In which Dickens novel do the Cheeryble Brothers appear ?

Who's Who in Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens Info Who’s Who in Nicholas Nickleby Who’s Who in Nicholas Nickleby This list of characters from Nicholas Nickleby is presented in alphabetical order. Bray, Madeline  – Madeline’s father promised her in marriage to Arthur Gride.  In return, Gride was to forgive Mr. Bray’s debts.  Nichols rescues Madeline and later marries her. Browdie, John – A friend of Nicholas Nickleby. Cheeryble, Charles and Edwin (Ned) – Charles and Net are twin brothers.  They are the kind-hearted employers of Nicholas Nickleby. ” . . . Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty’s works, but like other beautiful works of His, they must be reared and fostered, or it is as natural that they should be wholly obscured, and that new feelings should usurp their place, as it is that the sweetest productions of the earth, left untended, should be choked with weeds and briers. I wish we could be brought to consider this, and remembering natural obligations a little more at the right time, talk about them a little less at the wrong one.” ~ Charles Cheeryble Cheeryble, Frank – The nephew of Charles and Ned.  Frank marries Kate Nickleby. Crummles, Vincent  – Vincent is the head of the Crummles family and the manager of a touring stage company.  He employs Nicholas and Smike after they leave Dotheboys Hall. Gride, Arthur – A moneylender who schemes for the hand of Madeline Bray in marriage. . . . Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced — a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires. “You’ll bring your threats here, will you?” said Gride, whom jealousy of Nicholas and a sense of his own triumph had converted into a perfect fiend. “You, the disappointed lover–oh dear! He! he! he!–but you shan’t have her, nor she you. She’s my wife, my doting little wife. Do you think she’ll miss you? Do you think she’ll weep? I shall like to see her weep–I shan’t mind it. She looks prettier in tears.” Nickleby, Kate –  The sister of Nicholas Nickleby.  She marries Frank Cheeryble. “I will not retire,” cried Kate, with flashing eyes and the red blood mantling in her cheeks. “You will do him no hurt that he will not repay. You may use force with me; I think you will, for I am a girl, and that would well become you. But if I have a girl’s weakness, I have a woman’s heart, and it is not you who in a cause like this can turn that from its purpose.” Nickleby, Nicholas –  Nicholas goes to work for Wackford Squeers in order to support his family after the death of his father.  He and Smike escape Mr. Squeers and go to work for the Crummles acting troupe.  Later Nicholas works for the kind-hearted Cheeryble brothers.  Eventually he marries Madeline Bray. “When I speak of home, I speak of the place where — in default of a better — those I love are gathered together; and if that place were a gypsy’s tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.” ~ Nicholas Nickleby Nickleby, Ralph – Ralph is the uncle of Nicholas and Kate.  He pretends to help them after the death of their father.  However he really uses them for his own purposes.  Later it is revealed that he is the father of Smike. He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose, he would perhaps have done better to powder his countenance also, for there was something in its very wrinkles, and in his cold restless eye, which seemed to tell of cunning that would announce itself in spite of him.~ description of Ralph Nickleby Noggs, Newman – Newman works as the clerk of Ralph Nickleby.  He befriends Nicholas and helps him turn the tables on Ralph. Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no–a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else–gave way to the proposed arrangement. Sm


Who was British Prime Minister when Captain Scott reached the South Pole?

Scott of the Antarctic (1948) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Scott of the Antarctic ( 1948 ) PG | The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold ... See full summary  » Director: a list of 47 titles created 13 Sep 2011 a list of 2215 titles created 11 Nov 2011 a list of 511 titles created 04 Jan 2014 a list of 859 titles created 16 Nov 2014 a list of 64 titles created 1 month ago Title: Scott of the Antarctic (1948) 7.1/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for     1     BAFTA Film Award. See more awards  » Photos All leave is canceled so that a British submarine can be sent after a new German warship. They chase it so far that they have no fuel to get home. Director: Anthony Asquith An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion. Director: Alberto Cavalcanti Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WW2. Director: Lewis Gilbert During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them. Director: José Ferrer The attack by British submarines on the German battleship "Tirpitz" in a Norwegian fjord during the Second World War. Director: Ralph Thomas During WW2 in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria. Director: J. Lee Thompson Volunteers take over their local passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when the government announces its closure. Director: Charles Crichton Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German POW camp housed in a Medieval castle. Director: Guy Hamilton A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble. Director: Charles Frend The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers. Director: Charles Frend A color remake of "The Four Feathers" Directors: Zoltan Korda, Terence Young Stars: Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare. Director: Richard Attenborough Edit Storyline The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him. Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk> The noblest adventure man ever dared! Genres: Rated PG for mild thematic elements and brief language | See all certifications  » Parents Guide: 20 April 1949 (USA) See more  » Also Known As: Scotts letzte Fahrt See more  » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia The hut where Scott and his party stay throughout the winter months before their final push to the South Pole still exists today and is a tourist attraction for those few who travel down to that part of the world. The intensely cold, dry air has preserved everything almost exactly as it was a century ago. See more » Goofs No one's breath is ever visible in the Antarctic. See more » Quotes Herbert Ponting F.R.P.S. : The sleeping bag, a poem. On the outside grows the furside; on the inside grows the skinside. So the furside is the outside, and the skinside is the inside. One side likes the skinside inside, and the furside on the outside. Others like the skinside outside, and the furside on the inside. If you turn the skinside outside, thinking yo


Who was British Prime Minister when Stanley met Livingstone ?

Margaret Thatcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running!     Margaret Thatcher Thatcher redirects here. For other meanings see Thatcher (disambiguation) . The Rt Hon. Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS Sir Denis Thatcher, Bt. Signature Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG , OM , PC , FRS (born 13 October 1925 ) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. Thatcher was the longest-serving British Prime Minister since William Gladstone , and had the longest continuous period in office since Lord Liverpool in the early nineteenth century. She is also the only woman to have served as Prime Minister, one of only two women to have led a major political party in the UK, and one of only two to have held any of the four great offices of state (the second being Margaret Beckett ). Undoubtedly one of the most significant British politicians in recent political history, she is also one of the most divisive, being loved and loathed on different sides of the political spectrum. Contents 12 External links [ edit ] Early life and education Thatcher was born Margaret Hilda Roberts in the town of Grantham in Lincolnshire , England . Her father was Alfred Roberts , who owned a grocer's shop in the town, was active in local politics (serving as an Alderman ), and was a Methodist lay preacher . Roberts came from a Liberal family but stood—as was then customary in local government—as an Independent. He lost his post as Alderman in 1952 after the Labour Party won its first majority on Grantham Council in 1950. Her mother was Beatrice Roberts née Stephenson, and she had one sister, Muriel (1921-2004). Thatcher was brought up a devout Methodist and has remained a Christian throughout her life. [1] Thatcher performed well academically, attending Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School and subsequently going up to Somerville College , Oxford in 1944 to study Chemistry . She became President of the Oxford University Conservative Association in 1946, the third woman to hold the post. She graduated with a second-class degree and worked as a research chemist for British Xylonite and then J. Lyons and Co. , where she helped develop methods for preserving ice cream . She was a member of the team that developed the first soft frozen ice cream. She was also a member of the Association of Scientific Workers . [ edit ] Political career between 1950 and 1970 At the 1950 and 1951 elections, Margaret Roberts fought the safe Labour seat of Dartford , and was at the time the youngest ever female Conservative candidate for office. While active in the Conservative Party in Kent , she met Denis Thatcher , whom she married in 1951. Denis was a wealthy businessman and he funded his wife's studies for the Bar . She qualified as a barrister in 1953, the same year that her twin children Carol and Mark were born. As a lawyer she specialised in tax law. Thatcher then began to look for a safe Conservative seat and was narrowly rejected as candidate for Orpington in 1954. She had several other rejections before being selected for Finchley in April 1958. She won the seat easily in the 1959 election and took her seat in the House of Commons . Unusually, her maiden speech was in support of her Private Member's Bill ( Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 ) to force local councils to hold meetings in public, which was successful. In 1961 she went against her party's line by voting for the restoration of birching . She was given early promotion to the front bench as Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance in September 1961, retaining the post until the Conservatives lost power in the 1964 election . When Sir Alec Douglas-Home stepped down Thatcher voted for Edward Heath in the leadership election over Reginald Maudling , and was rewarded with the job of Conservative spokesman on Housing and Land. Shrewdly she adopted the policy of selling Council Houses to their tenants that had been developed by her colleague James Allason : it would prove popular in succeeding election


What name for a short haircut came from its popularity among the rowing teams of Harvard and Yale in the 1940s and 50s ?

