The 1964 film, simply called 'Film', written by Samuel Beckett, starred which actor?

'NOTFILM' chronicles Samuel Beckett's fascinating 'FILM' project - KDHX 'NOTFILM' chronicles Samuel Beckett's fascinating 'FILM' project Details Published: 14 July 2016   Writer/director Ross Lipman calls his documentary titled NOTFILM "a Kino-essay," from the Russian word for cinema, a cinema essay. It's an apt label. As he traces from preproduction through production of Samuel Beckett's only film venture, Lipman inserts a wealth of examples following associative connections sometimes as elusive as Beckett's concept for his 1964 project simply titled FILM. Experimental and abstract, the film has a central character fleeing an all-seeing eye. Themes involve a pursuit of identity, doppelgängers, and the shock of self-recognition. The only spoken line is, "Shhh!" Running two hours and 10 minutes, NOTFILM offers an intriguing exploration of Beckett's wrestling with the cinematic medium. Most famous for Waiting for Godot, Beckett insisted on visualizing his ideas despite admitting to fighting his own impulse to flee the camera because of his lack of technical expertise.  Famous individuals worked on the project, as much as Beckett allowed. In voiceover narration, Lipman provides background information and illustrates with helpful excerpts the talent involved. Cinematographer Boris Kaufman, who won the 1954 Academy Award for On the Waterfront, shot the film. Alan Schneider directed it (his first directorial effort), Barney Rosset produced it, and Sidney Meyers edited it. Buster Keaton starred, though Beckett insisted on shooting his back, that famous face obscured from view. Keaton took the job because he needed the work and the money, but said, upon the film's release, that he was confused during the shooting of the film and "am still confused."      Interviews lend insight, including those with Oscar winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler, Beckett's greatest actress Billie Whitelaw, knowledgeable film historian/archivist Kevin Brownlow, veteran actor James Karen, Barney Rosset, and Leonard Maltin. Archival recordings of Beckett add further context to this unusual interrogation of both cinema and self.  Beckett's 22 minute FILM that NOTFILM carefully details will screen at 8:00 p.m. Friday, July 29 through Tuesday, August 2 along with Keaton's feature The Cameraman. The documentary NOTFILM screens at Webster University's Winifred Moore auditorium Friday, July 22 through Tuesday, July 26 at 8:00 each evening. For more information, call 314-968-7487 or visit  the Film Series' website .


Dulcibella is the name of the boat in which classic novel?

Top Ten Sailing Films - Classic Boat Classic Boat Swallows and Amazons, 2016, by Harbour Pictures, and available now on DVD Choosing our ten favourite sailing movies proved a real challenge. Films, like novels, appeal to each person’s senses and taste in a different way. We wanted to achieve a list that consisted of great films, which also had great sailing footage. These then, in no particular order, are our all-out top sailing movies. We’re sure we’ve missed some of your favourites – hell, we’ve missed a lot of ours here too, so tell us what you’d like to have seen on this list, and why. All these films are available on DVD. In no particular order…. (Taken from CB248, February 2009) The Riddle of the Sands Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers’ classic novel hardly needs recommendation to CB readers. This film version was made at the height of the 1970s vogue for elegant, accurate, authentically British adaptations of period literary classics, though it failed to capture the family market in the same way as The Railway Children (with which it shares Jenny Agutter as female lead). Nevertheless, it does full justice to Childers’ 1903 boys’ adventure for grown-ups. All the essential elements are there: the correlation between the elusive Frisian waters (beautifully filmed on location) and Davies’s vague, intuitive suspicions is established, the sailing and rowing (to Memmert and back in the fog) are expertly realised. The boats are thoroughly authentic – especially Clara’s little lee-boarded sailing dinghy. And not only does the lute-sterned Dulcibella closely resemble Childers’ own Vixen but Simon MacCorkindale’s Davies, with his spectacles, moustache and pipe, is clearly drawn from Childers himself. Also admirable are Michael York’s transmission from the initially effete, disdainful Carruthers to the action hero he becomes, and, on a supporting-role scale, Jürgen Andersen as the bluff and oddly semi-sympathetic German naval officer von Bruning. Childers’ elaborate plotting is sensibly compressed and rearranged for cinematic concision, with much confusing to-ing and fro-ing eliminated. More arguable is the decision to introduce the love-interest between Davies and Clara almost before anything else, and the rejigging of the finale – this may horrify purists as much as the loss of the Dulcibella, which is entailed, horrifies Davies, but it is presented as an appropriate price for the survival and love of Clara. For the many lovers of Childers’ masterpiece, though, this is a respectful, atmospheric  adaptation that despite minor quibbles can only add another dimension to their pleasure. 1978, Dir Tony Maylam, Rank Organisation, Cert U, 98 mins Peter Willis Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Master and Commander It’s 1805, before the death of Napoleon, and the frigate HMS Surprise, off the Brazilian coast, has received orders to sink or take as a prize French privateer Acheron. The hunter and hunted switch roles in a cat and mouse chase off the coast of South America before a final battle brings the story to a bloody end. In theory, this adaptation of a slice of Patrick O’Brian’s Nelson-era sea epic series could have been as embarrassingly inauthentic as Braveheart – big-name Australian heart-throbs (Mel Gibson in Braveheart, Russell Crowe in Master and Commander) playing patriotic roles in period costume – but that is where the similarities end.   Master and Commander, though a product of Hollywood in terms of sheer grandeur and ambition of scale, has a well-documented attention to historical detail: the making of the film is a great story in itself, told on the bonus DVD. Brilliant performances by Crowe as the tough, unruffled captain Jack Aubrey, and Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin, the ship’s doctor and amateur naturalist with overtones of Darwin, are underpinned by a superb and stunningly realistic soundtrack – the sound editing won an Oscar for Richard King. The original score weaves shanties and folk songs around the ornately mellifluous Bach, Mozart and Boccherini duets that Aubrey and Maturin play on vio


Which City was Glenn Miller travelling to when his plane went missing?

Glenn Miller's plane mystery revived after 70 years FacebookEmail Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Pinterest Glenn Miller's plane mystery revived after 70 years Seventy years before Malaysia Airlines flight 370 became the biggest, most sophisticated plane to ever go missing, a plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller disappeared during World War II. PBS explores the mystery. Post to Facebook Glenn Miller's plane mystery revived after 70 years Seventy years before Malaysia Airlines flight 370 became the biggest, most sophisticated plane to ever go missing, a plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller disappeared during World War II. PBS explores the mystery. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1m8XKmh CancelSend A link has been sent to your friend's email address. Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. 25 To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs Glenn Miller's plane mystery revived after 70 years Bart Jansen , USA TODAY Published 11:30 a.m. ET July 7, 2014 | Updated 11:52 a.m. ET July 7, 2014 Glenn Miller was one of the most famous musicians in the world when his plane disappeared in 1944. The PBS program "History Detectives Special Investigation: The Disappearance of Glenn Miller" explores the mystery Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET. (Photo: Courtesy of US Air Force) Seventy years before Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 became the biggest, most sophisticated plane to ever disappear, a plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller vanished during World War II. Miller was one of the most popular musicians of the 1930s and '40s, with songs such as In the Mood and Moonlight Serenade. His single-engine Noorduyn Norseman disappeared in bad weather, presumably going down in the English Channel, while heading to a Christmas Day concert for troops in Paris in 1944. But the plane and its three occupants were never found. Questions lingering through the decades include whether the plane suffered mechanical problems or was shot down by friendly fire. Books have also speculated Miller was a spy against the Germans or died under scandalous circumstances. The PBS program History Detectives Special Investigations: The Disappearance of Glenn Miller will explore the mystery Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET. "This was a celebrity story about a guy who was in essence a rock star of his time — he was every bit as big as the Beatles or the Rolling Stones," said Wes Cowan, one of the program's hosts. "He joins the Army Air Force to be a patriot and poof, he vanishes." The beloved and bespectacled Miller was more famous than anyone aboard the Malaysia flight, which took off March 8 with 239 people aboard, but his flight attracted much less attention immediately. Miller had joined the Army in 1942 at the age of 38 and performed with his Army Air Force Band to boost troop morale. With a friend, he hitched a ride Dec. 15 on a UC-64 Norseman that left a Royal Air Force field called Twinwood Farm. Foggy, freezing weather should have prevented the flight, just as a snowstorm should have grounded musician Buddy Holly before his fatal crash in Iowa 14 years later. But Miller was eager to reach Paris for a concert celebrating the troops who had arrived since D-Day months earlier. "They never should have been flying that day," Cowan said. "They had no permission to fly." About the same time Miller's plane was heading to France, a bombing mission was returning from Germany with its payload because the weather was too stormy to spot targets. But those Lancaster bombers dropped their explosives over the channel before landing, leading to speculation they might have inadvertently hit Miller's plane. The program has taped interviews with a British accident investigator, who reviewed the case in the 1980s, and a possible witness to explore this option. Co-hosts Tukufu Zuberi and Kaiama Glover help narrow down what might have happened. But one of the frustrations of the case is that a detailed investigation came long after the disappearance. The flight occurred on the eve of a German offensive now known as the Battle of the


