What was the name of the rebellion incited by Captain Bligh when he was Governor of New South Wales?

Biography - William Bligh - Australian Dictionary of Biography Australian Dictionary of Biography Tip: searches only the name field Tip: Use double quotes to search for a phrase This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 1, (MUP), 1966 William Bligh, by Alexander Huey National Library of Australia, 11230917 William Bligh (1754-1817), naval officer and governor, was born on 9 September 1754 at Plymouth, England, where his father was a boatman and land waiter in the customs service. He was descended from a family settled in St Tudy, Cornwall, since 1680, whose members had been mayors of Bodmin in the sixteenth century. William was entered in H.M.S. Monmouth on 1 July 1762, was paid off the following February, and effectively joined the navy on 27 July 1770. Since there was no vacancy for midshipmen, he was rated 'able-seaman', but he messed with the former and officially became one in February 1771. Whatever his formal education, in later life he showed wide interests and very considerable attainments. On 17 March 1776 he was appointed master of the Resolution, then setting out on James Cook 's third voyage. On it he was frequently employed in 'constructing charts … and in drawing plans of … bays and harbours'. Between the return of the ship in October 1780 and the end of the French war in 1783, Bligh was master of the Belle Poule, was promoted lieutenant and fought in two general actions. In February 1781 he married Elizabeth Betham, of Glasgow, daughter of a customs officer on the Isle of Man, and niece of Duncan Campbell, merchant, shipowner and contractor in charge of convict hulks in the Thames. Between 1783 and 1787 Bligh served Campbell in the West Indian trade. He was then appointed commander and purser of H.M.S. Bounty, a ship bought from Campbell, to lead an expedition to procure bread-fruit for the West Indies; in it he was handicapped by the absence of any commissioned officer other than himself. This began his close association with Sir Joseph Banks . He sailed on 28 November 1787 and reached Tahiti eleven months later; but on 29 April 1789, soon after leaving there, the crew mutinied and cast off their commander with 18 'loyalists' in an open boat only 23 feet (7 m) long. With skilful seamanship Bligh navigated it 3618 miles (5822 km) to Timor in six weeks, during which he charted part of the 'north-east coast of New Holland'. After his return to London, he was honourably acquitted by the court martial which tried him in October 1790 for the loss of his ship, though many, then and since, have alleged that his 'tyranny' had caused the mutiny. Bligh was certainly extremely hot-tempered; he swore well and vigorously and was infuriated by any incompetence shown by his subordinates; but the evidence suggests that his rages were short-lived, that in general he was not a harsh commander and that the mutiny was his misfortune, not his fault. This was certainly the view of the Admiralty, which promoted him captain in November and in 1791 sent him in the Providence to make a second attempt to transplant bread-fruit from Tahiti to the West Indies. This time he successfully accomplished his mission. On the way he charted part of the south-east coast of Van Diemen's Land during a stay at Adventure Bay, which he had earlier visited with Cook and with the Bounty. He made valuable observations there, at Tahiti, at Fiji and in Torres Strait. This time he enjoyed the support of his subordinates, despite the few 'passing squalls' noted by one of them, but he fell out with Matthew Flinders who was one of his midshipmen and thought his commander gave him insufficient credit for his charting. The strict water rationing Bligh imposed on the men for the benefit of the plants was a sign of the rigid adherence to orders at the expense of the feelings of his fellows that was to cause trouble in the future. While he was away an abridged version of his account of his first expedition, A Voyage to the South Sea … was published in London in 1792; an unabridged edition, Bligh and the Bounty, was published in 1


What is the name of the rocky island group off Northumberland, associated with St Cuthbert and Grace Darling?

Sea kayaking - The Farne Islands. Introduction The Farne Islands consist of between 15 and 28 islands, depending upon the state of the tide. They are made of whin sill, an igneous rock, and are wedge shaped with cliffs at the south west running down into the sea at the north east. The islands are famous for the huge numbers of breeding birds nesting during April to July, and also for their large colony of Grey seals. Also famous for St. Cuthbert, who lived on Inner Farne as a hermit between 676 and 684AD, and for Grace Darling, the daughter of the lighthouse keeper who with her father took part in a brave rescue during a shipwreck on Longstone. Beautiful scenery, cliffs, sea stacks, fast tidal streams and overfalls, Bamburgh castle and a surfeit of birds and seals combine to make this a superb trip with something for everyone. back to the top of this list Description Inner Farne lies about 2 km off the mainland, and is really made up of three rocky islands, Inner Farne, Knoxes Reef and the Wideopens all surrounding a sheltered water called the Kettle. Tides can run quite strongly between and around these islands. They are made of whin sill and have high cliffs at the south west running down into the sea at the north east. The cliffs are towers, stacks and little narrow gullies. Inner Farne is famous for St Cuthbert who lived as a hermit on the island from 676 till 684 and returned to die in 687. The lighthouse dates from 1809 and was preceded by Prior Castell's tower, built in 1370, which had a warning beacon lit on it's roof in bad weather. The small chapel dates from the same time. The island is famous for it's Arctic and Common terns nesting here from May to the end of July. Notorious for dive bombing visitors. Nesting on the rock cliffs are shags, fulmars, guillemots, razorbills and kittiwakes. In the meadows on the island are puffins and eider ducks. Megstone is a low lying island about 1.5 km north west of Inner Farne. It is almost two islands riven down the centre by a very narrow inlet. It is well worth a visit as usually many seals are found here avoiding the incessant trip boats who rarely visit this island. 1.5 km across Staple Sound lie Staple and Brownsman Islands. The south east corner of Staple has some fine Stacks and cliffs and the whole shoreline is craggy and rocky. Landing is only allowed at one place and is extremely difficult especially with trip boats arriving all the time in spring and summer. Kittiwakes, guillemots, razorbills, shags and fulmars nest on the cliffs while eiders and puffins nest on the top. There is a nature trail laid out around the island and wardens try to keep the tourists under control. Both Staple and Brownstone have the ruined towers of ancient lighthouses. The low craggy Wamses and Harcar group of islands between Brownstone and Longstone are great areas to wander and play in the fast tidal streams flowing between them. Low lying rocky Longstone, topped with it's distinctive lighthouse always makes a good spot for lunch and stretching the legs. The island is famous for Grace Darling who in September 1838 assisted her father to row from the lighthouse to Little Harcar to rescue 15 men when the S. S. Forfarshire was wrecked in a northerly storm. Full details can be found at the museum in Bamburgh. Knivestone the outermost island is very low lying and often the sea conditions can be quite interesting, a great place for 5 star training but also on a calm day a lovely spot to watch seals. Finally the Callers and Crumstone, low rocky skerries 1 km east of Staple Island. Access There are four main launch sites for trips out to the Farnes, depending upon weather or tidal constraints. Nacker Hole at Beadnell (235290); Go through Beadnell village and park just before the road turns right to the car park. A sheltered beach with a short carry. Best high to mid dropping tide. St Aidans beach, Seahouses (200326); across the tide, short carry through dunes. Old Coast Guard station (297342); across the tide, longer carry through dunes. Harkness Rocks, Bamburgh (178356); best on a rising tid


At which venue in the north-west was Britain's first greyhound stadium opened in 1926?

The last days of Walthamstow Stadium | Sport | The Guardian The Observer The last days of Walthamstow Stadium This month, the most charismatic greyhound track in Britain will close down. We celebrate a venue that, over 75 years, has hosted everyone from Winston Churchill to Brad Pitt. See it in all its glory here Walthamstow Stadium is closing down after 75 years. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA The Observer The last days of Walthamstow Stadium This month, the most charismatic greyhound track in Britain will close down. We celebrate a venue that, over 75 years, has hosted everyone from Winston Churchill to Brad Pitt. See it in all its glory here Saturday 26 July 2008 19.01 EDT First published on Saturday 26 July 2008 19.01 EDT Share on Messenger Close On 16 August, the last greyhound race will be run at Walthamstow Stadium. A race just like any other - hare circles; traps open; dogs hurtle towards the bend - that will bring to an end almost eight decades of sporting history. It was in 1933 that Walthamstow first opened its gates, to a public that fell instantly in love with its earthy urban glamour. What a place it was! If I close my eyes now I can see the thin bright tubes of neon on the Art Deco frontage, the pink-red glow of the words WALTHAMSTOW STADIUM, the way they gleamed across a darkening sky. Whenever I drove across London to the track I longed for that first glimpse of light, its promise of fun, vigour, happiness. In my twenties, when I wrote my first book, The Dogs, which was about growing up in the world of greyhound racing, I went to Walthamstow all the time. There was nowhere that I would rather have been. It was a terribly unlucky place for me, gambling-wise, but that couldn't have mattered less. What I liked was simply being there, in the midst of things, feeling around me all the rough good-nature, hearing the shouts of the bookmakers and the whining of the dogs in the traps, watching as the lights of the track gradually encroached upon the night. On a busy Saturday night it felt like the most alive place in the world: 'a magical palais of urban dreams', as I described it in my book. Walthamstow was, in fact, a latecomer to the world of greyhound racing, which had kicked off in Britain at Belle Vue, Manchester, in July 1926. A crowd of 1,700 attended the first meeting, where the races were run by former hare-coursing dogs owned by members of the aristocracy; a supreme irony, given that this night saw the birth of one of the great working men's sports. Within a week the crowd had grown to 16,000. The late 1920s saw an explosion of popularity, with tracks being set up all over the country: in London alone there was racing every night at White City, Harringay, Wembley, West Ham, Clapton, Wimbledon or Hackney Wick. By the end of the decade, annual attendances totalled 17 million. By the end of the war they had risen to 50 million, with 77 licensed tracks. The beauty of dog racing was that it was cheap, accessible, and gave you eight quick thrills in a night. You could walk to the track. You could back your judgment to win money. This was your sport; unlike horseracing, it was not the property of the remote and rarefied elite. It belonged to the people who supported it, and who loved it to the point of madness. William Chandler, who created Walthamstow, was born in Hoxton, just north of the City of London. His sharp brain took him to the position of number-one bookmaker at White City, and he became a director of Hackney's track (whose site will form part of the venue for the 2012 Olympics). In the early 1930s he sold his shares and paid £24,000 for an unlicensed dog track - a 'flapper', as they are called - upon whose land Walthamstow was built. The Chandler family ran the stadium all its life. I loved to spend the evening with them in the Paddock Grill restaurant (where local boy David Beckham used to collect the glasses) and was half in love with Frances, daughter-in-law of William, whose beauty was undiminished by age and who would tell me stories of the stellar greyhounds that she had owned throughout the 1950s.


