What is the title of Private Eye's regular page of political news?

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In which of his books does George Orwell recount his experiences in the Spanish Civil War?

Second world war: George Orwell on the Spanish civil war | World news | The Guardian Close On getting shot: George Orwell in Catalonia We had set up a rifle-rest in the ditch. If you waited long enough you generally saw a khaki-clad figure slip hurriedly across the gap. I had several shots. I don't know whether I hit anyone – it is most unlikely; I am a very poor shot with a rifle. But it was rather fun, the fascists did not know where the shots were coming from, and I made sure I would get one of them sooner or later. However, a fascist sniper got me instead. I had been about 10 days at the front when it happened. The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think it is worth describing in detail. It was at the corner of the parapet, at five o'clock in the morning. This was always a dangerous time, because we had the dawn at our backs, and if you stuck your head above the parapet it was clearly outlined against the sky. I was talking to the sentries preparatory to changing the guard. Suddenly, in the very middle of saying something, I felt – it is very hard to describe what I felt, though I remember it with the utmost vividness. Roughly speaking it was the sensation of being at the centre of an explosion. There seemed to be a loud bang and a blinding flash of light all round me, and I felt a tremendous shock – no pain, only a violent shock, such as you get from an electric terminal; with it a sense of utter weakness, a feeling of being stricken and shriveled up to nothing. The sandbags in front of me receded into immense distance. I knew immediately that I was hit, but because of the seeming bang and flash I thought it was a rifle nearby that had gone off accidentally and shot me. All this happened in a space of time much less than a second. The next moment my knees crumpled up and I was falling, my head hitting the ground with a violent bang which, to my relief, did not hurt. I had a numb, dazed feeling, a consciousness of being very badly hurt, but no pain in the ordinary sense. The American sentry I had been talking to had started forward. "Gosh! Are you hit?" People gathered round. There was the usual fuss – "Lift him up! Where's he hit? Get his shirt open!" etc, etc. The American called for a knife to cut my shirt open. I knew that there was one in my pocket and tried to get it out, but discovered that my right arm was paralysed. Not being in pain, I felt a vague satisfaction. This ought to please my wife, I thought; she had always wanted me to be wounded, which would save me from being killed when the great battle came. It was only now that it occurred to me to wonder where I was hit, and how badly; I could feel nothing, but I was conscious that the bullet had struck me somewhere in the front of the body. When I tried to speak I found that I had no voice, only a faint squeak, but at the second attempt I managed to ask where I was hit. In the throat, they said. As they lifted me up a lot of blood poured out of my mouth, and I heard a Spaniard behind me say that the bullet had gone clean through my neck. They laid me down again while somebody fetched a stretcher. As soon as I knew that the bullet had gone clean through my neck I took it for granted that I was done for. The blood was dribbling out of the corner of my mouth. "The artery's gone," I thought. I wondered how long you last when your carotid artery is cut; not many minutes, presumably. Everything was very blurry. There must have been about two minutes during which I assumed that I was killed. And that too was interesting – I mean it is interesting to know what your thoughts would be at such a time. My first thought, conventionally enough, was for my wife. My second was a violent resentment at having to leave this world which, when all is said and done, suits me so well. I had time to feel this very vividly. The stupid mischance infuriated me. The meaninglessness of it! To be bumped off, not even in battle, but in this stale corner of the trenches, thanks to a moment's carelessness! I thought, too, of the man who had shot me – wond


In which Virginia town, in April 1865, did Robert E Lee sign the Confederate surrender at the end of the American Civil War?

Robert E. Lee surrenders - Apr 09, 1865 - HISTORY.com Robert E. Lee surrenders Publisher A+E Networks At Appomattox, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War. Forced to abandon the Confederate capital of Richmond, blocked from joining the surviving Confederate force in North Carolina, and harassed constantly by Union cavalry, Lee had no other option. In retreating from the Union army’s Appomattox Campaign, the Army of Northern Virginia had stumbled through the Virginia countryside stripped of food and supplies. At one point, Union cavalry forces under General Philip Sheridan had actually outrun Lee’s army, blocking their retreat and taking 6,000 prisoners at Sayler’s Creek. Desertions were mounting daily, and by April 8 the Confederates were surrounded with no possibility of escape. On April 9, Lee sent a message to Grant announcing his willingness to surrender. The two generals met in the parlor of the Wilmer McLean home at one o’clock in the afternoon. Lee and Grant, both holding the highest rank in their respective armies, had known each other slightly during the Mexican War and exchanged awkward personal inquiries. Characteristically, Grant arrived in his muddy field uniform while Lee had turned out in full dress attire, complete with sash and sword. Lee asked for the terms, and Grant hurriedly wrote them out. All officers and men were to be pardoned, and they would be sent home with their private property–most important, the horses, which could be used for a late spring planting. Officers would keep their side arms, and Lee’s starving men would be given Union rations. Shushing a band that had begun to play in celebration, General Grant told his officers, “The war is over. The Rebels are our countrymen again.” Although scattered resistance continued for several weeks, for all practical purposes the Civil War had come to an end. Related Videos


Alan Hansen joined Liverpool from which club in 1977?

Alan Hansen - Liverpool FC Alan Hansen Profile   Cool on the ball, calm under pressure and an integral part of the meanest defence in Liverpool history, Alan Hansen in a red shirt was class personified. Rated by many as the club's finest ever centre-half, the elegant Scot boasts one of the most impressive medal collections in football.   Hansen helped bring eight league titles and three European Cups to Anfield during his 13 years on Merseyside. Oh, and in 1986 he captained the Reds to their first ever double. Signed from Partick Thistle for £100,000 on the recommendation of legendary Celtic boss Jock Stein, Hansen arrived on Merseyside as a shy, skinny kid.  He made his debut in a 1-0 home win over Derby County in September 1977 and played in the following year's European Cup final triumph over FC Bruges at Wembley. It was not until the magnificent 1978-79 season, however, that 'Jocky' finally ousted the legendary Emlyn Hughes from the team and made one of the two centre-half berths his own. This was the campaign in which Liverpool conceded a miserly 16 league goals.   Relying on brain rather than brawn, very few centre-forwards ruffled Hansen. A crisp tackler, his reading of the game was exceptional and he's widely regarded as one of the most skilful centre-halves in British football history.   The number six oozed elegance and his graceful style was tailor-made for Liverpool's penchant for patiently building from the back – a tactic that brought huge success at home and abroad.   Hansen's aptitude was underlined by his multi-sport prowess which also prompted international recognition at basketball, volleyball, squash and golf. The defender was at his most majestic when striding forward with the ball at his feet, turning defence into attack in the blink of an eye. This skill was never better illustrated than on an unforgettable afternoon at Goodison in November 1982, when he set up Ian Rush for the first of his four goals in a much-celebrated 5-0 romp.   Whoever his defensive partner was, and there were a few during his Anfield career, Hansen never seemed phased. Like a fine wine, he seemed to get better with age and when new player/boss Kenny Dalglish decided to relieve Phil Neal of the captaincy in 1985, the centre-back was a natural successor.   He reveled in his new-found responsibility and led by example as the Reds clinched a coveted league and FA Cup double at the end of his first season in possession of the armband.   Astonishingly, despite winning 26 caps for Scotland, Hansen was snubbed by his country for the 1986 World Cup – a gross error of misjudgment that baffled everyone at Anfield.  But his legendary status increased as he skippered the club to a further two championships before a serious knee injury curtailed his career. It's often said that you don't know what you've got until it's gone, and it was no coincidence that Liverpool were to endure almost a decade of defensive frailty following his retirement.  Once touted as a future manager, Hansen has since carved out a successful career in the media, notably as a pundit on Match of the Day. He remains a highly respected figure, not just among Liverpudlians but within the game in general. Other clubs:


Which actor/director's production company is called Malpaso Productions?

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Which Tottenham Hotspur manager signed Ossie Ardiles?

