Who invented the system of shorthand writing?

Shorthand (Pitman, Gregg, Teeline) Search Shorthand Shorthand is any system of rapid handwriting which can be used to transcribe the spoken word. Shorthand systems use a variety of techniques including simplifying existing letters or characters and using special symbols to represent phonemes, words and phrases. A brief history of shorthand systems Ever since the invention of writing scribes have used various techniques to enable them to take notes quickly and efficiently. The Ancient Egyptians devised two scripts, Hieratic and Demotic , as alternatives to their complex Hieroglyphic script, which was used mainly for monumental inscriptions. Both Hieratic and Demotic worked on the same principles as the Hieroglyphs but the symbols were considerably simplified. During the 4th century BC, the Greeks devised a number of symbol systems which reduced letters to a single stroke and which could also be used to represent common words, suffixes and prefixes. Such systems are generally referred to as stenography (narrow writing), brachygraphy (short writing) or tachygraphy (swift writing). Their purpose was to make writing more compact and/or faster. One shorthand system popular with the Romans was Tironian Notes or Notae Tironianae, which was invented by Cicero's secretary Tiro in order to record Cicero's speeches. It used a combination of simplified letters and special symbols and was used in Europe in various forms until the Middle Ages. During the Han Dynasty (207BC - 220AD) the Chinese devised two methods of rapid writing known as xíngshū (running script) and căoshū (draft script). In the Running script some of the strokes that make up characters are joined and others are left out. In the Draft script each character is written with a single continuous stroke and there is considerable variation in how this is done. As a result, the Draft script is very difficult to read without special training. Attempts have been made to standardise the way the characters are written in the Draft script but they have not met with popular acclaim. Modern shorthand systems There are a number of different shorthand systems currently in use. The most popular ones include: Pitman Shorthand Pitman Shorthand was devised by Sir Isaac Pitman (1813-1897) and was first published in 1837. Over the years is has been gradually improved and has been also adapted for 15 different languages. The system was widely used in the UK and USA by secretaries, reporters and writers, but lost popularity with the invention of pocket tape recorders. Notable features Pitman is phonetic: it records the sounds of speech rather than the spelling. For example, the sound [f] in form, elephant and rough is written in the same way for each word. Vowel sounds are optional and are written with small dots, dashes or other shapes next to the main strokes. This helps increase writing speed because most words can be identified from their consonants only. The thickness, length and position of the strokes are all significant. There are many special abbreviations and other tricks to increase writing speed. The record for fast writing with Pitman shorthand is 350 wpm during a two-minute test by Nathan Behrin in 1922. Pitman consonants Sample text in Pitman 'Translation' All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. (Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) Gregg Shorthand Gregg was invented by John Robert Gregg (1867-1948) and was first published in 1888. Since then many different versions have appeared, including some for languages other than English. Gregg is still used, particularly in the USA. Notable features Gregg is phonetic: it records the sounds of speech rather than the spelling. For example, the sound [f] in form, elephant and rough is written in the same way for each word. Vowels are written as hooks and circles on the consonants. Gregg consonants


Which military leader had a spaniel called Rommel?

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What was the first name of Captain Mainwaring in the TV Series Dad's Army?

Captain George Mainwaring | Dad's Army Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit George Mainwaring was born in 1885. He is a pompous, blustering figure with overdeveloped sense of his importance, fuelled by his social status in Walmington-on-Sea as the bank manager, and his status as Captain and commander of the local Home Guard volunteer unit. He believes in following rules and orders to sometimes ludicrous degrees. He is class conscious and a snob, considering himself upper-middle class and looking down on anyone he considers beneath him, which may be because he struggled to rise above his working class background. His pretensions stand in contrast to Wilson , who is genuinely Upper Middle Class, Mainwaring is often bitter about Wilson's having attending public school, believing it made him 'wet', while his own state-school background is an attribute. Mainwaring and Wilson's relationship is mainly based on the fact that Mainwaring has always had to struggle and fight for everything in his life, whereas Wilson has just sat back and let it all come to him, (despite being a strong autocrat, Mainwaring fully believes that people should work and earn everything they get in life). Mainwaring is prudish and repressed, and can be judgemental about people who do not share his moral outlook. Mainwaring Mainwaring's pomposity and snobbery work against him, as he is frequently dependent on those he considers beneath him, and his arrogance is frequently punctured by circumstance and the people around him, such as Arthur Wilson , his chief clerk with whom he shares an antagonistic friendship, and Private Walker , a black-marketeer who interjects during Mainwaring's lectures with a quip or a sly revelation that Mainwaring is benefitting from underhanded deals. Mainwaring is particularly jealous of Wilson, who is more relaxed and charming and possesses combat experience that Mainwaring does not, and takes every opportunity to remind his sergeant who is the senior. As a bank manager, he is efficient if ruthless and stingy; as a military commander he is barely competent, confused by the 24-hour clock, and his plans result in chaos. Mainwaring has no combat experience, which causes tension with the other members of the Home Guard, particularly Wilson, who was a decorated Captain of World War I. (In World War II, John Le Mesurier who played Wilson, had been a Captain while Arthur Lowe was a Sergeant Major). He did, however, serve in the army of occupation in France, "during the whole of 1919 — somebody had to clear up the mess." (He tried to enlist in 1914 but was rejected with poor eyesight; Arthur Lowe tried to enlist in the Merchant Navy prior to World War II but was also rejected with poor eyesight.) Despite his shortcomings as a leader, Mainwaring considers himself an excellent military tactician. His height and background is frequently demonstrated to show a Napoleon Complex; he is frequently referred to as 'Napoleon' by his nemesis Hodges . In one episode, A Soldier's Farewell , Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon Bonaparte , and is thwarted at the Waterloo by a Duke of Wellington looking like Wilson. His pomposity and conviction of his prowess see Mainwaring yearn to be in control of any situation, and he behaves in an arrogant manner; this is demonstrated by the first episode, in which he organised the Home Guard unit and appointed himself commanding officer despite lack of experience or qualifications (and had to wait until the episode Room at the Bottom before he received his commission). In Command Decision he was prepared to relinquish control so the platoon could gain rifles, arguing defence of the country was more important than his ego. In addition he was prepared to "march in the ranks as Private Mainwaring" when he was briefly de-commissioned. This implied he was more overzealous than a control freak. Mainwaring's patriotism can lead to xenophobia (he is not keen on the French because they are emotional, the Russians because their communism, and the Germans and the Italians because of them being such deadly enemies). Mainwaring o


Tim Curry played Dr Frank-N-Furter in which 1978 musical film?

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) - 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 The Rocky Horror Picture Show ( 1975 ) R | A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 31 titles created 31 Jul 2011 a list of 47 titles created 10 Sep 2011 a list of 41 titles created 07 Oct 2013 a list of 22 titles created 02 Aug 2015 a list of 33 images created 20 Dec 2015 Title: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) 7.4/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 2 wins & 4 nominations. See more awards  » Videos A straitlaced, square couple, seeking shelter from a storm, find themselves in the castle of a transgender alien mad scientist intent on creating a buff bodybuilder. Director: Kenny Ortega Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance? Director: Randal Kleiser A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed. Director: Frank Oz A live stage production of the musical, filmed at the Playhouse Theatre in London, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the release of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). Director: Christopher Luscombe A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets. Director: Baz Luhrmann A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. Director: Bob Fosse Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. Directors: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise Stars: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago. Director: Rob Marshall Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again. Director: John Carpenter A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a "bio-exorcist" in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house. Director: Tim Burton Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George. Director: Mark Waters A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation. Director: Tim Burton Edit Storyline It's the weird and wonderful as newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter a problem when their car halts in the rain. They both look for contact, only to find themselves at the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite. A place to stay is offered, but will Brad and Janet want to remain there? Especially when a large group of Transylvanians dance to the 'Time Warp', Dr. Frank-N-Furter builds his own man and a whole host of participation for the audience to enjoy. Written by simon A Different Set Of Jaws. See more  » Genres: 31 August 1975 (Italy) See more  » Also Known As: Orgía de horror y locura See more  » Filming Locations: (edited) Sound Mix: Chace Surround (Remix for video release)| Mono (35 mm optical prints)| 4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints) Color: Did You Know? Trivia Tim Curry was very reluctant to talk about the film for years due to some not-very-good memories about his more rabid fans. He even told VH-1 that he grew "chubby and plain" in order to try escaping the role of Frank. These days, he's more open to talk about the film and even sees it as a "Rite of


Which operatic heroine dies at the hands of the soldier Don Jose?

