In 1979 which English art historian was exposed as a one-time Soviet spy?

Anthony Blunt – The Art of Espionage | Capricorn Astrology Research Anthony Blunt – The Art of Espionage Yigal Amir, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the era of Pluto in Sagittarius Anthony Blunt – The Art of Espionage Anthony Blunt was a British art expert who was exposed as a Soviet spy. He was known as the Fourth Man and attended Cambridge with Donald MacLean and Kim Philby, who, along with Guy Burgess formed a spy ring in the 1940s, turning over thousands of documents to the Russians. The first thing that comes to mind is the extraordinary similarities in terms of house positions and aspects to the chart of double agent George Blake The Sun is in exactly the same place in both charts, in the 7th house but moving towards the cusp of the 8th. Blake’s chart showed how the combination of intensity and secrecy of the 8th sign Scorpio with the fine balancing act of the 7th house set the scene for a life as a double agent. This is only the start, however. Its quite unusual for a chart to have two T Squares and it usually accounts for an extremely busy and volatile life. Blake and Blunt have two T Squares and both incredibly with Mercury and Pluto as the apex planets. Of course Mercury is particularly important in the chart of a spy because it rules intelligence. In Blake’s chart Mercury is in the 8th sign and the 7th house, for Blunt its in the 7th sign and the 8th house. Both T Squares include the deceptive Neptune in opposition to planets in the ideological 11th house. Pluto is the planet of the insurgent revolutionary, often operating underground but to have powerful explosive impact. Blunt and Blake both have Pluto as an apex planet in T Squares involving an opposition between Saturn and one of the three most important points in the chart, in Blake’s case the Ascendant and for Blunt, the Sun. Blake’s Mars and Blunt’s Uranus mirror each other in house positions. It seems we have uncovered the astrological signature of the Cold War spy. There are of course differences between the characters of the two men and these would be indicated by the signs. Planets basically are life energies, signs are how they express themselves, houses are what areas of life they will act in and aspects are how these energies will work together. So Anthony Blunt and George Blake have their principle energies operating in the same fields and working in the same ways, their only difference is in their characters. Their personalities couldn’t have been more different. Blake was an operational spy, a kind of James Bond figure out there in the field. He was imprisoned by both sides and staged a remarkable escape to the Soviet Union. The Sun / Moon / Ascendant combination of Scorpio, Leo and Aries summed him up perfectly. This fiery combination is Action Man. Anthony Blunt had all the major personality significators in Air signs, the Sun in Libra, Moon in Gemini and Aquarius rising. Air is the element of intellect, it has an aesthetic lightness of touch and is centred around communication of information rather than action. Blunt was a Royal courtier, a third cousin of the Queen Mother and a full-time participant in the establishment. He was aloof and dignified with a cool head, his major life work was that of expertise in French art and architecture. He was at one time “the most powerful and influential man in British art history “. The Sun and Venus in Libra conveys artistic taste and sensibility, it gives a love of all things beautiful. Venus’ position at the apex of a Tsquare would ensure a prominent place in the art world. Venus also rules relationships, particularly when its in Libra and in the 8th house of sex. Blunt’s Venus is the focus of an opposition between the two most unconventional planets, Uranus and Neptune. Blunt was homosexual ( Venus in Libra in the 8th square Uranus ), a fact that was a closely guarded secret ( square Neptune ) even from his older brother Wilfrid, who was also gay. Some people knew of Blunt’s role long before his public exposure. In 1948, George VI’s private secretary, told an ex army officer when passing Blu


Which Irish boxer was nicknamed the Clones Cyclone?

The Best-Ever British Boxing Nicknames | Bleacher Report The Best-Ever British Boxing Nicknames Use your ← → (arrow) keys to browse the slideshow Associated Press David Haye and Gavin Rees 8.0K 13 Comments Perhaps no sport is as linked with nicknames as boxing, so much so that when Sylvester Stallone penned Rocky, he gave no fewer than five to fictional heavyweight champion Apollo Creed . Fighters have always attracted monikers, going back to 19th-century champ Nonpareil Dempsey and beyond, but really took off around the 1920s, spearheaded by that era's heavyweight king Jack Dempsey—"The Manassa Mauler." British boxing was not always so enamoured with the nickname, associating it more with the hoopla and razzmatazz of the US, where it was a sport for the press pack to coin a nom-de-guerre for upcoming contenders. Plenty of British champions such as Benny Lynch, Ken Buchanan and John Conteh never attracted a moniker that stuck. It's maybe not entirely coincidental that it was in the 1980s, the decade of the Big Bang and rampant commercialism, that the UK truly embraced the nickname. The likes of "Ragamuffin Man" Lloyd Honeyghan and "Clones Cyclone" Barry McGuigan won world titles and almost edge their way into this list. Consequently, this countdown is dominated by fighters of more recent vintage or those who fought on American soil and picked up a nickname there. Among those who just missed out are Sheffield super-bantamweight Kid Galahad, lightweight contender Anthony "Million Dollar" Crolla and the always enigmatic early 2000s light-middleweight Richard "The Secret" Williams—a name that divides opinion but lodges itself in the memory. And now, here are the 15 best-ever nicknames in British boxing. Years Active: 1989-2003 Record: 41-2-1 with 32 KOs Early in his career, Lewis was known as "The Lion," but later on he coined his own more distinctive moniker as "The Pugilist Specialist." It fit Lewis' self-styling as a cerebral fighter who talked of his fondness for chess, and although this didn't always go down well with American audiences, he ultimately emerged as the king of the 1990s heavyweights, avoided by Riddick Bowe before defeating Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson. This nickname may not inspire fear in the heart of opponents but suited a fighter who could systematically take opponents apart, ultimately registering wins over every man he faced. Years Active: 1986-2002 Record: 31-12-1 with 11 KOs Pictured above is Silky Jones on the left in a British title fight against one of the worst nicknamed Brits—"Spice Boy" Ryan Rhodes. Before footballers had "good tekkers" or other such recent abominations, they had "silky skills." Paul Jones brought the term to boxing even if wasn't always as silky as he may have made out with 12 losses on his record, four by way of knockout. However, he did claim the WBO light-middleweight title back in 1995 with a huge upset win over Verno Phillips, a great effort on the night and what remains his claim to fame. With a distinctively British use of the word "silky" and the telling fact that he was often referred to in print as just Silky Jones, so that some may not even know his first name, this has to rank highly. File alongside "Sugar" Ray Robinson and "Mantequilla" Jose Napoles. Years Active: 1901-1913, 1919 Record: 53-3-5 with 35 KOs (plus 8 "newspaper decisions") Jim Driscoll wasn't literally undefeated, but like Nonpareil Dempsey before him, he lost very few fights at a time when top fighters took more risks and thus suffered more defeats. Driscoll had lost just once when in 1909 he beat world featherweight champion Abe Attell on points in a fight where it was stipulated that only a KO could win the Welsh challenger the crown. Despite winning 10 straight fights on US soil from late 1918 to early the next year, he never got the proper title shot he deserved but did claim the British and European belts. On the back of his excellent form in America, it was the legendary cowboy and U.S. newspaperman Bat Masterson who dubbed him "Peerless Jim," a label he thoroughly deserved. Years Active


Who scored the most tries in the 2007 Rugby World Cup?

Top Ten RWC Tries - SuperSport - Rugby Top Ten RWC Tries Rugby World Cup 2015 History: Top Ten RWC Tries Here is SuperSport.com's list of the Top 10 Rugby World Cup tries of all time: 10. Player: David Kirk Match:             New Zealand v France final 1987 It was the try that sealed the first             World Cup title, a perfect one two with Michael Jones from the base of the scrum back             inside to Kirk who darted in at the corner. A well worked move that paid off at the right             time and ensured New Zealand were the first world champions, scored by their inspirational             captain in the final. 9. Player: Alfred Uluinayau Match: Fiji v France, 1999 It was a game that should have given Fiji their greatest upset of their World Cup             history, but for two poor decisions by now IRB referee boss Paddy O’Brien. Uluinayau             hit the line at pace, managed to break the first tackle and get momentum, before a             wonderful step beat the French defence and sent him over for the game’s first try. It             was a moment of glory for Fiji, which deserved a better result. 8. Player: Gordon Hamilton Match: Quarterfinal, Ireland v Australia 1991 It was the moment Ireland thought they had won a place in the semifinals, only to have             Michael Lynagh rip it away from them in the third minute of extra time. A beautiful             grubber by Jim Staples beat David Campese and when Hamilton received the ball, his 40             metre sprint to the corner was enough to send Landsdowne Road into a frenzy. Not often do             youy see 40 metre runs from flank forwards, and if Ireland had kept the Aussies out, it             probably would have been one of the tries of the century. 7. Player: Stephen Jones Match: Wales v England 2003 An excellent try started and almost finished by the Welsh dynamo Shane Williams. The             little winger collected the ball from a kick just outside his own 22 metre area, turned             and stepped two players before sending Dwayne Peel downfield. Williams collected the ball             again two passes later, to juggle it and almost lose it, before regaining the ball and             passing inside to Stephen Jones for a sensational try. While England went on to win, it             showed just how dangerous Williams was with ball in hand, and will forever be remembered             by Welsh fans as a moment of glory. 6. Player: Jonah Lomu Match: New Zealand v England 1999 Like 1995, Lomu will forever be etched in the nightmares of the English side for his             powerful runs. In this one he had acres of space when receiving the ball and started to             pump the legs as Jeremy Guscott came across for the cover tackle. Not only did he beat             Guscott easily, he beat two more and powered his way over the line. While Lomu didn’t run over anyone ala Mike Catt, his demolition job was just as impressive, prompting the             commentator to scream “its 1995 all over again” as the try was scored. 5. Player: Takudzwa Ngwenya Match: USA v SA 2007 Possibly the try of the 2007 World Cup. Zimbabwean born Ngwenya was a sensation in the             American Eagles team, and finished a beauty of a try that started almost on his own             tryline. After receiving the ball, he stopped then decided to take on 2007 IRB Player of             the year Bryan Habana on the outside, beating the Springbok speedster for pace and             precision as he left him for dead. It was a moment Springbok fans couldn’t believe,             and one that rugby fans across the world will savour for a long time. 4. Player: David Campese Match: Australia v New Zealand 1991 Campese was at his best


Which Wild West legend was born Henry McCarty?

