"What dish would you expect if you asked for ""funghi"" in an Italian restaurant?"

Pasta Brava Italian Restaurant Singapore Twitter Pasta Brava Italian Restaurant at Craig Road has been in the local scene for a long time. I’ve been told that they are worth a visit by many friends, but it took me until now to go there. I guess it’s better late than never, and I am really happy to tell you that it has joined the ranks of my favourite Italian restaurants in Singapore . It is a great place with a homely vibe. The lighting is dim and romantic, and the wall adornments give the restaurant a personal touch. The staff is equally well trained; friendly without being too intrusive, and they are very familiar with the offerings. The menu at Pasta Brava restaurant is divided into appetisers, salads, soups, pasta dishes, rice dishes, main dishes (fish), main dishes (meat) and desserts – with average price of each dish between $19-23 for the pasta/risotto, and $25-40 for the main dishes. We were feeling greedy, so we chose to forego the antipasti and share an additional main course instead. Amongst the three pasta/risotto that we had, my favourite was the Linguine Regina Del Mare ($23). It was savoury and sweet and filled with luxurious seafood like prawns, clams, scallops, squid, and crayfish. Easily one of the better Italian pastas that I’ve had recently. The Stracci Ai Gamberi E Capesante ($23), on the other hand, was average. Whilst the thin pieces of fresh pasta were good, the Saffron cream sauce was too overwhelming. They have only three risotto on the menu (mushroom, squid ink and mixed vegetables) and we were very tempted by the seafood and squid ink version. Eventually, we decided to play it safe and go for the mushroom risotto. Our choice was right as the Risotto Al Funghi Porcini ($23) proved to be very good. Rich yet not overpowering, moist yet not soggy, every grain of the arborio rice was flavourful and oh so delicious. The Tagliata Di Manzo Stile Toscano ($34), highly recommended by the staff, was fantastic! It was essentially thin slices of grilled beef sirloin with herbs, rocket leaves and parmesan flakes. I was not expecting much from it when the waiter brought the dish to our table. It was only when my friends took a bite and let out a satisfied sigh, then I realised what I was missing out (I was busy with the seafood linguine). We enjoyed it tremendously, you MUST order this if you go to Pasta Brava. Pasta Brava Italian Restaurant is not exactly very big, and when it’s crowded (especially during Friday and weekends), it can get quite noisy. Reservations are highly recommended. The prices here are what you’d expect from a good Italian restaurant, but the food here is definitely better than most. It is simple, hearty and very tasty. For more recommendations, read my list of Italian Restaurants in Singapore Singapore Food Blog Review


"Who played ""Sandy"" in the 1975 film ""Grease""?"

Grease (9/10) Movie CLIP - Sandy (1978) HD - YouTube Grease (9/10) Movie CLIP - Sandy (1978) HD Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Oct 10, 2011 Grease movie clips: http://j.mp/1BcPM13 Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: Danny (John Travolta) wanders the drive-in, heartbroken over Sandy. FILM DESCRIPTION: "Grease," said the poster and the Barry Gibb song, "is the word." Transferring its setting from Chicago to sunny California, and adding a dash of disco to the ersatz '50s score, producer Allan Carr and director Randal Kleiser turned this long-running Jim Jacobs-Warren Casey Broadway smash into the biggest blockbuster of 1978. 1950s teens Danny (John Travolta) and Australian transfer Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) spend their "Summer Nights" falling in love, but once fall comes, it's back to Rydell High and its cliques. As one of the bad-boy T-Birds, Danny has to act cool for best pal Kenickie (Jeff Conaway) and their leather-clad mates Sonny (Michael Tucci) and Doody (Barry Pearl, in the role Travolta played on-stage). Despite befriending Frenchy (Didi Conn), one of the rebel Pink Ladies, virginal Sandy is "too pure to be Pink," as the Ladies' leader, Rizzo (Stockard Channing), acidly observes. Declaring their devotion in such ballads as "Hopelessly Devoted to You" and "Sandy," Sandy and Danny split, reconcile, and split again amidst a pep rally, dances, drive-ins, and a drag race, before deciding "You're the One That I Want" at the climactic carnival. With Travolta white-hot from Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease soundtrack singles climbed the charts and summer movie crowds poured in. With the presence of Joan Blondell, Eve Arden, Sid Caesar, Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, and Frankie Avalon appealing to grown-up memories, Grease became the highest-grossing film of 1978, the highest-grossing movie musical ever, and the third most popular film of the new blockbuster '70s after Star Wars (1977) and Jaws (1975). Its sequel, Grease 2, did not exactly set the world on fire in 1982. CREDITS:


In a general election in 1990, the National League for Democracy party won 59% of the national votes and 80% of the seats in Parliament, but did not get into power. Which country was this?

What happened when Aung San Suu Kyi’s party last won an election in Burma - The Washington Post What happened when Aung San Suu Kyi’s party last won an election in Burma The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to know about new stories from PowerPost. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published. You’re all set! By Ishaan Tharoor By Ishaan Tharoor November 9, 2015 Follow @ishaantharoor Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, chairperson of the National League for Democracy, arrives at the party headquarters in Yangon, Burma, on Monday. (Dario Pignatelli/Bloomberg News) Results in Burma's general election so far indicate a major victory for the opposition National League for Democracy. The party, led by Nobel laureate and former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi, swept seats in Rangoon, the country's biggest city, and is confident of further victories as millions of votes cast on Sunday get counted. The election is the latest signpost along  Burma's long, fitful journey toward a genuine democracy. Even if Suu Kyi's NLD wins a good majority of seats in the country's parliament, it will have to contend with a bloc of lawmakers hand-picked by the military who will occupy a quarter of the assembly's seats. [ Burma’s election the first ‘real test’ of shift toward democracy ] For good reason, even with victory in sight, Suu Kyi cautioned supporters to wait for the final tally, which may take a few more days to emerge. They know from bitter experience what it feels like to have a democratic triumph cruelly turned into a defeat. The last time her party stood poised to clinch a dramatic electoral landslide, the result was nullified. In May 1990, Burma, also known as Myanmar, staged a general election, a vote that came in the wake of a dramatic pro-democracy uprising in 1988 that saw Suu Kyi emerge as a leader of those opposed to the country's military rule. In a context of martial law and extensive political repression, 93 parties contested the election. Suu Kyi, detained by authorities in 1989, was already under house arrest. Surprisingly, the vote itself was not manipulated. Turnout of 72 percent saw the NLD pick up about 60 percent of the vote — a mandate large enough to give the party control over 80 percent of Burma's legislature. But the ruling junta, known as the State Law and Order Restoration Council, did not hand over power to the people. Instead, it cracked down further on its opponents. Burma held a landmark election on Sunday, Nov. 8. Even though Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's political party is one of the most popular in the country, she won't become president. Here's why. (Jason Aldag and Andrew Katz/The Washington Post) My colleague William Branigin journeyed to Burma five months after the May election and reported on the mood of fear at the time, which included the stifling of certain Buddhist monasteries that were hotbeds for dissent. Contributing to the atmosphere is the Orwellian quality of many of the junta's actions and pronouncements. Large red billboards around Mandalay and Yangon proclaim slogans in Burmese and English such as "Crush All Destructive Elements" and "Observance of Discipline Leads to Safety." One, across the street from the U.S. Embassy, reads "Down With Minions of Colonialism." In an account of raids against six Mandalay monasteries Oct. 24, the official radio said the monks in charge "were full of smiles, happily permitting the searches because they were encouraged by the efforts being made through the use of power to purify the religion." "We are helpless without arms," an elderly Buddhist abbot told The Post then. An office worker from Rangoon lamented: "We're just like slaves right now. People just hate this government." In the city of Mandalay, famed for its myriad pagodas, Branigin was briefly detained as he investigated the crackdown on opposition monks. He painted the scene of a pariah state's long isolation: Today this former British colony seems a drab and fearful


US baseball player Pete Rose was accused in 1989 of (and he confessed in 2004 to) what, that has made him ineligible to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame?

