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What is the first bird mentioned in the Bible?	Bible Study - Birds Of The Bible Questions? Search all 6,500+ Bible studies on this website. Just type in topic word(s) or a question. Due to extensive use of high-quality maps and illustrations, this educational website is best-viewed with a minimum screen-resolution width of 1280 pixels Birds Of The Bible by Wayne Blank "And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens." So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day." (Genesis 1:20-23 RSV) (see The Seven Days Of Creation ) Nearly 400 different kinds of birds can be found in the region of Israel, of which about 25 are found only in Israel. Birds are mentioned widely throughout The Bible , with literal and metaphorical usage. Some of the most common - Doves Doves are harmless, peaceful birds which came to be used as a symbol of The Holy Spirit: "And when Jesus was baptized [see Baptism and John The Baptist ], He went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and alighting on Him" (Matthew 3:16 RSV) Chickens A hen with her eggs was used as a metaphor for God's concern for His unrepentant people: "O Jerusalem , Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!" (Matthew 23:37 RSV) Roosters are known for their crowing, which was said to have been so punctual that the Roman troops (see Roman Legions ) used it to signal the change of the guard. Jesus Christ used the well-known sound of the cock crowing to predict that Peter would temporarily deny even knowing Him on The Fateful Night : "Truly, I say to you, this very night, before the cock crows twice, you will deny Me three times." (Mark 14:29-30 RSV) Eagles The eagle was the largest bird in Israel, with a wingspan of up to 8 feet. God used an eagle metaphorically for His bringing the Israelites out of slavery in the Exodus: "And Moses went up to God, and The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, "Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: "You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself." (Exodus 19:3-4 RSV) Ravens The raven was the first bird that Noah sent out from the ark: "At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made, and sent forth a raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth." (Genesis 8:6-7 RSV) (see The Flood and How Big Was Noah's Ark? ) Peacocks
Lake Tuz is in which European country?	Lake Tuz Special Environmental Protection Area (SEPA) - UNESCO World Heritage Centre Lake Tuz Special Environmental Protection Area (SEPA) Délégation Permanente de Turquie auprès de l'UNESCO State, Province or Region: Coordinates: 38026’05’’-39008’30’’N; 33006’53’’-33044’49’’E Ref.: 5824 Word File Disclaimer The Secretariat of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the World Heritage Centre do not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement or other information or documentation provided by the States Parties to the World Heritage Convention to the Secretariat of UNESCO or to the World Heritage Centre. The publication of any such advice, opinion, statement or other information documentation on the World Heritage Centre’s website and/or on working documents also does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of UNESCO or of the World Heritage Centre concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its boundaries. Property names are listed in the language in which they have been submitted by the State Party Description The Lake Tuz SEPA was declared by the Decision of Cabinet of Ministers numbered 2000/1381 dated 14.09.2000. The Lake Tuz protected area is within the borders of three provinces namely, Ankara, Konya, and Aksaray. The Lake Tuz is the second largest lake in Turkey after Lake Van which is mainly fed by undergroundwater. Being a tectonic originated site, the area is located in a closed large basin called Konya basin. On the average, the depth of Lake Tuz is below 0.5 m., surrounded by Kızılırmak (East), Obruk (South), Cihanbeyli (West), Haymana (North) plateaus. The area is poor in inflowing rivers due to its location in the least rain fall receiving part of the country. The surface area of the lake reaches to 164 200 Ha in spring. The altitude of the lake is 905 m. In summer, dry period dominates which results in the formation of a salt layer about 30 cm by means of excessive evaporation in the lake. It is one of the most salty lakes of the world as the density of water equals to 1-22.5 cm /g, i.e. salt ratio of 32.4%.This feature brings an economic value as well, of which 70% of salt used in Turkey is produced from Lake Salt. The surface of the edges of the lake looks like an empty planet in which many visitors can perceive some oasis on the horizon. Over there a white layer covering the steppe plants mimics some sculpture shapes of the fine arts in nature. Justification of Outstanding Universal Value Countless number of waterfowl bird species nesting and wintering in its large habitats over the lake and the surrounding terrestrial parts including small islets, and swamps, particularly for flamingos endangered in Europe, Phoenicopterus ruber, breeding colonies reach the size of 5 to 6 000 nesting places. The Lake Tuz protected area in Turkey is amongst the most saline lakes in the world following Dead Sea, while representing the richest and intact halophytic steppe vegetation in Europe, more diverse and valuable biodiversity representing one of the most outstanding halophytic steppe plant sociological characteristics pattern dispersed on an extremely large area on the earth. The area holds a main genetic source for animal and probably human nutrition for future as it inhabits many important crop wild relatives. In addition, the site is also one of the best habitat to explore crop genetic sources of crop relatives for genes used in developing salt resistance varieties in many domesticated plants., It is expected that dry and other similar harsh conditions will be more abundant in future due to climate chance to be faced by all humanity. Lake Tuz in Turkey serves as being one of the major wintering habitats on the migratory pathways of very important waterfowls for large populations by its large, calm surface areas. The arid and salty extreme ecological conditions of Lake Tuz SEPA provide very rich plant biodiversity at community, and alliance levels from the viewpo
The Corbillon Cup is played for by women in which sport?	Corbillon cup - definition of Corbillon cup by The Free Dictionary Corbillon cup - definition of Corbillon cup by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Corbillon+cup Also found in: Thesaurus , Encyclopedia , Wikipedia . table tennis n. A game similar to lawn tennis, played on a table with paddles and a small hollow plastic ball. table tennis n (Individual Sports, other than specified) a miniature form of tennis played on a table with small bats and a light hollow ball ta′ble ten`nis n. a game resembling tennis, played on a table with small paddles and a hollow celluloid or plastic ball. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Noun 1. table tennis - a game (trademark Ping-Pong) resembling tennis but played on a table with paddles and a light hollow ball Ping-Pong table game - a game that is played on a table rally , exchange - (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes; "after a short rally Connors won the point" Translations n → tennis m da tavolo , ping-pong ® m table (ˈteibl) noun 1. a piece of furniture consisting of a flat, horizontal surface on legs used eg to put food on at meals, or for some games. Put all the plates on the table. tafel طاوِلَه маса mesa stůl der Tisch bord τραπέζι mesa laud میز pöytä table שולחן मेज stol; igraći stol (stolni tenis, biljar) asztal meja borð tavolo テーブル 탁자 stalas galds meja tafel bord stół مېز،تخته،دړه، دمېز دشاوخواخلك، ډوډۍ ، خواړه،جدول، فهرست ايستل ( لكه دبحت داّجند اڅخه ) ځنډول،دميزپرسرايښودل mesa oamenii care stau la masă стол stôl miza sto bord โต๊ะ masa 桌子，臺子 стіл ٹيبل، ميز cái bàn 桌子，台子 2. a statement of facts or figures arranged in columns etc. The results of the experiments can be seen in table 5. tafel, tabel جَدْوَل، قائِمَه таблица quadro tabulka, sloupec die Tabelle tabel πίνακας tabla , cuadro tabel جدول taulukko table , tableau לוח सारणी tablica táblázat tabel tafla tavola , tabella 表 표 lentelė tabula jadual tabel tabell tabela ځنډول quadro tabel таблица tabuľka, stĺpec tabela tabela tabell ตาราง tablo , cetvel 表格 таблиця; список خانہ biểu, cột 表格 3. the people sitting at a table. The whole table heard what he said. tafel مائِدَه، الجالِسون إلى المائِدَه хора, седящи на маса mesa stůl die Tischrunde bord συνδαιτυμόνες mesa laudkond اشخاص دور میز pöytäseurue table , tablée הַיוֹשבִים לַשוּלחָן मेज के गिर्द बैठे लोग stol (osobe koje sjede oko stola) asztaltársaság orang yang duduk di keliling meja þeir sem sitja saman við borð tavolata 食卓を囲む人々 식탁에 둘러 앉은 사람들 žmonės prie stalo pie galda sēdošie org yg duduk di meja tafel bord stół دمېز دشاوخواخلك mesa masă стол ; компания stôl omizje sto bord[ssällskap] คนนั่งที่โต๊ะ bir masada oturanlar 一桌子人 товариство за столом دستر خوان پر بيٹھے لوگ người ngồi trong cùng một bàn 一桌子人 ˈtablecloth noun a cloth for covering a table, usually for a meal. an embroidered tablecloth. tafeldoek غَطاء المائِدَه покривка за маса toalha de mesa ubrus das Tischtuch dug τραπεζομάντιλο mantel laudlina رومیزی pöytäliina nappe מַּפת שוּלחָן मेजपोश stolnjak abrosz taplak borðdúkur tovaglia テーブルクロス 식탁보 staltiesė galdauts alas meja tafelkleed bordduk obrus ميزپوښ، دستر خان toalha de mesa faţă de masă скатерть obrus prt stolnjak bordduk ผ้าปูโต๊ะ masa örtüsü 桌布 скатерка ميز پوش vải phủ bàn 桌布 table linen tablecloths, napkins etc. They gave us table linen as a wedding present. tafellinne أغْطِيَة أو شَراشِف المائِدَه покривки и салфетки за маса roupa de mesa stolní prádlo die Tischwäsche dækketøj πετσέτες και τραπεζομάντιλα mantelería lauapesu رومیزی؛ دستمال سفره pöytätekstiilit linge de table מַפּוֹת שוּלחָן मेजपोश stolno rublje asztalnemű taplak dan serbet borðlín tovagliato 食卓用白布類 식탁용 흰 천 stalo aptiesalai galdauti un salvetes alas meja tafellinnen bordduk med servietter bielizna stołowa ميزپوښ، دستر خان roupa de mesa garnitură pentru masă столовое бельё prestieranie namizni prt s prtički salveta bordslinne ผ้าปูโต๊ะ ; ผ้าเช็ดปาก sofra örtüsü ve peçeteler 桌布和餐巾 столова білизна ميز کا رومال khăn ăn 桌布和餐巾 ˈtablespoon noun 1. a large spoon, used eg for serving food. eetlepel مِلْعَقَه كبيرَه супена лъжица colher de so
In the UK, ‘The Trial of the …’what’, is the procedure for ensuring that newly minted coins conform to required standards?	O’Brien Coin Guide: Mintages for British Gold Sovereigns \| The Old Currency Exchange is a specialist dealer and valuer of coins, tokens and banknotes The Old Currency Exchange is a specialist dealer and valuer of coins, tokens and banknotes The best-stocked coin and banknote shop in Ireland. We buy and sell old collections, attic accumulations and house-clearances. Exchange your old coins and banknotes for euro Menu The Old Currency Exchange / August 18, 2015 The British gold sovereign is one of the most ‘collected’ gold coins in Ireland today. We used it when we were part of the UK and it would seem that we are still hoarding them. Named after the English gold sovereign, previously last minted in 1604, the name was revived with the Great Re-coinage of King George III in 1816 … and minting began in 1817. Sovereigns were produced in large quantities every year until World War I, when the UK came off the gold standard. From then until 1932, sovereigns were produced only at branch mints at Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Bombay, Ottawa, and Pretoria. The exception to this was in 1925 when, some were produced in London, as part of Winston Churchill’s ill-fated attempt to return the UK to the gold standard. The last regular issue was in 1932 at the Pretoria mint. During the years 1949 to 1952 sovereigns dated 1925 were produced for the international bullion markets although these can be differentiated by a more pronounced rim. Technical Specifications: Sovereigns minted since 1817 have been produced according to the act of 1816 (56 George III chapter 68): Weight: 7.988052 g (0.2817702 oz) Thickness: 1.52 mm (0.060 in) Diameter: 22.05 mm (0.868 in) Fineness: 22 carat = 916⅔ / 1000 (± 2/1000) Gold Content: 7.322381 g = 0.235420 (exactly: 1320/5607) troy ounces or 113.0016 grains The Trial of the Pyx is the procedure in the United Kingdom for ensuring that newly minted coins conform to required standards. Trials have been held from the twelfth century to the present day, normally once per calendar year; the form of the ceremony has been essentially the same since 1282 AD. They are trials in the full judicial sense, presided over by a judge with an expert jury of assayers. Trials are now held at the Hall of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. Formerly, they took place at the Palace of Westminster. Coins to be tested are drawn from the regular production of the Royal Mint. The Deputy Master of the Mint must, throughout the year, randomly select several thousand sample coins and place them aside for the Trial. These must be in a certain fixed proportion to the number of coins produced. The jury is composed of at least six assayers from the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. They have two months to test the provided coins, and decide whether they have been properly minted. Criteria are given for diameter, chemical composition and weight for each class of coinage. George III The reverse design had an ennobled Garter surrounding the image of St George armed, sitting on horse back encountering the Dragon with a spear. The legend translates as ‘evil to him who evil thinks’ . The obverse featured George III facing right with short hair with a laurel crown of a Roman emperor with the legend in taller than usual lettering. 1817 1871 Victoria young head & shield Melbourne During the 1850s, the state of Victoria alone contributed more than one-third of the world’s gold output. Although a Mint opened in Sydney in 1855, it had difficulty keeping pace with the output of the goldfields and in 1871 a new branch of the Royal Mint opened in Melbourne. Melbourne sovereigns carry a small ‘M’ to identify them. Sydney Millions of pounds of gold bullion were shipped from Australia to London each year to be minted into coin. However, it soon became apparent that it would be easier to refine the gold and turn it into coins at source, rather than transport it to Britain and have it turned into coins there. Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide each submitted to be the venue of a branch of the Royal Mint and after some deliberation the British government awarded it
English monarch King John, who died in 1216, was the youngest son of which king?	BBC - History - Historic Figures: John (c.1167 - 1216) Historic Figures z John I © John was a king of England who is most famous for signing the Magna Carta. John was born around Christmas in 1166 or 1167 in Oxford, the youngest and favourite son of Henry II. On his father's death in 1189 his brother, Richard, became king. John received titles, lands and money, but this was not enough. In October 1190, Richard recognised his nephew, Arthur, as his heir. Three years later, when Richard was imprisoned in Germany, John tried to seize control. He was unsuccessful and, when Richard returned in early 1194, was banished. The two were soon reconciled and, when Arthur was captured by Philip II in 1196, Richard named John heir. In 1199, Richard died and John became king. War with France was renewed, triggered by John's second marriage. While asked to mediate between the rival families of Lusignan and Angoulâme, he married the Angoulâme heiress Isabella, who had been betrothed to Hugh de Lusignan. A rebellion broke out and John was ordered to appear before his overlord, Philip II of France. His failure to do so resulted in war. By 1206, John had lost Normandy, Anjou, Maine and parts of Poitou. These failures were a damaging blow to his prestige and he was determined to win them back. This required money, so his government became increasingly ruthless and efficient in its financial administration. Taxes soared and he began to exploit his feudal rights ever more harshly. This bred increasing baronial discontent. Negotiations between John and his barons failed and civil war broke out in May 1215. When the rebels seized London, John was compelled to negotiate further and, on 19 June at Runnymede on the River Thames, he accepted the baronial terms embodied in the Magna Carta, which limited royal power, ensured feudal rights and restated English law. It was the first formal document stating that the monarch was as much under the rule of law as his people, and that the rights of individuals were to be upheld even against the wishes of the sovereign. This settlement was soon rendered impractical when John claimed it was signed under duress. Pope Innocent took his side and in the ensuing civil war John laid waste to the northern counties and the Scottish border. Prince Louis of France then invaded at the barons' request. John continued to wage war vigorously, but his death in October 1216 enabled a compromise peace and the succession of his son Henry III.
John Patrick ‘Jack’ Ryan is a fictional character who appears in many novels by which author?	Jack Ryan series by Tom Clancy 10. Full Force and Effect 11. Commander-in-Chief Published order of the Jack Ryan series: 1984 The Hun Jack Ryan (full name John Patrick Ryan, Sr., Ph.D., CPA, KCVO) (born May 17, 1950) is a fictional character, who appears in many of the novels written by Tom Clancy . Chronological order of the Jack Ryan series: 1. Patriot Games 3. The Hunt for Red October 4. The Cardinal of the Kremlin 5. Clear and Present Danger 6. The Sum of All Fears 7. Debt of Honor
Who wrote the opera ‘The Barber of Seville’?	The Barber of Seville \| opera by Rossini \| Britannica.com The Barber of Seville Alternative Titles: “Almaviva o sia l’inutile precauzione”, “Almaviva, or The Useless Precaution”, “Il barbiere di Siviglia” Related Topics musical composition The Barber of Seville, Italian Il barbiere di Siviglia, comic opera in two acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini ( libretto in Italian by Cesare Sterbini) that was first performed under the title Almaviva o sia l’inutile precauzione (Almaviva; or, The Useless Precaution) at the Teatro Argentina in Rome on February 20, 1816. With a plot based on Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais ’s 1775 play Le Barbier de Séville , Rossini’s opera remains one of the most frequently performed comic operas in the repertoire . The barber of the title is Figaro , whose impressive entrance aria (“ Largo al factotum ”)—with its repeated proclamations of his own name—is one of the best-known of all opera arias. Background and context The Barber of Seville was commissioned by the impresario of the Teatro Argentina at the end of 1815, when Rossini was nearly 24 years of age. In deference to Giovanni Paisiello , a popular Italian composer who in 1782 had himself based an opera on the Beaumarchais play, Rossini called his own work Almaviva. (The title was permanently changed to Il barbiere di Siviglia for the Bologna revival August 10, 1816, after Paisiello’s death.) Nonetheless, the production was viewed by Paisiello’s supporters as an affront; a group of them came to Rossini’s premiere, and they booed and hissed throughout the performance. The work was barely ready, and the performers were underprepared. Overall, the opening night was plagued by mishaps and pranks. Gioachino Rossini. © Photos.com/Thinkstock Not surprisingly, for the opera’s second performance Rossini decided to stay home. But this time the audience—presumably lacking Paisiello’s disruptive fans—was wildly enthusiastic; afterward they took to the streets and gathered outside the composer’s house to cheer. Before long, productions were mounted across Europe and beyond; in 1825 the opera became the first to be sung in Italian in New York City . Similar Topics Carmina Burana During the 19th and 20th centuries, performances of the opera reflected common changes in fashion, some of which can be heard in recordings that remain in circulation. In the 19th century it was common for operas to be split into additional acts so that elaborate scene changes could be accomplished. The Barber of Seville was turned into a three-act production by splitting Act I between the outdoors serenade scene and the interior scene at Bartolo’s house. The most frequent change to the opera was the transposition of Rosina’s part from the original mezzo-soprano into a higher soprano range to accommodate the usual leading singers; when that was done, Berta’s range was lowered to mezzo-soprano so that contrast between the women’s voices was preserved. (Rossini’s use of highly ornamented mezzo-soprano coloratura roles is distinctive and rare in the repertoire.) In addition to these large-scale changes, the opera became laden with errors and changes in orchestration and structure that accumulated to become performance tradition. For example, in published scores Rossini’s piccolo part was changed to a flute part, extra bass and percussion parts were added, and copyists’ errors were perpetuated. There was nothing approaching an authoritative score—that is, one based on evidence from the composer’s original materials—until 1969. Count Almaviva , a young nobleman ( tenor ) Rosina, a young lady and ward of Doctor Bartolo (mezzo-soprano) Doctor Bartolo, Rosina’s guardian ( bass ) Don Basilio, a music teacher (bass) Fiorello, Almaviva’s servant (baritone) Berta, Bartolo’s housekeeper (soprano) Ambrosio, Bartolo’s servant (bass) Notary, constable, musicians, servants, soldiers Setting and story summary The Barber of Seville is set in Sevilla , Spain , in the 17th century. Act I Scene 1. Dawn, outside Dr. Bartolo’s house near Sevilla. Young Count Almaviva is in love with Rosina, wa
Which late actress played Elsie Tanner in the UK tv soap ‘Coronation Street’?	Elsie Tanner \| Coronation Street Wiki \| Fandom powered by Wikia Patricia Phoenix Elsie Tanner (née Grimshaw, previously Tanner and Howard) was a Coronation Street resident from 1939 to 1973 , and then again from 1976 to 1984 . For nearly all of that time, she lived at No.11 , first moving in after marrying Arnold Tanner at sixteen and raising her children Linda and Dennis herself after splitting from Arnold. During the war , Elsie had an affair with an American GI, Steve Tanner . Many men came and went from No.11 during and after this period, but as Elsie was still married to Arnold, she gained a reputation for being a tart. One particular opponent of Elsie was Ena Sharples , the self-appointed moral guardian of the Street, with whom Elsie locked horns on many occasions. Despite her critics, Elsie was fiercely protective of her children, herself and her good name, and gave as good as she got, which over time earned even Ena's grudging admiration. As Elsie grew older, and Linda and Dennis moved away, she kept on looking for Mr. Right, but it was mostly married men whom she attracted. An exception to this was Len Fairclough , with whom Elsie shared a special relationship, but although Len asked Elsie to marry him twice, Elsie turned him down as they were more friends than lovers. In 1967 , Elsie married her wartime sweetheart Steve, however Elsie failed to make the adjustment to living in the USA and she left Steve when he provided no support to her and had decided to accept a posting to South America. Three years later, she married her third husband, businessman Alan Howard . Elsie and Alan were together for six years before making a mutual decision to separate, and later divorce, on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. From 1973 to 1976, Elsie lived in Newcastle with Alan, but she returned to Weatherfield when they separated. She left Coronation Street for good in 1984 to join her old flame Bill Gregory in Portugal . The couple married and ran a bar together in the Algarve, living the high life. After many happy years together, they were both killed in a road accident. Elsie was 81. Elsie's career highlights included working at Miami Modes department store, Sylvia's Separates , and supervisor and later machinist at Baldwin's Casuals . Her friends in the Street were Dot Greenhalgh , Florrie Lindley , Maggie Clegg , and her lodgers Suzie Birchall , Gail Potter and Marion Willis , for whom she took on a motherly role. Contents Edit "You know, they used to call us good time girls... well, we did have a good time, and a damn good time at that" Elsie Grimshaw was born on 5th March 1923 at 18 Gas Street , Weatherfield , the first child born to Arthur and Alice Grimshaw . By the time Elsie was fifteen, their number had swelled to ten and responsibility for the children was divided between Elsie and Alice, with Elsie looking after the older ones. 1939 : Elsie's wedding photograph in the Weatherfield Gazette From the moment her first boyfriend threw her knickers up a tree, Elsie was defined by her love life. At sixteen, she got pregnant by Arnold Tanner , a twenty-year-old rent collector for Mr Wormold . Arnold had been drunk when he had sex with Elsie but although there was never much affection between them, Arnold did right by Elsie and they got married on 4th October 1939 , before the baby was born. After some months living in a caravan, Elsie moved in with Arnold at 11 Coronation Street . Seven days later, Arnold left to enlist, slapping Elsie to the ground when she tried to stop him. Several months after Arnold's departure, Elsie gave birth in Annie Walker 's living room, with Ena Sharples delivering a healthy baby girl. Elsie named her daughter Linda, after movie actress Linda Darnell. Elsie spent the war making service uniforms and having relationships, some more serious than others, with various soldiers, including neighbour Jim Todd , soon developing a close bond with his sister Dot and mother Vi , and helping Vi grieve when Jim was killed in battle a few years later. During the Blitz, her childhood home of 18 Gas S
Digambara and Svetambara are the two major sects in which religion?	BBC - Religions - Jainism: Jain sects Jain sects Last updated 2009-09-11 This article provides an overview of the two major Jain sects: the Digambara sect and the Svetambara sect. On this page Print this page Jain sects Jains are divided into two major sects; the Digambara (meaning sky clad) sect and the Svetambara (meaning white clad) sect. Each of these sects is also divided into subgroups. The two sects agree on the basics of Jainism, but disagree on: details of the life of Mahavira the spiritual status of women whether monks should wear clothes rituals which texts should be accepted as scripture The Digambara sect is more austere, and is closer in its ways to the Jains at the time of Mahavira. Differences between Svetambara and Digambara Both groups accept the basic Jain philosophy and the five basic vows. The philosophical differences between the groups mostly affect monks and nuns, or the very pious. Scripture Digambaras and Svetambaras disagree as to which books constitute Jain scripture . Women Digambaras believe that women cannot achieve liberation without first being reborn as a man. This is because: women cannot live a truly ascetic life, because they have to possess clothes since it is impractical for them to live naked women are intrinsically harmful Digambaras believe that the Jinas : have no bodily functions
Illusionist Ehrich Weiss was better known by what name?	Ehrich Weiss - definition of Ehrich Weiss by The Free Dictionary Ehrich Weiss - definition of Ehrich Weiss by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Ehrich+Weiss Also found in: Thesaurus , Encyclopedia , Wikipedia . ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Noun 1. Harry Houdini - United States magician (born in Hungary) famous for his ability to escape from chains or handcuffs or straitjackets or padlocked containers (1874-1926) Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us , add a link to this page, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content . Link to this page: Copyright © 2003-2017 Farlex, Inc Disclaimer All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
In which country was the ancient city of Ecbatana?	Ecbatana \| ancient city, Iran \| Britannica.com ancient city, Iran Tepe Yahya Ecbatana, ancient city on the site of which stands the modern city of Hamadān , Iran . Ecbatana was the capital of Media and was subsequently the summer residence of the Achaemenian kings and one of the residences of the Parthian kings. According to ancient Greek writers, the city was founded in about 678 bc by the semilegendary Deioces , who was the first king of the Medes. The Greek historian Herodotus described the city in the 5th century bc as being surrounded by seven concentric walls. Ecbatana was captured from the Median ruler Astyages by the Persian king Cyrus the Great in 550 bc, and it was taken from the last Achaemenian ruler by Alexander the Great in 330 bc. The site of the ancient city lies partly within the modern city of Hamadān and has never been excavated. Learn More in these related articles: Hamadan city, capital of Hamadān province, west-central Iran. It is situated at the northeastern foot of Mount Alvand (11,716 feet [3,571 metres]). Itself at an elevation of 6,158 feet (1,877 metres), the city dominates the wide, fertile plain of the upper Qareh Sū River. There is a sizable... Mithradates I ...eastern satrapies could come only from the Parthians, who under Mithradates began the assault. They occupied Media in 155, which opened the route to Mesopotamia. In 148–147 Mithradates reached Ecbatana, where he moved his capital. Rhagae was “refounded” and given the dynastic name of Arsacia, and in 141 Mithradates took Seleucia on the Tigris and was recognized king of... The kingdom of the Medes Traditionally, the creator of the Median kingdom was one Deioces, who, according to Herodotus, reigned from 728 to 675 bc and founded the Median capital Ecbatana (modern Hamadān). Attempts have been made to associate Dāiukku, a local Zagros king mentioned in a cuneiform text as one of the captives deported to Assyria by Sargon II in 714 bc, with the Deioces of Herodotus, but... 7 References found in Britannica Articles Assorted References capital of Media (in Deioces ) (in Media ) Corrections? Updates? Help us improve this article! Contact our editors with your feedback. MEDIA FOR: You have successfully emailed this. Error when sending the email. Try again later. Edit Mode Submit Tips For Editing We welcome suggested improvements to any of our articles. You can make it easier for us to review and, hopefully, publish your contribution by keeping a few points in mind. Encyclopædia Britannica articles are written in a neutral objective tone for a general audience. You may find it helpful to search within the site to see how similar or related subjects are covered. Any text you add should be original, not copied from other sources. At the bottom of the article, feel free to list any sources that support your changes, so that we can fully understand their context. (Internet URLs are the best.) Your contribution may be further edited by our staff, and its publication is subject to our final approval. Unfortunately, our editorial approach may not be able to accommodate all contributions. Submit Thank You for Your Contribution! Our editors will review what you've submitted, and if it meets our criteria, we'll add it to the article. Please note that our editors may make some formatting changes or correct spelling or grammatical errors, and may also contact you if any clarifications are needed. Uh Oh There was a problem with your submission. Please try again later. Close Date Published: July 20, 1998 URL: https://www.britannica.com/place/Ecbatana Access Date: January 19, 2017 Share
What type of creature is a crappie?	Crappie Fishing John on Crappie Fishing - www.Crappie.com Crappie are, in my opinion, one of the most fun fish to catch and certainly one of the best tasting fish. They swim in large schools and are found throughout most of the U.S. and into Canada. Crappie prefer fairly warm water and are normally found in nearly all types of cover. They average 6-11" fully grown, however with enough food and cover they can reach lengths up to 17". A large crappie is referred to as a "Slab". In most waters, crappie with a weight of 1/2 to 1 pound are considered good fish. In other waters, crappie are not considered large until they hit the 1 1/2 or 2 pound mark. They can, under ideal circumstances, reach weights of up to 6 pounds. Black Crappie vs. White Crappie There are two sub-species to the common crappie. The black crappie, which gets its name from its slightly darker appearance, and the white crappie. The black crappie is usually white or gray with dark gray or black spots covering most of its sides. It has 7-8 dorsal spines on the top of its back. The white crappie tends to be lighter in color and often has distinct vertical bars of gray extending down its sides. It has 5-6 dorsal spines. Both of the sub-species have nearly the same feeding patterns and spawning time. I have heard the black crappie prefers clearer water, where the white crappie tolerates muddier water better. They are both terrific in the pan, I might add. Crappie Baits Crappie are versatile feeders, eating most types of insects, worms, and small crayfish and minnows. This variety of forage makes choosing baits for crappie fairly simple. Just about every angler has one bait that he or she swears will outfish any other. This is because that person probably uses that particular bait much more than any other. This is not necessarily a bad thing, however, because having confidence in your bait is almost as important as having a bait at all. As a rule of thumb, if the fish are eating it, keep using it. When the fish seem to stop eating it, don't keep using it. If the fish aren't biting, you can try three things: Try a different presentation. That is slow down, speed up, twitch, or change your retrieve in some way. Try a different color lure. Crappie are especially famous for being color picky. Simply switching from a green jig to a yellow one can make the difference between a few bites and a stringer of slabs. Change baits completely. If you have been using minnows all day and have caught no fish, try switching to a small spinner or jig. The fish could want something with more or less action than your bait produces, so you must experiment until you find what they want. Most baits will catch plenty of fish provided they are presented to the fish in the right way at the right time. That means choosing a lure is about 50% trial-and-error and 50% your preference. Though minnows and worms are often very effective for catching crappie, I rarely use them because of their cost and/or effort to catch them. The three types of lures that I use most and I recommend to all crappie anglers are: 1. Maribou Jigs- These are the small jigs that have little furry bodies and puffy, feathery tails. They come in many sizes and tons of colors,are very durable, and are fairly cheap to buy (I catch them on sale at Wal-Mart for $.25 for a four-pack). They can also be easily made at home with some yarn and pipe cleaners. These jigs are perfect for finesse fishing picky crappie, vertical jigging over structure, or suspending under a bobber. I prefer a 1/16 or 1/32 oz. jig. When choosing a color, I follow the table below. 2. Curly-tail Grubs- These are the soft plastic baits that have curly tails on the back that produce lots of action when jigged or retrieved steadily. They come in many sizes, but I like a 1 1/2"- 2 1/2" grub for crappie. Rig them with a 1/8- 1/64 oz. jig head, depending on conditions and preference. Follow chart below to choose a color. 3. Spinners- These are my personal favorite lures to use when crappie fishing. This is because they are very versatile, effective, and fairly w
What was the name of the British submarine which collided with a Swedish oil tanker in the Thames estuary in 1950, killing over 60 people?	British Submarine HMS Truculent Contact British Submarine HMS Truculent "Of all the branches of men in the Forces, there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariner. Great deeds are done in the air and on the land; nevertheless, nothing surpasses your exploits." Winston Churchill. "Only in attack does a submarine reveal herself, before creeping away to the concealment of the deep" T Class "On the evening of 12th January 1950 HMS Truculent was proceeding on the surface from the submarine exercise area to Sheerness on completion of Dockyard trials, for which a party of Chatham dockyard officers and men were also on board. The SS Divina, with a Trinity House pilot on board, was on passage from the Port of London to Ipswich and at the time of the collision, shortly after 7pm, was in the vicinity of the West Oaze Buoy, a narrow part of the Thames estuary. for some time before the impact each vessel had the lights of the other in sight....". The subsequent Board of Enquiry report states that: (The submarine) entered the Thames Estuary through Princes Channel, thence passing between Red Sand Sheal and Shivering Sand Fort on course 280 degrees Her speed was about 9 knots through the water. In Oaze Deep, course was altered to 261 degrees. The collision occurred with SS Divina in position one mile bearing 287 degrees from Red Sand Tower. This section of info came from: George Malcolmson Archivist submuseum Haslar Extract from Weekend magazine, November 1983 MY MIRACLE ESCAPE FROM DOOMED SUBMARINE By Frederick Henley DSM Memorial Plaque (Image: Dave Henley - son of survivor) Fred Henley Model of HMS Truculent Picking a delicate way through the dark waters of the Thames Estuary at a steady 10 knots, our submarine, HMS Truculent, was almost in sight of home. With any luck, some of us might even have a few hours ashore that night. But, although we didnï¿½t know it, Truculentï¿½s luck was running out fast. We had left Sheerness at 8.30 am on January 12, 1950, for engine and snorkel trials. We had cruised around underwater off Margate and Ramsgate, coming to the surface in late afternoon. It had been an uneventful day. With 18 civilians aboard ï¿½ fitters, electricians and son on from the naval dockyard ï¿½ we mustered 79 men. Few would survive the horror that was to come. I was a Leading Seaman (Torpedoes, Anti-submarine) at the time, and the Royal Navy was my life. After two or three years on subs, I thought I knew the ropes. But when the order came from the bridge to bring up the Manual of Seamanship, I was a bit surprised. I had never known anybody to want that particular textbook ï¿½ a pretty hefty volume ï¿½ before. Certainly not our captain, Lieutenant Charles Bowers, a highly experienced submarine officer who had been mentioned in dispatches during the Second World War. Altogether, it was a strange order but, after rummaging through the chart cabinet, I found a copy of the manual and managed to obey it. It was just before 1900 hours on the Control Room clock when I left to climb the conning tower ladder to the bridge. I handed the manual to young Sub-Lieutenant Frew ï¿½ it was his first submarine posting ï¿½ and watched as he leafed through the pages, opened it, and handed it to the navigation officer. Lieutenant Humphrey-Baker and the Captain. It was a cold, dark night, the sky pricked with brightly shining stars. I didnï¿½t see the tanker ploughing inexorably towards us. I took a last, grateful gulp of fresh air and turned to go down the ladder from the conning tower. I had hardly grasped the rungs when I heard the Captain issue a stream of urgent orders. He didnï¿½t raise his voice but
Columbus Day is celebrated in Chile during which month of the year?	Hispanic Day in Spain Home Calendar Holidays Spain Hispanic Day Hispanic Day in Spain Hispanic Day (Día de la Hispanidad) or National Day (Fiesta Nacional de España) is an annual national public holiday in Spain on October 12. It commemorates when Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas in 1492. Statue of Christopher Columbus The Christopher Columbus monument in Barcelona, Spain. ©iStockphoto.com/Lya_Cattel Celebrate Hispanic Day The king of Spain supervises the raising of the Spanish national flag in the center of Madrid on Hispanic Day. He and the prime minister lead a military parade after that. The parade includes representatives from most of Spain's military units and various military vehicles. Armed forces' planes perform aerobatics above the parade route and display yellow and red smoke to represent the Spanish flag. Radio, television and Internet news services broadcast live on these events. Hispanic Day is a day off work and an opportunity to spend time quietly at home or in the company of family members and close friends. People in the Aragon region in the north-east of Spain also commemorate Our Lady of the Pillar, their patron saint, on October 12. Public Life Hispanic Day is a national public holiday in Spain on October 12. Public life is generally quiet and many businesses and other organizations are closed. Many stores are closed but some bakers and food stores may be open. Public transport services generally run to a reduced schedule, although there may be no services in rural areas. If October 12 falls on a Sunday, regional or local authorities can move the public holiday to a different date. If October 12 falls on a Tuesday or Thursday, many businesses and organizations are also closed on Monday, October 11, or Friday, October 13. Some people may use the long weekend to take a short vacation in Spain or abroad during these years. About Hispanic Day According to the Julian calendar, Christopher Columbus set sail from the port of Palos de la Frontera in South-West Spain on August 3, 1492. He landed on a island that is now part of the Bahamas in the Caribbean on October 12, 1492.The anniversary of this date is marked as Hispanic Day in Spain. Events similar to Hispanic Day to mark the anniversary of the date Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas are also held in other countries. October 12 is known as Discovery Day in the Bahamas, Day of the Cultures in Costa Rica, Day of the Race in Argentina, Chile and Mexico and the Day of Indigenous Resistance in Venezuela. The second Monday of October is Columbus Day in the United States.