In 1978 Tottenham Hotspur Signed Argentinian World Cup Winners Osvaldo Ardiles And Ricardo Villa And Declared War | By Paul Sorene on 31 August 2014 | comments 0 Share this: IN 1978 two of Argentina’s 1978 World Cup winning team, Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa, joined English football club Tottenham Hotspur. Spurs, as they are known, had just secured promotion to football’s first division. The signings were a sensation.   PA NEWS PHOTO JULY 1978 A LIBRARY FILE PICTURE OF TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR’S MANAGER KEITH BURKINSHAW WITH ARGENTINIAN WORLD CUP STARS RICARDO VILLA (LEFT) AND OSSIE ARDILES WHO JOINED THE NORTH LONDON CLUB FOR A FEE OF AROUND 750, 000 AT THE CLUB’S GROUND IN WHITE HART LANE   Spurs had pulled off a masterstroke.   Argentina team group. Back Row L-R: Daniel Passarella, Rene Houseman, Jorge Olguin, Alberto Torantini, Mario Kempes, Ubaldo Fillol. Front Row L-R: Ruben Gallego, Ossie Ardiles, Leopoldo Luque, Daniel Valencia, Luis Galvan. Argentina’s Osvaldo Ardiles is carried by triumphant Argentina fans, celebrating their 3-1 victory in the World Cup Final     Neither player spoke much English. But ‘Tottingham’ (more on that later)  had that in hand. The players took English language lessons at the East Grinstead firm of Interlingua. The tutor was Matthew Burran.   In 1981, Spurs won the FA Cup, which back then was a big deal.     Tottenham Hotspur’s Ricardo Villa (second l) celebrates scoring the opening goal with teammates Garth Crooks (l), Glenn Hoddle (second r) and Steve Perryman (r) Tottenham Hotspur’s Steve Perryman (second r) and Ricardo Villa (third r) parade the FA Cup as teammates Glenn Hoddle (l), Chris Hughton (second l), Tony Galvin (third l) and Gary Brooke (fourth l) celebrate victory Spurs celebrate with the FA Cup after their 3-2 win in the replay: (back row, l-r) Paul Miller, Tony Galvin, Glenn Hoddle, manager Keith Burkinshaw, Gary Brooke, physio Mike Varney; (front row, l-r) Steve Perryman, Chris Hughton, Osvaldo Ardiles, Milija Aleksic. 14/05/1981   One highlight was Villa’s mazy goal.       The second highlight was the team’s jingoistic Cup Final Song, Ossie’s Dream. Chas and Dave were, as ever, brilliant. But the song was stolen by Ardiles, who pops up after the 1min 32s mark.       One year later, Spurs were in the final against fellow London club Queen’s Park Rangers.     Queens Park Rangers fans arrive at Wembley Stadium for the 1982 FA Cup Final against Tottenham Hotspur.Queens Park Rangers fans arrive at Wembley Stadium for the 1982 FA Cup Final against Tottenham Hotspur.     Spurs won the replay 1-0. Buy neither Ardiles nor Villa played. Ardiles had returned to Argentina to prepare for the World Cup finals while Villa was omitted because of the on-going hostilities of the Falklands War.   Tottenham Hotspurs’s Argentinian footballer Osvaldo Ardiles leaving Gatwick to train with the Argentinian World Cup squad.     The Foreign Revolution has more : Ardiles’s attachment to his adopted country made the fallout from the Falklands War ever more painful. Keith Burkinshaw recalled how he first heard news of the conflict, on the morning of 3 April 1982. “We were due to play in the FA Cup semi-final against Leicester at Villa Park that day. When everyone went to bed in the team hotel the night before everything was fine. The next morning the two lads told me that our countries were at war. They’d been up literally all night talking to people back home. They’d hardly slept. I had to make a decision whether or not to play them.” In the event, only Ardiles was picked to start and Spurs won 2–0. Burkinshaw recalled that Ardiles got “some terrible stick” from the crowd. In the aftermath of the game there was intense media debate about whether or not it was right and proper for the Argentinians to continue playing for Tottenham while Britain was at war with their country. Matters were further complicated because Ardiles was due to return to Argentina to begin pre-World Cup training with his international side. When he left for Buenos Aires after the FA Cup semi-final, his departure was taken in s


Which famous American film star had the middle name DeForest?

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What was the name of the month in the French Revolutionary Calendar which corresponded to parts of July and August? The same word describes a lobster dish.

nostalgia | Foodster by Claire Growing up in Auckland we never bought lemons, there always seemed to be one on the tree in the garden – and when ours occasionally wasn’t fruiting, then someone else’s was. By late winter in Auckland when the city’s suburbs are at their most colourless, trees stripped leafless under overcast skies, it’s the glow of citrus that stands out, laden on front garden fruit trees. Lemons are forever current in cooking, but they’re also nostalgic. All those hundreds of thousands of lemon trees planted over decades in Kiwi gardens, still fulfilling the same job that they were planted for while home owners come and go, and the world changes around them. Lemons grow well in our climate with the combination of sunshine, rain and being able to withstand cold snaps. This productiveness has made the lemon a staple New Zealand flavour. The lemon that reigns among others for me is the juicy lemon-mandarin cross known as Meyer. This super-fruiter is especially prominent in our kitchen heritage: various grandparents of mine put them into baking (madeira cake), preserves (lemon honey), served with dinghy-caught pan-fried snapper, and even turned into wine (yep). I like how the home garden, especially the fruit and vegetables, feels like a connection to my much-loved, industrious war-generation grandparents – all gardeners. The Meyer originates from China and is named after the US agricultural explorer, Frank N. Meyer, who found it growing as an ornamental pot-plant near Peking (now Beijing) in 1908. At that stage the US Department of Agriculture sent these explorers to every corner of the earth and would then propagate the seeds of their discovery, sending out millions to farmers across the US to see what took. The Meyer did well in California, Florida and Texas. (It’s a key ingredient of California cuisine too, as popularised by chefs like Alice Waters from Chez Panisse – she has a seminal Meyer lemon cake which can be seen  here ). Here in NZ, we have our own intrepid personality to thank for the arrival of Meyers to our country– Hayward Wright – who had orchards in Avondale, Auckland, and introduced fruit never before seen in NZ, including the Meyer lemon, the Satsuma mandarin and the Chinese gooseberry/kiwifruit. (Wright was so instrumental in developing kiwifruit cultivars the most common green kiwifruit is named the ‘Hayward’ after him). An Auckland Star article from 1929 explains the popularity of Wright’s stand at the Auckland Winter Show – people were keen to save money by growing their own fruit, and found his trees reliable, climatised and prolific. (Auckland Star, 9 July 1929) A NZ Herald article (14 August 1928) describes the emergence of the Meyer, foretelling the way it went on to punctuate our gardens… “The Meyer lemon has attracted considerable attention during the past two to three years. The amazing fruiting abilities of one and two-year-old trees of this variety have evoked considerable favourable comment…. It seems as though it is merely a matter of time before the Meyer becomes the popular lemon on the market.” (These old newspapers are all searchable on the National Library’s Papers Past site – what an amazing portal into our heritage!) While Meyers grow fantastically at home, they tend not to often be found in supermarkets (which may be part of their charm). Meyers actually don’t store that well once picked. The supermarkets need something tougher like the yen ben, which is also New Zealand’s main export lemon – it’s more sour, a duller yellow, and less generous with its juice (but to be fair probably has a stronger lemon flavour than the Meyer). I decided to make my grandmother’s lemon honey because this was such a treat on toast for breakfast when I’d go and stay with her. I have some of her cookbooks as she passed away this June, and I came across a recipe for lemon honey in her NZ Truth cookbook. (The cookbook seems to be from around 1944, so note the wartime eggless version using marrow too – gag).  Lemon honey and lemon curd are basically the same thing, most people seem to use le


Which river forms most of the border between Laos and Thailand?

Mekong River | river, Southeast Asia | Britannica.com river, Southeast Asia Alternative Titles: Lan-ts’ang Chiang, Lancang Jiang, Mae Nam Khong, Mékôngk River, Mènam Khong, Song Cuu Long, Sông Tiên Giang Related Topics Khone Falls Mekong River, Cambodian Mékôngk, Laotian Mènam Khong, Thai Mae Nam Khong, Vietnamese Sông Tiên Giang, Chinese (Pinyin) Lancang Jiang or (Wade-Giles) Lan-ts’ang Chiang, river that is the longest river in Southeast Asia , the 7th longest in Asia , and the 12th longest in the world. It has a length of about 2,700 miles (4,350 km). Rising in southeastern Qinghai province, China , it flows through the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Yunnan province, after which it forms part of the international border between Myanmar (Burma) and Laos , as well as between Laos and Thailand . The river then flows through Laos, Cambodia , and Vietnam before draining into the South China Sea south of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). Vientiane (Viangchan), the capital of Laos, and Phnom Penh , the capital of Cambodia, both stand on its banks. About three-fourths of the drainage area of the Mekong lies within the four countries the river traverses on its lower course—Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The Irrawaddy and Mekong river basins and their drainage networks. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Overview of the Mekong River and its declining fish population. Contunico © ZDF Enterprises GmbH, Mainz Physical features The Mekong River drains more than 313,000 square miles (810,000 square km) of land, stretching from the Plateau of Tibet to the South China Sea . Among Asian rivers, only the Yangtze and Ganges have larger minimum flows. Mekong River delta, southern Vietnam. M. Gifford/De Wys Inc. The contrast between the physical conditions that prevail above and below the Mekong’s descent from the Yunnan highlands divide it into two major parts. The upper Mekong flows 1,215 miles (1,955 km) through a long, narrow valley comprising roughly one-fourth of the total area, cutting through the mountains and plateaus of southwestern China. The lower Mekong, below the point where it forms the border between Myanmar and Laos, is a stream 1,485 miles (2,390 km) in length draining the Khorat Plateau of northeastern Thailand, the western slopes of the Annamese Cordillera in Laos and Vietnam, and most of Cambodia, before reaching the sea through the distributary channels of its delta in southern Vietnam. Similar Topics Godavari River In its upper reaches, the Mekong rises in the Tibetan Plateau between the Salween and Yangtze rivers; the streambed has cut deeply into the rugged landscape through which it flows. Along its course between Myanmar and Laos, the Mekong drains about 8,000 square miles (21,000 square km) of territory in Myanmar, comprising rough and relatively inaccessible terrain. In its more gentle lower stretches, where for a considerable distance it constitutes the boundary between Laos and Thailand, the Mekong inspires both conflict and cooperation among Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Physiography The sources of the Mekong, including its principal headstream, the Za Qu River, rise at an elevation of more than 16,000 feet (4,900 metres) on the north slope of the Tanggula Mountains in Qinghai province. They flow southeast through the Qamdo (Chamdo) region of Tibet, where the Za Qu joins other headstreams to form the main stream, called the Lancang in Chinese. It descends south across the highlands of Yunnan, through which it carves a deep valley, to a point south of Jinghong , where it briefly marks the border between Myanmar and China. The river then bends southwest; over a reach of more than 125 miles (200 km) it forms the Myanmarese-Laotian border. Although two great roads cross it—the caravan route from the southeast to Lhasa and the road from Kunming to Myanmar—much of the river valley in the highlands of Tibet and Yunnan is remote and sparsely populated. Below Myanmar, the river basin may be divided into six major sections on the basis of landforms, vegetation, and soils: the northern hi


Ian Curtis, who committed suicide in May 1980, was the vocalist with which group?