MLB Hall of Fame: A-Rod’s actions hurt baseball more than Pete Rose : MLB : Sports World News Tags: mlb , MLB Hall of Fame , a-rod , Pete Rose Sign Up for Sports World News' Newsletter and never miss out on our most popular stories. Yankees 3B Alex Rodriguez is being accused by his cousin Yuri Sucart's wife of urinating in their home, and mocking his sick cousin. (Photo : Reuters) Pete Rose belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Alex Rodriguez deserves a lifetime suspension. So why is it that Rose is banned for life and Rodriguez gets a "slap on the wrist" with his one-year suspension? Rose, a three-time batting champion and baseball's all-time hits leader, was effectively banned from Major League Baseball for betting on the game as a manager in 1989. He admitted to betting on his own team, the Cincinnati Reds, but claimed to never bet against them. In 1991, the Baseball Hall of Fame agreed to ban Rose, as well as other ballplayers listed as "permanently ineligible."   Betting on baseball is a cardinal sin within the game. That has been well understood since Commissioner Landis banned eight members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox for throwing the World Series. Shoeless Joe Jackson, a career .356 hitter in 13 Major League seasons, was among the eight players banned. He would've easily made the Hall of Fame had it not been for the 1919 World Series incident.  Advertisement  However Rose's gambling never affected the outcome of a game. He never bet against his team and there is no proof he was gambling during his playing career. Therefore, it's idiotic to punish a man when there is nothing to tarnish his name. Pete Rose is being punished for betting on baseball. If that's the case, baseball may as well ban the entire state of Nevada from attending games. Rose bet on baseball. He never used drugs. Alex Rodriguez used drugs. Rodriguez lied about using drugs. Rodriguez then admitted to using drugs and promised never to use them again.  "Back then, baseball was a different culture," Rodriguez told Peter Gammons in a 2009 interview. "It was very loose. I was young. I was stupid. I was naive. And I wanted to prove to everyone that I was worth being one of the greatest players of all time. I did take a banned substance. And for that, I am very sorry and deeply regretful." I guess "sorry" doesn't last forever in the mind of Alex Rodriguez. He lied. If Rodriguez were sorry, then his role in the Biogenesis scandal would not exist.     CBS aired a special edition of 60 Minutes last month, interviewing Anthony Bosch, the man who ran the infamous Biogenesis clinic, and Rob Manfred, the Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball. During the interview, Bosch revealed he first met Rodriguez in 2010 at a Miami hotel. It was a few days before Rodriguez hit his 600th career home run at Yankee Stadium.  Bosch said Rodriguez wanted to obtain performance-enhancing drugs and learn how to bypass the "system" of Major League Baseball's drug tests. Cheating and bypassing the system hardly sound like the actions of an apologetic man seeking redemption.  Bosch also stated in the interview how his life was threatened multiples times if he didn't comply with Alex Rodriguez's associates. These threats reportedly took place after Major League Baseball discovered Bosch's Biogenesis clinic. While the threats didn't come from Rodriguez himself Boesch says no associate of Rodriguez does anything without Rodriguez's consent. What type of example is Rodriguez sending to future baseball players? By his actions, Rodirguez is showing it's OK to take drugs, cheat the system, lie about it and tarnish the legacies of others. Baseball has always been a game of honor.  Steroid users, such as Rodriguez, have done nothing but destroy the foundation baseball built itself on. Baseball is the essence of hard work and fair play, where warriors compete against one another, while at the same time maintaining a level of respect for each other. Rodriguez and his steroid use is destroying the game. Rose bet on baseball, something far less destructive than drug use. "As you kno


"What constellation is sometimes called ""the Chained Lady"", ""the Chained Woman"" ""Perseus's wife"" or ""Cepheus's daughter""?"

Andromeda (constellation) Facts for Kids | KidzSearch.com Visible at latitudes between + 90 ° and − 40 ° Best visible at 21:00 (9 p.m.) during the month of November Andromeda Constellation chart Andromeda is a constellation in the northern sky. It is named after the princess Andromeda in Greek mythology . It is sometimes called "the Chained Lady" or "the Chained Woman" in English. [1] It has also been called Persea ("Perseus's wife") [1] or Cepheis ("Cepheus's daughter"). [1] The astronomer named Ptolemy listed Andromeda when he made a list of 48 constellations. It is also one of the 88 constellations made by the International Astronomical Union . [2] The Andromeda Galaxy is inside Andromeda, so it has the same name. It is the closest spiral galaxy to Earth. [3] The brightest star in Andromeda is called Alpha Andromedae, which is a binary star . [4] References


Which moon of Jupiter is named after a divine hero in Greek mythology whose homeland was Troy who was abducted by Zeus in the form of an eagle to serve as cupbearer to the gods and as Zeus's beloved?

Ganymede (mythology) | Myths of the World Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Myths of the World Wiki File:Bust Ganymede Louvre Ma535.jpg In Greek mythology , Ganymede, or Ganymedes ( Greek : Γανυμήδης, Ganymēdēs), is a divine hero whose homeland was Troy . He was a prince, son of the eponymous Tros of Dardania and of Callirrhoe , and brother of Ilus and Assaracus . Ganymede was the most attractive of mortals, which led Zeus to abduct him, in the form of an eagle, to serve as cup-bearer to the gods and, in Classical and Hellenistic Greece, as Zeus's eromenos . For the etymology of his name, Robert Graves ' The Greek Myths offers ganyesthai + medea, "rejoicing in virility". The word " catamite " (boy kept by a pederast ) is derived from Ganymede. One of the moons of Jupiter is named after him, and was discovered by Galileo Galilei . Contents Edit Ganymede was abducted by Zeus from Mount Ida in Phrygia , the setting for more than one myth element bearing on the early mythic history of Troy . [1] Ganymede was there, passing the time of exile many heroes undergo in their youth, by tending a flock of sheep or, alternatively, during the chthonic or rustic aspect of his education, while gathering among his friends and tutors. Zeus, either sending an eagle or turning himself to an eagle transported Ganymede to Mount Olympus . His father was mollified by the gift of fine horses: in the Iliad , the Achaean Diomedes is keen to capture the horses of Aeneas : "They are of the stock that great Jove gave to Tros in payment for his son Ganymede, and are the finest that live and move under the sun." [2] File:Ganyrubn.jpg As a Trojan , Ganymede is identified as part of the earliest, pre- Hellenic level of Aegean myth. Plato 's Laws states the opinion that the Ganymede myth had been invented by the Cretans– Minoan Crete being a power center of pre-Greek culture – to account for " pleasure [...] against nature " [3] imported thence into Greece, as Plato's character indignantly declares. Homer doesn't dwell on the erotic aspect of Ganymede's abduction, but it is certainly in an erotic context that the goddess refers to Ganymede's blond Trojan beauty in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, mentioning Zeus's love for Trojan Ganymede as part of her enticement of Trojan Anchises . The Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes presents a vignette (in Book III) of an immature Ganymede furious for having been cheated at knucklebones by Eros . Aphrodite then arrives and chides her son, Eros, for "cheating a beginner." The Roman poet Ovid adds vivid detail - and veiled irony directed against critics of homosexual love: aged tutors reaching out to grab him back with impotent fingers, and Ganymede's hounds barking uselessly at the sky. [4] [5] Statius ' Thebaid describes a cup worked with Ganymede's iconic mythos (1.549): "Here the Phrygian hunter is borne aloft on tawny wings, Gargara ’s range sinks downwards as he rises, and Troy grows dim beneath him; sadly stand his comrades; vainly the hounds weary their throats with barking, pursue his shadow or bay at the clouds." In Olympus, Zeus granted him immortality and the office of cupbearer to the gods, supplanting Hebe . J.A.Edm. Veckenstedt (Ganymedes, Libau, 1881) endeavoured to prove that Ganymede is the genesis of the intoxicating drink mead , whose original home was Phrygia. All the gods were filled with joy to see the youth, except for Hera , Zeus's consort, who detested Ganymede. In a possible alternative version, the Titan Eos , dawn-goddess and connoisseur of male beauty, kidnapped Ganymede as well as her better-remembered consort, his brother Tithonus , whose immortality was granted, but not eternal youth. Tithonus indeed lived forever but grew more and more ancient, eventually turning into a cricket, a classic example of the myth-element of the Boon with a Catch. Tithonus is placed in the Dardanian lineage through Tros , an eponym for Troy, as Ganymede. Robert Graves [6] interpreted the substitution of Ganymede for Tithonus in a few references to the myth as a misreading of an archaic icon that would have sho


Basel, Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Mainz, Koblenz, Bonn, Cologne and Dsseldorf are on which river?

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Ansel Adams and Terence Donovan were prominent in what field?

Ansel Adams | David SheffDavid Sheff By Lillie on July 2, 2005 This article was first published in March 1983. A candid conversation with America’s “photographer laureate” and environmentalist about art, natural beauty and the unnatural acts of Interior Secretary James Watt. The Citation of the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded him by President Jimmy Carter in 1980 probably says it best: At one with the power of the American landscape and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country’s wild and scenic areas, both on film and on earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature’s movement, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans. As America’s photographer laureate, Ansel Adams has made contributions to a relatively young art form that are hard to measure. Since he took his first snapshot in Yosemite National Park with a Kodak Brownie box camera in 1916, he has worked with the rapidly changing medium, developing his ability to create stunning images with light, film and creative vision. When he began, photography was mostly a hobbyist’s novelty; on a climbing expedition, he snapped photos of his companions and the place at which they set up camp for the night. But he soon realized that photographs could be more: They could capture his emotion, a greater vision, rather than simply record a scene. As he learned the craft necessary to accomplish that creative photography, his hobby became a fine art. Since then, many of his images, particularly those of California’s Sierra Nevada range and the U.S. Southwest, are among the best known in photography. More than 1,000,000 copies of his books, including portfolios and a technical series, have been sold, and more than 5000 students have attended his workshops. In addition, his revolutionary Zone System of exposure calculation is now virtually a prerequisite to any serious study of photography. But the proof, of course, is in the prints, and Adam’s are remarkable for the variety of emotions they can convey to a wide public: His “Aspens, Northern New Mexico” evokes serenity; “Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley” suggests rebirth; “Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Sequoia National Park” suggests a kind of mysticism; “Monolith, the Face of Half Dome” reveals, beyond the power of the granite mass, both passion and a sense of purpose; and his most famous photograph, “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico,” is still ominous and chilling nearly half a century after it was taken. Adams’ frequent trips to photograph the mountains and the coast line, rocks in a stream or the sunlight on an oak stump were part of his passionate love for the natural world. But over the years, he saw the wilderness threatened and the natural resources depleted, so became increasingly supportive of–then vociferously active in–the movement to protect America’s land, air and water. He served on the board of the Sierra Club for 37 years. “It’s hard to tell which has shaped the other more, Ansel Adams or the Sierra Club,” David Brower, first executive director of the club, has said. Although Adams quit the club in the early Seventies, his environmentally related activity has been increasingly vigorous. The current Administration in Washington has incited his considerable anger; in President Reagan’s policies, he perceives “the greatest threat to our environment ever.” He writes letters of protest on his word processor, telephones politicians and fires up others to work in the environmental movement. His attacks on Reagan’s Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, have received so much attention that Watt was asked about the “thunderous denunciations of his policies by Ansel Adams.” Watt replied with a shrug, “Ansel Adams never took a picture with a human being in it in his life.” Adams’ friend photographer James Alinder responded, “James Watt is no better historian of photo


"Who plays Meredith Grey in the US TV series ""Grey's Anatomy""?"