What is the name of the headquarters of the US Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia?	The Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, Headquarters for the Department of Defense Tourist attractions in Virginia The Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, Headquarters for the Department of Defense The Pentagon, which is located in Arlington, Virginia, is the official headquarters for the Department of Defense. The neoclassical building replaced the 17 buildings that were once used by the War Department. The Pentagon, which was designed by architect George Bergstrom, was built in only 16 months at a cost of around $83 million. It was completed on January 15, 1943. At most, the building housed 33,000 workers. Today, 23,000 people, both military and civilian, report to work at the Pentagon each day. Until January of 2008, The Pentagon, which sits across the Potomac River from Washington D.C., held the record for the building with the most square feet in the United States. A building in Las Vegas was built that has over 30,000 more square feet than The Pentagon. Still, The Pentagon remains one of the largest office buildings in the world. There are 3,705,793 square feet of office space and over 17 miles of hallways contained in the five "wedges'' that make up the building. There are five floors and two basement levels. There is also a five acre courtyard in the center. There is a state of the art gym and several dining options within The Pentagon as well. Interestingly, because the building was built during World War II, no marble was used. That is because marble is imported from Italy, a country that was an enemy during that war. The Pentagon was attacked on September 11, 2001 when terrorists flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the building. Sadly, 125 Pentagon employees were killed in the attack. Repairs to the building cost close to $500 million. Tours are free to the public and are available by reservation only. Most visitors agree that taking a tour is worth is even if only for the novelty of being able to visit the building where so many decisions that have had a huge impact on the country have been made. A visitor from Philadelphia said, "I'm not sure what the tour would have talked about pre-9/11 because 40% of the talking points were about the damage to the building, etc. Still very interesting and the memorial room is quite touching.'' Some visitors said they arranged the tours through their State Senator's office. Visitors planning to take a tour should become acquainted with the strict security guidelines that govern all visitors to The Pentagon. Tours are not given on weekends or on any Federal holidays. Those wishing to reserve a tour should do so as far in advance as possible. Review, comment, or add new information about this topic: Name:
The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of government in the history of which country?	Australia Day Military Coup (1808): The Rum Rebellion - Xplore Sydney Australia Day Military Coup (1808): The Rum Rebellion Major Johnston announcing the arrest of Governor Bligh. By Bronte Small In 1808, Sydney was home to Australia’s only successful armed takeover of government to date. It happened on what would come to be known in 100 years’ time as Australia Day, and was in reaction to rising tensions in Sydney between Governor Bligh, real estate developers, and the public interest in the currency of the time – rum. Bligh was governor between 1806 and 1808, and was employed to whip Sydney’s convict colony into shape. He was stubborn, bad-tempered, and did everything by the book, being unable whatsoever to negotiate or be diplomatic. Bligh’s initial move in bringing some order back into Sydney was to take back land for public use. He exploited prime urban land near the water for himself and disrespected citizens’ property rights, creating discord within the relatively young colony of only 7000. He also managed to exert some control over the rebellious NSW Corps, who were the rejects of the British Army. Governor William Bligh Potentially the most destructive aspect of civilian life that Bligh had control over was the rum. This was used as the main currency rather than money, as Britain had never intended Australia to become a fully functioning country in it’s own right. It was meant to be a penal colony and base for Britain in the Southern Hemisphere, and as such was never allocated a currency, and rum was used instead. Many, including wealthy Sydney entrepreneur John Macarthur, took advantage of this and imported and sold excessive amounts of rum, as well as importing stills to produce more of the product, and consequently dominating the rum market. However Bligh’s input stemmed the flow of rum throughout the colony, leaving many stranded with their wealth made redundant, and others such as Macarthur without a job. First Government House, Sydney (circa 1807) Many were threatened by Bligh’s power throughout the colony, creating rising tensions amongst the NSW Corps and leading civilians such as Macarthur, who was arrested for letting a convict escape on one of his ships, and the NSW Corps refused to trial him because they were allies against Bligh. On the morning of the 26th of January, Macarthur was released from detention and immediately drew up a petition for the arrest of Bligh, where all the leading citizens and officers of the army corps signed it cooking up ‘The Great Rebellion,’ or as it would come to be known later, ‘The Rum Rebellion’. West Cove of Sydney Harbour (circa 1803). By 6pm, Macarthur had organised 400 men from the NSW Corps to march around Sydney Cove up George St, in bright military colours. They were accompanied by a live band playing ‘The British Grenadiers’ as they advanced. They arrived at Government House where Bligh lived and surrounded it, making as big of a show as they could. The area is now Wynyard Square in the city. It took the NSW Corps two hours to get to Bligh and arrest him. Eventually, after searching the house, they found him in a small private room hidden by a curtain trying to hide his personal papers. He was promptly arrested. The NSW Corps spread the rumours that he was found hiding under his bed in order to discredit him as much as possible in the eyes of the public, a political cartoon depicting this was released mere hours after his capture. Bligh spent the rest of his life trying to deny this cowardice, however he was consistently unsuccessful. After Bligh was arrested, the colony was placed under military rule of the NSW Corps. They remained in power for two years. Bligh and his daughter remained in Government House under house arrest until Lachlan Macquarie, the fifth NSW governor, took over two years later in 1810. It was Macquarie’s influence that sparked Sydney’s transformation from a penal colony to a free society. If you liked this Historical Sydney Story, you’ll love our other Sydney Stories: Xplore Sydney Copyright 2015
Robert Timothy French created which type of condiment, which debuted at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904?	French's - Free definitions by Babylon French's Download this dictionary French's French’s is an American brand of prepared mustard condiments, fried onions, and other food items. Created by Robert Timothy French, French’s “Cream Salad Brand” mustard debuted to the world at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair . By 1921, French’s Mustard had adopted its trademark pennant and begun advertising to the general public. French's is owned by Reckitt Benckiser Group plc . French, an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to France French language , a Romance language which originated in France, and its various dialects French people , a nation and ethnic group identified with France French (surname) , including a list of people with the surname French River (disambiguation) , name of several rivers and other places French's , an American manufacturer of mustard condiment The French (band) , British rock band French catheter scale , a system for measuring the size of a catheter
Edeomania is an abnormal interest in which part of the body?	Sex dictionary definition \| sex defined LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST Her sex is female. noun The definition of sex is the classification of people as male or female, typically assigned at birth based on the appearance of external anatomy. An example of sex is female. The definition of sex is any function or behavior involved with reproduction. An example of sex is an act to create a baby. sex either of the two divisions, male or female, into which persons, animals, or plants are divided, with reference to their reproductive functions the character of being male or female; all the attributes by which males and females are distinguished anything connected with sexual gratification or reproduction or the urge for these; esp., the attraction of those of one sex for those of the other intercourse (sense ) Latin, from sex, six; see s(w)eks in Indo-European roots. sex See also homosexuality ; male ; women . algolagnia the finding of sexual pleasure in suffering or inflicting physical pain; sadomasochism. —algolagnist, n. —algolagnic, adj. amphierotism Rare. bisexualism. —amphierotic, adj. anaphrodisia Medicine. the absence or loss of sexual desire. Also called sexual anesthesia. andromania nymphomania. aphrodisia an extreme state of sexual desire. aphrodisiac a food or other substance that creates sexual desire. —aphrodisiac, adj. aphrodisiomania a mania for sexual pleasure. autoeroticism Psychoanalysis. the arousal and satisfaction of sexual desires within or by oneself, usually by masturbation. Also autoerotism. —autoerotic, adj. bawdry 1. Archaic. the practice or occupation of being a bawd or procurer. 2. Obsolete, fornication or unlawful intercourse. bestiality sexual relations between a person and an animal. See also behavior . biomagnetism 1. animal magnetism, or the power that enables some people to induce a hypnotic state in others. 2. physical attraction between members of the sexes. —biomagnetic, adj. bisexualism , bisexuality the state of being sexually responsive or attracted to members of both sexes. Also called amphierotism. See also body, human . —bisexual, adj. carnality the practice of finding satisfaction in activities related to fleshly desires and appetites, especially the sexual. — carnal, adj. coitophobia an abnormal fear of sexual intercourse. Also called genophobia. coprophilia 1. the use of obscene or scatological language for sexual gratification. 2. a love of obscenity. 3. Psychiatry. an abnormal interest in feces, especially as a source of sexual excitement. cryptorchidism the failure of one or both testes to descend normally. —cryp-torchid, n., adj. defloration the act of having sexual intercourse with a virgin; devirgination. devirgination Obsolete, the deflowering of a virgin. Also called defloration. edeomania an obsession with genitals. eonism Psychiatry. the adoption, by a male, of feminine mannerisms, clothing, etc. Also called transvestism, transvestitism. epicenism the state or quality of combining characteristics of both sexes. —epicenity, n. —epicene, adj. eroticism 1. the erotic or sexual quality of something. 2. the use of sexually arousing or stimulating materials in literature, drama, art, etc. 3. the condition of being sexually stimulated. 4. a sexual drive or tendency. 5. an abnormally persistent sexual drive. Also erotism. eroticomania an abnormal interest in erotica. erotographomania an abnormal interest in erotic literature. erotology the study of sex as a skill. erotomania abnormal or uncontrollable sexual desire. —erotomaniac, n., adj. erotophobia an abnormal fear of sexual feelings and their physical expression. estrus , oestrus the condition of being in rut or sexual arousal, applied particularly to the female. Also called est rum, oestrum. —estrous, oestrous, adj. eunuchism 1. the process or tradition of castrating males. 2. the state of being a eunuch. fetishism , fetichism Psychiatry. the compulsive use of some object or part of the body as a sexual stimulus, as a shoe, underclothes, a lock of hair, etc. —fetishist, fetichist, n. —fetishistic, fetichistic, adj. flagellation
In Greek mythology, musician and poet Arion was kidnapped by pirates and saved by which creatures?	The Greek Poet and Singer Arion Was #Blessed By Carly Silver Updated February 23, 2016. Ancient Greek poets were magic! Need more evidence than that simple statement? We've got all the details on this seaworthy adventurer, who could mount a dolphin as easily as he could strum his own instrument. Sail Away Herodotus starts us off with the basic story of Arion, who hung out at lot in the city of Corinth . He landed on the Peloponnese, "brought there by a dolphin" during the reign of Periander , seventh-century B.C. tyrant of Corinth. At the spot where Arion and his dolphin landed was a bronze statue of the musician riding Flipper like a cowboy. That locale was Taenarum , a cape near Corinth. Arion, who hailed from the town of Methymna on the island of Lesbos, wound up finding his dolphin companion after a chance encounter with pirates. Once , he wanted to explore the Mediterranean world, heading to Italy and Sicily; when he was done, he hired a ship to go back home to Corinth. The boat's crew saw how much wealth he'd accumulated while overseas, so they conspired to rob and kill him. continue reading below our video What are the Seven Wonders of the World According to Hyginus's Fabulae , written centuries later, " Apollo appeared to him in a dream and bade him sing in his poet’s garland crown, and surrender himself to those who would come to aid him." When the crew was about to kill him, Arion requested one last song to stall, perhaps his own funeral dirge ; when he started belting out a tune, the local dolphin pod swarmed the ship and Arion tossed himself overboard, rescued by his mammal pals. This transformative, death-to-life sequence has close ties to a hero's journey to the Underworld (hey, Heracles, hey!). But Arion survived after he "charmed the ocean waves," as Ovid claims ; he rode one dolphin all the way to Corinth, where the animal died and a monument to it was constructed. Hyginus states that Periander faked worry about Arion's fate when he saw his ship come in without the poet, knowing the sailors were bad guys. The crew claimed that Arion had died and they'd buried him; Periander required that they swear it was the truth on his Dolphin Monument. Arion hid inside the dolphin statue and shocked the crew into silence; Periander ordered them crucified in punishment. But to celebrate Arion, Hyginus claims, "Apollo, because of Arion’s skill with the cithara, placed him and the dolphin among the star." Indeed, as Dio Chrysostom notes , this guy was very "dear to the gods." Beautiful Music Arion's biggest gifts to musicians, as the story goes, were his skill on the lyre and his contribution to poetry. He "was a lyre-player second to none in that age; he was the first man whom we know to compose and name the dithyramb, which he afterwards taught at Corinth," according to Herodotus. The dithyramb was a choral song that fifty guys warbled in honor of Dionysus. These were pretty popular in a culture in which attending and participating in theater was a huge civic and religious responsibility. The tradition of Arion continued on long past his lifetime. The third-century B.C. poet Posidippus wrote an epigram chronicling the journey of Arion's lyre from Greece to Alexandria in Egypt, where it winds up as a votive object. He quips that "Arion's dolphin" brought this instrument, "made to resound," across "the white sea." Such a sacred object would be a worthy donation to a royal shrine. Arion was closely tied to the divine; Apollo and creatures of Poseidon saved this talented musician. Arion wasn't forgotten, even centuries later, remaining a staple of art in the ancient world. In his City of God , St. Augustine compares Arion, who "was received on a dolphin’s back and carried to land," didn't measure up to Jonah, rescued from the belly of a whale. Augustine opines that Christianity is better than paganism because "that story of ours about the prophet Jonah is far more incredible, more incredible because more marvellous, and more marvellous because a greater exhibition of power." So Jesus > Apollo, in other words.
Which US actor’s film company founded the Sundance Film Festival?	About Us \| Sundance Institute Read the 2016 Sundance Institute Annual Report » Our Mission Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences. Through its programs, the Institute seeks to discover, support, and inspire independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work. Our Vision We believe that a story driven by an individual, authentic voice can awaken new ideas that have the power to delight and entertain, push creative boundaries, spark new levels of empathy and understanding, and even lead to social change. We support independent storytellers and advance the impact of their work in the world. Board of Trustees Robert Redford, President and Founder Robert Redford is somewhat of an anomaly in the entertainment industry. Though he has been world-famous for some 30 years, he remains a highly private individual. He is an ardent conservationist and environmentalist, a man who stands for social responsibility and political involvement and an artist and businessman who is a staunch supporter of uncompromised creative expression. His passion remains to make films of substance and social/cultural relevance, as well as to encourage others to express themselves through the arts. He is recognized the world over for the roles he has played and the projects he has directed or produced throughout a distinguished stage and film career. Believing that it is the unexpected and uncommon, which ultimately enlivens the cultural ecology of a society, Redford has nurtured more than a generation of innovative voices in independent film through his non-profit Sundance Institute and Film Festival. Harvard Business Review observed, “Sundance has become to Hollywood what Silicon Valley has been to the high-tech industry.” His life-long passion for nature and issues of justice has resulted in Redford being widely acknowledged as a highly effective and dedicated political and environmental activist. Pat Mitchell, Board Chair Pat Mitchell is known for her leadership in the media industry as a CEO, producer and curator. Her career has focused on using media as a force for social change, with a special emphasis on the representation of women’s voices and stories. The first woman president and CEO of PBS, she most recently served as president and CEO of the Paley Center for Media; she is now a senior adviser to the organization. Mitchell is also the former president of CNN Productions, where she executive produced hundreds of hours of documentaries and specials, which received 35 Emmy Awards and five Peabody Awards. She was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in 2009, named one of the Most Powerful Women in Hollywood by Hollywood Reporter and featured in Fast Company’s special report, The League of Extraordinary Women: 60 Influencers Who Are Changing the World. Mitchell currently advises foundations and corporations on issues of women’s empowerment and leadership development as well as media and governance. She is the chair of the Women’s Media Center and Sundance Institute boards, a founding board member of V-Day, a member of the board of the Acumen Fund, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mitchell partners with the TED organization to co-curate and host a global TEDWomen conference. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia with bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature, Mitchell has taught at her alma mater, Virginia Commonwealth University, and at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics. Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Vice Chair Jeanne Donovan Fisher is a producer, investor, and philanthropist living in New York City. Fisher is president of True Love Productions, a theater and film production company in New York that she formed in 2001. Prior to the producing venture, Fisher’s professional background was in strategic communications. From 1992 until 1998, she was a managing director and founding partner of Citigate SVC, a public relations consu
Who became the youngest World Heavyweight Boxing Champion in 1956?	Former heavyweight champion Patterson dies at 71 - Redorbit Former heavyweight champion Patterson dies at 71 by Sam Savage NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former world heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson, who became the youngest boxer to gain the title when he knocked out Archie Moore in 1956 at the age of 21, died on Thursday. He was 71. Patterson, who had suffered from Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer, died at his home in New Paltz, New York. Patterson, who was elected into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991, was small for a heavyweight and used a peek-a-boo style with his gloves held high in front of his face, using his quickness to defeat heftier opponents. He had three famed clashes with Sweden's Ingemar Johansson in a long career that stretched from his first great professional success against Moore through bouts against Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali. "Of all the men I fought, Sonny Liston was the scariest, George Foreman was the most powerful, Floyd Patterson was the most skilled as a boxer," Ali once said. New York Gov. George Pataki saluted Patterson, who was born in Waco, North Carolina, and raised in New York City's borough of Brooklyn. "Floyd Patterson was a world champion athlete and an inspiration to many Americans," Pataki said in a statement. "From his signature style in the ring to his support for amateur athletics later in life, Floyd Patterson was truly the "gentleman of boxing." After an amateur career that included Olympic gold as a middleweight in 1952, Patterson turned professional. On November 30, 1956, he claimed the world heavyweight title vacated by the retirement of Rocky Marciano by knocking out Moore in the fifth round. Patterson was 21 at the time, making him the youngest heavyweight champion until 20-year-old Mike Tyson beat Trevor Berbick for the title in 1986. Patterson and Tyson were both trained by Cus D'Amato. Following four title defenses, Patterson lost the crown in 1959 when he was knocked down seven times in the third round. losing to Sweden's Johansson in New York. One year later, Patterson became the first heavyweight champion to regain the crown when he returned to the Polo Grounds to knock out Johansson in the fifth round. Patterson won a third bout against Johansson in 1961, stopping the big Swede in the sixth round. He made one more successful defense before losing the title to fellow-American Liston by a first-round knockout in 1962. Patterson fought three more times for the heavyweight title. He was knocked out again in the first round by Liston in 1963, was stopped after a 12-round beating by Muhammad Ali in 1965, and lost a 15-round decision to Jimmy Ellis in 1968. Ali carried a grudge into the 1965 bout against Patterson. He was angry that Patterson refused to call him Muhammad Ali, and continued to refer to him by his birth name, Cassius Clay. Instead of finishing him off in the one-sided fight, Ali mocked and punished Patterson before stopping him in the 12th. Patterson retired in 1972 at age 37 with a professional record of 55-8-1. He later served a stint as New York state athletic commissioner. Patterson once revealed his motivation when he said: "The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from."
In humans, dipsosis is an excessive what?	Definition of Dipsosis Definition of Dipsosis Causes of a Heart Attack Slideshow Dipsosis: Excessive thirst; overwhelming desire for water or another liquid. Dipsosis may occur when the amount of water in the body falls below normal. Any activity that causes perspiration can deplete the body's water supply and trigger dipsosis. So can fever , anxiety , sunburn and heat exhaustion . Other causes of water loss and dipsosis include the following: Diuretic medicines Taking in too much salt Diabetes: In diabetes, excessive levels of glucose , a type of sugar, build up in the blood. When the body disposes of some of the excess glucose through urination, the extra glucose in the urine acts as what is called an osmotic diuretic and requires more water to be added to the urine. Considerable water loss occurs. The person then becomes very thirsty. Vomiting and diarrhea: Both vomiting and diarrhea deplete the body of water holus-bolus. Illnesses that cause vomiting and diarrhea require treatment that replenishes the body's water orally (by mouth) or intravenously (IV). Rehydration also should include other substances that have been lost. For example, if sodium has been depleted, there needs to be some salt in the fluid being drunk or administered IV. Diuretic beverages: Diuretic beverages, those that promote urination, include coffee, tea, beer and other alcoholic beverages. Diuretic medicines: Too high a dose of a diuretic drug, one that promotes the formation of urine, also will cause dehydration and lead to excessive thirst (dipsosis). Taking in too much salt: Ham, canned soup, cheese, pickles, sauerkraut, lunch meats, snack foods (like pretzels and peanuts) and fast foods all tend to contain high levels of salt. These foods should be eaten sparingly to prevent dipsosis. "Dipsosis" is derived from the Greek "dipsa" (thirst) and "-sis" (a suffix meaning condition or state). Last Editorial Review: 5/13/2016
What is the title of the 1984 film in which Bob Hoskins plays the owner of a club where Richard Gere plays the cornet?	The Cotton Club Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb 85 reviews in total 48 out of 63 people found the following review useful: An absolute classic, the more times you watch it, the more you become mesmerised by it. from England 26 June 2000 The first time I saw this movie I loved the music and dancing and appreciated the setting. I found it strange and couldn't follow it properly. I watched it a second and third time, partly to see the dancing again, and listen to the music, and the plot completely grew on me. I absolutely love this movie. It is complex, and extremely accurate in its portrayal of the time when gangsters owned stars. If you love jazz music and know a little about its history, you will be enraptured by this movie. The acting is incredible, and highlights the subtle twists in the plot beautifully. The cinematography is done in a most expert fashion. Richard Gere and Gregory Hines are absolutely charming, and Diane Lane is perfect is Vera Cicero. Lonette McKee has one of the most beautiful voices you will ever hear, it is no wonder she received a Tony award. Any viewer will be surprised by the guest appearances including Nicholas Cage, Bob Hoskins, Lawrence Fishburne, and on-screen and real-life brother of Gregory, Maurice Hines. Not only one of Coppola's best, but one of the best of all time. Was the above review useful to you? 39 out of 49 people found the following review useful: One of Francis Coppola's best and underrated films from Canada 19 July 2002 The Cotton Club is such a well-made movie, you have to wonder why so many critics and audiences ignored it when it was first released. Was it because of the murder case surrounding its production? Or did some people feel that a mixture of gangster films and Hollywood musicals didn't mix? Whatever the reason, The Cotton Club deserves to be watched again and again, not just for its music and dancing, but for the great performances, scenery, cars, costumes...and tommy-guns. The movie was nominated for two Oscars, but a third nomination should have gone to Bob Hoskins, for his brilliant performance as Owney Madden. Despite his few film credits, James Remar is brilliant as Dutch Schultz and comes across as the sort of person you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley. There are rumours the film may be re-released with scenes and music that were cut from the original version. If this is true, would the film finally become a hit? After all, Robert Evans, the film's producer, apparently told one reporter..."How can it miss? It's got gangsters, music and girls." Well said, Robert. Was the above review useful to you? 42 out of 63 people found the following review useful: OK Movie with too much going on and too messy from Houston 27 July 2005 I saw this movie when it first came out and I thought it was a mess. Now years later while I have the luxury of sitting in my house watching the various showings on cable, I like a better. Why because this movie is IMO 3 different movies going on at once. I Now I am able to concentrate on one aspect of the movie more then the whole. I will start with movie #1... The Cotton club, the nightclub where everything converges and what is the common denominator that brings ALL of the characters together. It is almost set up like a Plantation in Mississippi. The white gangster own the place and the black people work there and have no say about anything that goes on. Black people were not even able to go to the club as a customer. All of the women who worked there were light skin almost passing for white. In the movie they do show how the set up was but the place was no as large as it was in the movie and on a side bar. Larry Fishburn who plays a numbers runner (the same role he played in a later movie, Hoodlum) shows interest in a brown skin singer performer in the club and her mother is very upset because she is the first "dark skin" woman working at the club. I liked that they added that in. I know this because my neighbor use to play with Louis Armstrong that the women in question is in fact Louis Amstrongs future wife.