Montanakids | State Capitol State Capitol Before Montana was a state, it was a United States Territory. The city of Helena became the territorial capital in 1875. Montana gained statehood in 1889. In 1894 Montana voters chose Helena in a controversial statewide election. The Montana Legislature voted to spend almost half a million dollars on a state capitol building and construction began in 1899. The state Capitol building was opened for use on the Fourth of July, 1902. The story of the Capitol building really begins at the top, with the "Goddess of Liberty," as she has been known for 100 years. It's the statue that stands on the copper dome outside. When Anaconda and Helena were fighting over which city would become the state capital, the men responsible for designing and building the Capitol building ran off with all of the plans and records. During the construction of the Capitol, a statue arrived by railroad from a company back east. Nobody knew what it was for or who had bought it. The statue company's records were destroyed in a fire, and for 100 years nobody knew for sure why the Goddess of Liberty was made, who sclupted her, or if 'Liberty' was her name. The Capitol builders wanted a statue for their dome so they used this one. In 2006 a descendent of the sculptor contacted the Montana State Historical Society wanting to know if her grandfather's statue still stood atop the state Capitol. The original sculptor of the statue atop the Montana State Capitol was Edward J. Van Landeghem, and he had named his sculpture 'Montana,' not 'Liberty.' After a century of being misnamed we now know Montana stands atop the State Capitol. Copper played a big part in Montana history. In fact, the political battle between Anaconda and Helena for selection as capital city was stirred up by two men who had made millions of dollars by mining copper. Daly wishing to gain political advantage in his mining ventures supported Anaconda and Clark wishing to thwart Daly promoted Helena. Each Copper King used the newspapers they owned to convince the public to vote for their city. In this hotly contested struggle there were allegations of bribery and counterfeit ballots. A statue of a man on horseback with sword raised was added in 1905. It stands in front of the Capitol and depicts Civil War Union general Thomas Francis Meagher. In 1864 he took over as governor of the Montana Territory while the governor was away. He wrote an early constitution for Montana, hoping it would be used if Montana became a state. He mysteriously drowned while waiting for a shipment of guns on a riverboat at Fort Benton on the Missouri River. Only a few years after the Capitol was finished (1902), Montana's government had outgrown it. Between 1909 and 1912, new wings were added to both ends of the building. Like the United States government, Montana's legislature has two houses, a senate and a house of representatives. The state government also has three branches like the federal government. The Capitol was enlarged to make more room for the executive (the Governor), judicial (Montana Supreme Court), and the legislative (Senate and House of Representatives) branches. The first thing visitors see inside the building is the massive rotunda ï¿½ or the curved inside of the dome outside ï¿½ right above their heads. Huge columns and colorful paintings decorate the main area. Around the rotunda are four round paintings showing four important kinds of people in Montana's early history. The native American, the explorer, the gold miner, and the cowboy were painted for the Capitol opening in 1902. Off to the sides, two large hallways lead to the Governor's office on one end, and the Secretary of State's office on the other. Straight ahead, the Grand Stairway leads up to a large window of colorful stained glass. Down one hall, past the Governor's Office, is the Governor's reception room. The Governor meets with important visitors and representatives here at the large table in the center of the room. There is a secret door to the right of the fireplace on one end of the room


Which band released the 1972 album Close to the Edge?

Close To The Edge - YES CLOSE TO THE EDGE yesadmin 2016-12-01T17:22:44+00:00 CLOSE TO THE EDGE Close To The Edge was released on 13 September 1972 and is widely regarded as one of the greatest progressive rock albums ever recorded. Inspired by Siddharta and their “state of mind” at the time, YES‘s 5th album is widely regarded as their greatest masterpiece. When YES entered the studio with Eddie Offord to record the band’s fifth studio album in mid-1972, their second with this line-up, the band was on something of a roll. ‘ Fragile ‘, the band’s previous album, had taken YES to a new level of international popularity with Top Ten chart placement on both sides of the Atlantic & yielding a hit single in the USA with ‘Roundabout‘. The band was now established in the major music markets to an extent that was, perhaps, unexpected given the complexity of the music YES performed. But with that popularity came a confidence that the expansive material of the two previous albums could be taken a stage further with the new recording. Rather than consolidating, YES chose to innovate. Recorded during lengthy sessions at London’s Advision Studios, ‘Close to the Edge‘ is that rarity in recorded music, the sound of a band & its individual members writing, playing and recording at the peak of their collective abilities. The album was issued in Autumn 1972 reaching chart highs & platinum sales status of 4 in the UK, 3 in the USA & 1 in Holland, though such statistics only hint at the worldwide popularity of the album over a period of more than four decades. The three pieces of music, the title track which spanned the entire first side of the vinyl album with ‘And You And I’ & ‘Siberian Khatru’ on side two, have remained concert favourites since release. The album remains the favourite among many of the band’s legion of fans, a defining recording both for the band & for the progressive rock movement. It is also one of the most successful British rock albums ever released. Personnel Recommended Versions Steven Wilson 2013 Stereo & 5.1 Remixes for Panegyric The Definitive Edition. It doesn’t get better than this. All the mixes are presented in better-than-CD-quality Audiophile 24-96 HD Audio and have been approved by the band. Both editions include a 20 page booklet featuring previously unseen artwork by Roger Dean, an essay by Sid Smith and additional photos and memorabilia. Available at Amazon on BluRay+CD (with more extras) or DVD-A+CD . This is the only version of Close To The Edge to have been completely remixed from the original multitrack tapes since 1972. In keeping with all the other releases in this series, Steven Wilson’s approach for new stereo & 5.1 mixes is to faithfully retain the spirit & sounds of the original album mix, while applying modern mix techniques to bring further clarity to the individual instrument, vocal & overdubs for each track. The songs, instantly familiar to a multitude of Yes fans, remain so, with the new mixes – especially in 5.1 form – providing a greater sense of space for each voice to be heard. Anderson’s voice seems to join the listener in the room, Howe & Wakeman’s solos glisten with clarity and Bruford & Squire remind all that they were unmatched as a rhythm section during that period. Contains: Brand new ‘Definitive’ Steven Wilson Remixes in 24-96 HD Audio in 5.1 Surround and Stereo. The original 1972 Eddy Offord mix recorded directly from the original master tape with no additional EQ. Extras: America in new Steven Wilson 5.1 & Stereo and original Eddy Offord mixes. Alternate early versions of all 3 album tracks: Close To The Edge, And You And I, Siberia. 3 Single Edits: Total Mass Retain, And You And I, America. Extras for BluRay Edition only: A needle drop recording of the whole album from a pristine original vinyl LP pressing . Instrumental mixes of the whole album. Instrumental version of America. All the Original 1972 Mixes and Single Edits are in 24-192. Dan Hersch & Bill Inglot 2003 Stereo Remasters for Warner Music UK/USA Close To The Edge Remastered in 2003 from the master tape of the ori


In which year was the Black Panther Party founded?

Black Panther Party founded | African American Registry Black Panther Party founded Date:  Sat, 1966-10-15 On this date in 1966, the Black Panther Party (BPP) was founded. It was a Black political organization; originally known as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The BPP originated in Oakland, California, by founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The Original six members of the Black Panthers included Elbert “Big Man” Howard, Sherman Forte, Reggie Forte, Little Bobby Hutton, and Newton and Seale. They adopted the Black Panther symbol from an independent political party established the previous year by Black residents of Lowndes County, Alabama. The Panthers also supported the Black Power movement, which stressed racial dignity and self-reliance. The Party established patrols in Black communities to monitor police activities and protect the residents from police brutality. The BPP combined elements of socialism and Black Nationalism. , it promoted the development of strong Black-controlled institutions, calling for Blacks to work together to protect their rights and to improve their economic and social conditions. The Panthers also emphasized class unity, criticizing the Black middle class for acting against the interests of other, less fortunate Blacks. They welcomed alliances with White activists, such as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and later the Weathermen, because they believed that all revolutionaries who wanted to change U. S. society should unite across racial lines. The BPP grew throughout the late 1960s, and eventually had chapters all around the country. As racial tension increased around the country, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) blamed the Black Panthers for riots and other incidents of violence. The bureau launched a program called COINTELPRO (short for counterintelligence program) designed to disrupt efforts to unify Black militant groups such as SNCC and the Panthers. In December 1969, two Chicago leaders of the party, Fred Hampton, and Mark Clark, were killed in a police raid. By the end of the decade, according to the party's attorney, 28 Panthers had been killed and many other members either were in jail or had been forced to leave the United States to avoid arrest. After Newton's conviction was reversed, he called for developing survival programs in Black communities to build support for the BPP. These programs provided free breakfasts for children, established free medical clinics, helped the homeless find housing, and gave away free clothing and food. This attempt to shift the direction of the party did not prevent further external attacks and internal conflicts, and the party continued to decline as a political force. After the departure of Newton and Seale, the party's new leader, Elaine Brown, continued to emphasize community service programs. These programs were frequently organized and run by Black women, who were a majority in the party by the mid-1970s. By the end of the 1970s, weakened by external attacks, legal problems, and internal divisions, the Panthers were no longer a political force. Throughout their decline, several women sustained the organizations community programs until 1981, when the Oakland-based program closed. In 1997. The Black Panther Party Research Project (BPPRP) was created to locate sources and develop finding aids to assist researchers and the general public with uncovering information about the BPP, one of the twentieth century's most controversial, yet least researched organizations. Reference: The Encyclopedia Britannica, Fifteenth Edition. Copyright 1996 Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. ISBN 0-85229-633-0 Copyright 1996, World Book, Inc. ISBN 0-7166-0096-X


Portmeirion used as a setting for the Prisoner TV series is in which Welsh county?