Ellen Pompeo - IMDb IMDb Actress | Soundtrack | Producer Ellen Kathleen Pompeo was born in Everett, Massachusetts, to Kathleen B. (O'Keefe) and Joseph E. Pompeo, a salesman. She is of Italian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish, and some English, ancestry. Pompeo made her major studio screen debut in Brad Silberling 's Moonlight Mile (2002), starring alongside Susan Sarandon , Dustin Hoffman and Jake ... See full bio » Born: Share this page: Related News a list of 24 people created 03 Sep 2012 a list of 22 people created 20 Dec 2013 a list of 35 people created 08 Feb 2015 a list of 32 people created 19 Apr 2015 a list of 28 people created 7 months ago Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Ellen Pompeo's work have you seen? User Polls Nominated for     1     Golden Globe. Another    5 wins & 11 nominations. See more awards  » Known For Grey's Anatomy Dr. Meredith Grey (2005-2017)  2001 The Job (TV Series) Sue  2001 Strong Medicine (TV Series) Quincy Dunne  2000 Get Real (TV Series) Nina Adler  1996-2000 Law & Order (TV Series) Laura Kendrick / Jenna Weber - Fools for Love (2000) ... Laura Kendrick - Savior (1996) ... Jenna Weber  1999 Strangers with Candy (TV Series) Lizzie Abrams  2011 Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Song Beneath the Song (2011) ... (performer: "Running on Sunshine", "How To Save A Life" - uncredited) Hide   2002 Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen (TV Short documentary) (special thanks) Hide   2011-2016 Good Morning America (TV Series) Herself - Guest / Herself / Herself - Grey's Anatomy  2008-2016 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Series) Herself - Guest / Herself  2006-2016 Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) Herself  2015 Repeat After Me (TV Series) Herself  2014 The Insider (TV Series) Herself - Grey's Anatomy  2013 The View (TV Series) Herself  2012 Chelsea Lately (TV Series) Herself - Guest  2011 The Marriage Ref (TV Series) Herself - Contestant  2007 Anatomía Unplugged (TV Movie documentary) Herself  2005-2007 Live! with Kelly (TV Series) Herself  2006 Celebrity Debut (TV Movie) Herself  2006 ABC News Nightline (TV Series) Herself  2003 'Old School' Orientation (Video short) Herself  2016 From the Start! (TV Series) Luna Personal Details Other Works: Voice-over for Propel Fitness Water 'TV commercials. Her line comes at the end of the commercial: "Fit has a feeling. And a water. Propel. The fitness water.". (2007) See more » Publicity Listings: 3 Interviews | 9 Articles | 26 Magazine Cover Photos | See more » Height: Did You Know? Personal Quote: On her character Meredith Grey - 'She's smart enough to make her way through medical school but she can't figure out that she can't sleep with strangers all the time.' See more » Trivia: Married to music producer Chris Ivery . After they started dating they learned that they both grew up in Boston, 10 miles from each other. See more » Nickname:


What was the name of the last of the six space shuttles that was built?

History Of Space Shuttles: Remembering the fleet of U.S. space planes - 1981-2011 Remembering the fleet of U.S. space planes – 1981-2011 Space shuttle Challenger in orbit above Earth in 1983 In the beginning. The U.S. Air Force came up with the first concept for a winged spacecraft – a space shuttle – in 1962. The Air Force had its B-52 bomber and an experimental rocket plane known as X-15. The idea was to bolt an unmanned X-15 to the top of a B-52 and fly it as high as the plane could go. From that altitude, near space, the pilot would launch the unmanned rocket plane. The X-15 would continue on to space, drop off a satellite in orbit and fly back down to Earth. While the X-15 didn't fly to space, didn't drop a satellite, and the Air Force shelved the plan in 1965, the idea of a reusable space shuttle hung around. Forerunners. A number of experimental prototypes were flown before the American shuttle fleet was built, including the X-15 which was tested from 1959-1968. X-15 was a 50-ft. rocket aircraft launched 199 times from under the wing of a converted B-52. It flew at speeds up to Mach 6.7, reaching an altitude of 67 miles in 1963. Fastest was 4,534 mph in 1967. Among a dozen X-15 pilots was Neil Armstrong who later became the first man on the Moon and Joe Engle who flew an actual space shuttle. The X-20, flown from 1960-1963, was a design for a small military suborbital and orbital shuttlecraft called Dynasoar. It was to be launched by Titan 1 rocket, but never was flown. It was cancelled in 1963 as too expensive. Asset was the name for half a dozen launches in 1963-1965 of small Dynasoar models testing aerodynamics and thermal protection. M2 was a lifting body testing shuttle handling at trans-sonic speeds from 1966-1967. It flew in 1966, crashed in 1967, and was rebuilt for more tests. Prime was the name for three launches of maneuverable lifting bodies in 1966-1967 to near-orbital speeds. HL-10 was a manned lifting body testing shuttle handling at trans-sonic speeds in the 1960's. X-24a was a manned lifting body testing shuttle handling at trans-sonic speeds in the 1970's. X-24b was manned lifting body tests of handling at trans-sonic speeds. It flew 36 times in 1973-1975 with some landings simulating shuttle landings on concrete runways at Edwards Air Force Base. Apollo. Meanwhile, NASA had enjoyed large budgets during the 1960's space race and wanted to continue into the 1970's, expanding Project Apollo into an Apollo Applications Program. AAP would have built a space station in Earth orbit as a pit stop for astronauts on their way to the Moon and Mars. But, after six spectacular manned Apollo landings on the Moon, much of NASA's money dried up. Many politicians said space spectaculars were unnecessary since the U.S. had won the race. Forced to choose, NASA cancelled three Moon landing flights and built one space station. The name AAP was changed to Skylab and the station was launched to Earth orbit in 1973. Astronauts were shipped to the station separately in 1973, in three groups of three each in left-over Apollo Moon capsules. NASA drew up plans for a larger space station, but sharply reduced space budgets again forced tough decisions. The first Skylab was not used after just three visits and plans for the second Skylab were dumped. Shuttle. NASA decided a reusable space transportation system was needed to carry men and equipment to orbit, so the limited amount of money available was switched to designing and building space shuttles. Eventually, six shuttles were built, starting with Enterprise in 1974, and dozens of week-long spaceflights have been made since 1981 (all flights are listed below). NASA never again enjoyed the powerful budgets it commanded in the 1960's. In 1984, U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced a NASA project to build a permanently-manned space station in Earth orbit within 10 years. The station was to be named Freedom and Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency were to build major parts of the project. But, like AAP back around 1970, Freedom station was opposed vigorously by some


The US Civil War was fought between the Union Army and which other?

Who Fought? Who Fought? The Union Soldier | The Confederate Soldier   Unidentified Union volunteer with shouldered rifle and bayonet, ca. 1860-1865 (Library of Congress) The tragedy of the Civil War is summed up in the phrase “brother against brother.” Northern soldiers and Southern soldiers were very much alike—from their backgrounds, to their education, to their courage and loyalty.  The Union Soldier Most of the Union Army was made up of young white men born in North America. Although soldiers generally ranged in age from 18 to 45, boys as young as 12 often served as cavalry buglers or drummer boys, and some men in their fifties and sixties enlisted as privates. Most of the Union soldiers were under 30. While almost half of the Union soldiers had been farmers before joining the Army, the others represented a wide variety of expertise and occupations. Hailing from the industrial cities of the North, they ranged from unskilled laborers to engineers, hairdressers, mechanics, and even college professors. Their education and schooling was just as diverse. Soldiers with university degrees marched beside men who could neither read nor write. In general, however, most of the Union forces had had at least some schooling. Maybe as much as a quarter of the Union Army was made up of foreigners—men who had not been born in America. Of these, the largest group was the Germans, followed by the Irish, Canadians, and English. Other nationalities represented in the army included Scandinavians, Swiss, French, Italians, Mexicans, and Poles. Often, regiments would be formed consisting entirely of men from one of these countries. The polyglot nature of the Northern forces could sometimes create confusion when officers barked orders in several languages. Additional Resources Additional Images Overwhelmingly, Union soldiers were white. It was not until May 22, 1863 that the U.S. War Department established the Bureau of Colored Troops enabling black men to serve as soldiers. (Black men had been assisting the army in other official capacities such as constructing entrenchments or performing camp duty or other labor since the Second Confiscation and Militia Act of July 17, 1862.) By the end of the war, 178,975 enlisted men served in the U.S. Army as members of the U.S. Colored Troops. In addition, three regiments of Native Americans, the Indian Home Guard, fought for the Union in the western theater of the war. Interestingly, over 400 women dressed as men and served in the army. Many of them, like Jennie Hodgers who served in the 95th Illinois as Albert Cashier, were not revealed to be women until after the war was over.  The Confederate Soldier Member of the 35th Virginia Battalion (Library of Congress) Like the Union Army, most Confederate soldiers were under 30. Young boys under 18 sometimes worked as drummer boys. Some, cadets at Southern military academies like the Virginia Military Institute, used their skills as drillmasters to train raw recruits. The VMI cadets even fought in one engagement at the Battle of New Market , May 15, 1864, under the leadership of one of their professors. More than half the Confederate soldiers were farmers, although only a very small percentage of them owned slaves. The others came from many different types of jobs: carpenters, clerks, blacksmiths, students, etc. While as diverse as the Union forces, their occupations—due to the South’s regional focus on agriculture rather than industry—were not as technologically specialized. As in the Northern army, the Southern soldiers had educational backgrounds that ranged from university degrees to illiteracy. Cavalry and artillery regiments attracted wealthier and more highly educated men than infantry units in the South, and a Confederate foot soldier was more likely to be illiterate than his Union counterpart. Foreigners—men not born in America—also fought for the South. The largest group was the Irish, followed by Germans, British, French, Poles, and Canadians. Texas also contributed Mexican troops. It is not certain how many foreigners fought for the Confederacy,


In online gaming, what is the term for a multi-user real-time virtual world described in text that combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, interactive fiction, and online chat that were the forerunners of modern games like World of Warcraft, and social virtual worlds such as Second Life?

