Penderyn whisky is made in which European country?

Inside the Welsh Distillery Taking on the Irish and Scottish Whisky Dons | MUNCHIES Inside the Welsh Distillery Taking on the Irish and Scottish Whisky Dons April 15, 2016 / 6:00 am By Vast mountain scenery, epic castles, Celtic roots, a longstanding rivalry with the English, and a love for whisky. No, not Scotland or Ireland: Wales. For many drinkers, whisky means Scotch or Jameson, but over the last few decades, distillers from countries as unlikely as Taiwan and Denmark have tried their hand at making the water of life. Now, it’s Wales’ turn.  Penderyn Distillery is currently the country’s only whisky maker but rather than jumping on the bandwagon of the spirit’s recent surge in popularity, its distillers are reviving longstanding whisky-making methods that reach back as far as St. Patrick. Distilling equipment at Penderyn Distillery, the only whisky distillery in Wales. Photo courtesy Penderyn Distillery. “St. Patrick was born in Wales, so they say, and then went to Europe to train to become a monk,” explains Penderyn distiller David Cover. “French monks had deciphered the method of distilling from Arab perfume-making texts, and had started to distil wine to make brandy. Of course, grapes don’t grow so well in the UK so when Patrick came back with the method, people used different grains—like malted barley—and made whisky. The story is that he then went to evangelise Ireland and introduced the spirit there.” For which the Irish sainted him. Well, not for that specifically, but you get the gist—if you believe the Welsh version, then the Scots and Irish have a Welshman to thank for their national spirits. READ MORE: Meet the World’s First Female Master Whisky Blender As it turns out, the distillers of Kentucky need to thank the Welsh too. “Evan Williams was a Welshman with a distillery in Pembrokeshire,” explains Cover. “He emigrated to America, started a corn farm, and began making whisky from the excess. He’s known as one of the founding fathers of Bourbon.” Given this illustrious past, why is Penderyn currently the only whisky distillery in Wales? And if it only opened in the year 2000, what went so wrong before then? Whisky barrels in the Penderyn warehouse. Photo courtesy Penderyn Distillery. “The last Welsh distillery before us was in North Wales, back in 1890,” he says. “Wales was probably one of the worst places to have a distillery at the time because there was such a big temperance movement. A lot of people hated alcohol and they were prepared to get quite violent about it. They’d go into pubs and drag people into the street and beat them up. Obviously the distillery owner was quite scared of these people and didn’t want to get caught, so he started doing his deliveries by night. One morning they found him run over by his own horse and cart.” Depending on who’s side you were on, Williams had either been drinking too much of his own whisky or he’d been got by the temperance movement. Whatever the truth of it is, that put paid to whisky production in Wales for the next hundred years. Photo courtesy Penderyn Distillery. And then Penderyn came along. “We’re capable of making something that’s unique and different, something that’s completely Welsh,” the distillery’s media manager Jon Tregenna tells me. “The Scots do a double distillation, the Irish distil three times, but we only need to distil once, because we have a different kind of still that’s works as if we’re doing loads of distillations in one go. That makes the whisky quite light and delicate.” This is where distilling gets into the nitty gritty of chemistry, and Penderyn’s innovative still was created specially for them by Dr. David Faraday, the grandson of Victorian scientist Michael Faraday and a chemical engineer at Surrey University. His invention uses what’s known as a fractionating column, similar to the purification systems used in the petrochemical industry. The alcohol is put into the wide base of the still and heated up. As the liquid evaporates, it rises through the copper column above the still, hitting seven perforated plates. It becomes smo


In which country was singer Frank Ifield born in November 1937?

Frank Ifield - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia I am a simple man trying to live a simple life !!!!!! Frank Ifield Birth name  Francis Edward Ifield Instruments  Vocals, guitar Movies  Up Jumped a Swagman Occupation(s)  Singer Born  30 November 1937 Coundon, Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK (1937-11-30) Genres  Country, easy listening Labels  Columbia/EMI Vee Jay (US) Spouse  Carole Ifield (m. 1992), Gillian Bowden (m. 1965–1982) Albums  The Complete A-Sides and B-Sides Awards  NME Award for British Single, NME Award for New Disc Singer Similar People  Victor Schertzinger, Bert Weedon, Johnny Mercer, Slim Whitman, Carl Mann Frank ifield i remember you Sponsored Links Francis Edward Ifield (born 30 November 1937) is an Australian easy listening and country music singer who was born in England. He achieved considerable success in the early 1960s, especially in the UK Singles Chart, where he had four No. 1 hits in 1962 and 1963. Frank ifield i remember you 1962 Early years Born in Coundon, Coventry, Warwickshire, England, Ifield moved with his Australian parents to Dural, 50 km (31 mi) from Sydney, about 1946. It was a rural district and he listened to hillbilly music (now called country) while milking the cows. He learned how to yodel in imitation of country stars like Hank Snow. At the age of 13 he recorded "Did You See My Daddy Over There?", and by 19 was the NO. 1 recording star in Australia and New Zealand. He returned to the UK in 1959. 1960s success His first record in the UK was "Lucky Devil" (1960), which reached No. 22 in the UK charts. His next six records were less successful, but he finally broke through with "I Remember You", which topped the charts for seven weeks in 1962. Known for Ifield's falsetto and a slight yodel, it was the second-highest-selling single of that year in the UK and became the seventh million-selling single. His next single was a double A-side: "Lovesick Blues" and "She Taught Me to Yodel". "Lovesick Blues" was originally sung by Hank Williams and was treated in an upbeat "Let's Twist Again" style. The other song is a virtuoso piece of yodelling with the final verse – entirely yodelling – sung at double-speed. It also reached No. 44 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. His next hit, "Wayward Wind", made him the first UK-based artist to reach No. 1 three times in the UK in succession. The only other person to have done so at that point was Elvis Presley. His other recordings include "Nobody's Darling but Mine", "I'm Confessin'" (his fourth and final UK No. 1), "Mule Train" and "Don't Blame Me". In 1963 he sang at the Grand Ole Opry, introduced by one of his heroes, Hank Snow. Many of his records were produced by Norrie Paramor. Ifield also was featured on Jolly What!, a 1964 compilation comprising eight of his tracks and four of those of the Beatles which has been considered an attempt to cash in on Beatlemania. Acting Ifield starred in the 1965 comedy musical Up Jumped a Swagman. A Song for Europe Ifield twice entered the UK heat of the Eurovision Song Contest. He came in second in the 1962 heat with "Alone Too Long" (losing to Ronnie Carroll). In the 1976 heat he tried with "Ain't Gonna Take No for an Answer", finishing last of 12. "She Taught Me to Yodel" Ifield had been told by his management not to yodel because it would brand him. Nevertheless, he sang "She Taught Me to Yodel" as an encore in a Royal Command Performance at the specific request of the Queen Mother to sing a yodelling song. In 1991, Ifield returned to the UK chart when a dance remix of "She Taught Me to Yodel", called "The Yodelling Song", billed as 'Frank Ifield featuring the Backroom Boys', reached No. 40 in the UK Singles Chart. In more than 30 years, it is his 16th appearance on that list. Uckfield FM Appearance On 10 June 2012, Ifield joined Paul Hazell on his World of Country show on the community radio station Uckfield FM. He discussed his life in music and forthcoming induction to the Coventry Music Wall of Fame. Singles


What is the legal minimum age for marriage for men in India?

What is the correct age for marriage in india ? | My India Home / India / What is the correct age for marriage in India? What is the correct age for marriage in India? March 21, 2014 by Ramandeep Kaur Complete your graduation and welcome yourself to the marriage club. Your marriage will be the centre of every discussion. Now be it your aunty, uncle or parents, they will talk about your marriage and give you all sorts of suggestions. Being a boy has some liberties as this delays the discussion by a year or so. No doubt that marriage is a prominent milestone in one’s life but in most the Indian families, parental pressure results in marriage and most of the times the marriage takes place at a very young age.  Though this trend is changing in cities and metros but villages are still untouched in India. If you ask parents then the maximum limit set by them for marriage is right after education and for girls even during graduation or their studies. In Indian society, family and parents play an imperative role in taking the decision regarding right age for marriage. Above that, if a female crosses 30 years of age then she is tagged as someone who is not of a good character or loose. On the other hand, young boys and girls going to college generally want to get married after completing their studies and getting well-settled in life. Today’s generation also feel that marriage can be delayed but not the career. Building a career and having a well-settled life before marriage is essential. But is there any ideal age to get married or you should follow your love instinct? Studies revealed that more the age, less are the chances of divorce. Couples getting married after 25 years of age are less likely to get divorced. Moreover, if the woman is educated then she is more confident and can better handle the responsibilities of a family. Apart from this it has also been found out that tying a nuptial knot after 25 results in less intense arguments among the couple. The kind of society we live in thinks that a person can be happy only after marriage. There is one very bad but common logical behind marriage. It has been seen that if the boy is not doing anything or spending time idly then his parents think of marrying him to bring him on right track. But it should not be done because by doing so you may ruin the life of a girl. Marriage is for happiness not for sadness. Studies have also revealed that an average marriageable age in India for men is 26 years and for women 22.2 years. Rural and urban India shows sharp difference between the age at marriage. Overall the age in urban areas is 21 years whereas in rural areas it is 18-20 years. The only drawback of marrying late is the associated biological complication like conceiving a child. It has been found out that conception after 35 is difficult than in 20s and also the chances of miscarriage and diseases like Down syndrome and other genetics diseases increases to manifolds. Indian law under the Hindu Marriage Act has defined the marriageable age of a boy and girl. Legally a boy in India needs to be 21 and girl needs to be 18 years of age at the time of marriage. Going back to the 18th century, the minimum legal age to marry for a boy was 14 and for a girl it was 12 years in most parts of the country. You will be questioned by a society if you want to take a step against the said norms. But going against or doing things as per the norms cannot define the right age. Obviously it should not be less than the defined age. Some people wait for a perfect mate and some for career but at the end most of us want to settle down in life. The urge to get married becomes even stronger, once people younger to you start getting married. But you must follow the path and decide the right time to get married as this is a very important decision of your life. Read more:


Soeur is French for which member of the family?