IMDb: Most Popular People With Biographies Matching "Joan Crawford" Most Popular People With Biographies Matching "Joan Crawford" 31 names. Joan Crawford Joan Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23, 1905, in San Antonio, Texas, to Anna Belle (Johnson) and Thomas E. LeSueur, a laundry laborer. By the time she was born, her parents had separated, and by the time she was a teenager, she'd had three stepfathers. It wasn't an easy life; Crawford worked a variety of menial jobs. She was a good dancer, though, and -- perhaps seeing dance as her ticket to a career in show business -- she entered several contests, one of which landed her a spot in a chorus line. Before long, she was dancing in big Midwestern and East Coast cities. After almost two years, she packed her bags and moved to Hollywood. Crawford was determined to succeed, and shortly after arriving she got her first bit part, as a showgirl in Pretty Ladies . Three films quickly followed; although the roles weren't much to speak of, she continued toiling. Throughout 1927 and early 1928, she was cast in small parts, but that ended with the role of Diana Medford in Our Dancing Daughters , which elevated her to star status. Crawford had cleared the first big hurdle; now came the second, in the form of talkies. Many stars of the silents saw their careers evaporate, either because their voices weren't particularly pleasant or because their voices, pleasing enough, didn't match the public's expectations (for example, some fans felt that John Gilbert 's tenor didn't quite match his very masculine persona). But Crawford wasn't felled by sound. Her first talkie, Untamed , was a success. As the 1930s progressed, Crawford became one of the biggest stars at MGM. She was in top form in films such as Grand Hotel , Sadie McKee , No More Ladies , and Love on the Run ; movie patrons were enthralled, and studio executives were satisfied. By the early 1940s, MGM was no longer giving her plum roles; newcomers had arrived in Hollywood, and the public wanted to see them. Crawford left MGM for rival Warner Bros., and in 1945 she landed the role of a lifetime. Mildred Pierce gave her an opportunity to show her range as an actress, and her performance as a woman driven to give her daughter everything garnered Crawford her first, and only, Oscar for Best Actress. The following year she appeared with John Garfield in the well-received Humoresque . In 1947, she appeared as Louise Graham in Possessed ; again she was nominated for a Best Actress from the Academy, but she lost to Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter . Crawford continued to choose her roles carefully, and in 1952 she was nominated for a third time, for her depiction of Myra Hudson in Sudden Fear . This time the coveted Oscar went to Shirley Booth , for Come Back, Little Sheba . Crawford's career slowed after that; she appeared in minor roles until 1962, when she and Bette Davis co-starred in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? . Their longstanding rivalry may have helped fuel their phenomenally vitriolic and well-received performances. (Earlier in their careers, Davis said of Crawford, "She's slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie," and Crawford said of Davis, "I don't hate [her] even though the press wants me to. I resent her. I don't see how she built a career out of a set of mannerisms instead of real acting ability. Take away the pop eyes, the cigarette, and those funny clipped words, and what have you got? She's phony, but I guess the public really likes that".) Crawford's final appearance on the silver screen was in a flop called Trog . Turning to vodka more and more, she was hardly seen afterward. On May 10, 1977, Joan died of cancer in New York City. She was 72 years old. She had disinherited her adopted daughter Christina and son Christopher; the former wrote a tell-all book called "Mommie Dearest", published in 1978. The book cast Crawford in a negative light and was cause for much debate, particularly among her friends and acquaintances, including Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , Crawford's first husband. (In 1981


Karl Landsteiner won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of what ?

Karl Landsteiner - Biographical Karl Landsteiner The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930 Karl Landsteiner Share this: Karl Landsteiner - Biographical Karl  Landsteiner was born in Vienna on June 14, 1868. His father,  Leopold Landsteiner, a doctor of law, was a well-known journalist  and newspaper publisher, who died when Karl was six years old.  Karl was brought up by his mother, Fanny Hess, to whom he was so  devoted that a death mask of her hung on his wall until he died.  After leaving school, Landsteiner studied medicine at the  University of  Vienna, graduating in 1891. Even while he was a student he  had begun to do biochemical research and in 1891 he published a  paper on the influence of diet on the composition of blood ash.  To gain further knowledge of chemistry he spent the next five  years in the laboratories of Hantzsch at Zurich, Emil Fischer at  Wurzburg, and E. Bamberger at Munich. Returning to Vienna, Landsteiner resumed his medical studies at  the Vienna  General Hospital. In 1896 he became an assistant under Max  von Gruber in the Hygiene Institute at Vienna. Even at this time  he was interested in the mechanisms of immunity and in the nature  of antibodies. From 1898 till 1908 he held the post of assistant  in the University Department of Pathological Anatomy in Vienna,  the Head of which was Professor A. Weichselbaum, who had  discovered the bacterial cause of meningitis, and with Fraenckel  had discovered the pneumococcus. Here Landsteiner worked on  morbid physiology rather than on morbid anatomy. In this he was  encouraged by Weichselbaum, in spite of the criticism of others  in this Institute. In 1908 Weichselbaum secured his appointment  as Prosector in the Wilhelminaspital in Vienna, where he remained  until 1919. In 1911 he became Professor of Pathological Anatomy  in the University of Vienna, but without the corresponding  salary. Up to the year 1919, after twenty years of work on pathological  anatomy, Landsteiner with a number of collaborators had published  many papers on his findings in morbid anatomy and on immunology.  He discovered new facts about the immunology of syphilis, added  to the knowledge of the Wassermann reaction, and discovered the  immunological factors which he named haptens (it then became  clear that the active substances in the extracts of normal organs  used in this reaction were, in fact, haptens). He made  fundamental contributions to our knowledge of paroxysmal  haemoglobinuria. He also showed that the cause of poliomyelitis could be  transmitted to monkeys by injecting into them material prepared  by grinding up the spinal cords of children who had died from  this disease, and, lacking in Vienna monkeys for further  experiments, he went to the Pasteur  Institute in Paris, where monkeys were available. His work  there, together with that independently done by Flexner and  Lewis, laid the foundations of our knowledge of the cause and  immunology of poliomyelitis. Landsteiner made numerous contributions to both pathological  anatomy, histology and immunology, all of which showed, not only  his meticulous care in observation and description, but also his  biological understanding. But his name will no doubt always be  honoured for his discovery in 1901 of, and outstanding work on,  the blood groups, for which he was given the Nobel Prize for  Physiology or Medicine in 1930. In 1875 Landois had reported that, when man is given transfusions  of the blood of other animals, these foreign blood corpuscles are  clumped and broken up in the blood vessels of man with the  liberation of haemoglobin. In 1901-1903 Landsteiner pointed out  that a similar reaction may occur when the blood of one human  individual is transfused, not with the blood of another animal,  but with that of another human being, and that this might be the  cause of shock, jaundice, and haemoglobinuria that had followed  some earlier attempts at blood transfusions. His suggestions, however, received little attention until, in  1909, he cl


What kind of bridge is the Golden Gate Bridge ?

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge 5 667 votes The Golden Gate Bridge is a technical masterpiece that can only be described in superlative terms. When the bridge was completed in 1937 it was the world's longest and tallest suspension bridge. Golden Gate Bridge But above all this masterly example of engineering is a magnificent monument set against a beautiful backdrop. Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge started in 1933. The bridge, which was designed by engineer Joseph Strauss was built to connect San Francisco with Marin County across the 1600 meter (+5000ft) wide strait known as the Golden Gate which links the San Francisco Bay with the Pacific Ocean. Building the bridge The construction of what was to become the world's largest suspension bridge was a colossal task. At the time many people did not believe it was technically possible to span the Golden Gate. View from Marina district But despite the disbelief, opposition and the Great Depression, Joseph Strauss was able to find sufficient support and financial backing to go ahead with the project. It would take thousands of workers, four years and 35 million dollars to complete the structure. On May 27, 1937 the Golden Gate Bridge was inaugurated by 18.000 people who walked across the bridge. The next day the bridge officially opened to motorized traffic. Today more than 120,000 cars cross the bridge each day. Facts and figures The dimensions of the bridge defied all imagination. The total length of the bridge is 8,981ft or 2,737 m. The main span between the two enormous towers is 4,200 ft or 1,280 meters long, making the Golden Gate Bridge the world's largest suspension bridge, View from Baker Beach a record that would stand until 1964 when the Verrazano-Narrows bridge in New York was completed. The two beautiful Art Deco towers are almost 820ft or 250 meters tall, of which more than 20 meters is below the sea level. The road, six lanes and 90 ft / 27m wide is an amazing 220 ft or 67 meters above the water level. It is supported by enormous cables, anchored in hundreds of bars locked into concrete blocks with a pulling power of 25 million kg. The two cables have a total length of 2,332 meters and a diameter of 90 centimeters. They are woven from 27,572 threads of steel with a total length that equals three times the earth's circumference. A world famous landmark View from Lincoln Park Soon after its completion the Golden Gate Bridge already enjoyed worldwide fame, not only because the bridge was breaking records, but also thanks to the elegant Art Deco design of the two huge towers and the magnificent surroundings near the Pacific Ocean. The eye catching orange-red color of the bridge also helped its popularity. The color was suggested by engineer Irving Morrow, who thought the traditional gray color was too boring. The Golden Gate Bridge has now long lost its record of the longest bridge, but it is still one of the world's most famous structures. Crossing the bridge Even though there is a sidewalk on the Golden Gate Bridge, it's quite a challenge to cross the bridge. Not only is it almost 3km long, but it is a breathtaking 67 meter (220ft) above sea level. In extreme circumstances the bridge can sway almost 28ft (8 meter). This makes the bridge less sensible to external forces such as strong winds and earthquakes but it can make the crossing rather unpleasant. The views however are amazing. An alternative to Bridge Tower crossing the bridge on foot is driving by car - but don't forget you'll have to pay toll - or you can take one of the busses that connect San Francisco with Marin County. There is a bus stop right at the start of the bridge. Getting to the bridge The Golden Gate Bridge is located at the Presidio Park and can easily be reached by bus or car. The most pleasant way to reach the bridge however is by walking either from the Marina District to the east or from Baker Beach to the west of the bridge. Both routes will lead you through a park, and especially the route along the east is very popular. The best views The Golden Gate Bridge i


The city of Carrara, in the Italian region of Tuscany, is most famous for the production of what ?