Ian Curtis of Joy Division commits suicide - May 18, 1980 - HISTORY.com Ian Curtis of Joy Division commits suicide Share this: Ian Curtis of Joy Division commits suicide Author Ian Curtis of Joy Division commits suicide URL Publisher A+E Networks On the evening of May 18, 1980, Ian Curtis, lead singer and lyricist of the British group Joy Division, hangs himself in his Manchester kitchen. He was only 23 years old. Joy Division was one of four hugely important British post-punk bands that could trace its origins to a now-legendary performance by the Sex Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester in June 1976. Along with founding members of the Buzzcocks, the Smiths and the Fall, Mancunians Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook decided in the immediate aftermath of that show to form a band. And while the DIY ethos of the Sex Pistols gave them the courage to call themselves a band when they could barely play their newly purchased instruments, the band they ended up becoming was among the first punk-inspired groups to leave the punk-rock sound behind. The critical step in that direction was the selection of Ian Curtis from among the respondents to the “Singer Wanted” listing they posted in a local record store. Curtis was less an aspiring rock star than he was an aspiring poet, and his moody, expressive lyrics would gradually guide the group’s sound away from the thrash and anger of punk and toward something far more spare and melancholy. The sound that Joy Division developed over the course of 1977-79 included the addition of the synthesizer—an absolute violation of the lo-fi punk esthetic, but a choice that marked the beginning of what would eventually be called the New Wave. The 1979 album Unknown Pleasures, its follow-up Control and the single “Love Will Tear Us Apart” made Joy Division into cult heroes in the UK, and Ian Curtis’s mesmerizing stage demeanor turned him into a post-punk icon. Though he concealed his condition from his bandmates until he suffered a major seizure in their tour van following a gig in London in December 1978, Curtis was an epileptic. Some have speculated that depression over his medical condition or the side effects of the medications he took to control it led to Curtis’s suicide. There are many other factors that may have played a role, however, from Curtis’s drug use to the strain on his marriage brought about by his affair with a Belgian journalist. Whatever his reasons, Ian Curtis took his own life just two days prior to Joy Division’s planned departure on a potentially career-changing tour of the United States. Two months after Curtis committed suicide on this day in 1980, the surviving members of Joy Division fulfilled a promise they’d made to one another by retiring their group’s name and continuing on through the 1980s under the name New Order. Related Videos


John Wayne won his only Oscar for his role in which film?

John Wayne wins Best Actor Oscar - Apr 07, 1970 - HISTORY.com John Wayne wins Best Actor Oscar Share this: John Wayne wins Best Actor Oscar Author John Wayne wins Best Actor Oscar URL Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 1970, the legendary actor John Wayne wins his first–and only–acting Academy Award, for his star turn in the director Henry Hathaway’s Western True Grit. Wayne appeared in some 150 movies over the course of his long and storied career. He established his tough, rugged, uniquely American screen persona most vividly in the many acclaimed films he made for the directors John Ford and Howard Hawks from the late 1940s into the early 1960s. He earned his first Oscar nomination, in the Best Actor category, for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949). The Alamo (1960), which Wayne produced, directed and starred in, earned a Best Picture nomination. Wayne’s Oscar for True Grit at the 42nd annual Academy Awards in 1970 was generally considered to be a largely sentimental win, and a long-overdue reward for one of Hollywood’s most enduring performers. The Academy had failed to even nominate Wayne for any of his most celebrated performances, in films such as Stagecoach (1939), Red River (1948), The Quiet Man (1952), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and especially Ford’s The Searchers (1956), considered by many to be the greatest Western ever made. In True Grit, Wayne played a drunken, foul-tempered but endearing U.S. marshal named Rooster Cogburn, who becomes an unlikely hero when he helps a young girl avenge the murder of her father. He would reprise the role in the film’s sequel, Rooster Cogburn (1975), opposite Katharine Hepburn. Nominated for seven Oscars at the 42nd annual awards ceremony that night, John Schlesinger’s gritty urban drama Midnight Cowboy won in the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay categories. The film’s stars, Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, were both nominated in the Best Actor category but lost out to Wayne. Richard Burton (as King Henry VIII in Anne of the Thousand Days) and Peter O’Toole (as the beloved schoolmaster Arthur Chipping in Goodbye, Mr. Chips) rounded out the category. It was the fourth of what would be eight career nominations (and no wins) for O’Toole. In 1964, Wayne battled lung cancer, undergoing surgery to remove his entire left lung. He went public with news of his illness in hopes of convincing people to remain vigilant about cancer. In his last movie, The Shootist (1976), Wayne portrayed an aging gunfighter dying of cancer. Three years later, the great actor himself succumbed to stomach cancer at the age of 72 on June 11, 1979. Related Videos


Eddie Reader had a Number 1 hit in April 1988 with which group?

Eddi Reader - biography, up to 2000 Eddi Reader biography, up to 2000 Theres more to life than my life story lyrics to Dear John Sadenia Reader was born and spent her formative years in Glasgow. Contrary to much published information, her birthday is August 29th (not the 28th). Various years have been quoted, particularly when her pop profile was high, but 1959 seems to be correct. The first of seven children, her father Danny was a welder and home was a two-roomed flat. She was known in the family as Edna and nicknamed Eddi at school. With a growing family, Danny, his wife Jean and the children were re-housed in Irvine on the Ayrshire coast, but Eddi lived in Glasgow again in her mid-teens, with her grandmother, studying for school qualifications. Early musical influence came from her parents love of Elvis Presley and from her mothers singing. At age 10, Eddi was given a small guitar for Christmas and, making the best of cramped housing, she practised on it in a cupboard! During her time back in Glasgow, she sneaked off to busk in Sauchiehall Street, but was spotted by an aunt who reported back. This didnt put her off however, and later she busked her way around Europe. Another outlet was a folk/blues inspired trio, getting to grips with Matty Groves and covering Robert Johnson and Joni Mitchell numbers. After her European trip, Eddi became a backing vocalist for , a politically aware punk band, and accompanied them on a trip to America. On their return, she gravitated to London and picked up work recording adverts and singing sessions, most notably as backing singer on tours for the Eurythmics and for Alison Moyet. Another of the media myths has it that her willingness to accept almost any offer of work led to her being nick-named Ever-ready in the music business. As one of three vocalists on a demo for a disco orientated outfit rejoicing in the name Outbar Squeek  (!), Eddi was surprised when EMI would only sign the band if she was included. To this she somewhat reluctantly agreed and she appears, looking very new-wave on the cover, on at least one of their two known twelve-inch releases . About the same time she was teamed up with song-writer and guitarist Mark E. Nevin to record a couple of his songs for a Compact Organisation (label) sampler. Subsequently they formed their own band Fairground Attraction with Simon Edwards (acoustic bass guitar) and Roy Dodds (drums). Signed to RCA, the jazzy acoustic sounds of the single garnered best-of-year at the Brit awards in 1989 (the one with the [in]famous ceremony co-hosted by Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood). At this time Eddi had her first child, Charlie, with her French-Algerian partner Milou  in fact the Top of the Pops television appearance for Perfect required careful choice of clothes  and the career took a back seat for a while. Moreover Eddi felt under pressure from Marks continual perfectionism (pun not intended!) in the band. So when he stormed out of a recording session for a second album one day in November 1989, Fairground Attraction split, with only a later compilation album of singles b-sides and live tracks as a farewell. After a family holiday in Ireland to get away from it all, Eddi returned to live in Scotland and regroup. While working up her own material, she appeared in the BBC TV comedy-drama series written by maverick Glasgow playwright and poet John Byrne and based on the Country and Western music scene in Scotland. He had heard her on BBC Radio 4s magazine programme Womans hour and thought she would be ideal for the insensitive, self-absorbed singer and accordionist Jolene Jowett. Strangely, the title-song had been the first thing Eddi had busked all those years before in Sauchiehall Street. With a young child to look after, Eddi took preparations for a solo career slowly, recording demos with Roy Dodds at the Kilmarnock studios of her brother Franks band the Trash Can Sinatras . There were personal problems too, as Eddi left her husband for while but then they re-united and had another son, Sam. Back in London, Eddi and Roy w


Which famous author spent 5 years in the 1920's as a police officer in Burma?

