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Entomomania is a compulsive fascination with which type of creatures?	List of manias A- Ablutomania- Compulsion to wash or clean. Agromania- Unreasonable desire for solitude or solitudinous wandering. Morbid desire to live in solitude or in the country. Alcoholomania- Abnormal craving for intoxicants. (Personal note: this, I believe, is different than alcoholism in that alcoholism is a state of being and it is alcoholomania that leads to that state.) Ailuromania- Intense enthusiasm for cats. Anthromania- Inordinate interest in flowers. Arithmomania- Craze for numbers and counting. Automania- Compulsion toward solitude. Bibliomania- Obsession with the collecting of books. Bromomania- Mental disorder caused by chronic misuse of bromides. Callomania- Belief in one's own beauty; a delusion of the insane. Camphoromania- Abnormal craving for camphor (a gum obtained from an evergreen tree native to China and Japan). Choreomania- Dancing mania. Seen in the Middle Ages. Choromania- Dance mania, a form of chorea. Cleptomania- Kleptomania. Impulsive stealing in which the motive is not related to the intrinsic value of the stolen article. There is often deep regret following the act. Cocainomania- Intense desire for cocaine and its effects. Cresomania- Hallucination of possessing great wealth. Croesomania- Hallucination of possessing great wealth. Cacodemonomania- Inordinate obsession with demonic possession. Cheromania- Compulsion toward gaiety. Chrematomania- Obsessive desire for money. Coprolalomania- Obsession with foul speech. Cynomania- Intense enthusiasm for dogs. Dacnomania- An irrational impulse to kill. Dipsomania- A morbid and uncontrollable craving for alcoholic beverages. Drapetomania- Insane impulse to wander from home. Dromomania- Insane impulse to wander. Ecdemomania- Wanderlust; abnormal desire to wander. Egomania- Abnormal self-esteem and self-interest. Enomania- Craving for alcoholic beverages. Enosimania- A mental state characterized by excessive and irrational terror. Entheomania- Religious insanity. Ergasiomania- An abnormal desire to be busy at work. Erotomania- Pathological exaggeration of sexual behavior. Erythromania- Uncontrolled blushing. Esthesiomania- Insanity with sensory hallucinations and perverted moral sensibilities. Etheromania- Addiction to use of ether. Eleutheromania- Irresistible craving for freedom. Entomomania- Inordinate fascination with insects. Eremiomania- Irresistible craving for stillness. Ergomania- Obsessive zeal for work. K- Kleptomania- Impulsive stealing, the motive not being in the intrinsic value of the article to the patient. In almost all cases, the individual has enough money to pay for the stolen goods. The stealing is done without prior planning and without the assistance of others. There is increased tension prior to the theft and a sense of gratification while committing the act. Kathisomania- Uncontrollable compulsion to sit. Logomania- Repetitious, continuous, and excessive flow of speech seen in monomania. Letheomania- Obsessive fascination with narcotics. Macromania- 1. Megalomania, q.v. 2. The delusion that the affected individual or his or her parts or surroundings are extremely large. Megalomania- A psychosis characterized by ideas of personal exaltation and delusions of grandeur. Methomania- Pathological craving for intoxicating drinks or other intoxicants. Monomania- Mental illness characterized by distortion of thought processes concerning a single subject or idea. Musicomania- Insane love of music. Melomania- Excessive fascination with music. Mythomania- Irresistible impulse toward exaggeration and lying. Necromania- 1. Abnormal interest in dead bodies or in death. 2. Mania with desire for death. Nostomania- Nostalgia verging on insanity. Nudomania- Abnormal desire to be nude. Nymphomania- Abnormal excessive sexual desire in a female. Nesomania- Intense fascination with islands. Noctimania- Intense fascination with night. Oikomania- Nervous disorder induced by unhappy home surroundings. Oniomania- A
Tahir Square is in which North African city?	Egypt protesters flock to Tahrir Square \| World news \| The Guardian Egypt protesters flock to Tahrir Square ElBaradei joins tens of thousands heading to Tahrir Square demanding immediate end to military rule Protesters in Tahrir Square on Thursday. Friday's demonstration - known as 'the Friday of the Last Chance' - could be the biggest for months. Photograph: Fohlen Corentin/Sipa/Rex Friday 25 November 2011 05.13 EST First published on Friday 25 November 2011 05.13 EST Close This article is 5 years old Protesters are gathering throughout Cairo for mass demonstrations ahead of Monday's elections, which continue to polarise the country. The largest rally is planned for Tahrir Square, to which thousands of people are heading. However, in public spaces elsewhere in the city, pro-regime gatherings are forming. Supporters of the military regime will be kept away from Tahrir Square, where opponents of the military council have gathered over the past week to demand it cedes power to civilian control. The Nobel peace prizewinner Mohamed ElBaradei on Friday morning tweeted that he was on his way to Tahrir to "pay respect to the martyrs", a repeat of his visit in January, which was received rapturously and another clear step in his bid for the presidency. The interior ministry has said it cannot guarantee the safety of the election and there are fears that today's march may also test its capabilities – and resolve. The marches are set to begin in earnest after midday prayers, the first day of the weekend in Egypt. Friday prayers have proved to be a lightning rod for dissent throughout 11 months of upheaval in Egypt and in other restive states throughout the Arab region. Up to 30 political parties have called for Friday's rallies, demanding an end to the rule of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces (Scaf) and an immediate transition to a salvation government led by civilians. The political blocs are not, however, united on pushing ahead with a ballot that is viewed by many as a further risk to an already unstable security environment. The Muslim Brotherhood, which is poised for sweeping electoral gains on Monday, is adamant the poll should continue. However, many groups believe the situation remains too chaotic to hold an election. The White House has released a statement praising Egypt's commitment to change and urging the military to give way "as soon as possible" to full civilian rule. "We will continue to stand with the Egyptian people as they build a democracy worthy of Egypt's great history," the statement said. European states, including Britain, have remained coy, condemning violence this week between youths and secuity forces in Tahrir Square but stepping back from earlier strident calls for elections to help the transition from martial law to fledgling democracy.
What is the name of the absent-minded inventor in the 1968 film ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’?	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) - Cast, Ratings, Awards Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) Children and Fantasy \| G \| 2 hours and 36 minutes \| December 18, 1968 (USA) Be the first to review +2 Producer: Albert R. Broccoli While truant from school, young siblings Jeremy and Jemima meet the beautiful Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), who falls for their widowed father, Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke), and his various oddball inventions, including the family's noisy rebuilt car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. One day at the beach, Caractacus tells Truly and the children a fanciful fable about the villainous Baron Bomburst (Gert Frobe) and his evil designs on the Potts family car. See All Movies Did You Like The Movie? Advertisement More Movies With Dick Van Dyke How famous is the cast of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"? PrettyFamous Score The PrettyFamous score quantifies the fame of the film's cast members based on the number of awards the actors and actresses have ever been nominated for, combined box office gross of all the movies the actors and actresses have been in, and the current internet popularity of the cast. The Best Action Movies of All Time From Die Hard to Mad Max, PrettyFamous found the greatest action films of all time. 10 minute read ›
Which chemical element does ‘Li’ represent in the Periodic Table?	Lithium - Element information, properties and uses \| Periodic Table Chemistry in its element: lithium (Promo) You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. (End promo) Chris Smith Hello, this week to the element that tops group one and gives us lighter aircraft and armoured plating. It also keeps grease running at arctic temperatures, powers pacemakers and lies at the heart of the hydrogen bomb. Matt Wilkinson Lithium is rare in the Universe, although it was one of the three elements, along with hydrogen and helium, to be created in the Big Bang. The element was discovered on Earth in 1817 by Johan August Arfvedson (1792-1841) in Stockholm when he investigated petalite, one of the first lithium minerals to be discovered. (It was observed to give an intense crimson flame when sprinkled on to a fire.) He deduced that petalite contained an unknown metal, which he called lithium from the Greek word for a stone, lithos, although he never actually produced any. He reasoned that it was a new alkali metal and lighter than sodium. However, unlike sodium, which Humphry Davy had isolated in 1807 by the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide, Arfvedson was unable to produced lithium by the same method. A sample of lithium metal was finally extracted in 1855 and then by the electrolysis of molten lithium chloride. Once lithium's discovery had been announced others soon found it to be present in all kinds of things such as grapes, seaweed, tobacco, vegetables, milk and blood. Another lithium ore is spodumene, which like petalite is a lithium aluminium silicate, and there is a large deposit of this ore in South Dakota. World production of lithium compounds is around 40 000 tonnes a year and reserves are estimated to be around 7 million tonnes. Industrial production of the metal itself is reported to be about 7500 tonnes a year, and this is produced by the electrolysis of molten lithium chloride and potassium chloride in steel cells at temperatures of 450oC. Lithium is moderately toxic as discovered in the 1940s when patients were given lithium chloride as a salt substitute. However, in small doses it is prescribed as a treatment for manic depression (now called bipolar disorder). Its calming effect on the brain was first noted in 1949, by an Australian doctor, John Cade, of the Victoria Department of Mental Hygiene. He had injected guinea pigs with a 0.5% solution of lithium carbonate, and to his surprise these normally highly-strung animals became docile, and indeed were so calm that they would sit in the same position for several hours. Cade then gave his most mentally disturbed patient an injection of the same solution. The man responded so well that within days he was transferred to a normal hospital ward and was soon back at work. Other patients responded similarly and lithium therapy is now used all around the world to treat this mental condition. How it works is still not known for certain, but it appears to prevent overproduction of a chemical messenger in the brain. Lithium is used commercially in various ways. Lithium oxide goes into glass and glass ceramics. Lithium metal goes into alloys with magnesium and aluminium, and it improves their strength while making them lighter. Magnesium-lithium alloy is used in protective armour plating and aluminium-lithium reduces the weight of aircraft thereby saving fuel. Lithium stearate, made by reacting stearic acid with lithium hydroxide, is an all-purpose high-temperature grease and most greases contain it. It will even work well at temperatures as low as -60oC and has been used for vehicles in the Antarctic. Lithium batteries, which operate at 3-volts or more, are used in devices where compactness and lightness are all-important. They are implanted to supply the electrical energy for heart pacemakers. They function with lithium as the anode, iodine as the solid electrolyte, and manganese oxide as the cathode - and they have a lifespan of ten years. This longevity has been extended to lithium batteries
Reggie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica were members of which fictional band?	The Archies \| Archie Comics Wiki \| Fandom powered by Wikia Template:About Template:Infobox musical artist The Archies are a garage band founded by Archie Andrews , Reggie Mantle , and Jughead Jones , a group of fictional adolescent characters of the Archie universe, in the context of the animated TV series, The Archie Show . The group is also known for their real world success, through a virtual band . The fictional band's music was recorded by session musicians featuring Ron Dante on vocals and released as a series of singles and albums. Their most successful song, " Sugar, Sugar ", became one of the biggest hits of the bubblegum pop genre that flourished from 1968 to 1972. [1] Contents Hot Dog : mascot / conductor The Archies are sometimes jokingly compared to The Doors , as they also had no bass player. However, there is some controversy as to whether Reggie played bass or not. In most drawings, his guitar looks identical to Archie's, making him the band's second (or co-lead) guitarist. However, a number of drawings (including the one above) clearly show Reggie's instrument to have four tuning keys, the most common bass design. Six-string bass guitars do exist, however, and the Archies' recordings regularly featured a bass player. In more than one comic strip, Reggie is described as playing bass (however, this is not necessarily canon , as storylines and hobbies/activities in the Archie world change from story to story). Finally, in the liner notes for 2008's The Archies Christmas Album, Reggie is listed as the bass guitarist. One distribution mode for the Archies' music was cereal boxes: a cardboard record was embossed directly into the back of a box such that the record could be cut out and played on a turntable (although their music was also available on standard issue LPs and 45s). Though the group no longer appears in animation, they are still frequently used in stories published by Archie Comics . Other cartoon groups Edit In the late 1960s and early 1970s, animated series often featured musical groups that were fictional or sometimes based on real life musicians. This dates at least as far back as 1965 with The Beatles , but the Archies helped popularize the concept. Most of these groups played bubblegum pop . Several were also teenage detectives, influenced by Scooby Doo . These groups included The Groovie Goolies , The Hardy Boys , Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids , The Banana Splits (actually live action with actors in animal costumes and dubbed speaking voices), The Cattanooga Cats , The Chan Clan , and The Neptunes . Animated versions of The Jackson 5ive , the Osmond Brothers , the Partridge Family , and The Brady Bunch also existed. Archie Comics ' own creation Josie and the Pussycats was successful both as an animated series and as a comic book (and later a live action motion picture ), but The Bingoes and The Madhouse Glads lacked its popularity and never appeared in animation. Two modern examples of the "cartoon rock group" could include the British band, Gorillaz —a musical project created in 1998 by British musician Damon Albarn and British cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, and Dethklok , a fictional death metal band created by Brendon Small . Production Edit A set of studio musicians were assembled by Don Kirshner in 1968 to perform various songs. The most famous is " Sugar, Sugar ", written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim , which went to #1 on the pop chart in 1969, sold over six million copies, and was awarded a gold disc . [2] In Billboard 's Hot 100 , it was ranked as the number one song of that year, the only time a fictional band has ever claimed Billboard's annual Hot 100 top spot. Other Top 40 songs recorded by The Archies include "Who's Your Baby?" (U.S. #40), "Bang-Shang-A-Lang" (U.S. #22), and "Jingle Jangle" (U.S. #10). "Jingle Jangle" also sold over one million copies, garnering a second gold disc award. [2] Male vocals for the fictional Archies group were provided by The Cuff Links ' lead singer Ron Dante and female duet vocals were provided by Toni Wine . Wine, who was only paid for the record
Which country is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest and Cambodia to the southwest?	Cambodia Map and Satellite Image Cambodia Map and Satellite Image Cambodia Bordering Countries: Cambodia Satellite Image Cambodia Information: Cambodia is located in southeastern Asia. Cambodia is bordered by the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest, Vietnam to the east, Laos to the north, and Thailand to the northwest. Explore Cambodia Using Google Earth: Google Earth is a free program from Google that allows you to explore satellite images showing the cities and landscapes of Cambodia and all of Asia in fantastic detail. It works on your desktop computer, tablet, or mobile phone. The images in many areas are detailed enough that you can see houses, vehicles and even people on a city street. Google Earth is free and easy-to-use. Cambodia on a World Wall Map: Cambodia is one of nearly 200 countries illustrated on our Blue Ocean Laminated Map of the World. This map shows a combination of political and physical features. It includes country boundaries, major cities, major mountains in shaded relief, ocean depth in blue color gradient, along with many other features. This is a great map for students, schools, offices and anywhere that a nice map of the world is needed for education, display or decor. Cambodia On a Large Wall Map of Asia: If you are interested in Cambodia and the geography of Asia our large laminated map of Asia might be just what you need. It is a large political map of Asia that also shows many of the continent's physical features in color or shaded relief. Major lakes, rivers,cities, roads, country boundaries, coastlines and surrounding islands are all shown on the map. Cambodia Cities: Battambang, Kampong Cham, Kampong Chhnang, Kamport, Kohnieh, Kompong Thom, Krakor, Kralanh, Kratie, Lomphat, Lovea, Pailin City, Phnom Penh, Poipet, Ponlei, Prek Kak, Puok, Pursat, Siem Reap, Sisophon, Stung Treng and Takeo. Cambodia Locations: Chhung Kompong Som, Gulf of Thailand, Mekong River, San River, Sen River, South China Sea and Tonle Sap. Cambodia Natural Resources: Cambodia's mineral resources include gemstones, iron ore, manganese, phosphates, oil and natural gas. Other natural resources include timber and potential hydropower. Cambodia Natural Hazards: Although Cambodiaï¿½s natural hazards include the occasional drought, the country experiences monsoonal rains and flooding from June to November. Cambodia Environmental Issues: Cambodiaï¿½s environmental issues include illegal logging activities and soil erosion, throughout the country. There is strip mining for gems in the western region (along the border with Thailand), which have resulted in habitat loss and declining biodiversity. This has particularly been destructive to the mangrove swamps and threatens the natural fisheries. The fish stocks are declining due to illegal fishing and overfishing. In the rural areas of Cambodia, most of the population does not have access to potable water. Copyright information: The images on this page were composed by Angela King and Brad Cole and are copyright by Geology.com © 2008. These images are not available for use beyond our websites. If you would like to share them with others please link to this page. The satellite image was produced using Landsat data from NASA and the map was produced using data licensed from and copyright by Map Resources © 2008. © 2005-2017 Geology.com. All Rights Reserved. Images, code, and content on this website are property of Geology.com and are protected by copyright law. Geology.com does not grant permission for any use, republication, or redistribution.
Regicide is the killing of who?	Regicide - definition of regicide by The Free Dictionary Regicide - definition of regicide by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/regicide 1. The killing of a king. 2. One who kills a king. [Latin rēx, rēg-, king; see reg- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots + -cide .] reg′i·cid′al (-sīd′l) adj. regicide 1. the killing of a king 2. a person who kills a king [C16: from Latin rēx king + -cide] ˌregiˈcidal adj 1. the killing of a king. 2. a person who kills a king or is responsible for his death. [1540–50; < Latin rēg-, s. of rēx king + -i- + -cide ] reg`i•cid′al, adj. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: regicide - someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king killer , slayer - someone who causes the death of a person or animal 2. regicide - the act of killing a king murder , slaying , execution - unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being Translations n (= act) → Königsmord m; (= person) → Königsmörder(in) m(f) regicide [ˈrɛdʒɪˌsaɪd] n (frm) (crime) → regicidio ; (person) → regicida m/f 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: I am not speaking of regicide, I am speaking about ideas. Yes: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide," again interjected an ironical voice. Why revolutions fail.. It meant, however, that the advocates of that communal political ideology which the author terms "civic republicanism" were cautious about the r-word with all its connotations of regicide in the case of the French and English Revolutions and fratricidal strife in the American. BrickWarriors Publishing's "Riddle of Regicide," Being Turned Into Lego I have tried to visit Britain on the eve of every general election since the end of the Thatcher era (by Tory regicide, not the ballot box) in November 1990 in search of insights to help me trade sterling, gilts and UK equities. 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.
Basque, Aranese and Galician are all languages spoken in which European country?	Other Languages of Spain - Catalan, Basque, Galician - aboutspanishimmersion.com Other Languages of Spain - Catalan, Basque, Galician Catalan Spoken throughout Valencia and Catalonia as well as in parts of Southern France, Catalan is the second most widely spoken language across Spain. It is recognised as the only official language of Andorra and is a co-official language in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands . Although Castilian and Catalan resemble each other slightly on paper, when spoken they are highly distinguishable, and in many parts of Catalonia, Barcelona included Catalan is the principle language spoken in public. The language spoken in Catalonia and Valencia is also distinguishable; there are a number of significant differences in vocabulary as well as grammar. Following repression under the Franco regime, Catalan grew and developed as a significant Spanish language and there are now many official newspapers, TV channels and radio stations which operate only in Catalan. Basque The Basque language, or Euskara, is a recognised language of Spain and is spoken throughout the Basque country which covers north-east Spain and south-west France and whose capital is the beautiful city of Bilbao . Across this area approximately 25% of the population speaks Basque, the majority of these living in the Spanish area of the region. Although an exceedingly difficult language to learn, it is promoted and taught in many areas of the region and there are a number of schools which are conducted solely in Basque. Unlike Castilian and Catalan, Euskara bears no relation to other European languages derived from Latin sparking confusion as to its roots. Its word structure, syntax and vocabulary are completely different to any other language spoken in the country. Not only does this make it particularly difficult for visitors to the region but also for those who wish to learn it to any level. Galician The Galician language is co-official with Castilian in the north-west region of Galicia and is spoken by around 3 million people. The language plays a prominent role in bilingual schools throughout the region and is used in its three universities. Galician bears a number of resemblances to Portuguese due to its close proximity to the country and much controversy surrounds the distinguishing between the two languages.
What is the name of the light porous form of solidified lava used a skin abrasive?	Pumice: Solidified Frothy Lava \| Rashid's Blog Pumice: Solidified Frothy Lava Posted on February 10, 2012 by Rashid Faridi Pumice is an igneous rocks which formed when lava cooled quickly above ground. Little pockets of air can be seen in the rock . This rock is so light, that many pumice rocks actually float in water. Pumice is actually a kind of glass unike other rocks which are mixture of minerals. Because this rock is so light, it is used quite often as a decorative landscape stone. By origin, Pumice is a is a solidified frothy lava typically created when super-heated, highly pressurized rock is violently ejected from a volcano . It is formed when lava and water are mixed. This unusual formation is due to the simultaneous actions of rapid cooling and rapid release of pressure. This release of pressure creates bubbles by lowering the solubility of gases (including water and CO2) dissolved in the lava, causing the gases to rapidly exsolve (like the bubbles of CO2 that appear when a carbonated drink is opened). The simultaneous cooling and pressure release freezes the bubbles in the matrix. Economic Uses Pumice is used extensively to make lightweight concrete or insulative low-density breeze blocks. When used as an additive for cement, a fine-grained version of pumice called pozzolan is mixed with lime to form a light-weight, smooth, plaster-like concrete. This form of concrete was used in Roman times. Roman engineers used it to build the huge dome of the Pantheon and as construction material for many aqueducts. It is also used as an abrasive, especially in polishes, pencil erasers, cosmetic exfoliants, and the production of stone-washed jeans. “Pumice stones” are often used in beauty salons during the pedicure process to remove dry and excess skin from the bottom of the foot as well as to remove calluses. It was also used in ancient Greek and Roman times to remove excess hair. Finely ground pumice is added to some toothpastes and heavy-duty hand cleaners (such as Lava soap) as a mild abrasive. Pumice is also used as a growing substrate for growing horticultural crops.Its porous nature makes it a natural for filters. In some aspects Pumice is like scoriain that both are frothy, lightweight volcanic rocks, but the bubbles in pumice are small and regular and its composition is more felsic than scoria’s.Scoria differs from pumice in being denser. Pumice is glassy and scoria is lava with microscopic crystals. Pumice differs from obsidian in that obsidian is all glass and lacks the extensive vesicles of pumice. Most pumice is acidic/felsic in composition associated with rhyolite since those lavas tend to have more volatiles, but intermediate and basic varieties are known to occur. Scoria is a much heavier ropey volcanic rock with larger but less prolific vesicles than pumice. Pumice Islands Some ocean volcanoes have produced what are known as pumice rafts, which are actual floating mini islands made of rock. These pumice islands can be there for years floating along the ocean currents. Some may have been responsible for the distribution of island hopping animals and plants of the Pacific Ocean. Some pumice islands were found with plants actually growing on them. Links and Sources:
A surgeon would perform brachioplasty on which part of the body?	What is an arm lift? \| Arm Lift \| American Society of Plastic Surgeons What is an arm lift? What is an arm lift? An arm lift, or brachioplasty, is a surgical procedure that: Reduces excess sagging skin that droops downward Tightens and smoothes the underlying supportive tissue that defines the shape of the upper arm Reduces localized pockets of fat in the upper arm region Fluctuations in weight, growing older, and heredity can cause your upper arms to have a drooping, sagging appearance. This is a condition that cannot be corrected through exercise. Arm lift surgery may be right for you if the underside of your upper arms are sagging or appear loose and full due to excess skin and fat. Next: Arm lift cost
Which is the longest motorway in Britain?	CBRD » Motorway Database » M6 Main Images Timeline Exit List Where would we be without the M6? Nowhere at all. It's Britain's longest motorway and carries (in total, over its whole length) more traffic than any other. Part of it was also Britain's first. The first motorway in Britain was the Preston Bypass, which was then incorporated into the M6 when construction was continued. Today it's found between junction 29 and M55 junction 1. The M6 contains all kinds of ground-breaking sections: the section along the Lake District has won awards for enhancing the landscape, for example. In a more mundane area and the section between Shap and Tebay is the only one in Britain to have an unconnected local road running down the central reservation. Opened in 2003, the M6 Toll bypasses Birmingham, and is Britain's first toll road. Recently completed is the A74 upgrade, which extended the M6 right up to the border, connecting to the A74(M) . The A74(M) and M74 were, when they were built, going to be renumbered as M6, creating a motorway over 350 miles long linking the M1 (and thus London) to Glasgow. That looks highly unlikely now. However, the fact that the link between the two motorways was made at all is a cause for celebration, and it's fitting that it was on 5 December 2008 that the a new section opened — the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Preston Bypass. Factfile
Who captained the England rugby union team in the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand?	Rugby World Cup 2011: England team guide \| Sport \| The Guardian Rugby World Cup 2011: England team guide Everything you need to know about Martin Johnson's men at the Rugby World Cup Matt Stevens, Dylan Hartley and Alex Corbisiero warm-up for the Rugby World Cup. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images Tuesday 6 September 2011 11.00 EDT First published on Tuesday 6 September 2011 11.00 EDT Share on Messenger Close 24 years in 140 characters: Got the drop on Australia to win in 03 but were denied by Aussie TMO in 07. Also finalists in 91 but took a whaling from Jonah four years on Coach: Martin Johnson Record in 2011: P8 W6 L2 World Cup record: 2003: Winners 2007: Runners-up How are they likely to get on? If the World Cup was being played in 12 months' time, England would be stronger contenders. As it is they are a team learning on the hoof, vulnerable to opponents who neutralise their forward strength. They should still finish top of the pool but both Argentina and Scotland may make it hard for them to generate any rhythm. The emergence of Manu Tuilagi, though, has finally presented Martin Johnson with a genuine midfield threat and if Ben Youngs and Courtney Lawes play to their full potential, England can certainly reach the last four. Key player: Chris Ashton. When England are at their best, the Northampton wing seems to be everywhere. His support lines and try-scoring instincts could be the difference in tight games. Commentator's kit: Until the age of 16, the flanker Tom Croft was a member of the West Berkshire Youth Dance Group, studying contemporary, modern and street dancing. He says it contributed to his notable agility and suppleness. Squad Dan Cole, prop, age 24, caps 17 Alex Corbisiero, prop, age 23, caps 6 Andrew Sheridan, prop, age 31, caps 38 Matt Stevens, prop, age 28, caps 34 David Wilson, prop, age 26, caps 18 Dylan Hartley, hooker, age 25, caps 29 Lee Mears, hooker, age 32, caps 37 Steve Thompson, hooker, age 33, caps 67 Louis Deacon, second-row, age 30, caps 24 Courtney Lawes, second-row, age 22, caps 9 Tom Palmer, second-row, age 32, caps 27 Simon Shaw, second-row, age 38, caps 67 Tom Croft, flanker, age 25, caps 25 James Haskell, flanker, age 26, caps 36 Lewis Moody (c), flanker, age 33, caps 67 Tom Wood, flanker, age 24, caps 7 Nick Easter, No8, age 33, caps 44 Joe Simpson, scrum-half, age 23, caps 0 Richard Wigglesworth, scrum-half, age 28, caps 7 Ben Youngs, scrum-half, age 22, caps 12 Toby Flood, fly-half, age 26, caps 41 Jonny Wilkinson, fly-half, age 32, caps 86 Matt Banahan, wing, age 24, caps 13 Shontayne Hape, centre, age 30, caps 12 Mike Tindall, centre, age 32, caps 71 Manu Tuilagi, centre, age 20, caps 1 Chris Ashton, wing, age 24, caps 12 Mark Cueto, wing, age 31, caps 52 Delon Armitage, full-back, age 27, caps 21 Ben Foden, full-back, age 26, caps 16 Average age 26.7 Everything you need to know about the Romanian side at the Rugby World Cup Published: 6 Sep 2011 Everything you need to know about the improving Lelos at the Rugby World Cup Published: 6 Sep 2011 Everything you need to know about Andy Robinson's improving Scotland side at the Rugby World Cup Published: 6 Sep 2011 Everything you need to know about Namibia's World Cup squad Published: 6 Sep 2011
In astronomy, ‘The Big Dipper’ is another name for which constellation?	Astronomy for Kids - The Big Dipper A map of Ursa Major. The Big Dipper and Ursa Major Since the Big Dipper is part of the constellation Ursa Major (The Great Bear), it is technically not a constellation. It's what is called an asterism, which is the name given to interesting star patterns that are easily recognizable, but not one of the "official" constellations. Be that as it may, the Big Dipper is probably one of the first objects in the sky that we learn to find and identify. It's distinctive position at the top of the summer night sky and the graceful curve of its handle make it easy for almost anyone to find. The link at right will take you to a map of the Ursa Major constellation where you will see where the Big Dipper is in relation to the actual constellation. Map of the Big Dipper A map of the Big Dipper. The Big Dipper and its Companions The Big Dipper is very impressive all by itself, but it also is very close to a number of other very interesting sights. Included in these sights, and noted on the map at right, are the Pinwheel galaxy and the Whirlpool galaxy. If you have a good pair of binoculars or a small telescope, you should be able to find these galaxies using the map we have provided. When you find them, they will usually look like a small smudge of light instead of the sharp well-defined light that you are used to seeing when you look at a star. There are also several double stars in the Big Dipper, which you should be able to see using a small telescope. All in all, the Big Dipper is a very interesting place indeed. Big Dipper and Polaris A map of the Big Dipper and Polaris. A Compass in the Sky As you spend more time watching the sky, you will learn that the stars in one constellation can help lead you to other sky landmarks. The Big Dipper is no exception as you can use two of the stars in its "cup" to find the North Star and you can use the arc of its handle to find the giant red star Arcturus. As the Big Dipper rotates around our north sky "pole", in what is caled a "circumpolar" orbit, two of the stars in its bowl can always ppoint the way to Polaris, the North Star. Although Polaris is not often at exactly North on a compass, it's fairly close and can help you get your directions when you are outside at night. Terence Dickinson's book "Nightwatch", which we have a link to on the main Constellations page, has many examples of using constellations and their stars to find your way around the night sky. We recommend it highly. Follow the Drinking Gourd In the United States, during the nineteenth century, African-Americans that were being held as slaves in the south made very practical use of the Big Dipper's consistent northern sky location. The Big Dipper was also known as the Drinking Gourd and slaves trying to make their way to freedom used it as a guidepost to find their way North and escape the bonds of slavery. The lyrics of folk song "Follow the Drinking Gourd" served as guide to help them find their way north and its chorus reminded them to always follow the Drinking Gourd, or Big Dipper. When Can I See the Big Dipper? The very best time to look at the Big Dipper is in the middle of the summer, when it is easily found on any clear night in the northernmost part of the night sky. Once you are outside, look in the northern sky and try to find it handle. The arc of the handle will stand out and once you have found the handle, finding the bowl is easy. Once you have found the entire Big Dipper, use the charts we have to find Polaris and Arcturus. You will be surprised at how easy it is. Find Out More About the Big Dipper
Which World War II battle was officially known as ‘The Ardennes Offensive’?	THE ARDENNES: BATTLE OF THE BULGE (Contents) BATTLE OF THE BULGE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY WASHINGTON, D.C., 1965 This volume, one of the series UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II, is the eighth to be published in the subseries, THE EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS. The volumes in the overall series will be closely related and will present a comprehensive account of the activities of the Military Establishment during World War II. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 65-60001 (For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II Stetson Conn, General Editor (As of 1 July 1964) Industrial College of the Armed Forces Maj. Gen. Hugh M. Exton US Continental Army Command Brig. Gen. Ward S. Ryan US Army War College Brig. Gen. Elias C. Townsend US Army Command and General Staff College Lt. Col. Thomas E. Griess United States Military Academy Office of the Chief of Military History Brig. Gen. Hal. C. Pattison, Chief of Military History Chief Historian Chief, Editorial and Graphics Division Col. Walter B. McKenzie A Town En Route to Kaundorf 639 All illustrations are from Department of Defense files, with the exception of the photograph on page 76 (General Dietrich) reproduced through the courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency, and the one on page 174 (General von Luettwitz), taken from captured German records in the National Archives. Foreword During most of the eleven months between D-day and V-E day in Europe, the U S Army was carrying on highly successful offensive operations As a consequence, the American soldier was buoyed with success, imbued with the idea that his enemy could not strike him a really heavy counterblow, and sustained by the conviction that the war was nearly won. Then, unbelievably, and under the goad of Hitler's fanaticism, the German Army launched its powerful counteroffensive in the Ardennes in December 1944 with the design of knifing through the Allied armies and forcing a negotiated peace The mettle of the American soldier was tested in the fires of adversity and the quality of his response earned for him the right to stand shoulder to shoulder with his forebears of Valley Forge, Fredericksburg, and the Marne. This is the story of how the Germans planned and executed their offensive. It is the story of how the high command, American and British, reacted to defeat the German plan once the reality of a German offensive was accepted. But most of all it is the story of the American fighting man and the manner in which he fought a myriad of small defensive battles until the torrent of the German attack was slowed and diverted, its force dissipated and finally spent. It is the story of squads, platoons, companies, and even conglomerate scratch groups that fought with courage, with fortitude, with sheer obstinacy, often without information or communications or the knowledge of the whereabouts of friends. In less than a fortnight the enemy was stopped and the Americans were preparing to resume the offensive. While Bastogne has become the symbol of this obstinate, gallant, and successful defense, this work appropriately emphasizes the crucial significance of early American success in containing the attack by holding firmly on its northern and southern shoulders and by upsetting the enemy timetable at St. Vith and a dozen lesser known but important and decisive battlefields The hard fighting that preceded the Battle of the Bulge has been recounted in two volumes, The Siegfried Line Campaign, and Dr. Cole's own earlier work, The Lorraine Campaign. Events after it will be related in The Last Offensive, now in preparation. Two other volumes in this subseries, The Supreme Command and Logistical Support of the Armies, Volume II, are useful supplements to the Ardennes volume. vii In re-creating the Ardennes battle, the author has penetrated "the fog of war" as well as any historian can hope to do. No other volume of this series treats as thoroughly or as well the teamwork of the combined arms-infantry and armor,
