide Indium(III) oxide (InO) is a chemical compound, an amphoteric oxide of indium. Amorphous indium oxide is insoluble in water but soluble in acids, whereas crystalline indium oxide is insoluble in both water and acids. The crystalline form exist in two phases, the cubic (bixbyite type) and rhombohedral (corundum type). Both phases have a band gap of about 3 eV. The parameters of the cubic phase are listed in the infobox. The rhombohedral phase is produced at high temperatures and pressures or when using non-equilibrium growth methods. It has a space group Rc No. 167, Pearson symbol hR30, a
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What is the most commonly used alloy of copper and tin?
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Tin be toxic. Tin in combination with other elements forms a wide variety of useful alloys. Tin is most commonly alloyed with copper. Pewter is 85–99% tin; bearing metal has a high percentage of tin as well. Bronze is mostly copper (12% tin), while addition of phosphorus gives phosphor bronze. Bell metal is also a copper–tin alloy, containing 22% tin. Tin has sometimes been used in coinage; for example, it once formed a single-digit percentage (usually five percent or less) of American and Canadian pennies. Because copper is often the major metal in such coins, sometimes including zinc, these could be
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Tin-silver-copper Tin-silver-copper Tin-silver-copper (SnAgCu, also known as SAC), is a lead-free (Pb-free) alloy commonly used for electronic solder. The tin-silver-copper alloy has been the prevailing alloy system used to replace tin-lead because it is near eutectic, with adequate thermal fatigue properties, strength, and wettability. Lead-free solder is gaining much attention as the environmental effects of lead in industrial products is recognized, and as a result of Europe’s RoHS legislation to remove lead and other hazardous materials from electronics. Japanese electronics companies have also looked at Pb-free solder for its industrial advantages. Typical alloys are 3–4% silver, 0.5–0.7% copper, and the balance
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Which actress played Mrs June Monsoon in TV’s 'Absolutely Fabulous'?
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Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie made. Saunders now wishes to focus on new projects and spend more time with her family. "Absolutely Fabulous The Movie" released on DVD , Blu-ray and Digital Download in the UK and Ireland on 5 December 2016. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is a 2016 British female buddy comedy film directed by Mandie Fletcher and written by Jennifer Saunders, based on the television show "Absolutely Fabulous". It stars Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks. The film finds the drug-addicted, alcoholic PR agent Edina Monsoon and her best friend/codependent Patsy Stone on the run
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Absolutely Fabulous Absolutely Fabulous Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a British television sitcom created by, written by and starring Jennifer Saunders. It is based on the 1990 "French & Saunders" sketch "Modern Mother and Daughter", created by Saunders and Dawn French. The series features Saunders as Edina Monsoon, a heavy-drinking, drug-abusing PR agent who spends her time chasing bizarre fads in a desperate attempt to stay young and "hip". Edina is joined in her quest by magazine fashion director Patsy Stone (played by Joanna Lumley), her best friend and enabler, whose drug abuse, alcohol consumption, and promiscuity far eclipse
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Which Benjamin Britten opera is based on a short novel by Herman Melville?
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Billy Budd (opera) Billy Budd (opera) Billy Budd, Op. 50, is an opera by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by the English novelist E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier, based on the short novel "Billy Budd" by Herman Melville. Originally in four acts, it was first performed at the Royal Opera House, London, on 1 December 1951; it was later revised as a two-act opera with a prologue and an epilogue. The author E. M. Forster had an interest in the novella, which he discussed in his Clark lectures at Cambridge University. Having admired Britten's music since attending a performance of "The Ascent
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Herman Melville play on Broadway, and as an opera by English composer Benjamin Britten with assistance on the libretto by E. M. Forster. In 1961 Peter Ustinov released a movie based on the stage play and starring Terence Stamp. Melville died at his home in New York City early on the morning of September 28, 1891, at age 72. The doctor listed "cardiac dilation" on the death certificate. He was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City. A common story recounts that his "The New York Times" obituary called him ""Henry" Melville," implying that he was unknown and
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Where in the world are the Pensacola Mountains?