Who was the first unseeded tennis player to win the Wimbledon Men’s Finals?	britishtennis.com - The British Tennis Website History of Tennis Lets take a step back in time. Below we have identified key moments in tennis history. Cream boxes containing the General heading represent general tennis history facts, while green boxes containing the Wimbledon heading represent specific moments in Wimbledon history. All facts are listed in chronological order (if read as newspaper columns) for your convenience. Enjoy! 12th Century General: Origins trace back to French game called "Paume" ("Palm"), where players hit a small ball over a net by hand. 16th Century General: The racket was actually invented in Italy in 1583. General: Paume evolved into "Jeu de Paume" ("Game of Palm") and a racket was used instead of a hand. 1873 General: Major Walter Wingfield invented the game called "Sphairistik�" (Greek for "playing ball") and first introduced it to Wales (UK). Played on hour-glass shaped courts on Manor House lawns by wealthy English people. This is truly where modern tennis evolved. General: The game soon became known as "tennis", thought to come from the French word "tenir" ("hold this"), "tendere" ("to hold"), or "tenez" ("to take"). The precise origins are unknown. 1875 Wimbledon: Henry Cavendish Jones convinced the All England Croquet Club to replace a croquet court with a lawn tennis court. Marylebone Cricket Club followed suit. Wimbledon: Marylebone Cricket Club made significant changes to the game. They added Deuce , Advantage , and 2 chances per serve. The hourglass-shaped court also changed to a rectangular court, identical to the measurements we use today! 1877 Wimbledon: The very first World Tennis Championship was held in 1877 at Worple Road in Wimbledon (United Kingdom), the true home of tennis! The sponsors were the All England Croquet Club. Only 22 players entered the Mens Singles, which was the only event. Spectators paid a mere one shilling to watch the final. The winner of this mens event was Spencer Gore, who aparently speculated that it would not catch on because it was too boring! 1880 Wimbledon: The Overhead Smash was introduced into the game by the Renshaw brothers. They would dominate Wimbledon for a decade, winning all but 1880 and 1887 championships between them. 1881 General: The United States National Lawn Tennis Association (USNLTA) is founded, and the first U.S. Championships are played. 1884 Wimbledon: The Wimbledon Championships are open to women for the first time. There are only 13 participants. Mens doubles was also introduced for the first time. 1887 General: The U.S. Championships are open to women for the first time. 1887 Wimbledon: Lottie Dod of England wins the Wimbledon Ladies Singles title for the first of 5 times between 1887 and 1893. She is the youngest player to win a singles event at the age of only 15 years and 285 days. 1888 General: Our very own Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is founded in order to maintain the new rules and standards of tennis. 1891 General: The first French Championships are played. However, they rule these Championships are only open to French residents - trust the French! 1897 General: The French Championships are open to women for the first time. 1899 Wimbledon: The All England Croquet Club changed it's name to the All England Tennis & Croquet Club. 1900 General: The first Davis Cup Tournament is held. 1905 General: The first Australasian Championships are played. Only twice between 1905 and 1925 were the Championships held outside Australia (in New Zealand). 1905 Wimbledon: May Sutton won the Ladies Singles at Wimbledon, and was the first international tennis player to win at Wimbledon. Wimbledon: The Doherty brothers (Laurie and Reggie) won the Wimbledon Mens Doubles title for a record eigth time. Ironically, they were both born in Wimbledon! 1907 Wimbledon: Norman Brookes of Australia became the first international Wimbledon Mens Singles champion. 1908 Wimbledon: Mrs Charlotte Sterry of Great Britain became the oldest Wimble
Which British comedian was known as ‘The Cheeky Chappie’?	Max Miller - the Cheeky Chapppie. Britain's Top Comedian JOKES STAGE,RADIO & TV MILLER'S MOVIES CHEEKY BIOGRAPHY MAX'S LEGACY MMAS HOME PAGE MMAS NEWS STATUE MEMORABILIA SHOWS SHOPPING LINKS Max Miller, Britain’s top comedian in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s was born in Brighton, England. He excelled as a stand- up comic playing in large variety theatres where his skill was such that he could hold an audience in the ‘palm of his hand’. He also made films, wrote and sang his own songs. Max was renown for telling risqué jokes. He used innuendo and when on stage would woo his audience particularly the ladies. Much of his material was too blue for broadcasting. The song, Let’s Have A Ride on Your Bicycle was banned by the BBC until it became too popular and public opinion forced the Corporation to lift the ban. © Website created for The Max Miller Appreciation Society by terry.hardy, Nov- 99; Rev Dec-
Portugal shares a land border with which country?	Portugal flights - Lonely Planet Read more Boat There are no scheduled seagoing ferries to Portugal, but many to Spain. The closest North African ferry connections are from Morocco to Spain; contact Trasmediterranea (www.trasmediterranea.es) for details. Car ferries also run from Tangier to Gibraltar.
In which year was live television coverage of the Olympic Games available internationally for the first time?	First time at the Olympics 1st Olympic Congress : 16 - 24. June 1894 Paris (Founding Congress) Subject: Study and Diffusion of the Principles of Amateurism and Revival of the Olympic Games. 1896 Athens First Modern Olympic Games held in Athens. Statistic first games The Olympic Hymn of 1896. The text is by Kostis Palamas, the music is by Spyros Samaras. It was presented for the first time in the opening ceremony of the first modern Olympic Games. 1900 Paris Women participate for the first time First female winner: Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain in singles tennis. 1904 St. Louis In 1904, for the first time, medals were awarded to the first three people to finish each event--a gold medal for first place, a silver medal for second, and a bronze medal for third. At the Athens Games 1896 the winners in each event received silver medals, as there was not enough money left to mint them in gold. 1906 Athens The Olympic oath Defeated in WWI, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary and Turkey are not allowed to participate. First time of innovation at the Antwerp Games was the releasing of thousands of white doves at the opening ceremony as a symbol of peace among nations. 1924 Paris In 1924 for the first time, the Games returned to a former venue. The Paris Games were the fist to have an Olympic Village for the athletes. Olympic motto first officially used. The president of France, Gaston Doumergue, opened the first Games to adopt the slogan: "Citius, Altius, Fortius" (Swifter, Higher, Stronger) It was pronounced for the first time from the Dominican father Eric Dinon and was adopted in the 1924 Paris Olympic Games. 1924 - Technology begins to win a place at the Olympic Games with the event's first live radio broadcast. First Olympic Winter Games held in St. Moritz. 1928 Amsterdam First Olympic Flame to be lit and burned throughout whole Olympic Games Olympic flame burned at the stadion for the first time ever. First introduction of large results board. The objekt of a score board was to publish the results of the events immediately. Women allowed to compete in track and field events. First time Greece led parade of nations. Slow-motion film techniques used to judge close finishes; women's track and field competitions held for first time. The photography rights were sold to a commercial firm. 1932 Los Angeles Introduction of three-tiered victory stand. Kirby Two-Eyed Electric Timing Camera The stop-watch and photo finish were first used at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California. When officials found it impossible to determine the winner of the 100 meters race by naked eye and stop watch alone, newsreel film was analyzed to determine that Eddie Tolan (U.S.) was the gold medal winner. First time the national anthem from the winner's country was played and the national flag of medallists raised. 1936 Berlin 1948 London Fanny Blankers-Koen of Netherlands is first woman to win 4 gold medals in a single Games. 1952 Helsinki The first Olympic coin was minted to mark the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland, 500 markka. 1956 Melbourne First Games to be held in the Southern Hemisphere (Melbourne) At
Which US organisation has the motto ‘Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity’?	FBI — FBI Commemorates 100 Years of Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity 100th Anniversary Commemoration National Building Museum Washington, D.C. July 17, 2008 Good morning. It is truly an honor to be here today to mark this significant milestone in the Bureau’s history and to share in the celebration of this occasion—the 100th anniversary of the FBI. My thanks to Attorney General Mukasey and the many other distinguished guests for joining us today. My special thanks, also, to Directors Webster, Sessions, and Freeh, for being here. Together, they represent three decades at the Bureau in which we saw a strong emphasis on white collar crime and organized crime, as well as counterintelligence cases. We witnessed innovations in crime-solving technologies and a dramatic expansion of our international program. But let’s go back a bit further in history. One hundred years ago, Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte organized a group of investigators under the Justice Department. In July, 1908, the Bureau of Investigation opened its doors. The first Bureau employees numbered just 34—nine detectives, thirteen civil rights investigators, and twelve accountants. They investigated, among other things, antitrust matters, land fraud, and copyright violations. Compare that to today’s FBI—a threat-based, intelligence-driven, technologically-supported agency of over 30,000 employees—employees who are working in 56 field offices and 61 offices overseas. Employees who are combatting crimes as diverse as terrorism, corporate fraud, cyber crime, human trafficking, and money laundering. J. Edgar Hoover would have been proud. Today’s FBI is often, and I believe accurately, described as one of the world’s few intelligence and law enforcement agencies combined. The culture of the FBI is now, and for the past 100 years has been, a culture of hard work and dedication to protecting the United States, no matter what the challenges. In the wake of the September 11 attacks, it became clear that the FBI’s number one priority must be the prevention of another terrorist attack. We refocused our mission, revised our priorities, and realigned our work force. We strengthened lines of communication between the Bureau and our partners in the global intelligence and law enforcement community. And we are now stronger and better equipped to confront the threats we face today. Today’s FBI continues to reflect and embody its motto—Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity. It is a motto emblazoned on the FBI Seal. And it is worth its weight in gold. For the past 100 years, the men and women of the FBI have lived out their commitment to Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity. It is precisely because they have done so that the Bureau has the reputation that it enjoys today. Even so, these are qualities that need to be constantly burnished by the men and women of the Bureau, to ensure they do not rust for lack of use. For most of us, fidelity is faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. For the men and women of the FBI, fidelity also means fidelity to country. It means fidelity to justice and the law, fidelity to the Constitution, fidelity to equality and liberty. Bravery is the quality of being willing to face danger, pain, or trouble; to remain unafraid. Bravery is not merely the act of rushing in where others flee. It is the quiet, diligent dedication to facing down those who would do us harm and bring them to justice. The well-known tennis champion and social humanitarian, Arthur Ashe, once said, “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” Bravery is the capstone in the stories of Special Agents Rodney Miller, John O’Neill, and Lenny Hatton. On September 11, Miller and O’Neill went up, not down, the stairs of the North Tower of the World Trade Center to help others get out. Rodney Miller went all the way up to the 86th floor, offering assistance to fire and police personnel on the scene. Through radio transmissions, Lenny Hatton reported the crash of the secon
In Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ who does Beatrice agree to marry in the end?	SparkNotes: Much Ado About Nothing: Act V, scenes iii–iv Much Ado About Nothing Act V, scenes iii–iv → Act V, scenes i–ii Act V, scenes iii–iv, page 2 page 1 of 2 Summary: Act V, scene iii Early in the morning, at the tomb where Hero supposedly lies buried, Claudio carries out the first part of the punishment that Leonato has ordered him to perform. Claudio has written an epitaph, or death poem, celebrating Hero’s innocence and grieving the slander that (he believes) led to her death. He reads the epitaph out loud and hangs it upon the tomb. He solemnly promises that he will come and read it here at this time every year. Everyone then goes off to prepare for Claudio’s wedding to Leonato’s niece, the supposed Hero look-alike, which is to occur that very day. Summary: Act V, scene iv Meanwhile, in the church, Leonato, Antonio, Beatrice, Benedick, Hero, Margaret, Ursula, and the friar prepare for the second wedding of Claudio and Hero. We learn from their conversation that Margaret has been interrogated, and that she is innocent of conspiring with Borachio and Don John—she never realized that she was taking part in Don John’s treachery. Benedick is also very relieved that Don John’s trick has come to light, for now he does not need to fight his friend Claudio. Quietly, Benedick also takes Leonato aside and asks him for his permission to marry Beatrice. Don Pedro and Claudio enter, and Antonio goes off to fetch the masked women. While they are waiting, Don Pedro and Claudio tease Benedick about his love for Beatrice and about the fact that he will soon be married, although they do not know that he actually does plan to be married that very day. Hero, Beatrice, and the waiting women enter, all wearing masks. Claudio vows to marry the masked woman by his side, whom he believes to be Leonato’s mysterious niece. But when Hero takes off her mask, the shocked Claudio realizes that it really is Hero. Leonato and Hero tell him that now that Hero’s name has been cleared, she can figuratively come back to life and be his wife, as she should have been before. The party prepares to go to the chapel to finish the ceremony, but Benedick stops everybody. He asks Beatrice, out loud and in public, whether she loves him. Beatrice denies it, and Benedick, in turn, denies loving her. They both agree that they are good friends, but not in love. But, laughingly, Claudio and Hero tell them that they know that isn’t the truth—and both whip out scribbled, half-finished love poems that they have found in their friends’ rooms and pockets, written from Benedick to Beatrice and from Beatrice to Benedick. Benedick and Beatrice realize that they have been caught red-handed and, giving in, finally agree to marry. Benedick silences Beatrice, for the first time, by kissing her. Claudio and Don Pedro begin to tease Benedick again, but Benedick laughingly says that he does not care—he remains determined to be married, and nothing he has ever said against marriage in the past makes any difference to him now. He and Claudio assert their friendship again, and Benedick calls for a dance before the double wedding. Suddenly, a messenger rushes in to inform the company that Leonato’s men have arrested Don John in his flight from Mes-sina. They have brought him back to Messina a prisoner. Benedick instructs Don Pedro to put off thinking about the villain until tomorrow, when Benedick will invent fine tortures for him. In the meantime, Benedick insists that all must dance joyfully in celebrating the marriages, and he commands the pipers to strike up the music. Analysis: Act V, scenes iii–iv This final scene brings the play to a joyous conclusion, drawing it away from the tragedy toward which it had begun to move and letting everyone wind up safe and sound. Claudio and Hero are about to be happily married, as are Benedick and Beatrice. The deception has been revealed, and Don John has been caught and brought to justice. Everybody has made friends again, and the final dance symbolizes the restoration of order and happiness in a world that has been thrown into chaos by Do
What is the head of a jellyfish called?	What Is the Lifespan for Moon Jellyfish? \| Animals - mom.me What Is the Lifespan for Moon Jellyfish? The scientific name for moon jellyfish is Aurelia aurita. Photos.com/Photos.com/Getty Images Moon jellyfish live in the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans near the coastline. In most cases, they are harmless to humans. Yet their same tentacles containing the stinging cells that trap prey and defend the jellyfish from predators may inadvertently hit humans resulting in skin irritation. Two Life Stages Jellyfish have two life stages: one in which they are sexually active and the other in which they reproduce asexually. The sexual phase -- when the jellyfish is matured -- is called the Medusa phase referencing the fact that the tentacles and arms hanging from its clear-colored and bell-shaped body resemble the snakes protruding from the head of the Gorgon Medusa in Greek mythology as per Answers In Genesis. The polyp phase -- the asexual stage -- of a jellyfish's life begins when as a fertilized egg it is released from its mature mother. Polyp float freely in the ocean for an indefinite period of time and then attach to a shaded area such as a rock. Mystic Aquarium tells us that polyp then make carbon copies of themselves that are released in the water. Sexual Maturity Sexual maturity for moon jellyfish occurs in spring and summer. It is easy to spot a sexually mature or adult moon jellyfish, it has four horseshoe-shaped gonads located near the bottom of its stomach that are visible through its clear-colored and bell-shaped body. These gonads are nourished immediately by prey taken in by the adult moon jellyfish often taking on a violet or pink color. Jellyfish Mating When jellyfish do reproduce sexually, its successful completion is literally dependent on the direction of ocean currents. Male jellyfish detect the flow of the ocean's currents and position their bodies so that as they release a string of sperm from their mouths the sperms flow toward the mouths of females. Once the eggs are fertilized, they cling to the mother's arms and develop until released. How Long They Live The answer to how long a jellyfish lives depends on which phase of life it is in. Polyps have lived up to 25 years in an aquarium setting. Mature moon jellyfish that are producing sexually do not live long past the start of their active status. Sex for a jellyfish is a signal to die. After this critter has done its part sexually to ensure the survival of the species, its clear body become opaque, loses its buoyancy and the dying creature falls to the ocean floor.
Which element is added to steel to make it stainless?	The Elements of Steel . Streamliners: America's Lost Trains . WGBH American Experience \| PBS Iron is the main ingredient in various forms of iron and steel, but the various types of metals contain other elements as well. Sometimes these elements are unwanted; other times they're intentionally added. The Elements Used in Steel Carbon (C): Carbon, a nonmetallic element, forms a number of organic and inorganic compounds and can be found in coal, petroleum and limestone. It is the principle strengthening element in carbon steels and low-alloy steels. Atomic number 6, atomic weight 12.01115. Manganese (Mn): Manganese is a brittle, metallic element that exists in the ore of pyrolusite. When making steel, it reacts with sulfur and helps to increase the metal's resistance to heat. Atomic number 25, atomic weight 54.9380. Phosphorus (P): Phosphorus is a poisonous, nonmetallic element that helps protect metal surfaces from corrosion. Atomic number 15, atomic weight 30.9738. Sulfur (S): Sulfur is a nonmetallic element found mainly in volcanic and sedimentary deposits. Sulfur, in the form of iron sulfide, can cause steel to be too porous and prone to cracking. Atomic number 16, atomic weight 32.064. Silicon (Si): Silicon is the second most abundant element in the earth's crust and can be found in rocks, sand and clay. It acts as a deoxidizer in steel production. Atomic number 14, atomic weight 28.086. Nickel (Ni): Nickel is a hard, metallic element that found in igneous rocks. Without nickel, stainless steel would be less resistant to heat and corrosion. Atomic number 28, atomic weight 58.71. Chromium (Cr): Chromium, a metallic element, is found in the earth's crust. It is used in the production of stainless steel to make the steel resistant to oxidation and corrosion. Atomic number 24, atomic weight 51.996. The Elements of Steel Composition (percent by mass) Cast Iron
Which is the smallest instrument in the flute family?	All about the flute family Size: About 33cm long - roughly half the size of the Concert Flute Shape: Unlike the flute, the Piccolo has only two sections - the Head and the Body. Pitch: The Piccolo plays an octave higher than the Flute, but because it doesn't have a footjoint can only go as low as D. Sound: Being the smallest and highest member of the Flute Family, the sound is very penetrating. Other: The piccolo first became popular about 200 years ago. Now it regularly used in orchestras, wind bands and flute choirs. The Alto Flute Size: About 86cm long. Shape: Very similar to the concert flute - just longer. Sometimes it has a curly headjoint (as above) to help reach the keys. Pitch: It is tuned a 4th lower than the concert flute. Sound: Quieter and more mellow than the concert flute. Other: The alto flute is a transposing instrument. When it plays the sound comes out a 4th lower than the notes on the page.
In religion, who traditionally sits on the Sedia Gestatoria?	Serving Vatican Calls for Christian Mentality, Says Pope – ZENIT – English Serving Vatican Calls for Christian Mentality, Says Pope Receives Pontifical Seat Bearers in Audience January 13, 2006 ZENIT Staff Vatican Dicasteries/Diplomacy VATICAN CITY, JAN. 13, 2006 ( Zenit.org ).- Benedict XVI reminded the Pontifical Seat Bearers that service to the Holy See calls for a Christian mentality and lifestyle. The Pope received in audience today the “sediari pontifici,” the corps of men who traditionally carried the Pope’s “sedia gestatoria.” The “sedari” were the pallbearers in Pope John Paul II’s funeral. The service of the “sediari pontifici,” who now carry out functions of protocol in the Pontifical Household, dates back to the 14th century. The position is passed on from generation to generation. In the meeting in the Vatican’s Consistory Hall, the Holy Father said that he hoped “that you may always be — both in the Vatican and at home, in the parish and in all situations — helpful and attentive to others.” “This is a precious lesson for your children and grandchildren, who will learn from your example how service to the Holy See means, above all, a Christian mentality and lifestyle,” he said. The Pope has the opportunity to greet the “sediari pontifici” almost daily, as they assist in welcoming personalities and groups he receives in audience. Distinction “Diligence, courtesy and discretion must be the characteristics that distinguish you in your work,” said the Pontiff, adding that it must manifest concretely “your love for the Church and your dedication to the Successor of Peter.” “Your work, then, is part of a context wherein everything must speak to the whole world of the Church of Christ, and must do so coherently, imitating him who ‘came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as ransom for many,'” Benedict XVI said. This is the meaning of the reforms put into effect by recent Popes, in particular Paul VI, who gave up the “sedia gestatoria.” “Ceremonies were simplified, bringing them back to a greater sobriety more in keeping with the Christian message and the needs of the times,” said Benedict XVI. Share this Entry
In June 1940, who was officially recognised by Britain as the ‘Leader of all free Frenchmen, wherever they may be’?	BBC - History - World Wars: The Allies at War The Allies at War By Simon Berthon Last updated 2011-02-17 Simon Berthon discusses the uneasy relationship that existed between the Western leaders of the Allied forces in World War Two. On this page Print this page Three titans Between 1940 and 1945 three titans of the twentieth century, who became the leaders of the free world at its moment of greatest crisis, fought an extraordinary war within a war. To the outside world they were allies united in the fight against Hitler. Behind the scenes, their relationship was very different. In June 1940, as France fell to the Nazis, Churchill recognised de Gaulle as "the man of destiny". Two of the three were the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill and the Free French leader, General, later President, Charles de Gaulle. In June 1940, as France fell to the Nazis, Churchill recognised de Gaulle as 'the man of destiny'. But their relationship would turn into a roller coaster of mutual admiration, suspicion and, on Churchill's part, loathing. The third man was the American President, Franklin Roosevelt. De Gaulle caused Roosevelt more trouble and more infuriation than any other person in the Second World War. To his extreme embarrassment, Churchill found himself caught in the middle of an extraordinary arms length duel between the President, who was the most powerful man in the world, and the French general who put saving the honour of his devastated country above everything else. The story of this tangled, triangular relationship began in June 1940. The Nazi Blitzkrieg had crushed Belgium and Holland. German forces had forced the withdrawal of nearly half a million British and French troops from Dunkirk. Now Hitler's spearheads were rolling towards Paris. The French government was divided but its Prime Minister, Paul Reynaud, remained determined to resist the Nazis. On 5 June 1940 he appointed to his cabinet a recently promoted and junior brigadier-general, Charles de Gaulle, as Under Secretary for Defence. Reynaud knew that de Gaulle was an unequivocal fighter, and he dispatched him to London to plead with Churchill to send the full might of the Royal Air Force's Fighter Command across the Channel to help in the battle to save France. Top Free France Churchill refused; in his heart, he knew that France was lost. However, de Gaulle immediately impressed him as a welcome contrast to the defeatist High Command of the French Army. During the vital week of 10 to 17 June, de Gaulle and Churchill tried to stiffen resistance in the French government and army. At the same time Churchill and Reynaud pleaded with Roosevelt to make a public commitment to support Britain and France. However Roosevelt would only give private assurances and any prospect of France staying in the fight was removed. On 17 June, the aged Marshal Phillippe Petain succeeded Reynaud and France sought an armistice with Hitler. De Gaulle escaped to London and Churchill recognised him as the "leader of all Free Frenchmen, wherever they may be, who rally to him in support of the allied cause". Free France was born. During the late summer of 1940, de Gaulle raised a fledgling Free French army and navy of some four thousand men. But all he had was an office in London, Churchill's backing and hope. What he needed was territory and a base of his own. All de Gaulle had was an office in London, Churchill's backing and hope. De Gaulle turned his eyes to the French Empire in Africa. In late August a small Free French expedition rallied the French Central African territories of Chad and the French Congo and Cameroons to de Gaulle's cause. He and Churchill next targeted the strategic port of Dakar in French West Africa. The British chiefs of staff were ordered to organise an expedition, code named 'Menace'. 'Menace' turned into a fiasco. The plan was based on the hope that local French forces in Dakar would rally to de Gaulle as soon as they saw the combined British and Free French fleet draw near. Instead they stayed loyal to the regime of Vichy France which Petain had now es
What is composer Offenbach’s ‘Galop Infernal’ better known as?	Galop infernal from Orpheus in the Underworld (J. Offenbach) - Free Flute Sheet Music \| flutetunes.com There are no recordings for this tune yet. Submit yours ! Sunday 31 May 2009 Tune of the Day: Can-can Jacques Offenbach's “Galop infernal“ from “Orpheus in the Underworld” Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld (Orphée aux enfers) is an irreverent parody and scathing satire on Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, culminating in this well-known “galop infernal” which has often been copied and has widely been used as the background music for the can-can dance. The can-can is regarded today primarily as a physically demanding music hall dance, performed by a chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings, that hearkens back to the fashions of the 1890s. The main features of the dance are the lifting up and manipulation of the skirts, with high kicking and suggestive body movements. As you will notice, the main theme is first presented in G major, and then reiterated in D major. Other Movements from the same Work
What is the eighth sign of the Zodiac?	The Eighth House - Article by Astrology.com The Eighth House BY ASTROLOGY.COM NOVEMBER 24, 2009 05:45 PM EST Share Share House of Sex The Eighth House is commonly referred to as the House of Sex. This House delves into relationships -- interactions with another and how certain aspects of those interactions can take on a more communal nature. It speaks to what our relationships will bring us and how we can get the most out of them. Returning to this House's emphasis on sex, it's important to note that the French refer to an orgasm as 'le petit mort' or 'the little death.' When we reach that exalted state of communion, we leave a little of ourselves behind -- die a small death. One can also choose to view this as growth, a new beginning, the rebirth of the soul or a gain for the partnership. The Eighth House is an equal-opportunity house, placing sex, death and rebirth on the same level playing field and acknowledging the viability and importance of all three. We will all experience death and rebirth as part of our lives: failed relationships leading to new ones, career changes, a new hairstyle. We are regenerated and reborn with each new phase and should welcome them. Shared resources also fall within the Eighth House: inheritance, alimony, taxes, insurance and support from another. Financial support, as well as spiritual, emotional and physical support, are addressed by this house. While our relationships share many of the aforementioned things, they also have their own dynamics and grow from within (we grow through our sexuality as well as through other more tangible means). That said, as much as our relationships are expansive, they also have certain constraints, many that are placed on them by society. Again, taxes, alimony and the joint nature of assets come to mind. Yes, with every opportunity we have, we may face a restriction along with it. Once again: death and rebirth. In keeping with the transforming nature of this house, rituals are highlighted. Every group has its own way of peering in and looking deep into the soul and the past, if only to get a sense of what we truly are. What quality will our rituals take on? Exalted states or metamorphoses? What secrets do we keep and why? How we manage our interactions, relationships and rituals is important to the Eighth House -- will we be honest, effective and responsible? Will the riches generated by our relationships benefit the group (company, humankind) as a whole? Our legacies are key to this house: how we conduct ourselves now, and how that will play out for all time. The Eighth House is ruled by Scorpio and the planets Mars and Pluto. Sponsored Link
Which spirit is traditionally used to make the cocktail Mint Julep?	Best Mint Julep Recipe - How to Make a Mint Julep How to Make a Mint Julep A fan favorite of the Kentucky Derby, now you can make this classic cocktail on your own. By David Wondrich In the dark backward of time, the Proper Construction of the Julep, like the Beauty of My State's Women and the Timing of Pickett's Charge, was one of those topics that an American male with social aspirations was expected to regard as a matter of honor—at least, if said specimen was a son, nephew, cousin or acquaintance of the South. Just about every state in Dixie had its own sacrosanct way of handling the mint, the sugar, the ice, the booze. Duels were fought. Names were called. Mint Julep old-fashioned glass Directions Place 5 or 6 leaves of mint in the bottom of a prechilled, dry 12-ounce glass or silver beaker. Add sugar and crush slightly with a muddler. Pack glass with finely cracked ice. Pour a generous 3 ounces of Kentucky bourbon over the ice. Stir briskly until the glass frosts. Add more ice and stir again before serving. Stick a few sprigs of mint into the ice so that the partaker will get the aroma. Still not enough mint flavor? Try this: For each julep, lightly cover about 10 sprigs of mint with superfine sugar, add an ounce of spring water, macerate, let stand for 10-15 minutes, and strain through a fine sieve into the ice-filled glass. Then add whiskey and proceed as above. If you'll stoop to maceration, you might also want to float 1/2 ounce of dark Jamaica rum on top. Just about every state in Dixie had its own sacrosanct way of handling the mint, the sugar, the ice, the booze. Brushing aside all the tedious to-and-fro about brandy, rum, and rye (before the War between the States, a true southern gentleman would be hanged before he'd let whiskey pass his lips, and even after, when standards had slipped, no Marylander would build his julep with anything but rye), it's that mint that caused most of the trouble. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Mint Question is as the "filioque" debate that so exercised medieval theologians—moot, moot, moot. Hypersweetened iced tea and Coca-Cola have taken the mint julep's place as the Grits Belt's summer cooler of choice. Whether you muddle the mint or slide it into the glass altogether unmolested matters as much to the vast majority of southern manhood as whether the Spirit proceeds from the Father to the Son or the Father and the Son. Ecumenical to the quick, we'll take our communion from either school without scruple. Whatever your denomination, here are a few things to keep in mind: Use a prechilled, dry 12- or 14-ounce glass, tall and slim (better yet, of course, the traditional silver beaker). Crack the ice, making sure to drain off any excess water before putting it in the glass. Don't handle the glass with bare hands, as the touch of a hand kills the frost. Likewise, each julep should be served with a napkin or small linen doily. The glass will not frost if in the wind, if wet, with undried ice or if excessively handled. You can sometimes speed the frost by twirling the glass or by placing in coldest part of refrigerator for about 30 minutes. Use only the freshest mint and, of that, the smallest, most tender leaves. If you use a straw, keep it short so you can get your nose in among the mint. More recipes like this
Who was the last English monarch to enter the House of Commons?	Charles I enters the House of Commons - YouTube Charles I enters the House of Commons Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Dec 7, 2008 On 4 January 1642, King Charles I entered the House of Commons to arrest five members. So angered were MPs at this breach of parliamentary privilege that they slammed to doors of the chamber in the faces of the King's men. When Charles finally entered the House of Commons, the Speaker, William Lenthall, refused to reveal the location of the wanted men, famously saying: "May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here." This incident lead to the English Civil War and no monarch has entered the House of Commons since. Every year this event is commemorated during the State Opening of Parliament when Black Rod tries to enter the Commons, the door is slammed in his face to symbolise the independence of the elected House of Commons from the monarchy. This video is a dramatisation from the film 'Cromwell'. Category
Which two creatures are supporting the shield on the Australian coat of arms?	Australian Coat of Arms Australian Coat of Arms & National Colours Australia's first national coat of arms was granted in 1908 and displayed the kangaroo and emu supporting the shield, and standing on a grassy mound. The second coat of arms, made in 1912, included the symbols of the states woven together in the central shield with a border symbolizing federation. The Australian Coat of Arms is the property of the Commonwealth of Australia and is used by the Commonwealth to authenticate documents, to indicate ownership of property, and for other purposes of identification. It may not be used or reproduced by others for other purposes without permission. The first grant of armorial ensigns, crest and supporters to the Commonwealth of Australia was made in 1908; a new design was granted by Royal Warrant in 1912. The Coat of Arms as used on a WW1 Certificate of Service A garden edging tile circa 1900 which bears a design very similar to the Coat of Arms. Some people claim that the Rising Sun depicted is the fore-runner to the AIF Rising Sun badge. The Commonwealth Arms are commonly but incorrectly referred to as the 'Commonwealth Crest'. Strictly the Crest is the device above shield and helmet on a coat of arms; in Australia's case it is the seven-pointed gold star on the wreath. The Australian Coat of Arms consists of: The Badges of the six States of the Commonwealth arranged on a shield in two rows of three columns: New South Wales - Golden Lion passant (right to left) on a red St George's Cross on a silver background (usually depicted white), with an 8-pointed star on each extremity of the cross. Victoria - White Southern Cross (one star of 8 points, 2 of 7 points one of 6 points and one of 5 points), beneath an Imperial Crown, on a blue background. Queensland - light blue Maltese Cross with an Imperial Crown at its Centre, on a white background. South Australia - the White-Backed Magpie (or Piping Shrike), erect, wings outstretched, on a yellow background. Western Australia - Black Swan swimming, left to right, on a yellow background. Tasmania - Red Lion passant (right to left) on a white background. The shield is enclosed by an ermine border, signifying the federation of the States into the Commonwealth. The Crest of the Arms, consisting of a seven-pointed gold star on a blue and gold wreath. Six points represent each of the States of the Commonwealth, the seventh point represents the Commonwealth Territories. The Supporters of the Coat of Arms, Australian endemic Fauna: the Kangaroo proper to the left and the Emu proper to the right. Usually the Arms are depicted in a compartment adorned with wattle (Acacia pycnantha) leaves and inflorescence, and a scroll with the word "AUSTRALIA" on it under the Arms. The wattle and the scroll and the rests for the Kangaroo and Emu do not constitute part of the Arms. Three colour combinations traditionally claim to be Australia's national colours: red, white and blue;
Which US First Lady had an English Springer Spaniel called Millie?	President George H.W. Bush's Dog, Millie - Presidential Pet Museum Presidential Pet Museum President George H.W. Bush’s Dog, Millie January 3, 2014 President George H.W. Bush’s Dog, Millie 62 votes (4.47) President George H.W. Bush’s dog Millie, a springer spaniel, was the first presidential pet to write a book. In this photo, First Lady Barbara Bush reads a story to children with Millie. President George H.W. Bush ’s dog Millie is one of the most famous presidential pets. The English springer spaniel “wrote” Millie’s Book: As Dictated to Barbara Bush , which reached the top spot on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list in 1992. In the book, Millie describes a day in her life living with President and Barbara Bush at the White House, including attending morning briefings and afternoon meetings in the Oval Office combined with short breaks for squirrel hunting. Millie was also famous for the prominent mention the president gave her during his bid for re-election. “My dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs than these two bozos,” Bush said, referring to his opponents Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Named for Mildred Caldwell Kerr, a longtime friend of the Bushes, Millie has the distinction of being the mother of two other White House pets: Ranger (often called Bush’s favorite dog) and also President George W. Bush ’s dog Spot . President Bush plays with Millie’s puppies. Millie was portrayed in several TV shows during the 1990s, including Murphy Brown, Wings and Who’s the Boss. She also made a cameo appearance in an episode of The Simpsons. Millie died of pneumonia in 1997 at age 12. The 15-acre Millie Bush Bark Park, which opened in 2004 on the west side of Houston, is named after her. President George H.W. Bush with Millie and puppies, April 20, 1989. Ranger and Spot were among the six puppies. © Presidential Pet Museum. May not be republished without permission . Our comprehensive list of White House pets begins here...