Buddhist Rampage in Burma instagram Kevin McKiernan Pictured is an overcrowded camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) near Sittwe, Myanmar. Rohingyas are not permitted to travel in Myanmar or to marry or have more than two children without government permission. Buddhist Rampage in Burma Mobs Attack Rakhine Muslim Minority in Potential Ethnic-Cleansing Effort Thursday, March 6, 2014 Myspace Last month, some weeks after I visited Myanmar, state security forces and Buddhist vigilantes massacred at least 48 ethnic Rohingya Muslims, mostly women and children, according to human rights reports. Witnesses said the mass killings took place in the Rakhine state in western Myanmar — the country also known as Burma — in one of the many areas that are largely off-limits to journalists and humanitarian workers. Rakhine is the troubled place where in 2012 Buddhist mobs killed more than 200 Muslims and burned thousands of homes. Despite government controls, journalists managed to report that the mobs, assisted by police, had driven more than 100,000 Rohingya into militarized camps. They remain there today, forbidden to marry or to have more than two children without permission or to travel beyond the police and army checkpoints. Immediately after the massacre, the UN called on Myanmar to investigate. But as with prior atrocities, the government denied responsibility for the killings. According to the Associated Press, on February 27 Myanmar’s government expelled the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders after the organization reported that it had treated two dozen Rohingya Muslims, victims of violence committed by Buddhist mobs. The government denied the attacks. I never thought the word Buddhist would be used as an adjective to modify the noun terror. All that changed last summer, when I saw the serene image of a Buddhist monk on the cover of the Asian edition of Time magazine. The story appeared a few months after President Barack Obama’s historic visit to Myanmar, which was intended to note the end of 50 years of brutal military rule and the beginning of a “transition to democracy.” In reality, growing sectarian violence in the country may yet derail that transition, as it may slow down the stampede of Western corporations hungry to share in this, the last frontier market in Asia. Next to the portrait of the monk in his flowing, maroon-colored robes was the headline “THE FACE OF BUDDHIST TERROR.” Buddhists compose about 90 percent of the population in Myanmar; Muslims account for only about 4 percent. The country has some 135 ethnic groups and a long history of tribal and religious conflict. Founded as a democratic nation in 1948, Burma fell to a military coup in 1962, remaining a dictatorship until 2010. At that time, the junta, desperate for hard currency, announced political reforms and allowed elections, which led to a nominally civilian government. The reforms included the freeing of prominent human-rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi, who had spent 15 years under house arrest in her lakeside home and in the notorious Insein prison. The loosening of military control prompted the lifting of international sanctions, but it was followed by a rash of sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims. Last fall I flew to Burma, the storied home of thousands of golden pagodas and ancient temples. The country was renamed Myanmar by the junta in 1989, but it is still called Burma by many Western nations. I’d reported from China and Vietnam, but somehow I hadn’t realized that this country was as big as Texas, the largest landmass in mainland Southeast Asia. I certainly didn’t understand what could be at stake for my own country politically — what forging this new alliance might mean for President Obama, whose legacy will be colored, fairly or unfairly, by failures in Afghanistan and Iraq. I guessed that Obama sorely needed a win in the foreign policy column. And I watched with interest, following the visit, when the President lifted punishing economic sanctions, which had isolated Burma as a police state for decades. Now I


Which directing partnership remade the film True Grit in 2010?

True Grit Movie Review & Film Summary (2010) | Roger Ebert Tweet In the Coen Brothers' “True Grit,” Jeff Bridges is not playing the John Wayne role. He's playing the Jeff Bridges role — or, more properly, the role created in the enduring novel by Charles Portis , much of whose original dialogue can be heard in this film. Bridges doesn't have the archetypal stature of the Duke. Few ever have. But he has here, I believe, an equal screen presence. We always knew we were looking at John Wayne in the original “ True Grit ” (1969). When we see Rooster Cogburn in this version, we're not thinking about Jeff Bridges. Advertisement Wayne wanted his tombstone to read, Feo, Fuerte y Formal (Ugly, Strong and Dignified). He was a handsome, weathered man when I met him in the 1960s and '70s, but not above a certain understandable vanity. Rooster might be an ornery gunslinger with an eye patch, but Wayne played him wearing a hairpiece and a corset. Jeff Bridges occupies the character like a homeless squatter. I found myself wondering how young Mattie Ross ( Hailee Steinfeld ) could endure his body odor. Bridges' interpretation is no doubt closer to the reality of a lawman in those years of the West. How savory can a man be when he lives in saloons and on horseback? Not all riders on the range carried a change of clothes. Of course he's a lawman with an office and a room somewhere in town, but for much of the movie, he is on a quest through inauspicious territory to find the man who murdered Mattie's father. As told in the novel, Mattie is a plucky young teen with a gaze as level as her hat brim. She hires Marshal Cogburn to track down that villain Tom Chaney ( Josh Brolin ). She means to kill him for “what he done.” If Bridges comfortably wears the Duke's shoes, Hailee Steinfeld is more effective than Kim Darby in the earlier film, and she was pretty darn good. Steinfeld was 13 when she made the film, close to the right age. Darby was a little over 20. The story hinges on the steely resolve of a girl who has been raised in the eye-for-an eye Old West, seen some bad sights and picked up her values from the kind of old man who can go and get hisself shot. Advertisement What strikes me is that I'm describing the story and the film as if it were simply, if admirably, a good Western. That's a surprise to me, because this is a film by the Coen Brothers, and this is the first straight genre exercise in their career. It's a loving one. Their craftsmanship is a wonder. Their casting is always inspired and exact. The cinematography by Roger Deakins reminds us of the glory that was, and can still be, the Western. But this isn't a Coen Brothers film in the sense that we usually use those words. It's not eccentric, quirky, wry or flaky. It's as if these two men, who have devised some of the most original films of our time, reached a point where they decided to coast on the sheer pleasure of good old straightforward artistry. This is like Iggy Pop singing “My Funny Valentine,” which he does very well. So let me praise it for what it is, a splendid Western. The Coens having demonstrated their mastery of many notes, including many not heard before, now show they can play in tune. Besides, isn't Rooster Cogburn where Jeff Bridges started out 40 years ago? The first time I was aware of him was in “ The Last Picture Show ” (1971), where he and his friends went the local movie theater to see “ Red River ,” starring John Wayne. Since then, that clean-faced young man has lived and rowdied and worked his way into being able to play Rooster with a savory nastiness that Wayne could not have equaled. Advertisement All the same, the star of this show is Hailee Steinfeld, and that's appropriate. This is her story, set in motion by her, narrated by her. This is Steinfeld's first considerable role. She nails it. She sidesteps the opportunity to make Mattie adorable. Mattie doesn't live in an adorable world. Seeing the first “True Grit,” I got a little crush on Kim Darby. Seeing this one, few people would get a crush on Hailee Steinfeld. Maybe in another movie. But


Which Israeli leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978?

The Nobel Peace Prize 1978 - Presentation Speech Presentation Speech The Nobel Peace Prize 1978 Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin Share this: Award Ceremony Speech Presentation Speech delivered by Aase  Lionaes, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on the  occasion of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1978, Oslo,  December 10, 1978. Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your  Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: The  Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Peace Prize for  1978 to Anwar al-Sadat, President of Egypt, and Menachem Begin,  Prime Minister of Israel, for their contribution to the two frame  agreements on peace in the Middle East, and on peace between  Egypt and Israel, which were signed at Camp David on September  17, 1978. Never previously in the history of the Peace Prize, stretching  back over a period of almost eighty years, have we witnessed an  award ceremony such as this in King Haukon V's medieval castle of  Akershus, with its memories of far-off times of war and unrest in  the chronicles of our land. Never has the Nobel Committee considered it apposite to award the  Peace Prize to statesmen from the troubled and sadly devastated  Middle East. Never has the Prize been closely associated with agreements such  as the two Camp David agreements, which provide the basis for the  award to the two statesmen on whose shoulders such grave  responsibilities have fallen. Never has the Peace Prize expressed a greater or more audacious  hope - a hope of peace for the people of Egypt, for the people of  Israel, and for all the peoples of the strife-torn and  war-ravaged Middle East. The award of the Prize to the President of Egypt, Anwar al-Sadat,  and the Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin, is moreover  historical in the wider sense, in that we only know of one  previous peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. This, as  Israeli scholars have revealed, took place some 3,000 years ago;  it was the peace concluded between King David's son, wise King  Solomon, and the Egyptian Pharaoh. It was in this part of the world that the cradle of our  civilisation was to be found, more than 6,000 years ago. Here,  communities with a high standard of culture, which were to  exercise a profound influence on the development of human society  in other parts of the world, grew up and flourished. Today, every  single schoolchild knows from his or her history books that it  was here that our written history first began; and adherents of  three historically related religions - Islam, Judaism and  Christianity have turned their gaze with unflagging devotion to  that part of the world from which their religion sprang. The Middle East, situated as it is at the junction of Asia,  Europe, and Africa, has been not only a meeting-place for  cultures, but also a battleground for economic interests and  foreign conquerors. Again and again cultural splendour and  material prosperity have been rudely interrupted by wars, foreign  domination, and internal schism. In our own time the struggle of the Arabs to free themselves from  alien domination was crowned with success when Egypt shook off  the British yoke. In this struggle for national liberation Anwar  al-Sadat played a leading part. At the same time the national movement sprang up in the little  Jewish communities that for two thousand years had been scattered  around in various countries all over the world but holding fast  at all times to memories and hopes of their historical homeland.  The anti-Semitism which culminated with Hitler's mass slaughter  of Europe's Jews drove them to seek security and rebirth in their  own country of Israel. With the active participation of the  United Nations,  the state of Israel was established in 1948. The state and nation  of Israel had now become a political and human fact. The establishment of an Israeli state ushered in a new conflict  throughout the Middle East. In the course of the last thirty  years this dispute between the Jews and Arabs has unleashed four  war


Which river forms the border between Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana?