French Family Members Vocabulary & Phrases Practice Sentences (From the Video) Ma mère a 56 ans. Elle est professeur. My mom is 56 years-old. She’s a teacher. Mon père a 57 ans. Il est dentiste. My father is 57 years-old. He’s a dentist. Mon papa s’appelle Jean et ma maman s’appelle Anne. My dad’s name is Jean and my mom’s name is Anne. Mon frère a 22 ans. Il s’appelle Pierre. My brother is 22 years-old. His name is Pierre. Ma soeur habite à Paris. Elle s’appelle Marie. My sister lives in Paris. Her name is Marie. Mon cousin travaille ici. Il s’appelle Guillaume. My cousin works here. His name is Guillaume. Ma cousine est française. Elle est très grande! My cousin is French. She is very tall! Mon grand-père a soixante-et-onze ans. Il s’appelle Martin. My grandfather is 71 years-old. His name is Martin. Ma grand-mère a soixante-huit ans. Elle s’appelle Françoise. My grandmother is sixty eight years-old. Her name is Françoise. J’ai une petite-fille et un petit-fils. I have one granddaughter and one grandson. Étienne est le fils de Benoit. Étienne is Benoit’s son. Manon est la fille de Nicole. Manon is Nicole’s daughter. Philippe est un bon mari. Pauline est une bonne femme. Philippe is a good husband. Pauline is a good wife. Mon neveau habite à Marseille et ma nièce habite à Lille. My nephew lives in Marseille and my niece lives in Lille. Mon beau-père regarde la télé. My stepfather/father-in-law is watching TV. Ma belle-mère travaille au centre-ville. My stepmother/mother-in-law works downtown. Sign Up For A FREE Trial French Lesson On Skype And Get Instant Access To My French Pronunciation Crash Course. Get the French Pronunciation Crash Course! Bonjour! My name is David Issokson. I'm an online French teacher. My mission is to help as many people as possible to learn how to speak this beautiful language that's brought me so much happiness in my life. Sign Up For A FREE Trial French Lesson On Skype! You'll Also Get a Headstart With My FREE French Essentials Ebook This book covers all of the most important elements of french pronunciation for the new speaker. It's FREE and yours if you sign up below. Fill in the info below and sign up for a FREE French lesson on Skype. Click to see some student reviews. Members - Crash Course - You Are Logged Out You are not currently logged in. Username: » Lost your Password? Private Lessons Testimonials "David is clearly a very experienced and knowledgeable teacher. He places emphasis on pronunciation and encourages me to recall my vocabulary in a way that is useful for speaking French day-to-day. His French lessons via Skype are both fun and interesting, and he adapts on-the-fly, so that he can always challenge me at the appropriate level." Maria, Cambridge, UK" Maria, Cambridge, UK "David is a great teacher who cares about his students and makes every effort for them to learn French on Skype where he types lessons notes. David has a proactive approach to learning and offers speaking conversation, grammar and reading classes. Check it out :)" Lachlan M., Sydney, Australia "David Issokson is a wonderful French teacher. I've had a number, and he is the best by far. He makes learning the language enjoyable, fun even, while covering the essentials." —Sandra Gulland, Ontario Canada "It is said that 'The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.' David is a great teacher who inspires. He has great patient and explains french pronunciation very nicely. He is very friendly with pleasant personality. I am sure anyone will love to learn french from David." – Dibakar Datta, Brown University, USA


Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood are judges on which UK television cookery show?

The Great British Bake Off crosses the Channel | Television & radio | The Guardian The Observer The Great British Bake Off crosses the Channel The hit BBC2 cookery show has been sold to France, where it will be hosted by the country's answer to Jamie Oliver Sue Perkins, Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood and Mel Giedroyc in The Great British Bake Off. Photograph: BBC Vanessa Thorpe , arts and media correspondent Saturday 6 October 2012 19.06 EDT Close This article is 4 years old It may prompt snorts of derision in the kitchens of Paris, but The Great British Bake Off is heading for France . A Gallic version of the successful BBC2 television series will be broadcast across the Channel, with French versions of star judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry presiding over the eager amateur bakers. But will the disciplined skills of making tarte tatin or croquembouche trump the British bakers' emphasis on their own traditional baking skills, such as making biscuits or creating the perfect Victoria sponge cake? BBC Worldwide Productions France announced this weekend that it has licensed the format for the record-breaking show, which was developed by Love Productions and attracted 4.7 million viewers last Tuesday evening, to a French commercial channel. Rival bakers will compete inside a stylish orangery rather than in a large tent, and the French version is likely to star leading chef Cyril Lignac, France's answer to Jamie Oliver. Trained in the culinary school of Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Lignac received his professional diploma at the age of 20 before working in a Michelin-starred Paris restaurant. By 2005 he had opened his own restaurant in the city, a replica of Oliver's east London restaurant, 15. The role of Mary Berry, a grandmother figure on the British show, is thought to have gone to the French blogger and macaroon expert Jacqueline Mercorelli, known simply as Mercotte. Whether the drama of watching while cakes rise and fondants set will translate to a foreign field is debatable, according to cook and food campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, who points out that the two baking traditions are quite distinct. "I am married to a Frenchwoman and my bilingual children seem to be equally happy with a Dorset lardy cake or a chocolate eclair," he said. "But the classic French patisserie is a very different thing to the traditional British bakery. It takes time to warm to either of them if you are not used to them." Jean Louis Blot, creative director of BBC Worldwide Productions in France, is nonetheless confident. "Having crossed the Channel to the spiritual home of the sweet tooth, this warm and authentic format has all the crucial elements to be a showstopper," he said. Chocolatier and cookery book writer Trish Deseine suspects that cooking will have less to do with the success of the show than the personalities involved. She said: "These shows are usually more about pitting people against each other and the 'journeys' the competitors go on than about the food." Yet Deseine, who lives outside Paris, admits that French amateurs will probably come in to the show with a better base of skills. She said: "There is a level of understanding and complexity that you don't have with British home cooking. I don't mean to be detrimental, but it is because of the relative maturity of the food culture in both countries." There is evidence that Deseine may be right. Berry, 77, trained at Le Cordon Bleu school in France and has published more than 70 cookery books, though even she buys in filo pastry, something Mercotte might regard as a sin. Mercotte's recipe for Italian meringue, for example, begins five days prior to baking. Anglo-Saxon cooking, by which the French mean British and American food, has never been more popular in France, though, says Deseine. "Muffins and cupcakes are hugely popular and le crumble has become an absolute menu standard," she said. The interest follows the French fashions for shopping at Marks & Spencer and for buying English cheeses such as stilton and Stinking Bishop. "I have French friends who queued up for Marks


Which James Bond villain has the first name Auric?

Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) Bullion dealer, jeweller and international gold smuggler Affiliation Deceased, sucked out of an aircraft Behind the scenes James Bond: "Do you expect me to talk?" Auric Goldfinger: "No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die." ―James Bond and Auric Goldfinger [src] Auric Goldfinger is a fictional bullion dealer, jeweller and international gold smuggler. The character appeared in EON Productions ' 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger , portrayed by German actor Gert Fröbe (voiced by Michael Collins ) and was adapted from the literary character who first appeared in Ian Fleming 's 1959 novel of the same name . Fröbe's Goldfinger has subsequently appeared in numerous video-games , most notably GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (2004) and 007 Legends (2012). Contents [ show ] Film biography Arguably the most famous James Bond villain in any film, Goldfinger's obsession is gold. Welcoming any enterprise which will increase his considerable stock, Goldfinger engages in international gold smuggling. Smuggling gold out of Britain, Goldfinger moulds the bodywork of his Rolls Royce in eighteen carat gold, weighing approximately two tons. Making six trips a year to the continent, his men dismantle the vehicle at " Auric Enterprises, A.G " in Switzerland . They reduce the gold in a special furnace, which in turn are turned into gold ingots. A considerably wealthy man, Auric Goldfinger owned many properties throughout the world. Apart from being a legitimate bullion dealer, Goldfinger poses as a legitimate international jeweller. As such, he was legally entitled to operate modest metallurgical installations such as "Auric Enterprises, A.G", which he utilised in his gold smuggling scheme. An avid golfer who plays with a Slazenger 1 golf ball, Goldfinger owns the golf club where he and 007 play a high-stakes game. He is defeated by Bond, however, when he is tricked by Bond after attempting to cheat. Goldfinger also owned a farm in Kentucky that was used for horse breeding called "Auric Stud". Scheme At first, Bond thinks that Goldfinger was planning to steal the gold, but after having a drink with Goldfinger (who said that he had no intention in stealing the gold), Bond soon learn that Goldfinger actually intends to destroy Fort Knox with an atomic bomb made from China (on behalf of Mr. Ling , Goldfinger's nuclear specialist from China), which would render the gold useless and validate Goldfinger's value of gold, thus making him the richest man in the world. To ensure that his plan would be successful, Goldfinger plans to have his fellow band of female pilots to spray nerve gas around the vicinity that would kill thousands of citizens, which will allow him and his forces to enter Fort Knox without resistance. He also decides to bring Bond along (as he plans to have him handcuffed to the bomb to finalize his plan). However, before the plot went into effect, Bond convinced Goldfinger's personal pilot  Pussy Galore  to help him thwart Goldfinger's plans. To that end, she sercretly called Washington and switched the nerve gas to a more harmless one that would send citizens into a temporary sleep. At Fort Knox, Goldfinger has Bond strapped to the bomb and bids him farewell before learning out in horror that several U.S. soldiers have arrived to the scene. Posing as a U.S. army officer, Goldfinger betrays Mr. Ling by shooting him and Oddjob and  Kisch  by trapping them inside the vault with the bomb. Goldinger manages to escape after shooting down several U.S. soldiers while Oddjob stays behind to ensure that Goldfinger's plan must succeed, even at the cost of his life and killing Kisch to ensure that no one disarms the bomb. Goldfinger is sucked out of the depressurizing airplane. Though Bond manages to finish off Oddjob by electrocuting him, he has trouble trying to disarm the bomb. After the U.S. soldiers manages to finish the rest of Goldfinger's men, they get in their bomb expert to successfully disarm the bomb for good, thus foiling Goldfinger's plot. Afte


What was the first name of Anglo-Irish statesman and diplomat Downing, who Downing Street in London was named after?