Old West Stories - Billy the kid | OLD WEST STORIES OLD WEST STORIES  Billy the Kid Henry McCarty is reported to have been born on 23rd November 1859. We say ‘reported” because this appears to be the most likely birth date for the boy who would later gain notoriety as the outlaw known as Billy the Kid. He also went by the name William H. Bonney and probably many other names at various times.  He is quite probably the most misunderstood and most misreported historical figure in old west stories. The legend says Billy the Kid was the greatest of the cold-blooded killers of anyone in the old west.  Whether or not he was cold-blooded is a matter of speculation but he certainly was a killer. Billy the Kid was only one of many that took part in the Lincoln County Wars (another page will be created later to cover this particular story) but he is the one that lives on in history and even more so in legend. It is believed he was born in New York but this is subject to the same speculation as his birth date.  The first references to him that are reasonably reliable are of him living in Wichita, Kansas, with his mother in 1870.  Prior to that it is likely he spent part of his childhood in Indiana. In 1873, his mother (Catherine McCartyam ) married William Antrim in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  The new family moved to Silver City in Grant County, New Mexico. Unfortunately, his mother was suffering from Consumption and she died on the 16th September 1874. Note Added 12 January 2012 Hisorical records of Billy the Kid’s mother all show her name as Catherine.  Her tombstone, pictured at left, shows the name as Kathrine (Capital K and only one e). It appears that this is a mis-spelling of the name and that she was originally “Catherine”.  I have been unable to find why this may have occurred.  The original grave marker apparently spelled her name with a “C” but I can  find no picture of that.  When it was replaced with a wooden marker , that was spelled with the “C”. I had not noticed this spelling on the grave until it was pointed out by a reader, Rob J in a comment of this page.  An obscure but fascinating piece of Old West Stories trivia. Thanks Rob J. Billy the Kid soon found himself alone and needing to earn his own living.  After some time living such a hard life he eventually fell in with another of the old west’s legends from that time, Sombrero Jack.  Soon they were in trouble and Billy was arrested but escaped.  This was the first of several escapes from custody, one of the key things that contributed to the creation of his unique story that made him a legend of the old west. Billy ended up on the run in Arizona.  He bummed around for a couple of years working as a ranch hand and gambler.  Neither occupation afforded him much success.  It is probably around this time he first got involved in horse stealing as an easy way to get some easy cash together. At Camp Grant, still in Arizona, he got into his first truly serious bout of trouble with the law.  Involved in a fight with Frank Cahill, Billy used his gun and Cahill lay dead.  Billy didn’t stay long and soon returned to New Mexico, no doubt looking to avoid a murder charge. Billy ended up running with Jesse Evans and a gang known as “The Boys”.  This gang ended up in Lincoln County and they ended up heavily involved in the Lincoln County War. Things again went wrong and Billy ended up in jail for horse stealing.  When he got out he was still heavily embroiled in the war and started running with the Tunstall side.  This was when he first started using the name “William H. Bonney”.  This is also the time his friends began to call him “The Kid” because of his age and slight build. Billy continued to get on the wrong side of the law and in particular, Sheriff Brady.  Killings during the war continued and he was involved in the murders of Bill Morton, Frank Baker and William McCloskey.  Then they ambushed Sheriff Brady and his deputy George Hindman. The war horrific and over two hundred died.  After the war the gangs disbanded and Billy the Kid was again a fugitive.  His lawless life co


Social reformer Frank Pakenham was better known as whom?

Pakenham: Peace By Ordeal Pakenham: Peace By Ordeal Pakenham: Peace By Ordeal Enlarge image Peace By Ordeal: An Account from First-Hand Sources of the Negotiation and Signature of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 by Frank Pakenham is considered a definitive account of the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations of 1921. The negotiations brought the War of Independence (1919-21) to an end and led to the creation of the Irish Free State . The Irish Civil War (1922-23) soon followed however bitterly dividing republicans for decades. The relationship between Britain and  Ireland  was also enduringly hostile for most of the 20th century. The book gives a chronology of Irish history beginning in 1914 when the passage of Home Rule threatened civil war between the Unionist UVF and the Irish Volunteers. However Home Rule was suspended by the outbreak of World War I and both unionists and nationalists fought for  Great  Britain . Radical Irish republicans launched the 1916 Easter Rising and in the 1918 general election, Sinn Fein eclipsed the Irish Parliamentary Party. The War of Independence followed in which the IRA fought a guerrilla war against British rule seeking to establish an  Irish  Republic . Both sides engaged in a ruthless campaign of assassinations and atrocities. Meanwhile the Government of Ireland Act 1920 created the Unionist dominated state of Northern Ireland which remained within the  United Kingdom Domestic and international pressure and a stalemate in  Ireland , resulting in a truce in 1921. The British government hosted talks in  London  with an Irish delegation led by Arthur Griffth, the founder of Sinn Fein and Michael Collins, the leader of the IRA guerrilla war. The British delegation included Prime Minister Lloyd George and members of his cabinet including future British leader Winston Churchill. The British, who proved to be more experienced and skilled negotiators, forced the Irish delegation to accept British Dominion status for a politically autonomous 26 county Irish Free State in return for a British military withdrawal. The Irish delegation signed�the Anglo Irish Treaty when Lloyd George threatened ‘immediate and terrible war.’ Pakenham blames Lloyd George’s sleight of hand for the turmoil which followed. Collins and Griffth led a majority that believed the deal was the best that could be achieved and allowed political progress toward full Irish independence and unification with  Northern Ireland  in the future. The anti-Treaty minority led by Eamon DeValera with the support of most of the IRA accused the delegation of betrayal. They refused to accept British dominion status or to take an oath of loyalty to the British monarch. They also opposed the partition of Ireland and the creation of the unionist dominated six county state of  Northern Ireland . The treaty was ratified by a majority vote in the Dail but hardliners refused to recognise what they considered a British manipulated assembly. The Irish Civil War (1922-23) followed in which the Irish Free State government and the National Army equipped with British weaponry ultimately defeated the poorly armed and poorly led IRA. The loss of life and destruction was much greater than during the War of Independence. Bitter divisions lingered for decades in Irish politics as a result of atrocities committed by both sides and the executions of republicans by the  Free  State  government. Relations between Ireland and  Great Britain  remained hostile for the much of the remainder of the 20th century. Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford (1905-2001), Anglo-Irish writer, social reformer and British politician was born at Tullynally Castle, Co. Westmeath, the ancestral Pakenham residence. He was the son of Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, a Brigadier General killed in 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign. Frank Pakenham was educated at Eton and Oxford where he became a don at  Christchurch  . In 1931 he developed the Conservative Party education policy but was later persuaded to become a socialist and also conve


In which city did Richard Wagner die in 1883?

Music History 102 Born: Leipzig, May 22, 1813 Died: Venice, February 13, 1883 From an early age, Wagner had been interested in theater, drama, verse, and acting. While in his teens he became interested in music, and began studying and composing. His greatest inspiration came from the operatic reforms and ideas of Gluck , and from the German operas of Carl Maria von Weber . By the age of twenty-two, he had finished his first opera and had begun to make notes for his autobiography. Convinced of his greatness, he continued composing and conducting, but meeting with little success. Eventually he became involved with the Dresden revolutionary uprising of 1849, the outcome of which made him a wanted political criminal, and he fled to Switzerland. During this time Wagner was continually composing operas and finding his mature style. He envisioned the creation of the "total art work": a conception of a music drama based on classic Greek prinicples, in which there would be a unity of music, drama, text, design, and movement. The subject matter of these works were to be the indigenous myths and legends of the German people, such as the famous Ride of the Valkyries, which depicts the daughters of the god Wotan riding their steeds through a storm, bearing the bodies of slain warriors to Valhalla. Wagner wrote both the texts and the music of his music dramas. Wagner's reforms did away with the "number" opera -- no longer was there any clear separation between recitative and aria, and ensembles in the Italian sense of the word are almost completely avoided. The orchestra is treated symphonically, with short themes or leitmotifs combined and developed endlessly during the course of the action. Many of the well-known symphonic excerpts from Wagner's operas are made up of a combination of these motifs, as in Siegfried's Funeral March from Götterdämmerung, the final opera from Wagner's immense, seventeen-hour cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen. Wagner's operas are uncommonly long, intended as they were by the composer to be played during the course of an afternoon and evening, with breaks for a meal and refreshment. Wagner's musical style took chromaticism to its limits in the nineteenth-century. He expressed the unquenchable love of his protaganists in Tristan und Isolde through chromatic melodies and unresolving harmonies that prevent the music from ever feeling centered, fully expressing and realizing the late Romantic obsession with the yearning for an unattainable ideal. This expansion of tonality through the use of chromatic harmonies came to influence later schools of German music, prominent composers of which included Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg . Music History 102: a Guide to Western Composers and their music Designed, compiled and created by Robert Sherrane


Who designed London's Regents Park in 1811?

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Which widely known song was composed by one-time docker Jim Connell in 1889 on a No 28 London bus?

