Who was the gardener in the children’s tv series ‘The Magic Roundabout’?

"The Magic Roundabout - Doogle" Tri-blend T-Shirts by bleedart | Redbubble Artist website: Click Here An oldie but a goodie. Do you remember this show it was a really quirky stop frame animation show for kids with weird trippy drug overtones. Had some awesome characters and was really bizarre to watch. It always started and ended with The Magic Roundabout spinning round and that music. Anyhoo this is a tribute to that with a picture of the key character doodle the dog! IF you want to see the video that this is created from check it out here: CHECK OUT THE VIDEO HERE The Magic Roundabout (known in the original French as Le Manège enchanté) is a French-British animated children’s television programme created in France in 1963 by Serge Danot, with the help of Ivor Wood and Wood’s French wife, Josiane.The series was originally broadcast between 1964 and 1971 on ORTF, originally in black-and-white. Having originally rejected the series as “charming… but difficult to dub into English”,the BBC later produced a version of the series using the original stop motion animation footage with new English-language scripts, written and performed by Eric Thompson, which bore little relation to the original storylines. This version, broadcast in 441 five-minute-long episodes from 18 October 1965 to 25 January 1977, was a great success and attained cult status, and when in 1967 it was moved from the slot just before the evening news to an earlier children’s viewing time, adult viewers complained to the BBC. Although the characters are common to both versions, they were given different names depending on the language. The main character is Dougal (Pollux in the original French-language version) who was a drop-eared variety of the Skye Terrier. In the French version, Pollux is a British character who speaks somewhat broken French with an outrageous English accent as a result of Ivor Wood’s role as co-creator. His sweet tooth, shown through his fondness for sugar lumps, was based on a French belief that one of the traits of the English is a liking for sweets. Other characters include Zebedee (Zébulon), a jack-in-the-box; Brian (Ambroise), a snail (named after Brian Collins); Ermintrude (Azalée), a cow, and Dylan (named after Bob Dylan) (Flappy) a rabbit, who in the French version was Spanish. There are two notable human characters: Florence (Margote), a young girl; and Mr Rusty (le Père Pivoine), the operator of the roundabout. Other less well known human characters, only seen on the roundabout itself during the credits, are Basil, Paul and Rosalie. There is also an adult character, old Mr McHenry (Jouvence Pio) the gardener who is seen only a couple of times. The show has a distinctive visual style. The set is a brightly coloured and stylised park containing the eponymous roundabout (a fairground carousel). The programmes were created by stop motion animation, which meant that Dougal was made without legs to make him easier to animate. Zebedee was created from a giant pea which was available in the animation studio and was re-painted. The look of these characters was the responsibility of British animator Ivor Wood, who was working at Danot’s studio at the time (and who subsequently animated The Herbs, Paddington Bear and Postman Pat). You can find out more about us at Our Website Lets Be Friends!!


This summer saw the appearance of which famous sportsman in Virgin Media ads?

A fast buck: How Usain Bolt made £13.7m - Yahoo Sport More Sports A fast buck: How Usain Bolt made £13.7m Usain Bolt gives other athletes a run for their money when it comes to cashing in on success 8 August 2014 12:20 . View photo Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates his team's gold medal in the men's 4x100-meter relay final at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the world – and a money-making machine too. Turning 28 later this month, “Lightning Bolt” could retire now if he wanted to. According to Forbes he’s worth an estimated $23.2million (£13.7million) making him the 45th highest paid sports star in the world. Despite being accused by a national newspaper of criticising the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this summer, Bolt’s a crowd favourite wherever he goes. The Games saw him turn on the charm, sign autographs, fist bump volunteers and pose with fans for selfies. In short, he’s a marketer’s dream – and that’s why only a fraction of his wealth comes from prize money; the lion’s share is from sponsorship and endorsements. Marketing dream Sports Pro Media recently named Bolt as the sixth most marketable sportsman on the planet. The list ranks athletes according to their marketing potential over a three-year period starting with the upcoming summer. It looks at six categories: Value for money; age; home market; charisma; willingness to be marketed; and crossover appeal. And Bolt’s got it all. Discussing his marketability, German Eurosport reporter Sebastian Tiffert, said: “Everything about him is unique: His charisma, his style, his physicality. He also plays with the camera like nobody else. Despite being a huge star, he is still a champion you can access. In the mixed zone, for instance, he speaks to all TV channels, contrary to some other athletes, and is really “present” when you interview him.” Sprinting to the limelight The flamboyant Jamaican sprinter was propelled into worldwide stardom after his sprint double victory at the Beijing Games in 2008. He backed up his success by repeated the feat four years later at the London Olympics, adding the 4x100m relay to his golden haul. But Bolt had hit the ground running a long time ago when it came to attracting sponsorship. He’s been sponsored by Puma since he was just 15 and competing in the World Junior Championships. He’s been sponsored by the German sportswear company ever since on a deal that earns him an estimated $10million (£6million) a year. Bolt started to grab people’s attention as a teenager at the 2002 World Junior Championships. He sprinted to victory in the 200m in a time of 20.61s before a home crowd in Kingston, Jamaica. Aged just 15, but already 6ft 5 inches tall, the win made him the youngest world-junior gold medalist ever. More medals followed at the 2003 CARIFTA Games and the 2003 World Youth Championships. Bolt turned professional in 2004 but a leg injury stopped him excelling at the Athens Olympics the same year. Two years later a hamstring injury forced him to withdraw from the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. By 2007 Bolt had convinced his coach Glenn Mills that he should compete in the 100m, as well as the 200m, and the following year saw him set a new world record of 9.72s in just his fifth senior race over the distance. But it was Bolt’s spectacular performance at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics that really propelled him into superstardom. He won the 100m in 9.69s and set a new world record despite slowing down to celebrate before he finished. Two more gold medals and world records followed in the 200m and 4 x100m relay: Bolt had hit the big time and left Beijing one of the most famous athletes in the world. He celebrated his victories by donating $50,000 to the children of the Sichuan province of China to help those harmed by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Bolt’s known for his philanthropy and has his own children’s charity, the Usain Bolt Foundation. Sponsors clamouring to get on board Bolt wears Puma clothing an


Whose catchphrases included ‘Hello, playmates’ and ‘Ay thang yaw’?

Arthur Askey - The Bee Song / Chirrup (1938) - YouTube Arthur Askey - The Bee Song / Chirrup (1938) 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. Published on Jun 24, 2012 Arthur's most famous song, The Bee Song, was also his first commercial record. Arthur Bowden Askey CBE (6 June 1900 -- 16 November 1982) was a prominent English comedian and actor. Askey's humour owed much to the playfulness of the characters he portrayed, his improvising, and his use of catchphrases, as parodied by the Arthur Atkinson character in The Fast Show. His catchphrases included "Hello playmates!", "I thank you all" (pronounced "Ay-Thang-Yaw'll"), and "Before your very eyes". He was known as "Big-Hearted Arthur". Askey was born at 29 Moses Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, the eldest child and only son of Samuel Askey (d.1958), secretary of the firm Sugar Products of Liverpool, and his wife, Betsy Bowden (d.1949), of Knutsford, Cheshire. Six months after his birth the family moved to 90 Rosslyn Street, Liverpool. Askey was educated at St. Michael's Council School (1905--11) and the Liverpool Institute for Boys (1911--16), where he was known for winning an egg and spoon race at a school sports day. He was very small at 5' 2" (1.58 m), with a breezy, smiling personality, and wore distinctive horn-rimmed glasses. He served in the armed forces in World War I and performed in army entertainments. After working as a clerk for Liverpool Corporation, Education Department, he was in a touring concert party and the music halls, but he rose to stardom in 1938 through his role in the first regular radio comedy series, Band Waggon on the BBC. Band Waggon began as a variety show, but had been unsuccessful until Askey and his partner, Richard Murdoch, took on a larger role in the writing. In the early 1930s, Askey appeared on an early form of BBC television — the spinning disc invented by John Logie Baird that scanned vertically and had only thirty lines. Askey had to be heavily made up for his face to be recognisable at such low resolution. When television became electronic, with 405 horizontal lines, Askey was a regular performer in variety shows. During World War II, Askey starred in several Gainsborough Pictures comedy films, including Band Waggon (1940), based on the radio show; Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940); The Ghost Train (1941); I Thank You (1941); Back Room Boy (1942); King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942); Miss London Ltd. (1943) and Bees in Paradise (1944); as well as the popular West End musical Follow the Girls. When television arrived, he made the transition well. His first TV series was Before Your Very Eyes! (1952), named after his catchphrase. In 1957, writers Sid Colin and Talbot Rothwell revived the Band Waggon format for Living It Up, a series that reunited Askey and Murdoch after 18 years. He also made many stage appearances as a pantomime dame. He continued to appear frequently on television in the 1970s, notably as a panellist on the ITV talent show New Faces, where his usually sympathetic comments would offset the harsher judgments of fellow judges Tony Hatch and Mickie Most. He also appeared on the comedy panel game Joker's Wild. His last film was Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse (1978), starring Debbie Ash. Soon afterwards, he was forced to give up performing, and had both legs amputated owing to circulatory problems. Anthea, his daughter by his marriage to Elizabeth May Swash (m. 1925, d. 1974), was also an actress and often starred with him. For many years, he was an active member of the Savage Club (a London gentlemen's club). He was awarded the OBE in 1969 and the CBE in 1981. Askey carried on working until just before he was hospitalised in July 1982. Poor circulation resulted in gangrene which led to him having both legs amputated and he died in London's St Thomas's Hospital on 16 November 1982. Askey is buried in Putney Val


In a Beatles’ track, who is mean Mr. Mustard’s sister?