How many days are in a Leap Year?	How Many Days Are in a Year? - PUMAS View PUMAS Example How Many Days Are in a Year? Background: The true length of a year on Earth is 365.2422 days, or about 365.25 days. We keep our calendar in sync with the seasons by having most years 365 days long but making just under 1/4 of all years 366-day "leap" years. Exercise: Design a reasonable calendar for an imaginary planet. Your calendar will consist of a pattern of 366-day "leap" years and 365-day regular years that approximates your planet's average number of days per year. Grade Level: High School (9-12) Subject Keywords: Leap year, Year, Calendar, Error analysis, Successive approximations, Fractions Author(s): Evan M. Manning
In England and Wales, what is the date of the legal birthday for someone born on 29th February?	Leap Day Birthdays and Events The last Leap Day was on February 29, 2016 . “Leapling” Birthdays Leap day on February 29 occurs nearly every four years , but leap day babies, or leaplings, still get to celebrate their birthdays in common years . Some celebrate on February 28, some prefer March 1. When and what is Leap Day? However, many countries have laws defining which date a person born on February 29 comes of age in legal terms. For instance in New Zealand, the official birthday falls on February 28 in common years; in other countries like the United Kingdom, leap year babies have to wait until March 1. Leap Year World Records According to the Guinness Book of Records, the only verified example of a family producing three consecutive generations born on February 29 is that of the Keogh family. Peter Anthony was born in Ireland on a Leap Day in 1940, while his son, Peter Eric, was born in the UK on February 29, 1964. Peter Eric's daughter, Bethany Wealth, was also a Leap Day baby, born in the UK on February 29, 1996. Leap Day Traditions and Superstitions The Henriksen family from Andenes, Norway currently holds the official record for the most number of children born in one family on leap day. Karin Henriksen gave birth to three children on February 29; her daughter Heidi in 1960 and her sons Olav and Leif-Martin in 1964 and 1968. Celebrity Leap Day Birthdays 1468 – Pope Paul III (d. 1549) 1792 – Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (William Tell, The Barber of Seville) (d. 1868) 1896 – Morarji Desai, former Indian prime minister (d. 1995) 1968 – Wendi Louise Peters, English television and theatre character actress 1916 – Dinah Shore, American singer (d. 1994) 1924 – Al Rosen, American baseball player 1924 – Carlos Humberto Romero, former president of El Salvador 1960 – Anthony (Tony) Robbins, American motivational speaker 1964 – Lyndon Byers, Canadian hockey player 1972 – Saul Stacey Williams, American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor 1972 – Antonio Sabàto Jr, Italian-born actor 1976 – Ja Rule (real name Jeffrey Atkins), American rapper and actor 1980 – Chris Conley, American musician and songwriter/composer
In which Gilbert and Sullivan opera does Frederic only count his Leap Year birthdays, so his apprenticeship would not end until he is in his eighties?	The Pirates of Penzance The Pirates of Penzance by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera’s official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well-received by both audiences and critics.[1] Its London debut was on 3 April 1880, at the Opera Comique, where it ran for a very successful 363 performances, having already been playing successfully for over three months in New York. The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates. He meets Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley, and the two young people fall instantly in love. Frederic finds out, however, that he was born on February 29, and so, technically, he only has a birthday each leap year. His apprenticeship indentures state that he remains apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday, and so he must serve for another 63 years.[2] Mabel agrees to wait for him faithfully. Pirates was the fifth Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration and introduced the much-parodied Major-General’s Song. The opera was performed for a century by the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company in Britain and many other opera companies and repertory companies worldwide. It has received several modernised productions, including Joseph Papp’s 1981 production on Broadway, which ran for 787 performances, winning the Tony Award for Best Revival and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, and spawned many imitations. Pirates remains popular today, taking its place along with The Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore as one of the most frequently played Gilbert and Sullivan operas Background The Pirates of Penzance was the only Gilbert and Sullivan opera to have its official premiere in the United States. At the time, American law offered no copyright protection to foreigners. After their previous opera, H.M.S. Pinafore, was a hit in London, over a hundred American companies quickly mounted unauthorised productions, often taking considerable liberties with the text and paying no royalties to the creators.[3] Gilbert and Sullivan hoped to forestall further “copyright piracy” by mounting the first production of their next opera in America, before others could copy it, and by delaying publication of the score and libretto.[4] They succeeded in keeping for themselves the direct profits of the first production of the opera by opening the production themselves on Broadway, prior to the London production. They also operated U.S. touring companies.[3] However, Gilbert, Sullivan, and their producer, Richard D’Oyly Carte, failed in their efforts over the next decade, to control the American performance copyrights over their operas.[5] Genesis After the success of Pinafore, Gilbert was eager to get started on the next opera, and he began working on the libretto in December 1878.[6] He re-used several elements of his 1870 one-act piece, Our Island Home, which had introduced a pirate “chief”, Captain Bang. Bang was mistakenly apprenticed to a pirate band as a child by his deaf nursemaid. Also, Bang, like Frederic, had never seen a woman before and was affected by a keen a sense of duty, as an apprenticed pirate, until the passage of his twenty-first birthday freed him from his articles of indenture.[7] George Bernard Shaw wrote that Gilbert, who had earlier adapted Offenbach’s Les brigands, drew on that work also for his new libretto.[8] The composition of the music for Pirates was unusual, in that Sullivan wrote the music for the acts in reverse, intending to bring the completed Act II with him to New York, with Act I existing only in sketches. When he arrived in New York, however, he found that he had left the sketches behind, and he had to reconstruct the first act from memory.[9] Poster for the copyright performance at PaigntonGilbert told a correspondent many years later that Sullivan was unable to recall his setti
English actor Joss Ackland was born on 29th February in which year?	Joss Ackland - Biography - IMDb Joss Ackland Biography Showing all 24 items Jump to: Overview (3) \| Mini Bio (1) \| Spouse (1) \| Trade Mark (1) \| Trivia (15) \| Personal Quotes (3) Overview (3) 6' 1" (1.85 m) Mini Bio (1) Joss Ackland, the distinguished English actor who has appeared in over 100 movies, scores of plays and a plethora of television programs in his six-decade career, was born Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland on February 29, 1928, in North Kensington, London. After attending London's Central School of Speech and Drama, the 17-year-old Ackland made his professional stage debut in "The Hasty Heart" in 1945. Although he first appeared on film in John Boulting 's and Roy Boulting 's Oscar-winning thriller Seven Days to Noon (1950) in an uncredited bit role, he made his credited debut in a supporting role in Vernon Sewell 's Ghost Ship (1952). He would not again grace the big screen until the end of the decade. Instead, Ackland spent the latter half of the 1940s and the first half of the 1950s honing his craft in regional theatrical companies. In 1955 he left the English stage behind and moved to Africa to manage a tea plantation, an experience that likely informed his heralded performance 20 years later in White Mischief (1987). In his two years in Africa he wrote plays and did service as a radio disc jockey. Upon his return to England in 1957, he joined the Old Vic company. From 1962-64 he served as associate director of the Mermaid Theatre. Subsequently, his stage acting career primarily was in London's commercial West End theater, where he made a name for himself in musicals. He was distinguished as Captain Hook in the musical version of "Peter Pan" and as Juan Peron in "Evita". In the straight theater he was a memorable Falstaff in William Shakespeare 's "Henry IV Parts 1 & 2" and as Captain Shotover in George Bernard Shaw 's "Heartbreak House". In the 1960s Ackland began appearing more regularly in films, and his career as a movie character actor picked up rapidly in the 1970s and began to flourish in the 1980s. It has shown little sign of abating in the 21st century, even though he's well into his 70s. In addition to his performance in "White Mischief", among his more notable turns as an actor before the camera came in the BBC-TV production of Shadowlands (1985), in which he played 'C.S. Lewis', and in Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) as the South African heavy. He is the father of seven children, whom he listed as his "hobby" in a 1981 interview. On December 31, 2000, Joss Ackland was named a Commander of the British Empire on the New Year's Honours List for his 50 years of service to the English stage, cinema and television. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jon C. Hopwood Spouse (1) (1951 - 25 July 2002) (her death) (7 children) Trade Mark (1) Deep, distinctive voice Trivia (15) He was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2001 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to drama. He studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England. Has five daughters (Melanie, Antonia, Penelope, Samantha and Kirsty) and one son (Toby). His eldest son, Paul, died of a heroin overdose in 1982. His son, Paul, worked as a builder. On the "BBC Desert Island Discs" radio program broadcast in August 2001, Ackland picked the music he would want with him if he was stranded on a desert island. His picks were, in apparently ascending order: - 1. Ralph Vaughan Williams ' "The Lark Ascending", Nigel Kennedy with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle - 2. "Bailero" from "Songs of the Auvergne", Victoria de los Angeles with Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux conducted by Jean-Pierre Jacquillat - 3. "Moon River" sung by Audrey Hepburn - 4. Stephen Sondheim 's "Children Will Listen" from "Into the Woods", performed by Bernadette Peters - 5. Nina Simone 's cover of "Mr. Bojangles" - 6. Sondheim's "Losing My Mind", sung by Barbara Cook - 7. Jean Sibelius ' "Violin Concerto", Ivry Gitlis with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jascha Horenstein
What is it traditional for women to do on 29th February?	Leap Day Customs & Traditions Home Calendar Leap Day Customs Leap Day Customs & Traditions Leap Day, on February 29, has been a day of traditions, folklore and superstitions ever since Leap Years were first introduced by Julius Caesar over 2000 years ago. Gloves can hide a naked ring finger. Tradition dictates that a man who refuses a woman's proposal on leap day has to buy her 12 pairs of gloves so she may hide the embarrassment of not having an engagement ring. ©iStockphoto.com/photllurg Last leap day was February 29, 2016 . Women Propose to Their Men According to an old Irish legend, or possibly history, St Brigid struck a deal with St Patrick to allow women to propose to men – and not just the other way around – every four years. This is believed to have been introduced to balance the traditional roles of men and women in a similar way to how leap day balances the calendar. Gloves Hide Naked Ring Finger In some places, leap day has been known as “Bachelors’ Day” for the same reason. A man was expected to pay a penalty, such as a gown or money, if he refused a marriage proposal from a woman on Leap Day. In many European countries, especially in the upper classes of society, tradition dictates that any man who refuses a woman's proposal on February 29 has to buy her 12 pairs of gloves. The intention is that the woman can wear the gloves to hide the embarrassment of not having an engagement ring. During the middle ages there were laws governing this tradition. Leap Day Babies World Record People born on February 29 are all invited to join The Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies. According to the Guinness Book of Records, there are Leap Day World Record Holders both of a family producing three consecutive generations born on February 29 and of the number of children born on February 29 in the same family. Unlucky in Love In Scotland, it used to be considered unlucky for someone to be born on leap day, just as Friday 13th is considered an unlucky day by many. Greeks consider it unlucky for couples to marry during a leap year, and especially on Leap Day. St Oswald’s Day Leap day is also St Oswald’s Day, named after the archbishop of York who died on February 29, 992. His memorial is celebrated on February 29 during leap years and on February 28 during common years .
People born on 29th February have which Zodiac sign?	Birthday Horoscope February 29th Pisces, If your Birthday is February 29 Birthday Horoscope for February 29th If your Birthday is February 29 and your Zodiac Sign is Pisces Birthday Persona Profile People born specifically on the 29th of February are as Pisces Leap Year individuals believed to be extremely likeable, tactful and generous. The ruling astrological planet for this particular day is the Moon forming personalities that are sensitive, creative friendly daydreamers. Although you present yourself as sometimes having your head in the clouds you are really very focused and resilient. If you have this birthday a combination of communicative charm, sociability and insightfulness helps you anticipate the thoughts and motivations of others. You are a little bit ambitious but soon discouraged by negative responses or slow routes to success. With a February the twenty ninth birthday you are loving and giving with youthful looks and a modern but mature outlook. Your way with words and sympathetic nature make you an excellent listener who can usually offer both practical and emotional support selflessly. Work and Finances Work options to a person born on the twenty ninth of February must ordinarily be flexible and interesting. You are not generally the sort who will stay in a certain profession for most of their working life. Occupations are chosen with these things and your family orientated approach in mind. Your daydreamy imaginative ideas and artistic streak tend to draw you towards unusual career paths. Finances are an area where you have competence but are also likely to be a shopaholic with not much self control. You could have to be quite strict with yourself to keep your budget out of the red. Personal Relationships As a Pisces, the person born on the twenty ninth day of February is typical in their sensitivity and perceptive idealistic view of romantic attachments. You adore the notion and feeling of being in love and will seek a partner who is as attentive, caring, home loving and affectionate. Your outgoing pleasant temperament is friendly and loyal and you will usually put a lot into the friendship element of personal relationships. The physical side of a partnership gives you the opportunity to use your intuitive and visionary imagination to help keep the romance alive. Long term soul mate relationships see you sometimes displaying jealous or possessive behavior as fidelity and devotion are immensely important to you. As you are well aware of your insecurities you will often be the one to apologize and enjoy the subsequent kissing and making up. Health Ill health is not something that seems to bother or be experienced much by those born on February 29th as you have a brilliant attitude concerning healthiness. You are usually especially careful about your dietary and exercise requirements and the need to set adequate time aside for relaxation. This even balance and commonsense approach helps keep illnesses to a minimum. If you have too many stresses or distractions to worry about this can occasionally cause you sleepless nights disrupting your healthy routines. Talking about anxieties should assist in the prevention of stress build up. Strengths and Weaknesses The foremost strengths of your character are probably within the childlike appreciative enthusiasm you possess and in your willingness to admit mistakes. These characteristics and your aptitude to compromise make you easy to get along with and fun to know. A main Weakness of the personality for those born on February 29th is the tendency to become the total opposite of your usual self. This materializes as over indulgence or immaturity. Fortunately these negative traits are normally infrequent in their appearance and as you grow older you learn to recognize circumstances that provoke them. Dreams and Goals Being born on the 29th of February makes you a goal setter but also someone who finds sticking to them a lot more difficult. Despite this you strongly believe in yourself and your abilities so failure will not be through lack of effort and setbacks ar
Which Saint was said to have set aside 29th February as the day that women were allowed to propose to men?	February 29 - Everything2.com February 29 Tue Jun 03 2003 at 17:54:34 "Thirty days hath September , All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone Which has twenty-eight days, clear, And twenty-nine in each leap year." February 29 is a bissextile - the day added to the Gregorian calendar to account for the difference between a solar year , and the typical 365 day calendar year . Over your lifetime, you will see this leap day occur approximately once every 1461 days (once every 4 years). However, over the course of history , Feb 29 actually occurs less frequently - about once every 1506 days. This is because a year is only a leap year if it is: divisible by 4 and not divisible by 100 or it is divisible by 400 For this reason 1900 was not a leap year, but 2000 was. Over the course of 400 years, this means that there are 97 instead of 100 occurrences of February 29. For information on how all of this started, check out Gregorian Calendar . Interesting Facts about the Day In many countries, this is Sadie Hawkins day or Bachelor's Day In the Bahá'í Faith , it is a day for service and gift giving It is International Underlings' Day , a holiday for anyone not covered by Boss's Day or Secretary's Day . This Day in History 1288 Scotland set aside this day as the one day when a woman could propose marriage to a man. If he refused, he was required to pay a fine. St. Patrick was said to have refused a marriage proposal on this day. Dawn Fraser received her 36th world record . The Australian swimmer was timed at 58.9 seconds in the 100-meter freestyle in Sydney , Australia. In other world record news, Frank Rugani drove a shuttlecock over 79 feet. The first pulsar is discovered. US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. 1972 Hank Aaron becomes the first baseball player to sign for $200000. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announces he is stepping down. February 29 Birthdays You may wonder when leap day babies celebrate their birthday . Some celebrate it on February 28 , and some celebrate it on March 1 . If it is not a leap year, for all legal purposes, it should be celebrated on March 1. Why? Try to get your drivers license when you are 15 going on 16, or try going out for a drink when you are 20 going on 21 when it is February 28 - they will tell you to come back tomorrow . However, it's actually much more tricky than this. While everyone is having pity on these people with leap year births, no one thinks that they too have the same problem. We all celebrate our birthdays incorrectly What most people actually celebrate is their birth date. If you consider your birthday to be the day you turn another year older, then on average , you actually celebrate your birthday incorrectly 1/4 to 3/4 of the time (the longer you live, the closer it gets to 3/4). Since a year is 365.2425 days (or as we typically estimate it to 365.25), your birthday actually fluctuates in both date and time . As an example, look at the first four years of the life of a baby born at noon on January 1, 2000 (a leap year). Assuming (Incorrectly) Assuming Age 365.2425 days/year 365.2500 days/year --------------------------------------------------- 00 2000-01-01 12:00:00 2000-01-01 12:00:00 01 2000-12-31 17:49:12 2000-12-31 18:00:00 02 2001-12-31 23:38:24 2002-01-01 00:00:00 03 2003-01-01 05:27:36 2003-01-01 06:00:00 04 2004-01-01 11:16:48 2004-01-01 12:00:00 You will notice in column 1, that not only does the date and time fluctuate, but the baby would celebrate two birthdays in one calendar year in 2000, and not have a birthday at all in 2002! A similar occurrence is seen in column 2. It is for this reason that we celebrate birth dates instead of birthdays. However, I digress: using the same logic as above, here is how someone born at noon on February 29, 2000 should celebrate their first 25 birthdays: Assuming (Incorrectly) Assuming Age 365.2425 days/year 365.2500 days/year --------------------------------------------------- 00 2000-0
The Leap Year Cocktail, which consists of gin, Grand Marnier, sweet vermouth and lemon juice, was invented at which London hotel on 29th February 1928?	Leap Year Cocktail - Small Screen Network The Cocktail Spirit with Robert Hess Leap Year Cocktail The Savoy Cocktail Book touts the Leap Year Cocktail for having “been responsible for more proposals than any other cocktail that has ever been mixed.” Invented by the books author, Harry Craddock, for the Leap Year celebrations at the Savoy Hotel, London, on February 29th, 1928, the cocktail is certainly substantial enough for any celebration. Ingredients 2 oz Hendrick’s Gin 1/2 oz Grand Marnier Strain into a cocktail coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist. blair frodelius 20 Apr 2011 3:32 am If you’ve decided to forego paying your taxes this year, you might enjoy a Scofflaw cocktail as seen in Robert’s video here: http://www.smallscreennetwork.com/video/362 Cheers! 12:10 pm Nice find Robert! I tried this one last night, and it was delightful. There’s a LOT of drinks to wade through in the Savoy book, so I appreciate the help. Thanks! Lynn Ballintiner 29 Feb 2012 2:40 pm Hmm, only a dash of lemon juice, but you shook the cocktail. Seems like a “stirrer” to me? Robert Hess 29 Feb 2012 2:54 pm
February 30th was a real date in which Scandinavian country?	Coach Tours of Scandinavia, Russia and Iceland +44 1773-297030 Click to Coach Tours of Scandinavia, Russia and Iceland Take a coach tour of Scandinavia and enter a land of fjords, forest and famous folklore. Tales of Norse gods and trolls still abound, as well as many other mythical creatures living on land and in water. Scandinavia consists of Denmark, Norway, Sweden. We can also use the term ‘Nordic Countries’ which then includes Finland and Iceland. Whilst Finland uses the Euro currency, all the others have different currencies all called ‘krona’ and some variation of that spelling. You can use credit cards everywhere, but you will need local currency for small purchases. Visit Copenhangen in Denmark, the home of legendary story teller Hans Christian Anderson. Learn more about the Little Mermaid Statue. The city favours cyclists and pedestrians, so it’s easy to get around and view the harbour, Tivoli Gardens and Royal Palace. Innovative Danish restaurants have emerged such as Noma - a two-Michelin-star restaurant run by chef René Redzepi. The top attraction in our view is the Nyhavn Canal quayside flanked by colourful wooden houses (not made of lego) and waterside cafés. Denmark is the smallest of the Nordic countries and prompts thoughts of Danish pastries, Danish bacon and the Carlsberg brewery. Besides these tasty indulgences, take a look in a toy shop and be reminded of the billions of multi coloured lego bricks that have come from this small country. Your Nordic coach holiday will usually begin in Denmark. From there you may head north to Frederikshavn for an overnight stay. Next day cross the Kattegat via a leisurely ferry crossing to Gothenburg, Sweden's second biggest city. After a view of the city, you head north through the west side of Sweden and cross another international border into Norway and the capital city of Oslo. Head far north of Scandinavia to Iceland. Encounter a place of nature’s wonders - spouting waterfalls, volcanoes and dazzling scenes every step of the way. The staggering landscape of this nation will guarantee you will need to return over and over. Start your trip in the capital Reykjavík Places you visit on most tours include the hot-springs at Geysir and the stunning Gullfoss Waterfalls, a sort of Iceland Niagara. No tour to Iceland is complete without a visit to Reykjavik's Blue Lagoon. Whilst we are in this general region of Europe, let’s mention Finland again, but this time add the Baltic states and a small portion of Russia, namely Moscow and St Petersburg. Finland is covered with just an overnight stay on most tours. You arrive at the capital Helsinki, your Local Specialist shows you the city's sights including Finlandia Hall, Senate and Market Squares. St Petersburg is very impressive and demands a longer stay with it’s canals and colourful buildings. The city's sights include the Tsar's Winter Palace, Nevsky Prospekt, St. Isaac's Cathedral and the statue of Peter the Great. The Hermitage Museum contains one of the world's largest and most valuable art collections, so prepare to be wowed. On arrival in Moscow get ready to see the main sites of Red Square and St. Basil's Cathedral. Visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Kremlin. The Baltic gems of Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia have compact and charming old town centres in their respective capitals of Vilnius, Tallinn and Riga. We are sure you will enjoy your tours of all these fascinating places. Featured Tours Highlights of Scandinavia A 12 day tour by coach around the main sights Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Visit Copenhagen's Nyhaven, drive around the Hardangerfjord and stay the night on the shores of Lake Vänern. From £1550. read more» Nordic Adventure A 20 day first class tour of Norway and Finland, starting in Oslo and ending in Stockholm, Sweden. Visit the North Cape Visitor Centre where you may see the midnight sun. Meet Santa in Rovaniemi From £3175 read more» Northern Lights of Iceland A winter treat - Enjoy stylish Nordic culture in trendy Reykjavik and awe inspiring natural beauty of Iceland's steaming g
The town of Anthony in which US state was known as ‘The Leap Year Capital of the World’?	Anthony – Leap Year Capital of the World Home Calculators Anthony – Leap Year Capital of the World Anthony – Leap Year Capital of the World Anthony, Texas, in the United States, is known as the “Leap Capital of the World”. Every leap year, this tiny town hosts the Worldwide Leap Year Festival. Leap Year Festival February 29. ©iStockphoto.com/Christopher Stokes Leap Day – history & traditions Leap year birthday festivals Since 1988, Anthony throws birthday festivals every leap year for people born on February 29. People throughout the USA and overseas travel to this tiny town to take part in parades, birthday dinners, and hot air balloon lifts. Participants range from babies celebrating their first birthday to people in their 90s celebrating another leap day birthday. In 1992 a man registered his 104-year-old mother, born on a leap day, for the festival. Background In 1988 local resident Mary Ann Brown and her neighbor Birdie Lewis, both born on a leap day, approached the Chamber of Commerce with the idea of a leap year festival and a leap year birthday club for those born on a leap day. They wanted to give the town local recognition and to help raise funds for the community. In February 1988 the town’s Chamber of Commerce voted to sponsor the festival and did so until 2011. The governors of both New Mexico and Texas later declared Anthony the “Leap Year Capital of the World”. Advertising
In which country in the UK did it used to be considered unlucky to be born on a Leap Day?	Leap year: 10 things about 29 February - BBC News BBC News Leap year: 10 things about 29 February 1 March 2012 Read more about sharing. Close share panel The "leap day" of 29 February exists for purely astronomical reasons, but has always prompted less scientific curiosities. Here are 10 things to consider - for one day only. Until 2016, that is. 1. The leapyear's extra day is necessary because of the "messiness" of our Solar System. One Earth year (a complete orbit around the Sun) does not take an exact number of whole days (one complete spin of the Earth on its axis). In fact, it takes 365.2422 days, give or take. 2. Until JuliusCaesar came to power, people observed a 355-day calendar - with an extra 22-day month every two years. But it was a convoluted solution to the problem and feast days began sliding into different seasons. So Caesar ordered his astronomer, Sosigenes, to simplify things. Sosigenes opted for the 365-day year with an extra day every four years to scoop up the extra hours. This is how the 29 February was born. It was then fine-tuned by Pope Gregory XIII (see below). 3. Every fourthyear is a leap year, as a rule of thumb. But that's not the end of the story. A year that is divisible by 100, but not by 400, is not. So 2000 was a leap year under the Gregorian calendar, as was 1600. But 1700, 1800 and 1900 are not leap years. "It seems a bit arbitrary," says Ian Stewart, emeritus professor of mathematics at Warwick University. But there's a good reason behind it. "The year is 365 days and a quarter long - but not exactly. If it was exactly, then you could say it was every four years. But it is very slightly less." The answer arrived at by Pope Gregory XIII and his astronomers when they introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1582, was to lose three leap days every 400 years. The maths has hung together ever since. It will need to be rethought in about 10,000 years' time, Stewart warns. But by then mankind might have come up with a new system. PM's Leap Day By Eddie MairPresenter, PM All this month on PM, listeners have been asked whether they'd be prepared to take advantage of this extra day to do something different. It transpires there are a lot of people who're ready to use today to take a leap . There's the apparently mundane... "I resolve to speak Mandarin all day long"… "my partner and I are going to visit some elderly people"... "often meant to take a roof tour of Lincoln Cathedral but never got round to it". After six years one woman will finally decide the wording for her husband's headstone. Some people are at last scattering the ashes of loved ones having put it off for years. There's a woman taking up the hula-hoop after more than 50 years. One woman intends to have some chocolate today - her anorexia has been a problem for years. A man who suffers panic attacks will try to make a bus journey. And a woman in her 60s will get a tattoo. PM is on BBC Radio Four, Monday to Saturday at 17:00 GMT PM blog 4. Why isFebruary 29, not February 31, a leap year day? All the other months have 30 or 31 days, but February suffered from the ego of Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus, says Stewart. Under Julius Caesar, February had 30 days, but when Caesar Augustus was emperor he was peeved that his month - August - had only 29 days, whereas the month named after his predecessor Julius - July - had 31. "He pinched a couple of days for August to make it the same as July. And it was poor old February that lost out," says Prof Stewart. 5. The traditionof a woman proposing on a leap year has been attributed to various historical figures. One, although much disputed, was St Bridget in the 5th Century. She is said to have complained to St Patrick that women had to wait too long for their suitors to propose. St Patrick then supposedly gave women a single day in a leap year to pop the question - the last day of the shortest month. Another popular story is that Queen Margaret of Scotland brought in a law setting fines for men who turned down marriage proposals put by women on a leap year. Sceptics have pointed out that Margaret
Babies born on 29th February are known as what?	Leap year: 10 things about 29 February - BBC News BBC News Leap year: 10 things about 29 February 1 March 2012 Read more about sharing. Close share panel The "leap day" of 29 February exists for purely astronomical reasons, but has always prompted less scientific curiosities. Here are 10 things to consider - for one day only. Until 2016, that is. 1. The leapyear's extra day is necessary because of the "messiness" of our Solar System. One Earth year (a complete orbit around the Sun) does not take an exact number of whole days (one complete spin of the Earth on its axis). In fact, it takes 365.2422 days, give or take. 2. Until JuliusCaesar came to power, people observed a 355-day calendar - with an extra 22-day month every two years. But it was a convoluted solution to the problem and feast days began sliding into different seasons. So Caesar ordered his astronomer, Sosigenes, to simplify things. Sosigenes opted for the 365-day year with an extra day every four years to scoop up the extra hours. This is how the 29 February was born. It was then fine-tuned by Pope Gregory XIII (see below). 3. Every fourthyear is a leap year, as a rule of thumb. But that's not the end of the story. A year that is divisible by 100, but not by 400, is not. So 2000 was a leap year under the Gregorian calendar, as was 1600. But 1700, 1800 and 1900 are not leap years. "It seems a bit arbitrary," says Ian Stewart, emeritus professor of mathematics at Warwick University. But there's a good reason behind it. "The year is 365 days and a quarter long - but not exactly. If it was exactly, then you could say it was every four years. But it is very slightly less." The answer arrived at by Pope Gregory XIII and his astronomers when they introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1582, was to lose three leap days every 400 years. The maths has hung together ever since. It will need to be rethought in about 10,000 years' time, Stewart warns. But by then mankind might have come up with a new system. PM's Leap Day By Eddie MairPresenter, PM All this month on PM, listeners have been asked whether they'd be prepared to take advantage of this extra day to do something different. It transpires there are a lot of people who're ready to use today to take a leap . There's the apparently mundane... "I resolve to speak Mandarin all day long"… "my partner and I are going to visit some elderly people"... "often meant to take a roof tour of Lincoln Cathedral but never got round to it". After six years one woman will finally decide the wording for her husband's headstone. Some people are at last scattering the ashes of loved ones having put it off for years. There's a woman taking up the hula-hoop after more than 50 years. One woman intends to have some chocolate today - her anorexia has been a problem for years. A man who suffers panic attacks will try to make a bus journey. And a woman in her 60s will get a tattoo. PM is on BBC Radio Four, Monday to Saturday at 17:00 GMT PM blog 4. Why isFebruary 29, not February 31, a leap year day? All the other months have 30 or 31 days, but February suffered from the ego of Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus, says Stewart. Under Julius Caesar, February had 30 days, but when Caesar Augustus was emperor he was peeved that his month - August - had only 29 days, whereas the month named after his predecessor Julius - July - had 31. "He pinched a couple of days for August to make it the same as July. And it was poor old February that lost out," says Prof Stewart. 5. The traditionof a woman proposing on a leap year has been attributed to various historical figures. One, although much disputed, was St Bridget in the 5th Century. She is said to have complained to St Patrick that women had to wait too long for their suitors to propose. St Patrick then supposedly gave women a single day in a leap year to pop the question - the last day of the shortest month. Another popular story is that Queen Margaret of Scotland brought in a law setting fines for men who turned down marriage proposals put by women on a leap year. Sceptics have pointed out that Margaret
Sadie Hawkins Day, usually celebrated in the US on 29th February, is named after a character in which Al Capp comic strip?	What is Sadie Hawkins Day? Updated February 16, 2016. Question: What is Sadie Hawkins Day? Is It the Same Day as Leap Day? Sadie Hawkins Day is a holiday that turns the tables on male/female relationships as women take the lead in pursuing men. Answer: Named after a fictional character, Sadie Hawkins Day celebrates role reversal by sanctioning women to ask men out on a date or even propose marriage. There's a common misconception that February 29th (better known as Leap Day) is Sadie Hawkins Day. Although that isn't the case, February 29th does hold significance for women thanks to an old Irish tradition called St. Bridget's Complaint , which granted women permission to propose marriage on that day. Sadie Hawkins Day is rooted in the story of Sadie Hawkins, a character created by Al Capp in the comic strip Li'l Abner. Sadie Described as "the homeliest gal in the hills," Sadie was unable get a date; so her father, a prominent citizen in the town of Dogpatch, named a day after her to help Sadie get a man. On Sadie Hawkins Day, a footrace was held in Dogpatch so the women could pursue the town's eligible bachelors. According to the Li'l Abner website, Sadie Hawkins Day is an unspecified date in November which Al Capp observed in his comic strip for four decades.