Transpontine: Music Monday: The Red Flag   Park SE23, where he lived from 1915 to 1929. Connell wrote books including "Confessions of a Poacher" and "The truth about the Game Laws". He learnt his poaching skills in County Meath, but continued to use them while living in London - he was fined for poaching at Woolwich and Croydon  - thanks to Hayes Peoples History for this information). Jim Connell In another brush with the law,  he was also one of many men questioned in relation to the Jack the Ripper murders:  'Connell, an Irishman, born in 1852, went for a walk in Hyde Park with Martha Spencer, and alarmed her when he began to talk about Jack the Ripper and lunatic asylums. Connell said that when the Ripper was caught he would turn out to be a lunatic. Spencer, of 30 Sherborne Street, Blandford Square, and described as married, went to the police with her suspicions about Connell, and he was brought to Hyde Park police station at 9.40 p.m, 22 November 1888 and questioned. However, when able to prove the correctness of his address and respectability, was allowed to leave. Connell lived at 408 New Cross Road, and was a draper and clothier. He was described as 36 years old, 5ft 9"tall, with a fresh complexion and a long dark brown moustache, he was wearing a soft felt hat, a brown check suit, an ulster with cape, red socks and Oxford shoes' ( Jack the Ripper: A Suspect Guide  - Christopher J. Morley, 2005). Connell died in ( photo from Lewisham Heritage ) The Red Flag in New Cross and Deptford The Red Flag was taken up as a socialist hymn more or less immediately, including in the area where it was written. During the General Strike, the Deptford Labour Choir led the singing of the Red Flag at a strike meeting attended by thousands on  May 9 1926  at the New Cross Empire. As people left the meeting there were clashes with police (Deptford Official Strike Bulletin). As covered here before, the 1932 'Red Flag Riots' in Deptford were sparked by the police arresting people singing the song in Deptford Broadway. Of course it is part of the repertoire of local socialist choir The Strawberry Thieves, and indeed they sang it in New Cross Road in 2002 during a Radical New Cross and Deptford history walk/talk I gave as part of that year's May Day Festival of Alternatives. I have also sung a version of it to the original tune (see below) at a May Day event at Brockley Social Club, and one drunken night a few years ago sung it with a couple of other people outside the house on Stondon Park Road on the way back from a Lewisham bloggers drink at the Honor Oak Tavern (apologies to the neighbours). I gather that that at St Paul's Church in Deptford this weekend, the congregation sang Fred Kaan' s hymn 'Sing we a Song of High Revolt', written to the tune of The Red Flag (Maryland/Tannebaum) and combining Connell's sentiments with the Magnificat:  'By him the poor are lifted up:  He satisfies with bread and cup  The hungry folk of many lands; The rich are left with empty hands. He calls us to revolt and fight With him for what is just and right To sing and live Magnificat In crowded street and council flat' My favourite version of The Red Flag is Robert Wyatt's recording from 1982: Billy Bragg and Dick Gaughan have recorded a version with the original tune: How I wrote the Red Flag by Jim Connell Here's Connell's own account of the song's composition, as published in the socialist newspaper The Call in summer 1920. I have reproduced it from South London Record (South London History Workshop, no.2 1987)  The Editor asks me to answer a few questions about “The Red Flag”, and I will do so. The song was first published in the Christmas number of "Justice," 1889, which paper was then edited by Harry Quelch, and it immediately became popular. "Justice" then, was published on Thursday, and the following Sunday the song was sung in both Liverpool and Glasgow.  The Editor wants to know my “source of inspiration” This reminds me that Bruce Glasier wrote to me shortly after it first appeared that the song was a "real inspiration." I cannot, like some


Who sang the theme song of the film High Noon?

The song from "High Noon" - YouTube The song from "High Noon" Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Jan 26, 2012 Enjoy "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin" sung by Tex Ritter from the great western movie "High Noon". Photos from the movie accompanied by this wonderful song. Category


In which country was Trivial Pursuit invented?

Chris Haney, an Inventor of Trivial Pursuit, Dies at 59 - The New York Times The New York Times Business Day |Chris Haney, an Inventor of Trivial Pursuit, Dies at 59 Search Question: How did Chris Haney, an inventor of the board game Trivial Pursuit , think of himself? Answer: As a rock star. “It’s like we became rock stars,” he told Maclean’s magazine in 1993, repeating a comment he had made in several interviews. “People still shake in their boots when they meet us.” And why not? Mr. Haney, a rumpled Canadian high school dropout, joined with a fellow journeyman journalist, Scott Abbott, to create a phenomenon — a board game that tests a player’s grasp of wickedly inconsequential trivia. In the 1980s, Trivial Pursuit was outselling Monopoly. By the time Mr. Haney died in Toronto on Monday at 59, more than 100 million copies of the game had been sold in as many as 26 countries and in at least 17 languages, with estimated sales of well over $1 billion. And Mr. Haney, who had battled through financial hardship in pursuit of his dream, wound up owning golf courses, vineyards and racehorses. Hasbro, which bought the intellectual rights to Trivial Pursuit for $80 million in 2008, confirmed Mr. Haney’s death. The company did not give a cause, except to say that he had suffered from a long illness. Advertisement The original Trivial Pursuit, introduced in 1981, involved answering 6,000 trivia questions on 1,000 cards, coded by categories like history and entertainment. (They have been updated and modified many times since, and many variations of the game have been introduced.) Original questions could be tough: “Who was Howdy Doody’s twin brother?” (Double Doody.) Or easy: “What chemical is used to keep swimming pools clean?” (Chlorine.) Mr. Haney especially liked quirky questions: “What’s the largest diamond in the world?” (A baseball diamond.) The game was a hit with baby boomers in particular and has always tended to play on their nostalgia. Indeed, Time magazine reported that the cast of “The Big Chill,” the 1983 movie about a reunion of friends from the 1960s, loved to play Trivial Pursuit on the set. Photo Chris Haney, left, with Scott Abbott. The two men created Trivial Pursuit. Credit The Canadian Press, via Associated Press Christopher Haney was born in Welland, Ontario. (The exact date is uncertain, but references agree on his age, 59.) He dropped out of high school at 17 and later said that he regretted it — that he should have dropped out at 12. His father worked for a news agency, The Canadian Press, and got him a job there as a copy boy. He later took over its photo desks in Ottawa and Montreal, then moved to The Montreal Gazette as a picture editor. On the evening of Dec. 15, 1979, Mr. Haney and Mr. Abbott, who was then a sportswriter for The Canadian Press, were playing Scrabble. Mr. Haney wondered aloud whether the two of them could invent a game as good. Contrary to legend, they were neither in a tavern nor on their 18th round of beers. They were actually at Mr. Haney’s home in Montreal and on their first beers when Mr. Haney suggested a game based on trivia, they told The Hamilton Spectator in 1993. By the time Mr. Haney was opening the refrigerator to fetch their second beers, they were already mentally designing the board. Their next step was to go to a Montreal toy fair and present themselves as a reporter-photographer team. They peppered game experts with questions and came away with what Mr. Haney called “$10,000 worth of information.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story They then brought in Mr. Haney’s brother John, who in turn brought in a friend, a fellow hockey enthusiast. But they needed more investors and turned to friends in their newsrooms. One problem, according to The Globe and Mail of Canada, was that people had heard they were “con artists.” As an example, the newspaper pointed to a chain letter the men had started that proved profitable for the originators but not to those down the line. They nonetheless succeeded in raising $40,000 from 32 investors. Mr. Haney’s mother was not amo


What gives Earl Grey tea its distinctive flavour?

What gives Earl Grey tea its taste? - The Boston Globe What gives Earl Grey tea its taste? December 20, 2010 Add a personal message:(80 character limit) Your E-mail: Reprints | Text size – + What in Earl Grey tea makes it taste and smell the way it does? Is the scent used only for tea? Earl Grey is named for a British prime minister of the 1830s. The history of how he got the tea that is rather unclear, but it was probably a gift to him. The well-known flavor and smell of Earl Grey tea come from the addition of bergamot oil. Bergamot is a type of citrus fruit, often called a bergamot orange, that is about the size of an orange, but yellow like a lemon. The juice is more bitter than grapefruit juice, but less sour than lemon. The flavoring oil comes from the skin of the fruit, as do other citrus oils. Most of these fruits are grown in Calabria, Italy, but there is also significant production in France and in the Ivory Coast in Africa. Interestingly, the fruits produced in these different places have different scents in their oil, due to the differences in soil composition. Aside from its use in flavoring tea, bergamot oil has important uses in the perfume industry. It can be combined well with other fragrances, and about half of women’s perfumes and a third of men’s have bergamot oil in them. Bergamot has some interesting chemicals in it. Some, like bergapten, can increase the skin’s sensitivity to light. If you apply bergamot oil to your skin it will act as a sort of reverse sunscreen and make it more likely that you will burn. Chemicals like bergapten were once used in “tanning accelerator’’ lotions to help make people tan faster. What they really do is increase skin damage that can lead to skin cancer. Oddly, some skin disorders, including psoriasis, eczema, and vitiligo, can be helped by a carefully controlled version of the same process, designed to treat the disease while minimizing dangerous effects. Another interesting chemical from bergamot is bergamottin, which can interfere with the metabolism of many drugs. This substance, and similar ones, can be found in large amounts in grapefruit, which is why your doctor may tell you to avoid grapefruits and grapefruit juice with some medications. As with bergapten, there’s actually an upside to this: Bergamottin and its relatives might be used someday to help some drugs remain in the body longer. Ask Dr. Knowledge is written by Northeastern University physicist John Swain. E-mail questions to drknowledge@globe.com . © Copyright 2010 Globe Newspaper Company.


Which Wirral plant was the first in Europe to produce enriched uranium?