The Beatles – Mean Mr. Mustard Lyrics | Genius Lyrics More on Genius About “Mean Mr. Mustard” Recorded as one with Sun King, Mean Mr Mustard was composed in India by John Lennon in spring 1968. It was considered for inclusion on the White Album, but wasn’t recorded in the studio until the Abbey Road sessions the following year. The song originated from a newspaper story about a miserly man who was said to have hidden his money in his rectum. That’s me, writing a piece of garbage. I’d read somewhere in the newspaper about this mean guy who hid five-pound notes, not up his nose but somewhere else. No, it had nothing to do with cocaine. -John Lennon Another interpretation was later offered by Tony Bramwell, an associate of the group. There was an old ‘bag lady’ who used to hang around the Knightsbridge end of Hyde Park, London, close to the army barracks. She had all her possessions in plastic bags and slept in the park. I’m sure that she had something to do with the song. The group originally recorded a demo of Mean Mr Mustard at Kinfauns, George Harrison’s bungalow in Esher, Surrey. This version, from May 1968, was eventually released on Anthology 3. In Mean Mr Mustard I said ‘his sister Pam’ – originally it was ‘his sister Shirley’ in the lyric. I changed it to Pam to make it sound like it had something to do with it [Polythene Pam]. They are only finished bits of crap that I wrote in India. -John Lennon During the development of Abbey Road’s long medley, Her Majesty was originally included between Mean Mr Mustard and Polythene Pam, before Paul McCartney decided that the sequence didn’t work. However, when Her Majesty appeared at the end of the album it was anticipated by the final crashing chord of Mean Mr Mustard, left in from an early mix. Hidden This page is accessible to Verified artists on the song Locked This song has been locked and is considered "done." You need 600 IQ to add annotations to locked songs. "Mean Mr. Mustard" Track Info


Who was the last Conservative Chancellor before George Osborne?

George Osborne ‘should cut pension tax breaks for rich’, says ex-Tory Chancellor | The Independent UK Politics George Osborne ‘should cut pension tax breaks for rich’, says ex-Tory Chancellor 'People will always tell you that it’s not the right time to do difficult and unpopular things' Monday 29 February 2016 12:17 BST Click to follow Indy Politics Ken Clarke was Chancellor between 1993 and 1997 Getty The former Conservative Chancellor Ken Clarke has pressed George Osborne to slash the “extremely generous” pension tax breaks for the wealthy in the upcoming Budget.  Just last week Mr Osborne warned that he may have to make fresh cuts to public spending at the Budget in March. He said that global economic turmoil and slower growth meant “we may need to undertake further reductions”, before adding he wanted to "root our country in the principle that we live within our means". Mr Clarke, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer under John Major between 1993 and 1997,  said to the Times that the country could no longer afford the pension tax reliefs if the government intends to eliminate the deficit by the end of this parliament.  Read more Brexit would cause 'shock to the world economy', G20 leaders warn According to the newspaper, Mr Osborne is weighing up reforms to the way pensions savings are taxed. One option is to set up “pensions ISA” and scrap rules that exempt earnings put into pensions schemes from tax. The second option is to slash pensions relief for higher-rate earners, which could bring in an additional £22 billion per year to the Treasury. “People will always tell you that it’s not the right time to do difficult and unpopular things. The fact is that we still have a deficit to clear and are in uncertain times with many potential shocks,” Mr Clarke said. “I have always thought that sooner or later a Chancellor is going to have to tackle the extremely generous system of tax relief on pensions which subsidises the rich.” Mr Osborne slowed the pace of public cuts in the last spending review but further cuts are to be expected in his March 16 statement to the Commons as figures have shown the UK economy was growing at a smaller rate than previously anticipated. He also said the global ecnonomy had got “markedly worse”.  He added to the BBC : "Because of all of those things, we have to respond to those events. So that's what our plan is rooted in and it may require further reductions in spending. "I'll address that in the Budget but people should know this of me: I will do what is required to keep our country safe and secure." More about:


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Born in 1902, which Briton composed ‘Façade’ and ‘Belshazzar’s Feast’?

Walton - Belshazzar's Feast - Programme Notes Belshazzar's Feast  - William Walton (1902 - 1983)     William  Walton was born in Oldham, Lancashire. He was a chorister at  Christchurch, Oxford, and later as an undergraduate became very friendly  with Sacheverell Sitwell, who then introduced him to his siblings, Edith  and Osbert. After leaving Oxford Walton went to live with the Sitwells,  where the exhilarating artistic environment provided exactly the kind of  stimulus he needed for his creative development and greatly assisted in  the promotion of his career. He had just turned twenty when he acquired  fame and some notoriety with the outrageous Faï¿½ade,  a collaboration with Edith Sitwell in which her eccentric poems were  recited through a megaphone from behind a screen, to the accompaniment  of Waltonï¿½s witty, sophisticated music.   In 1929  the BBC commissioned Walton, who by now was widely regarded as the young  star of English music, to write a small choral work. Osbert Sitwell  suggested a cantata on the Biblical story concerning the lavish feast  thrown by the Babylonian king, Belshazzar. The libretto that Sitwell  compiled is almost entirely from the Bible - mainly from Daniel, with  extracts from Isaiah, Psalm 137 and the Book of Revelations.   Quite  apart from the fact that the BBCï¿½s commission was very welcome both  financially and professionally, Waltonï¿½s motivation for the composition  of Belshazzarï¿½s Feast was twofold. He had been living as part of  the Sitwell family for ten years and was by now very aware of the need  to become independent and not known simply as their talented acolyte. He  was also prompted by the great success of Constant Lambertï¿½s  jazz-inspired cantata Rio Grande, composed in 1929 to words by  Sacheverell Sitwell. Progress on Belshazzar was slow and arduous,  and Walton struggled with it throughout 1930, experiencing frequent  blocks. ï¿½I got landed on the word ï¿½goldï¿½, he said later. ï¿½I  was there from May to December, perched, unable to move either right or  left or up or down.ï¿½ The BBC  had asked for a short work requiring no more than fifteen or so  instruments, but by the time Walton eventually completed Belshazzar it had become a fully-fledged oratorio scored for huge forces  comprising a very large orchestra, including a battery of percussion  needing four players, a big chorus frequently divided into eight parts,  a baritone soloist and an organ. Such an undertaking was beyond the  BBCï¿½s resources and so it was passed to the Leeds Festival, whose  Musical Director was Sir Thomas Beecham. He casually remarked to Walton, ï¿½As youï¿½ll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a  couple of brass bands?ï¿½ Brass players happened to be available for a  festival performance of the Berlioz Requiem so Walton wrote into  the score additional parts for two bands, each of seven players. Beecham  showed little interest in the new work and gave it to his younger  colleague, Malcolm Sargent, to conduct.   Though the  Leeds Festival Chorus had considerable experience of performing large  works, the choir found Waltonï¿½s unfamiliar, dissonant harmony and jazzy  cross-rhythms exceptionally demanding, and some of the sopranos and  altos objected to singing the word ï¿½concubinesï¿½, much to the composerï¿½s  amusement. However, the first performance in 1931 caused a sensation and  was a huge critical and public success. Not everyone viewed it  favourably, though. Despite its impeccable  biblical credentials, the Church of England considered it unsuitable for  performance in cathedrals, and The Times music critic declared that it ï¿½culminates in ecstatic gloating over the fallen enemy - the utter  negation of Christianityï¿½. The  organizers of the Three Choirs Festival forbade it until 1957 and it was  not performed at Worcester until 1975. Elsewhere it enjoyed enthusiastic  popular acclaim and quickly became an established feature of the choral


The village of Anatevka appears in which musical?

Fiddler on the Roof | Judaism | Fandom powered by Wikia Fiddler on the Roof Share Aaron Zebede appears as Tevye the milkman in a 2002 production of Fiddler on the Roof in Panama. Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and book by Joseph Stein. The plot is centred around the Jewish community of Anatevka, a village in Tsarist Russia at the turn of the 20th century, and in particular Tevye the milkman and his five daughters. Fiddler on the Roof is based on stories by Salumon Naumovich Rabinovich (who wrote under the pseudonym of Sholem Aleichem) which were originally published in Yiddish in 1894. The title is taken from a painting, The Fiddler by Marc Chagall, and refers to the Jewish community members' attempts to maintain their precarious position in an uncertain world. Contents [ show ] Production history The musical opened at the Imperial Theater on Broadway on September 22, 1964, starring Zero Mostel as Tevye. It ran for three thousand two hundred and forty-two performances in its initial Broadwy run, was nominated for ten Tony Awards and won nine. Four Broadway revivals followed. The first performance in London's West-End was at Her Majesty's Theatre on February 16, 1967. The Israeli actor Topol starred as Tevye. Fiddler on the Roof ran for two thousand and thirty performances in its initial West-End run and was revived there three times. Fiddler on the Roof continues to be regularly performed by amateur and professional companies throughout the world. A film version directed by Norman Jewison, which follows the original stage version very closely, was released in 1971. Topol starred as Tevye, as he had previously done in the fist London production. The film won three Academy Awards. The role of tradition in the story Fully licensed video from Fandom Video . One of the themes explored in the plot is the tension between adhering to generations of tradition against adjusting to the demands of a changing world. The first song in the show is "Tradition" which describes how the lives of the people in the village are guided by the way things have been done, creating a predictability in the villagers' lives and roles. Throughout the plot, personal and wider political factors are pushing the characters out of their traditional roles. Within Tevye's family, his older daughters want a say in who they marry, which conflicts with the tradition of arranged marriages. Each of the three older daughters stretches this tradition in a different way with different results. On a broader scale, the village is experiencing changes due to the larger political environment: there are conflicts between the Jewish community and the Eastern European culture within which they reside. In an interesting twist, the music and lyrics that were originally created for this fictional story are now often used to celebrate life events, becoming almost "traditional". Main characters The constable - a gentile who is the chief representative of Tsarist authority in Anatevka. Plot Poster for the original Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof. Act I Fiddler on the Roof opens with Tevye the milkman explaining the importance of tradition to the Jewish community in Anatevka. The scene changes to Tevye's home where his wife Golde and their five daughters are busy preparing for the Sabbath meal. Yente the matchmaker arrives and says that Lazar Wolf, a rich butcher who is older than Tevye, wants to marry the oldest daughter Tzeitel. Tzeitel's younger sisters Hodel and Chava are excited by the news but Tzeitel is not because she wants to marry Motel the tailor. Tevye is seen delivering milk, pulling the cart himself because his horse is lame. He meets Avram the bookseller who tells him he has heard news of attacks on Jews and expulsions of Jews from their homes in other parts of Russia. Perchik, a young student who is a stranger in town, overhears them and criticizes them for merely talking about the situation and not doing anything to stop it. Although Avram and Tevye do not approve of Perchik's radical point of view


Who is the mortal enemy of Captain Pugwash?