What is a MUD? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In online gaming, a MUD (multi-user dungeon), pronounced /m^d/, is a multi-user real-time virtual world described entirely in text. It combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, interactive fiction, and online chat. Players can read descriptions of rooms, objects, other players, non-player characters, and actions performed in the virtual world. Players interact with each other and the world by typing commands that resemble a natural language. Traditional MUDs implement a fantasy world populated by fictional races and monsters, with players being able to choose from a number of classes in order to gain specific skills or powers. The object of this sort of game is to slay monsters, explore a fantasy world, complete quests, go on adventures, create a story by roleplaying, and advance the created character. Many MUDs were fashioned around the dice rolling rules of the Dungeons & Dragons series of games. Such fantasy settings for MUDs are common, while many others are set in a science fiction.based universe or themed on popular books, movies, animations, history, and so on. Not all MUDs are games; some, more typically those referred to as MOOs, are used in distance education or for virtual conferences. MUDs have attracted the interest of academic scholars from many fields, including communications, sociology, law, and synthetic economies. Most MUDs are run as hobbies and are free to players; some may accept donations or allow players to purchase virtual items, while others charge a monthly subscription fee. MUDs can be accessed via standard telnet clients, or specialized MUD clients which are designed to improve the user experience. Numerous games are listed at various web portals, like The Mud Connector. It has been argued that modern games like World of Warcraft, and social virtual worlds such as Second Life can have their origins traced back to the early MUDs.[1] Originally graphical virtual worlds were called graphical MUDs, most notably Everquest, but by 2000 the term MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) had become the standard.[2] The MMORPG RuneScape started out as a text-based MUD before graphics were added.[3][4] Many MUDs are still active and a number of influential MMORPG designers, such as Raph Koster, Brad McQuaid,[5] Mark Jacobs, Brian Green, and J. Todd Coleman, began as MUD developers and/or players.


"In Jane Austen's ""Pride and Prejudice"", what was Mr Darcy's first name?"

Fitzwilliam Darcy | The Jane Austen Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit Eventually, Mr. Darcy declared his love for Elizabeth and proposed; yet, while expressing his ardent love, he reminded her of the large gap in their social status. Elizabeth was offended and vehemently refused him, expressing her reasons for disliking him, including her knowledge of his interference with Jane and Bingley and the account she received from Mr. Wickham of Darcy's alleged unfair treatment toward him. Further insulted by Darcy's hurt retorts, Elizabeth claimed that the manner in which he proposed to her prevented her from feeling concern for him she "might have felt had [he] behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner". Darcy departed in anger and mortification and, that night, penned a letter to Elizabeth in which he defended his honor, revealed the motives for his interference in Jane and Bingley's relationship, and gave a thorough account of his lifelong dealings with Wickham, who attempted to seduce and elope with Darcy's younger sister, Georgiana , the previous summer. After at all he fall in love of Elizabeth. Realizations and visit at Pemberley Edit Although initially angered by Elizabeth's vehement refusal and harsh criticism, Darcy was surprised to discover the reality of how his behaviour was perceived by others, particularly Elizabeth, and commited himself to re-evaluating his actions. A few months later, Darcy unexpectedly encountered Elizabeth during her visit to his estate in Derbyshire with her aunt and uncle. Elizabeth was first embarrassed to be discovered at Pemberley, having only visited on the belief that Darcy was absent; however, she was surprised to discover a marked change in Darcy's manner. In response to Elizabeth's criticism and due to his subsequent realizations, Darcy was determined to display the "gentlemanlike manner" she accused him of lacking, and astonished her with his kindness towards both her and her relations. Confronting Wickham and finding Lydia Edit Although he attempted to keep her unaware of his involvement, Darcy claims that he acted not to gain Elizabeth's gratitude—but rather to ease her distress. Darcy also did so because he felt himself partially responsible for the event, in failing to warn both the Bennet family and the public of Wickham's true character. It is hinted that Darcy's intervention to help Elizabeth cost him as much as a year's income; in addition, to find Lydia he had to confront Wickham, which was hardly an agreeable experience for either. Second proposal Edit Mr. Darcy and Lizzy Bennet Darcy then released Mr. Bingley to return to Longbourn and woo Jane, accepting his misjudgement of her character. At Longbourn, upon discovering that Elizabeth reciprocated his feelings, Darcy proposed to Elizabeth again, who accepted him. The couple reflected on their mistakes, and Darcy thanked Elizabeth for showing him the error of his ways: "By you, I was properly humbled." Personality Edit His manners drew the contempt of many in Meryton as they perceived him as proud, sanctimonious and inconsiderate due to his status. He is shown to be cold and aloof, with such a temperament being misconstrued as sheer arrogance. The narrator describes him as clever but also as "haughty, reserved, and fastidious," with manners that, "though well bred, were not inviting." His distant manner and apparent contempt for those around him earned the disdain of Elizabeth and many others, particularly in light of the claims of the charming George Wickham —that he was wronged by Darcy, however, it is eventually revealed that these first impressions were erroneous: Darcy's seemingly arrogant character masked a sincerely generous and upright nature, and it was Darcy, in fact, who was wronged, by Wickham, whose own character is revealed to be untrustworthy and duplicitous. As the novel progresses, Darcy is eventually revealed to be a conscientious landlord who is generous, kind and unselfish, a caring brother, a good friend - his impulsive interference between Jane and Bingley was motivated by genuine concern for his frie


Which dog appears in comics with Shaggy, Fred, Velma & Daphne?

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What name is given to the list of all the accounts contained in the ledger of a business and their values, from which most financial reports are produced?

Maintaining Your General Ledger | BizFilings Toolkit Maintaining Your General Ledger Filed under Bookkeeping. Fact checked on May 24, 2012. Article Tools Share Share The general ledger reflects a permanent summary of all your supporting journals, such as the sales and cash receipts journal and the cash disbursements journal. Closing your books and maintaining your general ledger should be one of your top priorities. Business Tools Read more about Bookkeeping » It terms of  your company's books, it all boils down to the general ledger.  This accounting-must functions as a permanent summary of all your supporting journals, such as the sales and cash receipts journal and the cash disbursements journal . In addition, your financial statements are built from the general ledger. Tools for Keeping an Accurate General Ledger For each account title shown on your sales and cash receipts journal columns and your cash disbursements journal columns, there is a general ledger account. There are also separate general ledger accounts for miscellaneous items that don't have their own column in the journals, but are entered in a "miscellaneous" column. For example, Cash, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Sales, Purchases, Telephone Expense and Owner's Equity are all examples of general ledger accounts. Your accounting software will reserve space in the general ledger for each general ledger account. The individual entries in the general ledger are always from the total columns of your supporting journals. When all journal entries are posted, you can arrive at the ending balance for each account. The sum of all general ledger debit balances should always equal the sum of all general ledger credit balances. Suggested General Ledger Accounts We've provided a list of common general ledger accounts many businesses find useful. Depending on your type of business, you will use many, but probably not all, of these account names. When you set up your accounting software, you'll want to include all applicable accounts. On your financial statements, they should generally be placed in the order shown. Balance Sheet Accounts wages Tip Have you been running your business for a while and are just now trying to take over some of the basic bookkeeping? If you've had financial statements prepared by an accountant in the past, look at last year's balance sheet and income statement . You can get started by setting up general ledger accounts for each account title shown on those financial statements. Closing the Books at the End of an Accounting Period  When you reach the end of an accounting period, hold off a second before pouring the bubbly: you still need to "close the books."  At a minimum, you will close your books annually because you have to file an income tax return every year. If you are having financial statements prepared, you will want them done at least annually. However, annual financial statements may not be enough to help you keep tabs on your business. You may want financial statements monthly, bi-monthly or quarterly. Even if you are not having financial statements prepared, you may want to close your books monthly. Sending out customer statements, paying your suppliers, reconciling your bank statement, and submitting sales tax reports to the state are probably some of the tasks you need to do every month. You may find it easier to do these if you close your books. How to Close Your Books After you finish entering the day-to-day transactions in your journals, you are ready to close the books for the period. A step-by-step description of how to close the books follows. How many of the steps you do yourself depends on how much of the accounting you want to do, and how much you want to pay your accountant to do. Of course, using the proper accounting software will consolidate many of these steps. Post entries to the general ledger. Transfer the account totals from your journals ( sales and cash receipts journal  and  cash disbursements journal ) to your general ledger accounts. Total the general ledger accounts. By footing the general le


"In the James Bond film ""From Russia with Love"" who played Bond girl Tatiana Romanova?"

Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi) Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. Tatiana Romanova From Russia with Love (video game) Tatiana "Tania" Romanova ( Russian : Татьяна Романова) is a fictional Soviet army corporal who acts as bait in a plot to exact revenge on 007. Based on the character of the same name from Ian Fleming 's 1957 novel , Tania appeared in the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love and was played by Italian actress  Daniela Bianchi , voiced by Barbara Jefford . The character would later appear in the film's 2005 video-game adaptation , voiced by Kari Wahlgren with the likeness of Bianchi. Contents [ show ] Film biography A corporal in Soviet Army Intelligence, Tatiana Romanova is assigned to work in the Soviet Embassy in Istanbul , Turkey as a cipher clerk. She originally intended to be a ballerina, but she had to drop out because she was just one inch too tall to qualify. She has a number of friends and is very popular, though she has had only three lovers. She likes the look of Bond, and when she sees him face-to-face she comments, "You're even nicer than your photograph", to which 007 replies "You're the most beautiful girl I have ever seen." Her commanding officer is Rosa Klebb — in the screenplay adaptation, she is secretly an agent for SPECTRE — who manipulates her into believing that she is on an important mission for her country, when she is in fact merely a pawn in the terrorist organization's latest bid to humiliate and scandalize the British Secret service. As with the novel, Romanova is a very dedicated woman, loyal to her country and eager to participate in what she believes is an important mission. She does, however, hesitate when she is required to meet Colonel Klebb, a mean and wicked woman who loves to play with the psyches of her prisoners by torturing them and then, when lost in pain, caressing them in a motherly way. Romanov fears Klebb and suffers when she reports to her for the first time, where she is interrogated by Klebb. After being told that her life depends on accepting the mission, she receives her briefing, a "true labor of love", according to Klebb. Once in Istanbul, she contacts Ali Kerim Bey and tells him her plans: she would willingly defect from the Soviet Union and take with her the precious Lektor only if James Bond assisted the operation. She claimed that she had fallen in love with the man from a picture she had seen in a secret file and wanted to live with him. James Bond meets Tanya. Both M and Bond believe this to be a trap, but the prize was high enough to go for it. They react just as the main brain behind the plot, chess champion Kronsteen , predicted. Bond then flies to Istanbul and contacts Bey. While they wait for the girl to show up, they spy on the Soviet headquarters and become involved in a racial dispute between a Gypsy tribe commanded by Vavra , and a gang of Bulgarian thieves lead by Krilencu , an old enemy of Bey. After the battle at the camp, Bond returns to his hotel room and finds Romanova walking naked across the room and getting into his bed, wearing only a black velvet choker. They make love but are secretly filmed by Klebb's minions via a one-way mirror. This tape is explicitly planned to be used to embarrass MI6 and humiliate Bond in revenge for the death of Dr. No . After meeting her again to verify the authenticity of her information, they blow up the Soviet embassy in Istanbul to cover their escape. With the help of Bey, they board the Orient Express and depart for Trieste and the Italian frontier. As a part of Kronsteen's strategy, the SPECTRE assassin Donald 'Red' Grant kills Bey and the KGB agent following them. Bond contacts Grant, who is pretending to be an agent named Nash . After sedating Romano


Which car maker has marketed models called Passat and Golf?

2017 VW Passat - Midsize Sedan | Volkswagen Dramatization. Features not available on select models. This feature has front sensors to help monitor traffic and can alert you to a possible collision with the vehicle ahead. If a collision is imminent, Autonomous Emergency Braking (included in Front Assist) can help brake the car. 13 The Forward Collision Warning system (included in Front Assist) has sensors in the front to help monitor traffic and can alert you to a potential collision with the vehicle ahead. If a collision is imminent, Autonomous Emergency Braking (included in Front Assist) can help brake the car. 14 Dramatization. Features not available on select models. The sensors on the available Blind Spot Monitor feature are able to sense what you might miss. When driving, if you attempt to change lanes, the Blind Spot Monitor can help alert you to other cars that may be in your blind spot. 15 The sensors on the available Blind Spot Monitor feature are able to sense what you might miss. When driving, if you attempt to change lanes, the Blind Spot Monitor can help alert you to other cars that may be in your blind spot. 16 Dramatization. Features not available on select models. This available feature comes in handy when you’re backing up. It has sensors that can alert you to vehicles crossing in your path when in reverse and even brake for you if needed. 17 The available Rear Traffic Alert comes in handy when you’re backing up. It has sensors that can alert you to vehicles crossing in your path when in reverse and even brake for you if needed. 18 Dramatization. Features not available on select models. When moving, the available Lane Departure Warning (Lane Assist) can sense if you start to drift into another lane without using the turn signal. It will help steer to keep you in the correct lane. 19 When moving, the available Lane Departure Warning (Lane Assist) can sense if you start to drift into another lane without using the turn signal. It will help steer to help keep you in the correct lane. 20 Dramatization. Features not available on select models. This available feature can judge if a parking spot is big enough for your car. Then, it will help you steer the vehicle into the space. You operate the accelerator, brake, and shifter, and the car does the rest. 21 The available Parking Steering Assistant (Park Assist) can judge if a parking spot is big enough for your Volkswagen. Then it will help steer the vehicle into the space. You operate the accelerator, brake, and shifter; it does the rest. 22 Dramatization. Features not available on select models. This available feature helps maintain a preset distance from the car in front of you. If the car in front of you speeds up or slows down, the sensors detect the change and your car adjusts speed to follow suit. 23 The available Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) helps maintain a preset distance from the car in front of you. If the car in front of you speeds up or slows down, the sensors detect the change and your car follows suit. 24 Dramatization. Features not available on select models. This available feature has sensors that can help you back out of or drive into a parking spot. Alerts signal to you how much space you have in front and back when parking. If you get too close, it will help alert you.${disclaimer.D012 The available Park Distance Control (Park Pilot) has sensors that can help you back out of or drive into a parking spot. Audible signals and the optical parking system on the display indicate how much space you have behind and, on some vehicles, in front of the vehicle when parking. If you get too close, an alert sounds as a warning. The display provides additional support for the driver by showing the position of obstacles. 25


Super Bowl XL Game Recap SuperBowl.com wire reports Game MVP Hines Ward finished with five catches for 123 yards and the final TD. DETROIT (Feb. 5, 2006) -- Paint this Super Bowl black and gold. With a whole lot of satisfaction for Jerome Bettis, Bill Cowher and his Pittsburgh Steelers. The final Bus stop featured a little trickery starring MVP Hines Ward, a bunch of help from the Seattle Seahawks and a huge boost from the Terrible Towels, a handful of football fortune that added up to "One for the Thumb." The Steelers' 21-10 victory in the Super Bowl was their record-tying fifth, but the first since 1980 and the first ever for Bettis and Cowher. "It's been an incredible ride," Bettis said. Moments after the Rolling Stones rocked a Ford Field that could easily have been Heinz Field -- or Hines' field -- Willie Parker broke a record 75-yard touchdown run. The Steelers earned that elusive ring and completed a magic Bus ride that made Bettis' homecoming -- and farewell -- a success. "I'm a champion. I think the Bus' last stop is here in Detroit," Bettis said. "It's official, like the referee whistle." On this night, satisfaction was more than Mick Jagger's signature song that closed the halftime show. It was sweet validation for Cowher with a title in his 14th season as their coach, the longest tenure in the NFL. The tough guy, who lost his only previous Super Bowl 10 years ago to Dallas, teared up as he walked to midfield to embrace Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren. "A lot of people tell you you can't do it, but you know what, it doesn't mean you don't go out and try," Cowher said. "History was not going to determine our fate. Our effort today decided this game and that's what's great. "It's surreal. I'm going to tell you, this is a special group of coaches, a special group of players. I was one small part of this." Pittsburgh tied San Francisco and Dallas with its five Super Bowl titles. Perhaps the most special moment for Cowher came when he presented the Vince Lombardi Trophy to 73-year-old owner Dan Rooney. "I've been waiting a long time to do this," Cowher said. "This is yours, man." The Steelers certainly got plenty of help from the Seahawks. Seattle was plagued by penalties, drops, poor clock management and a critical fourth-quarter interception of Matt Hasselbeck just when the NFC champions seemed ready to take the lead. Instead, Pittsburgh (15-5) got the clinching score with the kind of trickery that has carried it through an eight-game winning streak. Versatile wideout Antwaan Randle El, a quarterback in college, took a handoff from Parker, sprinted right and threw perfectly to Ward for a 43-yard TD with 9:04 remaining. It was the first Super Bowl touchdown pass by a receiver. Bettis, with 43 yards on 14 carries, had a minimal role in what was the final game for the NFL's No. 5 career rusher. So did quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. The most noteworthy play for the youngest quarterback to win a Super Bowl was a horrid pass that Kelly Herndon of the Seahawks (15-4) returned a record 76 yards. That set up the Seahawks' only touchdown, a 16-yard pass to Jerramy Stevens -- Joey Porter, his verbal sparring partner all week, was nowhere in sight. Neither was All-Pro safety Troy Polamalu. But with Parker's burst and Seattle's self-destructive tendencies, the Steelers completed their postseason march through the NFL's top four teams: Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Denver and Seattle, with all the wins coming away from Heinz Field. "I could've had an even better day," said Ward, who had five receptions for 123 yards and the touchdown. Seattle, looking nothing like a team that rampaged through its conference, damaged itself all day. It had four penalties for 40 yards in the opening half, one that nullified a touchdown pass. The second half wasn't much better, and Ike Taylor's 24-yard return with Hasselbeck's poor throw gave Pittsburgh the one last opportunity it needed. "This is a tough pill to swallow," Holmgren said, "but we accomplished a lot this year. While you don't have a great feeling after a game like this, I want them to re


Which claimant to the Kingdoms of England and Ireland was de facto monarch of England after the death of Edward VI for just over a week in July 1553, and was executed in 1554?