Uranium Enrichment and Fuel Fabrication - Decommissioning Issues (Europe) Uranium Enrichment and Fuel Fabrication - Decommissioning Issues (Europe) (last updated 7 Jan 2017) Contents: General Reuse remains NDA's preferred option for the disposition of UK's plutonium stocks "In summary, this work has resulted in NDA concluding that reuse remains the preferred option and, based on the information provided and against our definitions, there are three credible reuse options: - reuse as MOX in light water reactors, reuse in CANDU EC6 reactors and reuse in PRISM fast reactors. We note all the technologies being considered have pros and cons and that no 'perfect' solution exists. It may be that a multi-track approach offers best value for money. Currently, we believe there is insufficient understanding of the options to confidently move into implementation and consider that significant further work must be undertaken, focusing on technical and commercial risks and uncertainties, to enable DECC and UK Government to ultimately select and subsequently implement its preferred reuse option." > Download NDA position paper Jan. 2014 (109k PDF) UK Nuclear Decommmissioning Authority's management strategy for "materials" / wastes containing uranium (in particular depleted uranium): wait and see The UK Nuclear Decommmissioning Authority (NDA) has published a summary of Credible Options for the management of uranics on the NDA estate. The NDA owns a range of materials containing uranium (termed uranics) arising from historic or current nuclear fuel cycle operations. The bulk of the material is depleted uranium, including approx. 21,500 teU in uranium hexafluoride tails (UF6), and 26,000 teU in Magnox Depleted Uranium (UO3). (99k PDF - NDA) Britain eyes Japanese participation in plans to reuse plutonium stocks Britain is likely to convert plutonium stocks into nuclear fuel and will be seeking Japanese involvement in the project, according to government officials. The government's preferred option is to turn the stockpile into mixed uranium and plutonium oxide nuclear fuel (MOX) to power civil reactors. Britain stores around 112 tons of plutonium, of which 11.6 tons belong to Japanese firms as a result of reprocessing nuclear fuel at the Sellafield complex in Cumbria, northwest Britain. Officials are now studying the plan to ensure it is affordable, deliverable, offers value for money and can be implemented safely. The government is expected to make a final decision in 2015 -- with the facility due to come onstream by 2024 -- and as part of the consultation will be sounding out Japanese utility companies that hold plutonium at Sellafield. If Japanese companies do not wish to participate in the project, which would involve the construction of a new MOX plant, Britain may consider taking ownership of their plutonium, subject to commercial terms and international agreements. Bill Hamilton, head of stakeholder communications at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority or NDA, said commitments from Japanese utilities are "important" but not "critical" to the project getting the green light. Estimated costs are 3 billion pounds ($4.7 billion). (Mainichi Daily News Feb. 29, 2011) NDA seeking proposals for alternatives to re-use of plutonium as MOX fuel The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is seeking proposals on potential alternative approaches for managing the UK's plutonium stocks alongside providing support to the Government as it progresses its preferred policy of converting the material into Mixed Oxide fuel (MOX) for reactors. Expressions of interest must be received by 31 March 2012. > View NDA release Feb. 23, 2012 UK government starts consultation on management of plutonium stocks, prefers reuse in MOX fuel, implying construction of new MOX fuel plant On Feb. 7, 2011, the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change launched a public consultation on the management of the country's plutonium stocks. The government's "preliminary policy view" is that the use in MOX fuel is the preferred option. This would require the construction of a


What was pasteurisation first used to process?

History of Pasteurization - How Pasteurization Works | HowStuffWorks History of Pasteurization   Prev Next   There's a fine line between wine and vinegar. That's what Louis Pasteur discovered in 1856 when an alcohol manufacturer commissioned him to determine what was causing beet root alcohol to sour. At that time, scientists thought that fermentation was a purely chemical process. Pasteur's research into fermentation led him to the discovery that it was yeast, a living organism, that turned the beet juice into alcohol. Under the microscope, yeast was round and plump. But when the alcohol spoiled, it contained a different microbe that was rod-shaped. Pasteur speculated that this rod-shaped microbe called Mycoderma aceti, which is commonly used to make vinegar, caused the wine to spoil [source: Feinstein ]. Up Next How are viruses, viroids and prions related? These discoveries formed the "germ" of Pasteur's germ theory of fermentation. Years later, Pasteur would apply the same concepts to the origins of disease, leading to some of his greatest contributions to science and medicine. In the meantime, Emperor Napoleon III enlisted Pasteur to save France's wine industry from the "diseases of wine" [source: Lewis ]. In previous experiments, Pasteur had discovered that heating the fermented wine would kill the microbes that caused it to spoil. He wasn't the first to see that connection. Nicolas Appert, the inventor of in-container sterilization, also known as canning, had already shown that treating food with heat could preserve it. Pasteur's contribution was to determine the exact time and temperature that would kill the harmful microorganisms in the wine without changing its taste. He patented the process and called it pasteurization. Before long, the process was also used for beer and vinegar. The pasteurization of milk didn't come into practice until the late 1800s. Back then, tuberculosis was commonly carried by milk. A low-temperature, long-time (LTLT) process, also known as batch pasteurization, was first developed to kill the tuberculosis pathogen. The incidence of tuberculosis contracted from milk fell dramatically, and in fact it no longer makes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's list of foodborne illnesses [source: CDC ]. The first commercial milk pasteurizers were produced in 1882, using a high-temperature, short-time (HTST) process. The first law to require the pasteurization of milk was passed in Chicago in 1908 [source: Sun ]. Some people didn't like the idea of pasteurizing milk in the beginning, for many of the same reasons that today's raw milk advocates cite [source: Lewis ]. We'll talk more later about raw milk and why some people love it and some people hate it. Louis Pasteur's other Contributions to Science Louis Pasteur is known as "the father of microbiology." He earned this esteemed title by doing much more than inventing the process of pasteurization. Pasteur's lifetime of discoveries followed a natural arc; each project he worked on led him to his next insight. During his research on tartaric acid in his first job as a scientist, he discovered that organic molecules are asymmetrical. Finding organic molecules in beer and wine led him to recognize that microorganisms such as Lactobacillus functioned as the agents of fermentation and food spoilage. This understanding of the role of bacteria helped him to develop his germ theory of fermentation. Years later, he became interested in human disease and applied his knowledge of microorganisms to develop the germ theory of disease. Eventually, he developed the vaccines for chicken cholera, anthrax and rabies.


Who wrote the screenplay of Chariots of Fire?

The book that inspired Chariots of Fire | BFI Home / Explore film & TV / Latest from the BFI / BFI news, features and opinion / Features The book that inspired Chariots of Fire Convalescing in a rented house in the late 1970s, film producer David Puttnam chanced upon a history book of the Olympic Games that would give him the inspiration for the Oscar-winning 1981 classic Chariots of Fire.  Tweet In the late 1970s, producer David Puttnam was living in a rented house in Los Angeles. Flu-ridden and housebound, he came across a book that would profoundly affect his career and have a lasting impact on the British film industry. The book was An Approved History of the Olympic Games by Bill Henry and the film was, of course, Chariots of Fire (1981). This is Puttnam’s inscribed copy of the book, held as part of the David Puttnam archive in BFI Special Collections: In the summer of 1978, on page 116 of this book I found the three paragraphs which became the basis of the film “Chariots of Fire” – David Puttnam These three marked passages were the ones that caught Puttnam’s imagination. The author writes of ‘three sensational wins by British athletes’ at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games and it was the story of two of these – ‘long-legged collegian’ Harold Abrahams and ‘dark horse’ Eric Liddell, a religious man who refused to run on a Sunday – that eventually formed the basis (with some dramatic license) of Chariots of Fire. The third runner, Douglas Lowe, was reluctant to be represented and was re-imagined in the film as the fictional Lord Andrew Lindsay (played by Nigel Havers ). Puttnam commissioned actor and writer Colin Welland to create the screenplay for the film. As part of this process Welland conducted a huge amount of detailed research. He interviewed people who had known Liddell and Abrahams (Liddell died in 1945 and Abrahams sadly just a few weeks before Welland started work on the film in 1978) and sought memories from veterans of the 1924 games. In addition to this Welland also visited the BFI to view films from the National Film Archive (now the BFI National Archive) showing Abrahams and Liddell in action. This early handwritten treatment by Welland, dated July 1978, outlines the basic storyline, themes and main characters of the film, then titled Runners. As is usually the case, the script went through numerous different drafts before the film went into production in 1980 with director Hugh Hudson at the helm. But although the title and characters were changed, and Hudson and the rest of the cast and crew brought their own skills and ideas to the film, the basic concept remained the same, as set out by Welland here: Three young runners, gentlemen in a gentlemen’s world. But each with his own peculiar driving force, his own battle he has to win ……… and each with the one common aim … … AN OLYMPIC GOLD! View Running with Harold Abrahams (1924) on the BFI’s YouTube channel. Chariots of Fire is re-released in cinemas from Friday 13 July.


What is the nearest football league ground to the River Thames?