Maria Alvarez on why, of all the seductive heroines in opera, Carmen breathes the most fire | Music | The Guardian Share on Messenger Close Opera has more than its fair share of femmes fatales: Lulu, Salome, Manon Lescaut. The medium suits the highs and lows, the emotional roller-coaster wreaked by the dangerous siren. But Bizet's Carmen knocks all the others for six. The bewitching Sevillana Gypsy is a destructive, exhilarating life-and-death force who breathes fire into the stock archetype and raises the femme fatale to mythical proportions. She is also, arguably, the most contemporary in flavour, the tragic factory worker who brings to the fore themes of race, class and female agency. Bizet's opera is an evergreen favourite. Like the character herself, the role is a gift and a curse, for she's a superstar among operatic heroines, her name forever spotlit in the general imagination. But that was not always so. Few established divas were willing to take the role on for its first production, scared off by the scandalous reception afforded to the libretto. Eventually Celestine Galli-Marie agreed, and Carmen opened at Paris's Opéra Comique in March 1875. Audiences and critics reacted badly, deeming the material immoral and its musical boldness - the blend of opera comique and the tragic - a slap in the face to classical French style. By June of that year, Bizet was dead, at 36, his heart failure perhaps hastened by his depression at the cold reception accorded to his masterpiece. There's something rather tragically fitting here: the idea of Carmen, the scandalous enchantress, contriving somehow to have a part in the death of her creator. Her original creator was the French writer Prosper Mérimée, whose 1845 novel was based on a true story told to him by the Countess Montijo, a Spanish aristocrat, about a woman from Seville. And location certainly adds to Carmen's allure. Seville was almost a byword in the 18th and 19th centuries for passion and exotic "otherness". Mozart and Rossini had each based operas in the southern Spanish city, and Mérimée was just one of many cultured northern European travellers who were both entranced and appalled by the vibrancy, and the chaotic "filth" of Seville's streetlife - not to mention its women. Romance, adventure, spectacle - all the outsider's perceived qualities of the fiery, transgressive south accompany Bizet's heroine. She sparkles amid bullfights, catfights, dancing, brawls, and a smuggling ring. In her local, Lillas Pastia's bar, she is treated like royalty. And then there's the story: her seduction of the conscientious young soldier, Don Jose, who helps her escape jail after a knife-fight with another worker, deserts his army post and becomes a bandit at her insistence - only for her to grow bored with him and take off with a smitten matador, Escamillo. As Escamillo himself advises Jose: "Carmen's loves last six months." The most fascinating femme fatales are perverse and self-aware. Carmen is at once impetuous and capable of frank self-commentary, frequently admitting to being a "devil". She counsels Jose to go home to mummy with his virtuous former love Micaela for his own good. (Admittedly she's gone off him by them, deeming him a cowardly "canary".) Fatal woman are invariably preceded by either a reputation, or a thick veil of mystery. In our first glimpse of her, as she leaves the tobacco factory at the end of her shift, smoking with the desultory sassiness of the worst bad girl, Carmen is pursued by a crowd of adoring youths. She, "Carmencita", is the most famous of the factory girls. Like the ghetto-star she is, she takes to Jose because of his initial indifference to her charms, and in the famous Habañera she sings with worldly-wise charm about the paradoxical mechanics of desire: comparing love to a rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and issuing the warning: "If you don't love me, I love you - and if I love you, beware". Of course, Bizet's irresistible heroine - or antiheroine - is greatly aided by the passionate exuberance of the score and those harmonic rhythms of


What was the name of the ship that picked up over 700 survivors from the Titanic?

Titanic | National Museum of American History Titanic Titanic Clearing Southampton, SI Negative #34,460 Since the ocean liner Titanic sank on its maiden or first voyage, there are very few original pictures of the ship in existence. Most of the photographs that do exist were taken in the Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, while the ship was under construction. There is one that shows the new ocean liner entering the port of Southampton, England with the help of tugboats, several weeks before the ship was to take on passengers. There are also a few taken of the huge new ship as it cleared that port on its maiden voyage on 10 April 1912 with a full load of passengers. The Smithsonian owns one of the last of these photographs, showing the starboard or right side of the ship against the wharf. The wave at the bow of the vessel indicates that it is already picking up speed, as it readies for the open ocean. Carpathia, the ship that rescued the Titanic survivors Both the British and the Americans held formal inquiries and hearings on the Titanic loss. The investigations revealed that although several vessels heard Titanic's distress call and one was closer even than Carpathia when the call went out, only Carpathia responded in time to rescue survivors. As a result, Carpathia saved more than 700 Titanic passengers. The ships that returned to the area of the wreck site later only found bodies and debris from the Titanic that had floated up from the depths. "Titanic - Introduction" showing 9 items.


Which English bowler has taken the most wickets (46) in an Ashes series?

List of leading wicket takes : Most wickets in Ashes 2013. - Fast Cricket. List of leading wicket takes : Most wickets in Ashes 2013. Tag Ashes 2013 Batsmen may get most of the lime-light, its the bowlers who seal the match, specially in tests where it's mandatory to take 20 wickets to seal the victory.. In Ashes, a test series that's been going on for over a century now, Jim Laker holds the record of most wickets in a series, dismissing 46 Aussies during that 1956 tour. Laker, the England off-spinner who retired with 193 wickets from 46 tests, got 19 wickets in that Manchester test match alone. He got a total of 4 five wicket hauls and 2 ten wicket hauls on that series and set the record so high that it hasn't been breached since then. Terry Alderman holds the Australian record with 42 wickets in 1981 series. Alderman didn't get a single ten-for and only 4 five-fors, which shows how consistent he was even every inning to almost match Laker's record. Rodney Hogg, a right arm fast bowler from Victoria who only played 38 tests, Alderman once again in 1989 and Shane Warne, the best leg spinner to have played the game, are other bowlers to take 40 or more wickets in an Ashes series. Note that Hogg and Alderman got 6 tests, while rest only had 5. In Ashes 2013, Graeme Swann started the series slowly but turned it around in the middle, taking two five wicket hauls but Ryan Harris later emerged as a someone out of the blue, inspiring Aussie bowling attack, sadly for not many results. Stuart Broad and Peter Siddle surprising took over James Anderson who was tipped to be the best bowler in the series but has fell behind. Shane Watson bowled very economically, without many wickets. Most wickets | Leading wicket takers in Ashes 2013 so far. Bowler (Country) 5th ODI : Aussies claim the one day series to continue the pattern. Is it that winning the urn undermines the value of following ODI series or country that wins the Ashes surely has better test side and hence a lesser ODI side? The fact remains, the last time a team won the Ashes as well as the following ODI series was Australia, 4th ODI : England survive McKay's hat-trick to square the series. Often we'll hear commentators joke that the team bowling is fast losing the contest and need a hat-trick but do 3 wickets back to back really assure a win? not really. Today at Cardiff, Clint McKay claimed three wickets off three balls very early in the inning as Aussies came out 3rd ODI : Rain ruins the contest that Aussies were dominating. Aussies will go home blaming themselves for losing Ashes series but rain did hamper their chances in couple of tests and it still isn't favoring them. As soon as limited overs formats have began, visitors seem to have found their mojo but rain washed out 1st ODI and today again, 2nd ODI : Captain Clarke leads the way, Aussies draw first blood. There's a certain mix of caution and aggression that a team needs to find in order to excel in limited over formats. Aussie batsmen, who struggled through the test series, seems to found that perfect blend recently, scoring freely without gifting wickets to oppositon. After explosive show in 1st T20 1st ODI : Persistent rain forces no result without a ball bowled. This is the final leg of English summer but we hardly had any warmth in the weather today as it poured down at Headingley and forced umpires to call off this 1st ODI between England and Australia as a no result.. It was coming down heavily overnight and puddles were


Who lived under the name of Sebastian Melmoth at the Hotel d'Alsace?

Setup Northern Iowa   This article was first published in Victorians Institute Journal 28 [2000]:ï¿½ 39-63, and is here reprinted by the generous permission of VIJ www.vcu.edu/vij and of the author, who has very kindly contributed a new foreword.   v      Samuel Lyndon Gladden is an Associate Professor and the Coordinator of Graduate Studies in English at the University of Northern Iowa , where he teaches classes on nineteenth-century British literature and culture and literary theory.ï¿½ His publications include Shelleyï¿½s Textual Seductions:ï¿½ Plotting Utopia in the Erotic and Political Works (Routledge, 2002) and an edition of Wildeï¿½s The Importance of Being Earnest (Broadview, forthcoming).ï¿½ He has also published articles on Shelley and Wilde as well as on Mary Shelley, Wilkie Collins, and Bram Stoker.ï¿½ For more information about Dr. Gladdenï¿½s publications and other professional activities, see www.uni.edu/english/web/GladdenSamuel.htm . v      Endnote references are given thus (1), hyperlinked to the endnote.ï¿½ Other numbers in the text refer to pages in the works cited.ï¿½ Some other small changes in format have been made for stylistic or web publishing purposes, but the text is unaltered.   I.     ï¿½Foreword   Exactly seven years ago, as I concluded my first week as a newly hired Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa , I received on Friday afternoon a copy of the Victorians Institute Journal, which featured my essay on Wildeï¿½s Parisian exile.ï¿½ Such an end to such an exciting first weekï¿½a new job, a new town, new colleagues and friendsï¿½remains fresh in my mind as one of the most thrilling moments in my professional life.ï¿½ Now, exactly seven years later, as I sit down to write a note to accompany the republication of my essay in The Oscholars, I find myself once again at the conclusion of the first week of the fall semester, a coincidence that reminds me of the ways in which my years at UNI have fostered and rewarded my continuing work on Wilde, both in print and in the classroom.   As I write in the essay, ï¿½Wildeï¿½s exile, though certainly compromised by poverty, personal struggles, and professional humiliation, nonetheless afforded him the pleasure of the spectacle of revolution [. . .], the subversive victory of Wilde-as-ï¿½Sebastian Melmothï¿½.ï¿½ï¿½ As ï¿½a walking, talking, text-to-be-read,ï¿½ Wilde functioned as ï¿½a kind of embodied narrative, a corporeal code,ï¿½ and his exilic pseudonym ï¿½operate[d . . .] as a screen upon which an entire constellation [. . .] of fin-de-siï¿½cle anxietiesï¿½ appeared.ï¿½ In both person and experience, the exilic Wilde ï¿½embodied the conditions of excess that framed the nineteenth centuryï¿½the excesses of the French Revolution and their textual embodiment in the form of the Gothic, and the excesses of fin-de-siï¿½cle decadence and their corporeal embodiment in the figure of Wilde himself.ï¿½ï¿½ For me, Wilde stands as a nexus of two forms, the textual and the corporeal, that offer occasions and opportunities for subversion.   Recent scholarship has urged for a reconsideration of the ways in which we understand, classify, and represent the meanings and effects of Wildeï¿½s life and work.ï¿½ In his essay ï¿½Biography and the Art of Lyingï¿½ (The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde, ed. Peter S. Raby, Cambridge, 1997), Merlin Holland writes that Wilde ï¿½confessed that he lived in permanent fear of not being misunderstood,ï¿½ that Wildeï¿½s was ï¿½not a life which can tolerate an either/or approach with logical conclusions, but demands the flexibility of a both/and treatment, often raising questions for which there are no answersï¿½ (3, 4).ï¿½ Likewise, in his introduction to The Aesthetics of Self-Invention:ï¿½ Oscar Wilde to David Bowie (University of Minnesota Press, 2004), Shelton Waldrep suggests that ï¿½the definition we have of Wildeï¿½our current general assessment of his workï¿½is not only in flux but in need of radical rethinking and a comprehensive reformulationï¿½ (xiii). For Waldrep, ï¿½Wildeï¿½s belief in the


