‘It’s what your right arm’s for’ was an advertising slogan for which beer?

Beer Slogans - Brookston Beer Bulletin Brookston Beer Bulletin Advertising slogan: Busch Beer. Head for the mountains. Schlitz Beer Ad slogan: Schlitz. The beer that made Milwaukee famous. Budweiser Beer When you say Budweiser, you’ve said it all. For all you do, this Bud’s for you. The Genuine Article. Where there’s life, there’s Bud. Coors beer Slogans: The Coldest Tasting Beer In The World (for Coors Light ) It won’t slow you down (Light) This is our Beer (Light) Turn it loose! Brewed with Pure Rocky Mountain Spring Water. Note: Coors brewing water in Golden, Colo., begins high in the Rocky Mountains. It flows underground and is naturally filtered over beds of sand and gravel) A&W Root Beer Advertising slogan: That frosty mug sensation. Courage Beer Slogans: It’s what your right arm’s for. Take Courage. Taglines: I’m only here for the beer. A Double Diamond works wonders. Heineken beer Slogans: A better beer deserves a better can. It’s all about the beer. Lager Beer at its Best. How refreshing! How Heineken! Heineken refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach. Greene King IPA beer Advertising slogans: Greene King IPA. A tasty change from the usual. Beer to Dine For. Marketing slogans: It Starts Here. I am Canadian. Advertising slogan: The Beer so Good it’s Bad. Bud Light brand Taglines: Fresh. Smooth. Real. It’s all here. Be yourself and make it a Bud Light. Dreher, Hungarian premium beer brand Motto: It’s what’s inside that truly counts. Dreher. Abbot Ale, Greene King’s flagship brand Slogans: Some things get better given longer. Would you say no to another? Mackeson Beer Slogan: Mackeson Beer. It looks good, it tastes good, and by golly it does you good. Mexican Brewery Advertising slogan: The beer that made Milwaukee jealous … Miller Beer Slogans: It’s Miller time! Good call (Miller Lite) Tastes great, less filling (Lite) Everything you always wanted in a beer. And less. (Lite) If you’ve got the time, we’ve got the beer. Miller Beer. The Champagne of Bottled Beers No matter what what’s-his-name says, I’m the prettiest and Lite’s the greatest. Toohey’s beer Advertising slogan: How do you feel? I feel like a Toohey’s. Old Milwaukee beer Slogans: It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This! Old Milwaukee. Taste as great as it’s name. Norrlands Guld, Swedish brand of beer Advertising slogan: Norrlands Guld. Be yourself for a while. Bavaria Holland beer Advertising slogan: And now, for a Bavaria. Dos Equis Mexican beer Slogans: Sooner or later you’ll get it. Let your tastes travel. Ad slogan: Carlsberg. Probably the best beer in the world. Kokanee Glacier Beer brand, Canada Taglines: Kokanee. Straight from the Kootenays. Pure Gold. From the heart of the Kootenays (Kokanee Gold) Labatt Blue, the best selling Canadian beer brand Taglines: A whole lot can happen, Out of the Blue. If I wanted water, I would have asked for water. Labatt Brewery, Canada Marketing slogan: Labatt. Good things brewing – corporate St. Pauli Girl brand, Germany Taglines: Germany’s Fun-Loving Beer. St. Pauli Girl. The Original Party Girl. Put her on a pedestal, or a coaster (USA campaign) You never forget your first girl. Smirnoff Ice brand (alternative brewed using a malt base) Advertising slogan: Smirnoff Ice. Intelligent Nightlife. Newcastle Brown Ale brand Slogans: Newcastle Brown Ale. The Other Side of Dark. The One and Only. Slogans: Bass. A little bit of better. Bass. Reach for Greatness. Advertising slogans: Our Hand Has Never Lost Its Skill. Schaefer. America’s Oldest Lager Beer. Castlemaine XXXX Australian brand Ad slogan: Australians wouldn’t give a XXXX for anything else Hemeling Lager brand Slogans: Give him a right good Hemeling tonight Wouldn’t you rather be Hemeling? Amstel brand Advertising slogans: Taste life. Pure Filtered. Amstel. Our beer. Celebrate football (Note: Amstel – sponsor of the UEFA                Champions League 1994 – 2004) The beer drinker’s light beer (Amstel light) Michelob Ultra, a low-carbohydrate beer brand Marketing slogan: Lose the carbs. Not the taste. Michelob AmberBock beer Tagline: Michelob Am


King Richard, Varna and Otina are varieties of which vegetable?

Types of Leeks | eHow Types of Leeks  Email Save Leeks are a hardy, perennial vegetable variety of the Alliaceae family that exhibit a mild flavor similar to that of an onion. These bulb vegetables grow in bunches and produce leafy, green stalks. Unlike its close relatives--onion and garlic--the leek is highly frost and pest resistant, easy to grow and comparably inexpensive. Leeks will grow in any climate as long as they are planted during periods of cool weather after the first frost. King Richard The King Richard leek variety produces long, slender stems that maintain a sweet flavor upon harvesting. The stalks are tender and white, reach a maximum height of three feet and produce edible flowers. Plant King Richard leeks during June or July and allow 79 days for the vegetable to mature. King Richard leeks are best planted in sandy or clay soil in an area that receives a substantial amount of sunlight and moderate moisture. Varna Varna leeks grow best during late July and take about 80 days to fully ripen. This variety produces thick clumps of slender stalks that grow in bunches. Varna leeks grow rapidly and should be harvested during late summer or early fall, as they are not capable of withstanding winter weather. Dawn Giant Dawn giant leeks thrive during April or May and are best harvested during midsummer or early autumn. This variety produces blue-green leaves with a subtle onion-like flavor that can grow up to 15-inches tall and two-inches wide. Allow about 100 days for maturation before harvesting. Albinstar Baby Albinstar baby leeks are a Dutch variety specifically produced for the baby leek market. This leek is extremely tender when harvested during the summer but can be left in the ground until fall for larger leeks. This white-stemmed, 1/2-inch wide variety produces characteristic dark green leaves with a sweet taste. Plant during March or April to harvest miniature leeks. Maturation is between 100 and 120 days. Otina Otina leeks are a French variety grown for their mild yet crisp flavor. Those with delicate palettes will enjoy the unique, mild flavor exhibited by this leek type. This variety is low maintenance and is capable of withstanding frost. Plant Otina during the late fall or December and harvest after about 120 days of growth. American Flag American flag is a very hardy leek variety that may be left in the ground for an extended period of time as it is capable of withstanding winter temperatures in mild climate regions. This variety produces seven to nine inch stalks that taste similar to scallions. Dark green to blue-green stems surround white, edible interiors. Start growing American flag leeks about four weeks before the average time of the last frost in your region and harvest them within 130 days of planting.


What is the name of the police car in the children’s television series ‘Roary the Racing Car’?

View Full Screen ADVERTISEMENT Our love of cars started right here. Movie and TV cars are literally the stuff of dreams. We're all let into theaters and plopped in front of the tube long before we're issued driver licenses. Then we all dream of doing reverse 180s like Jim Rockford escaping thugs, or fleeing the po-po in a Shelby Mustang named Eleanor. We all want a best friend like KITT. And every orange Dodge Charger can fly, right? These are the 100 movie and TV cars that built that passion. 100. The Monkees 1966 Pontiac GTO: Dean Jeffries turns a GTO into a massive T-Bucket with a blown engine. The TV show ran two seasons between 1966 and 1968. 99. Cannonball 1970 Pontiac Trans Am: Pure mayhem from the Death Race 2000 director. Based on the Cannonball race, it beat The Gumball Rally into theaters by a month in 1976. 98. Easy Rider Captain America Harley-Davidson: The ultimate biker road trip movie. Made in 1969. Made Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, and they're Harley's icons. 97. Get Smart's 1965 Sunbeam Tiger: The spy car for the spy who isn't James Bond. Driven for seasons one and two (1965-'67), then replaced by a VW Karmann Ghia. 96. Diamonds Are Forever 1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1: James Bond rips Vegas apart in a great chase from 1971. Goes into an alley up on its right wheels, comes out on its left. So what. 95. The Saint 1962 Volvo P1800: From 1962-'69 Simon Templar (Roger Moore) showed up for no apparent reason in his white, British-built Volvo to help those in distress. 94. Days of Thunder 1990 #46 City Chevrolet Lumina: The movie that launched NASCAR's most successful decade. It was Cole Trickle's (Tom Cruise) Lumina that made good ol' boys cool. 93. Jurassic Park Ford Explorer: Self-driving, panorama glass roofs, high-tech information systems and the most iconic automotive paint job of the last 20 years. 92. Thelma and Louise 1966 Ford Thunderbird: Don't get too attached. The blue convertible meets its iconic end in this 1991 flick. 91. Stripes EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle: Built off of a 1970's GMC Motorhome, the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle is the heavily armed recreational vehicle you need to bash through the Czech border. 90. Scooby-Doo 1969 Mystery Machine Van: Without the Mystery Machine, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Scooby and Shaggy go nowhere. They've been going since 1969. That's 42 years. 89. Speed Racer 1966 Mach 5: The Mach 5 was the first truly awesome Japanese car. The 52 original episodes ran between 1966 and 1968. Over time, they've gotten no better. 88. Hooper 1978 Pontiac Trans Am: Unlike Burt's other Trans Am exploits, this Pontiac is red, rocket-propelled and drives under falling smokestacks. Car is cool, but the rocket car gorge jump is a joke. 87. Green Hornet 1966 Black Beauty Imperial: Dean Jeffries modified two Imperials as the Hornet's ride in this short-lived 1966 TV series. Perfect with Bruce Lee as the driver. Also the one thing the 2011 movie got right. 86. Dumb and Dumber Mutt Cutts Van: Another one for the kids. Harry and Lloyd's van is the birthplace of the most annoying sound in the world. You're making it now, aren't you? 85. Ghostbusters 1959 Cadillac Ecto-1: Who you gonna call in the 1984 film? The Ghostbusters showed up in this modified Miller-Meteor Futura ambulance. 84. The Munsters 1964 Munster Coach: George Barris' shop used three Model T bodies and a 289 Ford V8 to construct this for the TV series that ran from 1964-'66. 83. The Munsters 1965 Drag-U-La: Built at George Barris' shop by Korky Korkes, the coffin-based Drag-U-La first appeared in the 1965 episode "Hot Rod Herman." 82. Family Matters BMW Isetta: Known as the "Urkel Car" BMW's Isetta gets a spot on this list, as it is perfectly cast. The Isetta is also No. 3 on our list of the 100 Worst Cars of All Time . 81. Fireball 500 1966 Plymouth Barracuda: In this 1966 film, Frankie Avalon used this Barris custom to tow Richard Petty's stock car. It was a Popular AMT model kit. 80. Miami Vice 1986 Ferrari Testarossa: Ferrari didn't like the black Daytona replica the 1984-'89 NBC series was using, so it provided t


US outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker and Harry Longabaugh were better known by what names?

Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid Found a Haven in Argentina - CSMonitor.com Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid Found a Haven in Argentina By Jack Epstein, Special to The Christian Science Monitor January 27, 1998 Save for later Saved CHOLILIA, ARGENTINA — In 1901, Americans Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Longabaugh, better known as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Sundance's girlfriend, Etta Place, settled in Argentina's Cholila Valley after fleeing Pinkerton agents. Butch called himself James Ryan; Sundance and Etta were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Place. The American outlaws bought a 12,000-acre ranch with loot stolen from the robbery of the First National Bank at Winnemucca, Nev., in 1900. Cassidy then built a log cabin at the foot of the Andes and acquired 300 cattle, 1,500 sheep, and 28 horses. All three are fondly remembered here as law-abiding citizens. Cassidy in particular is recalled as a jovial person who read English medieval history and stories of the Scottish clans. In a letter to a friend, he described Cholila as an ideal home. Photos of the Day Photos of the day 02/08 Four years later, however, the three returned to banditry. In 1905, they held up a bank in neighboring Santa Cruz province and yet another in 1907. That year they sold their ranch to a beef syndicate before going off to Bolivia, where Butch and Sundance were gunned down by soldiers after robbing a mine payroll. It is believed that Etta Place returned to the United States. In his book "In Patagonia," author Bruce Chatwin wrote that the most usual explanation for their departure was that "Etta was bored" and that she wanted to return to the United States for medical reasons, which may have been an excuse to have a baby who had been fathered by an English rancher, not Sundance. Raul Victor Cea, Cholila's resident historian, has another version on their reason for leaving. Mr. Cea, whose father was the bandits' neighbor, says the beef syndicate forced the outlaws to sell by alerting Pinkerton to their presence in Patagonia. "If Butch and Sundance hadn't been forced out, they would have died peacefully in Argentina and not violently in Bolivia. They could have been the most important cattlemen in Patagonia," Cea says. Today, tourist guides show visitors the lake where Etta bathed and Cassidy's 96-year-old wooden shack - the only American log cabin in the region. There are no signs to indicate the way to the house, which is literally falling apart. Aladin Sepulveda is the log cabin's sole resident. He was raised in the shack along with 15 siblings. Mr. Sepulveda, a farmer who survives partly from tourist donations, says that there have been plans in the past to turn his house into a museum. "One time they promised me a house in town, but that ended in nothing," he says. "But so many people come here that I think sooner or later I will have to put up a sign." Next up


Online social networking website Facebook was founded in 2004 in which US state?

Social Media Timeline StumbleUpon is acquired by eBay. May 24 Facebook starts allowing developers to use the site as a platform for games and widgets, leading to the success of popular games such as Farmville, Bejeweled Blitz, and Mafia Wars. July 29 Apple releases the iPhone in the United States. iPhone users can access social media sites and apps through their phone. 2008 April Facebook becomes the most popular social networking site, surpassing Myspace which had been in first place since June 2006. July Facebook Connect is revealed. Facebook Connect enables users to log onto third-party websites, applications, gaming systems, and mobile devices. July 4 TweetDeck begins. TweetDeck is a desktop application for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, and other social networking sites. October 7 2011 January 28 Egypt shuts off all internet access in an effort to contain activists from organizing protests which threaten to end the reign of President Hosni Mubarak. The block is temporary and does not put an end to the protests. February Social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook help activists organize an uprising in Egypt . The trend of using social networking websites to organize protests and demonstrations continues throughout 2011 in the Middle East and North Africa. Various governments attempt to shut down social media and internet access to crackdown on protest movements throughout 2011 to varying degrees of success. February 22 An Egyptian baby is named Facebook to honor the role that social media played in Egypt's revolution. April WikiLeaks begins publishing files on Guantanamo Bay detainees. August 11 The British Parliament considers turning off social networking sites. Protesters use social networking sites to organize violent riots throughout the country. After exploring whether it is right or even possible to cut off social networking sites in England , the government decides not to do so. August 19 StumbleUpon surpasses Facebook as the site that delivers more than half of all U.S. social media traffic. August 22 A teacher in Missouri sues the state over what has become known as the Facebook law. The new state law prevents teachers from contacting students through non-work related websites. The teacher's lawsuit argues that the new law makes it illegal for her to chat with her own child over Facebook. 2013 April 15 Social media becomes a major source of information about the Boston Marathon bombing . It is the first major terrorist attack in the U.S. during the age of Facebook, Twitter and smartphones. Many Americans receive news of the bombing and search for clues about the suspects on social media. Several anonymous posters name people online who they believe are involved in the bombing. Once the suspects are identified, investigators look at the suspects' Facebook accounts for evidence and clues for motives behind the bombing. April 24 A retired police detective's Facebook post provides authorities with a lead to the driver involved in a 1968 hit-and-run death. Douglas Parkhurst has been identified via Facebook as the driver of the car that did not stop after hitting a four-year-old girl in upstate New York on Halloween night in 1968. Police have been following hundreds of leads, but the break comes when retired police detective Russ Johnson posts information about the case. A former resident of the area in New York where the crime happened sees Johnson's post and comes forward with the information that leads the police to Parkhurst. 2014 January 16 For the first time ever, a trial based on alleged defamation via twitter begins. Attorney Rhonda Holmes is suing her former client, rock musician and actress Courtney Love over a tweet in which Love claimed that Holmes had been “bought off” in a case related to the estate of Kurt Cobain , Nirvana singer and Love’s deceased husband. The case is being referred to as the Twibel trial and could have major legal implications for any Twitter user. The Los Angeles Superior Court has already rejected an argument by Love’s lawyers that language on Twitter shoul


‘Elmo’s World’ was a segment of which children’s television show?

Elmo's World | Treehouse tv Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Share Elmo's World is a fifteen-minute long segment that was shown at the end of the children's television program Sesame Street . It premiered in late 1998 as part of the show's structural changes, designed to appeal to younger viewers and to increase ratings, which had fallen in the past decade. The segment was developed out of a series of workshops that studied the changes in the viewing habits of their audience, and the reasons for the show's lower ratings. "Elmo's World" used traditional elements of production, but had a more sustained narrative. It was presented from the perspective of a three-year old child as represented by its host, the Muppet Elmo , who was performed by Kevin Clash . In 2002, Sesame Street's producers changed the rest of the show to reflect its younger demographic and the increase in their viewers' sophistication. Long-time writer Judy Freudberg came up with the concept of "Elmo's World", and writer Tony Geiss and executive producer Arlene Sherman helped develop it. Instead of the realism of the rest of the show, the segment presented Elmo moving between and combining two worlds of live action and computer-generated animation, which looked like "a child's squiggly crayon drawing come to life" created by the host, and with "a stream-of-consciousness feel to it". Elmo's pet goldfish Dorothy and the members of the Noodle family were silent in order to allow Elmo to do all the talking, and to give children the opportunity to respond to what they saw on the screen. "Elmo's World" remained popular throughout its run. In 2009, "Elmo's World" stopped production, and was replaced in 2012 by "Elmo the Musical". Contents Main article: Format of Sesame Street By the early 1990s, Sesame Street had been on the air for over 20 years and was, as author Michael Davis put it, "the undisputed heavyweight champion of preschool television". The show's dominance began to be challenged throughout the decade by other television shows for preschoolers such as Barney & Friends , by the growth of the children's home video industry, and by the increase of thirty-minute children's shows on cable. Sesame Street's ratings declined, so the Children's Television Workshop (CTW), The CTW changed its name to the Sesame Workshop (SW) in June 2000. The organization responsible for putting the show on the air, responded by researching the reasons for their lower ratings. For the first time since the show debuted, the producers and a team of researchers analyzed Sesame Street's content and structure and studied how children's viewing habits had changed. The analysis was conducted during a series of two-week long workshops and was completed in time for the show's 30th anniversary in 1999. The CTW found that although the show was produced for children between the ages of three and five, their viewers had become more sophisticated since its debut and began to watch the show sooner, as early as ten months of age. The producers found that the show's original format, which consisted of a series of short clips similar to the structure of a magazine , was not necessarily the most effective way to hold young viewers' attention. They also found that their viewers, especially the younger ones, lost attention with Sesame Street after 40 to 45 minutes. The first way the CTW addressed the issues brought up by their research was by lowering the target age for Sesame Street, from four years to three years. In late 1998, they created a new 15-minute segment entitled "Elmo's World", hosted by the Muppet Elmo , that was shown at the end of each episode. The first episode of "Elmo's World" aired on November 16, 1998. The segment used traditional elements (animation, Muppets, music, and live-action film), but had a more sustained narrative. "Elmo's World" followed the same structure each episode, and depended heavily on repetition. At first, the same segment was repeated daily for a week, but this practice was dropped at the end of the first season of "Elmo's World". It focused on child-centere


What is the name of the floating mass of vegetation that often obstructs navigation in tropical rivers?

sudd - definition and meaning sudd from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition n. A floating mass of vegetation that often obstructs navigation in tropical rivers. from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License n. A floating mass of plant matter, such as reeds, which obstructs boat passage on the Nile from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English n. A tangled mass of floating vegetal matter obstructing navigation. from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia n. An impenetrable mass of floating water-plants interlaced with trunks of trees and decayed vegetable matter, forming floating islands in the White Nile. n. See sadd. from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition Arabic, obstruction, sudd, from sadda, to obstruct; see šdd in Semitic roots. Examples The importance of this event may be measured by the fact that whereas the journey to Gondokoro, with the "sudd" in existence, took twenty months and even two years to perform, it was reduced by its dispersal to twenty-one days.