Map of Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet - The Full Wiki The Full Wiki Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet: Map Advertisements    Map showing all locations mentioned on Wikipedia article: Sir George Downing. Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet (1623 – July 1684) was an Anglo-Irish soldier, statesman, and diplomat. Downing Street in London is named after him. As Treasury Secretary he is credited with instituting major reforms in public finance. His influence was substantial on the passage and substance of the mercantilist Navigation Acts. The Acts strengthened English commercial and Naval power, contributing to the security of the English state and its ability to project its power abroad. More than any other man he was responsible for arranging the acquisition of New York from the Dutch, and is remembered there in the name of Downing Street, Brooklyn, New York. Life , Ireland . While Downing Street, London, is named after him, Downing College, Cambridge derives its name from his grandson, Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet . The title became extinct when Sir Jacob Downing, 4th Baronet , died in 1764. His family joined Winthrop in America in 1638, settling in Salem, Massachusetts . Downing attended Harvard College and was one of nine students in the first graduating class of 1642. He was hired by Harvard as the college's first tutor. In 1645 he sailed for the West Indies with slaves in-tow, as a preacher and instructor of the seamen, and arrived in England some time afterwards, becoming chaplain to Colonel John Okey 's regiment (who had originally sponsored Downing's education in America). Subsequently he seems to have abandoned preaching for a military career, and in 1650 he was scout-master-general of Cromwell's forces in Scotland , and as such received in 1657 a salary of £365 and £500 as a Teller of the Exchequer . His marriage in 1654 with Frances, daughter of Sir William Howard of Naworth, and sister of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle , aided his advancement. In Cromwell's parliament of 1654 he represented Edinburgh , and Carlisle in those of 1656 and 1659. He was one of the first to urge Cromwell to take the royal title and restore the old constitution. In 1655 he was sent to France to remonstrate on the massacre of the Protestant Vaudois . Later in 1657 he was appointed resident at The Hague , to effect a union of the Protestant European powers, to mediate between Portugal , to defend the interests of the English traders against the Dutch , and to inform the government concerning the movements of the exiled royalists. He showed himself in these negotiations an able diplomat. He was maintained in his post during the interregnum subsequent to the fall of Richard Cromwell , and was thus enabled in April 1660 to make his peace with Charles II , to whom he communicated Thurloe's despatches, and declared his abandonment of "principles sucked in" in New England of which he now "saw the error". At the Restoration , therefore, Downing was knighted (May 1660), was continued in his embassy in Holland, was confirmed in his tellership of the exchequer, and was further rewarded with a valuable piece of land adjoining St. James's Park for building purposes, now known as Downing Street . He engineered the arrest in Holland of the regicides John Barkstead , Miles Corbet and John Okey , his former commander and sponsor. Samuel Pepys , who characterized his conduct as odious though useful to the king, calls him a "perfidious rogue" and remarks that "all the world took notice of him for a most ungrateful villain for his pains." On 1 July 1663 he was created a baronet . Downing had from the first been hostile to the Dutch as the commercial rivals of England. He had strongly supported the Navigation Act of 1660, and he now deliberately drew on the fatal and disastrous Second Anglo-Dutch War , in the first year of which, 1665, he was expelled by the Dutch because of his intrigues and spying activities. During its continuance he took part at home in the management of the treasury , introduced the appropriation of supplies, opposed strongly by Cla


The name of which element comes from the Greek word for sun?

Table of Elements in Greek and Latin (Rome) Language. Sidebar Periodic Table of Elements The Greek language and Greek myth have contributed greatly to the sciences, including chemistry. This is most apparent in the Periodic Table of Elements. A table of the elements with mythological influences, or at least have the Greek language to thank for their names, is below. For kicks, I have included the Latin (Roman) terms also. (Please note: this is not the complete table of elements, only those with Greek or Latin influences.) Actinium From the Greek wordaktinos (ray) Aluminum From the Latin wordalumen, or"bitter". Antimony From the Greek words anti (opposed) and monos (solitude) Argon From the Greek wordargon (inactive) Arsenic From the Greek wordarsenikos and the Latin wordarsenicum, meaning "yellow orpiment". Astatine From the Greek wordastatos (unstable) Barium From the Greek wordbarys (heavy) Bromine From the Greek wordbrômos (stench) Cadmium Symbol: Cd Atomic Number: 48 From the Greek wordkadmeia (ancient name for calamine) and from the Latin word cadmia.Cadmus, in Greek myth, was the founder of Thebes. Calcium From the latin wordcalcis (lime) Carbon Ceres (asteroid), and the Roman version of Demeter, the goddess of agriculture. Cesium From the Latin wordcaesius (sky blue) Chlorine From the Greek wordkhlôros (green) Chromium From the Greek wordchrôma (color) Copper From the Latin wordcyprium, after the island of Cyprus and birthplace of Aphrodite. Dysprosium From the Greek worddysprositos (hard to get at). Fluorine From the Latin wordfluo (flow) Gold From the Latin wordaurum (gold). In Roman mythology, Aurora was the goddess of dawn--golden indeed. Helium From the Greek wordhêlios (sun); Helios in Greek mythology was the god of the Sun. Hydrogen Symbol: H Atomic Number: 1 From the Greek words hudôr (water) and gennan(generate). Heracles fought the Hydra of Lerna (a sea town) for his second labor. Iodine From the Greek wordiôdes (violet). Iridium Symbol: Ir Atomic Number: 77 From the Latin wordiridis (rainbow). The Greeks had a messenger goddess, Iris, whose colorful cape flowed behind her. Iron From the Latin wordferrum (iron) Krypton Symbol: Kr Atomic Number: 36 From the Greek wordkryptos (hidden). In modern language, words such as "encrypt" can be discerned from the Greek. Lanthanum From the Greek wordlanthaneis (to lie hidden). Lead Symbol: Pb Atomic Number: 82 Name Origin: From the Greek word protos (first). Some Greeks believd that the first god ever was Protogonus, or "first born". Symbol Origin: From the Latin wordplumbum (lead) Lithium From the Greek wordlithos (stone) Manganese From the Latin wordmangnes (magnet) Molybdenum From the Greek word molubdos (lead) Neodymium Symbol: Nd Atomic Number: 60 From the Greek words neos (new) anddidymos (twin). Twins appear regularly in Greek myth, from the Dioscuri (Castor & Polydeuces) to the divine twins (Artemis & Apollo). Neon Form the Greek word neos (new) Neptunium After the planet Neptune, the Roman sea god, identified as Poseidon in Greek myth. Niobium Symbol: Nb Atomic Number: 41 After Niobe, daughter of mythical king (Tantalus). She had bragged about her set of seven girls and seven boys, scoffing at Leto for only having two children. Apollo and Artemis promptly killed her offspring. Niobe, in despair, was turned to stone by the gods. Osmium From the Greek word osmë (odor) Oxygen From the Greek words oxus (acid) andgennan (generate) Palladium From the Greek goddess (Pallas) and after an asteroid Phosphorous Symbol: P Atomic Number: 15 From the Greek words phôs (light) andphoros (bearer), Phosphoros was a god of light in Greek myth. Plutonium After the planet Pluto and the Latin god of the Underworld (Hades in Greek). Potassium Symbol Origin: From the Latin word kalium Praseodymium From the Greek words prasios (green) anddidymos (twin) Promethium From the Titan Prometheus who stole fire of the sky and gave it to man. Protactinium From the Greek word protos (first) [see name origin for lead]. Radium From the Latin word radius (ray) Rhodium From the Greek word rhodon


Which Ray Bradbury book was expanded and had the original title ‘The Fireman’?