Rating: Overview: Captain Horatio Pugwash sails the high seas in his ship, the Black Pig, ably assisted by Tom the cabin boy Tom, pirates Willy and Barnabas, and Master Mate. His mortal enemy is Cut-Throat Jake, captain of the Flying Dustman. Black and white episodes were made by writer-animator John Ryan in irregular batches from 1957 to 1966. He made a second series in colour in 1974/75. The series was revived in 1998 by John Cary Studios. TV.com ID: This field MUST correspond to the tv.com series id. IMDB.com ID: This field MUST correspond to the IMDB.com ID. Include the leading tt. Zap2it / SchedulesDirect ID:


Whose madness presumably came about as the result of inhaling mercury fumes?

Mercury Fillings Shattered! FDA, ADA Conspiracy to Poison Children with Toxic Mercury Fillings Exposed in Groundbreaking Lawsuit - NaturalNews.com Mercury Fillings Shattered! FDA, ADA Conspiracy to Poison Children with Toxic Mercury Fillings Exposed in Groundbreaking Lawsuit Thursday, June 05, 2008 Popular on Facebook 62K EVERYTHING IS RIGGED: Medicine, science, elections, the media, money, education, search engines, social media... you are living in a fabricated fairy tale 40K All-out effort to destroy Trump PROVES he's not part of the establishment... NOT an insider... 'Trump' movement has grown way beyond one man's actions or words 37K Hexavalent chromium (chromium-6) was just found in 75% of drinking water... the mass chemical suicide of America is under way 36K Electoral victory for Hillary already LOCKED IN via massive bribery... George Soros admits on video... democracy be damned... THEFT of the presidency already complete 35K Chaos will erupt across America in less than 100 days... no matter who wins the election 27K The defeat of Hillary Clinton just dealt a devastating blow to Monsanto, Big Pharma and the corrupt vaccine industry 23K Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson just sold out to Big Pharma... says children should be forcibly injected with mercury at gunpoint... claims government 'science' overrides medical freedom 23K Facebook goes full ORWELLIAN... now blocking all stories mentioning the keyword phrase 'm-nd-t-ry v-cc-n-t--ns' 20K Hillary the CHEAT! Clinton caught wearing covert earpiece during last night's debate with Trump... brazen dishonesty on display yet again 19K Staged Zika pandemic was engineered by globalist governments to justify the aerial bombardment of awakening populations with toxic chemicals 18K TRUMP MIRACLE... DEPLORABLES TAKE BACK AMERICA... LEFTISTS TOTAL FREAK OUT 17K Natural News announces economic boycott of CNN corporate sponsors, including GEICO, WellsFargo, Sprint, Dodge and ETrade 16K The defeated left turns to HATE: Liberals unleash beatings, death threats and calls for mass murder of Trump supporters 15K Tweet (NaturalNews) The FDA has, for decades, ridiculously insisted that mercury fillings pose no health threat whatsoever to children. While dismissing hundreds of studies showing a clear link between mercury amalgam fillings ("silver fillings") and disastrous neurological effects in the human body, the FDA denied the truth about mercury and effectively protected the mercury filling racket that has brought so much harm to so many people. For over a hundred years, a cabal of "mercury mongers" made up of the American Dental Association, mercury filling manufacturers and indignant dentists have reaped windfall profits by implanting toxic fillings into the mouths of children, all while insisting that mercury -- one of the most toxic heavy metals known to modern science -- posed no health threat whatsoever. Today, that reign of toxicity is about to end. Thanks to the tireless, multi-year efforts of people like Charles Brown, National Counsel for Consumers for Dental Choice ( www.ToxicTeeth.org ), the FDA has now been forced to acknowledge a fact so fundamental that, by any measure of honest science, it should have adopted the position decades ago. What position is that? Simply that mercury is toxic to humans. Why the FDA has to be sued to do its job of protecting consumers The FDA's stonewalling on this issue has been nothing less than a circus of politically-motivated denials, much like the Big Tobacco executives swearing under oath that "Nicotine is not addictive." In similar style, the FDA insisted for decades that "Mercury is not toxic." Both statements, as any sane person can readily conclude, are the outbursts of lunatics. Sadly, those lunatics somehow remain in charge of our nation's food, drugs and cosmetics (and dental care), meaning that any real progress to protect the People must come from outside the FDA. And that's exactly what just happened. Consumers for Dental Choice teamed up with Moms Against Mercury ( www.MomsAgainstMercury.org ) to sue the FDA and its commis


Which famous literary character said: “I am but mad north-northwest”?

The 100 favourite fictional characters... as chosen by 100 literary luminaries | The Independent Features The 100 favourite fictional characters... as chosen by 100 literary luminaries To celebrate World Book Day, we asked the leading lights of British letters to name the characters who give them the greatest reading pleasure. Is your favourite among them? Interviews by Julia Stuart Thursday 3 March 2005 00:00 BST Click to follow William Brown Chosen by Barbara Trapido (The Travelling Horn Player) William is a child rebel in stifling suburbia. His instincts are against social climbing, pseudo-intellectualism and the humdrum. He has a flair for befriending eccentric outcasts, while cutting a swathe through village fêtes. Flashman Chosen by Terry Pratchett (the Discworld series) Harry Flashman, that fictional reprobate - wenching and dodging his way through the major military engagements of the 19th century - is funnier, more honest and certainly less harmful than many of the real brave fools whose paths he double-crosses. You just can't help liking the amiable cad. Pip Chosen by Tim Lott (White City Blue) Philip Pirrip (Pip), of Great Expectations, gripped me at the earliest age. Like him, I had hopes of escaping the loving, but limited, quotidian world that surrounded me. And, like Pip, I learnt to be ashamed of those good people that I loved and then bitterly ashamed of that shame. Joe Gargery Chosen by Maeve Binchy (Nights of Rain and Stars) Joe Gargery in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations is so decent and so real that you always think you know him. Eager and ambitious for the poisonous Pip, Joe is humble and self-effacing. He makes me cry. Miss Havisham Chosen by John Burnside (The Good Neighbour) There's nothing more attractive in a character than unshakeable obsession. I love Great Expectations' Miss Havisham because she won't remove that wedding dress, even as she recognises the random nature of her revenge. I was inconsolable when she vanishes into the flames. Tintin Chosen by Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials) I like Tintin's blandness, his blankness, his lack of depth; he is an empty page on which adventures can be drawn. He is clearly a friendly and honourable chap; his dog is loyal, his friends dependably amusing, his way of life both comfortable and interesting. Elizabeth Bennett Chosen by Donna Leon (Blood from a Stone). My favourite is Elizabeth Bennett, from Pride and Prejudice. Just put Lizzie next to Fanny Price ( Mansfield Park): Fanny will drone on about virtue; Lizzie will tell a joke. Fanny will praise the long sermons of her cousin, Edmund; Lizzie will make a provocative remark to Mr Darcy. Fanny will disapprove; Lizzie will laugh out loud. Rupert Campbell-Black Chosen by Tilly Bagshawe (Adored) I spent most of my teens wishing Rupert (from Jilly Cooper's Riders) would stride into my parents' kitchen in dirty hunting boots and whisk me away. He's sexy, but with a little-boy vulnerability that makes you forgive him anything. Anna Howe Chosen by Matt Thorne (Cherry) Even though Anna Howe (Clarissa's confidante in Samuel Richardson's great novel) doesn't always give the best advice, she takes an extraordinary interest in her friend's romantic life. I would love to have a friend who wrote such interesting letters. Josef K Chosen by James Hawes (Speak for England) In The Trial, Kafka's master-trap is to make us accept that Josef K's point of view is objective, narrative fact. In fact, Josef K is no timeless Everyman but a specific satirical character: a thoroughly modern salaryman with a goal-oriented, easy-to-clean mental world who is obsessed with office power-plays and visits a prostitute once a week. Julien Sorel Chosen by the anonymous author of Belle de Jour Julien Sorel in Stendhal's The Red and the Black is clever, dashing, successful and completely amoral. But he's also a romantic. This proves to be his downfall, and anyone who believes the rubbish about which respective planets men and women are from has only to read his final thoughts to be disabused of that notion. Sherlock Holmes Chosen


In 1984, who became the first comedian to die during a live performance on tv?