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Pensacola Mountains US Navy Operation Deep Freeze I from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and return. Named by US-ACAN for the U.S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, in commemoration of the historic role of that establishment in training aviators of the U.S. Navy. The mountains were mapped in detail by USGS from surveys and US Navy air photos, 1956-67. The Pensacola Mountains were originally continuous with the Ventana Mountains near Bahía Blanca in Argentina, Cape Fold Belt in South Africa, the Ellsworth Mountains (West Antarctica) and the Hunter-Bowen orogeny in eastern Australia. Georgraphical features include: Pensacola Mountains The Pensacola Mountains are a
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In a World Where the Kings Are Employers that Mike is moving in with her so M.J. will be spending a lot of time at her house whether she likes it or not. The title comes from the song 'Liaisons' from the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music. In a World Where the Kings Are Employers "In a World Where the Kings Are Employers" is the 102nd episode of the ABC television series, "Desperate Housewives". It is the fifteenth episode of the show's fifth season and aired on February 15, 2009. When M.J. gets sick Susan is forced to have Mike watch him because it is her
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In which east coast English seaside town will you find the so-called 'Spanish City'?
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Spanish City Metro) along the coast from Whitley Bay. The song refers to other permanent funfairs: Steeplechase Park in Coney Island, New York, open from 1897 to 1964; Palisades Amusement Park in Bergen County, New Jersey, open from 1898 to 1971; and Rockaways' Playland in Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York, open from 1902 to 1982. Other pop-culture references include "Spanish City" (2002), a novel by Sarah May, set in the fictional north-east town of Setton, home to an amusement park called the Spanish City. The Spanish City also features in the video that accompanied Tina Cousins' song "Pray" (1998). Spanish City The
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Seaside, California Seaside, California Seaside (formerly East Monterey) is a city in Monterey County, California, United States, with a population of 33,025 as of the 2010 census. Seaside is located east-northeast of Monterey, at an elevation of . Seaside is the home of California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) and the Monterey College of Law, which are located on the site of the former military base Fort Ord. There you will find the Bayonet and Black Horse golf courses, once also part of the Fort Ord military base, now open to the public, and host to PGA Tour events, including the 2012
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Sable is the correct name for which ‘colour’ in heraldry?
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Sable (heraldry) Sable (heraldry) In heraldry, sable () is the tincture black, and belongs to the class of dark tinctures, called "colours". In engravings and line drawings, it is sometimes depicted as a region of crossed horizontal and vertical lines, or else marked with "sa." as an abbreviation. The name derives from the black fur of the sable, a species of marten. Centuries ago, arms were often described poetically and the tinctures were connected to different gemstones, flowers and heavenly bodies. Sable usually represented the following: Sable is considered a "colour" in British and French heraldry, and contrasts with lighter "metals", argent
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Sable (heraldry) and Or. However, in the heraldry of Germany, Polish heraldry and other parts of central Europe, sable is not infrequently placed on colour fields. As a result, a sable cross may appear on a red shield, or a sable bird may appear on a blue or a red field, as in the arms of Albania. In Hungary, for example, one can find examples of sable on gules and azure fields as early as the sixteenth century in the arms of the family Kanizsai (granted in 1519): "álló, csücskös talpú tárcsapajzs kék mezejében, lebegő arany saslábon fekete sasszárny, jobbról ezüst félholdtól,
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In September 2006, which Welshman captained Europe's victorious Ryder Cup team?