Ray Bradbury - Biography - IMDb Ray Bradbury Biography Showing all 62 items Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (1) | Trade Mark  (2) | Trivia  (36) | Personal Quotes  (18) Overview (4) 5' 8" (1.73 m) Mini Bio (1) Ray Bradbury was an American science fiction writer whose works were translated in more than 40 languages and sold millions of copies around the world. Although he created a world of new technical and intellectual ideas, he never obtained a driver's license and had never driven a car. He was born Ray Douglas Bradbury on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. He was the third son in the family. His father, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, was a telephone lineman and technician. His mother, Esther Marie Bradbury (nee Moberg), was a Swedish immigrant. His grandfather and great-grandfather were newspaper publishers. In 1934 his family settled in Los Angeles, California. There young Bradbury often roller-skated through Hollywood, trying to spot celebrities. He attended Los Angeles High School, where he was involved in the drama club and planned to become an actor. He graduated from high school in 1938 and had no more formal education. Instead, he learned from reading works of such writers as Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky , among others. From 1938-42 he was selling newspapers on the streets of Los Angeles, spending days in the local library and nights at the typewriter. At that time he published his stories in fanzines. In 1941 he became a paid writer when the pulp magazine Science Stories published his short story, titled "Pendulum", and he was a full-time writer by the end of 1942. His first book - "Dark Carnival" - was a collection of stories published in 1947. That same year he married Marguerite McClure (1922-2003), whom he met at a book store a year earlier. Maggie, as she was affectionately called, was the only woman Bradbyru ever dated. They had four daughters and, eventually, eight grandchildren. Ray Bradbury shot to international fame after publication of "The Martian Chronicles" (1950), a collection of short stories partially based on ideas from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. Then he followed the anti-Utopian writers Yevgeni Zamyatin and Aldous Huxley in his best known work, "Farenheit 451" (1953). The 1966 film adaptation ( Fahrenheit 451 (1966)) by director François Truffaut , starring Julie Christie , received several nominations. However, Bradbury was not happy with the 1980 TV adaptation ( The Martian Chronicles (1980), starring Rock Hudson ) of his story "The Martian Chronicles". His other novels and stories also have been adapted to films and television, as well as for radio, theatre and comic books. Bradbury had written episodes for Alfred Hitchcock 's TV series, as well as for many other TV productions. His total literary output is close to 600 short stories, more than 30 books and numerous poems and plays. He was writing daily. In 2004 Bradbury received a National Medal of Arts. He was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6644 Hollywood Blvd. An asteroid was named in his honor, "9766 Bradbury", and the Apollo astronaut named a crater on the moon "Dandelion Crater", after his novel, "Dandelion Wine". He also received the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from Science Fiction Writers of America, an Emmy Award for his work as a writer on "The Halloween Tree", and many other awards and honors. Ray Bradbury died on June 6, 2012, at the age of 91, in Los Angeles, California. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov Spouse (1) ( 27 September  1947      - 24 November  2003) (her death) (4 children) Trade Mark (2) Uses science fiction to explore existential and political ideals and the darker side of humanity Trivia (36) Father of four daughters: Susan, Ramona, Bettina and Alexandra. Son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, linesman with the Waukegan Bureau of Power and Light, and of Esther Marie Moberg. He wrote the original manuscript of "Fahrenheit 451" on a rented typewriter in a public library, from handwritten notes and outlines. It fir


Which 1851 novel has the alternative title ‘The Whale’?

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) Image Zoom At the time of its first publication, Moby Dick was unlike anything ever before written in American fiction. A magisterial mish-mash of different argots, syntaxes, and linguistic styles, Herman Melville's (1819-1891) masterpiece incorporates and harmonizes the distinct tones of Yankee seamen, the seventeenth-century poetic language of John Milton (one of Melville’s biggest influences), and, perhaps most significantly, the power and gravity of the King James Bible. Scriptural themes also underlie the text, and as the reader follows Ahab's quest for revenge against the White Whale, Melville's revelatory narrative highlights the obsessive nature of man, humanity's constant—and ultimately futile—struggle to tame nature, the magnificence of God's Creation, and the paths from innocence to experience, and from damnation to deliverance. Item Views Click the thumbnails to open the slideshow: Note: To view these images in greater detail, see the Image Zoom tab. Title Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) Description xxiii, 634 p.; 20 cm. Creator


Holden Caulfield is the anithero in which novel by J D Salinger?

The 100 best novels: No 72 – The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951) | Books | The Guardian The 100 best novels The 100 best novels: No 72 – The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951) JD Salinger’s study of teenage rebellion remains one of the most controversial and best-loved American novels of the 20th century JD Salinger in New York, November 1952. He was soon to move to Cornish, New Hampshire, where he became ever more reclusive. Photograph: San Diego Historical Society/Getty Images Share on Messenger Close JD Salinger’s Holden Caulfield is to the 20th century what Huckleberry Finn is to the 19th: the unforgettably haunting voice of the adolescent at odds with a troubling world. Holden, the opposite of Huck, is an unhappy rich boy who has done a bunk from his posh secondary school, Pencey Prep, in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. He begins his first-person narrative in words that echo the famous opening of Twain’s novel ( No 23 in this series ), a frank disavowal of “all that David Copperfield kind of crap”. Holden declares that he isn’t going to tell us “about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down”. Actually, that’s just what he does, writing (apparently in retrospect from California) about three days in December 1949 when, having been chastised by his school “for not applying myself”, he plays truant over a long and memorable weekend in Manhattan. Holden is tortured by the battle to come to terms with himself, with his little sister Phoebe, and their dead brother Allie. Like many adolescents, he feels that the world is an alien, hostile and comfortless place run by “phonies”. One of the many remarkable things about Salinger’s portrayal of Holden Caulfield is that he seems to be fully inside the head of this troubled 16-year-old when the author himself was almost twice that age. Salinger had fought in Europe as an infantryman, after landing at Utah Beach on D-day, and later saw action at the Battle of the Bulge. Quite a lot of the downtown action in The Catcher in the Rye (a night out in a fancy hotel; a date with an old girlfriend; an encounter with a prostitute, and a mugging by her pimp) might almost as well describe a young soldier’s nightmare experience of R&R. That’s just one reading. Salinger’s masterpiece (he published comparatively little after its appearance) has also influenced later writers with angry protagonists, from Martin Amis’s Charles Highway to Philip Roth’s Portnoy and many others besides. The Catcher in the Rye remains the crazy, and often very funny, distorting mirror in which generations of British and American teenagers will examine themselves. At the same time, it instructs them to give nothing away to “the phonies” who ruin all our lives. “Don’t ever tell anybody anything,” says Holden Caulfield, echoing Huck Finn again. “If you do, you start missing everybody.” A note on the text (and its afterlife) The Catcher in the Rye had some difficulty finding a publisher. One editor judged its protagonist simply “crazy”. The New Yorker, which had favoured Salinger’s stories, stalled with indecision. Eventually, it was published on 16 July 1951, by Little, Brown in Boston, with a famous, award-winning cover designed by E Michael Mitchell. Salinger had been working towards his masterpiece, in sketches and drafts, for a decade and more. Some of his earliest short stories, written as a student, contain characters reminiscent of those in The Catcher in the Rye. Indeed, while still at Columbia, Salinger wrote a story, The Young Folks, that included a character described as a prototype of Sally Hayes (Holden’s old flame). In November 1941, Salinger also sold a story (Slight Rebellion Off Madison), featuring a disaffected teenager with “prewar jitters” named Holden Caulfield, to the New Yorker. After the outbreak of war, in which Salinger served as an infantryman, the piece was considered unpatriotic and did not get published until December 1946. Meanwhile, another story entitled I’m Crazy, containing material that was later used in The Catcher in the


Charlotte Bronte wrote the novel Jane Eyre under which pen name?

Charlotte Brontë - Charlotte Brontë Biography - Poem Hunter Charlotte Brontë - Charlotte Brontë Biography - Poem Hunter Biography Biography of Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell. Early life and education Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816, the third of six children, to Maria (née Branwell) and her husband Patrick Brontë (formerly surnamed Brunty or Prunty), an Irish Anglican clergyman. In 1820, the family moved a few miles to the village of Haworth, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate of St Michael and All Angels Church. Charlotte's mother died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to be taken care of by her sister Elizabeth Branwell. In August 1824, Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters, Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire (Charlotte later used the school as the basis for the fictional Lowood School in Jane Eyre). The school's poor conditions, Charlotte maintained, permanently affected her health and physical development and hastened the deaths of her two elder sisters, Maria (born 1814) and Elizabeth (born 1815), who died of tuberculosis in June 1825. Soon after their father removed them from the school. At home in Haworth Parsonage Charlotte acted as "the motherly friend and guardian of her younger sisters". She and the other surviving children — Branwell, Emily, and Anne – created their own literary fictional worlds, and began chronicling the lives and struggles of the inhabitants of these imaginary kingdoms. Charlotte and Branwell wrote Byronic stories about their imagined country ("Angria") and Emily and Anne wrote articles and poems about theirs ("Gondal"). The sagas which they created were elaborate and convoluted (and still exist in partial manuscripts) and provided them with an obsessive interest during childhood and early adolescence, which prepared them for their literary vocations in adulthood. Charlotte continued her education at Roe Head, Mirfield, from 1831 to 32, where she met her lifelong friends and correspondents, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor. During this period, she wrote her novella The Green Dwarf (1833) under the name of Wellesley. Charlotte returned to Roe Head as a teacher from 1835 to 1838. In 1839, she took up the first of many positions as governess to various families in Yorkshire, a career she pursued until 1841. Politically a Tory, she preached tolerance rather than revolution. She held high moral principles, and, despite her shyness in company, she was always prepared to argue her beliefs. Brussels In 1842 Charlotte and Emily travelled to Brussels to enroll in a boarding school run by Constantin Heger (1809–96) and his wife Claire Zoé Parent Heger (1804–87). In return for board and tuition, Charlotte taught English and Emily taught music. Their time at the boarding school was cut short when Elizabeth Branwell, their aunt who joined the family after the death of their mother to look after the children, died of internal obstruction in October 1842. Charlotte returned alone to Brussels in January 1843 to take up a teaching post at the boarding school. Her second stay at the boarding school was not a happy one; she became lonely, homesick and deeply attached to Constantin Heger. She finally returned to Haworth in January 1844 and later used her time at the boarding school as the inspiration for some experiences in The Professor and Villette. First publication In May 1846, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne self-financed the publication of a joint collection of poetry under the assumed names of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. These pseudonyms deliberately veiled the sisters' gender whilst preserving their real initials, thus Charlotte was "Currer Bell". "Bell" was also the middle name of Haworth's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls, whom Charlotte would later marry. Of the decision to use nom de p


British novelist Zadie Smith won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction for which novel?