Jane Grey, Queen of England (disputed) (c.1537 - 1554) - Genealogy Queen of England Oct 1537 - Bradgate Manor, Bradgate Park, Leicester, England Death: Feb 12 1553 - Tower Hill, Tower Of London, MDX, England Parents: Between Oct 11 1537 and Nov 10 1537 - Manor, Yorkshire, England Death: Feb 22 1554 - City of London, Middlesex, England Husband: Cause of death: Decapitation, Capital punishment - Feb 12 1554 - Tower of London Parents: Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk Siblings: Lady Catherine Grey, Lady Mary Grey Husband: Oct 1537 - Bradgate, Leicestershire, England Death: Feb 12 1554 - Tower Green, Tower of London, London, England Parents: Duke Henry, Lady Frances Grey Husband: [ http://www.thepeerage.com/p10152.htm ] Lady Jane Grey was born in October 1537 at Bradgate Manor, Bradgate, Leicestershire, England.3 She was also reported to have been born in 1536/37.4 She was the daughter of Sir Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Lady Frances Brandon. She married Lord Guilford Dudley, son of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland and Jane Guilford, on 21 May 1553.3 She died on 12 February 1554 at age 16 executed.5 She was buried at Church of St. Peter ad Vincula, the Tower, The City, London, England.1 Lady Jane Grey gained the title of Queen Jane I of England on 10 July 1553.3 She was deposed as Queen of England on 19 July 1553.5 She has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary of National Biography.6 Citations 1. [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 160. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family. 2. [S3409] Caroline Maubois, "re: Penancoet Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 2 December 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Penancoet Family." 3. [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family, page 158. 4. [S4172] Unknown author, "unknown article title", Notes and Queries : volume 55, no. 2, page 146-148. 5. [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family, page 159. 6. [S18] Matthew H.C.G., editor, Dictionary of National Biography on CD-ROM (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1995), reference "Dudley, Lady Jane, 1537-1554". Hereinafter cited as Dictionary of National Biography. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lady Jane Grey From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jane, Queen of England and Ireland (1536/1537 â 12 February 1554), more commonly known as Lady Jane Grey, was a claimant to the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Ireland, who was de facto monarch of England for just over a week in 1553. Executed on 12 February 1554, Lady Jane Grey's claimed rule of less than two weeks in July 1553 is the shortest rule of England in the history of the country. Popular history sometimes refers to Lady Jane as "The Nine Days' Queen"[2] or, less commonly, as "The nine Day Queen" owing to disagreements about the beginning of her claimed rule. Historians have taken either the day of her official proclamation as Queen (10 July) or that of her predecessor's death (6 July) as the beginning. Lady Jane had a reputation as one of the most learned women of her day[citation needed], and the historical writer Alison Weir describes her as one of "the finest female minds of the century". She is sometimes reckoned the first Queen regnant of England.[3] Early life and education Jane, the eldest daughter of Henry Grey, Marquess of Dorset and his wife Lady Frances Brandon, was born at Bradgate Park in Leicestershire. The traditional view is that she was born around October 1537, but recent research has led to the claim that she was born earlier, on an unknown date in late 1536 or early 1537.[5] Lady Frances was the daughter of Princess Mary, the younger sister of Henry VIII, and was thus the first cousin of Edward VI. Jane had two younger sisters, Lady Katherine Grey and Lady Mary Grey; through their mother, the three sisters were members of the House of Tudor: great-granddaughters of Henry VII and grandnieces of Henry VIII. Jane could claim descent twice from 15th century Royal consort Elizabeth Woodville; paternally through Woodville's first husban


"Who created the comic strip ""The Far Side""?"

The Far Side | Comic Strips Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Template:Trivia Anatidaephobia : The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you. In Cheers,Woody looks at a newspaper depressed. When the regulars ask why he's down he says its because he doesn't get the Far Side. After they explain it to him, he tells them he was just disappointed his newspaper doesn't carry it, and now they made him feel stupid. Strong Sad from Homestar Runner dresses up as the fat kid from The Far Side in the 2007 Halloween special. Template:Fact Darkwing Duck: In the episode "Beauty and the Beet" (September 9, 1991), two Larsonian type scientists called Dr. Gary and Dr. Larson are featured. [3] Darkwing Duck: In the episode "Twin Beaks" (November 7, 1991), an alien cow states, "We come from the planet Larson on the Far Side of the galaxy." [4] Tom Clancy, wrote in The Bear and The Dragon, "The Early Bird was the clipping service the government provided for senior officials, but for breakfast Swordsman preferred the real paper, complete with cartoons. Like many, Ryan lamented the retirement of Gary Larson and the attendant loss of the morning Far Side, but Jack understood the pressure of enforced daily output." Template:Fact In The Simpsons episode "The Homega Man", Homer is in the Withstandinator bomb shelter reading Far Side comics when Springfield is destroyed. As he flips the pages of the Off The Wall Calendar he states "Oh, a Gary Larson calendar …. I don't get it, I don't get it, I don't get it, I don't get it, ha! Ha! Ha! I don't get it...". In Scrubs (TV series), episode My Intern's Eyes, there is a scene in which JD fantasizes about a hospital where the patients are treated like horses and the doctors carry shotguns. This is a parody of a Far Side cartoon. JD cocks the shotgun as he says to a patient with a broken leg: "I am sorry Mr. Larson, but I do not like the look of that leg." Template:Fact In Family Guy, episode 8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter, Peter buys an entire rack of greeting cards on credit and gives Meg a Far Side one of a Vulture wearing a cowboy hat which Meg says is "kind of funny". In Lois Kills Stewie, Stewie comments that his new presidential portrait is better than the one Gary Larson drew which shows him drawn in a Far Side style conversing with an anthropomorphic chicken. Template:Fact In War of the Worlds (TV series) the closing credits for every episode in the first season is a reference to The Far Side cartoons by Gary Larson , courtesy of Chronicle Features. Several cutout Far Side comic strips are seen briefly in “The Resurrection”, tacked onto a bulletin board in Suzanne McCullough’s university office; however, since this is only seen in one episode, it’s unknown why the credit remains throughout the season. [5] In Gilmore Girls, episode (Emily In Wonderland), Lorelai tells Rory that whenever she talks to her mother all she hears is "blah blah blah Ginger." Template:Fact Australian comedians, Roy and HG, when commentating State of Origin football matches, would refer to Gary Larson (rugby league) as being "on the far side" of the playing arena - a joke aimed at his name being shared with famous cartoonist Gary Larson ("and the ball is passed to Gary Larson... on the far side..."). Template:Fact In his book, Dave Barry In Cyberspace, Dave Barry wrote an article titled, The Farside comes to life in Oregon which tells of a Far Side like real story of dead whale removal and large amounts of explosivies. [6] The Worth1000 website for image manipulation contests has featured Far Side contests where Far Side cartoons made real [7] . In the Calvin's Batman Adventure episode of the Calvin And Hobbes fanfiction Calvin And Hobbes: The Series, Hobbes mentions that they once used the book transporter to go in a Far Side book.


What is the closest city to the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator?

Large Hadron Collider becomes world's most powerful particle accelerator | Science | The Guardian Cern Large Hadron Collider becomes world's most powerful particle accelerator In the early hours of this morning the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern accelerated beams of particles to higher energies than any achieved before The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel at Cern. Photograph: Martial Trezzini/AP Monday 30 November 2009 08.05 EST First published on Monday 30 November 2009 08.05 EST Close This article is 7 years old Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern near Geneva are celebrating a major milestone after the machine broke energy records overnight to become the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. At 12.44am this morning, the LHC accelerated beams of subatomic particles to higher energies than any achieved before in a collider. The machine, which occupies a 27km circular tunnel that straddles the French-Swiss border, was restarted 10 days ago after being shut down for more than a year while engineers repaired damage caused by a helium leak when it was first switched on in September last year. "The machine is working like a dream," Lyn Evans, project manager of the LHC, told the Guardian. "It's brilliant. By the end of the week we should be really moving." Inside the particle accelerator, two counter-rotating beams of hydrogen nuclei are whipped up to more than 99.99% the speed of light. At four points around the machine the beams are crossed, steering the particles into high-energy smash-ups. The collisions recreate in microcosm the conditions that existed moments after the big bang. According to Einstein's famous equation E = mc2, the energy released by the collisions can create matter in the form of particles that appear in the collider's detectors. Scientists hope that when they sift through the subatomic debris they will find particles that are new to physics, such as the Higgs boson, which gives mass to elementary particles, and possibly particles of dark matter, an elusive substance that clusters around galaxies and accounts for most of the mass in the universe. At 9.48pm last night, engineers at Cern accelerated one beam of particles to 1.05 trillion electronvolts. Three hours later, both beams were hurtling around the machine, each with an energy of 1.18 trillion electronvolts. The energies are greater than any achieved at what is now the second most powerful collider in the world, the Tevatron at Fermilab on the outskirts of Chicago. "For me, it's not so much the energy record that matters, it's that we've got through the start of the acceleration process where things are changing rapidly," Evans said. As the beams are accelerated, eddy currents build up in the enormous superconducting magnets inside the machine and produce erratic magnetic fields that affect how the beams behave. In the next few days, Cern managers will decide whether to start colliding particles at even greater energy, or run for a short time at lower energies. Scientists will use the first collisions to calibrate their detectors, ensuring they pick up any particles that might be produced under the known laws of physics. "We're about to move into a new energy regime, and when we do that, we can start to see new things," Evans said. "We are still coming to terms with just how smoothly the LHC commissioning is going. It is fantastic," said Rolf Heuer, Cern's director general. "We are continuing to take it step by step, and there is still a lot to do before we start physics in 2010. I'm keeping my champagne on ice until then." Over the next week, engineers will increase the beam intensity to a level that is expected, before Christmas, to reveal new physics at work. The first extended series of high-energy collisions is expected to start in January or February next year, when each beam will be accelerated to 3.5 trillion electronvolts. "I was here 20 years ago when we switched on Cern's last major particle accelerator, LEP," said Steve Myers, Cern's director of accelerators and technology, referring to the Large Electron


The Mason-Dixon line, which came to symbolise the cultural boundary between the Northern and Southern United States, was originally surveyed to define the border between Maryland and which other state?