Pumpernickel is what type of foodstuff?	Pumpernickel Bread Recipe - Food.com (29) Most Helpful First of all I omited the coffee because we don't drink it and never have it on hand. I prepared the dough in my bread machine and divided it among four lightly greased mini loaf pans. It rose uncovered in my oven on the warm setting for 30 minutes. I turned the heat up to 350 F and set the timer for 30 minutes, then forgot about it until the timer rang. I turned it out onto a wire rack and brushed the tops with real butter. WOW! Great bread! Aromatic, flavorful, full bodied, small crumb texture...firm, yet lighter than expected. I can't wait to make this for my German mother-in-law who is a bread snob of the worst kind, as most European's are (and for good reason). I've taken a picture to share. You'll know it's mine by my Blue Willow China in the background and the cranberry garnish. This bread recipe will go into the official family cookbook for sure. After my little photo shoot I enjoyed a couple slices with a cream cheese but my boys, 3 and 4 yrs old finished off one of the loaves plain. Tonight we're having leftover Roast Sticky Chicken, fresh fruit and herb tea for dinner. This bread with butter, slices of honey cured ham, and good havarti cheese will be a perfect compliment. Thanks! :o)
Who was the first presenter of UK tv’s ‘National Lottery Live’ on 19th November 1994?	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 19 \| 1994: Britain braced for first lottery draw 1994: Britain braced for first lottery draw An estimated jackpot of �7m may be won tonight in Britain's first ever lottery draw. A �1 ticket gives you a one-in-14-million chance of striking lucky and guessing correctly the winning six out of 49 numbers. The lottery operator Camelot says around 15 million players have already bought some 35 million tickets from licensed retailers. The money raised from ticket sales will help fund the arts, sports, charities, national heritage and millennium celebrations. 'Everyone wins' Prime Minister John Major launched the ticket sales just under a week ago. He said, "The country will be a lot richer because of the lottery. It is in every sense the people's lottery." The game has certainly gripped the public's imagination. Around seven million tickets were sold within 12 hours of the launch and it is expected that final sales could reach �45m. Twenty five million people are expected to tune into BBC One's live lottery draw show hosted by Noel Edmonds, Anthea Turner and Gordon Kennedy tonight. Forty nine contestants - one for each lottery number -have been chosen from thousands to participate in an "It's a Knockout" style competition as part of the show. The victor gets the chance to press the button on the prize machine, launching Britain's first lottery draw since 1826. A �10m computer will randomly select the winning numbers that will roll down one by one into a display rack. The machine will then check for a winning combination and calculate the size of the jackpot. The computer will reveal whether there is a top prize winner within half an hour but cross-checking could take as long as four hours. Telephone staff will be waiting to get a call from the winner as soon as the numbers are picked. Once officials have established that a claim is genuine, a team will drive the winner to the nearest Camelot office.
In medicine, Hansen’s Disease is more commonly known by what name?	Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) \| CDC Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) ShareCompartir Hansen's disease (also known as leprosy) is a long-lasting infection caused by bacteria. The disease was once feared as a highly contagious and devastating disease. Now, however, the disease is very rare and easily treated. Early diagnosis and treatment usually prevent disability related to the disease.
Which athlete became ‘The world’s fastest man’ at the 2008 Beijing Olympics?	Worlds Fastest Man Worlds Fastest Man Usain Bolt -‘ Thunder’ Bolt Hailed as being the only man, after fellow Jamaican Carl Lewis, to have won all the three short distance races in Olympics, Usain Bolt is also the only man in the history to have held the world records for the 100, 200, and the 4x100 meters relay races to become the worlds fastest man.Holding the world records for 100 meters at 9.69 seconds, 200 meters at 19.30 seconds and the 4x100 meters relay at 37.10 seconds (along with his team mates), Usain Bolt has definitely bolstered, and proved his image as being the worlds fastest man. Anther interesting fact about all these records is that they were all set in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Owing to some great performances in sprinting and related race events, the worlds fastest man has earned himself the nickname- “lightning bolt”, from the media and fellow journalists. Born in Trelawney, Jamaica, on 21st August, 1986, Usain was a natural born sportsman. He spent most of his time playing cricket and football, while his parents ran a grocery shop in the rural part of the town. Usain was a fast runner right from his school days, where he became the fastest 100m runner, and went on to win many other track events at the school level. Bolt was noticed first by his cricket coach, while he was running on the pitch. Bolt’s winning performances in the World Junior Championship in 2002 had made him stand out. At the age of 15, by winning the 200m event, Bolt had become the youngest ever gold medal winner in the world. After giving dazzling performances in the 2003 Youth World meets, Bolt had caught the eyes of prominent athletes and the likes of Michael Johnson had started to recognize his potential. On the basis of a great and telling record at the junior levels, the worlds fastest man, as we know him today, was awarded the ‘rising star’ award by the IAAF in the year 2003. Starting his professional career under the aegis of Fitz Coleman in the CARIFTA games in Bermuda, held in 2004, Bolt broke Martin’s record of 200m sprint to become the youngest junior and was consequently chosen for the Jamaican Olympic squad for 2004. Just when the Olympics were around the corner, Bolt had suffered an injury, and was out of the first round of the 200m sprints. The worlds fastest man was able to complete the distance in 21.2 seconds- too slow according to Olympic standards. In 2005, Bolt started afresh under the new coach Glenn Mills. Mills was adamant on changing the way the worlds fastest man had been approaching his athletics till then and wanted him to look at his sprinting more professionally. His policies worked, and Usain worked up his best time of 19.99 seconds at London’s Crystal Palace meet. Bolt had suffered a few injuries after this event, which had made him a suspect for the Olympics. His injuries during the Commonwealth Games in 2006 had made many eyebrows stand up. His coach then decided to put his 400m training on hold, and prepare his body for flexibility and add certain routines that would help to make his muscles more nimble. Bolt’s dream of finishing under 20 seconds in the 200m events became true in the 2006 Grand Prix meet at Switzerland. The IAAF cup in Greece, Athens, merely two months later, gave Bolt a silver medal- his first at the senior level. He had arrived at the world arena when he ended up with two silver medals in the Osaka games in 2007. From then on, the desire for a gold medal kept pushing the worlds fastest man forward, and it was in the Olympics in 2008, that he set all the three world records of speed, breaking his own speed record performances, which he had set only a few months back at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York City. This young athlete from Jamaica has achieved laurels for his coach and his team over the years, and at times, he has surprised even himself with his lightening fast performances. His coach, observers and critics of the sport claim that the worlds fastest man has just begun and there is a lot more that he can achieve in the c
On which part of the body would a terai be worn?	No, the body doesn’t just wear out as we get older. \| Josh Mitteldorf No, the body doesn’t just wear out as we get older. Posted on by Josh Mitteldorf Friends often look at me quizzically when I tell them this. One says, “But I can feel myself wearing down.” And another: “Nothing works the way it used to. Isn’t that the definition of wearing out?” And again: “Do you mean it’s all in my head, it’s not really happening?” and then a moment later, “do you mean it doesn’t have to be this way?” This last formulation is getting a little closer to what I mean. Of course, loss of function with age is not just in your imagination, and it is very common (though not universal!) in the Animal Kingdom. But aging is not caused by wearing down. It is more accurately an orderly program of self-destruction, orchestrated by gene expression. Some aspects of aging appear as accumulated damage (e.g. cartilage worn away from joints, or build-up of cross-linked sugar-protein complexes), but on closer inspection even these are seen to be entirely avoidable consequences of the body shutting down its repair systems. This column is devoted to the reasoning and the evidence that tells us aging cannot be, at root, a process of wear and accumulated damage. First, the theory: why there is no physical necessity for aging; second, a few examples of animals that age very slowly or not at all, and others that age super-fast; third, some familiar facts and a few unfamiliar facts about aging that tell us “wearing out” does not provide a helpful perspective. 1. The Physical Theory, and Why it Doesn’t Apply to Living Things There is no physical necessity for aging. Man’s earliest conception of aging was that the process was akin to physical wear and tear. Knives get dull – why shouldn’t our teeth? Wheels get rusty and squeak when they turn – isn’t that what happens to our joints? Water pipes fill with sediment over the years, just like our sclerotic arteries. It’s a theory with a great deal of intuitive appeal. But the analogy between living body andmachine is flawed. Living things are fundamentally homeostatic. They can repair themselves. They build themselves from a single egg cell, and simple animals can rebuild when damaged. A car takes in energy in the form of gasoline and uses the energy to propel itself forward. An animal takes in energy in the form of food and uses it to perform all the feats of metabolism, locomotion, foraging, signal processing, and evasion of predators; and a small portion of that energy is devoted to the “capital budget”: breaking down and rebuilding damaged tissues; replicating cells; looking for copying errors in DNA and setting them right, detecting malformed protein molecules, breaking them down into constituent peptides for recycling into new molecules. This small part of the energy budget is all that is needed to keep the system in good repair indefinitely. The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that entropy (disorder, degeneration, damage) must increase in any isolated physical system. But living systems are not isolated. Living things draw free energy* from their environment, use it internally, then dump waste entropy back into the environment. This isn’t some lucky feature, tacked on to living bodies, rescuing them from an ironclad law of physics. The capacity for homeostasis is built into the form and function of living things. To a physicist, a living body is defined by its ability to create and maintain itself using ambient sources of free energy. The very function of the living machine is homeostasis (along with reproduction). Q: Even though the body is able to repair itself, the repair can’t be perfect. Isn’t that the root cause of aging? A: The repair doesn’t have to be perfect. The body built itself from seed, created a robust, young individual in the prime of life. But the body wasn’t perfect when it was young. Repair can be accomplished to that same standard. In fact, it’s always easier to repair a body than to build a new one from scratch. Q: When a car gets old, it becomes more and
Disney’s Magic Kingdom, near Orlando, Florida, opened in which year?	Disney World's Grand Opening The Contemporary (originally to be called the Tempo Bay Hotel) featured something probably never seen before by vacationers ... a monorail running directly through the middle of the A-frame structure's 10-story atrium! Magic Kingdom Opening Day Attractions, Shops & Restaurants: Walt Disney World Railroad: including the Walter E. Disney (#1), the Lilly Belle (#2), and the Roger E. Broggie (#3) locomotives Town Square: Town Square Cafe Main Street transportation: Fire truck, Horse-drawn street cars, Horseless carriages, Jitney vehicle, & Omnibus Main Street: Market House store, Camera Center, Coca-Cola Refreshment Corner, House of Magic shop, Penny Arcade attraction, Main Street Confectionery shop, Emporium store, Main Street Bake Shop, New Century Clock Shop, Main Street Cinema attraction, & Crystal Palace Restaurant Adventureland: Adventureland Veranda restaurant, Jungle Cruise attraction, Swiss Family Tree House attraction, & Sunshine Pavilion attraction (also known as Tropical Serenade) sponsored by the Florida Citris Growers Bear Country: Country Bear Jamboree attraction Fantasyland: Dumbo Flying Elephants attraction, Mad Tea Party attraction, Snow White's Adventures attraction, Pinocchio Village Haus restaurant, Cinderella's Golden Carrousel attraction, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride attraction, Mickey Mouse Revue Audio-Animatronics musical attraction, It's a Small World attraction, & Skyway to Tomorrowland attraction Frontierland: Frontier Shooting Gallery, Frontier Trading Post shop, Pecos Bill Cafe restaurant, Mike Fink Keel Boats attraction, Mile Long Bar, Diamond Horseshoe Revue attraction Liberty Square: Hall of Presidents attraction, Columbia Harbor House restaurant, Heritage House shop, Liberty Tree Tavern restaurant, & Haunted Mansion attraction Tomorowland: Skyway to Fantasyland attraction, Grand Prix Raceway attraction, Mickey's Mart store, & Tomorrowland Terrace restaurant Cinderella Castle: King Stefan's Banquet Hall On Friday October 1 , 1971 - after seven years of planning - about 10,000 visitors converged near Orlando, Florida, to witness the grand opening of Walt Disney World. The Magic Kingdom, encompassing approximately 107 acres, featured Adventureland, Fantasyland, Frontierland, Liberty Square, Tomorrowland, a Main Street USA, and about 5,500 Cast Members. (MK was the only theme park at WDW.) At the end of October 1971, the total attendance was around 400,000. The day after Thanksgiving November 26, 1971 ... an amazing 50,000 guests entered the Magic Kingdom! Walt Disney World also debuted 2 property hotels, the 15-story Contemporary Resort and the Polynesian Village Resort - both built by U.S. Steel and both connected by a monorail system. The hotels were conceived by WED enterprises and the Los Angeles architectural firm of Welton Becket & Associates. U.S. Steel was to originally own the hotels, but just before opening, Roy Disney decided to buy out their interests and let Disney run the hotels themselves. Resort planners scheduled the opening in October in the hopes that estimated crowds would be small - and they were. (Two days before the opening of Walt Disney World, the Florida Highway Patrol had issued a statement that they believed as many as 300,000 people might try to be among the first to get into the Magic Kingdom.) Fortunately the small crowd of 10,000 on October 1, 1971 allowed any problems that sprang up to be fixed with minimal inconvenience ... unlike Disneyland's chaotic grand opening day . Even official dedications and other media events were held off until later in the month so as to make sure everything ran smoothly. (The park's actual dedication didn't take place until October 25 .) The early morning found guests driving around the toll plaza over and over, trying to steer their way in to be the first visitors to the Magic Kingdom. William Windsor, Jr. and his family from Lakeland, Florida, were among the first guests to enter through one of 14 turnstiles (they had slept in their car
Beamer, Flipper and Rabbit are terms used in which sport?	A glossary of cricket terms \| Cricket \| ESPN Cricinfo A glossary of cricket terms Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Cricket, more than most sports, is full of expressions and terms designed to bewilder the newcomer (and often even the more seasoned follower). In an attempt to unravel some of the stranger terminology, we have put together a cricket glossary. If we are missing anything - and cricket commentators have an annoying habit of inventing new words and phrases - please email us and we will see if we can help. Arm Ball A ball bowled by a slow bowler which has no spin on it and so does not turn as expected but which stays on a straight line ("goes on with the arm") The Ashes Series between England and Australia are played for The Ashes (click here for more information) Asking rate - The runs required per over for a team to win - mostly relevant in a one-dayer Ball Red for first-class and most club cricket, white for one-day matches (and, experimentally, women once used blue balls and men orange ones). It weighs 5.5 ounces ( 5 ounces for women's cricket and 4.75 ounces for junior cricket) Ball Tampering The illegal action of changing the condition of the ball by artificial means, usually scuffing the surface, picking or lifting the seam of the ball, or applying substances other than sweat or saliva Bat-Pad A fielding position close to the batsman designed to catch balls which pop up off the bat, often via the batsman's pads Batter Another word for batsman, first used as long ago as 1773. Also something you fry fish in Beamer A ball that does not bounce (usually accidently) and passes the batsman at or about head height. If aimed straight at the batsman by a fast bowler, this is a very dangerous delivery (and generally frowned on) Bend your back - The term used to signify the extra effort put in by a fast bowler to obtain some assistance from a flat pitch Belter A pitch which offers little help to bowlers and so heavily favours batsmen Blob A score of 0 (see duck ) Bodyline (also known as leg theory ) A tactic most infamously used by England in 1932-33, although one which had been around for some time before that, in which the bowler aimed at the batsman rather than the wicket with the aim of making him give a catch while attempting to defend himself. The fielding side were packed on the leg side to take catches which resulted. This is now illegal. Click here for more . Bosie An Australian term for a googly , now rarely used. Originated from the inventor of the delivery, BJT Bosanquet Bouncer A short-pitched ball which passes the batsman at chest or head height Boundary The perimeter of a cricket field, or the act of the batsman scoring a four or a six (eg "Tendulkar hammered three boundaries") Box An abdominal protector worn by batsmen and wicketkeepers. It is also an old term for a fielder in the gully region. Bump Ball A ball which is played off the bat almost instantly into the ground and is caught by a fielder. Often this has the appearance of being a clean catch Bumper See Bouncer . Bunny Also known as Rabbit . A member of the side who cannot bat and is selected as a specialist bowler or wicketkeeper, and who almost always bats at No. 11. It can also be used to describe a player who often gets out to one bowler - "Atherton was McGrath's bunny" Bunsen A term used by commentators to describe a pitch heavily favouring slow bowlers. From Cockney rhyming slang (Bunsen Burner = turner). Bye A run scored when the batsman does not touch the ball with either his bat or body. First recorded in the 1770s. Carry your bat an opening batsman who remains not out at the end of a completed innings (ie when all his team-mates are out) Charge, giving the When a batsman leaves his crease to attack the ball, usually against a slow bowler. By doing this he can convert a good-length ball into a half-volley Chest-on Used to describe a bowler who delivers the ball with his chest facing the batsman, as opposed to being side on Chinaman A ball bowled by a left-arm slow bowler that turns into the right-hand batsman, in effec
In May 1938, which South American country withdrew from the League of Nations?	Wilson and the League of Nations by Sanderson Beck by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organized peoples with one another, Agree to this Covenant of the League of Nations. Covenant of the League of Nations, Preamble At the close of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 the Congress of Vienna established a balance of power they called the "Concert of Europe." With some popular support from peace societies, which were founded at that time, and with a concern for international law, national leaders were able to solve many of their differences by means of arbitration. Between 1815 and 1900, of the two hundred cases in which states agreed to arbitration, not a single case led to a war. However, the states had not pledged that they would submit to arbitration in every international conflict. The Swiss humanitarian Henri Dunant initiated a movement that led to a conference at Geneva in 1864 that protected the sick and wounded in land warfare with the Red Cross convention. Four years later another Geneva conference added more articles for a convention on the sea, but these articles were not ratified. Also in 1868 Czar Alexander II invited European diplomats to meet at St. Petersburg to outlaw especially cruel weapons. Another conference initiated by the Russian Czar led to a meeting at Brussels six years later in which representatives of fifteen European nations formulated laws of land warfare. These were influenced by the General Orders for the United States Army that President Lincoln had issued during the Civil War based on the ideas of the German-born Francis Lieber, who wrote A Code for the Government of Armies. However, British diplomats refused to consider naval issues at this 1874 conference. In 1890 the United States and ten other American republics signed a Pan American Treaty of Arbitration, but it was not ratified. The Hague Peace Conferences In 1899 Czar Nicholas II, concerned that Russia was at a financial disadvantage in the armaments competition, proposed a conference to discuss limitation of arms, the laws of war, and arbitration to settle international disputes. Peace advocates championed the second Russian circular by calling for a "Peace Conference," and the Dutch government offered The Hague as a meeting place. Quaker Dr. Benjamin Trueblood for years had been writing essays in the American Peace Society's journal, The Peace Advocate, on plans by Kant , Ladd, and others for international organization. Quaker Alfred K. Smiley had been inviting peace leaders and prominent politicians to his hotel retreat in New York annually since 1895. The Polish Jew, Ivan Bloch, attended the 1899 conference and gave delegates copies of his six-volume The Future of War, which showed how war had become so economically ruinous. The first Hague Conference that began on May 18, 1899 included 26 states and is considered the first international assembly that met in peace time in order to preserve peace instead of to conclude a war. The diplomats' meetings went on for ten weeks, and their official Act agreed on the following conventions and declarations: I. Convention for the peaceful adjustment of international differences. II. Convention regarding the laws and customs of war by land. III. Convention for the adaptation to maritime warfare of the principles of the Geneva Convention of the 22nd August, 1864. IV. Three Declarations: 1. To prohibit the launching of projectiles and explosives from balloons or by other similar new methods. 2. To prohibit the use of projectiles the only object of which is the diffusion of asphyxiating or deleterious gases. 3. To prohibit the use of bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope, of which the envelope does not entirely cover the core, or is pierced with incisions.1 Although recognizing the regulation of the rules of war for those nations agreeing
What is the cube root of 64?	What is the cube root of 64? \| Reference.com What is the cube root of 64? A: Quick Answer The cube root of 64 is 4. The cube root of a chosen number can be verified by multiplying a smaller number by itself three times in order to get the chosen number. Full Answer The cube root of 64 is 4 because 4 times 4 equals 16, and 16 times 4 equals 64. The cube root of a number is similar to the square root of a number, except the latter is only to the power of two instead of three. Beyond the cube root is the fourth root, fifth root and so on. The key is how many times a number is multiplied by itself.
The islands of Falster and Bornholm are part of which European country?	Falster Map Online Quiz Falster Map Falster is located in the district of Storstoms in a small island of Denmark. The area of the city of Falster is about 514 square kilometer and it is situated between two major islands of Denmark Lolland and Zealand. There are two scenic bridges which connects the two gorgeous islands. The island of Falster is one of the important tourist spots of Denmark as the southern most point of the country called the Gedser Odde is located within it. Some of the major places of attractions in Falster are Frnaciscan Church, Falster Museum, Faro Bridge, Narro Alslev, Corseltize castle, Stubbekobing, Gedser, Ritmestersqard and Storstrom Bridge. While traveling around the city of Falster don't forget to take your kids to the Summerland Falster and Aqualand where they will certainly have a gala time. Most of the tourists destinations falls within Nykobing an integral part of Falster. Traveling around these sites will give you an exact idea about the history of the country of Denmark. Apart from the historical relics and world famous beaches Falster also boasts of having a number of sandy beaches. These beaches are located on the east coast of island and are a favorite summer destination of people of Denmark. The city of Falster is well connected to the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen by the highway. The recent construction of Fehman Belt Bridge has further developed the communication to the island. While visiting Falster the city of Mon which is in close proximity can be also visited.