Which vegetable is combined with potato in the traditional Scottish dish, clapshot?

Clapshot Recipe - Allrecipes.com Donna B 1/24/2008 I like this, but my husband thought it was bland. I was afraid he would, so I boiled the veggies in diluted chicken stock for a little extra flavor, but I guess it wasn't enough. I will make i... kristin 8/4/2007 I made this for my husband who is of Scottish heritage, and he loved it! It was delicious and a nice way to spruce up plain old mashed potatoes. I did add crumbled bacon as suggested in anothe... TJ & Doc 10/7/2007 A very nice combo of turnip and potatoes. I'm not a turnip fan, but this was pretty good. Even my father, who never eats turnip, had a small second helping! Thanks for the recipe - next time I... Emily Tisdale 12/18/2011 Being of Scottish descent I jumped on this recipe and loved it. Took a large portion to lunch with my friends and they loved it too, although they were completely surprised by the combination. ... Pipster 8/23/2010 My mum is from Scotland and my brothers and I grew up on this! Plain mashed will never be good enough after trying.... Lara 6/28/2011 This was really amazing! I'm so glad to have found this recipe! It was like having mashed potatoes with a little extra kick. :) I didn't have to put anything in it to make most of my family l... Tish 10/15/2013 I, and my siblings grew up on this dish. When I would tell my grade school friends, the reaction was " eew, turnip?" So I finally asked my mum what this dish was called she said " my invention".... EILISH40 10/15/2013 This is always good and we have been making it for years (my mother did too) but this is the first time I knew it had a name.......thank you. Dani Hayden 3/31/2012 This is the first recipe I have used turnips in and was pleasantly surprised at the taste! I will definetly make this again, thanks Grant!


In the Bible who was the father of Ham, Shem and Japheth?

The Table of Nations: Ham, Shem and Japheth, Sons of Noah -- Courtesy of Return To Glory An Open       Invitation to Participate in -- "THE       MOMENT" -- Dr.       Freeman's Latest Book Project --- View Map At Bottom of       Page --- Source -- The       International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ---------- HAM - (cham;       Cham) ---------- 1.       The Youngest Son of Noah: The youngest son of Noah, from whom sprang the western and       southwestern nations known to the Hebrews. His name first occurs in       Genesis 5:32, where, as in 6:10 and elsewhere, it occupies the       second place. In Genesis 9:18 Ham is described as "the father       of Canaan". 2. Ham as a       Nationality (30 Nations came out of Ham):  The name given, in Psalms 105:23,17; 106:22 (compare 78:51), to       Egypt as a descendant of Ham, son of Noah. As Shem means "dusky," or the like, and Japheth "fair," it has       been supposed that Ham meant, as is not improbable, "black." This is supported by the evidence of Hebrew and       Arabic, in which the word chamam means "to be hot" and "to be black," the latter signification being derived from       the former.  It is       interesting to note that the Biblical record defines Egypt as the       Land of Ham.  -- Psalm 105: 23 "Israel also came into Egypt...the land of       Ham." 3. Meaning of the Word:  That Ham is connected with the native name of Egypt, Kem, or, in       full pa ta' en Kem, "the land of Egypt," in Bashmurian       Coptic Kheme, is unlikely, as this form is probably of a much later       date than the composition of Gen, and, moreover, as the Arabic       shows, the guttural is not a true kh, but the hard breathing h,       which are both represented by the Hebrew cheth. 4. The       Nations Descending from Ham:  First on the list, as being the darkest, is Cush or Ethiopia       (Genesis 10:6), after which comes Mitsrayim, or Egypt, then PuT or       Libyia, and Canaan last. The sons or descendants of each of these       are then taken in turn, and it is noteworthy that some of them, like       the Ethiopians and the Canaanites, spoke Semitic, and not Hamitic,       languages--Seba (if connected with the Sabeans), Havilah (Yemen),       and Sheba, whose queen visited Solomon. Professor Sayce, moreover,       has pointed out that Caphtor is the original home of the       Phoenicians, who spoke a Semitic language.  The explanation of this       probably is that other tongues were forced upon these nationalities       in consequence of their migrations, or because they fell under the       dominion of nationalities alien to them. The non-Sem Babylonians,       described as descendants of Nimrod (Merodach), as is well known,       spoke Sumerian, and adopted Semitic Babylonian only on account of       mingling with the Semites whom they found there.  Another explanation is that the nationalities described as Hamitic--a parallel to those       of the Semitic section--were so called because they fell under       Egyptian dominion. This would make the original Hamitic race to have       been Egyptian and account for Ham as a (poetical) designation of       that nationality. Professor F. L. Griffith has pointed out that the       Egyptian Priapic god of Panopolis (Akhmim), sometimes called Menu,       but also apparently known as Khem, may have been identified with the       ancestor of the Hamitic race--he was worshipped from the coast of       the Red Sea to Coptos, and must have been well known to Egypt's       eastern neighbors. He regards the characteristics of Menu as being       in accord with the shamelessness of Ham as recorded in Genesis 9:20. 4. Four Sons of Ham (see map below):     1. Mizraim (Egypt) ********************************   B L A C           K       B L O O D


The USA has had Presidents Adams, Johnson, Roosevelt and Bush, which other surname features twice?

U.S. Presidents Who Were Related to Each Other U.S. Presidents Who Were Related to Each Other George W. Bush (the 43rd president) is the son of George Bush (the 41st president). John Quincy Adams (the 6th president) was the son of John Adams (the 2nd president). Benjamin Harrison (the 23rd president) was the grandson of William Henry Harrison (the 9th president). James Madison (the 4th president) and Zachary Taylor (the 12th president) were second cousins. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the 32nd president) was a fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th president). Genealogists have determined that FDR was distantly related to a total of 11 U.S. presidents, 5 by blood and 6 by marriage: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Ulysses Grant, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, James Madison, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Zachary Taylor, Martin Van Buren, and George Washington.


In which war did the term Fifth Column originate?

'Fifth column' - the meaning and origin of this phrase Fifth column Infiltrators or collaborators with the enemy. Origin In October 1936, in the hostilities of the Spanish Civil War, the nationalist General Emilio Mola and his supporters besieged Madrid with four columns of troops. Mola claimed he had additional troops within the city. The claim was reported in the New York Times like this: Police last night began a house-to-house search for Rebels in Madrid... Orders for these raids ... apparently were instigated by a recent broadcast over the Rebel radio station by General Emilio Mola. He stated he was counting on four columns of troops outside Madrid and another column of persons hiding within the city who would join the invaders as soon as they entered the capital." Explicit mention of the hidden troops as the 'fifth column' was reported in the Fitchburg Sentinel newspaper, on 14th October 1936: "Out of hiding came a few of the phantom 'fifth column' - the fascist auxiliary force dreaded by the loyalists." The term has migrated in use over time and is now sometimes used more generally, to mean traitor or spy. Ernest Hemingway wrote a play called 'The Fifth Column' in 1937, in which he expressed his opposition to the Spanish fascist regime.


What was the name of the Manchester horse racecourse that closed in 1963?

Horse racing: When stars shone in Salford - Manchester Evening News Sport Horse racing: When stars shone in Salford Once the November mists and autumnal chill set in, as they have with a vengeance, there’s an older breed of sports fan in Manchester who harks back nostalgically to the days when the town was packed with racegoers anticipating the November Handicap, writes Martha Kelner.  Share A healthy crowd of race-goers watching the action in Castle Irwell's heyday  Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email Once the November mists and autumnal chill set in, as they have with a vengeance, there’s an older breed of sports fan in Manchester who harks back nostalgically to the days when the town was packed with racegoers anticipating the November Handicap, writes Martha Kelner. It was the flagship meeting at Castle Irwell in Salford, more commonly known as Manchester Racecourse. Racing royalty met football greats as Bobby Charlton and the Manchester United team left The Cliff training ground, across the road from the course, to go the races. “I remember going down to the track with Bobby on occasion,” remembered Wilf McGuinness. “Most of the team went down for the November Handicap as well. “One year we were invited into the Parade Ring by the jockey, Joe Mercer. “Joe was urging me and the other players to ‘get on’ his mount. “I’ll always remember the horse’s name. It was called Petit Royale. He was the jockey so you had to listen to what he was saying. We all put on a full week’s wages. We couldn’t believe it when it got left in the stalls. “I certainly learned a lesson from that. I put a little bit on the Grand National now but that was my last big bet.” The final contest at Manchester Racecourse was held on November 9, 1963. The Goodbye Consolation Plate was won by Fury Royal, steered across the finishing line by Lester Piggott in the shadows of the great Grandstand. There was no consolation though, then or since, for punters who spent their days and evenings at the track, in the bar and on the rails cheering the likes of Piggott and Scobie Breasley. Plans put forward by property developer Peel Holdings for a racecourse in Salford were most recently denied in January 2010 on noise and traffic grounds. It was the latest in a series of rejected planning applications, further disappointment for those who have always hoped the sport of kings would return to the city. “It is a great shame a city like Manchester doesn’t have a racecourse,” said Fred Done, the Warrington-based founder of Betfred bookmakers. “For a place of this size, with such an interest in sport, not to have a racecourse is a travesty.” Done was an on-course bookmaker at the track in the Irwell Valley before the days of Betfred and the proliferation of high street bookmakers. “It was a very popular racecourse, the crowds were huge and the atmosphere incredible,” said Done. “I stood there a lot in my early career. In those days it was much harder to get a bet on than it is now. “The on-course bookies were far busier. I remember one weekend meeting, there were seven races on both the Friday and Saturday card. “The favourite won 13 of the 14 races and I still came away on top.” Another familiar presence at Castle Irwell was Prince Monolulu. The West Indian tipster was hard to ignore with his colourful clothing and feathered headdress. “He had a catchphrase ‘I gotta horse! I gotta horse’,” recalled Done. “He was always shouting, trying to drum up trade. “He was a bit of an impostor really – and he wasn’t actually a prince, of course. His real name was Peter Carl Mackay. Slightly less exotic.” The Manchester Racecourse Grandstand, which was a revolutionary sporting stadium, the first in the UK to have corporate boxes, had only been built 18 months before the track finally shut. The site is now owned by the University of Salford and on it stands student accommodation and training fields. There isn’t even a plaque to remember this great sporting relic. It is surely remiss n


What name is given to the underground stem base of plants such as crocus and gladiolus?