The Jaffa Gate or Bab al-Khalil is an entrance to which famous city?

Jaffa Gate (Bab al-Khalil) (Jerusalem, Israel): Top Tips Before You Go - TripAdvisor “Busy, historical entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem” Reviewed 2 weeks ago This is a great place to meet people. I also recommend taking the rampart walk around the city (north ramparts are the best). (Purchase tickets for a nominal price right by the gate.) There is a coffee shop where you can sit and watch people. This is the gate Gen. Allenby and his men, entered when the British took the... More  Helpful?


Juliet, Cupid and Desdemona are moons of which planet?

Uranus Moons Jupiter Facts Uranus Moons Uranus has 27 known moons (satellites). All of it’s moons compositions are generally rock and ice.  Uranus’s moons are generally categorized as the Inner Moons (13), Major Moons (5) and Irregular Moons (9). The Inner Moons are named Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda, Perdita, Puck and Mab. The Major Moons are named Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon. The Irregular Moons are named Francisco, Caliban, Stephano, Trinculo, Sycorax, Margaret, Prospero, Setebos and Ferdinand. Some of these names may look familiar to you, a matter of fact, all of Uranus’s moons are named after characters from Alexander Pope and William Shakespeare works. Titania Uranus’s largest moon is Titania with a diameter of 1,577.8 km or 980 miles and a mass of 3.42 x 1021 kg. This makes it the eighth largest moon in our solar system (less than half the size of Earth’s moon). Titania was discovered on January 11, 1787 by William Herschel. Its distance from Uranus is 436,300 km or 271,104 miles and takes 8.7 Earth days to make 1 complete orbit around Uranus. Titania’s orbit around Uranus is almost a perfect circle with the orbit eccentricity at 0.0011 and is closest (Periapsis) to the planet at 435,820 km or 270,805 miles and farthest (Apoapsis) from the planet at 436,780 km or 271,402 miles. The orbit inclination is only 0.079°, which means it’s North pole is getting about 42 years of straight sunlight and about 42 years of straight darkness. You’ll remember that Uranus is on its side so when the moons orbit the planet they are actually moving in a vertical manner compared to the horizontal manner we are accustomed to here on Earth. The density of Titania is 1.662 g/cm3, which is less than half the density of Earth’s moon. Miranda Another moon of Uranus that is interesting is Miranda. It was discovered on February 16, 1948 by Gerard P. Kuiper. Its distance from Uranus is 129,900 km or 80,716 miles and takes 1.413 Earth days to make 1 complete orbit around the planet. Miranda’s average diameter is 471.6 km or 293 miles with a mass of 6.5941 x 1019 kg. Sounds boring so far, what’s so interesting about it? Well if you like the Grand Canyon, then you’ll definitely like Miranda. This moon’s fault canyons can be more than 10 times as deep as the Grand Canyon. Scientists are not sure why such a rigid surface exists on Miranda, where some believe it may be from other objects crashing into it which would raise the partially melted ice to the surface causing this rigid formation. Building on this possible theory since about 42 years are in straight sunlight for each pole the Sun may play some role in helping the ice melt when foreign objects crash into it. Ariel What’s Uranus’s brightest moon? That would be Ariel, which was discovered on October 24, 1851 by William Lassell. Its distance from Uranus is 190,900 km or 118,620 miles and takes 2.52 Earth days to make 1 complete orbit around the planet. Ariel’s average diameter is 1,157.8 km or 719.4 miles with a mass of 1.2948 x 1021 kg. Its composition is believed to be about 50% ice and 50% rock. Ariel’s other notable feature is its long canyons which run across its surface. The reason for these unique canyons is unknown. Some scientists rule out it being from water because at these temperatures it is very difficult for water to form. However one must also think that if a large asteroid came colliding with Ariel, enough heat could be produced from the collision which would temporarily melt the ice. Umbriel Ever wonder what a fluorescent cheerio would look like on a moon. Then look at Uranus’s moon Umbriel which has a bright ring spot on it. One of the theories behind this distinctive feature is it was impacted by some large object which caused the inner material (which is brighter than the surface) of the moon to surface. But that is still a mystery on why it has that bright ring. Umbriel was discovered in the year 1851 by William Lassell. Its distance from Uranus is 266,000 km or 16


Which salad dressing is named after an archipelago in the St Lawrence River?

A Thousand Islands and One Heart - latimes A Thousand Islands and One Heart Charles Hillinger's America November 26, 1989 |CHARLES HILLINGER | TIMES STAFF WRITER HEART ISLAND, N.Y. — Thousand Island salad dressing was named after the Thousand Islands, a group of islands scattered along a 50-mile path of the St. Lawrence River that separates New York State from Ontario, Canada. There are actually 1,800 islands in the archipelago, a third in the United States, two-thirds in Canada. Of all the Thousand Islands, Heart Island is perhaps the most intriguing. Its legacy is a fascinating but sad love story. It was purchased at the turn of the century by millionaire George Boldt, the manager of the Waldorf Astoria, who set about having the 5-acre island dredged in the shape of a heart as a demonstration of his love for his wife, Louise. Then from 1900 to 1904 Boldt employed a work force of 300 men to construct a replica of a 6-story, 120-room German castle in the middle of the island. To furnish the castle, the Boldts made several trips to Europe, spending a fortune on statues, paintings, tapestries, furniture, rugs, mosaics, dinnerware and carvings. Boldt had hundreds of hearts carved on the exterior and interior of the castle as expressions of his great love for Louise. By 1904 some $2.5 million had been spent on the structure. The exterior was about complete, and masons, electricians, carpenters and painters were busy on the inside when a telegram from Boldt arrived at the castle, instructing the workmen to lay down their tools. Their job was done. That was the day Louise Boldt, 45, died of consumption. The castle stood vacant, unfinished. Boldt never set foot on Heart Island again. He died in 1916. The castle slowly deteriorated over the years until 1978 when the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority, operators of the 8-mile international bridge connecting the United States and Canada and crossing over to the islands, purchased Heart Island and the castle. For $3 the bridge authority allows visitors to tour the Heart Island grounds and see the inside of the castle. Shane Sanford, who manages the island, reports that $4 million have been spent in stabilizing and restoring the castle the past three years. "We expect it will take at least another $5 million to bring the castle, the grounds and the other structures on Heart Island to the condition they were in when Mrs. Boldt died," Sanford said. At the turn of the century, many of America's wealthiest families had mansions on these islands, including the Kelloggs of breakfast food fame, the Heinemans of Buster Brown Shoes, George Pullman of railroads sleeping cars. President Ulysses S. Grant vacationed on Pullman's island. More than 300 of the islands are less than an acre, big enough only for a home and a dock. Just-Room-Enough is one of the the tiny one-house islands. Lone Tree Island has a house and one tree. Paul Quackenbush, 53, has the only house on Friendly Island where he lives year-round. It's 2.1 acres. Ships from all over the world sail within a few feet of Quackenbush's shoreline home. "We can almost reach out and shake hands with the captain on the bridge of the large ships, sailing from England, France, Italy, Russia, China, from all over the world to Great Lakes ports," said Quackenbush. "My two sons, Pieter, 5, and Tony, 9, amuse themselves by keeping a log with the names of the ships, where they're from, when they went by. We wave to people on the ships. They wave back. Sometimes a ship will blast a long and two shorts--which means hello--as they go by the house." Quackenbush commutes to work by motorboat except during the winter months when he walks across the frozen river the quarter mile to the mainland. The St. Lawrence Seaway is not open December to April when the river is full of ice. Larry Cuppernal and his wife, Catherine, moved to Grindstone, one of the larger islands, 13 years ago. "We came here because we didn't want our kids growing up on the streets with drug problems," explained Cuppernal. They have eight children who range in age from 10 to 22. Until


In the pantomime, what told Dick Whittington to turn again?