In which European country is it considered unlucky to marry on a Leap Day?	Leap Year Babies and Weddings - Abhijit Bhaduri's Official Website Leap Year Babies and Weddings POSTED ON February 28, 2015 SHARE LinkedIn6 Today we are celebrating my friend’s birthday. If you really want to get technical about it, Sudhir’s birthday is actually on 29th of February. Yes, my friend is what we call a “leaping year baby”. Yes, that’s what they are called. I have never been able to call him that. Leaping year sounds the same as “leaping ear” and feels weird to visualize. We all know that if the year is divisible by 4, it will be a Leap Year. Next year we will get to celebrate Sudhir’s birthday on 29th February and not have to make do with celebrating it a day early or a day later – yes, we have done that. It is this inconsistency that drives me mad. This is the only birthday which has the potential to be celebrated on three possible dates while the rest of us have to make do with just one. Every year I have make it a point to mark his birthday on a different date. Not always so simple Can you do the math and tell me if there was a 29th February in the year 1800? If you said yes, like most people who quickly did the math, and divided 1800 perfectly by 4, I have to tell you that you are wrong. Years that are divisible by 100, but not by 400, do not contain a leap day; thus 1700, 1800, and 1900 did not contain a leap day while 1600 and 2000 did. The Chinese people have an extra day tucked in to February for the years of the monkey, dragon and rat. According to Wikipedia, in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, if a person born on February 29 turns 18 in a non-leap year, they are considered to have their birthday on March 1 in the relevant year. Can the world not have one common date to celebrate the coming of age of these folks? Why must every country and every culture celebrate it their own way? How about weddings If you are thinking about the complexity of celebrating birthdays on 29th February, getting married on this day is not easy either. In Greece it is considered unlucky to marry on leap day. Shouldn’t everyone in the world be encouraged to marry on 29th Feb? After all they will experience the seven year itch after 28 years of being together. On second thoughts, is that good or bad? The Irish saint Brigid struck a deal with St Patrick to allow women to propose to men – and not just the other way around – every four years. So the Irish tradition allows women to propose to men on 29th Feb. It is a kind of role reversal aimed at restoring balance. The lawyer in me wants to know what happens if the man spurns the woman’s proposal? I learn that in many European countries, tradition dictates that any man who refuses a woman’s proposal on February 29 has to buy her 12 pairs of gloves. Why so many gloves you may ask. The intention is that the woman can wear the gloves to hide the embarrassment of not having an engagement ring. Inspired by this knowledge, may I propose that Sudhir should start celebrating his birthday on 28th February, followed by another riotous round of celebration on 29th February and then again on 1st March. One cannot have too much of a good thing for these unique folks. ————–
Which Roman Emperor was said to be behind the origin of the Leap Year?	The History \| Origin of New Years Day / December 31rst / Ball Dropping In Times Square EVENTS A History of New Years In 46 B.C.E. the Roman emperor Julius Caesar first established January 1 as New Year’s day. Janus was the Roman god of doors and gates, and had two faces, one looking forward and one back. Caesar felt that the month named after this god (“January”) would be the appropriate “door” to the year. Caesar celebrated the first January 1 New Year by ordering the violent routing of revolutionary Jewish forces in the Galilee. Eyewitnesses say blood flowed in the streets. In later years, Roman pagans observed the New Year by engaging in drunken orgies—a ritual they believed constituted a personal re-enacting of the chaotic world that existed before the cosmos was ordered by the gods. As Christianity spread, pagan holidays were either incorporated into the Christian calendar or abandoned altogether. By the early medieval period most of Christian Europe regarded Annunciation Day (March 25) as the beginning of the year. (According to Catholic tradition, Annunciation Day commemorates the angel Gabriel’s announcement to Mary that she would be impregnated by G-d and conceive a son to be called Jesus.) After William the Conqueror (AKA “William the Bastard” and “William of Normandy”) became King of England on December 25, 1066, he decreed that the English return to the date established by the Roman pagans, January 1. This move ensured that the commemoration of Jesus’ birthday (December 25) would align with William’s coronation, and the commemoration of Jesus’ circumcision (January 1) would start the new year - thus rooting the English and Christian calendars and his own Coronation). William’s innovation was eventually rejected, and England rejoined the rest of the Christian world and returned to celebrating New Years Day on March 25. About five hundred years later, in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII (AKA “Ugo Boncompagni”, 1502-1585) abandoned the traditional Julian calendar. By the Julian reckoning, the solar year comprised 365.25 days, and the intercalation of a “leap day” every four years was intended to maintain correspondence between the calendar and the seasons. Really, however there was a slight inaccuracy in the Julian measurement (the solar year is actually 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds = 365.2422 days). This slight inaccuracy caused the Julian calendar to slip behind the seasons about one day per century. Although this regression had amounted to 14 days by Pope Gregory’s time, he based his reform on restoration of the vernal equinox, then falling on March 11, to the date had 1,257 years earlier when Council of Nicaea was convened (March 21, 325 C.E.). Pope Gregory made the correction by advancing the calendar 10 days. The change was made the day after October 4, 1582, and that following day was established as October 15, 1582. The Gregorian calendar differs from the Julian in three ways: (1) No century year is a leap year unless it is exactly divisible by 400 (e.g., 1600, 2000, etc.); (2) Years divisible by 4000 are common (not leap) years; and (3) once again the New Year would begin with the date set by the early pagans, the first day of the month of Janus - January 1. On New Years Day 1577 Pope Gregory XIII decreed that all Roman Jews, under pain of death, must listen attentively to the compulsory Catholic conversion sermon given in Roman synagogues after Friday night services. On New Years Day 1578 Gregory signed into law a tax forcing Jews to pay for the support of a “House of Conversion” to convert Jews to Christianity. On New Years 1581 Gregory ordered his troops to confiscate all sacred literature from the Roman Jewish community. Thousands of Jews were murdered in the campaign. Throughout the medieval and post-medieval periods, January 1 - supposedly the day on which Jesus’ circumcision initiated the reign of Christianity and the death of Judaism - was reserved for anti-Jewish activities: synagogue and book burnings, public tortures, and simple murder. The Is
In Scotland, what colour petticoat should women wear, and make sure it is partly visible, to ensure success when they propose to a man?	February 29th and Leap Year superstitions By Ellen Castelow , Contributing Writer \| Comments Thirty days hath September, All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. - old saying Our everyday calendar is an artificial medium that has been juggled with through the centuries in an effort to make it more accurate and more useful. The time it takes for the earth to rotate is 365 ¼ days but the calendar year is 365 days, hence once every four years to balance this, we have a leap year and an extra day, February 29th. Because such years are rarer than normal years, they have become lucky omens. Indeed the 29th February itself is an especially important day. Anything started on this day is sure of success. Certainly February 29th in the leap year of 1504 was very successful for one Christopher Columbus. The famous explorer had been marooned for several months on the small island of Jamaica. Though the island natives had initially offered food and provisions, Columbus' arrogant and overbearing attitude had so annoyed the natives that they stopped this altogether. Facing starvation, Columbus came up with an inspired plan. Consulting a shipboard almanac and finding that a lunar eclipse was due, he called together the native chiefs and announced to them that God would punish them if they did not supply his crew with food. And as an omen of God’s intent to punish them, there would be a sign in the sky: God would darken the Moon. Right on cue, the lunar eclipse started. Columbus dramatically disappeared into his cabin as the natives began to panic and begged him to restore the Moon. After more than an hour, Columbus emerged from his cabin and announced that God was prepared to withdraw his punishment if the natives agreed to supply him and his crew with everything they needed. The native chiefs immediately agreed, and within minutes the Moon started emerging from shadow, leaving the natives in awe of Columbus’ power. Columbus continued to receive food and supplies until he was rescued in June 1504. For women, February 29th can also be a very successful day, as once every four years on the 29th February they have the “right” to propose to a man. The right of every women to propose on 29th February each leap year goes back hundreds of years when the leap year day had no recognition in English law (the day was 'leapt over' and ignored, hence the term 'leap year'). It was decided that the day had no legal status, meaning that a break in tradition on this day was acceptable. So on this day, women can take advantage of this anomaly and propose to the man they wish to marry. In Scotland however, to ensure success they should also wear a red petticoat under their dress - and make sure that it is partly visible to the man when they propose. For those wishing to take advantage of this ancient tradition, 29th February is your day! Tweet If you enjoyed this article, you might also like... British Superstitions - Different parts of the country have their own particular superstitions designed to bring good fortune, health and wealth to their house and occupants. Even outside the home certain things had to be done first. For example, to protect the house from witches... Traditions and folklore of Wales - Wales is a country steeped in tradition. Even the Methodist Revival in the 18th century, whose stern Puritanism banished the ancient Celtic traditions, was unable to stamp out all remains of their traditions. Nursery Rhymes - Every child has heard of Little Jack Horner, and has played, at some time, Ring a Ring O'Roses, little realising that these seemingly childish rhymes are based on fact. Little Jack Horner lived in the 1530's... Give us our eleven days - ‘Give us our eleven days!’ The English calendar riots of 1752. The eleven days referred to here are the ‘lost’ 11 days of September 1752, skipped when Britain changed over from the Julian calendar to... Popular This Month
A Leap Year occurs every how many years?	Leap Year Explained Leap Year Explained Leap years synchronize the calendar year with the solar year by Ann Marie Imbornoni & Mark Hughes Related Links More Leap Year Birthdays Why do we need leap year? The Gregorian calendar, which now serves as the standard calendar for civil use throughout the world, has both common years and leap years. A common year has 365 days and a leap year 366 days, with the extra, or intercalary , day designated as February 29. A leap year occurs every four years to help synchronize the calendar year with the solar year, or the length of time it takes the earth to complete its orbit about the sun, which is about 365¼ days. The length of the solar year, however, is slightly less than 365¼ days—by about 11 minutes. To compensate for this discrepancy, the leap year is omitted three times every four hundred years. In other words, a century year cannot be a leap year unless it is divisible by 400. Thus 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but 1600, 2000, and 2400 are leap years. What are your chances of being born on leap day? About 1 in 1,500. When is the birthday party? If you are born on a Leap Year, do you get your driver's license on February 28th or March 1st? It is an ambiguous question that is decided by each state. Most states, however, consider March 1st the official day. For instance, the Michigan Vehicle Code states that people born on February 29th "are deemed to have been born on March 1st." How many people were born on leap day? There are about 187,000 people in the US and 4 million people in the world who were born on Leap Day. The rules for determining a leap year Most years that can be divided evenly by 4 are leap years. Exception: Century years are NOT leap years UNLESS they can be evenly divided by 400. When did leap year originate? The Gregorian calendar is closely based on the Julian calendar, which was introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BC. The Julian calendar featured a 12-month, 365-day year, with an intercalary day inserted every fourth year at the end of February to make an average year of 365.25 days. But because the length of the solar year is actually 365.242216 days, the Julian year was too long by .0078 days (11 minutes 14 seconds). This may not seem like a lot, but over the course of centuries it added up, until in the 16th century, the vernal equinox was falling around March 11 instead of March 21. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII adjusted the calendar by moving the date ahead by 11 days and by instituting the exception to the rule for leap years. This new rule, whereby a century year is a leap year only if divisible by 400, is the sole feature that distinguishes the Gregorian calendar from the Julian calendar. Following the Gregorian reform, the average length of the year was 365.2425 days, an even closer approximation to the solar year. At this rate, it will take more than 3,000 years for the Gregorian calendar to gain one extra day in error. For even more information, read: Leap Year 101 Did you know?
Who played the role of dance instructor, Mrs Wilkinson, in the 2000 film Billy Elliot?	Billy Elliot (2000) - 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 talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 30 titles created 22 Jul 2012 a list of 40 titles created 08 Aug 2013 a list of 42 titles created 09 Mar 2014 a list of 40 titles created 30 Aug 2014 a list of 49 titles created 9 months ago Search for " Billy Elliot " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb 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 3 Oscars. Another 54 wins & 63 nominations. See more awards » Videos Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity. Director: Peter Cattaneo The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against her parents' traditionalism and joins a football team. Director: Gurinder Chadha A talented young dancer has to learn to fight for his dream despite social and parental disapproval. Directors: Stephen Daldry, Brett Sullivan Stars: Elliott Hanna, Ollie Jochim, Bradley Perret The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives. Director: Stephen Daldry A cynical, immature young man is taught how to act like a grown-up by a little boy. Directors: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz Stars: Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette Edit Storyline County Durham, during the endless, violent 1984 strike against the Thatcher closure of British coal mines. Widower Jackie Elliot and his firstborn, fellow miner Tony, take a dim view of 11 year-old second son Billy's poor record in boxing class, which worsens when they discover he sneakily transferred to the neighboring, otherwise girls-only-attended ballet class. Only one schoolmate, closet-gay Michael Caffrey, encourages Billy's desire, aroused by the teacher, who judged him talented enough for private lesson, to train and try out for the world-renowned Royal Ballet audition. Only the prospect of a fancy career unimagined in the pauper quarter may twist pa and big brother's opposition to indispensable support. Written by KGF Vissers See All (248) » Taglines: Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it. Genres: Rated R for language \| See all certifications » Parents Guide: 10 November 2000 (USA) See more » Also Known As: £1,541,109 (UK) (29 September 2000) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia Julie Walters admittedly went through the menopause during the production and considered the filming of the dance sequences to be painful. She needed several breaks because she experienced hot flashes. See more » Goofs When Jackie is inside the bus leading to the mine, an egg hits his window (at around 1h 14 mins), but when the bus is viewed from outside, the window is clean (01:14:44). See more » Quotes (Odessa, Ukraine) – See all my reviews I have been looking for Billy Elliot for more than two years. I heard that it should be very good or even excellent film and another reason for watching it was that I have seen several Working Title films before (About a Boy, Notting Hill, Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral) and I found all of them much more sincere and emotional than average Hollywood products. Also these British films have something to offer that you rarely can find in Hollywood movies: a charming heartwarming mixture of sweet and funny comedy and inspiring and touching drama. Last month, finally, I found the tape. From very first moments of the movie my eyes were riveted to the screen and when the movie ended feelings and emotions overflowed me. Billy Elliot in my opinion Billy Elliot is a brilliant movie, easily one of the best movies of the year a
Which famous London building was destroyed by fire in 1834?	The Great Fire of 1834 - UK Parliament The Great Fire of 1834 Churchill and the Commons Chamber The Great Fire of 1834 In 1834, the Exchequer was faced with the problem of disposing two cart-loads of wooden tally sticks. These were remnants of an obsolete accounting system that had not been used since 1826. When asked to burn them, the Clerk of Works thought that the two underfloor stoves in the basement of the House of Lords would be a safe and proper place to do so. Parliament on fire in 1834 On 16 October, a couple of workmen arrived in the morning to carry out his instructions. During the afternoon, a party of visitors to the House of Lords, conducted by the deputy housekeeper Mrs Wright, became puzzled by the heat of the floor, and by the smoke seeping through it. But the workmen insisted on finishing their job. The furnaces were put out by 5pm, and Mrs Wright, no longer worried, locked up the premises. Fire! At 6pm, Mrs Wright heard the terrified wife of a doorkeeper screaming that the House of Lords was on fire. In no time, the flames had spread to the rest of the Palace. It was a great sight for the crowds on the streets (who were kept back by soldiers) and a great opportunity for artists such as J.M.W. Turner who painted several canvases depicting it. Both Houses of Parliament were destroyed along with most of the other buildings on the site. Westminster Hall was saved largely due to heroic fire fighting efforts, and a change in the direction of the wind during the night. The only other parts of the Palace to survive were the Jewel Tower, the Undercroft Chapel, the Cloisters and Chapter House of St Stephen's and Westminster Hall. With Restoration and Renewal of the Houses of Parliament in the news, Dr Caroline Shenton looks back at the petitions which occurred when the building was originally constructed in the nineteenth century.
Which English snooker player is nicknamed ‘The Rocket’?	Ronnie O'Sullivan - Snooker UK Ronnie O’Sullivan Posted June 5, 2013 \| Comments are disabled Ronald Antonio “Ronnie” O’Sullivan (born 5 December 1975) is an English professional snooker player known for his rapid playing style, and is nicknamed “The Rocket”. He is the reigning World Snooker Champion and has been World Champion on five occasions (2001, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2013) and, with career earnings of over £7 million is second after Stephen Hendry on snooker’s all-time prize-money list. He has been the world’s no. 1 player on five occasions, and has won a total of 25 ranking titles.
Which word represents the letter ‘E’ in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet?	What does NATO phonetic alphabet mean? Definitions for NATO phonetic alphabet This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word NATO phonetic alphabet Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: NATO phonetic alphabet(ProperNoun) Informal name for a spelling alphabet officially known as the ICAO radiotelephony spelling alphabet. Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: NATO phonetic alphabet The NATO phonetic alphabet, more accurately known as the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet and also called the ICAO phonetic or ICAO spelling alphabet, as well as the ITU phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used spelling alphabet. Although often called "phonetic alphabets", spelling alphabets do not have any association with phonetic transcription systems, such as the International Phonetic Alphabet. Instead, the International Civil Aviation Organization alphabet assigned code words acrophonically to the letters of the English alphabet so that critical combinations of letters and numbers can be pronounced and understood by those who transmit and receive voice messages by radio or telephone regardless of their native language or the presence of transmission static. The 26 code words in the NATO phonetic alphabet are assigned to the 26 letters of the English alphabet in alphabetical order as follows: Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu. Some of the 26 words have altered pronunciations: Charlie can be either "char-lee" or "shar-lee", and Uniform is either "you-nee-form" or "oo-nee-form", neither of which is the English pronunciation of the word. Oscar is pronounced "oss-cah" and Victor as "vik-tah" without the 'r', even by people who would normally pronounce it. Papa is pronounced "Pa-PAH" with the accent on the second syllable instead of the first. The code word Quebec is pronounced as French "keh-beck". The ICAO and FAA use the standard number words of English with four altered pronunciations, whereas the ITU and IMO use ten code words for numbers. Numerology The numerical value of NATO phonetic alphabet in Chaldean Numerology is: 3 Pythagorean Numerology
Who played the role of Mrs Lovett in the 2007 film ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’?	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) - 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 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 2007 ) R \| From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, AKA Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical. Director: a list of 36 titles created 26 Nov 2010 a list of 24 titles created 20 Nov 2012 a list of 21 titles created 05 Aug 2014 a list of 33 titles created 20 Mar 2015 a list of 24 titles created 23 Sep 2015 Title: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) 7.4/10 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 33 wins & 72 nominations. See more awards » Videos A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation. Director: Tim Burton Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman. Director: Tim Burton An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection. Director: Tim Burton A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a "bio-exorcist" in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house. Director: Tim Burton A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life. Director: Tim Burton Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor. Director: Tim Burton Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Stars: Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker. Director: Tim Burton A writer is accused of plagiarism by a strange man, who then starts haunting him for "justice." Director: David Koepp In Victorian Era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders by Jack The Ripper. Directors: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes Stars: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger. Director: Neil Jordan An ambitious but troubled movie director tries his best to fulfill his dream, despite his lack of support. Director: Tim Burton Edit Storyline In the Victorian London, the barber Benjamin Barker is married to the gorgeous Lucy and they have a lovely child, Johanna. The beauty of Lucy attracts the attention of the corrupt Judge Turpin, who falsely accuses the barber of a crime that he did not commit and abuses Lucy later after gaining custody of her. After fifteen years in exile, Benjamin returns to London under the new identity of Sweeney Todd, seeking revenge against Turpin. He meets the widow Mrs. Lovett who is the owner of a meat pie shop who tells him that Lucy swallowed arsenic many years ago, and Turpin assigned himself tutor of Johanna. He opens a barber shop above her store, initiating a crime rampage against those who made him suffer and lose his beloved family. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Never Forget. Never Forgive. See more » Genres: Rated R for graphic bloody violence \| See all certifications » Parents Guide: 21 December 2007 (USA) See more » Also Known As: $13,635,390 (USA) (21 December 2007) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia As of March 2010, Helena Bonham Carter still had not seen the film because she does not like watching her own performances, although she had said she "will get
Which island was previously named Van Dieman’s Land?	Van Diemen's Land Van Diemen's Land 'Up stream Upper Nile Bridge' by John Glover, 1840 (ALMFA, SLT) Tasmania's cultural history was pre-determined for more than a century by its colonial origins and, in particular, by the whole emotive package conjured up by its former name, Van Diemen's Land. In 1642, in the manner of the time, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman had innocently bestowed this name to honour, and perhaps accrue favour from, a powerful figure in his world, Anthony van Diemen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. For English convicts, however, and indeed for free settlers, it resonated with more sinister suggestions. In a colony where transported felons often outnumbered free settlers, where law and order were fragile and relative concepts, and brutality the resort of prisoner and gaoler alike, 'demons' were in plentiful supply, augmented by a lurking fear of those shadows in the bush, the original inhabitants. After a false start at Risdon in 1803, Hobart Town was established the following year by Lt-Governor David Collins as Governor King's proposed solution to two perceived problems ï¿½ French expansionism and English felons. Its dual purpose was to deter the French exploratory expeditions from laying claim to any part of New Holland and to act as a supplementary gaol for excess contingents of convicts shipped to New South Wales. The first of these roles was short-lived: the French departed the scene leaving the island characterised not only as a prison but as the place of most severe and soul-destroying punishment. A stanza from 'The Female Transport', an anonymous street ballad of the time, encapsulates the dread associated with the name that was soon to become synonymous with a convict hell. Every night when I lay down I wet my straw with tears, While wind upon that horrid shore did whistle in our ears, Those dreadful beasts upon that land around our cots do roar, Most dismal is our doom upon Van Diemen's shore. The immediate and acute problem confronting the free settlers and convicts alike was survival. By 1806 the colony was starving. Few ships visited and for eighteen months everyone from Collins down was without bread, vegetables, tea, sugar and alcohol. In these circumstances the longer-term need to clear, till and plant an allocation of land was by-passed in favour of securing the one plentiful food source ï¿½ kangaroos. Even convicts were armed and sent out to hunt, initiating a lawlessness that could only be checked, too late, by the most draconian measures. Shooting kangaroos was simple: the consequences were complex and prolonged. Convicts soon realised that, armed, they could survive very well beyond the settlement and escaped prisoners formed bands of bushrangers, terrorising outlying farms and travellers. The unprecedented slaughter of the kangaroos also had a dramatic effect on the local Aborigines whose traditional hunting grounds had been summarily appropriated. The struggle for land rights had begun. The starvation problem was soon solved as, especially in the Midlands, cleared land proved highly productive. Under Lt-Governor Arthur the economy soared. Exports rose from £45,000 to £540,00 and by 1830 wheat and wool production along with land values were booming. But the first decade of struggle for survival spawned consequences that plagued Van Diemen's Land for half a century and haunted it for a century more. Initially the colonists were sustained largely by necessity. Having poured their life savings into emigrating from Britain, few could have afforded to return. Yet once the starvation years were past these mostly working-class immigrants had many advantages over their counterparts in England and mainland Australia; ticket-of-leave men were better off here than in the highly-competitive, criminal underworld from which they had been transported; and the prospects for most convicts were far rosier than for felons aboard prison hulks on the Thames. In most areas there was adequate rainfall, the climate was more conducive to growing the crops they were used to and, overall, the lan
Late opera singer Luciano Pavarotti was born in which Italian city?	Luciano Pavarotti - Biography - IMDb Luciano Pavarotti Jump to: Overview (4) \| Mini Bio (1) \| Spouse (2) \| Trade Mark (2) \| Trivia (17) Overview (4) The King of the High C's Big P 5' 10¾" (1.8 m) Mini Bio (1) Luciano Pavarotti was the best-selling classical singer and humanitarian known for his most original and popular performances with the 'Three Tenors' and 'Pavarotti & Friends'. He was born on October 12, 1935, in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, in Northern Italy. He was the first child and only son of two children in the family of a baker. His father, Fernando Pavarotti, was a gifted amateur tenor, who instilled a love for music and singing in young Luciano. His mother, Adele Venturi, worked at the local cigar factory. Young Pavarotti showed many talents. He first sang with his father in the Corale Rossi, a male choir in Modena, and won the first prize in an international choir competition in Wales, UK. He also played soccer as a goalkeeper for his town's junior team. In 1954, at the age of 19, Pavarotti decided to make a career as a professional opera singer. He took serious study with professional tenor Arrio Pola, who discovered that Pavarotti had perfect pitch, and offered to teach him for free. After six years of studies, he had only a few performances in small towns without pay. At that time Pavarotti supported himself working as a part-time school teacher and later an insurance salesman. In 1961 he married his girlfriend, singer Adua Veroni, and the couple had three daughters. Pavarotti made his operatic debut on April 29, 1961, as Rodolfo in La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini , at the opera house in Reggio Emilia. In the following years he relied on the professional advise from tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano , who prevented Pavarotti from appearances when his voice was not ready yet. Eventually Pavarotti stepped in for Di Stefano in 1963, at the Royal Opera House in London as 'Rodolfo' in La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini , making his international debut. That same year he met soprano Joan Sutherland and the two began one of the most legendary partnerships in vocal history; Pavarotti made his American debut opposite Sutherland in February of 1965, in Miami Opera. Pavarotti was blessed with a voice of a rare range, beauty and clarity, which was best during the 60s, 70s and 80s. In 1966 he became the first opera tenor to hit all nine "high C's" with his full voice in the aria 'Quel destin' in 'La Fille du Regiment' (aka.. The Daughter of the Regiment) by Gaetano Donizetti . He repeated this feat in his legendary 1972 Met performance and was nicknamed "King of the High C's" in rave reviews. Pavarotti's popularity was arguably bigger than that of any other living tenor in the world. His 1993 live performance in the New York's Central Park was attended by 500,000 fans while millions watched it on television. During the 1990s and 2000s Pavarotti was still showing his ability to deliver his clear ringing tone in the higher register, albeit in fewer performances. Luciano Pavarotti was known for his humanitarian work. He was the founder and the host of the 'Pavarotti & Friends' annual charity concerts and related activities in Modena, Italy. There he sang with international stars of all styles to raise funds for several worthy UN causes. Pavarotti sang with Bono and U2 in the 1995 song Miss Sarajevo and raised $1,500,000 in his charity project 'Concert for Bosnia'. He also established and financed the Pavarotti Music Center in Bosnia, and raised funds in charity concerts for refugees from Afghanistan and for refugees from Kosovo. Pavarotti made two Guinness World Records: one was for receiving the most curtain calls at 165; and the other was for the best selling classical album of 'The Three Tenors in Concert' with Plácido Domingo and José Carreras . In March 2004 Pavarotti gave his last performance in an opera as the painter Mario Cavaradossi in Giacomo Puccini's 'Tosca' at the New York Metropolitan Opera. In 2005 Luciano Pavarotti started a 40 city farewell tour. He sang his signature aria 'Nessun Dorma' from 'Turandot' by Giacomo Pu
Billund Airport is in which European country?	Car rental Billund Airport \| Europcar Denmark Car rental in Billund Airport Navigating a whole new area on your own schedule was never easier than with a cheap car rental from Billund Airport. As soon as you arrive at Billund Airport, Denmark, you can look forward to exploring straight away. As well as having the freedom to drive to exciting new locations on a whim, you can plan day trips and excursions to nearby attractions that capture your interest. With a simple booking system and a great selection of vehicles, Europcar is the perfect choice for your Billund Airport car rental. Book online before you go and discover a range of options; we have hourly, daily, short term, weekly, monthly and long term deals available in this location, and you can talk to us to find out which one will be best suited to your trip. Rent a car in Billund Airport and prepare to hit the road for a whole new heap of memories Remember to always bring your driver’s license, valid credit card and additional proof of identity (such as a passport if you are renting abroad). Why choose Europcar in Billund Airport Express pick-up service available Easy 3-step online booking: search, select, book New, comfortable rental car fleet Award-winning car rental company
Which popular board game was originally called ‘Criss Cross Words’?	Scrabble \| board game \| Britannica.com board game go Scrabble, board-and-tile game in which two to four players compete in forming words with lettered tiles on a 225-square board; words spelled out by letters on the tiles interlock like words in a crossword puzzle . Players draw seven tiles from a pool at the start and replenish their supply after each turn. Tiles in the pool and those of other players are kept secret so that a player can see only those tiles on the board and his own. A player may forfeit his turn and exchange any or all of his tiles for those in the pool. There are 100 letter tiles, each imprinted with a point value for different letters, approximately corresponding to the frequency of occurrence of the letter in English words. Words are scored by adding up the point values of their letters, multiplied by any of 61 premium squares that may be covered, such as double letter, triple letter, double word, and triple word. Scoring as the game advances is possible both horizontally and vertically, with higher scores registered by forming two or more interlocking words at the same time. At the end of the game, when one player has no tiles or the board is deadlocked, the player who has scored the greatest number of points is the winner. Values of unused letters left to players are totalled and deducted from their scores. Originally called Criss Cross, the game, which was based on the crossword puzzle and anagrams, was developed by Alfred M. Butts, an architect, in 1931. It was redesigned, renamed as Scrabble, and marketed by James Brunot in 1948. It was first sold in Great Britain in 1954. Scrabble was later produced in many foreign languages, Braille, and magnetic editions and continued to be one of the leading board-and-tile games in the United States . Tournaments have been held in the United States since 1973. Similar Topics
Which Asian city was previously known as Edo?	History of Tokyo (Edo) - Wa-pedia History of Tokyo Tokyo Imperial Palace (formerly Edo Castle). Tokyo was initially established in 1457. The city was then known as Edo (江戸, literally "bay-entrance" ). Tokyo is therefore a new city by Eurasian standards, far more recent than most European cities and almost as recent as the first European colonies in the Americas. The Tokugawa shōgunate was established in 1603 with Edo as its seat of government - the de facto capital of Japan, although the Emperor's residence remained in Kyoto, which had been the actual capital until that time. In September of 1868, when the shōgunate came to an end, Emperor Meiji ordered Edo to be renamed "Tokyo" (東京), meaning "Eastern Capital." The new name was meant to emphasize Tokyo's status as the new capital of Japan, both temporally and spiritually. Tokyo has been generally accepted as the sole capital of Japan since 1869, when the Emperor took up permanent residence there. However, the capital was never legally "transferred" to Tokyo, leading some to question whether Kyōto may still be the capital, or a co-capital. The Great Kanto earthquake struck Tokyo in 1923, killing approximately 70,000 people; a massive reconstruction plan was drawn up, but was too expensive to carry out except in part. Despite this, the city grew until the beginning of World War II. During the war, Tokyo was heavily bombed, much of the city was burned to the ground, and its population in 1945 was only half that of 1940. Following the war, Tokyo was under military occupation and governed by the allied forces. General Douglas MacArthur established the occupation headquarters in what is now the Dai-Ichi Seimei building overlooking the Imperial Palace. The American presence in Tokyo made it an important command and logistics center during the Korean War. Tokyo still hosts a number of U.S. military bases, including Yokota Air Base. During the 1950s and mid-1960s, Japan experienced what is widely described as the "economic miracle", which transformed the nation from wartime devastation to the world's second-largest economy by 1966. During this period, Japanese government policy placed priority on the development of infrastructure and manufacturing industries over social welfare. As a result, Japan came to dominate a range of industries including steel, ship-building, automobiles, semiconductors, and consumer electronics. Tokyo's re-emergence from wartime trauma was complete at the 1964 Summer Olympics, which publicized the city on an international stage and brought global attention to the "economic miracle". Beginning in the 1970s, Japanese cities experienced a massive wave of expansion as laborers began migrating from rural areas, and Tokyo was one of the most dramatic examples. As it grew steadily into the economic bubble of the late 1980s, Tokyo became one of the most dynamic cities on Earth, with a tremendous range of social and economic activities, myriad restaurants and clubs, a major financial district, tremendous industrial strength, a wealth of shops, and world-class entertainment opportunities. The construction boom of the bubble years was one of the greatest in world history (as judged by the level of building expenditures in relation to the size of the economy), leading Tokyo to have an enormously more modern capital stock of buildings than similar metropolises such as London and New York City. Although the recession following the bursting of the "bubble economy" in the early 1990s hurt the city, Tokyo remains the predominant economic center of East Asia, rivaled only by Hong Kong and Singapore. On March 20, 1995, Tokyo became the focus of international media attention in the wake of the Aum Shinrikyō cult terrorist organisation attack with Sarin nerve gas on the Tokyo subway system (in the tunnels beneath the political district of central Tokyo) in which 12 people were killed and thousands affected (see Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway).