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1995 Ryder Cup but had been troubled with a foot injury during the season. Olazábal continued to be troubled with his foot injury and withdrew from the team on September 11. Gallacher immediately chose Ian Woosnam as his replacement. Olazábal had finished 12th in the points list and had a world ranking of 10 at the time of the Ryder Cup. Captains picks are shown in yellow. The world rankings and records are at the start of the 1995 Ryder Cup. Each entry refers to the Win–Loss–Half record of the player. Source: 1995 Ryder Cup The 31st Ryder Cup Matches were held September
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2006 Ryder Cup Ryder Cup. Each entry refers to the Win–Loss–Half record of the player. Source: 2006 Ryder Cup The 36th Ryder Cup Matches were held 22–24 September 2006 in Ireland at the Palmer Course of the K Club in Straffan, County Kildare, west of Dublin. It was the first time the event was played in Ireland. Europe won by 18½ to 9½ points, equalling their record winning margin of two years earlier for their third consecutive win, a first for Europe. Swedish rookie Henrik Stenson made the winning putt, just moments after Luke Donald sank a putt to ensure Europe retained the
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What constitutes the sole diet of the Osprey?
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Osprey other species. Fish make up 99% of the osprey's diet. It typically takes fish weighing and about in length, but the weight can range from to . Virtually any type of fish in that size range are taken. Ospreys have vision that is well adapted to detecting underwater objects from the air. Prey is first sighted when the osprey is above the water, after which the bird hovers momentarily then plunges feet first into the water. Occasionally, the osprey may prey on rodents, rabbits, hares, amphibians, other birds, and small reptiles. The osprey has several adaptations that suit its piscivorous
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Osprey Osprey I the Osprey met most of the requirements of the program, the program itself was cancelled without any further military examples produced. The sole X-28 is now on display in the Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum. Osprey Osprey I The Osprey GP2 Osprey, also known as the Air Skimmer, Sea Skimmer, or Pereira GP2 Osprey, was a single-seat flying boat designed by Eut Tileston under contract to George Pereira, a private builder. After the release of Pereira's amphibious Osprey II some years later, this aircraft became known retrospectively as the Osprey I. The original plane was designed to be water launched only.
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To which particular order of mammals do shrews and moles belong?
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Eulipotyphla Eulipotyphla Eulipotyphla ("truly fat and blind") is an order of mammals suggested by molecular methods of phylogenetic reconstruction, and includes the laurasiatherian members of the now-invalid polyphyletic order Lipotyphla, but not the afrotherian members (tenrecs and golden moles, now in their own order Afrosoricida). Lipotyphla in turn had been derived by removing a number of groups from Insectivora, the previously used wastebasket taxon. Eulipotyphla comprises the hedgehogs and gymnures (family Erinaceidae, formerly also the order Erinaceomorpha), solenodons (family Solenodontidae), the desmans, moles, and shrew-like moles (family Talpidae) and true shrews (family Soricidae). True shrews, talpids and solenodons were formerly grouped
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Shrew Shrew The shrew (family Soricidae) is a small mole-like mammal classified in the order Eulipotyphla. True shrews are not to be confused with treeshrews, otter shrews, elephant shrews, or the extinct West Indies shrews, which belong to different families or orders. Although its external appearance is generally that of a long-nosed mouse, a shrew is not a rodent, as mice are. It is in fact a much closer relative of hedgehogs and moles, and shrews are related to rodents only to the extent that both belong to the Boreoeutheria Magnorder – together with humans, monkeys, cats, dogs, horses, rhinos, cows,
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Which breed of dog takes its name from the Russian word meaning “fast” or “swift”?
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Borzoi Borzoi The borzoi (, literally "fast"), also called the Russian wolfhound (), is a breed of domestic dog ("Canis lupus familiaris"). Descended from dogs brought to Russia from central Asian countries, it is similar in shape to a greyhound, and is also a member of the sighthound family. The system by which Russians over the ages named their sighthounds was a series of descriptive terms, not actual names. is the masculine singular form of an archaic Russian adjective that means "fast". ("fast dog") is the basic term used by Russians, though is usually dropped. The name derived from the word
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Laika (dog breed) Laika (dog breed) Laika () refers to a type of hunting dog of Northern Russia and Russian Siberia, and is a generic name for several breeds. Fédération Cynologique Internationale uses the word "Laika" in the names of three standard breeds: Russian European Laika (FCI standard No. 304), West Siberian Laika (FCI 306), and East Siberian Laika (FCI 305), which had been bred from the aboriginal dogs of northern Russia and Siberia. The Karelo-Finnish Laika, not listed in the FCI nomenclature, is also a Russian breed, with the first standard published in Leningrad in 1936. It is a close relative of
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What is the technical term for a coral island consisting of a reef surrounding a lagoon?