It's Behind You - Dick Whittington   THE FAIRY TALE? Well actually the Origins of the story of �Dick  Whittington� will not be found in any book of fairy tales. The pantomime is  the only one based on a true subject. There actually was a  Richard  Whittington, and he did become (Lord) Mayor of London in the late 14th and early 15th centuries. �Dick Whittington� is also one of the few �home grown�  pantomime subjects. Whereas many owe their origins and popularity to French,  Italian and other European folk stories and fairy tales, the pantomime  version is taken from Great Britain, along with Robinson Crusoe and Babes in  The Wood. Arguably �Jack and The Beanstalk� is also British in origin, but  this could be disputed. THE STORY OF DICK  WHITTINGTON Richard  Whittington was born somewhere around 1350, legend has it at Pauntley Court  in Gloucestershire. He was not, however the penniless boy he is depicted in  pantomime, but was in fact the son of an Alderman - Sir William Whittington  of Pauntley. He arrived in London around 1379, and began to deal in costly  textiles, and became an extremely wealthy merchant. In fact, his wealth was such, that he made loans to both  King Henry IV and Henry VI. He made large charitable donations, including  the founding of the Whittington School in London, the rebuilding of Newgate  Gaol, and an almshouse for the poor. He married the daughter of an Alderman - Alice  Fitzwarren, (or Fitzwaryn) and became an Alderman himself, before  taking the honorary title of Sheriff in 1393. It was under the patronage of King Richard II that he  became Lord Mayor of London in 1397, and later again in 1406 and 1419. He  became a member of parliament in 1416. Sadly nearly all of Whittington�s good works were  destroyed in the Great Fire of London (1666). There is, however a  window in the Guildhall serving as a memorial, and a small stone image in  the crypt. DICK WHITTINGTON'S CAT: How  a cat came to feature so heavily in the pantomime version is not clear. He  may well have had a cat, but certainly it does not feature in any accounts  of his life. Possibly the answer lies in his life as a merchant. Ships  feature in the pantomime, and Whittington was a merchant. His fortune  depended on the sailing vessels bringing goods from Africa and the Far East.  More humble sailing vessels carrying coal were known as �Cats�, so that  could be one reason the story became confused with the humble moggy. Another  theory is that the French word �Achat�, which means �A Purchase�  might have found itself intertwined in his legend. Interestingly  though, when Newgate prison was rebuilt (under the terms of Whittington�s will) a figure of a cat was carved over one of the gates. In 1572 a  cat appeared carved on a chariot presented by Whittington to the guld of  merchants. History has it that there was once a portrait of  Richard  Whittington that showed him holding a black cat in one hand, and a white cat  in the other. On Highgate Hill (the spot where legend has it he  stood and decided to return to London) stands a statue of his cat, in  front of the �Whittington Hospital�. THE RATS: The pantomime version has the villain depicted as �King  Rat�. It is Whittington�s cat who destroys all the rats in the Sultan�s  Palace, and indeed in his Kingdom, and this act makes Dick Whittington his  vast fortune- half the wealth of the Sultan in return. More likely the very shadow and spectre of the rats,  bringing plague to London frequently made them the ideal villains for  legend. When Samuel Pepys wrote in his Diary of 1668  �To Southwark Fair, very dirty, and there saw the  puppet show of Whittington, which was pretty to see� The  Great Plague had only recently abated in London  three years previously.  Londoners would have no problem associating the rodents with arch villainy. THE LEGEND: The legend of Dick Whittington follows the classic basis  of a Fairy Tale, and indeed a pantomime. The Poor boy makes good through  some heroic or magical deed. By rewarding others he achieves a


Whose diary was first published in 1947 under the title 'Het Achterhuis'?

Anne Frank's Diary is First Published in the Netherlands as Het Achterhuis | World History Project 1947 Anne Frank's Diary is First Published in the Netherlands as Het Achterhuis Otto Frank gave the diary to the historian Annie Romein-Verschoor, who tried unsuccessfully to have it published. She then gave it to her husband Jan Romein, who wrote an article about it, titled "Kinderstem" ("A Child's Voice"), published in the newspaper Het Parool on 3 April 1946. He wrote that the diary "stammered out in a child's voice, embodies all the hideousness of fascism, more so than all the evidence at Nuremberg put together" His article attracted attention from publishers, and the diary was published in the Netherlands as Het Achterhuis in 1947, followed by a second run in 1950. It was first published in Germany and France in 1950, and after being rejected by several publishers, was first published in the United Kingdom in 1952. The first American edition was published in 1952 under the title Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and was positively reviewed. It was successful in France, Germany and the United States, but in the United Kingdom it failed to attract an audience and by 1953 was out of print. Its most noteworthy success was in Japan where it received critical acclaim and sold more than 100,000 copies in its first edition. In Japan, Anne Frank quickly became identified as an important cultural figure who represented the destruction of youth during the war.


In what sport would participants perform a vertical suplex?

Suplex | CAW Wrestling Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Professional wrestling features many different varieties of suplexes. The following are among the most common, but many more exist, particularly as the signature techniques of individual wrestlers. Front facelock variants Edit In these suplexes, the wrestlers begin by facing each other, the attacking wrestler then applies a Front facelock to the opponent before executing a throw. In most cases, the opponent is suspended upside-down during part of the move. The most common front facelock suplex is the vertical suplex . Fisherman suplex Edit Also spelled as a fisherman's suplex and also known as a cradle suplex. This move has been more recently used by Beth Phoenix, with a stalling version instead of a pin. With their opponent in a front facelock with the near arm draped over the attacker's shoulder, the wrestler hooks the opponent's near leg behind the opponent's knee with his/her free arm and falls backwards, flipping the opponent onto his/her back. The attacker usually keeps the leg hooked and bridges to pin the opponent in a cradle-like position, or applies a leglock submission hold . Swinging fisherman suplex Edit Also known as Swinging Fisherman Neckbreaker and the Golden Gate Swing. A swinging variation of the normal fisherman suplex, this move sees a wrestler, with their opponent in a front facelock with the near arm draped over their shoulder, hook the opponent's near leg with their free arm and roll over to one side, flipping the opponent over onto their back. Rolling release suplex Edit This suplex starts with the attacking wrestler applying a front face lock to his/her opponent and draping the opponent's near arm over his/her shoulder, then lifting him/her up in the vertical position, at this point the face lock is partly released as the attacker falls forward, the momentum of the attacker forces the opponent to roll out of the face lock and drop back-first down to the mat. Slingshot suplex Edit The attacker faces a standing opponent with one side of the ring immediately behind the opponent. The attacker applies a front facelock to the opponent, takes hold of the opponent with his/her free hand, then lifts the opponent until he/she is nearly vertical. The attacker then falls forward so that the torso of the opponent bounces off the top ring rope, and uses this momentum to quickly lift the opponent overhead once more and falls backwards, driving the back and shoulders of the opponent into the ground. Snap suplex Edit A front facelock suplex, which sees the attacker apply a frontface lock to his/her opponent, draping the opponent's near arm over his/her shoulder, while the giver falls on to his back and the opponent does a quick front flip bump. Bret Hart and The Dynamite Kid used this move as one of their signature moves. Dynamite would frequently twist his hips as he took his opponent over so as to add impact to the maneuver. It was later adopted as a signature move by Chris Benoit, who trained under Bret's father Stu Hart, and idolized The Dynamite Kid. Modified Snap Suplex Edit A varaition of the Snap Suplex, innovated by John Soulmetal , sees the attacker apply a front facelock to his/her opponent, then, lifts the opponent upwards (as in a Snap suplex) then as the opponent is in mid-air the attacker drapes the opponent's near arm over his/her shoulder, then falls backwards (without any stalling or thatrics, and no stoppoing in the lift, even when the wrestler drapes the arm over his/her shoulder). This move can be described simply as a Snap Suplex, but drapes the arm over his/her shoulder while lifting the opponent. Superplex Edit A superplex is a name that comes from the term " super suplex" and refers to any suplex performed by an attacker standing on the second or third rope against an opponent sitting on the top rope or top turnbuckle. It was innovated by The Dynamite Kid. The most common suplex used for this top rope move is the standard vertical suplex variation (known as the suicide-plex), in which the attackers apply a front face lock to the oppon


Which TV show has been presented by Bob Monkhouse, Max Bygraves and Les Dennis?

Les Dennis - Biography - IMDb Les Dennis Jump to: Overview  (3) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (3) | Trivia  (10) Overview (3) 5' 9" (1.75 m) Mini Bio (1) Les Dennis was born on October 12, 1954 in Liverpool, England as Leslie Dennis Heseltine. He is an actor, known for Coronation Street (1960), Intimate Relations (1996) and The Laughter Show (1984). He has been married to Claire Nicholson since November 23, 2009. They have one child. He was previously married to Amanda Holden and Lynne Heseltine. Spouse (3) (?      - 1990) (divorced) (1 child) Trivia (10) He is the third regular presenter of Family Fortunes (1980) after Bob Monkhouse and the second longest host since Bob Monkhouse . The last two presenters were Bob Monkhouse and Max Bygraves . He entertained with Bobby Davro on An Audience with Cliff Richard (1999). In May 2000, he split up with his wife Amanda Holden after seeing her spending the vacation with Neil Morrissey in a newspaper. However, after a while, they went back together, but just to see if it can work out between them, too. Was part of a comedy due with the late Dustin Gee He announced in December 2002 that his marriage to actress Amanda Holden had ended after seven years. Speculation had been rife in the UK media that the couple's relationship was in difficulty, following Holden's failure to greet him on his eviction from the Celebrity Big Brother (2001) house. He was a guest call taker for the phone lines of the donations to The Prince's Trust 30th Birthday: Live (2006). His fiancée Claire Nicholson gave birth to their first child together, daughter Eleanor Grace Heseltine on April 24th 2008 in London. She weighed 8 lbs, 11 oz. Played "Mr. Owen", a man overcoming cancer in the 2009 short film Waiting in Rhyme (2009). ITV News called the film a 15 minute masterpiece. 31st January Is the MC (Master of Ceremonies) at the Ultra Blaze Scifi convention (Ipswich, England) [January 2009] [Stage 2011] Les Dennis once again came forward to support UK cancer charities by appearing in the uplifting stage show Survive! A Davey/Price Production at The Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham, the cast included Hannah Waterman, Sarah Manners, Jean Boht, Guy Henry, Emma Stephens, Vicky Hall and The West End Gospel Choir. See also


Under what name is the American singer/songwriter Barry Alan Pincus better known?