Detailed Overview of the Mason-Dixon Line By Matt Rosenberg Updated July 22, 2016. Although the Mason-Dixon line is most commonly associated with the division between the northern and southern (free and slave, respectively) states during the 1800s and American Civil War-era, the line was delineated in the mid-1700s to settle a property dispute. The two surveyors who mapped the line, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, will always be known for their famous boundary. Calvert vs. Penn In 1632, King Charles I of England gave the first Lord Baltimore, George Calvert, the colony of Maryland. Fifty years later, in 1682, King Charles II gave William Penn the territory to the north, which later became Pennsylvania. A year later, Charles II gave Penn land on the Delmarva Peninsula (the peninsula that includes the eastern portion of modern Maryland and all of Delaware). The description of the boundaries in the grants to Calvert and Penn did not match and there was a great deal of confusion as to where the boundary (supposedly along 40 degrees north) lay. continue reading below our video 4 Tips for Improving Test Performance The Calvert and Penn families took the matter to the British court and England's chief justice declared in 1750 that the boundary between southern Pennsylvania and northern Maryland should lie 15 miles south of Philadelphia. A decade later, the two families agreed on the compromise and set out to have the new boundary surveyed. Unfortunately, colonial surveyors were no match for the difficult job and two experts from England had to be recruited. The Experts: Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon arrived in Philadelphia in November 1763. Mason was an astronomer who had worked at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich and Dixon was a renowned surveyor. The two had worked together as a team prior to their assignment to the colonies. After arriving in Philadelphia, their first task was to determine the exact absolute location of Philadelphia. From there, they began to survey the north-south line that divided the Delmarva Peninsula into the Calvert and Penn properties. Only after the Delmarva portion of the line had been completed did the duo move to mark the east-west running line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. They precisely established the point fifteen miles south of Philadelphia and since the beginning of their line was west of Philadelphia, they had to begin their measurement to the east of the beginning of their line. They erected a limestone benchmark at their point of origin. Surveying in the West Travel and surveying in the rugged "west" was difficult and slow going. The surveyors had to deal with many different hazards, one of the most dangerous to the men being the indigenous Native Americans living in the region. The duo did have Native American guides, although once the survey team reached a point 36 miles east of the end point of the boundary, their guides told them not to travel any farther. Hostile residents kept the survey from reaching its end goal. Thus, on October 9, 1767, almost four years after they began their surveying, the 233 mile-long Mason-Dixon line had (almost) been completely surveyed. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 Over 50 years later, the boundary between the two states along the Mason-Dixon line came into the spotlight with the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The Compromise established a boundary between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North (however its separation of Maryland and Delaware is a bit confusing since Delaware was a slave state that stayed in the Union). This boundary became referred to as the Mason-Dixon line because it began in the east along the Mason-Dixon line and headed westward to the Ohio River and along the Ohio to its mouth at the Mississippi River and then west along 36 degrees 30 minutes North. The Mason-Dixon line was very symbolic in the minds of the people of the young nation struggling over slavery and the names of the two surveyors who created it will evermore be associated with that struggle and its geo


Which religion features the Five Duties or the Five Pillars?

Five Pillars of Islam - ReligionFacts ReligionFacts Bowker, John (ed.) Five Pillars of Islam The Five Pillars of Islam are the five religious duties expected of every Muslim. The five pillars are mentioned individually throughout the Quran and they are listed together in the Hadith when he was asked to define Islam. Within a few decades of Muhammad's death, the five practices were singled out to serve as anchoring points in the Muslim community and designated "pillars." Fulfillment of the Five Pillars is believed to bring rewards both in this life and in the afterlife. The pillars are acknowledged and observed by all sects of Muslims, including the largest sect of Sunni Islam, although Shias add further obligatory duties, including: jihad, payment of the imam's tax, the encouragement of good deeds and the prevention of evil. The Five Pillars of Islam are: Daily confession of faith (shahada) Shahada is the first of the five pillars. Shahada is the Muslim profession of faith, expressing the two simple, fundamental beliefs that make one a Muslim: La ilaha illa Allah wa-Muhammad rasul Allah. There is no god but God and Muhammad is the prophet of God. Daily ritual prayer (salat) The second of the five pillars is called salat, Muslim prayer. Salat is performed five times a day: at dawn (al-fajr), midday (al-zuhr), afternoon (al-'asr), sunset (al-maghrib) and evening (al-'isha). It's always directed in the direction (qibla) of the Ka'ba shrine in Mecca. A prayer mat, sajjada, is commonly used during salat. Salat may be performed individually, but it carries special merit when done with other Muslims. The focal prayer of the week is the midday prayer at the mosque on Fridays. Paying the alms tax (zakat) Almsgiving is a central activity in Islam. The Quran explicitly requires it (9:60) and often places it alongside prayer when discussing a Muslim's duties. ("Perform the prayer and give the alms." 2:43, 110, 277) Fasting during the month of Ramadan (sawm) Sawm (also siyam), fasting, commemorates the revelation of the Quran to humanity during Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic year. During Ramadan, all adult Muslims are required to abstain from food, drink and sexual intercourse during daylight hours. Exceptions are made for travelers, soldiers, menstruating women, and the ill, although such persons are expected to fast later when they become able. Pilgrimmage to Mecca (hajj) At least once in his or her lifetime, each Muslim is expected to undertake a pilgrimage to Mecca, the sacred city of Islam. This holy journey is called the hajj in Arabic. While a visit to Mecca is beneficial any time of the year, it must take place during the month of Dhu al-Hijja (the last month of the Islamic year) to fulfill the requirements of the hajj. References - "Islam." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2005. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service < http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9105852> ;. "Five Pillars of Islam." John Bowker, ed., Oxford Concise Dictionary of World Religions (Oxford UP, 2000). Article Info


What award is the equivalent of the Oscars for the music industry?

The Grammy Awards - Show News, Reviews, Recaps and Photos - TV.com The Grammy Awards CBS Premiered Mar 16, 1971 Special USER EDITOR Price Peterson - Jan 27, 2014 Previously Aired Episode EDIT In similar fashion to their film equivalent (The Academy Awards), The Grammys is an awards show that honors the achievements of the members of the professional music recording industry through a voting system. The members of the Recording Academy vote on who they think is most deserving of an award in 108 categories as specified by the academy. Each year the awards are presented during a live telecast that was begun in 1971 by ABC, but has since been televised by CBS after they bought it in 1973. They were initially known as the Gramophone Awards this is because the trophy itself is a golden gramophone but later they became the Grammys. We've graded all of this year's big numbers. By HanhBNguyen , Feb 09, 2015 Fresh Off the Boat Clean Slate NEW Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Decline and Fall NEW More Info About This Show Categories Themes Award Shows Important: You must only upload images which you have created yourself or that you are expressly authorised or licensed to upload. By clicking "Publish", you are confirming that the image fully complies with TV.com’s Terms of Use and that you own all rights to the image or have authorization to upload it. Please read the following before uploading Do not upload anything which you do not own or are fully licensed to upload. The images should not contain any sexually explicit content, race hatred material or other offensive symbols or images. Remember: Abuse of the TV.com image system may result in you being banned from uploading images or from the entire site – so, play nice and respect the rules! Choose background:


What name is given to the group of elements that includes fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine?

Halogens as oxidising agents THE OXIDISING ABILITY OF THE GROUP 7 ELEMENTS (THE HALOGENS) This page explores the trend in oxidising ability of the Group 7 elements (the halogens) - fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine. We are going to look at the ability of one halogen to oxidise the ions of another one, and how that changes as you go down the Group. Note:  If you aren't comfortable with terms like oxidation and oxidising agent in terms of electron transfer, then you should explore the area of the site dealing with redox reactions before you go on. The facts We are going to look at the reactions between one halogen (chlorine, say) and the ions of another one (iodide ions, perhaps). The iodide ions will be in a solution of a salt like sodium or potassium iodide. The sodium or potassium ions will be spectator ions, and are completely irrelevant to the reaction. In the chlorine and iodide ion case, the reaction would be: The iodide ions have lost electrons to form iodine molecules. They have been oxidised. The chlorine molecules have gained electrons to form chloride ions. They have been reduced. This is obviously a redox reaction in which chlorine is acting as an oxidising agent. Fluorine We'll have to exclude fluorine from this descriptive bit, because it is too strong an oxidising agent. Fluorine oxidises water to oxygen and so it is impossible to do simple solution reactions with it. Chlorine, bromine and iodine In each case, a halogen higher in the Group can oxidise the ions of one lower down. For example, chlorine can oxidise the bromide ions (in, for example, potassium bromide solution) to bromine: The bromine appears as an orange solution. As you have seen above, chlorine can also oxidise iodide ions (in, for example, potassium iodide solution) to iodine: The iodine appears either as a red solution if you are mean with the amount of chlorine you use, or as a dark grey precipitate if the chlorine is in excess. Note:  The reason for the red solution is that iodine dissolves in potassium iodide (or other soluble iodides) by reacting to give a red ion, I3-. If the chlorine is in excess, obviously there isn't anything left for the iodine to react with, and so it remains as a dark grey precipitate. Bromine can only oxidise iodide ions to iodine. It isn't a strong enough oxidising agent to convert chloride ions into chlorine. (You have just seen exactly the reverse of that happening.) A red solution of iodine is formed (see the note above) until the bromine is in excess. Then you get a dark grey precipitate. Iodine won't oxidise any of the other halide ions (unless you happened to have some extremely radioactive and amazingly rare astatide ions - astatine is at the bottom of this Group). To summarise Oxidation is loss of electrons. Each of the elements (for example, chlorine) could potentially take electrons from something else to make their ions (e.g. Cl-). That means that they are all potentially oxidising agents. Fluorine is such a powerful oxidising agent that you can't reasonably do solution reactions with it. Chlorine has the ability to take electrons from both bromide ions and iodide ions. Bromine and iodine can't get those electrons back from the chloride ions formed. That means that chlorine is a more powerful oxidising agent than either bromine or iodine. Similarly bromine is a more powerful oxidising agent than iodine. Bromine can remove electrons from iodide ions to give iodine - and the iodine can't get them back from the bromide ions formed. This all means that oxidising ability falls as you go down the Group. Explaining the trend Whenever one of these halogens is involved in oxidising something in solution, the halogen ends up as halide ions with water molecules attached to them. Looking at all four of the common halogens: As you go down the Group, the ease with which these hydrated ions are formed falls, and so the halogens become less good as oxidising agents - less ready to take electrons from something else. The reason that the hydrated ions form less readily as you go down the Group is