The Unmutual Website - The Prisoner Patrick McGoohan Portmeirion Home Page The Web The Unmutual Website Well       Come to The Unmutual Website - dedicated to the 1960s TV series "The       Prisoner", starring Patrick McGoohan, and the village of Portmeirion       in North Wales where the series was filmed. EXCITING       ANNOUNCEMENT - September 29th 2017 will mark 50 years since the first       UK screening on 'The Prisoner'. TUW is delighted to announce that       NETWORK will be hosting the official UK 50th anniversary celebrations       in Portmeirion! More details to be announced on the events       page nearer the time. That       weekend in 2017 also sees 'PrisonerCon2017' - an official weekend       of Prisoner activities in Seattle, USA. More details also on the events page. LATEST       NEWS..... STOP      PRESS: 14/1/17 - House in Buckingham Place for sale HERE ...      Cornwell in Oxon, village designed by Clough, on TV in 'Father Brown'      BBC1 afternoons... 'Big Fat Quiz of Everything' Dec 2016 has 'Prisoner'      question ...10/1/17 - 13/1/17 edition of BBC1 Wales 'Weatherman Walking'      featured Portmeirion... 31/12/16 - Excellent 'Prisoner' Observer article HERE ...      29/12/16 - Latest issue of 'Geeky Monkey' magazine includes Prisoner      article... 08/11/16 - 'Broadcast Film and Video' magazine Nov16 includes      write up of 'Hell Drivers' 6k restoration... Lotus 7 replica showroom HERE ...      'Greatest Motorcycle Rides' on Travel Channel features Portmeirion...      Catch My Soul mentioned in blog HERE ... NEW         COMIC STRIPS ONLINE TUW         readers may recall Mike Gorman's excellent talents in creating         'Man in a Suitcase' online comic strips, with his most recent         effort, 'Pawns and Prisoners', having a 'Prisoner' crossover element         (see earlier news item, below). It         is with much excitement therefore that Mike has recently published         not one, but TWO further Prisoner-inspired MIAS crossover strips! 'The         Day The Village Stopped' (panel left) is an epic tale, with quite         a few familiar faces to cult TV and film fans (and an excellent         choice of Number Two actor), and can be read HERE . 'I         Hate Number Six' is a more lighthearted, but no less enjoyable         and talent-fuelled, strip, available to view HERE .         Both come highly recommended by The Unmutual Website. More, please,         Mike! With         thanks to Mike Gorman for this news item. A         RENDEZVOUS WITH PATRICK One         of the highlights of the output of The Unmutual Website in recent         years has without doubt been the incredible research into some         of the works of Patrick McGoohan by US historian Tom Mayer. His         in-depth discoveries and articles regarding 'lost gems' such as         'Catch my Soul' ( HERE ) and 'Rafferty'         ( HERE ), research into McGoohan's early         life, and also in-depth analysis of 'The Prisoner' ( HERE )         are second to none, and TUW is proud to announce that January         2017 sees the latest discovery and research from Tom. 'Rendezvous:         The Hanging of Alfred Wadham' is a 1961 TV episode, which starred         McGoohan, which was long thought lost, until, in 2016, Tom located,         and viewed, a print at UCLA (left). The result of this is a superb         research article and review, which can be read HERE . With         thanks to Tom mayer for the news item, article, and photos. CHARITY         AUCTION FOR VILLAGE MODEL Unmutual         Website readers may recall the astonishing 'Prisoner' and Portmeirion         related models produced by P


Published in 2013 who wrote the novel 'An Officer and a Spy'?

Robert Harris on his new thriller, 'An Officer and a Spy' - Telegraph Author interviews Robert Harris on his new thriller, 'An Officer and a Spy' 'An Officer and a Spy', the new thriller from Robert Harris, has as its hero  one of history’s great whistleblowers. It’s a story with plenty of modern  parallels, he tells Jon Stock. 'An Officer and a Spy': Robert Harris, whose new thriller is about the Dreyfus Affair, at his vicarage in West Berkshire Photo: Clara Molden By Jon Stock 1:20PM BST 26 Sep 2013 It must be a nervy business being Robert Harris’s publisher. On the one hand, you have an international brand-name thriller writer whose book sales exceed 10million. On the other, you never quite know what he’s going to deliver next. Many authors would have been forgiven for milking Fatherland – his bestselling, what-if debut novel – for a few Nazi sequels, but in the subsequent 20 years Harris has turned his hand to code-breaking (Enigma), modern Russia (Archangel), ancient Rome (Pompeii, Lustrum), Tony Blair (The Ghost) and a very 21st-century financial meltdown (The Fear Index). So it comes as no surprise to discover that his latest novel takes readers off in a completely new direction, this time to late-19th-century Paris. An Officer and a Spy retells the Dreyfus affair, one of the great miscarriages of justice and a true story that resonates with modern parallels (think secret trials, Guantánamo and whistleblowers). It’s told through the eyes of Colonel Georges Picquart of the French Army who realises that his fellow officer Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew, has been falsely accused of leaking secrets to the Germans. When Dreyfus is convicted of treason and sentenced to solitary confinement on Devil’s Island, off the coast of South America, Picquart must decide whether to take on the army, intelligence services and government to prove his innocence. It’s a question of duty and principle faced by every whistleblower down the ages: follow his conscience or be loyal to his superiors. “Over lunch in Paris two years ago, I happened to ask Roman Polanski [who directed the film of The Ghost] if he had ever considered doing the Dreyfus affair,” Harris, 56, tells me at his Victorian vicarage in West Berkshire. “I had seen some books in his office and he said that he’d always wanted to do it, but he had never been able to find a story. I said I’d take a look. And almost from the moment I started reading about Dreyfus, I saw that at the heart of the whole thing is a brilliant spy story, which has tended to be lost in all the social commentary about anti-Semitism.” It’s also a compelling tale of power, cover-ups and idealism – meat and drink for Harris, a former political journalist. In some ways, the only surprise is that he hasn’t turned to the subject before. As far back as 2001, he was comparing the treatment of his close friend Peter Mandelson , who had just been sacked for the second time by Tony Blair, to the Dreyfus affair. Related Articles Robert Harris on The Fear Index 15 Sep 2011 “The thing I like doing is writing about power and structures and how they affect life. In this case you really see a model of how bureaucracies in any society and at any time cover up their mistakes, and how they will square this in their own conscience by saying that it’s for the greater good. I found writing the book quite radicalising in a way. I don’t think I will ever look at the government and armed forces and institutions generally in the same way again.” Harris was helped in his research by the French government’s recent decision to make available online all the secret files relating to the case (affairedreyfus.com ). At the rotten heart of the conspiracy against Dreyfus was an intelligence unit called the Statistical Section, located in crumbling offices behind the Ministry of War. “A bit like MI5 in the early Seventies, the Statistical Section was going rogue and made up of a group of quite paranoid Right-wing figures. When you write historical books, you bring what you know about the present to it. And I’m sure that little set-up [the Sta


The triangle film corporation was formed in 1915 by Thomas Ince, D. W. Griffith and which other director?

D.W. Griffith Biography (Filmmaker) Best known as: Ground-breaking director of Birth of a Nation Name at birth: David Wark Griffith D.W. Griffith was an American filmmaker who is considered by many to be the most influential figure in the history of cinema. He began his career as a stage actor and writer in the first part of the 20th century. He took his stories to the early movie studios, landing at the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in 1908. Until 1913 Griffith oversaw the production of almost all of Biograph's movies, more than 450 films. He joined Reliance-Majestic's studios, taking most of his regular actors and technicians, including his best cameraman, G.W. "Billy" Blitzer. The quality of Griffith's productions was generally considered superior to his contemporaries, and his projects became more ambitious than the standard one-reel films. His three-hour feature The Birth of a Nation (1915) was a stunning success and is considered the most important film in the development of cinema as an art. Its racism -- the protagonists are members of the Ku Klux Klan -- keeps it from being enjoyed as a cinematic experience, but as an item of historical interest it includes all of Griffith's innovations in the language of cinema: cross-cutting, close-ups, parallel narratives, camera movement and more restrained acting. His next film, Intolerance (released in 1916), was equally ambitious but a financial disaster. In 1915 he joined with Mack Sennett and Thomas Ince to form the Triangle Corporation, but the venture failed and Griffith left in 1917. He continued making movies, having success especially with Way Down East (1920), but most of his films during the '20s lost money, including those he made with United Artists, the studio he co-founded with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin . As silent movies were replaced by talkies, Griffith's position in the film industry waned. His last feature, The Struggle (1931), was a failure. Although he was no longer making movies, he was honored in 1935 with a special Oscar. His other films include Broken Blossoms (1919), Orphans of the Storm (1922) and Abraham Lincoln (1930). Extra credit: Griffith had a long working relationship with actress Lillian Gish . Copyright © 1998-2017  by Who2?, LLC. All rights reserved.


Which American writer 1862-1910 said `if men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry'?

PPT – American RealismNovelists PowerPoint presentation | free to view - id: 3a56a-ZTEyO PPT – American RealismNovelists PowerPoint presentation | free to view - id: 3a56a-ZTEyO The Adobe Flash plugin is needed to view this content Li Wenji, Zhu Defen, Zhou Yujun 2 1. Reasons civil war, social development. People sought to describe the wide range of American experience and to present the subtleties of human personality, to portray characters who were less simply all good or all bad. 2. Realism originated in France. A literary doctrine that called for reality and truth in the depiction of ordinary life. 3. American realism, different from European realism, is more varied and individualistic. 3 4. Development of American realism first appear in the literature of local color, arbiter William Dean Howells. He defined realism as nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material. 5. Important writers Henry James, Mark Twain. 4 1. Feminist movement. Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Willa Cather. 2. Decline of American Romanticism, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass. 3. Appearance of American realism 4. Appearance of American naturalism. 5 a mode of writing that gives the impression of recording or reflecting faithfully an actual way of life. The term refers, both to a literary method based on detailed accuracy of description and to a more general attitude that rejects idealization, escapism, and other extravagant qualities of romance in favor of recognizing soberly the actual problems of life. Realism is not a direct or simple reproduction of reality but a system of conventions producing a lifelike illusion of some real world outside the text, by processes of selection, exclusion, description or manners of addressing the reader. 6 The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) Indian Summer (1886) A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890) 8 Howells believes that the smiling aspects of American life were the most prevalent and the most typical, and that American life was such that novelists could confine themselves to what would not offend the innocence of a young girl, and should therefore do so.  He wrote too much, and sometimes for an immediate publicmore than thirty novels or novelettes, several volumes of short stories, and thirty-one dramas. Although Howells, James, and Twain all worked for realism, there were obvious differences between them. In thematic term, for instance, James wrote mostly for the upper reaches of American society, and Howells concerned himself chiefly with middle class life, whereas Mark Twain dealt largely with the lower strata of society. 10 1835 born in Florida, Missouri 1839 family settles in Hannibal, Missouri 1847 father dies Twain leaves school, becomes an apprentice to a printer, and works for brother Orion's newspaper 1852 several of his sketches were published, including "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter. 1953 moves to St. Louis, New York and Philadelphia. 1854 He visited Washington, DC in February. 1856 trains as steamboat pilot under Horace Bixby and lives experiences recounted in Life on the Mississippi 1858 receives steamboat piloting license 1861 fights briefly for Confederates and then travels by coach to Carson City and lives experiences recounted in Roughing It 1862 works for Virginia City Territorial Enterprise 1863 adopts the pseudonym Mark Twain 1865 "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" gives him national recognition 1869 travels to Europe and the Holy Land and lives experiences recounted in The Innocents Abroad 1870 marries Olivia and settles in Hartford, Connecticut 1894 Paige typesetting machine, in which Twain has invested almost 250,000, fails after going bankrupt, he goes on a lecturing tour of the world 1894 The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1895 daughter Susy dies of meningitis 1895 suffers from bronchitis and rheumatism 14 1896 Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc 1897 Following the Equator 1898 finishes paying off debts 1900 "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" 1906 What is Man? The Notorious Jump


Captain of Manchester City and England Wimbledon Doubles Champion, Davis Cup Captain, Olympic Tennis Gold Medallist. 'All Round Genius' is the biography of which sportsman?