What is the Closest Planet to Earth? - Universe Today   Universe Today What is the Closest Planet to Earth? Article Updated: 23 Dec , 2016 by Matt Williams A common question when looking at the Solar System and Earth’s place in the grand scheme of it is “which planet is closest to Earth?” Aside from satisfying a person’s general curiosity, this question is also of great importance when it comes to space exploration. And as humanity contemplates mounting manned missions to neighboring planets, it also becomes one of immense practicality. If, someday, we hope to explore, settle, and colonize other worlds, which would make for the shortest trip? Invariable, the answer is Venus . Often referred to as “ Earth’s Twin “, Venus has many similarities to Earth. It is a terrestrial planet, it orbits within the Sun’s habitable zone, and it has an atmosphere that is believed to have once been like Earth’s. Combined with its proximity to us, its little wonder we consider it our twin. Venus’ Orbit: Venus orbits the Sun at an average distance (semi-major axis) of 108,208,000 km (0.723 AUs), ranging between 107,477,000 km (0.718 AU) at perihelion and 108,939,000 km (0.728 AU) at aphelion. This makes Venus’ orbit the least eccentric of all the planets in the Solar System. In fact, with an eccentricity of less than 0.01, its orbit is almost circular. Earth and Venus’ orbit compared. Credit: Sky and Telescope When Venus lies between Earth and the Sun, it experiences what is known as an inferior conjunction. It is at this point that it makes its closest approach to Earth (and that of any planet) with an average distance of 41 million km (25,476,219 mi). On average, Venus achieves an inferior conjunction with Earth every 584 days. And because of the decreasing eccentricity of Earth’s orbit, the minimum distances will become greater over the next tens of thousands of years. So not only is it Earth’s closest neighbor (when it makes its closest approach), but it will continue to get cozier with us as time goes on! Venus vs. Mars: As Earth’s other neighbor, Mars also has a “close” relationship with Earth. Orbiting our Sun at an average distance of 227,939,200 km (1.52 AU), Mars’ highly eccentric orbit (0.0934) takes it from a distance of 206,700,000 km (1.38 AU) at perihelion to 249,200,000 km (1.666 AU) at aphelion. This makes its orbit one of the more eccentric in our Solar System, second only to Mercury For Earth and Mars to be at their closest, both planets needs to be on the same side of the Sun, Mars needs to be at its closest distance from the Sun (perihelion), and Earth needs to be at its farthest (aphelion). This is known as opposition, a time when Mars appears as one of the brightest objects in the sky (as a red star), rivaling that of Venus or Jupiter. The eccentricity in Mars’ orbit means that it is . Credit: NASA But even at this point, the distance between Mars and Earth ranges considerably. The closest approach to take place occurred back in 2003, when Earth and Mars were only 56 million km (3,4796,787 mi) apart. And this was the closest they’d been in 50,000 years. The next closest approach will take place on July 27th, 20178, when Earth and Mars will be at a distance of 57.6 million km (35.8 mi) from each other. It has also been estimated that the closest theoretical approach would take place at a distance of 54.6 million km (33.9 million mi). However, no such approach has been documented in all of recorded history. One would be forced to wonder then why so much of humanity’s exploration efforts (past, present and future) are aimed at Mars. But when one considers just how horrible Venus’ environment is in comparison, the answer becomes clear. Exploration Efforts: The study and exploration of Venus has been difficult over the years, owing to the combination of its dense atmosphere and harsh surface environment. Its surface has been imaged only in recent history, thanks to the development of radar imaging. However, many robotic spacecraft and even a few landers have made the journey and discovered much about Earth’s closest neighbo


On a standard dartboard, which number lies opposite 15?

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In November 1983, 26 million pounds worth of gold, diamonds and cash were stolen from the Brinks-MAT warehouse at which British airport?

GOLD BULLION BARS WORTH $40 MILLION STOLEN IN LONDON - NYTimes.com GOLD BULLION BARS WORTH $40 MILLION STOLEN IN LONDON By R. W. APPLE Jr., Special to the New York Times Published: November 27, 1983 LONDON, Nov. 26— Six masked gunmen stole almost $40 million in pure gold from a security depot near Heathrow Airport before dawn today. It was the largest theft in British history. The robbers also took two boxes of diamonds from the warehouse, but there was no immediate indication of how much the gems were worth. The police said the robbers, carrying handguns and wearing what appeared to be ski masks, burst into an unmarked warehouse belonging to Brinks-Mat Ltd., at about 6:40 A.M. They overpowered several security guards who were working the night shift, handcuffed them, doused them with gasoline and threatened to set them on fire if they did not cooperate. 3 Tons of Gold Bullion Scotland Yard detectives said the gunmen had made off with about three tons of bullion. It was understood the gold consisted of some 6,800 bars in 76 boxes, which could be stacked in a space only about 6 feet by 3 1/2 feet by 2 feet, according to a spokesman for Brinks-Mat, a subsidiary of the United States security company. The police said the gold was to have been sent to the Far East, but did not say who owned the gold or whether it was normal for Brinks-Mat to have so much bullion on hand at one time. An hour after the raid, one of the guards managed to wriggle out of his handcuffs and raised the alarm. By the time the police arrived, there was no sign of the intruders. The guards were taken to a hospital for treatment of minor skin inflammation caused by the gasoline. Not an Easy Target The police immediately sealed off the warehouse, which occupies Unit 7 in the Heathrow Trading Estate in suburban Hounslow, west of London. It lies directly under the flight path leading to one of the main runways at Heathrow Airport, which is about a mile away. The area is nearly deserted early on Saturday mornings, and there apparently were no witnesses other than the six employees of Brinks-Mat. Equipped with automatic doors, a sophisticated alarm system, lights and television surveillance cameras, the depot was not an easy target. It was not known how the robbers avoided the security system or how they removed the gold from the site. A police spokesman said ''they must have had at least two large trucks.'' The police, who spent most of the day searching the 150-foot-long warehouse for fingerprints, appeared to have few clues. They questioned the guards at Brinks- Mat and employees of other companies with depots on the estate as they arrived for work. A spokesman for Brinks-Mat said the insurance company that held the policy on the gold had offered a $3 million reward. He did not name the company. Comdr. Frank Cater, who is heading the police investigation, is also in charge of the hunt for those who stole $10 million from the Security Express organization in London last Easter. In that robbery, as in today's, employees of the company were doused with gasoline, but the police refused to speculate on a link between the two robberies. Commander Cater said the robbers would have to melt down the gold to dispose of it because the stolen bars were stamped with the refiner's name and bore a sequence of numbers. The largest robbery in British history before today's was in 1975, when more than $12 million worth of cash and valuables were stolen from the Bank of America's branch in Mayfair. The largest robbery on record was at the German Reichsbank in 1945 when Nazi Germany was collapsing, according to the 1983 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records. Negotiable securities valued at $400 million and gold, foreign currencies and jewelry valued at $20 million were taken. The biggest known robbery in the United States occurred in December of 1982 when $11 million in cash was stolen from the Sentry Armored Courier Corporation in the Bronx. Four men are standing trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan for the crime. In the Brinks robbery in Boston in 1950, abou


Which English snooker player is nicknamed ‘The Whirlwind’?

Jimmy White | Snooker Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Images Stub This article is a stub , an article too short to provide more than rudimentary information about a subject. You can help The Snooker Wikia by expanding it . Player Cleanup To meet The Snooker Wiki's quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. Please help by improving the article. Jimmy White 2 May 1962 (1962-05-02) (age 54) Birthplace


What is the name of the tiger in the 2001 novel ‘Life of Pi’?