BloomIQ Plants with a one-season life cycle. Usually intensely showy, and need to be replaced each year. Biennials Plants with a two year life cycle. The first year of life they produce a rosette of leaves, and the second year they bloom and set seed. Allow to reseed or replant to keep them in the garden for more than two years. Blanch To cover or block direct light from a growing plant to whiten its leaves, making them tender and less bitter. Bolt Annual or biennial vegetables or herbs that flower and/or produce seeds rather than food, usually in response to warm weather. Botanical Name The Latin scientific name of a plant, composed of the genus, species and variety. Bud Early stages of development of a flower or plant growth. Bulb A swollen, fleshy underground stem that contains stored food for the embryonic plant within it. True bulbs such as lilies or daffodils have fleshy scales surrounding a central bud. Similar structures such as corms (crocus, gladiolus), rhizomes (iris, lily of the valley) and tubers (dahlia, cyclamen) are often included with bulbs for the purpose of general care and planting. Compost A mixture of decaying organic plant material which is great for conditioning soil. Common components include leaves, kitchen scraps, manure or peat. Crown The meeting of the stem and root at the base of a plant. Deadhead: Removal of spent blooms. Since a plants purpose in flowering is to produce seeds, removing the flowers before seeds form can extend the bloom time. It also keeps plants looking tidy and helps prevent unwanted seeding. Pinch old flowers at their base, or use clippers. Deciduous A plant that loses its leaves at the end of the growing season. Evergreen A plant that keeps its leaves year round. Fertilizer Chemical or organic material that provides nutrients that plants need. Used to supplement depleted soils or boost growth for food crops or flower production, especially in container gardening. Soil amendments and granular, time-release or water-soluble products are available, and each has its benefits for different purposes. Most fertilizers are designed to provide 3 key plant nutrients; Nitrogen (N), Phosphorous (P) and Potassium (K), and products are labeled with their ratio. Use this information to choose the best formula for your purposes. N = Nitrogen. Encourages leafy growth. This nutrient is short-lived in the soil and needs frequent replenishment. P = Phosphorus. Supports stem strength and flower production. Can build up in the soil, but should be applied regularly for container plants grown in soil-less potting mix K = Potassium. Promotes root development and general plant vigor. Relatively stable in the soil, but regular applications are helpful for container plants. Germination The sprouting of a seed. Heirloom vegetables Open pollinated varieties whose seeds produce consistent plants from one generation to the next. Seeds are often saved and passed along to other gardeners, family and friends. These varieties are often best-suited to the home garden, with excellent flavor but not practical for large scale commercial production or shipping and handling. Heirloom vegetables can cross-pollinate each other, resulting in natural hybridsso if you want to keep your strain pure, do not grow it near other varieties of the same vegetable. Herbaceous A plant with a non-woody stem that dies back to the ground in the winter or dry season and produces new growth from the ground for the climates growing season. Herbicides Products used to kill unwanted vegetation (weeds). There a various types of herbicide as follows: Pre-emergent - prevents seeds from germinating Non-selective - kills any plant Selective - designed to work on certain types of plants, usually grasses or broadleaf plants. Hybrid: The offspring result of cross-breeding two different, but related plants. An F1 hybrid is the consistent, reliable product of a cross between two specific parentsbut seeds saved from hybrid will revert to the parent plants. Light Conditions: Full Sun: 8 hours of direct sunlight a day Part Sun: 4 to 8


Which mountain to the east of Jerusalem has the Garden of Gethsemane at its foot?

The Garden of Gethsemane, Israel, History & Historical Travel & Tours Pictures, Photos, & Information. We Are Proud Of Our SafeSurf Rating! Send E-Mail to: George DeLange:  geo.delange@gmail.com Note: We have discovered that Amazon.Com now can arrange tours of Israel, or just about anywhere else in the world. Just click on GO, at the bottom link at the end of our Amazon Ads. Then look at the bottom links on their web page. The bottom links lead to tour companies. We checked them out and they are good tour companies. Left of the Tomb of the Virgin in Jerusalem is a passage leading to the Grotto of the Agony, then immediately south is the Garden of Gethsemane with its eight ancient olive-trees. The Mount of Olives: also known as, Mount Olivet, or Har HaZeitim; or in Arabic as Jebel ez-Zeitun, Jebel et-Tur, or the "Mount of the Summit"; is a mountain ridge to the east of Jerusalem. It is named such because of the olive trees with which its sides are covered. At the foot of the mountain is the Gardens of Gethsemane where Jesus stayed in Jerusalem, according to tradition. The Mount of Olives is the site of many important Biblical events. Also, in the Book of Zechariah; the Mount of Olives is identified as the place from which God will begin to redeem the dead at the latter days. For this reason, Jews have always sought to be buried on the Mount of Olives. From Biblical times to the present day the Mount of Olives has been used as a cemetery for the Jews of Jerusalem. There are about 150,000 graves on the Mount of Olives, including those of many famous people. Just a few of these include the tomb of Zechariah, who prophesied there. The Garden of Gethsemane, at the foot of the Mount of Olives. On the night of His betrayal our Lord left the city of Jerusalem and crossed through the Kidron Valley and into the Garden of Gethsemane (Matt. 26:36; John 18:1). This was a favorite spot of Jesus and where he spent his last night. The name "Gethsemane" is derived from the Hebrew words "Gat", which means "a place for pressing" and "Shemanim", which means "oils." the Garden of Gethsemane was where olives from the Mount of Olives were pressed into oil. After the Last Supper, Jesus came to this garden with his disciples to pray and to let himself be arrested (John 18:2-12), thus setting in motion the events that led to his crucifixion the next day. There are eight olive trees in this garden that may be at least 2,000 - 3,000 years old. They still bear fruit. If they are not the actual trees in the area where Jesus prayed, then they could have been young saplings when Jesus came here with the disciples on that night after the Last Supper (Matt. 26:36; Mark 14:32; John 18:1). One of the most easily recognizable landmarks of Jerusalem, on the slope of the Mount of Olives in the Garden of Gethsemane, is the Church Of Saint Mary Magdalene. It was built in the Russian Muscovite style with golden onion domes or cupolas. The Church Of All Nations, built in the 1920s over some earlier churches, tells the events of the Garden of Gethsemane in bright detailed mosaics: ie. Jesus praying alone (Mark 14:35-36); Judas� betrayal of Jesus (Matt. 26:48); the cutting off of the ear of the High Priest�s servant (Mark 14:47). It is thought that the Golden Gate will be where Jesus will enter when he returns. It is probable that when Jesus entered Jerusalem on "Palm Sunday"; He went through this gate (Matt. 21:1-11). The Golden Gate or "Gate of Mercy" was sealed many years ago by the Turks. The Garden Of Gethsemane is located at the bottom of the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. To get there, you exit Jerusalem via Stephen's Gate, then walk down to and across the Kidron Valley. If coming by taxi and visiting the Mount of Olives as well, getting off at the top of the Mount and walking down to Gethsemane will be much easier on you. The easy way to get to Jerusalem, is to fly into the Ben Gurion International Airport. The airport is close to Jerusalem, which is about 5 miles away. The Ben Gurion International Airport, (IATA: TLV, ICAO: LLBG), also referred to


How long, in yards, was a rod, pole or perch?

Convert Rods, Poles & Perches To Meters - Easy To Use Converter m Rods, Poles & Perches - Definitions Probably the most confusing of the imperial length measures, the Rod, Pole or Perch are all names for a measure of 5½ yards (or ¼ of a chain - though the chain is a much later unit of measure). Why 5½ yards? If anyone can help with this please send infomation via our Help Us Improve page. Why 3 different names for the same measure? - this is because each name comes from a different era. The oldest name is the perch, which goes back to at least the 13th century where it is mentioned in a manuscript known as The Composition of Yards and Perches also known as The Statute of Ells and Perches. Somewhere between 1300 and 1593 the name used in English law had changed from perch to pole as the definition of the statute mile from the time of Elizabeth I states that a mile contains 8 furlongs and every furlong 40 poles. It is unknown where the name rod comes from but it is likely that it derived from early surveyors using a rod of 5½ yards for measuring land but sometime after 1593 this became the most common name for this measure of length. (It is likely that the name pole also came from measuring sticks of 1 perch in length and that the use of pole and rod as names just became more common than the use of perch). Rods, Poles & Perches To Meters Conversion Factor 1 rod, pole or perch = 5.0291995 meters Meter To Rods, Poles & Perches Conversion Factor 1 meter = 0.1988388 rods, poles or perches Imperial Length Units To Meters Converters 1 Meter Expressed In Imperial Units 1 meter = 39.3700787 inches 1 meter = 0.0005400 nautical miles Imperial Units Expressed As Meters 1 inch = 0.0254 meters


The skin of which fish was once used commercially as sandpaper?