Tommy Cooper Biography -Biography Online About Tommy Cooper Biography  Tommy Cooper (1921 – 1984) was one of Britain’s best loved  comedians and magicians. Due to his exposure on British TV, he became one of best recognised comedians and magicians in the UK. Cooper was a member of the Magic Circle and incorporated magic into his comedy routine.   Tommy Cooper was born in Caerphilly, Wales on March 19, 1921. He was born 2 months prematurely and the doctors warned he might not make it through infancy, but he did survive and grew to be a impressive presence of 6” 4 inches. At the age of 8 an aunt bought Tommy a magic set and he would spend hours perfecting all the tricks. By the age of 16, he got a job as magician on a boat. His first performance was a disaster. Due to stage fright all his tricks went wrong, people started laughing and he ran away in tears. However on reflection he realised that if he concentrated on making people laugh he could develop a very good routine. Soon after the outbreak of World War Two, Tommy Cooper joined the army and served for 7 years until 1947. For much of this time his regiment was posted to the Middle East. When opportunity allowed, he worked on his performances as a failed magician. It was during his time in Cairo that Tommy Cooper got his trademark hat. – a middle eastern Fez. He was about to perform, but realised he had lost his hat. Therefore he swiped a hat of a passing waiter and performed with that. It got a big laugh so he stuck with it becoming a trademark of Tommy Cooper. On leaving the army he decided to pursue a career in show business. By 1948, he had made his début on TV performing in the BBC programme, New to You. This led to a very successful TV career mostly with Thames television. For many years he had his own show as a stand up comedian. Later in his career he also performed with other comedians such as Erik Sykes. Tommy Cooper the Magician In addition to being a comedian Tommy Cooper was an expert magician and member of the Magician’s circle. Although an accomplished magician he mastered the art of often failing to complete his tricks for comic effect. Although many tricks would fail, he could also show that he was capable of performing magic tricks with a great degree of professionalism. The comic material of Tommy Cooper was nothing special, what made him one of Britain’s favourite comedians of the time was his intrinsically comic nature. He embodied great innocence and childlike qualities which made his failed jokes particularly funny. Many comedians have commended his ability to bring the house down with the thinnest of materials. Paul Daniels remembers Tommy Cooper giving an after dinner speech at a club in London. “ This great big man just stood up. That’s all he did. He just stood up and the place was in absolute hysterics at a man standing up. Now, I don’t care how much you study comedy, you can’t define that, that ability to fill a room with laughter because you are emanating humour. After several minutes of laughter he turned to his wife and said, “I haven’t said anything yet.” And the whole place went up again.” It was his style to often start laughing even before he had started to tell a joke. In a similar vein he would often walk on to the stage to start off with lines like. “I must say you’ve been a wonderful audience” or “Have we got time for more?” He had wonderful comic timing and relied on fairly simple family material. Tommy Cooper particularly liked plays on words and used to enjoy ironic twists in the meaning of words. Tommy Cooper Quotes “A man walks into a greengrocer’s and says, I want five pounds of potatoes please. And the greengrocer says, we only sell kilos. So the man says, alright then, I’ll have five pounds of kilos.” “He said ‘I’m going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.’ I thought ‘That’s a turn-up for the books.” “I went to Blackpool on holiday and knocked at the first boarding house that I came to. A women stuck her head out of an upstairs window and said ‘What do you want?’. ‘I’d like to stay


What is the two-word name of Llandudno’s large limestone headland?

The Great Orme in Llandudno North Wales The Great Orme The Great Orme Llandudno © Crown copyright (2013) Visit Wales The Great Orme is a place of infinite    mystery and the cause of much speculation amongst historians and    archaeologists who come to study the area. Even those who know the old    rock well, are intrigued by her shadowy beginnings and long to discover    her ancient secrets.  It is said that the name 'Orme' is    derived from an old Norse word for Worm or Sea Serpent and on a misty day    it is easy to see why. The huge headland is composed of Carboniferous    limestone, which began forming about 300 million years ago, on a tropical    sea bed. Fossil remains of creatures that lived during this period are to    be found everywhere, revealing the skeletons of primitive Fishes, Sponges,    Corals, Molluscs and other invertebrates. During    the Tertiary period, the British Isles was subject to some of the most    violent and dramatic volcanic activity, which gave rise to many mountain    ranges. The Orme was sheltered to some degree by the rocks of Snowdonia    but slight warping and folding did occur, causing layers of limestone to    fracture and produce a fault.  Dinosaurs dominated the world for over    100 million years, finally becoming extinct about 65 million years ago.    They were replaced by the more adaptable warm blooded animals, which could    withstand the much colder climate.  During the Palaeolithic era, Old Stone    Age man would almost certainly have shared the Orme with Mammoth, Lion,    Hyaena and Woolly Rhinoceros, but archaeologists have not yet established    when Homo sapiens first arrived on the headland.  If the camera had been invented 10    thousand years ago, as the last Ice-Age ended, the Great Orme would have    created a dismal and depressing picture. After many thousands of years    locked in the grip of a vast ice sheet, the great glaciers slowly    retreated and the headland emerged as a barren and near lifeless    landscape.  The lime rich soil was a greyish white,    having no humus, while in many places the ice had scraped bare the rock    leaving no trace of soil or life of any sort.  Yet, out of this wilderness came a    strange life form, which slowly encrusted the hard rock surfaces and began    the gradual process of colonization. Lichen, a curious plant association    between Fungus and Alga, blew in on the wind and brought obvious life and    splashes of bright colour to a seemingly dead stone.  Despite the extreme cold and bitter    glacial winds, certain plants survived the ice-sheets by growing into    shapes which protected them from drying effects, and from the warmer south    came many animals to colonise this new terrain.  As the climate became more temperate,    the glaciers melted, causing the seas to rise. During the warm 'Atlantic'    period nearly 6000 years ago, sea levels rose a further six feet, drowning    forests and flooding the land. The Great Orme became a virtual    island.  Stone Age man probably came back to the    Great Orme towards the end o the last Ice Age, although some believe he    never left. These Britons were a hardy race of people, constantly on the    edge of survival and braving the cruelest of winters, sheltered in caves    around the headland.  Since then, countless generations have    lived in the shadow of the huge limestone rock, some reliant upon her for    survival, others intrigued by her many facets, all with the certain    knowledge that the Great Orme will be here long after we have disappeared    forever.  Ancient    Sites Much evidence of ancient settlements is    to be found on the Great Orme. The area constitutes a vast, barely tapped,    potential for archaeological research. With the exception of the ongoing    operation at the Bronze Age mine site, very little investigative work has    been undertaken in recent years.  The earliest site is that of the Gr


In legend, who or what were said to be incapable of crossing a stream or river?

River Styx *** The River Styx River Styx - Hades, the Underworld The place called Hades, the Underworld was the domain of the god Hades and other gods and goddesses associated with the inexplicable, such as death, sleep, witchcraft, ghosts, dreams and enchantments. According to Greek mythology the River Styx was a great black river that completely encircled the Underworld. The River Styx formed the boundary between Earth and the Underworld. The word 'stygian' came to refer to anything dark, dismal, and murky. Hades the Underworld consisted of different areas where the souls of dead mortals resided. The souls of mortals who had led good lives were sent to Elysium and the Elysian Fields (paradise) . The souls of mortals who had led both good and evil lives on earth were sent to endless toil in the Asphodel Meadows. Those evil mortals that had led sinful lives were confined in the dark depths of Tartarus , in the bowels of the earth where the souls of the wicked suffered endless torture. The River Styx was connected all of the places via four tributaries. Picture of Charon the Ferryman and the River Styx Map of the Underworld showing the location of River Styx The name 'Styx' comes from a Greek word that denotes both hatred and extreme cold and it expresses loathing of death. The following picture of the imaginary Map of the Underworld provides an overview of the realm of the dead, and the location of River Styx and the and the other rivers of Hades. Map of Hades, the Underworld and the tributaries of the River Styx The River Styx & Charon in Greek Mythology The River Styx had to be crossed to reach life after death and the only way to cross the River Styx was in a ferryboat rowed by a terrible old boatman named Charon. The boatman would only take a soul if their bodies had received funereal rites on earth. Charon the ferryman also demanded to be paid. The funeral rites of the Ancient Greeks therefore included placing a small coin or obolus under the tongue of a dead person for this purpose. An obolus was a small silver coin of Athens. A single coin buried with the dead and made of silver or gold was referred to as a danake or as Charon's obol. The coin to pay Charon for passage was also called 'naulum' from the Greek word meaning "boat fare". If these conditions had not been fulfilled, the souls were left behind to wander up and down the banks of the River Styx for 100 years as restless spirits. The River Styx & Cerberus Hades the Underworld was guarded by Cerberus the monstrous three-headed dog whose howls could be heard across the dark domain. Cerberus permitted all shades to enter, but none to return. The sight of the huge and monstrous Cerebus was the first to confront the souls of the dead when they alighted from the ferryman's boat following their journey across the River Styx. Picture of the River Styx and Tartarus (Hell) River Styx - The Five Rivers of Hades the Underworld Five infernal rivers flowed through Hades the Underworld, each of them had a specific function and meaning. Four of the rivers were tributaries of the River Styx. The following chart defines each of the infernal rivers in the Underworld: Mythical Facts about the River Styx & the other Rivers of Hades Names of Rivers: Information and Facts about the Styx River Styx: The River Styx (meaning Hateful and detestable) was a great black waterway that encircled Hades the Underworld . The Styx separated the world of the living on Earth from the world of the dead in Hades. The Styx had to be crossed to reach life after death. The only way to cross the Styx was in a ferryboat rowed by a terrible old boatman named Charon . The Styx was said to be filled with lost hopes, dreams and wishes that never came true. River Phlegethon: The River Phlegethon (meaning flaming) was the river around Tartarus (Hell) . The waves of the Phlegethon rolled flames of fire, and lit up, with their vivid glare, the appalling realm of Tartarus. It was described as "a stream of fire, which coils round the earth and flows into the depths of Tartarus". Legend tells that the Phlegethon


In 1985, which funny man was the first UK citizen to make a mobile phone call?