Larry Page and Sergey Brin started what computer application?

Sergey Brin - Academy of Achievement Sergey Brin I was fortunate to be at Stanford, and I was really interested in data mining, which means analyzing large amounts of data, discovering patterns and trends. Co-founder of Google Inc. Date of Birth August 21, 1973 Sergey Brin was born in Moscow, Russia in 1973. He immigrated with his family to the United States at the age of six and grew up in Adelphi, Maryland. His father, Michael Brin, was a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland. Like Larry Page, he attended a Montessori school as a small child. He graduated from Eleanor Roosevelt High School in 1990 and entered the University of Maryland, College Park. In only three years, he graduated with highest honors in mathematics and computer science. He entered graduate school at Stanford University with a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the domain of Google.com on September 15, 1997. (Courtesy of Google) Brin soon authored more than a dozen papers on data mining and pattern extraction for leading academic journals, including “Extracting Patterns and Relations from the World Wide Web,” “Scalable Techniques for Mining Casual Structures,” “Dynamic Itemset Counting and Implication Rules for Market Basket Data,” and “Beyond Market Baskets: Generalizing Association Rules to Correlations.” He also created a website for film ratings and designed a software application to translate documents from TeX, the text processing language often used for scientific papers, to HTML (hypertext markup language), the code in which Web pages are written. The home where Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented the garage in 1998 to set up Google is seen October 2, 2006 in Menlo Park, California. Reportedly, Google purchased the 1,900 square foot house, where they used to rent out the garage from Susan Wojcicki for $1,700 a month. Today, Larry and Sergey are worth $72 billion. At Stanford, Sergey Brin met fellow computer science graduate student Larry Page, who recruited him to join his research project.  The Internet and the World Wide Web were just taking shape as major forces in telecommunication when Larry Page and Sergey Brin entered Stanford. Page wanted to devise a method for determining how many other Web pages linked to any one given page. Existing facilities for exploring the Web could only rank search results by the frequency of appearance of a given word on any page of the Web. Searches often produced endless lists of websites of very little pertinence to the user’s query. Page soon found that ranking websites by the number of links leading to it from other sites was a far more useful measure of a Web document’s relevance to a user’s search criteria. To explore the possibilities of his new “PageRank” mechanism more fully, he called on the data mining expertise of his classmate, Sergey Brin. At the 2000 International Achievement Summit in London, Sir David Frost interviews 27-year-old Academy student delegate Sergey Brin and Douglas G. Carlston, Founder of Brøderbund Software, about the future of technology. Together, Page and Brin wrote the paper “Dynamic Data Mining: A New Architecture for Data with High Dimensionality,” and followed it with “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine.” The latter paper quickly became one of the most downloaded scientific documents in the history of the Internet. For a time, Page and Brin ran the prototype of their search engine, which they named “BackRub,” on an assortment of inexpensive personal computers stored in Larry Page’s dorm room. Word quickly spread beyond the walls of Stanford that the two graduate students had created something far more useful than existing search technology. 2003: Larry Page, Co-founder and President, Products, and Sergey Brin, Co-founder and President, Technology, pose inside the server room at Google’s campus headquarters in Mountain View, California. (Getty Images) They registered the domain name google.com in 1997. The domain name was derived from the term “googol,”


"World War I flying ace Baron von Richtofen, the Red Baron, was credited with how many ""kills"" before he himself was killed?"

Manfred, baron von Richthofen - World War I - HISTORY.com Manfred, baron von Richthofen A+E Networks Introduction Manfred von Richthofen (1892-1918) earned widespread fame as a World War I ace fighter pilot. After starting the war as a German cavalry officer on the Eastern Front, Richthofen served in the infantry before seeking his pilot’s license. He transferred to the Imperial Air Service in 1915, and the following year began to distinguish himself in battle. The leader of a squadron known as the Flying Circus, Richthofen developed a formidable reputation in his bright red Fokker triplane. He was credited with 80 kills before being shot down, his legend as the fearsome Red Baron enduring well after his death. Google Manfred von Richthofen began his career in World War I as a cavalry officer on the Eastern Front, but in 1915, when detailed for quartermaster duty, he rebelled: “I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.” After initially failing his pilot’s license, the future “ace of aces” saw action above Verdun and Kovel. In August 1916, Baron von Richthofen joined a new fighter squadron at the Somme and recorded his first “kill” on September 17; his eightieth and last came in April 1918; on April 21 he was shot down, probably by ground fire over the Somme. Richthofen’s bright red Fokker aircraft earned him the nicknames “red knight,” “red baron,” and “diable rouge,” and his habit of moving the squadron, tents, and equipment from base to base gave rise to the sobriquet “flying circus.” The war in the air became Richthofen’s blood sport. He possessed the courage to kill or be killed, flaunting his daring with reckless abandon and dispatching his victims in a brutal, pitiless manner. Preferring not to fight alone, he remained above his squadron in a dogfight until he spied his chance to swoop down, hawklike, upon unfortunate stragglers. “Everything in the air,” he once boasted, “belongs to me.” Many of his “kills” were, in fact, joint efforts, but were credited to Richthofen to enhance his stature as a national hero. The Reader’s Companion to American History. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, Editors. Copyright © 1991 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Tags


What was the name of Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee?

Michael Jackson used to abuse pet chimpanzee, Bubbles, claims Jane Goodall | Daily Mail Online Next 'Michael Jackson abused Bubbles!' Jane Goodall says King of Pop beat chimp and star got 'ticked off' when she confronted him about it Jane Goodall claims she confronted Jackson over his treatment of pet and says that her was regularly beaten Jackson earned his nickname 'Wacko Jacko' from his close relationship with the chimp Bubbles is now 30 and living in an animal sanctuary in Florida


In which war was the napalm incendiary bomb first used?

Napalm, Agent Orange - The Vietnam War The Vietnam War U.S. riverboat firing napalm into forest Napalm     U.S. troops used a substance known as napalm from about 1965 to 1972 in the Vietnam War; napalm is a mixture of plastic polystyrene, hydrocarbon benzene, and gasoline. This mixture creates a jelly-like substance that, when ignited, sticks to practically anything and burns up to ten minutes. The effects of napalm on the human body are unbearably painful and almost always cause death among its victims. “Napalm is the most terrible pain you can ever imagine” said Kim Phúc, a survivor from a napalm bombing. “Water boils at 212°F. Napalm generates temperatures 1,500°F to 2,200°F.” Kim Phúc sustained third degree burns to portions of her body. She was one of the only survivors of such extreme measures       Napalm was first used in flamethrowers for U.S. ground troops; they burned down sections of forest and bushes in hopes of eliminating any enemy guerrilla fighters. Later on in the war B-52 Bombers began dropping napalm bombs and other incendiary explosives. Air raids that used napalm were much more devastating than flamethrowers; a single bomb was capable of destroying areas up to 2,500 square yards. Throughout the duration of the war, 1965 – 1973, eight million tons of bombs were dropped over Vietnam; this was more than three times the amount used in WWII. Agent Orange     Agent Orange is a toxic chemical herbicide that was used from about 1965 – 1970 in the Vietnam War. It was one of the main mixtures used during Operation Ranch Hand. Operation Ranch Hand was intended to deprive Vietnamese farmers and guerilla fighters of clean food and water in hopes they would relocate to areas more heavily controlled by the U.S. By the end of the operation over twenty million gallons of herbicides and defoliants were sprayed over forests and fields.      Agent Orange is fifty times more concentrated than normal agricultural herbicides; this extreme intensity completely destroyed all plants in the area. Agent Orange not only had devastating effects on agriculture but also on people and animals. The Vietnam Red Cross recorded over 4.8 million deaths and 400,000 children born with birth defects due to exposure to Agent Orange.     Agent Orange was later determined to be in violation of the Geneva Contract. U.S. troops gradually stopped using Agent Orange and any other harmful herbicides.


"Who appeared in the films ""Gigli"", ""Jersey Girl"", ""El Cantante"" and ""The Back-Up Plan""?"

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