Barry Alan Manilow (Pincus) - Genealogy Genealogy Join the world's largest family tree Gender Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love Build your family tree online Share photos and videos Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States Immediate Family: Ex-husband of <private> Manilow (Deixler) Occupation: Added 2015-08-14 13:53:06 -0700 by Christina Alana June Robb Collection: <Private> Robb, Barbara June Robb (born Brown) Siblings: Added 2015-08-14 13:42:16 -0700 by Christina Alana June Robb Collection: Added 2015-08-14 13:52:12 -0700 by Christina Alana June Robb Collection: 100 S Sunrise Way, Palm Springs, California 92262-6778, USA and 2 more full addresses Phone number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Manilow Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter and producer. He is best known for such recordings as "Mandy", "Can't Smile Without You", and "Copacabana (At the Copa)". In 1978, five of his albums were on the best-seller charts simultaneously, a feat equalled only by Herb Alpert, The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Mathis. He has recorded a string of Billboard hit singles and multi-platinum albums that have resulted in his being named Radio & Records' No. 1 adult contemporary artist, and winning three straight American Music Awards for favorite pop/rock male artist. Between 1974 and 1983 Manilow had three No. 1 singles and 25 that reached the top 40. Although not a favorite of music critics, several well-known entertainers have praised Manilow, including Sinatra, who was quoted in the 1970s saying, "He's next." In 1988, Bob Dylan stopped Manilow at a party, hugged him and said, "Don't stop what you're doing, man. We're all inspired by you."[3] As well as producing and arranging albums for other artists, including Bette Midler and Dionne Warwick, Manilow has written songs for musicals, films, and commercials. From February 2005 to December 30, 2009, he was the headliner at the Las Vegas Hilton, performing hundreds of shows before ending his relationship with the hotel. Since March 2010, he has headlined at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas. He has sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.[4] On July 4, 2013, he performed live on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol as part of A Capitol Fourth on PBS. Contents [hide] 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 1970s 2.2 1980s 2.3 1990s 2.4 2000s 2.5 2010s 3 Health 4 In media 5 Discography 6 Awards 7 Selected TV and movie appearances 8 Notes and references 9 External links Early life[edit] Manilow was born on June 17, 1943 as[5] Barry Alan Pincus in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Harold Pincus and Edna Manilow.[6] His mother's family was Jewish, while his father, who was often known by the surname Keliher, was born to a Jewish father and Irish American mother. Barry adopted his mother's maiden name — Manilow — at the time of his bar mitzvah.[7] Manilow grew up in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn and attended Eastern District High School, graduating in 1961. That same year, he enrolled in the Juilliard performing arts school, while working at CBS to pay his expenses. He also married Susan Deixler that year; the marriage lasted only one year.[8] In 1964, Manilow met Bro Herrod, a CBS director, who asked him to arrange some songs for a musical adaptation of the melodrama The Drunkard. Instead, Manilow wrote an entire original score.[9] Herrod used Manilow's composition in the Off Broadway musical, which enjoyed an eight-year run at New York's 13th Street Theatre.[10] Manilow then earned money by working as a pianist, producer and arranger. During this time, he began to work as a commercial jingle writer,[11] an activity that continued well into the 1970s. Many of the jingles he wrote and/or composed he would also perform, including State Farm Insurance ("Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there..."), and Band-Aid ("I am stuck on Band-Aid, 'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me!"), for which he adopted a childlike voice.


Which former Chief Executive of Barclays Bank did Peter Mandelson call 'The Unacceptable Face of Banking'?

Barclays' appointment of Bob Diamond stirs call for banks break-up | Business | The Guardian Barclays' appointment of Bob Diamond stirs call for banks break-up Promotion of investment arm's supremo to chief executive suggests sector is ignoring government pressure to reform Outgoing Barclays chief executive, John Varley, left, Bob Diamond, centre, and Barclays chairman, Marcus Agius, at Canary Wharf. Photograph: Daniel Lewis/PA Tuesday 7 September 2010 16.30 EDT First published on Tuesday 7 September 2010 16.30 EDT Share on Messenger Close The business secretary, Vince Cable , today expressed concern that Bob Diamond's appointment as chief executive of Barclays showed the banking sector was not taking the threat of break-up seriously. Cable is overseeing an independent commission considering whether high street banks should be split off from their "casino" investment banking operations. Sources close to the Liberal Democrat minister said he felt the move to install Diamond, a high-profile investment banker who has taken home £75m in the last five years, at the top of Barclays vindicated the government's decision to set up the commission, which is chaired by Sir John Vickers. Although Diamond and other members of the Barclays board insisted that they were not pre-empting the outcome of the commission, due to report next year, the bank has previously warned that it is considering whether to move out of the UK because of the Vickers inquiry. The 59-year-old American, who has been with Barclays for the last 14 years, was described as the "unacceptable face of banking" by Cable's predecessor, Lord Mandelson. He will replace the current chief executive, John Varley, at the end of March. Tonight he said that although Barclays was committed to the so-called universal banking model – with investment and retail banking in one organisation – he was also "respectful" of the commission. The commission, which includes a former Barclays chief executive, Martin Taylor, has met twice and later this month is expected to set out an "issues paper," which is intended to form the basis for hearings to be held in public and private about whether breaking up the banks would reduce the risk of another taxpayer bailout of the system. The Lib Dems were vocal about the break-up of banks such as Barclays, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland before the election and the party's treasury spokesman, Lord Oakeshott, kept up the pressure. "Diamond, with his £20m bonuses, is the unacceptable face of this bonus-driven banking," Oakeshott said. "This highlights the need to break-up and de-risk the British banking system." Meanwhile, HSBC also faced upheaval at the top, when the chairman, Stephen Green, was named by Cable as the next trade minister. Green has also defended the universal banking model and only last week the head of HSBC's investment bank, Stuart Gulliver, warned that the bank might reconsider its London headquarters if the commission recommended a break-up. Diamond's appointment prompted fury from union leaders, as the scale of the taxpayer bailout of the banking system has led to lengthening dole queues and severe cuts to public spending. Paul Kenny, the GMB general secretary, said: "These are the bankers who caused the recession sticking two fingers up at the taxpayers who rescued them. This is about as insulting and divisive as it gets." Although Barclays survived the banking crisis – sparked two years ago next week when Lehman Brothers collapsed – without direct injections of taxpayer cash, it has admitted it benefited from the general support provided to the sector from central bank liquidity. The chancellor, George Osborne, was more conciliatory than the Lib Dems. He said he was looking forward to co-operating with the new Barclays chief and voiced scepticism about a "Robin Hood" tax on the big banks, saying that the "practicalities are enormous". Speaking in Brussels after a meeting of EU finance ministers, Osborne said it was up to Barclays' shareholders to decide who should head the bank. "I very much look forward to working with Bob Diam


What was the title of J. K. Rowling's first novel for adults, - following the Harry Potter series?

Social class, swearing and sex permeate J.K. Rowling's first adult book - CNN.com Social class, swearing and sex permeate J.K. Rowling's first adult book By Laura Smith-Spark and Erin McLaughlin, CNN Updated 8:25 PM ET, Thu September 27, 2012 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. JUST WATCHED J.K. Rowling's new book not for kids 02:19 Story highlights "A big, ambitious, brilliant, profane, funny," upsetting and eloquent novel, says one critic "The Casual Vacancy" is J.K. Rowling's first book for adults The plot centers on a local election in a fictional small English town "This is definitely not a book for children," writes New York Times reviewer Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's first adult novel went on sale amid a buzz of anticipation Thursday -- but reviews suggest those hoping for a repeat of the charms and wizardry of the Hogwarts books may be disappointed. "The Casual Vacancy" is firmly aimed at those in the grown-up world, with the writer's pen dissecting social inequality, small-town politics and snobbery -- with sex, abuse and a mouthful of swearing thrown in for good measure. Muggle moms await J.K. Rowling's first adult book Set in the fictional town of Pagford, in western England, it centers on a local election following the death of a parish councilman -- and relies on what reviewers agree is a cast of finely drawn but generally unpleasant characters to bring this insular world to life. "We are firmly in Muggle-land -- about as far from the enchanted world of Harry Potter as we can get," wrote Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times. JUST WATCHED MUST WATCH Life after Potter 00:52 "There is no magic in this book -- in terms of wizarding or in terms of narrative sorcery. Instead, this novel for adults is filled with a variety of people like Harry's aunt and uncle, Petunia and Vernon Dursley: self-absorbed, small-minded, snobbish and judgmental folks, whose stories neither engage nor transport us." The Guardian newspaper's Theo Tait judges it "a solid, traditional and determinedly unadventurous English novel" but praises Rowling's depiction of the "claustrophobic horror" of a small-town community, with plenty of scheming and "everyone knowing everyone." Sales of the book, which was released in paper, online and e-book form in Britain and the United States on Thursday morning, will no doubt be closely watched. But while Rowling's publisher, Little Brown, and booksellers seem confident the tome will prove a bestseller, the mad rush and predawn lines that awaited some of the Potter releases were not in evidence. Early sales seemed slow at a central London branch of the Waterstone's bookstore chain, where stacks of the hardback novel, with its stridently red and yellow cover, were unwrapped and ready for buyers. Opinion: J.K. Rowling explains why muggles are obsessed with class Waterstone's spokeswoman Debs Tilley said preorders had been "fantastic," suggesting Rowling commands a legion of devoted readers willing to give her new venture a try, even if they're not beating down the doors to the store. "Having known and loved her writing for the past 15 years, the world has been waiting to see what she did next," Tilley said. " 'The Casual Vacancy' has reminded us all just how popular she is and how committed her fans are." Store manager Lori Fazio of R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, Connecticut, told CNN that interest in the novel had been building for months, with lots of advance orders. "People can't wait for this, for it to finally hit the bookstore," she said. While the book is certainly different from Rowling's previous works, Fazio predicts it will win fans if readers realize it's "an extreme opposite from Harry Potter" and go into it with an open mind. Harry Potter is certainly a tough act to follow. The seven-book series sold more than 450 million copies and spawned a multibillion-dollar film franchise. Details of the new book's content were kept largely under wraps ahead of its release, with Rowling speaking to only a few media outlets in the United Ki