London's Long Lost Sports Grounds - Derelict London London's Long Lost Sports Grounds Cookies Info   Sponsored Links: London's Long Lost Sports Grounds (and some long lost London teams  such as West Ham Hammers Speedway, Thames AFC, Croydon Common FC,  Deptford Invicta FC,  Catford Southend FC & more) Rather than lumping all these pictures in with the Derelict London Sports Grounds here is a whole new section (of grounds that are beyond dereliction and mostly redeveloped) which I will expand over the coming months. There are many pics floating around on the net of  these grounds in their heyday but it often crops up in conversation what do the grounds look like now. I have included some brief history but those wanting to dig deeper can find copious amounts of further information on web forums/sites and books on the subject matter (for example, books by Simon Inglis, Ed Glinert & Norman Jacobs). I am starting off with some football grounds but expect cricket grounds, dog tracks, speedway stadiums and so on as I keep adding to this. In 2013 I shall be giving a guided walking tour of the Isle of Dogs and  will be covering the old Millwall grounds & Docklands Arena along with the old docks and canal, the mudchute, WW2 defences & the old ropeworks.  Join the mailing list to be kept updated. CHARLTON ATHLETIC FC The origins: First off  on this page we start with Charlton Athletic, a SE London team who still play close to where they  originally started. The club who currently play in the Football League Championship was founded in 1905 when some youth clubs in the SE London area combined to form Charlton Athletic. Many of the youths lived in what was then residential housing in East St, Charlton which is the modern day Eastmoor Street a run down light industrial estate and entrance road to the Thames Barrier. A committee was set up and the first HQ was in the now demolished public house called The Crown.  Amongst the committee members was a Joe Merryweather (believed to be from the family business in  Greenwich who made fire engines and tram engines). A local fishmonger Arthur Bryan was also involved with the committee.Arthur supplied haddock to the players for after-match suppers. This is confirmed  by cartoons from the local papers of the day, and is the origin of the club nickname 'The Addicks'. Joe Merryweather, kept the name going by parading around the pitch holding up a board with a picture of a haddock on it. The site of the 1st Ground (Siemens Meadow (1905–1907) The club's first ground was Siemens Meadow , a patch of rough ground by the River Thames  near to the present-day site of the Thames Barrier.  This was over-shadowed by the now demolished  Siemens Telegraph Works. 22 December  1905 is the first time a Charlton match is mentioned - a  friendly between Charlton and Silvertown Wesley ended with a 6-0 Charlton win according to a report by the Kentish Independent. The Barrier Animal Care Clinic was originally built as a public house in 1880 and called The Lads of  The Village but was later renamed to 'Thames Barrier Arms', when the nearby flood barrier was built in 1982. It closed as a pub in 1997. A decaying sign on the corner edge says "Roebuck Arms" but Derelict  London reader Bev Smith explains that the the sign is just an abandoned prop after the building was used in filming for an episode of the TV series "Londons Burning". This pub was adjacent to Siemens Meadow and is one of the only original buildings in the vicinity of the old ground. In   the late 1970s Charlton fan &  journalist Gary Bushell played at this pub with his legendary oi!/punk band The Gonads. Siemens Meadow - Below is a "then and now" shot of sorts. The 1905 pic was one that I found on Wikipedia and for the 2012 shot it was impossible to get a clear shot from the hill on Maryon Park due to thicker  vegetation than there was in 1905 so I had to move down the hill and this is the best that I could get... but you get the idea.   The Site of the 2nd Ground: Woolwich Common (1907–1908) Charlton played on the grass on the common for a year. There w


What was the occupation of The Admiral's Men?

Admiral's Men Encyclopedia  >  Literature and the Arts  >  Performing Arts  >  Theater Admiral's Men Admiral's Men, theatrical company of players, officially designated the Admiral's Men in 1585. They were rivals of the Chamberlain's Men and performed at the theaters of Philip Henslowe . Their leading actor was Edward Alleyn . The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. See more Encyclopedia articles on: Theater


BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Beverley Sisters' years in limelight Beverley Sisters' years in limelight Teddy, Babs and Joy got their first break in an advertising campaign Veteran singing trio The Beverley Sisters, who have been made MBEs in the New Year Honours List, were one of the most popular acts of the 50s and 60s. Joy - born in 1929 - and the twins Babs and Teddie - born in 1932 - were brought up in Bethnal Green in east London. During the Second World War the girls were evacuated to the Midlands. There they secured a contract to become "Bonnie Babies" in an advertising campaign for the bedtime drink Ovaltine. Radio appearances for the BBC followed, and with support from bandleader Glenn Miller they became professional singers. After the war the siblings were given their own TV show, Those Beverley Sisters. Chart success In 1951 the trio signed a recording contract with Columbia Records that helped them become the highest paid female act in the UK. They were the first British female group to break into the US top 10 and enjoyed chart success with Christmas records like Little Drummer Boy and I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. Other favourites included Bye Bye Love and Always and Forever. Joy married Billy Wright, then captain of the England football team, in 1958 and had two daughters and a son. Teddie also had a daughter. In 2002 they sang for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at a Jubilee concert, while last year saw them take part in D-Day celebrations in Portsmouth. The trio, now in their 70s, still perform but have had to cut back their workload due to health concerns.


With Sellers, Seacombe and Milligan, who was generally thought of as 'the fourth Goon'?

1000+ images about Humour - The Goon Show on Pinterest | Radios, Reunions and Saturday night show Pinterest • The world’s catalog of ideas Humour - The Goon Show The Goon Show was a British radio comedy show produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960. The show's chief creator and main writer was Spike Milligan while the other members were Michael Bentine in the earlier shows, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers. Each played a variety of characters. The group first formed at Jimmy Grafton's London public house in the late 1940s.The scripts mixed ludicrous plots with surreal humour, puns, catchphrases and an array of bizarre sound effects 70 Pins30.91k Followers


In which Shakespeare play does Caliban appear?

Introduction to Shakespeare's Caliban from The Tempest   Shakespeare's Characters: Caliban (The Tempest) From The Works of William Shakespeare. Vol. 16. Ed. Evangeline Maria O'Connor. J.D. Morris and Co. The character of Caliban is generally thought (and justly so) to be one of the author's masterpieces. It is not indeed pleasant to see this character on the stage, any more than it is to see the god Pan personated there. But in itself it is one of the wildest and most abstracted of all Shakespeare's characters, whose deformity, whether of body or mind, is redeemed by the power and truth of the imagination displayed in it. It is the essence of grossness, but there is not a particle of vulgarity in it. Shakespeare has described the brutal mind of Caliban in contact with the pure and original forms of nature; the character grows out of the soil where it is rooted, uncontrolled, uncouth, and wild, uncramped by any of the meannesses of custom. It is "of the earth, earthy." It seems almost to have been dug out of the ground, with a soul instinctively superadded to it answering to its wants and origin. Vulgarity is not natural coarseness, but conventional coarseness, learned from others, contrary to, or without an entire conformity of natural power and disposition; as fashion is the commonplace affectation of what is elegant and refined without any feeling of the essence of it. Schlegel, the admirable German critic of Shakespeare, observes that Caliban is a poetical character, and "always speaks in blank verse." Hazlitt: Characters of Shakespeare's Plays. _________________________ Opposed to him [Prospero] and at the extreme limit of the contrast, stands Caliban, the climax of wickedness and brutality, the very personification of the evil Will. He is only momentarily tamed by outward constraint and inward powerlessness; his will remains evil, and in him we have a proof of the irrefutable truth that evil, even though, by its own acts, it invariably annihilates itself and serves the purposes of what is good, still evil as Will cannot become converted either by any affliction or punishment, or by the clearest conviction of its helplessness. This seems to me to be the meaning, the poetical, because ethical, significance of this most strange of all the creatures ever formed by the poetical imagination � a creature in whom devil, animal and man, are equally blended, and who, in spite of his wholly fantastic abnormity, rises up before us with the vividness of actual reality. Caliban is no mere creation of a passing poetic fancy, no chance addition to the substance of the drama; for although he may have originated in Shakespeare's imagination from the fantastic and wondrous reports about the wild inhabitants (the cannibals) of the newly discovered continents, and although grotesquely formed and humorously exaggerated � so as to suit the fantastico-comic colouring of the whole � still he is a necessary member in the artistic organism of the piece. And as Prospero's mind is evidently one of more than ordinary endowments, and, like every historical leader of men, represents the higher idea of what is general, so Caliban, his organic opposite, is likewise no mere individual, but also the representative of what is general, the personified idea of human wickedness; in him, in his defiance and arrogance and his blind, coarse sensuality, the demonical meets the brutal. Ulrici: Shakespeare's Dramatic Art. _________________________ Caliban has become a by-word as the strange creation of a poetical imagination. A mixture of gnome and savage, half daemon, half brute, in his behaviour we perceive at once the traces of his native disposition, and the influence of Prospero's education. The latter could only unfold his understanding, without, in the slightest degree, taming his rooted malignity: it is as if the use of reason and human speech were communicated to an awkward ape. In inclination Caliban is malicious, cowardly, false, and base; and yet he is essentially different from the vulgar knaves of a civilized world, as portrayed occasi


Which was the most successful racehorse of the 18th century?

The Founding Sires of Thoroughbred Racing in the UK | UK Horse Racing History | HorseRacing.co.uk Want your site listed here? Contact Us . The Founding Sires of Thoroughbred Racing in the UK Thoroughbred racing got its name for a reason – only those horses bred from a select stock are permitted to run in Thoroughbred races. What you may find surprising is that there were a core 3 sires brought to England in the 17th and 18th centuries that were most responsible for the foundation of Thoroughbred racing . These foreign horses were bred with local mares, and careful selection eventually led to three more legendary sires that the modern Thoroughbred is based on. The original 3 were the Darley Arabian, the Byerley Turk, and the Godolphin Arabian. They were foreign warhorses, already bred for power and speed, but not fine-tuned for racing. A few generations of breeding led to 3 sires that would truly define the Thoroughbred for centuries to come – Matchem, Eclipse, and Herod. All modern Thoroughbreds trace their lineage back to these foundation sires. The Sire-Line Founders The Darley Arabian The Darley Arabian was bought by Thomas Darley in 1704 during his time in Syria. He was chosen more for his aesthetic appeal than anything else, standing 15 hands tall and considered exceptionally beautiful. Nevertheless, he was a popular stud at Aldby Park and his influence on horse breeding cannot be overstated. It has been estimated that around 95% of male Thoroughbred racehorses can trace their lineage back to the Darley Arabian. This is likely due to the success of Eclipse, one of the Darley Arabian’s descendants and one of the later foundation sires. The Byerley Turk The Byerley Turk was the first of the influential foundation sires brought back to England, and his story is quite interesting. Captain Robert Byerley is said to have captured the horse at the Battle of Buda in 1686, and it served as his warhorse at the Battle of the Boyne. The horse’s origin is not entirely certain, but he served his master faithfully until retirement, when the Byerley Turk was put to stud. His sire-line almost petered out in the mid-18th century, but the dominant Herod revived the line. Nowadays, few Thoroughbreds trace their line back to the Byerley Turk, making him the least influential of the 3 foundation sires in the modern era of horse racing, though this line was one of the most dominant in earlier times. The Godolphin Arabian The Godolphin Arabian, or the Godolphin Barb as he has also been known, is the most controversial of these first foundation sires. Named for the Earl of Godolphin, his most well-known owner, the Godolphin Arabian was responsible for founding a line that has led to many champions. Interestingly, many great horses have the Godolphin Arabian in their dam line, but sire-lines are more likely to trace back to the Darley Arabian. Not much was expected of the Godolphin Arabian when he first started breeding, and he was only used after the prize horse of his stable had failed to stud. After producing Lath and then Cade by the same mare, both champion racehorses of their day, the quality of the Godolphin Arabian became widely known. Founders of the Modern Thoroughbred Matchem Matchem was the product of Cade, one of the most successful sons of the Godolphin Arabian. Matchem was highly sought after for breeding after attaining a record of 10-2-0 in 12 races, including wins in the some of the most important races of the day against the best competition. Luckily for racing, he was a terrific stud, and produced more champions such as: Conductor, who was also a quality sire; Hollandaise, a filly that won the St. Leger Stakes ; and Pumpkin, a great racer of his era. Eclipse Everyone knows of Eclipse thanks to the phrase “Eclipse first and the rest nowhere”. It is estimated that 80% of modern Thoroughbreds can trace their line to Eclipse, and this is likely why the Darley Arabian had such a strong influence on breeding. Eclipse was the great grandson of the Darley Arabian via his sire-line, and the sire of his damsire was the Godolphin Ar


Who regularly delivered the monologue 'Albert and the Lion'?