Processing Shark Skin into Rawhide Processing Shark Skin into Rawhide by Dino Labiste     If you live near the ocean, there is bound to be a fishing port somewhere along the coast. Where there are fishing boats, there are fish markets nearby to sell the marine catches from the fishermen. Some of these fish markets will have shark meat to sell for public consumption. Most of the shark meat sold will have the skin attached. You may either buy the whole meat with the skin or talk to the owners to see if they will give you only the shark skin. To begin the process of turning your shark skin into rawhide, start by separating the skin from the meat with a knife. Be careful not to cut into the skin. You'll find bits of meat and stringy membrane still attached to the underside of the skin. With a butter knife, placed at 90 degrees to the underside of the skin, scrape off as much of the remaining meat and membrane as possible.   You may or may not use the next procedure. This involves soaking the shark skin in a jar of urine for a day or two. Some indigenous cultures have used this process to dissolve any fatty tissue or loose meat from animal hides, thus making the cleaning process a lot easier. For additional information on urine tanning, read Lotta Rahme's book, entitled "Leather: Preparation and Tanning by Traditional Methods".   I have used the urine solution on salmon skin, since the salmon skin is greasy. The photo above shows a finished, processed salmon skin glued to a piece of leather that I used for a shoulder pad on my quiver strap. Soaking the shark skin in urine didn't do much for the cleaning process, since the skin was not fatty to begin with. The urine bath did soften thin layers of meat still clinging to the skin, thus making it easier to scrape off. I thoroughly rinsed the shark skin in fresh water to get rid of any urine odor after soaking in the urine solution for 2 days. I also squirted some antibacterial soap into the water to rinse out any further urine smell. I then took a butter knife and did a final scraping of the underside of the skin.   You'll notice from the photo that not very much membrane was scraped off. If you do a good job at the beginning of scraping the underside of the skin, you don't have to do the urine bath.   Squeeze out as much of the water from the shark skin. Stretch out the skin and tack it to a cardboard to dry. The cardboard will help to absorb some of the excess water.   As the shark skin dries, it will shrink on the cardboard and may pull the tacks loose. Inspect the skin every now and then and remount any loose tacks.   After the skin has totally dried, you will need to thin out the skin. With some kind of scraping implement (I used my hide scraper), scrape the underside of the shark skin. If you don't have a hide scraper, use your knife (not the butter knife, but a sharp knife) at a 90 degree angle. Be careful not to cut into the skin.   Further abrading can be done with a pumice stone or sand paper.   Thin the shark skin according to what you will be using the rawhide for.   Shark skin rawhide. NOTE: The process above will only take the shark skin to the stiff rawhide stage. The denticles are still attached to the skin. This is not a method to tan the shark skin into supple leather. Historically, shark skin has been used as an abrasive and, in Asia, to decorate sword hilts and sheaths. Dried, but untanned skin, called shagreen, was once used like fine sandpaper for polishing wood. Shagreen was also used for the membranes on drums in the South Pacific. The most characteristic feature of shark skin is its roughness, resulting from the placoid scales, or denticles, embedded in the skin. It was not until World War I, however, that a way of tanning the skins of large shark was found. The breakthrough was made when a chemical process that could remove the denticles without affecting the tanning process of the hides was developed.   Scientists, today, realize that these powerful creatures play a vital role in the intricate balance that makes up the oceans' ecosystem. Brutal modern f


Which city near Luxor in Egypt is the site of the huge temple of Amon?

Temple of Luxor, temple of Amon Ra (Ipt-Rsyt)   Luxor Temple Luxor Temple, or The Temple of Luxor, is among the most beautiful Temples in Egypt. It was known in the New Kingdom period as Ipt-Rsyt, which means the southern shrine. This was to differentiate between this Temple and Karnak Temple, which was the northern house of Amon Ra. Amenhotep III built Luxor Temple. The architect and overseer of the works of construction was the genius Amenhotep, son of Habu. The Temple run close and parallel to the river Nile from north to south. It was constructed on the site of a small Temple of Amon, built by kings of the 12th dynasty. At the time of Amenhotep III the Temple was only 190m in length and 55m in width. Basically, Luxor Temple was consecrated to Amon Ra in his fertility aspect.   Ramses II, with the help of his architect Pak-in Khonso, added the front part and completed the Temple. He also added the present large forecourt, and a Pylon at the (northern) front of the Temple. Kings Merenpetah, Seti I, Ramses III, Ramses IV and Ramses VI built many more small additions. Alexander the Great rebuilt the Sanctuary. During the Christian era, the inner section was converted to a church. The Muslims built a Mosque in the 10th century, which is known as the Mosque of Abou El-Hagag. King Nektanebo built the Sphinx Avenue in front of the Temple that leads to the entrance. In front of the Great Pylon of Ramses II, there once were 2 obelisks. Only one of them remains standing! The other was transported, in 1819, to La Place de le Concorde in Paris, as a gift to King Philip Louis of France by Mohamed Ali (who ruled Egypt 1805-1850 A.D), after he was given a French clock, which has never worked properly - even to this day! There were 6 standing statues in front of the Pylon, only one of them, on the western side, is still in place. Flanking the gate of the first pylon, which is 24m high, there are two seated colossi representing King Ramses II, seated on his throne, with all the royal features. Both towers of this pylon were once decorated with relief's depicting the Battle of Kadesh, fought between the armies of Egypt and the Hittites, in present day Syria. The 1st open court has double rows of 32 papyrus bud columns. To the right side of the open court there is an old triple shrine made by Queen Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III, dedicated to the sacred boats of the "Triad of Thebes". To the left is the Mosque of Abou El-Hagag. The open court of Ramses II leads to the Colonnade, which was built by Amenhotep III, and decorated by Tutankhamen and later, Horemheb; Seti I, Ramses II, and Seti II all recorded their names there. It consists of two pairs of large open papyrus columns, which are arranged to make a long processional avenue. The walls of this colonnade are decorated by scenes of the Opt Festival, special ceremonies for the visit of the "Triad of Karnak" to the Temple of Luxor. This feast lasted for about 24 days, including the return to the Karnak Temple. Click on the         thumbnails below to enlarge:    The colonnade leads to the Court of Amenhotep III (52m in length and 46m in width). It has a double row of clustered round papyrus bud columns on three sides. The Court of Amenhotep III leads to the Hypostyle Hall, which consists of 32 columns arranged in 4 columns and 8 columns each. To the left of the Hypostyle Hall stands a Roman altar, bearing Latin inscriptions, dedicated to Emperor Augustus. On the walls of the Hypostyle Hall, there are some reliefs representing Amenhotep III hunting and killing a gazelle in front of Amon Ra, and other scenes representing the King in front of various deities. On the rear of The Hypostyle Hall, and on both sides of the central doorway, There are 2 long chapels. The one to the east is dedicated to Mut and the One to the west dedicated to Khonso. The Hypostyle opens south to the 1st Antechamber, which originally had 8 columns, but they were removed when the antechamber was converted into a Christian Church. The Birth Room situated to the east, is a side room with 3 columns. Most of


The song 'Masquerade' features in which musical?

"Masquerade" The Song And Lyrics - YouTube "Masquerade" The Song And Lyrics Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Jan 11, 2008 Masquerade from Phantom of the Opera with Lyrics. Category


Who replaced Matt Smith to become the latest Dr Who?

New Doctor Who: BBC set to unveil who will replace Matt Smith | Daily Mail Online Find out who's Who on Sunday: BBC set to unveil who will replace Matt Smith as the new Doctor New Doctor Who set to be unveiled during a ground-breaking live episode Their identity is being kept a secret using the codename 'Houdini' Speculation is rife the new Doctor could be a woman for the first time Dame Helen Mirren and comedienne Miranda Hart are both in the running The Thick of It star Peter Capaldi has also been touted for the role


Which children's characters, seen on TV, were created by Elizabeth Beresford?

Wombles Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit The Wombles are fictional pointy-nosed, rodent-like, furry creatures that live in burrows, where they aim to help the environment by collecting and recycling rubbish in creative ways. Wombles were created by author Elizabeth Beresford , and originally appeared in a series of children's novels from 1968. Although Wombles supposedly live in every country in the world, Beresford's stories are concerned with the lives of the inhabitants of the burrow on Wimbledon Common in London, England. The characters became nationally famous in the UK in the mid 1970s as a result of a very popular BBC children's television show using stop motion animation. A number of spin-off novelty songs also became major hits in the British music charts. The Wombles (band) was the brainchild of British music writer and composer, Mike Batt. The Womble motto is "Make Good Use of Bad Rubbish." This green message was a reflection of the growing ecology movement of the 1970s. Background Edit Elisabeth Beresford was a freelance ghost writer and children's book author. She was born in Paris and travelled the world with her BBC sports commentator husband Max Robertson. One Christmas, Elisabeth Beresford took her young children for a Boxing Day walk on Wimbledon Common, where one referred to it as "Wombledon Common." On getting home, Elisabeth Beresford wrote down the idea and started developing the characters and storylines. Characters Edit Beresford developed the characters around members of her family, and named them after places the family had associations with. This is the list of young wombles: Orinoco - a shirker who loved sleep and food, styled on Beresford's teenage son and named after the River Orinoco in South America. Bungo - over-enthusiastic and bossy, named after Bungo Province in Japan. Wellington - scientifically inclined, but very insecure and absent-minded. Named after her nephew's school: Wellington School, Somerset. Tomsk - an athletic Womble with a rather low IQ, named after Tomsk in Russia. Alderney - Madame Cholet's assistant, named after Alderney in the Channel Islands where Beresford lived towards the end of her life. She appeared in the early books, but did not make it into the first TV series . Her character was revived in the second TV series , when many viewers wrongly assumed she was a new character Shansi - often paired with Alderney, as Bungo was with Orinoco, named after a Shanxi province in China. She was also not seen until the second TV series. Stepney - East Ender with dreadlocks, who got his name from the Stepney area in London's East End where he came from. He was also not seen until the second TV series. Obidos - named after Óbidos, Pará in Brazil. Moosonee - Tomsk's penpal, named after a place in James Bay in Canada. This is the list of old wombles: Great Uncle Bulgaria - the Wombles' leader, based on Beresford's father-in-law and named after the country. Tobermory - an engineer, based on Beresford's brother, a skilled inventor, and named after the capital of the Isle of Mull, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides islands. Madame Cholet - a cook, styled on Beresford's mother and named after the town of Cholet in France. Cairngorm MacWomble the Terrible - named after the Cairngorms, a mountain range in Scotland. He was introduced in the second book (The Wandering Wombles) as a Highland Womble clan chief. He appeared in the TV series when he visited the Wimbledon burrow. Nanny Alexandria - Great Uncle Bulgaria's nanny, named after the ancient city in Egypt. Livingstone - an explorer, named after the British explorer Dr Livingstone. Hoboken - an American tourist, named after a place in Belgium. In the first book, Bungo is the youngest and least experienced of the team, and the story is mostly viewed through his eyes. Later Wellington (who was not introduced until the second book) took over the role of "new boy". Alderney and Adelaide appeared in the earlier books but were not included in the original 1970s TV series. Alderney was re-introduced in the later TV shows produced in the


Of which Australian state is Launceston the second largest city?