Licciana Nardi Accommodations - Homes, Villas and Apartment Vacation Rentals in Tuscany and Italy Vacation Rentals » Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Massa Carrara Region » Licciana Nardi Licciana Nardi Accommodations Licciana Nardi is a municipality in the Province of Massa-Carrara in the Italian region Tuscany , located about 110 km northwest of Florence and about 25 km northwest of Massa. The town lies in the Lunigiana region on the border between Tuscany and Liguria . With the Apuane Alps as backdrop accommodations, vacation rentals, condo rentals, apartment rentals and villa rentals will not disappoint. The town is only a few kilometers from Massa and La Spezia and near famous tourist spots as Lerici , Portovenere and the Cinque Terre. The territory of Licciana Nardi was populated since ancient times, due to its strategic position close to the city of Aulla and the Garfagnana area. Some lodging and villas reflect this history and the accommodation, vacation rental, condo rental, apartment rental and villa rental options could make its visitors like they have stepped back in time. Among the most important monuments to see in Licciana Nardi is the Chiesa Parrocchiale (Parish Church), the Monumento Funebre di Anacarsi Nardi (Anacarsi Nardi's Funerary Monument) and the Medieval Castles. There are numerous celebrations in Licciana Nardi including the "Chestnut's Feast" held yearly on the third Sunday of October. During this festival, many typical dishes based on chestnuts are cooked, according to local traditional recipes. Massa is located in the Frigido River Valley, near the Alpi Apuane, some 5 kilometers from the Tyrrhenian Sea. The area is of high touristic value and also hosts a concentration of some 600 industrial and craft activities. Together with the twin town of Carrara, Massa is known for the extraction and production of marble. Accommodations, vacation rentals, apartment rentals and villa rentals are available to suit all tastes and budgets. The Cinque Terre is a rugged portion of coast on the Italian Riviera. "The Five Lands" is composed of five villages: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza , Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore. The coastline, the five villages, and the surrounding hillsides are all part of the Cinque Terre National Park and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over centuries, people have carefully built terraces on the rugged, steep landscape right up to the cliffs that overlook the sea. Part of its charm is the lack of visible corporate development. Paths, trains and boats connect the villages, and cars cannot reach them from the outside. The Cinque Terre is a very popular tourist destination with many superb accommodation, vacation rental, apartment rental and villa rental options. Total Rent view sort by Sorry, there is no rental accommodation currently available in Licciana Nardi for your search criteria. Please change your search preferences or try a nearby region to increase the number of properties displayed. #202349 avg €158 EUR/night The cottage is situated in a beautiful position on a lovely estate with wonderful views of the countryside and the Castle of Poppi. Originally a barn, it has now been fully restored retaining many original characteristics and furnished in classic Tuscan style whilst being fitted with modern comforts. The ground floor of the cottage opens onto the own garden area perfect for dining al fresco, and the first floor balcony has pretty views towards the shared swimming pool which is situated in a gorgeous position in the grounds enjoying a lovely panorama. In the grounds is also a large gazebo, and for guests use there are barbeques, a laundry room with coin operated washing machine and iron, WiFi internet connection, and a communal room with large covered terrace area for events. Also on the estate is a lovely stone farmhouse, which houses eight apartments, and a further detached cottage.  Just 1.5km away is the picturesque town of Poppi with a good selection of amenities including a supermarket, shops and restaurants. The Casentino area of Tuscany, much of which is a


Cassiterite is the primary ore of which metallic element ?

Tin | Minerals Education Coalition Necessary for animals. Description The meaning of its name is unknown, but it is an Anglo-Saxon word. Bronze, an alloy of tin and copper, was a vital metal during the Bronze Age. Tin is a soft, pliable, silvery-white metal. It is stable in air and water but reactive to acids and bases. Tin has two forms, alpha or gray tin, and beta or white tin. White tin is the common, metallic form. Gray tin can be converted to white by heating it past 55 degrees F. White tin returns to gray tin as it cools below 55 degrees F. This transformation between gray and white tin is known as the tin pest. All uses of tin are of the white form. The transformation can be prevented by alloying tin with antimony or bismuth. Tin, like indium, makes a peculiar noise when bent, the so-called “tin-cry”. The fact that tin does not corrode in air or water makes it ideal for storing food. The famed tin can is actually a steel can with a microscopically thin coating of tin. At one point, over forty million tin cans were produced every year, but use of aluminum and other types of containers have reduced this number. Tin is used as a coating for other metals and in alloys, such as solder, pewter and bronze. Tin compounds sprayed onto glass produce a electrically conductive coating. Window glass is made flat by floating molten glass on molten tin. Tin is also used in polymer additives, mordants for dyeing, and anti-fouling paints for ship’s hulls. A tin-niobium compound is superconducting at very low temperatures. Tin also is used in bell-making. The symbol for tin, Sn, comes from tin’s Latin name stannum. Biological Benefits Tin is believed to be an essential trace element in humans and other species. However, its function has not been determined. Role in Life Processes Beneficial properties for full health Percentage Amount in the Human Body: 0.00003% Sources Tin is obtained mainly from cassiterite (tin dioxide); tin is rarely present in other minerals. Cassiterite is mined in China, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia and Bolivia.


Wykehamists are pupils of which public school ?

Winchester College - Old Wykehamists Alumni Old Wykehamists Old Wykehamists The Old Wykehamists (boys, and in some cases staff who have now left the School), maintain their own web site as they have a full programme of events and lively interaction all of which is, for the most part, separate to the daily running of the School. Although part of the site is password-protected there is much information to be gleaned for those interested in seeing the structure of the organisation. We have recently been given details of two films featuring Winchester College made by Pathé. The Pathé newsreels are now available to view on-line via the following website, www.britishpathe.com The Pathé archive includes two short films of particular interest to Wykehamists and the wider Win Coll community. Please click here to view the first film, with a commentary, records the visit by HM the Queen to Win Coll in 1955. The second film, lasting about 6 minutes, is provisionally dated as from the 1940s and was sent to us for identification. Please click here to view. We think this is dated 1956 or 1957 and have already asked Pathé to amend their description accordingly. The film evidently aimed to show a ‘day in the life' at Win Coll Please click here to access the events programme. Please click here to access the Old Wykehamists Alumni site.


Give the name of the room where the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919.

About the Treaty - The Versailles Treaty The Versailles Treaty                                                         About the Treaty " The Big Four" "In front of President Wilson's Paris residence are the "Big Four" who signed the Peace Treaty. From the reader's left they are: David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando, Georges Clemenceau, and President Woodrow Wilson." They were the four most important people involved in signing the Treaty of Versailles. David Lloyd George of Britain had the task of drafting the Treaty.  All four of these leaders then  presented  the Treaty to the Germans for approval. The place of the signing   The Treaty of Versailles was signed at the Paris Peace Conference held in 1919.  This is a picture of the the confrence room in the Palace of Versailles.  This room is called the Hall of Mirrors. The Treaty of Versailles was signed in this room. The people sitting at the conference table are possibly the signers of the Treaty.  There were many signers.  The leaders of the four factions that fought against Germany were present to sign the Treaty.  They were President Woodrow Wilson of The United State of America, David Loyd George of Britain , Vittorio Orlando of Italy, and  Georges Clemenceau of France The Role of Each of The Big Four Woodrow Wilson: He pushed to present his Fourteen Points and believed Germany deserved a moderate punishment because it had already faced defeat. David Lloyd Georges: He was the drafter of the Treaty, but he soon considered it a failure. Vittorio Orlando: He thought Italy would be treated as an equal, but the others critisized how weak the Italian Government was. Georges Clemenceau: He was the senior representative from France at the Paris Peace Confrence. He thought that the Treaty should crush Germany's power. Wilson's Fourteen Points Woodrow Wilson had written in  Fourteen Points to the Treaty of Versailles. His main four points were: 1. No more secret treaties 2. Countries must seek to reduce weapons and armed forces 3.National self-determination should allow people of the same nationality to govern themselves and one nationality should not have the power to govern another 4. All countries should be in the League of Nations These were the four main points , here are all fourteen  as they were originaly written. 1.Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view. 2.Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants. 3.The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance. 4.Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety 5.A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined 6.The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distin


Who wrote the lyrics for the musical Starlight Express ?

Starlight Express [Original Cast Recording] - Andrew Lloyd Webber | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic Starlight Express [Original Cast Recording] AllMusic Rating google+ AllMusic Review               by William Ruhlmann In 1981, Andrew Lloyd Webber scored what turned out to be the biggest success of his career with Cats, a lightly plotted musical using contemporary pop/rock music that was dominated by its costumes, staging, and choreography, and appealed primarily to children. Teaming up again with director Trevor Nunn, Lloyd Webber also repeated many of the essential elements of Cats in his next musical, 1984's Starlight Express. Where Cats was about felines, Starlight Express was about trains, with the actors portraying engines and sidecars in elaborate costumes, recreating the effect of trains on tracks by riding around the theater on roller skates. The plot, such as it was, had to do with a race. But the score consisted largely of what in the theater are called "I am" songs, in which individual characters introduce themselves. Thus, like Cats, which took its lyrics from poems by T.S. Eliot, Starlight Express was as much a collection of individual songs as a theater score. Lloyd Webber stuck largely to current pop/rock styles circa 1984, and that meant lots of synthesizers and percussive dance tracks. He also found space, however, to include pastiches of blues, rap, country, and gospel music that were little more than lampoons and often revealed their composer's ignorance of the forms. For example, "The Rap" was more reminiscent of the rhythmic "Rock Island" opening of The Music Man, itself set on a train, than of the rap music of the 1980s. Richard Stilgoe's lyrics were simplistic and often a bit suggestive for a children's show. The ensemble cast was adequate, but overwhelmed by both the music and the staging. The show opened in London on March 27, 1984, and was an immediate hit. This original cast album was recorded live and in the studio the following month. It was released belatedly in the U.S. on May 9, 2000. Track Listing


Which author created the character Hannibal Lecter ?