The Poet's Percy Shelley and John Keats are both buried in which European capital's Protestant cemetery?

Between Saints and Monsters: Elegy, Materialization,   and Gothic Historiography in Percy Shelley’s Adonais   and The Wandering Jew | Romantic Circles Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief Convulse us and consume us day by day, And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay. (343-51) Adonais' exultation is for his mourners—and Shelley’s readers—their katabasis. The “abandoned Earth” (368), the seat of organic        life, becomes, echoing Calderóne's play, a dream, whereas the grave, through hope’s        interment, becomes, as in Blake’s Book of Thel, disturbingly          animated.  [2]   If death reigns over life, Adonais feeds on death’s        (im)mortality: “He lives, he wakes—'tis Death is dead, not he;/ Mourn not for        Adonais” (361-2). 10.         Part of death’s attractiveness in Adonais stems from        Shelley’s uncanny, pre-emptive commingling of aesthetic pleasure with Keats’        gravesite. In a letter to Peacock in December, 1818, Shelley describes the Protestant        cemetery in Rome—the future gravesite not only of Keats but, only a few months later,        young William Shelley and, ultimately, Percy himself—as “the most beautiful & solemn cemetery” he had ever encountered: To see the sun shining on its bright          grass fresh when we visited it with the autumnal dews, & hear the whispering          of the wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown the tomb of          Cestius, & the coil which is stirring in the sunwarm earth & to mark the          tombs mostly of women & young people who were buried there, one might, if one were to die, desire the sleep they seem to sleep. Such is the human mind & so          it peoples with its wishes vacancy & oblivion. (60) Months later,        Shelley recalls the atmosphere of this excursion, describing Keats in Death’s “pale        court” reclining “as if in dewy sleep” (56, 61). Read proleptically, Shelley’s letter        diagnoses Adonais as the product of an inversion of life and        death that confuses metaphysical comfort with depression. At first glance, Shelley        seems to enjoy imagining himself included among the spirits in this lovely garden and        appears to sanction the imaginative fecundity that helps the mind overcome “vacancy & oblivion.” This reversal, however, where thought and life appear to be        activated after death, is suspended by a series of qualifications. The desire named        is, for instance, bracketed not once by twice by hypothetical turns of phrase—“one might, if one were to die...” Such rhetorical hedging        casts its shadow across the ostensible desire for the “sleep they seem to sleep.” For        what precisely is the object of desire here? Does the stress in the penultimate line        fall on “sleep” or “seem”? Does Shelley find attractive “seeming sleep” taken as        peaceful death or “seeming sleep” taken as secret (re)animation? Even the final line        is reversible: while it appears that “vacancy & oblivion” name the setting that        is populated by the mind’s lively “wishes,” Shelley’s awkward syntax allows one to        read “vacancy & oblivion” as the “wishes” themselves. 11.         The complex relationships in Adonais among desire, death,        and afterlife can be clarified by looking at how Shelley appropriates existing        historical aesthetics. In The Afterlife of the Saints, Julia        Lupton describes the complex symbolic economy of Christian hagiography in terms that        prove germane to a reading of Romantic elegy broadly and Shelley's text specifically.        Hagiography—literally, “sacred writing”—translates death into sainthood, offering the        martyr a symbolic afterlife in the official calendars and canons of the Church. This


Who was voted Time Magazine person of the century in 1999?

Albert Einstein named Person of the Century by Time | World History Project Dec 31 1999 Albert Einstein named Person of the Century by Time Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century is a compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people, published in Time magazine in 1999. The idea for such a list started on February 1, 1998, with a debate at a symposium at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The panel participants were former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, former New York governor Mario Cuomo, then-Stanford Provost Dr. Condoleezza Rice, publisher Irving Kristol, and Time managing editor Walter Isaacson. The final list was published on June 14, 1999, in a special issue titled "TIME 100: Heroes & Icons of the 20th Century". In a separate issue on December 31, 1999, Time recognized Albert Einstein as the Person of the Century. Source: Wikipedia Added by: Kevin Rogers Albert Einstein, whose theories laid the groundwork for many modern technologies including nuclear weapons, has been named "person of the century" by Time magazine. Time called him a "genius, political refugee, humanitarian, locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the Universe". "In a century that will be remembered foremost for its science and technology ... one person clearly stands out as both the greatest mind and paramount icon of our age. "The kindly, absent-minded professor whose wild halo of hair, piercing eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for genius, Albert Einstein," the magazine said. It described him as "the century's greatest thinker, as an immigrant who fled from oppression to freedom and as a political idealist, who best embodies what historians will regard as significant about the 20th Century." "The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is ... technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science," theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking wrote in a Time essay. "Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein." Time's runners-up for person of the century were US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who it said represented the triumph of freedom and democracy over fascism and communism, and Mahatma Gandhi, who symbolised individuals struggling for their rights. The issue is out on Monday. The previous issue named the founder of online bookstore Amazon, Jeff Bezos, "man of the year". Slow starter Earlier in the year, 100 of today's leading physicists voted Einstein the greatest physicist of all time.


Only 3 sportsmen have won BBC's Sports Personality of the Year twice. Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill are two, who is the other, winning in 1967 and 1970?

BBC SPORT | TV/Radio Listings | Sports Personality | Did you know? Did you know? A potted history of the Sports Personality of the Year awards. BBC's Sports Personality of the Year was created in 1954 by Sir Paul Fox, then editor of the magazine show Sportsview, and presenter Peter Dimmock. Dimmock was the first of nine presenters. Frank Bough, Harry Carpenter, Des Lynam, Steve Rider, Sue Barker, Gary Lineker, Clare Balding and John Inverdale have all played their part since. Bough was the longest running presenter, notching up a record 19 shows between 1964 and 1982. The first recipient of the BBC Television Personality of The Year award in 1954 was long-distance runner Chris Chataway. Paula Radcliffe's win in 2000 was the 16th time a track and field athlete had received the accolade. Only three people have won the award twice: Henry Cooper (1967 and 1970), Nigel Mansell (1986 and 1992) and Damon Hill (1994 and 1996). In 1960, the first Overseas Personality of the Year award was picked up by Australian athlete Herb Elliott. The same year, the inaugural Team of the Year prize was presented to the Cooper Formula One Racing team. Swimmer Anita Lonsbrough was the first female to win Personality of the Year in 1962. Skating duo Torvill and Dean won Team of the Year twice (1982 and 1983) and Sports Personality of the Year once, in their golden year of 1984. Bobby Moore, Nick Faldo, showjumper David Broome, Steve Redgrave and David Beckham are the only others to have collected the individual prize and been part of a winning Team of the Year. Muhammad Ali has been named Overseas Personality of the Year a record three times (1973, 74 and 78), and the resulting interviews were further proof as to why. After athletics, with 16, motor racing has provided the most individual award winners, with six. Boxing and football have thrown up four, cricket, tennis and ice skating three, with cycling, rowing and snooker providing one winner each. No rugby union player has ever won Sports Personality of the Year, although Will Carling finished second. When Mary Peters collected her award from 1971 winner Princess Anne, the athlete joked: "Haven't you kept it clean?" Before Michael Owen won the award in 1998, ice skaters had been honoured more than footballers with the main award. David Beckam put the footballers ahead 4-3 two years ago. The Team of the Year prize has been won four times by the Ryder Cup Golf team (1985, 1987, 1995 and 2003). The West Indies cricket team won the team prize in 1963, the only entirely overseas outfit to have done so. The Overseas Personality of the Year for 1996 was shared for the first time, boxer Evander Holyfield and Olympic athlete Michael Johnson dividing the spoils. The show is broadcast live from BBC Television Centre. Several new awards have been introduced in recent years. Sir Alex Ferguson was named as the first winner of the Coach of the Year award in 1999 The Manchester United manager won a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001 Dean Macey and Jenson Button won the Newcomer of the Year awards in 1999 and 2000 respectively That award was replaced by the Young Personality of the Year prize in 2001 The Helen Rollason Award, named after the former BBC sports presenter who died after a brave battle against cancer, was introduced in 1999. Four awards have been presented only once. Manager of the Year - Leeds United's Don Revie (1969) Special Team Award - GB men's 4x400m team (1986) Good Sport Awards - Derek Warwick, Martin Donnelly,     Louise Aitken-Walker for motorsport (1990) International Team Award - Alan Bond and the crew of Australia II in sailing (1983) Links to more Sports Personality stories


The 'Majestic Mountain' is the symbol of which film studio?