Guide to Launceston, Devonport and Burnie - Tourism Australia Guide to Launceston, Devonport and Burnie Guide to Launceston, Devonport and Burnie Abseil into a gorge in Launceston, hop aboard a sailing boat in Devonport and sample Burnie's historic past as you travel through Tasmania's north. Site Requires Javascript - turn on javascript! Australia.com does not support the internet browser you are using. Please upgrade to a more recent browser so that you can explore the destinations and experiences that await you as you plan your Australian holiday. Welcome to the official Australian tourism website. This site uses cookies. Find out more . Guide to Launceston, Devonport and Burnie Add Tasmania Launceston Abseil into a gorge in Launceston, hop aboard a sailing boat in Devonport and sample Burnie's historic past as you travel through Tasmania's north.     By Jennifer Ennion  With the wild Bass Strait on their doorstep and rivers meandering past cafés and coffee shops, it's no surprise life revolves around the water in Launceston, Devonport and Burnie. But there is more to Tasmania's northern cities than secluded beaches, tranquil waterways and coastal views. The region also has a strong industrial identity and a wealth of wineries, offering travellers an ideal blend of nature, culture and history. HOW TO GET THERE The riverside city of Launceston is located in Tasmania's north, 200 kilometres (120 miles) from the state's capital, Hobart. Devonport and Burnie are between one and two hours north-west of Launceston. One lovely way to experience the region is to base yourself in Launceston and take day trips by car around the area – there is plenty to see.   Photograph the views from the top of Cataract Gorge See little penguins returning to their burrows at Lillico Beach Sail up the Mersey River in Devenport TOP THINGS TO DO IN AND AROUND LAUNCESTON Wander the streets of Launceston  Launceston is a small but cosmopolitan city set on the mouth of a river, with an appreciation for excellent produce and fine food. Wander its quaint streets to shop for antiques and sample home-baked goods at the many cafés. Try dinner at a restaurant such as  Stillwater ,  Mud Bar and Restaurant  or  Black Cow Bistro . A 15 minute stroll from the city centre will lead you to Cataract Gorge Reserve, a natural formation on the South Esk River. Ride a  chairlift  to the top of Cataract Gorge, cross the suspension bridge, go for a self-guided walk, or even  abseil  down the gorge walls. Taste the wines of the Tamar Within 20 minutes of leaving the city of Launceston you can find yourself in the Tamar Valley, a wine region known for its excellent chardonnay, riesling and pinot noir. Designate a driver and journey along  The Tamar Valley Wine Route  to sample the region's finest drops. Starting just south of Launceston, the 170 kilometre (106 mile) circuit takes in 32 wineries as it winds through countryside to Pipers Brook, in the north, and George Town, in the west. Meet the penguins Keep your eyes peeled for little penguins along the pebbly shore of  Lillico Beach , a coastal reserve 10 minutes west of Devonport. The little penguin is the world's smallest species of penguin. The best place to watch the reserve's colony is from the timber viewing platform. Time your visit for dusk, when the penguins are returning from fishing in the ocean to their beach burrows. This is a free activity, and Tasmania Parks and Wildlife rangers are on site during breeding season, from September to May, and during summer, from mid December to mid February. Sail the Mersey River Soak up the salty breeze off Devonport's Mersey River as you sail aboard a historic cray fishing ketch, headed for Bass Strait. The Julie Burgess, built in Launceston in 1936, has been lovingly restored by a team of volunteers and you can join them on a two hour sailing trip every Sunday and Wednesday, dependent on volunteer crew numbers and weather conditions. Book through  Bass Strait Maritime Centre , not far from the riverfront. There, you can learn more about the Julie Burgess and northern


What name is given to the phenomenon when light bends as it passes from one medium to another e.g. from air to water?

Light Bends - How Rainbows Work | HowStuffWorks How Rainbows Work Photo courtesy National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association The fundamental process at work in a rainbow is refraction -- the "bending" of light. Light bends -- or more accurately, changes directions -- when it travels from one medium to another. This happens because light travels at different speeds in different mediums. To understand why light bends, imagine you're pushing a shopping cart across a parking lot. The parking lot is one "medium" for the shopping cart. If you're exerting a constant force, the cart's speed depends on the medium it's traveling through -- in this case, the parking lot's paved surface. What happens when you push the shopping cart out of the parking lot, onto a grassy area? The grass is a different "medium" for the shopping cart. If you push the cart straight onto the grass, the cart will simply slow down. The grass medium offers more resistance, so it takes more energy to move the shopping cart. Up Next Does lightning really never strike the same spot twice? But when you push the cart onto the grass at an angle, something else happens. If the right wheel hits the grass first, the right wheel will slow down while the left wheel is still on the pavement. Because the left wheel is briefly moving more quickly than the right wheel, the shopping cart will turn to the right as it moves onto the grass. If you move at an angle from a grassy area to a paved area, one wheel will speed up before the other and the cart will turn. Similarly, a beam of light turns when it enters a glass prism. This is a simplification, but think about it this way: One side of the light wave slows down before the other, so the beam turns at the boundary between the air and the glass (some of the light actually reflects off the prism surface, but most passes through). The light turns again when it exits the prism, because one side of it speeds up before the other. In addition to bending light as a whole, a prism separates white light into its component colors. Different colors of light have different frequencies, which causes them to travel at different speeds when they move through matter. A color that travels more slowly in glass will bend more sharply when it passes from air to glass, because the speed difference is more severe. A color that moves more quickly in glass won't slow down as much, so it will bend less sharply. In this way, the colors that make up white light are separated according to frequency when they pass through glass. If the glass bends the light twice, as in a prism, you can see the separated colors more easily. This is called dispersion. A prism separates white light into its component colors. For simplicity's sake, this diagram shows only red and violet, which are on opposite ends of the spectrum. Drops of rainwater can refract and disperse light in the same basic way as a prism. In the right conditions, this refraction forms rainbows. In the next section, we'll find out how this happens.


The 2013 film 'One chance' is about which winner of 'Britain's Got Talent'?

One Chance TRAILER 1 (2013) - Paul Potts, Britain's Got Talent Movie HD - YouTube One Chance TRAILER 1 (2013) - Paul Potts, Britain's Got Talent Movie HD Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Sep 12, 2013 Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Like us on FACEBOOK: http://goo.gl/dHs73 Follow us on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt One Chance TRAILER 1 (2013) - Paul Potts, Britain's Got Talent Movie HD From the director of The Devil Wears Prada, ONE CHANCE is the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night. Paul became an instant YouTube phenomenon after being chosen by Simon Cowell for 'Britain's Got Talent.' Wowing audiences worldwide with his phenomenal voice, Paul went on to win 'Britain's Got Talent' and the hearts of millions. Fresh from celebrating his Tony Award-winning Broadway run in 'One Man, Two Guvnors', BAFTA winner James Corden (THE HISTORY BOYS) stars as Paul Potts and is supported by an acclaimed ensemble cast that includes Julie Walters (MAMMA MIA!, CALENDAR GIRLS, BILLY ELLIOT), Mackenzie Crook (THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN), Colm Meaney (GET HIM TO THE GREEK), Jemima Rooper (KINKY BOOTS) and rising star Alexandra Roach (THE IRON LADY). Directed by David Frankel (THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, MARLEY & ME, HOPE SPRINGS) and written by Justin Zackham (THE BUCKET LIST), ONE CHANCE is produced by Mike Menchel, Brad Weston, Kris Thykier (KICK-ASS, THE DEBT, I GIVE IT A YEAR), Simon Cowell, and executive produced by Bob and Harvey Weinstein. Partner rating


Which explorer's flagship was the Trinidad? Neither he nor his flagship survived his most famous voyage.

Magellan: Missing in Action | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Magellan: Missing in Action by Laurence Bergreen Ferdinand Magellan, celebrated as the first circumnavigator, has long been the orphan of history. Although he did not survive his famous voyage, Magellan became both an icon of exploration and an outcast—disowned by his native Portugal, which he abandoned in search of financial backing for his scheme to pioneer a route over sea to the Spice Islands, and by Spain, for whom he sailed. Ironically, had he survived the complete circumnavigation and returned to Seville in September 1522, he would not have been greeted with accolades or cheering throngs or recognition from young King Charles I of Spain. Instead, he would have faced trial for treason and the possibility of imprisonment or execution for sending several Spanish officers and members of the nobility to their deaths for mutiny during the voyage. The Spanish preferred to honor Sebastian Elcano, who succeeded him as the Captain General of the fleet, even though Elcano was a Basque, and thus as much an outsider as Magellan. The English viewed with appreciation and envy the imperialistic ambitions of Spain and Portugal and elevated Ferdinand Magellan (always pronounced with a hard “g” in England) to his status as a peerless explorer. King Charles sent out several Spanish expeditions designed to emulate Magellan’s circumnavigation, but they all met with misfortune. It was no accident, then, that Sir Francis Drake, the second circumnavigator (but the first to complete the journey himself), happened to be English. His voyage was part exploration and part piracy on behalf of Queen Elizabeth, reflecting the rising imperial ambitions of the English throne. Drake’s success—and England’s—rested on the shoulders of Magellan, and his vision of global trade and conquest by sea rather than by land struck a resounding chord in the British Isles. Because of the loss of his voyage’s logbooks, little is known of Magellan’s own views on his adventures or discoveries. Instead, his complex and contested feat is reflected in other documents illuminating his voyage. Although copious, these sources are often politically biased and self-serving, charged with the motives of those who kept them. Then there are the lacunae. Portugal, for instance, was entirely secretive about its exploration and discovery of distant parts of the world. Producing or even owning a map pertaining to exploration was illegal. When Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first voyage to the New World, he immediately set about writing letters to describe and publicize his exploits to his sponsors, Ferdinand and Isabella. If Columbus had sailed on behalf of Portugal, he would not have been given a forum; he would have been muzzled, his exploits known only to a few court insiders, and perhaps lost to history. As improbable as that sounds, consider the possibility that two Portuguese explorers, Estêvão Froes and João de Lisboa, located and explored what we now call the Strait of Magellan in South America several years before Magellan himself arrived. Unlike Magellan’s well-documented voyage, their journey was known mainly through a sketchy account that surfaced mysteriously in Germany, rather than through the expected official records. Even though Magellan sailed for Spain, the dead hand of Portuguese secrecy regarding exploration reached out to crush him as well. After his death in a tribal battle in the Philippines, the flagship of his fleet, Trinidad, was captured by the Portuguese as she attempted to return to Spain. They swiftly impounded all of Magellan’s personal logbooks, navigational instruments, and other items of interest. Some of those precious artifacts and documents eventually reached apparent safety in Lisbon, where scholars might have eventually been able to examine them, but on November 1, 1755, the disastrous Lisbon earthquake reduced the entire city to ruin, and the materials relating to Magellan’s voyage were lost. None


Which pop star has written an autobiography entitled simply Autobiography?