Order of Hannibal Lecter Books - OrderOfBooks.com Home | Characters | Authors Order of Hannibal Lecter Books Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character created by American author Thomas Harris . Not only is Hannibal an antagonist in a series of horror/suspense novels, but each of the novels in the series has been adapted to at least one film. The most famous adaptation is the 1991 film adaptation of Silence of the Lambs, in which the character was portrayed by Anthony Hopkins (who won an Academy Award for the portrayal). Lecter is a psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. The character is frequently listed among the greatest characters of all time. The Hannibal Lecter character made his debut in the novel Red Dragon, published in 1981. The most recent novel in the series was a prequel titled Hannibal Rising in 2005. Below is a list of Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Lecter books in order of when they were originally published (as well as in chronological order): Publication Order of Hannibal Lecter Books Red Dragon


York's ancient origins The City of York ORIGIN OF YORK The Roman name for York was Eboracum, based on a native British name for the ancient site. It is thought that the root of the early name was Eburos, an Ancient British personal name, which suggests that the site was founded by someone called Eburos. An alternative view is that the name is based on the Ancient British word Eburos meaning Yew, a sacred Celtic tree from which the personal name Eburos derives. In Roman times there was a tribe in Gaul called the Eburorovices, who were the 'Warriors of the Yew Tree'. When the Anglo-Saxons arrived in the north from Germany and Denmark in the sixth century they made Eboracum the capital of Deira, a Northumbrian sub-kingdom. Eboracum was corrupted by Anglo-Saxon speech into Eoforwic meaning 'wild boar settlement'. The Anglo-Saxons confused the Celtic word 'Ebor' meaning yew tree with their own word 'Eofor' meaning 'wild boar'. In 865 AD the Danes captured the North and in 876 Halfdene the Dane made Eoforwic the capital of the Viking Kingdom of York . Later in 918 AD a mixed race of Norwegian-Irish Vikings settled at York and for many years York was subordinated to the Viking stronghold at Dublin. Viking influence can still be detected in the street names of York, where the suffix 'gate' as in Stonegate or Goodramgate derives from the Old Norse 'gata' meaning road or way. Stonegate follows the course of a Roman road through the city and Goodramgate is named after Guthrum, a Viking leader. Above: Bootham Bar and York Minster from an old postcard The Vikings interpreted Eoforwic, the Anglo-Saxon name for York as Jorvik. The change of the Saxon f to a Viking V occured in other words in the English language such as the Anglo Saxon word 'Seofan' which was changed by the Vikings into its modern form 'Seven'. In the late Viking period it is thought that the name Jorvik was shortened to something resembling its present form, York and in the medieval age the name York was generally used, although an independent form 'Yerk' is known to have existed at this time. One of the problems of studying York's name is that many early records are written in Latin and thus use the Roman name Eboracum in periods when Eoforwic or Jorvik were used in every day speech. Today the early forms of York's name are still well known and although the Viking Kingdom of York no longer exists, its natural successor Yorkshire - 'the county of York' still takes its name from this ancient city. Search the site


Which Oxford college was founded in 1899 to provide education specifically for working people ?

Oxford University | Uncyclopedia | Fandom powered by Wikia ~ Adam Smith on Oxford Oxford University is the smug, overachieving, infuriatingly self-satisfied but nonetheless irreproachable older sister of every other University in the world. As the saying goes, age comes before beauty. The university was founded shortly after the dawn of time as a joint venture between God and Oscar Wilde. Though thirty-nine colleges have been discovered to date, the university is generally viewed as Oxford's secondary asset when compared to the city's most internationally-recognised feature: the highest density of kebab vans in Britain. Oxford attracts some of the most intellectually capable students in the world. Unfortunately, none of these students actually attend the university because they can foresee its impact on their social life. This acute lack of applications stimulated the formalisation of Oxford's twinning with Eton and Charter House, both institutions referring to the university simply as 'Seventh Form.' Notable alumni include every Prime Minister, President and vaguely successful public figure ever to have lived. And David Cameron . Despite strong efforts in recent years to broaden the social background of Oxford's undergraduate intake (so that applicants from ALL public schools are judged fairly on their individual merits), the university's supposed elitism has garnered much criticism. Though it is technically still true that Oxford's constitution leaves it open only to 'upper class spoilt twats,' much PR progress was made during Thatcher's eleven-year regime when the replacement of most faculty heads with scouse coalminers proved that not all spoilt twats need be upper class. Furthermore, Oxford's colleges are populated by the Polish version of oompa-loompas, which are called "scouts" (notice, again, the similarity to "scouse"). The university's motto "Domimina Nustio Illlumea"(which, of course, is Latin for 'My wife is screwing the postman') seems an appropriate summation of Oxford's rich history of contributions to the arts and sciences. Whilst Oxford Brookes University is responsible for most 'Oxonian' scientific progress, their slimline 'Oxford University' spin-off has achieved a level of autonomous merit with the development of the Oxford loafer. Since the number of students graduating in philosophy, art, history and music far exceeds these subjects' employment opportunities (lecturing in philosophy, art, history or music), Cowley-based sweatshops provide valuable opportunities for alumni to try - and fail - to repay their student debt. Contents edit Historical timeline 512BC: Oxford University supposedly founded, when in fact it has already been going as long as anyone could remember at the time. Pharaoh Ptolemy II says he did it. Others disbelieve him. 511BC: Number of Japanese tourists officially overtakes number of students. Students start calling themselves members of Oxford in response. 363BC: A group of so-called academics, pissing themselves in terror after a friendly town and gown riot, run away and found the University of Cambridge .   24AD: Christ Church founded by Christ . 1412: Visiting professor Nostradamus correctly predicts Oxford's position in the university ranking tables of 1413, inducing him to start a stellar career in currency speculation. 1555: Protestants are burned in Oxford.  Christ returns and builds 593 churches and chapels to teach Oxonians a lesson.  They are all still standing today. 1592: The Varsity Shop, which sells Oxford memorabilia, becomes the number one tourist attraction in the world, according to Borgia Magazine (a precursor to Forbes Magazine ). 1863: The Oxford Union debating society is established.  It has not left the year 1863 since. 1874: Oscar Wilde enrolls at Oxford as an undergraduate.  He obtains a gentleman's third four years later. 1933: This House declares that no one in Oxfordshire was to fight for King and Country. It was intended as a 50th birthday present to Bennito Mussolini, though it was still 5...ish monthes away. 1949: The fancifully named Shanghai Jiao


Which famous actor played the killer of PC Dixon in the film The Blue Lamp?

The Blue Lamp Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb 35 out of 38 people found the following review useful: Very realistic Author: loza-1 9 June 2005 This was made just five years after the end of the second world war. Some old folk I spoke to as a kid told me that when they were kids there were no gangs of youths on the streets: there were gangs of men. After the second world war, we began to see the emergence of youth crime. It has grown since then, practically spiralling out of control. When we look at this film from the frame of reference of the early twenty-first century, this film where the London underworld joins with the police to track down the killer of a policeman looks unreal. If you have read any of the reminiscences of police officers of the period (such as Robert Fabian's "Fabian of the Yard") you will see that this sort of relationship between the police and the underworld is right on the button. This is the sort of thing that would have happened. The type of policing that this film portrays belongs to a bygone era, when criminals often didn't have cars to make their getaways. It also shows the advantage of the beat copper, who knows his beat so well that if there is anything unusual he notes it down, and if there is any trouble, he has a fair idea of who is causing it. And the pair played by Jimmy Hanley and Jack Warner showed perfectly the inexperienced learning from the experienced. The situations, such as the costermonger being continually told to "move along there" are real for then but not for now, when police work, once done using discretion, is now, like everything else, done by bureaucracy. The film is shot in north London, in the Paddington, Maida Vale and Westbourne Park areas. P C Dixon's beat is round by the Grand Union Canal in an area known as Little Venice. The police station is the old Paddington Green station, which has since been knocked down and replaced by a new one on the Edgware Road. What you must not do is watch this film and judge it by today's standards. I am old enough to know that the social conditions portrayed in this film are as realistic as it gets; and so is the way the police operate. An excellent film. from london 20 September 2005 When the Blue Lamp was released i was around 3 years old.I therefore do remember the London that it shows.To me the film is more interesting in what it reveals about the London of 1950 than the actual story.It shows the Metropolitan Music hall in the Edgware Road.It was in the last few years of its life before the A4 cutting a swathe into London meant that it was demolished for "progress".Music Hall by this time was in its last throes and what was left would be rendered extinct by the arrival of ITV.We see the Colloseium in Harlesden.Every High Street had cinemas like this.If you look carefully you will see that they were showing "Granny Get Your Gun" a 1940 "B" feature with May Robson.So it was probably a second run house.There are the bomb sites.I remember that in certain parts of London,particularly the East End there mere were more such sites than actual buildings.The streets do not have a great deal of traffic as there was little traffic at that time.So a film of some sociological interest Was the above review useful to you? 17 out of 17 people found the following review useful: Post-war classic of British cinema 15 October 2005 *** This review may contain spoilers *** THE BLUE LAMP, voted Best Film of the Year in 1950 by the British Film Academy, is a semi-documentary homage to the post-war Bobby on the beat. PC Dixon shows a young rookie, Andy Mitchell, the ropes and offers him lodgings under his own roof. Two young hoodlums rob a cinema, and one of them, Tom Riley, shoots Dixon, who later dies in hospital. After his accomplice Spud is killed in a car crash, Riley is finally apprehended in the White City Stadium; the police are helped by the criminal underworld, and the bookies using their tic-tac code. THE BLUE LAMP is famous for two reasons, it made a star of Dirk Bogarde, and introduced Jack Warner to the character of PC George Dixon, who l


What name did the artist Michelangelo Merisi adopt ?