The Stories Behind Hollywood Studio Logos - Neatorama Neatorama • 4 You see these opening logos every time you go to the     movies, but have you ever wondered who is the boy on the moon in the DreamWorks     logo? Or which mountain inspired the Paramount logo? Or who was the Columbia     Torch Lady? Let's find out: 1. DreamWorks SKG: Boy on the Moon In 1994, director Steven Spielberg, Disney studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg,     and record producer David Geffen (yes, they make the initial SKG on the     bottom of the logo) got together to found a new studio called DreamWorks. Spielberg wanted the logo for DreamWorks to be reminiscent of Hollywood's     golden age. The logo was to be a computer generated image of a man on     the moon, fishing, but Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Muren of Industrial     Light and Magic, who has worked on many of Spielberg's films, suggested     that a hand-painted logo might look better. Muren asked his friend, artist Robert Hunt to paint it. Hunt also sent along an alternative version of the logo, which included     a young boy on a crescent moon, fishing. Spielberg liked this version     better, and the rest is history. Oh, and that boy? It was Hunt's son,     William. The DreamWorks logo that you see in the movies was made at ILM from paintings     by Robert Hunt, in collaboration with Kaleidoscope Films (designers of     the original storyboards), Dave Carson (director), and Clint Goldman (producer)     at ILM. Photo courtesy of Robert Hunt - Thanks for the neat story, Robert! 2. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM): Leo The Lion In 1924, studio publicist Howard Dietz designed the "Leo The Lion"     logo for Samuel Goldwyn's Goldwyn Picture Corporation. He based it on     the athletic team of his alma mater Columbia University, the Lions. When     Goldwyn Pictures merged with Metro Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer     Pictures, the newly formed MGM retained the logo. Since then, there have been five lions playing the role of "Leo     The Lion". The first was Slats, who graced the openings of MGM's     silent films from 1924 to 1928. The next lion, Jackie, was the first MGM     lion whose roar was heard by the audience. Though the movies were silent,     Jackie's famous growl-roar-growl sequence was played over the phonograph     as the logo appeared on screen. He was also the first lion to appear in     Technicolor in 1932. The third lion and probably most famous was Tanner (though at the time     Jackie was still used concurrently for MGM's black and white films). After     a brief use of an unnamed (and very mane-y) fourth lion, MGM settled on     Leo, which the studio has used since 1957. The company motto "Ars Gratia Artis" means "Art for Art's     Sake." Sources: MGM     Media Center | Wikipedia entry on " Leo     The Lion " 3. 20th Century Fox: The Searchlight Logo In 1935, Twentieth Century Pictures and Fox Film Company (back then mainly     a theater-chain company) merged to create Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation     (they later dropped the hyphen). The original Twentieth Century Pictures logo was created in 1933 by famed     landscape artist Emil Kosa, Jr. After the merger, Kosa simply replaced     "Pictures, Inc." with "Fox" to make the current logo.     Besides this logo, Kosa was also famous for his matte painting of the Statue     of Liberty ruin at the end of the Planet of the Apes (1968) movie,     and others. Perhaps just as famous as the logo is the "20th Century Fanfare",     composed by Alfred Newman, then musical director for United Artists. 4. Paramount: The Majestic Mountain Paramount Pictures Corporation was founded in 1912 as Famous Players     Film Company by Adolph Zukor, and the theater moguls the Frohman brothers,     Daniel and Charles. The Paramount "Majestic Mountain" logo was first drawn as a     doodle by W.W. Hodkinson during a meeting wi


In 1952 Albert Einstein was offered, and turned down, the Presidency of which country?

Which country did Albert Einstein decline the presidency of in 1952? | Reference.com Which country did Albert Einstein decline the presidency of in 1952? A: Quick Answer In 1952, Albert Einstein declined the presidency of Israel. The position was largely a ceremonial one, but Einstein declined, saying that he lacked both the aptitude and the experience necessary to carry out the official functions of the position. Full Answer David Ben-Gurion offered Einstein the position through Abba Eban, who was then serving as Israel's ambassador to the United States. Einstein, who was 73 at the time, also said that his advanced age made him an unsuitable candidate. However, the great scientist made it clear that his connection to the Jewish people was his "strongest human bond." Einstein died in 1955, less than 3 years later. The Israeli presidency eventually went to Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.


Which English cathedral has the world's oldest medieval clock?

The World's Oldest Working Clock The World's Oldest Working Clock comments, called-out When they weren’t drinking mead, toiling in the fields or dying from the bubonic plague, the people of 14th century England were going to church. A lot. That’s why the oldest working clock in Europe, and quite possibly the world, can be found in an English cathedral, and was built as a means to (loudly) remind the locals that one of the day’s seven or eight church services were about to start. More than 600 years later, that very same clock is faithfully “ticking” away, its large, iron cogs slowly rotating as a small shaft clinks into a metal cog every four seconds. The clock, which is located in Salisbury Cathedral in southern England, was commissioned by Bishop Erghum and dates from about 1386. There was apparently a mechanical clock already working in Milan, Italy, by 1335, but the Salisbury clock is the oldest of its kind known to still be working. With its massive iron wheels and long ropes reaching halfway up the cathedral walls, it looks more like an industrial-age engine than the clocks we know today. But it did the trick, chiming a bell on the hour, for 24 hours a day. The word “clock” comes from the same root as glocke, the German word for bell, since the earliest clocks were meant to be listened to, not “watched.” The clocks of medieval times were probably grossly inaccurate, but that didn’t really matter. “In those days people didn’t need to know if it was four minutes to 11,” said Dudley Heather, head of guides at Salisbury Cathedral. “They just needed to know when it was time to go to church, or perhaps to eat.” Mechanical clocks like the one in Salisbury Cathedral came to fundamentally change the way time was measured. Before it, only astronomers divided a day into 24 hours, while everyone else gave the periods of day and night 12 “temporal hours,” the length of which varied throughout the year. The clocks of ancient times relied on some sort of repetitive process: the rising and setting of the sun for sundials, and water dripping from a hole at the bottom of a stone vessel with water clocks, which were used as far back as 1500 B.C. But the Salisbury clock was an example of how clock makers had shifted from the continuous flow of things like water and sand, to measuring small increments of time. It works via a system of weights and pulleys. Two long ropes are wound up a couple of spools, or barrels, and each is then threaded through a pulley about 20 feet above the clock. At the bottom end of each rope is a weight, originally made from lead, now stone. Each rope is fully wound back around the barrels every morning, pulling the weights to the top. As the day wears on, they slowly sink back down to the floor. Key to everything is the “verge and foliot,” a clever mechanism right inside the clock that maintains the weights’ slow descent and the keeping of time. It is essentially two small weights on either side of a small, horizontal beam that is suspended by a thread, called the foliot. The weighted beam is pushed back and forth while a vertical rod in the middle of the beam, the verge, then catches against the “teeth” of a rotating wheel every four seconds, with a sonorous “clink.” While one of the barrels drives the verge and foliot, the other, rarely used today, controls the hourly striking of the bell. The invention of the verge and foliot was critical in the development of time keeping. It was the first mechanism that used repetition to keep the time, and paved the way for pendulum clocks. Previously, people had relied on the flow of water, as with water clocks, and it’s probable that the three makers of the Salisbury clock used either a water clock or sundial to calibrate their device. Centuries after its creation, the Salisbury clock was replaced by a more modern device that chimed quarterly, and it was tucked away into the cathedral’s bell tower. When in 1930 a curious horologist noticed its dusty old iron framework, he immediately suspected its historical importance. Today the clock has been refurbished to its for


Who became the first woman to win a gold medal in boxing for GB in the 2012 Olympics?