The Omnivore » A A Gill on Autobiography by Morrissey, The Sunday Times A A Gill on Autobiography by Morrissey THE SUNDAY TIMES AS NOËL Coward might have said, nothing incites intemperate cultural hyperbole like cheap music. Who can forget that the Beatles were once authoritatively lauded as the equal of Mozart, or that Bob Dylan was dubbed a contemporary Keats? The Beatles continued to ignore Covent Garden, and Mozart is rarely heard at Glastonbury; Dylan has been silently culled from the latest edition of the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English. The publication of Autobiography was the second item on Channel 4’s news on the day it was released. Krishnan Guru-Murthy excitably told the nation that Morrissey really could write — presumably he was reading from an Autocue — and a pop journalist thrilled that he was one of the nation’s greatest cultural icons. He isn’t even one of Manchester’s greatest cultural icons. This belief in high-low cultural relativity leads to a certain sort of chippy pop star feeling undervalued and then hoitily producing a rock opera or duet with concert harpsichord. Morrissey, though, didn’t have to attain the chip of being needily undervalued; he was born with it. He tells us he ditched “Steve”, his given name, to be known by his portentous unimoniker because — deep reverential breath here — great classical composers only have one name. Mussorgsky, Mozart, Morrissey. His most pooterishly embarrassing piece of intellectual social climbing is having this autobiography published by Penguin Classics. Not Modern Classics, you understand, where the authors can still do book signings, but the classic Classics, where they’re dead and some of them only have one name. Molière, Machiavelli, Morrissey. He has made up for being alive by having a photograph of himself pretending to be dead on the cover. The book’s publication was late and trade gossip has it that Steve insisted on each and every bookshop taking a minimum order of two dozen, misunderstanding how modern publishing works. But this is not unsurprising when you read the book. He is constantly moaning about record producers not pressing enough discs to get him to No 1. What is surprising is that any publisher would want to publish the book, not because it is any worse than a lot of other pop memoirs, but because Morrissey is plainly the most ornery, cantankerous, entitled, whingeing, self-martyred human being who ever drew breath. And those are just his good qualities. The book falls into two distinct passages. The first quarter is devoted to growing up in Manchester (where he was born in 1959) and his schooling. This is laughably overwrought and overwritten, a litany of retrospective hurt and score-settling that reads like a cross between Madonna and Catherine Cookson. No teacher is too insignificant not to be humiliated from the heights of success, no slight is too small not to be rehashed with a final, killing esprit d’escalier. There are pages of lists of television programmes he watched (with plot analysis and character criticism). He could go on Mastermind with the specialist subject of Coronation Street or the works of Peter Wyngarde. There is the food he ate, the groups that appeared on Top of the Pops (with critical comments) and the poetry he liked (with quotes). All of this takes quite a lot of time due to the amount of curlicues, falderals and bibelots he insists on dragging along as authorial decoration. Instead of adding colour or depth, they simply result in a cacophony of jangling, misheard and misused words. After 100 pages, he’s still at the school gate kicking dead teachers. But then he sets off on the grown-up musical bit and the writing calms down and becomes more diary-like, bloggish, though with an incontinent use of italics that are a sort of stage direction or aside to the audience. He changes tenses in ways that are supposed to be elegant but just sound camp. There is one passage that stands out — this is the first time he sings. “Against the command of everyone I had ever known, I sing. My mouth meets the microp


What is the name of the strait that separates India and Sri Lanka?

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Name either of the brothers who, according to Anglo- Saxon legend, led the Angle, Saxon, and Jutish armies that conquered the first territories of Britain in the 5th century?

Hengest Privacy Hengest Hengist (or Hengest) and Horsa (or Hors) are figures of Anglo- Saxon , and subsequently British , legend, which records the two as the Germanic brothers who led the Angle, Saxon, and Jutish armies that conquered the first territories of Britain in the 5th century . Hengist , through his son (who varies by source), is traditionally listed as the founder of the Kingdom of Kent. Hengist and Horsa are attested in Bede's 8th-century Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; in the 9th-century Historia Brittonum, attributed to Nennius; and in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a collection of annals compiled from the end of the 9th century. Geoffrey of Monmouth greatly expanded the story in his influential 12th-century pseudohistory Historia Regum Britanniae, which was adapted into several other languages. As a result, the pair appear in various other later works. Notably, Hengist is also briefly mentioned in the Prose Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century. According to these sources Hengist and Horsa arrived in Britain as mercenaries serving Vortigern, King of the Britons. This event is traditionally recognised as the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain . Sources disagree with whether Hengist was the father or grandfather of Oisc of Kent and Octa of Kent, one of whom succeeded Hengist as king. In the Historia Brittonum Hengist had an unnamed daughter (her name is first given in Historia Regum Britanniae as Rowena) who seduced Vortigern, eventually leading to the Night of the Long Knives when Hengist's men massacred the Britons at a peace accord. While the early sources indicate that Horsa died fighting the Britons, no details are provided about Hengist's death until Geoffrey's Historia , which states that Hengist was beheaded by Eldol, the British duke of Gloucester, and buried in an unlocated mound. A figure named Hengest, who may be identifiable with the leader of British legend, appears in the Finnesburg Fragment and Beowulf. In what is now Northern Germany, horse head gables, or gable signs adorned with two rampant horse figures, were referred to as "Hengist and Hors" up until the late 19th century. Other founding horse-associated twin brothers are attested among various other Germanic peoples, and appear in other Indo-European cultures. As a result, scholars have theorized a pan-Germanic mythological origin for Hengist and Horsa , stemming originally from divine twins found in Proto-Indo-European religion. In older scholarship, the scholar J. R. R. Tolkien and others have argued for a historical basis for Hengist.


'Blurred Lines' was the biggest selling single record of 2013, who recorded it?

The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Singles Of 2013 01 January 2014 The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Singles Of 2013 Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines, Daft Punk's Get Lucky, Avicii's Wake Me Up and Passenger's Let Her Go dominate the 2013's year-end singles Top 40! 3658 By Dan Lane Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines, Daft Punk's Get Lucky, Avicii's Wake Me Up and Passenger's Let Her Go dominate the 2013's year-end singles Top 40! According to the Official Charts Company’s year-end sales data, published today by British recorded music trade body The BPI, 2013 was the year of the Million Sellers! Four singles released during the last twelve months have crossed over this landmark sales threshold, creating the biggest annual haul of million-selling singles since 1998. Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines FT TI and Pharrell Williams was the biggest selling single of 2013, clocking up sales of more than 1.47 million copies since it debuted at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart back in June. It spent five non-consecutive weeks at the top spot, and is also the longest running Number 1 of 2013. Daft Punk’s Get Lucky, which became the first single released in 2013 to reach a million sales and the French dance duo’s first ever UK chart topper, is at Number 2 in the year-end Top 40. Get Lucky, which also features Pharrell Williamsalongside legendary Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers, reached one million sales on its 69th day of release in the UK. It ends the year with a sales tally of more then 1.3 million copies. Speaking of his amazing chart success in 2013, Pharrell told OfficialCharts.com : "I'm humbled by all of the love the UK fans have shown. But, when you are working with incredible talent like The Robots and Robin, great things are bound to happen." Avicii claims the third biggest selling single of 2013 with Wake Me Up . The Swedish DJ and producer, who was just 23-years-old when he debuted at Number 1 with the track, also holds the title of the fastest-selling single of 2013: 267,000 copies of Wake Me Up were purchased during its first week of release. It spent three weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart and has sold 1.18 million copies during the last twelve months. “Having the fastest selling record of 2013 is obviously a huge deal to me,” Avicii told BBC Radio 1’s Official Chart Show host Jameela Jamil. “I never thought being on the Official Chart was an option for my music, so just having a Number 1 is insane!” The final Million Seller released in 2013, and only single by a home-grown artist to reach this sales milestone, belongs to Passenger, AKA Mike Rosenberg. More than 1.03 million copies of the 29-year-old Brighton-based singer/songwriter’s heartfelt acoustic track were purchased over the last twelve months, and no one is more surprised at the track's success than he is! “It feels wonderful but completely ridiculous if I'm honest!” Mike told OfficialCharts.com . “For the last five years I’ve been busking and playing tiny gigs in pubs, so for one of my songs to suddenly get so popular is not only a dream come true, but also a huge surprise.” Given its amazing sales, it's even more surprising that Let Her Go never actually reached Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart; it peaked at Number 2 behind Daft Punk’s Get Lucky back in April. The Official Biggest Selling Singles Of 2013 Top 5 is rounded off by Naughty Boy’s La La La. The Watford-based producer shot to fame in 2012 after producing Emeli Sande’s record breaking debut album, Our Version Of Events. He is joined on the track by vocalist Sam Smith, who has been tipped for great things in 2014 after being awarded the BRITs Critics Choice prize ahead of next year’s ceremony . La La La has sold over 941,000 copies since it was released in May. The Official Singles Chart Of 2013 In Numbers Sales of singles in 2013 came close to matching the all-time record set in 2012 (186.6 million) at 182.2 million - the second highest in British music history.  The Official Top 10 Biggest Selling Singles Of 2013 have each sold over 710,000 copies during the last 12 months, while the Top


What building stands at 32, London Bridge Street on the site of the Southwark Towers office block which was demolished in 2008?