Zadie Smith - Literature Literature A. P. Watt Ltd Biography Novelist Zadie Smith was born in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother. She read English at Cambridge, graduating in 1997. Her acclaimed first novel, White Teeth (2000), is a vibrant portrait of contemporary multicultural London, told through the story of three ethnically diverse families. The book won a number of awards and prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best First Book). It also won two EMMA (BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Awards) for Best Book/Novel and Best Female Media Newcomer, and was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Author's Club First Novel Award. White Teeth has been translated into over twenty languages and was adapted for Channel 4 television for broadcast in autumn 2002. Her tenure as Writer in Residence at the Institute of Contemporary Arts resulted in the publication of an anthology of erotic stories entitled Piece of Flesh (2001). She also wrote the introduction for The Burned Children of America (2003), a collection of eighteen short stories by a new generation of young American writers. Zadie Smith's second novel, The Autograph Man (2002), a story of loss, obsession and the nature of celebrity, won the 2003 Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for Fiction. In 2003 she was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. Her third novel, On Beauty, was published in 2005, and won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. She has also written a non-fiction book about writing - Fail Better (2006); and Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (2009). Zadie Smith became a tenured professor of fiction at New York University in 2010 and lives between New York City and London. Her latest novel is NW (2012), set in north west London. Critical perspective Zadie Smith made an astonishing literary debut with White Teeth (2000). This first novel initially became notable for the publicity it received in 1997 when Smith accepted a six-figure advance for both this work, which was yet to be completed, and a future second novel. This advance is also remarkable because it was offered when she was only 21 years old and still studying English Literature at Cambridge. The publicity that arose from this commercial faith in her writing undoubtedly ensured the attention of literary critics once it was completed. However, the mainly positive reviews, several awards (including the Whitbread First Novel Award) and high sales of over a million copies, have demonstrated that the hype could be believed: there has been a general consensus that White Teeth is impressive in its fluidity and scope. Smith has since described White Teeth as a naïve product of her adolescence (The Guardian, 25 August 2002), but its success has meant that her novels have continued to be of great interest in international literary circles. As though to legitimise Smith’s burgeoning reputation, reviewers have compared her favourably (based on her first two novels) with established contemporary writers such as Salman Rushdie, and occasionally with Martin Amis. The comparison with Rushdie is somewhat tenuous, and appears to be based on their loose common interest in deconstructing Western mythologies of racial stereotypes. A similarity with Amis’s style may be seen more clearly, though, especially when comparing her second novel, The Autograph Man (2002), with Amis’s Money (1984) and the more recent Yellow Dog (2003). White Teeth is broad in its reach with its use of themes such as history, the search for identity, the ethics of science and multiculturalism. Furthermore, the examination of the interaction between the members of three London-based central families (the Joneses, the Iqbals and the Chalfens) makes this a sprawling work. With these numerous protagonists, Smith demonstrates an effective use of humour and critical insight. On a more abstract level, the intermittent references to the end


What is the name of the fictional forensic psychologist in the series of novels by US author James Patterson?

Psychology Fiction: A Showcase of Authors Who Keep it Real Psychology Fiction (Photo Credit: Kyle Steed) Having added a psychology movies page to the website, it seemed logical to also examine psychology within fictional books and literature. This page highlights the work of authors who are recognized for writing about psychology in a measured and responsible manner. It also showcases the very best works of fiction written by psychologists and takes a look at some of the most popular fictional psychologists and psychological thrillers out there. Jonathan Kellerman (Photo Credit: Paul Allison) In 1998 Jonathan Kellerman received a presidential citation at the American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Convention in San Francisco for his contribution to science through literature. Kellerman has written a series of best selling novels based on the crime solving exploits of fictional clinical psychologist Alex Delaware. In an APA article entitled "Boosting Psychology Through Fiction", Kellerman notes: "I wrote from the perspective of what I was, a psychologist...I wrote what I knew. I've been exposed to very troubling material as a psychologist, but here was a way to write my own story and play God by having the cases turn out the way I wanted them to". The article points out that Alex Delaware's work ethic is one of quiet, professional observation beacause for Kellerman an empathetic psychologist is an ideal model for a detective. Jonathan Kellerman Talks About His Latest Novel Obsession More Information Click Here to visit Jonathan Kellerman's official website. Click Here to visit Faye Kellerman's official website. The wife of Jonathan Kellerman, Faye Kellerman is a fellow best selling author and recipient of The APA presidential citation for contribution to science through literature. Roberta Isleib Clinical psychologist Roberta Isleib has penned two series of psychology fiction books. Her "Golf Lover's Mysteries" series concerning the adventures of a neurotic professional golfer and a sports psychologist was nominated for both Agatha and Anthony awards. Her latest advice column mystery series fatures a Connecticut psychologist and advice columnist and as stated on her official website, Roberta Isleib is passionate about portraying this psychologist character as a competent professional. This last point was recently reinforced during an interview Roberta Isleib gave for the psychology podcast show Shrink Rap Radio. If you would like to listen to this engaging broadcast in full, you can download and listen to the interview in MP3 format by Clicking Here . Book Trailer For Roberta Isleib's Latest Novel "Asking For Murder" More Information CLICK HERE for full details. Fictional Psychologists DR. TONY HILL: Crime writer Val McDermid has written five psychology fiction books featuring clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill and in 2002 a T.V series "Wire in The Blood" featuring the fictional psychologist was launched. This very popular series ran until 2009. Wire In The Blood Series 4 TV Trailer ALEX CROSS: Created by The Author James Patterson, Alex Cross has a PH.D. in psychology with Special concentration in the field of abnormal psychology and forensic psychology. Cross is a senior FBI agent and profiler. To date James Patterson has written thirteen psychology fiction Alex cross novels; two of which (Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider) were adapted for the big screen, starring the wonderful Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross. Kiss The Girls Trailer KATE HOLLY: The latest fictional psychologist on the block created by comedy writer and bestselling author Charlotte Hughes. In the first psychology fiction book of a new series "What Looks Like Crazy," we are introduced to Dr. Kate Holly, a clinical psychologist, and her wild and crazy patients, friends, and family. In describing "What Looks Like Crazy," Hughes says that "It's irreverent and politically incorrect, but it's done in great fun!" Charlotte Hughes is currently working on the second book of the CRAZY series, entitled Nutcase. So watch this space. For more information


Wife of Bath, Manciple, Man of Law and Nun’s Priest are all stories in which collection?

SparkNotes: The Canterbury Tales: Character List The Canterbury Tales Analysis of Major Characters The Pilgrims The Narrator -  The narrator makes it quite clear that he is also a character in his book. Although he is called Chaucer, we should be wary of accepting his words and opinions as Chaucer’s own. In the General Prologue, the narrator presents himself as a gregarious and naïve character. Later on, the Host accuses him of being silent and sullen. Because the narrator writes down his impressions of the pilgrims from memory, whom he does and does not like, and what he chooses and chooses not to remember about the characters, tells us as much about the narrator’s own prejudices as it does about the characters themselves. The Knight -  The first pilgrim Chaucer describes in the General Prologue, and the teller of the first tale. The Knight represents the ideal of a medieval Christian man-at-arms. He has participated in no less than fifteen of the great crusades of his era. Brave, experienced, and prudent, the narrator greatly admires him. Read an in-depth analysis of The Knight. The Wife of Bath -  Bath is an English town on the Avon River, not the name of this woman’s husband. Though she is a seamstress by occupation, she seems to be a professional wife. She has been married five times and had many other affairs in her youth, making her well practiced in the art of love. She presents herself as someone who loves marriage and sex, but, from what we see of her, she also takes pleasure in rich attire, talking, and arguing. She is deaf in one ear and has a gap between her front teeth, which was considered attractive in Chaucer’s time. She has traveled on pilgrimages to Jerusalem three times and elsewhere in Europe as well. Read an in-depth analysis of The Wife of Bath. The Pardoner -  Pardoners granted papal indulgences—reprieves from penance in exchange for charitable donations to the Church. Many pardoners, including this one, collected profits for themselves. In fact, Chaucer’s Pardoner excels in fraud, carrying a bag full of fake relics—for example, he claims to have the veil of the Virgin Mary. The Pardoner has long, greasy, yellow hair and is beardless. These characteristics were associated with shiftiness and gender ambiguity in Chaucer’s time. The Pardoner also has a gift for singing and preaching whenever he finds himself inside a church. Read an in-depth analysis of The Pardoner. The Miller -  Stout and brawny, the Miller has a wart on his nose and a big mouth, both literally and figuratively. He threatens the Host’s notion of propriety when he drunkenly insists on telling the second tale. Indeed, the Miller seems to enjoy overturning all conventions: he ruins the Host’s carefully planned storytelling order; he rips doors off hinges; and he tells a tale that is somewhat blasphemous, ridiculing religious clerks, scholarly clerks, carpenters, and women. The Prioress -  Described as modest and quiet, this Prioress (a nun who is head of her convent) aspires to have exquisite taste. Her table manners are dainty, she knows French (though not the French of the court), she dresses well, and she is charitable and compassionate. The Monk -  Most monks of the Middle Ages lived in monasteries according to the Rule of Saint Benedict, which demanded that they devote their lives to “work and prayer.” This Monk cares little for the Rule; his devotion is to hunting and eating. He is large, loud, and well clad in hunting boots and furs. The Friar -  Roaming priests with no ties to a monastery, friars were a great object of criticism in Chaucer’s time. Always ready to befriend young women or rich men who might need his services, the friar actively administers the sacraments in his town, especially those of marriage and confession. However, Chaucer’s worldly Friar has taken to accepting bribes. The Summoner -  The Summoner brings persons accused of violating Church law to ecclesiastical court. This Summoner is a lecherous man whose face is scarred by leprosy. He gets drunk frequently, is irritable, and is not particularly qualified


‘Light a Penny Candle’ was the debut novel of which Irish author?

Light a Penny Candle « by Lindsay Eyers under Authors and Illustrators , The World of Books Bestselling author and long-standing friend of the Book People , Maeve Binchy has sadly died aged 72. Following a short illness, she is said to have died peacefully in hospital with her husband, the writer Gordon Snell. A keen traveller, it was Binchy’s ‘long rambling letters home from’ from far-flung places that eventually lead to her career as a writer. After attending University College Dublin, Maeve worked as a teacher at various schools in Dublin before she began her day job as a journalist for the Irish Times. She had written short stories in her spare time, but it was her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, that brought her fame in 1982. Her exceptionally successful debut novel tells the story of shy and genteel Elizabeth White who is evacuated from Blitz-battered London and sent to stay with the boisterous O’Connors in Kilgarret, Ireland. Writing with warmth, wit and great compassion, Binchy tells a magnificent story of the lives and loves of two women, bound together in a friendship that nothing could tear asunder – not even the man who threatened to come between them forever. Maeve Binchy’s novels are marked by her depiction of small town Irish life and present a realistic portrayal of the lives of young Irish women growing up in the relatively restrictive society of Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s. Although best known for her novels, she wrote a play, Deeply Regretted By, and continued to write short story collections such as This Year It Will Be Different and The Return Journey . Her last novel, Minding Frankie , was published in 2010 – the same year she received a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Book Awards. As the news of her death broke last night and early today, broadcasters, fellow novelists, friends and fans have flooded the international media with tributes. This morning on Radio 4 Jilly Cooper said Binchy was ‘a natural storyteller … She was so kind and funny and captivating, and was a brilliant writer’. Thriller writer Harlan Coben tweeted: ‘I’m so sad to hear about the death of the wonderful, funny, talented, generous, endearing Maeve Binchy.’ Other tributes included Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin : ‘Maeve Binchy was a gregarious, larger than life, ebullient recorder of human foibles and wonderment,’ and Cathy Kelly : ‘The world is truly a darker place without the golden light of lovely Maeve Binchy. We’ll all miss her genius.’ In 2000, Binchy was ranked third in the World Book Day poll of favourite authors – ahead of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Stephen King. Described in the Irish Times as ‘one of the best-loved Irish writers of her generation’, she will be much missed across the globe. Share this:


Which novel by Charles Dickens has sold the most copies?

Charles Dickens – “A Tale Of Two Cities” (1859) – Bookstacks by Ian A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of literary fiction. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several characters through these events. The 45-chapter novel was published in 31 weekly installments in Dickens’s new literary periodical titled All the Year Round. (Wikipedia) Without directly answering to this appeal, she sat so still when he had very gently raised her, and the hands that had not ceased to clasp his wrists were so much more steady than they had been, that she communicated some reassurance to Mr. Jarvis Lorry. “That’s right, that’s right. Courage! Business! You have business before you; useful business. Miss Manette, your mother took this course with you. And when she died—I believe broken-hearted—having never slackened her unavailing search for your father, she left you, at two years old, to grow to be blooming, beautiful, and happy, without the dark cloud upon you of living in uncertainty whether your father soon wore his heart out in prison, or wasted there through many lingering years.” As he said the words he looked down, with an admiring pity, on the flowing golden hair; as if he pictured to himself that it might have been already tinged with grey. “You know that your parents had no great possession, and that what they had was secured to your mother and to you. There has been no new discovery, of money, or of any other property; but-“ He felt his wrist held closer, and he stopped. The expression in the forehead, which had so particularly attracted his notice, and which was now immovable, had deepened into one of pain and horror. “But he has been-been found. He is alive. Greatly changed, it is too probable; almost a wreck, it is possible; though we will hope the best. Still, alive. Your father has been taken to the house of an old servant in Paris, and we are going there: I, to identify him if I can: you, to restore him to life, love, duty, rest, comfort.” A shiver ran through her frame, and from it through his. She said, in a low, distinct, awe-stricken voice, as if she were saying it in a dream, “I am going to see his Ghost! It will be his Ghost—not him!”


‘What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays’ is the opening line of which book by Roald Dahl?

Roald Dahl Life Lessons - AskMen AskMen Messages You have no messages Notifications You have no notifications 0 Shares As we approach his centenary of birth, there’s plenty of Roald Dahl action this week celebrating the much-adored author’s legacy. Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster adaptation of  The BFG  is released on Friday 22nd July, while Saturday 23rd sees affectionate documentary The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl air at 8pm on BBC2. Here’s a dozen things the great man taught us… 1. Ignore bores during meetings As  Fantastic Mr Fox  so sagely says to Badger: “I understand what you're saying and your comments are valuable, but I'm going to ignore your advice.” Amen, Foxy.  TriStar Pictures 2. Books are better than people  The misunderstood heroine of Matilda escapes and finds solace in the magic of words. As the quote goes: “Books transported her to new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world, while sitting in her little room in an English village.” So don’t get mad, get a book off the shelf.  3. Some phrases are more powerful when said backwards See Esio Trot. Also: Red Rum, park, stressed and regal.  4. Mates and mentors can come in unexpected forms In James & The Giant Peach, our hero’s travelling companions are giant bugs who soon become like family. Sophie in The BFG befriends a big-eared ogre and Charlie Bucket forms a close bond with eccentric old recluse Willy Wonka. Friends-wise, variety is the spice of life. Never write people off on the basis of size, sexuality, age, race or number of legs. Buena Vista 5. Teamwork can earn you millions In The Giraffe & The Pelly & Me, young Billy meets an unusual crew of window cleaners: a giraffe with an extendable neck, a pelican who can carry water in its beak and an all-singing, all-dancing, all-climbing monkey. Together, their skills make The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company a success. Not saying Dahl is a business guru but there’s start-up wisdom here.   RELATED: 7 Films That Will Help Every Boy Become A Man 6. The best way to bond with your dad is through his hobby See the pheasant-poaching expeditions in Danny, The Champion Of The World. As Danny says: ”Grown-ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.” Perhaps it’s time to show some interest in your own father’s obsession, be it Test cricket, military history, vintage cars or artisanal cheeses. Mmm, cheese. 7. Cure your own complaints In George’s Marvellous Medicine, our hero concocts his own magic potion, while The Vicar Of Nibbleswicke eases his dyslexia by walking backwards everywhere. This echoes Dahl in real-life: he helped invent the WDT brain shunt, following an injury to his baby son. 8. Looks aren’t everything Self-esteem lesson from The Twits: “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose, crooked mouth, double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” Yep, charm and personality go a long way. But moisturise and get a nice haircut too, just in case. Paramount 9. Animals are excellent judges of character Remember the squirrels in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory chucking spoilt brat Veruca Salt down the garbage chute because she was a “bad nut”? Never trust someone who gets growled at by dogs or pooed on by pigeons. 10. Pursue your passions In grown-up novel My Uncle Oswald, Dahl writes: “I realised how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all, become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.” So find something you love and keep doing it, as a career if you can. 11. Beards are everywhere "What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays!" goes the opening line of The Twits


Which 1886 novel by Thomas Hardy is subtitled ‘The Life and Death of a Man of Character’?

The Mayor of Casterbridge - Ljudbok - Thomas Hardy - Storytel The Mayor of Casterbridge 0.0 0 5 Författare: Thomas Hardy Inläsare: Bruce Pirie Finns som ljudbok. The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, 'The Life and Death of a Man of Character'. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rustic England. A poor, disgruntled, drunken young man sells his wife and child to the highest bidder. When he awakens, sober, the next day he regrets his rash act and vows to give up drink and find his family and bring them home. Eventually he is forced to give up the search and move on with his life. He does this quite successfully until, nearly 20 years later, his past comes back to haunt him. In the original subtitle, Hardy called this the story of 'a man of character,' and the central character, Michael Henchard, is one of English fiction's greatest creations. Henchard is deeply developed as a realistic character, but also larger-than-life in the manner of a Greek or Shakespearean tragic hero - huge in his determination and huge in his failings. The novel deals with the struggles between individual will, the hold of the past, and the relentless control of circumstances in a changing society. Språk: Engelska Kategori: Klassiker


In the 1876 novel ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ by Mark Twain, what is the name of Tom’s half brother who lives with Tom and his aunt Polly?