SparkNotes: Life of Pi: Themes, Motifs & Symbols Themes, Motifs & Symbols Themes The Will to Live Life of Pi is a story about struggling to survive through seemingly insurmountable odds. The shipwrecked inhabitants of the little lifeboat don’t simply acquiesce to their fate: they actively fight against it. Pi abandons his lifelong vegetarianism and eats fish to sustain himself. Orange Juice, the peaceful orangutan, fights ferociously against the hyena. Even the severely wounded zebra battles to stay alive; his slow, painful struggle vividly illustrates the sheer strength of his life force. As Martel makes clear in his novel, living creatures will often do extraordinary, unexpected, and sometimes heroic things to survive. However, they will also do shameful and barbaric things if pressed. The hyena’s treachery and the blind Frenchman’s turn toward cannibalism show just how far creatures will go when faced with the possibility of extinction. At the end of the novel, when Pi raises the possibility that the fierce tiger, Richard Parker, is actually an aspect of his own personality, and that Pi himself is responsible for some of the horrific events he has narrated, the reader is forced to decide just what kinds of actions are acceptable in a life-or-death situation. The Importance of Storytelling Life of Pi is a story within a story within a story. The novel is framed by a (fictional) note from the author, Yann Martel, who describes how he first came to hear the fantastic tale of Piscine Molitor Patel. Within the framework of Martel’s narration is Pi’s fantastical first-person account of life on the open sea, which forms the bulk of the book. At the end of the novel, a transcript taken from an interrogation of Pi reveals the possible “true” story within that story: that there were no animals at all, and that Pi had spent those 227 days with other human survivors who all eventually perished, leaving only himself. Pi, however, is not a liar: to him, the various versions of his story each contain a different kind of truth. One version may be factually true, but the other has an emotional or thematic truth that the other cannot approach. Throughout the novel, Pi expresses disdain for rationalists who only put their faith in “dry, yeastless factuality,” when stories—which can amaze and inspire listeners, and are bound to linger longer in the imagination—are, to him, infinitely superior. Storytelling is also a means of survival. The “true” events of Pi’s sea voyage are too horrible to contemplate directly: any young boy would go insane if faced with the kinds of acts Pi (indirectly) tells his integrators he has witnessed. By recasting his account as an incredible tale about humanlike animals, Pi doesn’t have to face the true cruelty human beings are actually capable of. Similarly, by creating the character of Richard Parker, Pi can disavow the ferocious, violent side of his personality that allowed him to survive on the ocean. Even this is not, technically, a lie in Pi’s eyes. He believes that the tiger-like aspect of his nature and the civilized, human aspect stand in tense opposition and occasional partnership with one another, just as the boy Pi and the tiger Richard Parker are both enemies and allies. The Nature of Religious Belief Life of Pi begins with an old man in Pondicherry who tells the narrator, “I have a story that will make you believe in God.” Storytelling and religious belief are two closely linked ideas in the novel. On a literal level, each of Pi’s three religions, Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam, come with its own set of tales and fables, which are used to spread the teachings and illustrate the beliefs of the faith. Pi enjoys the wealth of stories, but he also senses that, as Father Martin assured him was true of Christianity, each of these stories might simply be aspects of a greater, universal story about love. Stories and religious beliefs are also linked in Life of Pi because Pi asserts that both require faith on the part of the listener or devotee. Surprisingly for such a religious boy, Pi admires atheist


In botany, the calyx form which part of a plant?

Calyx (botany) - definition of Calyx (botany) by The Free Dictionary Calyx (botany) - definition of Calyx (botany) by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Calyx+(botany)  (sē′pəl) n. One of the usually green leaflike structures composing the outermost part of a flower. Sepals often enclose and protect the bud and may remain after the fruit forms. [New Latin sepalum, perhaps blend of Greek skepē, covering and Latin petalum, petal; see petal.] sep′a·line (sĕp′ə-lĭn), sep′a·lous (-ləs) adj. sepal n (Botany) any of the separate parts of the calyx of a flower [C19: from New Latin sepalum: sep-, from Greek skepē a covering + -alum, from New Latin petalum petal] ˈsepalled, sepalous adj one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower. [< New Latin sepalum (1790)] se′paled, se′palled, adj. se·pal (sē′pəl) One of the separate, usually green parts extending from the base of a flower. Sepals look like small leaves, though in some plants they are colored like petals. As a group, they form the calyx, which surrounds and protects the flower bud. In some flowers, such as the poppies, the sepals fall off after the flower bud opens. See more at flower . ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:


Painter and engraver Sir Edwin Henry Landseer was a favourite artist of which British monarch?

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A picture of which British singer was on the front cover of the first edition of teen magazine ‘Jackie’ in January 1964?

How to date like it's 1964... the first issue of teen magazine Jackie's quaint fashion tips | Daily Mail Online How to date like it's 1964... the first issue of teen magazine Jackie's quaint fashion tips Girls, if you sometimes despair of ever meeting Mr Right, then look no further. All you need to do is get a haircut, douse yourself in perfume – and find some boys. At least, that was the advice provided by the first ever issue of Jackie magazine in 1964, when the dating game seemed rather more straightforward. The strikingly innocent tips have come to light after a copy of the launch issue was discovered at a charity shop. Rare find: The first-ever Jackie cover features a youthful Cliff Richard as its star The way to a man's heart... is via a liberal dose of scent, according to Jackie's perfume tips The edition, which features a youthful Cliff Richard on the front cover, is believed to be one of the last copies left in the world. Featuring pin-up posters of Elvis and The Beatles, it also boasts a charming array of features aimed at the teenage girl of yesteryear. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share And to all those struggling to find a boyfriend, it cheerily recommends: ‘Get with a swish hairdo and a snazzy dress, slosh on lots of perfume and go where the boys are.’ The amazing discovery of the relic - once a staple for every teenage girl – brings into focus the mindset of the post-war adolescent. Its pages are packed with useful advice on everything from kissing to perfume - some of which could have been plucked from today’s teenage magazines. On sale for just 6d (about 2p) and emblazoned with a the youthful face of Cliff Richard, the magazine’s masthead reads: ‘Jackie: for go-ahead teens’. And to celebrate its launch, on January 11 of that year, the magazine gave away a free ‘nifty-neat’ heart-shaped ring to every reader with the advice: ‘If you’re still looking for the guy, the ring might just lead to an introduction.’ Sound advice: The magazine features tips that are rather quaint by modern standards The magazine featured posters of The Beatles, pictured, and Elvis Presley to adorn their walls Inside readers find ‘dreamy picture love stories’ as well as a double-page spread on the latest rainbow-coloured macintoshes. The relic was discovered by charity worker Martin Cook, 53, when he was sorting through a box of old magazines donated to Treetops Hospice in Risley, in Derbyshire. Its near mint condition suggests it has barely been touched since the day it was bought – and it is doubtful the previous owner even knew it was there. Mr Cook said: ‘We didn’t see who brought it in and I wasn’t even aware it was special until I realised it was the first ever issue. ‘Then I started to get excited. My wife is a Cliff Richard fan so I’ve been to lots of his concerts. Seeing him in this magazine was like a trip down memory lane. ‘I haven’t read the whole magazine as it’s not my kind of thing but I’m hoping it will make lots of money for the hospice.’ Cliff features heavily in the magazine, with a regular feature called The Cliff Alphabet – beginning, bizarrely, with ‘E for Extravagance’. And for the unlucky in love, there are plenty of tips on hand – especially in the kissing department, where girls are advised not to wear sharp jewellery or eat onions beforehand. The writer warns: ‘If you don’t want to kiss, just say no – don’t duck.’ Mr Cook, who works as the hospice warehouse assistant lives with his wife Karen, 49, in nearby Stapleford, believes it could be one of the only copies of the first issue left. Discovery: The magazine was found by charity worker Martin Cook of Treetops Hospice, Risley, Derbyshire Mr Cook, pictured with Antiques Roadshow presenter Fiona Bruce, will appear on the show in the autumn He took it to show experts from the Antiques Roadshow when crews were filming in the area last month, who valued it at between £200-£300. Jackie became Britain’s best-selling weekly magazine for girls in the ten years after it launched, with the best-selling issue in 1972 featuring American singer David Cassidy. Its


Which was the first national football team to beat England after they won the 1966 World Cup?

9 surprising facts about the 1966 World Cup in England - Mirror Online Sport 9 surprising facts about the 1966 World Cup in England As the 50th anniversary of English football's greatest day approaches, here are 9 things about the tournament you might not know  Share The identity of the man with the trophy is NOT one of the 9 things (Photo: Getty)  Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email There are several things about the 1966 World Cup we all learned a long time ago. You probably know it's the only trophy the England football team have ever won. You must be aware Sir Geoff Hurst bagged a hat-trick in the final. And, unless you're REALLY bad at maths, you will know that on 30th July 2016, it will be exactly 50 years since that glorious day at Wembley. However, while we all know the obvious details, there are a whole load of 1966 World Cup facts that could really surprise you… 1. Only one of the quarter-finals was on TV 1966 was a much smaller tournament than the modern World Cups, with only 16 teams competing. Even so, not all of the games were on television. It seems inconceivable in an era where Fifa re-jigged the 2014 draw a little to give England-Italy in Manaus a better time-slot for Europe , but in 1966 all four quarter-finals kicked off at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon. The full England 1966 World Cup squad (Photo: Getty) Both ITV and the BBC showed the controversial England-Argentina game live. Only highlights of the other three games were shown . 2. Greyhounds were apparently more important than football to Wembley The plan was for all of the games in England’s group to be staged at Wembley. However, France v Uruguay was due to be staged on a Friday. This clashed with the regular Greyhound Meeting. So obviously the World Cup game had to move. What? These guys were more important than World Cup footballers back then, apparently (Photo: Getty) Can you imagine submitting that now in a FIFA bid document? Although, to be fair, Qatar won their World Cup bid promising to stage the final in a city that is yet to be built , so we guess anything goes these days. White City stadium, which had hosted the 1908 Olympics, stepped in to host the France and Uruguay game. 3. Where were the other teams from the British Isles? None of the other British teams made it through qualification. Northern Ireland narrowly finished second in their group, behind Switzerland, but ahead of the Netherlands. Wales finished second in their group, behind the Soviet Union. Scotland went in to their last qualifying games, a home and away double-header with Italy, knowing that a win and a draw would be enough to see them head south of the border for the finals. They won the first match in Glasgow, but a 3-0 defeat in Naples in December 1965 meant Italy, not Scotland went to the World Cup. The Scots would have to wait until 1967 to “ win the world cup ”. Across the Irish sea the Republic of Ireland had a curious qualification programme. They were drawn in a group with Spain and, puzzlingly, Syria. Syria withdrew, so the group simply consisted of home and away matches between the Republic and the Spanish. Ireland won 1-0 at home. Spain thumped the Irish 4-1 in Seville. But goal difference wasn’t used to separate teams in this qualification tournament, and so the two teams met again in a play-off. Held in Paris in November 1965, Spain edged past the Irish 1-0 . But, why did Syria withdraw? Well... 4. The 1966 World Cup was boycotted by African teams And that inadvertently led to cult heroes North Korea taking part. A North Korea player signs an autograph at Lime Street Station in Liverpool for nineteen year old Jenny Smith, 24th July 1966 Fifa’s original plan was that the 15 nations from Africa and the Middle East taking part would be put into 6 groups. The 6 group winners would then play-off to reach a final round, where three of them would play in a group with the winners of the Asia/Oceania contest for one spot at the finals. Confused? Yes, we are too. Angry


Double Dutch, Double Unders and Dipsy Doodles are all term used in which activity?