"Greatest Ever? Step Forward Max Woosnam" - Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), August 12, 2006 | Online Research Library: Questia Article excerpt Byline: By John Gibson Who was the greatest all-round sportsman ever? I submit there is no question. It was without doubt Max Woosnam. Now I realise the bulk of you will never have heard of the gentleman, so let me enlighten you with a smattering of his achievements. He was captain of Manchester City, captain of England's pro and amateur soccer teams, Wimbledon doubles champion, Davis Cup captain, Olympic gold medallist, top quality cricketer who scored a century at Lord's, scratch golfer, recorder of a maximum break at snooker. Need I go on? I base my argument upon the evidence of a fascinating book newly in my possession entitled All-Round Genius which has been lovingly researched and presented to us by Mick Collins, recalling the largely forgotten exploits of Woosnam around the 1920s. This was a man who, upon receiving an invitation to the Hollywood mansion of the legendary Charlie Chaplin, thrashed him first at tennis and then at table tennis ( using a butter knife instead of a bat. … Subscribe to Questia and enjoy: Full access to this article and over 10 million more from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers Over 83,000 books Access to powerful writing and research tools Article details Subscribe to Questia and enjoy: Full access to this article and over 10 million more from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers Over 83,000 books Access to powerful writing and research tools Article details


Whales, porpoises and dolphins belong to which group of aquatic mammals?

BBC Nature - Whales, dolphins and porpoises videos, news and facts Whales, dolphins and porpoises Whales, dolphins and porpoises Whales, dolphins and porpoises belong to the order Cetacea. These are aquatic mammals that have streamlined bodies highly evolved for swimming. Their hind limbs have become vestigial as part of this streamlining. All whales, dolphins and porpoises are cetaceans, including the biggest animal ever to have lived - the blue whale. Scientific name: Cetacea


Ceres is the Roman name for which Greek Goddess?

Ceres, the goddess of agriculture Ceres  Ceres was the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain, and the love a mother bears for her child.  She was the daughter of Saturn and Ops, the sister of Jupiter, and the mother of Proserpine.  Ceres was a kind and benevolent goddess to the Romans and they had a common expression, "fit for Ceres," which meant splendid.  Ceres, the goddess of  agriculture She was beloved for her service to mankind in giving them the gift of the harvest, the reward for cultivation of the soil. Also known as the Greek goddess Demeter, Ceres was the goddess of the harvest and was credited with teaching humans how to grow, preserve, and prepare grain and corn. She was thought to be responsible for the fertility of the land. Ceres was the only one of the gods who was involved on a day-to-day basis in the lives of the common folk. While others occasionally "dabbled" in human affairs when it suited their personal interests, or came to the aid of "special" mortals they favored, the goddess Ceres was truly the nurturer of mankind. Ceres was worshipped at her temple on the Aventine Hill, one of the Seven Hills of ancient Rome.  Her festival, the Cerealia, was celebrated on April 19.  Another special time for Ceres was Ambarvalia, a Roman agricultural fertility rite held at the end of May. Ceres is portrayed holding a scepter or farming tool in one hand and a basket of flowers, fruits, or grain in the other.  She may also be wearing a garland made from ears of corn. The Romans explained the turning of the seasons with the following story:  Ceres was the sister of Jupiter, and Proserpine was their daughter.  Proserpine was kidnapped by Pluto, god of the underworld, to be his bride.  By the time Ceres followed her daughter, she was gone into the earth.  Making matters worse, Ceres learned that Pluto had been given Jupiter's approval to be the husband of his daughter.  Ceres was so angry that she went to live in the world of men, disguised as an old woman, and stopped all the plants and crops from growing, causing a famine.  Jupiter and the other gods tried to get her to change her mind but she was adamant.  Jupiter eventually realized that he had to get Proserpine back from the underworld, and sent for her.  Unfortunately, Pluto secretly gave her food before she left, and once one had eaten in the underworld one could not forever leave.  Proserpine was therefore forced to return to the underworld for four months every year.  She comes out in spring and spends the time until autumn with Ceres, but has to go back to the underworld in the winter.  Her parting from Ceres every fall is why plants lose their leaves, seeds lie dormant under the ground, and nothing grows until spring when Proserpine is reunited with her mother. This information on the goddess Ceres appears courtesy of Long Island Cares , a food bank in New York state. Their food banking computer system was named for her, and they put this information on their web site to explain why the name was appropriate.


What was the occupation of Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932)?

Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) - The Garden Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) - The Garden 1922-07-02 Manuscript on paper | RCIN 1171449 Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) References Description Full leather bound in green calf with gold tooling Gertrude Jekyll was an influential garden designer, known for the painterly quality of her planting. Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House was a gift to Queen Mary from the nation; a showcase for contemporary craft and design, it preserved for history the ideal home of the 1920s, at a scale of one foot to one inch. Princess Marie Louise, Queen Victoria’s granddaughter, conceived the idea, and through her influence many famous artists, designers, authors and craftsmen contributed to the project. The dolls’ house library contains, alongside standard works such as four tiny Bibles, miniature atlases and a complete works of Shakespeare, over 200 diminutive editions of contemporary British literature. Princess Marie Louise personally wrote to the most famous writers of the time to ask for either an original composition or a suitable passage from work already published, transcribed by hand or submitted for professional copying. Though most are manuscript, there are a few printed works. The bindings are mostly morocco leather or vellum, some with beautifully precise gold-tooled decoration. The majority of the volumes were bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with the remaining bound by Birdsall & Son, Hatchards, A. Loosely, R. Riviere & Sons and Zaehnsdorf. Each book contains a tiny bookplate designed by E.H. Shepard, the illustrator of Winnie the Pooh. Provenance Presented to Queen Mary by Gertrude Jekyll, c.1923 People involved


Which singer/songwriter released the 1975 album Playing Possum?

Playing Possum - Singer/Songwriter | HDtracks - The World's Greatest-Sounding Music Downloads http://www.hdtracks.com/playing-possum-237340?___store=default 236223 Playing Possum http://s3.amazonaws.com/hdtrack_img/HX603497889716_185.jpg 24.98 USD InStock /Pop /Singer/Songwriter /Grammy Awards/Past Best New Artist /Pop/Pop 100 Carly Simon's fifth studio album.
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Playing Possum is Carly Simon's fifth studio album originally released in 1975. Upon it's release the album made it into the top ten of the Billboard Pop chart, and featured singles "Attitude Dancing" and "Waterfall". Numerous artists were featured on this album, including Carole King on backing vocals, James Taylor on backing vocals, Dr. John on guitar and keyboards and Ringo Starr on drums.

Personnel:
Carly Simon - vocals, guitar, piano, backing vocals
Jeff Baxter, Alvin Robinson - guitar
Dr. John - guitar, piano, keyboards
James Taylor - guitar, vocals, backing vocals
Lee Ritenour - guitar, mandolin, electric guitar
James Newton Howard - synthesizer, keyboards, electric piano
Andrew Gold - guitar, drums, tambourine
Sneaky Pete Kleinow - pedal steel guitar
Trevor Lawrence - alto saxophone
Leland Skylar - bass, drums
Billy Mernit - piano
Joe Mondragon, Klaus Voormann, Willie Weeks - bass
Derrek Van Eaton - fiddle, flute
Lon Van Eaton - clarinet, flute, sitar
Eddie Bongo - conga
Liza Strike - vocals
Carole King, Rita Coolidge, Abigale Haness, Clydie King, Ken Moore, Vini Poncia, Rodney Richmond, Julia Tillman Waters, Maxine Willard, Carolyn Willis - backing vocals
Irving Cottler, Russ Kunkel, Jim Gordon - drums
Ringo Starr, Andy Newmark - percussion, drums
Emil Richards, Fred Staehle - percussion
Tommy Morgan - harmonica
Richard Perry - tambourine

Production:
Producer: Richard Perry
 24.98 Carly Simon Pop,Singer/Songwriter,Past Best New Artist,Pop 100 2015-05-27 /Singer/Songwriter


Seven Men at Daybreak by Alan Burgess is a book about which WWII event?