Team GB's gold medal winners at London 2012 Olympics - Telegraph Team GB's gold medal winners at London 2012 Olympics A salute to Team GB's gold medallists at the London 2012 Olympics.   Image 1 of 6 Number one: Sir Chris Hoy struggles to maintain his composure after becoming the most successful British Olympian of all time Photo: GETTY IMAGES   Image 1 of 6 Streaking away: Mo Farah on his way to winnig the 5,000m - his second gold medal of the Games Photo: GETTY IMAGES   Image 1 of 6 Katherine Grainger (left) celebrates getting her hands on an Olympic gold alongside Anna Watkins Photo: GETTY IMAGES   Image 1 of 6 Proud: Ben Ainslie became the most successful sailor in Olympic history and was then chosen to be Great Britain's flag bearer at the closing ceremony Photo: GETTY IMAGES   Image 1 of 6 Through the pain barrier: Alistair Brownlee crosses the line to win the triathlon in Hyde Park Photo: GETTY IMAGES   Image 1 of 6 Tearful triumph: An emotional Luke Campbell celebrates winning bantamweight boxing gold after defeating Ireland's John Joe Nevin Photo: GETTY IMAGES Rowing, women’s pair Glover, who will have a homecoming parade in Penzance next week, was in a state of disbelief after winning Britain’s first gold of the Games with Stanning. The former PE teacher even slept with her medal by her pillow. “I think I only had an hour’s sleep the first night,” she said. “I haven’t had a drink for the past four years, so I imagine I will be quite a liability when I do.” The triumph marked the culmination of an extraordinary journey for Glover, who had never stepped foot in a rowing boat until 2008, when she was identified by UK Sport’s Sporting Giants programme. Related Articles Silver and bronze heroes 16 Aug 2012 The 26 year-old recalled: “I remember sitting in a room in Bisham Abbey and someone saying, 'A gold medallist in 2012 could be sitting in this room.’ It was quite surreal.” For Stanning, a captain in the Royal Artillery who may soon be on duty in Afghanistan, the sensation was similarly other-worldly. Her school friends at Gordonstoun voted her the girl most likely to be an Olympic champion. “I was into all sports – a jack of all trades but master of none. But maybe somebody saw something in me.” Anthony Joshua Boxing, super-heavyweight Joshua’s first priority after winning his gold medal on the last weekend of the Games was to return to Golders Green, to find his cousin, amateur boxer Benga Ilyemi, who had encouraged him to take up the sport four years ago. Ilyemi had given 'Big Josh’ a start by handing him a pair of borrowed shorts and lending him £25 to buy boots. “My cousin convinced me to box, that’s how I got started,” Joshua said this week. “He is the novice amateur 91kg champion of England. He is not as big as me, he’s a shorter, more powerful guy, like Mike Tyson was. “I’m hoping to persuade him to be competing with me in the heavyweight division for GB in Rio in four years. It would be great to go there together in the team.” As he reflects on his dramatic victory in London’s Excel Centre, Joshua will doubtless take in another viewing of the film, 300, which tells the story of the Spartan king Leonidas and a his tiny force taking on the Persians at Thermopylae in 480BC. Joshua said that watching the film again and again inspired him to remain defiant in the Olympic final. Andrew Triggs Hodge, Tom James, Peter Reed and Alex Gregory Rowing men's four For Britain’s victorious men’s quartet, the giddy days since they won their gold medal at Eton Dorney have brought an overdue reacquaintance with loved ones. “I neglected my responsibilities as a husband,” Triggs Hodge said of his quest for Olympic glory, and in the seconds after victory he pointedly kissed his wedding ring. Reed completed a momentous Olympics by proposing to his fiancée, Frauke Oltmanns, at the closing ceremony, with his team-mates watching. “While everyone was having a big party, I managed to find my way into the crowd and did it all properly. I knew where she was sitting. It was wonderful and we are both thrilled.” James has been busy too,


Now known as Cobh, which Irish town was the Titanic's last port of call?

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Which 20th century leader had an Alsatian called Blondi?

Hitler Commits Suicide - April 30, 1945 Hitler Commits Suicide Hitler Commits Suicide The Death of the Führer German dictator Adolf Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun dine in a still from a private home movie made by Braun's sister Gretl Fegelein. (circa early to mid 1940s).  (Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images) By Jennifer L. Goss, Contributing Writer Updated April 30, 2016. With the end of World War II imminent and the Russians nearing his underground bunker under the Chancellery building in Berlin, Germany, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler shot himself in the head with his pistol, likely after swallowing cyanide, ending his own life just before 3:30 pm on April 30, 1945. In the same room with Hitler was his new wife, Eva Braun, who ended her life by swallowing a cyanide capsule. After their deaths, SS men carried their bodies up to the Chancellery’s courtyard, covered them with gasoline, and lit them on fire. The Führer Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, beginning the era of German history known as the Third Reich. On August 2, 1934, German President Paul Von Hindenburg died, allowing Hitler to solidify his position by becoming der Führer, the ultimate leader of the German people. In the years following his appointment, Hitler led a reign of terror that embroiled many millions in the Second World War and murdered an estimated 11 million people during the Holocaust . continue reading below our video How Hitler Died Hitler promised that the Third Reich would reign for 1,000 years; it only lasted 12. Hitler Enters the Bunker As Allied Forces closed in on all sides, the city of Berlin was partially evacuated to prevent approaching Russian troops from seizing valuable German citizens and assets. On January 16, 1945, despite advice to the contrary, Hitler chose to hole up in the vast bunker located below his headquarters (the Chancellery) rather than leave the city. He stayed there for over 100 days. The 3,000-square-foot underground bunker consisted of two levels and 18 rooms; Hitler resided on the lower level. The structure was an expansion project of the Chancellery’s air raid shelter, which had been completed in 1942 and located under the building’s diplomatic reception hall. Hitler contracted Nazi architect Albert Speer to build an additional bunker under the Chancellery’s garden, which was located in front of the reception hall. The new structure, the Führerbunker ( schematic ), was officially completed in October 1944; however, it underwent several upgrades after that date, such as reinforcement and the addition of new security features. The bunker had its own electricity feed and water supply. Life in the Bunker Life in the bunker exhibited some signs of normalcy, despite the abnormal environs. The upper quarters of the bunker, where Hitler’s staff lived and worked, were largely plain and functional. The lower quarters, which contained six rooms specifically reserved for Hitler and Eva Braun, contained some of the luxury that they had become accustomed to during his reign. Furniture was brought in from the Chancellery offices to decorate this portion of the bunker. Hitler also decorated his personal quarters with a portrait of Frederick the Great , which witnesses report he stared at on a daily basis to steel himself for the continued fight against outside forces. Despite the attempts of Hitler and his staff to create a more normal living environment in their underground locale, the strain of this situation could not be ignored. The electricity in the bunker intermittently flickered and the sounds of war reverberated throughout the structure as the Russian advance grew nearer. The air was stuffy and oppressive. During the final months of the war, Hitler controlled the German government from this dismal lair. The bunker’s occupants maintained access to the outside world via telephone and telegraph lines. High level German officials made periodic visits to conduct meetings on items of importance related to the government and military efforts. Visitors included Hermann Göring and SS Lead


What was the surname of the US Medical Corp Army Captain nicknamed Hawkeye in the TV Series MASH?

Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce | Monster M*A*S*H | Fandom powered by Wikia Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce Alan Alda as "Hawkeye" on the M*A*S*H TV series. M*A*S*H character Vital information Captain (O-3), U.S. Army Reserve Job/Role in unit: Chief Surgeon at the 4077th M*A*S*H Home Black, greying (in TV series), Blond, in 1970 MASH film Eye Color: Blue in TV series, Green in MASH film Height: Unnamed wife in MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors Relatives/Children: Dr. Benjamin Franklin Pierce, Sr. (father) Unnamed mother, died when he was 10-years-old Two unnamed sons in MASH: A Novel Appearances Alan Alda (television series) Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce is the lead fictional character in the M*A*S*H novels, film, and television series. The character was played by Donald Sutherland in the film and Alan Alda on television. Contents Edit Born and raised in Crabapple Cove, Maine , Hawkeye is (according to the TV series) the son of Dr. Daniel Pierce. According to the novels, his father is “Big Benjy” Pierce, a lobster fisherman. He attended Androscoggin College, where he played football and intercepted a Hail Mary pass thrown by Dartmouth quarterback John McIntyre . After his medical residency in Boston, Hawkeye is drafted into the U. S. Army and called to serve at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. Between long, intense sessions of treating critically wounded patients, he makes the best of his life in an isolated Army camp with heavy drinking, carousing, and pulling pranks on the people around him, especially the unpleasantly stiff and callous Major Frank Burns and Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan. Origin of the nickname “Hawkeye” Edit The novel established that Pierce's nickname of "Hawkeye" was given to him by his father. It comes from the novel The Last of the Mohicans, which Pierce, in Hooker's book, claimed was "The only book my old man ever read."[1] In an episode of the TV series in which Hawkeye believed himself to be in mortal danger due to heavy enemy shelling, he made out a will and left Colonel Sherman T. Potter (who Hawkeye stated was like a father) the edition of The Last of the Mohicans that his father had given him. "It was his favorite book," Hawkeye wrote in the will, implying that he had read more books. Changes in the character Edit Although the Robert Altman film followed Hooker's book somewhat in structure, much of the dialogue was improvised and thus departed even from Ring Lardner, Jr.'s screenplay. The screenplay itself departed from the book in a number of details (e.g. Frank Burns became a major instead of a captain, and was identified with Major Hobson, the zealously religious officer that Pierce and bunk mate Trapper John McIntyre got removed from their tent and, subsequently, the camp), but on the whole, the main characters and mood were left intact. Perhaps the biggest change in Hawkeye's characterization from the book, to the big screen and finally to the small screen comes in his marital status. The Hawkeye of the book is married to Evelyn Pierce with children (according to the sequels) and faithful while in Korea (as far as the reader is concerned). He offers several doctors love advice, "Jeeter" Carroll for example, extolling the virtues of extramarital sex but never partaking himself. The film version of Hawkeye is still married, but gives himself more moral leeway, arguing that he is far from home, no one is ever going to know, and it will reduce stress for both involved. Finally, the film's Hawkeye was transformed into the womanizing and single Hawkeye of the TV series. In the pilot, however, Hawkeye told Lieutenant Dish that he was engaged and in a later first-season episode he broke up with several women, when he believed the war had ended, by telling him that he was married, although it was revealed at the end of the episode that he was lying. A later episode shows in fact Hawkeye had a one year common law relationship with a nurse after graduating from medical college which he revealed to BJ after the woman in question is