Physical Education/Sport | Page 2 Physical Education/Sport 3 Replies Thank you to all the parents who have offered to assist us with the House Athletic Sports Day. Ive sent home a roster to all the parents that will be helping on the day. If you haven’t received one at this stage, it means we have enough helpers-thanks all the same. I will need some assistance with putting hurdles up and down during the day and recording times during the track events (particularly the finals). I might call on you at some stage!  Otherwise I’m hoping to see you all there. Regards, Long Rope skipping-Jumping in and out Long Rope skipping-Jumping in and out Long Rope skipping-Jumping in and out Long Rope skipping-Jumping in and out Individual skipping Partner skippingTravelling, The wheel, Around The World etc Partner skippingTravelling, The wheel, Around The World etc Partner skippingTravelling, The wheel, Around The World etc Partner skippingTravelling, The wheel, Around The World etc Partner skippingTravelling, The wheel, Around The World etc Long Rope skipping Long Rope skipping-Egg Beater, Double Dutch, Triangle/using equipment Long Rope skipping-Egg Beater, Double Dutch, Triangle/using equipment Long Rope skipping-Egg Beater, Double Dutch, Triangle/using equipment Long Rope skipping-Egg Beater, Double Dutch, Triangle/using equipment Trick Skipping-Backwards, running, Bell, Skier Trick Skipping-Backwards, running, Bell, Skier Trick Skipping-Backwards, Cross Over, Bell, Skier, Pretzel Trick Skipping-Backwards, running, Pretzel, Dipsy Doodle, Bell, Skier etc Trick Skipping-Backwards, running, Pretzel, Dipsy Doodle, Bell, Skier etc Trick Skipping-Backwards, running, Pretzel, Dipsy Doodle, Bell, Skier etc Trick Skipping-Backwards, running, Pretzel, Dipsy Doodle, Bell, Skier etc Jumping Activities-Elastic band, Hurdles & Hoops Jumping Activities-Elastic band, Hurdles & Hoops Jumping Activities-Elastic band, Hurdles & Hoops Make up a quick routine. Make up a quick routine. In pairs make up your own routine. Individual & partner skipping only. In pairs make up your own routine. Individual & partner skipping only. 6 Replies Congratulations to all the students who have raised money for this worthy cause. For those who haven’t, there’s still plenty of time. Below is the link to the website. All you need to do is register, then go to the email sponsors link and type the email addresses in, hopefully they will do the rest. Feel free to leave a comment. Good luck! Leave a reply Yesterday a group of our students participated in the Division Finals in Bendigo. Over 3000 students represented a number of schools across the Bendigo, Macedon Ranges, Echuca and Swan Hill Regions. Congratulations to all of our students who represented our school and district with distinction. The results for each individual runner are as followed; Georgia 3B ran 14th in her age group, Nathaniel 4B (8th), Jack O 5B (12th), Callum Gundy was injured during the run, however still managed to finish the race 102nd, Jessica 5B (25th), Nathan 6A (9th), Patrick 6A (8th) and Livi 6B (79th). It’s extremely pleasing to announce that Nathaniel, Nathan and Patrick have all made it through to the next level for finishing in the first ten places for their age group. Congratulations on your amazing efforts and good luck at the next stage.     Well done to all of the students who represented the school at the District Cross Country yesterday. The students ran extremely well in what could only be described as perfect running weather. Making this team was an achievement of its own, particularly with all the incredible runners we have in our school. We had 12 runners who placed in the top ten positions across the age groups. Congratulations to Nathan, Livi, Callum, Nathaniel, Jack, Jessica and Georgia for placing in the top six positions for their age groups and as a result will represent our school at the Division Championships on Wednesday, 23rd of May in Bendigo. Thank you to Anne, Trent and Mrs Miller who were fantastic help on the day. I also appreciate all the parents who came out to sup


Anthony Stark is the real name of which fictional superhero?

Anthony Stark (Earth-616) | Marvel Database | Fandom powered by Wikia See also: Expanded History Birth and Adoption The biological parents of Tony Stark were two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, Amanda Armstrong and Jude , who met during a courier mission. After Jude saved Amanda from an assassin, they got to know each other and fell in love. [19] Following a a two-year relationship, Amanda became pregnant. A week before giving birth to the baby, Jude revealed to have been a Hydra double-agent with little regard for anybody but Amanda and himself who sold out fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. soldiers, and was even responsible for the incident that had almost cost Amanda her life. During a discussion when he was trying to convince Amanda to accept Hydra's protection, she attacked Jude and killed him. Traumatized by this development, Amanda asked S.H.I.E.L.D. to ensure her future baby would find a safe and happy home. However, director Nick Fury followed the same procedure used for unwanted pregnancies in the agency, and the baby was left in an orphanage in Sofia , Bulgaria after Amanda birther him in a local hospital. Fury's associate and famous industrialist Howard Stark learned of this, and decided to find the baby and adopt him, keeping the name Amanda wished he retained: Anthony. [20] Howard Stark presenting Tony to Maria In addition to Howard and his wife Maria suffering the latter's inability to give birth again, [19] they needed to find a healthy boy to act as a decoy in place of their secret first born, Arno Stark . Arno's gestation had been extremely difficult, and his birth was only made possible with the help of an alien robot, the Rigellian Recorder 451 , who had agreed to help the baby survive in exchange of the opportunity to bio-engineer him, so he could accelerate humanity's technological growth in the future. [21] However, as 451 genetically modified the baby in womb, Howard had discovered the robot hid some sort of kill switch, that would compromise the life of his son in the future, for which Stark developed a "biococktail" to interfere with it behind 451's back. [22] Once Arno was born, 451 left the Earth. [23] In a turn of events, Howard's interference with 451's machinations had caused the newborn to become fatally ill. The Starks had decided to keep the baby hidden in the Maria Stark Foundation Hospice. [22] In addition to filling the void left by Arno's fatal illness, Tony's adoption would prevent 451 from learning of Howard's meddling if it ever returned to the Earth. [22] Early Life and Education Tony grew up completely unaware of Arno's existence or that he was adopted. [22] While loved unconditionally by Maria, Tony suffered from a strained relationship with his father, both due to the constrast of Tony's sensitive and reclusive nature with Howard's glorification of physical prowess [24] and Howard's ever-increasing drinking habits, which caused him to verbally abuse Tony [25] and suffer from mood swings. This last factor caused Tony to turn to electronics as a coping mechanism at barely five years old, as he started to believe hardware to be comprehensible and reliable, whereas people were unpredictable and hard to understand. Tony's world couldn't find order, but the things he built did. [26] Tony's childhood In order to toughen his son, Howard sent Tony to boarding school at the age of seven, much to Maria's dismay. The following years, Tony learned of discipline of body and strength of character as Howard intended, while spending his free time reading alone. At the age of thirteen, the stories of Thomas Malory opened Tony the doors to a new world of dedication to a cause greater than oneself, of chivalry, honor, and armored heroes. [24] After boarding school, Tony joined an undergraduate program at MIT at the age of fifteen. [27] [ verification needed ] He would effortlessly graduate as class valedictorian with double majors in physics and engineering. [28] When he was seventeen, Tony met Meredith McCall , his first love and, unfortunately, the daughter of Howard's greatest business rival. Their relationship didn't


Hester Prynnne is the main character in which novel by US author Nathaniel Hawthorne?

SparkNotes: The Scarlet Letter: Character List The Scarlet Letter Plot Overview Analysis of Major Characters Hester Prynne -  Hester is the book’s protagonist and the wearer of the scarlet letter that gives the book its title. The letter, a patch of fabric in the shape of an “A,” signifies that Hester is an “adulterer.” As a young woman, Hester married an elderly scholar, Chillingworth, who sent her ahead to America to live but never followed her. While waiting for him, she had an affair with a Puritan minister named Dimmesdale, after which she gave birth to Pearl. Hester is passionate but also strong—she endures years of shame and scorn. She equals both her husband and her lover in her intelligence and thoughtfulness. Her alienation puts her in the position to make acute observations about her community, particularly about its treatment of women. Read an in-depth analysis of Hester Prynne. Pearl -  Hester’s illegitimate daughter Pearl is a young girl with a moody, mischievous spirit and an ability to perceive things that others do not. For example, she quickly discerns the truth about her mother and Dimmesdale. The townspeople say that she barely seems human and spread rumors that her unknown father is actually the Devil. She is wise far beyond her years, frequently engaging in ironic play having to do with her mother’s scarlet letter. Read an in-depth analysis of Pearl. Roger Chillingworth -  “Roger Chillingworth” is actually Hester’s husband in disguise. He is much older than she is and had sent her to America while he settled his affairs in Europe. Because he is captured by Native Americans, he arrives in Boston belatedly and finds Hester and her illegitimate child being displayed on the scaffold. He lusts for revenge, and thus decides to stay in Boston despite his wife’s betrayal and disgrace. He is a scholar and uses his knowledge to disguise himself as a doctor, intent on discovering and tormenting Hester’s anonymous lover. Chillingworth is self-absorbed and both physically and psychologically monstrous. His single-minded pursuit of retribution reveals him to be the most malevolent character in the novel. Read an in-depth analysis of Roger Chillingworth. Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale -  Dimmesdale is a young man who achieved fame in England as a theologian and then emigrated to America. In a moment of weakness, he and Hester became lovers. Although he will not confess it publicly, he is the father of her child. He deals with his guilt by tormenting himself physically and psychologically, developing a heart condition as a result. Dimmesdale is an intelligent and emotional man, and his sermons are thus masterpieces of eloquence and persuasiveness. His commitments to his congregation are in constant conflict with his feelings of sinfulness and need to confess. Governor Bellingham -  Governor Bellingham is a wealthy, elderly gentleman who spends much of his time consulting with the other town fathers. Despite his role as governor of a fledgling American society, he very much resembles a traditional English aristocrat. Bellingham tends to strictly adhere to the rules, but he is easily swayed by Dimmesdale’s eloquence. He remains blind to the misbehaviors taking place in his own house: his sister, Mistress Hibbins, is a witch. Mistress Hibbins -  Mistress Hibbins is a widow who lives with her brother, Governor Bellingham, in a luxurious mansion. She is commonly known to be a witch who ventures into the forest at night to ride with the “Black Man.” Her appearances at public occasions remind the reader of the hypocrisy and hidden evil in Puritan society. Reverend Mr. John Wilson -  Boston’s elder clergyman, Reverend Wilson is scholarly yet grandfatherly. He is a stereotypical Puritan father, a literary version of the stiff, starkly painted portraits of American patriarchs. Like Governor Bellingham, Wilson follows the community’s rules strictly but can be swayed by Dimmesdale’s eloquence. Unlike Dimmesdale, his junior colleague, Wilson preaches hellfire and damnation and advocates harsh punishment of sinners. Narrator -  The


James Monroe became President of which country in March 1817?