Seven Men at Daybreak by Alan Burgess. Book review by R.C. Jaggers — Central Intelligence Agency INTELLIGENCE IN RECENT PUBLIC LITERATURE SEVEN MEN AT DAYBREAK.  By Alan Burgess. (New York: E. P. Dutton. 1960. Pp233. $3.95.) This is an inaccurate and fictionalized account of the circumstances surrounding the assassination in 1942 of the Nazi RSHA chief Reinhard Heydrich by two agents of Czech intelligence in London, Jan Kubis and Josef Gabcik, parachuted in for that purpose. Because the author represents that his construction of the events is validated by research into records and interviews with surviving witnesses, claiming the "advantage ... of records amassed by both friend and enemy" and "a footnote of authority" conferred by his "coming so late to this story," and because he has indeed unearthed enough facts to provide a distorted skeleton for his yarn, his failure to distinguish between fact and invention may disconcert readers familiar with my own earlier presentation of the case history of the operation. 1 Mr. Burgess' inventions range from the usual embroidery of verbatim dialogue which no still living person could have heard and relatively harmless false embellishments like seven swastikas branded on Kubis' buttocks and his decoration for fictitious exploits in France to bad guesses on points of major importance. He has the agents "knowing that they were the first parachutists to come back to Czechoslovakia" when there had been 16 others before; he has them dropped in December 1941 instead of April 1942; he has them "told they would be dropped near Pilsen" though the Pilsen area was a poor drop zone and never used; he has other agents dropped from the same plane as they, including Josef Valcik, who had gone in the preceding autumn; he has London getting radio messages from them and about them. Some of his misconstructions reflect on the soundness of the Czech operational procedure -- that the agents should be told "without preamble" what their mission was to be on their "first meeting with the senior officers," rather than after specialized training and a probing assessment; that they should be parachuted in when there was telltale snow on the ground; that they should have "decided to preserve their parachutes as souvenirs"; that they should be caught displaying English banknotes, wearing English suits, and having English laundry marks on their clothes. None of these things are true. Most damaging in this respect is Burgess' intermingling of the strictly compartmented mission of the two lone agents with the activities of the unreliable and Nazi-penetrated Czech underground, saying that they were given three addresses where they could apply for help, that the Czech underground radioed London for reinforcements for them, and that two rescue teams were dispatched. The men he names as leaders of these teams, Arnost Miks and Adolph Opalka, had been parachuted in on other missions several months before Kubis and Gabcik were dropped. The latter were particularly instructed to eschew contacts with the underground, and the turning of their lonely ordeal into a clumsy mass enterprise sullies its high courageous dignity. 2 Against this author's disservice to the cause of careful history, however, must be set one really good deed. The man who betrayed to the Germans the brave assassins' hideout in the cellar of St. Bartholomeus was given in my account, out of confusion with a similar cover name, as Alois Kral. Mr. Burgess correctly gives it as Karel Curda. There was a real Alois Kral, a member of a different operational team, whose memory is thus cleared of an unintentional calumny. Of a second, separate traitor whom the book names Gerik, I have no knowledge. It is conceivable also that Mr. Burgess' account of the agents' heroic last stand and death in the church cellar, which varies considerably in detail from mine, rests upon better information than I used, the reports received in London shortly after the event. But how much of this is fact and how much fiction would have to be determined by an examination of his source


The uncle of a pop star, scored a goal and broke his leg in the 1959 F.A. Cup Final, what is the uncle's name?

FA Cup pages 300-596 by Jay Wilkins - issuu THRILLER WEST BROMWICH ALBION 3-2 PRESTON NORTH END By Frank Coles at Wembley, The Daily Telegraph, May 1, 1954 A five-goal Cup Final with the matchwinner scored in the final two minutes three minutes ranks high in the long catalogue of thrilling Wembleys. But West Bromwich Albion’s 3-2 victory over Preston North End was not gained in the grand manner the 100,000 crowd had come to expect of the best team of the season. Not until late in the second half did Albion find the rhythm which had made them the most-talked about team in the country.  And Preston, who came into the Cup Final on the crest of a wave, were the obvious victims of Wembley nerves.   The most disappointed was Tom Finney, who had been hailed as a probable match-winner. He was the target of close tackling by Len Millard, Ray Barlow and George Lee.  Finney only had one scoring chance, just before halftime, from 15 yards out and unmarked, but he fired high and wide.  There has rarely been a Wembley final without stage fright. Today, it was George Thompson, the Preston goalkeeper. Twice, he dropped the ball when chased by Albion forwards. And toward the end there was panicky judgment when Frank Griffin, the Albion right-winger, shot the game-winner from just beyond the dead ball line.  But Thompson showed no nervousness in his great effort to save the goal on which the game turned -- a penalty shot, which evened up the score at 2-2 at 18 minutes into the second half.  The match opened slowly until the 21st minute, when Albion and Preston exchanged goals. Lee nearly scored for Albion with a curving run and a hard shot. At the last moment, Ronnie Allen raced in just in time to sidestep the ball into the net with his right foot for a 1-0 lead.  A minute later, Preston evened it up with Jim Sanders’ kick that Angus Morrison head-butted into the net.  Six minutes after half-time, Tommy Docherty passed to Charlie Wayman, who scored easily on Sanders, the Albion goalkeeper, for a 2-1 lead.  After Allen’s penalty-kick equaliser at the 63rd minute, Albion pressed hard, with Millard and Joe Kennedy linking up on the attack. It was Kennedy’s pass to Reg Ryan and then to Griffin that won the match. Griffin headed the ball past Preston’s Joe Marston before running down the goal line from the wing for the final goal in the 87th minute. SIDELINE SMILES ■ West Brom’s Len Millard (middle, with trophy), Jimmy Dugdale (left) and Paddy Ryan (right) are interviewed by a radio reporter after the Cup final. OPPOSITE PAGE: The Baggies bring the Cup back to the Birmingham suburb of West Bromwich. FA CUP MEMORIES If Stanley Matthews had his “day in the sun” in 1953, the man to whom many compared him had a very different experience a year later. Tom Finney was a very special player, a talented footballer who could be effective across a forward line. And he had other skills – he could score great goals on a Saturday afternoon and mend your boiler on Saturday evening! Finney, a one club man, was also a qualified plumber. Indeed, he was known to soccer fans as the “Preston Plumber” and when he retired from football his plumbing business continued to be successful for many years. Finney and Matthews provided the game’s observers with a vibrant debate on who were the better player. England was just lucky to have both of them. As Bill Shankly said: “Tom Finney would have been great in any match and in any age ... even if he had been wearing an overcoat!” Preston and West Bromwich Albion – The Baggies – had made it to the 1954 FA Cup final with the Midland club clear favourites. They had lost the First Division Championship on the run-in but experts felt they would put that disappointment behind them and have too much for Preston in the Cup final. Of course, a lot depended on Finney – who was a potential matchwinner. And he knew it. But on Cup final day Finney admitted he had a shocker: He had found the build-up to the final allconsuming. Being a local lad and Preston’s best player, he was in constant demand for interviews with the press a


Which American writer said 'Bigamy is having one husband too many, monogamy is the same'?

Recommended Site - Married Dating UK - Illicit Encounters® - Extra marital affairs and dating 1 member likes this comment. 882867-Deleted - 27 Apr, 2015 - 07:31PM Read 'After 25 Years' by Natasha Jordache. It uses genuine texts with an ex-boyfriend who comes to find her years after he left her, and they have an affair - while her husband knows. Although it's a novel she makes a powerful argument for polyamory and honesty at the end. I totally agree - which is why my other half knows I'm on IE: "Historically, marital alliances were intended to preserve power and wealth, produce legitimate heirs and, with luck, to last for the duration of child-rearing before disease or decrepitude took their toll. Few anticipated being sexually active in their fourth or subsequent decades. In 12th and 13th century Europe, passionate extramarital affairs, unsullied by the tedious realities of harsh daily life, were de rigueur. Romantic, emotionally led and sexually exclusive relationships were regarded as incompatible with the serious, economically managed business of matrimony." Just as then, marriages may run their course and become great business arrangements. Monogamy? P 3 members like this comment. 991481-DELETED - 26 Apr, 2015 - 09:09AM Wasn't it Oscar Wilde who said that "bigamy is having one wife too many - a bit like monogamy". Desperately few people only ever have one sexual partner. Relationships, marriages etc might be one to one, but sex is primarily for fun. It's the glue for homo sapiens to keep the tribes together. The reproduction bit is ancillary. Raquel12 - 23 Apr, 2015 - 12:47PM Soupçon is right. It's all to do with our biological build. We as homosapiens can choose not to procreate (I didn't) and enjoy sex recreationally, but that doesn't remove the traits of what we were biologically programmed to do. Our instincts still work that way, even if our minds have decided to take a different path. 5 members like this comment. loreal - 22 Apr, 2015 - 11:35PM Forgot to thank science! loreal - 22 Apr, 2015 - 11:32PM @Soupcon. With all due respect, "Survival of the fittest" most of the guys Iv met on here couldnt even date me, never mind impregnate me! Thank heavens for "Mother Nature". 6 members like this comment. 978156-Deleted - 22 Apr, 2015 - 03:51PM You going soft Soupçon, sorry? Lol... 1 member likes this comment. Soupçon - 22 Apr, 2015 - 01:06PM Sorry Silent Disco, you are missing the point but of course, our views on having/not having children have to be respected, that is our choice. Every living being on earth lives to procreate but because we as homosapiens can enjoy sex recreationally without producing offspring, it doesn't remove the primeval drive we are designed to fulfil - to spread the seed and multiply, survival of the fittest is what brought us to where we are and for thousands of years, human kind had no idea what monogamy was. (read Jeff79179's comments below)... thanks Jeff, I too have the same excuse for being on IE :o) 6 members like this comment. Silent Disco - 21 Apr, 2015 - 08:44PM No I don't agree Soupcon. I know lot's of women who either didn't want children initially (me included), or made the choice not to have them ever. Where do they stand in your wisdom, or do they not factor? 5 members like this comment. Lainey56 - 21 Apr, 2015 - 07:25PM Bigamy is having one husband too many - so is monogamy. 6 members like this comment. Soupçon - 21 Apr, 2015 - 06:02AM Monogamy is a state of mind, not a state of being. It goes completely against the grain of natural existence (male of species spreading his seed to ensure continuation of their lineage, female of the species ensure they produce the strongest offspring possible will engage with multiple partners). Monogamy requires work. If we continue to pretend it’s natural, it’s easier to be led down the path that often leads to infidelity. 3 members like this comment. MidnightRed - 20 Apr, 2015 - 07:30PM LucyLastic - If your lucky enough like I was 2 years ago to find a unhappy married man 'newbie' on here who'd never cheated or had an affair before, it is


In what year did Cyprus become a member of the EU?