ALBERT AND THE LION Lyrics - STANLEY HOLLOWAY | eLyrics.net Albert And The Lion Lyrics Total views: 2 times this week Rating: 6.69/10 [13 votes] Stanley Holloway - Albert And The Lion Albert And The Lion Lyrics ALBERT AND THE LION from the Stanley Holloway record There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool That's noted for fresh air and fun And Mr. and Mrs. Ramsbottom Went there with young Albert, their son. A fine little lad were young Albert, All dressed in his best, quite a swell. He'd a stick with an 'orse's 'ead 'andle; The finest that Woolworth's could sell. They didn't think much to the ocean, The waves they were piddlin' and small. There were no wrecks and nobody drownded, 'Fact, nothin' to laugh at at all! So, seeking for further amusement, They paid, and went into the zoo, Where they'd lions and tigers and camels And cold ale and sandwiches, too. There were one great big lion called Wallace Whose nose was all covered with scars; He lay in a som-no-lent posture With the side of 'is face on the bars. Now Albert 'ad 'eard about lions- 'Ow they was ferocious and wild; To see lion lyin' so peaceful Just didn't seem right to the child. So straightway the brave little feller, Not showin' a morsel of fear, Took 'is stick with the 'orse's 'ead 'andle And stuck it in Wallace's ear. You could see that the lion din't like it, For givin' a kind of a roll, 'E pulled Albert inside the cage with 'im And swallered the little lad - 'ole! Now Mother 'ad seen this occurrence, And not knowin' what to do next, She 'ollered "Yon lion's et Albert!" An' Father said "Ee, I am vexed." They complained to an animal keeper Who said "My, wot a nasty mis'ap; Are you sure it's your boy 'e's eaten?" Pa said, "Am I sure? There's 'is cap!" The manager 'ad to be sent for; 'E came and 'e said "Wot's to-do?" Ma said "Yon lion's et Albert, And 'im in 'is Sunday clothes, too!" Father said "Right's right, young feller- I think it's a shame and a sin To 'ave our son et by a lion And after we paid to come in." The manager wanted no trouble; He took out his purse right away, Sayin' "'Ow much to settle the matter?" Pa said "Wot do you usually pay?" But Mother 'ad turned a bit awkward When she saw where 'er Albert 'ad gone. She said "No, someone's got to be summonsed!" So that was decided upon. And off they all went to p'lice station In front of a Magistrate chap; They told what 'ad 'appened to Albert And proved it by showing 'is cap. The Magistrate gave 'is opinion That no one was really to blame, And 'e said that 'e 'oped the Ramsbottoms Would 'ave further sons to their name. At that Mother got proper blazin': "And thank you, sir, kindly," said she- "Wot, spend all our lives raisin' children To feed ruddy lions? Not me!" filename[ ALBLION


Tom Quad is part of which Oxford college?

Tom Quad | Christ Church, Oxford University Tom Quad Submitted by helencamunas-lopez on Mon, 2015-09-28 16:04 Passing out of the hall you emerge into the Great Quadrangle, the heart of Christ Church, often referred to informally as ‘Tom Quad’ after the bell in Wren’s tower.  But the quad’s scale and grandeur are a fitting tribute to the ambitions of another ‘Tom’, Thomas Wolsey. A leading figure in Henrician England, as Archbishop of York, Lord Chancellor and the founder of Cardinal’s College, Wolsey sought to display his power through extravagant building projects. Tom Quad, along with Hampton Court Palace, is the greatest monument to this aspiration. Although the quad remained unfinished during Wolsey’s time, his vision was carried through into Christ Church’s great building phase of the seventeenth century; subsequent additions, such as the north side of the quad and the clock tower designed by Christopher Wren, were conceived to complement and complete Wolsey’s vision of Gothic splendour. History Tom Quad exemplifies the transformation in attitudes and approaches to education in England at the start of the sixteenth century. Pioneers such as Desiderius Erasmus, the Renaissance humanist, and Thomas More, author of Utopia, and Lord Chancellor of England, led the way, spearheading efforts to attain a purer, more classical Latin style and a broader knowledge of ancient literature and Christian doctrine. This new learning had already been adopted at Magdalen and Corpus Christi, shortly before the foundation of Wolsey’s college. It was in this climate of intellectual ferment that Cardinal Wolsey’s vision for a new Oxford college was formed. Education was one of Wolsey’s great passions and he believed that more dynamic educational institutions should replace England’s declining monasteries. Although theology and scripture would remain the core of serious learning, he believed that any proper education must be augmented by humanistic teaching in Latin, Greek and philosophy. Indeed, for Wolsey these two traditions of learning were inseparable: his new college was to be the grandest monument to Renaissance learning in England and a bastion of the Catholic faith. This is reflected in the dual nature of Christ Church’s foundation, as both a college and a cathedral. In 1524 Wolsey received permission from the Pope to dissolve the monastery of St Frideswide’s and to turn the site (and many of the buildings surrounding it) into a college. This included taking over the buildings of the former Canterbury College, which lends its name to the present day Canterbury Quad. Wolsey set about demolishing much of what had previously been there to make room for his sumptuous Great Quadrangle. The quad is the largest in Oxford, measuring 264 feet by 261, and it would have been cloistered were it not for Wolsey’s demise in 1530 - the pillars and arches on which the cloister would have rested are still visible on the outside of the buildings. The north side (opposite the Hall) was in the sixteenth century left at its original level and it seems likely that Wolsey had planned a chapel to span this entire wing!   Already impressive, Wolsey’s work remained incomplete for another century: the north side was still open and the gatehouse had been left unfinished. It was only when, after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, John Fell was appointed dean, that plans for the completion of Tom Quad  were begin in earnest.  Fell was the first fo the great builder deans and by 1665 the north side of Tom Quad had been completed.  No detail was spared: supports for the cloisters were installed on the walls of the seventeenth century north side, even though it was clear that the quad could never be cloistered. But Fell was determined to complete Tom Quad with the unity and grandeur its original builder had desired.   It was in this vein that Fell came to commission Christopher Wren to design a clock tower to crown the St. Aldate’s gatehouse. Wren made a case for working in a late Gothic style, he felt that the bell tower ‘ought to be Gothick to agree with t


Who played John Wilder in TV's The Plane Makers?

Cathode Ray Tube: THE PLANE MAKERS - Volume One / Review THE PLANE MAKERS - Volume One / Review Posted by Frank Collins      on Tuesday, 29 June 2010 · Leave a Comment Long before we turned our collective hate upon Larry Hagman's machinations as JR Ewing in Dallas, ITV and producer-writer Wilfred Greatorex were thrilling British audiences with the power politics and boardroom tussles of one John Wilder. He made his debut in the second series of The Plane Makers, an ATV made drama that chronicled the efforts of manufacturing company Scott Furlong to design and build a new passenger aircraft, the Sovereign, and sell it to international market. The series later saw the company move into the jet-fighter market too. Alas, only the pilot episode Don't Worry About Me remains from the first series made in 1963, and based on that it is clear that the series underwent a radical change in direction for the second series. The tone of Don't Worry About Me is highly reminiscent of Karel Reisz's adaptation of Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night And Sunday Morning in that it focuses directly on the drama of the machine shop floor, the hierarchies of an all male world of shop stewards, apprentices and dyed in the wool 'in it for themselves' working men. Colin Blakely (himself no stranger to gritty Northern kitchen sink dramas with appearances in both This Sporting Life and Saturday Night, Sunday Morning) makes an early television appearance as Jack Clement. Clement is the factory's hard case, knows all the dodges and how to cut corners to get his work done. Giving encouragement to no-one but himself Clement ends up setting a bad example to a young apprentice, Maurice (Christopher Beeny) and sours the ambitions of a young draughtsman Sammy Metcalf (Ronald Lacey). Edmund Ward's script captures that restlessness and cynicism of the working class man trapped in a factory occupation and sandwiched between trade unions, the management and younger men eager to get on. It's a fascinating peek at the factory floor politics of a now vanished British manufacturing industry. With the second series Wilfred Greatorex restructured the series format to include the glamour and in-fighting of the executive class and the boardroom at Scott Furlong. There is less focus on the bluff blue collar working class manual labourers and more sub-plots involving white collar designers, engineers and test pilots. The boardroom battles and the drive to sell the Sovereign turn the series from gritty, kitchen-sink drama, which apparently ATV owner Lew Grade found rather boring, into something that better suited the faded cachet of the jet-set and their penchant for international business deals. The DVD set contains 13 of the 26 episodes from the second series with presumably the second half the series and the third series planned for Volume 2. Leading the drive into international markets is the superb Patrick Wymark as the serpentine anti-hero managing director of Scott Furlong, the bullish John Wilder. Greatorex also introduces Wilder's wife, Pamela (the equally superb Barbara Murray) and his right hand man Don Henderson (Jack Watling) and his reliable secretary Miss Lingard. All three would be transfered to greater success in the sequel drama The Power Game in 1966.  We not only see Wilder's desperate attempts to get the Sovereign into production before French rivals unveil their own aircraft but also his personal relationships with mistresses, with fellow department heads and an antagonistic board. This gets off to a great start in Too Much To Lose as Wilder pushes his team to get the plane into test flights in a matter of weeks despite warnings from his test pilot Henry Forbes (Robert Urquhart) and engineer Arthur Sugden (the wonderful Reginald Marsh). Amidst all of Wilder's irascible commander-in-chief dramatics, I adore the relationship between Arthur and his world weary secretary Margie (Elizabeth Begley). If ever there was an advert for chain-smoking then keep your eyes on Margie in this episode. She's constantly got a fag on the go, it's usually perched on her


How many gates are there on the Thames Barrier?