Who wrote the children’s poem ‘How the Leopard Got His Spots’?	How the Leopard got his Spots [May 11 2005] Publication history First published in the Ladies� Home Journal, October 1901, illustrated by Frank Verbeck. Collected in Just So Stories (1902), illustrated by the author and followed by the poem �I am the most wise Baviaan�. The story The Leopard used to live on the sandy-coloured High Veldt. He too was sandy-coloured, and so was hard for prey animals like Giraffe and Zebra to see when he lay in wait for them. The Ethiopian lived there too and was similarly coloured. He, with his bow and arrows, used to hunt with the Leopard. Then the prey animals left the High Veldt to live in a forest and grew blotches, stripes and other forms of camouflage. The Leopard and the Ethiopian were hungry and consulted Baviaan, the wise baboon, who said the prey animals had �gone into other spots� and advised them to do the same. So they went searching and came to the forest. They could smell Giraffe and Zebra there but could not see them. When night came, they managed to catch Giraffe and Zebra by sound and scent. Asked why they looked so different, the two prey animals demonstrated how easily they could disappear against the forest background. So the Ethiopian changed his skin to black, and marked the Leopard�s coat with his bunched black fingertips. Then they too could hide. They lived happily ever after, and will never change their colouring again. Background notes The manuscript of the story is in the volume Just So Stories in the British Library. The following poem is six lines longer there and includes details of the grounds at Bateman�s, the Sussex estate bought by the Kiplings in 1902. According to Carrington�s notes from Mrs Kipling�s diaries, the story was written on 30 March 1901. Roger Lancelyn Green (Kipling and the Children, p. 171) suggested that an oral version might date back as far as 1898, the first year when the Kiplings took their children for a winter holiday in South Africa. He read the poem as spoken by their eldest child Josephine, but the manuscript does not bear this out, unless Kipling was imagining how she might have reacted to life at Bateman�s. She died three years before the family moved there. Later in Just So Stories, the last verse of the poem �Merrow Down� expresses his grief for her. Kipling�s American publisher and close friend F.N. Doubleday wrote in his memoirs [F.N. Doubleday, The Memoirs of a Publisher, written for his family in the late 1920s. Published by Doubleday and Co., Inc., New York 1972]: When [Doubleday�s son] Nelson was about seven or eight years old, Mr. Kipling was writing a series of Just So Stories � These tales were published in St Nicholas and were vastly interesting to Nelson. He conceived the idea that if Mr. Kipling would write some more animal stories, the titles of which he suggested, they might be made into a book, and asked if I would mind his writing to Mr. Kipling on the subject. I said no, whereupon he inquired if I would lend him a five-cent stamp, which he promised to repay, and wrote a long letter in his own fist, addressed to �Rudyard Kipling, Rotting Dean,� giving a list of suggestions for new stories about different animals, and adding that if he wrote these stories and they were any good, his father, he was sure, would get them put in book form and give him (Nelson) a royalty of a cent a copy. The Just So Stories finally came out, and Nelson applied for a contract for his cent-a-copy share. This has gone on for twenty or more years, and how much he has received I have no idea, but it must certainly be several thousand dollars. [pp. 182-3]. Nelson Doubleday would confirm this story in the Saturday Review of Literature (23 Oct.1948), claiming to have suggested as subjects �how the leopard got his spots, how the elephant got his trunk, about the crocodile and so on.� [Quoted, Kipling Journal 89, April 1949, p. 10.] Critical Opinion Of the characters in the story, Rosalind Meyer wrote [�But is it Art?: an Appreciation of Just So Stories,� Kipling Journal 232, December 1984]: The Leopard
In which year did British monarch Queen Elizabeth II first pay Income Tax?	Queen Elizabeth, Charles to Pay Taxes at Top Rate : Britain: The monarch will not be subject to ordinary inheritance taxes on assets owned as sovereign, such as castles, art and crown jewels. - latimes Queen Elizabeth, Charles to Pay Taxes at Top Rate : Britain: The monarch will not be subject to ordinary inheritance taxes on assets owned as sovereign, such as castles, art and crown jewels. February 12, 1993 \|WILLIAM TUOHY \| TIMES STAFF WRITER LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II and her son and heir, the Prince of Wales, will begin paying the top tax rate on their personal income in April, Prime Minister John Major announced in Parliament on Thursday. The agreement was revealed after almost a year of negotiations among the Inland Revenue Department, the British Treasury and the royal household--in the face of popular pressure that the queen should pay taxes. However, her fortune will not be subject to ordinary inheritance taxes on assets owned as the sovereign--such as her castles, palaces, art collection and crown jewels. "I believe that is necessary to protect the independence of the monarchy," said Major, who noted that, otherwise, the kingdom could be "salami sliced," reducing the royal assets over the generations. But he said the inheritance tax "should apply to all bequests or gifts by the sovereign, other than to transfers of assets from one sovereign to his or her successor." Major also told members of Parliament that the queen had agreed to cut the number of members of the Royal Family funded by the taxpayers, leaving on the Civil List, the government-supplied allowance, only herself, her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen Mother. Further, Prince Charles will pay taxes at the ordinary income rate from his Duchy of Cornwall, which has massive real estate holdings, replacing the voluntary 25% he now pays. A charitable trust will be set up to administer the queen's large art collection, Major said, funded in part by public admission charges. After the prime minister's announcement, members of the royal household headed by the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Airlie, held a rare media briefing. Airlie said the new taxes would place a "considerable additional burden" on the queen's finances. In explaining the queen's decision to subject her income to taxation, Airlie said, "It is only by moving with the times, not too fast and not too slow, that the institution itself can continue to make its essential contribution to national life." Airlie said the size of the queen's personal fortune--variously estimated from $135 million to more than $9 billion--was "grossly exaggerated." But he did not give any estimate of her assets, either public holdings or private investment portfolio, so even with her taxes at the highest 40% rate, it will still not be known how much she will pay. In his statement to the House of Commons, Major said the Royal Family's tax figures would remain confidential--as is the case with every other taxpayer. But Phillip Hall, author of a book on royal finances, estimated that the queen had personal tax liabilities that could produce a $20-million annual payment. Queen Victoria paid income tax when it was first introduced in the last century. But King George V negotiated various exemptions in 1910, while his son, George VI, Elizabeth's father, stopped paying any income tax in the 1930s. The queen's decision to pay taxes was generally greeted favorably. Lord St. John of Fawsley, former Conservative Cabinet minister and constitutional expert, said it was "one of the great acts of statesmanship of her reign. Only the most curmudgeonly will raise objections to a settlement as comprehensive as it is magnanimous." A Guide to the Royal Riches The secrecy and confusion surrounding the queen's fortune is partly due to the problem of working out which palaces, jewels and pictures belong to her and which she holds in safekeeping for the nation. Some facts about the fortune: Estimates of her wealth: $135 million to $9 billion. When she'll begin paying taxes: April 6 Tax obligation: Owed on income and capital gains Tax br
Which American boxer was known as ‘The Manassa Mauler’?	Jack Dempsey \| American boxer \| Britannica.com American boxer Alternative Titles: Kid Blackie, Manassa Mauler, William Harrison Dempsey Jack Dempsey Mike Tyson Jack Dempsey, byname of William Harrison Dempsey, also called the Manassa Mauler (born June 24, 1895, Manassa, Colo., U.S.—died May 31, 1983, New York , N.Y.), American world heavyweight boxing champion, regarded by many as the apotheosis of the professional fighter. He held the title from July 4, 1919, when he knocked out Jess Willard in three rounds in Toledo , Ohio, until Sept. 23, 1926, when he lost a 10-round decision to Gene Tunney in Philadelphia . Dempsey fought 84 bouts, winning 62, 51 of which were by knockout. Dempsey started boxing in 1914 under the name Kid Blackie. In 1918 and early 1919 he compiled an impressive number of knockouts, most in the first round, to earn a fight with Willard. The 37-year-old champion proved no match for young Dempsey, who attacked ferociously from the starting bell and knocked Willard to the floor seven times in the first round. Even more primitive in its intensity was Dempsey’s title defense against Argentine heavyweight Luis Angel Firpo in New York City on Sept. 14, 1923. After being knocked out of the ring in the first round, Dempsey battered Firpo into defeat in the second. Jack Dempsey. Jack Dempsey. Hirz—Archive Photos/Getty Images During the next three years Dempsey fought only exhibition matches, and at the age of 31 he found that he had aged too much to deal with the carefully trained Tunney in their first fight. On Sept. 22, 1927, in Chicago , they met again in the famous “ Battle of the Long Count,” in which Dempsey forfeited his chance for a seventh-round knockout by standing over the fallen Tunney rather than going to a neutral corner of the ring. Tunney recovered to win another 10-round decision. Gene Tunney (right) fighting Jack Dempsey, 1927. UPI/Bettmann Archive In his boxing style Dempsey kept on the offensive almost continuously, bobbing up and down and moving from side to side as he delivered short swinging blows out of a crouch. His constant movement and the speed of his attack constituted his defense. In the 1930s Dempsey appeared in many exhibitions, but he was never again a serious contender for the championship. In 1940 he had three knockout victories over unaccomplished opponents before retiring to referee boxing and wrestling matches. In World War II he served as a lieutenant commander in the Coast Guard. He eventually became a successful restaurateur in New York City. Dempsey published several books on boxing. His autobiographies include Round by Round (1940), Dempsey (1960), and Dempsey: The Autobiography of Jack Dempsey (1977). He was inducted into Ring magazine’s Boxing Hall of Fame in 1954. Jack Dempsey.
Who directed the 1988 film ‘The Adventures of Baron Munchausen’?	‎The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) directed by Terry Gilliam • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd 10 I honestly don't understand why this film was received so poorly when it was released. Baron Munchausen is one of my favourite literary characters. He lives with an 'everything is possible' attitude and his adventures are thus accordingly bizarre. There is in my mind no director better suited to catch the weirdness and zaniness of these adventures than Mr. Gilliam. This he proved from the get go by casting Neville as the Baron. He gives life to the character beautifully with superb enthusiasm and infectious gusto. This is a Gilliam film so the visuals are naturally astounding. Gilliam's film is completely bonkers, it lacks coherence and jumps from one adventure to the next in a caleidoscope of cartoonish action and… Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever. -Baron Munchausen Some film's have eccentric characters but here we have an entire film that has an eccentric personality. I think I unanimously see everything Terry Gilliam has directed from the 70s through to the 90s as gold, so I don't know why The Adventures of Baron Munchausen being right smack dab in the middle of that has avoided me for this long. It's ridiculous, crazy, visionary, nonsensical but most of all is pure Terry Gilliam. The tale tales of one Hieronymus Carl Friedrich Baron von Münchhausen is perfect fertile ground for Gilliam's unique mind. The only thing that might… Review by Tony Black ★★★★ Quite often when a film production is beset with behind the scenes difficulties, said problems end up finding their way on screen via a shoddy end product. Not so with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, yet another absolute curio from the strange and slightly brilliant mind of Terry Gilliam, which ended up taking longer to film than planned, was some say around $20 million over budget by close of play, and due to studio comings, goings & internal politics the movie had a hugely limited release that caused it to bomb wildly at the box office. As a result, Gilliam's film ended up becoming something of a cult piece of work, and quite rightly so - it's about as bizarre a… Review by Devon Seltzer ★★★★½ *Dinner with Gilliam - 5th Course* Wrapping up his self proclaimed “Imagination Trilogy”, director Terry Gilliam once again bestows upon us a gift of pure, undistilled magic with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. The titular Baron is a man of adventure in indeed, whose legendary exploits are the premise for a play being presented in a war-torn city. When the play and the war go south, only the real Munchausen can save the day with his ragtag band of servants and plenty of gusto. Speaking of gusto, Gilliam gives this film all he's got, and I don't think any other director could have so effortlessly pulled off such a manic and fantastical premise. All of Gilliam's familiar hallmarks are here,… Review by Mark C ★★★½ Only Terry Gilliam... I was a child when The Adventures of Baron Munchausen came out and I recall being very excited about watching it. When I finally got round to it, I must admit its baroque bloatedness did alienate me a little in places, but I was still somewhat besotted by it. Twenty Six years on and watching it with adult eyes rather than that of a child, I still feel more or less the same. I'm not alienated as such, but the faults and errors are readily apparent within the otherwise boldly beautiful structure. As with a lot of Gilliam's work it's nearly but not quite, hampered almost inevitably by bad luck and mismanagement from the studios. If ever… 2 Terry Gilliam has always had an affinity for the oddity, there is a quality in his work that evokes the tendencies of the absurd and is unconcerned of the disconcerting effect it has on its audience. Films like Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Time Bandits are examples that deviate from the norm of sound and continuous storytelling, there is a specific visual tone and energetic storytelling that is rather unique that c
Which island in the Ionian Sea has the Greek name Kerkira?	Corfu \| island, Greece \| Britannica.com island, Greece Alternative Titles: Corcyra, Kérkira, Kérkyra Related Topics Sir Ian Hamilton Corfu, Modern Greek Kérkyra, ancient (Latin) Corcyra, island in the Ionian Sea (Modern Greek: Ióvio Pélagos), with adjacent small islands making up the nomós (department) of Kérkyra (also called Corfu), Greece . Lying just off the coast of Epirus (Ípeiros), it is about 36 miles (58 km) long, while its greatest breadth is about 17 miles (27 km) and its area 229 square miles (593 square km). Of limestone structure, the island is mountainous in the north and low in the south. Its northeastern protrusion, close to the Albanian coast, trends east-west and reaches a peak in Pantokrator Mountain (2,972 feet [906 m]); the other range, in the island’s centre, is lower. Olive and cypress trees against the mountainous background of northern Corfu (Kérkyra), … Ion Gardey/Robert Harding Picture Library, London The island is well watered, fertile, and reputed to have the most attractive countryside of the Greek islands. Olive trees predominate, but figs, oranges, lemons, grapes, and corn (maize) are also cultivated . Exports include olive oil, fruit, grain, and wine; Corfu’s manufactures include soap and textiles. Modern Kérkyra (Corfu), the chief city, port, and capital of the nomós, lies on a peninsula on the east coast. The twin-peaked old citadel, with fortifications built by the Venetians (1550), was once an islet. Its old town, with its labyrinth of hilly, narrow streets, is a seat of a Greek metropolitan and a Roman Catholic bishop. The name Corfu is an Italian corruption of the Greek koryphai (“crests”) and is often a more familiar moniker to visitors than the Modern Greek name. According to legend , the island was Scheria, home of the Phaeacians in Homeric epic. A Corinthian colony established about 734 bce supplanted a settlement of Eretrians from Euboea . Proudly independent and even hostile to its mother city of Corinth, the new colony was reduced (c. 600 bce) by the Corinthian tyrant Periander , but later it regained independence and devoted itself to commerce. Corfu took no active part in the Persian invasion (480 bce) of Greece, but in 435 it sought the assistance of Athens in a quarrel with Corinth, a request that became a primary cause of the Peloponnesian War . Corfu quit the war in 410, but a new alliance with Athens (375) resulted in hostilities with Sparta . Similar Topics
Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain all died at what age?	27: A History of the 27 Club through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse: Howard Sounes: 9780306823688: Amazon.com: Books From Booklist Rolling Stones cofounder Brian Jones drowned in his swimming pool; Jimi Hendrix overdosed and choked on his own vomit in a London hotel; Janis Joplin overdosed on heroin; Jim Morrison died of heart failure while in the bathtub of a Paris hotel room; Kurt Cobain committed suicide by shooting himself; Amy Winehouse drank herself to death. All are members of the notorious 27 Club: they all died prematurely young at the age of 27. Their stories are fascinating pieces of music trivia, but Sounes (Fab, 2010) is interested in why they behaved the way they did. What specifically made them so self-destructive? (Sounes includes an appendix of an additional 44 members of the 27 Club, including the bluesman Robert Johnson.) Although only Cobain deliberately committed suicide, Sounes argues that all six killed themselves. All were intelligent and talented, he maintains, but most had personality problems of some sort, such as depression or bipolar disorder; in addition, many were the children of divorced parents and had low self-esteem. Fans of these musicians will be intrigued and saddened by this fascinating and tragic account. --June Sawyers --This text refers to the Audio CD edition. Review Praise for 27 This fine study looks at the tragic history of the 27 Club. Much of the book's power lies in its refusal to pander to the romantic-melancholy notion of the tortured young artist who lives fast and dies young. Instead the squalor and chaos of their everyday existence is exposed in uncompromising detail. This book is not about more rock star mythologizing. It's about skewering the mystery of the 27-connection, by exposing its all-too-tragic reality.”Sunday Times (UK) In a multi-stranded biography, Howard Sounes has set himself the task of finding a link between the lives and deaths of these six rock stars. Sounes's masterstroke is to unearth forensic levels of detail on his subjects. He has pulled off what could have been a tasteless project with sensitivity.”The Times (UK) This book is the first time that these committee members, as it were, of the 27 Club have been buried together under the same covera gruesomely enjoyable read.”The Spectator (UK) The 27 Club is the exclusive members-only society that music stars don't want to join. Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Brian Jones all died aged 27 and the biographer Howard Sounes uses this unhappy coincidence [to look] at the rock-star trajectory that brought them all to a premature end. Recommend[ed].”New Statesman (UK) Sounes mixes biography with investigative journalism, social science, and rock history into a work that is as engrossing as it is depressingThough he doesn't pull any punches when it comes to sensitive information about his subjects, he does write with a care that is refreshing for a topic that could easily devolve into ambulance chasing. Sounes, a true crime writer, is especially incisive when it comes to dispatching conspiracy theories built around many of these deaths. He captures the sad truth behind a club for which a youthful death is the only entrée.”Publishers Weekly, 9/23/13 If you like reading about brilliant young people destroying themselves, this is your bookHard living started early will take its toll, and it's not a complete coincidence they all died when they did, but it's not a mystic number either, and Sounes disposes easily with the conspiracy theories that have collected around the dead stars.”The Age (Australia), 9/21/13 [Sounes] is a tenacious researcher[He] painstakingly demolishes conspiracy theories and other forms of magical thinking.”The Observer (UK), 8/17/13 Sounes offers a stern corrective to the adage that it's better to burn out than to fade away. The author takes a refreshingly skeptical view of the belief that a conspiracy accounts for the deaths of
How many metres are in a nautical mile?	Convert NM - nmi to m \| nautical mile to meters m Converter type: length units This online length from NM - nmi into m converter is a handy tool not just for certified or experienced professionals. First unit: nautical mile (NM - nmi) is used for measuring marine length. Second: meter (m) is unit of length. 1,852.00 m is converted to 1 of what? The meters unit number 1,852.00 m converts to 1 NM - nmi, one nautical mile. It is the EQUAL marine length value of 1 nautical mile but in the meters length unit alternative. How to convert 2 nautical miles (NM - nmi) into meters (m)? Is there a calculation formula? First divide the two units variables. Then multiply the result by 2 - for example: 1852 * 2 (or divide it by / 0.5) QUESTION: 1 NM - nmi = 1,852.00 m Other applications for this length calculator ... With the above mentioned two-units calculating service it provides, this length converter proved to be useful also as a teaching tool: 1. in practicing nautical miles and meters ( NM - nmi vs. m ) values exchange. 2. for conversion factors training exercises between unit pairs. 3. work with length's values and properties. International unit symbols for these two length measurements are: Abbreviation or prefix ( abbr. short brevis ), unit symbol, for nautical mile is: NM - nmi Abbreviation or prefix ( abbr. ) brevis - short unit symbol for meter is: m One nautical mile of length converted to meter equals to 1,852.00 m How many meters of length are in 1 nautical mile? The answer is: The change of 1 NM - nmi ( nautical mile ) unit of length measure equals = to 1,852.00 m ( meter ) as the equivalent measure for the same length type. In principle with any measuring task, switched on professional people always ensure, and their success depends on, they get the most precise conversion results everywhere and every-time. Not only whenever possible, it's always so. Often having only a good idea ( or more ideas ) might not be perfect nor good enough solution. If there is an exact known measure in NM - nmi - nautical miles for length amount, the rule is that the nautical mile number gets converted into m - meters or any other length unit absolutely exactly. Oven info & galleries
What is the world’s oldest currency still in use?	The World's oldest currency - key facts. \| CMC Markets The World's oldest currency - key facts. The World's oldest currency - key facts. 00:00, July 06th 2015 · By Simone Tang Share Have you ever wondered what the oldest currency still in use is? The answer might be in your wallet. The British pound is the world's oldest currency still in use - it is 1200 years old. Sterling silver pennies have been around since 775AD, dating back to Anglo-Saxon times. The first fully printed banknotes were introduced in 1853. Before that, the Bank of England only issued partially printed notes with the “£” sign as well as the first digit. The numbers had to be added by hand and each note had to be signed by one of the bank's cashiers. The pound is currently the fourth most traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after the US dollar, the Euro and the Japanese Yen. Each banknote (£5, £10, £20, £50) has its own color and size - the greater the value, the larger the note. All coins (1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2) carry the profile of Queen Elizabeth II facing right. Traditionally, monarchs alternate the direction they face on pound coins. The first banknote featuring the Queen's portrait was a £1 pound note issued in 1960. Thin metal threads were embedded in banknotes in 1940 as protection against forgery during the Second World War. The pound is not only used in the United Kingdom. It also circulates in Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Falkland Islands, Saint Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Decimalisation was the biggest change in Britain's monetary system. The pound was divided into 100 pence in 1971. Until then, there were 12 pennies to the shilling and 20 shillings to the pound. The £1 coin was introduced in 1983 to replace the £1 note because coins usually last much longer. At the time, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher believed coins were “not very popular” and the pound note should be retained. One-pound notes are still issued in Scotland, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, along with the £1 pound coins, which are more commonly used. The £2 coin was launched in 1986 to commemorate the 13th Commonwealth Games held in Scotland that year. All pound coins, except the £2 ones, were redesigned in 2008. The six coins, from the 1p through to the 50p, can be pieced together to form the Royal Shield. The £1 coin features the complete shield. One of the rarest British coins is the 1933 penny. A small number were produced that year because there were already plenty around. In fact, it is estimated that there were only seven coins and, due to tradition, three of them were buried in the foundation stones of buildings erected in 1933. More recently, the London 2012 Olympics 50p coins proved to be popular amongst collectors. More than 70% of them have been taken out of circulation, estimates the Royal Mint. The Bank of England is considering replacing paper banknotes by plastic notes from 2016. The polymer notes are more durable, stay cleaner for longer and are harder to fake. For a few years the Euro actually posed a significant threat to the pound. There was pressure from other EU countries, and even within Britain indicating that the UK should adopt the euro currency. Fortunately common sense prevailed and the likelihood is that the pound will probably outlast the euro as Europe grapples with a crisis that could potentially tear the euro apart. CMC Markets is an execution only service provider. The material (whether or not it states any opinions) is for general information purposes only, and does not take into account your personal circumstances or objectives. Nothing in this material is (or should be considered to be) financial, investment or other advice on which reliance should be placed. No opinion given in the material constitutes a recommendation by CMC Markets or the author that any particular investment, security, transaction or investment strategy is suitable for any specific person. Simone Tang
Who created the comic strip ‘Blondie’, published in newspapers since 1930?	Blondie and Dagwood Blondie and Dagwood Blondie is a popular comic strip created by Murat Bernard "Chic" Young and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It has been published in newspapers since September 8, 1930. The success of the comic strip led to a long-run Blondie film series (1938-1950) and a popular Blondie radio program (1939-1950). Chic Young drew Blondie until his death in 1973, when the control of the strip passed to his son Dean Young. Dean Young has collaborated with a number of artists on the strip, including Jim Raymond, Mike Gersher, Stan Drake, Denis Lebrun and most recently, John Marshall. Through these changes, Blondie has remained popular, appearing in more than 2300 newspapers in 55 countries and translated into 35 languages, as of 2005. Blondie celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2005. Characters Originally, Blondie focused on the adventures of Blondie Boopadoop, a carefree flapper girl who spent her days in dance halls. On February 17, 1933, after much fanfare and build-up, Miss Boopadoop married her boyfriend Dagwood Bumstead, the son of a wealthy industrialist. Unfortunately for the Bumsteads, Dagwood was disowned by his upper-crust family for marrying beneath his class. Ever since, he has been slaving away at the office of the J. C. Dithers Construction Company under the direction of tyrannical boss Julius Caesar Dithers, who frequently threatens to fire Dagwood from his workplace when (as frequently happens) Dagwood either botches or does not finish his work, sleeps on the job, comes into work late, or pesters Dithers for a raise or promotion. Blondie and Dagwood live next door to Herb and Tootsie Woodley. The Bumstead family has grown, with the addition of a son named Alexander (originally "Baby Dumpling") in 1934, a daughter named Cookie in 1941 (both permanently frozen in their late teens as of 2008), and a dog named Daisy. Alexander and Cookie have grown into teenagers who uncannily resemble their parents. Other regular characters include Mr. Beasley the mailman, Elmo Tuttle, a pesky neighborhood kid who often asks Dagwood to play, Cora Dithers, the domineering wife of Julius Dithers, and Lou, owner of Lou's Diner where Dagwood frequently eats on his lunch break. Running gags There are several running gags in this strip. * An impossibly tall sandwich Dagwood often fixes for a snack, which came to be known as a Dagwood sandwich. * Dagwood's propensity to nap on the couch during the day. * He is repeatedly shown colliding with Mr. Beasley while rushing out the front door each morning, or to be interrupted by other characters while he is relaxing in the bathtub. * Goofing off or sleeping at his desk in the office. * Mr. Dithers firing him for being incompetent, or physically booting him out of his office. * Dagwood demanding a raise from Dithers and failing to get it every time. * Dagwood meeting salesmen at his house door selling impossible looking items. * The car pool gag, with various variations, with Dagwood keeping his car pool waiting, running after their car, or stuck in traffic. * Having a midnight snack. * The Christmas shopping gag, where Dagwood is shown holding up a number of Christmas packages that completely cover up his face and upper body. 75th anniversary In 2005 the strip celebrated its 75th anniversary. In preparation of the anniversary the artists started the longest running serial ever, starting on 10 July, 2005, and running till 4 September, 2005. During this period they only ran preparation for the anniversary daily cartoons [1]. Characters from several other strips, including Garfield, Beetle Bailey and Hagar the Horrible, made appearances [2]. During this time, the strip Pearls Before Swine made fun of the fact that their cast was not invited, and decided to invite themselves. Changing times While the distinctive look and running gags of Blondie have been carefully preserve
In the game of Scrabble, how many points is a ‘D’ tile worth?	Scrabble Letter Values - The values of all tiles in Scrabble I Words Scrabble Letter Values A list of all the Scrabble letter values. Playing a word and not sure what the values of each tiles are? This list of all the Scrabble letter points has everything you need to know to calculate the tile points. Sign up for our Free Scrabble Words newsletter. We won't send you spam or share your email address with anyone. We Promise. Free Scrabble Tips! Privacy Policy SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Words with Friends is a trademark of Zynga With Friends. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. Wordfind.com is not affiliated with SCRABBLE®, Mattel, Spear, Hasbro, or Zynga with Friends in any way. This site is for entertainment purposes only. All content Copyright © 2010 - 2015 White Urchin Ventures, Inc. All rights Reserved.