From 6 to 28 members - European Commission From 6 to 28 members What were you looking for? Any suggestions? From 6 to 28 members From 6 to 28 members From 6 to 28 members The EU is a unique economic and political partnership between 28 European countries that together cover much of the continent. It was created in the aftermath of the Second World War. The first steps were to foster economic cooperation: the idea being that countries who trade with one another become economically interdependent and so more likely to avoid conflict. In 1951, six countries founded the European Coal and Steel Community, and later, in 1957, the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community: Belgium Luxembourg the Netherlands A further 22 countries have since joined the EU, including a historic expansion in 2004 marking the re-unification of Europe after decades of division: The history of the European Union Interactive timeline Founding fathers > After Slovenia, Croatia is the second country from ex-Yugoslavia to join the EU. The European perspective remains open to the entire Western Balkans region. Two more countries from eastern Europe, Bulgaria and Romania, join the EU, bringing the number of member states to 27 countries. Ten new countries join the EU: Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. This was the largest single enlargement in terms of people, and number of countries. Austria, Finland and Sweden join the EU. The 15 members now cover almost the whole of western Europe. Spain and Portugal become members Membership of the EU reaches double figures when Greece joins. It has been eligible to join since its military regime was overthrown and democracy restored in 1974. Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom join the European Union, raising the number of member states to nine. The organisation founded in 1957 which is now known as the European Union, originally had six members: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Stay connected


What is the first forename of actor Robert Redford?

Robert Redford - Biography - IMDb Robert Redford Biography Showing all 106 items Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (2) | Trade Mark  (2) | Trivia  (61) | Personal Quotes  (29) | Salary  (7) Overview (4) 5' 10½" (1.79 m) Mini Bio (1) Charles Robert Redford, Jr. was born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Martha (Hart), from Texas, and Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, who was originally from Connecticut. He is of English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Robert's mother died in 1955, the year after he graduated from high school. Robert was a scrappy kid who stole hubcaps in school and lost his college baseball scholarship at the University of Colorado because of drunkenness. After leaving UoC, he spent some time drifting across America, spending a time working in the California oil fields. Having saved enough he moved to Europe studying art in Paris and Florence.Back in the States he decided on a career as a theatrical designer in New York. Enrolling at the American Academy of Dramatic Art he turned to acting making his stage debut in 'Tall Story'. In 1962 he was signed for the stage production of 'Barefoot in the Park' which was a smash hit but it wasn't until 5 years later when it was filmed that he became an important star. Television and stage experience coupled with all-American good looks led to movies and television roles. His breakthrough role was "The Sundance Kid" in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), when the actor was 32. The Way We Were (1973) and The Sting (1973), both in 1973, made Redford the number one box office star for the next three years. Redford used his clout to advance environmental causes and his riches to acquire Utah property, which he transformed into a ranch and the Sundance ski resort. In 1980, he established the Sundance Institute for aspiring filmmakers. Its annual film festival has become one of the world's most influential. Redford's directorial debut, Ordinary People (1980), won him the Academy Award as Best Director in 1981. He waited eight years before getting behind the camera again, this time for the screen version of John Nichols ' acclaimed novel of the Southwest, The Milagro Beanfield War (1988). He scored with critics and fans in 1992 with the Brad Pitt film A River Runs Through It (1992), and again, in 1994, with Quiz Show (1994), which earned him yet another Best Director nomination. Lola Van Wagenen (consumer activist), born in 1940, dropped out of college to marry Redford on September 12, 1958. They divorced in 1985 after having four children, one of whom died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Daughter Shauna Redford, born November 15, 1960, is a painter who married Eric Schlosser on October 5, 1985, in Provo, UT. Her first child, born in January 1991, made Redford a grandfather. Son James Redford (aka Jamie Redford), a screenwriter, was born May 5, 1962. Daughter Amy Redford , an actress; was born October 22, 1970. Redford also has a brother named William. Often worked with Sydney Pollack Trivia (61) 10/97: Ranked #29 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. 1995: Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#4). Father of Shauna Redford (born on 15 November 1960), James Redford (born on 15 May 1962) and Amy Redford (born on 22 October 1970). His oldest son Scott was born in 1959 and died shortly after from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. German painter Sibylle Szaggars has been his longtime companion since 1996. Was considered for the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972). He received a chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (knight) for his work through the Sundance Institute, promoting independent film. Mentioned in the theme song of the 1980s TV hit The Fall Guy (1981). Lost out on the role of Ben Braddock in The Graduate (1967) because director Mike Nichols didn't think anyone would believe Redford would have trouble getting "the girl". In the early 1970s Paramount had plans to remake Double Indemnity (1944) with Redford in


Who painted 'The Death of Chatterton' in 1856?

'Chatterton', Henry Wallis, 1856 | Tate Henry Wallis Support: 622 x 933 mm frame: 905 x 1205 x 132 mm Collection Bequeathed by Charles Gent Clement 1899 Reference Display caption Summary Chatterton is Wallis's earliest and most famous work. The picture created a sensation when it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856, accompanied by the following quotation from Marlowe: Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight And burned is Apollo's laurel bough. Ruskin described the work in his Academy Notes as 'faultless and wonderful'. Thomas Chatterton (1752-70) was an 18th Century poet, a Romantic figure whose melancholy temperament and early suicide captured the imagination of numerous artists and writers. He is best known for a collection of poems, written in the name of Thomas Rowley, a 15th Century monk, which he copied onto parchment and passed off as mediaeval manuscripts. Having abandoned his first job working in a scrivener's office he struggled to earn a living as a poet. In June 1770 he moved to an attic room at 39 Brooke Street, where he lived on the verge of starvation until, in August of that year, at the age of only seventeen, he poisoned himself with arsenic. Condemned in his lifetime as a forger by influential figures such as the writer Horace Walpole (1717-97), he was later elevated to the status of tragic hero by the French poet Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863). Wallis may have intended the picture as a criticism of society's treatment of artists, since his next picture of note, The Stonebreaker (1858, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery), is one of the most forceful examples of social realism in Pre-Raphaelite art. The painting alludes to the idea of the artist as a martyr of society through the Christ-like pose and the torn sheets of poetry on the floor. The pale light of dawn shines through the casement window, illuminating the poet's serene features and livid flesh. The harsh lighting, vibrant colours and lifeless hand and arm increase the emotional impact of the scene. A phial of poison on the floor indicates the method of suicide. Following the Pre-Raphaelite credo of truth to nature, Wallis has attempted to recreate the same attic room in Gray's Inn where Chatterton had killed himself. The model for the figure was the novelist George Meredith (1828-1909), then aged about 28. Two years later Wallis eloped with Meredith's wife, a daughter of the novelist Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866). Read more Display caption This highly romanticised picture created a sensation when it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856. Thomas Chatterton was a poet whose ‘gothic’ writings, melancholy life and youthful suicide fascinated artists and writers of the 19th century. At an early age, he wrote fake medieval histories and poems, which he copied onto old parchment and passed off as manuscripts from the Middle Ages. The fraud was later discovered. In London he struggled to earn a living writing tales and songs for popular publications. Penniless, he took his own life by swallowing arsenic at the age of 17. Gallery label, November 2016


Alphabetically which club in the Football League this season comes first?

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE © Tony Brown, 1995 Taken from the introduction to "The Ultimate Football League Statistics Book", published by the author in 1994. The idea of a "league", in which each club played every other club in an organised, scheduled fashion was first established in America with the formation of baseball's National League in 1876. The earlier baseball National Association was less well organised; each club was not obliged to play every other, and they played unequal numbers of games. Cricket in this country was also less formally structured at the time; an unofficial championship table was published as early as 1864 but not until 1892 did each county play every other twice. The 1880s were a period of rapid change in the organisation of professional, competitive football. The press reports of the time show a growing spectator interest in the game as the Saturday half day holiday became established. The growth of football can be seen by examining the number of clubs entering the F.A. Cup competition; fifteen in 1871/72, seventy three in 1881/82, and one hundred and forty nine in 1888/89. The fixture list of a leading club at that time included a series of "friendly" fixtures with other clubs of similar status, the F.A. Cup, and other cup competitions organised by the county or town in which the club was based. The formation of the Football League in 1888 can thus be seen as a logical development; a means of continuing to attract the paying public to a guaranteed number of home games each season. William McGregor, a committee member of Aston Villa, wrote to some of the leading clubs in March 1888; after two meetings the founder members of the League were agreed. The number of Saturdays available was a factor in limiting the number of clubs in the competition to twelve. This required twenty two Saturdays for the fixtures, but the clubs would also have continued with some of their traditional friendly games and needed to play their national and local cup games as well. Many clubs found that the only way to tackle this fixture problem was to arrange two games on one day, and use two completely different "first" teams to play the games. The first twelve clubs comprised six from Lancashire and six from the Midlands. All of them had professional players. Just one of those clubs is no longer playing today (Accrington), although another (Stoke) has had two spells out of the League. Well established clubs who were not included in the original twelve were Nottingham Forest and Sheffield Wednesday; Forest were late to embrace professionalism and preferred to retain their former fixture list. Southern clubs stayed largely amateur and aloof from the League; Arsenal were the first to be admitted, in 1893/94. It was originally hoped that Scottish clubs would join; clubs from north of the border had played in the F.A. Cup since the competition started in 1871/72. However, they formed their own league in 1890. The first games were played under the League rules on September 8th 1888. Some of these rules were still under discussion; the two points for a win, one for a draw rule was not agreed until November 21st that year. The counter proposal was just to count the wins. Things were a little disorganised at first. Matches often started late due to the late arrival of the opposition. Results were sometimes disputed. Bolton Wanderers claimed a game against Notts County in 1889/90 was lost 0-3 and not 0-4 as shown in the records; this helped them avoid the need to apply for re-election at the end of the season. The Notts County versus Derby County game in the first season is shown in the League's records as played on the 19th November 1888 with a 2-5 result. In fact the match was played on 16th March 1889 and finished 3-5. There is no doubt that all the clubs involved found the League was a success. The original rules required the last four clubs to retire and apply for re-election; all were successful in 1889, so the second season started with the same twelve clubs. Stoke were the first clu


Which chemical element is named after the Greek word for hidden?