In medicine, dystocia is difficulty in doing what?	Shoulder dystocia - BabyCentre Shoulder dystocia How can I recover after a birth with shoulder dystocia? What is shoulder dystocia? Shoulder dystocia can happen after your baby's head has been born. If one of her shoulders becomes stuck, and you need extra help for her body to be born, it’s called shoulder dystocia (RCOG 2012, 2013a, Simkin and Ancheta 2011). It is an unusual complication that can happen during the end of the second stage of labour (RCOG 2012, Simkin and Ancheta 2011). It's all to do with how your baby moves down through your pelvis and out into the world. Your baby's shoulder may get stuck if: Your baby is big (macrosomia) (Allen 2014, RCOG 2012). However, if you’re having a big baby, don’t panic as most big babies don’t get stuck at all. About half of cases of shoulder dystocia happen with babies that are not large (RCOG 2012, Rodis 2015). Your baby hasn’t moved into the best position for her shoulders to be born (Simkin and Ancheta 2011). The position that you’re in restricts the room in your pelvis (Rodis 2015). Changing position may increase how much room your baby has to move through your pelvis (Reitter et al 2014). To understand shoulder dystocia, it helps to know how vaginal birth usually progresses . During birth your baby moves from your womb (uterus), down through the cradle of bones that make up your pelvis. At the front of your pelvis is your pubic bone. You can feel your pubic bone just behind the top of your pubic hair. At the back of your pelvis is the sacrum with the tailbone (coccyx) at the bottom. You can feel these bones between your buttocks. Normally when you start pushing , your baby is facing away from your pubic bone towards your sacrum. Usually, after your baby's head is born, her head and body will turn sideways. This allows her shoulders and body to pass comfortably through your pelvis on the next contraction. With shoulder dystocia, one of her shoulders gets stuck, preventing her body being born (Tower 2011 ). It's usually the front (anterior) shoulder that gets stuck behind your pubic bone, although it is also possible for the back (posterior) shoulder to get stuck on the sacrum. The illustration below shows what happens with an anterior shoulder dystocia: If this happens, your baby needs to be born fairly quickly to make sure she continues to get enough oxygen (Allen 2014, RCOG 2012), particularly if there have already been signs of problems with her heart-rate (RCOG 2012). While your baby is stuck, the umbilical cord may be squashed, which means less oxygen is reaching her. Meanwhile, her lungs are still compressed, so she can't get oxygen by breathing yet. For this reason, shoulder dystocia is an emergency complication that needs resolving calmly but swiftly. This may all sound alarming, but be reassured that your doctor and midwife will be on hand to help your baby out in good time, while avoiding injury to you or your baby. What causes shoulder dystocia? Shoulder dystocia is unusual. It happens in about one out of every 150 births (Ouzounian et al 2012, RCOG 2012, 2013a). It isn’t possible to predict shoulder dystocia (RCOG 2012, Revicky et al 2012, Rodis 2015). We do know that the risk is increased if: You experienced shoulder dystocia in a previous labour (Allen 2014, RCOG 2012). You’re having a big baby (Allen 2014, RCOG 2012, Revicky et al 2012). You have diabetes (Allen 2014, RCOG 2012). You are very overweight or you’ve gained a lot of weight during pregnancy (Allen 2014, RCOG 2012). Your baby's body is disproportionately larger than her head (Allen 2014, Larson and Mandelbaum 2013). Your labour is induced (RCOG 2012). If you’re obese you’re more likely to develop gestational diabetes (NICE 2015, RCOG 2013b). Uncontrolled diabetes slightly increases the chance of your baby getting stuck because your baby is more likely to put weight on across her torso (NICE 2015, Rodis 2015). Interventions in your labour, once it’s underway, can also increase the risk of shoulder dystocia, such as the use of ventouse or forceps (Allen 2014, Revicky et al 2012). How your labour p
The island of Lampedusa belongs to which European country?	Lampedusa: the Gate of Europe - OneEurope Lampedusa: the Gate of Europe The vibrant multicultural artistic scene of the island of Lampedusa - the positive effects of cross-cultural encounter 24 Oct 2013 \| tags: Europe , Italy , integration , Culture , refugees , Lampedusa and illegal immigration "La porta d'Europa", work of the artist Mimmo Paladino. After the last tragic shipwreck of migrants, Europe and the rest of the world discovered the existence of the little island of Lampedusa . Nowadays inhabitants of Lampedusa are called to face a big challenge: to overcome their isolated status and to open up to a likely integration process. Integration is not easy, of course, but it could be a good stimulus for Lampedusa, and lead to excellent cultural results. But the question is: is it really possible for a “lost rock” in the middle of the sea to become a meeting point for different cultures and art expressions? Can Lampedusa become a inter-socio-cultural hub between the North and South sides of the Mediterranean Sea ? While the majority of Europeans consider the shipwreck on 3rd October just a single tragic episode, for all Lampedusani (the inhabitants of Lampedusa), it was an almost daily tragic event. As a matter of facts, shipwrecks began more than ten years ago, when migration fluxes started to flood the southern area of the Mediterranean Sea , but in all these years nobody has really paid attention to that issue. If Italian politics were too occupied in approving a couple of discriminatory bills against immigrants, the rest of Europe ignored the situation, following the idea that every country should solve its own problems. In this way, inhabitants of Lampedusa and Sicily have been left to solve the matter of migration by themselves, although migration is not just an Italian issue, since there are important migratory fluxes towards many other European countries. In all Europe only Malta risks the same problems in the same way as Lampedusa. In fact, sometimes there are diplomatic incidents between Malta Malta have difficulties in deciding the local competence of receiving migrants. There are many different causes that provoke migration fluxes, but the political crisis which afflicts many countries in Africa and in the Middle East has worsened the situation. It is not so easy to find working solutions for migration problems and difficulties, but history taught us that culture and education can be a positive way to make people meet and get to know each other, enriching the culture of the local area, too. Inhabitants of Lampedusa don’t want to be regarded as “pitiful” just because of the situation in which they have been involved. But at the same time Lampedusani want to live a normal life, without forgetting those tragedies, but without fishing corpses as well. Those sea tragedies sensitized different artists and creative people, who felt the necessity to express themselves and create something for the inhabitants of the island, stimulating people of different cultures to accept and integrate each other. For this reason the little island of Lampedusa could take advantage of the mass migration and its positive consequences to become a good example for the rest of Europe . But before continuing with the article, it would be better to give some information about Lampedusa. The Italian Island is the largest one of the Pelagies, an archipelago in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea (very close to Malta) and it belongs to the Autonomous Region of Sicily (province of Agrigento). Lampedusa is the town hall of its municipality, which includes all the three islands of the archipelago (for a total of 6.304 inhabitants). This archipelago is closer to the African coasts rather than to the Italian ones. Distances: Lampedusa-Tunisia: 127 km . In the last years the culture sector has been increasingly developed in Lampedusa, creating events, founding institutions, promoting works of art. All of them have been created with the same aim: to enrich the culture of the island, supporting immigrants and local inhabitants. Askavusa: Cultural
What was the name of Jim Carrey’s pet Jack Russell Terrier in the 1994 film ‘The Mask’?	The Mask (1994) - 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 Bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss is transformed into a manic superhero when he wears a mysterious mask. Director: Chuck Russell (as Charles Russell) Writers: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON TV a list of 24 titles created 14 Mar 2011 a list of 41 titles created 18 Jun 2011 a list of 37 titles created 16 Jun 2012 a list of 21 titles created 30 Mar 2015 a list of 25 titles created 4 months ago Search for " The Mask " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb 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 6 wins & 18 nominations. See more awards » Videos A goofy detective specializing in animals goes in search of a missing dolphin mascot of a football team. Director: Tom Shadyac A fast-track lawyer can't lie for 24 hours due to his son's birthday wish after he turns his son down for the last time. Director: Tom Shadyac A guy who complains about God too often is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world. Director: Tom Shadyac The cross-country adventures of two good-hearted but incredibly stupid friends. Directors: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly Stars: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, returns from a spiritual quest to investigate the disappearance of a rare white bat, the sacred animal of a tribe in Africa. Director: Steve Oedekerk A nice-guy cop with dissociative identity disorder must protect a woman on the run from a corrupt ex-boyfriend and his associates. Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly Stars: Jim Carrey, Renée Zellweger, Anthony Anderson A guy challenges himself to say "yes" to everything for an entire year. Director: Peyton Reed A lonely and disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences. Director: Ben Stiller Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare. Director: Jay Roach When an affluent couple lose all their money following a series of blunders, they turn to a life of crime to make ends meet. Director: Dean Parisot All hell breaks loose when the Byrnes family meets the Focker family for the first time. Director: Jay Roach A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from high school, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster. Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly Stars: Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon Edit Storyline Stanley Ipkiss ( Jim Carrey ) is a bank clerk that is an incredibly nice man. Unfortunately, he is too nice for his own good and is a pushover when it comes to confrontations. After one of the worst days of his life, he finds a mask that depicts Loki, the Norse night god of mischief. Now, when he puts it on, he becomes his inner, self: a cartoon romantic wild man. However, a small time crime boss, Dorian Tyrel ( Peter Greene ), comes across this character dubbed "The Mask" by the media. After Ipkiss's alter ego indirectly kills his friend in crime, Tyrel now wants this green-faced goon destroyed. Written by Ian Pugh <[email protected]> From zero to hero See more » Genres: Rated PG-13 for some stylized violence \| See all certifications » Parents Guide: 29 July 1994 (USA) See more » Also Known As: £11,021,329 (UK) (9 September 1994) Gross: DTS \| Dolby (Dolby Stereo)\| Dolby Digital (Dolby 5.1) Color: Milo, Stanley Ipkiss's dog, is a Jack Russell Terrier. See more » Goofs Obvious double when Tina is dancing with Stanley. See more » Quotes Dorian\Mask : This party's over [bends down to time bomb] Dorian\Mask : in 10 minutes. [starts time bomb] See more » Crazy Credits When all the credits have finished some jazz drumming is heard. Then the f
What is the name of the Tropic which lies approximately 23.5 degrees south of the Equator and runs through Australia, Chile, Brazil and South Africa?	The Equator, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn By Matt Rosenberg Updated August 31, 2016. Three of the most significant imaginary lines running across the surface of the Earth are the equator, the Tropic of Cancer, and the Tropic of Capricorn. While the equator is the longest line of latitude on the Earth (the line where the Earth is widest in an east-west direction), the tropics are based on the sun's position in relation to the Earth at two points of the year. All three lines of latitude are significant in their relationship between the Earth and the sun. The Equator The equator is located at zero degrees latitude . The equator runs through Indonesia, Ecuador, northern Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo , and Kenya, among other countries . It is 24,901.55 miles (40,075.16 kilometers) long. On the equator, the sun is directly overhead at noon on the two equinoxes - near March and September 21. The equator divides the planet into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. On the equator, the length of day and night are equal every day of the year - day is always twelve hours long and night is always twelve hours long. continue reading below our video Overview of the Four Seasons The Tropic of Cancer and The Tropic of Capricorn The Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn each lie at 23.5 degrees latitude. The Tropic of Cancer is located at 23.5° North of the equator and runs through Mexico, the Bahamas, Egypt, Saudi Arabia , India, and southern China. The Tropic of Capricorn lies at 23.5° South of the equator and runs through Australia, Chile, southern Brazil (Brazil is the only country that passes through both the equator and a tropic), and northern South Africa . The tropics are the two lines where the sun is directly overhead at noon on the two solstices - near June and December 21. The sun is directly overhead at noon on the Tropic of Cancer on June 21 (the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of winter in the Southern Hemisphere) and the sun is directly overhead at noon on the Tropic of Capricorn on December 21 (the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of summer in the Southern Hemisphere). The reason for the location of the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn at 23.5° north and south respectively is due to the axial tilt of the Earth. The Earth is titled 23.5 degrees from the plane of the Earth's revolution around the sun each year. The area bounded by the Tropic of Cancer on the north and Tropic of Capricorn on the south is known as the "tropics." This area does not experience seasons because the sun is always high in the sky. Only higher latitudes, north of the Tropic of Cancer and south of the Tropic of Capricorn, experience significant seasonal variation in climate. Realize, however, that areas in the tropics can be cold. The peak of Mauna Kea on the big island of Hawaii stands nearly 14,000 feet above sea level, and snow is not unusual. If you live north of the Tropic of Cancer or south of the Tropic of Capricorn, the sun will never be directly overhead. In the United States, for example, Hawaii is the only location in the country that is south of the Tropic of Cancer, and it is thus the only location in the United States where the sun will be directly overhead in the summer.. Prime Meridian While the equator divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres , it is the Prime Meridian at zero degrees longitude and the line of longitude opposite the Prime Meridian (near the International Date Line ) at 180 degrees longitude that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres . The Eastern Hemisphere consists of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia while the Western Hemisphere includes North and South America . Some geographers place the boundaries between the hemispheres at 20° West and 160° East so as to not run through Europe and Africa. Unlike the equator and the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, the Prime Meridian and all lines of longitude are completely imaginary lines and have no significance w
Who was the original presenter of the UK tv show ‘Never Mind the Buzzcocks’?	Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Show News, Reviews, Recaps and Photos - TV.com Never Mind the Buzzcocks EDIT Unsympathetic to the precious pomposity of the rock and pop industry, 'Buzzcocks' takes a sledgehammer to the delicate egos of the biggest and most famous names in music - often whilst they are guests on the programme. The scathing wit of Mark Lamarr and later Simon Amstell, has literally caused guests to walk off the show. From 2009 to 2013, the show was presented by different guest hosts each week. In July 2014 it was revealed that Rhod Gilbert would become the show's third regular host from the 28th series. This would turn out to be the final series as the BBC announced in May 2015 that the show had been axed. In 2013, the BBC aired a series called What a Load of Buzzcocks which is narrated by Blur's Alex James and looks at the best bits of a certain year of music including moments from 'Buzzcocks'.
Apart from the moon, which planet in our solar system is the brightest natural object in the night sky?	The Most Extreme Skywatching Objects in Night Sky Credit: George Tucker Extreme Night Sky Targets The night sky is full of uncountable wonders, as any dedicated stargazer knows. Here's a brief rundown of some of the most extreme night sky sights, from the brightest planet to the most distant object detectable with the naked eye. FIRST STOP: The Brightest Planet 2 of 7 Credit: Cory Poole The Brightest Planet Earth's hellishly hot "sister planet," Venus , takes this title because of its highly reflective clouds and proximity to Earth. It's about six times more luminous than the runners-up, Mars and Jupiter. Venus is brighter than pretty much any object in our sky apart from the sun and moon, shining at a maximum apparent magnitude of -5 or so. For comparison, the full moon blazes at magnitude -13, making it roughly 1,600 times brighter than Venus. (In astronomy, lower magnitudes signify brighter objects.) [ Amazing Photos of Venus and the Moon ] NEXT: The Largest Star Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Humphreys (University of Minnesota) The Largest Star The largest known star is probably VY Canis Majoris, a red M-type star that lies about 3,800 light-years from Earth in the constellation Canis Major, The Big Dog. Researchers estimate that VY Canis Majoris could be more than 2,100 times the size of the sun. If placed in our solar system, the monster star's surface would thus extend out past the orbit of Saturn. But VY Canis Majoris may not even have a discernible surface, since the star appears to be about 1,000 times less dense than Earth's atmosphere at sea level. VY Canis Majoris is the source of considerable controversy, since the estimates of its size fall outside the bounds of current stellar theory. Astronomers think VY Canis Majoris will die in a "hypernova" explosion sometime within the next 100,000 years, producing a burst of energy substantially higher than that generated by typical supernovas. NEXT: The Brightest Star Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Bond (STScI), and M. Barstow (University of Leicester) The Brightest Star In 1997, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope identified what may be the most luminous star known — a celestial mammoth 25,000 light-years away that releases up to 10 million times the energy of the sun and is big enough to fill the diameter of Earth's orbit. Researchers have suggested that this powerhouse star — found in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius — also created a surrounding cloud of glowing gas that has been dubbed the Pistol Nebula. As such, it's called the "Pistol Star." Unfortunately, this amazing star is not visible to skywatchers here on Earth; it's hidden behind the great dust clouds along the Milky Way. The brightest visible star is currently Sirius, the Dog Star, which is found in the constellation Canis Major. Sirius shines with an apparent magnitude of -1.44. [ More on the Pistol Star ] NEXT: Most Colorful Star Credit: Francesco Malafarina The Most Colorful Star Many stars are known for their beautiful colors, such as the double star Albireo (blue and orange) and Antares (fiery red). But the most colorful of all stars visible to the naked eye may be the reddish-orange Mu Cephei, which is sometimes known as Erakis. The red giant Mu Cephei — dubbed "The Garnet Star" by famed British astronomer William Herschel — resides in the constellation Cepheus (The King). Mu Cephei is a pulsating variable star and cycles from a maximum magnitude of 3.7 down to about 5.0 before brightening back up again. And the star's color can vary, too. Most of the time, Mu Cephei appears a deep orange-red, but on occasion it has seemed to take on a weird purplish tint. While The Garnet Star is slightly dim, its ruddy cast is apparent even to the unaided eye on a dark night, and it’s stunning in good binoculars. NEXT: Most Distant Naked-Eye Object 6 of 7 Credit: Johannes Gligoris Most Distant Naked-Eye Object This superlative goes to the Andromeda galaxy , a collection of 400 billion stars that was spotted as early as the 10th century by Persian astronomer Al Sufi. He described it as a "little clo
Daisy, Rose and Violet are fictional sisters in which UK tv comedy series?	Daisy \| Keeping Up Appearances Wiki \| Fandom powered by Wikia Keeping Up Appearances Wiki The Pageant Daisy is a fictional character in the British situation comedy, Keeping Up Appearances, portrayed by actress Judy Cornwell. Daisy is the lower-class sister of social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bucket , who lives with her apathetic slob husband, Onslow , promiscuous sister Rose , and her senile father . Daisy is full of life and always smiling, despite picking up her husband's bad habits of sleeping until noon and watching television all day. She persists in trying to get her apathetic husband to have sex with her (she recalls their first time was in a bus shelter on Milton Street, though Onslow disagrees - A Barbecue At Violet's ), and tries to share romantic moments with him, however, her efforts always fail (see especially The Boy Friend) as Onslow prefers to drink beer and watch "racing on the telly." As a result, Daisy tends to lose herself in Mills & Boonromance novels. Onslow and Daisy have one daughter, Stephanie , who has a daughter named Kylie (whose father is unknown even to Stephanie, who is in a polyamorous relationship), and only appears in the final episode of series one, The Christening . Daisy's care-free, dirt-infested way of living is condemned by her elder sister Hyacinth; nevertheless, it is Hyacinth that Daisy always turns to when worried about Onslow, Rose, or her senile father who frequently causes embarrassing problems that Hyacinth has to always solve. Daisy, like Hyacinth, has to help deal with their father's constant shenanigans, such as getting engaged to a succession of different women. Often he sneaks out without anyone noticing, and Daisy must track him down. She pushes frequently reluctant Onslow in dealing with her father. It is briefly mentioned in series four, that Daisy is a Liverpool F.C. supporter, and once went with her uncle to the games. Her support for Liverpool F.C. caused a huge problem with Onslow when they first met, because she did not reveal her allegiance until the wedding night. The football club which Onslow supports is unnamed, but since Onslow is a Scouser himself, it is presumably Everton F.C. or Tranmere Rovers. According to the book Hyacinth Bucket's Hectic Social Calendar, Daisy's birthday is July 18th.
Aquae Sulis was the Roman name for which English city?	City of Bath : the Roman city of aquae sulis. (Book, 1988) [WorldCat.org] The E-mail message field is required. Please enter the message. E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19922033 Title: City of Bath : the Roman city of aquae sulis. Author: Jane Wilton-Smith Publisher: Pitkin, ©1988. ISBN/ISSN: 0853724385 9780853724384 OCLC:19922033 The ReCaptcha terms you entered were incorrect. Please try to match the 2 words shown in the window, or try the audio version.
Balestra, Derobement and Florentine are terms used in which sport?	Fencing Glossary - Dictionary of Fencing Terms Absence of blade: when the blades are not touching; opposite of engagement. Advance: a movement forward by step, cross, or balestra. Aids: the last three fingers of the sword hand. Analysis: reconstruction of the fencing phrase to determine priority of touches. Assault: friendly combat between two fencers. Attack: the initial offensive action made by extending the sword arm and continuously threatening the valid target of the opponent. Attack au Fer: an attack that is prepared by deflecting the opponent's blade, eg. beat, press, froissement. Backsword: an archaic, edged, unpointed sword used in prizefighting; also singlestick. Balestra: a forward hop or jump, typically followed by an attack such as a lunge or fleche. Bayonet: a type of electrical connector for foil and sabre. Beat: an attempt to knock the opponent's blade aside or out of line by using one's foible or middle against the opponent's foible. Baudry point: a safety collar placed around a live epee point to prevent dangerous penetration. Bind: an action in which the opponent's blade is forced into the diagonally opposite line. Black Card: used to indicate the most serious offences in a fencing competition. The offending fencer is usually expelled from the event or tournament. Bout: an assault at which the score is kept. Broadsword: any sword intended for cutting instead of thrusting; sabre. Broken Time: a sudden change in the tempo of one fencer's actions, used to fool the opponent into responding at the wrong time. Button: the safety tip on the end of practice and sporting swords. Change of Engagement: engagement of the opponent's blade in the opposite line. Commanding the blade: grabbing the opponent's blade with the off-hand, illegal in sport fencing. Compound: also composed; an action executed in two or more movements; an attack or riposte incorporating one or more feints. Conversation: the back-and-forth play of the blades in a fencing match, composed of phrases (phrases d'armes) punctuated by gaps of no blade action. Counter-attack: an offensive action made against the right-of-way, or in response to the opponent's attack. Counter-disengage: a disengage in the opposite direction, to deceive the counter-parry. Counter-parry: a parry made in the opposite line to the attack; ie. the defender first comes around to the opposite side of the opponent's blade. Counter-riposte: an attack that follows a parry of the opponent's riposte. Counter-time: an attack that responds to the opponent's counter-attack, typically a riposte following the parry of the counter-attack. Corps-a-corps: lit. "body-to-body"; physical contact between the two fencers during a bout, illegal in foil and sabre. Coule': also graze, glise', or glissade; an attack or feint that slides along the opponent's blade. Coup lance': a launched hit; an attack that starts before a stop in play but lands after. Valid for normal halts, but not valid at end of time. Coupe': also cut-over; an attack or deception that passes around the opponent's tip. Croise: also semi-bind; an action in which the opponent's blade is forced into the high or low line on the same side. Cross: an advance or retreat by crossing one leg over the other; also passe' avant (forward cross), passe' arriere (backwards cross). Cut: an attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, normally landing with the edge. Deception: avoidance of an attempt to engage the blades; see disengage, coupe' Derobement: deception of the attack au fer or prise de fer. Direct: a simple attack or riposte that finishes in the same line in which it was formed, with no feints out of that line. Disengage: a circular movement of the blade that deceives the opponent's parry, removes the blades from engagement, or changes the line of engagement. Displacement
Who wrote the short story ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’?	The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner \| film by Richardson [1962] \| Britannica.com The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner film by Richardson [1962] The Wizard of Oz The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, British film drama, released in 1962, that was directed by Tony Richardson and featured the impressive screen debut of Tom Courtenay. Courtenay played Colin Smith, a troubled young man sent to a reform school after he robs a bakery. A gifted runner, he is chosen to represent the institution in a key long-distance race against a prestigious school. Much of the story is told in flashback and inner monologue, revealing the thoughts of the young man as he struggles with his identity while incessantly practicing in preparation for the big race. The finale finds him enacting a startling gesture of defiance: he stops near the finish line and lets the other runners pass. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner was based on a short story by Alan Sillitoe , who also wrote the screenplay. It is a notable example of the “Angry Young Men” films that were popular in British cinema after World War II. Production notes and credits Director and producer: Tony Richardson Writer: Alan Sillitoe The British film drama The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) was directed by Tony Richardson. The movie featured the impressive screen debut of Tom Courtenay. Article Contributors 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 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Film by Richardson [1962] 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
Which playing card is known as ‘Big Casino’?	Rules of Card Games: Casino Software Introduction Casino is the only fishing game to have become popular in English speaking countries. Although it is traditionally supposed to have originated in Italy, there is no direct evidence of it having been played there, at least under that name, though many other Italian fishing games are known. Casino first appears in the card game literature at the end of the eighteenth century in London, and shortly afterwards in Germany. In the late nineteenth century it became fashionable in America and a number of new variations were developed. There is a dispute about the correct spelling of the name - the earliest sources use the spelling Casino, but a tradition has grown up among later writers to spell it with a double 's': Cassino. The aim in Casino is to capture cards from a layout of face up cards on the table. A card is captured by playing a matching card from hand. It is also possible to capture several cards at once if their values add up to the value of the card played. Captured cards are stored face down in front of the player who captured them and scored at the end of the play. Cards from hand can also be combined with table cards into builds, which can only be captured as a unit. This page describes the most usual Anglo-American version of Casino in which picture cards, not having a numerical value, can only capture an equal picture. There are many variants in which picture cards also have numerical values. In English-speaking countries this type of game is known as Royal Casino, and interesting versions of it are popular in various parts of the world. On other pages of this site there are descriptions of: Royal Casino and the version played in the Dominican Republic , which features different scoring in the endgame; Casino in Southern Africa (Swaziland, Lesotho and South Africa), where cards can be from opponents' capture piles can be reused in builds; Casino (Kasino) in Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway and Finland) which is usually played without building; Krypkasino , a reverse variant from Sweden in which the aim is to avoid capturing cards. Players and Cards The game works best with from 2 to 4 players, though in theory more could take part. It has the distinction of being one of the few games which will deal out evenly to two, three, or four players. Four players can play in partnerships, two against two, with partners sitting opposite each other. A regular 52 card deck is used. Each numeral card (ace-ten) is counted as its numerical value (ace = 1, two = 2, etc). Picked up cards are accumulated in a pile to be counted at the end of the round. The Deal The dealer deals four cards to each player and four cards face up in the centre (these centre cards are laid out separately so that all are visible). Traditionally, the deal is in twos: two cards to each other player, two to the table, then two to the dealer, then repeat. However, some players prefer to deal the cards singly. The remainder of the deck is temporarily put aside. After everyone has played their four cards, another hand of four cards is dealt to each player from the remaining cards, but no more cards are dealt to the table after the first deal. After these cards have been played there is another deal, and this continues until all 52 cards have been dealt (this takes 6 deals for 2 players, 4 deals for three players, 3 deals for 4 players). The dealer must announce "last" when dealing the last cards. After the last cards have been played and the hand scored, the deal passes to the left for the next round. The Play Starting with the player to the left of the dealer and continuing clockwise, each player in turn must play one card out from hand face up on the table. This card may or may not capture one or more cards from the table. In case of a capture, when the other players have had an opportunity to see the capturing card, the player picks up this card and the captured cards and stores them all face down in a pile. If there is no capture the played card remains face up on the table. Irrespective of whether
Who was TV puppet Lenny the Lion’s human partner?	The Lenny the Lion Show (TV Series 1957–1961) - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 8:05 PM, UTC NEWS 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 The Lenny the Lion Show 30min a list of 120 titles created 06 May 2012 Title: The Lenny the Lion Show (1957–1961) 7.3/10 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. (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews What - doesn't anyone remember Lenny The Lion? Shame on you. Well now; Lenny The Lion and his partner Terry Hall were amongst the most popular characters of early British children's television. They appeared around the time that Sooty began to make good, and would seem to have been presented as an alternative. In fact, Lenny was much more of a character because - unlike Harry Corbett - Lenny's partner, Terry Hall, was a ventriloquist. And he gave Lenny a very identifiable and quirky voice as well as an interesting and humorous personality. Lenny was a big puppet - an armful - with a hand and a movable face, eyes and lower jaw. In short, there was a great deal more entailed in his act compared to the silent glove-puppet of Sooty and the rabid squeaking of Sweep. At his peak, Lenny had his own show with variety guest appearances on prime-time kids' telly, but he doesn't seem to have lasted. Ceertainly he hasn't been anything like as enduring as Sooty & Sweep. And for the life of me I cannot think why? After the show he continued to make many guest appearances before being relegated to the pantomime circuit. It wasn't fair, but I guess that's showbiz. Late 50's early 60's saw a lot of ventriloquist acts come and go. Comic impersonators seemed to banish them all by the 1970's. But in 1957 Lenny was certainly worth the Lion's share in Puppetry and ventriloquism. What a pity he's just faded into obscurity. 1 of 1 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes
Ricin is a highly toxic protein obtained from the pressed beans of which plant?	Science Everything You Need To Know About Ricin, The Poison Mailed To President Obama Ricin is one of the most poisonous substances on Earth, it's scarily easy to make, and somebody is mailing it to the President and at least one U.S. senator. What it is, how it works, and more, inside. By Dan Nosowitz posted Apr 17th, 2013 at 2:30pm via Breaking Bad Wiki Ricin (on Breaking Bad) Yesterday, an envelope addressed to Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, was found to contain a white granular substance that was identified as ricin. Today, a similar letter addressed to President Obama was found. These envelopes were intercepted off-site--they never got anywhere near their targets--but as a precaution, Capitol Police have shut down mail service until they can figure out what's going on. In the meantime, let's talk about ricin! How poisonous is it? Oh, man. Very. It's dangerous in just about any way it gets into your system, though ingesting (eating) it is about the least dangerous way. Injecting or inhaling requires about a thousand times less ricin to kill a human than ingesting, and that's a very small amount indeed. An average adult needs only 1.78mg of ricin injected or inhaled to die; that's about the size of a few grains of table salt--which ricin resembles visually. Wikimedia Commons The seeds of the castor plant, from which castor oil (and ricin) are extracted. How does it work? Ricin, a toxic protein, infects cells, blocking their ability to synthesize their own protein. Without cells making protein, key functions in the body shut down; even in survivors, permanent organ damage is often the result of ricin poisoning. It's a highly unpleasant way to be poisoned: within six hours, according to the Center for Disease Control, victims who have ingested ricin will feel gastrointestinal effects like severe vomiting and diarrhea, which can lead to serious dehydration. Then the ricin infects the cells of the vital gastrointestinal organs as they pass through the body, leading to the failure of the kidneys, liver, and pancreas. Inhalation of ricin has a different effect, since the ricin proteins aren't interacting with the same parts of the body. Instead of gastrointestinal problems, you'll develop a vicious, bloody cough, your lungs will fill with fluid, and eventually you'll lose your ability to breathe, causing death. Injection, too, is different, depending on where you've been injected, but will generally result in vomiting and flu-like symptoms, swelling around the place of injection, and eventually organ failure as your circulatory system passes the protein around the body. Death from inhalation or injection usually occurs about three to five miserable, agonizing days after contact. Interestingly, there aren't any immediate symptoms, and indeed there can be a significant delay before symptoms show themselves, up to a day or two. Exposure on the skin is generally not fatal, though it may cause a reaction that can range from irritation to blistering. That sounds...horrible. Is there an antidote, at least? Haha. No. The US and UK governments have been working on an antidote for decades-- here's a nice article describing the progression of one such antidote--but there isn't one available to the public. The CDC's website states bluntly, "There is no antidote for ricin toxicity." There are some steps you can take if you get to a hospital immediately; for ingestion, a stomach pump can sometimes prevent the ricin from reaching the rest of the gastrointestinal system at its full force. But...that's about it, really. Wikimedia Commons Castor Leaf How does it stack up against other poisons? Well, that depends on what your aim is. Ricin is much easier to produce than other popular biological weapons like botulinum, sarin, and anthrax, but it is not as potent as any of those, which limits its effectiveness as a weapon. It also is not very long-lived; the protein can age and become inactive fairly quickly compared to, say, anthrax, which can remain dangerous for decades. There were experiments back around World War I attemp
What is the name of the prospector in the 1999 animated film ‘Toy Story 2’?	Toy Story 2 (1999) - 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 From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON TV ON DISC ALL When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends vow to rescue him, but Woody finds the idea of immortality in a museum tempting. Directors: John Lasseter (original story by), Pete Docter (original story by) \| 6 more credits » Stars: a list of 23 images created 24 Jan 2014 a list of 33 titles created 24 Nov 2014 a list of 39 titles created 28 Nov 2015 a list of 36 titles created 01 Dec 2015 a list of 41 titles created 11 months ago Title: Toy Story 2 (1999) 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. Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 20 wins & 28 nominations. See more awards » Videos The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home. Director: Lee Unkrich A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room. Director: John Lasseter After his swamp is filled with magical creatures, Shrek agrees to rescue Princess Fiona for a villainous lord in order to get his land back. Directors: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson Stars: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz A family of undercover superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world. Director: Brad Bird A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous restaurant. Directors: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava Stars: Brad Garrett, Lou Romano, Patton Oswalt Directors: Pete Docter, David Silverman, and 1 more credit » Stars: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Mary Gibbs Directors: Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and 1 more credit » Stars: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz A hot-shot race-car named Lightning McQueen gets waylaid in Radiator Springs, where he finds the true meaning of friendship and family. Directors: John Lasseter, Joe Ranft Stars: Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Paul Newman Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe. Directors: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha Stars: Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Ray Romano Spoiled by their upbringing and unaware of what wildlife really is, four animals from the New York Central Zoo escape, unwittingly assisted by four absconding penguins, and find themselves in Madagascar. Directors: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath Stars: Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, David Schwimmer After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home. Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich Stars: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better. Directors: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud Stars: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand Edit Storyline While Andy is away at summer camp Woody has been toynapped by Al McWiggin, a greedy collector and proprietor of "Al's Toy Barn"! In this all-out rescue mission, Buzz and his friends Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Rex and Hamm springs into action to rescue Woody from winding up as a museum piece. They must find a way to save him before he gets sold in Japan forever and they'll never see him again! Written by Anthony Pereyra <[email protected]> The toys are back! See more » Genres: 24 November 1999 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Toy Story 2 in 3-D See more » Filming Locations: $57,388,839 (USA) (26 November 1999) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia Consistent with Al's love for cheese puff
How many points is a ‘Try’ worth in a game of rugby union?	Rugby Football History All Blacks Barbarians Canada British & Irish Lions Ireland Scotland Springboks USA Wales Wallabies Introduction In early rugby as played at rugby school, the only scores came from goals and there was no points value associated with scoring. The 1845 rules stated that in order to take a punt at goal (this had to be a 'place kick' not a' drop kick') a "TRY at goal" had to be earned by touching the ball down between the posts. The ball was then "punted" over the bar and between the posts without touching the dress or person of any player and in the face of onrushing defenders. The 1862 rules provide a detailed description of the complexities regarding touching down and scoring the goal. 1871 The first RFU laws state that 'A match shall be decided by a majority of goals only'. March 1875 a proposal for a points scoring system was rejected, as was a proposal that three tries should equal one goal. November 1875 the law was modified to 'A match shall be decided by a majority of goals, but if the number of goals is equal or no goals be kicked, by a majority of tries'. 1876 Cheltenham College adopted RFU rules but still continued to use their own points based scoring system (they referred to points as rouges). 1877 'When a goal is kicked from a try, only the goal is scored'. 1881 & 1882 Proposals were made for the RFU to introduce a points based scoring system: 1881 (rejected):-"A match shall be decided by majority of points, which are calculated as follows - a touchdown, a touch in goal and a dead-ball all equal in value and each count one point; a try counts 4 points, and a goal kicked from a try 12 points or equal to three tries, and a goal dropped or kicked from the field of play 8 points or two tries. When a goal is kicked from a try the goal only is scored." 1882 (rejected):- "A match shall be decided by points as under: - A goal direct from a place kick from a try shall count 8 pts; A goal dropped from the field of play, 6 pts; A goal from a flying kick 4 points; a try 4 points; a touchdown, a dead ball, or a touch in goal, 1 point each. The team obtaining a majority of four more points to be declared the winner. Any less majority than 4 points to count as a drawn game." Prior to 1886 various clubs assigned their own points system. The practice of Touching down the ball behind your own goal line was awarded a Point, sometimes referred to as the "Minor Point" or "Rouge". This should not be confused with the Cheltenham scoring system which referred to points in general as rouges. Many football annuals of this vintage will show scores consisting of Goals, Tries and Minor points (rouges). Although there was no generally accepted scoring system which contained the minor point (rouge) some unions did adopt it. But in 1886 a pattern favoured at Cheltenham School was adopted by the RFU, whereby points were scored for a try, a conversion goal and a dropped goal. 1886 (accepted):-"A match shall be decided by a majority of points, a goal shall equal three points, and a try one point. If the number of points be equal, or no goal kicked or try obtained, the match shall be drawn. Where a goal is kicked from a try the goal only is scored." Later penalty kicks were introduced, allowing teams disadvantaged by illegal play to kick for goal and score points if successful. October 1888 "Fair catch" (mark) introduced. Laws amended to introduce 2nd type of goal (of lesser value). 'A match shall be decided by a majority of points. A goal shall equal 3 points, with the exception of a goal kicked from a kick awarded by way of penalty, which shall equal 2 points, and a try 1 point. If the number of points is equal or no goals be kicked or try obtained, the match shall be drawn. When a goal is kicked from a try, the goal only is scored.' September 1891 The IRFB responsible for: 'A match shall be decided by a majority of points. A try shall equal 2 points, a penalty goal 3 points, a goal from a try (the try not also to count) 5 points. Any other goal shall equal 4 points. If the number of points i
In Mary Shelley’s novel ‘Frankenstein’, what is Frankenstein’s first name?	Frankenstein Frankenstein: What's in a Name? The full title of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley's novel is Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus. What influenced her to use "Frankenstein" as the name for her protagonist? And why should she give it a subtitle referring to an ancient Greek god? Given the importance of electricity as an animnating force in the novel, most readers, particularly her immediate audience of the early 1800s, would connect the name Frankenstein with Ben Franklin. All Europe was familiar with Ben Franklin's recent experiments with electricity and Mary included a direct reference to him in the first edition of the novel. But she didn't just make up a German name that sounded like the anglican Franklin. Frankenstein is the name of an old aristocratic German family whose ruined castle she passed on her way home from Europe in 1814 . The name--literally, the stone of the Franks--derives from the fact that this Frankish family (the Franks were a Germanic people who settled in Western Europe during the decline of the Roman Empire) built their castle near a quarry . Mary's novel radiates meanings on several levels, and ideas associated with the name Frankenstein resonate throughout the novel in many ways. While the novel may be a critique and a parody of Romanticism on one hand, it also very much embodies Romantic values--particularly that of the Romantic hero. She surely would be struck by the Romantic heroes in the history of the Frankenstiens . Clearly, the novel is concerned with the search for secret knowledge and the creation of life, and the historical Frankensteins also had a connection with these issues. Fortuitously, the philosopher's stone --a term associated with alchemy and Paracelsus --is also suggested by Frankenstein-- "FranksStone." Significantly, Mary has her protagonist study the works of Paracelsus as a youth. Also, the Frankenstein Castle ruins no doubt served as a magnet to travelers of romantic temperaments and interest in legends. The site and its history had an inspirational effect on Johann Goethe and his Faust . In Goethe's epic, the hero sells his soul to the devil in seeking the secret of life; the work and creates an artificial man in his laboratory. Mary Shelley was very familiar with Goethe's work. But what of the subtitle--the modern Prometheus? Mary knew the Prometheus myth as a fusion of two earlier versions--Prometheus plasticator (creator) and Prometheus pyrphoros (fire-bringer). In this modern version, the fire stolen by Prometheus became the fire of life with which he animated his man of clay. When Mary Shelley subtitled her novel "The Modern Prometheus," she forcefully directed our attention to the books critique both of the promethean poets she knew best, Byron and Percy Shelley , and of the entire Romantic ideology as she understood it. Victor Frankensteins failure to mother his child has both political and aesthetic ramifications . The father who neglects his children can be seen as the archetype of the irresponsible political leader who puts his own interests ahead of those of his fellow citizens. Victor Frankensteins quest is nothing less than the conquest of death itself. By acquiring the ability to "bestow animation upon lifeless matter" and thus "renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption" (49), Frankenstein in effect hopes to become God, the creator of life and the gratefully worshipped father of a new race of immortal beings. In contrast to this unchecked prometheanism, Mary Shelley realized that means become ends: no political ideology can be detached from its modes of production. At every step one must balance the abstract ideal one serves against a moral obligation to preserve the welfare of living individuals, especially those family members most dependent upon one. Mary Shelley grounded her alternative political ideology on the metaphor of the peaceful, loving, bourgeois family. She thereby implicitly endorsed a conservative vision of gradual evolutionary reform, a position articulated most forcefully during her tim
In which London palace were Queen Victoria and Prince Albert married?	Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's Stylish German Husband By Robert McNamara Prince Albert was a member of German royalty who married Britain's Queen Victoria and helped to spark an era of technological innovation as well as personal style. Albert, who had been born as a prince in Germany, was initially seen by the British as an interloper in British society. But his intelligence, interest in new inventions, and capability in diplomatic affairs made him a respected figure in Britain. Albert, who would eventually hold the title Prince Consort, became known for his interest in helping society improve in the mid-1800s. He was the great champion of one of the world's great technology events, the Great Exhibition of 1851 , which introduced many inventions to the public. He died, tragically, in 1861, leaving Victoria a widow whose trademark attire would become the black of mourning. Just prior to his death he served an important role by helping to dissuade the British government from a military conflict with the United States. continue reading below our video Profile of Queen Victoria Early Life of Prince Albert Albert was born on August 26, 1819 in Rosenau, Germany. He was the second son of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and was greatly influenced by his uncle Leopold, who became the king of Belgium in 1831. As a teenager Albert traveled to Britain and met the Princess Victoria, who was his cousin and nearly the same age as Albert. They were friendly but Victoria was not overly impressed with the young Albert, who was shy and awkward. The British were interested in finding a suitable husband for the young princess who was to ascend to the throne. British political tradition decreed that a monarch could not marry a commoner, so a British suitor was out of the question. Victoria's future husband would have to come from European royalty. Albert's relatives on the continent, including King Leopold of Belgium, essentially steered the young man toward being Victoria's husband. In 1839, two years after Victoria became Queen, Albert returned to England and proposed marriage. The Queen accepted. Marriage of Albert and Victoria Queen Victoria married Albert on February 10, 1840 at St. James Palace in London. At first the British public and the aristocracy thought little of Albert. While he was born of European royalty, his family was not wealthy or powerful. And he was often portrayed as someone marrying for prestige or money. Albert was actually quite intelligent and was devoted to helping his wife serve as monarch. And over time he became an indispensable aid to the queen, advising her on political and diplomatic affairs. Victoria and Albert had nine children, and by all accounts their marriage was very happy. They loved being together, sometimes sketching or listening to music. The royal family was portrayed as the ideal family, and setting an example for the British public was considered a major part of their role. Albert also contributed to a tradition familiar to us today. His German family would bring trees into the house at Christmas, and he brought that tradition to Britain. The Christmas tree at Windsor Castle created a fashion in Britain which was carried over to America. Career of Prince Albert In the early years of the marriage, Albert was frustrated that Victoria did not assign him tasks which he felt were up to his abilities. He wrote to a friend that he was "only the husband, not the master in the house." Albert busied himself with his interests in music and hunting, and he did eventually become involved in the serious matters of statesmanship. In 1848, when much of Europe was being shaken by revolutionary movement, Albert cautioned that the rights of working people had to be seriously considered. He was a progressive voice at a crucial time. Thanks to Albert's interest in technology, he was the main force behind the Great Exhibition of 1851 , a grand show of science and inventions held at a stunning new edifice in London, the Crystal Palace. The purpose of the exhibition was to showcase how society was being changed for t
Purbeck Marble originates from which English county?	Purbeck - definition - What is ? What is ? definition : Purbeck Purbeck may refer to: * Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula in the English county of Dorset * Purbeck District, a local government district in the English county of Dorset * Purbeck Hills, a range of hills in the English county of Dorset * Purbeck stone ** Purbeck Marble, a stone found on the Isle of Purbeck * Purbeck Ball Clay, a ball clay found on the Isle of Purbeck * Purbeck Group, a sequence of rock strata
On January 1st of which year did Spain stop using the peseta as its national currency?	ExchangeRate.com - Currency Information Spanish Peseta The name is believed to have been derived from the Catalan word pesseta, "small weight". History The peseta was introduced in 1869 after Spain joined the Latin Monetary Union in 1868. The Spanish Law of June 26, 1864 decreed that in preparation for joining the Latin Monetary Union (set up in 1865), the peseta became a subdivision of the peso with 1 peso duro = 5 pesetas. The peseta replaced the escudo at a rate of 5 pesetas = 1 peso duro = 2 escudos. The peseta was equal to 4.5 grams of silver, or 0.290322 gram of gold, the standard used by all the currencies of the Latin Monetary Union. From 1873, only the gold standard applied. The political turbulence of the early twentieth century caused the monetary union to break up, although it was not until 1927 that it officially ended. In 1959, Spain became part of the Bretton Woods System, pegging the peseta at a value of 60 pesetas = 1 U.S. dollar. In 1967, the peseta followed the devaluation of the British pound, maintaining the exchange rate of 168 pesetas = 1 pound and establishing a new rate of 70 pesetas = 1 U.S. dollar. The peseta was replaced by the euro in 2002, following the establishment of the euro in 1999. The exchange rate was 1 euro = 166.386 pesetas. Coins In 1869 and 1870, coins were introduced in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10 & 50 centimos, 1, 2 and 5 pesetas. The lowest 4 denominations were struck in copper (replaced by bronze from 1877), with the 50 centimos, 1 & 2 pesetas struck in .835 silver & the 5 pesetas struck in .900 silver. Gold 25 pesetas coins were introduced in 1876, followed by 20 pesetas in 1878. In 1889, 20 pesetas coins were introduced, with production of the 25 pesetas ceasing. In 1897, a single issue of gold 100 pesetas was made. Production of gold coins ceased in 1904, followed by that of silver coins in 1910. The last bronze coins were issued in 1912. Coin production resumed in 1925 with the introduction of cupro-nickel 25 centimos. In 1926, a final issue of silver 50 centimos was made, followed by the introduction of a holed version of the 25 centimos in 1927. In 1934, the Second Spanish Republic issued coins for 25 and 50 centimos and 1 peseta. The 25 centimos and silver 1 peseta were the same size and composition as the earlier Royal issues, whilst the 50 centimos was struck in copper. In 1937, an iron 5 centimos coins was introduced along with a brass 1 peseta. The last Republican issue was a holed, copper 25 centimos in 1938. During the Civil War, a number of local coinages were issued by both Republican and Nationalist forces. In 1936, the following pieces were issued by the Nationalists: The Nationalists issued their first national coins in 1937. These were holed, cupro-nickel 25 centimos minted in Vienna. Following the end of the Civil War, the Nationalist government introduced aluminium 5 and 10 centimos in 1940, followed by aluminium-bronze 1 peseta coins in 1944. In 1947, the first 1 peseta coins bearing the portrait of Francisco Franco were issued. Nickel 5 pesetas followed in 1949. In 1949, holed cupro-nickel 50 centimos were introduced, followed by aluminium-bronze 2Â½ pesetas in 1954, cupro-nickel 25 & 50 pesetas in 1958 & smaller aluminium 10 centimos in 1959. Silver 100 pesetas were issued between 1966 & 1969, with aluminium 50 centimos introduced in 1967. Following the accession of King Juan Carlos, the only change to the coinage was the introduction of cupronickel 100 pesetas in 1976. However, more significant changes occurred in 1982. The 50 centimos was discontinued, with aluminium 1 & 2 pesetas as well as aluminium-bronze 100 pesetas introduced. Cupronickel 10 pesetas were introduced in 1983. Cupronickel 200 pesetas were introduced in 1986, followed by aluminium-bronze 500 pesetas in 1987. In 1989, the size of the 1 peseta coin was significantly reduced & aluminium-bronze 5 pesetas were introduced. Aluminium-bronze 25 pesetas & smaller 50 pesetas were introduced in 1990, along with larger 200 pesetas. The 50 pesetas coins issued between 1990 and 2000 were the f
Which band released the 2011 single ‘Moves Like Jagger’, featuring Christina Aguilera?	Moves Like Jagger \| Maroon 5 Wiki \| Fandom powered by Wikia " Out of Goodbyes " "Moves Like Jagger" is a song by American band Maroon 5 featuring recording artist Christina Aguilera , released by A&M Octone Records on June 21, 2011, as the fourth and final single from the re-release of the group's third studio album Hands All Over (2010). The song was written by Adam Levine , Ammar Malik, Benjamin Levin, and Shellback; the latter two are also the producers. "Moves Like Jagger" is a dance-pop and electropop song and is backed by synths and electronic drums. The lyrics refer to a male's ability to impress a female with his dance moves, which he compares to Mick Jagger, frontman of The Rolling Stones. "Moves Like Jagger" was well received by music critics, who praised the song's chorus. Praise also went to the vocals of Levine and Aguilera, with critics pointing out solid chemistry between the two. Likewise, the song was a commercial success, going on to top the charts in over 18 countries. In the United States, "Moves Like Jagger" became the band's second (after 2007's " Makes Me Wonder ") and Aguilera's fifth number-one single and is among the best-selling singles of all time. The song also made Aguilera the second female artist to score a number one hit in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s (the first being Britney Spears), which in turn made her the fourth female to score number-one singles in three different decades, after Janet Jackson, Madonna and Spears. Worldwide, it was the ninth-best-selling digital single of 2011 with sales of 7 million copies. As of 2014, the song ranks as one of the six best-selling digital singles of all time with sales of over 15 million copies. The music video was directed by Jonas Åkerlund. The video features an old video footage of Jagger and his iconic dance moves. "Moves Like Jagger" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 54th Grammy Awards but lost to "Body and Soul" by Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse. The song was first performed in June 2011 on an episode of The Voice (where Levine and Aguilera both served as judges/coaches).
which 18th Century scientist said ‘Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain, and most fools do’?	Rational Rant: Fools and Criticism A web space devoted to mindscum, with an unflinching look at hard reality as it crushes us all under its wheels 12 July 2011 Fools and Criticism Wikiquote —one of the Wikimedia side-projects dwarfed by its famous sister Wikipedia—has a policy that all quotation-collections ought to employ: sources must be given for all quotations used. Further, quotations are divided up into categories—quotations with sources, attributed quotations, and misattributions, typically. There are also often sections devoted to such things as famous observations about the subject of the page—for example. Alleged quotations without sources are placed on the discussion page, and Wikiquote editors (as time permits) gradually run them down. I track certain pages and periodically check to see if anything new has come up there. Recently some anonymous editor produced an (alleged) Benjamin Franklin quotation I wasn’t aware of: Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—and most fools do. Several of the big quotation sites have this one, but, as correctly noted by the Wikiquote editor, it’s not by Franklin. It’s from Dale Carnegie’s famous book, How to Win Friends and Influence People. The passage there reads : Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people, that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? “I will speak ill of no man,” he said, “…and speak all the good I know of everybody.” Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. So this—it appears—is another one where somebody has attributed an author’s words to a person he’d quoted just before it. The Wikiquote editor suggests that this may be due to a misprint in some edition of Carnegie’s work, and that’s always possible, but this sort of thing happens often enough without any misprint to aid the process that I at least see no need to postulate it. So, this much is now clear—Dale Carnegie was quoting Ben Franklin, somebody mistakenly thought his words were Franklin’s, and the misquotation was born. But is that really the case? Was Carnegie quoting Franklin? Did Franklin actually say “I will speak ill of no man … and speak all the good I know of everybody”? That’s not so clear. Turning to good old Google Books (and how that massive index has speeded up this sort of work at least tenfold) we find the oldest source for it is a book from 1901, Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen, where it appears as an introductory quotation to an account of Franklin’s life: I will speak ill of no man, not even in matter of truth; but rather excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasion speak all the good I know of everybody. The author, Elbert Hubbard, attributes it to “Franklin’s journal”, which is not very helpful. It is almost certainly, however, not from Franklin’s journal, exactly, but rather from a lost paper quoted in an 1815 source, a “Life of Benjamin Franklin” by Robert Walsh, printed in Delaplaine’s Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished Americans, volume 2, pp. 51-52. It’s part of a self-improvement plan Franklin drew up as a young man in the year 1726. The relevant section reads: 4. I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of every body. A few words have changed, but it appears to be the same item. Carnegie’s wording, however, strongly suggests that he didn’t get it from this source, but rather from Little Journeys or some close textual relative. Posted by
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South Africa is divided into how many provinces?	The nine provinces of South Africa The nine provinces of South Africa The nine provinces of South Africa 30 Dec 2016 South Africa has nine provinces, each with its own legislature, premier and executive council – and distinctive landscape, population, economy and climate. The nine provinces are: North West The Western Cape Before 1994, South Africa had four provinces: the Transvaal and Orange Free State, previously Boer republics, and Natal and the Cape, once British colonies. Scattered about were also the grand apartheid “homelands”, spurious states to which black South Africans were forced to have citizenship. Under South Africa’s new democratic constitution, South Africa was broken up into nine provinces. Land area There are vast differences in the size of the provinces, from tiny and crowded Gauteng to the vast, arid and empty Northern Cape. Mpumalanga is the second- smallest province after Gauteng, with the rest all taking between 8% and 14% of South Africa’s total land area. Eastern Cape – 168 966km2 See South Africa’s geography Population The number of people living in the provinces also varies considerably. Gauteng, the smallest province, has the most people living there – nearly a quarter of South Africa’s population. The Northern Cape, which takes up nearly a third of the country’s land area, has the smallest population: only 2% of the national total. Eastern Cape: 6.56-million See South Africa’s population Languages Although English is the lingua franca of South Africa, there’s considerable variation in home languages between the provinces. IsiXhosa, for instance, is spoken by almost 80% of people in the Eastern Cape, while around 78% of those in KwaZulu-Natal speak isiZulu. IsiZulu is also the most common home language in Gauteng, but at a much smaller percentage. In the Western Cape and Northern Cape, Afrikaans comes into its own. Predominant languages by province: Eastern Cape: isiXhosa (78.8%), Afrikaans (10.6%) Free State: Sesotho (64.2%), Afrikaans (12.7%) Gauteng: isiZulu (19.8%), English (13.3%), Afrikaans (12.4%), Sesotho (11.6%) KwaZulu-Natal:: isiZulu (77.8%), English (13.2%) Limpopo: Sesotho (52.9%), Xitsonga (17%), Tshivenda (16.7%) Mpumalanga: siSwati (27.7%), isiZulu (24.1%), Xitsonga (10.4%), isiNdebele (10.1%) Northern Cape: Afrikaans (53.8%), Setswana (33.1%) North West: Setswana (63.4%), Afrikaans (9%) Western Cape: Afrikaans (49.7%), isiXhosa (24.7%), English (20.3%) See The languages of South Africa Government Each province has its own provincial government, with legislative power vested in a provincial legislature and executive power vested in a provincial premier and exercised together with the other members of a provincial executive council. The provincial legislature has between 30 and 80 members elected for a five- year term based on the province’s portion of the national voters’ roll. The legislature is empowered to pass legislation within its functional areas. The premier is elected by the legislature and, as with the President at national level, is limited to two five-year terms in office. The premier appoints the other members of the executive council (MECs), which functions as a cabinet at provincial level. The members of the executive council are accountable individually and collectively to the legislature. See Provincial government Economy Population density correlates with the provinces’ slice of South Africa’s economy, with Gauteng having the biggest. The tiny province punches way above its weight, contributing 33.8% to the national gross domestic product in 2013 and around 7% to the GDP of Africa as a whole. Next is KwaZulu-Natal with 16%, followed by the Western Cape with 13.7%. These three provinces collectively contribute nearly two-thirds to the economy. Read more about South Africa’s nine provinces:
What type of creature is a wobbegong?	Learn About All The Different Types Of Sharks Here - Shark Sider my favorite is the mako lucas reef shark!!!!!!:):):):):):):):)::):):):):):))):))):)):):):):: Denise Dalecki the goblin shark is just ugly and when i just first saw it I through my laptop away and it broke same with a different shark the spiral saw shark I was so furious Denise Dalecki it was quiet funny a little though Denise Dalecki LOL Denise Dalecki But my favorite shark was the Megalodon but there’s a shark not there and it is the Dunkleostues shark which is exctinc Rokas Kilikevicius Dunkleosteus was not a shark but a primitive fish. Besides this article only listed Megalodon to keep the interest going, this article would be many times longer if ALL of the prehistoric sharks we have discovered so far were listed. Austin I like the great whale shark! 🙂 brandon cjxjfjxlf I need to find out a name of a shark that starts with M but it is HArmless unless scared because i watched a video on facebook and i have forgotten the name it mightn’t begin with M but i am pretty sure it does any suggestions welcome 🙂 (sorry if a dumb question ahaha) Tristan Well I can name 30 sharks Isaac Webster Bull sharks are the best, most attacks since this shark can live in fresh water and goes down streems Cameron Pennine I like them all sharks ar important to reefs they keep the fish pop staple to munch fish in one ecosystem is bad for the sea plants plakton and ect Cameron Pennine Great white,basking,mako,hammerhead,goblin,magamough,treasher,reef shark,sand tiger,bull shark,whale shark,port jasson shark,great hammerhead,mahadlon,shortfin mako,longfin mako,nurse shark,blacktop reef shark,drafw shark,Greenland shark,carpet shark, the elusive tiger shark,smoothhead hammerhead magladone lover No my personal favorite is the whale shark but first the magladone the whale shark karrilyn My favorite shark is the megalodon.. its awesome Aubrey Samonte I want a sand shark…… connor my favourite shark is Megalodon erol Mako sharks are the best Scott – Owner I have come face to face with 15 kinds of sharks Scott – Owner Yeah can you imagine being in the water with such a big creature ? that would be amazing wahooa.com Robert Enders Name them. Scott – Owner You’ve got me there, I might know like 6 of them, White Tip, Nurse, Bull, Black Tip, Reef, Lemon, here in the Florida Atlantic Coast, I have Scuba and snorkeled with many more that I would never know the type. But yeah thanks for asking have you seen one of these beautiful creatures in the ocean ? Scott – Owner My favorite too, but I haven’t had a chance to see them in the wild yet. Scott – Owner
Which country won the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations?	Africa Cup of Nations \| Football \| The Guardian Africa Cup of Nations An Aïssa Mandi own goal and a Naïm Sliti penalty gave Tunisia a deserved victory in this North African derby, leaving Algeria on the verge of an early exit from the tournament Published: 1:01 PM Cameroon fought back in the second half to beat Guinea-Bissau 2-1 and take command of Africa Cup of Nations Group A Published: 4:44 PM André Ayew scored a penalty as Ghana beat Uganda 1-0 before Mali and Egypt played out a dour 0-0 draw in the other game in Africa Cup of Nations Group D Published: 4:47 PM Liverpool’s Sadio Mané scored an early penalty before Kara Mbodji doubled the lead with a header as Senegal defeated Tunisia 2-0 in the Africa Cup of Nations Published: 6:19 PM Jürgen Klopp has said he wants Fifa to make a decision over Joël Matip as Liverpool continue to be frustrated over Cameroon’s stance Published: 5:12 PM A Sadio Mané penalty and a bullet header from Kara Mbodji ensured Senegal got off to winning start in Group B with victory over a wasteful Tunisia Published: 3:57 PM Riyad Mahrez scored twice, one a late equaliser, as Algeria were held to a 2-2 draw by Zimbabwe in the Africa Cup of Nations Published: 1:38 PM Burkina Faso scored a late equaliser through the centre-back Issoufou Dayo to earn a fortuitous 1-1 draw with Cameroon in Group A at the Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday Published: 4:42 PM A range of teams could win the 2017 tournament, which takes place against a backdrop of political unrest Published: 12:38 PM The players, teams and managers to look out for as Ivory Coast defend their title in Gabon in the tournament that kicks off on Saturday Published: 5:09 AM Guinea-Bissau’s qualification for their first major tournament was a ‘complete surprise’ – now they plan to spring another in the curtain-raiser on Saturday Published: 8:40 AM Wilfried Zaha has no regrets about turning his back on England in order to play for the Ivory Coast at the African Nations Cup, the Crystal Palace winger said on Tuesday Published: 3:18 PM Liverpool held by Plymouth and other FA Cup tales – Football Weekly The podders look back on Plymouth’s draw at Anfield and the other thrills and spills in the third round of the FA Cup. Plus, a preview of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, and when ‘Deadly’ Doug Ellis kissed Sir Bert Millichip Published: 11:02 AM
Which author created the character Tracy Beaker?	Tracy Beaker \| Tracy Beaker Wiki \| Fandom powered by Wikia Dani Harmer Sarah Chum (stunt) Annabelle Canavan (stunt) Tracy Beaker (born May 8th 1991 [1] , Blackburn Royal Hosptial [2] ), named after a beaker Jacqueline Wilson found while in the bath, [3] ,is the main protaganist of the Tracy Beaker franchise of books and television series'. Previously, she was a high-temptered girl in foster care turned into a powerfully independent care-worker at Elm Tree House . Her mother, Carly Beaker , gave birth to her as a teenager. As a child, her mother's boyfriend used to beat her so she was taken to the Dumping Ground for dosmectic viloence. Four years after her foster mum was married to Gary , they divorced and she became a social worker. Currently, she lives with Cam , her adopted mother and occasionally by herself, when her mum is in New York . As of Goodbye Tracy Beaker , she is a former character, due to Dani Harmer not wanting to pursue her career as Tracy Beaker [4] She is portrayed by Dani Harmer and Sarah Churm , in the stage play, Tracy Beaker Gets Real [5] . Contents Early Years (Background) In her teenage years, 16-year-old Carly Beaker (Tracy's mother) was pregnant with her. Once Tracy was born, her mum left her at home unattended so she could go the pub ad stay out late. Then, her mother got a Boyfriend named Dave, who she calls Monster Gorrila, possibly her father, who used to hit and abuse her alot. Then, she was sent to a care-home and, since she couldn't stay with her mum, began crying and causing tantrums so she was locked up. After this she was sent to another carehome, where she met this lovely girl named Camilla and met Louise , who became a good friend for her. Then, she was fostered again by Julie and Ted Brown. Everything was fine until they were expecting a baby so she was sent by to the carehome. Once again, she was fostered, by a woman she called Aunt Peggy .Then, she was taken back to the Dumping Ground, where she meets Justine , a new girl to the place. [6] Arrival at The Dumping Ground Tracy arriving at the Dumping Ground Proir to her being fostered by Ted and Juile , Tracy is being shoved back into the Dumping Ground, as Ted and Juile were having a baby together and Tracy couldn't be trusted with babies, as once she locked one in the cupboard. (" The Story of Tracy Beaker "). So, she was taken to the Dumping Ground. She later appears in The Story of Tracy Beaker , when Ted and Juile escort her to Stowey House , with she relucantly does. Later on, Jenny seen in the corridor letting her thorough and Tracy is greetted by Mike how pushes her up the stairs. At this point, she unpacks her things in her room, only to see it is the new girl, Justine's room and enters her own room. ( Tracy Returns to the Dumping Ground ) Childhood Toddler In Town - Tracy continues living with Cam and Gary . Two's A Crowd - It's 'special guest day' at the DG and Roxy brings her 'delightful' friend Emily - but who is causing all the trouble and upsetting everyone? Could there be more than one Emily? It's time for Marco to leave the DG with his dream family - but how can he leave Milly behind? Justine's Dad brings her cousin John along to the guest day. Justine reacts badly at first, but then comes some way to accepting the situation. Moving On - Tracy is forced to think about her future, as Lol is moving to the half way house and she's next. So she agrees to spend time with Cam and Gary and, to her surprise, they get on brilliantly... until Cam drops the bombshell that they're getting married - this is way too much for Tracy to handle and she wants nothing to do with the 'sordid' affair. The Wedding - In the series finale, Cam and Gary get married and Tracy only manages to make it thanks to Crash and Jackie . In the end, Cam and Gary tell Tracy they are going to adopt her. Adulthood Television Series Series One Full Circle - 4 years later, she has written an autobiography, however, she used Cam's credit card to publish it and the police soon catch on. She is arrested and interviewed before being locked up, where it was
Which British playwright won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005?	The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 Harold Pinter The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 Photo: U. Montan Harold Pinter Prize share: 1/1 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 was awarded to Harold Pinter "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms". Photos: Copyright © The Nobel Foundation Share this: To cite this page MLA style: "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 2 Jan 2017. <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/index.html>
In the game of darts, what score is known as ‘Not old’?	Darts 501 - Terms and Meanings The centre of the board. (see also: "SINGLE-BULL" and "DOUBLE-BULL") Score of 50 BUST / BUSTED Hitting more than you needed in an x01 game. The darts do not count and the player begins his next turn on the same score he had prior to. C C In a Cricket game this refers to high scores base on the number of darts scored. For example a triple-20, single-20, single-20 would be called a C-5 because "5 darts" were scored with three darts. CHAMPAGNE BREAKFAST Hitting treble 20, treble 1 and treble 5 in three darts (see "BREAKFAST") CHALKING Keeping score / marking the game. CHIPS A score of 26. (See also: "BREAKFAST /BED & BREAKFAST") CHUCKER A player who just "chucks" the darts at the board, doesn't aim or care. CIRCLE IT When a player scores a single digit (less than 10) with three darts, his team-mates would shout out "Circle it!" to the scorekeeper to highlight the terrible throw. A variation on this tradition is to draw a fish around the score, often leading to aquarium-related jokes being aimed at particularly poor or unlucky players. CLOCK The dartboard itself, usually in the context of "ROUND THE CLOCK". CORK The centre of the board. This comes from the cork in the end of a keg where it is tapped. The ends of kegs were used for targets in the game's early days. D DARTITIS Name given to a mental state of a dart thrower unable to release his / her dart during a throw. DEVIL The treble-6, so called due to '666', and the fact that it is often hit in error when going for treble-13 or treble-10. DIDDLE FOR THE MIDDLE A throw to see who gets one dart closer to the bullseye to determine who throws first in the game. Also known as a "BULL OFF", "MIDDLE FOR MIDDLE" and "OUT FOR BULL". DOUBLE The thin outer ring of the board. In standard x01 games, a double counts for two times the number hit. DOUBLE-BULL On dartboards configured with a bullseye consisting of two concentric circles, the outer circle is commonly green and worth 25 and the inner circle is commonly red and worth 50 points. Hitting the innermost ring of this type of bullseye is a "DOUBLE-BULL". (See also: "BULLSEYE") DOUBLE IN (DI) A variant of x01 in which a double is needed to start the game. DOUBLE OUT (DO) Hitting the double of a number to win a game of 'x01 DOUBLE TOP Not being able to hit the double needed to win the game. DOWNSTAIRS The lower portion of the board, usually in reference to the 19s in a game of x01. E A game that requires no special shot to begin scoring. FAT The largest portion of a number (the area between the double and triple ring) FEATHERS The 'feathers'/ Flights of the dart which makes the dart more aerodynamic FLIGHTS The "wings" at the end of a dart that make it fly straight. Also known as feathers. G Advises all players that the match has now started GAME SHOT Signifies that the match winning double has been hit GOOD GROUP A compliment for tight, accurate throwing. GRAND SLAM Hitting the T5, T20 & T1 in one throw. GRANNY A lose without scoring, see SHUT OUT cricket game H HAIL MARY The third dart that miraculously scores a high treble where the first two combined scored low single numbers HAT TRICK A score of three bullseyes in a single throw. HIGH TON Scoring between 151-180 points in a game of '01 HOCKEY The throw or Toe line. See 'Oche' Oche is pronounced as Hockey I ISLAND The actual playable area of a dart board (inside the doubles ring). Missing this area entirely is sometimes referred to as "Off the island". J K KILLER A game variant where a number of players "own" a number on the dartboard and compete to build up "lives" (by hitting that number) until a threshold is reached (usually 4 or 6) before attempting to "kill" other players by removing the lives they have built up (by hitting those other players' numbers) until a single player is left. L LEG One game of a match. Most professional matches are made up of a number of sets, each of which is split into legs. LEG SHOT Signifies that a player has completed (Won) the "leg" as per Game Shot. LIPSTICK Nam
What is the first name of Rene’s wife in the UK tv series ‘Allo ‘Allo!?	Allo! Allo! - Show News, Reviews, Recaps and Photos - TV.com EDIT Meet René, the most wanted man in Occupied France: Women want his body. The Resistance wants his brain. And the Nazis want his sausage! In a small café in occupied France the harassed proprietor, René, is fighting his own war. With the German Army in residence at the bar, René is risking his neck to aid the Resistance by hiding two British airmen and a radio transmitter upstairs. As if this wasn't enough, René has also got involved in hiding a priceless painting in a garlic sausage, which even now is being sniffed out by the Gestapo. But René's real problem is his wife, Edith, and what she will do to him when she finds out about the affairs he is having with two sexy waitresses! (BBC)
In June 1938, Dr Douglas Hyde was elected the first President of which European country?	1938: Douglas Hyde: The First Irish President \| History.info 1938: Douglas Hyde: The First Irish President Photo Credit To Wikipedia Commons Story Highlights Historical event: 25 June 1938 It is interesting that, during the mandate of the first President of Ireland, it was not yet clear who was actually the head of state in Ireland - the president or the British king, George VI. Specifically, Ireland still had links with the United Kingdom, even though it had its own government and prime minister. On this day in 1938, Ireland got its first president in history. His name was Douglas Hyde and he was a respected scholar of the Irish language (Gaelic). This old language had diminished as a spoken tongue and was at risk of falling into oblivion due to the expansion of the English language. Douglas Hyde was very interested in the Irish language and old Irish Gaelic culture already in his youth. He even founded an organization called “Gaelic League” (Irish: Conradh na Gaeilge) that promotes the Irish language in order to save it from extinction. In 1938, Douglas Hyde emerged as the ideal person for the President of Ireland. Irish Prime Minister Éamon de Valera and the head of the opposition W. T. Cosgrave both agreed on that. In fact, they both appreciated Hyde, who had a distinguished academic career (and a doctorate). Indeed, Dr. Hyde was a Protestant, which the Catholic Prime Minister de Valera and the head of the opposition Cosgrave wanted to utilize in order to show that Ireland is not intended to be religiously exclusive. All in all, Hyde was elected President of Ireland with no real opposition. Interestingly, Hyde gave his presidential oath in the Irish language, in his native dialect. In the meantime, this dialect has long disappeared (Dr. Hyde was one of the last speakers), so the recording of his oath is one of the few reminiscences of this historical dialect. As president, Hyde moved into the official presidential residence – Áras an Uachtaráin in Dublin – which is still the official residence of the President of Ireland. It is interesting that, during the mandate of the first President of Ireland, it was not yet clear who is actually the head of state in Ireland – the president or the British king, George VI. Specifically, Ireland still had links with the United Kingdom, even though it had its own government and prime minister. However, it was not a real problem, but mostly a formal one. All these disagreements were resolved after World War II, when Ireland was formally declared a republic and completely separate from the United Kingdom. Facebook Comments
Which BBC sports commentator famously said ‘For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip’?	BBC SPORT \| Football \| End of the Motson era End of the Motson era By Sam Lyon After more than 35 years as BBC Sport's voice of football, Sunday's Euro 2008 final from Vienna marked commentator John Motson's last major television showpiece. I haven't changed my system since 1971 and I couldn't adjust now - I'm too old John Motson Having first appeared on Match of the Day in 1971, the 62-year-old has covered nine European Championships, nine World Cups and 34 FA Cup finals. But Germany-Spain was his last live TV broadcast. "I am coming to the end of my career, I know that," said Motson. "I'd been thinking about it at the start of the season, but now I've decided I don't want to be tearing around South Africa for the 2010 World Cup at the age of 65. It's physically and mentally challenging." Motson will continue to commentate on Match of the Day and Radio 5 Live - "I don't want to make it sound like I'm disappearing for ever," he says - but in opting not to work on the 2010 World Cup, he is aware it is the end of an era somewhat. "Eighteen tournaments is about right for me," he said. "I don't want to go on too long, maybe end up going to South Africa and people say I'm past my best." The son of a Methodist minister, 'Motty' first joined the BBC in 1968, following stints as a reporter on the Barnet Press and Sheffield Morning Telegraph. Originally working on Radio Two, his Match of the Day commentary career was launched when he was detailed to cover the FA Cup replay between Hereford and Newcastle in 1972. The BBC thought the match would warrant a five-minute segment following their two main games, but Hereford's shock 2-1 win - aided by Ronnie Radford's famous 30-yard strike that sparked a mini pitch invasion - saw the match promoted to the main game, and Motson never looked back. "That was the breakthrough game for me," he told BBC Sport. "It showed people I could cope with the big game." By that stage, Motson had already replaced Kenneth Wolstenholme - the man famed for his commentary on England's World Cup final win over Germany in 1966 - at Match of the Day, and it is with great pride that Motty talks of how he has gone on to better Wolstenholme's record of FA Cup and World Cup final commentaries. Cannot play media. Sorry, this media is not available in your territory. Relive some of John Motson's most memorable commentaries. In total, Motson has covered six World Cup finals as well as his 34 FA Cup finals (29 finals and five replays), and more than 200 England matches. Of course, it hasn't always been plain sailing for Motson, who recalls the Hillsborough disaster of 1989 as his lowest commentary moment. On the lighter side, the commentator's more infamous lines are still the stuff of legend. Still, outbursts like "it's Arsenal 0, Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that, the more you've got to fancy Everton," and "for those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all yellow strip," added to Motson's charm rather than detracted from it. That was underlined in 2004, when he was named the Royal Television Society's Sports Commentator of the Year, receiving the same honour from Four Four Two in 2005 and from The Variety Club in 2006. But of course, his most prized honour is the OBE he received from the Queen in June 2001 for services to sports broadcasting. And it is not just on TV that Motson has built an army of followers. In 2001, when Match of the Day briefly lost Premier League coverage rights to ITV, Motson returned to his roots in radio and worked on BBC Radio 5 Live. MOTD Unplugged: Motty calls time on career He was also caricatured by a virtual 'Mini Motty' on this website and he has researched and narrated over 30 football videos and written four books. Furthermore, he has also provided commentary for various computer games and made his big-screen debut in the Aardman Animations movie Flushed Away in 2006 - albeit in the less-than-taxing role of a football commentator. All this despite his unwavering method of preparation and a defiant refusal to exploit the stats, figures and opinion widely av
Euphrasia is used as a herbal or homeopathic remedy for infections in which part of the body?	Euphrasia - Homeopathy Homeopathy Eyebright Euphrasia officinalis Eyebright (botanical name Euphrasia officinalis) is indigenous to Europe, where it is found growing in the wild. It is believed that the plant has acquired its name eyebright from its use in the form of a traditional indigenous medication for treating irritation in the eyes. The herb euphrasia has a typical similarity with our eyes. The general physical symptoms cured by this herb include eye irritation accompanied by hurtful and smouldering pains as well as muggy mucus. In such cases, the sufferer usually experiences an intense sensitivity to light together with inflamed, swollen eyelids and repeated blinking. The eyes also have a tendency to water heavily - a symptom worsened when the sufferer is exposed to open air, is coughing or lying down. This medication is primarily used to treat infections or allergies that affect the eyes and the nose; for instance, colds , conjunctivitis and/ or hay fever . In addition, Euphrasia is often recommended for eye symptoms following any injury. Since the Middle Ages people have been employing eyebright to cure straining and inflamed eyes. In contemporary times, practitioners of herbal medicine use eyebright to treat allergies and infections of the eyes , nasal passages, sinuses and the middle ear. Euphrasia is a remedy that becomes effective very fast and assists in brightening the eyes and clearing blockages. It provides immediate relief when anyone is suffering from burning, inflamed, red and aggravated eyes attributable to hay fever, allergies or a running cold. Other symptoms cured by this homeopathic remedy may include headaches , coughs and noses changing from congested and stuffy to profusely runny. It may be pleasant to your eyes when their condition worsens in a smoke-filled warm room compared to being in a garden when it is in full bloom. As a homeopathic remedy, Euphrasia is inclined to work excellently for individuals whose nature is somewhat melancholic. Such people may have a tendency to daydream and may be engaged easily into their environs as well as people around them. In addition, such individuals have a propensity to struggle with physical symptoms that may result in exasperation and frustration in their personal lives too. Parts used The entire fresh flowering plant including the root. Uses In homeopathy, Euphrasia is the main cure for several eye conditions, including cataract , allergies of the eyes, conjunctivitis, granular eyelids and glandular swellings. It is an excellent remedy for catarrhal conjunctivitis accompanied by cloudiness of cornea and ulceration. This medication is most suitable for people who have a feeling of dryness, inflammation and stinging in their eyes. In such cases, the eyes water profusely almost always and the water has a pungent smell. It is also given to people who experience copious acrid lachrymation accompanied with copious bland coryza. Usually, the eyes are sticky in the morning. In addition, Euphrasia is also effective for curing granular eyelids. In such cases, the edges of the eyelids turn red, distended and there is a burning sensation - making the eyes extremely susceptible to touch. This homeopathic remedy is also useful for conditions like violent prickling of the eyes that results in frequent rubbing as well as winking. It is also an appropriate remedy for delicate rashes in the region of the eyes accompanied with swollen eyelids and unclear vision. In addition, the patients may experience a biting pain in their eyes, which spreads out towards the head, and there is a sensation as if the eyes are straining owing to the presence of sand particles. The traditional use of the eyebright based herbal remedies go back to Scotland of the 14th and 15th centuries, during this time the Scottish highlanders made an herbal infusion of the Euphrasia officinalis and used this herbal infusion for the treatment of different eye conditions caused by a variety of factors. Herbalist traditionally used to give eyebright to patients affected by coughs, by hoarseness of voice,
In which country of the UK was designer Laura Ashley born?	Laura Ashley Facts LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST Laura Ashley Facts The British designer Laura Ashley (1925-1985) achieved renown for her genteel, Victorian inspired fashions in women's clothes and for her English Country manor style of furnishings for homes. Through her designs, books, and stores, she may be said to have served as an arbiter of fashion and life style. Laura (Mountney) Ashley was born September 7, 1925, in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, and died September 17, 1985, in Coventry, England. She was buried in Wales, where she was educated and grew up and where she established her world famous business of designing, manufacturing, and merchandising women's clothes and household items. Her name had in her lifetime become synonymous with small, repetitive overall patterns; the use of natural fabrics; and a graceful simplicity in women's styles. Her dresses and blouses were noted for their Victorian-like high necks and full sleeves, the severity relieved by lace and ruffles. Particularly characteristic was her soft, floppy, wool felt hat with a broad flexible brim that could be worn down over the eyes and ears or pushed back so as to reveal the forehead. It became common to speak of a "Laura Ashley look," a term applied to her garments, fabrics, and interior designs and even to the appearance of the young, expressionless, fresh-faced women who modeled her clothes. She married Bernard Ashley in 1949. On a kitchen table in their flat in the Pimlico section of London they designed placemats, scarves, tablecloths, aprons, and dresses by the silkscreen method. They soon moved to a country home in Surrey and in the late 1950s to Carno, Wales, now the headquarters of the firm's international operations. She concentrated on creating the designs and her husband on printing and merchandising them. Her life in the Welsh and English countryside, amidst farms and villages, clearly influenced the combination of Puritan function and Victorian nostalgia of her designs. "Living quite remotely as I have done," she once said, "I have not been caught up with city influences and we just developed in our own way." She declared about her success: "It's not really a question of inspiration. What you make as a designer is an expression of yourself. I love music and painting and I prefer life in the country." Another time she said: "The idea of four babies, cooking, sewing, and looking after the home suited me perfectly." Of fashion she remarked: "I don't like ephemeral things; I like things that last forever…" A major influence on her dress designing was her uniform as a Wren in World War II. She said about it: "The uniform was a very good quality navy gabardine and you could press it and wear it with a clean white cotton shirt and collar and tie. There was a nice, cheeky little hat and comfortable black leather shoes." At another time, she said: "I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century." She studied 18th and 19th century prints in museum collections for her miniature floral patterns. "No one wants to live with a design that jumps out at them," she explained. Her colors, too, were subdued. Her success was quick and extraordinary. Her fabrics were first sold in two of the smaller but highly fashionable London department stores, Heal's and Liberty's, both of which had a tradition of featuring thoughtfully designed and esthetically pleasing objects. Liberty's, for example, continued to offer fabric and wall paper in patterns originally created by William Morris, the 19th century English poet and book and furniture designer. Toward the end of the 1960s Ashley opened her first retail store in London. It was marked by natural wood floors, cabinets, and counters; trim painted in a deep blue-green; old-fashioned lounge chairs; and a general air of elegant informality. The first American shop opened in 1974 in San Francisco. By the time of her death there were over 200 Laura Ashley stores throughout the world, each looking much like the original one. The firm had 4,000 employees. In 1984 the stores alone grossed $130,000,000. The
If something is sigmate, it is in the shape of which letter of the English alphabet?	The stories behind the letters of our alphabet \| New York Post The stories behind the letters of our alphabet Modal Trigger G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began as Egyptian hieroglyph symbols 4,000 years ago, with a hodgepodge of Semitic, Phoenician, Greek and Roman influences thrown in. It would take centuries, and the dropping of more than a few letters along the way, before our alphabet was born. By year 1011, the order that we know today was largely in place — excluding “J,” “U,” “W” — but there were 29 letters, including the ampersand. The alphabet we know today takes its modern 26-letter shape in the 16th century. Author Michael Rosen devotes 400-plus pages to topsy-turvy history of our letters in his entertaining “Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells A Story” (Counterpoint), dedicating a chapter to each of the 26 letters. Here’s a brief look. Illustrations by Leah Tiscione A Turn the “A” upside down and you’ll have a good sense of its original shape and meaning when it was introduced around 1800 BC. Resembling an animal’s head with antlers or horns, the original meaning of the letter in ancient Semitic was “ox.” B Flip “B” on its belly and you see a home — complete with a door, a room and a roof. Now you have some idea of why 4,000 years ago in Egypt, “B” (which sounded like our “h”) was a hieroglyph that meant “shelter.” C The first “C” shape emerged in Phoenician and stood for a hunter’s stick or boomerang. The Greeks renamed it “gamma” and when they switched to reading from right to left to left to right in 500 BC, they flipped the shape. As the letter spread to Italy, it took on a more crescent shape, and the C as we know it today was born. D Around 800 BC, Phoenicians began to use a “dalet” — or a rough triangle facing left — which translated to door. The Greeks adopted it and renamed it “delta.” The Romans later added serifs and varied the thickness of the lines, softening one side into a semicircle. E The “E” of 3,800 years ago, pronounced “h” in Semitic, resembled a stick with two arms and a leg meant to signify a human form. The Greeks flipped it around in 700 BC and changed the sound to “ee.” F The “F” of Phoenician times resembled a “Y” and sounded like “waw.” The ancient Greeks changed it to “digamma” and tipped the “Y” over to look like a drunk version of our “F.” The Romans regulated the writing of the letter centuries later, drawing the cross lines at firm geometric right angles, also giving it the “fff” sound. G Today’s “G” derives from the Greek letter “zeta,” a letter that looks like our “I” but was pronounced as a “zzz.” Around 250 BC, Romans altered the shape of this strange letter to look more like an “E” without the middle horizontal arm and then applied the “g” sound because they didn’t need the “z” sound in Latin. Over time, the crescent curved. H Based on the Egyptian hieroglyph of a fence, it’s one of the most controversial letters in the English language. The breathy sound associated with the letter made academics argue that the letter was unnecessary — and many Latin and British scholars began dropping the “H” in 500 AD. Despite the controversy, “H” secured a spot in our alphabet. I Around 1000 BC, the letter “I” was “yod,” meaning arm and hand. The Greeks adopted the letter as “iota” changing it to a vertical squiggle. By 700 BC, “I” became the straight line we use today. J “I” was a popular letter and often a stand-in for “j” sounds. The red-headed stepchild of our alphabet, “J” was only introduced in standardized spelling in the 15th century by the Spanish and only appeared consistently in print around 1640. K What appeared to be an outstretched hand with one finger and a thumb visible appeared in Egyptian hieroglyphs around 2000 BC. The ancient Semites called it a “kaph,” meaning “palm of the hand,” which sounded like our “K.” Around 800 BC, the Greeks reversed it and took it on as their own “kappa.” L A hook-shaped letter, referred to as “El,” meaning “God” emerged
On an Ordnance Survey map, what does ‘PA’ represent?	Map abbreviations End of primary navigation Map abbreviations Ordnance Survey maps use a range of symbol, abbreviations and language to communicate features on the landscape of Great Britain, find out more about map abbreviations below. Useful links The national grid (Use the letters to help you jump to the relevant section on the page.) AA Telephone Box (small scales) DM Baulk, Bank, Base, Basin, Bridge, Broad DM-By Break in house numbers on SUSI/SIM Products BB1969 Broken (hedge or bank) on SUSI®/SIM®/SuperplanTM Products MOD6/L Bracken and Rough grassland on SUSI/SIM/Superplan Products BB1969 Cam, Canal, Causeway, Centre of, Channel, Cut DM-By Causeway, Chase, Circle, Circus, Close MOD6/l-10T Cliff, Conduit, Cop, Course of, Covered, Culvert DM-By Court, Crescent, Croft, Cross, Cut, Corner MOD6/L-10T Centre of Bank, Basin, Baulk, Broad DM-By Centre of Channel at Low Water DM-By Christian Science Church; Church of Christ Scientist DM Council (not in conjunction with county) DM Centre of old course of stream DM-By Centre [of stone marking trig pt] 1:10560 Centre of Railway, River, Road DM-By Dam, Ditch, Dock, Double, Down, Drain DM-By Double Ditch or Drain (SUSI/SIM Products) DM-By Double Gate (level crossing) (SUSI/SIM Products) MOD6/L Double Wall [LS drafting guide only] MOD6/L Electricity Pillar or Electricity Pole DM End of Motorway (SUSI/SIM Products) MOD6/L End of Straight (railway) (SUSI/SIM Products) MOD6/L Face of, Fence, Fleet, Foot, Freeboard DM-By Gap, Gardens, Gate, Green, Grove MOD6/L-10T Ground Surface Level (SUSI/SIM Products) MOD6/L High, Hole, House, Hydrant, Hydraulic OS404 HP to which MTs flow Highest Point to which Medium Tides flow DM-Obs HP to which OSTs flow} Highest Point to which Ordinary Tides flow DM-Obs HP to which OSTs flow} Spring Tides flow HP to which OTs flow Highest Point to which Ordinary Tides flow DM-Obs High Water Mark of Medium Tides DM-Obs High Water Mark of Ordinary Spring Tides DM-Obs High Water Mark of Ordinary Tides DM-Obs Lade, Lake, Lead, Loch, Lockspit, Tides DM-By Low Water Mark of Medium Tides DM-Obs Low Water Mark of Ordinary Spring Tides DM-Obs Low Water Mark of Ordinary Tides DM-Obs Mean High and Mean Low Water DM Mean High and Mean Low Water Springs DM Matter of opinion (SUSI/SIM Products) BB1969 No name or number (SUSI/SIM Products) MOD6/L Parade, Pass, Passage, Path, Place, Passenger MOD6/L-10T Passage, Path, Plate, Pond, Post DM-By Detail Point (Point of Detail) MOD6/L-TS Pipe Line [MSD only-pub. in full] MOD6/L Detail Point (Point of Detail) MOD6/L-TS Police Telephone Pillar or Post DM Race, Railway, Ride, River, Road, Root of DM-By RAC Telephone Box (small scales) DM Scar, Sewer, Side of, Slope, Sluice, Stone, Stream DM-By Side, Spur, Square, Stairs, Steps, Strand MOD6/L-10T Service Area on Motorways (Small Scale Products) S Scattered (density) (SUSI/SIM /Superplan Products) MOD6/L Single Drain or Ditch (SUSI/SIM Products) BB1969/MOD6/L Side of Fence, Furrow, etc OS404 Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve Centre DM Telephone Call Post or Pillar DM Permanent Traverse Station, Traverse Station DM Top Water Level (SUSI/SIM Products) MOD6/L Upper Level of through Communication MOD6/L Warning & Monitoring Post (Royal Observer Corps) MOD6/L Roofed Structure Seed! (Superplan Products) CSS DM Source The above list will explain the majority of abbreviations used on Ordnance Survey maps, and has been compiled from the following sources: BB1969 The Blue Book - Instructions to Draughtsmen, Examiners and Area Revisers, Fourth Edition, 1969 CSS Conventional Sign Sheet for 1:1000 and 1:1250 County Series Maps DM J.B. Harley, Ordnance Survey maps: a descriptive manual, (Southampton, OS, 1975), pp.169ff. DM-By Ibid., 'Abbreviations concerning boundary information' DM-CN Module 6, section L, revised to Amendments nos 2 (May 1986) and 4 (October 1987) MOD6/L-10T Ibid., 'Shortened or special abbreviations for use only with road names on 1:10000 published maps and town maps' MOD6/L-BML Ibid., 'Abbreviations for use on Bench March Lists' MOD6/L-TS Ibid., 'Miscellaneous abbreviations
Entomophobia is the irrational fear of which type of creatures?	Beeline Pest Control Search for: Entomophobia For all those that scream, stress or feel like their heart is going to explode whenever they see any small creature with multiple legs, it is possible you have entomophobia. Entomophobia is the fear of or aversion to all types of bugs. Most of us find this fear to be irrational. Bugs are a fraction of our size, and yet many of our physiological reactions make them appear to be a huge threat to our well-being. Why is it that so many of us are afraid of these tiny creatures? Symptoms of Entomophobia Phobias create an extreme amount of anxiety whenever we come in contact with whatever it is we fear. An insect phobia can create many unpleasant symptoms such as: Feeling faint Fuzzy vision or hearing In most situations, one feels that they MUST escape the situation that they’re in. These symptoms range from mild to severe, but overall they can be manageable with time. What Causes a Phobia of Insects? Although there isn’t a specific “trigger” to cause a phobia, there are some ideas as to how they can start. Sometimes an ugly experience with a bug, such as being stung, can spark a phobia within someone. Memories of the pain or the oddity of the situation can keep the phobia alive. Parents also have a large impact on what their children fear. If a parent continually shows fear whenever they see a bug, the child will believe that the bug will harm them, causing anxiety. Overcoming Your Fears Because we have learned to fear insects, we have to unlearn the fear in order to overcome it. First, pinpoint why you might have this fear. Are you afraid of bites or stings? Or are you afraid of the way they look and move? Write down what it is you fear about bugs, or a particular bug. Educate yourself about that bug or bugs. Understanding what it is you fear will help you overcome the anxiety you feel when you see it. Start by drawing a picture of a bug you’re afraid of. Physically drawing out your fear will help you overcome your reactions. Progress into looking at black and white photos of your fear, and eventually colored pictures. When you’re ready, slowly start watching videos about bugs. Once you feel like you’ve got your emotions in control, check out an insect exhibit at your local zoo. Exposing yourself to bugs in short burst over time will help you overcome your fear. Don’t force it too hard upon yourself in risk of causing too much panic. Remember that overcoming your fears will not happen overnight. Building up short exposures with bugs will in due time help you manage your phobia. In the mean time, make sure that your home and phobia is free from bugs by checking out our previous post: 3 Ways to Bug-Proof Your Home. By, Jessica Doucette
Who became Speaker of the House of Commons in June 2009?	Biography of Speaker John Bercow - UK Parliament Biography of Speaker John Bercow Biography of Speaker John Bercow Rt. Hon John Bercow MP, Speaker of the House of Commons, UK Parliament On 22 June 2009 John Bercow was elected 157th Speaker of the House of Commons. A former national Chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students and London Borough Councillor, he was elected Member of Parliament for Buckingham in May 1997 as a Conservative, serving on the front benches as spokesman for Education & Employment and Home Affairs. He was appointed Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2001 then Shadow Minister for Work & Pensions in 2002 and from 2003 to 2004 as Shadow Secretary of State for International Development. He then became a member of the International Development Select Committee and served as co-Chair of the All party Parliamentary group on Burma, vice-Chair of the APG on the prevention of genocide, Africa and Sudan. He was Secretary of the All Party group on Human Rights and established the All Party group on Brain Tumours. In September 2007 he was appointed by the Government to lead a review of services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs. Appointed to the Speaker’s Conference on Parliamentary Representation in November 2008 he became Chair of the Conference on becoming Speaker. Married to Sally, they are proud parents to three young children. Related information Topics: Speaker Recent parliamentary material on the Speaker of the House of Commons. This includes briefing papers produced by the parliamentary research services, and the latest Early Day Motions put down by MPs.