The Thames Barrier - GOV.UK GOV.UK 16 November 2016, see all updates Applies to: How the Thames Barrier works, and when it is scheduled to close. Contents The Thames Barrier is one of the largest movable flood barriers in the world. The Environment Agency runs and maintains the Thames Barrier as well as London’s other flood defences. You can follow us on Twitter @AlanBarrierEA or read our gov.uk blog posts. The Thames Barrier Forthcoming scheduled closures The Environment Agency operates the Thames Barrier every month for maintenance and testing. Once a year, they also test the barrier at a high spring tide (normally September or October). They may begin closing and re-opening the gates up to an hour before the times listed below. Monday 7 November 2016 10.35 to 13.05 Monday 5 December 2016 09.40 to 12.10 Tuesday 3 January 2017 09.40 to 12.10 Wednesday 1 February 2017 09.35 to 12.05 Thursday 2 March 2017 09.25 to 11.55 Wednesday 12 April 2017 08.40 to 11.10 Very occasionally, the Environment Agency may need to change or cancel a closure at short notice. Please call the Thames Barrier to check: 020 8305 4188. You can find out if the Thames Barrier is currently closed by calling Floodline on 0345 988 1188 and using the quickdial code 011134. Forecasting closures The Environment Agency receives information on potential tidal surges from weather satellites, oil rigs, weather ships and coastal stations. They can forecast dangerous conditions up to 36 hours in advance, and will close the barrier just after low tide, or about 4 hours before the peak of the incoming surge tide reaches the barrier. They get information from a range of mathematical computer models that forecast expected sea and river levels. This is supplemented by data from the Met Office and real-time information provided by the UK National Tidegauge Network . This hydrological and meteorological data is fed into the control room every minute from a wide network of tide, river, pressure and wind gauges. The decision to close, or not, is based on a combination of 3 major factors: the height of the tide (usually a spring tide) measured at the Thames Estuary the height of the tidal surge, which naturally accompanies each tide the river flow entering the tidal Thames, measured as it passes over Teddington Weir Find up-to-date data for river and sea levels at the Thames Estuary and Teddington Weir . The barrier has no individual trigger level for closure. The closing process is guided by a mathematical matrix that considers the river flow, tide and surge at the time. The final decision for closure lies with the Thames Barrier Duty Controller. How the Thames Barrier works The Thames Barrier spans 520 metres across the River Thames near Woolwich, and it protects 125 square kilometres of central London from flooding caused by tidal surges. It has 10 steel gates that can be raised into position across the River Thames. When raised, the main gates stand as high as a 5-storey building and as wide as the opening of Tower Bridge. Each main gate weighs 3,300 tonnes. The barrier is closed under storm surge conditions to protect London from flooding from the sea. It may also be closed during periods of high flow over Teddington Weir to reduce the risk of river flooding in some areas of west London including Richmond and Twickenham. The Thames Barrier will then remain closed over high water until the water level downstream of the Thames Barrier has reduced to the same level as upstream. This is a managed process to provide for different circumstances, and takes about 5 hours. The Thames Barrier is then opened, allowing the water upstream to flow out to sea with the outward-bound tide. You can watch a video that shows how the Thames Barrier works: a video of how the Thames Barrier works Thames Barrier closures The Thames Barrier has been closed 176 times since it became operational in 1982 (correct as of April 2016). Of these closures, 89 were to protect against tidal flooding and 87 were to protect against combined tidal/fluvial flooding. Thames Barrier closures since 1983 If yo


What was Alan Sugar's catchphrase during the TV series The Apprentice?

List of catch phrases and quotes from The Apprentice Exotic Sugar Flowers for Cakes by Alan Dunn (2000, Hardcover) 22.90 The Way I See It: Rants, Revelations And Rules For Life by Alan Sugar. 27.07 Unscripted: My Ten Years in Telly by Alan Sugar. 22.93 'You're Fired' T-Shirt! Alan Sugar, Apprentice, Funny T-shirt BBC TV, 18.51 'Give me some Sugar' T-Shirt! Alan Sugar, Apprentice, Funny T-shirt BBC TV, 18.51 'Sugar Daddy' T-Shirt! Alan Sugar, Apprentice, Funny T-shirt BBC TV, 18.51 Brown Sugar Biscuits by Mark Alan (CD, 1998, Yellowbox Records) Signed Like New 5.00 The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Alan Sugar Way: 10 Secrets of the B 12.72 SUGAR ORCHIDS FOR CAKES - TONY WARREN, ET AL. ALAN DUNN (HARDCOVER) NEW 22.29 TIMES.DESMOND TUTU.JOANNA LUMLEY.ALAN SUGAR.FIONA, COUNTESS CARNARVON.DOWNTON.11 6.17 Sugar Orchids for Cakes (Sugarcraft and Cakes for All Occasions) by Alan Dunn 43.84 1975 Sugar Daddy All-Stars #3 Alan Page READ Minnesota Vikings Card 0j0 5.10 A Chip in the Sugar (Acting Edition S.) by Alan Bennett 15.30 In the Blue Room by Alan Bibey (CD, Mar-2000, Sugar Hill) FAST SHIPPING 8.01 Sugar Roses for Cakes By Peck, Tombi/ Dunn, Alan/ Warren, Tony 27.42 NEW Prison Yoga by Alan Sugar Paperback Book (English) Free Shipping 18.48 Sugar Flower Skills by Alan Dunn Hardcover Book 18.86


Who has the nickname of the thinking man's crumpet?

The Thinking Woman’s Crumpet | Savage Minds The Thinking Woman’s Crumpet Rex (this entry is CC’d. If anyone wants to download some pictures, do a voice over, and throw this up on our Khan Academy for Anthropology, be my guest) Anthropology is, in many ways, the art of taking implicit, taken-for-granted meanings and making them explicit. This is important because human beings cram a tremendous amount of meaning into everything we do, and yet much of the time we are only vaguely conscious of the meanings we surround ourselves with  — and if you are a cultural outsider, you may miss them entirely. Just as learning the grammar of a language will help you understand it and write clearly in it, learning to make cultural meanings explicit helps us understand and express ourselves to others. Take, for instance, the thinking woman’s crumpet. The other night I was watching a documentary about Shakespeare written and presented by the historian Michael Wood. As the documentary went on and I spent more and more time watching Michael Wood describe the Tudor police state with great enthusiasm, it occurred to me that he might be physically attractive. So I turned to my wife and asked: “is he attractive?” She thought for a minute and said she didn’t think so. But since she is a professor, just to be sure, she looked him up on wikipedia. “Apparently,” she said, “he’s the thinking woman’s crumpet.” If you are British, or an anglophile American, it is not too hard to understand what it means to say “Michael Wood is the thinking woman’s crumpet”. Implicitly, you might understand that educated middle-class women find Michael Wood attractive even though he is not conventionally attractive. But as an anthropologist, I want to move beyond this implicit awareness to a richer, more explicit understanding of this phrase, an understanding of it that explains what it means even if you don’t even know what a crumpet is, much less what it symbolizes to the British. I’ll begin by talking about what it means to be a ‘thinking woman’ and then I’ll move on to the ‘crumpet’. The noun phrase “thinking women” seems at first cut to describe women who think, but this is not exactly right. I’m not British and not an anthropologist of Britain, so I may not have all the details right (anthropologists are, like everyone else, fallible). But the UK is a class-conscious place and I think that the term is meant to invoke a certain socioeconomic position and the entire set of habits and dispositions that come along with it: affluent and educated, refined enough to be attracted to someone’s personality as well as their looks, etc. ‘Thinking woman’ is just two words but for those with the cultural knowledge necessary to decode them it summons up an entire way of classifying people which is more or less systematic. In particular, it implicitly defines large swaths of the population as people who ‘don’t think’. These people are usually less wealthy, less educated, and less powerful than ‘thinking people’. Anthropology as a discipline often finds these kinds of systems of inequality hiding within our implicit meanings, and as a result we’ve grown to be very mindful of the way that power and inequality are omnipresent in human life. In addition to class, the phrase “thinking woman’s crumpet” has a lot of implicit things about gender relations in the UK within it, things which can be (as we anthropologists like to say) ‘unpacked’ or made explicit. The term is actually a transformation of the pre-existing phrase ‘thinking man’s crumpet’. The phrase was (according to Wikipedia and Google) originally used to describe Joan Bakewell, a TV presenter in the sixties. The comedian who invented it did so as a joke but, like most labels that stick, it made explicit a set of ideas and desires that were at work implicitly. Bakewell was intelligent, articulate, and chic and object of desire for male viewers of a certain social position. Something happens when you turn the phrase around so that women, rather than men, want ‘crumpet’. The idea that ‘thinking women’ can want ‘crumpet’ has a c


What musical instrument does jazz musician Courtney Pine primarily play?

Courtney Pine @ All About Jazz Read more Like many of his generation of young, black, UK jazz musicians, Courtney Pine came from a reggae and funk background. Pine is a dazzling performer on many instruments, notably saxophone, clarinet, flute and keyboards. He was a member of Dwarf Steps, a hard-bop band consisting of Berklee College Of Music graduates, before joining reggae artists Clint Eastwood And General Saint. Courtney Pine's interest in jazz was fostered when he participated in workshops run by John Stevens. He came to wider public notice as a result of playing with Charlie Watts' Orchestra, George Russell's European touring band and with Art Blakey at the Camden Jazz Festival. In 1987, he played at the Bath Festival with the Orchestre National de Jazz. By that time, his reputation had spread far beyond jazz circles, and his first album was a massive seller by jazz standards. He appeared before a huge worldwide audience at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert at Wembley, backing dancers IDJ. Courtney Pine has continued to play in reggae and other pop contexts (Closer To Home), and is a frequent collaborator with UK soul singer Mica Paris. Pine has done much to make jazz palatable for a younger audience, and as such is one of the UK's best ambassadors of the genre.


In which country will the 2010 FIFA World Cup be held?

World Cup Host Countries World Cup Host Countries World Cup Host Countries The Host Countries for the FIFA World Cup from 1930 to 2022 A young South African fan joins in the fun at the Waterfront on June 16, 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa. South Africa was the World Cup host country in 2010.  Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Geography Expert By Matt Rosenberg Held every four years, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup is held in a different host country. The World Cup is the major international soccer (football) competition, consisting of the nationally recognized men's soccer team from each country. The World Cup has been held in a host country every four years since 1930, with the exception of 1942 and 1946 due to the Second World War. FIFA's executive committee selects the host country for each FIFA World Cup. The 2018 and 2022 World Cup host countries, Russia and Qatar respectively, were selected by the FIFA executive committee on December 2, 2010. Note that the World Cup is held in even numbered years that are the interval years of the Summer Olympic Games (although the World Cup now matches the four-year cycle of the Winter Olympic Games). Also, unlike the Olympic Games, the World Cup is hosted by a country and not a specific city, as is the Olympic Games. continue reading below our video 4 Tips for Improving Test Performance The following is a listing of the FIFA World Cup host countries from 1930 to 2022... World Cup Host Countries


Who, in Greek myth, was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, sacrificed at Aulis by her father to ensure a safe passage to Troy?

What does iphigenia mean? Definitions for iphigeniaˌɪf ɪ dʒəˈnaɪ ə, -ˈni ə This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word iphigenia Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Iphigenia(ProperNoun) The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Nearly sacrificed by her father to ensure the safe journey of Greeks to Troy, she was saved by Artemis and made her priest. Origin: From Ἰφιγένεια. Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Iphigenia Iphigenia is a 1977 Greek film directed by Michael Cacoyannis, based on the Greek myth of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who was ordered by the goddess Artemis to be sacrificed. Cacoyannis adapted the film, the third in his "Greek tragedy" trilogy, from his stage production of Euripides' play Iphigenia at Aulis. The film stars Tatiana Papamoschou as Iphigenia, Kostas Kazakos as Agamemnon, and the legendary actress Irene Papas as Clytemnestra. The score was composed by Mikis Theodorakis. Iphigenia was nominated for one Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film. It was also nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. Iphigenia received the 1978 Belgian Femina Award, and received the Best Film Award at the 1977 Thessaloniki Film Festival, where Tatiania Papamoschou also received the Best Leading Actress Award for her role as Iphigenia. The Nuttall Encyclopedia(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Iphigenia the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; her father having killed a favourite deer belonging to Artemis in Aulis as he was setting out for Troy, the goddess was offended, and Calchas (q. v.), when consulted, told him she could only be appeased by the sacrifice of his daughter; this he proceeded to do, but as he was preparing to offer her up the goddess descended in a cloud, carried her off to Tauris, and made her a priestess in her temple. The story has been dramatised by Euripides, Racine, and Geothe. Numerology The numerical value of iphigenia in Chaldean Numerology is: 3 Pythagorean Numerology


Which luxury car manufacturer produces the Vantage?

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"Which chemical element (atomic number 15) derives its name from the Greek for ""light bearing""?"

Element 15 | Article about Element 15 by The Free Dictionary Element 15 | Article about Element 15 by The Free Dictionary http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Element+15 Related to Element 15: Element 115 , Element 14 , Element 16 , Element 25 phosphorus (fŏs`fərəs) [Gr.,=light-bearing], nonmetallic chemical element; symbol P; at. no. 15; at. wt. 30.97376; m.p. 44.1&degC;; b.p. about 280&degC;; sp. gr. 1.82 at 20&degC;; valence −3, +3, or +5. Solid phosphorus has a tetratomic molecule (P4) with molecular weight 123.8952 atomic mass units (amu). Phosphorus was discovered c.1674 by Hennig Brand of Hamburg, an alchemist, who prepared it from urine. Phosphoric acid was discovered in 1770 by K. W. Scheele and J. G. Gahn in bone ash (see ash ash, in chemistry, solid residue of combustion. The chemical composition of an ash depends on that of the substance burned. Wood ash contains metal carbonates (e.g., potassium carbonate) and oxides formed from metals originally compounded in the wood. ..... Click the link for more information. ); Scheele later isolated phosphorus from bone ash (1774) and produced phosphoric acid by the action of nitric acid on phosphorus (1777). Forms Phosphorus exhibits allotropy allotropy [Gr.,=other form]. A chemical element is said to exhibit allotropy when it occurs in two or more forms in the same physical state; the forms are called allotropes. ..... Click the link for more information.  (i.e., it has multiple forms in the same physical state); the physical constants given above are for the common white phosphorus. White phosphorus is an extremely poisonous, yellow to white, waxy, solid substance, nearly insoluble in water but very soluble in carbon disulfide. When exposed to air it ignites spontaneously, burning to form white fumes of phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5. Because of its toxicity and pyrophoric nature, phosphorus is stored underwater. Contact with the skin may cause burns. White phosphorus is phosphorescent (i.e., glows without emitting heat). When white phosphorus is heated to about 250&degC; in the absence of air, it changes into the more stable red phosphorus. This form appears as dull, reddish-brown cubic crystals or amorphous powder. Its specific gravity is 2.34. The red form is less dangerous than the white form, but should be handled with caution. It is insoluble in carbon disulfide and most other solvents. It does not ignite unless heated to about 200&degC;, does not phosphoresce, and is not poisonous. Another form of phosphorus is black phosphorus, a crystalline electrically conductive material similar to graphite in appearance. It was first prepared by P. W. Bridgman by heating white phosphorus to 200&degC; under a pressure of 12,000 atmospheres. Its specific gravity is 2.70. Natural Occurrence and Commercial Preparation Because of its chemical activity phosphorus does not occur uncombined in nature but is widely distributed in many minerals. A major source is apatite apatite , mineral, a phosphate of calcium containing chlorine or fluorine, or both, that is transparent to opaque in shades of green, brown, yellow, white, red, and purple. Apatite is a minor constituent in igneous and metamorphic rocks. ..... Click the link for more information. , an impure calcium phosphate mineral found in phosphate rocks. In the United States major deposits are found in Florida, Tennessee, Montana, and Idaho. White phosphorus is prepared commercially from phosphate rock in an electric furnace or blast furnace. The principal use of phosphorus is in compounds; for this reason, most of the phosphorus produced in furnaces is burned to make phosphorus pentoxide, a white powdery substance. While the pentoxide is used as a drying agent and chemical reagent, it is chiefly converted to phosphoric acid phosphoric acid, any one of three chemical compounds made up of phosphorus, oxygen, and hydrogen (see acids and bases). The most common, orthophosphoric acid, H3PO4, is usually simply called phosphoric acid. ..... Click the link for more information. , H3PO4, also called orthophosphoric acid, by reaction


"From which Shakespeare play does the line ""The course of true love never did run smooth"" come?"

No Fear Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act 1, Scene 1, Page 5 A Midsummer Night’s Dream I must confess that I have heard so much And with Demetrius thought to have spoke thereof, But being overfull of self-affairs, My mind did lose it.—But, Demetrius, come. And come, Egeus. You shall go with me. I have some private schooling for you both.— For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself To fit your fancies to your father’s will, Or else the law of Athens yields you up (Which by no means we may extenuate) To death, or to a vow of single life.— Come, my Hippolyta. What cheer, my love?— Demetrius and Egeus, go along. I must employ you in some business Against our nuptial and confer with you Of something nearly that concerns yourselves. THESEUS I have to admit I’ve heard something about that, and                 meant to ask Demetrius about it, but I was too busy with personal                 matters and it slipped my mind.—Anyway, Demetrius and                 Egeus, both of you, come with me. I want to say a few things to you                 in private.—As for you, beautiful Hermia, get ready to do                 what your father wants, because otherwise the law says that you must                 die or become a nun, and there’s nothing I can do about                 that.—Come with me, Hippolyta. How are you, my                 love?—Demetrius and Egeus, come with us. I want you to do                 some things for our wedding, and I also want to discuss something                 that concerns you both. EGEUS With duty and desire we follow you. EGEUS We’re following you not only because it is our duty,                 but also because we want to. Exeunt. Manent LYSANDER and HERMIA They all exit except LYSANDER and HERMIA. LYSANDER How now, my love? Why is your cheek so pale? How chance the roses there do fade so fast? LYSANDER What’s going on, my love? Why are you so pale? Why have                 your rosy cheeks faded so quickly? 130 Belike for want of rain, which I could well Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes. HERMIA Probably because my cheeks' roses needed rain, which I                 could easily give them with all the tears in my eyes. 135 Ay me! For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But either it was different in blood— LYSANDER Oh, honey! Listen, in books they say that true love always faces                 obstacles. Either the lovers have different social                 standings—


Who presents 'Any Questions' on BBC Radio 4?

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