The Meanings Behind 20 Chemical Element Names | Mental Floss The Meanings Behind 20 Chemical Element Names filed under: chemistry , language Like us on Facebook On December 30, 2015, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced the discovery of four new chemical elements—numbers 113, 115, 117, and 118—the first new elements added to the periodic table since 2011 . For the time being, they have the fairly clunky Latin and Greek numerical names ununtium (Uut), ununpentium (Uup), ununseptium (Uus), and ununoctium (Uuo), but, by IUPAC rules, their discovers now get the chance to officially name them. Online, there’s growing support to name one of these new “heavy metal” elements lemmium in honor of Motörhead frontman Lemmy (who died two days before they were announced), and another octarine after the fictional “color of magic” in the late Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels (Pratchett died in March 2015). Whether these two petitions will come to fruition remains to be seen—the final names are not likely to be announced until later in the spring—but as IUPAC rules demand all new elements be named after either a mythological concept or character, a mineral, a place, a property of the element itself, or a scientist [ PDF ], it seems unlikely we’ll be seeing lemmium on the walls of chemistry classes any time soon. The stories behind 20 other chemical element names are explained here.  1. LITHIUM (3) Despite being the least dense metal, lithium takes its name from the Greek word for “stone,” lithos, because it was discovered in a rock (as opposed to the other alkali metals potassium and sodium, which were discovered in plants and animals).  2. CARBON (6) The name carbon comes from the Latin word carbo, meaning “coal” or “charcoal.” A small carbo, incidentally, was a carbunculus, which is the origin of carbuncle.  3. NEON (10) Neon takes its name from neos, the Greek word for “new” (it was “newly” discovered in 1898). 4. PHOSPHORUS (15) Phosphorus literally means “light-bearer” or “light-bringing,” as the first compound of the element glowed in the dark. A century before it became the name of element 15 in the late 1600s, Phosphorus was an alternative name for the planet Venus, whose appearance in the sky was once believed to strengthen the light and heat of the Sun. 5. VANADIUM (23) One of the transition metals, pure vanadium is a harsh steel-grey color, but four of its oxidation states produce a rainbow of solutions, colored purple, green, blue, and yellow . Because he was so impressed with how beautiful and varied these solutions were, the Swedish chemist Nils Sefström chose to name vanadium after Vanadís, an alternate name for the Norse goddess of beauty, Freya. Vanadium’s next door neighbor, chromium (24), also produces a variety of colored compounds and so takes its name from the Greek word for “color,” chroma.  6. COBALT (27) Cobalt is often naturally found alongside or in minerals combined with arsenic, and when smelted, cobalt ore can emit noxious arsenic-laden fumes. Long before the poisonous qualities of minerals like these could be explained by science, copper miners in central Europe had no better explanation than to presume these toxic effects were supernatural, and were caused by devious underground goblins called kobolds who lived inside the rock—and it's from the German word kobold that cobalt gets its name.  7. COPPER (29) The chemical symbol for copper is Cu, which derives from the metal’s Latin name, cuprum. In turn, cuprum is descended from Kyprios, the Ancient Greek name for the island of Cyprus, which was well known in antiquity for its production of copper. Some other chemical elements named after places include germanium (32), americium (95), berkelium (97), californium (98), and darmstadtium (110), while the elements ruthenium (44), holmium (67), lutetium (71), hafnium (72), and polonium (84) take their names from the Latin names for Russia (Ruthenia), Stockholm (Holmia), Paris (Lutetia), Copenhagen (Hafnia), and Poland (Polonia). 8. GALLIUM (31) A brittle, silvery-colored metal with


Which English town is connected with Count Dracula?

BBC - York & North Yorkshire - Whitby's Dracula connections York & North Yorkshire Whitby resident Bram Stoker was very taken with the atmosphere of Whitby Bram Stoker found some of his inspiration for 'Dracula' after staying in Whitby in 1890. He stayed in a house on the West Cliff and was trying to decide whether it would be suitable for a family holiday. By all accounts, he was quite smitten with the atmosphere of the town; the red roofs, Whitby Abbey, the church with its tombstones and even the bats flying around the many churches. Stoker found a general history book at Whitby library, which was originally near the Quayside. He tells us so at the top of a sheet of his notes taken from William Wilkinson's 'An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia' (1820). These notes contain the only reference to Dracula, the historical figure, in all of Stoker's papers. "...there was a look of fear and horror on his face that the men said made them shudder. Poor dear old man! Perhaps he had seen Death with his dying eyes!" 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker (1897) There seems to be little doubt that Whitby is where he discovered the name. It is fairly certain that Stoker also found material in the British Museum in London. His name is listed among famous people who researched there. Stoker lists in his notes over 30 source books for the novel. Though none of them deals with Dracula, they include books on Transylvania, folklore and other relevant topics. Stoker's Dracula is shipwrecked off the Yorkshire coast, he is actually on his way to London on the Russian schooner, Demeter. He comes ashore in the guise of a black dog and wreaks havoc on the town. One of the characters in the novel, Mina, keeps a journal containing detailed descriptions of Whitby and those areas frequented by Dracula. "Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes, and which is the scene of part of "Marmion," where the girl was built up in the wall. It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits; there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows." 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker (1897). Amazingly, many visitors to Whitby ask where Dracula's grave is located, forgetting that he is a work of fiction. The Count's devotees search St Mary's Church graveyard, after scaling the 199 steps, in search of his last resting place! In short, Whitby provided Bram Stoker with an atmospheric backdrop to his novel, a quiet place to indulge in a little library research and a place to have a wonderful family seaside holiday. Forget what you think you know about Dracula and Whitby, read the novel and be surprised! Bookmark with:


Hans Lippershey applied for a patent in the Netherlands in 1608 for an early form of which scientific instrument?

hans lippershey | Tumblr hans lippershey Grid View List View The invention of the telescope The telescope is one of humankind’s most important inventions. The simple device that made far away things look near gave observers a new perspective. When curious men pointed the spyglass toward the sky, our view of Earth and our place in the universe changed forever. But who invented the telescope? The answer remains a mystery today. It is highly probable that as glassmaking and lens-grinding techniques improved in the late 1500s, someone held up two lenses and discovered what they could do. The first person to apply for a patent for a telescope was a Dutch eyeglass maker named Hans Lippershey (or Lipperhey). In 1608, Lippershey tried to lay claim on a device with three-times magnification. His telescope had a concave eyepiece aligned with a convex objective lens. One story goes that he got the idea for his design after observing two children in his shop holding up two lenses that made a distant weather vane appear close. Others charged at the time that he stole the design from another eyeglass maker, Zacharias Jansen. Jansen and Lippershey lived in the same town and both worked on making optical instruments. Scholars generally argue, however, that there is no real evidence that Lippershey did not develop his telescope independently. Lippershey, therefore, gets the credit for the telescope, because of the patent application, while Jansen is credited with inventing the compound microscope. Both appear to have contributed to the development of both instruments. Compounding the confusion, yet another Dutchman, Jacob Metius, applied for a patent for a telescope a few weeks after Lippershey. The government of the Netherlands eventually turned down both applications because of the counterclaims. Also, officials said, the device was easy to reproduce, making it difficult to patent. In the end, Metius got a small reward, but the government paid Lippershey a handsome fee to make copies of his telescope. Enter Galileo In 1609, Galileo Galilei heard about the “Dutch perspective glasses” and within days had designed one of his own — without ever seeing one. He made some improvements on his initial design and presented his device to the Venetian Senate. The Senate, in turn, set him up for life as a lecturer at the University of Padua and doubled his salary, according to Stillman Drake in his book “Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography” (Courier Dover Publications, 2003). Galileo was the first to point a telescope skyward. He was able to make out mountains and craters on the moon, as well as a ribbon of diffuse light arching across the sky — the Milky Way. He also discovered the sun had sunspots, and Jupiter had its own set of moons. The British ethnographer and mathematician Thomas Harriot also used a spyglass to observe the moon. Harriot became famous for his travels to the early settlements in Virginia to detail resources there. His August 1609 drawings of the moon predate Galileo’s, but were never published. The more he looked, the more Galileo was convinced of the sun-centered Copernican model of the planets. Galileo wrote a book “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican” and dedicated it to the Pope Urban VIII. But his ideas were considered heretical, and Galileo was called to appear before the inquisition in Rome in 1633. He struck a plea bargain and was sentenced to house arrest where he continued to work and write until his death in 1642. Elsewhere in Europe, scientists began improving the telescope. Johannes Kepler studied the optics and designed a telescope with two convex lenses, which made the images appear upside down. Working from Kepler’s writings, Isaac Newton reasoned it was better to make a telescope out of mirrors rather than lenses and built his famous reflecting telescope in 1668. Centuries later the reflecting telescope would dominate astronomy. Exploring the cosmos The largest refracting telescope ever built opened at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wis., in 1897. But the 40-inc