James Monroe - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com Google Early Years James Monroe was born on April 28, 1758, in Westmoreland County, Virginia , to Spence Monroe (1727-74), a farmer and carpenter, and Elizabeth Jones Monroe (1730-74). In 1774, at age 16, Monroe entered the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He cut his college studies short in 1776 to join the Continental Army and fight for independence from Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Did You Know? Monrovia, the capital of the West African country Liberia, is named after James Monroe. As president, Monroe supported the work of the American Colonization Society to create a home for freed African slaves in Liberia. During the war, Monroe saw action in battles in New York , New Jersey and Pennsylvania . He was wounded at the Battle of Trenton, New Jersey, in 1776, and was with General George Washington (1732-99) and his troops at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, during the difficult winter of 1777 to 1778. During his time with the army, Monroe became acquainted with Thomas Jefferson , then the governor of Virginia. In 1780, Monroe began studying law under Jefferson, who would become his political mentor and friend. (Over a decade later, in 1793, Monroe bought a farm, named Highland, located next to Monticello , Jefferson’s Charlottesville, Virginia, estate.) The Virginia Politician Following his military service, Monroe embarked on a career in politics. In 1782, he became a delegate in the Virginia Assembly and the following year was chosen as a Virginia representative to the Congress of the Confederation, America’s governing body from 1781 to 1789. In 1786, Monroe married Elizabeth Kortright (1768-1830), the teenage daughter of a New York merchant. The couple had two daughters and a son who died as an infant. While in Congress, Monroe supported the efforts of fellow Virginia politician (and the future fourth U.S. president) James Madison (1751-1836) to create a new U.S. constitution. However, once written, Monroe felt the document gave too much power to the government and did not sufficiently protect individual rights. Despite Monroe’s opposition, the Constitution was ratified in 1789, and in 1790 he took a seat in the U.S. Senate, representing Virginia. As a senator, Monroe sided with Madison, then a U.S. congressman, and Jefferson, then the U.S. secretary of state, both of whom were against greater federal control at the cost of state and individual rights. In 1792, Monroe joined forces with the two men to found the Democratic-Republican Party, which opposed Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) and the Federalists who were fighting for increased federal power. A Leader at Home and Abroad In 1794, President George Washington (1732-99) appointed Monroe as minister to France, in an effort to help improve relations with that nation. At the time, France and Great Britain were at war. Monroe had some initial success in strengthening Franco-American ties; however, relations soured with the November 1794 signing of the controversial Jay’s Treaty, an agreement between the U.S. and Britain that regulated commerce and navigation. Monroe, who was critical of the treaty, was released from his post by Washington in 1796. Monroe resumed his political career in 1799, when he became governor of Virginia. He held this office for three years until President Thomas Jefferson requested that Monroe return to France to help negotiate the purchase of the port of New Orleans . In France, Monroe learned that French leader Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) wanted to sell the entire Louisiana Territory (the land extending between the Mississippi River and Rocky Mountains and the Gulf of Mexico to present-day Canada), not only New Orleans, for $15 million. Monroe and the U.S. minister to France, Robert R. Livingston, did not have time to gain presidential approval for such a large purchase. Instead, they approved and signed the Louisiana Purchase agreement themselves in 1803 and effectively doubled the size of the United States. Monroe, who garnered acclaim for the Lo


Which British singer released a 2011 album entitled ’21’?

Adele Reveals Release Date, Tracklist for '25' Album | Billboard Adele Reveals Release Date, Tracklist for '25' Album Adele New single 'Hello' coming this Friday! After waiting four years, we will finally have a new Adele album this year. 25, the follow-up to the British singer's blockbuster 2011 album 21, will drop on Nov. 20. Thankfully, we won't have to wait that long to sample it. Adele's first single from 25, "Hello," will be available for purchase and streaming on Friday, Oct. 23, with the music video dropping that same day. According to the press release, the video "was shot in the countryside surrounding Montreal and is directed by the celebrated young Canadian director Xavier Dolan.  Adele's reps also shared the tracklist for 25, which you can see right here: 1. Hello 2. Send My Love (To Your New Lover) 3. I Miss You 4. When We Were Young 5. Remedy 6. Water Under The Bridge 7. River Lea 8. Love In The Dark 9. Million Years Ago 10. All I Ask 11. Sweetest Devotion A deluxe version of 25, available exclusively at Target, will include three bonus tracks: "Can’t Let Go," "Lay Me Down" and "Why Do You Love Me." We first got wind of 25 in late 2014 when Adele tweeted, "Bye bye 25…see you again later in the year," just before turning 26. That tweet got a lot of people excited that Adele's follow-up to 19 and 21 would drop before the end of that calendar year or before the end of her 26th year. Neither happened, and on Oct. 21, 2015,  Adele revealed why . "I'm sorry it took so long, but you know, life happened," she wrote in a Twitter letter. Hard to argue with that. Adele and her longtime boyfriend welcomed son Angelo into the world in 2012, and she delivered the Oscar winning James Bond song "Skyfall" that same year -- so it's not like she's been lazy. Adele's '21' Surpasses 11 Million U.S. Sales Adele also explained how 25 would differ from her Grammy-winning 21 in the online letter. "My last record was a break-up record and if I had to label this one I would call it a make-up record. I'm making up with myself. I'm making up for lost time." Speaking of her breakup record, 21 spent 24 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart -- the most weeks atop the list for any album by a woman. The album has been on the chart every week of its release: 243 weeks and counting (through the Oct. 31-dated chart). 21 has sold 11.2 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music, which makes it the tenth-largest selling album since Nielsen began tracking sales in 1991. The album generated five hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including three consecutive No. 1s: "Rolling In the Deep" (No. 1 for seven weeks), "Someone Like You" (No. 1 for five weeks) and "Set Fire to the Rain" (No. 1 for two weeks).  Additional reporting by Keith Caulfield.


Paul Ford played Colonel John T Hall in which 1950’s US television series?

DVD Review - Sgt. Bilko - The Phil Silvers Show: The Complete Series XenForo Template Sgt. Bilko - The Phil Silvers Show: The Complete Series The Phil Silvers Show (original title: You'll Never Get Rich) is one of the iconic television comedies of the 1950s. The winner of eight Primetime Emmy Awards, it deserves to be mentioned in the same sentence as such famous comedy shows from that era as I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and The Jack Benny Program. The entire series (142 episodes, several of which have never been seen in syndication) is now available in an outstanding box set which is being released by Shout! Factory. Studio: Shout! Factory Video Resolution and Encode: 480I/MPEG-2 Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audio: English 1.0 DD (Mono) Subtitles: English SDH Run Time: 62 Hr. 54 Min. Package Includes: DVD Four Flipper Keep Cases in Slipcase Disc Type: DVD-5 (single layer) Region: A MSRP: $129.99 The Production Rating: 5/5 That's right, Sarge. They got a lot of nerve putting their happiness ahead of your greed. - Corporal Steve HenshawMaster Sergeant Ernie Bilko (Phil Silvers) is often referred to as a con man, but he is better described as a schemer. As the head of the Motor Pool at mythical Fort Baxter, Kansas, Bilko has turned his corner of the Army base into his personal casino. Whether it is poker, roulette, craps, or raffles, and even setting up his own insurance company, Bilko is always dreaming up new ways to make a quick buck. However, he draws the line at cheating, so it really is not fair to call him a con artist.The commanding officer of Fort Baxter is the hapless Colonel John Hall (Paul Ford), who dreams of promotion but deep down realizes that he has been exiled by the Pentagon to an insignificant Army post in the middle of nowhere. Colonel Hall is well aware of Bilko's money-making schemes, but when he tries to put a stop to them he invariably is outwitted by the quick-thinking Sergeant. Bilko has an unlikely ally in Colonel Hall's wife, Nell (Hope Sansberry), because he unfailingly flatters her whenever they meet.Although Bilko never passes up an opportunity to hit up the men of the Motor Pool for money, they are intensely loyal to him because he makes their lives relatively easy and he shares their disdain for authority. Bilko is aided in his chicanery by Corporal Rocco Barbella (Harvey Lembeck) and Corporal Steve Henshaw (Allan Melvin). The other enlisted men include the dumpy but very funny Private Duane Doberman (Maurice Gosfield), Private Dino Papparelli (Billy Sands), Corporal Sam Fender (Herbie Faye), Private Irving Fleishmann (Maurice Brenner), Private Mullen (Jack Healy), and Private Fielding Zimmerman (Mickey Freeman). An interesting feature of the show, considering the era in which it was made, is that the Motor Pool was integrated with a black soldier, Private Sugie Sugerman (Terry Carter). Bilko's card-playing victims were mess Sergeant Rupert Ritzik (Joe E. Ross) and Sergeant Francis Grover (Jimmy Little). Ritzik in particular is an easy mark for card shark Bilko, a factor which invariably infuriates Ritzik's beleagured wife Emma (Beatrice Pons).Originally entitled You'll Never Get Rich, the program's name was changed at some point during its first season. It was the brainchild of Nat Hiken, who wrote many of the episodes and later created Car 54, Where Are You? The talented stable of writers included Neil Simon, who contributed to at least twenty scripts. After three seasons in Kansas the cast was moved to Camp Fremont in California, and Season Four includes cameo appearances from such Hollywood stars as Lucille Ball and Dean Martin. George Kennedy, who was then an active duty serviceman, was the U.S. Army's technical adviser on the show, and Phil Silvers encouraged him to become an actor by giving him some small parts. In fact, there were so many speaking parts on the program, and so many writers working on the scripts, that The Phil Silvers Show was cancelled after four seasons because of its high production costs. Fortunately for us, the original elements have been well-preserved and we now h


What is the title of the Band Aid charity single, released in December 1984?

Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid Songfacts Songfacts This is a charity single organized by Bob Geldof, who was the lead singer of The Boomtown Rats. He got the idea after watching a BBC documentary on famine in Ethiopia. Geldof wrote the lyrics and Midge Ure from the band Ultravox wrote the music and produced the track, which was no easy task since so many voices were involved. In England, and much of the Northern Hemisphere, snow and numerous displays leave no doubt that Christmas is near. In most of Africa, however, it's quite warm on December 25, since it's summer there. This song asks us to think of those who are living in poverty and hunger in Africa during the Christmas season, reminding us that they might not even know it's Christmas. While the sentiment and melody are full of good tidings, the lyrics are quite bleak: "The Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom." Most of this song was recorded and mixed over a 24-hour period on Sunday, November 25, 1984. Sting and Simon LeBon had recorded their parts ahead of time, but everyone else came that day. None of the vocalists heard the song before they arrived, so they learned their parts by listening to a guide vocal producer Midge Ure created, then recorded them. With such a tight schedule, there was no time to quibble. In the Songfacts interview with Ure , he said that this time constraint helped the effort. "Sometimes, that kind of pressure gets you to create something magical, gets you to eliminate the liberations that you end up having in the studio," he said. "We just had to nail it and get on with it. Get the vocal track from everyone that was acceptable. As it turns out, a lot of the vocal tracks were exceptional." The performers who sang verses were, in order: Paul Young, Boy George, George Michael, Simon Le Bon, and Bono. The chorus included David Bowie, Phil Collins, Paul McCartney, Geldof, Ure and many other artists who weren't given a verse but sang the "Feed The World" part and lent their images to the effort by appearing in the promotional photo. Check out the Band Aid photo with list of performers . The artists were not all friends, but they set aside their differences and were at least cordial to each other during the recording - with one exception. In the book I Want My MTV, George Michael said: "The only person who didn't succumb to the charitable nature of the day was Paul Weller, who decided to have a go at me in front of everybody. I said, 'Don't be a wanker all your life. Have a day off.'" In the UK, this became the best-selling single ever. Elton John's " Candle In The Wind '97 " currently holds that record. Not everyone in the UK was a fan, however. Morrissey told Time Out in 1985 that the project was "diabolical," adding: "It was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music." This was the first of the big group charity efforts among musicians. A year later, US artists released " We Are The World ," and Geldof helped organize Live Aid. Other charity singles that followed include " Sun City " and " That's What Friends Are For ." The single raised $14 million for famine relief in Africa. Geldof is Irish, so he cannot be knighted, but he did receive a KBE, which is equivalent and is popularly known as Sir or Saint Bob. >> Suggestion credit: Flo - London, England The video was directed by Nigel Dick, who had done some videos for The Boomtown Rats. He got the request to make the video on short notice, and had no idea what the song was going to be. He didn't have a budget either, so he simply set up two cameras - one outside and one inside - to capture the action. As the artists trickled in to record their parts, Dick filmed them entering the building and then recording. This footage was used not just for the music video, but also for a 30-minute behind-the-scenes piece documenting the making of the single. This video was also sold, with proceeds going to the relief effort. In our 2015 talk with Midge Ure, he said: "It's never been a great song. It's kind of grown into a better song than it eve


The 1908 Summer Olympic Games were hosted by which European city?

Olympic Games Host Countries Home > Events > Olympics > Summer > Hosts > Countries Olympic Games Countries and Host Cities When choosing locations for the Olympic Games, the IOC specifically gives the honor of holding the Games to a city rather than a country. London will be hosting the Games for a record three times in 2012, though cities in the USA have hosted the Games four times (also also the Winter Games four times). Out of interest, here is a list of countries and the number of times they have had a city host the Games. See also the list of host cities . List of Olympic Host Countries Country


Which American soccer team is known as the ‘Quakes’?

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Who was the only US President not to live at the Whitehouse?

John Adams | whitehouse.gov Air Force One John Adams John Adams, a remarkable political philosopher, served as the second President of the United States (1797-1801), after serving as the first Vice President under President George Washington.  Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician. "People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity," he said, doubtless thinking of his own as well as the American experience. Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735. A Harvard-educated lawyer, he early became identified with the patriot cause; a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses, he led in the movement for independence. During the Revolutionary War he served in France and Holland in diplomatic roles, and helped negotiate the treaty of peace. From 1785 to 1788 he was minister to the Court of St. James's, returning to be elected Vice President under George Washington. Adams' two terms as Vice President were frustrating experiences for a man of his vigor, intellect, and vanity. He complained to his wife Abigail, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." When Adams became President, the war between the French and British was causing great difficulties for the United States on the high seas and intense partisanship among contending factions within the Nation. His administration focused on France, where the Directory, the ruling group, had refused to receive the American envoy and had suspended commercial relations. Adams sent three commissioners to France, but in the spring of 1798 word arrived that the French Foreign Minister Talleyrand and the Directory had refused to negotiate with them unless they would first pay a substantial bribe. Adams reported the insult to Congress, and the Senate printed the correspondence, in which the Frenchmen were referred to only as "X, Y, and Z." The Nation broke out into what Jefferson called "the X. Y. Z. fever," increased in intensity by Adams's exhortations. The populace cheered itself hoarse wherever the President appeared. Never had the Federalists been so popular. Congress appropriated money to complete three new frigates and to build additional ships, and authorized the raising of a provisional army. It also passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, intended to frighten foreign agents out of the country and to stifle the attacks of Republican editors. President Adams did not call for a declaration of war, but hostilities began at sea. At first, American shipping was almost defenseless against French privateers, but by 1800 armed merchantmen and U.S. warships were clearing the sea-lanes. Despite several brilliant naval victories, war fever subsided. Word came to Adams that France also had no stomach for war and would receive an envoy with respect. Long negotiations ended the quasi war. Sending a peace mission to France brought the full fury of the Hamiltonians against Adams. In the campaign of 1800 the Republicans were united and effective, the Federalists badly divided. Nevertheless, Adams polled only a few less electoral votes than Jefferson, who became President. On November 1, 1800, just before the election, Adams arrived in the new Capital City to take up his residence in the White House. On his second evening in its damp, unfinished rooms, he wrote his wife, "Before I end my letter, I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof." Adams retired to his farm in Quincy. Here he penned his elaborate letters to Thomas Jefferson. Here on July 4, 1826, he whispered his last words: "Thomas Jefferson survives." But Jefferson had died at Monticello a few hours earlier. The Presidential biographies on WhiteHouse.gov are from “The Presidents of the United States of America,” by Frank Freidel  and Hugh Sidey. Copyright 2006 by the White House Historical Association.


What was the first name of 19th Century British explorer Stanley, who searched for David Livingstone in Africa?

Henry Morton Stanley - Explorer Said Dr. Livingstone I Presume Henry Morton Stanley Explorer Who Found Livingstone in Africa Henry Morton Stanley.  London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images By Robert McNamara Updated September 28, 2015. Henry Morton Stanley was a classic example of a 19th century explorer, and he is best remembered today for his brilliantly casual greeting to a man he had spent months searching for in the wilds of Africa: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” The reality of Stanley’s unusual life is at times startling. He was born to a very poor family in Wales, made his way to America, changed his name, and somehow managed to fight on both sides of the Civil War . He found his first calling as a newspaper reporter before becoming known for his African expeditions. Early Life Stanley was born in 1841 as John Rowlands, to an impoverished family in Wales. At the age of five he was sent to a workhouse, a notorious orphanage of the Victorian era . In his teens, Stanley emerged from his difficult childhood with a reasonably good practical education, strong religious feelings, and a fanatical desire to prove himself. To get to America, he took a job as a cabin boy on a ship bound for New Orleans. continue reading below our video 10 Best Universities in the United States After landing in the city at the mouth of the Mississippi River, he found a job working for a cotton trader, and took the man’s last name, Stanley. Early Journalism Career When the American Civil War broke out, Stanley fought on the Confederate side before being captured and eventually joining the Union cause. He wound up serving aboard a U.S. Navy ship and wrote accounts of battles that were published, thus beginning his journalism career. After the war, Stanley got a position writing for the New York Herald, a newspaper founded by James Gordon Bennett. He was dispatched to cover a British military expedition to Abyssinia (present day Ethiopia), and successfully sent back dispatches detailing the conflict. Questions About David Livingstone Fascinated the Public The public held a fascination for a Scottish missionary and explorer named David Livingstone. For many years Livingstone had been leading expeditions into Africa, bringing back information to Britain. In 1866 Livingstone had returned to Africa, intent on finding the source of the Nile, Africa’s longest river. After several years passed with no word from Livingstone, the public began to fear that he had perished. The New York Herald's editor and publisher James Gordon Bennett realized it would be a publishing coup to find Livingstone, and gave the assignment to the intrepid Stanley. Stanley Searched for Livingstone In 1869 Henry Morton Stanley was given the assignment to find Livingstone. He eventually arrived on the east coast of Africa in early 1871, and organized an expedition to head inland. Having no practical experience, he had to rely on the advice and apparent assistance of Arab slave traders. Stanley pushed the men with him brutally, at times whipping the black porters. After enduring illnesses and harrowing conditions, Stanley finally encountered Livingstone at Ujiji, in present day Tanzania, on November 10, 1871. Dr. Livingstone, I Presume? The famous greeting Stanley gave Livingstone, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” may have been fabricated after the famous meeting. But it was published in New York City newspapers within a year of the event, and it has gone down in history as a famous quotation. Stanley and Livingstone remained together for a few months in Africa, exploring around the northern banks of Lake Tanganyika. Stanley's Controversial Reputation Stanley succeeded in his assignment of finding Livingstone, yet newspapers in London roundly mocked him when he arrived in England. Some observers ridiculed the idea that Livingstone had been lost and had to be found by a newspaper reporter. Livingstone, despite the criticism, was invited to have lunch with Queen Victoria . And whether or not Livingstone had been lost, Stanley became famous, and remains so to this day, as the man who "fo