SparkNotes: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Chapters 1–3 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Chapters 1–3, page 2 page 1 of 3 Summary—Chapter 1: Tom Plays, Fights, and Hides Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I’m a-laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know. He’s full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! he’s my own dead sister’s boy, poor thing, and I ain’t got the heart to lash him, somehow. (See Important Quotations Explained ) The novel opens with Aunt Polly scouring the house in search of her nephew, Tom Sawyer. She finds him in the closet, discovers that his hands are covered with jam, and prepares to give him a whipping. Tom cries out theatrically, “Look behind you!” and when Aunt Polly turns, Tom escapes over the fence. After Tom is gone, Aunt Polly reflects ruefully on Tom’s mischief and how she lets him get away with too much. Tom comes home at suppertime to help Aunt Polly’s young slave, Jim, chop wood. Tom also wants to tell Jim about his adventures. During supper, Aunt Polly asks Tom leading questions in an attempt to confirm her suspicion that he skipped school that afternoon and went swimming instead. Tom explains his wet hair by saying that he pumped water on his head and shows her that his collar is still sewn from the morning, which means that he couldn’t have taken his shirt off to swim. Aunt Polly is satisfied, but Sid, Tom’s half-brother, points out that the shirt thread, which was white in the morning, is now black. Tom has resewn the shirt himself to disguise his delinquency. Tom goes out of the house furious with Sid, but he soon forgets his anger as he practices a new kind of whistling. While wandering the streets of St. Petersburg, his town, he encounters a newcomer, a boy his own age who appears overdressed and arrogant. Tom and the new arrival exchange insults for a while and then begin wrestling. Tom overcomes his antagonist and eventually chases the newcomer all the way home. When he returns home in the evening, Tom finds Aunt Polly waiting for him. She notices his dirtied clothes and resolves to make him work the next day, a Saturday, as punishment. Summary—Chapter 2: The Glorious Whitewasher “Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.” (See Important Quotations Explained ) On Saturday morning, Aunt Polly sends Tom out to whitewash the fence. Jim passes by, and Tom tries to get him to do some of the whitewashing in return for a “white alley,” a kind of marble. Jim almost agrees, but Aunt Polly appears and chases him off, leaving Tom alone with his labor. A little while later, Ben Rogers, another boy Tom’s age, walks by. Tom convinces Ben that whitewashing a fence is great pleasure, and after some bargaining, Ben agrees to give Tom his apple in exchange for the privilege of working on the fence. Over the course of the day, every boy who passes ends up staying to whitewash, and each one gives Tom something in exchange. By the time the fence has three coats, Tom has collected a hoard of miscellaneous treasures. Tom muses that all it takes to make someone want something is to make that thing hard to get. 1


Which British author wrote the 1928 novel ‘Orlando: A Biography’?

Orlando: A Biography - Virginia Woolf - Google Books Orlando: A Biography 56 Reviews https://books.google.com/books/about/Orlando.html?id=N-2kR2I6dMIC With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.   What people are saying -  Write a review User ratings LibraryThing Review User Review  - Michael.Xolotl - LibraryThing The writing is beautiful. Woolf tosses off historical generalizations and profound insights about life as effortlessly as I just took a swig of coffee. I usually hate attempts at profundity, although ... Read full review LibraryThing Review User Review  - gbill - LibraryThing It’s a mistake to reduce this book, as Vita Sackville-West’s son did, to ‘the longest and most charming love letter in literature’. I hate that characterization. While clearly inspired (and dedicated ... Read full review Selected pages View all » Common terms and phrases All Book Search results » About the author (1995) Virginia Woolf was born in London, England on January 25, 1882. She was the daughter of the prominent literary critic Leslie Stephen. Her early education was obtained at home through her parents and governesses. After death of her father in 1904, her family moved to Bloomsbury, where they formed the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of philosophers, writers, and artists. During her lifetime, she wrote both fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels included Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and Between the Acts. Her non-fiction books included The Common Reader, A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas, The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays, and The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. Having had periods of depression throughout her life and fearing a final mental breakdown from which she might not recover, Woolf drowned herself on March 28, 1941 at the age of 59. Her husband published part of her farewell letter to deny that she had taken her life because she could not face the terrible times of war.


What is the first name of Gatsby in the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F Scott Fitzgerald?

SparkNotes: The Great Gatsby: Plot Overview The Great Gatsby Context Character List Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich, a group who have made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who are prone to garish displays of wealth. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a gigantic Gothic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night. Nick is unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg—he was educated at Yale and has social connections in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island home to the established upper class. Nick drives out to East Egg one evening for dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, an erstwhile classmate of Nick’s at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with whom Nick begins a romantic relationship. Nick also learns a bit about Daisy and Tom’s marriage: Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle. At a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment that Tom keeps for the affair, Myrtle begins to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responds by breaking her nose. As the summer progresses, Nick eventually garners an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties. He encounters Jordan Baker at the party, and they meet Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who affects an English accent, has a remarkable smile, and calls everyone “old sport.” Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan alone, and, through Jordan, Nick later learns more about his mysterious neighbor. Gatsby tells Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and is deeply in love with her. He spends many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are simply an attempt to impress Daisy. Gatsby now wants Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he is afraid that Daisy will refuse to see him if she knows that he still loves her. Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their connection. Their love rekindled, they begin an affair. After a short time, Tom grows increasingly suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby. At a luncheon at the Buchanans’ house, Gatsby stares at Daisy with such undisguised passion that Tom realizes Gatsby is in love with her. Though Tom is himself involved in an extramarital affair, he is deeply outraged by the thought that his wife could be unfaithful to him. He forces the group to drive into New York City, where he confronts Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. Tom asserts that he and Daisy have a history that Gatsby could never understand, and he announces to his wife that Gatsby is a criminal—his fortune comes from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal activities. Daisy realizes that her allegiance is to Tom, and Tom contemptuously sends her back to East Egg with Gatsby, attempting to prove that Gatsby cannot hurt him. When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, however, they discover that Gatsby’s car has struck and killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover. They rush back to Long Island, where Nick learns from Gatsby that Daisy was driving the car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby intends to take the blame. The next day, Tom tells Myrtle’s husband, George, that Gatsby was the driver of the car. George, who has leapt to the conclusion that the driver of the car that killed Myrtle must have been her lover, finds Gatsby in the pool at his mansion and shoots him dead. He then fatally shoots himself. Nick stages a small funeral for Gatsby, ends his relationsh


Which of Agatha Christie’s novels was the first to feature Miss Marple?

Miss Marple series by Agatha Christie Miss Marple series 43 works, 13 primary works Mystery series in order of publication. Miss Marple is introduced in The Murder at the Vicarage but the books can be read in any order. Mixed short story collections are included if some are Marple, often have horror, supernatural, maybe detective Poirot, Pyne, or Quin. Note that "Nemesis" should be read AFTER "A Caribbean Holiday"


What is the nickname of the youngest child of late US singer Michael Jackson?

Blanket Jackson News - Blanket Jackson Net Worth Blanket Jackson News Read more... Blanket Jackson Blanket Jackson Net Worth is $100 Million. Blanket Jackson Date of Birth is 2002-02-21. Blanket Jackson Nickname is Blanket, Prince Michael II. Blanket Jackson Country is San Diego.. Prince Michael "Blanket" Jackson II (born February 21, 2002) is the youngest child of pop legend ... Blanket Jackson Net Worth is $100 Million. Blanket Jackson Net Worth is $100 Million. Blanket Jackson Date of Birth is 2002-02-21. Blanket Jackson Nickname is Blanket, Prince Michael II. Blanket Jackson Country is San Diego. Prince Michael "Blanket" Jackson II is the youngest child of pop legend Michael Jackson. In 2002, Prince Michael Jackson II , Michael Jackson's third child, was born, the same year his father won his 22nd American Music Award for Artist of the Century. The mother's identity is unknown, but Jackson has said the child was the result of artificial insemination from a surrogate mother and his own sperm. He grew up at Neverland Ranch with his half-siblings. Following his father's death in 2009, his grandmother Katherine was made the permanent guardian of him and his siblings Paris and Prince. In 2012, Katherine Jackson split custody of Jackson II and his half-siblings with his older cousin T.J. Jackson, son of Tito Jackson and a member of the group 3T. Jackson made his first television appearance as a baby in the documentary Living with Michael Jackson in 2003. In the documentary, his father explained the meaning behind his nicknam... Didgeridoos and legal blues: the strange story of how Michael Jackson bought The Beatles "He was trembling and clinging on," she said. "It was just to cling on to someone for the security. I could have been a blanket." On Jackson's rider, he insisted that a glass bowl of Smarties would be provided for him backstage before the broadcast. Posted: January 19, 2017, 6:32 am Paris Jackson is 'incredibly offended' by Joseph Fiennes' Michael Jackson portrayal "I am as shocked as you may be". It's not in any way malicious. Paris Jackson with Prince Michael Jackson, LaToya Jackson, Blanket Jackson and Monica Gabor in Beverly Hills, California on October 11, 2012. Paris added, "it angers me to see how obviously ... Posted: January 12, 2017, 6:03 pm Paris Jackson Heads to Paris for First Big Modeling Gig Jackson, whose siblings are Blanket, 14, and Prince, 19, wasn’t just in Paris for business. She also posed in front of the Eiffel Tower with her boyfriend, Michael Snoddy, per a January 17 Instagram, and shared a photo of the Arc de Triomphe that same day. Posted: January 19, 2017, 9:32 am Fiennes' Portrayal Of Michael 'Makes Me Want To Vomit — Paris Jackson Twitter It's a light comedy look. Paris Jackson with Prince Michael Jackson, LaToya Jackson, Blanket Jackson and Monica Gabor in Beverly Hills, California on October 11, 2012. The story of the film focuses on an alleged road trip that Jackson took with veteran ... Posted: January 12, 2017, 9:00 pm


Food brand Knorr was founded in which country?