Top List of Tallest Buildings or Structures In London - VLondonCity.co.uk Top List of Tallest Buildings or Structures In London SHARE ON: Sofia Rhodes — January 21, 2016 When a person thinks of tall buildings and skyscrapers, London doesn’t necessarily comes to mind immediately. However, the city does have some tall buildings with some interesting history behind them. We’ll be looking at the top tallest buildings and structures in London. The first tall structure in London was built a long time ago, which was taller than 100 meters. Of course we’re talking about the Old St Paul’s Cathedral which burned down in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Centuries later, the city kept much of its old architecture and charm, but it was inevitable that the city starts modernizing. In the 1960s London begins regularly constructing tall buildings. Centre Point was probably one of the first important tall buildings in London, which was finished in 1966. As the country’s economy kept expanding and growing, so did the city’s buildings. London’s skyline would never be the same. Today these buildings are some of London’s most crucial landmarks. Some old cities have made the mistake of building such structures in areas which were ruined forever afterwards. London has proved, however, that with a bit more planning, these large buildings don’t necessarily have to be bad and ugly. Here is our list of the tallest and most important buildings in London.   The Shard Named the shard, because of its resemblance to a shard of glass, this London building is 309.6 meters tall. Construction began in the spring of 2009, and the building was finally finished and topped off in 2012, and opened on the 6th of June. It has a total of 95 floors, and at the moment it’s the 87th tallest building of its kind in the world. The building is situated on the site where the Southwark Towers once stood. They were demolished in 2008 to make room for the more modern Shard. Visiting address: 32 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9SG   One Canada Square The One Canada Square is one of the most iconic office buildings in London. Since its construction was complete in 1991, it remained the tallest building in the UK until 2010. It’s 235 meters tall, and construction costs amounted to 624 million pounds. The building was designed by a prolific Argentinian architect Cesar Pelli. One of the structure’s most interesting feature is its pyramid like pinnacle. Major companies and banks have offices in the building such as HSBC, and JP Morgan. Visiting address: Canary Wharf, London, E14 5AB   Heron Tower Standing 230 meters tall, with 46 floors is the Heron Tower, one of London’s nicest office buildings. Among its neatest features is a massive aquarium in the lobby that holds 70,000 liters of waters and numerous species of fish. Work on the building began in 2007, and it was finished in 2011. Because of the global financial crisis, in the beginning the building struggled to get enough tenants, but today 90% of the space is successfully rented out. Visiting address: 110 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4AY   122 Leadenhall Street Also often referred to as the “cheesegrater” because of its distinct shape, the Leadenhall building stands 225 meters tall. The building was finished in 2013, but the official opening of the building only happened in 2014. Estimated cost of construction was 286 million pounds. Unlike the Heron Tower, Leadenhall managed to attract tenants almost immediately, with Aon occupying the first ten floors of the building. The building was completely designed by the prolific Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners firm. Visiting address: 122 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3V   8 Canada Square This is the first building on the list which is completely occupied by single company, the HSBC bank. Not only that, but it’s the main headquarters for this major bank. The building itself is 200 meters tall. Construction began in 1999 and it was finished fairly fast seeing as it was done by 2002. The building has over 100,000 square meters of office space, and it’s made out of a staggering 180,000


What do Americans call what we would call a buggy or pushchair?

british english - What is the difference between a 'pram', a 'pushchair', and a 'buggy'? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange What is the difference between a 'pram', a 'pushchair', and a 'buggy'? What is the difference between a 'pram', a 'pushchair', and a 'buggy'? According to Google: pram: a four-wheeled carriage for a baby, pushed by a person on foot pushchair: a folding chair on wheels, in which a baby or young child can be pushed along buggy: a light pushchair with a soft seat that allows the chair to be collapsed inwards It appears from the above definitions that a pram has four wheels (so those with three wheels should not be called prams?), while a buggy is a light pushchair (how light?). I tend to think that a pushchair is the light one with four small wheels, while a pram is the heavier one with bigger wheels. But if a buggy is a 'light pushchair', how could it be that I have heard people calling what I think is a pram, a buggy. Or can all these terms actually be used interchangeably?      I tried Google Images search (for pram, pushchair, and baby buggy). As far as I can tell, they are similar, though prams tend to look more classic, and baby buggies tend to be lighter and usually fold-able or collapsible. –  Damkerng T. May 25 '14 at 20:59    They're all weird British ways to say "stroller". :) –  Martha May 25 '14 at 23:17      And how on earth is "stroller" NOT weird @Martha!? (Mock indignation of course). "Stroller" seems oddly specific (I may wish to "saunter" or "meander" etc) while "pushchair" hardly reinvents the wheel as a descriptive name... –  JMB Sep 22 '15 at 9:07 Warning: I am not a native speaker of British English. This may be wrong. I am under the impression that: a pram is a type of baby-conveying cart in which the baby is laid down, such that it is facing up and backward from the direction it is pushed; in this way the person pushing the pram can see into it and look the baby in it in the face. a pushchair is a type of baby-conveying cart in which the baby is seated upright, such that the baby faces forward (in respect to the direction it is pushed). The baby/passenger in the pushchair faces the same direction as the person pushing them. Such pushchairs often have a lot of baby-containing structure, padding, and onboard features (food tray for the infant, cup holders for the pusher, e.g.) and can even be made almost entirely of rigid material. (Popular in the US right now is a type of baby-conveyance in which a crash-worthy hard-shell baby seat comes with a snap-into mounting for use as a "car seat" in automobiles and a snap-into frame with wheels for pushing as a pushchair, such that one can hotswap the whole infant-seat assembly between your car and your pushchair, without having to unmount the child from the seat.) a buggy, by the definition you found, would sound to be what Americans call a folding stroller : like the pushchair it faces the passenger outward and has them seated, but is built like a typical lawn chair, of metal tubing and fabric stretched between to form the seat and back. P.S. Just in case that wasn't confusing enough: apparently there is also some sort of hybrid pram-pushchair thing, that allows one to configure it in either the baby-faces-up or baby-faces-forward configuration. A good (but not foolproof) way to learn the differences between and nuances of synonyms is to use the Google images search tool. I just did that, and confirmed what I suspected: These are baby carriages: and these are strollers: Baby carriages are more old-fashioned and less collapsible, whereas strollers are more modern and designed for a more on-the-go parent. Though I don't use the British words very much, I surmised that a pram was more like a baby carriage, while a pushchair was more like a stroller. Google images seemed to confirm that supposition as well. That said, differences like these aren't always hard-and-fast; there's probably some overlap in how these words can be applied and interpreted.


The Motion Picture Production Code, introduced in 1930 and enforced in 1934, is generally known by what name?

The Hays Code / Useful Notes - TV Tropes Assuming Viewers Are Morons , 1934ï¿½1968 The Hays Code (the informal name for The Motion Picture Production Code), adopted in 1930 but not seriously enforced until 1934, was a set of rules governing American filmmaking that shaped—and in many ways stifled—American cinema for over three decades. It also happened to completely overlap The Golden Age of Hollywood . The Pre Code Era of Hollywood cinema stretched from around 1928 to 1933, and the contrast between films made before and after the Hays Code was enacted shows the impact censorship had on American cinema. Films like Howard Hawks ' Scarface (1932) were far more brazen and upfront about Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster , lacking the Do Not Do This Cool Thing tacked-on correctives seen in films like Angels with Dirty Faces (though even during this era, with Hawks' film, the studio added scenes and changed the title to Scarface: The Shame of the Nation to appease local censorship boards). The landscape was also less politically correct, as actors and actresses played all kinds of roles. Lots of pre-Code films have a surprisingly feminist slant; working women are even regarded with sympathy and affection. William A. Wellman's Heroes for Sale (1933) shows a Shell-Shocked Veteran returning from World War I falling into morphine addiction. Directors such as Josef von Sternberg worked with Marlene Dietrich to create provocative explorations of sexuality and power. 1930's Morocco even featured the first lesbian kiss in sound cinema. During the later years of The Silent Age of Hollywood and the Rise of the Talkies , Hollywood became inundated with public complaints about the perceived lewd content of films. Scandals centered around big stars (most infamously Fatty Arbuckle ) and the ensuing media frenzy made vocal sections of the public call for the government to rein in Hollywood. As luck would have it, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in 1915 that films did not qualify for First Amendment protectionnote The ruling in the 1915 case, Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio, said essentially that because film was a purely commercial endeavor, it therefore had no artistic merit, and thus could not count as free speech. Live theatre operated under the same auspices, but had 1st Amendment protection--a fact conveniently ignored by the Court. . Congress began to consider creating a national censorship board akin to the ones found in several states both before and after the Mutual Decision. To stop the government from censoring or banning films, Hollywood decided to do the deed themselves with the Hays Code, a set of production directives voluntarily adopted by all the major studios that would ostensibly prove to Congress (and the public) that Hollywood had cleaned up its act. Will H. Hays, a former Postmaster General, did not create the Code, but he was the first head of the office of its enforcement, so his name became more-or-less permanently attached to it. Amongst filmmakers, Joseph Breen was the main man behind censorship, and the Hays Code was also known as the Breen Code. The Code placed a number of restrictions on all films produced, distributed, or exhibited by the members of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), the organization today known as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The Hays Code restrictions were as follows: Crime and immorality could never be portrayed in a positive light. If someone performed an immoral act, they had to be punished on screen , resulting in numerous cases of Adaptational Karma . This forced a change to the ending of The Bad Seed . In the novel and stage play, Christine gives an overdose of sleeping pills to her dangerous sociopathic daughter Rhoda, and Christine shoots herself, but Rhoda survives, with the implication she will kill again (especially now that her mother, the only person aware of her true nature, is gone). The film version has Christine survive her suicide attempt, while Rhoda dies in a contrived and implausible Karmic D


In the book 'Call For The Dead', who is described as a 'short, fat man with a quiet disposition'?