Caravaggio - Painter - Biography.com Caravaggio Caravaggio, or Michelangelo Merisi, was an Italian painter who is considered one of the fathers of modern painting. IN THESE GROUPS Famous People Born in Italy Synopsis Caravaggio was born as Michelangelo Merisi in Italy around 1571. He was orphaned at age 11 and apprenticed with a painter in Milan. He moved to Rome, where his work became popular for the tenebrism technique he used, which used shadow to emphasize lighter areas. His career, however, was short-lived. Caravaggio killed a man during a brawl and fled Rome. He died not long after, on July 18, 1610. Early Years Caravaggio, whose fiery masterpieces included "The Death of the Virgin" and "David with the Head of Goliath," and who inspired generations of artists, was born as Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in 1571 in Italy. The world he arrived in was violent and, at times, unstable. His birth came just a week before the Battle of Lepanto, a bloody conflict in which Turkish invaders were driven out of Christendom. Not much is known about Caravaggio's early family life. His father, Fermo Merisi, was the steward and architect of the marquis of Caravaggio. When Caravaggio was six, the bubonic plague rolled through his life, killing almost everyone in his family, including his father. According to writer Andrew Graham-Dixon, author of the 2011 biography "Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane," the artist's troubled adult years stemmed directly from that traumatic loss of his family. "He almost seems bound to transgress," Dixon writes. "It's almost like he cannot avoid transgressing. As soon as he's welcomed by authority, welcomed by the pope, welcomed by the Knights of Malta, he has to do something to screw it up. It's almost like a fatal flaw." Orphaned, Caravaggio took to the streets and fell in with a group of "painters and swordsmen who lived by the motto nec spe, nec metu, 'without hope, without fear,'" wrote an earlier biographer. At the age of 11, Caravaggio relocated to Milan and began apprenticing with the painter Simone Peterzano. In his late teens, perhaps as early as 1588, a penniless Caravaggio moved to Rome. There, to keep himself fed, Caravaggio found work assisting other painters, many of them far less talented than he. But as instability defined his existence, Caravaggio jumped from one job to the next. Sometime around 1595, Caravaggio struck out on his own and started selling his paintings through a dealer. His work soon caught the attention of Cardinal Francesco del Monte, who adored Caravaggio's paintings and quickly set him up in his own house, with room, board and a pension. A prolific painter, Caravaggio was known to work quickly, often starting and completing a painting in just two weeks. By the time he had come under the influence of del Monte, Caravaggio already had 40 works to his name. The lineup included "Boy with a Basket of Fruit," "The Young Bacchus" and "The Music Party." Much of Caravaggio's early work featured chubby, pretty young boys done up as angels or lutenists or his favorite saint, John the Baptist. Many of the boys in the paintings are naked or loosely clothed. Caravaggio's only known assistant was a boy named Cecco, who appears in a number of Caravaggio's works and who may have also been his lover. Widening Appeal In 1597, Caravaggio was awarded the commission for the decoration of the Contarelli Chapel in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. It was an important and daunting assignment, charging the 26-year-old painter with the task of creating three large paintings depicting separate scenes from St. Matthew's life. The three resulting works, "St. Matthew and the Angel," "The Calling of St. Matthew," and "The Martyrdom of St. Matthew," were finished in 1601, and together showed Caravaggio's remarkable range as an artist. But these works also provoked much consternation from the church and public alike. In his execution of the work, Caravaggio eschewed the traditional worshipful depictions of the saints and presented St. Matthew in a far more realistic light. His first


In the 1960's, which designer created the 'Space Age' collection ?

Vintage Glamour: 1960s Space Age Fashion · Lomography 2011-09-09 5 6 Share Tweet The 1960s celebrated a decade of many highlights, especially in the realm of fashion. It was during this time that one of the most unique yet lesser known trends emerged: the eye-catching Space Age Fashion. During the space exploration boom in the early 1960s, many bold and visionary fashion designers found themselves inspired to create one of the most unique trends ever known to man. Photo via Urban Taster Aptly called Space Age Fashion, there was nothing as shocking as it before, during, or even after it skyrocketed to popularity. Spearheaded by Italian-born French designer Pierre Cardin, Franco-Spanish designer Paco Rabanne, and French designer Andre Courreges, the style featured an array of out-of-this-world boots, skirts, dresses, goggles, coats, and headgear in crazy geometric shapes and patterns. As the name suggests, among the dominant colors of this fashion trend are metallic and fluorescent shades, white, red, and yellow. Materials used to create a futuristic, otherworldly look included shiny fabrics, vinyl, wool-acrylic, sequins, glass, and PVC. But, enough of the descriptions and introductions; let’s watch some vintage clips showcasing Space Age Fashion from the three designers: Sources and additional readings:


In which British city is St Mungo's Cathedral ?

Glasgow Cathedral - Top Attractions | People Make Glasgow | People Make Glasgow Glasgow Cathedral Visit Website Telephone: 0141 552 8198 “A fantastic way to travel back in time”. That’s how one visitor recently described this superb medieval cathedral.    Just 10 minutes walk from the city centre, it’s the only medieval cathedral on the Scottish mainland to have survived the 1560 Reformation almost entirely intact.  This magnificent example of Scottish Gothic architecture was built between the 13th & 15th centuries and is widely regarded as the high point of cathedral building in Europe.  But no description of the cathedral would be complete without mentioning its inextricable link with the city’s patron saint & founder, St. Mungo, who built his church on this site and who was buried here in 612. Mungo was the first bishop within the ancient British kingdom of Strathclyde. His diocese was vast, reaching from Loch Lomond in the north, to Cumbria in the south, and his shrine here was a great centre of Christian pilgrimage until the Scottish Reformation. The crypt within the Cathedral was constructed in the mid-1200s to house the tomb of St Kentigern. Wander around the cathedral and you’ll see many connections down the ages, from the ancient trades on which the city built her fortune, to the military and the law.    Other connections run through the cathedral’s history: one of Scotland’s most famous literary sons, Sir Walter Scott, refers to the kirk (Scottish for church) in his novel, Rob Roy. And no visitor should leave without gazing up at the breathtaking white ceiling in the Blackadder Aisle which was built around 1500 by Archbishop Blackadder - no relation to a certain famous TV character! If you have time, pop next door to the award-winning St Mungo Museum of Religious Life & Art , named after the patron saint. It’s a haven of tranquillity in the bustling city. Opening times Please be aware of the Cathedral's seasonal opening times when planning a visit: Summer (April to September) Weekdays between 9.30am and 5.30pm Saturdays between 9.30am and 5.30pm Sundays between 1.00pm and 5.00pm N.B. last admission to Cathedral is 30 minutes prior to the closing time listed, 5:00 pm in Spring/Summer (4:30 on Sundays). Last admission to Lower Church is 45 minutes prior to closing time.  There is a Service of Choral Evensong held in the Nave each Sunday at 4:00 pm to which visitors are most welcome. Those visitors not wishing to attend are asked to respect the sanctity of the proceedings. Winter (October to March) Weekdays between 10:00 am and 4.00 pm Saturdays between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm Sundays between 1.00pm and 4:00 pm There is a Service of Choral Evensong held in the Nave each Sunday at 4:00 pm to which visitors are most welcome. Those visitors not wishing to attend are asked to respect the sanctity of the proceedings.


Which English king was known as 'Old Rowley' ?

Famous Affinities of History - King Charles II. and Nell Gwyn (by Lyndon Orr) Famous Affinities of History At the National Gallery King Charles II. and Nell Gwyn One might classify the kings of England in many ways. John was undoubtedly the most unpopular. The impetuous yet far-seeing Henry II., with the other two great warriors, Edward I. and Edward III., and William of Orange, did most for the foundation and development of England’s constitutional law. Some monarchs, such as Edward II. and the womanish Henry VI., have been contemptible. Hard-working, useful kings have been Henry VII., the Georges, William IV., and especially the last Edward. If we consider those monarchs who have in some curious way touched the popular fancy without reference to their virtues we must go back to Richard of the Lion Heart, who saw but little of England, yet was the best essentially English king, and to Henry V., gallant soldier and conqueror of France. Even Henry VIII. had a warm place in the affection of his countrymen, few of whom saw him near at hand, but most of whom made him a sort of regal incarnation of John Bull–wrestling and tilting and boxing, eating great joints of beef, and staying his thirst with flagons of ale– a big, healthy, masterful animal, in fact, who gratified the national love of splendor and stood up manfully in his struggle with the Pope. But if you look for something more than ordinary popularity– something that belongs to sentiment and makes men willing to become martyrs for a royal cause–we must find these among the Stuart kings. It is odd, indeed, that even at this day there are Englishmen and Englishwomen who believe their lawful sovereign to be a minor Bavarian princess in whose veins there runs the Stuart blood. Prayers are said for her at English shrines, and toasts are drunk to her in rare old wine. Of course, to-day this cult of the Stuarts is nothing but a fad. No one ever expects to see a Stuart on the English throne. But it is significant of the deep strain of romance which the six Stuarts who reigned in England have implanted in the English heart. The old Jacobite ballads still have power to thrill. Queen Victoria herself used to have the pipers file out before her at Balmoral to the “skirling” of “Bonnie Dundee,” “Over the Water to Charlie," and “Wha’ll Be King but Charlie!” It is a sentiment that has never died. Her late majesty used to say that when she heard these tunes she became for the moment a Jacobite; just as the Empress Eugenie at the height of her power used pertly to remark that she herself was the only Legitimist left in France. It may be suggested that the Stuarts are still loved by many Englishmen because they were unfortunate; yet this is hardly true, after all. Many of them were fortunate enough. The first of them, King James, an absurd creature, speaking broad Scotch, timid, foolishly fond of favorites, and having none of the dignity of a monarch, lived out a lengthy reign. The two royal women of the family–Anne and Mary–had no misfortunes of a public nature. Charles II. reigned for more than a quarter of a century, lapped in every kind of luxury, and died a king. The first Charles was beheaded and afterward styled a “saint"; yet the majority of the English people were against his arrogance, or else he would have won his great struggle against Parliament. The second James was not popular at all. Nevertheless, no sooner had he been expelled, and been succeeded by a Dutchman gnawing asparagus and reeking of cheeses, than there was already a Stuart legend. Even had there been no pretenders to carry on the cult, the Stuarts would still have passed into history as much loved by the people. It only shows how very little in former days the people expected of a regnant king. Many monarchs have had just a few popular traits, and these have stood out brilliantly against the darkness of the background. No one could have cared greatly for the first James, but Charles I. was indeed a kingly personage when viewed afar. He was handsome, as a man, fully equaling the French princess who became his


What name is usually given to the larva of a click beetle ?