LIMPOPO RIVER    LIMPOPO RIVER     The Limpopo River  forms the border   between South Africa and Zimbabwe as well as part of the borders between   South Africa and Botswana and Mozambique.     The mouth of the Limpopo River mouth is near   Xai-Xai at the Mozambique coast line.  Important tributaries are the   Marico which also forms part of the border between Botswana and South   Africa, the Crocodile River which drains the south western region of the   Limpopo province and the Olifants River which drains the north eastern   slopes of the Drakensberg Mountains and the Kruger National Park and the Luvuvhu which drains the north eastern part of the Kruger National Park and   Limpopo Province.   The Water Management Areas as defined by   the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry within the Limpopo catchment   are as follows:    The Crocodile (west)/Marico Water   Management Area (Marico):  The Marico, Upper Molopo and Upper   Ngotwane River catchments make up the western part of the Crocodile West and   Marico Water Management Area. These catchments border on Botswana to the   northwest, the Crocodile West catchment in the east. (Ref.4)   The Crocodile (west)/Marico   Water Management Area (Crocodile):The Crocodile River is a major   tributary of the Limpopo River . The Pienaars, Apies, Moretele, Hennops,   Jukskei, Magalies and Elands rivers are the major tributaries of the   Crocodile River.  The upper portion of the catchment, south east of   Hartbeespoort Dam, is located in the Gauteng Province. The north and   north-east corners lie in the Limpopo Province whereas the central or   western sections fall within the North West Province. The total area of the   Crocodile River Catchment is 29 400 km2. (Ref.5)   The Limpopo Water Management Area: The   Limpopo Water Management Area (WMA) is the northern most water management   area in the country and represents part of the South African portion of the   Limpopo Basin which is also shared by Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The   WMA borders on Botswana and Zimbabwe, where the Limpopo River forms the   entire length of the international boundary before flowing into Mozambique.   (Ref.1)   The Luvuvhu /Letaba Water Management Area: The   main rivers in the WMA are the Luvuvhu , Shingwedzi and Letaba rivers, which   all flow in an easterly direction through the Kruger National Park and into   Mozambique before discharging into the Indian Ocean. The Shingwedzi River   first flows into the Rio des Elephantes (Olifants River) in Mozambique,   which then joins the Limpopo River. The two main tributaries of the Letaba   River, the Klein and Groot Letaba, have their confluence on the western   boundary of the Kruger National Park, whilst the Letaba River flows into the   Olifants River just upstream of the border with Mozambique. (Ref.2).       The Olifants Water Management Area: The Olifants River originates near Bethal in the Highveld of Mpumalanga. The   river initially flows northwards before curving in an easterly direction   through the Kruger National Park and into Mozambique where it joins the   Limpopo River before discharging into the Indian Ocean. The Olifants Water Management   Area corresponds with the South African portion of the Olifants River   catchment   but excludes the Letaba River catchment. The area of the Olifants WMA is   54550 km2. The Olifants Water Management Area falls within three provinces viz Gauteng,   Mpumalanga, and the Limpopo Province. The main tributaries are the Wilge,   Elands and Ga-Selati Rivers on the left bank and the Steelpoort, Blyde,   Klaserie and Timbavati Rivers on the right bank. (Ref.3).   (if GoogleEarth is not installed on      your PC, go to the eWISA "Toolbox" for the download address      of the free GoogleEarth version) References: Ref 1: Department of Water Affairs and      Forestry, South Africa. 2004. Internal Strategic Perspective: Limpopo      Water Management Area : Prepared by Goba Moahloli Keeve Steyn (Pt


The subject of a 1970 Ken Russell film, which Russian composer's first symphony was nicknamed Winter Daydreams?

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - encyclopedia article - Citizendium Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky       This editable Main Article is under development and not meant to be cited; by editing it you can help to improve it towards a future approved , citable version. These unapproved articles are subject to a disclaimer . [ edit intro ] Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Pyotr (Peter) Ilyich Tchaikovsky (25 April [7 May] 1840 – 25 October [6 November] 1893) was one of the most popular Russian composers of all time. His music has come to be known and loved for its distinctly Russian character as well as for its rich harmonies and stirring melodies. His compositions are among the most frequently performed in the world. Tchaikovsky composed 7 symphonies, 11 operas, 3 ballets, 5 suites, 3 piano concertos, a violin concerto, 11 overtures, 20 choral works, 4 cantatas, 3 string quartets, a string sextet, and over 100 songs and piano pieces. Yet he was criticized by Russian critics for being insufficiently nationalistic, and all the while was obliged to conceal his homosexuality . His disastrous marriage was the subject of Ken Russell 's 1970 film The Music Lovers . Contents


What did the poet Homer frequently describe as 'wine-dark'?

HOMER'S SEA - WINE DARK? - NYTimes.com IN another of the digressions that often give spice to the pursuit of science, scholars find themselves wrestling with the concept of Homer's ''wine-dark sea.'' The expression appears dozens of times in those epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Yet the sea in question, the Aegean, is no less blue or blue-green than any other. What did Homer have in mind? The question is being raised once again in recent issues of Nature, the British science journal. It was proposed in one letter to the journal that perhaps the wine the Greeks drank was indeed blue. Robert H. Wright and Robert E. D. Cattley, of Vancouver, British Columbia, noted in their letter that the ancient Greeks seldom took their wine neat. They often diluted it with as much as six or eight parts of water. Since the geology of the Peloponnesus, the site of some of the action in the epics, includes large formations of marble and limestone, the authors said, the ground water must have been alkaline, perhaps sufficiently so ''to change the color of the wine from red to blue.'' Dr. Wright is a research chemist. Dr. Cattley is a retired classics professor from the University of New Brunswick. Other attempts to explain Homer's wine- dark sea have included such ''solutions'' as the absence of a word for ''blue'' in the ancient Greek language, congenital color- blindness in the particular Greeks of the Homeric tales and an outbreak of red-colored marine algae. Robert Rutherford-Dyer, a retired classics professor at the University of Massachusetts, said scholars had long puzzled over the ''very odd'' color tones sometimes used in classical Greek writing. ''They don't seem to reflect the same division of the color spectrum,'' he said. But Dr. Cattley said the Greeks' color- blindness was ''patently unlikely.'' And a red tide, he and Dr. Wright said, was possible, but because it would not have lasted long it was not a satisfactory explanation for Homer's use of the wine-dark expression in so many instances. Dr. Cattley, though he shared authorship of the blue-wine idea, believes that as a phrase the wine-dark sea was less a description than a useful poetic device. This is the traditional interpretation by classical scholars. Throughout the Iliad and the Odyssey phrases and descriptions are repeated, the wine-dark sea being only one of the most familiar and poetic of these. This is presumably the legacy of the generation of minstrels who first told the tales that Homer later transcribed and embellished. The minstrels fell back on such stock phrases to give their audience time to absorb what had just been sung and to give themselves a moment to think about what they were going to sing next. Besides, in Greek the phrase wine-dark sea made a perfect flourish at the end of the hexameter line used by Homer. The phrase, Dr. Cattley said, is ''just one of a thousand formulaic lines that the minstrels used time and time again on the old principle that 'He writeth best who stealeth best all things both great and small, for the great mind that used them first from nature stole them all.' '' Dr. Cattley dismisses the suggestion that Homer, being blind, made an unreliable witness in such matters. ''We don't know if Homer was blind,'' he said. ''It's a tradition, that's all. In fact, some people argue that there was no one person called Homer.'' Reaction to the Wright-Cattley letter in Nature was neither swift nor widespread. But Dr. Rutherford- Dyer, in a letter published in Nature last month, disputed the blue-wine idea because Homer in specific references to wines described them as red, dusky or black - ''hence probably like modern mavrodaphne wine.'' A Meteorological Explanation Dr. Rutherford-Dyer suggested a possible meteorological explanation, which he elaborated in the October issue of Greece and Rome, a British journal of classical scholarship. A wine-dark sea may even have been a sign of good weather ahead, a sign like ''red at night, shepherds' delight.'' According to his reasoning, high dust content in the atmosphere gives a dark red sunset


In Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons, what was the name of the amorous French skunk?