Which US Vice President had a pet Cocker Spaniel called Checkers?	Nixon's Checkers Speech . Eisenhower . WGBH American Experience \| PBS Eisenhower's vice president, Richard Nixon, counters critics who claim he took a $18,000 contribution and used it for personal expenses, though he admits that his family dog,Checkers, was a political gift. Richard Nixon's Checkers Speech September 23, 1952 My Fellow Americans, I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice-Presidency and as a man whose honesty and integrity has been questioned. Now, the usual political thing to do when charges are made against you is to either ignore them or to deny them without giving details. I believe we have had enough of that in the United States, particularly with the present Administration in Washington, D.C. To me the office of the Vice Presidency of the United States is a great office, and I feel that the people have got to have confidence in the integrity of the men who run for that office and who might attain them. I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth. And that is why I am here tonight. I want to tell you my side of the case. I am sure that you have read the charges, and you have heard it, that I, Senator Nixon, took $18,000 from a group of my supporters. Now, was that wrong? And let me say that it was wrong. I am saying it, incidentally, that it was wrong, just not illegal, because it isn't a question of whether it was legal or illegal, that isn't enough. The question is, was it morally wrong. I say that it was morally wrong -- if any of that $18,000 went to Senator Nixon, for my personal use. I say that it was morally wrong if it was secretly given and secretly handled. And I say that it was morally wrong if any of the contributors got special favors for the contributions that they made. And to answer those questions let me say this: not a cent of the $18,000 or any other money of that type ever went to me for my personal use. Every penny of it was used to pay for political expenses that I did not think should be charged to the taxpayers of the United States. It was not a secret fund. As a matter of fact, when I was on "Meet the Press" -- some of you may have seen it last Sunday -- Peter Edson came up to me, after the program, and he said, "Dick, what about this fund we hear about?" And I said, "Well, there is no secret about it. Go out and see Dana Smith who was the administrator of the fund," and I gave him his address. And I said you will find that the purpose of the fund simply was to defray political expenses that I did not feel should be charged to the Government. And third, let me point out, and I want to make this particularly clear, that no contributor to this fund, no contributor to any of my campaigns, has ever received any consideration that he would not have received as an ordinary constituent. I just don't believe in that, and I can say that never, while I have been in the Senate of the United States, as far as the people that contributed to this fund are concerned, have I made a telephone call to an agency, nor have I gone down to an agency on their behalf. And the records will show that, the records which are in the hands of the administration. Well, then, some of you will say, and rightly, "Well, what did you use the fund for, Senator? Why did you have to have it?" Let me tell you in just a word how a Senate office operates. First of all, the Senator gets $15,000 a year in salary. He gets enough money to pay for one trip a year, a round trip, that is, for himself, and his family between his home and Washington, D.C. and then he gets an allowance to handle the people that work in his office to handle his mail. And the allowance for my State of California, is enough to hire 13 people. And let me say, incidentally, that this allowance is not paid to the Senator. It is paid directly to the individuals, that the Senator puts on his pay roll, but all of these people and all of these allowances are for strictly official business; business, for example, when a constituent writes in and wan
Which musical instrument does Kermit the Frog play?	See Steve Martin & Kermit Perform Dueling Banjos -- Vulture Print Share Steve Martin is really sticking to this banjo thing, isn't he? Kermit the Frog's floppy muppet fingers are surprisingly not too bad on the instrument, either. Watch the boys play the tune made most famous by Deliverance, just one in a series of videos promoting Matt Hoyle's upcoming book, Comic Genius: Portraits of Funny People. Other videos will feature (as the book does) Tina Fey, Robin Williams, Chevy Chase, Cloris Leachman, Weird Al Yankovic, Jason Bateman, Eric Stonestreet, Jane Lynch, Patton Oswalt, and Neil Patrick Harris ( whose adorable Buster Keaton tribute is already on Funny or Die ). Tags:
Which bird is traditionally depicted delivering newborn babies?	99 Adorable Facts about Babies \| FactRetriever.com 99 Adorable Facts about Babies By Karin Lehnardt, Senior Writer Published August 20, 2016 A baby cannot taste salt until it is 4 months old. The delay may be related to the development of kidneys, which start to process sodium at about that age.[12] In medieval Europe, leeches were commonly used to treat babies’ illnesses. For example, leeches were placed on a baby’s windpipe for croup. Additionally, teething babies were commonly purged or bled.[12] A baby’s eyes are 75% of their adult size, but its vision is around 20/400. By six months, a baby’s vision should reach 20/20.[10] Newborns are more likely to turn their head to the right than to the left.[10] The inner ear is the only sense organ to develop fully before birth. It reaches its adult size by the middle of pregnancy.[5] A baby's skull doesn't fuse until around age 2 The protein that keeps a baby’s skull from fusing is called “noggin.”[11] Within a few days of birth, a baby can distinguish between the touch of bristles that are of different diameters.[5] Adults have 206 bones. When babies are born, they have 300. Their bones fuse as they grow, resulting in fewer bones as adults.[11] The intestines of a newborn are about 11 feet long. The length will double by the time the baby grows to adulthood.[11] A newborn urinates about every 20 minutes and then roughly every hour at 6 months.[12] Human babies are the only primates who smile at their parents.[12] If a person who was born 8 lbs. and 20 in. at birth continued growing at the same rate as he does the first year, by the time he reached 20, he’d be 25 ft. tall and weigh nearly 315 lbs.[12] Famous premature babies include Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Mark Twain, Stevie Wonder, Johannes Kepler, and Sir Winston Churchill.[4] The largest number of babies born to a woman is 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets.[6] In 1978, the first baby was born in Antarctica: Emilio Marcos Palma.[6] A baby has significantly more tastebuds than an adult A baby has around 30,000 taste buds. They are not just on the tongue but also on the sides, back, and roof of the mouth. Adults have about 10,000.[5] Each year, over four million babies are born in the U.S.[11] Approximately 80% of infants are born with some form of birthmark, usually “stork bites” and “port wine stains.”[11] Approximately two or three of every 1,000 children in the United States are born deaf or hard-of-hearing. More lose their hearing later in childhood.[9] Babies can suffer serious health effects if their mothers have an STD, including death, low birth weight, conjunctivitis (an eye infection), pneumonia, neonatal sepsis (infection in the baby’s blood stream), neurologic damage, blindness, deafness, acute hepatitis, meningitis, chronic liver disease, and cirrhosis. Many of these problems can be prevented if the mother receives prenatal care that includes screening for STDs.[13] Some scientists suggest that shaking the head to mean “no” derives from newborns turning their head away from food when they are full.[11] A baby can recognize the smell and voice of its mother at birth. It takes a few weeks before a baby can see the difference between its mother and other adults.[11] A baby’s first social smile appears between four and six weeks after birth.[12] The heaviest baby on record to survive was a 22 lb. 8 oz. Italian baby born in 1955. In 1879, a woman in Canada gave birth to a 23 lb. 1.92 oz. baby that died 11 hours after birth.[11] In the United States, more babies are born on Wednesday than on other days of the week. Sunday is the slowest day.[10] In the United States, more babies are born in late summer and early fall than in other times of the year. February tends to be the month when the least babies are born.[10] Utah has the highest birthrate in the U.S., at about 21 babies per 1,000 people. Vermont has the lowest birth rate, with slightly more than 10 babies born per 1,000 people.[3] In 1970, the average age for a
Discretion, Prudence, Piety and Charity are all women in which 17th Century work of literature?	Baroque Literature Essay (3) Baroque Literature Essay (For a more comprehensive listing see Middle Baroque Literature Grids .) John Milton 1608-1674 Renowned English Puritan poet, dramatist and master of polemical prose famous for his great Christian blank verse epic Paradise Lost (1665) and his brilliant prose argument for freedom of the press, Areopagitica (1644). [Both works are in Encyclopedia Britannica's "Great Books of the Western World" along with Simon Agonistes and a selection of poems.] Some authorities consider Milton the greatest English poet after Shakespeare and Paradise Lost the grandest of all English narrative poems. Perhaps only Virgil 's Aeneid and Dante 's Divine Comedy approach it in scope. Milton was the preeminent spokesman in poetry of 17th-century Puritanism just as Bunyan was its chief spokesman in prose. Even Milton's early poems show his enormous literary gifts: On the Death of a fair Infant (1626), written after the death of his sister's first child, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629), written while at Cambridge, and his companion poems, L'Allegro and Il Penseroso (1631), juxtaposing the cheerful, celebratory man with the contemplative, melancholy man. Milton's masque Comus (1634), his first poem in blank verse (set to music by Henry Lawes ), deals with the triumph and superiority of chastity over revelry. (Some difficulty in his first marriage made him change his mind!) Lycidas (1637), a highly esteemed pastoral elegy, deals with the fear of premature death and unfulfilled ambition in some of the purest and most perfect poetry ever written. Milton toyed with the idea of entering the church but gave it up to devote himself to studying the classics, tutoring and writing. He published pamphlets against the episcopacy, e.g., Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline in England (1641), The Reason of Church-government Urg'd against Prelaty (1642), and on divorce, e.g., The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643), Tetrachordon: The Four Chief Places of Scripture Which Treat of Marriage (1645). Milton's divorce pamphlets were prompted by the refusal of his 17-year-old wife, Mary Powell, the daughter of a Royalist whom he married in 1642, to return to him after a visit to her family. (Mary did eventually return in 1645.) In The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce Milton argued that it just might be the case that those who sowed a few wild oats might end up more happily married than some of those who were chaste and "chained together" in loveless marriages because of a "contrariety of mind." Suffice it to say, the Presbyterians became enraged and a parliamentary committee, dominated by Presbyterians, threatened to prosecute. Milton replied with his most famous prose work, Areopagitica: a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing (1644), a protest against censorship staunchly arguing for the freedom of the press. [The Areopagus was the supreme court of ancient Athens.] "He who destroys a good book, kills reason itself....Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." Ever interested in freedom, Milton was the most important republican English Baroque writer just as Hobbes was the most important royalist English Baroque philosopher. Dr. Johnson called him "an acrimonious and surly republican." (Most historians consider this a fair description, but then again, Dr. Johnson was a Tory!) Milton, the polemical champion of the revolution and the official apologist for the Commonwealth , defended the execution of Charles I in The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649). He argued that a people had the right to depose and punish tyrants. "No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free." Milton also attacked the Presbyterians, whom he saw as a growing threat to freedom ever since their attack on his divorce pamphlets. The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth (1660), written on the eve of the Restoration, was Milton's last attempt at preserving a republic. Milton became
In 1985, who became the first football player to be sent off during an FA Cup final?	BBC SPORT \| Football \| Europe \| When Bryan Robson tamed Barca When Bryan Robson tamed Barca The 1984 Barcelona team By Jonathan Stevenson and Chris Bevan If Manchester United's previous meetings with Barcelona are anything to go by, their semi-final clash in this season's Champions League ought to be a classic. The clubs met twice in the old European Cup Winners' Cup and have twice found themselves in the same Champions League group. Each tie proved to be memorable for different reasons but for pure drama the first, in March 1984, was arguably the best. 606: DEBATE Do you remember United seeing off Maradona and co? United had lost the first leg of their Cup Winners' Cup quarter-final 2-0 at the Nou Camp through Graeme Hogg's own goal and Juan Carlos Pï¿½rez Rojo's last-minute strike. Ron Atkinson's side were given little chance of overturning that deficit against the Spanish giants, who were managed by World-Cup winning coach Cesar Luis Menotti and boasted a certain Diego Armando Maradona in their illustrious ranks. But United had their own icon in Bryan Robson, who showed why he was known to Red Devils fans as Captain Marvel with his display in the return at Old Trafford. Robson began the fightback with 22 minutes gone when he connected with a diving header from Ray Wilkins' corner and then, five minutes after the break, he sent the majority of the 58,350 crowd into raptures by slamming home from close-range after Javier Urruticoechea fumbled a Wilkins cross. UTD v BARCA PAST MEETINGS 1983-84 ECWC q-final 1998-99 Champ Lge groups BARCA 3-3 UTD The tie was level on aggregate but there was only going to be one winner. As United poured forward, Frank Stapleton latched on to a Norman Whiteside knockdown and lashed into the net from an acute angle. United bowed out 3-2 on aggregate in the last four to a Michel Platini-inspired Juventus, while Maradona left Barcelona for Napoli at the end of the season. But what happened to the other players who took part in that remarkable match 24 years ago? BBC Sport tracks down Arthur Albiston, Remi Moses, Jose Ramon Alexanco and the rest ahead of Wednesday's Champions League semi-final, first leg between Barcelona and Manchester United. MANCHESTER UNITED Atkinson spent five years in charge at Old Trafford Manager - Ron Atkinson Flamboyant and suntanned boss who, like his Barca counterpart Menotti, enjoyed a cigar or three. 'Big Ron' won the FA Cup twice with United and the League Cup with Sheffield Wednesday, as well as taking Aston Villa to second place in the Premier League in 1993, his best finish in the top flight. He also worked as a TV pundit before resigning from ITV in 2004 over racist remarks he made about Chelsea defender Marcel Desailly after a Champions League semi-final. Now director of football at British Gas Business Football League Premier Division side Halesowen Town. Gary Bailey Ipswich-born but South African-bred keeper who completed a BSc in physics when in Manchester. After a knee injury ended his career in England in 1987 he returned to South Africa to play for Kaizer Chiefs and study civil engineering but, after an investment in Mabula Game Reserve went wrong, he went to Oxford to get an MBA from Henley College. Now works as a TV presenter and motivational speaker and was an ambassador for South Africa's successful bid for the 2010 World Cup. Arthur Albiston Reliable Scottish left-back who won three FA Cups for United before teaming up again with Atkinson at West Brom in 1988. Later played for Dundee, Chesterfield, Chester, Norwegian side Molde, Ayr United, Sittingbourne, Witton Albion and Droylsden, who he also briefly managed. Now works for MUTV and also hosts tours of Old Trafford. Kevin Moran A successful Gaelic football player, Moran, who studied commerce at University College Dublin and worked as an accountant, was spotted playing football for Dublin side Pegasus and joined United in 1978. A combative centre-back, he spent 10 years at Old Trafford and won 71 Republic of Ireland caps but became the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup final in 1985. Retire
What was a member or supporter of the Parliamentary Party called during the English Civil War?	Parliamentarian - definition of parliamentarian by The Free Dictionary Parliamentarian - definition of parliamentarian by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/parliamentarian Also found in: Thesaurus , Legal , Wikipedia . par·lia·men·tar·i·an (pär′lə-mĕn-târ′ē-ən) 1. One who is expert in parliamentary procedures, rules, or debate. 2. A member of a parliament. 3. Parliamentarian A supporter of the Long Parliament during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth; a Roundhead. parliamentarian 1. (Parliamentary Procedure) an expert in parliamentary procedures, etc 2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (sometimes capital) Brit a Member of Parliament adj (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) of or relating to a parliament or parliaments Parliamentarian (Historical Terms) a supporter of Parliament during the English Civil War adj (Historical Terms) of or relating to Parliament or its supporters during the English Civil War par•lia•men•tar•i•an (ˌpɑr lə mɛnˈtɛər i ən, -mən-; sometimes ˌpɑrl yə-) n. 1. an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures. 2. (cap.) a partisan of the British Parliament in opposition to Charles I. [1605-1615] British House of Commons , House of Commons - the lower house of the British parliament legislator - someone who makes or enacts laws 2. parliamentarian - an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures expert - a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully Translations parliamentarian [ˌpɑːləmɛnˈtɛərɪən] n → parlamentare m/f 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: Ata Jurt parliamentarians to be expelled from party in case of entry into majority coalition For parliamentarians who wish to submit a private member's bill, Library employees are available to assist in crystallizing the intent of the proposed bill and to work with the parliamentarian to prepare drafting instructions for the legal drafters, who will eventually turn the idea into a bill.
What was the first name of Paddy Maguire’s wife in the UK tv series ‘Shameless’?	Paddy Maguire \| Shameless Wiki \| Fandom powered by Wikia Eye color N/A \|career = gangster Patrick Donal "Paddy" Maguire (born August 31, 1962) is the patriarch of the Maguire Family , the most feared and well respected of the local criminal families in Stretford. His cherished wife is Mimi , and he has an identical twin brother, Noel . He has six sons: Jamie , Fergal , Joey , Donny , Shane and Micky , and one daughter, Mandy . Patrick is extremely intimidating, forceful and violent and his presence strikes fear into most residents of the Chatsworth Estate . For example, when he and his family enter the local pub, The Jockey , the customers sitting at the table beside the entrance clear the seat for them. He and his family are also drug dealers on the Chatsworth estate and are particularly wealthy and prosperous as a result, with most of his sons staying within the family business. He has a particular dislike for the Gallagher family, particularly Frank and Lip , which he has demonstrated on several occasions, both physically and verbally. However in later series, Paddy has begun to show a more compassionate side, and since Series 4 , he has also become much more accepting of Lip Gallagher, as well as Karen , the wife of his eldest son Jamie. Contents [ show ] Katie & the Gallaghers Paddy is first seen after Mandy becomes pregnant with Lip Gallagher 's baby. As Mandy is actually in a relationship of convenience with Lip's brother Ian Gallagher , Paddy and the family instantly presume that Ian is the father and forcibly welcome him into their family. Paddy 'initiates' Ian by taking him to a street by trying to make him participate in beating up somebody who owes them money. He displays some tendencies of a sociopath after getting his sons to stop the beating, only to deliver the final kick in the face himself that knocks the man unconscious. After encouraging Ian to propose to Mandy (which Ian does out of fear), Lip shows up at the engagement party and announces that the baby is his, wrecking everything. Paddy, overcome with rage, makes a beeline for Lip and beats him to a pulp before announcing to the Gallaghers that Mandy's baby belongs to the Maguires now and that they will never again have anything to do with it. Heroin Addiction Upon the family's annual pilgrimage to son Fergal 's grave, Fergal's gravestone is discovered to be vandalized. After cleaning it, Paddy installs a CCTV camera in a nearby tree and watches the grave from his laptop, where after some time, a beautiful woman appears to stop at Fergal's grave, look up at the camera and walk off. Paddy watches the short CCTV clip over and over again in intrigue, then begins to regularly visit his son's grave. By chance, he eventually meets the woman, Maureen , in the flesh, and looks immensely happy to be with her. Paddy then wakes up on the day of his anniversary, in an upstairs bedroom on a bed, with his arms and legs securely tied to each bedpost. Initially, he thinks it's Maureen being kinky, but as the reality sinks in that he isn't going to be let go, he is overcome with anxiety. After some hours pass, Maureen turns on a video of her young daughter in a school play, who she reveals recently died of a heroin overdose. Maureen holds Paddy responsible and forcibly injects him with heroin while the video plays on repeat. She continues to inject him multiple times, turning him into a rabid, drugged-up mess. The next morning, Paddy wakes up in a park in the middle of Manchester, with a shaved head, filthy clothes and black eyes. He arrives at home but declines to tell Mimi the truth, which, combined with Paddy missing their anniversary, begins the decline of their marriage. He goes on to become deeply addicted to heroin, buying it from under-aged children on the estate and shooting up in the street. Kelly discovers him and helps him do it properly, offering her insights from her own experience as an addict. When Paddy keeps sneaking off to shoot up, Kelly ends up telling Mimi, who decides to follow Paddy everywhere 24/7 to help wean him off. However, Mimi goes to
What are the patterns called which are applied to the hands of Indian women using Henna?	Henna Hand Designs Art Lesson: Make a Unique Self-Portrait — Art is Fun Art is Fun henna hand designs art lesson This Henna Hand Designs Art Lesson shows you how to create a unique and unusual self-portrait of your hands! It's a great art project for kids, because it allows them to learn about: other cultures the role of pattern in abstract art how to create abstract patterns how to express themselves in a symbolic way It's also a fun art project for adults for the exact same reasons! First I'll give you a bit of background info about henna, and then launch into the art project. What is henna? Henna is a plant that has been used as a dye since the Bronze Ages, primarily in the Eastern Mediterranean region encompassing Northern Africa, Italy, Spain, and the Middle East. It was also widely used in India, where it is still a popular form of temporary body art to this day. How is henna used? To create a dye for the skin, the henna plant is grounded into a paste with a few other ingredients, which is then applied to the body using a cone-shaped funnel. The henna must stay undisturbed on the skin for several hours to properly stain the skin, and then it is washed off. Henna designs can last for days or months. In India, henna designs on skin are called mehndi. Henna being applied to a tourist in Rishikesh, India. Photo Credit: McKay Savage Why do people decorate their skin with henna? In many cultures, women have henna decorations applied to their hands and feet for festivals and celebrations. Before a wedding, a bride will have elaborate henna designs drawn onto her hands, arms and sometimes feet. In some regions, the groom will be decorated as well. Henna on the hands of a bride. Photo Credit: Marian Henna decorations have also become popular in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia, where it takes the form of a "temporary tattoo". Henna Hand Designs Art Project In this art project, you'll trace an outline of your hand(s) onto paper and then decorate them with henna designs! This is less messy than trying to apply actual henna on your (or your students') hands, and it allows you to create something that you can keep forever. (If you want to draw directly on your hands, check out my 128-page book, The Everything Girls Ultimate Body Art Book , which features over 50 step-by-step lessons that you can draw on yourself or your friends!) If you're a teacher, start by showing your students photos of hands decorated with henna, like the ones on this page. Give them a bit of background info about the origins of henna, as well as how and why it's used today. Materials Needed: Pen or marker Paper (As you can see, not that many materials are needed, which is partly why this makes a great classroom project!) Tracing your hand The first step is to trace your hand onto the paper. I recommend using a pencil to outline your hand first, so that you can erase any mistakes. Then go over the outline with a pen or marker. Tip: Be sure to spread your fingers far enough apart so that you can easily get the pencil in between your fingers. Now you can fill your hand with designs and patterns! The patterns and imagery you choose reflect who you are – your personality, your essence, your own unique flair. By drawing patterns on your hand, you are creating an original self-portrait that captures the essence of who you are! Common motifs found in henna hand designs include: flowers, paisley, tendrils, stars, vines, spirals, leaves, water drops, criss-crosses, waves, and more. I'll show you some of these designs below. You can also totally make up patterns as you go along! If you need a jump-start or a crash course in pattern-making, check out my tutorial on how to draw patterns step by step , where you'll learn how to create patterns off the top of your head. I'll also how you how to draw patterns like this: Drawing henna hand designs You might want to draw your designs with a pencil first, so that you can erase any mistakes - or you can leap right in with a pen or marker. I chose to pencil in my designs first, but you can do it either wa
‘A little dab’ll do ya’ was the advertising slogan for which grooming product?	101 Best Slogans List 101 Best Slogans List A List of 101 Great Corporate, Company, Product and Service Slogans and Taglines to Inspire You to Branding Greatness The greatest slogans and taglines of all time? Let’s just say it’s a slogan list of 101 clever, catchy, memorable ideas going back several decades. You’ll find a list of some of the most powerful advertising slogans and taglines in history included here. 7 Up – The Un-cola ABC’s Wide World of Sports – The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat Adidas – impossible is nothing Alka Seltzer – I can’t believe I ate the whole thing Allstate – You’re in good hands with Allstate (Allstate) American Express – Don’t leave home without it Apple – Think Different AT&T – Reach out and touch someone Avis – We try harder. Beef Council – Beef. It’s what’s for dinner BMW – The Ultimate Driving Machine Bounty – The quicker picker-upper Brylcreem – A little dab’ll do ya Budweiser – The king of beers Budweiser – This Bud’s For You Burger King – Have it your way California Milk Processor Board – Got Milk? Campbell’s Soup – M’m! M’m! Good! Capital One – What’s in your wallet? Champale Malt Liquor – Champale Makes You Feel Special, Every Day Charmin Toilet Paper – Please Don’t Squeeze the Charmin Chevrolet – See the USA in your Chevrolet Chevrolet – The Heartbeat of America Citibank – The Citi never sleeps Clairol – Does she or doesn’t she? Coca Cola – Have a Coke Coca Cola – It’s the real thing Coca Cola – Open happiness Colt 45 Malt Liquour: It Works Every Time Crest Toothpaste – Look, Ma, no cavities! DeBeers – A diamond is forever Disney Land – The happiest place on earth E.F. Hutton – When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen Energizer Batteries – It keeps going... and going... and going Fed-X – When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight Fiat Strada – Hand built by robots Forbes Magazine – Capitalist Tool FTD – Say It With Flowers Future Shop – See what the future has in store Gatorade – Is it in you? Geico – So Easy a Caveman Can Do It General Electric – We bring good things to life (GE) Greyhound – Leave the driving to us Grey Poupon – Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon? Haig Scotch Whiskey – Don’t be vague. Ask for Haig. Hallmark – When you care enough to send the very best Hertz – Let Hertz Put You In the Driver’s Seat Intel – Intel inside Ivory Soap – 99 and 44/100% pure John Deere – Nothing runs like a Deere Kay Jewelers – Every kiss begins with Kay Kentucky Fried Chicken – Finger lickin’ good Lexus – The relentless pursuit of perfection Levy’s Rye Bread – You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s Rye Bread L’Oreal – Because I’m worth it Lay’s Potato Chips – Betcha can’t eat just one M&Ms – Melts in your mouth, not in your hands MasterCard – There are some things money can’t buy, for everything else there’s MasterCard Maxwell House – Good to the last drop McDonald’s – I’m lovin’ it McDonald’s – You Deserve a Break Today Meow Mix – Tastes so good cats ask for it by name Miller Lite – Tastes great, less filling Morton Salt – When it rains, it pours! Motel 6 – We’ll leave a light on for you National Milk Producers Board – Got Milk? New York State – I love New York Nike – Just do it Packard – Ask the Man Who Owns One Partnership for a Drug-Free America – This is your brain on drugs Pepsi – The choice of a new generation added by: KirkSaw Perdue – It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken Porsche – There is no substitute Porsche Rice Krispies – Snap! Crackle! Pop! Rolaids – How do you spell relief? R-O-L-A-I-D-S Skittles: Taste the Rainbow Smith Barney – We make money the old-fashioned way. We earn it. Smucker’s – With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good Sprite – Obey your thirst Texaco – You can trust your car to the man who wears the star The Independent – It is. Are you? The New York Times – All the news that’s fit to print Timex – Takes a licking and keeps on ticking Trix Cereal – Trix Are For Kids United Airlines – Fly the Friendly Skies United Negro College Fund – A mind is a terrible thing to waste UPS – What Can Brown Do For You? U.S. Army –
Who wrote the 1885 novel ‘King Solomon’s Mines’?	The REAL King Solomon's mines - but will the mystery end here? \| Daily Mail Online The REAL King Solomon's mines - but will the mystery end here? comments The galleys arrived off the scorching shores of Palestine, loaded with fabulous treasures for a legendary king. As the banks of rowers glided their vessels into the harbour, slaves rushed to the dockside to unload the precious cargo - silver, sweet-smelling sandalwood, wine, ivory, apes and peacocks. But the most important gift of all was gold. Gold fires the imagination. It does so today, hoarded as security in our troubled times, and it did 3,000 years ago, when King Solomon, the ruler of Israel, accumulated it in abundance. The evidence is in the Bible. The Old Testament tells us he was the possessor of 'gold according to all his desire'. Treasure hunt: The 1950 film King Solomon's Mines won several Oscars And his desire was great. His drinking cups were made of it; he had 300 shields beaten from it. His great throne in Jerusalem was ivory 'overlaid with the best gold', and on steps leading up to it stood 12 golden lions facing 12 golden eagles. A seven-branched candelabra of gold hung above his royal seat. The walls of the Temple he built to house the Ark of the Covenant were adorned with it, too. Centuries later, 'Solomon in all his glory' would become St Matthew's yardstick for riches untold and magnificence unsurpassed. He was a real King Midas. Where did this wealth come from? The Bible tells us that, too. Solomon's servants, it says, went to Ophir 'and fetched from thence gold, 420 talents' - roughly 20 tons. But that is where the clues stop and the trail goes cold. The location of Ophir, it seems, was meant to remain a mystery. Out of this mystery grew a tale that obsessed the ancient Greeks, Renaissance adventurers and Victorian explorers and, with its aura of romance and greed, still has the power to draw us in today. Indeed, the search for King Solomon's mines is as timeless as that for the Holy Grail. The astronomer and geographer Ptolemy calculated that Ophir was located in what today is Pakistan, at the mouth of the Indus river. Alternatively, he placed it near the Straits of Malacca, between Malaysia and Indonesia. The story has inspired countless explorers to hunt for a legendary golden treasure trove A Portuguese explorer of the 15th century, meanwhile, claimed it was in the Shona lands of Zimbabwe in Africa, a link embraced by the English poet John Milton in his epic poem Paradise Lost. Either way, the prospect of boundless booty inspired ambitious men to set sail into vast and dangerous oceans and stretch the limits of the known world. Christopher Columbus believed he had found Ophir in Haiti, and Sir Walter Raleigh in the jungles of Surinam. In 1568 a Spanish captain discovered an archipelago in the Pacific and named them the Solomon Islands because he believed they were Ophir. Just over a century ago, the Victorians were captivated by a tale of British grit, ancient curses, African warriors and black magic, all suffused with the glamour of diamonds and gold. Henry Rider Haggard's best-selling book King Solomon's Mines caught the mood of the moment and set pulses racing for a generation of imperial wannabes intent on opening up previously untracked swathes of the world. It was as gripping at the time as an Indiana Jones film. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel was heralded as 'the most amazing book ever written' At the time, Cecil Rhodes, David Livingstone and Henry Stanley were discovering cultures, tribes and natural wealth in abundance in Africa. If the lost mines of Ophir were anywhere, this vast and largely unexplored land was surely the place to find them. In the real world, however, the mines remained as elusive as ever. Until now. Adventurous souls must have stirred this week when it was revealed that the location of the real King Solomon's mines has, at last, been nailed down. Archeologists now place the lost mines of the ancient King of Israel in the desert south of the Dead Sea, in modern-day Jordan. A 24-acre site of tunnels and holes, topped
The meadow flower ‘Ranunculus acris’ is better known by what name?	Ranunculus acris, Meadow Buttercup: identification, distribution, habitat Family: Ranunculaceae Who is not stopped in their tracks by the sight of a beautiful buttercup meadow? Children today still play the game of finding out if their playmates like butter by holding a buttercup flower under their chin; if the golden yellow is reflected on the skin, the answer is 'Yes!' Identification One of the best known of wildflowers, the Meadow Buttercup is tall and stately, and quite the perfect yellow for playing 'Do you like butter?' Meadow Buttercup usually grows to a height of about 75cm but can reach a metre or more. This hairy perennial has toothed, palmate lower leaves and a few lanceolate leaves at flower stalk junctions. Flowers are borne singly on unfurrowed stalks branching from stems, with a terminal flower on a stem rather longer than the others. Each flower usually has five rounded sepals - there are no true petals, but most people use the term petals when describing these flowers - forming a shallow cup 1.5 to 2.5cm across that gradually flattens out. Seeds are produced in star-like achenes (segmented seed pods). Distribution Widespread and common throughout Britain, Ireland and most of northern and central mainland Europe, Ranunculus acris is also native to parts of asia. This buttercup is also present in Australia, New Zealand and North America. Habitat It's in the common name, of course: these are wildflowers of damp permanent-pasture meadows, but they can also produce impressive stands on grassy roadside verges. Blooming Times Ranunculus acris blooms in Britain and Ireland from April until October and is generally at its best from May to July. Uses Buttercups contains an irritant latex that can cause very unpleasant reactions in farm animals and in people. The acrid taste of Meadow Buttercups (and indeed to a degree nearly all common buttercup species except the Goldilocks Buttercup Ranunculus auricomus) seems to be sufficient deterrent, as there have been only a few cases of serious poisoning. There is a risk to farm animals if they are left too long in a buttercup meadow, because when there is no grass left they might have to settle for buttercups, and become very 'unsettled' as a result. Despite these safety concerns, buttercups are sometimes used in herbal treatments for arthritis, bronchitis and several other ailments. (We strongly advise against eating or using as medicines any plants without first obtaining qualified professional advice.) Etymology The genus name Ranunculus comes from the Latin rana, meaning frog, while the suffix -culus indicates the diminutive form - hence Ranunculus means 'little frog'. The most likely explanation is that both frogs and Ranunculus wildflower species are usually found in damp places. The specific epithet acris means bitter tasting (as in acrid). Folklore has it that, because of the yellow of the buttercups, cows grazing in buttercup-richmeadows provided the finest butter. Similar Species There are many other buttercup species. Creeping buttercup Ranunculus repens is often found in lawns and gardens, while the bulbous buttercup Ranunculus bulbosus is another farmland species. The pictures of Meadow Buttercup shown on this page were taken in West Wales and in Somerset during May. We hope that you have found this information helpful. If so we are sure you would find our books Wonderful Wildflowers of Wales, vols 1 to 4, by Sue Parker and Pat O'Reilly very useful too. Buy copies here...