Knorr® Kitchen – Our History – Brand Story The Knorr Story Brand History High quality is our food philosophy – one that’s been years in the making. Our story starts back in 1838, when Carl Heinrich Knorr opened a factory in Heilbronn, Germany, supplying chicory to the coffee industry.  He began to experiment with drying vegetables and seasonings, to preserve nutrition and flavor, leading, in 1873, to the launch of the first Knorr® dried soups across Continental Europe. This breakthrough ushered in a string of advancements. From the launch of the nutritious ‘Erbswurst’, or pea soup, in 1889, to our pioneering Knorr® European sauce mix in 1908, creativity and innovation have been at the heart of everything our chefs do. And then there was Bouillon  In 1912, we introduced something really exciting; the first Knorr® Bouillon cube .  Now, families could enjoy delicious dishes at home without the need to make stock from scratch.  This humble little product proved a hit!  Just one example of how, with dedication and a lot of love, we always endeavour to help you cook better meals every day.  Flavors of the world Knorr® is available around the world and in every country.  We pride ourselves on a genuine understanding of local flavors, providing great tasting favorites and helping you sample authentic flavors from other cultures. In 1957, flagship Knorr® brands like bouillon and soups were sold in 8 countries and by 2000, Knorr® products were sold in nearly 90 countries around the globe.  This led us to an important milestone that same year, when Knorr® joined the Unilever family. Always searching for the best flavors Throughout the 20th century, we launched many exciting recipes throughout the world – Knorr® Soupy Noodles in India, Knorr® Homestyle Stock in Canada and the US, Knorr® soups across Europe and the rest of the world. In fact, Knorr® products are now enjoyed by 320 million people every day - all still carry the iconic signature of Carl Heinrich Knorr, with whom it all began.  Today, our kitchens are playgrounds to hundreds of real chefs, passionate experts who work together to hone recipes that help you serve up tasty meals time and again. We always strive to discover new ways to make your meals memorable, with clever ideas and products. We go to extraordinary lengths to get the best flavors from ingredients, and we embrace global cuisines. Our love of food is what drives us; our aim is to help you create good, simple food that’s full of flavor.  A sustainable future It’s this commitment to providing you with the highest quality food that now leads us to a new future, one that embrace sustainability. We’re investing in new, more efficient processes and embracing the principles of sustainability right through our business, from seed to spoon. It’s not an easy path, but sourcing our ingredients responsibly helps to ensure that we can continue to provide families the world over with great tasting, nutritious meals for years to come.


Cronian relates to which planet in our solar system?

Solar System Planets: Order of the 8 (or 9) Planets Solar System Planets: Order of the 8 (or 9) Planets By Robert Roy Britt | January 22, 2016 12:35pm ET MORE The planets of the solar system as depicted by a NASA computer illustration. Orbits and sizes are not shown to scale. Credit: NASA Ever since the discovery of Pluto in 1930, kids grew up learning about the nine planets of our solar system. That all changed starting in the late 1990s, when astronomers began to argue about whether Pluto was a planet. In a highly controversial decision , the International Astronomical Union ultimately decided in 2006 to call Pluto a “dwarf planet,” reducing the list of “real planets” in our solar system to eight.  However, astronomers are now hunting for another planet in our solar system, a true ninth planet , after evidence of its existence was unveiled on Jan. 20, 2016. The so-called "Planet Nine," as scientists are calling it, is about 10 times the mass of Earth and 5,000 times the mass of Pluto. [ Solar System Pictures: A Photo Tour ] If you insist on including Pluto , then that world would come after Neptune on the list; Pluto is truly way out there, and on a wildly tilted, elliptical orbit (two of the several reasons it got demoted). Interestingly, Pluto used to be the eighth planet, actually. More on that below. Terrestrial planets The inner four worlds are called “ terrestrial planets ,” because, like Earth, their surfaces are all rocky. Pluto, too, has a solid surface (and a very frozen one) but has never been grouped with the four terrestrials. Jovian planets The four large outer worlds — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — are known as the “Jovian planets” (meaning “Jupiter-like”) because they are all huge compared to the terrestrial planets, and because they are gaseous in nature rather than having rocky surfaces (though some or all of them may have solid cores, astronomers say). According to NASA , "two of the outer planets beyond the orbit of Mars — Jupiter and Saturn — are known as gas giants; the more distant Uranus and Neptune are called ice giants." This is because, while the first two are dominated by gas, while the last two have more ice. All four contain mostly hydrogen and helium. Dwarf planets The  IAU definition of a full-fledged planet goes like this: A body that circles the sun without being some other object's satellite, is large enough to be rounded by its own gravity (but not so big that it begins to undergo nuclear fusion, like a star) and has "cleared its neighborhood" of most other orbiting bodies. Yeah, that’s a mouthful. The problem for Pluto, besides its small size and offbeat orbit, is that it shares its space with lots of other objects in the Kuiper Belt , beyond Neptune. Still, the demotion of Pluto remains controversial . The IAU planet definition puts other small, round worlds in the dwarf planet category, including the Kuiper Belt objects Eris , Haumea , and Makemake . Also now a dwarf planet is Ceres , a round object in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres was actually considered a planet when discovered in 1801 and then later deemed to be an asteroid. Some astronomers like to consider Ceres as a 10th planet (not to be confused with Nibiru or Planet X ), but that line of thinking opens up the possibility of there being 13 planets, with more bound to be discovered. The planets Below is a brief overview of the eight primary planets in our solar system , in order from the inner solar system outward: Mercury The closest planet to the sun, Mercury is only a bit larger than Earth's moon. Its day side is scorched by the sun and can reach 840 degrees Fahrenheit (450 Celsius), but on the night side, temperatures drop to hundreds of degrees below freezing. Mercury has virtually no atmosphere to absorb meteor impacts, so its surface is pockmarked with craters, just like the moon. Over its four-year mission, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has revealed views of the planet that have challenged astronomers' expectations. Discovery: Known to the ancients and visible to the naked eye Named for: M


Lorna Doone - R.D. Blackmore - Book Drum Blundell's School - Credit: Sarah Charlesworth In 1837, Richard entered Blundell’s School in Tiverton.  He excelled in classical studies, and won a scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford University, where he earned a Classics degree in 1847. During a university vacation he made his first attempt at writing a novel – this was to become The Maid of Sker, but it was not completed until many years later. After leaving Oxford and spending some time as a private tutor, Blackmore decided on a career in law. He entered the Middle Temple in 1849 and was called to the Bar in 1852. Epilepsy, however, prevented him from continuing with law as a full-time occupation.  In 1854, he took the post of classics master at Wellesley House Grammar School in Twickenham.   Lucy Maguire Blackmore At the age of 28, Blackmore married Lucy Maguire, apparently without his father’s knowledge (his father would have disapproved of Lucy's Catholicism).  Lucy was 26.  The couple never had children of their own, but they were close to Lucy’s sister Agnes’ four children and often had them to stay. They adopted one of Agnes’ children, Eva, when she was 7. In September 1857, Blackmore’s uncle died and left him a substantial sum of money. With it, he bought a 16-acre plot at Teddington, which he had admired for some time. He was to live in the house he built there for the rest of his life. He called it ‘Gomer House’ after one of his favourite dogs, a Gordon Spaniel. In the grounds he created an 11-acre market garden specialising in the cultivation of fruit. Despite his extensive knowledge of horticulture, his lack of business skills prevented the garden from becoming a profitable business. While neighbours in Teddington described him as unsociable, "wedded to his garden in summer and his book writing in winter,” other accounts indicate that Blackmore had many close friends with whom he met regularly, including fellow novelist Thomas Hardy. Blackmore wrote essays, articles and stories on the subject of fruit growing. His works include The farm and fruit of old: a translation in verse of the first and second georgics of Virgil, by a market gardener (1862).  He published many of his first works of verse under the pseudonym Melanter (Greek for ‘more black’) including Poems by Melanter (1853), Epullia (1855), and The Bugle of the Black Sea (1855) about the Crimean War. His first novel, which was largely autobiographical, was Clara Vaughan (1864). This was followed by Cradock Nowell (1866).  Lorna Doone was published in 1869. Princess Louise and John, Marquess of Lorne - Credit: Royal Photographers W & D Downey The first edition of what was to become his most famous novel was published as a three volume edition, but it sold poorly.  500 copies were printed; only 300 were sold. The remaining 200 were sent to Australia. The publication of the second edition, as a single volume, coincided with the announcement of the engagement of the Marquess of Lorne to Queen Victoria's daughter Louise.  When rumours spread that the book was about the Marquess' family, its popularity soared.  Blackmore wrote subsequently, "It is the merest fluke that Lorna Doone was ever heard of any more." Blackmore published a number of books in the 1870s including The Maid of Sker (1872), Alice Lorraine (1875), Cripps the Carrier (1876), and Erema. His novels are characterised by detailed observation of, and reverence for, Nature.  Lucy, who had never enjoyed good health, became very ill in January 1888, and died within weeks.  After her death, Blackmore was looked after by his adopted daughter Eva and one of her sisters.   He published a number of works after Lucy's death, including Kit and Kitty: a Story of West Middlesex (1890), Mary Anerley (1880), Christowell (1882), and a naval tale based on the Napoleonic wars, Springhaven (1887).  Blackmore died at Teddington on 20 January 1900, after a long illness. In April 1904, a memorial was established in Exeter Cathedral. While Blackmore was very popular in his time, his works have since been largely ignored


Greenburst, Zohar, Munchkin and Kong are all varieties of which flower?

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