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Coral reef to form fringing reefs, and can eventually grow become a barrier reef. Where the bottom is rising, fringing reefs can grow around the coast, but coral raised above sea level dies. If the land subsides slowly, the fringing reefs keep pace by growing upwards on a base of older, dead coral, forming a barrier reef enclosing a lagoon between the reef and the land. A barrier reef can encircle an island, and once the island sinks below sea level a roughly circular atoll of growing coral continues to keep up with the sea level, forming a central lagoon. Barrier reefs
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Coral reef Coral reef ecosystems contain distinct zones that host different kinds of habitats. Usually, three major zones are recognized: the fore reef, reef crest, and the back reef (frequently referred to as the reef lagoon). The three zones are physically and ecologically interconnected. Reef life and oceanic processes create opportunities for exchange of seawater, sediments, nutrients and marine life. Most coral reefs exist in waters less than 50 m deep. Some inhabit tropical continental shelves where cool, nutrient-rich upwelling does not occur, such as the Great Barrier Reef. Others are found in the deep ocean surrounding islands or as atolls, such
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Which year 2000 BBC TV reality show was set on the Scottish island of Taransay?
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Taransay the island up for sale with an asking price of £2.2 million. Having visited the island several times after the series "Castaway" finished, including spending his honeymoon there, Ben Fogle expressed an interest in purchasing the island in order to turn it into a wildlife reserve, but he was unsuccessful. The island was sold to "a local family" within two weeks of being placed up for sale. Taransay became well known following the BBC show "Castaway". The show, organised by Lion Television, featured a group of 36 people marooned on the island for a year starting January 1, 2000. "Castaway"
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Taransay (yacht) diesel engines and propelled by her twin screw propellers motor yacht "Taransay" is capable of a top speed of 14 knots, and comfortably cruises at 12 knots. The name "Taransay" is inspired by the Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides. During the 2015 Monaco Yacht Show, the yacht hosted an art exhibition of the artist Andrea Collesano. Taransay (yacht) Taransay is a 39-meter luxury motor yacht built by the Italian shipyard Rossinavi. Delivered in 2015, "Taransay" is a modern equipped replica of an already existent yacht, having the same name and dated 1929. "Taransay" features exterior styling by the Rossinavi
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Which item of stationery is (occasionally) called a 'trombone' by the French?
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Adventures in Stationery Adventures in Stationery Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case is a non-fiction book by James Ward about stationery. It was published by British publisher Profile Books in 2014. In "Adventures in Stationery", James Ward presents the history of numerous items of stationery, integrated with his personal opinions and current trends. Some of the topics discussed include the invention of the ballpoint pen by László Bíró, the development of the Pritt glue stick, the design of the paperclip, the shape of Stabilo highlighters, the possible uses of Blu-Tack, and urban legends about the development of ballpoint pens during
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Postal stationery prefer entires to cut squares. Many country-specific stamp catalogs list postal stationery and there are books devoted to the postal stationery of individual countries. The current, but now dated, principal encyclopedic work is the nineteen volume Higgins & Gage World Postal Stationery Catalog. Collectors of postal stationery may seek out postal stationery societies or study groups in other countries. These societies provide information, publications and guidance to those who are interested. They include: Postal stationery A piece of postal stationery is a stationery item, such as a stamped envelope, letter sheet, postal card, lettercard, aerogram or wrapper, with an imprinted
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