Which animal is the symbol of the Rastafari religion?	BBC - Religions - Rastafari: Rastafari at a glance Rastafari at a glance This page provides an overview of the Rastafari movement including statistics, practices and history. On this page Print this page Rastafari at a glance Rastafari is a young, Africa-centred religion which developed in Jamaica in the 1930s, following the coronation of Haile Selassie I as King of Ethiopia in 1930. Rastafarians believe Haile Selassie is God and that he will return to Africa members of the black community who are living in exile as the result of colonisation and the slave trade. Rastafari theology developed from the ideas of Marcus Garvey , a political activist who wanted to improve the status of fellow blacks. There are approximately one million world wide adherents of Rastafari as a faith. The 2001 census found 5,000 Rastafarians living in England and Wales. Followers of Rastafari are known by a variety of names: Rastafarians, Rastas, Sufferers, Locksmen, Dreads or Dreadlocks. It spread globally following the success of Bob Marley and his music in the 1970s Rastafarians believe that blacks are the chosen people of God , but that through colonisation and the slave trade their role has been suppressed The movement's greatest concerns are the repatriation of blacks to their homeland, Africa, and the reinstatement of blacks' position in society It is an exocentric religion - as Haile Selassie, whom adherents consider as God, is outside the religion Rastafari religious ceremonies consist of chanting, drumming and meditating in order to reach a state of heightened spirituality Rastafarian religious practice includes the ritual inhalation of marijuana , to increase their spiritual awareness Rastafarians follow strict dietary laws and abstain from alcohol. Rastafarians follow a number of Old Testament Laws There is a separate code of religious practice for women in Rastafari Rastafarians believe reincarnation follows death and that life is eternal Rastafarians are forbidden to cut their hair; instead, they grow it and twist it into dreadlocks Rastafarians eat clean and natural produce, such as fruit and vegetables Rastafarians try to refrain from the consumption of meat, especially pork Rastafarians are opposed to abortion and contraception Rastafarian colours The Rastafarian colours are red, green and gold. Sometimes black is added. These colours are chosen because: Red signifies the blood of those killed for the cause of the black community, throughout Jamaican history Green represents Jamaica's vegetation and hope for the eradication of suppression Gold symbolises the wealth of Ethiopia Black signifies the colour of the Africans who initiated Rastafari The Rastafarian symbol The lion is the symbol of Rastafari. This lion represents Haile Selassie I, who is referred to as the 'Conquering Lion of Judah'. Rastafarians' dreadlocks represent the lion's mane.
How many inches are in an imperial mile?	Convert inches to miles - Conversion of Measurement Units ›› More information from the unit converter How many inches in 1 miles? The answer is 63360. We assume you are converting between inch and mile. You can view more details on each measurement unit: The SI base unit for length is the metre. 1 metre is equal to 39.3700787402 inches, or 0.000621371192237 miles. Note that rounding errors may occur, so always check the results. Use this page to learn how to convert between inches and miles. Type in your own numbers in the form to convert the units! ›› Want other units? You can do the reverse unit conversion from miles to inches , or enter any two units below: Enter two units to convert From: I'm feeling lucky, show me some random units . ›› Definition: Inch An inch is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units. There are 36 inches in a yard and 12 inches in a foot. The inch is usually the universal unit of measurement in the United States, and is widely used in the United Kingdom, and Canada, despite the introduction of metric to the latter two in the 1960s and 1970s, respectively. The inch is still commonly used informally, although somewhat less, in other Commonwealth nations such as Australia; an example being the long standing tradition of measuring the height of newborn children in inches rather than centimetres. The international inch is defined to be equal to 25.4 millimeters. ›› Definition: Mile A mile is any of several units of distance, or, in physics terminology, of length. Today, one mile is mainly equal to about 1609 m on land and 1852 m at sea and in the air, but see below for the details. The abbreviation for mile is 'mi'. There are more specific definitions of 'mile' such as the metric mile, statute mile, nautical mile, and survey mile. On this site, we assume that if you only specify 'mile' you want the statute mile. ›› Metric conversions and more ConvertUnits.com provides an online conversion calculator for all types of measurement units. You can find metric conversion tables for SI units, as well as English units, currency, and other data. Type in unit symbols, abbreviations, or full names for units of length, area, mass, pressure, and other types. Examples include mm, inch, 100 kg, US fluid ounce, 6'3", 10 stone 4, cubic cm, metres squared, grams, moles, feet per second, and many more!
How many times has jockey Richard Dunwoody won the English Grand National?	Richard Dunwoody, retired National Hunt racing jockey talks of his laser eye surgery - YouTube Richard Dunwoody, retired National Hunt racing jockey talks of his laser eye surgery 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. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jun 20, 2013 Richard Dunwoody was a three-time Champion Jockey, riding 1699 British winners in his career. He won the King George V1 Chase four times, twice on Desert Orchid in 1989 and 1990. He also won the Grand National in 1986 and 1994 and the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1988. Today Richards passion is photography and travel. His outstanding photographic work captures the essence of the moment, and use of light and focus draw the viewer into the image. Richard had lost good distance vision and needed help with it for his photography. Accuvision recommended a treatment plan that would strengthen his left eye. The results speak for themselves after only a week following the surgery. Category
What is the name of the spirit who serves Prospero in Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’?	No Fear Shakespeare: The Tempest: Characters No Fear Shakespeare Act 1, Scene 1 Prospero The play’s protagonist and Miranda’s father. Twelve years before the events of the play, Prospero was the duke of Milan. His brother, Antonio, in concert with Alonso, king of Naples, usurped him, forcing him to flee in a boat with his daughter. The honest lord Gonzalo aided Prospero in his escape. Prospero has spent his twelve years on an island refining the magic that gives him the power he needs to punish and reconcile with his enemies. Miranda Prospero’s daughter, whom he brought with him to the island when she was still a small child. Miranda has never seen any men other than her father and Caliban, although she dimly remembers being cared for by female servants as an infant. Because she has been sealed off from the world for so long, Miranda’s perceptions of other people tend to be naïve and non-judgmental. She is compassionate, generous, and loyal to her father. Ariel Prospero’s spirit helper, a powerful supernatural being whom Prospero controls completely. Rescued by Prospero from a long imprisonment (within a tree) at the hands of the witch Sycorax, Ariel is Prospero’s servant until Prospero decides to release him. He is mischievous and ubiquitous, able to traverse the length of the island in an instant and change shapes at will. Ariel carries out virtually every task Prospero needs accomplished in the play. Caliban Another of Prospero’s servants. Caliban, the son of the now-deceased witch Sycorax, acquainted Prospero with the island when Prospero arrived. Caliban believes that the island rightfully belongs to him and that Prospero stole it. Caliban’s speech and behavior is sometimes coarse and brutal, sometimes eloquent and sensitive, as in his rebukes of Prospero in Act 1, scene 2, and in his description of the eerie beauty of the island. Ferdinand Son and heir of Alonso. Ferdinand seems in some ways to be as pure and naïve as Miranda. He falls in love with her upon first sight and happily submits to servitude in order to win Prospero’s approval. Alonso King of Naples and father of Ferdinand. Alonso aided Antonio in unseating Prospero as duke of Milan twelve years before. Over the course of the play, Alonso comes to regret his past actions and desire a reconciliation with Prospero. Antonio Prospero’s thoroughly wicked brother who betrayed Prospero’s trust and stole his dukedom years before the play begins. Once on the island, Antonio wastes no time demonstrating that he is still power-hungry and murderous, persuading Sebastian to help him kill Alonso. Though Prospero forgives him at the end of the play, Antonio never repents for his misdeeds. Sebastian Alonso’s brother. Like Antonio, Sebastian is wicked and underhanded. Antonio easily persuades him to agree to kill Alonso. Also like Antonio, Sebastian is unrepentant at the end of the play. Gonzalo An old, honest lord. The goodhearted Gonzalo helped Prospero and Miranda to escape and survive after Antonio usurped Prospero’s title. During the play, Gonzalo does his best to cheer up the despondent Alonso, maintains an optimistic outlook on the island where they’re standed, and remains unfazed by the insulting taunts of Antonio and Sebastian. Trinculo and Stefano Two minor members of the shipwrecked party. Trinculo, a jester, and Stefano, a drunken butler, provide a comic foil to the other, more powerful pairs of Prospero and Alonso and Antonio and Sebastian. Their drunken boasting
Who is considered to be the founder of the modern method of freezing food?	Freezing of fruits and vegetables Introduction to freezing Freezing is one of the oldest and most widely used methods of food preservation, which allows preservation of taste, texture, and nutritional value in foods better than any other method. The freezing process is a combination of the beneficial effects of low temperatures at which microorganisms cannot grow, chemical reactions are reduced, and cellular metabolic reactions are delayed (Delgado and Sun, 2000). 1.1 The importance of freezing as a preservation method Freezing preservation retains the quality of agricultural products over long storage periods. As a method of long-term preservation for fruits and vegetables, freezing is generally regarded as superior to canning and dehydration, with respect to retention in sensory attributes and nutritive properties (Fennema, 1977). The safety and nutrition quality of frozen products are emphasized when high quality raw materials are used, good manufacturing practices are employed in the preservation process, and the products are kept in accordance with specified temperatures. The need for freezing and frozen storage Freezing has been successfully employed for the long-term preservation of many foods, providing a significantly extended shelf life. The process involves lowering the product temperature generally to -18 °C or below (Fennema et al., 1973). The physical state of food material is changed when energy is removed by cooling below freezing temperature. The extreme cold simply retards the growth of microorganisms and slows down the chemical changes that affect quality or cause food to spoil (George, 1993). Competing with new technologies of minimal processing of foods, industrial freezing is the most satisfactory method for preserving quality during long storage periods (Arthey, 1993). When compared in terms of energy use, cost, and product quality, freezing requires the shortest processing time. Any other conventional method of preservation focused on fruits and vegetables, including dehydration and canning, requires less energy when compared with energy consumption in the freezing process and storage. However, when the overall cost is estimated, freezing costs can be kept as low (or lower) as any other method of food preservation (Harris and Kramer, 1975). Current status of frozen food industry in U.S. and other countries The frozen food market is one of the largest and most dynamic sectors of the food industry. In spite of considerable competition between the frozen food industry and other sectors, extensive quantities of frozen foods are being consumed all over the world. The industry has recently grown to a value of over US$ 75 billion in the U.S. and Europe combined. This number has reached US$ 27.3 billion in 2001 for total retail sales of frozen foods in the U.S. alone (AFFI, 2003). In Europe, based on U.S. currency, frozen food consumption also reached 11.1 million tons in 13 countries in the year 2000 (Quick Frozen Foods International, 2000). Table 1 represents the division of frozen food industry in terms of annual sales in 2001. Advantages of freezing technology in developing countries Developed countries, mostly the U.S., dominate the international trade of fruits and vegetables. The U.S. is ranked number one as both importer and exporter, accounting for the highest percent of fresh produce in world trade. However, many developing countries still lead in the export of fresh exotic fruits and vegetables to developed countries (Mallett, 1993). For developing countries, the application of freezing preservation is favorable with several main considerations. From a technical point of view, the freezing process is one of the most convenient and easiest of food preservation methods, compared with other commercial preservation techniques. The availability of different types of equipment for several different food products results in a flexible process in which degradation of initial food quality is minimal with proper application procedures. As mentioned earlier, the high capital investment of the freezing ind
What was the name of the airship that burst into flames at Lakenhurst Naval Station, New Jersey in 1937?	Hindenburg explodes in New Jersey - May 06, 1937 - HISTORY.com Hindenburg explodes in New Jersey Share this: Hindenburg explodes in New Jersey Author Hindenburg explodes in New Jersey URL Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 1937, the German airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built, explodes as it arrives in Lakehurst, New Jersey . Thirty-six people died in the fiery accident that has since become iconic, in part because of the live radio broadcast of the disaster. The dirigible was built to be the fastest, largest and most luxurious flying vessel of its time. It was more than 800 feet long, had a range of 8,000 miles, could carry 97 passengers and had a state-of-the-art Mercedes-Benz engine. It was filled with 7 million cubic feet of hydrogen, even though helium was known to be far safer, because it made the flying ship more maneuverable. The Hindenburg had made 10 successful ocean crossings the year before and was held up by Germany’s Nazi government as a symbol of national pride. Flying at a speed of 85 miles per hour, the Hindenburg was scheduled to arrive in New Jersey at 5 a.m. on May 6. However, weather conditions pushed the arrival back to the late afternoon and then rain further delayed the docking at Lakehurst. When the dirigible was finally cleared to dock, Captain Max Pruss brought the ship in too fast and had to order a reverse engine thrust. At 7:20 p.m., a gas leak was noticed. Within minutes, the tail blew up, sending flames hundreds of feet in the air and as far down as the ground below. A chain reaction caused the entire vessel to burn instantly. The nearly 1,000 spectators awaiting the Hindenburg‘s arrival felt the heat from a mile away. Some on the blimp attempted to jump for the landing cables at the docking station but most died when they missed. Others waited to jump until the blimp was closer to the ground as it fell. Those who were not critically injured from burns often suffered broken bones from the jump. Fifty-six people managed to survive. On WLS radio, announcer Herbert Morrison gave an unforgettably harrowing live account of the disaster, “Oh, oh, oh. It’s burst into flames. Get out of the way, please . . . this is terrible . . . it’s burning, bursting into flames, and is falling . . . Oh! This is one of the worst . . . it’s a terrific sight . . .oh, the humanity.” More on This Topic
Which US fictional private eye calls his gun ‘Betsy’?	Mike Hammer - Private Investigator / Detective Mike Hammer Mike Hammer Hammer series is one of the highly appreciated series in the category of private eye detectives and he is famous with the name Mike Hammer. Mike Hammer is actually a fictional character created by Mickey Spillane. Mike Hammer or Michael Hammer was introduced by the American Author in the year 1947 in his famous series âI, The Juryâ inspired by the former Newburgh, new York law enforcement officer Jack Stang. The character was very well appreciated by the readers and so it was also brought up in a movie, as well. Not just a movie, but Mike Hammer was initiated on radio and television, as well to raise the character popularity. Stacy Keach portrayed Mike Hammer in a television series named as âMickey Spillaneâs Mike Hammerâ which was aired from the year 1984 to 1987. Introduction Mike Hammer is a tough guy to handle and usually resolves the matters violently, but one thing that he sticks to every time is not being a kind to manipulate the law. Usually, the fictional characters are shown being tied with the law, especially while chasing criminals or while getting any evidence that can link them to the case. Mike Hammer respects the law, but he has his own way of solving the cases and then infiltrating into the case deeply so as to grab hold of the criminals. This way is generally not accepted by other fictional private detectives and this is what makes Mike Hammer a well accepted private detective character. Mike Hammer always carries a handgun under his left side of the shoulder. This handgun is .45 Colt M1911 which the anti communist and nationalistic character calls Betsy. Mike has a best friend named Pat Chambers who is actually the Captain of Homicide and a secretary Welda who loves the way Mike exterminates the criminals. Radio and Television Series With the increasing popularity of the character Mike Hammer, a radio series was written by Ed Adamson. This series was aired from January to October, 1953 and was greatly cherished by listeners. The title of the series was âThat Hammer Guyâ starring Larry Haines as Mike Hammer and Jan Miner in the female voice. The show was directed by Richard Lewis and became one of the most appreciated series on radio. Similarly, the television series was also commenced with the name âMickey Spillaneâs Mike Hammerâ, but these series were developed starring Darren McGavin from 1958 to 1960 and then Stacy Keach from January 1984 to June 1998. Novels and Movies Mickey Spillaneâs character Mike Hammer was initiated in different novels on which movies were also featured. Some of these novels include I, The Jury, My Gun is Quick, The big Kill, One lonely night, Black Alley, Survival Zero, The snake, The Twisted Thing and The Goliath Bone to name a few. Based on these novels, several movies were also filmed like I, The Jury, Kiss me Deadly, Margin for Murder and Come Die with me starring Biff Elliot, Ralph Meeker, Kevin Dobson and Rob Estes, respectively. A comic strip was also introduced for the lovers of Hammer series and this way, the character increased its popularity among the viewers, readers and listeners.
In Greek mythology, what was Arachne turned into after beating Athena in a weaving contest?	Greek Stories about Athena-Athena, Arachne and the Weaving Contest Athena, Arachne and the Weaving Contest Athena, Arachne and the Weaving Contest In a small town of Ledia, in Northern Greece, there once lived a beautiful maid with the name Arachne. Arachne was famous in town for being a very skillful weaver and spinner and every day many girls and nymphs were stopping by to see her weave. However, Arachne was a very vain girl and couldnât stop boasting about her talent. She claimed that she had learned the skill all by herself and that there was no one else in the world who could weave as delicately as her... she even felt that she could compete against Athena , the goddess of skill, and win her with ease. When Athena heard these words, she got disappointed and decided to disguise as an old lady and appear in front of Arachne. "My dear", she told Arachne, "I am old and have much life experience, so let me give you one advice: donât ever mess up with a goddess! No mortal can compete against Athena. Take back your words and kindly ask for forgiveness..." Arachne got furious and threw the thread against the old woman, telling her: "I donât need your advice, I know best what I can do! If Athena really dares, then she should come here and compete against me!" At that moment, the old woman transformed herself into the radiant goddess Athena. On her sight, everybody in the room kneeled down in awe- not so Arachne, who couldn't wait to compete against her. Soon the competition started and both contestants were doing really well. Athena was weaving the Parthenon and her contest with god Poseidon. Arachne, on the other hand, was making fun of the gods by weaving scenes of gods full of weaknesses and fears. Arachneâs work seemed to be perfect technically, yet it was not beautiful because it was showing disregard of the gods. When Athena saw this, she became very offended and told Arachne: "You may be foolish and stubborn, but you seem to love your work. So go ahead now and spin forever!" Immediately, Athena sprinkled her with the juice of magical herbs and the body of Arachne transformed into a small and ugly animal, which is known as the spider nowadays . Since then, the spider is cursed to be trapped inside her own web, weaving constantly and endlessly... but having finally all her works destroyed by humans! This story proves that the Greek gods and goddesses were subject to human emotion. Search
The legend of ‘Lohengrin’ comes from which European country?	Christmas traditions in Europe Christmas traditions in Europe Christmas The origin and the name given to this celebration are different depending on the country. For exemple, for the French word Noël definitely comes from the Latin word natalis(birth). The masses of Christ, held by English evangelists in December, gave birth to the English word "Christmas". "The Holy Night" is translated in German as Weihnacht...Taking place in the last few days of December, this holiday is not celebrated in the same way in every country. There are many symbols attached to this holiday in Europe, and each country has kept its own identity and traditions, while enriching them with influences form various other sources. This diversity and richness prove the importance given by Europeans to the Christmas holiday. Here are some exemples... Advent, its crown and its calendar... Advent corresponds to the four-week period that precedes "the arrival"(adventus in Latin) of baby Jesus, that is Christmas. In certain parts of Germany, Advent begins on the 11th November, on Saint Martin's Day. Depending on the country, various saints (Saint Martin, Saint Catherine, Saint Eligius, Saint Barbe, Saint Nicholas or Saint Lucia) are honoured in a meaningful way during this period. These celebrations sometimes become more important than Christmas itself. The Advent Crown The Advent Crown, made of woven fir branches and four candles, representing the four seasons of the year, appeared quite late in the Protestant regions of Germany. It reached Scandinavia before spreading to various other countries. The four candles are lit one by one, on each of the four Sundays before Christmas. The Advent Calendar The Advent Calendar is a tradition of German origin aimed to encourage children to be patient until Christmas. Thus, in order to feel that they have less time to wait, children are given an Advent Calendar at the beginning of December, which has twenty four little doors. Every evening, they open one door, the last one being opened on Christmas Eve, just before the arrival of Santa Claus. Originally, the closed doors hid pious images that have been replaced nowadays with sweets. The first Advent Calendar is thought to date back to 1851. The Christmas tree The evergreen Christmas tree, like ivy and holly, is the symbol of eternal life. This tradition is first mentioned in the 16th century, in Alsace; but as early as the 11th century, the houses seem to have been decorated with "greenery taken from trees". Very early on, the Christmas tree was covered with various decorations and candles to light it up when Christmas came. In Hungary for exemple, the tree is decorated with biscuits, sweets and chocolates, which can be eaten from December 24, making sure that the coloured wrappers are not removed, so as not to leave the tree bare. In the 18th century, the Christmas tree reached the whole of Germany, and then spread to many other countries. However, certain countries, such as Italy and Spain, were long reluctant to adopt this tradition. In Greece, the Christmas tree does not exist, but people grow a Christmas rose called Ellebore. The Christmas crib The Christmas crib, which reminds us of the Nativity, first appeared in Italy and underwent considerable development in other southern Catholic countries of Europe (Spain, Portugal) as well as in France and Southern Germany after the 13th century. In the Early Middle Ages, cribs were set up in churches and liturgical games (Nativity games) were organised on Christmas night. Set up in a cave, or more modestly, in a stable, the traditional crib gradually became commonplace in the homes of churchgoers. At that time, it included only the main characters: baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, the three Wise Men, the Angel Gabriel, not to mention the donkey and the bullock. However, in certain countries, other characters are traditionally included in the Nativity scene. This is particulary the case in Poland, where national heroes, represented by small figurines, are included alongside the crib characters. More
Which British poet had a relationship with Fanny Brawne?	Jane Campion's Ode To Keats' Romantic Love : NPR Jane Campion's Ode To Keats' Romantic Love Embed Embed Jane Campion's Ode To Keats' Romantic Love Jane Campion's Ode To Keats' Romantic Love Embed Embed Heard on All Things Considered Truth and beauty: Bright Star director Jane Campion says she was drawn into John Keats' intense — and chaste — relationship after reading his letters to 18-year-old Fanny Brawne. The correspondence "made you feel so intimate," she says. "Right in the middle of what they were experiencing themselves." Apparition hide caption toggle caption Hear More From The Interview Campion on casting her dream poetry class. Toggle more options Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/112856601/112974124" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Campion on how she wanted to make a film you could feel. Toggle more options Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/112856601/112974153" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Bright Star, the latest film by Oscar-winning director Jane Campion, chronicles the intense and tragic love story of British Romantic poet John Keats and 18-year-old Fanny Brawne. In some ways, it was an unlikely story for the director to tell. "I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry," Campion tells Melissa Block. "I used to feel kind of stupid that I didn't understand it properly." But when she turned 50, the director decided it was time to learn more about verse. She picked up Keats, a biography by Andrew Motion, and was captivated by the "funny and honest and thoughtful" man she encountered. As she read through the poet's letters, Campion says, she "fell in love with the guy." From the letters, she moved on to Keats' poetry and was hooked. But it was the poet's intense — and chaste — relationship with Brawne that really captivated her imagination. "Their love letters existed, so it made you feel so intimate — right in the middle of what they were experiencing themselves," she says. Campion describes the relationship between Keats and Brawne as being "entwined together." At one point, Keats stayed in a room within the Brawne family home; in the film, Campion brings this scenario to life with a scene in which Brawne stands with her cheek pressed against one side of the wall, while Keats holds his hand against the other side. Article continues after sponsorship "The holiness of the heart's affections ..." Campion describes John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abby Cornish) as being "entwined together." hide caption toggle caption "The holiness of the heart's affections ..." Campion describes John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abby Cornish) as being "entwined together." "I think the story touches me maybe because of the restraint that was placed upon [Keats and Brawne]. They got engaged finally, but they never did get married. ... I think it was interesting to me how intense and in love these two could be without having sex." Campion says that she was careful not to burden the love story with extraneous romanticism — a task that sometimes required toning down the natural beauty of the British countryside. In one scene, the director found herself shooting amidst a sea of daffodils, but, she says, "it looked corny, sort of Disney." So the crew stopped filming and "everybody had to help pull out the daffodils." Watch Clips 'Keats And Brawne Through The Wall' 'Brown And Keats Fight' Even if she wound up pulling out flowers during the making of Bright Star, Campion says that learning about Romantic poetry has been like "[planting] a garden in my head." "It's been such an amazing and incredible journey for me, getting close to John Keats and also Shelley and Byron," she says. "I think what they responded to was their own spirits, and that was the Lord for them. And to me that seems like great instructions for life."
What type of gas was used by the Germans against the French for the first time, at the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915?	Second Battle of Ypres begins - Apr 22, 1915 - HISTORY.com Second Battle of Ypres begins Share this: Second Battle of Ypres begins Author Second Battle of Ypres begins URL Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 1915, German forces shock Allied soldiers along the Western Front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres in Belgium. Toxic smoke had been used occasionally in warfare since ancient times, and in 1912, the French used small amounts of tear gas in police operations. At the outbreak of World War I, however, the Germans began to actively develop chemical weapons. In October 1914, small tear-gas canisters were placed in shells that were fired at Neuve Chapelle, France, but Allied troops were not exposed. In January 1915, the Germans fired shells loaded with xylyl bromide, a more lethal gas, at Russian troops at Bolimov on the Eastern Front. Because of the wintry cold, most of the gas froze, but the Russians nonetheless reported more than 1,000 killed as a result of the new weapon. On April 22, 1915, the Germans launched their first and only offensive of the year. Now referred to as the Second Battle of Ypres, the offensive began with the usual artillery bombardment of the enemy’s line. When the shelling died down, the Allied defenders waited for the first wave of German attack troops but instead were thrown into panic when chlorine gas wafted across no-man’s land and down into their trenches. The Germans targeted four miles of the front with the wind-blown poison gas, decimating two divisions of French and Algerian colonial troops. The Germans, perhaps as shocked as the Allies by the devastating effects of the poison gas, failed to take full advantage, and the Allies managed to hold most of their positions. A second gas attack, against a Canadian division, on April 24, pushed the Allies further back, and, by May, they had retreated to the town of Ypres. The Second Battle of Ypres ended on May 25, with insignificant gains for the Germans. The introduction of poison gas, however, would have great significance in World War I. Immediately after the German gas attack at Ypres, the French and British began developing their own chemical weapons and gas masks. With the Germans taking the lead, an extensive number of projectiles filled with deadly substances polluted the trenches during the next several years of war. Mustard gas, introduced by the Germans in 1917, blistered the skin, eyes and lungs, and killed thousands. Military strategists defended the use of poison gas by saying it reduced the enemy’s ability to respond and thus saved lives in offensives. In reality, defenses against poison gas usually kept pace with offensive developments, and both sides employed sophisticated gas masks and protective clothing that eventually negated the strategic importance of chemical weapons. The United States, which entered World War I in 1917, also developed and used chemical weapons. Future President Harry S. Truman was the captain of a U.S. field artillery unit that fired poison gas against the Germans in 1918. In all, more than 100,000 tons of chemical weapons agents were used in World War I, some 500,000 troops were injured from their use and almost 30,000 died, including 2,000 Americans. Related Videos

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