The RSPB: A to Z of a Wildlife Garden: Click beetle A to Z of a Wildlife Garden Insect Athous haemorrhoidalis This elongated beetle has a dark brown thorax and a brown, ridged back. On close inspection its antennae appear toothed.  Agriotes lineatus Adults are bullet-shaped and their wing cases (elytra) appear lined. They are black or brown all over.  When threatened, attacked or overturned, these beetles can flick themselves into the air emitting an audible click – hence their name. A click beetle does this by flexing the joint between its thorax and abdomen; the tension increases until the peg slips, catapulting the insect into the air. The beetle may not always land on its feet, so will perform this feat several times until it does. Occasionally click beetles jump as high as 30 cm. Click beetle larvae are the notorious wireworms despised by gardeners. They are about 25 mm long with shiny, yellow-orange bodies. They spend up to four years underground munching through plant roots and stem bases until pupating and emerging as adult click beetles. They can ruin potato and root crops. What does it eat? Adults eat pollen, nectar, grasses and flowers. Larvae eat roots. When will I see it? Adults generally between May and July. You may see wireworms when digging the garden. Where will I see it? In flower border/herb garden, meadow area, hedge and the lawn. Also in parks and grassland. Vital statistics


On which US navy vessel did Japanese forces make their official surrender in 1945 ?

Chapter 14: Japan's Surrender JAPAN'S SURRENDER Continued Pressure on Japan By the end of June 1945, United States forces had advanced their Pacific battle line thousands of miles from Australia and Pearl Harbor to reach the very threshold of the Japanese Homeland. They had overcome an enemy who fought with fierce tenacity and had solved unprecedented problems of logistics and enormous distance as they progressively occupied the coasts of New Guinea and New Britain, secured the strategic islands of the Solomons, Admiralties, Marianas, and Palaus, established airfields on Iwo Jima, moved into the Halmaheras, swept through the entire Philippines, and stood poised on Okinawa, the last military barrier to Japan Proper. (Plate No. 126) Allied power dominated the land, sky, and sea of the western Pacific. General MacArthur's divisions had retaken vast island territories seized by Japan's armies at the outbreak of war and were now preparing to invade Japan itself. Huge formations of American Superfortresses pounded military and industrial targets on the Japanese mainland with increasing power. The U. S. Pacific Fleet had progressively cleared the ocean of Japanese warships in successive battles which stretched from the waters of Midway to the East China Sea and had bottled the decimated remnants of the Imperial Navy within their base ports. Even in its own Inland Sea and Tokyo Bay, the enemy fleet found neither respite nor refuge as fast American carriers navigated freely off the shores of Honshu and sent their bombing planes to hammer the great anchorages at Kure and Yokosuka. The time was ripe to hurl the whole might of the Allies against the defenses of Kyushu as the first step in Operation "Downfall." In American hands, Kyushu could accommodate forty groups of the Far East Air Forces and provide unlimited opportunities for the use of air power against the military heart of Japan. In preparation for the main operation, "Coronet," planes from Kyushu could bomb every important target in Honshu, Korea, eastern Manchuria, and northern China. An additional forty air groups based in the Marianas, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa would magnify the potential force of destruction. The planes of these eighty air groups could drop 100,000 tons of bombs in September 1945 and 170,000 tons in January 1946. It was estimated that in March 1946 the projected date of the Honshu invasion, at least 220,000 tons of explosives could be released over the enemy's four main islands. In a single month, therefore, the industrial targets of Japan, contained in about one-tenth the area in which German targets were located, would be saturated by almost one-fourth the total bomb tonnage dropped on the Germans during the entire twelve months of 1944. 1 With the approach of summer, the general air and naval offensive against Japan was [431] Allied Landings, August 1942 to August 1945 [432] intensified to pave the way for the planned invasion of Kyushu. From the middle of May, when fighters based on the island of Ie Shima first attacked targets on southern Japan, the scale of co-ordinated air raids by the Fifth and Seventh Air Forces rose steadily, reaching a peak previously unknown in the Pacific War. 2 On Okinawa, all organized Japanese resistance was ended by 21 June, and within two weeks fighters and bombers of the Fifth and Seventh Air Forces began their powerful assaults against Kyushu, neutralizing enemy air strength, severing lines of communication, and isolating the island from the rest of Japan. Japanese targets in China also received their share of Allied attacks. Shanghai experienced its first large-scale aerial bombardment on 17-18 July, when the Seventh Air Force sent more than 200 Liberators, Mitchells, Invaders, and Thunderbolts from Okinawa over the great enemy-held industrial center in a two-day demonstration of air power. While the Seventh Air Force maintained its raids against Shanghai, the Fifth and Thirteenth Air Forces struck from bases in the Philippines to hit Formosa, Amoy, Swatow, Canton, and Hong Kong. The long-range bombers from the Marian


Who wrote the novel To Kill a Mocking-bird ?

NEA Big Read NEA Big Read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write. About the Author Harper Lee (1926-2016) If Nelle Harper Lee ever wanted proof that fame has its drawbacks, she didn't have to look farther than her childhood neighbor, Truman Capote. After her enormously successful first novel, she lived a life as private as Capote's was public. Nelle—her first name was her grandmother's spelled backward—was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. Her mother, Frances Cunningham Finch Lee, was a homemaker. Her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, practiced law. Before A.C. Lee became a title lawyer, he once defended two black men accused of murdering a white storekeeper. Both clients, a father and son, were hanged. As a child, Harper Lee was an unruly tomboy. She fought on the playground. She talked back to teachers. She was bored with school and resisted any sort of conformity. The character of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird would have liked her. In high school Lee was fortunate to have a gifted English teacher, Gladys Watson Burkett, who introduced her to challenging literature and the rigors of writing well. Lee loved nineteenth-century British authors best, and once said that her ambition was to become "the Jane Austen of south Alabama." Unable to fit in with the sorority she joined at the University of Alabama, she found a second home on the campus newspaper. Eventually she became editor-in-chief of the Rammer Jammer, a quarterly humor magazine on campus. She entered the law school, but she "loathed" it. Despite her father's hopes that she would become a local attorney like her sister Alice, Lee went to New York to pursue her writing. She spent eight years working odd jobs before she finally showed a manuscript to Tay Hohoff, an editor at J.B. Lippincott. At this point, it still resembled a string of stories more than the novel that Lee had intended. Under Hohoff's guidance, the perspective was changed to Scout as a child, and two and a half years of rewriting followed. When the novel was finally ready for publication, the author opted for the name "Harper Lee" on the cover, because she didn't want to be misidentified as "Nellie." To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed the bestseller lists, where it remained for eighty-eight weeks. In 1961, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize. Lee later researched a book, similar to Capote's In Cold Blood (1966), about a part-time minister in Alexander City, Alabama, accused of killing five people for their insurance money and later himself murdered by a victim's relative. However, she dropped the project in the 1990s. It wasn't until February of 2015 that news of a second novel surfaced, when Lee's publisher announced a newly discovered manuscript for Go Set a Watchman, the novel Lee wrote before To Kill a Mockingbird. In the meantime, To Kill a Mockingbird has sold more than thirty million copies in forty languages. In 2011, President Obama awarded her the National Medal of Arts. According to biographer Charles J. Shields, Lee was unprepared for the amount of personal attention associated with writing a bestseller. She led a quiet and guardedly private life. As Sheriff Tate says of Boo Radley, "draggin' him with his shy ways into the limelight—to me, that's a sin." So it would be with Harper Lee. The Friendship of Harper Lee and Truman Capote Nelle Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends in the early 1930s as kindergarteners in Monroeville, Alabama. They lived next door to each other: Capote with aunts and uncles, Lee with her parents and three siblings. From the start they loved reading and recognized in each other "an apartness," as Capote later expressed it. When Lee's father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories. Although Capote moved to New York City in the third grade to join his mother and stepfather, he retur


Which city is home to the 8th century 'Book of Kells' ?