Max Landis Making Film About French, Consent-Ignoring Skunk, Pepe Le Pew Max Landis Making Film About French, Consent-Ignoring Skunk, Pepe Le Pew Go to permalink Image via Warner Bros. During his Saturday Comic-Con panel, writer and actor Max Landis announced that he is composing a script for a Warner Brothers full-length feature on Pepe Le Pew. Pepe, if your memory fails you, is the amorous French skunk from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies who never learned the word “consent.” Advertisement As Deadline reports , Landis delivered the news while sitting on a panel for Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, a BBC America show for which he is head writer. Perhaps Landis and Warner Brothers will adjust Pepe Le Pew’s character so that when Penelope Pussycat—of course this is her name—rebuffs his advances, he has the decency to get lost. Maybe the film can even offer an age-appropriate lesson on consent for kiddos. But frankly, I’m not optimistic that this cat-obsessed sexual predator can be redeemed in any meaningful or effective way. A children’s film featuring the skunk equivalent of Lothario simply seems in ludicrously poor taste. Sure, his romantic pursuits were originally framed as goofy antics, but we know better than that. Advertisement


Which regular feature in Private Eye covers pretentious or pompous statements from the arts, academia and business?

Private Eye (Magazine) - TV Tropes Private Eye You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share The very first edition, layout and cartooning by Willie Rushton . "The best comedy is when you attack the strong, not the weak." —Ian Hislop, editor. A British fortnightly magazine of current affairs and satirical humour, running since 1961. Founders included its first editor Richard Ingrams, and comedians Peter Cook and Willie Rushton , who had all been contemporaries at Shrewsbury School and later at Oxbridge . It does a lot of investigative journalism and has been sued for libel a considerable number of times (it usually loses, and would have been bankrupted by the damages if not for donations from supporters and subscribers). Its editor, Ian Hislop (a team captain on Have I Got News for You ), even held the record for 'Most Sued Man in England' for a time. For many years it was verging on a point of pride how long it had been since they won a case. The first time Ian Hislop won a libel suit, the following issue was filled in celebratory manner with yet more libelous material, just because they knew they'd get away with it. note For those reading from outside the UK, it's important to point out that under English law it is possible for something to be both perfectly true and libelous, as it is up to the defendant to prove the truth of what he/she has said, and even then truth is not considered an absolute defense against libel. In the United States, the person bringing the suit has to prove that what was said is false, at least when the defendant is a newspaper or other media outlet (the standard for when the defendant is an individual varies from state to state , but the law of defamation as applied to the media is largely controlled by the Free Press Clause of the First Amendment to the federal Constitution and is thus consistent across states). Also, American law does consider the truth to be an absolute defense; moreover, in the United States, statements of opinion are also protected, and the definition of "opinion" is quite broad—even factually false statements can be "opinion" in the right context. The flip side of this is that getting an injunction to prevent something being published in the first place is rather harder in Britain - otherwise known as Publish and be damned. Or at least, it was, before the current fad for "super injunctions", where the target is not even allowed to say they have had an injunction put upon them, let alone talk about the original subject...      Regular Cartoons and Ongoing Parodies  "The Broonites", (defunct) which featured the Brown camp of the now former Labour government and who all spoke in exaggerated Scottish accents- even the English ones. This was done in the style of The Broons , a cartoon strip from The Sunday Post . Contains an apparently deliberate example for comic effect of Just Plane Wrong . In the 1205 strip, Gordon Brown is put on a plane to Afghanistan to solve the government's popularity problems. The plane- an English Electric Lightning, long gone from RAF service. This is possibly a bizarre example of the cartoonist having Shown Their Work . You see, the original cartoonist on The Broons- (Dudley D Watkins) spent the whole of World War Two drawing anything military in the same style as his earlier adventure comics: That is, straight out of World War One. The Robber Baron cycle, a fictional series of operas detailing the life and crimes of Silvio, the Robber Baron, based on Silvio Berlusconi of Italy. Radio Times: Classic Opera Buffooni, which opens with the Robber Baron Silvio cavorting in the Palazzo Fornicazione with a chorus of scantily clad nymphs who sing the chorus 'Money, Money, Money — We've come here for the Money'. Prime Ministerial parodies: Reporting on governmental affairs in the style of something else. These generally take the form of either a personal diary/correspondence (particularly by the PM's spouse) or an internal missive at a fictional institution designed to parody the PM's style or policies. "The New Coalition Acad


What nationality was the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard?

Soren Kierkegaard Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline Intellectuals & Academics Soren Kierkegaard Biography Soren Kierkegaard was a famous Danish philosopher who was known for his significant philosophical works. Read more about the life and works of this prolific writer in the following article. Quick Facts Ane SÃ¸rensdatter Lund Kierkegaard siblings University of Copenhagen Image Credit https://waldotomosky.wordpress.com/tag/soren-kierkegaard/ Soren Kierkegaard was a famous Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was well known for his criticism of the philosophies of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel. His philosophical work generally deals with the issues of living as a âsingle individualâ and giving priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking. His work in theology focuses mainly on Christian ethics and institution of the Church. It also deals with the difference between the purely objective proofs of Christianity and a subjective relationship to Jesus Christ. Kierkegaard was also interested in human psychology and his psychological work explores the emotions and the feelings of individuals when facing situations in life. His intellectuality was influenced by Socrates and the Socratic Method. Kierkegaardâs earlier works were mainly written under various pseudonymous characters, presenting their own distinctive viewpoints and interacting with each other. Soren Kierkegaard Childhood & Early Life Soren Kierkegaard was born on 5th May, 1813 in an affluent family in Copenhagen. His father, Michael Pedersen Kierkegaard was a stern man with an ardent imagination. His mother, Ane Sorensdatter Lund Kierkegaard was a quiet, plain lady with no formal education. In 1830, he attended the School of Civic Virtue, Ostre Borgerdyd Gymnasium. In this school, Kierkegaard studied history and Latin among other subjects. He went to the University of Copenhagen to study theology but was reluctant to study historical works and philosophy. He didn’t want to be a traditional philosopher and was also not interested in preaching Christianity. On 8th May, 1837 he met Regine Olsen and the two were instantly attracted towards each other. He formally proposed her on September 8, 1840, but following his delusions about the prospects of marriage, he broke off the engagement on August 11, 1841. It was said that the two were mad in love but Kierkegaard considered his “melancholy” made him unsuitable for marriage. Still there was no clear reason for the abrupt end of the relationship. Later, Kierkegaard started concentrating in his examinations. On September 1841, he came up with, “On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates”, which the university panel considered thoughtful and noteworthy. This thesis dealt with the irony and Schelling's 1841 lectures and but was taken as too informal and witty for a serious academic thesis. Kierkegaard completed his graduation from university on October 20, 1841 with a Magister Artium which is now known as Ph.D.   Later Life & Works Kierkegaard used pseudonyms to publish some of his works, whereas in others signed his own as author. For example, his first book, “De omnibus dubitandum est” was written in between 1841-42 was written under pseudonym, “Johannes Climacus”. Unfortunately this book was published only after his death. On February 20, 1843, Kierkegaard published “Either/Or” which was written during his stay in Berlin. His next publication “Two Upbuilding Discourses, 1843” was released under his own name. On October 16, 1843 he published his three books, among which “Three Upbuilding Discourses, 1843” was the only one written under his own name. The other two books namely “Fear and Trembling” and “Repetition” were published under pseudonyms Johannes de Silentio and Constantin Constantius respectively. The same year, he published another book, “Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1843” published under his own name. The following year in 1844, he published “Two Upbuilding Discourses, 184


"Which poem by Keats opens with the words ""O what can all thee, knight-at-arms, alone and palely loitering""?"