Scott Joplin: The King of Ragtime Music Scott Joplin: The King of Ragtime Music May 28, 2006 I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Barbara Klein with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the life and work of one of America’s greatest music writers: Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: That song is called “Maple Leaf Rag.” Scott Joplin wrote it more than one hundred years ago. The song changed Joplin’s life. It was very popular. The composer earned a good living from the sales of the sheet music. He also became famous. But, even today, much about Scott Joplin remains a mystery. There is conflicting information about the most basic facts, like when and where he was born.Official population documents suggest Scott Joplin was born in eighteen sixty-seven and eighteen sixty-eight. He was born in Texas, probably near the border with Arkansas. The Joplins moved to Texarkana, Texas sometime after eighteen seventy-five and Scott grew up there. (MUSIC) VOICE TWO: Scott was the second of seven children born to Giles and Florence Joplin. His father was a freed slave who worked on the railroad. His mother cleaned people’s homes. The whole Joplin family was musical. Scott’s father played the violin. His mother played the banjo. And all the Joplins enjoyed singing together at home. Scott learned to play several musical instruments. But Florence Joplin wanted her son to learn how to play the piano. When Scott was about seven years old he began taking piano lessons with a music teacher at his school. The Joplins were poor, so Scott’s mother paid for the weekly lessons with food. Florence Joplin also got permission for her son to use a piano in one of the houses she cleaned in Texarkana. Florence and Giles Joplin separated before Scott became a teenager. Some experts think Scott blamed himself for the break-up. Many experts also think Scott Joplin’s opera “Treemonisha” included incidents of his life with his mother after Giles Joplin left. For example, the character “Treemonisha” receives music lessons paid for by her mother who cleans people’s houses. Listen to this aria from the opera. Carmen Balthrop is Treemonisha. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Scott Joplin’s early piano lessons did not include ragtime. That kind of music was played in dance and drinking places and was not considered acceptable.Scott first studied classical music with several teachers. They included a German immigrant named Julius Weiss who probably had the strongest influence on the boy. VOICE TWO: Scott left Texas when he was a teenager. He worked as a piano player and gave lessons in the guitar and mandolin. In his twenties he settled in Sedalia, Missouri. He formed a group called the Texas Medley Quartet. The group sometimes traveled great distances to perform. Scott Joplin began his music-writing career in Sedalia. He attended college classes to learn to become a composer. Joplin also got a permanent job in Sedalia playing the piano in a new nightclub. Sedalia’s most important citizens visited the Maple Leaf Club. The job permitted Joplin time to write and play his own work. Something even more important happened to Joplin in Sedalia. He met John Stark, the owner of a local music store. In eighty ninety-nine, Stark published the song “Maple Leaf Rag.” It was not Joplin’s first published music. But it was the he was most proud of. Stark offered to pay Joplin a percentage of each sale of “Maple Leaf Rag” sheet music. This was an extremely unusual business agreement for a white publisher and black composer at that time. Usually, white publishers paid only a small amount of money for full ownership of music written by African-Americans. The agreement was very good for both Scott Joplin and John Stark. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Ragtime music is dance music. It combines a solid, often lively, beat with a looser, complex melody. Most experts agree that the traditional music and dance of American slaves played a big part in the development of ragtime. Here is a perfect example. Scott Joplin and John Stark published “A Breeze From Alabama” in ninetee


What is the name of Heston Blumenthal's restaurant in Bray?

Heston Blumenthal's new restaurant called 'best in the world' | Daily Mail Online comments Willy Wonka: Blumenthal's snail porridge and his bacon and egg ice creams somehow sit happily alongside his experimental television shows and his more pragmatic association with Waitrose Can a chef be too successful? It is something Heston Blumenthal worries about. Only two days after his new restaurant, Dinner, has opened in London, the 110-seat space has been booked solid for the next three months. People are practically beating the door down to get in. They are slavering in the streets, desperate to be the first to try Blumenthal’s new historical British recipes; his 18th century turkey pudding with girolles and cockscomb, his cockle ketchup, his pig’s ear stew and his roast marrow bones. For out there on the wilder shores of gourmet adoration, the average Heston devotee is more of a serious stalker than a mere foodie fan. ‘It is crazy,’ says Blumenthal, as he walks between the tables in his crisp chef’s whites, a frown cleaving his brow. ‘The hype has been incredible. I just hope people are not expecting too much.’ Perhaps it is too late to manage expectation now. Yesterday, the front page of one broadsheet newspaper wondered if Dinner, which only opened to the public on Monday, was already ‘the best restaurant in the world?’. Inside, the critic foamed on about his reaction to one dish (‘A gasp, and then a laugh, and then a wonderful taste’) before describing a brioche bun as tasting like it was ‘soaked in angel’s spit and spiked with the sugar of unicorn’s horn’. Another critic was merely content to describe the restaurant as ‘astonishing’. That’s what Blumenthal does to people. Nearly 16 years after he opened his first restaurant, the celebrated Fat Duck in Bray, Heston Blumenthal has become that rarest of creatures; a chef who has managed to become a household name without diluting the essential outlandishness of his core offering. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share Somehow, his Willy Wonka style of cooking, his snail porridge and his bacon and egg ice creams, sit happily alongside his experimental television shows and his more pragmatic association with Waitrose. Indeed, last Christmas, the Christmas pudding he conceived for the supermarket — the recipe featured a surprise orange which self-caramelised inside — was a sell-out. Some enterprising souls even put the much sought-after Heston puddings on the auction site, eBay. Fancy: One broadsheet has already described Blumenthal's Dinner restaurant, at London's Mandarin Oriental Hotel, 'the best in the world' ‘At one stage, they were on sale for £1,000 each,’ says Blumenthal. ‘Then a lot of people thought, forget eating it, at that price we’ll sell ours too. So the market was flooded and the price dropped again. You know, it was such a hit that sometimes I worry that I’m going to be remembered as that Christmas pudding bloke and nothing else.’ Maybe not quite. Particularly as the 44-year-old chef now reluctantly finds himself back on eBay again. ‘Someone has booked a table here and put it up for auction on eBay already,’ he says, and laughs, unsure whether to be delighted or concerned by the flame-grilled heat of the sudden attention. So what is all the fuss about? Well, although Blumenthal has the Fat Duck and two pubs (all in the village of Bray in Berkshire), this is his first venture into the capital, and has been much anticipated for years. The meat is sourced from a prized breed of Spanish pig — but I wonder if even Henry VIII himself might quibble at £28 for a pork chop with cabbage Dinner is situated on the ground floor of the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park hotel in Knightsbridge and both the robust, macho leather and wood decor and the taste bud-boggling menu is the result of Blumenthal’s increasing fascination with historical British recipes. The menu, which he has worked on for 18 months and which will change four times a year, contains dishes from the 14th to 19th centuries, with a few items (baked lemon suet pudding, cod in cider) from the last


Which county on the West coast of Ireland lies between County Limerick and County Galway?

Beach Holiday Cottages Ireland | Coastal Accommodation | ii Next → We have self catering holiday cottages near beaches throughout Ireland. All coastal cottages in this selection are within 3 miles of a beach. Ireland has some stunningly beautiful beaches along its 2500 miles of coastline. These include a large number of beaches with Blue Flag status for their cleanliness, water quality, safety and level of environmental protection.   The windsurfing world championship has been held at Rosses Point in Sligo, and the entire western coast has many magnificent beaches for surfing and all water sports. The beaches tend to have marginally warmer water in the south-east.   Top 10 beaches in Ireland: Ballinspittle, County Cork. Two Blue Flag beaches right next to each other - perfect for surfing and swimming. Roundstone, Galway. Lovely clean beach which I remember going to getting soaked in the rain and then drying off in the great local pub. Helen's Bay, County Down. Remote and unspoilt beaches and country park. An area of historic significance in both World Wars. Rossnowlagh Beach, Donegal. “Heavenly cove” is regarded by many as the most scenic and dramatic Atlantic beach in the whole northwest. Miles of golden sand it is popular for all kinds of water sports. Bundoran, Donegal. A glorious stretch of a sandy beach facing Donegal Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Great for watching surfers. Dugort, Achill Co. Mayo. Just one of Co. Mayo's lovely clean beaches which are ideal for swimming, sailing, surfing and other water sports. Duncannon Beach, Wexford. One of the best beaches in the South East, with over a mile of golden sands near the lovely Wexford. Portstewart Strand County (London) Derry. Between Portstewart and the mouth of the River Bann lies this lovely 2 mile long beach and with its extensive dunes. Balbriggan Beach, Dublin. Within 2 minutes of Dublin Balbriggan has lovely coastal walks but is also home to a large colony of seals which can regularly be seen. Lahinch, County Clare. Excellent surfing with a promenade and a championship links golf course.


The musical Jersey Boys features the music of which group?

Jersey Boys (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Jersey Boys on Apple Music       by          GMNeedham When I read the reviews of "Jersey Boys" on iTunes, I thought that every member of the chorus and the technical staff of the show must have written them. After catching a short excerpt on the Tony Awards show, I figured I'd go ahead and buy; $12 didn';t seem like much of an investment for a Tony winning show. But I was not prepared for how wonderful this recording is. Good grief---this album is as amazing as the reviews! The original cast recording (NOT soundtrack, incidentally; why can't iTune separate these?) is a gem. The sound is faithful to the period, and the actors seem to be channeling The Four Seasons. I would agree that there was no need for the gratuitous use of the F-bomb (twice) in the one track, but this is a minor quibble. If you remember when every new Four Seasons 45 was an event (heck, if you remember what a 45 is), you'll enjoy this recording! Too good to be true       by          Macrae M I absolutely love Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and this show made me fall in love with the music all over again. I was lucky enough to be on the second row the night I saw the show on Broadway and it was incredible. I felt like I was part of the show. John Lloyd Young, Christian Hoff, J. Robert Spencer and Daniel Reichard are all incredible performers and the nicest people you could hope to meet. While in New York I had the chance to see three other shows as well (Wicked, Sweeney Todd, and Rent) and they were amazing but Jersey Boys is something else. It really is "too good to be true!" I loved every moment of it; my face hurt at intermission because I'd been smiling so hard! See the show and you'll know what I mean but if you can't see the show, the soundtrack is a good start! "Jersey Boys" is Awesome!       by          JS Cook I saw this show on Broadway last week and haven't been able to stop singing the songs, so I just had to buy the album and I LOVE it! I knew a lot of the music, although I'm only 34 and didn't really grow up with it. I had never heard of the play, but it was recommended to me by several people when they found out I was taking a trip to New York and I'm so thankful they did. The actors were fabulous and John Lloyd Young has a terrific voice--what a range! I got my picture taken with each of the "Four" after the play and then went to the "Today" show the next day and heard them sing for Katie Couric's last day. My 3 & 5 year old kids like to sing and dance to the music too. I wish them the best of luck at the Tony's! Biography Genre: Soundtrack Years Active: '00s, '10s Jersey Boys aren’t a group or a band, but a Broadway musical that chronicles the story of the Four Seasons, the group that gave the world pop hits like “Rag Doll,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Dawn,” “Silence Is Golden,” “Walk Like a Man,” and so many others. A soundtrack album of the musical, which featured reproductions of Four Seasons hits sung by cast members, was released in 2005, and was produced by Bob Gaudio, a founding member of the original group and its principal songwriter, although he was... Top Albums and Songs by Jersey Boys 1.