The Old Library at Trinity College: Home To The Book Of Kells The Old Library at Trinity College: Home To The Book Of Kells by Kerry & Oisin 31 months ago   College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland Tags Photograph courtesy of Fáilte Ireland and its image contributors Photograph courtesy of Fáilte Ireland and its image contributors One of Ireland's most precious treasures, The Book of Kells, is housed in the Old Library of Trinity College in central Dublin. Celebrated for its ornate decoration, expertly crafted on treated sheets of calfskin, known as vellum, the collection dates from as early as the 8th century AD, consisting of four Gospels written in Latin in a form of medieval script called insular majuscule. The book is said to have been created by a group of Columban monks, who fled to Kells in County Meath, after their original monastery on the Scottish island of Iona was attacked by Vikings at around the turn of the 9th century. Their invaluable calligraphic collection was first put on display at Trinity, roughly midway through the 19th century. Since then its popularity has grown enormously, attracting over half-a-million visitors each year at present. Handy Hints: 1) Nothing can match viewing the orthographic masterpiece of ancient Ireland in person, while on a visit to Dublin's most prestigious college. However, if you are unable to make the trip during your stay, you can always avail of the next best thing and view some digital scans of pages from the Book of Kells, by clicking here . 2) For those that do make the trip in person, you can expect to queue for tickets on arrival. Thankfully waiting times are kept to a minimum though, you rarely have to queue for more than 10 minutes, even during busy periods. 3) Allow yourself at least 40 minutes to an hour, in order to complete the self-guided tour, which encompasses the main exhibition - 'Turning Darkness into Light' - along with The Book of Kells, and Long Room (featuring 200,000 ancient books and temporary exhibitions). 4) Don't neglect the other treasures in the Long Room either, such as one of the few remaining copies of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic, which was read aloud by Patrick Pearse outside the General Post Office, on April 24 1916, at the start of the Easter Rising. The Celtic harp from the 15th century is the oldest example of its kind in Ireland. Crafted from willow and oak, and fitted with 29 glowing brass strings, this is a real-life model of the national emblem of Ireland. Opening hours: The Old Library and Book of Kells Exhibition opens Monday to Saturday between 09:30 and 17:00; Sunday (May to September) between 09:30 and 16:30; Sunday (October to April) between 12:00 and 16:30. Price of admission:


Which firth separates Orkney from the Scottish mainland ?

Firth Holiday Cottages in Orkney Islands Firth Holiday Cottages in Orkney Islands 2 Cottages in Firth, near Orkney 2 Bedrooms    Orkney Islands From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia The Orkney Islands, usually called simply Orkney, are one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. Orkney consists of about 70 small islands 16 km north of Caithness in northern mainland Scotland. The largest island in the group is known as The Mainland, with approximately 20 being inhabited. Orkney's administrative capital is Kirkwall on "The Mainland." Home to the St Magnus' Cathedral, it has about 7,500 inhabitants and a large port. The only other burgh is Stromness at the western end of "The Mainland", with a population of only about 2,000. The third largest settlement (c. 550) is St Margaret's Hope, on South Ronaldsay. Orkney is also a former county, and a Lieutenancy area, and the Orkney constituency of the Scottish Parliament. Islands The largest island in Orkney is known as "The Mainland". An older name for it is Hrossey (Horse-island). Other islands can be classified as north or south of "The Mainland." The islands north of "The Mainland" are known collectively as The North Isles, those to the south as The South Isles. The remote Sule Skerry and Sule Stack lie around 60 km west of the archipelago, but form part of the council area. The North Isles The northern group of islands is the most extensive and consists of a large number of moderately sized islands, linked to "The Mainland" by ferries. Most of the islands described as "holms" are very small. Auskerry South Ronaldsay, Switha, Swona Geography The Pentland Firth is a seaway which separates Orkney from the mainland of Scotland. The firth is 11 km wide between Brough Ness on the island of South Ronaldsay and Duncansby Head in Caithness. Orkney lies between 58° 41' and 59° 24' North, and 2° 22' and 3° 26' West, measures 80 km from northeast to southwest and 47 km from east to west, and covers 973 km². Excepting on the west coasts of the larger islands, which present rugged cliff scenery remarkable both for beauty and for colouring, the group lies somewhat low and is of bleak aspect. The hilliest island is Hoy; the highest point in Orkney, Ward Hill, is to be found there. The only other islands containing heights of any importance are "The Mainland", with (another) Ward Hill (268 m), and Wideford Hill and Rousay. Nearly all of the islands possess lochs (lakes), and The Loch of Harray and The Loch of Stenness on "The Mainland" attain noteworthy proportions. The rivers are merely streams draining the high land. Excepting on the west fronts of the Mainland, Hoy and Rousay, the coastline of the islands is deeply indented, and the islands themselves are divided from each other by straits generally called "sounds" or "firths", though off the north-east of Hoy the designation "Bring Deeps" is used, south of "The Mainland" is Scapa Flow and to the south-west of Eday is found the Fall of Warness. The very names of the islands indicate their nature: the terminal "a" or "ay" represents the Norse ey, meaning "island", which is scarcely disguised even in the words "Pomona" (an older alternative name for The Mainland) and "Hoy". The islets are usually styled "holms" and the isolated rocks "skerries". The tidal currents, or races, or "roost" (as some of them are called locally, from the Icelandic) off many of the isles run with enormous velocity, and whirlpools are of frequent occurrence, and strong enough at times to prove a source of danger to small craft. The charm of Orkney does not lie in their ordinary physical features, so much as in beautiful atmospheric effects, extraordinary examples of light and shade, and rich coloration of cliff and sea. The islands are notable for the lack of trees, which is partly accounted for by the amount of wind (although the climate in general is temperate). The formation of peat is evidence that this was not always the case, and deliberate deforestation is believed to have taken place at some stage prior to the Neolithic, the use of stone in settlements such a


Dubris was the Roman name for which town ?

Roman Dover Home > Dover History > Roman Dover Roman Dover Roman Dover, the British port closest to the rest of the Roman Empire was a thriving town, thought to have covered at least a five hectare area along the Dour valley. The Romans called the town DUBRIS after DUBRAS, the British name meaning 'waters'. The Roman town had a large harbour, flanked by two lighthouses and three successive forts. Over 60 sites from the Roman period have been found in the Dover area. Sites which are open to the public include the Roman Painted House at Dover, the Roman lighthouse or Pharos in Dover Castle grounds and the Roman fort of Richborough near Sandwich. The museum holds a large collection of Roman Samian ware found in the area


Which state is nicknamed the 'Mother of Presidents' ?

The State of Virginia - An Introduction to the Old Dominion from NETSTATE.COM Old Dominion University, Norfolk The Old Dominion This nickname for the state of Virginia originated in Colonial days. Dominion refers to complete ownership of a particular piece of land or territory. Because he considered the Virginians "the best of his distant children," sometime around 1663, King Charles II of England elevated Virginia to the position of dominion along with England, Scotland, Ireland, and France. The citizens of Virginia were pleased with this elevated status because they considered themselves the most faithful of the King's settlements in America. Since their settlement was the oldest of King Charles' settlements in America, they adopted the name "The Old Dominion." A variation of this name is "The Ancient Dominion." Mother of Presidents Sometimes Virginia is called the "Mother of Presidents" because so many of the early presidents of the United States were native Virginians. Mother of Statesmen Because of the number of statesmen produced by Virginia, this nickname has been used. Mother of States Virginia has been called the "Mother of States" because she was the first of the states to be settled and because of the number of states that were "born" of the Virginia territory. West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and, even a part of Minnesota were all a part of the original Virginia territory. The Cavalier State This nickname is derived from the Cavaliers (supporters of King Charles I during the English Civil War) who left England and came to Virginia during, and shortly after, the reign of King Charles I of England. Down Where the South Begins Radio broadcasters referred to Virginia as "Down Where the South Begins" because of its location. Virginia is the most southern of the Middle Atlantic States. THE PRESIDENTS: Virginia earned the nickname, "Mother of Presidents" for good reason. Though her contribution wained after 1850, The Old Dominion gave birth to eight men who attained the office of President of the United States: George Washington: 1st President of the United States, George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, on Pope Creek in Westmoreland County. The nation's military leader during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was a unanimous choice. He served for two terms, from 1789 to 1797. [ More ] Thomas Jefferson: 3rd President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 at Shadwell plantation, Gooch County. Following John Adams of Massachusetts, Thomas Jefferson served two terms from 1801 to 1809. [ More ] James Madison: 4th President of the United States, James Madison was born on March 16, 1751 in Port Conway. He served two terms from 1809 to 1817. [ More ] James Monroe: 5th President of the United States, James Monroe was born in Westmoreland County on April 28, 1758. He served two terms from 1817 to 1825. [ More ] William Henry Harrison: 9th President of the United States, William Henry Harrison was born on February 9, 1773 on Berkeley plantation, Charles City County. His term in office was unfortunately short-lived as William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia on April 4, 1841, only one month after his inauguration. He was the first President to die while in office. [ More ] John Tyler: 10th President of the United States, Vice President John Tyler set the precedent for presidential succession when he took office after William Henry Harrison's death. He served the remainder of Harrison's term from 1841 to 1845. John Tyler was born on March 20, 1790 in Charles City County. [ More ] Zachary Taylor: 12th President of the United States, Zachary Taylor was born on November 24, 1784, near Barboursville. He became the second President to die in office when he succumbed to "cholera morbus" on July 9, 1850, only sixteen months after his inauguration. Vice President Millard Fillmore, a native New Yorker became the thirteenth President of the United States after Taylor's death. [ More ] Thomas Woodrow Wilson: 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilsong was


Gnomon | Definition of Gnomon by Merriam-Webster   Definition of gnomon 1 :  an object that by the position or length of its shadow serves as an indicator especially of the hour of the day: such asa :  the pin of a sundialb :  a column or shaft erected perpendicular to the horizon 2 :  the remainder of a parallelogram after the removal of a similar parallelogram containing one of its corners


In Norse mythology, what is the hall of the slain known as ?