Who wrote the 1936 novel ‘Jamaica Inn’?	Jamaica Inn Please see disclaimer Jamaica Inn ï¿½Jamaica Inn stands today, hospitable and kindly, a temperance house on the twenty mile road between Bodmin and Launceston. In the following story of adventure I have pictured it as it might have been over a hundred and twenty years ago; and although existing place-names figure in the pages, the characters and events described are entirely imaginaryï¿½. Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 1936. Jamaica Inn is no longer a temperance house, nor does it stand on the road from Bodmin to Launceston; due to modern road development the road has moved. But Jamaica Inn does still stand solid and strong on Bodmin Moor and on a bleak November day can appear as dark and foreboding as it was described in Daphneï¿½s novel. But its thousands of annual visitors will tell you different because, these days, Jamaica Inn is a vibrant and welcoming place to stay awhile when travelling in Cornwall. It is a hotel with a restaurant, bar, shop, museum and a farm shop (opening Spring 2016), all of which are cared for under the watchful eye of Allen Jackson who bought the Inn in March 2014. The fame of Jamaica Inn undoubtedly springs from the novel Daphne du Maurier wrote and the story of how she came to write it is almost as good as the novel itself. In November 1930 Daphne and her friend Foy Quiller Couch went to stay at Jamaica Inn overnight, while on a riding expedition on Bodmin Moor. It was Daphneï¿½s first experience of the Inn. In the afternoon they set off across the desolate and sinister moor and lost their way. Darkness fell, it was raining and the two young women had little hope of finding their way back. They found a derelict barn and Daphne was keen to stay there but Foy thought they would catch their death if they did so, putting their trust in the horses, they allowed themselves to be led across the moor until they eventually saw the lights of Jamaica Inn in the distance and knew that the instinct of the horses had saved them. A year later, on a second visit to Jamaica Inn, Daphne and Foy visited the village of Altarnun and its church, St Nonna, also known as the Cathedral of the Moor. The vicar of Altarnun visited them that evening and there can be no doubt that those two visits to Jamaica Inn, and whatever the vicar said to Daphne on that evening, were to brew in her mind until the story of Jamaica Inn became the novel we know today. Jamaica Inn, Bolventor, Launceston, Cornwall PL15 7TS Tel: +44 (0) 1566 86250 www.jamaicainn.co.uk
What number is the title of singer Beyonceâs album, released in June 2011?	Beyoncé \| New Music And Songs \| Beyoncé About Beyoncé One of the most recognizable figures in contemporary music, Beyoncé rose to fame as the central member of pop-R&B group Destiny's Child before embarking on a multi-platinum, record-breaking solo career in 2001. Booming record sales, Grammy awards, movie roles, and marriage to rapper/CEO Jay-Z combined to heighten her profile in the 2000s. Billboard named her female artist of the decade, while the RIAA acknowledged that, through 64 gold and platinum certifications, she was the decade's top-selling artist. Once she released her fifth solo album in 2013, it was evident that the singer, songwriter, and dancer wasn't merely an entertainer but a progressive artist as well. Born in Houston in September 1981, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles began performing at age seven, winning over 30 local competitions for her dancing and vocal abilities. She joined her cousin Kelly Rowland and classmates LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett in forming an adolescent vocal group. Mathew Knowles, Beyoncé's father and Rowland's legal guardian, signed on to be the girls' manager, eventually quitting his full-time job to focus on their efforts. This situation would ultimately lead to the creation of one of the most popular female R&B groups of all time -- Destiny's Child. Destiny's Child gained momentum throughout the '90s. They appeared on Star Search in 1992 (under the name Girls Tyme) and weathered several lineup changes before signing to Columbia in 1997. Four studio albums later, the group had officially become the best-selling female group of all time, with such smash hits as "Jumpin' Jumpin'," "Bills, Bills, Bills," "Say My Name," and "Survivor" bolstering the young women's momentum despite lawsuits from former members Roberson and Luckett (who contested Mathew Knowles' management, claiming he withheld profits and unjustly favored his daughter and niece). In 2001, Beyoncé, Rowland, and replacement member Michelle Williams allowed themselves a break from the group to pursue individual solo careers. Before landing several movie roles, Beyoncé became the first African-American female artist and second woman ever to win the annual ASCAP Pop Songwriter of the Year Award. An appearance in the MTV drama Carmen: A Hip Hopera quickly followed, but it was her role as Foxxy Cleopatra in 2002's Austin Powers in Goldmember that established her as a true Hollywood star. While her inclusion on the movie's soundtrack failed to chart nationally, Beyoncé's full-length solo debut, 2003's Dangerously in Love, reached multi-platinum status. Featuring collaborations with Sean Paul, Missy Elliott, OutKast's Big Boi, and romantic interest Jay-Z, the album spawned a total of four Top Ten singles and garnered the singer five Grammys. Destiny's Child reconvened the following year to release Destiny Fulfilled; upon completing the resulting tour, the group issued one final album, a greatest-hits compilation entitled #1's, and subsequently disbanded. Beyoncé turned her full attention to her burgeoning solo career. She released B'day in September 2006 and, three months later, turned in an award-winning performance for the movie musical Dreamgirls. The singer then embarked on the Beyoncé Experience concert tour and released a live DVD in November 2007. The following year proved to be another busy one as Beyoncé landed the role of Etta James in Cadillac Records, a musical biopic that explored the heyday of Chicago's Chess label. Shooting commenced in February 2008, with Beyoncé also serving as co-executive producer. One month before the film's December release, the singer released her third studio album, I Am...Sasha Fierce. The double-disc effort emphasized her two distinct personalities, allowing Beyoncé to explore both mainstream sounds and traditional R&B. Some live releases followed. Released in 2009, I Am...Yours, a CD/DVD set, documented an August 2009 performance at Wynn Las Vegas, while 2010's I Am...World Tour, available in separate audio and video formats, was recorded at London's significantly larger O2 Arena (a few
What is the area dialling code for Liverpool, England?	Liverpool - UK Codes - The Phone Book from BT The code for Liverpool is 0151 Dialling from abroad To dial 0151 from abroad, dial the international access code followed by the country code for the UK (44). Proceed to enter the local code 0151 without the first zero e.g. 151 followed by the remaining telephone number
What is the sum, in degrees, of the angles in a triangle?	Angles of a Triangle - Free Math Help How are the three angles related? Angles Can Be Added Just like regular numbers, angles can be added to obtain a sum, perhaps for the purpose of determining the measure of an unknown angle. Sometimes we can determine a missing angle because we know that the sum must be a certain value. Remember -- the sum of the degree measures of angles in any triangle equals 180 degrees. Below is a picture of triangle ABC, where angle A = 60 degrees, angle B = 50 degrees and angle C = 70 degrees. If we add all three angles in any triangle we get 180 degrees. So, the measure of angle A + angle B + angle C = 180 degrees. This is true for any triangle in the world of geometry. We can use this idea to find the measure of angle(s) where the degree measure is missing or not given. Finding a Missing Angle In triangle ABC below, angle A = 40 degrees and angle B = 60 degrees. What is the measure of angle C? We know that the sum of the measures of any triangle is 180 degrees. Using the fact that angle A + angle B + angle C = 180 degrees, we can find the measure of angle C. angle A = 40 angle C = we don't know. To find angle C, we simply plug into the formula above and solve for C. A + B + C = 180 C = 180 - 40 - 60 C = 80 To check if 80 degrees is correct, let's add all three angle measures. If we get 180 degrees, then our answer for angle C is right. Here we go: 40 + 60 + 80 = 180 180 = 180...It checks! You don't always have to plug in those values to the equation and solve. Once you're comfortable with this sort of problem you'll be able to say "okay, 40 + 60 =100, so the other angle has to be 80!" and it's much quicker. Equilateral Triangles If a triangle is equilateral, what is the degree measure of each of its angles? Remember, all sides of an equilateral triangle have equal measure. They also, as you'll learn, have equal angles! Let x = the degree measure of each angle. Triangles have three angles and so we will add x THREE times. We have this: 3x = 180 x = 60 Makes sense, right? If all the angles are equal, and they add up to 180, then it has to be 60 degrees! A Ratio of Angles The degree measures of the angles of a triangle are in the ratio 4 : 5 : 9. What is the degree measure of the SMALLEST angle of the triangle? Notice that the smallest angle is represented by the smallest number in the ratio given. The smallest number given is 4, right? Since this is a ratio, we have to multiply all those values (4,5,9) by some common factor to get the actual angles. (For example, 60 and 80 are in a 3:4 ratio with a factor of 20) Let 4x = the measure of the smallest angle of the triangle. We can now say that 5x and 9x = the degree measures of the remaining angles of the triangle. We simply add 4x + 5x + 9x, equated the sum to 180 degrees and solve for x. After finding x, we plug the value of x into 4x, and simplify to find the measure of the smallest angle of the triangle at hand. 4x + 5x + 9x = 180
What is the cube root of 512?	What is the cube root of 512? \| Reference.com What is the cube root of 512? A: Quick Answer The cube root of 512 is eight. This is because when eight is cubed, or multiplied by itself three times (8 x 8 x 8), it is equal to 512. Full Answer When a number is cubed, it is multiplied by itself three times. For example, two cubed is equal to 2 x 2 x 2, or eight. Also, three cubed is equal to 3 x 3 x 3, or 27. Similarly, eight cubed is equal to 8 x 8 x 8, or 512. The cube root is the value that must be cubed to equal said number. It can be found by multiplying the number to the power of one-third.
How many Wimbledon singles titles did US tennis player Billie Jean King win?	BBC SPORT \| Tennis \| Wimbledon History \| Wimbledon legends: Billie-Jean King Wimbledon legends: Billie-Jean King Wimbledon titles: 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975 Runner up: 1963, 1969, 1970 Grand Slam titles: 12 Prize money: $1,996,487 Billie-Jean King, who won 39 Grand Slam titles in total, was probably the greatest-ever competitor at Wimbledon. She won 20 titles in all at SW19 when you add 10 doubles and four mixed doubles to her six singles titles. King competed 22 times in 23 years and played a record 265 matches at the All England Club. losing just 41 of them. In 1973, she was the last player to win the triple crown of the singles and two doubles championships, with Owen Davidson and Rosie Casals. She first came to Wimbledon as a bespectacled 17-year-old in 1961, under her maiden name of Billie-Jean Moffat. Over the next two decades she dominated women's tennis with fearsomely confident and aggressive play, a style perfectly suited to Wimbledon. Her great rival was Australian Margaret Court, who beat her in the finals of 1963 and 1970. She will be best remembered for a match that has no place in the official records of tennis. In 1973, aged 29, she played 55-year-old Bobby Riggs in a contest titled the Battle of the Sexes. It was watched by the largest crowd ever to witness a tennis match, 30,492, and 50 million around the world on television. King won 6-4, 6-4, 6-3. It is away from the court that King has had her greatest, and continuing, influence. She was a prime mover in the creation of her sport's ruling body, the Women's Tennis Association, and the creation of a professional tour in 1970. King worked tirelessly to promote the women's game, fighting for equal prize money at Wimbledon as long ago as 1973.
How many cards are dealt to each player in a game of contract rummy?	Play Contract Rummy Online Contact Us Contract Rummy Contract Rummy is played with two standard decks of 52 cards, including the jokers. The number of jokers in play is determined by the number of players, and should always be one less than the number of players in the game. Contract Rummy is played with three to five players, but the best games are played when there is an equal number of four players. There are seven rounds to the game. Play takes place in a clockwise direction and the initial dealer is chosen at random. All cards are dealt one at a time, and for the first three rounds of the game each player receives a total of ten cards. The four remaining rounds, each player receives a total of twelve cards each. After each player has received their alloted cards, the remaining cards are placed face down on the table to form the stock pile, the top card of which is turned face up and placed alongside to start the discard pile. The object of each round is to dispose of all your cards by a combination of either melding, laying off and discarding. In order to do any melding or laying off, a player must begin by fulfilling their contract for the round currently being played. A meld can be done in two ways, either in sequences or in groups. A sequence in this game will consists of at least four consecutive cards of the same suit, or a group which consists three cards of the same rank. An ace can count as low or high but not both at the same time. Any sequence can be extended by adding further consecutive cards to what is already on the table. When a player goes out, by means of disposing of all their cards, the other players score penalty points for all the cards remaining in their hands. The object of the game is to have the lowest score at the end of the game (seven rounds). Each successive round of the game has a contract which is as follows:- Two Groups of 3's = total of 6 cards One Group of 3's and One Sequence of 4's = a total of 7 cards Two Sequences of 4's = a total of 8 cards Three Groups of 3's = a total of 9 cards Two Groups of 3's and One Sequence of 4's = a total of 10 cards One Group of 3 and Two Sequences of 4 = a total of 11 cards Three Sequences of 4's and No Discard Jokers may be used in either sequences or groups, to substitute for any missing card. Once the round commences, the player must either draw the top card off the stock pile or they may take a card from the top of the discard pile. A player who chooses to draw a card from the stock pile rather than use the top card of the discard pile, must first give any other player who wishes, the opportunity to take the discarded card. The player may place groups or sequences from hand face up on the table. This can only be done once by each player during each round. When melding, you must lay down exactly the combination of groups or sequences which is required by the contract for that round. When a player melds, they can only meld the minimum number of cards required. Laying off is adding cards to groups or sequences which have already been melded - both the players own and those melded by the opponents. Players may lay off only if they have already melded in some previous turn of the current round. Players may not lay off before or on the same turn as another player. There is no limit as to how many cards a player may lay off in one turn. To complete each turn, he player must discard one card from their hand and place it face up on top of the discard pile. Play continues with players taking turns clockwise around the table until one person has got rid of all the cards from their hand. It can occasionally happen that the stock pile runs out of cards. If a player wishes to draw a card when there are no cards left in the stock pile, then you take all the cards of the discard pile except the top one, shuffle them together, and place them face down to make a new stock. The top card of the old discard pile remains face up to start the new discard pile. Play then continues as before. If at the start of the players turn they choose to draw from the stock rather
In computing, how many bits are in one byte?	Bits and Bytes Bits and Bytes At the smallest scale in the computer, information is stored as bits and bytes. In this section, we'll look at how that works. Bit Bit, like an atom, the smallest unit of storage A bit stores just a 0 or 1 "In the computer it's all 0's and 1's" ... bits Anything with two separate states can store 1 bit -Nick's tennis racket example Chip uses areas of electric charge as 0/1 states Hard drive uses spots North/South magnetism 0/1 states A bit is too small to be much use Group 8 bits together to make 1 byte Everything in a computer is 0's and 1's ... what does that mean? The bit stores just a 0 or 1 .. it's the smallest building block of storage. Byte One byte = grouping of 8 bits e.g. 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 One byte can store one letter, e.g. 'A' or 'x' How Many Patterns With N Bits? How many distinct patterns can be made with 1, 2, or 3 bits? Number of bits 3 bits vs. 2 bits Consider just the leftmost bit It can only be 0 or 1 Lefmost bit is 0, then append 2-bit patterns Leftmost bit is 1, then append 2-bit patterns again Result ... 3-bits has twice as many patterns as 2-bits Number of bits In general: add 1 bit, double the number of patterns 1 bit - 2 patterns 8 bits - 256 - one byte Mathematically: n bits yields 2n patterns (2 to the nth power) One Byte - 256 Patterns 1 byte is group of 8 bits 8 bits can make 256 different patterns How to use the 256 patterns? How to store a number in a byte? Start with 0, go up, one pattern per number, until run out of patterns 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... 254, 255 One byte can hold a number between 0 and 255 i.e. with 256 distinct patterns, we can store a number in the range 0..255 Code: pixel.setRed(n) took a number 0..255. Why? The red/green/blue image numbers are each stored in one byte Bytes "Byte" - unit of information storage A document, an image, a movie .. how many bytes? 1 byte is enough to hold 1 typed letter, e.g. 'b' or 'X' Later we'll look at storage in: RAM, hard drives, flash drives All measured in bytes, despite being very different hardware Kilobyte, KB, about 1 thousand bytes Megabyte, MB, about 1 million bytes Gigabyte, GB, about 1 billion bytes Terabyte, TB, about 1 trillion bytes (rare) The space that data takes up in the computer is measured in by the "byte". One byte is big enough to hold a single typed letter, like 'a'. Here we'll look at storing data in RAM memory and in persistent storage like a hard drive. All of that storage space will be measured in bytes. We'll look at byte arithmetic in more detail later. Bytes and Letters - ASCII Code ASCII is an encoding representing each typed letter by a number Each number is stored in one byte (so the number is in 0..255) A is 65 space is 32 "Unicode" is an encoding for mandarin, greek, arabic, etc. languages, typically 2-bytes per "letter" 32 space 33 ! 34 " 35 # 36 $ 37 % 38 & 39 ' 40 ( 41 ) 42 * 43 + 44 , 45 - 46 . 47 / 48 0 49 1 50 2 51 3 52 4 53 5 54 6 55 7 56 8 57 9 58 : 59 ; 60 < 61 = 62 > 63 ? 64 @ 65 A 66 B 67 C 68 D 69 E 70 F 71 G 72 H 73 I 74 J 75 K 76 L 77 M 78 N 79 O 80 P 81 Q 82 R 83 S 84 T 85 U 86 V 87 W 88 X 89 Y 90 Z 91 [ 92 \ 93 ] 94 ^ 95 _ 96 ` 97 a 98 b 99 c 100 d 101 e 102 f 103 g 104 h 105 i 106 j 107 k 108 l 109 m 110 n 111 o 112 p 113 q 114 r 115 s 116 t 117 u 118 v 119 w 120 x 121 y 122 z 123 { 124 \| 125 } 126 ~ Typing, Bytes, and You
How may moons does the planet Mars have?	How Many Moons Does Mars Have? - Universe Today Universe Today How Many Moons Does Mars Have? Article Updated: 12 Aug , 2016 by Matt Williams Many of the planets in our Solar System have a system of moons. But among the rocky planets that make up the inner Solar System, having moons is a privilege enjoyed only by two planets: Earth and Mars . And for these two planets, it is a rather limited privilege compared to gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn which each have dozens of moons. Whereas Earth has only one satellite (aka. the Moon ), Mars has two small moons: Phobos and Deimos. And whereas the vast majority of moons in our Solar System are large enough to become round spheres similar to our own Moon, Phobos and Deimos are asteroid-sized and misshapen in appearance. Size, Mass and Orbit: The larger moon is Phobos, whose name comes from the Greek word which means “fear” (i.e. phobia). Phobos measures just 22.7 km across and has an orbit that places it closer to Mars than Deimos. Compared to Earth’s own Moon — which orbits at a distance of 384,403 km away from our planet — Phobos orbits at an average distance of only 9,377 km above Mars. This produces an orbit of short duration, revolving around the planet three times in a single day. For someone standing on the planet’s surface, Phobos could be seen crossing the sky in only 4 hours or so. Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moons, with the Stickney crater seen on the right side. Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA Mars’ second moon is Deimos, which takes its name from the Greek word for panic. It is even smaller, measuring just 12.6 km across, and is also less irregular in shape. Its orbit places it much farther away from Mars, at a distance of 23,460 km, which means that Deimos takes 30.35 hours to complete an orbit around Mars. When impacted, dust and debris will leave the surface of the moon because they do not have enough gravitational pull to retain the ejecta. However, the gravity from Mars will keep a ring of this debris around the planet in approximately the same region that the moon orbits. As the moon revolves, the debris is redeposited as a dusty layer on its surface. Like Earth’s Moon, Phobos and Deimos always present the same face to their planet. Both are lumpy, heavily-cratered and covered in dust and loose rocks. They are among the darker objects in the solar system. The moons appear to be made of carbon-rich rock mixed with ice. Given their composition, size and shape, astronomers think that both of Mars’ moons were once asteroids that were captured in the distant past. However, it appears that of these two satellites, Phobos won’t be orbiting the Red Planet for very much longer. Because it orbits Mars faster than the planet itself rotates, it is slowly spiraling inward. As a result, scientists estimate that in the next 10-50 million years or so, it will get so low that the Martian gravity will tear Phobos into a pile of rocks. And then a few million years later, those rocks will crash down on the surface of Mars in a spectacular string of impacts. The Martian Moon of Deimos, as pictured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: HiRISE/MRO/LPL (U. Arizona)/NASA Composition and Surface Features: Phobos and Deimos both appear to be composed of C-type rock, similar to blackish carbonaceous chondrite asteroids. This family of asteroids is extremely old, dating back to the formation of the Solar System. Hence, it is likely that they were acquired by Mars very early in its history. Phobos is heavily cratered from eons worth of impacts from meteors with three large craters dominating the surface. The largest crater is Stickney (visible in the photo above). The Stickney crater is 10 km in diameter, which is almost half of the average diameter of Phobos itself. The crater is so large that scientists believe the impact came close to breaking the moon apart. Parallel grooves and striations leading away from the crater indicate that fractures were likely formed as a result of the impact. Much like Phobos, it’s surface is pockmarked and cratered from numerous i
How many colours are in the rainbow?	How Many Colors in a Rainbow \| How Many Are There You Are Here: Home » World » How Many Colors in a Rainbow How Many Colors in a Rainbow Posted by: admin Posted date: September 23, 2012 In: World \| Comment : 0 \| 23,811 views There are 7 colors of the rainbow. You can remember them because they spell out ROY G BIV. The first letter of the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and indigo. Rainbows are commonly thought as having 7 colors. The colors in order are: Red Indigo Violet However, indigo and violet are close enough on the color wheel to represent the secondary color resulting from the combination of primary colours red and blue. An alternate answer is 6 for cases in which either indigo or violet is omitted or both are replaced with the term “purple”. If you are referring to how many colors in terms of big numbers, it’s pretty much infinity, but a smaller infinity than how many colors there are. For example, black, white, brown, and pink are not in the rainbow. A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection of light in water droplets in the Earth’s atmosphere, resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It takes the form of a multicoloured arc. Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the section of sky directly opposite the sun. In a “primary rainbow”, the arc shows red on the outer part and violet on the inner side. This rainbow is caused by light being refracted while entering a droplet of water, then reflected inside on the back of the droplet and refracted again when leaving it. In a double rainbow, a second arc is seen outside the primary arc, and has the order of its colours reversed, red facing toward the other one, in both rainbows. This second rainbow is caused by light reflecting twice inside water droplets. A spectrum obtained using a glass prism and a point source, is a continuum of wavelengths without bands. The number of colours that the human eye is able to distinguish in a spectrum is in the order of 100. Accordingly, the Munsell colour system (a 20th century system for numerically describing colours, based on equal steps for human visual perception) distinguishes 100 hues. However, the human brain tends to divide them into a small number of primary colours. The apparent discreteness of primary colours is an artefact of the human brain. Newton originally (1672) divided the spectrum in five primary colours: red, yellow, green, blue and violet. Later he included orange and indigo, giving seven primary colours by analogy to the number of notes in a musical scale. The Munsell colour system removed orange and indigo again, and returned to five primary colours. The exact number of primary colours for humans is a somewhat arbitrary choice. The colour pattern of a rainbow is different from a spectrum, and the colours are less saturated. There is spectral smearing in a rainbow due to the fact that for any particular wavelength, there is a distribution of exit angles, rather than a single unvarying angle. In addition, a rainbow is a blurred version of the bow obtained from a point source, because the disk diameter of the sun (0.5°) cannot be neglected compared to the width of a rainbow (2°). The number of colour bands of a rainbow may therefore be different from the number of bands in a spectrum, especially if the droplets are either large or small. Therefore, the number of colours of a rainbow is variable. If, however, the word rainbow is used inaccurately to mean spectrum, it is the number of primary colours in the spectrum. Tags: How Many Trees Are Cut Down Each Year Related Tags: how many colors in a rainbow, How many colors are in the rainbow, How many colors in the rainbow, how many colors in rainbow, how many colors are there in a rainbow, how many colours are there in a rainbow, how many colors are there in the rainbow, how many colours in rainbow, how many colours are in a rainbow, how many colours in the rainbow, colors in a rainbow how many, how many colours are in the rainbow, how many color in rainbow, 11 how many colors are there in a
What do the opposite numbers on a regular dice always add up to?	Why must opposite faces of dice always add up to 7 (1/6,2/5,3/4)? Would it make any difference if they didn't? \| Notes and Queries \| guardian.co.uk Why must opposite faces of dice always add up to 7 (1/6,2/5,3/4)? Would it make any difference if they didn't? Bill Thomson, Watford, Herts The design as a whole is to provide a randomly determined integer from one to six, each of those values being equally likely to militate against concerns that the faces of dice cause a small bias. For a single roll of a fair s-sided die, the probability of rolling each value is exactly 1/s-an of a discrete uniform distribution. For n multiple rolls, with a s-sided die the possibility space is equal to sn. So, for n rolls of an s-sided die the probability of any result is 1/sn. As the number of dice increases, the distribution of the sum of all numbers tends to normal distribution by the central limit theorem. GOTETI MVSR KRISHNA, TADEPALLIGUDEM,ANDHRAPRADESH INDIA If you take the numbers 1,2....6 then add opp faces! You could have 1+2=3. 4+5=9. remember you could have other combination,,this is random, but for the example chosen.......It only leaves,the two numbers we have not used 6,3,,6+3=9 Zen Silvestri, melrose Scotland I want an answer to this Question! The laws of physics come from an empirical point of view or from a theoretical point of view but they must satisfy the empirical reality if they come from theoretical consideration. So it looks like to me that the empirical came first and from that we get the laws/rules that fit that empirical relationship.If that is the case we can never ""INVENT"" anything all we do is find out what is there and adapt it to fit our needs//NOO?? I look forward to an answer to this DILEMA Zen Zen Silvestri, Melrose Scotland
How many wives did actor and film director Charlie Chaplin have?	Charles Chaplin - IMDb IMDb Writer \| Actor \| Soundtrack Charlie Chaplin, considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular "Little Tramp" character; the man with the toothbrush mustache, bowler hat, bamboo cane, and a ... See full bio » Born: a list of 23 people created 05 Dec 2010 a list of 47 people created 24 May 2011 a list of 34 people created 26 Mar 2012 a list of 42 people created 08 Dec 2013 a list of 28 people created 11 Feb 2014 Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Charles Chaplin's work have you seen? User Polls Won 1 Oscar. Another 19 wins & 6 nominations. See more awards » Known For 1952 Limelight (original story and screenplay) 1947 Monsieur Verdoux (an original story written by) 1931 City Lights (written by) 1928 The Circus (written by - as Charlie Chaplin) 1923 The Pilgrim (written by) 1922/I Pay Day (Short) (as Charlie Chaplin) 1921 The Idle Class (Short) (written by - as Charlie Chaplin) 1921 The Kid (written by - as Charlie Chaplin) 1919 The Professor (Short) (uncredited) 1919 A Day's Pleasure (Short) (written by - as Charlie Chaplin) 1919 Sunnyside (Short) (written by - as Charlie Chaplin) 1918 The Bond (Short) (writer) 1918 Triple Trouble (Short) (screenplay - uncredited) / (story - uncredited) 1917 The Immigrant (Short) (written by) 1917 The Cure (Short) (screenplay - uncredited) / (story - uncredited) 1917 Easy Street (Short) (screenplay - uncredited) / (story - uncredited) 1915 A Woman (Short) (uncredited) 1915 Work (Short) (uncredited) - Episode #2.34 (2012) ... (music: "Smile") 2012 Brazil Avenue (TV Series) (performer: "Smile") / (writer: "Smile") 2011 The Silence of Pelesjan (Documentary) (writer: "Theme from 'Limelight'" - uncredited) 2011 Mr. Popper's Penguins (music: "CUES FROM THE CHAPLIN FILM tt0018773", "CUES FROM THE CHAPLIN FILM tt0015864", "CUES FROM THE CHAPLIN FILM tt0009611", "CUES FROM THE CHAPLIN FILM tt0027977") / (writer: "CUES FROM THE CHAPLIN FILM tt0018773", "CUES FROM THE CHAPLIN FILM tt0015864", "CUES FROM THE CHAPLIN FILM tt0009611", "CUES FROM THE CHAPLIN FILM tt0027977") 2011 The 83rd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (writer: "Smile") The X Factor (TV Series) (music - 1 episode, 2010) (writer - 1 episode, 2004) - Live Final (2004) ... (writer: "Smile") 2010 Brazilian Beats (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Braguinha (2010) ... (writer: "Sorri", "Luzes da Ribalta") - Episode #1.2 (2010) ... (writer: "Smile") 2010 Prozhektorperiskhilton (TV Series) (music - 1 episode) - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa/Mikhail Shvydkoy/Aleksandr Gradskiy/Lolita Milyavskaya (2010) ... (music: "Smile" - uncredited) Diva (TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode, 2010) (music - 1 episode, 2010) - Singin' in the Rain (2010) ... (lyrics: "Smile") / (music: "Smile") 2009 Glee (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Mattress (2009) ... (writer: "Smile" - uncredited)
What is the title of the 1985 single by British musician Paul Hardcastle which has a strong anti-war message?	Paul Hardcastle - 19 (HD 16:9) - YouTube Paul Hardcastle - 19 (HD 16:9) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Aug 6, 2014 "19" is a song by British musician Paul Hardcastle released as the first single from his self-titled third studio album Paul Hardcastle (1985). The song has a strong anti-war message, focusing on America's involvement in the Vietnam War and the effect it had on the soldiers who served. "19" topped the charts in the UK for five weeks, and reached the top 20 in the US, where it also topped the dance chart. For a while, it was the top selling single in 13 countries. Category
Pteridology is the study of which type of plants?	The study of ferns and related plants. The study of ferns and related plants. Peer Reviewed Botanical Papers Orchids - Orchid ID, care, and growth Cactus - Cactus ID, care, and growth Bromeliads - Brom ID, care, and growth Gardening - Outdoor plant care Flowers - Flower pictures If your subreddit is not listed, or you would like to suggest a subreddit, please message the mods created by maedae a community for 4 years get the best of reddit, delivered once a week email: 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy (updated) . © 2017 reddit inc. All rights reserved. REDDIT and the ALIEN Logo are registered trademarks of reddit inc. π Rendered by PID 29942 on app-294 at 2017-01-19 23:14:11.467264+00:00 running dc009a3 country code: US.