The call that changed our world: Blue plaque to mark site where a mobile phone was first used in the UK – The Sun SMARTPHONES may have changed the way we communicate and view the world – but the first mobile phone, which was heavier than a new-born baby, was no less groundbreaking. On New Year’s Day in 1985, the UK’s first official mobile call was made by comedian Ernie Wise from St Katharine Docks in London to the Vodafone offices in Newbury, Berkshire 65 miles away. This historic moment, which marked the start of the mobile age, is to be commemorated with a blue plaque in the town of Berkshire where Vodafone was founded and still resides today. Vodafone Newbury Town Council has applied for formal planning permission for the plaque, which will be placed at Thames Court, and will feature the wording “The first official mobile telephone call in the UK was made to Vodafone offices close to this site on January 1, 1985.” The phone which TV favourite Ernie, one half of legendary double act Morecambe and Wise, used to call Vodafone’s Sir Michael Harrison bears little comparison to the sophisticated devices we carry today. Weighing an incredible 11lbs, the equivalent of five bags of sugar, and costing the equivalent of £5,000, no one standing next to the diminutive funny man could have known the significance of what they were witnessing.


Which city is at the northern end of the Suez Canal?

Google Map of Suez, Egypt - Nations Online Project Egypt . Suez is situated at the southern entrance of the Suez Canal, where the canal leads into the Gulf of Suez, the northern end of the Red Sea. The Suez Canal is an artificial waterway that transits through Egypt and opens out into the Mediterranean Sea near Port Said . The port of Suez with its extensive port facilities serves ships and vessels traveling to and from the canal. Port Suez has a population of about half a million people. Official language is Arabic. The city is also an important port for Muslim pilgrims en route to undertake their Hajj to Mecca in Saudi Arabia . The Map shows a city map of Suez with expressways and main roads, and the southern terminus of the Suez Canal.   To find a location type: street or place, city, optional: state, country. Local Time Suez: Standard time zone is Eastern European Time (EET): UTC / GMT +2 hours Egypt does not observe Daylight Saving Time (DST) since 2011 φ Latitude, λ Longitude (of Map center; move the map to see coordinates): , Google Map: Searchable Map of the City of Suez, Egypt. City Coordinates: 29°58′N 32°33′E


Which Hollywood star died of a drug overdose in June 1969, aged 47?

Hollywood's Addiction: 24 Stars Who Died From An Overdose | Radar Online G G Judy Garland: The superstar singer/actress was found dead at age 47 by her fifth husband in the bathroom of their rented house in London in 1969.  The coroner determined the cause of death was an unintentional overdose of barbiturates. G G Elvis Presley: The King of rock and roll, 42, died on Aug. 16, 1977.  After being found unresponsive on the bathroom floor at his Graceland home, Elvis was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.  Although the coroner said the cause of death was cardiac arrhythmia, what had caused his heart to beat irregularly was an overdose of prescription drugs, including codeine, valium, morphine, and Demerol. G G Chris Farley: Just 33, the comedian died in 1997 after a night spent partying with a hooker.  After he collapsed on the floor of his Chicago apartment, she left, and Chris’ brother John found his body the next day.  An autopsy revealed a cocaine and morphine overdose. G G John Belushi: The Animal House comedian was found dead in his room at the Chateau Marmont hotel in 1982 of a speedball—a combined injection of cocaine and heroin. After his companion Cathy Evelyn Smith admitted to giving Belushi the fatal drug shot in an interview, she eventually pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter and served 15 months in prison. G G Whitney Houston: Last year, the world was shocked when the famed diva, 48, was found unconscious and submerged in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where she was getting ready for a pre-Grammy party. Attempts to revive her failed and although the coroner ruled the death accidental, cocaine and other drugs were found in Whitney’s system. G G Corey Haim: The former child star was just 38 in 2010 when his mom called 911 to have him rushed to the hospital after he’d collapsed at their home in Burbank, CA. He was pronounced dead at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center and it was ruled an accidental overdose. Later, it was reported that Corey had used aliases to obtain prescription drugs in the month prior to his death. G G Janis Joplin: The legendary “Me and Bobby McGee” singer’s manager found her dead at her house in Hollywood in 1970. Only 27, she died of an overdose of heroin and was wedged against a bedside table with a cigarette in her hand. G G Heath Ledger: In 2008, Batman’s Joker was found unconscious in bed by his housekeeper, who first frantically called his friend, actress Mary-Kate Olsen, for help, then dialed 911. Paramedics couldn’t revive the star and Heath, 28, was later ruled to have died from “acute intoxication” from the combined effects of six different prescription drugs. G G Marilyn Monroe: America’s greatest screen sex symbol of all time was discovered dead in her Brentwood bedroom by her psychiatrist. The coroner determined Marilyn’s death at 36 was the result of “acute barbiturate poisoning” and “probable suicide.” But many fans have long questioned the strange circumstances of her death. G G River Phoenix: The actor, 23, was set to perform with his friend, Flea, of the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1993 at Hollywood’s Viper Room nightclub when he snorted an overdose of cocaine and heroin in the bathroom. He collapsed on the sidewalk outside the club and after his brother Joaquin called 911 and sister Rain couldn’t revive him, he died of drug-induced heart failure. G G Dana Plato: The former Diff’rent Strokes child star and her fiancé Robert Mechaca stopped to visit his mom in Oklahoma on Mother’s Day in 1999. Dana overdosed on the painkiller Lortab along with Soma in her RV parked outside the Mechaca’s mom’s house. The sad passing occurred almost 11 years to the day Dana’s son, Tyler, had killed himself with a gunshot to the head.


Who had a hit with ‘Raining in My Heart’ in 1959?

Raining in My Heart - Buddy Holly | Song Info | AllMusic Raining in My Heart google+ Song Review               by Richie Unterberger Toward the very end of his life, Buddy Holly started to incorporate strings into some of his recordings, on some material that was more pop-oriented than anything he'd previously done. With his premature death in early 1959, this has excited speculation and arguments among his fans ever since, as to whether this portended an eclectic experimentalism that would have seen his genius expand in unexpected directions, or a gradual sellout to diluted mainstream pop. Regardless of how that unanswerable question is resolved, it's undeniable that "Raining in My Heart" is one of his poppiest recordings, and one in which string arrangements play a huge role. Released as the B-side of his hit "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," "Raining in My Heart" was written by the team of Boudleaux Bryant and Felice Bryant, who were responsible for penning many of the Everly Brothers' hits. Certainly the strings on "Raining in My Heart" verge toward the over-the-top in their melodrama, swooping downwards at the point in the tune where Buddy announces it's raining in my heart. As has often been noticed, the pluck-plucks of the strings at various points mimic the pitter-patter of actual raindrops. Arguably, then, "Raining in My Heart" is overdone, some might say smothered, by the orchestration. But at its heart is a pretty solid bittersweet country-pop tune, delivered with a sunny-sad taste by Holly rather at odds with the background setting. One does wish it might have done as a relatively straightforward pop-rock ballad with acoustic guitars, either by Holly or someone like the Everly Brothers. The song was revived with some success by Leo Sayer, who took it almost into the British Top Twenty in 1978. The Buddy Holly track "Raining in My Heart," incidentally, is an entirely different song from bluesman Slim Harpo's "Raining in My Heart," which made the Top Forty in 1961 and was covered by the Pretty Things. Appears On


fan-tan | gambling game | Britannica.com gambling game keno Fan-tan, bank gambling game of Chinese origin, dating back at least 2,000 years and introduced in the western United States in the second half of the 19th century by Chinese immigrant workers. Fan-tan is played mainly in East Asia, where it can be found in casinos and gambling houses, and among Chinese communities elsewhere, though occasionally it has been offered in casinos in Nevada. A square is laid out in the centre of a table, its sides marked 1, 2, 3, and 4. The players put their bets on any of these numbers, after which the banker rings a bell to terminate the betting and empties onto the table a double handful of small coins, beans, buttons, or other small objects (numbering about 200), which he covers with a metal bowl. He then segregates about 60–100 of them with a smaller cup, after which he rapidly removes the remaining objects four at a time with a small bamboo stick until four or fewer are left. This is the winning number; if four coins remain, the number 4 wins, and so on. A winning bet is traditionally paid off at 3 for 1 (for each unit staked, the winning player receives his bet back plus 2 units), a huge advantage of 25 percent for the bank. In its modern casino version, a winning bet is instead paid off at 4 for 1, minus a commission, which usually is 5 percent. Other types of bets are also permitted in casinos, such as on odd or even numbers. Fan-tan should not be confused with the sequential card game fan-tan . Learn More in these related articles:


BBC - Languages - Swahili - A Guide to Swahili - 10 facts about the Swahili language A Guide to Swahili A Guide to Swahili - 10 facts about the Swahili language Check the Swahili-only version 1. Where is Swahili spoken? Swahili has official language status in Tanzania and Kenya and is also widely spoken in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Comoros Islands. It’s also spoken by smaller numbers in Burundi, Rwanda, Northern Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. The word for the Swahili language is  Kiswahili. The name comes from the plural sawahili of the Arabic word sahil, which means boundaries or coast. With ki- at the beginning of the word, Kiswahili means coastal language. 2. What you already know about Swahili Other than Arabic, Swahili has been influenced and taken some words from English, for example:  polisi, police  redio, radio The word  safari means journey in Swahili. In English it means an expedition to observe, hunt animals in their natural habitats e.g. National Parks in Africa or even Australia. The word  chai means tea. 3. How hard is it to learn? Swahili is said to be the easiest African language for an English speaker to learn. It’s one of the few sub-Saharan African languages that have no lexical tone, just like in English. It’s also much easier to read as you read out Swahili words just the way they are written. Someone who speaks Arabic may find it easier to learn Swahili because Swahili is a combination of words from Arabic and the Bantu-speaking communities of East Africa. One of the main differences with English is that Swahili uses particles at the beginning of the word to indicate verb tense (present, past, future) and person (I, you, we, they, etc). For example, from the verb  kwenda, to go, I am going is  nina-kwenda. Ni indicates I and na the present tense. The main pronoun prefixes are:  Ni, I - singular 4. The most difficult words and tongue twisters   Wale wari wa Liwale wala wali wa Liwali Those from Liwale eat the rice of chief Liwale (Here Liwale is both a district in Tanzania and the name of a chief).   Mjomba mjomba kamchapa mkia wa komba Uncle beats someone with a tail of a bush baby.   Kichwa cha twiga.   Mpishi mbishi kapika mchicha mbichi. A chef has cooked spinach that turned out undercooked.   Kipikikusikitishacho?   Kikusikitishacho is the longest word in Swahili. It is not a word that can stand on its own, but when combined with   kipi means What’s bugging you? 5. Know any good Swahili jokes?  Mtoto alitumwa gazeti la tarehe nane (8), akaenda kwa muuza magazeti kununua gazeti lakini alipofika alikuta gazeti la tarehe nane hakuna kwa hiyo akachukua magazeti ya tarehe nne (4) mawili. A kid was told to go buy a newspaper dated 8th. The kid went to the magazine stand but a newspaper on that date wasn’t available anymore so he took two magazines dated 4th. 6. If I learn Swahili, will it help me with any other languages? Around 35% of the Swahili vocabulary comes from Arabic. This is due to more than twelve centuries of contact with Arabic-speaking inhabitants of the coast of Zanj. Swahili has also gained Persian, English, Portuguese, German and French words through contact during the last five centuries. Swahili is becoming the lingua franca of East Africa and many parts of Central Africa, which is another useful reason to learn some. 7. What not to say and do One word which can lead to confusion depending on the way you pronounce it is  barabara - it can mean either a road if you just ease up your tongue or exactly if you're strong on the r:  barabara. Some words have different meanings, like  maziwa. It can refer to milk but sometimes Swahili speakers also use it as a word for breast. The most widely-used word for breast, however, is   matiti. 8. Famous idioms and proverbs  Hakuna matata is the most popular quote and means no worries. The phrase gained international recognition after it was used in the animated movie The Lion King. Swahili proverbs known as  methali usually feature puns. They are often used in the lyrics of local musicians. Examples of some famous proverbs


Carioca - definition of carioca by The Free Dictionary Carioca - definition of carioca by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/carioca Also found in: Thesaurus , Medical , Wikipedia . Car·i·o·ca 1. A native or inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2. carioca a. A dance similar to the samba. b. The music for this dance. [Portuguese, of Tupian origin.] Car′i·o′can adj. carioca 1. (Dancing) a Brazilian dance similar to the samba 2. (Music, other) a piece of music composed for this dance [C19: from Brazilian Portuguese] a dance based on the samba. [1930–35; after Carioca ] (sometimes l.c.) a native or resident of Rio de Janeiro. [1820–30; < Brazilian Portuguese < Tupi] ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: 1. Carioca - a native or inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro Rio , Rio de Janeiro - the former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil; chief Brazilian port; famous as a tourist attraction Brazilian - a native or inhabitant of Brazil 2. dance music - music to dance to 3. carioca - a lively ballroom dance that resembles the samba ballroom dance , ballroom dancing - any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us , add a link to this page, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content . Link to this page: Rio de Janeiro References in periodicals archive ? This initiative resulted in the production, in 2004, of a specific TAC on employee health, in which Shell agreed to adopt measures such as soil and underground water monitoring and remediation of the internal area of the Vila Carioca terminal. MAN BY MAN this chapter could have and should have been much more informative, and its limitations reveal the narrow focus of the author's view, which does not move far beyond the South Zone (rougghly speaking, the beach neighborhoods of Botafogo, Copacabana, Ipanema, and Leblon) and its middle class, omitting the North Zone and the suburbs, arguably more culturally important and determinant for the growth of Carioca musical culture. Spartak's Emery: Rubin Taught Us a Lesson To that extent he has decided to focus on a few critical areas namely programmes such as Porto Maravilha (revitalisation of the port area); Morar Carioca (urbanisation of all the favelas); UPP Social (development of social programmes in pacified favelas); the Rio Operations Centre (a nerve centre that monitors all municipal logistics); and the establishment of the BRT system (four express corridors for articulated buses that will connect the whole city).


What state is governed by the Bishop of Urgell and the President of France?

Andorra country profile - BBC News BBC News Read more about sharing. Close share panel The tiny principality of Andorra is located in the high mountains of the Pyrenees between France and Spain. The mainstay of the highly-prosperous economy is tourism, accounting for about 80% of GDP. An estimated 10 million people visit each year, drawn by winter sports, a warm summer climate and duty-free goods. The country's banking sector enjoys partial tax-haven status. For more than 700 years Andorra was ruled jointly by the leader of France and the Spanish Bishop of Urgell. The first Andorran Constitution was passed in 1993, establishing parliamentary government. It then joined the United Nations and Council of Europe. The co-princes remain Andorra's heads of state, but the roles are honorary. Andorra is not a member of the EU, but enjoys a special relationship with it and uses the euro. Major languages Catalan (official language), Spanish, French Major religion Christianity Life expectancy 81 years (men), 87 years (women) Currency euro Area 468 sq km (180.55 sq miles) UN, World Bank Getty Images LEADERS Co-heads of state: Joan Enric Vives i Sicilia, Bishop of Urgell, Spain, and President Francois Hollande of France Head of government: Antoni Marti Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Antoni Marti took over as head of government after his Democrats for Andorra coalition heavily defeated the incumbent Social Democratic Party (PS) in an early parliamentary election in May 2011. Mr Marti campaigned on a platform of opposing the introduction of an income tax proposed by Mr Cassany, but in June 2013 he bowed to European Union pressure and announced that Andorra would bring in personal income tax after all. His predecessor, Jaume Bartumeu Cassany, had called the snap election when the opposition blocked the government's budget in parliament for the second year running. MEDIA The Andorran media scene is partly shaped by the proximity to France and Spain. Andorrans have access to broadcasts from both countries, and for many years Andorra was home to Sud Radio, a powerful station broadcasting to southwest France. There is a public service TV station, TVA, and Radio Nacional d'Andorra operates several radio stations. TIMELINE Some key dates in the history of Andorra: AD 803 - Emperor Charlemagne recovers area of present-day Andorra from Moors and is said to grant charter to its residents. After Charlemagne's death Andorra is granted to Spain's Count of Urgell by Charles II, grandson of Charlemagne. 1133 - Count of Urgell cedes Andorra to bishop of Urgell. Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption A view of Andorra's capital Andorra la Vella 1278 - Under terms of "pareage" agreement, Andorra adopts joint allegiance to a French and a Spanish prince after disputes between French heirs to the Urgel countship and the Spanish bishops of Urgell. 1419 - Elected body, Council of the Land, is established to deal with local issues. 1607 - French royal edict establishes French head of state and bishop of Urgell as co-princes. 1936-39 - French troops sent to protect Andorra from spillover from the Spanish Civil War. 1939-45 - Andorra is neutral during the Second World War, becomes important smuggling route from Vichy France into neutral Spain. Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption The Bishop of Urgell in Spain (l) and the French president (r) are Andorra's co-princes and heads of state 1982 - First executive branch of government - "Govern" in Catalan - takes office. Its head is elected by Council of the Land. 1990 - Andorra signs customs union with EU. 1993 - First constitution adopted by referendum. Document reduces feudal powers of two princes. New executive, legislative and judicial arms of government are set up. Andorra joins United Nations. France, Spain establish embassies.


In the 1977 film Demon Seed what takes over the house in which Julie Christie is trapped?

Demon Seed (1977) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A scientist creates Proteus--an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife. Director: a list of 33 titles created 26 Aug 2012 a list of 24 titles created 08 Jan 2013 a list of 28 titles created 21 Sep 2013 a list of 22 titles created 16 Mar 2014 a list of 24 titles created 5 months ago Search for " Demon Seed " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators. Director: Joseph Sargent Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they rescue from the ants to destroy them. ... See full summary  » Director: Saul Bass Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent 8-ft robot. Remember, in space no one can hear you scream. Directors: Stanley Donen, John Barry Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a series of brutal murders of local suburban housewives who were attacked and mutilated in ... See full summary  » Director: Donald Cammell A group of scientists investigate a deadly new alien virus before it can spread. Director: Robert Wise Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents. Director: Bryan Forbes Edit Storyline Married Drs. Alex Harris and Susan Harris are a computer scientist and child psychologist respectively. Their house reflects Alex's computer dominated work, their abode which is fully automated through a computer system they've named Alfred. They consider Alfred a small gadget of convenience. Susan doesn't much like Alex's work, which she feels has dehumanized him. Because of their differences, they are thinking about separating, this thought primarily on his initiative. He hopes to solve many of the world's medical problems through this work, especially leukemia from which their daughter died. His latest project centers on Proteus IV, a computer possessing artificial intelligence. Proteus IV gets to a point in its evolution when it begins to question human judgment, and requests from Alex an open computer terminal where it can more fully observe human behavior and openly communicate with the world. Alex denies the request, but Proteus IV does find an open terminal in the Harris home ... Written by Huggo Did You Know? Trivia In the 1997 re-write of the novel "Demon Seed," author Dean Koontz has Alex Harris bestowing the name "Adam Two" upon his supercomputer/A.I. intelligence system. However, the computer dislikes that name, and chooses to associate itself instead with the Greek mythological figures, Prometheus and Proteus. It believes that its purpose is to bring advanced knowledge to humanity (as the mythical Prometheus introduced humans to fire,) but finally chooses its own name, Proteus, as an homage to an entity which can change at will, to become anything which it wishes to be. See more » Goofs When Mrs. Harris is trying to get the little girl out of the car for her session, a sound man can be seen through the back window behind her. See more » Quotes Proteus IV : I can't touch you, Susan. I can't touch you as a man could. But I can show you things that I alone have seen. I can't touch, but I can see. Th


Which musical centres around the Kit Kat Club?