A Brief History of George Smiley by John Le Carré | Books | The Guardian John le Carré A Brief History of George Smiley by John Le Carré The first appearance of John Le Carré's wily grey eminence: the first chapter of the first Smiley novel, Call for the Dead John Le Carré Share on Messenger Close When Lady Ann Sercomb married George Smiley towards the end of the war she described him to her astonished Mayfair friends as breathtakingly ordinary. When she left him two years later in favour of a Cuban motor racing driver, she announced enigmatically that if she hadn't left him then, she never could have done; and Viscount Sawley made a special journey to his club to observe that the cat was out of the bag. This remark, which enjoyed a brief season as a mot, can only be understood by those who knew Smiley. Short, fat, and of a quiet disposition, he appeared to spend a lot of money on really bad clothes, which hung about his squat frame like skin on a shrunken toad. Sawley, in fact, declared at the wedding that 'Sercomb was mated to a bullfrog in a sou'wester'. And Smiley, unaware of this description, had waddled down the aisle in search of the kiss that would turn him into a Prince. Was he rich or poor, peasant or priest? Where had she got him from? The incongruity of the match was emphasized by Lady Ann's undoubted beauty, its mystery stimulated by the disproportion between the man and his bride. But gossip must see its characters in black and white, equip them with sins and motives easily conveyed in the shorthand of conversation. And so Smiley, without school, parents, regiment or trade, without wealth or poverty, travelled without labels in the guard's van of the social express, and soon became lost luggage, destined, when the divorce had come and gone, to remain unclaimed on the dusty shelf of yesterday's news. When Lady Ann followed her star to Cuba, she gave some thought to Smiley. With grudging admiration she admitted to herself that if there were an only man in her life, Smiley would be he. She was gratified in retrospect that she had demonstrated this by holy matrimony. The effect of Lady Ann's departure upon her former husband did not interest society – which indeed is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation. Yet it would be interesting to know what Sawley and his flock might have made of Smiley's reaction; of that fleshy, bespectacled face puckered in energetic concentration as he read so deeply among the lesser German poets, the chubby wet hands clenched beneath the tumbling sleeves. But Sawley profited by the occasion with the merest of shrugs by remarking partir c'est courir un peu, and he appeared to be unaware that though Lady Ann just ran away, a little of George Smiley had indeed died. That part of Smiley which survived was as incongruous to his appearance as love, or a taste for unrecognized poets: it was his profession, which was that of intelligence officer. It was a profession he enjoyed, and which mercifully provided him with colleagues equally obscure in character and origin. It also provided him with what he had once loved best in life: academic excursions into the mystery of human behaviour, disciplined by the practical application of his own deductions. Some time in the twenties when Smiley had emerged from his unimpressive school and lumbered blinking into the murky cloisters of his unimpressive Oxford College, he had dreamt of Fellowships and a life devoted to the literary obscurities of seventeenth-century Germany. But his own tutor, who knew Smiley better, guided him wisely away from the honours that would undoubtedly have been his. On a sweet July morning in 1928, a puzzled and rather pink Smiley had sat before an interviewing board of the Overseas Committee for Academic Research, an organization of which he had unaccountably never heard. Jebedee (his tutor) had been oddly vague about the introduction: 'Give these people a try, Smiley, they might have you and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.' But Smiley was annoyed and said so. It worried him that Jebedee, usually


The model Sophie Dahl is married to which singer?

Sophie Dahl marries Jamie Cullum in secret winter wonderland wedding | Daily Mail Online Sophie Dahl marries Jamie Cullum in secret winter wonderland wedding comments Newlyweds: Sophie Dahl and Jamie Cullum married over the weekend Statuesque model Sophie Dahl and pint-sized jazz musician Jamie Cullum married in a lavish secret ceremony over the weekend, the Mail Online can reveal. The 30-year-old singer and his glamorous partner - who is two years his senior and stands eight inches taller - wed on Saturday in a civil ceremony with a winter wonderland theme at Lime Wood, a Regency country house in the New Forest, Hampshire. Dahl, 32, wore an ivory Versace-style dress and was given away by her actor father, Julian Holloway. Jamie's publicist, Kas Mercer, said today: 'I can confirm they celebrated their wedding at the weekend.' According to sources, the couple arranged for the venue to be candlelit and dressed with hundreds of fairy lights and her favourite flowers, blue eucalyptus, with white roses and black hypericum. They decided against a lucrative magazine deal to celebrate the nuptials in private with a group of their closest friends. A source said: 'Although the snow would cause most people to break down on their wedding day Sophie was thrilled as it capped off their winter wonderland theme perfectly. 'Guests were banned from bringing their own cameras as they had their own photographer for the day. 'They also decided against a magazine deal because Sophie was very keen on keeping their special day private and for themselves. 'Children were banned from the event so that guests could enjoy the food, wine and entertainment without any hassles.' The wedding had been in the planning stages for many months but wasn't without drama. Scroll down to watch the MailOnline video report Winter wonderland: The pair wed in a lavish ceremony at Lime Wood, a Regency country house in the New Forest, Hampshire Dahl had originally begun planning the wedding with her mother Tessa but quickly realised it was wise to bring in a wedding planner to help with the organisation. A source added: 'Everything is fine between Tessa and Sophie now but the plans didn't go without teething problems. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share 'They found it too much to organise on their own so brought in a wedding planner. 'Original plans focused around a summer wedding and then quickly changed to a winter wonderland theme with several venues being looked at before the final decision was made. Romantic touches: The marquee was dressed with hundreds of fairy lights and Sophie's favourite flowers - blue eucalyptus, with white roses and black hypericum 'When the date and Lime Wood were finally agreed upon, giant invitations, which featured birds and flowers, were sent out two months ago to a number of their closest friends.' Dahl - the great granddaughter of children's author Roald Dahl, who had her in mind when he wrote his famous book the BFG - first caused a storm when she posed naked for Opium in her modelling heyday, shortly after losing weight following working as a plus size model for many years. Dahl and Cullum were engaged last March and last night the jazz singer serenaded his bride with a song written especially for her.


The song 'On My Own' features in which musical?

"On My Own" from 'Les Misérables' Sheet Music in D Major (transposable) - Download & Print - SKU: MN0104245 2/17/2013 12:47:35 AM Beautiful piece! I bought this song after seeing the movie Les Mis in theatres. On My Own was my favorite song, and I planned to use it to accompany a friend of mine, a ballet dancer. It did not disappoint! If you love On My Own or Les Miserables, you will love this version. It is amazing and sounds remarkably similar to the movie soundtrack! 1 / 1 people found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful? | LOG IN to comment on this review. thaddusf


Which play includes the characters Lady Sneerwell, Sir Harry Bumper and Sir Peter Teazle?

The School for Scandal — Riverbank Theatre Buy Tickets The School for Scandal is an English satire that makes fun of the eccentric aristocratic class and is ridiculous lifestyle and gossiping culture. Irish-born playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan's aptly named characters like Lady Sneerwell, Sir Joseph Surface, Lady Candour, and Sir Benjamin Backbite have amused theater audiences for more than two centuries. It is still considered by many to be the best comedy of manners. BY RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN


Which book includes the characters Dr Primrose, Squire Thornhill and Mr Burchell?

The Vicar of Wakefield Chapters XVII-XXIV Summary and Analysis | GradeSaver Summary Chapter XVII Farmer Williams visits the family one day when the squire is there. The farmer's clear passion for Olivia seems to bother Squire Thornhill , and Olivia suggests to her father that the squire must have a reason for delaying in his proposal. The vicar and Deborah then decide to set a date by which Squire Thornhill must act, after which they will give Olivia's hand to Farmer Williams. Slyly, they let the squire know about this date. When the allotted time passes, the disappointed family prepares for Olivia's impending marriage to the farmer. One day, they are having a nice time together, during which the youngest son Bill sings a song entitled "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog." In the song, a man is bitten by a dog he loved, which saddens his neighbors, who believe he will die of the bite. However, they are happy when the man survives and the dog dies instead. Happy, the vicar notes how grateful he is that his family has such "tranquility, health, and competence" (76). Suddenly, Dick arrives with news that Olivia has left in a post-chaise with a gentleman who kissed her and said he loved her. Incensed, the vicar demands his pistols and prepares to set out after whomever this man is, but Deborah and Moses chide him for his excessive passion, and he calms down. After settling, he reflects on how he has lost his worldly happiness, and will have to find it in the afterlife. The next morning, the calm and confident vicar prepares to set out after Olivia, whom he will welcome back despite her sin, hoping to guide her to repentance. Chapter XVIII The vicar first suspects Squire Thornhill of the crime, but finds the man alone at home. Thornhill is shocked to learn of what has happened. The vicar then suspects Mr. Burchell , whom he remembers recently seeing in conversation with Olivia. He walks towards the races, where he sees a crowd of people. There, he believes he sees Burchell, but is not certain. After walking about seventy miles from home, the vicar falls into a fever from stress and despair. He is forced to stop at an inn, where he stays for three weeks while recovering. Left to his thoughts, the vicar develops a shame in his pride, since it had caused him trouble. After recovering, he sets off back towards home. On his way, he comes across a company of actors, and enjoys conversing with them as they travel together. However, he is embarrassed to be in their company when they arrive in the village, so he breaks off for an ale-house. There, a man asks him about his relationship to the company, and the vicar denies any association with them. The men then discuss politics for a while, and the man (who later is revealed as the butler ) invites the vicar to dine at his home. Chapter XIX The vicar accompanies the man to a magnificent mansion, where they continue to discuss politics over dinner. The man proves to be almost radical in his opinions, boasting that liberty is his ultimate goal. The vicar agrees that liberty is important, but believes that some men are born to rule while others are born to submit. He also argues that the rich are helpful because they diminish monarchial power by trying to claim it for themselves. It is within the middle class that art, wisdom, and virtue may be found. The vicar concludes by saying that he has known of many people who claim to be for liberty even though they are truly tyrants. The man insults the vicar over his opinions, but they are interrupted by the arrival of Mr. Arnold , the house's true master. It turns out that this man was only the butler, pretending to be the master. Mr. Arnold apologizes to the vicar, but the latter is distracted to see Miss Arabella Wilmot, the young woman who was engaged to his son George at the novel's beginning. It turns out that Mr. and Mrs. Arnold are her aunt and uncle. Seeing that his niece cares for the vicar, Mr. Arnold invites him to stay for a few days. The next morning, Miss Wilmot asks after George, and the vicar sadly explains that he has not heard