According to the Bible, what was the name of Noah’s second son?	Who were the sons of Noah, and what happened to them and their descendants? Who were the sons of Noah, and what happened to them and their descendants? Subscribe to our Question of the Week : Question: "Who were the sons of Noah, and what happened to them and their descendants?" Answer: Noah had three sons born to him, Shem, Ham, and Japheth , before God sent a flood to destroy the world (Genesis 5:32). Whenever the names of Noah’s three sons are recorded, Shem is always mentioned first (e.g., Genesis 9:18; 10:2, 21), even though Shem was the second-born (the Bible often lists people according to prominence rather than age). Japheth was the oldest (Genesis 10:21), and Ham was the youngest (Genesis 9:24). Japheth was born when Noah was 500 years old, and the flood came 100 years later (Genesis 7:6–7). Since Shem was 100 two years after the flood (Genesis 11:10), he must have been born when Noah was 502 years old. There is no record of when Ham was born other than the fact that he was born sometime after Shem (Genesis 9:24). “Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber” (Genesis 10:21), and this is important because the word Eber is the origin of the Hebrew word for “Hebrew.” The word Shem means “name,” which implies that Noah expected this son’s name to become great. He was right—the modern words Semitic and Semite are derived from Shem’s name. The Bible records that Shem had five sons: Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram (Genesis 10:22). Shem lived to be 600 years of age (Genesis 11:10–11) and became the ancestor of the Semitic peoples (Genesis 10:1, 21–31). Abraham, a descendant of Shem, is the first person in the Bible who is referred to as a “Hebrew” (Genesis 14:13). Noah blessed Shem above his brothers (Genesis 9:26–27), and it was through Shem that the promised seed destined to crush Satan came (Genesis 3:15). That seed is traced back to Adam’s son Seth (Genesis 5:1–32), through Shem, and on to Abraham, Judah, and David, leading all the way to Christ (Luke 3:36). Shem’s son Elam was the father of the Elamites, who later settled east of Mesopotamia. Shem’s son Ashur, whose name is related to the word Assyria, is most likely is the father of those who settled the ancient region of Assyria (Genesis 2:14). Arphaxad is thought by many scholars to be a compound form of the Hebrew word for “Chaldea,” which was a region in southern Mesopotamia (Genesis 11:10–13). It was through Arphaxad that Eber came. Scholars believe that the descendants of Shem’s son Lud became known as the Lydians of Asia Minor. And Aram is identified by Bible scholars with the area northeast of the Promised Land, known today as Syria (cf. 2 Kings 16:6). The sons of Aram are listed in Genesis 10:23. Of Aram’s sons, Uz is later referred to in the book of Job (Job 1:1). Noah’s firstborn son, Japheth, is listed as the father of Gomer, Magog , Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras (Genesis 10:2). Their descendants became the people who lived to the north and west of Israel and, after Babel, spoke what today are classified as Indo-European languages. In blessing his son Japheth, Noah said, “May God extend Japheth’s territory; / may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, / and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth” (Genesis 9:27). There are two schools of thought regarding what this prophecy about Japheth means. Some scholars are of the opinion that the enlargement of Japheth’s territory refers to a great numerical increase of his descendants. The comment “may Japheth live in the tents of Shem” means that Japheth will share in the blessings of Shem. According to this view, there was to be a time when God worked primarily with Shem (the people of Israel), but later Japheth would be brought into connection with the faith of Israel to share Israel’s blessings. A similar prophecy is evident in the Abrahamic Covenant , when God promises to bless all nations through Abraham’s seed (Genesis 12:3). The fulfillment is found in Christ and in the gospel coming to the Gentiles (descendants of Japheth) at the inception of the church (Acts 15:7; Romans 15:16; Galatians 2:
Which type of seeds are traditionally used in a recipe for seed cake?	Vintage Caraway Cake {anyone for tea?} \| Foods of Our Lives Foods of Our Lives Share Vintage Caraway Seed Cake {anyone for tea?} This is a cake I saw in my vintage cake book that I am baking my way through and just had to make. It just sounded so completely different and I really didn’t know what to expect. I did read up on Caraway Seed and found that it has a slight anise flavor to it, but I didn’t read up on the origins of the cake until after I had made it and tried it. It took me a couple bites of the cake to figure out what I thought about it. I liked it, but it was kind of strange. But I thought to myself, it must be a tea cake. It just tastes like something you would have at tea. That’s why I looked up the history of the seed cake. According to Wikipedia, it was a popular cake in Great Britain to make after the harvest of the spring wheat. Caraway seeds were so popular that they were used in about 14 different recipes and were also popular in Ireland and Wales. Of course having already made the cake, I found out it is traditionally made in a loaf pan. I had made it in a square 8×8 pan….whoops. I also added the whipped cream on a whim because I thought it tasted good – don’t all cakes taste good with whipped cream? But it’s not really supposed to have whipped cream on it. Ha! Oh well….I liked it that way. This was an easy cake to make and I thoroughly enjoyed it and did end up having a slice with a bit of tea and it was very tasty. Vintage Caraway Seed Cake {anyone for tea?}
At which temperature do Fahrenheit and Celsius meet?	What is the temperature at which Fahrenheit and Celsius thermometer readings are equal? What is the temperature at which Fahrenheit and Celsius thermometer readings are equal? Asked by: Hamid A. Khan Answer The temperature at which Fahrenheit and Celsius thermometer readings are equal is: - 40 degrees. Well if you look at the conversion formulas for Celsius to Fahrenheit, or that of Fahrenheit to Celsius, you can manipulate it mathematically to answer this question. The conversion formula reads: T(F) = T(C) x 9/5 + 32 this means that the temperature of Fahrenheit equals the temperature of Celsius multiplied by nine / fifths, plus 32 degrees. If the temperatures are the same then the two 'T's' in the formula should represent the same temperature. So, t = t x 9/5 + 32 minus the nine fifths of t from each side to move it to the left of the equation. this leaves: t - 9t/5 = 32 ------> this leaves: - 4t/5 = 32 so then you multiply each side by - 5/4 to solve for t, and you get t = - 40 degrees! (by the way, 't' times,(x), nine/fifths equals 9t/5) Answered by: Dominic Jones, D.B., High School Student Science Quote 'Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. '
The Greek national anthem has a total of how many verses (or stanzas)?	Greece National Anthem GreeK & English lyrics - YouTube Greece National Anthem GreeK & English lyrics Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on May 11, 2010 The Hymn to Liberty (Greek: Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν, Ýmnos is tīn Eleftherian) is a poem written by Dionýsios Solomós in 1823 that consists of 158 stanzas and is the longest Hymn in the world, set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros. In 1865, the first two stanzas officially became the national anthem of Greece and later also that of the Republic of Cyprus. According to the Constitution of the Quintuplet of Cyprus, the Greek national anthem is used in the presence of the Greek Cypriot president (or other Greek Cypriot), and the Turkish national anthem is used in the presence of the Turkish Cypriot vice-president. Cyprus stopped using the Turkish national anthem, however, when Turkish Cypriots broke away from the Government in 1963. Hymn to Liberty was also the Greek Royal Anthem (since 1864). The hymn was set to music in 1865 by the Corfiot operatic composer Nikolaos Mantzaros, who composed two choral versions, a long one for the whole poem and a short one for the first two stanzas; the latter is the one adopted as the National Anthem of Greece. English Translation: I know it's you from the edge of the sword, the terrible one I recognize you from the look which with hardness surveys the land drawn from the bones of the Greeks, the sacred ones and, valiant as first hail, o hail, Liberty! Category
Which late singer was known as the ‘Electric Poet’?	The Doors - Break on Through (to the other side) - YouTube The Doors - Break on Through (to the other side) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Oct 25, 2013 Oliver Stone's homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris in 1971, at the age of 27. The movie features a tour-de-force performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals. Category
An atoll is formed by which natural substance?	How Islands Form--Earth Science lesson plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySchool.com Use a globe or a map of the world to point out to students that most of Earth is covered by water; Australia is the smallest island continent in the world; Greenland is the worlds largest island; Great Britain, Japan, and Australia are island nations; and Hawaii is an island state of the United States. 2. Now refer to relief maps, a globe, or a world map to show students that the surface of Earth has peaks and valleys and plateaus, some covered by water and others above water. 3. Next, distribute copies of the Background Sheet: Three Ways to Make an Island and review with students the three major ways that islands form. Refer students to the diagrams on the activity sheet. 4. Point out the polar ice caps on a map of the world or a globe. Explain that during the last ice age the ice caps were larger. More of Earths water was frozen at the poles, and the oceans were shallower. Explain that sea levels rose dramatically at the end of the Ice Age as Earth warmed and the polar ice caps began to melt. When the ice melted, about 10,000 years ago, some bodies of land that had been connected to continents were cut off from the mainland and became islands. This is how the islands of New Zealand became isolated from the mainland of Australia. 5. Stack books on a desk to represent a mainland, a land bridge, and a body of land connected to the mainland, and have students refer to their activity sheets again. Explain that as sea levels rise, water submerges the land bridge, creating islands out of landmasses that were once connected. 6. Islands may also be formed by hardworking, coral-building sea organisms. Explain that among the creatures living in the seas are tiny animals called polyps. Polyps are related to jellyfish, but they live in colonies, and they protect their soft bodies by building limestone walls around them. As these colonies grow, they form reefs. Eventually, these reefs can cover hundreds of square miles. The polyps dont build their reefs above the surface of the water, but if the sea level drops or the land below the reef rises, the reef may emerge from the water. Then water-borne sand and wind-borne dust will accumulate on the reef and form an island. The Florida Keys are one example of coral reef islands. 7. Another way islands can form is through volcanism. Explain that volcanoes can erupt underwater as well as on land. With each eruption, lava flows build up. Over time, the volcano can grow above the surface of the sea, forming a volcanic island, such as those that make up Hawaii. 8. Explain that the way an island forms affects the range of species of plants and animals living on it. If the island is cut off from the mainland by rising sea level, then mainland species are likely to be living on it from the start. If the island forms as a volcano or as a coral reef, there may be no plants or animals living on it to begin with, and any species that does get established there has to have come from somewhere else. Animals can reach an island by traveling on floating objects in the ocean, such as trees, floating logs, or reeds. Plants and birds can reach an island by air. 9. Next, hand out copies of the Classroom Activity Sheet: Island Investigation and have students work in pairs or groups to prepare a presentation on one of the islands listed below. Students can use printed library resources or the Internet to conduct their research. Presentations should include the following: A description of the islands location A brief description of the islands geography An explanation of how and when the island formed A description of at least one animal species that is found only on the island An explanation of how the species has adapted to life on the island Surtsey is an island off the coast of Iceland. Referred to as the newest place on earth, it was formed by a volcanic eruption in 1963. See Sandwort, Seabirds, and Surtsey . The Galapagos Islands are located off the coast of Ecuador and have remained geographically isolated since they w
Port-of-Spain is the capital of which Caribbean republic?	Port of Spain \| national capital, Trinidad and Tobago \| Britannica.com national capital, Trinidad and Tobago Written By: Chicago Port of Spain, also spelled Port-of-Spain , capital city and chief port of Trinidad and Tobago , southeastern West Indies . It is on the west coast of the island of Trinidad, below the northern peninsula on the Gulf of Paria , which separates the island from the northeastern coast of Venezuela . President’s House, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Altrendo Images/Getty Images The city is laid out in geometric patterns with parks and squares; on the hills behind Port of Spain are residential suburbs. At the centre of the city is the business district, near the Gothic-style Holy Trinity Cathedral and the Queen’s Park Savannah—the city’s largest open space and a popular site for recreation. From that area radiate many of the most important streets, and around it are several buildings of historical and architectural interest, including the President’s House, which stands in the grounds of the Botanical Gardens; Whitehall, which houses the office of the prime minister; the house of the Roman Catholic archbishop of Port of Spain; the Knowsley Building, which accommodates some government ministries; All Saints’ Church (Anglican); and the neo-Renaissance Red House, rebuilt in 1906, which contains the Parliament and government offices. There are also Muslim and Hindu houses of worship in the city. Among the educational institutions are three well-established secondary schools: Queen’s Royal College, Fatima College, and St. Mary’s College. One of the campuses of the University of the West Indies is situated at St. Augustine , about 10 miles (16 km) east of the city. Port of Spain is not dependent on tourism, as are many Caribbean islands, but has a diversified industrial base, including the production of rum, beer, margarine and oils, cigarettes, plastics, and building materials. There are sawmills, textile mills, and citrus canneries. Angostura aromatic bitters, a popular ingredient in cocktails, is produced only in Port of Spain, its formula a closely guarded secret. Technical institutes train workers for various industries. Port of Spain is linked by good roads with other parts of Trinidad. The port has a key position on world shipping routes and is a centre of trade within the West Indies. At Piarco, about 15 miles (25 km) east of the city, is the country’s chief airport. Pop. (2000) 49,031; (2011) 37,074. Learn More in these related articles: in Trinidad and Tobago
Which famous British author used the pen name Mary Westmacott?	AuthorHouse \| Why Use a Pen Name? Legal Resources What’s in a Pen Name? Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, John Swithen, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and Mary Westmacott. Two of these are the pen names of famous authors known better by their real names, and the other two are writers more widely recognized by their pseudonyms. If we list them like this: Lewis Carroll, Stephen King, Mark Twain, and Agatha Christie—it suddenly makes perfect sense. So why do writers use pen names, pseudonyms, nom de plumes, or aliases? And is this something that will help you in marketing you as your brand and as an author? Using a pen name as an author is exactly the same as an actor using a stage name. It is not a new concept and is a matter of personal choice. You should make sure, however, that the reasoning behind your decision to write under another name is sound and will not have the opposite effect on your work and damage your readers’ perceptions. Let’s take a look at some of the reasons writers usually choose a pen name. We’ll start with the wrong reasons so you can see if you’re on the right track from the outset. No Pen Name Required Reasons NOT to adopt a pen name: To appear more exotic Don’t try and use a pen name simply to impress your editors and readers. Your writing should be what warrants their appreciation. Once you have won them over with your writing craft, your name will become “exotic” by association. If it Jeopardizes Your Professionalism If you are trying to express your inner artist through your pen name, be careful who that person might be. You want to maintain an aura of professionalism. Names like Apollo Starfire or Divine Aphrodite run the danger of diminishing your credibility. To Remain Anonymous You should be willing to stand behind your writing, whether you are courting controversy or tackling the taboo. Do not fear the reactions of your readers, as this is the reason you shared your thoughts and opinions through your writing in the first place. As a Shield If you have written about someone you know or you fear your material may be slanderous, you are better off changing the identities of your characters, rather than your name, to avoid any legal consequences. Nobody needs to know who you are really writing about. For Permission Restrictions on writing due to gender, race, ethnicity or culture should no longer be a problem. This is especially true with the advent of self-publishing. Suit Up that Pseudonym So now you know the reasons why you shouldn’t adopt a pen name, here are the some of the situations where a nom de plume might be just the right touch to add a certain je ne sais quoi. To Maintain Professionalism Just as your pen name can have a negative impact on your professionalism, it can also help preserve it. A university professor’s scholarly reputation could well be tarnished if he were discovered to have written a number of pulp fiction novels. People have unfounded preconceptions and prejudices about who should be writing what, so a pen name may be helpful to separate your literary ambitions from your career. To Cross Genres If you have already written in one genre and want to take on the challenge of another, you may want to think about doing so as a new persona. This is especially true if those genres are poles apart, jumping from gruesome horror novels to children’s fairytales, for example. Dame Agatha Christie is a prime example of this. We introduced her above as Mary Westmacott. This was her pseudonym for writing romance novels. A far cry from the murder mysteries for which she is world renowned. To Meet Reader and Genre Expectations Have you ever read The Masked Marauding Mangler by Desiree Valentine or Lovely Little Lilies by Mike Hardstone? Obviously not. To Make it Snappier Alternatively, if your readers can’t remember or pronounce your name, this is going to adversely affect your book marketing. If your name is Catherine-Marguerite Fraquharson-Carruthers, for example, you might want to consider streamlining it to something like Cathy Carr or Catherine Margaret. To Keep Up with Production Being a p
What are the names of Peter Rabbit’s sisters in ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ by Beatrix Potter?	Beatrix Potter: The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter, ‘Study of Peter Rabbit’, © Frederick Warne & Co., 2006 An affectionate companion The 'real' Peter Rabbit was a Belgian buck rabbit called Peter Piper that was, as wrote Potter later, 'bought at a very tender age, in the Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, for the exorbitant sum of 4/6'. He was to prove a sound investment. This 'affectionate companion' lent his first name to one of the world's best-loved fictional characters and earned Beatrix Potter enduring international acclaim for the series of 'little books' that bear his name. Peter Piper was the second rabbit that Potter acquired in the 1890s (the first was called Benjamin, himself to become the subject of a story in The Tale of Benjamin Bunny), and a much-loved member of the menagerie that kept her amused in what was a rather lonely childhood. Potter wrote later in a letter to a child that: 'Peter used to lie before the fire on the heart rug like a cat. He was clever at learning tricks, he used to jump through a hoop, and ring a bell, and play the tambourine.' Potter spent a lot of time studying and drawing Peter Piper. He was rather fat, 'good at tricks' and 'very naughty' - the perfect model for a story about a mischievous and greedy little rabbit. Potter first composed her story of Peter Rabbit in 1893 in the form of a picture-letter to Noel Moore, the five-year-old son of her friend and former governess, Annie Moore. He was recovering from a bout of scarlet fever. Potter begins: 'I don't know what to write to you, so I shall tell you story about four little rabbits, whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter'. Original illustration for 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit’, Beatrix Potter. © Frederick Warne & Co. 2006 A book for little rabbits In the following years Beatrix sent other picture letters to Noel and to his brother and sisters, including stories about an 'excessively impertinent' squirrel called Nutkin and a disconsolate frog called Mr. Jeremy Fisher. In 1900 Annie suggested to Beatrix that her picture letters might contain material for several picture books. Fortunately the children had kept their letters safe and Beatrix was able to borrow them to copy and rework her text and illustrations. Noel's story of Peter Rabbit was to become Beatrix's first book. In 1900 Beatrix borrowed Noel's letter – she wanted to rework the original pictures and story and try and sell the idea to a publisher. Her intention was that the book would be small-format, so it could be held easily by children's hands, and that it would feature a black-and-white illustration on each page, to keep the interest of the youngest readers. Six publishers, including Frederick Warne, rejected the story – they wanted something in a larger, more expensive format, and colour illustrations. But Potter remained resolute, deciding that since 'little rabbits cannot afford to spend 6 shillings on one book' she would publish the book herself, at a sale price of 1s 2d. On 16th December 1901, Strangeways & Sons printed 250 copies, each with a colour frontispiece printed by Hentschel of Fleet Street. The first edition's immediate success prompted Potter to order a reprint of a further 200 copies only a few months later, in February 1902. One copy of Beatrix's privately printed edition contains the following inscription: 'In affectionate remembrance of poor old Peter Rabbit, who died on the 26th of January 1901 at the end of his 9th year … whatever the limitations of his intellect or outward shortcomings of his fur, and his ears and toes, his disposition was uniformly amiable and his temper unfailingly sweet. An affectionate companion and a quiet friend.' Beatrix Potter ‘The Original Peter Rabbit Books’ © Frederick Warne & Co., 2006 An appalling quantity of Peter Meanwhile, a friend of the Potter family, Canon Rawnsley (one of the founder members of the National Trust), had encouraged Frederick Warne to reconsider publishing Beatrix's story. On 16th December 1901, as Potter celebrated the printing of her private edition, Warne wrote with an offe
What does an anemometer measure?	How do anemometers measure wind speed? - Explain that Stuff Tweet by Chris Woodford . Last updated: April 4, 2016. When you hear weather forecasters warning of how fast the wind is going to blow, do you ever stop to think how they're going to measure it? Wind isn't something you can see very easily, so you can hardly time it with a stopwatch like you'd measure the speed of an Olympic sprinter or a race car! Fortunately, scientists are amazingly inventive people and they've come up with some pretty clever ways of measuring wind speed with gadgets called anemometers. Let's take a closer look at how they work! Photo: Measuring wind speed with a three-cup, handheld anemometer. The square plate at the back is a vane that aligns itself with the wind so you can measure wind direction too. This model, used by the US Navy, is an Ames RVM 96 B capable of measuring wind speeds up to about 50 m/s (180 km/h or 112 mph). Photo by Maebel Tinoko courtesy of US Navy . Thinking about anemometers Some people think wind turbines are unsafe because gales and storms could make them spin dangerously fast. That's not actually true: all large wind turbines are fitted with brakes that stop them rotating if the wind blows too hard (and they have built-in anemometers to measure the speed as well). But it's certainly true that wind turbines turn faster—and generate more electricity —the harder the wind is blowing. There you have a clue to how a basic anemometer could work. Suppose you build yourself a miniature, table-top wind turbine and connect it to an electricity generator (effectively an electric motor wired up backwards so it makes an electric current when you spin its central axle around). The faster the rotor blades turn, the quicker the generator spins, and the higher the electric current it will produce. So if you measure the current, you have a basic way of measuring the wind speed. You have to calibrate an instrument like this before you use it, of course. In other words, you'd need to know how much current is generated by a few winds of known speed. That would help you figure out the mathematical relationship between wind speed and electric current so you could figure out the speed of an unknown wind simply by measuring the current. Mechanical anemometers Photo: A handheld digital anemometer from La Crosse Technology. The fan at the top generates magnetic impulses, which electronic circuits inside convert into a precise wind speed. The display also indicates how strong the wind is on the Beaufort scale . Some of the simplest anemometers work in exactly this way. They're little more than an electricity generator mounted in a sealed-up metal cylinder with an axle protruding upward from it. On top of the axle, there are several large cups that catch the wind and make the generator spin around. Propeller anemometers work in much the same way. Like miniature wind turbines, they use small propellers to power their generators instead of spinning cups. Some anemometers have what looks like a small fan in place of the cups or propeller. As the wind blows, it spins the fan blades and a tiny generator to which they're attached, which works a bit like a bicycle dynamo. The generator is connected to an electronic circuit that gives an instant readout of the wind speed on a digital display. Some cup-style anemometers dispense with the electricity generator and, instead, count how many times the cups or fan blades rotate each second. In one typical design, some of the fan blades have tiny magnets mounted on them and, each time they make a single rotation, they move past a magnetic detector called a reed switch . When a magnet is nearby, the reed switch closes and generates a brief pulse of electric current, before opening again when the magnet goes away. This kind of anemometer effectively makes a series of electric pulses at a rate that is proportional to the wind speed. Count how often the pulses come in and you can figure out the wind speed from that. Artwork: How a simple reed-switch anemometer works. You can see it's divided into three main part
What are the name of the veins on each side of the neck which drain blood from the head and neck to larger veins passing to the heart?	Cardiovascular System of the Head and Neck Home > Cardiovascular System > Cardiovascular System of the Head and Neck Cardiovascular System of the Head and Neck The cardiovascular system of the head and neck includes the vital arteries that provide oxygenated blood to the brain and organs of the head, including the mouth and eyes. It also includes the veins that return deoxygenated blood from these organs to the heart. Among these blood vessels are several unique and important structures that have evolved to help maintain the continuous flow of blood to the brain. The human brain is so powerful and metabolically active that it uses about 20% of all of the oxygen and glucose taken in by the body each day.... Move up/down/left/right: Click compass arrows Rotate image: Click and drag in any direction, anywhere in the frame Identify objects: Click on them in the image 2D Interactive 3D Rotate & Zoom Change Anatomical System Change View Angle Full Cardiovascular System of the Head and Neck Description [Continued from above] . . . Any interruption in the blood flow to the brain very quickly results in the decline of mental function, loss of consciousness, and eventually death if not corrected. Oxygenated blood enters the neck from the trunk through four major arteries: the left and right vertebral arteries and the left and right common carotid arteries. The vertebral arteries travel through the transverse foramina of the cervical vertebrae before entering the skull at the foramen magnum and joining at the base of the brain to form the basilar artery. From there the basilar artery provides blood to the posterior structures of the brain, including the brain stem, cerebellum, and cerebrum. The left and right carotid arteries each divide in the neck to form the left and right internal carotid as well as the left and right external carotid arteries. The internal carotid arteries pass into the skull inferior to the brain through the left and right carotid foramina. At the base of the brain, the internal carotid arteries branch off into the left and right anterior cerebral arteries and the left and right middle cerebral arteries that supply blood to the middle and anterior regions of the brain. At the base of the brain several communicating arteries form anastomoses, or passages, between the left and right posterior cerebral, left and right internal carotid, and left and right anterior cerebral arteries. These arteries collectively form a ring of blood vessels known as the Circle of Willis. The Circle of Willis provides insurance that the brain will continue to receive blood flow in the event that one of its major arteries is blocked by allowing blood flow between all of the major arteries to all of the regions of the brain. In the neck and head exterior to the skull, the external carotid artery provides blood flow to the skin, muscles, and organs. Several major arteries - including the facial, superficial temporal, and occipital arteries - branch off from the external carotid to provide blood to the many superficial structures of the head. Three pairs of major veins return deoxygenated blood from the tissues of the head and neck to the heart. The left and right vertebral veins descend through the transverse foramina of the cervical vertebrae to drain blood from the spinal cord, cervical vertebrae, and muscles of the neck. In the head, superficial structures on the exterior of the skull are drained by the pair of external jugular veins, which descend through the neck lateral to the vertebral veins. Most importantly, the brain is drained by a group of large cavities in the dura mater layer of the meninges known as dural venous sinuses. Blood collected in these sinuses drains into the largest veins in the head and neck - the left and right internal jugular veins. The internal jugular veins collect blood from the brain as well as the superficial structures of the head and neck before descending through the neck towards the heart. Prepared by Tim Taylor, Anatomy and Physiology Instructor
Who wrote the novel ‘The Invisible Man’, published in 1897?	H. G. Wells – “The Invisible Man” (1897) \| Bookstacks H. G. Wells – “The Invisible Man” (1897) Posted on September 12, 2015 by Ian The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson’s Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body’s refractive index to that of air so that it absorbs and reflects no light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. (Wikipedia) “He had been given a prescription, most valuable prescription—what for he wouldn’t say. Was it medical? ‘Damn you! What are you fishing after?’ I apologised. Dignified sniff and cough. He resumed. He’d read it. Five ingredients. Put it down; turned his head. Draught of air from window lifted the paper. Swish, rustle. He was working in a room with an open fireplace, he said. Saw a flicker, and there was the prescription burning and lifting chimneyward. Rushed towards it just as it whisked up the chimney. So! Just at that point, to illustrate his story, out came his arm.” “Well?” “No hand—just an empty sleeve. Lord! I thought, that’s a deformity! Got a cork arm, I suppose, and has taken it off. Then, I thought, there’s something odd in that. What the devil keeps that sleeve up and open, if there’s nothing in it? There was nothing in it, I tell you. Nothing down it, right down to the joint. I could see right down it to the elbow, and there was a glimmer of light shining through a tear of the cloth. ‘Good God!’ I said. Then he stopped. Stared at me with those black goggles of his, and then at his sleeve.” “Well?” “That’s all. He never said a word; just glared, and put his sleeve back in his pocket quickly.”