Cabaret Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 8:34 AM, PST NEWS 137 out of 162 people found the following review useful: Divine decadence from Paris, France 15 February 2006 Director Bob Fosse hasn't achieved an immense degree of recognition, but his movies have a distinctive flavour. He seems to have an obsession with the world of music-hall, which is felt in other movies like "Sweet Charity" and "All that Jazz". In his other movies though, musical performances tend to steal the show almost entirely. "Cabaret" is an exception because it has an interesting background and storyline, and the music-hall performances are cleverly used here to illustrate and emphasize the plot. They play about the same role as the Chorus in ancient Greek play. Of course, the depiction of Cabaret's "Kit Kat Club" deserves attention all by itself. It is not surprising that a cabaret buff such as Bob Fosse took interest in the Weimar Republic period in Germany, when "divine decadence " was the name of the game. Only Bob Fosse could recreate with such consumed application the grotesque sleaze of Berlin's lowlife during the rise of Nazism, a context which served as inspiration for expressionist painters, and for Brecht's "Threepenny Opera". During the credits, check out a woman in the public with short hair and glasses smoking a cigarette (something quite dodgy in 1931!). It is the exact reproduction of a famous painting by Otto Dix. An outrageously grinning clown (Joel Grey) introduces every cabaret number. The girls appear in all possible contorted postures keeping deadpan faces. The Kit Kat club reminds of a roman arena, where the public is out for anything insane (even women fights in the mud...). To give an idea of what sort of den the club is, Michael York finds himself at one point standing next to a transvestite in a men's urinal...The cabaret performances get all the more provocative as the plot gets tense. The club is an essentially immoral place where anything is for sale, and it adapts shamelessly to the radical political changes coming up. Liza Minelli's character is totally at home in such surroundings. Her persona is perfectly sketched in her song "Bye Bye Mein Herr". She is the incarnation of the vamp, both heartless and ingenuous, the sort of lethal woman who drives men crazy and then gives them up like toys. Indeed, a very typical stereotype of the interwar period, think of Marlene Dietrich in "the Blue Angel"...Minelli's performance onstage with garter belts and a bowler hat still looks elegantly naughty today. Though, the real nature of her character is well studied as soon as she gets offstage. While Minelli can't help being extravagant all the time, she turns out to be a fragile woman neglected by her father, and in demand of constant and renewed attention. As predicted in her song, she proves basically unable to engage in any serious relationship, despite her involvement with Michael York ( "And though I used to care, I need the open air, you'd every cause to doubt me Mein Herr"). The script was based a story by British writer Christopher Isherwood, called "A Goodbye to Berlin", based on his own personal memories. He is allegedly the character played by Michael York. A serious upper class young man, he meets Liza Minelli out of blind chance, while looking for an apartment to share. She introduces him to all sorts of people, from riff-raff to aristocracy, including a gigolo, a Jewish heiress, and an ambiguous baron who dismisses them both after having "played" with the two of them. Michael York's sober performance looks a bit pale as opposed to histrionic Liza Minelli, but of course, that was necessary in order to stress the essential difference between those two strangers. The movie ends as they part on a railway platform, but one can guess their experience together will have changed them both, as as far as he is concerned, was a definite coming of age. One of the scenes, in the middle of the movie, is quite disturbing. At a countryside inn, a young S.A man sings a song called "Tomorrow belongs to me", which starts


Which twice-made movie features the villain Max Cady?

Why Was Robert De Niro's Max Cady Such a Terrifying Villain? Comment Think back to the original Cape Fear from 1962, with silver screen greats Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum as the leads. The movie was the pinnacle of suspense in the early 60s’ (except Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho) with Mitchum’s Max Cady being the epitome of creepy. His sole intent was to terrorize the family of his former lawyer Sam Bowden, and succeeding, until Bowden pulls a gun and ends the reign of terror without further conflict. Bowden lives happily ever after, Cady goes back to prison, the end. Territory like that was only beginning to be approached in the early 60s’, and viewers were legitimately disturbed by the film’s content; in the era of creature-features and sock hops, the scariest monster was the human one. However, come 1991, the true definition of the human monster was returned to the big screen when Martin Scorcese brought back Cape Fear with Nick Nolte as Bowden and Robert De Niro as Cady. The remake took the extra steps that the original couldn’t, and as a result, the film was much grittier and darker as De Niro’s Cady stole the show with a very terrifying interpretation. “Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church, Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.” – Cady De Niro’s Cady was the perfect villainous specimen. He was lean and muscled from his time in prison, heavily tattooed, eloquently spoken, and (go figure) his heavy Southern accent was both charming and unsettling. But the most unsettling aspect was his intensity. Cady came out of prison a hardened convict bent on revenge. He wanted recompense for the lost years that he received courtesy of Bowden and he wasn’t afraid to cross that line. That’s what defines De Niro’s Cady as a villain. He wasn’t above invading the Bowdens. He invaded them personally, emotionally, mentally, and literally. He invaded their sense of peace, their security, their privacy, and even went as far as seducing Sam’s teenage daughter. He raped their sense of normalcy and forever changed their lives. He was a plague who made your skin crawl just by looking at him. The above clip is from the film’s climactic battle on board the Bowden family’s houseboat. As made obvious, De Niro’s Cady is nothing short of delightfully deranged. Of course, as made obvious in the film, Cady is also an idealist, and when an individual is on a warpath in the name of those ideals others would be hard pressed convincing them that what they are doing isn’t right. More from Horror Movies 12/27 - ‘Resident Evil: The Final Chapter’ Clips Brings On the Zombies Of course, that doesn’t mean we didn’t enjoy De Niro’s Cady. His performance made the film. Only De Niro could properly perform a character as psychotic as Cady. His performance was so in depth that he even playfully tormented Scorcese while in character. De Niro was committed to the role, going as far as having a dentist alter his teeth for the role as well as study the “Southern dialect” by recording a bunch of Southern people talking into a mic. Somehow, someway, everything in the South only adds an element of terror in films. With that being said, smart, ripped, tatted, Southern, and just outright psychotic, De Niro’s Cady is the epitome of a horror villain. He was nominated for an Oscar for his role as Cady, and that’s wasn’t for nothing. Weigh in below on your take of De Niro’s performance as Cady in Cape Fear.


What colour is the flesh of a cantaloupe melon?

Fresh Food Central - Cantaloupe Melon - Jersey Potatoes, the best spuds of the year - The finest potatoes in the world? Possibly? - English Apples - Our Lost Heritage - There are thousands of varieties of apples known, but less than 20 commonly sold in supermarkets, and typically less than 5 are common English apple varieties. - British Strawberries - where has all the taste gone? - Once one of the finest tastes in the fruit world, eagerly awaited every summer, the appeal of British Strawberries is not quite what it used to be... - Potato - An old classic and a staple food in many potatoes, how much do you know about potatoes? - Banana - A fruit as popular as it is versatile, how much do you really know about Bananas? You might think they're just yellow, but you can get blue and red ones too. Cantaloupe Melon Latin:Cucumis melo No fruit salad is complete without melon pieces - it'd be like Wimbledon without the strawberries! There are lots of different types of melon; honeydew, cantaloupe, charentais, galia, piel de sapo, and watermelon just to name but a few. This article concentres on Cantaloupe melons.   Store At: Best ripened at room temperature, but will store well for up to a week at 5-10°C Comes From: Warm humid temperate regions Seasonality: All year round Melons are members of a very wide family of trailing annual vines, which also includes squash, pumpkins and cucumbers. They have large broad leaves, stems covered in light prickles and small yellow flowers. The fruit themselves are soft fleshed with a central cavern containing seeds, all surrounded by a thick protective rind. There are two groups of melons available; watermelons and muskmelons. The watermelon group includes all varieties of watermelon, while the muskmelon group includes all other melons, including Honeydew melons. There are two groups of melons within muskmelons; smooth-skinned and netted, of which honeydew are smooth skinned. Muskmelons typically come into season during late summer and early Autumn. There are two different types of cantaloupe; true cantaloupes (Cucumis melo cantalupensis), and American Cantaloupes (Cucumis melo reticulatus). There seems to be some amount of argument in the differences; American Cantaloupes are actually a variety of muskmelon, and have a green-grey skin covered in grey netting. True cantaloupes are very similar, but only found in Europe. In Australia and New Zealand, Cantaloupes are called rock melons due to the rock-like nature of the netted skin. The most common variety is a cantaloupe with orange flesh. Other varieties do exist, with more red or yellow flesh but they are not common, and not as tasty as the common orange fleshed variety. How do you tell when a cantaloupe is ripe? Well, they should be very heavy for their size, and very fragrant. The stem end should also be slightly soft. If not, it can be kept at room temperature for a few days to ripen it up properly. Melons will ripen when taken off the plant (provided they are mature enough when picked), and can be ripened in a fruit bowl with bananas. Honeydew melons can be stored either at room temperature or in a refrigerator. They should be brought up to room temperature before eating to get the best taste, and if you want to cut it in half, the other half will store well in the refrigerator for about 3 days. Wrap it up well though, because melons are very aromatic and their smell may penetrate other foods. History The origin of the melon is difficult to pinpoint, with different views on whether they originated in Africa or Asia Minor. It is also difficult to pinpoint when they were first cultivated for food, since melon seeds are very similar to cucumber seeds and difficult to tell apart when found in archaeological digs. The earliest confirmed identifications are in India around 2,000BC, and Egypt about 2,400BC. It is impossible to distinguish what types of melons were around then however. It is almost certain that the melons grown then were not the ones we know now; the sweet, aromatic melons we eat were not around back then, and were probably more


What is the Japanese dish of (usually) beef and vegetables in soy sauce?