La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats | Poetry Foundation La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats Writing Ideas 1. “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” is a ballad —one of the oldest poetic forms in English. Ballads generally use a bouncy rhythm and rhyme scheme to tell a story. Think about an event that has happened to you recently and try to tell it in ballad form.  2. The poem is a narrative of an encounter that entails both pleasure and pain. Think of a person you have met in your life who has brought you both joy and unhappiness. Write a poem that describes your first encounter and, like Keats, the moment you realized they had you “in thrall.” 3. Take the final word from each line of Keats’s poem (arms, loitering, lake sing). Use them as the first words of lines to your own poem, which either recreates the mood of Keats’s poem, or creates a totally opposite mood.  4. Make an erasure of Keats’s poem. Cross out words or entire phrases to make a new poem “within” or “underneath” the real one.  Discussion Questions 1. Keats wrote in a letter to his friend Richard Woodhouse, “A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no Identity.” Keats thought poets should remove their egos from their poetry, to better allow for poetry to happen unfiltered by personality. What similarities do you detect between the Knight in “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” and Keats’s idea of a poet? 2. Go through and circle all of the poem’s adjectives. What do you notice about them? Why does Keats use so many? What effects do they create? What happens when you read the poem without them? 3. There are a few voices talking in this poem. Go through the poem and figure out who is speaking, and when: what does each voice say, and not say? What is the effect of having multiple voices frame the poem? Who speaks and who doesn’t? 4. “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” is a kind of fairy-tale gone awry. What are the “fairy-tale” elements in the poem (words, themes, emotions) and how do they relate to other poems you have read? You might compare this poem’s content to “ Annabel Lee ” by Edgar Allan Poe, or its structure to “ Ozymandias ” by Percy Bysshe Shelley.   Teaching Tips 1. Use “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” to do a brief introduction to meter and prosody. Ask your students to recite the refrain of a popular song, or one that gets stuck in their heads easily. Pull different kinds of metrical feet—anapest, dactyl, iamb, trochee, spondee—from the lyrics they give you (having a few songs in mind yourself may be helpful). Emphasize that these names just describe the system of stressed syllables already inherent in English. Go through the different kinds of metrical feet with your students. Tell them they are going to play “Meter Madlibs,” and then hand out a few stanzas of “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” with some of the words removed. On the board, write down the kind of foot that belongs in each blank space. “O what can ail thee ______________”[dactyl], for example. Have students work in groups to fill in the blank with their own words. 2. Have students try to map the events of  “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” on two timelines—one that shows the events as they happen in “real” time, and the other as Keats relays them in “poem” time. Talk about how narrative works in poetry and fiction. Why do poets and authors play with sequence and chronology in their work? What might it tell us about how we experience time ourselves? 3. The rhyme scheme in “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” is consistent, but not exact. In groups have students go through and circle all the exact rhymes, put a square around all the slant rhymes, and underline the words that don’t seem to rhyme at all. Review the different kinds of rhymes as a class. Then form a rhyme circle. Make whatever stipulations you want (no exact rhymes; only slant), say a word, and go around the circle using different kinds of rhyme on that word.


Which band did Mick Jones form on leaving the Clash?

30 Years Ago: The Clash Fire Mick Jones 30 Years Ago: The Clash Fire Mick Jones By Bryan Wawzenek September 1, 2013 11:24 AM REDDIT Hulton Archive/Getty Images In 1983, “the only band that matters” was poised to become the biggest band in the world. Over the course of a few years, the Clash had gone from punk upstarts to a passionately eclectic band capable of rocking stadiums. The British quartet were riding high on ‘ Combat Rock ’ (their first top 10 album in the U.S.) along with a pair of hit singles, ‘Rock the Casbah’ and ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go.’ The Clash were booked to co-headline (with David Bowie and Van Halen ) the US Festival and played to more than 140,000 people. And they were completely miserable. Things had begun to disintegrate right before the release of ‘Combat Rock’ when drummer Topper Headon was fired because his heroin addiction was a drag on his precision. But the other three members (Joe Strummer, Mick Jones and Paul Simonon) soldiered on with drummer Terry Chimes, who had played on the band’s 1977 debut. The friction within the band only got worse and Chimes left the group at his first opportunity. Jones and Strummer, the creative forces in the Clash, were heading in different directions. After six years or rampant touring and recording, Jones was ready for a break and desperately wanted an extended vacation. With the band’s commercial fortunes on the rise, Strummer wanted to capitalize on their fame with more touring (a move supported by Simonon). “Mick was intolerable to work with by this time,” the late Strummer remembered in the Clash documentary, ‘Westway to the World.’ “He wouldn’t show up. When he did show up, it was like Elizabeth Taylor in a filthy mood.” Jones later regretted his behavior. “I was just carried away really, I wish I had a bit more control,” Jones reflected. “You know, you wish you knew what you know now.” Unable to plan a summer ’83 Clash tour because of Jones, and continually annoyed by his lack of care and punctuality, Strummer and Simonon weighed their options. They decided that the best move was to assume complete control and fire Mick from the band in September of 1983. “We had to change the team because the atmosphere was too terrible,” Strummer said (as quoted in ‘The Rise and Fall of the Clash’ ). “We got so much work to do that we can’t waste time begging people to play the damn guitar!” Simonon, who had altogether stopped talking to Jones, concurred: “We felt we’ve had enough, let’s kick him out and that’s what we decided on and to hell with the consequences.” The consequences were that the Clash wouldn’t be able to survive the removal of a founding member (as well as the group’s prime melodic talent). Strummer and Simonon hired two guitarists to replace Jones and made 1985’s ‘Cut the Crap,’ an album Joe would pretty much disown. The Clash officially broke up the next year. Meanwhile, Jones co-founded General Public (although he left before making much of a creative contribution) and then started Big Audio Dynamite, which took his music in a more urban/dance-oriented direction. When Strummer came calling, asking Jones to reform the Clash with him, Jones declined. Instead, the two collaborated on B.A.D.’s second album, ‘No. 10, Upping St.’ co-producing the record and co-writing half the songs. Strummer and Jones remained friends and even played a few Clash songs together at a charity show. They also planned to play a full reunion gig as part of the band’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. Sadly, Strummer died of a congenital heart defect in December 2002, making the reunion impossible. “Whatever a group is, it is the chemical mixture of those four people that makes a group work,” Strummer said, a few years before his death. “That’s a lesson everyone should learn: you don’t mess with it. If it works, just let it… do whatever you have to do to bring it forward, but don’t mess with it. We learned that bitterly.”


What was the name of Jodie Foster's character in the film 'Bugsy Malone'?

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Who wrote the novel 'Cold Comfort Farm' in 1932?

The 100 best novels: No 57 – Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (1932) | Books | The Guardian The 100 best novels The 100 best novels: No 57 – Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (1932) The book for which Gibbons is best remembered was a satire of late-Victorian pastoral fiction but went on to influence many subsequent generations Rufus Sewell and Kate Beckinsale in the 1995 film adaptation of Stella Gibbons’s Cold Comfort Farm, directed by John Schlesinger. Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/BBC Share on Messenger Close Stella Gibbons, who was born in the same year as Georgette Heyer and Stevie Smith , 1902, wrote more than 20 novels, and thought of herself as a poet. But she continues to be remembered, and in some quarters revered, for just one title, a jeu d’esprit that’s a brilliant parody of an inter-war genre of provincial, rural melodrama typified (at the high end) by DH Lawrence and, much lower down, by Mary Webb , author of titles such as Precious Bane and The Golden Arrow . Part of its immediate success was probably also due to the merciless contempt in which the young Gibbons (she was barely 30) held many generations of romantic/pastoral fiction. Or, indeed, the brisk way (with one, two or three asterisks) in which she humorously drew attention to the best bits in her narrative. Gibbons wrote Cold Comfort Farm while working for on the books pages of the Lady . Inspired, or perhaps provoked, by the fashion for novels set in remote rustic villages about sensitive young men with names like “Micah”, she set about demolishing a piece of treasured literary real estate whose origins can be traced to the late-Victorian novels of Thomas Hardy ( No 29 in this series ). From its opening line – “The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged” – to Aunt Ada’s celebrated recollection of “something nasty in the woodshed”, Cold Comfort Farm has the air of a novel written, as it were, in one joyous exhalation, according to Gibbons, somewhere between Lyons Corner House and Boulogne-sur-Mer during the year spanning 1931/32. The plot is simple. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19 when her parents are both carried off by the 1919 Spanish flu epidemic, is penniless. Her only option is to throw herself on the charity of her remote Sussex relatives, the Starkadders – Judith, her preacher husband Amos, their sons Seth and Reuben, several other cousins (Harkaway, Urk, Ezra, and Caraway) including the dominant matriarchal figure of aunt Ada Doom – all living, or partly living, in Cold Comfort Farm, Howling, Sussex. The Starkadders’ farm is an ominous place with a priapic bull, Big Business, and a hopeless herd of Jersey cows – Graceless, Pointless, Aimless, and Feckless – attended by several taciturn, brooding rustic inhabitants. Among some memorable comic set-pieces, cousin Amos preaching hellfire and damnation to the congregation of the Church of the Quivering Brethren is a high point. As the rustic mayhem unfolds, Miss Poste, who is definitely a modern, metropolitan bossyboots, decides that it’s her mission to bring a metropolitan “higher common sense” to this benighted spot, and sets about trying to redeem the lives of her relatives. Aunt Ada will go flying to Paris. The memories of the woodshed will become domesticated, Miss Poste herself will eventually marry her country cousin, Charles Fairford, and everyone live happily ever after. Sort of. (It’s a comedy, remember?) A note on the text Stella Gibbons humorously disparaged her first novel as the work of a journalist trespassing on a higher calling from “the meaningless and vulgar bustle of newspaper offices”. Cold Comfort Farm was first published by Longmans in 1932, and was, according to the critic Lynne Truss , labelled “middlebrow”, to Gibbons’s disadvantage among the critics. But the book sold very well: 28,000 copies in hardback and 315,000 in paperback in its first 15 years. It won the 1933 prix étranger of the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse , and joined an informal canon of accidental English comic masterpieces. Unlike, for instance, Three Men


In which year was the Battle of the Little Big Horn?