In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungary throne, was assassinated in which Bosnian province?	Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914) Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914) Archduke Franz Ferdinand Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo, July, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand (December 18, 1863- June 28, 1914), the heir to the throne of the Empire of Austria-Hungary, was the man whose death began the cycle of events leading to the First World War . He and his wife Sophie, were on a tour of the restless province of Bosnia-Herzegovina in July, 1914. Bosnia was a region comprised of several ethnic groups, including Serbs who sougth to separate from the Austrian Empire and join with the Kingdom of Serbia. While driving through the heart of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capitol, Franz Ferdinand and Sophie were assassinated by a Serbian student named Gavrilo Princip, who worked with the Serbian terrorist group, the Black Hand. The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was the nephew of the Austrian Emperor, set in motion a series of threats, and declarations of war that led to many European nations taking sides in two powerful alliances and engaging in what became known as The First World War. Gavrilo Princip Gavrilo Princip, Franz Ferdinand’s assassin, arrested by the police
Demophobia is the irrational fear of what?	The Phobia List Amaxophobia- Fear of riding in a car. Ambulophobia- Fear of walking. Amychophobia- Fear of scratches or being scratched. Anablephobia- Fear of looking up. Ancraophobia- Fear of wind. (Anemophobia) Androphobia- Fear of men. Anemophobia- Fear of air drafts or wind.(Ancraophobia) Anginophobia- Fear of angina, choking or narrowness. Anglophobia- Fear of England or English culture, etc. Angrophobia - Fear of anger or of becoming angry. Ankylophobia- Fear of immobility of a joint. Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers. Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society. Antlophobia- Fear of floods. Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single. Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity. Aphenphosmphobia- Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia) Apiphobia- Fear of bees. Apotemnophobia- Fear of persons with amputations. Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders. Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers. Cainophobia or Cainotophobia- Fear of newness, novelty. Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women. Cancerophobia or Carcinophobia- Fear of cancer. Cardiophobia- Fear of the heart. Carnophobia- Fear of meat. Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed. Catapedaphobia- Fear of jumping from high and low places. Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting. Cenophobia or Centophobia- Fear of new things or ideas. Ceraunophobia or Keraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia) Chaetophobia- Fear of hair. Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia- Fear of cold.(Frigophobia, Psychophobia) Chemophobia- Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals. Cherophobia- Fear of gaiety. Chiraptophobia- Fear of being touched. Chirophobia- Fear of hands. Cholerophobia- Fear of anger or the fear of cholera. Chorophobia- Fear of dancing. Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of money. Chromophobia or Chromatophobia- Fear of colors. Chronophobia- Fear of time. Cibophobia- Fear of food.(Sitophobia, Sitiophobia) Claustrophobia- Fear of confined spaces. Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia- Fear of being locked in an enclosed place. Cleptophobia- Fear of stealing. Climacophobia- Fear of stairs, climbing, or of falling downstairs. Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed. Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia- Fear of being enclosed. Cnidophobia- Fear of stings. Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions. Defecaloesiophobia- Fear of painful bowels movements. Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner conversations. Dementophobia- Fear of insanity. Demonophobia or Daemonophobia- Fear of demons. Demophobia- Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia) Dendrophobia- Fear of trees. Dermatophobia- Fear of skin lesions. Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia- Fear of skin disease. Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body. Diabetophobia- Fear of diabetes. Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school. Dikephobia- Fear of justice. Dinophobia- Fear of dizziness or whirlpools. Diplophobia- Fear of double vision. Dipsophobia- Fear of drinking. Dishabiliophobia- Fear of undressing in front of someone. Disposophobia- Fear of throwing stuff out. Hoarding. Domatophobia- Fear of houses or being in a house.(Eicophobia, Oikophobia) Doraphobia- Fear of fur or skins of animals. Doxophobia- Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise. Dromophobia- Fear of crossing streets. Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch. Dysmorphophobia- Fear of deformity. Hagiophobia- Fear of saints or holy things. Hamartophobia- Fear of sinning. Haphephobia or Haptephobia- Fear of being touched. Harpaxophobia- Fear of being robbed. Hedonophobia- Fear of feeling pleasure. Heliophobia- Fear of the sun. Hellenologophobia- Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology. Helminthophobia- Fear of being infested with worms. Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia- Fear of blood. Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia- Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation. Herpetophobia- Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things. Heterophobia- Fear of the opposite sex. (Sexophobia) Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666. Hierophobia- Fe
Which band’s 2007 album is entitled ‘Send Away the Tigers’?	Send Away The Tigers - Microsoft Store Send Away The Tigers 2007 • 11 songs • Rock • Indie / Alternative • Columbia Like many long-term relationships, Manic Street Preachers benefited from some time apart, as their seventh album, Send Away the Tigers, makes plain. Arriving on the heels of 2006 solo albums from both singer/guitarist James Dean Bradfield and lyricist/bassist Nicky Wire , Send Away the Tigers finds the group recharged and revitalized, achieving the widescreen grandeur of Everything Must Go but infusing it with a harder rock edge that may not be as furious as their earliest work, but is no less committed. This surging sense of purpose was conspicuously absent on the Manics ' previous albums, which grew increasingly mannered in their attempts at majestic pop, culminating in the pleasant but too soft Lifeblood. It's hard to call Tigers soft -- it thunders even in its quietest moments, and when strings or keyboards are brought in, they're drowned out by guitars. This doesn't sound like a desperate measure; it sounds like recommitment on the part of the Manics , especially since they haven't abandoned the melodic skills they've honed over the past decade. They've merely melded them to muscular yet mature rock & roll. It's that commitment to hard rock that makes Send Away the Tigers bracing upon its initial listen, but what makes it lasting is the songs, which may lack anthems on the level of "A Design for Life," but they're something better: they're small-scale epics, roiling with drama and coiled with tension, flirting with being overblown but kept grounded by the group's reclaimed righteousness and newfound sense of control. That leanness applies to the album overall as well -- where every Manics record since Everything Must Go grew increasingly over-stuffed, this has no flab, and its ten songs have a relentless momentum. It's still pretty bombastic -- the Manics were never about subtlety -- but the sweeping gestures are delivered with a sense of efficiency that makes Send Away the Tigers never seem heavy-handed, which is something that even their best albums often are. So, this isn't merely a return to form, then -- it's also a welcome progression from a band that only a couple of albums back seemed stuck in a rut with no way out. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
A piculet is which type of creature?	Amazon Bird List Alphabetical Amazon Creature List of Common Names Birds, Mammals and Reptiles Sorted Alphabetically This very long alphabetical list of creatures is helpful for making checklists. But a list sorted by genus is more helpful for researching species. See our Bird List sorted by scientific name . The following list is an actual list created by Amazon Nature Tours on one of our tours. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of creatures found in the Amazon, but rather a record of the creatures we observed. The trip took place in the State of Amazonas, Brasil with some species observed also in the States of Para and Matto Grosso do Sul. Appended to the bird list are brief Mammal and Reptile lists. Bird List
Who directed the 1987 film ‘Full Metal Jacket’?	Full Metal Jacket (1987) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON TV Enter if you dare Related News a list of 46 titles created 11 Apr 2011 a list of 38 titles created 02 Oct 2011 a list of 26 titles created 03 May 2014 a list of 49 titles created 09 Mar 2015 a list of 49 titles created 11 Apr 2015 Title: Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.3/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 9 nominations. See more awards » Photos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.3/10 X In future Britain, Alex DeLarge, a charismatic and psycopath delinquent, who likes to practice crimes and ultra-violence with his gang, is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem - but not all goes according to plan. Director: Stanley Kubrick A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. Director: Stanley Kubrick Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest. Director: Stanley Kubrick During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe. Director: Francis Ford Coppola After a simple jewelry heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant. Director: Quentin Tarantino In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed. Director: Brian De Palma A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process. Director: Martin Scorsese A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. Director: Oliver Stone In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same. Directors: Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. Director: Milos Forman Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy. Director: Martin Scorsese A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did. Director: Tony Kaye Edit Storyline A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in boot camp under the command of the punishing Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits, Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive. Written by Scott Renshaw <[email protected]> Vietnam can kill me, but it can't make me care See more » Genres: 10 July 1987 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia William Hope was offered a role, but he turned it down in favour of Aliens (1986). See more » Goofs The sniper makes many precise shots but isn't
King Zog was the monarch of which country?	King Zog I of Albania \| History Today King Zog I of Albania The Balkans Political Richard Cavendish charts the events leading up to King Zog I's coronation on September 1st, 1928. Zog I was probably the strangest monarch of the 20th century. The Times called him ‘the bizarre King Zog’ and his biographer, Jason Tomes, quotes descriptions of him ranging from ‘a despotic brigand’ to ‘the last ruler of romance’. He created his throne for himself and as Europe’s only Muslim king ruled Europe’s most obscure country. He had started life as Ahmed Bey Zogolli or Ahmed Zogu in 1895, the son of an Albanian chief, when the country was still part of the Ottoman empire. Order broke down during the First World War as other Balkan countries tried to seize areas of Albania. From 1920 there was a succession of short-lived governments, in which Zogu held various posts until he was driven into exile in 1924. He returned at the end of the year, crossing the northern border into Albania with Yugoslav backing and an army of mercenaries recruited with money supplied by international oil companies and rich Albanian familes. Another mercenary army, led by Zogu’s lieutenants, invaded from the south. Zogu swiftly established himself as Albania’s dictator with the title of president. He had his principal opponents murdered and ruled by force – there was no other effective way of ruling Albania – but Zogu realized that he could only survive with support from abroad and decided to rely on the Italians. A military alliance was signed in 1927 and Italy soon dominated Albania. In 1928, with Italian approval, Zogu, who genuinely wanted to modernise his Ruritanian country, decided to make his dictatorship permanent. A new Constituent Assembly, elected under strict government control, proclaimed Albania a monarchy under Zog I, King of the Albanians. The king made his way to the ceremony in Tirana in an open car with an escort of cavalry past lines of soldiers, but the streets were kept clear of spectators for fear of assassination. However, every house displayed the Albanian flag, with a black eagle rampant on a scarlet ground. The flags had been mass-imported from Italy on the cheap. In the Parliament House the monarch stood on a dais to deafening applause and swore an oath on both the Koran and the Bible to maintain the country’s national unity, territorial integrity and independence. Loud cries of ‘Long live the king!’ accompanied him to his royal palace and six days of public holiday followed, with bonfires, firing of rockets and much slaughtering of sheep. Handsome, courteous, reserved and ruthless, Zog was a chain-smoker who enjoyed western classical music and films starring Charlie Chaplin and Shirley Temple. Mussolini ousted him in 1939 and declared Albania an Italian protectorate. Zog went into exile, for part of the time comfortably installed in London’s Ritz Hotel, and died in France in 1961 at the age of 65.
The magazine Marie Claire was first published in 1937 in which country?	A fashion magazine is taking a stand against Donald Trump — with a plea to Ivanka - The Washington Post A fashion magazine is taking a stand against Donald Trump — with a plea to Ivanka The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to know about new stories from PowerPost. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published. You’re all set! By Robin Givhan June 24 Follow @RobinGivhan Ivanka Trump at her father’s news conference at Turnberry Golf Course in Scotland Friday. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) It is not often that foreign publications wade into the thicket of an American presidential election and accuse a candidate of misogyny and hate speech. It is even rarer for a foreign fashion magazine to do so. But for its July issue, the editor-in-chief of the Mexican and Latin American edition of Marie Claire has climbed atop her glossy soap box with a cover story directed at Ivanka Trump — and, obliquely, her father, the presumptive Republican nominee. In bold cover type, the magazine pleads: “Dear Ivanka: How long will you defend your father?” And in a series of essays inside, its writers beg: Do something. Talk to him. Stop him. Trump did not pose for the cover photograph. It is an artful collage that depicts her as a cross between a beauty queen and benevolent goddess with bare shoulders and glittering floral earrings. In the background, the Statue of Liberty peers over her shoulder, white stars explode against a blue sky and blush-colored peonies are in full bloom, nestled against her cheek. Ivanka Trump on the cover of the Mexican and Latin American edition of Marie Claire There is nothing about the cover that speaks of harsh rhetoric. And while almost all the letters appeal to her position of clout within the Trump empire, there are no visual hints of her as a business person. Indeed, there is just enough fabric visible along her torso to assure readers that she isn’t actually naked. But the letters inside are often filled with barely contained fury. “It has never been my goal to attack, judge or question other women. Furthermore, when talking about polemic and controversial topics, generally I would rather stay neutral, with an objective point of view, and if I can’t make that happen, at least to be moderate,” writes editor Daniela Von Wobeser in her opening letter to readers. “I’d like to ask you, from the bottom of my heart, if supporting your dad’s strategy is the best thing for you, as woman or the best for your country and, consequently, mine.” [Melania Trump: From professional pretty person to potential first lady] “Dear Ivanka, do you think your father would be the leader America deserves? Do you think the values your dad promotes are the ones you want. . . your three children” to inherit? Von Wobeser continues. “I understand no one chooses their parents, but sooner or later we have to understand that being a father does not excludes you from human degradation and, therefore, it’s [up to] us, their children, to [break] from them when [they] voluntarily choose that path, or. . . be doomed to live the same destiny.” President-elect Donald Trump's oldest daughter, Ivanka, was often by his side on the campaign trail and could play an influential role in his administration. Here's what you might not already know about her. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) Daniela Von Wobeser, editor of the Latin American Marie Claire, penned an open letter asking Ivanka Trump to have a heart-to-heart with her father. (Courtesy Marie Claire Mexico and Latin America) The issue includes letters from journalists, academics and artists, all of them Latin American, some of them living and working in the United States. They attempt to appeal to Trump as a mother, as a business woman, as an educated woman, as someone who, having converted to Judaism, might have particular insight into the history of religious persecution and how it festers and grows. “I’m sure you’ve heard this abominable story of survival and horror countless times,
Bridgeport is the largest city by population in which US state?	Bridgeport, CT - Bridgeport, Connecticut Map & Directions - MapQuest {{::location.tagLine.value.text}} Sponsored Topics Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Located in Fairfield County, the city had an estimated population of 144,229 at the 2010 United States Census and is the core of the Greater Bridgeport area. The city is part of the Greater New York City Combined Statistical Area and is the fifth largest city in New England. Bridgeport is also the center of the 41st largest urban area in the United States, just behind Austin, Texas (40th). The city is marked by its attachment to its famous resident, the circus-promoter and once mayor P.T. Barnum. Barnum built three houses in the city, and housed his circus in town during winters.
In which year were women first allowed to participate in the Olympic Games?	Women at the Olympic Games Home > Events > Olympics > Summer > History > Women Women at the Olympic Games It has been a long road to equality for women at the Olympic Games, and it is still continuing. Participation in the Ancient Olympic Games was limited to male athletes only. The only way women were able to take part was to enter horses in the equestrian events. There are records of several winning women horse owners. As the owner of the horse teams, they were credited with the victory, though they were most likely not present at the events. Even in the early years of the modern Olympics, women were not well represented (consequently a rival Women's Olympics was held). Women participated for the first time at the 1900 Paris Games with the inclusion of women's events in lawn tennis and golf. Women's athletics and gymnastics debuted at the 1928 Olympics. Over time more women's events were added. In 2012, women's boxing was introduced, resulting in no remaining sports that do not include events for women. Equality in the available sports is one thing, but in many countries women do not have equal rights to participate in sports and the opportunity to participate in the Olympic Games. Prior to the 2012 Olympics in London, three Muslim countries have never before sent a female athlete: Qatar, Brunei, and Saudi Arabia. However, they all bowed to IOC pressure and sent female athletes to London. Now every national Olympic committee has sent women to the Olympic Games, a small step. Milestones At the first modern Olympic Games in Athens 1896 , no women competed, as de Coubertin felt that their inclusion would be "impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic, and incorrect." Women first competed at the 1900 Paris Games. Women were allowed to compete in lawn tennis and golf, though there were three French women competing in croquet and there was at least one woman sailor as part of mixed crews. It is commonly believed that first woman to win an Olympic event was England's Charlotte Cooper, who won the tennis singles title, however Swiss sailor Hélène de Pourtalès won a gold medal as part of a team in sailing earlier than this. (see more firsts , and more on Pourtalès ) Here are the first women competitors in the Modern Olympic Games of 1900, in chronological order were May 22 - Helen de Pourtales, Switzerland (Yachting) May 31 - Elvira Guerra, France (Equestrian). There may have been another woman also competing in the equestrian events. Jun 28 - Mme Ohnier, Madame Depres, and Mme Filleaul Brohy, France (Croquet) July 11 - winner Charlotte Cooper, Great Britain (Tennis) plus other female competitors. Oct 3 - winner Margaret Abbott, USA (Golf) plus other female competitors. Women competed in swimming events for the first time in 1912, but none of them were from America, which did not allow its female athletes to compete in events without long skirts. The first women's swimming gold medal was won by the Australian Sarah 'Fanny' Durack, who won the 100m freestyle in 1912. In 1928, women competed in track and field events for the first time; however, so many collapsed at the end of the 800-meter race that the event was banned until 1960. Women's shooting events were first included in the Olympics in 1984. There were three events, three position rifle, air rifle and sport pistol. In 1996, a women's only sport was introduced - Softball (softball is no longer part of the Olympic program) The 2000 Olympics was the first time that women were allowed to compete in the Olympics in weightlifting. A women's wrestling competition was introduced in 2004. Women compete in freestyle wrestling , but not greco-roman. There are only two Olympic sports where men and women compete directly against each other; equestrian and sailing , though in sailing it is now only in one event. Tennis (in early Games in since 2012) and Badminton (since 1996) have mixed doubles events. Qatar, Brunei and Saudi Arabic all sent female participants to the London 2012 Olympic Games, meaning now every national Olympic committee will have sent women to th
Army Day, the memorial day for the foundation of the People’s Liberation Army, is celebrated in China during which month of the year?	HOME \| Home Liu Jinqi, Lieutenant General Nyembe, Snr. Col. Xu Jianwei and Jiang Lei Snr. Col. Xu Jianwei pictured with Defense Attaches represented in South Africa Speech by Snr. Col. Xu Jianwei, the Military Navy & Air Attache of China on the occasion of the 87th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army Distinguished Lieutenant General Nyembe, His Excellency Ambassador Tian Xuejun, Officers from SANDF, MAAC Colleagues，Ladies and Gentlemen: Today, we hold this function to celebrate the 87th anniversary of the foundation of Chinese People's Liberation Army, thank you for all your attendance. The Chinese People's Liberation Army has come through the splendid 87 years since its foundation on August 1st 1927. During this 87 year's course, the PLA has made a historical progress and played a very important role on consolidating national defense and supporting national construction, which we are proud of and glory in. While, we also appreciate the help, support and cooperation from other armed forces. The PLA pursues a national defense policy defensive in nature, places the protection of national sovereignty, security, territorial integrity, safeguarding of the interests of national development, and the interests of the Chinese people above all else, endeavors to build a fortified national defense and strong military forces compatible with national security and development interests, implements the military strategy of active defense, fosters a security environment conductive to china's peaceful development, advocate the settlement of international disputes and hotspot issues by peaceful means, opposes the enlargement of military alliances, and acts of aggression and expansion. China will never seek hegemony or engage in military expansion no matter how developed it becomes. As well known, peace-keeping troops from PLA have been sent to African Continent under the request of the United Nations. Such as D.R.Congo, Mali, Sudan and Liberia. These troops, the representatives of PLA have overcome a lot of difficulty to make their own contributions to the peace of Africa. South Africa is the most influential country in Africa. During recent years, the military relationship between China and South Africa developed rapidly. One month ago, the Escort Task Group of Chinese Navy made a successful visit to Cape Town. Three weeks ago, Chinese Defense Minister General Chang Wanquan made a formal visit to South Africa. Chinese PLA would like to further strengthen cooperation with SANDF, making much more contributions to the world peace. Nowadays, the world is undergoing tremendous changes and adjustments. Peace and development remain the principal themes of the times, however global challenges are on the increase, and new security threats keep emerging. The PLA will participate in international security cooperation actively, conducts military exchanges in various forms and promote the establishment of military confidence-building mechanisms and maintains the world peace together with others. As conclusion, on behalf of Chinese People's Liberation Army, I express my appreciation on this opportunity to the South African Defense Ministry and SANDF for their various help and support. We hope from the bottom of our hearts that PLA could conduct further military cooperation with SANDF and other armed forces to contribute much more to the maintenance of the world peace. Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, may I propose a toast to the friendly cooperation and our friendship. SPEECH BY CDI TO PLA 87TH ANNIVERSARY THE HOUNARABLE AMBASSADOR OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA MR TIAN XUEJUN THE MILITARY NAVY AND AIR ATTACHE OF CHINA SENIOR COLONEL XU JIANWEI DEFENCE AND MILITARY ATTACHE ACCREDITED TO THE RSA DISTINGUISHED GUESTS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IT IS INDEED A GREAT PLEASURE AND HONOUR TO GET THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SAY A FEW WORDS TO THE PEOPLE WHO DESERVE MORE THAN A SPEECH DUE TO THE IMENSE CONTRIBUTION IN HELPING TO MAKE OUR COUNTRY WHAT IT IS TODAY PLA PROVIDED MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO THE LIBERATION MOVEMENTS IN ORDER TO ENABLE U
What is the title of the film in which Joaquin Phoenix plays country music legend Johnny Cash?	Walk the Line (2005) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error \| Biography , Drama , Music \| 18 November 2005 (USA) A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash 's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley , Jerry Lee Lewis , and Carl Perkins . Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON TV a list of 36 titles created 26 Nov 2010 a list of 27 titles created 30 Oct 2012 a list of 30 titles created 10 Dec 2012 a list of 34 titles created 18 Oct 2015 a list of 26 titles created 2 months ago Title: Walk the Line (2005) 7.9/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 1 Oscar. Another 44 wins & 43 nominations. See more awards » Videos Edit Storyline While growing up in the Great Depression era, Johnny Cash takes an interest in music and eventually moves out of his Arkansas town to join the air force in Germany. While there, he buys his first guitar and writes his own music, and proposes to Vivian. When they got married, they settled in Tennessee and with a daughter, he supported the family by being a salesman. He discovers a man who can pursue his dreams and ends up getting a record with the boys. Shortly after that, he was on a short tour, promoting his songs, and meets the already famous and beautiful June Carter. Then as they get on the long-term tours with June, the boys, and Jerry Lee Lewis, they have this unspoken relationship that grows. But when June leaves the tour because of his behavior, he was a drug addict. His marriage was also falling apart, and when he sees June years later at an awards show, he forces June to tour with them again, promising June to support her two kids and herself. While the tour goes on, the ... Written by kayleigh
What do the numbers on a standard dice add up to?	Dice Dice ... ... The dice have 21 points. The numbers 1 to 6 appear on the six sides of a cube. - You throw the dice by hand or by a leather dice cup. You turn the cup upside down and you let the dice roll to a standstill. It is by chance which number appears on top. This is the attraction of throwing the dice. The dice are used in many board games. They often determine the playing. They give the game unexpected turns and add excitement to the games. There are 30 Dice top ... ... If you give the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 and form all permutations of the six numbers, you get 12345*6=6!=720 cubes. Now there are also those dice among them, which are the same, because you can get them by turning around 13 axes. There are 24 turnings. Hence you only have 720:24 =30 different cubes. The following drawing illustrates this. (The numbers under the cubes give you the number of turnings.) Appearance of the Standard Die top The die has six sides for six numbers. If you try all possible ways to spread them out, you get 30 dice. - Every die has its reflection. You can find the possibilities if you reverse the numbers beside the 1. ... ... You can mark every die by a number with six digits: Start with 1, go upwards, go around 1 counter clockwise and add the number that appears opposite the number 1 on the die. - The red die has 123546 for instance. The dice on the left are ordered by these numbers. You find more about the number 30 at my web page Macmahons Coloured Cubes . There is only the red die in the Western World. ... This die has two characteristics: >The sides opposite each other always add to 7. >If you look at the corner with the numbers 1, 2, and 3 they are arranged anticounter clockwise. Most of the dice makers follow these rules. ... ...... There is a way the dice can be different. There are two ways of placing the points of number 2, 3, or 6, which change into themselves by turning through 180°. This leads to eight pictures. The red die is the most frequent. But I also found the green ones. Four puzzles with dice will follow now. Guessing the Sum top ... Build a tower of several dice. Is it possible to find the sum of the points of the hidden horizontal cube sides? In this case the tower is formed by three dice. Five surfaces would be counted: The under side of the top die, and the top and bottom sides of the two lower dice. Solution: You take 1 at the top and count the number of the lower cubes. Number 6 is opposite the 1 side. You add 7 for each die. The sum is 6+2x7=20. ... You can make a nice cube puzzle, if you cut the die in nine bars. The vertical bars are in the middle layer, the horizontal ones on the outside. Then the puzzle is more interesting. ... ... You can also form a 3x3x3-cube with 9 V-Triominos (drawing) or with Soma cubes. Draw points on them. Rubik's Dice top Rubik's dice is a black plastic dice 7cm x 7cm x 7cm with circular holes instead of points. There are seven white squared tiles with red circles, which you can lay inside the cube. The tiles directly lying at the holes stick to walls inside. You can remove them with two connected sticks. The tiles close the holes in red or in white. You have found a solution, when all points have become white. You will soon notice, that you can`t solve the puzzle by trying. There are too many possibilities with seven tiles for closing the holes. Moving the tiles is difficult, too. Act like this: You can look inside the cube and can recognize the patterns of both sides of the tiles. Draw them. The tiles show a number with two digits on the top right (meaning?), which can be used as names. There is the following image: Now the solution is simple. If you like, don't read further and solve the puzzle yourself... Solution: Tile 78 (left side) only fits on the six, then tile 65 (left side) only fits on the five, then tile 34 (left side) only fits on the four, then tile 58 (right side) only fits on the three, then tile 12 (right side) only fits on the two, and then tile 14 (left side) only fits on the one. Tile 47 is useless. There is only one
Digger, Plasterer and Orchid are all types of which creature?	Digger Bee: pictures, information, classification and more 2009 Ads Digger Bee, common name for a group of robust, fast-flying, ground-nesting bees with velvety fur. These bees live throughout the world. There are several thousand species, more than 900 of which occur in the United States and Canada. Digger bees visit a wide variety of flowers and are important in pollination. They are also called longhorned bees due to the exceptionally long antennae of the males. Digger bees range from the size of a honey bee to as large as a bumble bee. These bees mostly nest in the ground and line their brood cells (compartments for offspring) with a waxlike secretion. In some species, the females construct a characteristic turret, a chimneylike extension of the nest entrance. Other digger bees nest in wood and some are parasites of other bees. Parasitic digger bees do not construct nests. Digger bees display very interesting nesting and foraging behavior. Many species nest in dense aggregations, and swarms of males cruise around the nesting sites searching for emerging females. In one species, the males can detect the females in the ground before they emerge. These males dig a hole into the ground where the female will emerge and then await her arrival. Other males attempt to take over and fights ensue. The largest bee usually wins. A species of digger bee called the southeastern blueberry bee specializes on blueberry plants in its pollen-collecting. It is more efficient at pollinating these plants than honey bees or bumble bees. Another species, the pallid bee, puts on spectacular displays of mating behavior in the spring around nests in desert washes in Arizona. The Pacific sand dune bee is a digger bee that nests in coastal sand dunes in California, Oregon, and Washington. The females dig nests 0.9 m (3 ft) deep in compacted dune sand. Scientific classification: The digger bees comprise the subfamily Anthophorinae, family Anthophoridae, order Hymenoptera. The southeastern blueberry bee is Habropoda laboriosa, the Pacific sand dune bee is Habropoda miserabilis, and the pallid bee is Centris pallida. Share this page with your friends!
In which year was the Sydney Harbour Bridge officially opened?	Sydney Harbour Bridge \| australia.gov.au Sydney Harbour Bridge Sydney Harbour Bridge Sydney Harbour Bridge at sunset. Image courtesy of Virtual Australia. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of Australia's most well known and photographed landmarks. It is the world's largest (but not the longest) steel arch bridge with the top of the bridge standing 134 metres above the harbour. It is fondly known by the locals as the 'Coathanger' because of its arch-based design. A history of the Sydney Harbour Bridge It was as early as 1815 that Francis Greenway proposed building a bridge from the northern to the southern shore of the harbour. It took some time for this to become a reality with design submissions invited in 1900. All the submissions were considered unsuitable and so the momentum for the bridge crossing stopped. However, after the First World War more serious plans were made, with a general design for the Sydney Harbour Bridge prepared by Dr J J C Bradfield and officers of the NSW Department of Public Works. The New South Wales Government then invited worldwide tenders for the construction of the Bridge in 1922 and the contract was let to English firm Dorman Long and Co of Middlesbrough. The Sydney Harbour Bridge construction started in 1924 and took 1,400 men eight years to build at a cost of 4.2 million. Six million hand driven rivets and 53,000 tonnes of steel were used in its construction. It now carries eight traffic lanes and two rail lines, one in each direction, but at the time of its construction the two eastern lanes were tram tracks. They were converted to road traffic when Sydney closed down its tram system in the 1950s. Captain Francis De Groot 'opening' the Bridge. Image courtesy of Pylon Lookout. An interesting past The Bridge has an interesting past including its official opening on 19 March 1932. Before the NSW Premier, the Honourable John 'Jack' T. Lang, could cut the ribbon to signify the opening of the Harbour Bridge, Captain Francis De Groot of the political group The New Guard slashed the ribbon with his sword. Captain De Goot believed that the only person to open the Bridge should be a member of the Royal Family. Captain De Goot was detained, the ribbon tied together, and the Premier then officially cut the ribbon. As many as 800 families living in the Bridge's path were relocated and their homes demolished without any compensation given when the Bridge started construction. Sixteen workers lives were lost during construction of the Bridge. Grace Cossington Smith, The Bridge in-Curve, c.1930, tempera on cardboard 83.6x111.8cm. Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Victoria. Flying under the Bridge It is reported that in 1943 a flight of 24 RAAF Wirraways flew under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, with one of the pilots changing his flight path at the last moment to go over the top of the Bridge only just clearing it in time. There is another story of the Americans flying under the Harbour Bridge, with one Kittyhawk flying under in about February 1942 and two Kittyhawks in May 1942. Again in May 1942, the Dutch flew three aircraft of the 18 Squadron NEI-AF under the Bridge in formation and then circled back to do another flight under the Bridge in a single line. On 22 October 1943, Flight Lieutenant Peter Isaacson and his crew flew the huge Australian Lancaster, Q for Queenie, under the Harbour Bridge during a tour around Australia to raise funds for the war effort. Climbing the Bridge BridgeClimb started in 1998 and attracts tourists and locals alike to climb the monument. After climbing through catwalks and up ladders and stairs, the view is absolutely breathtaking. There are day, twilight and night climbs and a group of twelve will leave for a climb every ten minutes. The safety precautions taken include a blood alcohol reading and a Climb Simulator, which shows Climbers the climbing conditions that might be experienced on the Bridge. By all reports, BridgeClimb is fantastic and one of the 'must dos' while on a trip to Sydney, with royals and celebrities such as Prince Frederik and Princess Mary of

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