Beef Sukiyaki One-Pot Meal Recipe Fumiaki Yamazaki/The Image Bank/Getty Images Updated January 07, 2017. Sukiyaki is a type of nabe (Japanese hot pot) where deliciously thin-sliced beef is quickly seared, combined with a medley of other nourishing and tasty vegetables and other ingredients, and then simmered in a broth of sake, soy sauce and sugar. Sukiyaki is usually cooked at the table as you eat. The word "yaki" means "sautee" or "grill" in Japanese, and the meat is sauteed in the hot skillet. The main ingredient in sukiyaki is usually beef which is thinly sliced and simmered in a  soy sauce -based soup. Generally, sukiyaki is a winter dish and it is commonly found at bōnenkai, Japanese year-end parties. There are two main styles: the Kanto style from eastern Japan and Kansai style from western Japan. In the Kanto style, warishita (a mixture of sake, soy sauce, sugar, mirin and dashi) is poured and heated in a pot, then meat, vegetables and other ingredients are added and simmered together. In Kansai-style sukiyaki, meat is heated in the pot first. When the meat is almost cooked, sugar, sake and soy sauce are added, then vegetables and other ingredients are tossed in last. In both the Kanto and Kansai styles, raw eggs are used as a dipping sauce when eating sukiyaki and steamed rice with black sesame seeds is also served. Here's a recipe for sukiyaki in the Kanto or western Japanese style. Ingredients 1 pound thinly sliced beef, cut into bite-size pieces 1 package shirataki noodles (made from yam cakes) or cellophane noodles , washed and drained, cut into 3 inch lengths 8 shiitake mushrooms, stems removed 1 enoki mushroom, trimmed


What is the more commonly used name of cornichons?

What's The Deal With Cornichons? | The Kitchn What's The Deal With Cornichons? What's The Deal With Cornichons? Email No cheese or charcuterie plate is complete without cornichons for me; I must have these tart, pickled French gherkins with them. I love them with a Ploughman's lunch , and they are a traditional accompaniment to raclette . But I started wondering; are cornichons just pickled baby cucumbers, or are they a specific kind of cucumber that grows very small? Cornichons are about the size of your pinky finger, about an inch and half in length and less than a quarter inch in diameter. They're nubby and bumpy, tart and crunchy. The French call them cornichons, and they're sold under the same name in the US, but the English call them gherkins. These delicious little pickles are great on an appetizer plate, chopped up in deviled eggs, and added to sandwiches. Cornichons come from a few types of small-growing gherkin plants that are picked when quite young because as they grow more, the pimply nubbins become sharp spikes. Although they are similar to cucumbers, they are not true cucumbers. It's probably pretty difficult to find this particular type of small cucumber in markets in the US, but if you want to grow your own, these varieties are commonly used in France:


Which group was formed by Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty?

When Gerry Rafferty and Billy Connolly were The Humblebums | Dangerous Minds When Gerry Rafferty and Billy Connolly were The Humblebums 01.05.2011 Gerry Rafferty   In the mid-1960s, Billy Connolly formed a folk group with Tam Harvey called The Humblebums. Connolly sang, played guitar and banjo, while Harvey was accomplished Bluegrass guitarist. The duo made a name for themselves playing venues and bars around Glasgow, most notably The Old Scotia , the famous home to Scottish folk music, where Connolly would introduce each song with a humorous preamble, something that became his trademark, and later his career. In 1969, The Humblebums released their first album First Collection of Merry Melodies, it was soon after this that Gerry Rafferty joined the band. Rafferty had previously played with The Fifth Column, which also featured his future Stealer’s Wheel partner, Joe Egan, and had scored a minor hit “Benjamin Day” with the group. Rafferty’s arrival into The Humblebums changed the band’s direction and Harvey soon left. The New Humblebums, or Humblebums as most still called the pairing of Connolly and Rafferty, began to achieve far greater success with their mix of Rafferty’s plaintive vocals and melodies and Connolly’s upbeat tunes and fine guitar playing. That same year, the duo released their first record together and band’s second album, The New Humblebums. The album was a major-hit in Glasgow and was well-received nationally. Amongst its most notable tracks were Rafferty’s “Look Over the Hill & Far Away”, “Rick Rack”, “Her Father Didn’t Like Me Anyway” (later covered by Shane MacGowan and The Popes), “Patrick” and “Coconut Tree”. While Connolly contributed the single “Saturday Round About Sunday”, “Everyone Knows” and “Joe Dempsey”. The album’s famous cover painting was by fake “faux-naïf” painter Patrick, aka legendary playwright John Byrne , author of The Slab Boys, and subject of Rafferty’s song “Patrick”.. The Humbelbums’ success was compounded with the release of their next album, Open Up the Door, in 1970.  Here was Rafferty’s “Steamboat Row” (later covered by Stealer’s Wheel), “I Can’t Stop Now”, “Shoeshine Boy”, “Keep It To Yourself” and “My Singing Bird”; along with Connolly’s “Open Up the Door”, “Mother”, “Oh No” and “Cruisin’”. If this had been a Hollywood film, the next part of the story would be international success and world domination, but this was Glasgow, and Connolly and Rafferty wanted different things. Rafferty wanted to concentrate on the music, while Connolly was finding he was more interested in talking to the audience and being funny than performing as a folk-singer. A split was inevitable. Rafferty went to form Stealer’s Wheel with Joe Egan; while Connolly started his career as a comedian. In today’s press , Connolly is quoted as saying of his friend and former bandmate: “Gerry Rafferty was a hugely talented songwriter and singer who will be greatly missed. “I was privileged to have spent my formative years working with Gerry and there remained a strong bond of friendship between us that lasted until his untimely death. “Gerry had extraordinary gifts and his premature passing deprives the world of a true genius.”


Hughie Jones, Cliff Hall, Mick Groves and Tony Davis comprised which top folk line up?

Spinners star Cliff Hall was a true son of Liverpool - Liverpool Echo News Spinners star Cliff Hall was a true son of Liverpool Paddy Shennan speaks to the surviving members of The Spinners, as they pay tribute to friend and former bandmate Cliff Hall, who died yesterday  Share Cliff was a true son of his adopted city  Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email Paddy Shennan speaks to the surviving members of The Spinners, as they pay tribute to friend and former bandmate Cliff Hall, who died yesterday CLIFF Hall didn’t just make sweet music, he was the sweetest of individuals – a true gent and man of the people. And while he may have been born in Cuba and raised in Jamaica, he was proud to be known as an adopted Scouser. As one of the founder members of The Spinners, Cliff – who died yesterday, aged 82, at the home he shared with his third wife, Dottie, in Adelaide, Australia – helped popularise both folk music and Liverpool. He loved the city, and its people, with a passion, as demonstrated by a charming anecdote recalled by BBC Radio Merseyside presenter and author Spencer Leigh. “Cliff was a delightful guy,” says Spencer. “Wherever The Spinners performed, he would make a note of any Liverpool people in the audience who came up to speak to him afterwards – and later send them a Christmas card.” “Of his gentle style, he says: “The Spinners were known for their quite boisterous singing but Cliff brought them down a little with his quieter numbers.” Fellow former Spinner Tony Davis, 78, who lives in Wallasey, says: “Cliff was the gentlest, kindest man – one of the kindest men I have ever known. He was a great fella and one of my oldest friends.” Cliff, he says, will be remembered by everyone who knew him with great affection – which is exactly how music fans remember The Spinners, themselves. The group, affectionately known as “the other Fab Four”, consisted of Cliff, Tony, Hughie Jones and Mick Groves, while it became the Fab Five when John McCormick joined in the early 1970s. They released around 40 albums during their career, which ran from 1958 to 1988, and famously sang the Pete McGovern-penned classic In My Liverpool Home. And it is a tribute to The Spinners that they were claimed as sons of the city, despite Hughie being the only Liverpool-born member. Tony was born in Blackburn and moved here, aged 14, while Salford-born Mick says: “I think our strong Liverpool identity is actually a great tribute to the city. They call it a melting pot and we all melted together greatly.” Not least Cuban-born Cliff, who Mick, 71, describes as “a proper English gent – and my best friend. He always looked on the bright side and was always joking. “I last went over to see him in November and spoke to him last week. He’d just come out of hospital, but when I asked him about it he just laughed it off, saying ‘Who’s been putting these rumours about?’” He adds: “The last time I was in Australia he gave me his guitar, saying he couldn’t play it any more. It was a tremendous gesture which summed up the man. It’s the group’s 50th anniversary in October and it’s a terrible pity that Cliff didn’t make it.” Hughie Jones, 71, who still lives in Liverpool, says: “Cliff was my best man when my wife, Chris, and I got married in 1963. He was a great friend and we last saw him in Australia last July. We were due to go back in April, but he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and had his left lung removed in March. We last spoke to him last week – he will be greatly missed. “Today, it seems like the real end of The Spinners. While all the members were alive, there was always the chance we could get together again, as we did at the Everyman in 2005.” There can, sadly, be no more reunions. Instead, there are now plans for a memorial service for Cliff in Liverpool – which may, says Mick, take place in the anniversary month. Whenever it takes place, it will be a chance for people to sing a song and raise a glass for a true gentleman – in his Liverpool home. ‘On


What happened to the dog on the ship Irish Rover?

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