Odin - Norse Mythology - Ancinet-Mythology.com Odin | Norse Mythology (also Woden or Wotan in Anglo-Saxon myth) Odin is the chief god of Germanic mythology. Son of Bor and Bestla , Odin was risen to favor mostly by the Vikings, and became known as the supreme god in the eighth and ninth centuries. The Vikings admired Odin's love for the battle, as he was known as the "father of the slain". Odin's prominence demonstrates the importance of warfare to Germanic traditions. Odin loved to cause conflicts and shifts of power. He once aided Harald, a Danish King, instructing him in tactics and granting him victories for years. In the king's final battle, however, Odin took the place of Harald's charioteer and drove the king to his demise. Although Odin embodied deceit, violence and war, he also embodied many admirable qualities. He was the most knowledgeable god, with a great love for wisdom. He would willingly sacrifice himself for it. With the threat of Ragnarok , the death of all gods, Odin built the Valhalla , a great hall of the "heroic dead". Odin would then gather heroes and warriors who were slain in battle, and bring them to Valhalla so they would fight alongside the gods on the Vigrid plain, in an attempt to strengthen and save the gods in the final battle against the frost giants at the time of Ragnarok. Odin was killed by a wolf, Fenrir , a monstrous offspring of the god Loki and the frost giantess Angrboda. When the Romans arrived in Germanic territory, they assumed that Odin was their messenger god, Mercury .


Which river, situated near the mouth of the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway, hosts over 5000 weddings each year ?

Guide to Rural Scotland - Dumfries & Galloway | Scotland | Museum Guide to Rural Scotland - Dumfries & Galloway View More People scurrying north along the M74 rarely turn off at Gretna and head for Dumfries and Galloway. This is a pity, as it is a wonderful area that can match anything in Scotland for beautiful scenery, grandeur and history.  Travel Publishing has made available Free of Charge digital editions of its popular series of Guide Books. These are available with working hyperlinks and for free download for personal use from http://www.findsomewhere.co.uk/PDF/PDF.htm Copyright: Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)   1  G u i   d   e  t   o  R  u r  a l   S  c  o  t   l   a n d    D U M F  R I   E S  A N D G A L  L  O W A Y F Looking for somewhere to stay, eat, drink or shop?  www.findsomewhere.co.uk    2  G u i   d   e  t   o  R  u r  a l   S  c  o  t   l   a n d    D U M F  R I   E S  A N D G A L  L  O W A Y F Looking for somewhere to stay, eat, drink or shop?  www.findsomewhere.co.uk  L  O CAT  OR MAP  Towns and Villages   Aepg 8Annanpg 23Ardwellpg 51Balmaclellanpg 34Beeswingpg 28Caerlaverockpg 22Cairn Holypg 41Cairnryanpg 44Canonbiepg 27Carsphairnpg 35Castle Douglaspg 35Chapel Finianpg 48Closeburnpg 8Creetownpg 41Crocketfordpg 28Dalbeattiepg 38Dalswintonpg 7Daltonpg 26Drumlanrig Castlepg 12Dumfriespg 5Dundrennanpg 40Dunscorepg 14Durisdeerpg 13Eastriggspg 25Ecclefechanpg 25Eliock Housepg 17Ellislandpg 8Eskdalemuirpg 19Gatehouse of Fleetpg 40Glenlucepg 44Glentroolpg 44Gretna Greenpg 25Grey Mare’s Tailpg 19Hightaepg 21Holywoodpg 7Keirpg 13Kippfordpg 38Kirkbeanpg 28Kirkconnelpg 17Kirkconnelpg 26Kirkcudbrightpg 29Kirkmadrinepg 51Kirkmaidenpg 52Kirkpatrick Flemingpg 26Kirtlebridgepg 26Langholmpg 20Loch Kenpg 33Lochmabenpg 21Lockerbiepg 21Moffatpg 18Moniaivepg 15Monreithpg 49New Abbeypg 27New Gallowaypg 33Newton Stewartpg 45Palnackiepg 38Penpontpg 13Port Loganpg 51Portpatrickpg 53Powfootpg 24Rockcliffepg 39Ruthwellpg 24Sanquharpg 16St John’s Town of Dalrypg 35Stranraerpg 43Thornhillpg 8Threave Castlepg 36Threave Gardenspg 37Tonglandpg 33Torthorwaldpg 22Tweedswellpg 19Twynholmpg 40Tynronpg 14Upper Nithsdalepg 17Wanlockheadpg 15Westerkirkpg 20Whithornpg 49Wigtownpg 47   3  G u i   d   e  t   o  R  u r  a l   S  c  o  t   l   a n d    D U M F  R I   E S  A N D G A L  L  O W A Y F Looking for somewhere to stay, eat, drink or shop?  www.findsomewhere.co.uk    People scurrying north along the M74 rarely turn off at Gretna and head for Dumfries andGalloway. This is a pity, as it is a wonderfularea that can match anything in Scotland forbeautiful scenery, grandeur and history. Thereare more than 200 miles of coastline withsmall coves, neat fishing ports, towering cliffsand wonderful sandy beaches. There also arebeautiful villages, old abbeys and castles, vibrant towns and country roads that meanderthrough soft, verdant scenery or climb up intobleak moorland landscapes that were made for walking. In the fields you will see herds of theregion’s own indigenous cattle - the BeltedGalloways, so called because they have a wide white band running round their bodies.Dumfries is the largest town in the area, andis a lovely place, full of old red sandstonebuildings and great shopping facilities. It is where Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, isburied, and any trip to Scotland should include Dumfries & Galloway a visit to St Michael’s Kirkyard to see hismausoleum. Kirkcudbright, because of thequality of light found there, has had an artists’colony since Victorian times, and is a graciousplace full of Regency and Georgian buildings. Wigtown is Scotland’s official book town, andStranraer, with its ferries, is a gateway toNorthern Ireland. Then there’s Lockerbie,forever associated with the air disaster of 1988. The area contains three former counties -Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire, and each one has its ownparticular charm. You can explore beautifulNithsdale in Dumfriesshire, for instance, and visit Drumlanrig Castle, one of the homes of the Duke of Queensberry and Buccleuch.Kirkcudbrightshire was the birthpl


Y Gogarth (or Pen Y Gogarth) is the welsh name for which prominent geographic feature in North Wales ?

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Which are of Tokyo, famous for its department stores, boutiques and restaurants, is one of the most luxurious shopping districts in the world ?

Official Tourism Guide for Japan Travel Asia Vacation Package Tokyo's Best Shopping Anyone who loves shopping knows that Tokyo is one of the most renowned shopping cities in the world. It should come as no surprise that Japanese people love style and fashion as designers from around the globe know that Tokyo is a hot spot for their label to be featured. It is here that well-established Japanese shops and famous brand names like Gucci, Chanel, Armani, Louis Vuitton, and others stand side by side on the various blocks that make up the center of the Ginza shopping area. Tokyo also serves as a hub of artistic ingenuity as art galleries and purely Japanese modern architecture are visible throughout the entire city. Ginza While the history of this region dates back to the Edo period, recent modernization efforts have made Ginza an even more desirable shopping destination with its high end stores, boutiques, and cafes. Exclusive, sophisticated brands and restaurants featuring delicacies from all over the world can be seen throughout the area. Several fashion labels have commissioned their own personal restaurants in Ginza, with locales such as the Gucci Café and the Armani restaurant attracting visitors looking for a gourmet break from a day of shopping. During the weekends, Ginza employs the use of hokosha tengoku, or closed-off pedestrian streets, so that weekend shoppers have a chance to browse many stores of the renowned shopping region without having to worry about traffic congestion. Harajuku and Omotesando Harajuku's high fashion boutiques and branded shops make this area a hot spot for pop culture and new, cutting edge styles. On "Omotesando Hills", you'll find about 100 famous-brand shops including "Anniversaire Omotesando" popular for its limited-edition champagne and chocolate, as well as Prada, Louis Vuitton and Dior boutiques competing to express their individuality even through their architecture. Roppongi Roppongi has both aspects as an office town and an entertainment center that never sleeps. Since there are numerous embassies in the vicinity, many of the shops, bars and restaurants have international flavors and cater to people from other countries. Roppongi Hills, one of Japan's newest commercial developments, has over 200 shops and restaurants making it a great place to spend the day exploring local Japanese culture. http://www.roppongihills.com/ Shinjuku This is one of the busiest towns in Japan, with its train station reportedly handling the largest number of passengers in the world. Department stores, electrical appliance megastores and huge book stores fan out around the station and are constantly filled with customers. In the underground mall, there are dozens of shops where you might find an unexpected bargain. The "Don Quixote" discount store is located along Yasukuni Dori (Ave.) at the east exit, and to the north of this store is the Kabuki-cho bright lights district, crowded with restaurants, adult entertainment spots, arcades and theaters. On the west exit side are the Tokyo Metropolitan Government buildings, super-high-rise buildings and first-class hotels. Enjoy the night view from the free observatory at the top of the Metropolitan Government building or from one of the skyscraper restaurants. Shibuya One of Japan's busiest towns, Shibuya is extremely popular with young people. There are department stores, restaurants and specialty shops; casual fashion shops in particular have a high profile as typified by the "SHIBUYA 109" fashion building. Each street has its own characteristic look; for example, Koen Dori (Ave.) has the "Seibu Department Store" and "Parco", Bunkamura Dori (Ave.) has the "Tokyu Department Store", and Spain Zaka (Hill Road) has small clothing boutiques and miscellaneous goods shops. On "Center Gai or Center Street", the street extending from the station, there is a constant stream of young people strolling past the fast food shops, shoe stores, and accessory and cosmetics shops. Fashion shops recently started opening up on Meiji Dori (Ave.), so you can enjoy window shopping wh