Battle of the Little Bighorn - Native American History - HISTORY.com Battle of the Little Bighorn Battle of the Little Bighorn Author Battle of the Little Bighorn URL A+E Networks Introduction The Battle of the Little Bighorn, fought on June 25, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, pitted federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer (1839-76) against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. Tensions between the two groups had been rising since the discovery of gold on Native American lands. When a number of tribes missed a federal deadline to move to reservations, the U.S. Army, including Custer and his 7th Calvary, was dispatched to confront them. Custer was unaware of the number of Indians fighting under the command of Sitting Bull (c.1831-90) at Little Bighorn, and his forces were outnumbered and quickly overwhelmed in what became known as Custer’s Last Stand. Google Battle of the Little Bighorn: Mounting Tensions Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse (c.1840-77), leaders of the Sioux on the Great Plains, strongly resisted the mid-19th-century efforts of the U.S. government to confine their people to reservations. In 1875, after gold was discovered in South Dakota’s Black Hills, the U.S. Army ignored previous treaty agreements and invaded the region. This betrayal led many Sioux and Cheyenne tribesmen to leave their reservations and join Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in Montana . By the late spring of 1876, more than 10,000 Native Americans had gathered in a camp along the Little Bighorn River–which they called the Greasy Grass–in defiance of a U.S. War Department order to return to their reservations or risk being attacked. Did You Know? Several members ofGeorge Armstrong Custer's family were alsokilled at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, including two of his brothers, his brother-in-law and a nephew. In mid-June, three columns of U.S. soldiers lined up against the camp and prepared to march. A force of 1,200 Native Americans turned back the first column on June 17. Five days later, General Alfred Terry ordered George Custer’s 7th Cavalry to scout ahead for enemy troops. On the morning of June 25, Custer drew near the camp and decided to press on ahead rather than wait for reinforcements. Battle of the Little Bighorn: Custer’s Last Stand At mid-day on June 25, Custer’s 600 men entered the Little Bighorn Valley. Among the Native Americans, word quickly spread of the impending attack. The older Sitting Bull rallied the warriors and saw to the safety of the women and children, while Crazy Horse set off with a large force to meet the attackers head on. Despite Custer’s desperate attempts to regroup his men, they were quickly overwhelmed. Custer and some 200 men in his battalion were attacked by as many as 3,000 Native Americans; within an hour, Custer and all of his soldiers were dead. The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Custer’s Last Stand, marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. The demise of Custer and his men outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty. Meanwhile, the U.S. government increased its efforts to subdue the tribes. Within five years, almost all of the Sioux and Cheyenne would be confined to reservations. Tags


In which English county was Charles Darwin born?

Biography: Charles Darwin: Natural Selection Charles Darwin and Natural Selection Explaining How Evolution Might Work Wilf Hey Charles Robert Darwin was born in 1809 in Shrewsbury in the English county of Shropshire and died in 1882 in Kent. Although his life in the 19th century began and ended, his thoughts had a profound effect on the Western life and thought in the 20th century. 4000 miles to the west, in the New World, was the Emancipator Lincoln was born on the same day as Darwin, of course, a much simpler conditions. Darwin was born in a mansion; his father was a wealthy doctor, his paternal grandfather of one of the most famous (and most) men of his time, and poet Erasmus Darwin; his maternal grandfather was Josiah Wedgwood, whose name is known for fine china today.  As a young man Darwin studied medicine, but he realized that his prissy disposition of a career in medicine was a hindrance. He went back to college to be with the aim clergyman of the Anglican Church. As it turned out, however, he was more interested in his hobby, the study of nature.  During his theological studies, he went with Adam Sedgwick (one of the three founding fathers of modern geology) on excursion and recognition earned by his skills as a naturalist. A year later he embarked - much to the chagrin of his father - as an accompanying scientists on the research ship HMS Beagle one that went on a five-year Entdeckungsreise around the world.  While serving on the Beagle, Darwin decided not to do so for longer than he wanted to become a priest, and chose the life of a naturalist. His acute observations of birds, turtles and mammals eventually condensed into an idea, although had no new components, but almost every aspect of Western thought revolutionized: the idea of the evolution of species by natural selection.  In the Galapagos Islands 650 miles off the coast of Ecuador, Darwin identified 14 different species of finches - not only breeds or strains, but real species (because they multiplied and artgetreu only within their own species). Each differed from the finches on the mainland, and this gave Darwin think.  Although he was religious, but he had trouble with the idea that God had created 14 species of finches specifically for these islands, especially since they differed all prevailing on the few species of the mainland. He came to the conclusion that just the isolation of the birds on the islands has led to the gradual changes through which the different species were then developed. At the time of Darwin almost all naturalists accepted evolution as a fact - defined 1) as a gradual development, especially from a simple to a more complex form and 2) as a process of evolution of species from earlier forms. However, it was much speculation about how evolution might work. J.-B. Lamarck (1744-1829) had claimed that animals would give typical features which they had acquired to their offspring.  According to Lamarck’s theory of the giraffe had developed over many generations a long neck by craned her neck. This view was popular among contemporary scholars, but Darwin rejected it brusquely with the remark that Jews have male children circumcised for countless generations, but see it so far not look as if Jewish boys born circumcised.  Darwin came to the conclusion that there was a simple process at work. Galapagos finches, he argued, sometimes accidentally slipped with a slightly more curved beak. For the other grains that they found here in their new habitat, the descendants of mainland finches had it a little easier to survive when their beaks were more curved. This advantage leads to the fact that more finches survived with crooked beaks and could multiply, and so curved beaks would gradually occur more frequently.  This was a very convincing explanation for the wide variety of finches on the islands compared to the one or two dominant species on the mainland for Darwin. This gradual, gentle process he called natural selection.  Darwin had no hurry to make his revolutionary idea public. In fact, friends urged him decades later to publish his


Who played the Skipper in the 1960s US TV sitcom 'Gilligan's Island'?

Gilligan's Island (TV Series 1964–1967) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Seven men and women are stranded on an uncharted island following a torrential storm. Creator: The rock band "The Mosquitoes" arrive on the island for some much-needed R&R. But the castaways try to make their lives miserable so they'll want to leave--and take them with them. 8.4 Gilligan reels in a crate of vegetable seeds from the lagoon, but fails to notice the warning on the crate that the seeds are radioactive. 8.4 A Hollywood producer lands on the island and is unimpressed with Ginger's acting abilities, so the castaways put on their own production of "Hamlet" to get the producer's attention. 8.4 a list of 25 titles created 24 Dec 2010 a list of 42 titles created 24 Aug 2011 a list of 38 titles created 27 Jun 2013 a list of 33 titles created 8 months ago a list of 33 titles created 1 month ago Search for " Gilligan's Island " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Title: Gilligan's Island (1964–1967) 7.4/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 5 wins & 2 nominations. See more awards  » Photos The misadventures of a large family united when two widowed people married. Stars: Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis A nouveau riche hillbilly family moves to Beverly Hills and shakes up the privileged society with their hayseed ways. Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Donna Douglas, Irene Ryan A United States astronaut finds his life vastly complicated when he stumbles on to a bottle containing a female genie. Stars: Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman, Bill Daily The Cunningham family live through the 1950s with help and guidance from the lovable and almost superhuman greaser, Fonzie. Stars: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Marion Ross The misadventures of two single women in the 1950s and '60s. Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, David L. Lander A witch married to an ordinary man cannot resist using her magic powers to solve the problems her family faces. Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Dick Sargent A New York City attorney and his wife attempt to live as genteel farmers in the bizarre community of Hooterville. Stars: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Tom Lester A family of friendly monsters have misadventures, never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely. Stars: Fred Gwynne, Al Lewis, Yvonne De Carlo The misadventures of a suburban boy, family and friends. Stars: Jerry Mathers, Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley Widower Sheriff Andy and his son Opie live with Andy's Aunt Bee in Mayberry NC. With virtually no crimes to solve, most of Andy's time is spent philosophizing and calming down his cousin Deputy Barney. Stars: Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts A wacky alien comes to Earth to study its residents, and the life of the human woman he boards with is never the same. Stars: Robin Williams, Pam Dawber, Ralph James The misadventures of a blissfully macabre but extremely loving family. Stars: John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan Edit Storyline During what was supposed to be a three-hour tour, the S.S. Minnow is shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island following a typhoon. The seven castaways include the Minnow's blustery captain, his bumbling first mate Gilligan, a millionaire couple named the Howells, curvaceous movie star Ginger Grant, sexy farm girl Mary Ann Summers, and a science professor known as the Professor. Despite their dire situation, the castaways managed to survive on a diet made up of fish and coconut cream pie, and were aided by their trusty transistor radio and a seemingly never-ending parade of guest stars who managed to drop by their "deserted" island (including a big game hunter, a movie producer, a mad scientist, a rock band, Russian cosmonauts, foreign spies and a jungle boy), yet never managed to bring the castaways


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