Doris Day plays which 1920’s and 30’s singer and actress in the 1955 film ‘Love Me or Leave Me’?

Love Me or Leave Me Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb Community LATEST HEADLINES 46 out of 46 people found the following review useful: As Ruth Etting, Day delivers knockout performance, equally matched by Cagney from Western New York 17 January 2004 Before she became America's top box-office star by playing its oldest virgin, Doris Day was an instinctive, if untutored, actress and an accomplished, popular singer. In Charles Vidor's Love Me Or Leave Me, she takes on the part of Ruth Etting, the troubled songstress from the jazz age, and her twin talents merge memorably. It's a faultless performance, all the more impressive for staying understated, scaled down. Her co-star, James Cagney, takes the low road; as Marty (`The Gimp') Snyder, a lopsided fireplug of a man, he sizzles with resentment and ignites into rages. Strangely, his scenery-chewing complements Day's underplaying; the tension between their temperaments fuels this dark drama which occasionally resembles a musical but is closer at heart to film noir (Vidor, after all, directed Gilda). A taxi-dancer in a Chicago dive, Day catches Cagney's eye (he holds the linen-laundering concession for the place). Finding she's not the quick pick-up he had in mind, he lands her a job in the kick-line at another nitery he services. When he finds out she wants to be a singer, he arranges for lessons with pianist Cameron Mitchell (who plays the thankless role of the loyal but shoved-aside lover). But Cagney, used to getting what he wants and to browbeating everybody around him into surrender, meets his match in Day. Her quiet determination proves every bit as strong as his bellowing bluster. When it looks like her star is in ascendancy, he becomes her manager, puts her on radio, and snares her a spot in New York as a headliner in the Ziegfeld Follies. They settle into a grudge-match of a marriage, with guerrilla warfare erupting from both sides. (Cagney's Snyder is a marginally less disturbed version of his Cody Jarrett in White Heat.) One of their flashfire fights takes place in her dressing room after a show. Cagney knocks a vase of flowers across the room; Day extends her arm for him to unclasp a bracelet. They bicker some more, with Cagney losing the argument while Day nurses the drink that has become her ally. He leans over and tells her `You oughtta lay off that stuff  you're getting to look like an old bag.' It's the chilliest moment in the movie. In the last third, Day answers a call from Hollywood, which lays the foundation for the unravelling of this messy, nerve-wracking relationship. And if the wrapping up grasps toward the sentimental (with a detour into the melodramatic), it doesn't quite take. Cagney, actor and character, hangs on like a bulldog with a bone. The Marty Snyders never change, and Cagney knows it; he stays the self-deluded small-time hood he started out as, who can't accept that he's driven away a woman he can't believe he loves so much. Day, however, rises to a magnanimity that rings hollow. Her steely self-confidence about where her talents would bring her, and her casual callousness in using Cagney to help her get there, make her final gesture improbable. But when she takes the spotlight, singing `Mean to Me' or `Ten Cents A Dance' (with her feet planted provocatively  defiantly  apart), Day, actress and character, takes it by natural right. The voice isn't quite right  Etting's was reedy and tremulous, Day's big and secure  but the assurance and style are dead on. Was the above review useful to you? 30 out of 30 people found the following review useful: Bittersweet story was a triumph for Day and Cagney... from U.S.A. 6 May 2001 I never had to be convinced that Doris Day was a fine actress--from her first film ('Romance on the High Seas') which she stole from veterans like Jack Carson and Janis Paige--to 'Storm Warning' (her first dramatic role as Ginger Rogers' sister)--she never made a false move. But her real acting triumph came with this hard-hitting Ruth Etting biography in which she does an amazing job as the torch singe


‘Trelawny’ is the ‘national anthem’ of which English county?

mudcat.org: England's County Anthems England's County Anthems Date: 10 Jan 09 - 07:12 AM Hi Mudcatters, Whilst playing a gig in Shrewsbury, I had a idea for a band project (as you do...) As we know that Trelawny is the county anthem of Cornwall and that the Lincolnshire Poacher is the unofficial anthem of Lincolnshire, my question is this: Barring recent artificial attempts at creating an "official" anthem, what are the respective anthems - official or not - of England's Counties? Prime example of artificial attempt is A Song for Devon whilst clearly Widdecombe Fair would be the county's first choice. Other ones I have are: Yorkshire - On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at Sussex - Sussex By The Sea I'd be particularly keen to find out what Kent's is! Many Thanks From: Paul Burke Date: 10 Jan 09 - 07:24 AM I suppose Lancashire's would be She's a Lassie From Lancashire, though Rawtenstall Annual Fair would be a contender. Derbyshire's is obvious. Would Nottamun Town do for Nottingham? Date: 10 Jan 09 - 07:31 AM I've a nasty feeling that 'Dorset is Beautiful' is ours...... Date: 10 Jan 09 - 07:35 AM If the Wurzels didn't sing the Somerset one then I'll be a Hartlepool monkey's uncle Date: 10 Jan 09 - 07:45 AM Mrs Raffles suggests The White Cliffs of Dover for Kent ? Date: 10 Jan 09 - 07:45 AM Kent: Hopping Down in Kent Some other thoughts: Northumberland: Hesleyside Reel (or a song Dance To Your Daddy) Yorkshire: Holmfirth Anthem Oxfordshire: Old Tom Of Oxford Lake District: Trip To Cartmel Staffordshire: Flaxley Green From: melodeonboy Date: 10 Jan 09 - 07:49 AM I'm not aware that Kent has one. If it did, I'd be very diappointed not to have heard of it by now. If this be the case, am I allowed to nominate "Man of Kent" by Bob Kenward? Date: 10 Jan 09 - 08:37 AM Northumberland: Spirit of the Border (Tom Clough) or Lindisfarne (Matt Seattle) Tyneside: Dance to Your Daddy, or (I suppose) Blaydon Races Durham: Durham Rangers Date: 10 Jan 09 - 08:47 AM Lots more choices than Ilkley Moor for Yorkshire--try the Dalesman's Litany or browse here Yorkshire Garland Songs ! Date: 10 Jan 09 - 08:49 AM North Tyneside: Dance To Your Daddy, yes. South Tyneside: Here's The Tender Coming Durham: I've Got To Leave Old Durham Town (Roger Whittaker), no don't think so. Date: 10 Jan 09 - 09:11 AM Hopping Down In Kent - that one gets my vote Rochester Recruiting Sergeant - written by Pete Coe, a good alternative. Deserter From Kent - seems a bit too simple for my tastes. Folkestone Murders - dark deeds. Too dark for an anthem. Not in digitrad but worth mentioning is Men Of Kent:- MEN OF KENT If you're wanting me on Monday, then I won't be there I'll be bound off to Maidstone afore to see the fair With me pockets full of money and a heart that's full of joy There's many a thing in Maidstone to please a country boy CH> So come all you jolly fellows to Maidstone we will go Never mind the weather, be it rain or be it snow We'll sport and we will drink my boys 'till all our money's spent And we'll prove to the world my boys, we're all Men of Kent If you're wanting me on Tuesday you know where I'll be found I'll be down by the alehouse that's on the edge of town A-drinking of the Kentish ales to drive away the dust And eating of the finest foods until I'm fit to bust If you're wanting me on Wednesday I'll tell you where I'll be I'll be down by the Medway, fair maidens for to see I'll pick me one that's handsome and likes a bit of fun And I'll relieve her of her maidenhead before the day is done On Thursday and Friday I'll be drunk as I can be With all my friends around me, as far as I can see With a wench a-sitting on my knee and a tankard at my lips And the beard that hangs beneath my chin a-soaking up the drips Now when the fair is over and I have had my fill I'll make my way back home again, I'm feeling rather ill And to my home and farm again my weary legs I'll steer And start saving up my money to come back again next year So come all you jolly fellows to Maidstone we will go Never mind the weather, be it rain or be it snow We'll sport and we will drink my boy


Who won the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest for the UK with their song ‘Save Your Kisses For Me’?

Eurovision 1976 - United Kingdom - YouTube Eurovision 1976 - United Kingdom Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Feb 18, 2008 Brotherhood of Man performing (and cutely dancing to) "Save Your Kisses for Me", the UK entry at the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest. After winning that year's vote by one of the largest margins in ESC history, this song became one of the biggest hits to come out of the contest, even scoring big in the US (something quite rare for a Eurovision entry). It especially soared in the British charts, of course, where the group subsequently had two more #1 hits with songs "Figaro" and "Angelo". Read more about Brotherhood of Man here: